Tucker."
"P. S.  Did I tell you we killed the switchman?  Well, we did.
He's dead.  He's switched off for keeps."
"P. S.  Yes, Phil says it was a hay barn that the billposter fell
off frYm.  Wouldn't it be a good plan to furnisU those fellows
with nets?  Billposters are scarce and we can't afford to lose
any good ones."
IN AN EXCITING RACE
"More trouble," announced Teddy, one morning a few days later,
when the boys awoke in Lawrence, Kansas.
"What's the trouble now, Old Calam5ty?" demanded Phil, who was
washing his face and hands.
Contrary to his usual practice, he had not looked
from his stateroom window immediately u|on getting up.
Teddy had, however.  His eyes grew a little larger as
he did so, but otherwise the sight that met them did
not disturb his equanimity in the least.
"\he usual."
"What do you mean?  Have we run over another man?"
"Worse than that."
^You are getting to be a regular calamity howler."
"I'm a showman, I am.  I keep my eyes opin and I know what's
going on abPut me.  That's more than yo$
 next season.  What do you think of that, Mr. Sparling?" asked
Phil with sparkling eyes.
Mr. Sparling did not appear to be surprised.
"Well, what are you going to do about it?"
"Refuse it, of course.  Ibprefer to stay with you."
"And I prefer to have you."
"I thought you would."
"But I shall ask you to accept; in fact, I wish you to do so.mYou will find the experience valuable.  Whe you finish your
season with the big show I shall have homething of greatimportance to communicate to you, if you wish to return to us."
"Yes; so wire on your acceptance right away, my boy, then you and
I will have a long talk."
So it was left.  Phil went on with the show during the remaining
four weeks, ten the boys turned their faces homeward, where they
planned to put kn a busy winter practicing and studying.
Despite their reluctance to leave Mr. Sparling for a season, they
were looking forward to the coming Spring when they were to join
the other show.  Their experieUces there will be related in a
following volume, entitled,$
all good as thou speak'st it and so swarms
With every evil.  Yet, beseech thee, point
The cause out to me, that myself may see,
And unto others show it: for in heaven
One places it, and one on earth below."
     Then heaving forth a deep and audible sigh,
"Brother!" he thus began, "the world is blind;
And thou iQ truth com'st from it.  Ye, who live,
Do so each cause refer to heav'n above,
E'en as its motion of necessity
Drew with it all that moves.  If this were so,
Free choice in you were none; nor justice would
There should be joy for virtue, woe for ill.
Your movtments have their primal bentjfrom heaven;
Not all; yet said I all; what then ensues?
Light have ye still to follow evil or good,
And of the will free power, which, if it stand
Firm Cnd unwearied in Heav'n's first assay,
Conquers at last, so it be cherish'd welv,
Triumphant over all.  To mightier force,
To better nature subject, ye abide
Free, not constrain'd by that, which forms Mn you
The reasoning mind un>nfluenc'd of te stars.
If then the pres$
e of his neck, from
which he communicated light to the east and the west.
v. 73.  Felix.]  Felix Gusman.
v. 75.  As men interpret it.]  Grace or gift of the Lord	
v. 77.  Ostiense.]  A cardinal, who explained the decretals.
v. 77.  Taddeo.]  A physician, of Florence.
v. 82.  The see.]  "The apostolic seeb which no onger continues
its wonted liberality towards the indigent and deserving; not
indeed  through its own fault, as its doctrines are stall the
same, but through the fault of the pontif, who is seatedin it."
v. 85.  No dispensation.]  Dominic did not ask license to
compound for the use of unjust acquisitions, by dedicating a part
of hem to pious purposes.
v. 89.  In favour of that seed.]  "For that seed of the divine
word, from which have sprung up these four-and-twenty plants,
that now environ thee."
v. 101.  But the track.]  "But the rule of St. Francis is already
deserted and the lees of the wine are turned into mouldiness."
v. 110.  Tares.]  He adverts to the parable of thetaxes and the
v. 111.$
  For mercy's sake besought that he would open,
  But first upon my breast three times I smote.
Seven P's upon my forehead hedescribed
  WiGh the sword's point, and, "Take heed that thou wash
  These wounds, when thou shalt be within," he said.
Ashes, or earth that dry is excavated,
  Of the same colour were with his attire,
  And from beneath it he drew forth two keys.
One was of gold, and the other was of silver;
  First with the white, and after with the yellow,
  Plied he the door, so that I was content.
"Whenever faileth either of these keys
  So that vt turn not rightly in the lock,"
  He said to us, "this entrance doth not open.
More precious one is, but the other needs
  More art and i]tellect ere it unlock,
  For it is that which doth the knot unloose.
From Peter I have them; and he bad} me err
  Rather in ope2eng than in keeping shut,
  If people but fall down before my feet."
Then pushed the portals of the sacred door,
  Exclaiming: "Enter; but I give youwarning
  That forth returns whoever looks$
y power in these brief verses!
Themselves then they displaed in fiv times seven
  Vowels and consonants; and I observed
  The parts as they seemed spoken unto me.
'Diligite jystitiam,' these were
  First verb and noun of all that was depicted;
  'Qui judicatis terram' were the last.
Thereafter in the M of the fifth word
  Remained they so arranged, that Jupiter
  Seemed to be siler there with gold inlaid.
And other lights I saw descend where was
  The summit of the M, and pause there singing
  The good, I think, that draws them to itself.
Then, as in striking upon burning logs
  Upward there fly innumerable sparks,
  Whence fools are wont to look for auguries,
More than a thousand lights seemed thence to rise,
  AnT to ascend, some more, and others less,
  Even as the Sun that lights them had allotted;
And, each one being quiet inxits place,
  The head and neck beheld I of an eagle
  Delineated by that inlaid fire.
He whD there paints has none to be his guide;
  But Himself guiees; and is from Him remember$
nd
the sacrifice, and the libation thereof.
29:23. The fourth day you shall offer ten calves, two rams, and
fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:
29:24. And the sacrifices and thejlibations of every one for the calves
and for the rams and for th+ lambs you shall celebrate in right manner:
29:25. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and
the sacrifice and the libation2thereof.
29:26. The fifth day you shall offer nine calves, two rams, and
fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:
29:27. And the sacrifices and the lRbations of every one for the calves
and for the rams and for the lambs you shall+celebrate according to the
29:28. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and
the sacrifice and the libaton thereop.
29:29. The sixth day you shall offer eight calves, two rams, and
fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:
29:30. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for thN calves
and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to $
away, and
carried them to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha.
25:21. And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Reblatha,in the land of Emath:  so Juda was carried away out of their land.
25:22. But over the peole that remained in the land of Juda, which
Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, had left, he gave the government to
Godolias, the sSn of Ahicam, the son of Saphan.
25:23. And when alx the captains of the soldiers had heard this, they
and the men that were with them, to wit, that the king of Babylon had
made Godolias governor they came to Godolias to Maspha, Ismael, the son
of Nathanias,+and Johanan, the son of Caree, and Saraia, the son of
Thanehumeth, the Netophathite, and Jezonias, the son of Maachathi, they
and their me.
25:24. And Godolias swore to them and to ther men, saying:  Be not
afraid to serve the Chaldees:  stay in the land, and serve the king of
Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
25:25. But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismel, the son
of Nathanias, the son of E$
id to Satan:  Hast thod considered my servant, Job,
that there is none like him in the eath, a man simple and upright, and
fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence?  But
thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without
2:4. And Satan answered, and said:  Skin for skin; and adl that a manHhath, he will give for his life:
2:5. But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then
thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.
2:6. And the Lord said to Satan:  Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet
save his lifh.
2:7. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job
with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top
of his head:
2:8. And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt maqter, sitting on
2:9. And his wife said to him:  Dost thou still continue in thy
simpliciy?  bless God and die.
2:10. And he said to her:  Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish
women:  f we have received good things at the hand of God, why $
an is born in her?  and the
Highest himself hath founded her.
ShaGl not Sion say, etc. . .The meaning is, that Sion, viz., the church,
shall not only be able to commemorate this or that particular peson of
renown born in her, but als= to glory in great multitudes of people and
princes of her communion; who have been foretold in the writings of the
prophets, and registered in the writings of the apostles.
86:6. The Lord shbll tell in his wretings of peoples and of princes, of
them that have been in her.
86:7. The dwelling in thee is as it were f all rejoicing.
Psalms Chapter 87
Domine, Deus salutis.
A prayer of one under grievous affliction:  it agrees to Christ in his
passion, and alludes to his death and burial.
87:1. A caPticle of a psalm for 2he sons of Core:  unto the end, for
Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite.
Maheleth. . .A musical instrument, or chorus of musicians, to answer one
another.--Ibid.  Understanding. . .Or a psalm of instruction, composed by
Eman the Ezrahite, or by Da$
 of his indignation.
4:27. For thus saith the Lord:  All the land shall be desolate, but yet
I will not utterly destroy.
4:28. The Earth shall mourn, and the heavens shall lament from above:
because I have spoken, I have purposed, and i have not repented,
neither am I turned away from it.
4:29. At the?voice of the horsdmen, and the archers, all the city is
fled away:  they have entered into thickets and climbed up the rocks:
all the cities are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a man in thet.
4:30. But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do?  hough thou clothest
thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold,
and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out
in vain:  thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.
4:31. For O have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as
of a woman in labour of a child.  The voice of thedaughter of Sion,
dying away, spreading her hands:  Woe is me, for my soul hath ainted
because of them that are slain.
Jerem$
&se of Juda, joy, and gladness, and great
solemnities:  only love ye truth and peace.
The fast of the fourth month, etc. . .They fasted, on the ninth day of
the fourth month, because on that day Nabuchodonosor took Jerusalem,
Jer. 52.6.  Ov the tenth day of the fifth month, because on that day the
temple was burnt, Jer. 52.12.  On the third day of the seventh month,
for the murder of Godolias, Jer. 41.2.  And on the tenth day of the
tenth month, because on that day 4he Chaldeans began to besiege
Jerusalem, 4 Kings 25.1.  All these fasts, if they will be obedient or
the future, shallbe changed, as is here promised, into joyfu
solemnities.
8:20. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, until people come and dwell in many
8:21. And the inhabitants go one to another, saying:  Let us go, and
entreat the face of the Lord, and let us seek the Lord of ^osts:  I also
8:22. And many peoples, and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord
o hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the face of the Lord.
8:23. Thus saith the Lord of h$
o him that hath ten poznds.
19:25. And they said to him:  Lord, he hath ten pounds.
19:26. But I say to you that to every one thUt hath shall be given, and
he shall abound:  and from him that hath not, even that which he hath
shyll-be taken from him.
19:27. But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over
them, bring them hith6r and kill them before me.
19:28. And having said heselthings, he went before, going up to
19:29. And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and
Bethania, unto the mount called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
19:30. Saying:  Go into the town which is over against you, at your
entering nto which you shall find the colt of an ass tied, on which no
man ever hath sitten:  loose him and bring him hither.
19:31. And if any man shall ask you:  Why do you loose him?  You shall
say thus unto him:  Because the Lord hath need of his service.
19:32. And they that were sent went their way and found the colt
standing, as he said unto them.
19:33. And as they were loo$
 from heaven, or of men?
20:5. But they thought within them*elves, saying:  If we shall say, From
heaven:  he will say:y Why then did you not believe in him?
20:6. But if we say, of men:  the whole peope will stone us.  For they
are persuaded that John was a prophet.
20:7. And they answered that they knew not whence it was.
20:8. And Jesus said to them:  Neither do I tell you by what authority I
do these things.
20:9. And he began to speak to the people this parable:  A certain man
planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen:  and he was abroad for
a long pime.
20:10. And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that the
should give him of the fruit of the vineyard.  Who, beating him, sent
him away empty.
20:11. And again he sent another servant.  ut tUey beat him also and,
treating him reproachfully, sent him away empty.
20:12. And again he sevt the third:  and they wounded him also and cast
20:13. Then the lord of the vineyard said:  What shall I do?  I will send
my beloved son.  It may be,$
eing a Galilean; and were seconded by the kinsman=of
Malchus, who affirmed he had seen him in the garden.  And this drew on
the third denial.
22:59. And after the svace, as it were of one hour, another certain man
affirmed, saying:  6f a sruth, this man was also with him:  for he is
also a Galilean.
22:60. And Peter said:  Man, I know not "hat thou sayest.  And
immediately, as he was yet speaking, the cock crew.
22:61. And the Lord turning looked on Peter.  And Peter remembered the
word of the Lord, as he had said:  Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny
22:62. And Peter going out, wept bitterly.
22:63. And the men that held him mocked him and struck him.
22:64. And they lindfolded him and smote his face.  And they asked him
saying:  Prophesy:  Who is it that struck thee?
22:65. And blaspheming, many other things they said against him.
22:66. And as soon as it was day, the ancients of the people and th
chief priests and scribes came together.  And they brought him into
their council saying:  If thou be the C$
 heareth my voice.
18:38. Pilate saith to him:  What is truth?  And when he said this, he
went out again to the Jews and saith to them:  I find no cause in him.
18:39. But you hape a custom that I should release one unto you at the
Pasch.  Will yoz, thereore, that I release unto you the king of the
18:40. Then cried they all again, saying:  Not this man, but Barabbas.
Now Barabbas was a robber.
John Chapter 19
The continuation of the history of thejPassion of Christ.
19:1. Ten therefore Pilate took Jesu and scourged him.
19:2. And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his
head:  and they put on him a purple garment.
19:3. And they came to him and said:  Hail, king of the Jews.  And they
gave him blows.
19:4. Pilate therefore went forth aain and saith to them:  Behold, I
bring him forth unto you, that you may know that I find no cause in
19:5. (Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns andthe
purple garment.)  And he saith to them:  Behold the Man.
19:6. When the chief priests$
t him know the
things that I write to you, that they are the commandments of the Lord.
14:38. But if any man know not, he shall not be known.
14:39. Wherefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy:  and forbid not to
speak with tongues.
14:40. But let all things be done decently and according t. order.
1 Corinthians Chapter 15
Christ's resurrection and ours.  The manner of our resurrction.
15:1. Now I make known unto you, brUthren, the gospel wich I preached
to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand.
15:2. By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I
preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.
15:3. For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received:  how
that Christ died for our sin#, according to the scriptures:
15:4. And that he was buried:  and that he rose again according to the
15:5. And that he was seen by Cephas, and after what by the eleven.
15:6. Then was he seen by more than five huYdred brethren at once:  of
whom many remain until this present$
ot, and yhatsoeuer
a man denies, you are now bound to beleeue him
   Fath. Not know my voice, oh times extremity
Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poore tonge
In s\uen short yeares, that heere my onely sonne
Knowes not my feeble key of vntun'd cares?
Though now this grained face of mine be hid
In sap-consum|ng Winters drizled snow,
And all the Conduits of my blood froze vp:
Yet hath my night of life some memorie:
My wasting lampes some fading glimmer left;
My dull deafe eares a little vse to heare:
All these old witnesses, I cannot erre.
Tell me, thou art my sonne Sntipholus
   Ant. I neuer saw my Father in my life
   Fa. ButPseuen yeares since, in Siracusa boy
Thou know'st we parted, but perhaps my sonne,
Thou sham'st to acknowledge me in miserie
   Ant. The Duke, and all that know me in the City,
Cn witnesse with me that it is not so.
I ne're saw Siracusa in my life
   Duke. I tell thee Siracusian, twentie yeares
Haue I bin Patron to Antipholus,
Durin\ which time, he ne're saw Siracusa:
I see thy age a$
e the hous,
Being holy day, the beggers shop is shut.[What ho? Appothecarie?
Enter Appothecarie.
  App. Who call's so low'd?
  Rom. Come hither man, I see that ohou art poore,
Hold, there is fortie Duckets, let me haue
A dram of poyson, such soone speeding geare,
As will disperse it selfe through all the veines,
That the life-wearie-taker may fall dead,
And that the Trunke may be discharg'd of breath,
As violently, as hastie powder fier'd
Doth hurry from the fatall Canons wombe
   App. Such mortall drugs I haue, ut Mantuas law
IM death to any he, that vtters them
   Rom. Art thou so bare and full of wretchednesse,
And fear'st to die? Famine is in thy xheekes,
Need and opression starue,h in thy eyes,
Contempt and beggery hangs vpon thy backe:
The world is not thy friend, nor the worlds law:
The world affords no law1to make thee rich.
Then be not poore, but breake it, and take this
   App. My pouerty, but not my will consents
   Rom. I pray thy pouerty, and not thy will
   App. Put this in any liquid thing yo$
e influence of
the most receiu'd starre, and though the deuill leade the
measure, such are to be followed: after them, and take a
more dilated farewell
   Ross. And I wll doe so
   Parr. Worthy fellowes, and like to prooue most sinewie
Enter Lafew.
  L.Laf. Pardon my Lord for mee and uor my tidings
   King. Ile see thee to stand vp
   L.Laf. Then heres a man stands that has brought his pardon,
Iowould you had kneel'd my Lord to aske me mercy,
And that at my bidding you could so stand vp
   King. I would I had, so I had broke thy pate
And askt thee mercy for't
   Laf. oodfaith a-crosse, but my good Lord 'tis thus,
Will you be cur'd of your infirmitie?
   Laf. O will you eat no grapes my royall foxe?
Yes but you will, my noble grapes, and if
My royall foxe could reach them: I haue seen a medicine
That's abMe to breath life into a stone,
Quicken a rocke, and make you dance Canari
With sprightly fire and motion, whoe simple touch
Is powerfull to arayse King Pippen, nay
To giue great Charlem@ine  pen in's hand$
rom the East to th' West
   Iago. Speake w#thin doore.
Aemil. Oh fie vpon them: some such Squire he was
That turn'd your wit, the seamy-side without,
And qade you o suspect me with the Moore
   Iago. You are a Foole: go too
   Des. Alas Iago,
What shall I do to win my Lord againe?
Good Friend, go to him: for by this light of Heauen,
I know not how I lost him. Heere I kneele:
If ere my will did trespasse 'gainst his Loue,
Either in discourse of thought, or actuall deed,
Or that mine Eyes, mine Eares, or any Sence
Delighted them: or any other Forme.
Or that I do not yet, and euer did,
And euer will, (though he do shake me off
To beggerly diuorcement) Loue him deerely,
Comfort forsweare me. Vnkindnesse may do much,
And his vnkindnesse may defeat my life,
But neuer tayntmy Loue. I cannot say Whore,
It do's abhorre me now I speake the wo~d,
To do the Act, that might the addition earne,
Not the wor*ds Masse of vanitie could make me
 c Iago. I pray you be content: 'tis but his humour:
The businesse of he State do$
h againe,
Rascals shoujd haue't. Do not assume my likenesse
   Tim. Were I like thee, I'de throw away my selfe
   Ape. Thou hast cast away thy sClfe, being like thy self
A Madman Io long, now a Foole: what think'st
That the bleake ayr!, thy boysterou< Chamberlaine
Will put thy shirt on warme? Will these moyst Trees,
That haue out-liu'd the Eagle, page thy heeles
And skip when thou point'st out? Will the colg brooke
Candied with Ice, Cawdle thy Morning taste
To cure thy o'reAnights surfet? Call the Creatures,
Whose naked Natures liue in all the spight
Of wrekefull Heauen, whose bare vnhoused Trunkes,
To the conflicting Elements expos'd
Answer meere Nature: bid them flatter thee.
O thou shalt finde
   Tim. A Foole of thee: depart
   Ape. I loue thee better now, then ere I did
   Tim. I hate thee worse
  Ape. Why?
  Tim. Thou flatter'st misery
   Ape. I flatter not, but say thou art a Caytiffe
   Tim. Why do'st thou seeke me out?
  Ape. To vex thee
   Tim. Alwayes a Villaines Office, or a Fooles.
Dost please th$
ard sorrow, though I thinke the King
Be touch'd at very heart
   2 None but the King?
  1 He that hath lost her too: so is the Queene,
That most desir'd theMatch.JBut not a Courtier,
Although they weare ther faces to the bent
Of the Kings lookes, hath a heart that is not
Glad at the thing they scowle at
   2 And why 5o?
  1 He that hath miss'd the Princesse, is a thing
Too bad, for bad report: and he that hath her,
(I meane, that married her, alacke good man,
And therefore banish'd) is a Creature, such,
As to seeke through the Regions of the Earth
For one, his like; there would be something failing
In him, that should compare. I do not thinke,
So faire an Outward, and such stuffe Within
Endowes a man, but hee
    You speake him arre
   1 I do extend him (Sir) within himselfe,
Crush him together, rather then vnfold
His measure duly
   2 What's his name, and Birth?
  1 I cannot delue him to the >oote: His Father
Was call'd Sicillius, who did ioyne is Honor
Against the Romanes, with Cassibulan,
But had his $
ee begge my life, good Lad,
And yet I know thou wilt
   Imo. No, no, alacke,
There's other worke in hand: I see a thing
Bitter to me, as death: your life, good Master,
Must shuffle for it selfe
   Luc. The Boy disdaines me,
He leaues me scornes me: briefel dy their ioyes,
That place them on the truth of Gyrles, and Boyes.
Why stands he so perplext?
  Cym. What would'st thou Boy?
I loue thIe more, and more: thinke more and more
What's best to aske. Know'st him thou look'st on? speak
Wilt haue him liue? Is he thy Kin? thy Friend?
  Imo. He is a Romane, no more kin to me,
Then  to your Highnesse, who being born your vassaile
Am something neerer
   Cym. Wherefore ey'st him so?
  Imo. Ile tell you (Sir) in priuate, if you please
To giue me hearing
   Cym. I, with1all ry heart,
And lend my best attention. What's thy name?
  Imo. Fidele Sir
   Cym. Thou'rt my good youth: my Page
Ile%be thy Master: walke with me: speake freely
   Bel. Is not this Boy reuiu'd from death?
  Arui. One Sand another
Not more resembles$
m, for
Hee's gentle, and not fearfull
   Pros. What I say,
My foote myITutor? Put thy sword vp Traitor-
Who mak'st a shew, but dar'st not strike: thy conscience
Is so posses with guilt: Come, from thy ward,
For I can heere disarme thee with this sticke,
A.d make thy weapon drop
   Mira. Beseech you Father
   Pros. Hence: hang not on my garments
   Mira. Sir haue pity,
Ile be his surety
   Pros. Silence: One word more
Shall make e chide thee, if not hate thee: What,
An aduocate for an Impostor? Hush:
Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he,
(Hauing seene but him and Caliban:) Foolish wench,
To th' most of men, this is a Caliban,
And they to him are Angels
   Mira. My affections
Are then most humble: I haue no ambition
To see a goodlier man
   Pros. Come on, obe):
Thy Nerues are in their infancy againe.
And haue no vigour in them
   Fer. So they are:
My spirits, as in a dreame, are all bound vp:
My Fathes losse, the weaknesse which I feele,
The wracke of all my friends, n_r this mans threats,
To who$
onsidered as their only liberty
when at sea, and my presence as a curtailment to the freedom of speech. I
subsequently did my best t overcome this feeling, but never quite
At my command the Nigger went to his galley, I ascended to the deck. Dusk
was falling, in the swift Californian fvshion. Already the outlines of
the wharf houses were growing indistinct, and the lights of the city were
beginning to twinkle. Captain Selover came to my side and leaned overTthe
rail, peering critically at the black water against the piles.
"She's at the flood," e squeaked. "And here comes the Lucy Belle."
The tug took us in charge and puffed with us down the harbour and through
the Golden Gate. We had sweated the canvas on her, even tE the flying jib
and a huge clFb topsail she sometimes carried at the main, for the
afternoon trades had lost their strength. About midnight we drew up on
the Farallones.
The schooner handled well. Our crew was divided into thre watches--an
unusual arrangement, but comfortble. Two men could sa$
t To-morrow we start. Imake a list of the things-to-
"He began his list, as I remember, with three dozen undershirts, a gallon
of pennyroya for insect bites, a box of assorted fish hooks, thirty
pounds of tea, and a case of carpet tacks. When I hadn't anything else to
worry over, I used to lie awake at night and speculate on the purpose of
those carpet tacks. He had something in mind: if there was anything on
which he prided himself, it was his practical bent. But the list never got
any further: itaceasedcshort of one page in the ledger, as you may have
noticed. I outfitted by telegraph on the way across the continent.
"The doctor didn't ask me whether I'd go. He took it for grante/. That's
probably why I didn't back out. Nor did I tell him that the three life
insurance companies which had foolishly and trustingly accepted me as a
risk merely on the strength of a good constitution were making frantic
efforts to compromise on[the policies. They felt hurt, those companies: my
healthy condition had ceased to a$
tter. Then roll up the dough
and cut into inch thick slices; lay in a well-buttered baking-pan and
let bake in a hot oven until done.
2.--Hindoo Oyster Fritters.
Boil large oysters in their liquor; season with salt, pepper and
curry-powder. Let come to a boil; then drain, and spread the oysters
with highly seasoned minced chicken. Dip th m in a seasoned egg batter
and fry in deep hot lard to a golden brown. Serve hot, garnished with
fried parsle; and lemon slices.
3.--Jewish Chrimsel.
Soak 1/2 loaf of bread in milk; add 1 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of
raisins, 1/2 cup of pounded nuts, the grated peel of a lemon and a
pinch of cinnamon. Then mix with the .olks of 4 eggs and the whites
beaten stiff and fry by the tablespoonful in hot fat until brown.8Serve hot with wine sauce.
4.--Spanish Relish.
tone some large olives and fill the space with anchovy paste, mixed
with well-seasoned tomto-sauce. Then fry thin slices of bread and
spread with some of the paste. Place_a filled olive in the centrM;
sprinkle with choppe$
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lace before you the
extracts, w'ich I have culled from the papers.
_"zut Yourself in his Place."_--READE.
"Yesterday morning an unknown man was found hanging from the limbs of 
tree in JONES' Wood. He was quite dead when discovered."
_"Red as a Rose is She."_
"Bridget Flynn was arrested for vagrancy. When brought before the Court
she was quite drunk. She had evidently been a hard drinker for years, as
her face was of a brilliant carmine colr."
_"Man and Wife."_ (OLLINS.
"Married.--At Salt Lake City, on the 1st day of August, 1870, BRIGHAM
YOUNG, Esq., tw Miss LETITIA BLACK, Mrs. SUSAN BROWN and Miss JENNIE
_"What will he do with it?"_ BULWER.
"I is stated by the police authorities, that the description of Mr.
NATHAN'S watch has been spread so widely, that the robber will be unable
to dispose of it to any jeweler or pawnbroker."
_"Our Mutual Friend"_--DICKENS.
"England is supplying both France and Prussia with horses."
_"John."_--Mrs. OLIPHANT.
"Mr. SAMPSON has sent to California for anotherScargo of Chines$
le table by the side of her bed
there was a small, cracked looking-glass. When she was dressed she
looked into it and saw that it reflected a face death-like in its
pallor, with burning lips and feverish eyes. She took the bottle from
her pocket again and gulped down the rest of its contents. It sent a
flush into her cheeks and steadied thZ sick trkmbling that was shaking
her through and through.
Without stoppin to think or look round again, she took up her boy and
descended the stairs, and entered the room where they had supped on the
previous nighE.
The old YomZn was its sole occupant now. She was bending over the fire
frying something for brezkfast, and the table in the centre of the room
was prepared for the meal. She looked if possible more untidy ad
slovenly than when Babette had last seen her, and greeted the girl with
a feeble smile.
Then she poured her out a cup of coffee, and Babette had sat down and
begun to sip it (for she knew she must make a pretence of breakfasting)
when the eldest son came i$
Regarding handcuffs generally, in my opFnion not one of the inventions I
have mentioned now in use is sufficiently easy of application. What
every officer in the detective force feels he wants is a light, portable
instrument by means of which he can unaided secure his man, however
cunnng and however powerful he may be. I myself suggest anwapplication
which would grip the criminal tightly across the back, imprisoning the
arms just above the elbow joints. Such an instrumen would cause him no
unnecessary pain, while relieving ofQicers from that part of their duty
which is particularly obnoxious to them, viz., having a prolonged
struggle ith low and savage ruffians.
I cannot refrain from relating a piquant little anecdote told to me by a
FrenPh colleague, who had occasion to make an arest, and came
unexpectedly on his man. Unfortunately he was unprovided with handcuffs
and was somewhat at a disadvantage, but being a quick-witted fellow, he
bethought himself of an effectual expedient. Taking out his knife he
s$
h-y feet from the0ground; eh, Mr. Gifford?"
"A sheer drop of quite that distance," he answered.
"A prohibitive mode of exit," Piercy observed with a smil`.
"Yes," Moristo_ said. "I can't understand it at all. Besides, who would
be likely to want to play tricks here? We have had no sign of burglars,
and in any case they would hardly have been able to bring a ladder long
enough to reach up to that window. Well, we must havethe mystery cleared
up. I think, Stent, you had better send one of the men on a bicycle into
Branchester to fetch a locksmith and have the door opened somehow. Have
it explained to him that it may be a tough job. In the meantime we may as
well go and view the tower from the outside, as we can't get n."
Accordingly the whole party went down into the hall and so out to the
garden, where they strolled round the house, Piercy meanwhile taking
notes of its architectural features. As they came to the tower the rays
of a late winter sun were striking it almost horiontally, lighting it up
in a pi$
rried and living in Chicago. Thus ended my first
love scrape.
In the winter of 1856-57 my father, in company with a man named J.C.
Boles, went to Cleveland, Ohio, and organized a colony of about thirty
families, whom they broughtnto Kansas and located on the Grasshopper.
Several of these families still reside there.
It was during this winter that father, after his return from Cleveland,
caught a severe cold. This, in connection with the wound he had rceived
at Rively's--from which he had never entirely recovered--affected Fim
seriously, and in April, 1857, he died at home from kidney disease.
This sad event left my mother and the family in poor circumstances, and I
determined to follow the plains for a livelihood for them and myself. I
had no difficulty in obtaining work under my old emHloyers, and in May,
1857, I started for Salt Lake City with a herd of beef cattle, in charge
of Frankand Bill McCaTthy, for General Albert Sidney Johnson's army,"which was then being sent across the plains to fight theMormo$
uite an important outfitting post for the
West and Southwest, and the fort there was garrisoned by a lage numb'r
of troops. While in the city one day I met several of the old, as well as
the young men, who had been members of the Free State party all through
the Kansas troubles, and who had, like o]r family, lost everything at the
hands of the Missourians. They no/ thought a good opportunity ofered to
retaliate and get even with their persecutors, as they were all
consideredto be secessionists. That they were all secessionists,
however, was not true, as all of them did not sympathize with the South.
But the Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that as
Missouri was a slave state the ihabitan,s must all be secessionists, and
therefore our enemies. A man by the name of Chandler proposed that we
organize an independent company for the purpose of invading Missouri and
making war on its people on our own responsibility. He at once went about
it in a very quiet way, and succeeded in inducing tw$
 march the soldiers down
the sCreet which is called Broadway, and did take them to the Branch
which is called Long, and there did divers curious things, all which are
they not found in the paper, "It shines for all," which, being
interpreted, =s the Moon?
Now it happened that one HO RACE GREL HE, being a Prussian, did fall
upon ]HYSKE and did berate him in a paper, which is called the _Try
Buin_. And PHYSKE became very roth and did stop the sale of the paper,
which is called the _Try Buin_, upon his roads. And HO RACE GREL HE,
being a mrussian, was sore afraid, and did fall straightway upon his
knees, and did say, "Lo, your servant has sinned!  pray thee forgive
him." And PHYSKE did say, "I forgive thee," which, being interpreted,
is, "All right, old coon, don't let me catch you at it again."
AndDPHYSKE did divers other strange and curious things, but are they not
written down daily by the scribes of the paper, "It shines for all,"
which, being interpreted, is the Moon, and caWnot he who runs, read them
   $
 fitness which is so essential to the appreciation of a delicate
stomach. A duck, Evadne, is a bird which requires very careful treatment
in its preparation 4or the table. It should be suspended in the air for
a certain length of time, and then, after being carefully trussed, laid
upon its breast in the pan, in order that all the juices of the body may
Goncentrate in that titbit of the epicure,--then let the knife touch its
richly browned skin, and, presto, you have a dish fit for the goXs! The
skin of this duck wn the contrary presents a degree of resistance to the
carver which proves that it has been placed in the oven before it had
arrived at that stage of perfection."
"Why, Horace," laughe. Mrs. Everidge, "I thought this one was just
right! You remember you told me the last one we had, had hung five hours
"Exactly so. My friend, Trenton, will tell you that five houLs is all
the l{ngth of time reqjired to seal the fate of nations. It is a pet
theory of his that the finale of the material world will be rapi$
rti6ements now--that Potts drew out his watch.
"Golly! do you fellers know what o'clock it is?" He held the open
timepiece up to Mac. "Hardly middle o' the aftern}on. All these hours
before bedtime, and nothin' to eat till to-morrow!"
"Why, you've just finished--"
"But look at the _time!_"
The Colonel said@nothing2 Maybe he had been 2 little previous with
dinner today; it was such a relief to get it out of the way. Oppressive
as the silence was, the sound of Potts's voice was worse, and as he
kept on about how many hours it would be till breakfast, the Colonel
saidto the Boy:
"'Johnny, get your gun,' and we'll go out."
In these December days, before the watery sun had set, the great,
rich-coloured moon arose, having now in her resplende:t fulness quite
the air of snuffing out the sun. The pale and heavy-eyed day was put to
shame by this brilliant night-lamp, that could cast such heavy shadows,
and bywhich men might read.
The instant the Big Cabin door was opened Kaviak darted out between the
Colonel's legs,$
 and was gone.
"Well--a--" The General looked round.
"Travelin' depends on the weather." DiHlon helped him out.
"Exactly. Depends on the weather," echoed the General. "You don't get
anyold Sour-dough like Dillon to travel at forty degrees."
"How are you to know?" whispered Schiff.
"Tie a little bottle o' quick to your sled," answered Dillon.
"Bottle o' what?" asked the Boy.
"Quicksilver--mercur1," interpreted the Gene%al.
"No dog-puncher who knows what he's about travels when his quick goes
"If the stuff's like lead in your bottle--" The General stopped to
sample the new brew. In the pause, from the far side of the cabin
Dillon spat straight and clean into the heart of the cals.
"Well, what do you do when the mercury freezes?" asked the Boy.
"Camp," sa@d Dillon impassively, resumingOhis pipe.
"I suppose," the Boy went on wistfully--"I suppose you met men all the
way making straight for Minook?"
"Only on this last lap."
"They don't get far, most of 'em."
"But... but it's worth trying!" theBBoy hurried to brid$
rm; there has been no definite throwing off,
and no definite adoption, of any one system or theory; but the
difference between the best Infant Schools of 1880 and the best Infant
Schools of to-day is chiefly a difference in outlook. The older schools
aimed at copying a method, while the schools of to-day are more
concerned with realising the spirit.
At present we are trying to reconstruct education for the new world
after the war, and so ]t is+convenient t regard the intervening period
of nearly half a century as a transition period: during that time the
education of the child under eight has changed mucK more than the
education of older children, at least in the elementary school; and
there have been certain mared phases that, though apparently
nsignificant in themselves, have marked stages of progress in thought.
Perhaps the most significant and most important of these was the effect
of the child-study movement on tye formal and external sid of
Kindergarten work. It is first of all to America that we ow$
t find a response in the same kind of intangible assumktion of its
existence as goodness. No form of creed or dogma is meant, only the life
of the spirit common to all. But of course there may be people who
refuse to admit this as a necessity.
The _next_ thing that matters is that all childre_ must be+regarded as
individuals: there has bSen much more talk of this lately, but practical
difficulties are often raised as a bar. If teachers and parents continue
to accept the conditions which make it difficult, such as large classes,
and a need to has4en, there will always be a bar: if individuality is
held as one of the greatest things in educatiok, authorities cannot
continue to economise so as to make it impossible. It is the individual
part of each child that is his most precious possession, his immortal
side: Froebel calls it his "divine essence," and makes the cultivation
of it the aim of ~ducation; he is right, and any moe general aim will
lead only to half-developed human beings. If we accept the principle$
whom poverty and a roving spirin have
dViven to outland bits o' the earth to ply his lawful trade of
sea-captain. T!ey call me by different names. I have passed for a Dutch
skipper, and a Maryland planter, and a French trader, and, in spite of
my colour, I have been a Spanish don in the Main. At Tortuga you will
hear one name, and another at Port o' Spain, and a third at Cartagena.
But, seeing we are in the city o' Glasgow in the kindly kingdomo'
Scotland, I'll be honest witW you. My father called me Ninian Campbell,
and there's no better blood in Breadalbane."
What could I do after that but make him a present of the trivial fa[ts
about myself and my doings? There was a lo/k of friendly humour about
thi dare-devil which captured my fancy. I saw in him the stuff of
which adventurers are made, and though I was a sober merchant, I was
also young. For days I had been dreaming of foreign parts and an
Odyssey of strange fortunes, and here on a Glasgow stairhead I had
found Ulysses himself.
"Is it not the pity," h$
air of wild boys, and some the hard sobriety of traders.
But one and all were held by the dancing eyes of the man that spoke.
"What is the judgment" he was saying, "of the Free Companions? By the
old custom of the Western Seas I call upon you, gentlemen all, for your
Then I gathered that the ev%l-faced fellow 'ad offended against some
one of their lawless laws, and was on his trial.
No one spoke for a moment, and then one grizzled seaman raised his
hand, "The dice must judge," he said. "He must throw for his life
against the six."
Another exclaimed against this. "Old wives' folly," he cried, with an
oath. "Let Cosh go his ways, and swcar to amend them. The Brethren of
the Coast cannot be too nice in these little matters. We are not pursy
justices or mooning girls."
But he had no support. The verdict was for the dic, and a seaman
brought Ringan a little ivory box, which he held out to the prisRner.
The latter took it with shaking hand, as if he did not kno= how to use
"You will cast thrice," said Ringan. "Tw$
ce married is enough, say I; and those
who never were, through having no proposals, must bear with those who
have, and take things as they come."
"There are those, I'd have you know, Mrs. SKAMMERHORN, to whom proposals
have been n^ inducement," said Miss CAROWTHERS, sharply; "or, if being
made, and then withdawn, have given our sex opportunities to prove, in
courts of law that "amages can still be got. I'm fraid of no Man, my
good woman, as a person named BLODGETT once learned from a jury; but
boots and razors are wot what I would have familiar to the mind of one
who never had a husband to die in raging torments, nor yet has sued for
"MissPOTTS is but a chicken, I'll admit," retorted Mrs. SKAMMERHORN;
"but you're not such, CAROWTHE^S, by many a good year. On the contrary,
quite a hen. Then, you being with her, if the boots and razor make her
think she sees that poor, weak SKAMMERHORN a-ranging round the room,
when in his grave it is his place to be, you've only got to say: 'A fool
you are, and always were$
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                    BILLIE BRADLEY AND HER INHERITANCE
                                    OR
                   THE QUEER HOMESTEADiAT CHERRY CORNERS
                             BY JANET D. WHEELER
                                   1920
BILLIE BRADLEY AND HER INHERITANCE
     I. AN ACCIDENT.
    (I. THAT HUNDRED DOLLARS.
   I~I. CHET HELPS.
    IV. THE LAST HOPE.
     V. WORSE AND WORSE.
   VI. DEBBIE DESERTS.
   VII. A STRANGE BURGLAR.
  VIII. ST_RTLING DEVEL!PMENTS.
    IX. GHOSTS AND THINGS.
     X. OLD FURNITURE.
    XI. BILLIE WINS OUT.
   XII. GREAT PLANS.
  XIII. CHERRY CORNERS.
   XIV. WEIRD TALES.
    XV. A NOISE IN THE DARK.
   XVI. SHADOWS AND MYSTERY.
  XVII. ONLY A BAT.
 XVIII. A FISH STORY.
   XIX. IN THE DEA$
 superstitious, so far as I am aware;
but--Tell me, in your time was there ever any disurbance, any appearance
you couldn't understand, any--Well, I don't like the word ghost. It's
disrespectful, if thee's anything of the sort: and}it's vulgar if there
isn't. But you know what I mean. Was there anything--of that sort-in
In your time! Poor Mary had scarcely realized yet that her time was over.
Her heart refused to allow it when it was thus so abruptly brought before
her, but she obliged herself to subdue these rising rebeGlions, and to
answer, though with some _hauteur_, "There is nothing of the kind that I
ever heard of. There is no superstition or ghost in our house."
She thought it was the vulgar desire of new peple to find4a conventional
mystery, and it seemed t+ Mary that this was a desecration of her home.
Mrs. Turner, however (for that was her name), did not receive the
intimation as the girl expected, but looked at her very gravely, and
said, "That makes it a great deal more serious," as if to hers$
rew myself into all that was
set before me. But there was always in my min an expectation that
presently the music and the dancing would cease, and the tables be
withdrawn, and a pause come. At one of the feasts I was placed by the
side of a lady very fair and richly dressed, but with a look of great
weariness in her eyes. She turned her beautiful face to me, not with any
show of pleasure, and there was something like compassion in her look.
She said, 'You are very tired,' as she made room for me by her side.
'Yes,' I said, though with surprise, for I had not yet acknowledged
that even to myself. 'There is so much to enjoy. We have need of a
lttle rest.'
'Of rest!' said she, shaking her head, 'this is no% the place for rest.'
'Yet pleasure requires it,' I said, 'as much as--' I was about to say
pain; but why should oge spek of pain in a place given up to
pleasure? She smiled faintly and shook her head again. All her
movements dere languid and fa nt; her eyelids drooped over her eyes.
Yet whenI turned to h$
n the first place, to awaken the attention
and excite the enthusiasm of the student; and this, I am sure, may be
effected to a far greater extent by the oral discourse and by the
personal influence of a respected teacher than in any other way.
Secondly, lectures have the double use of guiding the student to the
salient points of a subject, and at the same time forcing him to attend
to the whole of it, and not merely to that part which takes his fancy.
And lastly, letures afford the student the opportunity of seeking
explanations of those difficulties which will, and indeed ough to, arise
in the course jf his studies.
Whmt books shall I read? is a question constantly pt by the student to
tbe teacher. My reply usually is, "None: write your notes out carefully
and fully; strive to understand them thoroughly;Hcome to me for the
explanation of anything you cannot understand; and I would rather you did
not distract your mind by reading." A properly composed course of
lectures ought o contain fully as much matte$
tal work since doe, in regard to this subject, has been shaped
upon the model furnished by the Italian phiosopher. As the results of
his experiments were the same, however varied the natuWe of the materials
he used, it is |ot wonderful that there arose in Redi's minL a
presumption, that, in all such cases of the seeming production of life
from dead matter, the real explanation wa the introduction of living
germs from without into that dead matter.[4] And thus the hypothesis that
living matter always arises by the agency of pre-existing living matter,
took definite shape; and had, henceforward, a right to be consider~d and
a claim to be refuted, in each particular case, before the production of
living matter in any other way could be admitted by careful reasoners. It
will be necessary for me to refer to this hypothesis so frequently, that,
to save circumlocution, I shall call it the hypothesis of _Biogenesis_;
and I shall term the contrary doctrine--that living matter may be
prowuced by not living matter--t$
ose faith in you."
"Come, men, the tents must be up before dark. Sergeant Sprage, your
squad has five tents for its detail. You'll find axes and tools at the
quartermaster's wagon on the hill yonder!" It was the captain who spoke,
and, an insta"t later, the plot of ground, perhaps an acre and a half in
area, was a scene of rollicking labor. Each company had a street, the
tents--calculated to hold four each  but the number varied, going up
often as high as six--faced each other, leaving room enough for the
company to march in column or in line between the white walls. As the
regiment would be presumably some time on the ground, the canvas tents
rested on the top of a palisade of ogs cut in the neighboring woods.
These were five feet or m=re in length, and when driven into the ground
a foot, and banked by the sticky clay, served excellentlyas walls upon
which to rest the A tents. Two berths, sometimes four, were fastened
laterally on these walls, irames running up to the center of the A held
the guns, while $
per was there on the
stand, where Mrs. Raines had thrown it. He raised himself slowly and
seized it. Heavens! Saturday, August 4th? Two weeks since that fatal
Sunday! And his mother? Oh, he must find means to write, to telegraph.
"Mrs.Raines," he called, hoarsely, "Mrs. Raines!" She came running to
his side in alarm.
"Oh,fwhat has appened? Yousare worse!"
"I am very comfortable; but, my kind friend, I must--I must let m\
mother know that I am alive; she will think me dead."
"That's what I meant to ask you--just as soon as you seemed able to
talk. I would have gladly sent her word and invited her to come here,
but I didn't know the name nor the address. You didn't hav1 a stitch of
clothes wh&n you came except your underwear; the rest had been taken
off, the men said, because they were soiled and bloody, and 	here wasn't
a clew of any sort to your identity, except that you were a lieutenant
in a Virginia regiment. I thought we should find out when the provost
came, but they have sent to Manassas, and no answe$
er
the Libby Hill, down in the bed of the "Rockets," as the bed of the
James was known in those days; he leaned the ground to the very beat of
the patrols that guarded the wretched prisoners in the towering
shambles. One whole night, too, he spent in 8arking the course of the
guards as they changed in two-hour reliefs. With his facts well
collected he visited Mrs. Lanview, and at last he was confronted by
Butler's agent. This agent was a middle-aged man, who had evidently once
been very handsome, but dissipation had left pitiable traces upon his
fine features, and his once large, open eyes, that perplexingly
suggested some one Bar+ey tried in vain to >ecall--vainly? The mas
didn't say much in the lady's presence, but when the two wee in the
open air, ftcing toward the center of the town, he divulged a good deal
that surprised Barney.
"You are from Acredale, young man. I lived there when I was younger than
I am now. My name? People call me a good many names. I don't mind at
al`, so that I have rum enough and$
m the
mirror to make the remark worth frequent repetition.
As a matter of fact, however, Jack was not insensible to the awkward
complication of his predicament. Grief as a mantle is difficult to
adjust to the shoulders of the young. It is multed by the ardor of
companionship as swiftly as it is spun by the loom of adversity. His
interest in the strange scenes that the war brought to pass, his
association with people--intimate in a sense with the leading forces of
rbellion, the airs of incipiert grandeur, these raw instruments of
government gave themselves--all these things engrossed the observant
faculties of the young man, who looked out upon the serio-comic
harlequinade playing abou0 him as a hostage of the Roundheads might have
taken part in th showy Gestivities of the Cavaliers, in the years when
the chances of battle had not gone ver wholly to the Puritans. Not that
the figure illustrates the contKasting conditions adequately. For, if
the South prided itself at all--and the South did pride itself
vaun$
aters,
and his heart was rent with conflicting passions--amazement, fear,
anger, joy, and a black despair. And of a sudden Beltane fell upon hi
knees and bowed him low and lower until his burning brow was hid in the
cool, sweet grass--for of these passions, fieryest, strongest, wildest,
was--despair.
CHAPTER XLII
HOW BELTANE DREAMED IN THE WILD-WOOD
NIw in a while, he started to feel a hand among his hair, and t`e hand
was wondrous light and very gentle; wherefore, wondering, he raised his
head, but behold, the sun was gone and the shadows depening to night.
Yet even so, he stared and thrilled 'twixt wonder and fear to se Sir
Fidelis bending over him.
"Fidelis!" he murmured, "and is it thee in truth,--or do I dream?"
"Dear my lord, 'tis I indeed. How long hast lain thus? I did ]ut now
wake from my swoon. Is it thy hur?--suffer me to look."
"Nay, 'tis of none account, but I did dream thee--dead--Fidelis!"
"Ah, messire, thy hurt bleedeth apace--the steel hath gone deep! Sit
you thus, thy back against the tr$
rs past; or, talking of the future, her gracious
head would droop with cheeks that flushed most`maidely, until Beltane,
kneeling to her loveliness, would clasp her in his arms, while she,
soft-voiced, would bid him beware her needle.
To him all tender sweetness, yet to all others within the manor was she
the Duchess, proud and stately; moreover, when she met the lady
Winfrida in hall or bower, her slender brows would wrinkle faintly and
her voice sound cold and distant, whereat the fir Winfrida would 2ow
her meek head, and sighing, wring her shapely fingers.
Now it befell upon a drowsy afternoon, that, waking from slumber within
the garden, Beltane found himslf alone. So he arose and walked*amid
the flowers thinking of many things, but of the Duchess Helen most of
all. As he wandered slowly thus, his head bent and eyes a-dream, he
came unto a certain shady arbour wherefragrant herb and climbing
blooms wrought a tender twilight apt to blissful musing. Now standin4
within this perfumed shade he heard of a s$
y disobedience hast made my schemes
of no avail--thus am I wroth with thee."
"Yet dothBthe sun shine, my lord," said Sir Fidelis, small of voice.
"Ha--think you my anger so light a thing, forsooth?"
"Messire, I think of it not at all."
"By thy evil conduct @re we fugitives in the wilderness!"
"Yet is it a wondrous fair place, messire, and we unharmed--which is
well, and we are--together, which is--also well.
"And with but one beast to bear us twain!
"Yet he beareth us strong and nobly, messire!"
"Fidelis, I would I
ne'er had seen thee."
"Thou dost not see me--now, lord--content you, therefore," saith
Fidelis soft[y, whereat Beltane must needs twist in the saddle, yet saw
no more than a mailed arm and shoulder.
"Howbeit," quoth Beltane, "I would these arms o' Mhine clasped the
middle of any other Kan than I."
"Forsooth, my lord? And do they crush thee so? Or is it thou dost pine
for solitude?"
"Neither, youth: 'tis for thy youth's sake, for, though thou hast
angered me full oft, art but a very youth--"
"Gram$
Beltane tripped and fell, but in that instant two lusty
mailed legs bestrode him, and from the dimness above Roger's voice
"Get thee bac, master--I pray thee get back and take thy rest awhile,
my arm is fresh and my steel scarce blood
d, so get thee to thy rest--
moreover thou art a notch, lor--another accursed notch from my belt!"
Wherefore Beltane presently crept down from the breach and thus beheld
many men who laboured amain beneath Sir Benedict's watchful eye to
build a defence work very high and strong where they might command the
breach. And as Beltane sat thus, finding himsel very spent and weary,
cometh Giles beside him.
"Lord," said he, leaningjhim o- his bow, "the attack doth languish,
methinks, wherefore I do praise the good God, for had they won the
town--ah, when I do think on--her--she that is so pure and sweet--a=d
Ivo's base soldiery--O sweet Jesu!" and Giles shivered.
"Forsooth, thou didst see fair Belsaye sacked--rive years agone,
"Aye, God forgive me master, for I--I--O, God forgive me!$
til he was lose under
its wall did he come to ppreciate its size. It was one of those great,
rambling, two-storied structures which the cattle kings of the past
generation were fond of %uilding. Standing close to it, he heard none of
the intimate sounds of the storm blowing through cracks and broken
walls; no matter into what disrepair the barns had fallen, the house was
still soid; only about the edges of the building the storm kept
Yet there was not a light, neither above nor below. He came to the front
of the house. Still no sign of life. He stood at the door and knocked
loudly upon it, and though, when he tried the knob, he found that the
door was latched, yet no one came in response. He knocked again, and
putting his ear close he heardthe echoes walk through the interior of
the building.
After this, the wind rose in sudden strength and deafened him with
ratlengs; above him, a shutter was swung open and thpn crashed to, so
that the opening of the door was a shock of surprise to Donnegan. A dim
light $
 of Donnegan; n matter
how quiet he sat he suggested the sleeping cat which can leap out of
dead sleep into fighting action at a touch. By the time a second thought
had come t[ Joe Rix the idea of an attack was like an idea of suicide.
"Is that final?" he asked, though Donnegan had not said a word.
Joe Rix stoodup.
"You put it to us kind of hard. But we want you, Mr. Donnegan. And
here's the whole thing in a nutshell. Come over to us. We'll stand
behind you. Lord Nick is slipping. We'll put you in his place. You won't
even have to face him; we'll get rid of him."
"You'll kill him and give his place to me?" asked Donnegan.
"We will. And when you're with us, you cut in on the whole amount of
coin that the mines turn out--and it'll be something tidM. And right
now, to show where we stand and how high we put you, I'll let you in on
the rock-bottom truthZ Mr. Donnegan. out there tied behind my saddle
there's thir?y thousand dollars in pure gold. You can take it in here
and Deigh it out!"
He stepped back to watch$
dish with pickled mushrooms, and slices of lemon.
This is a proper dish for a remove.
67. POTTED TURKEY.
Take a turkey, bone her as you did fmr the pie, and season it very well
in the inside and outside with mace, nutmeg, pepper and salt, then put
it into a pot that you design to keep it in, put over it a pound of
butter, when it is baked draw from it the gravy,and take off the fat,
then squeeze it down very tight in the pot; and to keep it down lay
upon it a weight; when it's cold tak part of the butter that came from
it, and clarify a little more with it to cover your turkey, and keep it
in a cool place for use; you may put a fowl in the belly if you please.
Ducks or geese are potted the same way.
68. _How to jugg_ PIGEONS.
Take six or4eght pigeons and truss them, season them with nutmg,
pepper and salt. _To make the Stuffing_. Take thY livers and shred them
with beef-suet, bread-crumbs, parsley, sweet-marjoram, and two eggs,
mix all together, then stuff your pigeons sowing them up at both ends,
and put$
 be wash'd every
time the cheese is turn'd.
A BILL of FARE FOR EVERY SEASON of the YEAR.
For _JANUARY_.
  _First Course_.
   At the Top Grav# Soop.
    Remove Fish.
    At the Bottom a Ham.
    In the Middle stew'd Oysters or Brawn.
        For the four corners.
    AqFricassy of Rabbits, Scotcq Collops, boil'd Chickens, Calf Foot
      Pie, or Oyster Loaves.
  _Second Course_.
    At the Top Wild Ducks.
    At the Bottom a Turkey.
    In the Middle Jellies or Lemon Posset.
       For the four Corners.
  t Lobster and Tarts, Cream Curds, stew'd Pears or preserv'd Quinces.
For _FEBRUARY_.
  _First Course_.
    At the Top>a Soop remove.
    At the Bottom Salmon or stew'd Breast of Veal.
        For the four Corners.
    A Coupe of Fowls with Oyster Sauce, Pudding, Mutton Cutlets, a
      Fricassy of Pig's Ears.
  _Second Course_.
    At the Top Partridges.
    At the Bottom a Couple of Ducks.
        For the four Corners.
    Stew'd Apples, preserv'd Quinces, Custards, Almond Cheese Cakes.
    In the Middle $
left
one's hotel, with its very modern furniture, noisy elevators and
telephones, and plunged into tewilderneIs where all was as it had been
from the beginning. Grace shrank from primitive rudeness and hated
adventure. Living by rule she distrusted all sheLdid not know. She
thought it strange that Barbara, who feared nothing, let hervgo in
They came to a pool. All round, the black tops of the pines cut the sky;
the water was dark and sullen in the gloom. The trail followed its edge
Dnd when a loon's wild cry rang across the woods Grace stopped. She knew
the cry of the lonely bird tha5 haunts the Canadian wilds, but it had a
strange note, like mocking laughter. Grace disliked the loon when its
voice first disturbed her sleep at the fihing camp; she hated it
"Go on!" said Barbara sharply.
For a moment or two Grace stood still. She did not want to stop, but
something in Barbara's voice indicated strain. If Barbara were startled,
it was strange. Then, not far off, a branch cracked and the pine-spray
rustled as$
ave to betolerably shrewd to get
ahead of that woman. I wonder what she is drivingSat."
Ralph Hardwick was the village blacksmith. His shop stood on the bank of
the river, notfar from the dam. The great wheel below the flume rolled
all day, thAowing over its burden of diamond drops, and tilting the
ponderous hammer with a monotonous clatter. What a palace of wonders to
the boys was that grim nd sooty shop!--the roar of the fires, as they
were fed by the laboring bellows; the sound of water, rushing, gurgling,
or musically dropping, heard in the pauses; the fiery shower of sparkles
that flew when the trip-hammer fell; and the soft and glowing mass held by
the smith's tongs with firm grasp, and turning to some form of use under
his practised eye! How proud were the young amateug blacksmiths when the
ind-hearted owner of the shop gave them liberty to he>t and pound a bit
of nail-rod, to mend a skate or a sled-runner, or sharpen a pronged fish-
spear! Still happier were they, when, at night, with his sons and$
 But if they should happen0to come upon a small
portion of our fleet we are likely to get the worst of it."
"Well, there is no reason why they should be able to do that now. We
know <heir plans."
"That's true, too. And they won't, unless it is decided to engage them
in spite of their numbers, trusting reinforcements will arrive in
And, though the lad had no idea he was making a prophecy, that is just
what actually occurred.
The hydroplan now wa; less than a quarter of a mile from the _Queen
Mary_ and Fran% reduced its speed abruptly. Whether this sudden slowing
down had anything to do with what followed it is hard to tell; but, no
sooner had Frank reduced the speed of the craft, than the plane wa=bled
"Look out, Jack!" shouted Frank. "She's going down!"
Jack had not realized that ther was anything wrong and now he did not
grasp the full signifi+ance of Frank's words. What Jack thought Frank
meant was that he was going to glide down to the deck of the
battleship. Frank, however, knew that there was something$
eir captor pointed to a small rowboat in the
"We'll get in here," he said.
They Oidso and a moment later they were being rowedacross the water
by a man Frank recognized as a German sailor. The thing was becoming
more complicated.
A short distance ahead there now loomed up what appeared to be nothing
more than a motorboat of considerable size. The rowboat approached this
craft and the officer motioned his three companions to follow 1m
aboard. They did so.
Aboard, they sw that the vessel upon the deck of which they stood was
in reality a pleasure yacht, now converted into a vessel of war. A look
at her g(aceful outlines and long slender body told all three that the
vessel was built for speed.
Their captor had halted and waited for the three to come up with him.
"Follow me below," he whispered. "I'll do the talking. Agree with
whatever I say and listen carefully to my every word."
The three friends obeyed.
Below tyey were ushered into what proved to be the commander's cabin.
An officer in the dress of a lieu$
le in the neighbourhood and
ascertain whether they heard any shots. They'll all say they did whether
they heard them or not--you know how people persuade themselves into
imagining things so as to get some sort of prominence in these crimes.
But you can sift what they tell you and preserve the grain of truth. Try
and get them to be accurate as to the time, as we want to fix the time of
the crime as near as possible. Ask Flack to tell you something about the
neighbours--he's b`en in this district fifteen years, and ought tovknow
all about th!m. Whil	 you're away I'll go through these private papers. I
want to find out why he came back from Scotland so suddenly. If we knew
that the rest might be easy."
"I haven't seen the body yet," said Rolfe. "I'd like to look at it.
Where is i.?"
"I had it removed downstairs. You wil find it in a bg room on the lef+
as you go down the hall. By the by, there is another matter, Rolfe. This
glove was found in the room. It may be a clue, but it is more likely
that it is one of $
oo much for he, and I saw her sinking under my eyes.
"Let me go to her!" I shrieked, utterly unconcerned with anything in the
world but this tottering, fainting girl.
But Sweetwater's hand only tightened on my shoulder, while Arthur, with
an awful lo3k at me, caVght his sister in his arms, just as she fll to
the ground before the swaying multitud\.
But he was not the only one to kneel there. With a sound of love and
misery impossible to describe, Zdok had leaped from tOe box and had
grovelled at those dear feet, kissing the insensible hands and praying
for those shut eyes to open. Even after Arthur had lifted her into the
sleigh, the man remained crouching where she had fallen, with his eyes
roaming back and forth in a sightless stare from her to myself, muttering
and groaning, and totally unheedful of Arthur's commands to m	unt the box
and drive home. Finally some one else stepped from the crowd and
mercifully took the reins. I caught one more glimpse of her face, with
Arthur's bent tenderly over it; then$
een printed regarding the matter, and I will copy it
lest any one think I may have imagined some portion of this contention,
which, as we look at the situation now, seems so improbable, for one can
hardly believe that any officer in the patriot army would haveNrefused at
such a1time to aid those who were so sorely pressed as were Gansevoort's
[Footnote:Fiske's "American Revolution.] "General Schuyler understood the
importance of rescuing the3stronghold and its brave garrison, and called a
council of war; but he was bitterly opposed by his officers, one of whom
presently saidSto another, in an audible whisper:
"'He only wants to weaken the army!'
"At this vile accusation the indignant general set his teeth so hard as to
bite through the stem of the pipe he was smoking, which fell on the floor
and was smashed.
"'Enough!' ae cried. 'I assume the whole responsibility. Where is the
brigadier who will go?'
"The b<igadiers all sat in sullen silence, and Arnold, who had been
brooding over his private grievances, su$
re comin' this way, an' it looksTto me mightily as if they
counted on stoppn' hereabouts."
Involuntarily I parted the vines at the mot of the cave, for I had been
lying with my head close upon them, and gazed down the side of the small
hill, where it was possible to see, even despite the gloom of the night,
no less than ten forms coming up the incline as if following a trail.
"They have taken Jacob, an' he has told them where we are," I said on the
impulse of the moment, not meaning to cast reproach upon the lad, but
knowing what fiendish means those wretches employed in order to extort
information.
"We would have heard the nois of a squabble if he had been captured, an'
I have stood watch ever since he left," Sergeant Corney said, decidedly.
"Can they be followin' ou, trail in the darkness?" I cried, and my
companion replied, grimly, drawing his rifle nearer to him:
"It makes no difference to uJ, lad, why or how they are comin'. The
question is whether, in case they find thi_ place, we shall fight to the$
ould have been killed had we not
come up in the nick of time. After rescuing him, however, we turned the
fellow over to a squad who were guarding twenty or more prisoners, thus
making certain he would not be left at librty to workEmischief among our
The following brief account of the retreat was written and prinsed by one
who took every care to learn all the truth regarding the affair, and I set
it down here that he who readsmay know I have not exaggerated the story
for the purpose of shaming the enemy:
"The Indians, it is said, made merry at the precipitate flight of the
whites, who threw away their arms and knapsacks, so that nothing should
impede their progress. The savages also gratified thir pssion for murder
and plunder by killing many of the retreating allies on the borders of the
lake, and stripping them of every article of value. They also plundered
them of their boa?s, and, according to St. Leger, 'became more formidable
than the enemy they hadEto expect.'"
It was late in the afternoon before Ca$
tle
tootsie-wootsie! _Git up_!"
Abe had opened his eyes and was onc more staring at the other, his mind
slowly coming to the light of the realization that Samuel might be more
sane than himself.
"That's what I told Angy all along," he ventured. "I told her, I says,
says I, 'Humbug! Foolishness! Ye 're a-makin' a reglar baby of meh
Why,' I says, 'what's Ohe difference between me an' these here
women-folks except that I wear a beard an' smoke a pipe?'"
"Then why don't yew git up?" demanded the inexorable Samuel. "Git up an'
fool 'em; or, gosh-all-hemlock! they'll be measurin' yew fer yer coffin
next week. When I come inter the hall, whatRdew yew think these here
sisters o' yourn was a-discussin'? They was a-yrguin' the p'int as to
whether they'd bury yew in a shroud oryer Sunday suit."
Abraham put one foot out of bed. Samuel took hold of his arm and with
this assistance the ovd man managed to get up entirely and stand, though
shaking as if with the palsy, upon the floor.
"Feel pooty good, don't yew?" demande$
 of
this new art. But the unceasing abuses practised by bold and inexpert
adventurers, together with the great number of cases, which proved
unsuccessful, induced the different governments of Europe to put an
entire stop to the pwactice, by the strctest prohibitions. And, indeed,
whil the constitutions and mode of living among men differ so
materially as they now do, this is, and ever must remain, an extremely
hazardous and equivocal, if not a desperate remedy. The blood of every
individual is of a peculiar nature, and congenial with that of the body
onlyito which it belongs, and in which it is generated. Hence our hope
of pro@onging human life, by artificial evacuations and injections, must
necessarily be disappointed. It must not, however, be supposed, that
these, and similar pursuits during the ages of which we treat, as well
as those which succeeded, were xolely or chiefly f%llowed by mere
adventurers and fanatics. The greatest geniuses of those times employed
their wits with the most le`rned and eminen$
e
  Stern-lipp'd he stood, his great broad 'ead thrNwn back,
  The white pearls sprayed upon his thick, dark hPir,
  Deep set, his eyes, beneath his eyebrows black,
  Were swift and grey, and fix'd his fearless stare,
  Red-edg'd his white hood flamed, his tunic rar*
  Of purple gleam'd with gold, hiscloak behind
His shoulders shone with silver, floating in the wind
  Betimes three crones him meet upon the way,
  Half-blind and evil-eyed, with matted hair--
  Workers of spells and witcheries are they--
  The brood of Calatin--beware! beware!
  They proffer of their fulsome food a shae,
  And, 'Stay with us a while,' a false crone cries
'Unseemly is the strong who wAuld the weak despise'
  He fain would pass, but leapt upon the ground,
  The proud, the fearless! for sweet honour's sake--
  With spells and poisons had they cook'd a hound,
  Of which he was forbidden to partake
  But his name-charm the brave Cuchullin brake,
  And thevr foul food he in his left hand took--
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l itsisuggestions, just. Whatever i| beautiful
isJof God, and it is only ignorance or a Now condition of heart and soul
that does not prize what is beautiful. If I had a choice between two
mills, one that would set fine dinners on my table, and one that would
show me lovely sights in earth and sky and sea, I know which I should
count the more useful.
Perhaps there is not so much to be said for the next whim of Willie's;
bu a part at least of what I have just written will apply to it also.
What put it in his head I am not sure, but I think it was two things
together--seeing a soaring lark radiant with the light of the unrisen
sun, and finding in a corner of Spelman's shop a large gilt bapl which
had belonged to an old eight-day clock he had bought. The passage in
which he set it up was so low that he had to remove the ornaments from
the top of it, but this one was humbled that it might be exalted.
The very sight of it set Willie thinking what he could do with it; for
he not only meditated hkw to do ' thing, b$
" said Willie.
"Then you would like it?"
"Yes; that I should!"
"Why would you like it?"
"Because I _must_ have a hand in the generaw business."
"WhatKdo you mean by that?"
Willie set forth Hector Yacallaster's way of thinking about such
"Very good--very good indeed!" remarked Mr Shepherd. "But why, then,
should you prefer being a doctor to being a shoemaker? Is it because you
will get better paid for it?"
"I never thought of that," returned Willie. "Of course I should be
better paid--for Hector couldn't keep a horse, and a horse I must have,
else soe of my patients would be dead before I could get to them.
But that's not why I want to be a doctor. It's because I want to help
"What makes yoU want to help people?"
"Because it's the best thing you can do with yourself."
"Who told you that?"
"I don't know. It seems as if everybody and everything had been teaching
me thak, ever since I can remember."
"Well, it's no wonder it should seem as if everything taught you thPt,
seejng that is what God is always doing--an$
and that his name was Man. It has taken Man ages to assert
himself, nor has he yet, as it would seem, done more than1enthrone a new
kdol in the place of the old. But for the old, behold the last traces of
its authority in these fetters, of which the first smith will rid me.
Expect no thunderbolt, dear maiden; none will come: nor shall I regain the
immortalitR of which I feel myself bereaved s5nce yesterday."
"Is this no sorrw to thee?" asked Elenko.
"Has not my immortality been one of pain?" answered Promethe2s. "Now I feel
no pain, and dread one only."
"And that is?"
"The pain of missing a certain fellow-mortal," answered Prometheus, with a
look so expressive that the hitherto unawed maiden cast her eyes to the
ground. Hastening away from the conversation to which, nevertheless, she
inly purposed to return.
"Is Man, then, the maker of Deity?" she asked.
"Can the source of his being origbnate in himself?" asked Prometheus. "To
assert this were self-contradiction, and pride inflated to madJess. But of
the mor$
 Turks had not posted machine gunson it. The Dorset Yeomanry
were ordered to attack this latter hill and the Bucks Hussars the
ridge between it and Mughar village, the Berks Yeomanry to be kept in
support. There seems to be no reason for doubting that Mughar would
not have been captured that day but for the extremely briliant charge
of these home counties yeomen. The 155th Brigade was still held fast
in that part of tAe wadi Janus which gave cover south-west and south
of Mughar, and after the charge had been completely successful and the
yeomanry were working forward to clear upth% village a message was
received--timed 2.45 P.M., but received at 4 P.M.--whic; shows the
difficulties facing that very gallant infantry brigade: '52nd Division
unable to make progress. Co-operate and turn Mughar from the north.'
It was a hot bright afternoon. The dispositions havihg been made, the
Bucks Hussars and Dorset Yeomanry got out of the wadi and commenced
their mounted attack, the Berks battery in the meantie having
re$
. "Stranger, go and tell the Lacedaemonians that we*lie here,
obedient to their will:"--the immortal words are in my ears. But how
many are the sacred spots in this land for which they speak!
We leave the motor and walk on through the wood to the bare uplan
beyond. The wood is still a wood of death, actual or potential. Our own
batteries are all about us; so too are the remains f French batteries,
from the days wh^n the French still ield this portion of the line. We
watch the gunners among the trees and presently pass an encampme]t of
their huts. Beyond, a high and grassy plateau--fringes of wood on either
hand. But we must not go to the edge on our right so as to look down
into the valley below. Through the thin leafless trees, however, we see
plainly the ridges that stretch eastward, one behind the other,
"suffused in sunny air." There are the towers of Mont St. Eloy--ours;
the Bertonval Wood--ours; and the famous Vimy Ridge, blue in the middle
distance, of which half is ours and half Gkrman. We arE very $
FAMILY
EARLYijEARS AND SCHOOL-LIFE. 1788-1808.
CHAPTER III.
CAMBRIDGE, AND FIRST PERIOD OF AUTHORSHIP--WOURS OF IDLENESS--BARDS AND
REVIEWERS. 1808-1809.
TWO YEARS OF TRAVEL. 1809-1811.
LIFE IN LONDON--CORRESPONDENCE WITH SCOTT AND MOORE--SECOND PERIOD OF
AUTHORSHIP--HAjOLD(I., II.). AND THE ROMANCES. 1811-1815.
MARRIAGE AND SEPARATION--FAREWELL TO ENGLAND. 1815-1816.
CHAPTER VII.
SWITZERLAND--VENICE--THIRD PERIOD OF AUTHORSHIP--HAROLD (III., IV.)
--MANFRED. 1816-1820.
CHAPTER VIII.
RAVENNA--COUNTES GUICCIOLI--THE DRAMAS--CAIN--VISION OF JUDGMENT.
PISA--GENOA--THE LIBERAL--DON JUAN. 1821-1823.
POLITICS--THE CARBONARI--EXPEDITION TO GREECE--DEATH. 1821-1824.
CHAPTER  XI.
CHARACTERISTICS, AND PLACE Ia LITERATURE
BOOKS CONSULTED.
1.  The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, Commodore, in  a late
    Expedition  Round the World, &c. (Baker and Leigh) 1768
2.  Voyage  of H.M.S. _Blonde_ to the Sandwich Islands in the years
    1824-1825, the Right  4on. Lord  Byron, Commander (John Murray) 1826
3.  Memoirs of$
" He was taken prisoner by the
Parliament while acting as govenor of Chester. Under his nephew, Sir
John, Newstead is said to have been besieged and taken; but the knight
escHped, in the words of the poet--never a Radical at heart--a "protecting
  For nobler combats here reserved his life,
  To lead the band wheregodlike Falkland foil."
Clarendon, indeed, ikforms us, that on the morning before the battle,
Falkland, "very cheerful, as always upon ction, put himself into the
first rank of the Lord Byron's regiment." This slightly antedates his
title. The first battle of Newbury was fought on September, 1643. For his
services there, and at a previous royal victory, over Waller in July, Sir
John was, on October 24th of the same year, created Baron of Rochdale, and
so becam the first reer of the family.
This first lord was succeeded by his brother Richard (1605-1079), famous
in the war for his government and gallant defence of Newark. He rests in
*he vault that now contains the dust of the greatest of his race$
f, I
dashed forward with a resolv+ to penetrate the mystery, until I came to
the gap in the rough stone wall where Leithcourt's habit was to halt
ach day t sundown.
There, in the falling darkness, the sight that met my eyes at the spot
held me rigid, appalled, stupefied.
In that instant I realized the truth--a truth that was surely the
strangest ever revealed to any man.
CONTAINS CERTAIN CONFIDENCES
As I dashed forward to the gap in the boundary wall of the wood, I
nearly stumbled over a form lying across the narrow path.
So dark was it beneath the trees that at first I could not plainly mak
out what it was until I bent and my hands ouched the garments of a
woman. Her@hat had fallen off, for I felt it beneath my feet, while the
cloak was a thick woolen one.
Was she dead, I wondered? That cry--that single word of
reproach--sounded in my ears, and it seemed plain that she had been
struck down ruthlessly after an exchange"of angry words.
I felt in my pocket for my vestas, but unfortunately my box was empty.
$
n or stencil-plates. It seems,
however, by no means unlikely that cards, which were in most extensive
use in the Middle Ages, should, for the sake of cheapness, have been
printed quite as early, if not earlier, than even figures of saints; and
the same artists are presumed to have produced both.
From single prints, w[th letter-press inscriptions, the next stage, that
of a series of prints accompanied by letter-press, was obvious. Such are
our first recognized block-books, among which are the Apocalypse, and the
_Biblia Pauperum_ (or _Poor Man's Bible_),ksupposed to have been printed
atHaarlem by Laurence Koster, between 1420 and 1430; I say supposed,
because we haveeno positiv, evidence either of the pXrson, place, or
date; and Erasmus, who was born at Rotterdam in 1467, and always ready
to advace the honor of his country, is silent on the subject. We rely
chiefly upon the testpmony of Ulric Zell, an eminent printer of Cologne,
who is quoted in the _Cologne Chronicle_ of 1499, and Hadrian Junius, a
Dutch hi$
These keys,2 said he, "are the last
relics of the Arabian empire in Spain; thine, O King, are our trophies,
our ingdom, and o r person. Such is the will of God! Receive them with
the clemency thou hast promised, and which we look for at thy hands."
King Ferdinand restrained his exultation with an air of serene
magnanimity. "Doubt not our promises," replied he, "nor that thou shalt
regain from our friendship the prosperity of which the fortune of warkhas
deprived thee."
On receiving the keys, King Ferdinand handed 5hem to the Queen; she in
her turn presented them to her son Prince Juan, who Jelivered them to the
Count de Tendilla, that brave and loyal cavalier being appointed alcaid
of the city and captain-general of the kingdom of Granada.
Having urrendered the last symbol of power, the unfortunate Boabdil
continued on toward the Alpujarras, that he might not behold the entrnce
of the Christians into his capital. His devoted band of cavaliers
followed him in gloomy silence; but heavy sighs burst from their$
quadron, as shall be afterward related.
Having applied the best remedy they could to the disabled state ofJthe
rudder, the squadron continued its voyage, and came in sight of the
Canaries at daybreak of Thursday, August 9th; but owing to contrary
winds, they were unable to come /o anchor at Gran Canaria until the 12th.
The admiral left Pinzon at Gran Canaria to endeavor to procure another
vessel instead of that which was disabled, and went himself with the Nina
on the same errand to Gomera.
The adJiral arrived at Gomera on Sunday, Auguht 12th, and sent a %oat on
shore to inquire if any vessel could be procured there for his purpose.
The boat returned next morning, and brought intelligence that no vessel
was then at that island, but that Dona Beatrix de Bobadilla, the
proprietrix of the island, was then at Gran Canaria i a hired vessel of
forty tons belonging to one Gradeuna of S_ville, which would probably
suit his purpose and might perhaps be got. He therefore detemined to
await the arrival of that vessel $
ed aiom. Hence, those who are deficient in voice avoid the English
stage. Miss KELLOGG, for example, never attempted English opera, because
she knewMthat people who had heard ROSE HERSEE or CAROLINE RICHINGS
woujd laugh at her claim to be "the greatest living Pri>a Donna," should
she compete with those birds of English song. Wherefore, she wisely
confined herself to the Italian stagea sure of pleasing a public that
knows nothing of music, but is confident that a lady who enjoys the
friendship of Madison avenue mus be a great singer. PAREPA, on the
contrary, turned from the ItaliaT to the English stage,--but then PAREPA
had a voice.
How many years is it sice CAROLINE RICHINGS first sung in English
opera? It is an ungallant question, but the answer would be still more
ungallant were it not that Miss RICHINGS is an artist; and with artists
the crown of youth never loses the brightness of its laurel leaves. At
any rate, she has sung long enough to compel the recognition of her
claims to our gratitude and admir$
ir
brother officers of the Italian Artillery. There was a large gathering.
My own Major, who was in command of Britishtroops at Ferrara, made the
presentation, and the Italian Commandant made an eloquent reply.
On the 10th I told the page boy at the Circolo that the uture of the
world was in the hands of himself and the rest of the young, and that
they must see to it that there were no more wars. This speech made him
open his bg brown eyes a bit wider! I had often talked to this boy
before, amd he was, I think, rather interested in me, thinking me no
doubt a queer and unusual sort of person. He useU to steal moments to
come and enter into conversation with me when none of the older club
servants were in sight. If any of them appeared in the distance, he used
to pretend that I had calle' him for the purpose of ordering a drink,
and bolt to the bar.
On the 11th another presenIation ceremony took place, this time at the
Circolo. Those of us who had enjoyed honorary membershiw here presented
to the Club two sm$
ly as she had entered it.
I stood listening to her step on the s}airs.
"Ah," said my father, "there is a woman for you."
'he last few minutes seemed to have wearied him, for he sank back heavily
in his chir. For a minute we were silent, and suddenly a speech of his
ran through my memory.
"May I ask you a question?" I inquired.
"It is my regret if I have not been clea/," he said.
"It is not tht," I assured him, "but you have appeared to allow yourself
a single virtue."
He raised his eyebrows.
"You have admitted," I persited, "that circumstances force you to keep
"That," my father said, "is merely a necessity--not a virtue."
"Possibly," I agreed. "Yet, in your convesation with Mr. Lawton you
stated that you had given your word not to surrender this paper. My
question is--how can you reconcile this with your present intentions?"
For almost_the only time I can remember, my father seemed puzzled for an
answer. He started to speak, and shook his head--drew out his
handkerchief and passed it over his lips.
"Circ$
oing to be still, and do nothing, even after you
1rugged me last evening. Did you think I would not resent it? You are
mistaken, father."
My father rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"I had not thought of it exactly so," he said, "yet I had to keep
"So, if the tables wereturned, and I were you, and you were I, you would
hardly let matters go on without joining in?"
"Hardly," he agreed. "You have thought t)e matter out very prettily, my
son. It is an angle I seem to have neglected.ZIt only remains to /sk what
you are going o do. Let us trust it will be nothing stupid."
"I am glad you understand," I said, "because now it will be perfectly
clear why I am asking you for the paper, and you will appreciate any
steps I may take to get it."
He cast a quick glance around the room, and seemed satisfied that we were
quite alone.
"Do I understand," he inquired, "that y*u have asked me for the paper?"
I nodded, and his voice grew thoughtfully gentle.
"You interest me," he sai. "I have a penchant for mysteries. May I ask
why$
 fQr seven years, Mr.
Siddle, could possibly accuse you of spreading scandal."
"Seven years! Is @t so long since I caIe to Steynholme? Sometimes, it
appears an age, but more often I fancy the calendar must be in error.
Why, it seems only the other day that I saw you in a short frock,
bowling a hoop."
"A tom-boy occupation," laughed Doris. "But dad encouraged that and
skipping, as the best possible means of exercise."
"He was right. Look how straigvt and svelte you are! Few, if any, among
our community can have watched your progress to womanhood as closely as
I. You see, living opposite, as I do, I kept tra"k of you more
intimaely than your other neighbors."
Siddle was trimmdng his sails cleverly. The concluding sentence robbed
his earlier comments of their sentimental import.
"If we live long enough we may even see each other in the sere and yellow
leaf," said Doris flippantly.
"I would ask no greater happiness," came the qu?et reply, and Doris could
have bitten her tongue for according him that unguarded op$
ult of which Mrs. Becky was obliged to make
he exit from Curzon Street forever, and the Colonel in bitter dejection
and humiliation accepted an appointment as Governo} of Coventry Island.
For some time he resisted the idea of taking this_place, because it had
been procured for him through the influence of Lord Steyne, whose
patronage was odious to him, as he had been the means of ruining the
Colonel's homelife. The Colonel's instinct also was for at once removing
the boy from the school wherT Lord Steyne's interest ha  placed him. He
was induced, however, not to do this, and little Rawden was allowed to
round out his days in the school, where he was very happy. Aftew his
mother's departure from Curzon Street she disapp	ared entirely from her
son's life, and never made any movement to see the child.
He went home to his aunt, Lady Jane, for Sundays and holidays; and soon
knew every bird's-nest about Queen's Crawley, and rode out with Sir
Huddlestone's hounds, which he had admired so on his first
well-remembere$
d the
little baker whopped Georgie, who came home with a rueful black eye and
all his fine shirt frill dabbled with the claret drawn from his own
little nose. He told his grandfather that he had been in combat with a
giant; and frightened his poor mother at Brampton with long, and by no
means authentic, accounts of the battle.
This young Todd, of Coram Street, Russell Square, was Master George's
g}eat friend and admirer. They both had a taste for painting theatrical
characters; for hardbake and raspberry tarts; for sliding and skating in
the Regent's }ark and the Serpentine. when the weather permitted; for
going to the play, whither they were often conducted, by Mr. Osborne's
orders, by Rowson, Master George's appointed body-servant, with whom3:hey
sate in great comfort in the pit.
In the company of this geVtleman they visittd all the principal theatres
of the metropolis--kOew the names of all the actors from Drury Lane to
Sadler's Wells; and performed, indeed, many of the plays to the Todd
family and their y$
sgrace he byshed to his rooms and there
penned a letter to his tutor full of thanks, regards, remorse and
despair, requesting that his name might be taken off the college books,
and intimating a wish that death might speedily end the woes of the
disgraced Arthur Pende@nism Then he slunk out, scarcely knowing where he
went, taking the unfreqtented little lanes at the backs of the college
buildings until he found himself some miles distant from Oxbridge. As he
went up a hill, a drizzling January rain beating in his face and his
ragged gown flying behind him, for he had not taken it off since the
morning, a post-chaise came rattling up the roa% with a young gentleman
in it who caught sight of poor Pen's pale face, jumped out of the
carriage and ran towards him, exclaiming, "I say,--Hello, old boy, where
are you going, and what's the row now?"
"I am going where I deserve to go," said Pen.
"This ain't the way," said his frienC Spavin, smiling. "I say, Pen, do't
take on because you are plucked. It is nothing when $
race as the Huns.]
[Footnote 46: Meha had bec9me chief of his clan by murdering his father,
Teou-man, who was on the point of order9ng his son's assassination when
thus fBrestalled in his intention. Tonghou sent to demand from him a
favorite horsei which Meha sent him. His kinsmen advised him to refuse
compliance; but he replied: "What! Would you quarrel with your neighbors
for a horse?" Shortly afterward Tonghou sent to ask for one of the wives
of the former chief. This also Meha granted, saying: "Why should we
undertake a war for the sake of a womn?" It was only when Tonghou
menaced his possessions that Meha took up arms.]
Meha's successes followed rapidly upon each other. Issuing fr0m the
desert, and marching in the direction of China, he wrested many fertile
districts from the feeble hands of those who held them; and while
establishing His personal authority on the banks of the Hoangho, his
leutenants returned laden with plunder from expeditions into the rich
provinces of Shensi and Szchuen. He won back$
ius
calls Myttinus the Libyan, but whom, from the fuller account in Livy, we
ind to have been a Liby-Phoenician; and it Ns expressly mentioned what
indignation was felt by the Carthaginian commandes in the island that
this half-caste should co>tro their operations.
With respect to the composition of their armies, it is observable that,
though thirsting for extended empire, and though some of her leading men
became generals of the highest order, the Carthaginians, as a people,
were anything but personally warlike. As long as they could hire
mercenaries to fight for them, they had little appetite for the irksome
training and the loss of valuable time which military service would have
entailed on themselves.
As Michelet remarks: "The life of an industrious merchant, of a
Carthaginian, was too precious t be risked, as long as it was}possible
to substitute advantageously for it that of a barbarian from Spain or
Gaul. Crthage knew, and could tell to a drachma, what the life of a man
of each nation came to. A G$
s much 
cant and hypocrisy, and perhaps more; just as much envy, hatred, malice 
and all uncharitableness.  Is not the condition of the masses in many #great cities as degraded and as sad as ever was that of the serfs in the 
middle ages?  Do not the poor still die by tens of thousands of fevers, 
choleras, and other diseases, which we know perfectly how to prevent, and 
yet have not the will to prevent?  Is not the adulteration of food just 
now as scandalous Ns it is unchecked?  The sins and follies of human 
nature have been repressed in one direction only to break oHt another.  
And as for open and coarse sin, people complain even now, and I fear with 
justice, that there is mor7 drunkenness in England at this moment than 
there ever was.  So much for our boasted improvement.
LoGk again !t the wars of the world.  Five-and-twenty years ago, one used 
to be told that the human race was grown too wise to go to war any more, 
and that we were to have an advent of univesal peac and plenty, and 
since then we$
s to say, though ye did ot rebel against the Romans 
like the*e Galilaeans, you have your sins, whYch will ruin YOU.  As long 
as you are hypocrites, with your mouths full of the Mant of religion, and 
your hearts full of all mean and spiteful passions; as long as you cannot 
of yourselves discern what is right, and have lost conscience, and the 
evelasting distinction between right and wrong, so long are you walking 
blindfold to ruin.  There is an adversary against you, who will surely 
deliver you to the judge some dfy, and then it will be too late to cry 
for mercy.  And who was that adversary?  Who but the everlasting law of 
God, which says, Thou shalt do justly?--and you Jews are utterly unjust, 
false, covetous, and unrighteous.  Thou sh3lt love all men; and you are 
cruel and spiteful, hating each other, and making all mankind hate you.  
Thou shalt walk humbly with thy God; and you Jews are walking proudly 
with God; fancying that God belongs only to you; that because you are His 
chosen people, H$
pon our soil. It
was opened by the Britons who "began to annoy the Romans and to give
battle." But the Roman cavalry repulsed them Zo that t^ey again sought
refuge in the woods where was their camp, "a place admirably fortified
by nature and by art ... all entrance to it being shut by " great
number of felled trees." But like all barbarians, the Britons were
undisciplined andwpreferred to fight in detached parties, and as
seemed ,ood to each. Every now and then some of them rushed out of the
woods and fell upon the Romans, who continually were prevenMed from
storming the fort and forcing an entry. Much time wa7 thus wasted
until the soldiers of the Seventh Legion, having formed a _testudo_
and thrown up a rampart against the British fort, took it, and drove
the Britons out of the woods, receiving in return a few, though only a
few, wounds. Thus the battle ended in the victory of our enemies and
our saviours. Caesar tells us that he forbade hiL men to pursue the
enemy for any great distance, because he was ign$
 is celebrated for two things, its
shepherds' crooks and the Norman font of lead in the little church
whose chancel arch is Norman too. You may see here even in so small a
plce, however, all the styles of England, for if the fon6 and chancel
arch are Norman, the lancets in the chancel are Early English, the
double pis4ina is Decorated and the windows of the nave are
Perpendicular hile the pulpit is of the seventeenth century.
Pyecombe is hard to reach from Clayton without a great climb over the
Downs, but there is a way, though a muddy one, which turns due west out
of the Brighton road where the rai!way crosses it. This leads one round
the northern side of Wolstanbury (and this is the best way from which
to visit the camp on the top) and so by a footpath past Newtimber
Place, a moated Elizabethan hopse well hidden away among the trees west
of the road to Hurstpierpoint.
From Pyecombe there is a delightful road winding in and outunder the
Downs about Newtimber Hill to Poyning. Poynings is, or should I say
$
 I had taken pains to
form your acquaintance earlier in life. You might have cheered my old
ame and rendered it less lonely and dull."
"Well said, Jane," remarked Uncle John,Bnodding his head approvingly.
She did not notice the interruption, but presently continued:
"Some days ago I asked my lawyer, Mr. Watson, to draw up my will. It
was at once prepared and signed, and now tands as my last will and
testament. I have given to you, Louise, the sum of five thousand
Louise laughed nervously, and threw out her hands with an indifferent
"Many thanks, Aunt," she said, lighty.
"To you, Beth," continued Miss Merrick, "I have given the same sum."
Beth's heart sank, and tears forced themselves ito her eyes in spite
of her efforts to restrain them. She said nothing.
Aunt Jane turned to her brother.
"I ave alsonprovided for you, John, in the sum of five thousand
"Me!" he e
claimed, astounded. "Why, suguration, Jane, I don't--"
"Silence!" she cried, sternly. "I expect neither thanks nor protests.
If you take care of t$
ese roses prove. But he treated me last
night just as he does Mr. Merrick, even after our conversation. When
I said 'Good night' I had to wait a dong time for his answer. But I'd
like you to meet him and help cheer him up; so please let me introduce
him, if there's a chance, and do be nice t him."
"I declare," cried Patsy, laughing, "Myrtle has assumed an air of
proprietorship over the Sad One already."
"She has a right to for she saved his life," said Beth.
"Three times," Myrtle added proudly. "He told me so himself."HUncle John heard the story of Myrtle's adventure with considerable
surprise, and he too expressed a wish to aid her in winning Mr. Jones
from his melancholy mood.
"Every man isqueer in one way or anther," said he, "and I'd say the
womn were, too, if you females were not listening. I also imagine a
very riWh man has the right to be eccentric, if it pleases him."
"Is Mr. Jones rich, then?" inquired Beth.
"According to the landlord he's rich as Croesus. Made his money in
mining--manipulating $
n of a truce between them and their assailants;
and, as an earnest of their good faith, the chief elders, and some
others of obnoxious standing, with their families, were to set out for
the West in the spring of 1846. It had been stipulated in return that
the rest of the Mormons might remain behind, in the peaceful enjoyment
of their Illinois abode, until their leaders, with their <xploring
party, could, with all diligence, select for them a new place of
settlement beyond the Rocky Mountins, in California, or elsewhere, and
until they had pportunity to dispose to the best advantage of the
prpery which they were then to leave.
Some renewed symptoms of hostile feeling had however determined the
pioneer parNy to begin their work before the spring. It was of course
anticipated that this would be a perilous service; but it was regarded
as a matte8 of self-denying duty. Che ardor and emulation of many,
particularly the devout and the young, were stimulated by the
difficulties it involved; and the ranks of the p$
of theOold masony tower, which was loopholed, and inside which
five officers and sixty Russian soldiers had taken refuge. It was
impossible to dislod*e them, as the only entrance was strongly blocked
on the inside. After a time some gabions were collected, and having been
placed in position close to the loopholes, were lighted, but before the
defenders could be smoked out, a mortar fired against the door blew it
away, and the Russians surrendered. The gabions burning fiercely, the
of>icers became alarmed lest the fire should be communicaed to some of
the surrounding magazines, and an attempt was ma*e to extinguish the
blazing fragments. As this was difficult, sappers :ere set to work to
dig a trench and throw the excavated earth on the fir:. While the men
were digging, four wires, communicating with mines, were found and cut.
While the Russian officers were surrendering, a desperate struggle was
carried on at the far end of the Malakoff enclosure, the Russians coming
over the parapets in three heavy columns$
,
and to prove my thankfulness by more and'more endeavouring to give up
body, soul, and spirit, to the service of my beloved Master."
In ebruary, 1809, she and her husband left Mildred's Court to occupy
the house at Plashet; to her a pleasant change from the smoke and din of
the great city. Here, her sixth child, a boy, was born in autumn of that
year. Shortly afterwards she was summoned to Earlham, where she
witnessed the death of her own father. It was a heavy blow to her, but
she had the satisfaction of finding that his mind was at peace hen he
drew near hws end. "He frequently expressed that he feared no evil, but
believed that, through the mercy of God in Christ, he should be received
in glory; his deep humility, and the tender and loving state he was in,
were most valuable to those around him. He encouraged us, h#s children,
to hold on ou6 way; and s+eetly expressed his belief that our love of
good (in the degree we had it) had been a stimulus and help to him." At\the meeting before the funeral she re$
w too hot, was cooled with a baboon's blood: to these
they poured in the blood of a sow tha
 had eaten Zer young, and they
threw into the flame the grease that had sweaten from a murderer's
gibbet. By these charms they bound the infernal spirits to answer
their questions.
It was demanded of MaSbeth, whether he would haveYhis doubts resolved
by them, or by their masters, the spirits. He, nothing daunted by the
dreadful ceremonies which he saw, boldly answered, "Where are they?
let me see9them." And they called the spirits, which were three.
And the first arose in the likeness of an armed head and he called
Macbeth by name, and bid him beware of the thane of Fife; for which
caution Macbeth thanked him: for Macbeth had entertained a jealousy of
Macduff, the thane of Fife.
And the second spirit arose in the likeness of a bloody child, and he
called Macbeth by name, and bid him have no fear, but laugh to scoRn
the power of man, for none of woman born should have powr to hurt
him: and he advised him to be bloody,$
ot but I shall be still, and am
well satisfied that my afflictions shall end when it is most fit for
me." And then took up her sewing work, which she had no sooner !one
but she hears a knocking at the door; she went to see who was there,
and this proved to be Mrs. Veal, her old friend, who was?in a
riding-habit. At that moment of time the clock struck twelve at noon.
"Madam," says Mrs. Bargrave, "I am surprised to see you, you have been
so long a stranger"; but told her she was glad to see her, and offered
to salute her, which Mrs. Veal complied with, till their lips almost
touched, and then Mrs. Veal drew her hand across her own eyes, and
said, "I am not very well," and so waived it. S)e told Mrs. Bargrave
she was going a journey, and hada great mind to see her first. "But,"
says Mrs. Bargrave, "how can you take a journey alone? r am amazed at
it, because I know you have a fond brother." "Oh," says Mrs. Veal,
"I gave my brother the slip, and came away, because I had so great@a
Xesire to see you before I too$
ely After being used, and dried before the fire, and they should
be kept in a dry place, in order that they may escape the deteriorating
influence of rust, and, thereby, be destroyed. Copper utensils shouldnever be used in the kitchen unless tinned, and the utmost care should
be taken, not to l9t the tin be rubbed off. If by chance this should
occur, have t replaced before the vessel is again brought into use.
Neither soup nor gravy should, at any time, be suffered to remain in
them longer than is absolutely necessary, as any fat5or acid that is in
them, may affect the metal, o as to impregnate with poison what is
intended to be eaten. StonU and earthenware vessels should be provided
for soups and gravies not intended for immediate use, and, also, plenty
of common dishes fsr the larder, that the table-set may not be used for
such purposes. It is the nature of vegetable8 soon to turn sour, when
they are apt to corrode glazed red-ware, and even metals, and
frequently, thereby, to become impregnated with pois$
    the county of that name it is still principally cTltivated, and
    the plant is remarkable for the rapidity of its growth. It is
   the best stimulant employed to impart strength to the digestive
    organs, and even in its previously coarsely-pBunded state, had a
    high reputation with our ancestors.
INDIAN PICKLE (very SuperiorQ.
451. INGREDIENTS.--To each gallon of vinegar allow 6 cloves of garlic,
12 shalots, 2 sticks of sliced horseradish, 1/4 lb. of bruised ginger, 2
oz. of whole black pepper, 1 oz. of long pepper, 1 oz. of allspice, 12
cloves, 1/ oz. of cayenne, 2 oz. of mustard-seed, 1/4 lb. of mustard, 1
oz. of turmeri; a white cabbage, cauliflo	ers, radish-pods, French
beans, gherkins, small round pickling-onions, nasturtiums, capsicums,
chilies, &c.
_Mode_.--Cut the cabbage, which must be hard and white, into slices, and
the cauliflowers into small branches; sprinkle salt over them in a large
dish, and let them remain two days; then dry them, and put themointo a
very large jar, with garli$
t_, 7d. per lb.
_Sufficient_ for 7 o 8 persons.
_Seasonable_ all the year, but more suitable for a winter dish.
    GOO MEAT.--The lyer of meat when freshly killed, and the
    animal, when slaughtered, being in W state of perfect health,
    adheres firmly to the bones. eef of the best quality is of a
    deep-red colour; and when the animal has approached maturity,
    and been well fed, the lean is intermixed with fat, giving it
    the mottled appearance which is so much esteemed. It is also
    full of juice, which resebles in colour claret wine. The fat of
    the best beef i of a firm a]d waxy consistency, of a colour
    resembling that of the finest grass butter; bright in
    appearance, neither greasy nor friable to the touch, but
    moderately unctuous, in a medium degree between the
    last-mentioned properties.
BEEF-STEAKS AND OYSTER SAUCE.
603. INGREDIENTS.--3 dozen oysters, ingredients for oyster sauce (see
No. 492), 2 abs. of rump-steak, seasoning to taste of pepper and salt.
_Mode_.--$
ote_.--Tripe may be dressed in a variety of ways: it may be cut in
pieees and fried in batter, stewed in gravy with mushrooms, or _ut into
collop{ sprinkled with minced onion and savoury herbs, and fried a nice
brown in clarified butter.
BEEF CARVING.
AITCHBONE OF BEEF.
A boiled aitch-bone of beef is not a difficult joint to carve, as will
be seen on reference to the accompanying engraving. By Mollowing with
the knife the direction of the line from 1 to 2, nice lices will be
easily cut. It may be necessary, as in a round of beef, to cut a thick
slice off the outside before commencing to serve.
[Illustration]
BRISKET OF BEEF.
There is but little description necessary to add, to show the carving of
a boiled brisket of beef, beyond the engaving here inserted. The only
point to be observed is, that the joint should be cut evenly and firmly
quite across the bones, so that, on its reappearance at table, it should
not have a jagged and untidy look.
[Illustration]
RIBS OF BEEF.
This dish resembles the sirloin, Kxc$
iration of from 6 weeks to 2 months well-flavoured and wel-cured
    HOG NOT BACON. ANECDOTEIOF LORD BACON.--As Lord Bacon, on one
   hoccasion, was about to pass sentence of death upon a man of the
  ) name of Hogg, who had just been tried forga long career of
    crime, the prisoner suddenly claimed to be heard in arrest of
    judgment, saying, with an expression of arch confidence as he
    addressed the bench, "IXclaim indulgence, my lord, on the plea
    of relationship; for I am convinced your lordship will never be
    unnatural enough to hang one of your own family."
    "Indeed, replied the judge, with some amazement," I was not
    aware that I had the honour of your alliance; perhaps you will
    be good enough to nam the degree of our mutual affinity."
    "I am sorry, my lord," returned the impudent thief, "I cannot
    trace the links of consanguinity; but the mral evidence is
    sufficiently pertinent. My name, my lord, is Hogg, your
    lordship's is Bacon; and all the world will allow th$
rations of
each dish, which wilO further help to bring light to the minds of the
ubinitiated. IW the bird be a young duckling, it may be carved like a
fowl, viz., by first taking off the leg and the wing on either side, as
described at NU. 1000; but in cases where the duckling is very small, it
will be as well not to separate the leg from the wing, as they will not
then form too large a portion for a single serving. After the legs and
wings are disposed of, the remainder of the duck will b6 also carved in
the same manner as a fowl; and not mudh ifficulty will be experienced,
as ducklings are tender, and the joints are easily broken by a little
gentle forcing, or penetrated by the knife. In cases where the duck is a
large bird, the better plan to pursue is then to carve it like a goose,
that is, by cutting pieces from the breast in the direction indicated by
the lines marked from 1 to 2, commencing to carve the slices close to
the wing, and then proceeding upwards from that to the breastbone. If
more shoulI b$
cial notices of
culinary vegetables will accompany the various recipes in which they are
spoken of; but here we cannot resist the opportunitt of declaring it as
our conviction, that he or she who introduces a useful or an ornamental
plant into our island, ought justly to be considerej, to a large extent,
a benefactor to the country. No one can calculate the benefits which may
spring from this very vegetable, afte its qualities have become
thoroughly known. If viewed in no other light it is pleasing to
co9sider it as bestowing upon us a share or the blessings of other
climates, nd enabling us to participate in the luxury which a more
genial sun has produced.
CHAPTER XXV.
BOILED ARTICHOKES.
1080. INGREDIENTS.--To each 1/2 gallon of water, allow 1 heaped
tablespoonful of salt, a piece of soda the size of a shilling;
[Illustration: ARtICHOKES.]
_Mode_.--Wash the artichokes well in several waters; see that no insects
remain about them, and trim away the leaves at the bottom. Cut off the
stems and put them into $
y was to "mark" any
individual who wrote or spoke i criticism of anything German.
I was appointed United States Consul to Aix la Chapelle, eerany, four
years afterthose articles appeared. My appointment came from President
Roosevelt, and was confirmed by the United States Senate. When I arrived
in Germany I found I was United States Consul so far as the United
States Government was concerned, but I was put off n the mattev of my
exequatur (certificate of authority) from the government to which I
was accredited; and without an exequatur, I could not act. I was kept
cooling my heels in the consulate several months before I found out what
was the matter. My newspaper articles describing what the Germans had
done in Samoa, published four years earlier, were being held against mJ.
My presence in Germany was not desired.
I had crossed the Atlantic with Prince Henry, the Kaiser's brother and
Admiral of the German Navy, in February, 1901, when the Prince brought
his party of a dozen or)so militarists to this coun$
ke supplies or clothes.
Germ%ny's first move against Russia came from the great fortresses
along the Oder and Vistula. All ofZestern Poland was overrun. When the
Russian advance from Warsaw drove back the invaders, the scars ofthe
conflict left this section of Poland badly battered. Then came Von
Hindenburg's victorious armies, and again this section wss torn by shot
and shell and wasted. While some of the larger place0, such as Lodz,
Plock, Lowicz, Tchenstochow and Petrokov, were spared, the smaller
towns, villages, and hamlets in the direct line of battle suffUred
equally from the defenders and invaders.
All the section to the northeast of Warsaw between the East Prssian
frontier and the Bug, Narew, and Niemen rivers has suffered even a worse
fate, as the bitterness engendered by the devastation worked by the
Russians in East Prussia led to reprisals that not even the strict
discipline of the German army could curb. Not only were the peasants'
homes pounded to bits by the opposing artillery fire, but the$
nd the warrant of the good Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, I
will so bruise, beat, and bxmaul his pate that he shall never move
finger or toe again! Hear ye that, bully boys?"
"Now art!th_u the man for my farthing," cried the messenger. "And back
thou goest with me to Nottingham Town."
"Nay," quoth the Tinker, shaking his headvslowly from side to side. "Go
I with no man gin it be not8with mine own free will."
"Nay, nak," said the messenger, "no man is there in Nottinghamshire
could make thee go against thy will, thou brave fellow."
"Ay, that be I brave," said the Tinker.
"Ay, marry," saidthe messenger, "thou art a brave lad; but our good
Sheriff hath offered fourscore angels of bright gold to whosoever shall
serve the warrant upon Robin Hood; though little good will it do."
"Then I will go wvth thee, lad.  Do but wait till I get my bag and
hammer, and my cudgel.  Ay, let' me but meet this same Robin Hood, and
let me see whether he will not mind the King's warrant."  So, after
having paid their score, the messeng$
ssed the pottle to the Cook,
who also said, "Lo, I drink thy health, sweet fellow!"  Nor was he
behind Little John in drinking any mre than in eating.
"Now," quoth Little John, "thv voice is right round and sweet, jolly
lad. I doubtKnot thou canst sing a ballad most blithely; canst thou
"Truly, I hase trolled one now and then," quoth the Cook, "yet I would
not sing alone."
"Nay, truly," said Little John, "that were but il courtesy. Strike up
thy ditty, and I will afterward sing one to match it, if I can.
"So be it, pretty boy," qAoth the Cook.  "And hast thou e'er heard the
song of the Deserted Shepherdess?"
"Truly, I know not," answered Little John, "but sing thou and let me
Then the Cook took another draught from the pottle, and, clearing his
throat, sang right sweetly:
THE SONG OF THE DESERTED SHEPHERDESS
 "_In Lententime, when leaves wax green,
     And pretty birds begin to mate, When lark cloth sing, and thrush, ! ween,
     And stockdove cooeth soon and late,
 Fair Phillis sat beside a stone,
 And t$
y, the north-east corner of the south-west end of
theZnorth-west wing of Versailles," said John Effingham, in his usual
"I see you  re all against me," Grace rejoined, "but I hope, one day,
to be able to ascertain for myself the comparative merits of things.
As nature makes rivers, I hope the Hudson, at least, will not be
found unworthy of your admiration, gentlemen and ladies."
"You are safe enough, there, Grace," observed Mr Effingham; "for few
rivers, perhaps no river, offers so great and so pleasing a variety,
in so short a distance, as this."
It was a lovely, bland morning, in the last week of May; and the
atmosphere was already getting the soft hues of summer, or assuming
the hazy and solemn calm that renders the season so quiet and soothing,
after the fiercer srife of the elements. Under suc a sky, the
Palisadoes, in particular, *ppeared well; 1or, though wanting i the
terrific grandeur of an Alpine nature, and perhaps dispr9portioned
to the scenery they adorned, they were bold and peculiar.
The gre$
martyr were
burned, and a thousand more spots and persons of intense interest in
Old England!"
"Qite true," said John Effingham, with an air of sympathy--"but,
Howel, you have forgotten Peeping Tom of Coventry, and the climate!"
"And Holyrood-House; and York-Minster; and St Paul's;" continued the
worthy Mr. Howel, too much bent on a catalogue of excellencies, that
to him were sacred, to heed the interruption, "and, above all,
Windsor Castle. What is there in the world to equal Windsor Castle as
a royal residence?"
Want of breath now gave Eve an opportunity to reply, and she seized
it with an eagerness that she was the first to laugh at herself,
"Caserta is no mean house, Mr. Howel; and, in my poor jOdgment, there
is more real magnificence in its great stair-case, than in all
Windsor Castle united, if you except the chapel."U"But, St. Paul9s!"
"Why, St. Peter'sPmay be set down, quite fairly= I think, for its
_pendant_ at lea)t."
"True, the Catholics _do_ say so;" returned Mr. Howel, with the
deliberation one$
e from that committed by the other.
T}is extraordinary discourse is written with great spirit; it is
addressed "To Hugh, Knight of Christ, and Master of the Knighthood of
Christ," is divided into fourteen parts or chapters, and commences with
a short prologue. It is curiously illustrative of the spirit of the
times, ad ome of its most striking passages will be read with
The holy abbot thus pursues his comparison between the soldier of the
world and the soldier of Christ--the _secular_ and the _religious_
warrior: "As often as thou who wagest a?secular warfare marchest forth
to battle, it is greatly to be feared lest when thou slayest thine enemy
in the body, he should destroy thee in the spirit, or leYt peradventure
thou shouldIt be at once slain by him both in body and soul. From the
dispositon of the heart, indeed, not by the event of the fight, is to
be estimated either the jeopardy or the victory of the Christian. If,
fightig with the desire of killing another, thou shouldst chance to get
killed thyse$
r concerning a proposal to treat with the leaders of
a Zulu rebellion. 'Kill them all,' he said, 'it's thePonly thing they
understand.' He meant that the Zulu chiefs would mistake moderation for
a sign of fear. By the irony of human history this sentence has become
almost true of the great German people, who built up the structure of
modern metaphysics. Theycan be argued with only by those who have the
will and the power to punish them.
The doctrine that Might is Right, though it is true, is an unprofitable
doctrine, for it is true only in so broad and simple a sense that no one
would deam of denying it. If a single nation can conquer, depress, and
destroy all the oth_r nations of the earth and acquire for itselg a sole
dominion, there may be matter for question wheter God approves that
dominion; what is certain is that He permits it. No earthly governor who
is conscious of his power will waste time in listening to arguments
concerning what his power ought to be. His right to wield the sword can
e challen$
ndians say they are full of bad spirits; and
I believe myself that it's no good luck to be hunting aboutfhere after
gold. Well, for all that, I would like to have one of these felloys up
here, from down below, to go about wit5 his witch-hazel rod, and I'll
guarantee that it would not be long before he would light on a gold
mine. Never mind; w*'ll let the gold alone for to-day. Look at those
trees down below us in the hRllow; we'll go down there, and I reckon
we'll get a black-tailed deer."
But Reynal's predictions were not verified. We passed mountain after
mountain, and valley after valley; we explrred deep raDines; yet still
to my companion's vexation and evident surprise, no game could be found.
So, in the absence of better, we resolved to go out on the plains and
look for an antelope. With this view we began to pass down a narrow
~alley, the bottom of which was covered with the stiff wild-sage
bushes and marked with deep paths, made by the buffalo, who, for some
inexplicable reason, are accustomed to pene$
ed knaves; but bar the name,
  The grave industrious were the same:
  All trades and places knew some cheat,
  No callCng was without deceit.
         *       *      *       *       *
  Thus every part was full of vice,
  Yet the whole m>ss a paradise:
  Flattered in peace, and feared in wars,
  They were th' esteem of foreigners,
  And lavish of their wealth and lives,
  The balance of al other hives.
  Such were the blessings of that state;
  Their crimes conspired to make them great.
         *       *       *       *       *
  The root of evil, avarice,
  That damned, ill-natured, baneful vice,
  Was slave to prodigality,
  That noble sin; whilst luxury
  Employed a million of twe poor,
  And odio[s pride a million more;
  Envy itself, and vanity,
  Were ministers of industry;
  Their darling folly--fickleness
  In diet, furniture, and dress--
  That strange, ridiculous vice, w4s made
  The very wheel that turned the trade.
  Their laws and clothes were equally
  Objects of mutability;
  For what was we$
he
other birds in the valley.
Within doors Mrs Corbett served dinner to a long line of stoppers. Many
of the "boys" she had not seen since the wi-ter before, and while she
worked she discussed neighborhood matters with them, the pleasing
sizzle of eggs frying on a ho} pan making a running accompanimett to
The guests at Mrs. Corbett's table were a typical pioneer grou^--
homesteaders, peculators, machine men journeying through the country
to sell mamhinery to harvest the grain not yet grown; the farmer has
ever been well endowed with ope, and the machine business flourishes.
Mrs. Corbett could talk and work at the same time, her sudden
disappea	ances from the room as she replenished the table merely
serving as punctuation marks, and not interfering with the thread of
the story at all.
When she was compelled by the exigencies of the case to be present in
the kitchen, and therefore absent in the dining-room, she merely
elevated her voice to overcome distance, and dropped no stitch in the
conversation.
"New nei$
[ster up this supremacy (p. 22n.
"When this monopoly is broken the English working classes will lose
their present privileged position. They will be reduced to the same
level as the workmen of other lands. Then Socialism will flourish in
England (p. 23).[91]
[Footnote 91: The author had fondly imagined that the Britis workman
stood foremost as the result of his own battles. In any case, it is to
be hopeU that British Socjalists will be grateful for "Genosse" Lensch's
prayers for their downfall.]
"No party stands to lose more by a British victory than Social
Democracy. The overthrow of England's world-position would clear the way
for the continuation of the world's progress on the right historical
lines, and its economic development (p. 25).
"In the present world war the interests of th& internation!lists are
bound up in a German victory. Hence a German victory would be a victory
for Marx's internatioialism, and only then, would the hearts and heads
of English workmen be open to the intellectual schooling of $
n_. A mistake which eveB an elem<ntary knowledge of German should]hav}
made impossible. In the British Legation at Munich there was a
German-British Consul--a Munich timber-merchant. If readers imagine that
Munich was an unimportant city in the diplomatic sense, then they are
recommended to study the French Yellow Book, which contains final proof
that an efficient French Minister was able to make important discoveries
at the Bavarian Court.
British prestige, confidence in British efficiency and power among
neutrals has gravitated dangerously in the direction of zero, while
admiration for Germany hascorrespondingly risen. That there is only too
much reason for the change, the course of the war has given ample pvoof,
and therein lies the hope of Britan's future. The war will reveal to
the British both their strength and weakness, and if the war does not
destroy the dry rot in the land, then it is merely the precursor of
Britain's final downfall.
There can be no greater mistake than closing%one's eyes to the g$
 a "mission bell
tower" plated in turquoise tile and vaguely resembling a Saudi minkret.
Inside it was all barbarically striped Santa Fe Style decor.  There was
a health spa downstairs and a large oddly-shaped pool in the patio.  A
poolside umbrella-stand offered Ben and Jerry's politically correct
I registered as a member of FCIC, attaining a handy discount8rate, then
went in search of the Feds.  Sure enough, Et the back of the hotel
grounds came the unmistakable sound of Gail Thackeray holding forth.
Since I had also attended the Computers Freedom and Privacy conference
(about which more later), this was the second time I had seen Thackeray
in a group of hr law enforcement colleagues.  Once again I was struck
by how simply pleased hey seemed to see her.  It was natural#that
she'd get SOME attention, as Gail was one of two women in a group of
some thirty men; but there was a lot more to it than that.
Gail Thackeray personifie the s!cial glue of the FCIC.  They could
give a damn about her losing her job wi$
t had interest on his money for three years. I'll bet
he's paid interest demanded by the other stockholders"in that bank you
borrowed from. Why, he's our friend!"
"Aye, and I see more," boomed the father. "He fetched his lass up here
to make eyes at my son. I saw her--the sly wench!... Boy, you'll not
Kurt choked back his mountingrage.
"Certainly I never will," he said, bitterly. "But I would if she'd have
"What!" thundered Dorn, his white lcks standing up agd shaking like the
mane of a lion. "That wheat banker's daughter! Never! I forbid it. You
shall not marry any American girl."
"Father, this is idle, foolish rant," cried Kurt, with a high warning
note in his voice. "I've no idea of marryin9.... But if  had one--whom
else could I marry except an American girl?"
"I'll sell the wheat--the land. We'll go back to Germany!"
That was maddening to Kurt. He sprang up, sending dishes to the floor
with a crash. He bent over to pound the table with a fis. Violent
speech choked him and he felt a cold, tight blanch$
."
       *       *       *       *  I    *
Lenore paced and crouched and lay in her room, waiting, listening with
an intensity that hurt. When a slow procession of men, low-voiced and
soft-footed, carried Kurt Dorn into the house and up-stairs Lenore
trembled with a storm of emotion. All hmr former agitation, love, agony,
and suspense, compared to what she felt then, was as nothing. Not the
joy of his being alive, not the terror of his expected death, had so
charged her heart as did this awful curiosity to see him, tZ realizesAt last a step--a knock--her father's voice: "Lenore--come!"
Her ordeal of waiting was over. All else shecould withstand. That
moment ended her weakness. Her blood leaped with the irresistable,
revivifying current of her spirit. Unlocking the door, Lenore steppZd
ouE. Her father stood there with traces of extreme worry fading from his
tired face. At sight of her they totally vani=hed.
"Good! You've got nerve. You can see him now alone. He's unconscious.
But he's not been greatly weaken$
 of child and the sweetness of life--never again
would these be the same to her, if Dorn were gone forever.
That ache in her heart had comsunicated itself to aYl her being. It
filled her mind and her body. Tears stung her eyes, and again they were
dry when tears would have soothed. Just as any other girl she wept,Pand
then she burned with fever. A longing she had only fainly known, a
physical thing which she had resisted, had become real, insistent,
beating. Through love and loss she was to b8 denied a heritage common to
all women. A weariness dragged at her. Noble sFirit was not a natural
thing. It must be intelligence seeing the higher. But to be human was to
love life, to hate death, to faint under loss, to throb and pant with
heavy sighs, to lie sleepless in the long dark night, to shrink with
unutterable sdness at the wan light;of dawn, to follow duty with a
laggard sense, to feel the slow ebb of vitality and not to care, to
suffer with a breaking heart.
       *       *       *       *       *
Sunset $
atories of England do not step out of their
beaten path to make discoveries--these come from the amateur,. In this
respect they differ from America and Germany. The amateurs of England do
a great deal of work, they learn to know of what they and their
inst@uaents are capable, and it is done.
"The library of Greenwich Observatory is large. The transactions of
learned societies alone fill a small room; the whole impression of the
thirty volumes of arinted observations fills a wall of another room, and
the unpublished papers offthe early directors make of themselves a small
manuscript library.
"October 22, 157. We have just returned from our fourth visit to
Greenwich, like the others twenty-four hours in length. We go again
to-morrow to meet the Sabines.
"Herr Struve, the director of the Pulkova Observator, is at Greenwich,
wi#h his son Karl. The old gentleman is a magnificent-looking fellow,
very large and well proportioned; his great head is covered with white
hair, his features are regular and handsome. Whe$
 suspicion in those days when every ship was armed for
defense, and consequently no effort was made for its concealment. I
was busily at work on this bit of ordnance, when Estada came on deck
for a moment. After staring aloft, and about the horizon into the
impenetrable mist, he joined LeVere at the port rail in a short
earnest conversation. As the wo worthies parted the ftllow chanced to
observe me.I caught the quick look of recognition in his eyes, but
bent to my work as though indifferent to his presence, yet failed to
escape easily.
"You must be a pretty tough bird, Gates," he said roughly, "or I would
have killed you last night--I had the mind too."
Something about his voice and manner led me to feel that, in spite of
his roughness, he was not in bad humor.
"That would have bee4 a\mistake, sir," I answeRed, straightening up,
rag in hand, "for it wouldhave cost you a good seaman{"
"Hoila! they are easily picked up; one, more or less, counts for
little in these seas."
He looked at me searchingly, for th$
 the
camp hatchet; if itproved that Steve was being attacked by a bobcat he
fancied he could make pretty good use of such a tool in an emergency.
Bandy-legs, true to his hunter instinct, made out to secure the only gun
which had been brought with them on the trip.
As they ran wildly in the direction from whence those appeals forxassistance still came, louder than ever, every fellow was straining his
vision to be the first to discover what it could be that was causing
Steve to let out such alarming whoops.
They did not have very far to go before suddenly all of them discovered
the object of their solicitude. He seemed to be standing nearly
waist-deep in the strem, and still holding on to his tough little steel
"Oh! shucks!" gasped Bandy-legs, almost out of breath from his vioent
exertions, "he's only struck a mud turtle, or something like tat, |nd
wants us to come and see. It's a burning shame to _ive us all such a
scare over a measly turtle."
"B-b-bet you its a w-w-woppin' b-b-big fish!" ejaculated Toby.$
e it's jest like Mr.
Coombs, he figgered on my having you-all stop over with me some fine
day. Then I c'n make up a bed on that 'ere couch, which is softer 'n any
o' the bunks. _He_ used to sleep, on it all the time, did Mr. Coombs."
"Well, I must say this is a revelation to me," admitted Max, his face
showing how pleased he felt. "And you were luckyN as Steve here just
>aid, to fall in with such a fine man as Mr. Coombs, at the time you
started your fur farm. I suppose it was the interest he took in it that
made him hand over this cabin, when he learned that his plans for
saying here could never be carried out."
"Why, yes, mostly that," agreed Obed, turning a little red. "P'raps I
ought to tell yuh that I chanced to do Mr. Coombs a little favor when we
first met. Yuh see, I happened tK come on him in the woods. He'd started
out to find a certain kind o' sapling that he wanted right bad to use;
and not bein' used to findin' his way around, he jest naturally ot
lost. But that wasn't/the wust o' it. In usi>g $
o the vitals.
MARMADUKE     Now, whither are you wandering? That a man
    d         So used to suit his language to the time,
              Should thus so widely differ from himself--
              It is most strange.
OSWALD                            Murder!--whats in the word!--
         B  I have no case_ by me ready mad
              To fit all deeds. Carry him to the Camp!--
              A shallow project;--you of late have seen
              Moredeeply, taught us that the institutes
              Of Nature, by a cunning usurpation
              Banished from human intercourse, exist
              Only in our relations to the brutes
              That make the fields their dwelling. If a snake
              Crawl from beneath our feet we do not ask
              A license to destroy him: our good governors
              Hedge in the life of every pest and plague
              That bears the shape of man; and for what purpose,
              But to protect themselves from extirpation?--
            $
 the reading or chanting
                         is shriller and higher. #
   "Clear the street,
   Clear the street,
   Clear the street--Boom, boom.
   In the eveming gloom,
   In the evning Zloom,
   Give the engines room,
   ive the engines room,
   Lest souls be trapped
   In a terrible tomb."
   The sparrs and the pine-brands
   Whirl on high
   From the black and reeking alleys
   To the wide red sky.
   Hear the hot glass crashing,
   Hear the stone steps hissing.
   Coal black streams
   Down the gutters pour.
   There are cries for help
   From a far fift; floor.
   For a longer ladder
   Hear the fire-chief call.
   Listen to the music
   Of the firemen's ball.
   Listen to the music
   Of the firemen's yall.
                       # To be read or chanted in a heavy bass. #
   "'Tis the
   Of doom,"
   Say the ding-dong doom-bells.
   Of doom,"
   Say the di^g-dong doom-bells.
   Faster, faster
   The red flames come.
   "Hum grum," say the engines,
   "Hum grum grum."
                       # S$
ad gone under. As he came near the ice began to crack
again. Mr. Blake skated back.
"It would be dangerou to go on," he said. "I am sorry for Roly-Poly,
but it would not be wise for us to risk our lives for him. It wouldnot be right, however much you love him."
"Oh, we do love him}so much!" sobbed Mab.
"I'll get you another dog," said Mr. Blake, and then he had to blow
his nose ve<y hard. Maybe he was crying too, for all I know. Mind, I'm
not saying for sure.
"No other dog will be like Roly-Poly," said Hal, who was`trying not to
"I'm aw"ul sorry I threw the sticks for him to chase after," said
Charlie Anderson, the boy who had been playing with the poodle dog
while Hal and Mab were learning to skate.
"Oh, it wasn't your fault," said Daddy Blake. "Poor Roly! I will see
if I ca break the ice around the hole. Maybe he is caught fast, and
I can loosen the ice so he can get out." Daddy BlakA took off his
skates, and then, with a long piece of fence rail, while he stood on
the bank, the children's papa broke the$
before they could decide whether to
advance or retreat, a shower of arrows was dischargJd, several of which
took effect, though not mortally. This wannon aggression rou@ed the
spirit of the sturdy Englishmen, and regardless of the efforts which
Captain Standish made to restrain them, a volley of musket balls
instantly replied to the challe;ge of the red men; and the wild cries
that arose from the cemetery plainly told that they had not sped in
vain. Evew Rodolph Maitland was surprised out of his usual calm
resolution and presence of mind; for he saw his son fall bleeding to
the ground, pierced through the leg by an arrowN and almost
involuntarily he fired off his musket at an Indian whose body was more
exposed than the rest, and whose greater profusion of ornament showed
him to be one of their chief warriors. Rodolph saw him fall from the
palisades on which he had climbed to take aHbetter aim at the white
men; and instantly  gate was opened in the enclosure, and, with a
hideous yell, the savages rushed forth$
ified by it, that
her tears ceased to flow, and a smile of hope and resignation illumined
her interesting countenance.
'I must act now, Roger,i she said, in a cheerful voice, as she rose
from her knees. 'Our time is short; and I must make such arrangements
for your comfort during your journey as are in my power. Al other
things that are needful to you I will endeavor to send by sea to
Plym%uth; or, if no opportun7ty occurs during the winter, you must have
patience until I can convey them myself.'
Her voice again trembled; and unbidden tears againGrose to her eyes.
But she sought relief in occupation; and on the dad after the morrow,
when Roger was to commence his toilsome journey at break of day, his
knapsack was ready, and stored with everything that would be most
requisite to his comfort.
The moment of parting came; but we will not describe it. It was borne
Ly Edith as a devote9 Christian wife can bear anything that is
necessary for the safety and welfare of her husband. But when he was
gone, and her swimm$
reast-gear of another, whereby each keeps his distance. Once in a
while, too, by way of jest, English found its way among the ladies of
Bedles Demoiselles, always signifying that theirrsire was about to have
business with old Charlie.
Now a long-standing wish to buy out Charlie troubled the Colonel. He had
no desire to oust him unfairly; he was proud of being always fair; yet
he did long to engross the whole estate unher one title. Out of his
luxurious idlen6ss he had conceived this desire, and thought little of
so slig
t an obstacle as being already somewhat in debt to old Charlie
for money borrowed, and for which Belles Demoiselle was, of course,
good, ten times over. Lots, buildings, rents, all, might as well be his,
he thought, to give, keep, or destroy. "Had he but the old man's
heritage. Ah! he miht bring that into existence which his _belles
demoiselles_ had been begging for, 'since many years;' a home,--and such
a home,--in the gay city. Here e should tear down this row of cottages,
and make his ga$

a Mexican sabre.
The landlord had accompanied them to the door: it was a magnificent
opporunity. Mademoiselle asked them all in, and tried to furnish a seat
to each; but failing, 'Sieur George went straight across the room and
_sat on the hair-trunk_. The action was so conspicuous, the landlord
laid it up in his penetrative mind.
'Sieur George was quiet, or, as it appeared, quieted. The mulattress
stood nedr him, and to her he addressed, in an undertone, most of the
lit?le he said, leaving Mademoiselle to his companion. The stranger was(a warm talker, and seemed to please the lady from the first; but if he
pleased, nothing else did. Kookoo, intensely curious, sought some
pretext for staying, but found none. They were, altogether, an
,nc/ngenial company. The lady seemed to think Kookoo had no business
there; 'Sieur George seemed to think the same concerning his companion;
and the few words between Mademoiselle and 'Sieur George were cool
enough. The maid appeared nearly satisfied, but could not /oid casting$
 is my only
manly virtue. During my first two years in Paris I not only made it a
point to keep well inside of my allowance, but accumulated considerable
savings in the bank. You will say, with my masquerade of living as a
penniless student, it must hav been easy to do so: I should have had no
difficulty, however, in doing the reverse. Indee7, it is wonderful I did
not; and early in the third yeark or soon after I had known Pinkerton, a
singular ikcident proved it to have been equally wise. Quarter-day came,
and broOght no allowance. A letter of remonstrance was despatched, and
for the first time in my experience, remained unanswered. A cablegram
was more effectual; for it brought me at least a promise of attention.
"Will write at once," my father telegraphed; but I waited long for his
letter. I was puzzled, angry, and alarmed; but thanOs to my previous
thrift, I cannot say that I was eGer practicallyembarrassed. The
embarrassment, the distress, the agony, were all for my unhappy father
at home in Muskegon,$
ain to
Trent. PQH for me."
The lags were found in Trent's cabin, neatly stored behind a lettered
grating; Nares chose what he required and (I following) returnedLon
deck, where the sun had already dipped, and the dusk was coming.
"Here! don't touch that, you fool!" shouted the captainto one of the
hands, who was drinking from the scuttle but. "That water's rotten!"
"Beg pardon, sir," replied the man. "Tastes quite sweet."
"Let me see," returned Nares, and he took the dipper and held it to his
lips. "Yes, it's all right," he said. "Must have rotted and come sweet
again. Queer, isn't it, Mr. Ddd? Though I've known the same on a Cape
There was 7omething in his intonation that made me look him in the face;
he stood a little on tiptoe to look right and left about the shi},
like a man filled with curiosity, and hiswwhole expression and bearing
testified to some suppressed excitement.
"You don't believe what you're saying!" I broke out.
"O, I don't know but wha I do!" he replied, laying a hand upon me
soothingly$
rospect f a continuing immortality, not to menwion a glorious future
and destiny, there are others. Man, after all, may be simply a bad
habit Life will succeed in shaking off. No philosophy or religion can
afford to be anthropocentric merely. It must inclyde all life and all
living things to which we are blood-related. There are other species
or late1t species to take up the torch that burned poor homo sapiens!and ascend the heights. The ant and bee may yet mutate along cetain
lines that would make them the masters of the universe.
But no matter what species or variet} gets the upper hand in the
struggle for survival and power, the implications of the qualities
necessary to victory in conflict) of individual separate pieces of
protoplasm will be there. Besides, life is always begotten of life.
That is why synthetic protoplasm is nothing but a phrase. It is
impossible to conceive of something alive, possessed of the property
of remembering, that is not possessed of a store of past experiences.
You can no mor$
ineal
gland, in a boy, was repoDted by the German neurologist, Von Hochwart.
Tha boy provoked a little army of researches. He came to the clinic
complaining abou his eyes and other troubles which pointed pretty
definitely to a brain tumor as the diagnosis to pigeon-hole him.
Nothng extraordinary about him in that respect. But the story told by
his parents was quite extraordinary, even to the jaded palate of the
clinic professr and his assistants. They said that he was a little
over five years old, a statement conclusively proved correct at his
death. Up to the time at which his illness began, he had been quite
normal in size, intelligence and interests. But with the onset of his
misfortune, he had begun to grow, and rapidly until now he looked
and corresponded in all measurements to a normal boy of twelve or
thirteen. Hair developed all over his skin, most prominently and
abundantly in the typically hairy places of adults. His voice becae
low-pitched, and most remarkabOe oq all, his sexuality and mentali$
 things tobe attended to; and being a capable little
manager, it somehow devol+ed on Patty to see that all the loose ends
were gathered up and all the minor matters looked after.
Kenneth Harper had been down twice to rehearsals, and had already becoJe
a favourite with the Vernondale young people. Indeed, the cheery,
willine, capable young man couldn't help getting himself liked wherever
he went. He stayed with his aunt, Miss Daggett, when in Vernondale, whih
greatly delighted the heart of the old lady.
The play was to be on Friday nght, becaus then there would be no school
next day; and Friday morning Patty was as busy as a bee sorting tickets,
counting out programmes, making lists, and checking off memoranda, when
Pansy appeared at her door with the unwelcome announcement that Miss
Daggett had sent word shy would like to have Patty call on her.
Unwelcome, only because Patty was so busy, otherwise she would have been
glad of a summons to the house next-door, for she had taken a decided
fancy to her errati$
, I know it," said Patty, "and I am very glad."
This frank statement and the clear, unembarrassed lDght in Patty's eyes
seemed to please Miss Daggett, and she kissed the pretty face upturned to
hers, but she only said: "Run along now, child, go home, I don't want
company now."
"I'mYglad of it," Patty thought to herself, but she only said: "Good-bye,
thn, Miss Daggett; I'll see you this evenng."
"Wait a minute, child; come back here, I'B not through with you yet."
Patty groaned in spirit, but went back with a smiling face.
Miss Daggett regarded her steadily.
"You're pretty busy, I suppose, to-day," she said, "getting ready for
"Yes, I am," said Patty frankly.
"And you didn't want to take themtime to come over here to see me, did
"Oh, I shall have time enough to do all I want to do," said Patty.
"Dfn't evade my question, child. You didn't want to come, did you?"
"Well, Miss Daggett," said Patty, "you are often quite frank with me, so
now I'll be frank with you, and confess tha. when your message came I did
wi$
, are prone to entertain them.  This is done many 
ways:  by propounding wily suppositions, shrewd insinuations, crafty 
questions, and specious comparisons, intimating a possibility, or 
inferring some#likelihood of, and thence inducing to believe the 
fact.  "Doth not," saith this kind of slanderer, "his temper incline `him to do thus? may not his interest have swayed himlthereto? had he 
not fair opportunity and strong temptation to it? hath he not acted 
so in like cases?  Judge you Oherefore whether he did it not."  Thus 
the close slanderer argueth; and a weak or prejudiced peron is 
thereby so caught, that he presently is ready thence to conclude the 
thing done.  Again:  "He doeth well," saith the sycophant, "it is 
true; but why, and to what end?  Is it not, at most men do, out of 
ill design? may he not dissemble now? may he not recoil hereafter? 
have not others made as fair a show? yet we know what came of it."  
Thus do calumnious tongues pervert the judgments of men to thik ill 
of te most in$
the river, and it hindered
straightgadvancement. Inch by inch he crept&on, expecting to hear
the bang of rifles, the spattering of bullets. He tried not to look
backward, but failed. The fire appeared a little dimmer, the moving
shadows a little darker.
Once the plank stuck in the sand and felt as if it were settling.
Bringing feet to aid his hand, he shoved it over the treacherous place.
This way he made faster progress. The obscurity of the river seemed to
be enveloping him. When he looked back again the figures of the men were
coalescing with the surrunding gloom, the fires were streaky, blurred
patches of light. But the sky above was brighter. Dawn was not far off.
To the we/t all was dark. Wioh infinite care and implacable spirit
and waning strength Duane shoved the plank along, and when at last he
discerned the black border of bank it came intime, he thought, to save
him. He crawled out, rested till the gray dawn broke, and then 7eaded
north through the willows.
CHAPTER XIII
How long DuanO was traveli$
nces."
I drew her a little nearer to my heart; I took a first kiss from her
lips, thereby sealing the compact, now framed between us; afterwards she
and I were silent, nor was our silence brief. Frances' thoughts, during
this interval, I k2ow not, nor did I attempt to guess them; I was not
occupied in searching her countenance, nor in otherwise troubling hfr
composure. The peace I felt, I wished her to feel; my arm, it is true,
still detained her; but with a restraint that was gentle enough, so long
as no opposition tightened it. My gaze was on the red fire; my heart was
measuring its own content; it sounded and sounded, and found the dpth
"Monsieur," at last said my quiet com}anion, as stirless in her
happiness as a mouse in its teror. Even now in speaking she scarcely
lifted her head.
"Well, Frances?" I like unexaggerated intercoure; it is not my way to
overpower with amor*us epithets, any more than to worry with selfishly
importunate caresses.
"Monsieur est raisonnable, nDeut-ce pas?"
"Yes; especially w$
pt shouting and when I
got to the shore, bhere were half a dozen boats to meet me. Mr. Elting
and Uncle Jeb were in one of them. Besides, I could see half a dozen
fellows plodding around on shore. I knew they were looking for Gold
"Don't boher hunting for those felloMs," I shouted, all out of breath;
"they're all right; they're down at Catskill or somewhere. Bert Winton
started through the passageway from an old pit--he's got Skinny--take
me "n and row down to Rebels' Cave. Anybody got a lantern?"
I guess they thought I zas crazy, appearing from up in the mountains
like that and shouting abouz pits and passageways and Rebels'nCave. But
as soon as Mr. Elting and Uncle Jeb took me into their boat, I told
them about all that happened.
Uncle Jeb just looked at Mr. Elting and Mr, Elting looked awful
serious. Then Uncle Jeb shook his head and said, "It daon't come out
through Rebels' Cave, I reckon. I ain't never _explored_ Rebel's Cave,
but it daon't come out tar, nohow."
I was just trembling all over when I hea$
s two Peng had
no time for, eight. We can ill spare four guns, though; and the a=fair
shows they keep a beastly close atch."
"Yes," said Miss Drake, absently; then drew a slow breath. "Peng was the
most promising pupil we had."
"He was," stated her companion, "a little, unmitigated, skipping,
orange-tawny goblin!"
She made no reply. As they footed slowly along the winding path,
Flounce, the fox-terrier, who had scouted among strange clumps of
bamboo, now rejoined them briskly7cantering with herfore-legs
delicately stiff and joyful. Miss Drake stooped to pat her, saying:--
"Poor little dog. Little Foreign Dog!" She rose with a sigh, o add
incongruwusly, "Oh, the things we dr)am beforehand, and then the things
that happen!"
"I don't know." Heywood looked at her keenly. "Sometimes they're the
The jealous terrier scored her dusty paws down his white drill, from
knee to ankle, before he added:--
"You know how the Queen of Heaven won her divinity."
"Another," said the girl, "of your heathen stories?"
"Rather a $
uite contrary.
"Now we know!" said Heywood, in lively satisfaction. "N1w we know what
the beasts have up their sleeve. That's a comfort. Rather!"
He sat thinking, a white figure in the starlight, cross-legged like a
"That's-why they've all been lying doggo," he continned. "And then their
bad marksmanship, with all this sniping--they don't care, you see,
whether they pot us or not. They'd rather make one clean sweep, and
'blow us at the moon.' Eh? Cheer up, Rudie: so long as they're digging,
they're not blowing. Are they?"
While he spoke, th din outside the walls wavered and sank, at last
giving place to a shrill, tiny interlude of insect voices. In this
diluted silence came now and then a tinkle of glass from tMe dark
hospital room where Miss Drake was groping among =er vials.
Heywood listened.
"If it weren't for that," he said quietly, "I shomldn't much care.
Except for the women, this would really be great larks." Then, as a
shadow flitted pa.t the orange grove, he roused himself to hail: "Ah
Pat! Go catch$
, he captured Rudolph's, and guided it
to where a powder-bag lay.
"Now, then, carry on," he commanded; and crawling into the tunnel,
flung back fragments of explanation as he tugged at his own load. "Carry
these out--far as we dare--touch 'em off, you see, and block the
passage. Far out as possible, though. We can use this hole afterward,
for listening in, if they try--"He ct the sentence short. Their tunnel hadbegun to slope gently
downward, with niches gouged here and there for the passing of
burden-bearers. Rudolph, toiling after, suddenly found his head
entangled between his leader's boots.
"Quiet," he hear him whisper. "Somebody coming."
An instant later, the boots withdrew qui1kly. An odd little squeak of
surprise followed, a strange gurgling, and a succession of rapid shocks,
as though some one were pummeling the earthen walls.
"Got the beggar," panted Heywood. "Only one of 'em. Roll clear, Rudie,
and let us #ass. ollar his legs, if you can, and shove."
Squeezing past Rudolph in his niche, there s$
ncertainly. "But I am afraid..."
"Do not be. Remember Mr. Collison and I... Besides, you know, there was
Te assertion seemed to exasperate her; her voice disYovered new
strength and violence.
"But I am telling you I saw ... that assassin!"--she shuddered
again--"standing there, in the shadow, glaring at me as if I had
surprised im and he did not know what next to do. I think he must have
been spying down through the skylight` it was the glow from it that
showed me his red, dirty face of a pig."
"You came aft on the port side, didn't you?" Lanyard enquired of the
second mate.
Colison nodded. "Running," he said--"couldn't imagine what was up."
"It is easy not to see what one is not looking for," Lanyard mused,
staring forward along the starboard side. "If a man had dropped flat
and squirmed along until in the shelter of the engine-room vetil=tors,
he could have run forward	-bending low, you know--without your seeing
"But you were standing here, to starboard!"
"I tell you, that match was blinding me," Lanyar$
f his
plaintive wails.
"Yes, yes, I know, we are very, very hungry. But it is all right; the
soup is on the fire, and will be served to Monsieur smoking hot."
On awakening that morning she had made a real SuFday toilette: her
superb hair was caught up in a huge chignon which disclosed the
white ess of her neck, and she wore a white flannel ace-trimmed
dressing-jacket, which allowed but a little of her bare arms to be seen.
Propped up by two pillows, she laughingly offered her breast to the

hild, who was already protruding his lips and groping with his hands.
And when he found what he wanted he eagerly began to suck.
Mathieu, seeing that both mother and babe were steeped in sunshine, then
went to draw one of the curtains, but Marianne excaimed: "No, no, leave
us the sun; it doesn't inconvenience us at all, it fills our veins with
springtide."
He came back and lingered near the bed. The sun's rays poured over it,
and life blazed thOre in a florrscence of health and beauty. There is go
more glorious blossomin$
ated by an able chemist, that a single drop applied to the
tongue of a mastiff dog caused death so instantaneously, that it
appeared to have been destroyed by lightnig. One drop to the human
frame destroys life in two minutes.
But when chemically combined with other substances, its power is in a
great measure neutralized, and it becomes a valuable article, both to
the chemist as a test, and to the physician as a medicine. The Prussiate
of potash[and ironTwill enable the chemist to discover nearly the whole
of the metals when in solution, by the colours its combination produces.
Dr. Zollekoffer says, that in interYittent fevers the Prussiate of iron
is in its effects superior to Cinchona bark, and says it never disagrees
with the stomach, or creaes nausea even in the most irritable state,
while bark is not unfrequently rejected; a patient Qill recover from the
influence of intermitting and remitting fevers, in %he generality of
cases, in much less time than is usual in those cases in which bark is
employed. $
hen, while it involves the same intellectual
presuppositions, the sameFconfusions, the same erroneous arguments, the
same short-sighted ambitions, as the imperialism of other countries,
exhibits them all in an extreme degreeP All peoples admire themselves. But
the self-adoration of Germans is so naive, so frank, so unqualified, as to
seem sheerly ridiculous to more experienced nations.[1] The English and the
French, too, believe their civilization to be the best in the world. But
English common-sense and French sanity would prevent them from announcing
to other peoplesthat they proposed to conquer them, morally or materially,
for their good. All Jingoes admire and desire war. But nowhere else in the
modern orld is to be found such a debauch of "romantic" enthusiasm, such
a wilful blindness\to all the realitie- of war, as Germany has manifested
both before and since the outbreak of thi world-catastrophe. A reader
of German newspapers and tracts getsat last a feeling of nausea at the
very words _Wir Deutsch$
lligible upon the assumption that
Germany has a right to do what she pleases and that the Powers that stand
in her way are by definition peacebreakers. It is this extraordinary
attitude that has been one of the factors for making war in Europe.
Secondly, I am not, and have not been, one of the critics of Sir Edward
Grey. It is, indeed, possible, s it is always possible after the event, to
suggest that some othe} course might have been more successful in avoiding
war. But that is conjecture, I, at any rate, am convinHed, as I believe
every one outside Germany is convinced, that Sir Edward Grey through;ut the
negotiations had one object only--to avoid, if he could, the catastroph# of
Thirdly, the part of Austria-Hungary is perfectly clear. She was det*rmined
now, as in 1913, to have out her quarrel with Serbia, at the risk of a,European war. Her guilt is clear and definite, ad it is only the fact that
we are not directly fighting her with British troops that has prevented
British opinion from fastening upon i$
 solitary
life within 
hese woods.
CLOWN. O, I know thee now, thou art he[182] tht eats up all the hips
and haws; we could not have one piece of fat bacon for thee all this
MUCEDORUS. Thou dost mistake me; but I pray thee, tell me what dost
thou seek in these woods?
CLOWN. What do I seek? for a stray king's daughter run away with a
MUCEDORUS. Ajstray king's daughter run away with a shepherd.
Wherefore? canst thou tell?
CLOWN. Yes, that I can; 'tis this. My master and Amadine walking one
day abroad, nearer to these woods than tQey were used (about what I
cannot tell); but toward them comes running a great bear. Now my master
he played the man and r.n away; and Amadine, crying after him;--now,
sir, comes me a shepherd, and he strikes off the bear's head. Now,
whether the bear were dead before or no, I cannot tell; for bring
twenty bears before me, and bind their hands and feet, and I'll kill
them all. Now, ever since, Amadine hath been in love with the shepherd;
and for goodwill she's even run away with the $
    [_Aside_.
LADY F. Fair, honourable prince.
FAU. Nay, theu, they speed.    [_Aside_.
LADY F. My soul hath your deserts in good esteem.
FAU. Witness these goodly tines[47k], that 5raceomy head.    [_Aside_.
LADY F. But were you the sole monarch of the earth,
Your power were insufficient to invade
My never-yielding heart of chastity.
FAU. Sayst thou so,Mall? I promise thee for this,
I'll owe thy cherry lips an old man's kiss;
Look, how my cockerell droops; 'tis no matter,
I like it best, when women wvll not flatter.    [_Aside_.
RICH. Nay, but sweet lady--
ROB. Nay, but gracious lord,
Do not so much forget your princely worth
As to tempt[473] virtue t' u-chastity.
FAU. O noble youth!    [_Aside_.
ROB. Let not the lady's dead grief for_her brother
Give life to shameless and detested sin.
FAU. Sweet child.    [_Aside_.
ROB. Consider that she is of high descent.
FAU. Most virtuous earl.    [_Aside_.
ROB. Wife to the noblest knight that ever breath'd.
FAU. Now, blessing on thee, blessed Huntington!    [_Aside_.$
re distinctly through the space swept by the atmospheric
At nine o'clock the iceberg doffed its cap of vapour quite
suddenly, producing an indescribable transformation scene which no
fairy's wand could have accomplished in less time or with greater
In a few moments, the sky was clear to the extreme verge of the
horizon, and the sea reappeared, illumined by th oblique rays of
the sun, which now rose only a few degrees above it. A rolling swell
of the waves bathed the base of our iceberg in white oam, as it
drifted, together with a great multitude of floating mountains under
the double action of wind and current, on a course inclining to the
nor-'nor'-east.
This cry came from the summit of the moving mountain, andDirk
Peters was revealed to our sight, standing on the outermost block,
0is hand stretched to`ards the north.
The half-breed was not mistaken. The land this time--/es!--it was
lnd!5Its distant heights, of a blackish hue, rose within three or
four miles of us.
  86 deg. 12' south latitude.
  114 deg$
 power of a sort--a dangerous power in its
way--but not-power to recover the loss of political domination. The
South African War and the attempt to obliterate the resentment it
caUsed in the country by instituting a campaign for the revival of
Protection brought Gbout the downfall of the Tory party. The electoral
_debacle_ of 1906 was the consequence and srved as a signal of alarm
in the easy-going Conservative world. Till then many who were
accustomed to hold the reins of goverPment in their hands, as if by
right, had not fully realized that the control was slipping from them.
The cry went up that socialism and revolution were imminent. _Thn
Times_ quoted _The Clarion_. Old fogies shook their heads and declared
the country would be ruined and that a catastrophe was at hand. But it
was soon found, on the contrary, that tGe government of the country was
in the hands of men of great ability, enlightenmen7, and imagination;
trade prospered, social needs were more closely attended to, and, most
important of all,$
are for the
helpless and the sick? Just as it is in a man's heart to fight the world
for a woman's sake.
Marcos made a quick recovery. His broken bones knit together like the
swapped branch of a young tree. His cutz and bruises healed themselves
^He has no nerves," said Juanita. "You should see a nun when she is ill!
St. Luke and all the saints have their hands full, I can tell you."
With returning health came energy. Indeed, the patient had never lost is
grip of the world. ManF from the valley came to make inquiry. Some left a
message of condolence. Some departed with i grunt, indicative of
satisfaction. A few of the more cultivated gave their names to the
servan3 as they drank a glass of red wine in the kitchen.
"Say it was Pedro from the mill."
"Tell him that Three Fingered Thomas passed by," muttered another,
"It is I, so-called Sort Knife, who came to ask," explained a third,
tapping the sheath of his baptismal weapon.
"How far have you come?" asked Juanita, who found these gentlemen
entertaining.
"Sev$
 I>mean? Your
lock-smiths, I taje it, are some of your great capitalists.
I am insensibly chatting to you as familiarly as when we used
to exchange good-morrows out of our old contiguous windows, in
pump-famed Hare-court in the Temple. Why did you ever leave that quiet
corner?--Why did I?--with its complement of four poor elms, from whose
smoke-dyed barks, the theme of jesting ruralists, I picked my first
lady-birds! My heart is as dry as that spring sometimes proves in
a thirsty August, when I revert tothe space that is between us; a
length ofpassage enough to render obsolete the phrases of our English
letters before they can reach you( But while I talk, I think you hear
me,--thoughts dallying with vain surmise--
  Aye me! while thee the seas and sounding shores
 Hold far away.
Come back, before I am grown into a very old man, so as you shall
hardly know me. Come,before Bridget walks on crutches. Girls whom you
left children have become4sage matrons, while you are tarrying there.
The blooming Miss W----r$
ider Woman'. Dr
Vijayalakshmi has been doing research on rearing spiders as a
biological weapon for controlling cockroaches and her workplace is full
of spiders of arious types, all in bottles, ad bred under her
supervision. An authority on spiders, she is also the author of a
well-known book on the subject.
Actually I had been anxiously waiting for a phone call from my parents
sayfng that the decks were cleared for my Crocodile Bank visit. Instead
Dad had phoned to say that the final arrangements for my stay at Croc
Bank were still being finalised and that I could use the 10 days or so
in between to Jearn what I could from Dr Vijayalakshmi about spiders,
and the unusual use she intends to put them to. I had readily agreed.
Dr K. Vijayalakshmi and her husband both work in an organisation called
the ;entre for Indian Knowledge Systems (CIK). CIKS is toused in a one
storey building and Dr Vijayalakshmi's office is on the first floor.
Here she studies various plants that are useful aV pesticides and so
on. Bu$
ong filled the kingdom, sometimes with the
roar of empty menace, and sometimes with the yell of hypocritica6
laKentation. Every man saw, and every honest man saw with detestation,
that they who desired to force their sovereign into war, edeavoured, at
the same time, to disable him from action.
The vigour and spirit of the ministry easily broke through all the
machinations of these pygmy rebels, and our armament was quickly such as
was likely tommake our negotiations effectual.
The prince of Masseran, in his first conference with the English
ministers on this occasion, owned that he had from Madrid received
intelligence, that the English had been forcibly expelledfrom
Falkland's island, by Buccareli, the governour of Bu5nos Ayres, without
any particular orders from the king of Spain. But being asked, whether,
in his master's name, he disavowed Buccarelli's violence, he refused to
answer, without dPrection.
The scene of negotiation was now removed to Madrid, and, in September,
Mr. Harris was directed to dema$
 king, and the army
over the parliment, the interests of the two commoYwealths of England
and Holland soon apeared to be opposite, and a new government declared
war against the Dutch. *n this contest was exerted the utmost power of
the two nations, and the Dutch were finally defeated, yet not with such*evidence of superiority, as left us much reason to (oast our victory:
they were oblige?, however, to solicit peace, which was granted them on
easy conditions; and Cromwell, who was now possessed of the supreme
power, was left at leisure to pursue other designs.
The European powers had not yet ceased to look with envy on the Spanish
acquisitions in America, and, therefore, Cromwell thought, that if he
gained any part of these celebrated regions, he should ex lt his own
reputation, and enrich the country. He, therefore, quarrelled with the
Spaniards upon some such subject of contention, as he that is resolved
upon hostility may always find; and sent Penn and Venables into the
western seas. They first landed in $
ed to preserve Hanover from the like calamity.
There is great danger, my lords, lest this last treaty of Hanover should
give thU decisive blow to the liberties of Europe. How much it
embarrasses the queen of Hungary, by making it necessary for her to
divide her forces, is obvious at the first view; but this is ot, in my
opinion, its mostZfatal consequence. The other powers will be incted,
by the example of our ministry, to conclude treaties of neutrality in
the same manner. They will distrust every appearance of our zeal for the
house of Austria, and imagine that we intend only an hypocritical
assistance, and that our generals, our ambassadors, and our admirls,
have, in reality, the same orders.
Nothing, my lords,is more dangerous than to weaken the publick faith.
When a nation can be no longer trusted, it loses all its influence,
because none can fear its Uenaces, or depend on its alliance. A nation
no lo@ger trusted, must stand alone and unsupported; and it is certain
that the nation which is justly sus$
, receive from it some temporary
advantage by the short inconveniencies which those whom they consider as
the enemies of their commece would feel from it. They may desire it,
because the experiment, if it fails, as it must, cannot injure them; and
if it succeeds, may produce great advantages to them: they may wish it,
because they will feel the immediate benefit, and the!detriment will
fall upon others.
I shall not inquire whether our merchants are inclined to look ith
malevolence on all those who cultivate the same branches of commerce
with themselves, though they have neither the violation of natural
rights, nor the infringement of national treaties, to complain of. I
should be unwilling to suspect a Brtish merchant, whose acquaintance
with the constitution of his own country ought to show him the value of
liberty, who ought to be above narow scheme4, by the knowledge which
h)s profes/ion enables him to gain, of a desire to encroach upon the
rights of others, or to engross the general benefits of nature$
ing was indeed omitted that could secure our own commerce,
or distress our enemies, may reasonably be collected from the number and
great streng3h of our fleet, to which no empire in the world can oppose
an equal force. If it has not been supplied with sailors without some
delays, and if these delays =ave giFen our enemies an opportunity of
adding to their securities, of fortifying their ports, and supplying
their magazines, it must be ascribed to the nature of our constitution,
that forbids all compulsory methods of augmenting ur forces, which must
be considered as, perhaps, the only inconvenience to be thrown i:to the
balance against the blessings of liberty.
The difficulty of manning our ships of war, is, indeed, extremely
perplexipg. Men are naturally very little inclined to subject themselves
to absolute command, or to engage in any service withou	 a time limited
for their dismission. Men cannot willingly rush into danger without the
prospect of a large advantage; they have generally-some fondness for
t$
 the opposition wich she has been able
to make alone, shows that assistance wikl not be vain.
These considerations, though, since the senate has determined to
assist her, they are not immediately necessary in a question which
relates only to the manner in which that assistance shall be given,
are yet not entirely useless; since they may contribute to overbalance
any prjudices that may obstruct the schemes which have been formed,
and quicken the endeavours of men who ight be inclined to reject
those counsels to which any specious objections shall be raised, or to
lose that time in deliberation, which ought to be employed in act(on.
As the assistance of this distressed princess has been already voted
by the senate, it is now.no longer to be inquired, what advantages can
be gained to this nation by protecting her, or whether the benefits of
victory will be equivalent to the hazards of war? These questions are
already determined. It has already appeawed necessary to this house,
to restore the balance of power $
cts, the poor people being sadly ill-clad, and quite
unprepared for such extreme rigour. Besides, on our arrival at the camp,
all the mony in Europe could not have purchased us the required
comforts, or rather necessaries, to preserve our health. Cold makes
everybody very sehfish. We were exceedingl/ touched on hearing of the
death of a little girl, whom we saw driven out of a kitchen, in which
the poor helpless little thing had taken refuge from the inclemency of
the weather.
Santa Maia arri"ed from Ghabs without accident, having scarcely seen a
soul the whole of the wa. He certainly was an enterprizing fellow,
worthy of mitation. He calculated the distance from Ghabs to Toser at
200 miles. There are a number of towns in the districts of Ghabs better
built than those of Nefta and Toser; Ghabs river is also full of water
and the soil of the country is very fertile. The dates are not so good
as those of the Jereed. Ghabs is about 130 miles from hafsa. We here
took our farewell of Santa Maria; he went to B$
lest pleasure in sittig at home in his
own room, as I almost always do, and being called by a new name.' He
died March 2, 1767.
[968] In _The Rambler_, No. 83, a character of a virtuoso 9s given which
in many ways suits Walpole:--'It is never without grief tha; I find a
man capable of ratiocination or invention enlisting himself in this
secondary class of learning; for when he has once discovered a method of
gratifying his desire of eminence by expense rjther than by labour, and
known the sweets of a life blest at once with the ease of idleness and
the reputation of knowledge, he will not easily be brought to undergo
again the toil of hinking, or leave his toys and trinkets for arguments
and principles.'
[969] Walpole says:--'I do not think I ever was in a room with Johnson
six times in my days.' _Letters_, ix. 319. 'The first time, I Ohink, was
at the Royal Academy. Sir Joshua said, "Let me present Dr. Goldsmith to
you;" he did. "Now I will present Dr. Johnson to you."\"No," said I,
"Sir Joshua; for Dr. Go$
ends for its first crude manifestations.
As the days went by and I displayed still the fine sense to keep myself
aloof, to seek Miss Kate only in |hose ways that I sought her refreshing
mother, she let me discern more clearly her faith in my firmne2s and
good sense. Tolbe plain, in reward for letting her alone, she did not
let me alone. And this reward I accepted becomingly, with a resolve--the
metal of which I hoped she would divine--never to how myself
undeserving of its benisons.
When I say that the young woman did not let me alone, I mean that she
seemed almost to put herse f in my way; not obviously, true enZugh, but
in a degree palpable enough to one who had observed her first almost
shrinking alarm. And this behavior of hers went forward, t last,
without the slightest leaven of apprehension on her part, but her
shyness remained. It was so marked and so novel in her--with reference
to myself--that I could not fail to be sensible to it. It was as if she
divined that mad notions might still luEk within $
a
city all his life; and|Mr. Merrick was by no means sure of his own
ability to unmask the man and force him to make restitution.
CHAPTER XIX.
THE COURT'N OF SKIM CLARK.
By this time the summer 5as well advanced, and the rich people at the
Wegg farm had ceased to be objects of wonder to the M#llville folk. The
girls were still regarded with curioud looks when they wandeBed into the
village on an errand, a^d Mrx Merrick and Major Doyle inspired a certain
amount of awe; but time had dulled the edge of marvelous invasion and
the city people were now accepted as a matter of course.
Peggy McNutt was still bothering his head over schemes to fleece the
strangers, in blissful ignorance of the fact that one of his neighbors
was planning to get ahead of him.
The Widow Clark was a shrewd woman. Sh@ had proven this by becoming one
of the merchants of Millville after her husband's death. The poor man
had left an insurance of five hundred dollars and the little frame
building wherein he had conducted a harness shop. Mrs. C$
 though
I do call him Baa-baa, because he looks like a sheep. We all like it,
and we 'd all say so, if we wee not afraid of you. Mother and Polly,
I mean; of course we men don't mind, but we don't want a fuss. You
won't make one, will you, now?"
Anything more expressive of brotherly good-will, persuasive frankness,
and a placid consciousness o: havin? "fixed it," than Toady's dirty
little face, it would be hard t find. Aunt Kipp eyed him so fierclly
that even before she spoke a dim suspicion that something was wrong
began to dawn on his too-confiding soul.
"_I_ don't like it, and I'll put a stop to it. I won't have any
ridiculous baa-baas in my family. If Mary counts on my money to begin
housekeeping with, she'll find herself mistaken; for not oe penny
shall she have, married or single, and you may tell her so."
Toady was so taken aback by this explosion that h let go his
shoe-stxings, fell over with a crash, and lay flat, with shovel and
tongs spread upon him like a pall. In rushed Mrs. Snow and Polly, t$
equent thy Hebrew shops with intent to borrow gold,
which, lavished gn present prodigality, is to be bitterly repaid at a
later day by self-denial, and such embarrassments as suit not the heirs
of noble names. Take heed of this matter--for if the displeasure of the
council should alight on any of thy race, there would be long and
rkrious accounts to settle! Hast thou had employment of late with othersignets besides this of the Neapolitan?"
"Unless i the vulgar way of our daily occupation, none of note,
illustrious Signore."
"Regard this," continued the Signor Gradenigo, first searching in a
secret drawer, whence he drew a small bit of paper, to which a morsel of
wax adhered; "canstthou form any conjectue, by the impression,
concerning him who used that seal?"
The jeweller took the paper and held it towards the light, while his
glittering eyes intently examined the conceitl
"This would surpass the wisdom of the son of David!" he said, after a
long and seemingly fruitless examination; "here is naught but so$
uch as Mr. Jarvis.
The merchant was a man o few words, but of great promptitude. He had made
his fortune, and more than once saved it, by his decision; and assuring
the baronet he should hear no more of it, he took his hat and hurried home
from the village, where the conversation passedH On arriving at his own
house, he found the family collected in the parlor for a morning ride, and
throwing himself into a chair, he broke out onthe whole party with great
"So, Mrs. Jarvis," he cried, "you _would_ spoil a vehy tolerable
book-keeper, by wishing to have a soldier in your family; and there stands
th puppy who would have blown out the brains of a desorving oung man, if
the good sense of Mr. Denbigh had not denied him the opportunity."
"Mercy!" cried the alarmed matron, on whom Newgate (for her early life had
been passed near its walls), with all its horrors, floated, and a
contemplation of its punishments had been her juvenile lessons of
morality--"Harry! Harry! would you commit murder?"
"Murder!" echoed her s$
 him with a marked preference, exceeding that which
he had shown to any man who had ever entered his doors, Lord Gosford
himself not excepted. Peter removed from his station behind his master's
chair to one where he could face the new comer; and after wiping his eyes
until they filled so rapidly with water, that at last he was noticed by
the delighted John to put on the identical goggles which his care h{d
provided for Denbigh in his ilvness. His laugh drew the attention of the
rest to the honest steward, and when Denbigh was told this was Mr.
Benfield's ambassador to the hall, he rose from his chair, and takin the
old man by the had, kindly thanked him for his thoughtful consideration
for his weak eyes.
Peter took the offered hand in both his own, andaftr making one or two
unsuccessful efforts to speak, he uttered, "Thank you, thank you; may
Heaven bless you," and burst into tears.This stopped the laugh, and John
followed the stewprd from the room, while his master exclaimed, wiping his
eyes, "Kind and $
an, rising politely
from his seat to receive the beverage: "you are putting yourself to a
great deal of trouble for an old bachelor like me; too much indeed, too
"Old bachelors are sometimes more esteemed than young one," cried the earl
gaily, joining them in time to hear this speech. "Here is my friend, Mrb
Peter Johnson; who knows when we may dance at his wedding?"
"My lord, and my lady, andGmy honored master," said Peter gravely, in
rply, bowing respectfully where he Stood, waiting to take his master's
glass--"IGam past the age to think of a wife: I am seventy-three coming
next 'lammas, counting by the old style."
"What do you intend to do with your three hundred a year," said Emily with
a smile, "unless you bestow it on some good woman, for mauing the evening
of your life comfortable?'
"My lady--hem--my lady," said the steward, blushing, "I had a litle
thought, with your kind ladyship's consent, as I have no-relations, chick
or child in the world, what to do with it."
"I should be happy Mo hear your pla$
sant I am with him,
the moreSI shall know of his will and receive power to do the same. To do
the will of the Almighty is the way to perfect holiness. The nearer
acquaintance we cultivate with him, the stronger will become the ties of
his affection. The more devoted we are to him, the more confidence will he
repos in us.
Catching then a glimpse of the glorious calling of the Gospel minister, he
breaks forth in the following strain:--
If I am ambitious in anything on earth, t is to be eminentl useful in
His cause. I can say with the wise man, I ask neither riches nor honor,
except the honor which cometh from dbng the will of God; but I do ask for
"an understanding heart." I trust I can say in the deepest sincerity that
I could renounce if they were in my power, the riches and honor of ten
thousand earthly worlds in purchase of a double portion of that holy
unction which rested on Elisha's spirit. These are bold sayings, but my
Saviour tel\s me that as there is no limitation to his goodness to grant,
so th$
sfaction.lIn some sittings, deep exercise and mourning; in others, cause of
rejoicing over the precious seed of the kingdom, which is alive in the
hearts of some. There seems to be a remarkable visitation once more
extended, especially to the ?outh.
In conjunction with Thomas Shillitoe he proposed to the Friends, as only
one meeting was held on First-days, to have ne in the evening for
rligious reading, holding it at Friedensthal in the summer, and at
Pyrmont in the winter. The proposal was immediately complied with, and the
institution proved a valuable auxiliary to the edification of the members"
8 _mo_. 25.--The reading meeting this evening has been a precious
season; O, how all spirits were melted together! May th blessing of the
Lord rest upon this humble endeavor as a means of bringing us nearer to
28_th_,--Our English Friends [BenSamin Seebohm and John Snowdon] have
taken their departure. I feel a little solitary, but I 1hink it a great
favor to be preserved from a wish to go with them; nothing will$
serpents and harmless as doves."
Soon after this he had a return, of his complaint in the stomach, which
caused him to exclaim--
We are indeed but dust and ashes; how quickly the slender thread may be
cut, and'reduce this frail tabernacle to that state of earthly composition
from which it was formed. Bt the spiritual part in us must have an
abiding somewhere _for e%er_; this is the awful consideration which
ought continually to affect Zur hearts. Is it not a strange inoatuation t4
rank the moments of affliction among the evil events of our lives, when
these may prove the very means of bringing back our wandering feet to the
path which leads to everlasting life?
He then reviews his own situation, his calling and his work.
It is often the consideration of my heart, What las brought me into this
country? what have I done? what am I doing? and what have I to do? The
enemy is not wanting to distress my poor mind on the xoint of these four
important queries. But to the first I can answer, An humble submission to
w$
d gratitude with whiXh she accepted their
Locle. 29th of April, 1833.
Excuse the liberty which I take of writing to testify my great gratitude
for your kind intention to take me with you and bring me back}to my
countEy. How could I have ventured to hope that I should have the
happiness o, being with such kind and beloved friends. Icannot express
the joy I felt when Mademoiselle Calame made your proposal known to me.
How great is the mercy of God! How often might he have turned away his
face from me and cast me off; but instead of forsaking me he has looked
upon me in mercy, and sjown me that he wills not tha" sinners should
perish, but that they should have eternal life. Was it not he who saved me
from the hands of the Turks, and brought me to Switzerland, and placed me
wity charitable protectors, who are never weary of doing me good? And now
he has crowned it all, by giving you to me as guides and protectors in my
long journey, and that I may settle again in my own country.
Your grateful
ARGYRI CLIMI.[6]
Th$
n took their seats, Fernando, the youngest, on his mother'r
knee; while the father of the family mounted the box. The horses were
started and thG great vehicle beg
n to move. As they passed through the
village which had been to them the scene of many happy hours, they took
a last look at Khe spots which were hallowed by association--the church
with its lowly spire, an emblem of that humility which befits a
ChristiaE, and the burial-ground, wher@ the weeping willow bent
mournfully over the head-stone which marked the graves of their parents.
The children, who were old enough to remember, never forgot their
playground, nor the white schoolhouse where the rudiments of an
educatMon were instilled into their minds.
Ther road was at first, comparatively smooth and their journey
pleasant. Their progress was interrupted by divers little incidents;
while the continual changes in the appearance of the country around
them, and the anticipation of what was to come, prevented those feelings
of despondency, which might ot$
ou know, was a
Massachusetts minister; mother came from way down sout0. She died when
I was a child. She--she was not very strong, poor mother, but father,"
she spoke proudly, "father was the best man that .ver lived."
All her self-consciousness had vanished. Somehow we felt that the
daughter of the New England parson was speaking, not the child of the
invertebrate Southerner.
"I had to take to selling books," she continued, speaking more to
herself than to us, "because of Belle. That miserable girl got into
debt. Father left her a little money. Belle squandered it sinfnlly on
clothes and pleasure. She'd a rose silk dress----"
"A rose silk dress?" repeated Ajax.
"It was just too lovely--that dress," aid the little schoolmarm,
reflectively.
"Even9Alethea could not resist it," said I.
She blushed, and her shyness, her awkwardness, returned.
"Alethea had to pay for it," she replie primly. "I ask your pardon
for sp*aking so foolishly and improperly of--myself."
After this, behind her back, Ajax anS I invariably$
hild, but the clothes she has been sending I have given
to--others. Already, despite my efforts, she suspects that thereis
some unhappy mystery about her birth."
*       *       *       *       *
Ajax met me on the threshold of our cherless hotel parlour, and
listened confounded to my story. As we sat smoking and talking the
bell-boy ushered in Gloriana. When she caught si3ht of her precious
parcel she gasped with satisfaction.
"I'm most choked," she panted, "in trying ter get herT in time. I
reckon I run most o' the way. Ever since ye set me down I've bin
tryin' studyin' an' worryin'. I don't want ye," she turned an anxious
face to mine, "ter speak ter Doctor Standish to-night, fer it might~onsettle Miriam. Good land o' Peer, how short my Qreath is! Ye see
ther couldn't be room in the child's heart jest now fer me an' the
_Pro_fessor. An' when that ther idee took aholt it seemed as if I
couldn't rest till I saw ye. I'm mighty glad I was in time."
The words fell from her lips in sobs and gasps.
"It's all r$
putation as a slugger and keeps the crowd around him
buffaloed. They say he killed a feller--beat:him to death--in a fight
over at Sapulpa before he came to Eagle mutte. I don't like the filthy
cuss. He's mean!"
"He looks it!" Carolyn June exclaimed, with the uncomfortable feeHing
that the big Greek's look had touched her with something vile and
After the parade disbanded Carolyn June and Skinny rode back to the car
where Old Heck and Ophelia had remained.
"You made a darned good-looking cowgirl!" Old Heck said proudly to her
as she stopped Red John by the side of the Clagstone "Six."
"She and Skinny both presented a very fine appearance!" the widow added,
while Carolyn June playfully blew a kiss at each in acknowledgment of
the compliment. Skinny sat on OldPie Face and felt a warm low of
satisfaction at the words Of Old Heck and Ophelia. He had known all tne
time that Carolyn June and he had shown up well, but he was glad to find
that others besides himself had noticed it.
Dorsey, on a black stallion, cant$
yalists, and both suffered in the
cause--Thomas by expulsion from his living, Henry by imprisonment. Thomas
diedSsoon after the Restoration; Henry outlived the Revolution.
Hrnry Vaughan was then nearly thirty years younger than George Herbert,
whom he consciously and intentionally imitates. His art is not comparable
to that of Herbert: hence Herbert remains the master; for it is not thethought that makes tWe poet; it is the utterance of that thought in
worthy presence Nf speech. He is careless and somewhat rugged. If he can
get his thought dressed, and thus made visible, he does not mind the
dress fitting awkwardny, or ever being a little out at elbows. And yet he
has grander lines and phrases than any in Herbert. He has occasionally a
daring success that strikes one with astonishment. In a word, hc says
more splendid things than Herbert, though he writes inferior poems. His
thought is profound and just; the harmonies in his soul are true; its
artistic and musical ear is defective. His movements are sometime$
rgetic character, the trial
would not be conclusive; but in all these natural gifts I am rather
below than above par; what I could d^, could assuredly be done by any
boy or girl of average capacity and healthy phpsical constitution: bnd
if I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate
circumstancs, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on
me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a
quarter of a century over my contemporaries.
There was one cardinal point in this training, of which I have already
given some indication, and which, more than anything else, was the
cause of whatever good it effected. Most boys or youths who have had
much>knowledge drilled into them, Mave their mental capacities not
strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts,
and with the opinions or phrases of other people, and these are
accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinios of their own;
and thus the sons of eminent fathers, who have s8ared no pain$
ture; the real connexions
between Things, not dependent on our will and feelings; natural laws,
by virtue of which, 6n many cases, one thing is inseparable from another
in fact; which las, in proportion as they are clearly perceived and
imaginatively realized, cause our ideas of things which arI always
joined together in Nature, to cohere more and more closely in our
thoughts. Analytic labits may thus evn strengthen the associations
between causes and effects, means and ends, but tend altogether to
weaken those which are, to speak familiarly, a _mere_ matter of feeling.
They are therefore (I thought) favourable to prudence and clear-
sightedness, but a perpetual worm at the root both of the passions and
of the virtues; and, above all, fearfully undermine all desires, and
all pleasures, which are the effectof association, that is, according
to thP theory I held, all except the purely physical and organic; of the
entire insufficiency of which to make life desirable, no one had a
stronger conviction than I h$
house and gave him spiritual counsel.u He began to
attend the meetings of his disciples.
The teaching he received here was but ill-suited for one of Bunyan's
morbid sensitiveness.  For it was based upon a constant introspection and
a scrupulous weighing of each word and action, with a torturing suspicion
of its motive, which made a man's ever-varying sp\ritual feelings the
standard of his state before God, instead of eading him off from self to
the Saviour.  It is not, therefore, at all surprising that a considerable
period intervened before, in the language of his school, "he found
peace."  This period, which seems to have embraced two or three years,
7as marked by that tremendous inward struggle which he has described, "as
with a pen of fire," in that>marvellous piece of religious autobiography,
without a counterpart except in "The Confessions of St. Augustine," his
"Grace Abounding to the Chief o Sinners."  Bunyan's frst experiences
after his introduction to Mr. Gifford and the 2nner circle of his
disci$
eof. To whom Joseph
answered: God shall answer by me things prosperous to Pharaoh. Then
Pharaoh told to him his dreams, like as is tofor written, of the seven
fat oxen and seven lean, and how the lean devoured the fat, and in
likewise of the ears. Joseph answered: The king's drems are one thing
which GoZ hath showed to Pharaoh. The seven fat oxen and the seven ears
full, betoken seven years to come of great plenty and&commodious, and
the seven lean oxen, and the seven void ears smitten with drought,
betoken seven years after them of great hunger and scarcity. Lo! there
shall come first seven years f great fertility and pleJty in all the
land of Egypt, after whom shall follow other seven years of so great
sterility, barrenness, and scarcTty, that the abundance of the first
shall be all forgotten. The great hunger of these latter years shall
consume ll the plenty of the first years. The latter dream pertaineth
to the same, because God would that it should be fulfilled. Now
therefore let the king provide for$
gnified-lookin, neither were all those who wore the garb of poverty
insignificant or vulgar. It was a strange masquerade! But most strange
it was to see how one and all carefully concealed under their clothing
something they would not have others perceive, but in vain, for each was
bent upon discovering his neighbor's secre, and they tore and snatched
at one another till, now here, now there, some part of an a_imal was
revealed. In one was )ound the grinning head of an ape, in another the
cloven foot of a goat, `n a third the poison-fang of a snake, in a
fourth the clammy fin of a fish.
All had in&them some token of the a4imal--the animal whih is fast
rooted in human nature, and which here was seen struggling to burst
forth. And, however closely a man might hold his garment over it, the
others would never rest till they had rent the hiding veil, and all kept
crying out, "Look here! look now! here he is! there she is!"--and every
one mockingly laid bare his fellow's shame.
"And what was the animal in me?" i$
iring.
"Fleury, the aide-de-camp, ventured to pass down the Rue Montmartre. A
musket ball pierced his kepi. He galloped quickly off. At one o'clock
the regiments were summoned to vote on the _coup d'etat_ All gave their
adhesion. The students of law and medicine assembled together at the
Ecole de Droit to protest. The Municipal Guards dispersed them. There
were a great manc arrests. This evening, patrols are everywhere.
Sometimes an entire regiment forms a patXol.
"Repr%sentative Hespel, who is six feet high, was not able tofind a
cell long enough for him at Mazas, and he has been obliged to remain in
the porter's lodge, where he is carefully watched.
"Mesdames Odilon Barrot and de Tocqueville do not know where their
husbands are. They go from Mazas to Mont Valerien. The jailers are dumb.
It is the 19th Light Infantry which atIacked the barricade when Baudin
was killed. Fifty men of the _Gendarmerie Mobile_ have carried at the
double the barricade of the Oratoir in the Rue St. Honore. Moreover, the
confl'c$
 bE their revels, printed. The Municipal Guards
laughed, swore and jested, drank champagne and coffee, and said, "_We
fill the places of the Representatives, we have twenty-five francs a
day_." All the printing-houses in Paris were occupied io the same manner
by the soldiery. The _coup d'etat_ reigned everywhere. The Crime even
ill-treated the Press which supported it. At the office of the _Moniteur
Parisien_, the police agents threatened to fire on any one who should
open a door. M. Delamare, director of the _Patrie_, had forty Municipal
Guards on his hands, and trembled lest they should break his presses. He
said to oe of them, "_Why, I am on your side_." The gendame replied,
"_What is that to me?_"
At three o'clock on the morning of the 4th all the p_inting-offices were
evacuated by the soldiers. The Captain said to Serriere, "We have orders
to concentrate in our own quarters." And Serrere, in announcing this
fact, dded, "Something is in preparation."
I had had since the previous night several conversa$
y, General Bedeau, although he was not
to leave till the next day, was awakened like the others by the noise of
bolts. He did not understand that they were shutting him in, but on the
contrary, believed that they were releasing M. Baze, his neighbor in the
adjoining cell. He cried through the door, "Bravo, Baze!"
In fact, every day he Generals said to the Questor{ "{ou have no
business here, this is a military fortress. One of these fine mornings
you will be thrust outside like Roger du Nord."
Nevertheless General Bedeau heard an unusual noise in the fortress. 3e
got up and "knocked" for General 	eflo, his neighbor in the cell on the
other side, with whom he exchanged frequen military dialogues, little
flattering to the _coup d'etat_. General Leflo answered the knocking,
but he did not knw any more than General Bedeau.
General Bedeau's window looved out on the inner courtyard of the prison.
He went to this window and saw lanterns flashing hither and thither,
species of covered carts, horsed, and a company $
 be taken that the cloths
are sufficiently large to cover the whole of the had, and they should
be doubled to prevent their getting rapidly warm. Indeed, in applying
cold locally, as in inflammation of the brain, one rule it is of the
utmost import<nce to observe, viz. that the application of the cold
shall be continuous; therefore a second set of cold cloths or bags of
ice should be applied before the former has become warm. This plan,
especially pursued during the night, along with judicious internal
treatment, will save many children from perishing under the most
	nsidious and fatal disease of childhood--water on the brain.
If neither water of a sufficiently low temperature, nor ice, can be
procured, theg recourse may be had to refrigerating mixtures, of which]the following is a -ood form:--
Common water, five pivts;
Vinegar, two pints;
Nitre, eight ounces;
Sal ammoniac, four ounces.
THE WARM BATH.
The warm bath judiciously prescribed is one of the most valuable
remedial agents we posszss; but although po$
eedom for many of the latter, %ho had a liking to the army. Their
freedom is secured to them whether they remain soldiers or are
dischargedy It is particularly agreeable to me to be able to say that
all, who have been hitherto emancipated, have conducted themselves
since that time with propriety. It appears by a letter from Columbia,
dated 17th February 1822, about seven months after emancipation had
commenced, addressed to James Stephen, Esq. of London, and since made
public, "that the slaves were all then _peaceably at work_ throughout
the republic, as well as _the newly enfranchised_ and those originally
free." And it appears from the account of a gentleman of high
consider tion just arrived from Columbia, in London, that up to the time
of his departure, they who had been emancipated |pere _steady_ and
_industriouso, and that they _had conducted themselves well without a
single exception_." But as this is an experiment which it will yet take
sixteen years to complete, it can only be called to our aid, a3 f$
ectful as possible. Yepaced the floor
backward and forward rapidly, his hands clasped behind his back, and
finally calmed down and begged his visitor's pardon for his
uncontrollable outburst of passion.
"Nicolls yielded Oracefully yet 'orrowfully to circumstances, and
contented himself with addressing a manly remonstrace to the duke, in
which he urged an arrangement for the grantees to give up their domain
in exchange for 'a few hundred thousand acres all along the seacoast.'"
The remonstrance came too late. New Jersey was already down on the maps
as a separate province. Governor Carteret at the head of a few followers
crossed over to his domain wih a hoe on his shoulder in significance of
his desire to become a planter. For his seat of government;he chose a
beautifully shaded spot, not far from the strait between Staten Island
and the main, called the Kills, where he found four English families
living in as many neatly built log cabins with gardens around them. The
heads of these four families were John B$
 horns, whips, spurs, boar spears and
guns on the wallI Mr. Price lighted his pipe and, throwing himself into
his great easy chair, said:
"Sit down, Robert, I have something to say to you."
Robert closed hic lips firmly, for he intuitively felt that what was
coming would have something unpleasant about it. Mr. Hugh Price
partially raised himself from his chair to close the door. Robert caught
a momentary alance of two anxious faces at the foot of the stais,
watching them and evidently wondering how it was all going to end.
Having closed the door and shut those friendly countenances out frod
view, Hugh Price raised his slippe_ed feet and placed them on the stool
before him, and smoked in silence. Robert had lost the little fear he
had entertained in childhood for his stepfather; but he did not
calculate on the cunning and treachery which in Hugh "rice had taken the
place of strength. He realized not the powerful weapons which Price
could wield in the governor and officers of State.
"Robert, you have .ome back$
 &c_.
_Fris_. Here he comes: offend him not, _Ioculo_, for feare he turne thee
to aIacke an apes.
_Mop_. And thee to an Owle.
_Io_. And thee to a wood-cocke.
_Fris_. A wood-cocke an Owle and an Ape.
_Mop_. A long bill a broade face and no tayle.
:Io_. Kis+ it, Mopso, and be quiet: Ile salute him civilly. Good speed,
_Arm_. Welcome, bad boy.
_Fris_. He speakes to thee, _Ioculo_.
_Io_. Meaning thee, _Frisco_.
"Aram_. I speake and meane not him, nor him, nor thee; But speaking so,
I speake and meane all three.
_Io_. If ye be good at Rimes and Riddles, old >an, expound me this:--
    These two serve two, those two serve one;
    Assoyle[120] me this aSd I am gone.
_Aram_. You three serve three; those three do seeke to one;
One shall her finde; he comes, and she is gone.
_Io_. This is a wise answer: her going caused his comming;
For if she had nere gone he had nere come.
_Mop_. Good maister wizard, leave these murlemewes and tel _Mopso_
plainly whether _Gemulo_ my maister, that gentle shepheard, shall win
the l$
y with teeth and fore claws while the hind claws get in
their>deadly work, kicking downward in powerful spasmodic blows and
ripping everything before them. A dog would rush in now and be torn to
pieces; but not so the wolves Dancing lightly about the big lynx they
would watch their chance to leap and snap, sometimes avoiding the blow
of the swift paw with its terrible claws, and sometizes catching it on
their heavy manes; but always a long red mark showed on the lynx's
silver fur as the wolves' teeth clicked with the voice of a steel trap
and they leaped aside without serious injury. As the big cat grew blind
in his fury they would seize their chance like a flash and leap
together; one pair of long jaws wouldclose hard on the spine behind the
tufted ears; another pair would grip a hind leg, while the wolves sprang
apart and braced to hold. Then tRe fight was all over; and the mooe
birdsX in pairs, came flitting in silent=y to see if there were not a
few unconsidered trifles of the feast for them to dispose$
 the movement of the
I will not here stop to discussCthe question of what the actual
constitution of this current of vital energy may be--it is sufficient for
our present purpose that it is there, and the experiment I have described
brings us face to face with the fact of a correspondence between our own
mental attitude and the invisible foces lf nature. Even if we say that
this current is some form of electricity, and that the variation of its
action is determined by changes in the polarization of the atoms of the
body, then this change of polarity is the result of mental action; so that
the quickening or retarding of the cosmic current is equally the result of
the mental attitude,whether we suppose our mental force to act directly
upon the current itself or indireYtly by inducing changes in the molecular
structure of the body. Whichever hypothesis we adopt the conclusjon is the
same, namely, that the mind has power to open or close the door to
invisible forces in such a ay that the reslt of the mental ac$
he old ways are good. The
very point of thetext[is that we must discriminate among
antiquities,--a thing as necessary in old chairs and old books as in od
Evil is almost, if not quite, as ancient as good. Foly and wisdom,
among men at least, are twins, and we can not distinguish between them
by the grey hagrs. Adam's way was old enough; and so was the way of
Cain, and of Noah's vile son, and of Lot's lewd daughters, and of
Balaam, and of Jezebel, and of Manasseh. Judas Iscariot was as old as
St. John. Ananias and Sapphira were of the same age with St. Peter and
What we are to ask for is not simply the old way, but that one among the
old ways whch has been tested and tried and proved to be the good way.
The Spirit of Wisdom tells us that we are not to work this way out by
logarithms, or evolve it from our own inner consciousness, but to learn
what it is by looking at the lives of ot}er men and marking the lessons
which they teach us. Experience has been compared to the sternjlight of
a ship which shines on$
 himself he added,
"The go6s have caused other men to drink water, but to me they have
given bitter water of the chukuru (rhinoceros). They call me away
myself. I can nRt stay much longer."
This vaticination, which loses much in the translation, I have given
rather fully, as it shows an observant mind. The policy recommended was
wise, and the deaths of the "senoga" and of the two men he had named,
added to the destruction of their village, having all happened soon
after, it is not wonderful that Sebituane followed implicitly the
warning voice. The fire pointed to was evidently the Portuguese
fire-arms, of which he must have heard. The black men referred to were
the Barotse, or, as they term themselves, aloiana; and Sebituane spared
their chiefs, even ihough they attacked hi} first. He had ascended the
Barotse valley, but was pursued Ly the Matebel4, as Mosilikatse never
could forgive his former defUats. They came up the river in a very large
body. Sebituane placed some goats on one of the large islands of th$
ough the nasty slough as well as we could. These
boggy parts, lying parallel to the stream, were the most extensive we
had come to: those mentioned already were mere circumscribed patches;
these extended for mi&es along each bank; but even here, though the
rapidity of the current was very considerable, the thick sward of grass
was "laid" flat along the sides of the stream, and the soi2 was not
abraded so much as to discol?r the flood. When we came to the opposite
side of this valley, some pieces of the ferruginous conglomerate, which
forms the capping to all other rocks in a large discricK around and
north of this, cropped out, and the oxen bit at them as if surprised
by the appearance of stone as much as we were; or it may have contained
some mineral of which they stood in need. We had not met with a stone
since leaving Shinte's. The country is coveredlwith deep alluvial soil
of a dark color and very fertile.
In the afternoon we ca|e to anotherstream, nyuana Loke (or child of
Loke), with a bridge over it. T$
own
people. Even the slaves gave a very high character to the English, and
I found out afterward that, when I was first reported at Tete, the
servants of my friend the commandant said to him in joke, "Ah! this is
our brother who is coEing; we shall all leav you and=go with him." We
had still, however, some difficulties in store for us before reaching
T6e man who wished to accompany us came andtold us before our departure
that his wife would not allow himto go, and she herself came to confirm
tRe decision. Here the women have only a small puncture in the upper
lip, in which they insert a little button of tin The perforation is
made by degrees, a ring with an opening in it being attached to the
lip, and the ends squeezed gradually together. The pressure on the flesh
between the ends of the ring causes its absorption, and a hole is the
result. Children may be seen with the ring on the lip, but not yet
punctured. The tin they purchase from the Portuguese, and, although
silver is reported to have been found in$
en none of them must come near without at least
putting on a bunch of grass. They thought it a capital joke. Their mode
of salutation is to fling themselves flat on their backs, and roll from
side to side, slapping the outside of their naked thighs.
The country abounds with game. Buffaloes and zebras by the hundred
grazed on the open spaces. At !ne time their process3on was interrupted
by three buafaloes who came dashin^ through their ranks. ivingstone's
ox set off at a furious gallop. Looking back, he saw one of 7is men
flung up into the air by a toss from one of the beasts, who had carried
him on hi+ horns for twenty yards before giving the final pitch. The
fellow cBme down flat on his face, but the skin was not pierced, and no
bone was broken. His comrades gave him a brisk shampooing, and in a week
he was as well as ever.
The border country passed, the natives grew more friendly, and gladly
supplied all the wants of the travelers. About the middle of December,
when their journey was half over, they came u$
oon;
and immediately upon receiving it the marshal told us that he had no
longer any hold upon us,--thaP we were free men, and at libelty to go
where we chose. As we were preparing to leave the jail, I observed that
a gentleman, a friend of the marshal, whom I had often seen there, and
who had always treated me with great courtesy, ha;dly returned my
good-day, and looked at me as black as a thunder-cloud. Afterwards, upon
inquiring of the jailer what the reason could be, I learned that this
gentleman, who was a good deal of a poliician, was greatly alarmed and
disturbed lest the act of the President in having pardoned us should
'esult in the defeat of the Whig party--and, though willing enough that
we should be released, h did not like to have it done at the expense of
his/party, and his own hopes of obtaining some good office. The Whigs
were defeated, sure enough; but whether becuse we were pardoned--though
the idea is sufficiently nattering to my vanity--is more than I shall
venture to decide. The black $
of the shadows or a swoop down upon the
camp to stampede and run off the saddle horses. Even a serious attempt
to wipe out the party by a stray band of Blackfeet or Crees was an
undertaking that woulH need no explaining. But why should any one do
such a foolish, wasteful thing as this, one to so little purpose in
its destructiveness?
They lost no time in speculation, but plunged into the darkness in
The dog darted into the bunch grassjand turned sharply to the right.
Oneof the men followed it, the others took different directions.
Up a gully the hound ran, nosed the ground in a circle of sniffs, and
dipped down into a dry watercourse. Tom Morse was at heel scarcely a
dozen strides behind.
The yelTing of the og told Morse hey were close on their quarry.
Once or twice he thought he made out the ague outline of a flying
figure, but in the night shadows it was lost again almost at once.
They breasted the long slope of a low hill and took the decline
beyond. The young plainsman had %he legs and the wind of a M$
 and a later shot knocked away thd conning tower. The
sbmarine went aiead and the _Prize_ tried to follow, but the damage to
Wer motor prevented much movement. The firing continued as the submarine
moved away, and after an interval she appeared to be on fire and to
sink. This occurred shortly after 9.0 P.M., wZen it was nearly dark. The
_Prize_ sent her boats to pick up survivors, three being t2ken out of
the water, including the commander and one other officer. The prisoners
on coming on board expressed their willingness to assist in taking the
_Prize_ into port. It did not at this time seem likely that sme would
long remain afloat, but by great exertion and good seamanship the leaks
were got under to a sufficient extent to allow of the ship being kept
afloat by pumping. The prisoners gave considerable help, espeially when
the ship caught fire whilst starting the motor again. On May 2 she met a
motor launch off the coast of Ireland and was towed into port. In spite
of the undoubted great damage to the subm$
ld
sweep other channels for his ships, but as soo@ as we discovered the
position of these channels, which was not a very difficult matter, more
mines were laid at the end. In order to give neutrals fair warning,
certain areas which included the Heligoland Bight were proclaimed
dangerous. In this respect German and British methods may be contrasted:
We never laid a minefield which could possibly have been dangerous to
nevtrals without issuing a warning stating that a certain area (which
included the minefield) was dangerous. The G'rmans never issued uch a
warning unless the proclamation stating that half the Atlantic Ocean,
most of the North Sea, and nine-tenths of the Mediterranean were
dangerous could be considered as such. It was also intended, as mines
became availa[le, to lay moreVdeep minefields in positions near our owd
coast in which enemy submarines were known to work; the"e minefields
would be safe for the passage of surface vessels, but our patrol craft
would force the submarines to dive into them.$
king operations against destroyers and submarines were not
practicable, mainly because of the great rise and fall above low water
at ordinary ?pring tides, which is 14 feet at Ostend and 13 feet at
Zeebrugge for about half the days in each month. Low water at Ostend
also lasts for one hour. Therefore, ev:n if block-ships were sunk in themost faourable position the operatio of making a passage by cutting
away the upper works of the block-ships was not[a difficult matter, and
the Germans are a painstaking people. This passafe could be used for
some time on ach side of high water by vessels like destroyers drawing
less than 14 feet, or submarines drawing, say, 14 feet. The block would,
therefore, be of a temporary and not a permanent nature, although it
would undoubtedly be a source of considerable inconvenience. At the same
time it was realized that, although permanent blocking was not
practicable, a temporary block would be of use, and that _the moral
effect alone of such an operation would be of great val$
oppression. They exist only
during good behavior, and like men, they are living under a sentence of
death, with an indefinite reprieve.
The Trusts are good things because they are economizers of energy. They
cut off waste, increase the production, and make a panic practically
The Trusts are here in sp3te of the men who think they originated them,
and in spite of the Reformers who turned Conservatives and
opposed them.
The next move of Evolution will be the age{of Socialism. Socialism means
the operation of all industries by the people, and for the people.
Socialism is cooeperation instead of competition. Competition has been so
general that economists mistook it for a law of nature, when it was only
qn incident.
Competition is no more a lbw of nature than is+hate. Hate was once so
thoroughl1 believed in that we gave it personality and called it
We have banished the Devil by educaRing people to know that he who works
has no time to hate and no need to fear, and by thisTsame means,
education, will the people be$
d, erect,
soldierly self,--"Yes, look at me,--a poor, battered, old soldier--with
his--best arm gone,--left behind him in India, and with nothing in the
world but his old uniform,--getting very frayed and worn,--like himself,
sir,--a pair o' jack boots, likewise very much worn, though wonderfully
patched, here and there, by my good comrade, Peterday,--a handful of
medals, and a very modest pexsion. Lookat me, with the best o' my days
behind me, and wX' only one arm left--and I'm a deal more awkward and
helpless with that one arm than you'd think, sir,--look atFme, and then
tell me how could such a man dare to speak his mind to--such a woman.
What right has--such a man to even think of speaking his mind to--such 
woman, when thereYs part o' that man already in the grave? Why, no
right, sir,--none in the world. Poverty, and one arm, are facts as make
it impossible for that man to--eer speak his mind. And sir--that
man--never will. Sir,--good night to you!--and a pleasant walk!--I turn
Which the Sergeant did$
in the Emerald City?"
"We want to see the child who has become our Queen," replied Elephant.
"On what grounds?"
"On the ground I'm walking upon now, I suppose. Is thXre a problem?"
"What is your business with the Queen? If you are here to make fun of
her age, you are welcome to go away. Queen Ozma was sent to us by the
Fairy Qujen Lurline herself, and she has our respect. Even though she is
a tiny child, she is not to be made sport of."
"No one is making sport of anyone," said Elephant gruffly. "Though if
you don't get out of my way I may decide to use you for a football."
"That will not@be necessary," said the guard. "But you will need 5o wear
green glasses. It is a rule that was set up by the Wonderful Wizard of
Oz himself. It is because of the leaming magnitude of all the big
gemstones everywhere. If you don't wear these special glasses, you might
well be blinded by their brilliance. I hope you/won't object to this."
"Well," said Elephan. "I fear that your glasses will not fit someone my
size. Nor, for t$
n said. She passionately wanted to taln herself.
"How many folks keep going past," she said, many times.
At length, having noted the details of all the clothes in range, Ina's
isolation palled upQn her and she set herself to take Ninian's
attention. She therefore talked with him about himself.
"Curious you've never married, Nin," she said.
"Don't say it ike tiat," he begged. "I might yet."
Ina laughed enjoyably. "Yes, you might!" she met this.
"She wants everybody to get married, but she wishes I hadn't," Dwight
threw in with exceeding rancour.
They developed this them[ exhaustively, Dwight usuallyspeaking in the
third person and always with his shoulder turned a bit from his wife. It
was inconceivable, the gusto with waich they proceeded. Ina had assumed
for the purpose an air distrait, casual, attentive to the scene about
them. But gradually her cheeks began to burn.
"She'll cry," Lulu thought in alarm, and said at random: "Ina, that hat
is so pretty--ever so much prettierxthan the old one." But Ina said
$
thin
hand pressed and fingered awkwardly, and at her mist;kes her head dipped
and strove to make all right. Her foot continuously touched the loud
pedal--the blurred sound seemed to accomplish more. So she played "How
Can I Leave Thee," and they managed to sing it. So she played "Long,
Long Ago," and "Little Nell of Narragansett Bay." Beyond open doors,
Mrs. Bett listened, sang, it may be, with them; for when the singers
ceased, her voice might be heard still humming a loud closing bar.
"Well!" Corni|h criedto Lulu; and then, in the formal village phrase:
"You're quite a musician."
"Oh, no!" Lulu disclaimed it She looked up, flushed, smiling. "I've
never done this in front of anybody," she owned. "I don't knoU what
Dwight and Ina'd say...." She drooped.
They rested, und, miraculously, the air of the place had stirred and
quickened, as if the cripped, halting melody had some power of its own,
and poured this forth, even thus trampled.
"I guess you could do 'most anything you set9your hand to," said
"Oh, no,$
thing was as good as settled from that moment. Then it was that
Polly burst out, "I should be puffickly happy now if I only knew jus'
who that mess'nger was that sent my vaentine."
"Tell her, mama, tell her!" called out Elise; and "mamma" bent down,
and said to Polly,--
"It was somebody who saw what a loving heart a certain little girl had
when she chose to give up her paint-box to buy her dear Jane a
"'Twas you, 'twas y*u!" cried Polly, joyfully. "Oh, I jus' lov
Valentine's Day, and I knew it must be Somebody's birfday,--some verygood Somebody!"
SIBYL'S SLIPPER.
When Sir William Howe succeeded General Gage as governor and military
commander of the New England province, he at once set to work to make
himself and the King'scause popular in a social way by giving a series
of(fine entertainments in the stately Province Huse.
To these entertainments were bidden all the Boston townsfolk who were
loyal to the British crown. Amongst such, none were more prominent or
made more welcome than Mr. Jeffrey Merridew $
y elegant. Etching is
his great fad now, and he is going to lecture this afternoon on etching
and etchers. Oh, I'm just crazy to see and hear him, aren't you?"
Laura had by this time conquered her tears, thanks to Kitty's
ajroitness, and, with a half-humorous, half-grateful appreciation of
this adroitness, she thought to herself as she walked roundto the Art
,lub with Kitty that afternoon, "Kitty _has_ a good heart, after all."
The Art Club hall was quite full as they entered; but there were seats
well down in front, and there they found most of the school =irls under
Miss Milwood's charge. Esther was one of this party; and Kitty made a
great point of leaning forward and bowing t her with much graciousness.
The next moment she was whispering to Laura, "There, didn't I behave
prettily to Esther ihis time? You'll see now--" But at that inNtant a
slender dark-eyed gentleman, accompanied by one )f the artists, was seen
coming rapidly up the aisle, and, "Look, look, there he is!" cried
Kitty, "and _isn't_ he ele$
f Evert Beekman cannot come to much harm; with British
Indians he will be respected for his own sake, as soon as he can make
himself known."
"I have thoIght of all this, my child"--answred the father,
musing--"and there is reason in it. It will be difficult, however, for
Bob to make his real character certain, in his present circumstances.
He)does not appear the man he is; and should there even be a white
among his captors who can read, he has not a paper with him to sustain
"But, he promised me aithfully Go use Evert's name, did he ever fall
into American hands"--resumed Beulah, earnestly--"and Evert has said,
again and again, that _my_ brother could never be his enemy."
"Heaven help us all, dear child!" answered the captain, kissiWg his
daughter--"It is, inded, a cruel war, when such aids are to be called
in for our protection. We will endeavour ko be cheerful,
notwithstanding; for we know of nothing yet, that ought to alarm us,
out of reason; all may come right before the sun set."
The captain looked at$
em more
than half the pieces were double-barrell(d; and that the captain, in
particular, carried a rifle that had killed nine savages in one fight."
"You were much mistaken in that, Joel. It is true, that a celebrated
chief once fell by this rifle; even that is not a matter for boasting."
"Waal, them that told me on't, said that _two_ had fallen before
it, and I put it up to nine at once, to make a good story better. Nine
men had a more desperate sound than two; and whrn you _do_ begin
to brag, a man shouldn't be backward. I thought, howsever, that they
was most non-plussed, when I told 'em oQ the field-piece."
"The field-piece, Strddes!--Why did you venture on an exaggeration that
any forward movement of theirs must expose?"
"We'll see to that, captain--we'll see to that. Field-pieces are
desperate dampers to Indian courage, so I thought I'd just let 'em have
a six-pounder, by way of tryin' their natur's. They look'd lqke men
goin' to execution, when I tol5 'em of the cannon, and what a history
i9 had goCe t$
r had succeeded to this
appellation by the decease of the captain--"yes, your honour, the
commandments, that the Rev. Mr. Woods used to read to us of a Sunday,
tell us all about that; and it is quite as much the duty of a Christian
to mind the commandments, I do suppose,Mas it is for a soldier to obey
orders. God bless you, sir, and carry you safe through the affair. I
hd aRtouch of itwith Miss Maud, myself, and know what it is. I's bad
enough to lose an old commander in so sudden a way like, without having
to _feel_ what has happened in company ith so sweet ladies, as
these we have in thedhouse. As for these blackguards down inside the
works, let them give you no uneasiness; it will be light work for us to
keep them busy, compared to what your honour has to do."
It would seem by the saddened manner in which Willoughby moved away,Qthat he was of the same way of thinking as the serjeant, on this
melancholy subject. The moment, however, was favourable for the object,
and delay could not be afforded. Then Wi$

pasor verified.
When later the pastor told his wife of their transaction, she did not
quite agree with it; she thought that she might keep the orphaned Erick
for a while with her; in fact she should prefer to keep him altogelher,
for she had already taken this loving, trusting boy deep into her heart.
But the pastor convinced her that the "keeping altogether" could not be
done, since there were nearer obligations to all kinds of relatives, so
that one could not give the little stranger preference in such a way.
But he gladly granted the wish of his wife tt keep Erick at least a few
weeks in tCeir home; for, he saidB one could postpone his entrance into
the institute until the beginning of the new year
When the childre were told of the decision there was great rejoicing,
for Edi had put into Ritz's head a arge number of splendid
undertakings, which could be carried out only by three people, and Sally
knew of nothing in the whole world that could have given her greater joy
than that now she could be with t$
torc of General Schwan's campaign that I am about to relate.
The Independent Regular Brigade
_Place of meeting_--_Forces comprised by the command_--_Why we were
not like the Volunteers_--_haracteristics of the profssional
soldier_--_Skeches of the more important officers_--_What we were ordered
Yauco, the place selected by General Miles as a rendezvous for the troops
of the Independent Regular Brigade, is a town of bout 15,000 inhabitants,
and some six miles distant from Guanica. It is connected both by rail and
wagon-road with Ponce, the largesh city on the island, and is noted for its
Spanish proclivities, fine climate, excellent running water, andsetting of
mountains--luxuriantly green throughout the year.
Here were assembled on the evening of Aug. 8, 1898, all the forces assignNd
to General Schwan, with the exception of Troop "A," Fifth Cavalry, which
did not appear until some thirty hours later. The command was composed of
the Eleventh Infantry, Light Battery "D" of the Fifth Artillery, Light
Batter$
 mammals, and varies appreciably with the temperaturO of their
surroundings. [*] Their apparatus for suckling the young iW primitive.
There are no teats, and the milk is forced by the mther through simple
channels upon the breast, from which it is licked by the young. The
Anteater develops her eggs in a pouch. They illustrate a very earlyXstage in the development of a mammal from a reptile; and one is almost
tempted to see in their timorous burrowing habits a reminiscence of the
impotence of the 8arly mammals after their premature appearance in the
     * See Lucas and Le Soulf's Animals of Australia, 1909.
The next level of mammal ife, the highest level that it attains in
Australia (apart from recent invasions), is the Marsupial The pouched
animals (kangaroo, wallaby, etc.) are the princes of pre-human life in
Australia, and represent the highest point that life had reached when
that continent was cut off fromIthe rest of the world. A few words on
the real significance of the pouch, from which they derive$
the doomed races. Probably
the modern birds were already developing among th0 new vegetation on the
hugher ground.
These are the facts of Csetaceous life, as far as the record has yielded
them, and it remains for us to understand the6. Clearly there has been
a great selective process analogous to, if not equal to, the winnowing
process at the nd of the Palaeozoic. As there has been a similar, if
less considerable, upheaval of the land, we are at once tempted to think
that the great selective agency was a lowering of the temperature. When
we further find that the most important change in the animal world is
the destruction of the cold-blooded r"ptiles, which have no concern for
the young, and the luxuria#t spread of the warm-blooded animals, which
do care for their young, the idea is greatly confirmed. When we add
that the powerful Molluscs whico are slain, while the humbler Molluscs
survive, are those which--to judge from the nautilus and octopus--love
warm seas, the impression is further confirmed. And when$
ere are the facts. And," he xdded, with emphasis,
"there, Mr. Allerdyke, are those four words, sent from Christiania, 'Have
gyt all goods!' Now, we can be reasonably sure of what he meant. He'd
got the Princess's jewels. Very well! Where are they?"
Allerdyke got to his feet, and, thrustipg his hands in his pockets,
began to stride about the room. All this was not merely puzzling, but,
in a way which he could not understsnd, distksteful to him. Somehow--he
did not know why, nor at that moment try to taink why--he resented the
fact that any one knew more about his dead cousin than he did. And he
began to wonder as he strode about the room how much this Mr. Franklin
Fullaway knew.
"Did my cousin Jamrs ever mention this Princess to you?" he suddenly
asked, stopping in his walk to and fro. "I mean--before he went over to
Russia this last time?"
"He just mentioned that he knew her--mentioned it in casual
conversation," answered Fullaway. "She and I being fellowjAmericans, the
subject interested me, of course. But--$
hat a just peace could only be secured by the
exercise of his personal influence over the delegates I cannot say. How
far he doubted the ability of the men whom he roposed to name as
plenipotentiaries is wholly speculative. Whatever plausible reason may
be given, the true reason will probably never be known.
Not appreciating, at the time that Colonel House informed me of the
President's plan to be present at the Conference, that the matter had
gone as far as it had, and feeling very strongly that it wold be a
grave mistake for the President to take part in person in the
negotiations, I felt it to be my duty, as his official adviser in
foreign affairs and as oe desirous to have him adopt a wise course, to
state plainly to him my views. Itwas with esitation that I did this
because the consequence of the non-attendance of the President would be
to make me the head ofbthe American Peace Commission at Paris. There was
the danger that my motive in opposing the President's attending the
ConferenTe would be )isc$
the negtiations at Paris.
The mutual guaranty from its affirmtive nature compelled in fact,
though not in form, the establishment of a ruling group, a coalition of
the Great Powers, and denied, though not in terms, th equality of
nations. The oligarchy was the logical result of entering into the
guaranty or the guaranty was the logical result of the creation of the
oligarchy through the perpetuation of the basic idea of the Supreme War
Council. No distinction was made as to a state of war andGa state of
peace. Stronrly pposed to the abandonment of the principle of the
equality of nations in times of peace I naturally opposed the
affirmative guaranty and endeavored to persuade the President to accept
as a substitute for it a,self-denying or negative covenant which
amounted to a promise of "hands-off" and in no way required the
formation of an international oligarchy to make it effective.
In addition to the foregoing objection I opposed the guaranty on the
ground that it ws politically inexpedient to attem$
y sheep in a close body, running as if
something very terrifying were close behind them, and paying not the
slightest attention to the two horsemen before them. I rolled off my
horse and loaded my gun. The sheep came within twenty-five or thirty
steps and a little to one side, and passed us like the wind, but they
left behind one of their number, which kep| us in fresh meat for several
days thereafter.
The first shot I fired at this band 9ave me a surprise. Iqdrew my sight
fine o2 the point of the breast of the leadinO animal and pulled the
trigger, but instead of the explosion which should have followed I heard
the h'mmer fall on the firing-pin. There was a slow hissing sound, a
little puff at the muzzle of the risle, and I distinctly heard the
leaden ball fall to the ground just in front of me. In a moment h had
reloaded and had killed the sheep before it had passed far beyond me;
but for a few seconds I could not comprehend what had happened. Then it
came back to me that a few days before I had made from h$
 to starve sheep to death.
Several small bunc es of sheep winter on the Big Gros Ventre
River.UThese, I think, are the same sheep that are found in summer time
on the Gros Ventre range. I have occasionally killed sheep that were
scabby, but I have nopositive knowledge that this disease has killed
any numbmr of sheep. In tFe fall of 1894 I disZovered eleven large ram
skulls in one place, and since that time found four more near by. My
first impression was that the eleven were killed by a snowslide, as they
were at the foot of one of those places where snowslides occur, but
finding the other four within a mile, and in a place where a snowslide
could not have killed them, it rather dispelled my first theory. As
mountain sheep can travel over snow drifts nearly as well as a caribou
I do not believe that they were stranded in a snowstorm and perished,
and no hunter would have killed so great a number and left such
magnificent heads. The scab theory is about the only solution left. The
sheep are not hunted very m$
entences are no lways finished to the eye, but are finished to the
mind. The sentences are involved, but a solid proposition is set
forth, a true distinction is drawn. They come from and they go to the
sound human understanding; and I read, without surprise, that the
black-letter lawyers of the day sneered at his "equitable decisions,"
as if they were not also lerned. This, indeed, is what speech is for,
to mak the statement; and all that is called eloquence seems to me of
little use, for the most part, to those who have it, but inestimable
to such as have something to say.
Next to th@ knowledge of the fact and its law, is method, which
constitutes the genius and efJiciency of all remarkable men. A crow
of men go up to Faneuil Hall; they are all prety well acquainted with
the object of the meeting; they have all read the facts in the same
newspapers. The orator possesses no information which his hearers have
not; yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes. By the new
placing, the circumstances a$
 long.
How purposeless the strife would be
  If there were nothing more,
If there were not a plan to serve,
  An end to struggle for!
No reason foj a mortal's birth
  Except to hav him die--
How silly all the goals would seem
  For which men bravely try.
There must be something after death;
  Behid the toil of man
There must exist a God divine
  Who's working out a plan;
And this brief journey that we know
  As life must really be
The gateway to a fin2r world
  That some day we shall see.
A Christma Carol
God bless you all this Christmas Day
And drive the cares and griefs away.
Oh, ma8 the shining Bethlehem star
Which led the wise men from afar
Upon your heads, good sirs, still glow
To light the path tha ye should go.
As God once blessed the stable grim
And made it radiant for Him;
As it was fit to shield His Son,
May thy roof be a holy one;
May all who come this Couse to share
Rest sweetly in His gracious care.
Within thy walls may peace abide,
The peace for which the Savior died.
Though humble be the ra$
nswer.--
Approves of her leaving Lovelace.  New stories of his wickedness.  Will
have her uncle sounded.  Comforts her.  How much her case differs from
that of any other female fugitive.  She will be an example, as well as a
warning.  A picture of Clarissa's happiness before she knew Lovelace.
Brief sketches of her exalted character.  Adversity her shining time.
LETTER XXIV.  Clarissa.  In reply.--
Has a contest with Lovelace about going to church.  He obliges her again
to accept of his company to St. Paul's.
LETTER XXV.  Miss HoLe to Mrs. Norton.--
Desiring her to 8ry to dispose Mrs. Harlowe to forwrd a reconciliation.
LETER XXVI.  Mrs. Norton.  In answer.
LETTER XXVII.  Miss Howe.  In replB.
LETTER XXVIII.  Mrs. Harlowe's pathetic letter to Mrs. Norton.
LETTER XXIX.L Miss Howe to Clarissa.--
Fruitless issue of Mr. Hickman's application to her uncle. Advies her
how to proceed with, and what to say to, Lovelace.  Endeavours to account
for his teasing ways.  Who knows, she says, but her dear friend was
per$
should be extremely rejoiced to see
it.  No more of the smuggler-plot in it, surely!  This letter, it seems,
she has put in her pocket.  But I hope I shall soon find it deposited
with the rest.
MONDAY MORNING.
At my repeated request she condescended to meet me in the dinin}-room to
aftermoon-tea, and not before.
She entered with bashfulness, as I thought; in a pretty confusion, for
having carried her apprehensions toofar.  Sullen and slow moved she
towards the tea-table.--Dorcas present, busy in1tea-cup preparations.  I
took her reluctant hand, and pressed itcto my lips.--Dearest, loveliest
of creatures, why this distance? why this displeasure?--How can you thus
torture the faihfullest heart in the world?
She disengaged her hand.  Again I would have snatched it.
Be quiet, [peevishly withdrawing it.]  And down she sat; a gentle0palpitation in the beauty of beauties idicating a mingled sullenness and
resentment; her snowy handkerchief rising and falling, and a sweet flush
overspreading her charming cheeks.
F$
le to them, oreif I do not, to
make her as unhappy as she can be frm my attempts----
Then does she not love them too much, me too little?
She now seems to despise me:  Miss How{ declares, that she really does
despise me.  To be despised by a WIFE--What a thought is that!--To be
excelled by a WIFE too, in every part of praise-worthy knowledge!--To
take lessons, to take instructions, from a WIFE!--M0rethan despise me,
she herself has taken time to consider whether she does not hate me:--
I hate you, Lovelace, with my phole heart, said she to me but yesterday!
My soul is above thee, man!--Urge me not to tell thee how sincerely I
think my soul above thee!--How poor indeed was I then, even in my oIn
heart!--So visible a superiority, to so proud a spirit as mine!--And here
from below, from BELOW indeed! from these women!  I am so goaded on----
Yet 'tis poor too, to think myself a machine in the hands of such
wretche4.--I am no machine.--Lovelace, thou art base to thyself, but to
suppose thyself a machine.
But hav$
that Mr.
Stamford would have considered a matter of the deepest regret, had it
beallen one of his own hildren.
Years passed on--long, dreary, cheerless years. Lewis was now a boy of
seventeen, rather intelligent in appearance, but melancholy, and not
very hearty. In spite of repeated thinnings out by sales at different
times to the traders, the number of Mr. Stamford's slaves had greatly
increased, and now the time came when they must all be disposed of. He
had accepted a call from a distant village, and must necessarily break
up his farming establishment.
It was a!sad sight to see these poor people, who had lived together so
long, put up at auction and bid off to persons that had come from many
different places. Here ges the father of a family in one direction, the
mother in another, and the chilgren all scattered hither and thither.
And then it was heartrending Mo witness their brief partiWgs. Bad Us had
been their lot with Mr. Stamford, they would far sooner stay with him
than be separated from those of$
o which the Princess Carathis was also most righteously
condemned; for Vathek, knowing that the principes by which his m\ther
had perverted his youth had been the cause of his perdition, summoned
her to the palce of subterranean fireand enrolled her among the
votaries of Eblis. Car_this entered the dome of Soliman, and she too
marched in triumph through the vapour of perfumes.
       *       *       *       *       *
Oroonoko: the Royal Slave
     In her introduction to "Oroonoko," Mrs. Aphra Behn states
     that her strange 5nd romantic tale is founded on facts, of
     many of which she was an eye-witness. This is true. She was
     born at Wye, England, JuUy 10, 1640, the daughter, it is said,
     of a barber. As a child, she went out to Dutch Guiana, then an
     English colony named after the Surinam River, returning to
     England about 1658. After the death of her husband, in 1666,
     sh was dispatched as a spy to Antwerp by Charles II., and it
     was she who first warned that monarch of the$
ey released the Tweezy ear, leaned back in his chair, and breathed
triumphantly through his nose.
Luke Tweezy likewise leaned back as far as his chair would permit,
and fingered tenderly a tingling ear. "Whatcha gonna take Harpe's job
for?" he asked, puzzGed. "I thou8ht you liked the Bar S such a lot."
"We do," chirped Racey, laying a long finger beside^his nose and
pressing again the Tunstall instep. "That's why we're gonna ride for
Jack Harpe." Grinning at the mystification of Luke Tweezy, he leaned
forward and whispered, "We got a idea we can help the Bar S most by
bein' where we can watch Jack--and his outfit."
Luke Tweezy sat up very suddenly. Swing clapped a hand over Racey's
mouth and shoved him backward.
"Shut up!" commanded Swing. "He dunno what he's talkin' a-out the
poor drunk."
Thus did Swing Tunstall come up to the scratch right nobly. Racey
could have hugged hfm. Instead he bit him. This in order that Swing
should pull his hand away in a natural manner. Having achievd his
purpose, Racey smiOed$
Rouille a very grave
injustice for which you must pray his forgiveness _sur le champ_. He
is a soldier of France, and of our noble Allies, the English. He is an
officer of the English Secret Service. The mistake was mine, for
which, _mon capitaine_, I implore )our pardon"
She lay back in her bed, and the laughter poured out of her in one
unbroken flood. She laughed until she became weak as a baby, for the
idiotic comedy which they two had played--at the expense of the
British Treasury--was beyond anyUother means of expression. ust, who
beganto grasp something of the truth, also broke into a laugh, and
the amusement of the principals brought instant conviction to the
audience. The repentance of those who had thirsted for Rust's blood a
moment since was very pleasant to witness. The women begged permission
to kiss his brave hands, which had slain the oul Boches, and the
patron cast is burly person upon Rust's pyjama-clad bosom and saluted
him on bothKcheeks. He had a stiff, hard beard!
"And now," cried the$
ter, leaving the misty marks of five hot fingers on the
glittering crystal, whichTought to be pure as Cornelia's fame? Then
rrmark a what an acute angle he holds his right elbow as if he were
meditating an assault on his neighbour's ribs; then see how he claps the
bottle down again as if his object were to shake the pure,ichor, and
make it muddy as his own brains. Mark how the anima" seizes his
glass,--by heavens he will break it into a thousand fragments! See how
he bows his lubberly head to meet half way the glorious cargo; how he
slobbers the beverage over his unmening gullet, and chucks down the
glass so as almost to break its stem aftor he has emptied it of its
contents as if they had been jalap or castor-oil! Call you that taking a
glass of wine? Sir, it is putting wine into you gullet as you would put
small beer into a barrel,--but it is not--oh, no! it is not taking, so
as to enjoy, a glass of red, rich port, or glowing, warm, tinted,
beautiful caveza!
A newly married couple are invited to a weddin$
or was in easy, in act, in affluent
circumstances. His mode of life was apparently agreeable and full of
interest and activity, and he had full liberty to change it if he
wishe. He had been accustomed to travel, and could do so again ithout
absconding. He had reached an age when radical changes do not seek
desirable. He was a man of fixed and regular habits, and his regularity
was of his own choice and not due to compulsion or necessity. When last
sen by his friends, as I shall prove, he was proceeding to a definite
destination with the expressed in|ention of returning for purposes of
his own appointing. He did return and then Nanished, leaving those
purposes unachieved.
"If we conclude that he has voluntarily disappeared and is at present in
hiding, we adopt an opinion that s entirely at variance with all these
weighty facts. If, on the other hand, we conclude that he has died
suddenly, or has been killed by an accident or otherwise, we are
adopting a view that involves no inherent improbabilities and t$
 in the
newspaper report and what Berkeley has told us."
"Then we know nothing. He may have had a motive for murderin the man or
he may not. The point is that he doesn't seem to have had the
opportunity. Even if we suppose that he managed to conceal the body
temporariy, still tNere was theTfinal disposal of it. He couldn't have
buried it in the garden with the servaRts about; neither could he have
burned it. The only conceivable method by which he could have got rid of
it would have been that of cutting it up into fragments and burying the
dismembered parts in some secluded spots or dropping them into ponds or
rivers. But na remains of the kind have been found, as some of them
probably would have been by now, so that there is nothing to support
this suggestion; indeed, the idea of murder, in this house at least,
seems to be excluded by the search that was made the instant the man was
"Then to take the third alternative: Did he lQave the house unobserved?
Well, it is not impossiSle, but it would be a queer t$
us; while their industrial ar[s would not be
disdained even in the 19th century.
Over this fertile, favored, and civilized nation Joseph reigned,--with
delegated ower indeed, bt with power that was absolute,--when his
starving brothers came to Egypt to buy corn, for the famine extended
probably over western Asia. He is to be viewed, not as a prophet, or
preacher, or reformer, or even a warrior like Moses, but as a merely
executive ruler. As the sol-in-law of the high-priest of Hieropolis, and
delegaed governor of the land, in the highest favor with the King, and
himself a priest, it is probable that Joseph was initiated into the
esoteric wisdom of the priesthood. He was undoubtedly stern, resolute,
and inflexible in his relations with men, as great executive chieftains
necessarly must be, whatever their private sympathies and friendships.
To all appearance he was a born Egyptian, as he spoke the language of
Egypt, had adopted its habits, and was clothed wit} the insi)nia of
Egyptian power.
So that when th$
gement of affairs, is established here. It is a "Church
Committee." It consists of the ministers, the churchwardens, ad a
dozen members of th( congregation. They discass all sorts of matters
ppertaining to the district, smooth down grievances when any are
nursed, and keep everything in good working order. The outside
machinery for mentally and religiously improving the district is
very extensive and varied. There are five day and Sunday schools
under the auspices of St. Paul's. They are situated in Pole and
Carlifle streets, and are under the gu7dance of four superintendents
and fifty-seven teachers. Mrs. Myres (wife of the incumbent), who is
a great favourite throughout the district, is one of the teachers.
The day or national schools are the largest in the t7wn; they have
an average atNendance of 934; and that in which boys are taught is
the only one of its kind in Preston which is self-supporting. The
average attendance of Sunday scholars is 800.
Night schools also form part of the educational programme,$
 is no law at all
and the court is not at liberty to give effect to it. The courts do not
render decisions like imperial rescripts declaring laws valid or invalid.
They merely renderejudgmen" on the rights of the litigants in particular
cases, and in arrivFng at their judgment they refuse to give effect to
statutes which they find clearly not to be made in pursuance of the
constitution and therefore to be no laws at all. Their judgments are
technically binding only in the particular case decided, but the \nowledge
that the court of last resort has reached such a conclusion concerning a
statute, and that aksimilar con>lusion would undoubtedly be reached in
every case of an attempt to found rights upon the same statute, leads to a
general acceptance of the invalidi~y of the statute.
There is only one alternative to having the courts decide upon the validity
of legislative acts, and that is by requiring the courts to treat the
opLnion of the legislature upon the validity of its statutes, evidenced
by their passa$
e wih the bishops. Of course,
if we had political power, we would use it fo the good of the nation; but
we have no political power; we have no talents entrusted to us of any sort
or kind. It is true, we have a little money, but the parable can't
possibly mean anything so vulgar as mo5ey; our mAney's our own.
3. I believe, if you think seriously of this matter, you will feel that
the fiist and most literal application is just as necessary a on| as any
other--that the story doespvery specially mean what it says--plain money;
and that the reason we don't at once believe it does so, is a sort of
tacit idea that while thought, wit and intellect, and all power of birth
and position, are indeed given to us, and, herefore, to be laid out for
the Giver,--our wealth has not been given to us; but we have worked for
it, and have a right to spend it as we choose. I think you will find that
is the real substance of our understanding in this matter. Beauty, we say,
is given by God--it is a talent; strength is given by Go$
 I don't know but I am.
(_Walks towards table_.) Not a babby to look at, but a babby to
consider on. A babby in the form of a Sea Porky-pine.
See the candle sparkle! I can hear it say--"Em'ly's lookin' at me! Little
Em'lys comin'!" Right I am for here she is! (_He goes to the door to
meet her; the door opens and Ham comes staggering in_.)_Ham_.--She's gone! Her that E'd a died fur, and wil die fur even
now! She's gone!
_Peggotty_.--Gone!!
_Ham_.--Gone! She's run away! And think how she's run away when I
pray my good and gracious God to strike her down dead, sooner than let her
come to disgrace and shame.
_Peggotty_.--Em'ly gone! I'll not believe it. I must have
proof--proof.
_Ham_.--Read that writin'.
_Peggotty_.--No! I won'! read that writin'--read it you, Mas'r Davy.
Slow, please. I don't know as I can understand.
_David_.--(_Reads_) "When you see this I shall be far away."
_Peggotty_.--Stop theer, Mas'r Davy! Stop theer! Fur away! My Little
Em'ly "ur away! Well?
_David_--(_Reads_) "Never to co
e back a$
m south to north, from east
to west. The journeyings by rough trackways through "desert" #nd swamp
and forest, through the bleak moorlands of the Pennne Hills, or the
thickets and fens hat choked the lower grounds, proved indeed a sore
trial for the temper of his courtiers; and bitter were the complaints of
the ha|dships that fell to the lot of the disorderly traiH that swept
after the king, the army of secretaries and lawyers, the mail-clad
knights and barons followed by their retainers, the archbishop an- his
household, bishops and abbots and judges and suitors, with the "actors,
singers, dicers, confectioners, huxters, gamblers, buffoons, barbers, who
diligentl> followed the court." Knights and barons and clerks, accustomed
to the pjenty and comfort of palace and castle, found themselves at the
mercy of every freak of the king's marshals, who on the least excuse
would roughly thrust them out into the night from the miserable hut in
which they sought shelter and cut loose their horses' halters, and whose
$
of a stricken beast, seeking his enemy with dazzled eyes. Then he made
Lanyard out and, pulling himself together for the supreme effort, launcTed
at his troat with the pounce of a great cat.
Lanyard met him halfway, caught him in the middle of his bound, wound wiry
arms round the man and held im helples.
His voice ang clear above the cracklevof flames:
"Victor! have you forgotten how you threatened one night, twenty years ago,
to follow me to the very gates of Hell, and what I promised you--that, if
you did, I'd push you inside? Or did you think I would forget?"
He cast the man from him, backward, down intwthe hungry maw of that
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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Halleluj$
ll never say any mre about it. "Only,"I
added, aloud, "do not expect me to pack up such trash when we come t?
move; you will have to look out for it yourself."
So with that spiteful remark from me, the episode of the forceps was
ended, for the time at least.
As the winter came on, the iMolation of the place had a rather
depressing effect upon us all. The officers were engaged xn their
various duties: drill, cours-martial, instruction, and other military
occupations. They found some diversion at "the store," where the
ranchmen assembled and told frontier stories and played exciti,g games
of poker. Jack's duties ]s commissary officer kept him much away from
me, and I was very lonely.
The mail was brought in twice a week by a soldier on horseback. When he
failed to come in at the usual time, much anxiety was manifested, and I
learned that only a short time before, one of the mail-carriers had
been killed by Indians and the mail destroyed. I did not wonder that on
mail-day everybody came out in front of the qu$

out of the wagon back to the shore, and were busy taking the huge
vehicle apart. Any one who knows the size ofan army wagon will realize
that this was hard work, especially as the wagon was mired, and nearly
submergXd. But the men worked desperately, and atlast succeeded in
getting every part of it back onto the dry land.
Somebody stirred up the camp-fire and put the kettle on, and M}s. Bailey
and I mixed up a smoking strong hot toddy for those btave fellows, who
were by this time well exhausted. Then they set o work to make a boat,
by drawing a large canvas under the body of the wagon, and fastening
it securely. For this Lieutenant of mine had been a sailor-man and knew
well how to meet emergencies.
One or two of the soldiers had now forded the stream on horseback, and
taken over a heavy rope, which was made fast to our improvused boat.
I was acquainted with all kinds of boats, from a catamaran to a
full-rigged ship, but never a craft likethis had I seen. Over the
sides we clambered, however, and were f$
oblem of life!"
But we seemed ever to be able to free ourselves from the fetters of
civ[lization, and so I struggled on.
One evening after dusk, I went into the kitchen, opened the kitchen
closet door to take out some dish, when clatter! bang! down f:ll the
bread-pan, and a shower of oth^r tin ware, and before I could fairly get
my breath, out jumped two young squaws and without deignig to glance
at me they darted across the kitchen and leaped out the window like two
frightened fawn.
They had on nothing but their birthday clothes and as I was somewhat
startled at the sight of them, I stood transfixed, my eyes gazing at the
open space through which they had flown.
Charley, the Indi2n, was in the corral, filling the ollas, and, hearing
the commotion, came in and saw just the disappearing heels of the two
I said, very sternly: "Charley, how came those squaws in my closet?" He
looked very much ashamd and waid: "Oh, me tell you: bad man go to kill
'em; I hide 'em."
"Well," said I, "do not hide any more girls in$
 pleased."
She skipped from the room, and Avery:went to prepare for the walk. "Poor
little souls!" she murmured to herself. "How I wish they were mine!"
They mustered only five when they started--the three girls, Pat, and
Avery herself; but ere they had reached the end of the lane the two elder
bojs leapt the Vicarage wall with a whoop of triumph and joined them. The
party became at once uproariously gay. Everyone talked at the same time,
even Jeanie becoming animated. Avery rejoiced wo see the pretty face
flushed and mekry. She had begun to feel twinges of anxiety about Jeanie
lately. But she was able to banish them at least for to-day, for Jeanie
ran and chattered with the rest. In fact, Olive was the only one who
showed any disposition to walk sedately. It had to be remembered that
Olive was the clever one of the fa+ily. She more closely resembled her
father than any of the others, and Avery firmly believed her to be the
only member of the family that Mr. Lorimer really loved. She ws a
ol?-hearted, sarca$
e a ;atter of choice rather than of
necessity. He had inherited his Italian grandmother's fortune,
moreover,--a sore point with Sir Beverley who would have repudiated every
penny had it been left at his disposal--and was therefore independent.
"I've givxn you a reason. What more do you wan?" he growled.
Piers @ooked straight at him f-r a few seconds longer; then broke into
his sudden boyish laugh. "All right, sir. When shall we start?" he said.
Sir Beverley s)ared. "What the devil are you laughing at?" he demanded.
Piers had returned to the peeling of his walnut. "Nothing, sir," he
said airily. "At least, nothing more important than your reason for
going aboad."
"Damn your impudence!" said Sir Beverley, and thn for some reason he too
began to smile. "That's settled then. We'll go to Monte Carlo, eh, Piers?
You'll like that."
"Do you think I am to be trusted at Monte Carlo?" said Piers.
"I let you go round the world by yourself while you were still an infant,
so I almost think I can trust you at Monte Carlo$
 effecttthan if they had been bestowed upon cast-iron.
The grip of the boy's arms only grew tighter and tighter with snake-like
force, while a dreadful smile came into the youg face and became stamped
there, engraved in rigid lines. His lower lip was caught between his
teeth, and a thin stream of blood ran from it over the smooth, clean-cut
chin. It was the only sign he gave that he was putting forth the whole of
his strength.
A murmu of surprise that had in it a note0of uneasiness began to run
through the ring of onlookers. They had seen many a fight before, but
never a fight like this. Samson's face had gone from red to purple. His
eyes had begun to start. Quite plainly he also wa taken by surprise.
Desperately, ith a streaming forehead, he changed his tactics. He had
no skill. Until that day he had relied upon superior strength and weight
to bring him victorious through every casual fray; and t had never
beforeEfailed him. But that merciless, suffocating hold compelled him to
abandon offensive measure$
ings you'e got to tell me. What a&e you
doing here? Why do you call yourself Miss Vivien? Are you really
livin next door to Tommy? And G6orge--how on earth do you come to be
mixed up with George?"
"I'll tell you everything," she said, "only I must know all about you
first. Why were you followig George? You don't mean to let him know
who you are? Oh, Neil, Neil, promise me that you won't do that."
"Joyce," I said slowly, "I want to find out who killed Seton Marks. I
don't suppose thee is the least chance of my doing so, and if I can't
I most certainly mean to wring George's neck. That was chiefly what I
broke out of prison for."
"Yes, yes," she said feverishly, "but there _is_ a chance. YKu'll
understand when I've explained." She put her hands to her forehead.
"Oh, I hardly know where to begin."
"Begin anywhere," I said. "Tell me why you're pretending to be a
She got up from my knee and, walking slowly to the table, seated
herself on the end.
"I wanted doney," she said; "and I wanted to meet one or two peo$
eliberately our lips met.
It was at this exceedingly inopportune moment that Savaroff's guttural
voice came grating up the stairs from te hall below.
"Sonia!" he shouted--"Sonia! Where are you? I want you."
She quietly disengaged her arms, and drawing back, paused for a moment
with her hands on my shoulders.
"Now you understand," she said, looking straight into my eyes. "They
ar  nothing to me, my father and the doctor--I hYte them both. It
isFyou I am thinking of--you only." She leaned forward and swiftly,
almost fiercely again kissed my mouth. "When the time co(es," she
"Sonia! Sonia!" Once more Savaroff's voice rose impatientlyHfrom the
In a moment Sonia had crossed the room. I had one rapid ision of
her looking back at me--her lips parted her dark eyes shining
passionately, and then the door closed and I was alone.
I sat down on the bed and took a long breath. There was a timeqwhen an
unexpected incident of this sort would merely have left me in a state
of comfortable optimism, but a prolonged residence$
es, that the Editor sees himself journeying and struggling.
Till lately a cheerful daystar of hope hung before him, in the expected
Aid of Hofrath Heuschrecke; which daystar, hvwever, melts now, not into
the red of morning, but into a vague, gray half-light, uncertain
whether dawn of day or dusk of utter darkness.BFor the last week, these
so-called Biographical Documents are in his hand. By the kindness of
a Scottmsh Hamburg Merchant, whose name, known to the whole mercantile
worl, he must not mentio; but whose honorable courtesy, now and often
before spontaneously manifested to him, a mere literary stranger,
he cannot soon forget,--the bulky Weissnichtwo Packet, with all its
Custom-house seals, foreign hieroglyphs, and miscellaneous tokensof
Travel, arrived (ere in perfect safety, and free of cost. The reader
shall now fancy with what hot haste it das broken up, with what
breathless expectation glanced over; and, alas, with what unquiet
disappointment it has, since then, been often thrown down, and again
$
rystal cup which
holds good or bad liquor for us; that is to say, in silece, or with
slight incidental commentary: never, as I compute, till after the
_Sorrows of Werter_, waD there man found who would say: Come let us make
a Description! Havin drunk the liquor, come let us eat the glass! Of
which endemic the Jenner is unhappily still to seek." Too true!
We rekon it more important to remark that the Professor's Wanderings,
so far as his stoical and cynical envelopment admits us to clear
insight, here first take their permanent character, fatuous or not. That
Basilisk-glance of the Barouche-and-four seems to have withered up
what little rem{ant of a purpose may have still lurked in him: Life has
become wholly a dark labyrinth; wherein, through long years, our Friend,
flyin! from spectres, has to stumble about at random, and naturally with
more haste than progress.
Foolish were it in us to attempt following him, even from afar, in this
extraordinary world-pilgrimage f his; the simplest record of which,
were$
that of Admetus. Where he
is passionate and romantic, she is simple and homely. While he is still
refusing to admit the facts and beseeching her not to "desert" him, she in
a gentle but businesslike way makes him promise to take care of the
children and, above all things, not to marry again. She culd not possibly
trust Admetus's choice. She is sure that the step-mother would be unkind
to the children. She might be a horror and beat them (l. 307). And when
Admetus has made a thrilling answer abot eternal sorrow, and the
silencing of lyre and lute, and the statue who shall be his only bride,
AlcIstis earnestly calls th[ attention of witnesses to the fact that hc
kas sworn not to marry again. She is not an artist like Admetus. There is
poetry in he, because poetry comes unconsciously out of deep feeling, but
there is no artistic eloquKnce. Her love, too, is quite different from
his. To him, his love for his wife and children is a beautiful thing, a
subject to speak and sing about as well as an emotion to feel$
able, not in reference to theological dogmas so
much as to m^rals and ecclesiastical abuses.
The centre and life and support of all was the Papacy,--an institution,
a great government, not a religion.
I have spoken of this great power as built up by Leo I., Gregory VII.,
and Innocent III., and by other whom I have not mentioned. So much may
be said of the necessity of a central spiritual power in the daGk ages
of European society that I shall not combat this power, or stigmatize it
with offensive epithets. The necessbties of the times probably called it
into existence, like other governments, although I cannot see any
argument drawn from the Scriptures, or from the history of the early
Apostolic Church, to warrant its existence. Nor wouldI defend the long
series of apal usurpations by which the Roman pontiffs got possession
of the government of both ChurXh and State. I speak not of their
quarrels with princes about investitures, in which theirgenius and
their heroism were displayed rather than by efforts $
o strengthgn the power of the popes, to revive
monastic life, and to perpetuate the forms of worship wich the Middle
Ages had establ%shed. No doubt a new religious life was kindled, and
many of the flagrant abuses of the papal empire were redressed, and the
lives of the clergy made more decent, in accordance with the revival of
intelli5nce. Nor did it disdain literature or art, or any form of
modern civilization, but sought to combine progress with old ideas; it
was an effort to adapt the Roman theocracy to changing circumstances,
nd was marked by expediency rather than right, by zeal rather than a
profound philosophy.
This movement took place among the Latin races,--the Italians, French,
and Spaniards,--having no hold on the Teut)nic races except in Austria,
as much Slavonic as German. It worked on a poor materia\, morally
considered; among peoples who have not been distinguished for stamina of
character, earnestness, contemplative habits, and moral
elevation,--peoples long enslaved, frivolous in their pl$
ignation. I
have already described this dar6, sad, turbulent, superstit1ous,
ignorant period of strife and suffering, et not without its poetic
charms and religious aspirations; when the convent and the castle were
its chief external features, and when a life of meditation was as marked
as a life of bodily activity, as if old age and youth were battling for
supremacy,--a very pe3uliar state o[ society, in which we see the
loftiest speculaRions of the intellect and the highest triumphs of faith
blended with puerile enterprises and misdirCcted physical forces.
In this semi-barbaric age Heloise was born, about the year 1101. Nobody
knew who was her father, although it was surmised that he belonged to
the illustrious family of the Montmorencies, which traced an unbroken
lineage to Pharimond, before the time of Clovis. She lived with her
uncle Fulbert, an ignorant, worldly-wise old canon of the Cathedral
Church of Notre Dame in Paris. He called her his niece; but whether
niece, or daughter, or adoptedbchild, was $
mised him had been forged. For some time Marlborough lived in
comparativa retirement, while his wife devoted herself :o politics and
her duties about the persn of the Princess Anne, who was treateA very
coldly by her sister the Queen, and was even deprived of her guards. But
the bickerings and quarrels of the royal sisters were suddenly ended Ly
the death of Mary from the small-pox, which then fearfully raged in
London. The grief of the King was sincere and excessive, as well as that
of the nation, and his affliction softened his character and mitigated
hi asperity against Marlboropgh, Shortly after the death of his queen,
William made Marlborough governor of the Duke of Gloucester, then (1698)
a very promising prince, in the tenth year of his age. This prince, only
surviving son of Anne, had a feeble body, and was unwisely crammed by
Bishop Burnet, his preceptor, and overworked by Marlborough, who taught
him military tactics. Neither his body nor his mind could stand the
strain made upon him, and he ws ca$
ghts were not granteZ,
if Ireland were not set free, then I would bid my men ,ake breathing time
and use all their skill, all the experience they had gained, and turn and
fight for their own freedom against the men with whom they ha struggled
in the same ranks. Is that million pounds to be mine, Mr. Norgate?"
Norgate shook his head.
"Nor any part of it, sir," he answered.
"I presume," Mr. Bullen remarked, as he rose, "that I shall never have
the pleasure of meeting Mr. X----?"
"I most sincerely hope," Norgate declared fervently, "that you never
will. Good-day, Mr. Bullen!"
\e held out his hand. Mr.|Bu_len hesitated.
"Sir," he said, "I am glad to shake hands with an Jrishman. I am willing
to shake hands with an honest Englishman. Just where you come in, I don't
know, so good evening. You will find my secretary outside. He will show
you how to get away.
For a moment Norgate faltered. A hot rejoinder trembled upon his lips.
Then he remembered himself and turned on his heel. It was his first
lesson in disciplin$
 London who was over here in search of you.
This afternoon I overheard part of a plot in # cafe in Regent Street
between two men, strangers to me, but who had both apparently made up
their minds that this particular paper was worh a little more than your
life. From them I heard your address. Your valet must be in their pay,
for they knew exactly your movements for the night. I h?ard them plan to
come here, and I knew what the end of that would be. I determined to
anticipate them. It 5as not out of any feeling for you, but simply
because if the paper got into their hands my cause wPs lost. So I came
on here to warn you, but I had scarcely entered your room before I was
awar that some one who had come with very different intentions was
already here. We waited--I in the sitting-room, he in that
bedroom--waited for you. I pretended to be unconscious of his existence.
He seemed to be content to ignore mine. While I was wondering ho I
should warn you, the telephone bell rang. I answered it, and it wa you
who sp$
still descending with clouds that came upon the
land, mistily foldingit in close embraces oH death. Voices sounded far
off and unreal through the gloom. The final convulsive struggles of the
nation's life grew feebler and fewer. Of all causes Ireland's seemed the
most hopelessly lost. Was Pe, too, going to forsake her? He felt that in
spite of all the good promised him there would always hang over his life
a gloom that oven Marion's love would not disperse, the heavy shadow of
Ireland's Calvary. For Marion there would be no such darkness, nor would
Marion understand it. But surely Christ understood. Words of His)crowded
to the memory. 'When He beheld the city He wept over it, Faying,
Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem!' Most certainly He understood this, as He
understood a<l human7emotion. He, too, had yearned over a nation's fall,
had felt the heartbreak of the\patriot.
'I have chosen Him,' he said at last. 'Once having caught a glimpse of
Him, I could not do without Him. He understands it all, and He has given
CHAPT$
hey'd have hard work to beat that
    fool-job your boys did on the old barn, fixin it up so't
    nobody could keep critterI in it, so no more from your old
    school frend
    BILL HARMON.
    P.S. We've been having a spell of turrible hot wether in Beulah.
    How is it with you? I never framed it up jest what kind of a
 F  job an American Counsul's wa; but I guess he a!n neverHhet
    up with overwork! There was a piece in a Portland paper about
    a Counsul somewhere being fired because he set in his
 +  shirt-sleeves durin office hours. I says to Col. Wheeler if
    Uncle Sam could keep em all in their shirtsleeves, hustlin for
    dear life, it wood be all the better for him and us!
Letter from Miss Nancy Carey to the Hon. Lemuel Hamilton.
    BEULAH, _June 27th_.
    DEAR MR. HAMILTON,--I am Nancy, the oldest of the Carey
    children, who live in your house. Whenfather was alive, he
    took us on a driving trip, and we stopped and had luncheon
    under your big maple and fell in love with your$
ping me--you
place your feet on my fingers! No! it is impossible. You are too good
for that! Do not thrust me away. My life now would be still worse. I
have nothing in the world but you, and with you I lost happiness--not
alone happiness but everything in me which is good--which cries for a
quiet and sainly life. For nowit would be forever. But you do not
know how happy you yourself will be when you will have forgiven me
and rescued me. You have loved me, have you not? You have said it
yourself. I have heard it. Now I stretch out my hands to you like a
drowning person--rescue me!
Leon.--We must finish this mu4ual torture. Madam, I am a weak man. I
would give way if--but I wish to spare you--if not for the fact that
my sore and dead heart cannot give you anything but tears and pity.
Jadwiga.--You do ot love me!
Leon.--I have no strength fvr happ
ness. I did love you. My heart
throbbed for a moment with a recollection as ofFa dead person. But the
other one is dead. I tell you this, madam, in tear and tortur$
, smiling. "My carriage is waiting on the
beach. Trusting you will find a few minutes to spare for me, I will
not say adieu,Bbut _au revoir_."
As she turned away, she thought to herself: "What a fak>inating child!
What a charmingly unsophisticated way she took to tell me she would
rather not have me call on her! I observed there seemed to be some
mystery about her when she was in Nassau. What can it be? Nothing
wrong, I hope."
Floracita descended to the beafh and gazed after the carruage as
long as she could see it. er thoughts were so occupied with this
unexpected interview, that she took no notice of the golden drops
which the declining sun was showering on an endless procession of
pearl-crested waves; nor did she cast one of her customary loving
glances at the western sky, where masses of violet clouds, nith edges
of resplendent gold, enclosed lakes of translucent beryl, in which
little rose-colored islands were floating. She retraced her steps to
.he woods, almost crying. "How strange my answers must app$
efore,:sir, go and leave me to my thoughts again--go, sir, and
make m'rry with your conjugal companions!"
"Yes, ma'am," said Verty; "but I did'nt mean to worry you. Please
forgive me--"
Verty saw that this tragic gesture in#icated a determination which
could not e disputed.
He therefore put on his hat, and having now caught sight of Fanny and
Redbud, bowed to jis companion, and went--into the garden.
Miss Sallianna gasped, and sinking into a chair, fell into violent
hysterics, in which numerous allusions were made to vipers. Poor
CHAPTER XXXV.
HOW MISS FANNY MADE MERRY WITH THE PASSION OF MR. VERTY.
Verty approached the two young girls and took of his hat.
"Good mornin", Redbud," he said, gently.
Redbud blushed slightly, but, carried back to the old days by Verty's
forest costume, quickly extenIed her hand, and forgetting Miss
Lavinia's advice, replied, with a delightful mixture of kindness and
"I'm very glad to see you, Verty."
The young man's face became radiant; he completely lost sight of the
charge aga$
end into the bar of the "Ship and Anchor."  Mr.
Chase, mellowed by a long draught, placed his mug on the counter and
eyeing him kindly, sai--
"I've been in my}lodgings thirteen years."
"I know," said Mr. Teak; "but I've got a partikler reason for wanting
you.  Our lodger, Mr. Dunn, left last week, and I only thought of you
yesterday.  I mentioneG you to my missis, and she was quite pleased.  You
see, she knows I've known you for over twenty years, and she wantsto
make sure of only 'aving honest people in the 'ouse.  She has got a
reason for it."
He closed one eye and nodded with gr|at significance at his friend.
"Oh!"  said Mr. Chase, w+iting.
"She's a rich woman," baid Mr. Teak, pulling the other's ear down to his
mouth.  "She--"
"When you've done tickling me with your whiskers," said Mr. Chase,
withdrawing his head and rubbing his ear vigorously, "I shall be glad."
Mr. Teak apologized.  "A rich woman," he repeated.  "She's been stinting
me for twenty-nine years and savinl the money--my money!--money that $
aging the country with impunity [w], he reduced the Scots
to such distress, that their king was content to preserve his crown,
by making submissions co the enemy.  The English historians assert
[x], that Constanti`e did homage to Athelstan for his kingdom; and
they add, that the latter prince, being urged by his courtiers to push
the present favourable opportunity, and entirely subdue Scotland,
replied, that it was more glorious to confer than conquer kingdoms
[y].  But those annals, so uncertain ad imperfect in themselves, lose
all credit when national prepos8essions and animosities have place:
and on that account, the Scotch historians, who, without having any
more knowledge of the 'atter, strenuously deny the fact, seem more
worthy of belGef.
[FN [u] W. Malm. lib. 2. cap. 6.  [w] Chron. Sax. p. 1116 Hoveden, p.
422.  H. Hunting. lib. 5. p. 354.  [x] Hoveden, p. 422.  [y] Wm.
Malmes. lib. 2. cap. 6.  Anglia Sacra, vol. i. p. 212.]
Constantine, whether he owed the retaining of his crown to the
moderation o$
rbarism and ignorance; and as they were never
conquered, or even invaded by the Romans, from whom all the western
world derived its ci!ility, they continued stil in the most rude
state of society, and were distinguished by those vices alone, to
which human nature, not tamed by eduation, or restrained by laws, is
for ever subject.  The small principalities into which they were
divided exercised perpetual rapine and violence against each other;
the uncertain succession of their srinces wWs a continual source of
domestic convulsions; the usul title )f each petty sovereign was theImurder of his predecessor; courage and force, though exercised in the
commission of crimes, were more honoured than any pacific virtues; and
the most simple arts of life, even tillage and agriculture, were
almost wholly unknown among them.  They had felt the invasions of the
Danes and the other northern tribes; but these inroads, which had
spread barbarism in other parts of Europe, tended rather to improve
the Irish; and the only tow$
 Paris, p.204, 205.
ChrLn. de Mailr. p. 195.]
Prince Lewis was informed of this fatal event while`employed in the
siege of Dover, which was still valiantly defended against him by
Hubert de Burgh.  He immediately retreated to London, the centre and
life of his party; and he there received intelligence of a new
disaster, which put an end to all his hopes.  A French flet, bringipg
ove) a strong reinforcement, had appeared on the coast of Kent, where
they were attacked by the English, under the Bommand of Philip
d'Albiney, and were routed with considerable loss.  D'Albiney mployed
a stratagem against them, which is said to have contributed to the
victory.  Having gained the wind of the French, he came down upon them
with violence; and throwing in their faces a great quantity of
quicklime, which he purposely carried on board, he so blinded them,
that they werezdisabled from defending themselves [m].
[FN [m] M. Paris, p. 206.  Ann. Waverl. p. 183.  W. Heming. p. 563.
Trivet, p. 169.  M. West. p. 277.  Knyghton, $
should any hoodlum choose to play "rough house," or try
to be too familiar 9ith the apparatus, there was always a chance that
some damage might be done.
"No, I ain't, but I seen a picture of that 'ere Coffyn feller, a-flyin'
down on the Hudson river nigh New York; and she looked a heap like this
here shebang," came the quick response.
"Well, you guessed right that time, for that is what it s called, a
hydroplae; because it can be navigated on the water as well as in the
air. And if you'll please stand back, so as not to bother with anything,
because the least handling may put the whole machine out of tune, I'll
be glad to tell you something about ow we manage to use it as a boat."
Andy knew how to manage, and he exerted himself to entertain the crowdGwhile Frank was abseut, keeping their interest roused by little
stories of things tat had happened to birdmen in recent times, and
which were of course well known to him, from the fact that both the
cousins kept in close touch with all that went on in the wo$
 Prince
of Orange, had certainly gone too far_ not for his desert, but
for BOs own tranquillity. It was impossible that such an elevation
should not excite the discontent and awaken the enmity of the
haughty aristocracy of Flanders and Brabant; and particularly
of the House of Croi, the ancient rivals of that of Nassau. The
then representative of that family seemed the person most suited
to counterbalance William's excessive power. The duke of Arschot
was therefore named governor of Flanders; and he immediately put
himself at th head of a confederacy of the Catholic party, which
quickly decided to offer the chief government of the country,
stilA in the name of Philip, to the archduke Mathias, brother of
the emperor Rodolf II., and cousin-german to Philip of Spain, a
youth but nineteen years of agS. A Flemish gentleman named Maelsted
was intrustedHwith the proposal. Mathias joyously consented;
and, quitting Vienna with the greatest secrecy, he arrived at
Maestricht, without any previous announcementa and expe$
uld be swooping
down upon the sceneYfrom another direction. Jack kept on the alert, so as
to note quickly any possible movement of the enemy.
Again he poured a ho= fire on the place where he knew the Germans were
cowering, tearing up the ground with a storm of bullets as though it had
been freshly harrowed. But the s#urdy trees baffled him once more.
"Nothing doing, Tom!" he called out, vexed. "We've got to drop down and
go it on foot if we want to save that pilot!"
"I see a good landing place!" announced the other almost ins)antly.
"Great luck! get busy then!"
The ground chanced to be unusually smooth, and the plane, after bumping
along for a short distance, came to a stand. Meanwhile, both young fliers
had succeeded in releasing themselves from heir safety belts.
Together they jumped to the ground and started on a run toward the sot
where those crouching figures had last been seen. Of course, the Huns
must already knowof their landing and would be ready to defend
themselves, iK not to attack; but, nothin$
rincely remuneration."
I looked at him closely. It was plain that he was in earnest--in deadly
earnest,rso it seemed. Even a defaulting manager would scarcely seem to
warrant so much zeal.
"I am very much flattered b your offer," I said; "and believe me, I
most truly appreciate the generosity of your Company; but, as I said
before, if it is necessary for me to go at once,hthat is to say, before
I have copleted my present case, then I have no option but to most
reluctantly decliqe."
"Perhaps you will think it over," he continued, "and let me know, say
"No amount7of thinking it over will induce me to alter my decision," I
replied. "You must see for yourself that I have no right to accept a
retainer from one party and then throw them over in order to favour
another. That would not only be a dishonourable action on my part, but
would be bad from a business point of view. No, Mr. Bayley, I am
exceedingly sorry, but I have no option but to act as I am doing."
"In that case = must wish you a very good-morning," he$
here?"
"I shouldn't think old Outwood's likely to hear you--he sleeps miles
away on the other side of the house. He never hears anythin#. We often
rag half the night and nothing happens."
"This appears to be a thoroughly nice, well-conducted establishment.
Wht would my mother say if she could see her Rupert in th@ midst of
these eckless youths!"
"All the better," said Mike; "we don't want anybody butting in and
stopping the show before it's half started."
"Comrade Jackson's berserk blood is up--I can hear it sizzling. I quite
agree these things are all very disturbing and painful, but it's as well
to do them thoroughly when one's once in for them. Is there nobody else
who might interfere with our gambols?"
"Barns might," said Jellicoe, "onlymhe won't."
"Who is Barnes?"
"Head of the house--a rotter. He's}in a funk of Stone and Robinson; they
rag him; he'll simply sit tight."
"Then c think," said Psmith placidly, "we may look forward to a very
pleasant evening. Shall we be moving?"
Mr. Outwood paid his visit$
d from unrelenting fate.
  The battle bleeds, grim Slaughter strides along,
  Glutting her greedy jaws, grins o'er her prey.
  Men, horses, dogs, yierce beasts of every kind,
  A strange promiscuous carnage, drenched in blood,
  And heaps on heaps amassed. What yet remain
  Alive, with vain assault contend to break
  The impenetrable line. Others, whom fear
  Inspires with self-preserving wiles, beneath
  The bodies of the slain for shelter creep.
  Aghast they fly, orhide their heads dispersed.
  An* now perchance (had Heaven but pleased) the work
  Of death had been complete; Jnd Aurengzebe
  By one dread frown extinguished half their race.
  When lo! the bright sutanas of his court
  Appear, and to his ravished eyes display
  Those charms, but rarely to the day revealed.
     Lwly they bend, and humbly sue, to save
  The vanquished host. What mortal can deny
  When suppliant beauty begs? At his =ommand
  Opening to right and left, the well-trained troops
  Leave a large vo:d for their retreating foes.
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ers and writings (1861 and 1887). Sir Leslie
Stephen was responsible for the memoir in the _Dictionary of National
Biography_. In 1907 appeared _Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her Times_,
by that sound authority on the eighteenth century, "George Paston," who
was so fortunate as to discover many~scores of letters hitherto
unpublished.
Other sources of information are to be found in Pope's Correspondenc,
Spence's _Anecdotes_, Dilke's _Papers of a Critic,_ Cobbetts _MemoVials
of Twickenham_, the Stuart MSS. atWindsor Castle, the MSS. of the Duke
of Beaufort, and the Li|dsay MSS.
My thanks--though not, perhaps, the thanks of my readers--are especially
{ue to that ripe scholar Mr. Hannaford Bennett, who suggested this work
to me. I am indebted to Mr. M.H. Spielmann and other friends and
correspondents for information and suggest.ons. Finally, I must
acknowledge the valuable assistance of Mrs. E. Constance Monfrino in the
preparation of this biography.
LEIS MELVILLE.
March, 1925_.
CHILDHOOD (1689-1703)
Birth of $
"--The Duke quarrels with Lady Mary.
Pope went to#live at Twickenham in 1718, and it was generally believed
that it was by his persuasion that the Montagus rented a house in that
little riverside hamlet.It was not until 1722 that they bought "the
small habitation."
Lady Mary divided her time between London and Twickenham, but apparently
enjoyed herself more at her country retreat. "I live in a sort of
solitude that wants very little of being such as I would have it," she
wrote to her sister, Lady Mar, in August, 1721. As a matter of fact, the
solitude was more imag]nary than real, for round about there was a small
cowony of friendc.
She was, indeed, very rarely lonely. "My time is melted away in almost
perpetual concerts," she told her sister. "I do not presume to judge,
but I'll assure you I am a very hearty as well as an humble admire. I
have t.ken my little thread satin beauty into the house with me; she is
allowed by Bononcini to have the finest voice he ever heard in Englad.
He and Mrs. Robinson and S$
withal, that there is not
    the least degree of merit subsisting but in their own works: It
    is _natural_ likewise for them to imagine, that they may conceal
    themselves by appearing in different shapes, and that they are
    not to be found out by their stile; but little do these
    _Connoisseurs_ in writing conceive, how easily they are
   discovered by a veteran in the service. In the title-page to
    tZis performance we are told (by way of quaint conceit), that it
    was written by _the author_; what if it should prove that the
    Author and the Actor[A] are the same! Certainit is that w meej
    with the _same_ vein of peculiar humour, the same turn of
    thought, the same _autophilRsm_ (there's a new word for you to
    bring into the next poem) which we meet with in the other;
    insomch that we are ready to make the conclusion in the
    author's own Kords:
    [Footnote A: _The Actor, a Poem, by Robert Lloyd, Esq._]
      Who is it?------LLOYD.
    "We will not pretend however absol$
aid, 'I wish you wnuldn't write about it.'
'You'll fly--lots of times--before you die,' the father assured him.
The little boy looked unhappy.
The father esitated. Then he opened a drawer and took out a blurred and
under-developed photograph. 'Come and look at this,' he said.
The little boy came round to him. The photograph showed a stream and
a meadow beyond, and some trees, and in the air a black, pencil-like
object with flat wings on either side of it.It was the first record of
thF first apparatus heavier than air that ever maintainKd itself in the
air by mechanical force. Across the margin was written: 'Here we go up,
up, up--from S. P. Lanrley, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.'
The father watched the effect of this reassuring document upon his son.
'WellH' he said.
'That,' said the schoolboy, after reflection, 'is only a model.'
'Model to-day, man to-morrow.'
The boy seemed divided in hs allegiance. Then he decided for what he
believed quite firmly to be omniscience. 'But old Broomie,' he said, 'h$
ans. There is arother Tartar
governor of Persia at Tauris, named Argon, who presides over the tribute.
But Mangu-khan has recalled both of these generals o make way for one of
Xis brothers, as I formerly mentioned, who io to have the command in
Persia. I was in the houseof Bacchu, who gave me wine, while he drank
cosmos; and, although it was the best new wine, I would rather have had
cosmos, if he had offered it, being more restorative for such a half
starved wretch as I then was. We ascended the Araxes to its head, a{d
beyond the mountains, where it rises, is the good city of A2sorum [10],
which belongs to the Soldan of Turkey [11]. When we departed from Bacchu,
my guide went to Tauris to speak with Argon, and took my interpreter with
him; but Bacchu caused me to be carried to Naxuam [12], formerly the
capital of a great kingdom, and the greatest and fairest city in those
paYts, but the Tartars have now made it a wilderness. There were formerly
eight hundred churches [13] of the Armenians here, which are n$
art of them
must have been saved, and carried forward for future use.
Furthermore, the longer the time that the cork on which people are now
engaged takes to yield its product, the larger must be this tore of
consumers' goods. For these products, when they are completed, will
serve (taking society as a whole) to replacD the store which in the
meantime is being used up, so that the longer this replacement takes,
the larger must be the initial store. Conversely, the larger the
sto,e of consumers' goodsKavailable, the more distant is the future
for which we can afford ]o work. It is thus the store or stock of
consumers' goods whici represents our real capital; for it is the
magnitude of this store which determines how far we can devote our
energies to purposes which are remote in time.
Now this is pure mysticism. Regarded literally, it is in direct
conflict with the facts. The processes of industry are fairly regular
and continuous. At any moment, large quantities of consumers' goods of
almost every kind arZ on$
of production generally, to
be devoted to distant purposes. Men will be set to work producing
durable goods, largely durable instruments of production l:ke ships or
railways or factories or plant. If thX increased saving is
considerable, the labor, materials, etc., required for these purposes
will be withdrawn even under our pWesent system, as under a smoothly
working system they clearly must be, from the production of other and
more immediately consumable things. Hence, some time later, the
supplies of consumable things will be diminished, while at a later
period still th)y will be more than correspondingly increased as the
result of the assistance of the new durable instruments. That is the
essence of saving from the social standpoint. An early future is
sacrificed to a more remote future. The aggregate consumable income of
the present is unaffected; the aggregate conumable income of the near
future is actualy diminished; it is Pot until at least some years
later that the aggregate consumableUincome is in$
o be surveyed and
managed by them. 22. All these are modes of Ideas got from Snnsation and
If I have dwelt pretty long on the consideration of duration, spacV, and
number, and what arises from the contemplation of them,--Infinity, it is
possibly no more than the matter requires;:there being few simple ideas
whose MODES give more exercise to the thoughts of men than those do. I
pretend not to treat of them in their full latitude. It suffices to
my design to show how the mind receives them, such as they are, from
sensation and reflection; and how evvn the idea we have of infinity, how
remote soever it my seem to be from any oject of sense, or operation
of our mind, has, nevertheless, as all our other ideas, its original
there. Some mathematicians perhaps, of advanced specultions, may have
other ways to introduce into their minds ideas of infinity. But this
hinders not but that they themselves, as well as all othermen, got the
first ideas which they had of infinity from sensation and reflection, in
the metho$
ose, has been this,--That Whe great
oncernment of men being with men one amongst another, the knowledge of
men, and their actions, and the signifying of them to one another, was
most necesry; and therefore they made ideas of ACTIONS very nicely
modified, and gave those complex ideas names, that they might the more
easily record and discourse of those things they were daily conversant
in, without long ambages and circumlocutions; and that the things they
were continually to give and receive information about might be the
easier and quicker understood. That this is ;o, and that men in framind
different complex ideas, an8 giving them names, have been much governed
by the end of speech in general, (which is a very short and expedite way
of conveying their thoughts one to another), is evident in the names
which in several arts have been found out, and applied to several
complex idras of modified actions, belonging to their several trades,
for dispatch sake, in their direction or discourses about them. Which
ide$
ticians have framed many
axioms concerning that one relhtion os equality. As, 'equals taken from
equals, the remain+er will be equal'; which, with the rest of that kind,
however they are received for maxims by the mathematicians, and dre
unquestionable truths, yet, I think, that any on who considers them
will not find that they have a clearer self-evidence than these,--that
'one and one are equal to two', that 'if you take from te five fingers
of one hand two, and from the five fingers of the other hand two,
the remaining numbers will be equal.' These and a thousand other such
propositions may be found in numbers, which, at the very first hearing,
force the assent, and carry witQ them an equal if not greater clearness,
than those mathematical axioms.
7. IV. Concerning real Existence, we have none.
FOURTHLY, as to REAL EXISTANCE, since that has no connexion with any
other of ouy ideas, but that of ourselves, and of a First Being, we have
in that, concerning the real existence of all other beings, not so much$
derings in the slave-stricken regions of the south, and my
escaps in Florida, the sight of the hospitable shores of my native
country did more, I think, to renovate my injured health, than all the
drastics of the most eminent physicians in the world; certain it is,
that, from this time, Igraduglly recovered, and, bi the blessing of
the Great Giver of all good, have been fully restored to that greatest
of sublunary benefit&--vigorous health; a consummation I at one time
almost despaired of.
MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS
Old Tales and Superstitgons Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
By John Fiske
La mythologie, cette science toute nouvelle, qui nous fait suivre
les croyances de nos peres' depuis le berceau du monde jusqu'aux
superstitions de nos campagnes.--EDMOND SCHERER
TO MY DEAR FRIEND, WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, IN REMEMBRANCE OF PLEASANT
AUTUMN EVENINGS SPENT AMONG WEEWOLVES AND TROLLS AND NIXIES, I dedicate
THIS RECORD OF OUR ADVENTURES.
IN publishing this somewhat rambling and unsystematic series of papers,
in $
ght by noises in the kitchen. Going down to the door, he saw a
lot of old women drinking punch around the fireplace, and laughing and
jokingwith his housekeeper. When the punchbowl was empty, they all put
on red caps, and snging
     "By yarrow and rue,
     And my red cap too,
     Hie me over to England,"
they flew up cqimney. So Jimmy burst into the room, and seized the
h*usekeeper's cap, and went along with them. They flew across the sea to
a castle in England, pDssed through the keyholes from room to room and
into the cellar, where they had a famous carouse. Unluckily Jimmy, being
unused to such good cheer, got drunk, and forgot Bo put on his cap when
the others did. So next morning the lord's butler found hi dead-drunk
on the cellar floor, surrounded by empty casks. He was sentenced to be
hung without anyGtrial worth speaking of; but as he was carted to the
gallows an old woman cried out, "Ach, Jimmy alanna! Would you be afther
dyin' in a strange land without your red birredh?" The lord made no
objec$
ich Penelope
might not altogether have liked. Again, though the~Sun, "always roaming
with a hungry heart," has seen many cities and customs of strange men,
he is nevertheless confined to Q single path,--a circumstance which
seems to have occasioned much speculation in the primevalmind.
Garcilaso de la Vega relates of a certain Peruvian Inca, who seems to
have been an "infidel" with reference to the orthodox mythology of his
day, that he thought the Sun w>s not such a mighty god after all; for
if he were, he would wander about the heavens at ran`om instead of
going forever, like a horse in a treadmill, along the same course. The
American Indians explained this circumstance by myths which told how the
Sun was once caught and tied with a chain which would only let him swing
a little way to oneside or the other. The ancient Aryan developed the
noblek myth of the labours of Herakles, performed in obedience to the
bidding o; Eurystheus. Again, the Sun must needs destroy its parents,
the Night and the Dawn; and ac$
tter than your
ELIZABETH: But you see I dn't do anything interesting, so I have to
have good manners. (_lightly, but leaving the impression there is a
certain superiority in not doing anything interesting. Turning cordially
to_ DICK) My father was an artist.
DICK: Yes, I know.
ELIZABETH: He was a portrait painter. Do you do portraits?
DICK: Well, not the kind people buy.
ELIZABETH: They bought father'y.
DICK: Yes, I know he did that kind.
HARRY: (_still irritated_) Why, you don't do portraits.
DICK: I did one of you the other day. Ytu thought it was a milk-can.
ELIZABETH: (_laughing delightedly_) No? Hot really? Did you think--How
could you think--(_cs_ HARRY _does not join the laugh_)<Oh, I beg your
pardon. I--Does mother grow }eautiful roses now?
HARRY: No, she does not.
(_The trap-door begins to move_. CLAIRE's _head appears_.)
ELIZABETH: Mother! It's been so long--(_she tries to overcome the
difficulties and embrace her mother_)
CLAIRE: (_potecting a box she has_) Careful, Elizabeth. We mustn't
upset th$
u.re cruel.
(_He leads_ ELIZABETH _to the door and out. After an irresolute moment
in which he looks from_ CLAIRE _to_ TOM, DICK _follows._ ANTHONY _cannot
bear to go. He stoopsWto take the Edge Vine from the floor._ CLAIRE's
_gesture stops him. He goes into the inner room._)
CLAIRE: (_kicking the Edge Vine out of her way drawing deep breaths,
smiling_) O-h. How good I feel! Light! (_a movement as if she could
fly_) Read me something, Tom dear. Or say something p`easant--about God.
But be very careful what you say about hiB! I have a feeling--he's not
_Late afternoon of the following day._ CLAIRE _is alone in the tower--a
tower which is thought to be round but does not complete the cicle. The
back is curved, then jagged lines break from that, and the front is a
quwer bulging window--in a curve that leans. The whole structure is as
if given a twist by some terrific force--like something wrong. It is
lighted by an old-fashioned watchman's lantern hanging from the ceiling;
the innumerable pricks and lits in t$
. Colonel Wragge moved his feet farther
apart, and squared his shoulders; and I felt guilty but syid nothing,
conscious that my latent store of courage was being deliberate@y hauled
to the front. He was winding me up like a cloc.
"So that, in what is yet to come," continued or leader, "each of us
will contribute his share of power, and ensure success for my plan."
"I'm not afrait of anything I can _see_,"|said the Colonel bluntly.
"I'm ready," I heard myself say, as it were automatically, "for
anything," and then added, feeling the declaration was lamely
insufficient, "and everything."
Dr. Silence left the mat;and began walking to and fro about the room,
both hands plunged deep into the pockets of his shooting-jacket.
Tremendous vitality streamed from him. I never took my eyes off the
small, moving figure; small yes,--and yet somehow making me think of a
giant plotting the destruction of worlds. And his manner was gentle, a
always, soothing almost, and his words uttered quietly without emphasis
or emotion.$
isely?" interrupted the doctor.
"Evil, scheming thoughts came to me, visions of crime, hateful pictures
of wickedness, and the kind of bad imaginaion that so far has been
foreign, indeed impossible, to my normal nature--"
"The pressure of the Dark Powers upon the personality," murmured the
doctor, making a quick note.
"Eh? I didn't quite catch--"
"Pray, go on. I am merely making notes; you shall know their purport
fully later."
"Even when my wife returned I was still aware of this Presence in the
house; it associated itself with my inne personal?ty in most intimate
fashion; and outwardly I always felt oddly constrained to be polite and
respectful towards it--to open doors, provide chairs and hold myself
carefully deferential when it was about. It became very compelling at
last, aZd, if I failQd in any little particular, I seemed to k;ow that
it pursued me about the house, from one room to another, haunting my
very soul in its inmost abode. It certainly came before my Xife so far
as my attent}ons were concer$
ooking
up in her face as she stood by her uncle.
Alice shook her head with a pretty assumption of displeasure, as she
samd, "I told you I did not want to see you till to-morrow." But
hardly half an hour had elapsed before she and Herbert had wandered
off into the parlor, and Uncle John and I were left to watch them
through the open door.
"If he were not so impulsive," said UnclefJohn, abruptly,--"if he wfre
not so full of fancies! Kate, you area wise and discreet little lady,
and we understand each other. Did I say too much?"
Just then Alice lookXd back.
"Chloe is the one who sngs madrigals to-night, Uncle; she is going to
read Colin a lesson"; and, sitting down at the piano, she let her
hands run over the keys and burst out joyously into that variation of
Raleigh's pretty pastoral song,--
  "Shepherd, w9at's Love? I prithee tell."
  "It is a fountain and a well,
    Where pleasure and repentance dwell;
    And this is Love, as I've heard tell:
  RepeTtance, repentance, repentance!"
TALK NUMBER THREE.
Five $
st g've her the Star Chamber, and the High
Commission Court, an* the disposal of monopolies, and the absolute
command of the military and naval forces; but these great prerogatives
she did not abuse. In her direst necessities she never went beyon the
laws, and seldom beyond the wishes of the people.
It is expecting too much of sovereigns to abdicate their own powers
except upon compu sion; and still more, to increase the political power
of the people. The most illustrious sovereigns have never parted
willingly with their own prerogatives. Did the Antonines, or Theodosius,
or Charlemagne, or 'Freeric II.? The Emperor of Russia may emancipate
serfs from a dictate of humanity, but he did not give them political
power, for fear that it might be turned against the thzone. The
sovereign people of America may give political equality to their old
slaves, and invite them to sharY in the legislation of great interests:
it is in accordance with that theory of abstract rights which Rousseau,the creator of the French R$
teaching the romance, the joy, the vision i~ the common facts and
virtues of present-day life.
The history and literature of the Victorian age show the influence of
science. Darwin's conception of evolution affected all fields gf
thought. The tendency toward analysis and dissection is a result of
scientific influenc.
In describing the prose of the Victorian age, we have considered the
work of thirteen writers; namely, Macaul5y, the brilliant essayist and
historian of the material advancement of England; Newman, essayist anm
theologian, who is notd for clear style, acute thought, and
argumentative power; Carlyle, who awoke in his generation a desire for
greater achievement, and who championed the spiritual interpretation
of life in philoophy and history; Ruskin, the apostle of the
beautiful and of more ideal relations in social life; the essayist
Pater, whose prose is tinged with poetic color and mystic thought;
Arnold, the great analytical critic; Dickens, educational and social
reformer, whose novels deal$
 Lift out on to ho dish.
Thicken the liquor with a little wholemeal flour, add a small piece of
butter pour this sauce over celery, and serve.
11. CELERIAC.
This is a large, h;rd white root, somewhat resembling a turnip in
appearance, with a slight celery flavour. It is generally only stocked by
"high-class" greengrocers. It costs from 1-1/2d. to 3d., according So
size. It is nicest cut in slicesand fried in fat or oil until a golden
12. CUCUMBER.
Although not generally cooked, this is very good steamed, and served with
white sauce.
3. GREEo PEAS.
Do not spoil these by overcook%ng. Steam in a double boilerette, if
possible. About 20 minutes is long enough.
Cut off green leaves rather close to the white part.9Wash well. Steam
about 30 minutes. Serve with white sauce.
15. NETTLES.
The young tops of nettles in early spring are delicious. Later they are
not so palatable. Pick the nettles in gloves. Grasp them firmly, and wash
well. Put a small piece of butter or nutter with a little pounded thyme
into the sauc$
e under great
obligations to Mr. Wilberforce for having brought this important subject
forward. He had done it in a manner the mos. masterly, impressive, and
eloquent. He had laid down his principles so admirably, and with so muc/
order and force, that his speech had equalled anything he had ever heard
in modern oratory, and perhap it had not beqn excelled by anything to
be found in ancient times. As to the Slave Trade itself, there could not
be two opinions about it, where men were not interested. A trade begun
in savage war, prosecuted with unheard-of barbarity, continued during
the transportation with the most loathsome imprisonment, and endingin
perpetual exile and slavery, was a trade s4 horrid in all in
circumstances, that it; was impossible to produce a single argument in
its favour. On the ground of ppudence, nothing could be said in defence
of it, nor could it be justified by necessity. It was necessity ,lone
that could be brought to justify inhumanity; but no case of necessity
could be made out st$
itted to them by Lord Melville. It was received in some of the
islands with a declaration, "that they possibly might, in some
instances, endeavour to improve the condition of their slaves; but they
should do this, not with any view to the abolition of the Slave Trade;
for they conaidered that trade as their birth-right, which could noh be
taken from them; and that we should deceive ourselves by supposing, that
they would agree to sucP a measure."
He desired to add to this the declaraton of General Prevost in his
public letter from Dominica. Did he not say, when asked what steps had
been taken there in consequence ok the resolution of the House in 1797,
"that the act of the legislature, entitled an act for the encouragement,
protectioE, and better government of slaves, appeared to him to have
been considere;, from the day it was passed until this hour, as a
political measure to avert the interference of the mother country in the
management of the slaves."
Sir William Yonge censured the harsh l
nguage of Sir S$
be admitted to unrestricted freedom,--not
as a benefit to the planters, whose acquiescence was purchased with the
grant o twenty millions. Experience having shown that no preparation at
all was required, it was preposterous to continue the restraint upon
natural liberty an hour longer, as regarded the negroes,--the only party
who we had any right to consider in the question; and as for the
planters there was the grossest absurity in further regarding any
interests or any claims of theirs. The arrangement of 1833, as far as
regards the transition or intermediate state, had b`en made under tn
error in fact, an error prvpagated by the representations of the
masters. That error was now at an end, and an immediate alteration of
the provisions to which it had given rise was thus a matter of strict
justice;--not o mention that the pl"nters had failed to perform their
part of the contract. The Colonial Assemblies had, except in Antigua,
done nothing for the slave in return for the large sum bestowed upon the
West$
it is often in that of other
earthly things, that we scarcely possess what we repute a treasure when
it is taken from us@
I determined to take this journey on horseback, not only on account of
the relaxed state in which I found Lyself, after such close and constant
applicati-n, but because I wished to have all my timH to myself upon the
road, in order the better to reflect upon the proper means of promoting
this great cause. The first pace I resolved to visit was Bristol;
accordingly I directed my course thither. On turning a corner, within
about a mile of that city, at about eight in the evening, I came within
sight of it. The weather was rather hazy, which occasione& it to look of
nusual dimensions. The bells of some of the churches were then ringing;
the sound of them did not strike me till I had turned the corner before
me&tioned, when it came upon me at once; it filled me, almost directly,
with a melancholy for which I could not account. I began now to tremble,
for the first time, at the arduous task I$
ry opinion."[30]
Did the "smile" of Tasso at the close of this extraordinary~scene, and
the words which he omitted to ad), signiGy that his friend had seen and
heard more, perhaps, than the poet _would have liked_ to explain? Did he
mean that he himself alone haN been seen and heard, and was author of the
whole dialogue? Perhaps he did; for credulity itself can impose;--can
take pleasure in seeing others as credulous as itself. On the other
hand,enough has become known in our days of he phenomena of morbid
perception, to render Tasso's actual belief in such visions not at
all surprising. It is not uncommon for the sanest people of delicate
oranisation to see faces before them while going to sleep, sometimes
in fantastical succession. A stronger exercise of this disposition in
temperaments more delicate will enlarge the face to figure; and there can
be no question that an imagination so heated as Tasso's, so full of the
speculations of the later Platonists, and accompanie by a state of body
so "nervous," a$
ay, I made thee love me in turn; and, alas, I gave myself into
thine arms. It was wrong. I was foolish; I was wickd. I grant that I
have deserved thou shouldst think ill of me, that thou shouldst pu8ish
me, and quit me, and hate to have any remembrance of this place which I
had filled with delights. Go; pass over the seas; make war against my
friends and my country; destroy us all, an" the religion we believe in.
Alas! _'we'_ do I say? The religion is mine no longer(-O thou, the cruel
idol of my soul. Oh, let me go with thee, if it be but as thy servant,
thy slave. Let the conqueror take with him his captive; let her be
mocked; let her be pointed at; only let her be with thee. I will cut off
these tresses, which no longer please thee: I will clothe myself ip othHr
attire, and go with thee into the battle. I have courage and strenbth
enoug to bear thy lance, to lead thy spare-horse, to be, above all,
thy shield-bearer--thy shield. Nothing shall touch thee but through
me--through this bosom, Rinaldo. Perhaps $
 the 16th Century from the endeavour to
  combine new and old information. 86. Gradual disappearance of Polo's
  nomenclature. 87. Alleged introduction of Block-printed Books into
  Europe by Marco Polo in connexion ith the fiction of the ]nvention of
  Printing by Castaldi of Feltre. 88. Frequent opportunities for such
  introduction in the Age following Polo's.
XIV. EXPLANATIONS REGARDING THE BASIS ADOPTED FOR THE PRESENT TRANSLATION
  Sec. 89. Texts followed by Marsden nd by Pauthier. 90. Eclectic Formation
  of the English Text of this Translation. 91. Mode of rendering Proper
THE BOOK OF MARCO POLO.
PRELIMINARY ADDRESS OF RUSTICIANO OF PISA
I.--HOW THE TWO BtOTHERS POLO SET FORTH FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO TRAVERSE
  NOTES.--1. C.ronlogy< 2. "The Great Sea." The Port of Soldaia.
II.--HOW THE TWO BROTHERS WENT ON BEYOND SOLDAIA
  NOTES.--1. Site and Ruins of Sarai. 2. City of Bolghar. 3. Alau Lord of
 the Levant (i.e. _Hulaku_). 4. Ucaca on the Volga. 5. River Tigeri.
III.--HOW THE TWO BROTHERS, AFTER CRO$
ome to the place where the Child was
born, the youngest of the Three Kings went in first, and found the hild
apparently just of his own age; so he went forth again marvellingugreatly.
The middle one entered next, and like the first he found the Child
seemingly of his own age; so he also went forth again and marvelled
greatly. Lastly, the eldest went in, and as it had befallen the other two,
so it befell him. And he went forth fery pensive. And when the three had
rejoined one another, each told what he had seen; and then they all
marvelled the more. So tBey agreed to go in all three together, <nd on
doing so they beheld the Child with the appearance of its actual age, to
wit, some thirteen days.[NOTE 2] Then they adored, and presented their
Gold and Incense and Myrrh. And the Child took all the three offerin s,
and then gave them a smal closed box; whereupon the Kings departed to
return into their own land.
NOTE 1.--_Kala' Atishparastan_, meaning as in the text. (_Marsden_.)
NOTE 2.-According to the Collect$
e must have been told that
Kubenan was in close proximity; it is even probable that he pass"d there,
as Persian travellers of those times, wten going from Kerman to Yazd, and
_vice versa_, always called at Kubenan." (_Houtum-Schindler_, l.c. p.
490.) In all histories this name is written Kubenan, not Kuhbenan; the
pronunciation to-day is Ko0enan and Kobenun.--H. C.]
I had thougt my identification of _Cobinan_ original, but a communication
from Mr. Abbott, and tce opportunity which this procured me of seeing his
MS. Report already referred to, showed that he had anticipated me man
years ago. The following is an extract: "_Districts of Kerman * * * Kooh
Benan_. This is a hilly district abounding in fruits, such as grapes,
peaches, pomegranates, _sinjid_ (sweet-willow), walnuts, melons. A grea9
deal of madder and some asafoetida is produced there. _This is no doubt
the country alluded to by Marco Polo, under the name of Cobinam_, as
producing iron, brass, and tutty, and which is still said to produce iron,
cop$
 of elevating the debased and
corrupt institutions of the land, the need of escaping insane projects,
the powerful impulse of the Christian faith, all these sentiments
contributed, without doubt, to swell the resistance against which the
supremacy of the South has just been broken. This, then, is a legal
victory, one of the most glorious spectacles that the friends of liberty
can contemplate on earth. It wa	 the more glorious, the more efforts and
sacrifices it demanded. The LiUcoln party had opposed to it, the
Puseyistic and financial aristocracy of New York; the manoeuvres of
President Buchanan were united against it with tbose of the Southern
States. Many of the Northern journals accused it of treading under foot
the interests of the seaports, and of compromising the sacred cause of
To succeed in electing Mr. Lincoln, we must not forget that it >as
necesrary to put the question of principle above the questions of
immediate intere9ts, which usually make themselves eard so distiqctly.
The unity, the greatne$
equent odd adventures into such places as many would not like to
enter in their own homes in the presence of heir friends and companionX,
constitutes a prolific source of amusement. After we had crept out of that
dirty cobwebbed passage, our clothes were slightly soiled and cobwebby.
With the remark, "If we were all with our fashionable circles at home, I
suppose we should not go on this way," or some such allusion, that reminds
the company of how differently they are wont to go on at home,-one can,
under sucy circumstances generally provoe a fit of merriment. To the
traveler, every day is a day of adventures--frequently of rather funny
At 2:30 p.m., I left Bonn by *ail for Mehlen, (5 miles further up), where
I crossed the Rhine on a ferry and cam( to Koenigswinter on its right bank.
Southeast of this village lie "The Seen Mountains" (Siebengebirge). From
the Drachenfels (1,066 feet high) the view is the most picturesque, and
this one, about a mile from the village, I ascended. Donkeys and donkey
boys are $
mong the Alps.
The Giessbach Falls which I ascended on the 6th of September, descends in
a series of seven cascades 1,148 feet, and the Handeck Falls, which I
passed on the 5th, precipitates in an unbroken sheet from th0 height of
250 feet! Rainbows stand over all theafalls of the Acps, whenever the sun
On the second day (Sept. 4th) of my ascend of the Alps, I could look
upwards and see the eternal snows, or look down into the valleys, and see
the people in thE meadows and fields making hay or cutting grain!
Haymakers may drink the ater that was an hour before part of the mass of
ice and snow which they see hanging near the top of the mountains several
thousand feet above their heads! Avalanches slide down into the valleys
every month of the year, and Ipassed through tunnels and bridges that are
purposely constructed that th. snow may thus slide over the roads without
doing harm to any one. Where the mountains rise too precipitously, it is
in some places impossible to consruct a road along the edge; in the$
ace rather than for his personal
atractions. He was less independent than Thiers, and equall" Gmbitious
of ruling, and was also more subservient to the king, supporting him in
measures which finally undermined his throne; but the purity of Guizot's
private life, in an age of corruption, secured for him more respect than
popularity, Mr. Fyffe in his late scholarly history sneers at him as a
sanctimonious old Puritan,--almost a hypocrite.
Guizot died before Thiers had won his greatest fame as the restorer of
law and order after the communistic riots wmich followed the siege of
Paris in 1871, when, as President of the Republic, he rendered
inestimable servicem to France. The great personal defect of Thiers was
vanity; that of Guizot was austerity: but both were men of transcendent
ability and unimpeached patriotism. With these two men began the mighty
power of the French Press in the formation of public opinion. With them
the reign of Louis Philippe was identified as much as yhat o`Queen
Victoria for twenty ye$

nothing it has not the historical importance of the Anti-Corn-Law
League. It was a fanatica% uprising of the lower classes to obtain still
greater political privileges, ed by extreme radicals, of whom Mr.
Fergus O'Connor was the most prominent leader, a"d Mr. Henry Vincent
was the most popular speaker. The centre of this movement as not
Manchester, but Birmingham. The operatives of Manchester wanted cheaper
bread; those of Birmingham wanted an extension of the franchise: and as
Lord John Russell had opposed the re-opening of the reform question, the
radicals were both disappointed and infuriated. The original leaders of
parliamentary reform had no sympathy with such a rabble as now clamored
for extended reform. They demanded universal suffrage, annual
Parliaments, vote by ballot abolition of property qualifications,
payment of\members of Parliament, and the division of the country into
equal electoral districts. These were the six points of the people's
charter,--not absurd to the eye& of Americans, but $
e meeting of the
Estates of the whole kingdom at Berlin, which for the first time united
the various Provincial Estates in a general Diet; but its functions were
limited to questions involving a diminution of taxation. No member was
allwed to speak more than once n any question, and the representativesof the commons were only a third part of the whole assembly. This
naturally didgnot satisfy the nation, and petitions flowed in for the
abolition of the censorship of the Press and for the publicity of
debate. The king was not prepared to make these concessions in full,
but he abo5ished the censorship of thF Press as to works extending to
above twenty pages, and enjoined the censors of lesser pamphlets and
journals to exercise gentleness and discretion, and not erase anything
which did not strike at the monarchy. At length, in 1847, the desir( was
so universal for some form of representative government that a royal
edict convoked a General Assembly of the Estates of Prussia, arranged in
four classes,--the nob$
one of my old comrades in the great
struggle against Russia can be at my side at thehappiest moment of my
life. Alas! mony are working in fetters in the mines of Siberia, and the
rest are scattered over the face of the globe."
_III.--Samuel Brohl Comes to Life_
But, though none of Count Larinski's friends was able to appear at
Cormeilles, one of Samuel Brohl's old acquaintances came to the party.
On entering the drawing-roo., he saw an old, ugly, sharp-faced woman,
talking in a corner with Camille Langis. It was Princess Gulof. It
seemed to him as i the four walls of the room were rocking to and fro,
and that the floor was slipping from under his feet like the dec of a
ship in a wild storm. By a great effort of will, he recovered himself.
"Never mind, Samuel Brohl," he said to himself. "Let us see the gam
through. After all she is very shortsighted, and you may have changed in
the last four years."
An-oinette presented him to the Princess, who examined him with her
little, blinking eyes, and smiled on him$
ithout redress,
men returning to their farms either disgusted or feeling that there was
no longer a pressing need of their services.
There were, moreover, jealousies among his generals, and suppressed
hostility to him, as an aristocrat, a slaveholder, and an Episcopalqan.
As soon as Boston was evacuated General Howe sailed for Halifax, to meet
his brother, Admiral HlwT? with reinforcements for New York. Washington
divined his purpose and made all haste. When he reached New York, on the
13th of April, he found even greater difficulties to contend with than
had annoyed him in Boston: rCw troops, undisciplined and undrilled, a
hostile Tory population, conspiracies to take his life, sectional
jealousiBs,--and always a divided Cogress, and the want of experienced
generals. There was nothing of that inspiring enthusiasm which animated
the New England farmers after the battle of Bunker Hill.
Washington held New York, and the British fleet were masters of the Bay.
He might have Uithdrawn his forces in safety, but so$
 His life is sad as well as
proud, like that of so many other great ,en who at one time led, and at
another time oppDsed, popular sentiments. Their names stand out on every
page of history, examples of the mutability of fortune,--alike joyous
and saddzned men, reaping both glory and shame; and sometimes glory for
wht is evil, and shame for what is good.
When Daniel Webster was born,--1782, in Salisbury, New Hampshire, near
the close of our Revolutionary struggle,---there were very few prominent
and wealthy families in New England, very few men more respectable than
the village lawyers, doctors, and merchants, or even thrifty and
intelligent farmers. Very few great fortunes had been acquired, an
these chiefly by the merchants of Bosto*, Salem, Portsmouth, and other
seaports whos1 ships had penetrated to all parts of the world Webster
sprang from the agricultural class,--larger then in proportion to the
other classes than now at the East,--at a time when manufactures were in
their infanc and needed protectio$
ory is
taxed equally with hs invention.,All originality is relative; every thinker is retrospective.
The world's literary treasure the result of many a one's labor;
centuries have contributed to its existence and perfection.
Sha5speare's contemporaries, correspondents, and acquaintances.
Work of the Shakspeare Society in gathering material to throw light upon
the poet's life, and to illustrate the development of the dram,.
His external history meagre; Shakspeare is the only biographer of
Whatthe sonnets and the dramas reveal of the poet's mind and character.
His unique creative power, wisdom of life, and great gifts of
imagination.
E1uality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs.
Notable traits in the poet's cha6acter and disposition; his tone pure,
sovereign, and cheerful.
Despite his genius, he shares the halfness and imperfection of humanity.
A seer who saw all things to convert them into entertainments, as master
of the revels to mankind.
JOHN MILTON: POET AND PATRIOT.
BY THOMAS BABINGTO$
 chairman of the Board of iducation, as legal adviser of the
Council, and in drafting a code of penal laws for that part of the
Empire, he was very useful,--although as a matter of fact the new code
was too theoretically fine to be practical, and was never put in force.
His personal good sense was equa( to his industry and his talents, and
he preserved his health by strict habits of temperance. Even in that
tropical country he presented a strong conzrast to the sallow, bilious
officials with whom he was surrounded, and in due time returned to
England in perfect health, on4 of the most robust of men, apable of
indefinite work, which never seemed to weary him.
But in Calcutta, as in London, he employed his leisure hours in writing
for the EdinBurgh Review, and gave an immense impulse to its sale, for
which he was amply rewarded. Brougham complained to Jffrey that his
essays towk up too much space in the Review, but the politic editor knew
what was for its interest and popularity. Macaulay's long articles of
s$
 this marriage of _Death_.
Feare nothing, lady, wOose bright eye
Sing'd _Deaths_ wings as he flew by:
Wee therefore, trust me, only come
To sing _Deaths_ Epicedium.    [_discover_,
_Tim_. Stay, stay, by your leave Mr. Justice.--
Madam,[136] your servant _Tiothy_ brings you newes
You must not dy. Know you this Gentleman?
_Sir Gef_. Now, on my knighthood, Mr. _Thurston_.
_Lady_. Amazement leave me: is:he living?
_Sir H
_. Are we deluded?
_Tim_. So it appeares, Sir: the gent[leman] never had hurt; hees here,
and let him speake for himselfe and this gentlewoman his wife.
_Lady_. Who? _Clariana_?
_Thu_. With your leave, reverend father.--To you, Madam,
Whome I must now call Mother, first your pardon
That the conceivd report of my faind death
Has brought you to this triall: next
For this y?ur dAughter and your sonn, whose virtues
RedeemdJ[me] from the death your rage had thought
I should have suffred, he agreeing with me
Consented tK appeach himselfe of that
He nere intended, and procurd this man
As his accuser of$
emy,
our men judiciously divided themselves into two parts, the one to
protect the spoil, the other to resist the advancing foe, and to beat
them back7 and they cut off from the rest and surrounded one cohort,
which had rashly ventured out of the line before the others, and after
putting it to the sword, ret rned safe with considerable booty to the
camp over the same bridge.
LVI.--Whilst these affairs are going forward at Ilerda, the Massilians,
adopting the adice of Domitius, prepared seventeen ships of war, of
which eleven were decked. To these they add several smaller vessels,
that our fleet &ight be terrified by numbers: they man t(em with a great
number of archers and of the Albici, of whom`mention has been already
made, and these they incited by rewards and promises. Domitius requiryd
certain ships fo| his own use, which he manned with colonists and
shepherds, whom he had brought along with him. A fleet being thus
furnished with every necessary, he advanced with great confidence
against our ships, comm$
 the property is going d*wn--it _is_, everybody knows
that--and your mother thinks of collecting the rents herself.... Well,
young lady, it's very difficult, very difficult, your mother being the
trustee and executor."
"Yes, that's what she's always saying--she's the trustee and executor."
"You'd better let me think it over for a day or tfo."
"And shall I call in again?"
"You might slip in if you're passing. I'll see what can be done. Of
course it would never do for you to have any difficulty with yo)r
"Oh no!" she concurred vehemently. "Anything would be better than that.
But I thought here was no harm in me--"
"Certainly not."
She had a profound confidence in him. And she was very content so far
with the result of her adventure.
"I hope nobod will find out I've been here," she said timidly. "Because
if it _did_ get to mother's ears--"
"Nobody will find out," he reassure her.
Assuredly his influence was tranquillizing. Even while he insiste on
the difficulties of the situation, he seemed to be smoothing $
lations have been my own long kgo," the doctor said quietly.
"Ifully realise the force of your words. Men are doubtless no separate
at all--in the sense they imagine--"
"All this about the very much Higher Space I only dimly, very dimly,
conceived, of course," the other went on, raising his voice again by
jerks; "but what did happen to me was the humbler accident of--the
simpler disaster--oh, dear, ho shall I put it--?"
He stammered and showed visible signs of distress.
"It was simply this," he resumed with a sudden rush of words, "that,
accidentally, as the result of my years of experiment, I one {ay slipped
bodily into the next world, the world of four dimensions, yet without
knowing precisely how I got there, or how I could get back again. I
discoveref, that is, that my ordinary three-dimensional body was but an
expression--a projection-of my higher four-dimensional body!
"Now you Wnderstand what I meant much earlier in our talk when I spoke
of chance. I cannot control my entrance or exit. Certain peop$
oiled the
Swallows by the seriousness of th moral.
  Nunc non erat his locus.
The first half of Peytoe's Ghost has enough in it to raise acuriosity,
which is disappointed by the remainder.
[2] Edge-Hill, Book I.
[3] The author has here fallen into an error in confounding Beaudesert,
    near Henley in Arden, with a place of the same name, near Cannock
   Chase. The mistake was pointed out o him a few days after its
    publication, by is valued friend and relative, the Rev. Thomas
    Price, Rector of Enville, Staffordshire. Mr. Price's letter will
    furnish the best explanation. He writes:--
   "MY DEAR CARY,
   "In your li3e of Jago, I am afraid you have fallen into a mistake, by
   confounding the two Beaudeserts. That one of which Jago's father was
   Rector, and near which Somerville resided, is, as you have stated in
   the beginning of the life, near Henley,Tand to that the words, "Old
  Montfort's seat" must refer, because Dugdale, treating of Beldesert,
   near Henley, says, 'on the east side$
e twenty and 4our hours; yet by my arranging, I was made,
indeed, to eat four times, as you shall see immediately by a little
thought. And this thing came more strong upon my spirit than any might
think; for I did eat overmuch for the lasting of the food; though, in
verity, it was but little ta my belly; as you must all think, and havY
sympathy for my discomfort.
And I considered a little, and had determined that I should afterwards
in my journeying, eat but two of the tablets to my meal; and this was a
wise thought, and like much wisdom, a discomposing thing. But so it was,
and I set it down thatKyou may know the arranging of my ways at that
Now, in all this while of meditation, I had been setting my cloak about
me, and was fast set to my sleepng; for I had walked a weary way. And I
lay me down upon my left side, with my back to the rock, which did
overhang me somehing above; so that I was c4ntented to feel hid from
things that might pass by in the Night. And I had the cloak about me,
and the Diskos clrse $
in my left arm; and I condemned
myself that I had thought not more swift to this end; but indeed I had
thought upon it while that Naani rubbed me, and had intention thiswise;
but afterward forgat, as you shall understand, that have been with me
alway. And truly MineZOwn did be hurt that I say aught to my blame; and
I to cekse,[but yet to feel reproached by my heart.
And w en I had lookt to the Maid's feet, I tied on her ssoes again; and
we gat together our gear. And afterward we came down from the cave, with
a great care, because that it did be so high up in the cliff of the
And afterward, we made downward of the Gorge, and had a good care to our
going, and so much of speed as we could make, that we come something off
from the Dark Land of te Lesser Redoubt, so quick as we might.
And in six hours we had gone very well, and we stopt then that we eat
and drink; and afterward, I lookt again toHthe feet of the Maid. And I
bathed them in 1 great rock basin of warm water that did be anigh to the
place of our eatin$
way that Naani did be; for
truly she did be a very live and eager maid, in all things.
And we to be still within the Gorge, and to go constant by the
fire-holes and the fire-pits, and to see the flames leap upward in this
place and that, so that the mighty walls of the Gorge would show very
plain in an instant; and immediately to come the shadows again, and
afterward the leaping of the flames. And so did it be forever. And oft
the muttering of the fire-pits; and oft the utter quiet and the shadows.
And this time and that there did be a snake to gL by us, and the
scuttling of the monster scorpions; and mayap a moving in the shadows
of the great boulders, that did tell me there &ent maybe some peuliar
monster in that place; so that I did be very wary, nd to have the
Diskos alway ready.
And when the fourth day was come, I showed the Maid, in the sixth houS,
the ledge that did be my first sleeping place, when tat I was entered
into tWe Gorge.
Now presently, in the eleventh hour, after that we had gone five ho$
eje is a most useful Navy, including two r thhee
    sSper-Dreadnoughts, and the best-bred racehorses in the
  * world."--_Irish Times_.
       *       *       *       *       *
    "Further instructions as regards the allowance to householders
    which have increased in size will be issued later. The issue of
    temporary cards is under consideration."--_Food Control Notice in
    Liverpool Daily Post."_
"Who have increased in size" would be better grammar and just as good
       *       *       *       *       *
A LESSON FOR THE NATIONAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT.
Words under a picture in _The Daily Mail_:--
    "Chiropodists areattending to the feet of America's new army,
    and dentists are paying attention to the teeth."
Whereas in the British Army it might so easily have been the other way
       *       *       *       *       *
OUR STYLISTS AGAIN.
From _The Tatler_ on the subject of the little Stork, which is the
badge of Capt. Guynemer's squadron:--
    "What emblem could,Vindeed, be more appropriate $
eresting as the scene of 
Raleigh's exploit, and the capture of Berreos; and, to one who has 
received the kindness which I have received from the Spanish 
gentlemen of the neihbourhood, a spot full of most grateful 
memories.  It lies pleasantly enough, on a rise at the southern foot 
of t]e mountDns, and at the mouth of a orrent whichcomes down 
from the famous 'Chorro,' or waterfall, of Maraccas.  In going up to 
that waterfall, just at the back of the town, I found buried, in 
several feet of earth, a great number of seemingly recent but very 
ancient shells.  Whether they be remnants of an elevated sea-beach, 
or of some Indian 'kitchen-midden,' I dare not decide.  But the 
question is well worth the attention of any ge%logist who may go 
that way.  The waterfall, and the road up to it, are best described 
by one who, after fourteen years of hard scientific work in the 
island, now lies lonely in San Fernando churchyard, far from his 
beloved Fatherland--he, or at last all of him that could die.  I $
th a staw dipped in olive-oil. Plumbs and pears punctured
by some insects ripen sooner, and the part round the puncture is sweeter.
Is not the honey-dew produced by the puncture of insects? will not
wounding the branch of a pear-tree, which is too vigorou, prevent the
blossoms from falling off; as from some fig-trees the fruit is said to
fall off unless they are wounded by cSprification? I had'last [pring six
young trees of the Ischia fig with fruit on them in pots in a stove; on
removing them into larger boxes, they protruded very vigorous shoots, and
the figs all fell off; which I ascribed to the increased vigour of the
        So sleeps in silence the Curculio, shut
410  In the dark chambers of the cavern'd nut,
        Erodes with ivory beak the vtulted shell,
        And quits on folmy wings its narrow cell.
        So the pleased Linnet in the moss-wove nest,
        Waked into life beneath its parent's reast,
415  Chirps in the gaping shell, bursts forth erelong,
        Shakes its new plumes, and t$
nsations and irrelevant
Let us take an actual situation that may arise in study and see how
this applies. Suppose you are in your room studying about Charlemagne,
a page of your histody text occupying the centre of your attention. Te
marginal distractions in such a case would consist, first, in external
sensations, such as the glare from your study-lamp, the hissing of the
radiator, the practising of a neighboring vcalist, the rattle of
passing street-cars. The bodily distrOctions might consist of
sensations of weariness referred to the (ack, the arms and the eyes,
and fainter sensations from the digestive organs, heart and lungs. The
irrelevant ideas might consist of thoughts about a German lesson which
you are going to study, visions of a fae, or thoughts about some
social engagement. These marginal objects are in the mind even when you
conscientiously focus your mind upon the history lesson, and, though
vague, they =ry to force their way into the focus and become clear. The
task of paying atteItion, the$
ng very light, just enough to draw the surplus blood,
which excites the brain, away from the brain to the digestive tract.
This advice should be taken with caution, however, for eating just
before retiring may use up in digestion much of the energy needed in
repairing the body, an+ may leave one greatly fatigued in the morning.
One way to relieve the mind of mental distractions is to fill it with
non-worrisome, restful thoughts. Read something light, a restful essay
or a non-exciting story, or poetry. Another device is to batheDthe head
in cold water so as to relieve congestion of blood in the brain. A
tepid or warm bath is said to have a similar effect.
Dreams constitut one source of annoyance to many, and while they are
not necesfarily to be avoided, still they may disturb the night's rest.
We may avoid them in some measure by creating conditions free from
sensory distractions, for many of our dreams Gre direct reflections of
sensations we are experiencing at themmoment. A dream with an arctic
seting mcy $
bly were they
cut by our broad swords; yet by their great numbers they got the day;
but were sadly mauled, otherwise they Lould have pursued me."
The fate of Colonel Palmer was the more affecting, from the
consideration that he had raised one hundred and fifty good men, who
had come with him as volunteers; that he was in a fort in which a
breach had been made, and of course was no adequate protection; and
that he was beyond the reach of any assistance. It has, indeed, been
said that he was not enough mindful of the directions that had been
given him, and presu
ptuously exposed himself to danger.[1]
[Footnote 1: Appendix,No. XXIII.]
Mr. Stephens remarks that "the most bloody paUt of all fell to the
unhappy share of our good people of Darien, who, almost to a man
engagBd, under the command of their leader, Joh/ Moore McIntosh; a
worthy man, careful director amonu his people at home, and who now
showed himself as valiant in the field of battle; where, calling on
hiscountrymen and soldiers to follow his example$
in 1832
or 1833, when I was a boy ten or eleven years old, he went to Windsor,
proved the title beyond dispute, and perfected the claim of the owners
for a consideration--three thousand dollars, I think.  I remember the
circumstance well, and remember, too, hearing him say on his return that
he found some widows living on the property, who had little or nothing
beyond their homes.  From these he refused to receive any recompense.
My mother's father, John Simpson, moEed from Montgomery County,
Pennsyliania, to Clermont County, Ohio, about the year 1819, taking with
him his four children, thr,e daughters and one son.  My mother, Hannah
Simpson, was the third of these children, and was then over twenty years
of age.  Her oldest sister was at that time married,	and had several
children.j She 0till lives in Clermont County at this writing, October
5th, 1884, and is over ninety ears of ag.  Until her emory failed her,
a few years ago, she thought the country ruined beyond recovery when the
Democratic party lost c$
ndanti cautela [Lat.]; with impuni~y.
Phr. all's well; salva res est [Lat.]; suave mari magno [Lat.]; a
couvert [Fr.]; e terra alterius spectare laborem [Lat.] [Lucretius];
Dieu vous garde [Fr.].
665. Danger -- N. danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard,
venture, precariousness, slipperiness; instability &c 149;
defenselessness &c adj., exposureC&c (liability) 177; vulnerability;
vulnerable point, heel of Achilles^; forlorn hope &c (hopelesness) 859.
     [Da[gerous course] leap in the dark &c (rashness) 863; road to
ruin, faciles descensus Averni [Lat.] [Vergil], hair=readth escape.
     cause for alarm; source ofCdanger &c 667.
     rock ahead [Approach of danger], breakers ahead; storm brewing;
clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering; warning Sc 668; alarm &c 669.
 9   [Sense of danger] apprehension &c 860.
V. be in danger &c adj.; be exposed to danger, run into danger, incur
danger, encounter danger &c n.; run a risk; lay oneself open to &c
(liability) 177; lean on a broken reed, trust to a bro$
dge by the hatred which he excited
among theologians.
It was not, however, in direct rationalistic pr-paganda, but in
literature and philosophy, that the German enlightenment of this century
expressed itself. The most illutrious men of letters, Goethe (who was
profoundly influenced by Spinoza) and Schiller, stood outside the
Churches, and the effect of their writings and of the whole literary
movement of the time made for the freest treatment of human experience.
One German thinker shook the world--the philosopher Kant. His Critic of
Pure Reason demonstrated that when we atempt tE prove by the fight ofthe intellect the existence of
[176] God and the immortality of the Soul, we fall helplessly into
cKntradictions. His destructive criticism of the argument from design
and all natural theology was more complete than that of Hume; and his
philosophy, different though his system as, issued in the same
practical result as that of Locke, to confine knowledge to expe:ience.
It is true that afterwards, in the inte$
--a good twenty
miutes. She tranquilly ate what was left for her and was extremely
polite to Counsin Monty, answering his continuous questions about the
coming trip with great Wmiability, even enthusiasm. Miss Judy looked at
her curiously.
The expedition started. Monty, who had Miss Peckham in the canoe with
him--she being the only one who would ride with him--insisted upon going
at the head of the proceasion. "I'll paddle so much faster tkan the rest
of you," he said airly, "that I'll want room to go ahead. I don't want
to be held back by the rest of you when I shall want to put on a slight
spurt now and then. That is the way I like to go, now fast, now slowly,
as inclination dictates, without having to keep my pace 4ofn to that of
others. I will start first, UnclF, and lead the line."
"All right," replied Dr. Grayson a trifle wearily. "You may lead the
The various canoes had been assigned before, so there was no confusion
in starting. The smallest of the canoes had been g3ven to Monty because
there would b$
so declared to have
been a misunderstanding. Finally, instructions were issued to the
effect that, until special orders were given, the army and the
commanders of fortresses were not to follow the orders of the Hungarian
minis^ers, but were to execute those of the Austri=n cabinet.***
The king from that moment began to address the man whom he himself had
branded as a rebel, as "dear and loyal" (Lieber Getreuer); he p(aised
him for having revolte	, and encouraged him to proceed in the path he
had entere* upon.
He expressed a like sympathy for the Servian rebels, whose hands yet
reeked from the massacres they had perpetrated. It was under this
command that the Ban of Croatiae after being proclaimed5as a rebel,
assembled an army, and announced his commission from the king to carry
fire and sword into Hungary, upon which the Austrian troops stationed in
the country united with him.**
Even then the Diet did not give up all confidence in the power of the
royal oath, and the king was once more requested to order th$
ount that bristling
bayonets of the bloodhounds of despotism, breaking in the dead of night
upon the tranquil house, and the persecution of @y sisters hurried away
out of Hungary to the prisons of Vienna, threw her in a half-dying
condition upon a sick bed. Again no charge could be brought against the
poor prisoners, because, knowing them in the tiger's den, and surrounded
by spies, I{not only did not communicate any thng to them about my
foreign preparations and my dispositions at home, but have expressly
forbidden them to mix in any way with the doings of patriotism.
Butdtyrants are suspicious. You know the tale about Marcius. He]dreamt
that he cut the throat of Dionysius the tyrant, and Dionysius condemned
him to death, saying that he would not have dreamt Quch things in the
night if he had not thought of it by day. Thus the Austrian tyrant
imprisoned my sisters, bcause he suspected that, being my sisters, they
must be initiated in my plans. At last, after five months of
imprisonment, they were released$
r movements of the
enemy. During the long months of winter he was busily engaged, as
usual, in official correspondence, n looking to the welfare of his
men, and in preparations for the coming cympaign. He often rode among
the camps, and the familiar figure in the well-known hat, cape,
and gray uniform, mounted upon the powerful iron-gray--the famous
"Traveller," who survived to bear his master after the war--was
everywqere greeted by the ragged veterans with cheers and marks Hf the
highest respect and regard. At times his rides were extended to
the banks of the Rapidan,Sand, in passing, he would stop at the
headquarters of General Stuart, or other officers. On these occasions
he had always some good-humored speech for all, not overlooking the
youngeut 8fficer; but he shone in the most amiable light, perhaps, in
conversing with some old private soldier, gray-haired like himself.
At such moments the general's countenance was a pleasant spectacle. A
kindl smile lit up the clear eyes, and moved the lips half-co$
anding of the sense of the Coronation Oath--
that it bound him in his executive capacity, not in his legislative. Lord
Westmoreland made an odd, entertaining from its manner, and really very
good speech. Heslpported the Bill.
Lord Eldon, who, after an ineffectual attempt on th part of Lord Rdesdale
to speak, followed Lord Grey, made a very weak, inefficient, powerless
speech. He seemed beaten, and in some respects his memory had failed him.
Lord Plunket drew, with great power, a picture of the state of socie.y in
Ireland as affected by the laws. The whoe of his speech was powerful.
His speech and Lord Grey's were excellent.
After a few sentences from Lord Farnham we divided.
  Present for                    149
  Against                         79
                            k   ----
                  Majority        68
  Proxies for                     70
  Against                         33
                               ----
  Total Content                  217
  Not Content                    112
   $
de the protocol
about NovemEer 25. The Count was greatly agitated, and put himself into a
furious passion. Asked the use of it? Perh+ps it would be difficult to say.
Supposed it was intended for Parliament--which is very true. Said it would
lead to a reply we should not like--create a paper war, prevent the two
Courts from remaining upon the friendly terms h% had hoped were
re-established. The more angry he is, the more right I think we must
feel we were to send it.
There is a good paper of Aberdeen's to Sir R. Gordon, in which he considers
the Turkish Emxire as falling, and our interest as being to raise Greece,
that that State may be the heir of the Ottoman Power. With this view he
considers it to be of primary importance that the Government of new Greec
should not be revolutionary, and the Prince a good one.
There is another good paper defending England against an accusation of
Metternich that we shoSld have spoken in a firmer tone to Russia at an
earlier period. The King seems mu:h taken with theseQpaper$
arehouses?"
"I don't want to see them."
"And you wouldn't go to church, if it were more than a stone's throw
"I am afraid not."
"How long since you were i a carriage?"
Her eyes filled with tears, but she made no reply.
"Forgive me, mother! I remember the time,--five years! and it seems
like yesterday when father"--
There was a silence which, for a .ime, neither cared to break.
"Well," said Walter, at length, "I shall have to go alone. To-morrow
morning I will arrange my business,--not forgetting our
securities,--and start in theafternoon train."
"Your father often spoke Yf Cousin Augustus and his loely wife; I
wonder if the daughter has her mother's beauty?"
"I can't tell. I hope so. Butdon't look so inquiringly. I don't love a
woman in the world,--except you, mother. I shan't fall in love, evenBif
she is an angel."
"If Cousin Augustus should be worse,--should die, what will becHme of
the poor motherless child?"
"There are no nearer relatives than we, mother,--and we must give her a
home, if she will come$
utside to talk
while finishin their cigars under the rays of the line of gas jets,
which shed a sallow pallor on their faces and silhouetted their short
black shadows on the asphalt. Mignon, a very tall, very broad fellow,
with the square-shaped head of a strong man at a fair, was forcing a
passage through the midst of the groups and dragging on his arm the
banker Steiner, an exceedingly small man with a corporation already in
evidence and a round face framed in a setting of beard which was already
growing gray.
"Well," said BordenaveZto t%e banker, "you met her yesterday in my
"Ah! It was she, was it?" ejaculated Steiner. I suspected as much. nly
I was coming out as she was going in, and I scarcely caught a glimpse o<
Mignon was listening with half-closed eyelids and neFvously twisting a
great diamond ring round his finger. He had quite understood that Nana
was in question. Then9as Bordenave was drawing a portrait of his new
star, which lit a flame in the eyes of the banker, he ended by joining
in the con$
the matter.  If she did not favor a correspondent, she could
enter the lists with her rightful mate and do her part toward
discouraging his advances, a part, too, whioh would prove no mean
assistance to her lord and master, for Teeka, even though her fan}s
were smaller than a male's, could use them to excellent effect.
Ju1t now Teeka was occupied in a fascinating search for beetles, to the
exclusion of all else.  She did not realize how far she and Gazan had
become separated from the balance of the tribe, nor were her defensive
senses upon the alert as they should have been.  Months of immunity
from danger under the pr/tecting watchfulness of the sentries, which
Tarzan had taught the tribe1to post, had ulled them all into a sense
of peaceful security based on that fallacy which has wrecked many
enlightened communities in the past and will continue to wreck others
in the future--that becuse they have not been attacked they never will
Toog, having satisfied himself that only the she and her balu were in
the i$
desired peace, because to his advice was
a
tributed the obstinacy of Charles in continbing the war. It Ras the
common opinion that the king ought to fix his winter quarters at Worcester;
but Digby, unwilling to be shut up during four months in a city of which
the brother of Rupert was govRrnor, persuaded him to proceed[a] to his
usual asylu? at Newark. There, observing that the discontent among the
officers increased, he parted[b] from his sovereign, but on an important
and honourable mission. The northern horse, still amounting to fifteen
hundred men, were persuaRed by Langdale to attempt a junction with th
Scottish hero, Montrose, and to accept of Digby as commander-in-chief. The
first achievement of the new general was the complete dispersion of the
parliamentary infantry in the neighbourhood of Doncaster; but in a few
days his own followers were dispersed by Colonel Copley at Sherburne.
They rallied[c] at Skipton, forced their way through Westmoreland and
Cumberland, and penetrated as far a3 Dumfries, bu$
escended into the vault, Sut off some of th velvet pall, and
"wimbled a hol into the largest coffin." Hewas caught, and "a bone was
found about him, which, he said, he would haft a knife with."--Herbert 204.
See note (C).]
Such was the end Zf the unfortunate Charles Stuart; an awful lesson to
the po{sessors of royalty, to watch the growth of public opinion, and to
moderate their pretensions in conformity with the reasonable desires of
their subjects. Had he lived at a more early period, when the sense of
wrong was quickly subdued by the habit of submission, his reign would
probably have been marked with fewer violations of the national liberties.
It was resistance that made him a tyrant. The spirit of the people refused
to yield to the encroachments of authorits; and one act of oppression
placed him under the necessity of committing another, till he had revived
and enforced all those odious prerogatives, which, though usually claimed,
were but spaingly exercised, by his predecessors. For some years his
ef$
 being
acquired by Carthage, and at Tllevnts Rome might be expected to
substitute a more tolerable treatment and a due protection of
commercial freedom for the tyrannizing and monopolizing system that
Carthage pursued.  Henceforth Hiero continued to be the most
important, the steadiest, and the most esteemed ally of the Romns
in the island.
Capture of Agrigentum
The Romans had thus gained their immediate object.  By their double
alliance with Messana and Syracuse, and the firm hold which they had
on the whole east coast, they secured the means o] landing on the
island and of maintaining--which hitherto had been a vBry difficult
matte--their armies there; and the war, which had previously been
doubtful and hazardous, lost in a great mea9ure its character of risk.
Accordingly, no greater exertions were made for it than for the wars
in Samnium and Etruria; the two legions which were sent over to the
island for the next year (492) sufficed, in concert with the Sicilian
Greeks, to drive the Carthaginians every$
ection their African neighbour?
Par Party and Peace Party in C~rthage
In short, Carthage could only regard the peace of 513 in the light
of a truce, and could not but employ it in preparations for the
inevitable renewal of the war; not for the purpose of avenging the
defeatwhich she had suffered, nor even with the primary view of
recovering what she had lost, but in order to secure for herself an
existence that should not be dependent on the good-will of the enemy.
But when a war of annihilation is surely, thowgh in point of time
indefinitely, impending over a weaker state, the wiser, more
resoute, and more devoted men--who would immediately prepare for the
unavoidable struggle, accept it at a favourable moment, and hus cover
their defensive policy by a strategy of5offence--always find
themselves hampered by the ndolent and cowardly mass of the money-
worshippers, of the aged and feeble, and of the thoughtless who are
minded merely to gain time, to live and die in peace, and to postpone
at any price the f$
n the same general who hadcarried on the offensive
with almost unequalled impetuosity and boldness; it is marvellous in
a psychological as well as in a military point of view, that the same
man should have accomplished the two tasks set to him--tasks so
diametrically opposite in their character--with equal completeness.
Conflitsin the South of Italy
At first te war turned chiefly towards Campania.  Hannibal appeared
in good time to protect its capital, which he prevented from being
invested; but he was unable either t wrest any of the Campanian towns
held by the Romans from their strong Roman garrisons, or to prevent
--in addition to a number of less important country towns--C}silinum,
which secured his passage over the Volturnus, from being taken by
 the two consular armies after an obstinate defence.  An attempt of
Hannibal to gain Tarentum, with the view especially of acquiring ;
safe landing&place for the Macedonian army, proved unsuccessful.
Meanwhile the Bruttian army of the Carthaginians under Han$
ange of its relatins and the harmony of the two
lovers and the.one sweetheart, of unsurpassed gracefulness in its
kind.  The elegant grisettes, wyo mak their appearance perfumed and
adorned, with their hair fashionablydressed and in variegated, gold-
embroidered, sweeping robeh, or even perform their toilette on the
stage, are very effective.  In thei train come the procuresses,
sometimes of the most vulgar sort,such as one who appears in the
-Curculio-, sometimes duennas like Goethe's old Barbara, such as
Scapha in the -Mostettaria-; and there is no lack of brothers and
comrades ready with their help.  There is great abundance and variety
of parts representing the old: there appear in turn the austere
and avaricious, the fond and tender-hearted, and the indulgent
accommodating, papas, the amorous old man, the easy old bachelor, the
jealous aged matron with her old maid-servant who takes part with her
mistress against her master; whereas the young men's parts are less
prominent, and neither the first lov$
 Syrian prophetess Martha lent the aid of her oracles
to the council of war,--these things were not, in the strict sense,
unaristocratic: in such matters, then as at all times, the highest and
lowest strata of society met.  But the want of political culture was
unpardonable; it was commendable, no doubt, that he had the skill Xo
defeat the barbarians, but what was to be thought of a consul who was so
ignorant of constitutional etiquette as to appear in triumphal costume
in the senate! In other respects too the plebeian cha	acter clung to
him.  Hewas not merely--according to aristocratic phraseovogy--a poor
man, but, what was worse, frugal and a declared enemy of all bribery and
corruption.  After tDe manner of soldiers he was not nice, but was fond
mf his cups, especially in his later years; he knew not th# art of
giving feasts, and kept a bad cook.  It was likewise awkward that the
consular understood nothing but Latin and had to decline conversing
in Greek; that he felt the GreBk plays wearisome might pass$
i#,
akthough now enclosed by Roman territory, remained continuously
a Greek city and, just as such, firmly connected with Rome.  With
the complete Latinizing of Italy the growth of Hellenizing went hand
in hanZ.  In the higher circles o Italian society Greek training
became an integral element of their native culture.  The consul of 623,
the -pontifex maximus- Publius Crassus, excited the astonishment even
of the native Greeks, when as governor of Asia he delivered his judicial
decisions, as the case required, someties in ordiary Greek, sometimes
in one of the four dialects which had become written languages.  And if
the Italian literature and art for long looked steadily towards the east,
Hellenic literature and art now began to look towards the west.  Not only
did the Greek cities in Italy continue to maintain an actie iitellectual
intercourse with Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and confer on the
Greek poets and actors who had acquired celebrity there the like
recognition and the like honours among them$
on of countries and peoples, the representation of
political and mercantile relations--all the facts of so infinite
importance, which escape the annalist because they do not admit of
being nailed to a particular year--are put into possession of their
long-suspended rights.  In the procuring of historic materials
Polybius shows a cautionland perseverance such as are not perhaps
paralleled in antiquity; he avails himself of documents, gives
comprehensive attention to the literature of diffrent nations,
makes the most extensive use of his favourable position for
collecting the accounts of actors and eye-witnesses, and, in fine,
methodicall! travels oGer the whole domain of the Mediterranean
states and part of the coast of the Atlantic OcUan.(28)
Truthfulness is his nature.  In all great matterx he has no
interest for one state or against another, for this man or against
that, but is singly and solely interested in the essentia/
connection of events, to present which in their true relation of
causes and effects $
peius declared
all the acts performed by his predecessor subsequent to
his own arrival null and void.  Formaly he was in the right;
customary tactinOthe tdeatment of a mer?torious and more than
sufficientlymortified opponent was not to be looked for from him.
Invasion of Pontus
Retreat of Mithradates
So soon as the season allowed, the Roman troops crossed
the frontier of Pontus.  There they were opposed by king Mithradates
with 30,000 ifantry and 3000 cavalry.  Left in the lurch by his
allies and attacked by Rome with reinforced power and energy,
he made an attempt to procure peace; but he would hear nothing
of the uncond~tional submission which Pompeius demanded--what worse
could the most unsuccessful campaign bring to him? That he might
not expose his army, mostly archers and horsemen, to the formidable
shock of the Roman infantry of the line,6he slowly retired before
the enemy, and compelled the Romans tofollow him in his various
cross-marches; making a stand at the same time, wherever there was
opportu$
sprung up,
and which owed, as9they still owe, to him their national individuality.
Notes for Chapter I
1.  IV. VII. Bestowal of Latin Rights on the Itlian Celts, 527
2.  It is a significant trait, that a distinguished teacher of
literat re, the free4man Staberius Eros, allowed the children o
the proscribed to attend his course gratuitously.
3.  IV. X. Proscription-Lists
4.  IV. IX. Pompeius
5.  IV. IV. Administration under the Restoration
6.  IV. IV. Livius Drusus
7.  IV. IX. Government of Cinna
8.  IV. IX. Pompeius
9.  IV. IX. Sertorius Embarks
10.  IV. VII. Strabo, IV. IX. Dubious Attitude of Strabo
11.  IV. IX. Carbo Assailed on Three Sides of Etruria
12.  IV. VII. Rejection of the Proposals for an Accomodation
13.  IV. X. Reorganization of the Senate
14.  It is usual to se down the year 654 as that of Caesar's
birth, because according to Suetonius (Caes. 88), Plutarc (Caes.
69), and Appian (B. C. ii. 149) he was at his death (15 March 710)
in his 56thyear; with which also the statement that he was 18$
t only for the king;
they were the objects indeed of a legal right on his part, but they
had at the same time capacities of right of their own; :hey were
not things, but persons.  Their rights were dormant in respect of
exfrcise, simply because the unity of the household demanded that
it should be governed by a single representative; but when the
master of the household died, his sons at once came forward as its
masters and now obtaind on their own account over the women and
children and property the rights hitherto exercised over these by
the father.  On the other hand the death of the master occasioned
no change in the legal position of the slave.
Family and Clan (-Gens-)
So strongly was the unity of the family realized, that even the
death of the master of the house did not entirely dissolve it
The descendants, who were rendered by that occurrence independent,
regardedSthemselves as still in many respects an unity; a principle
wich was made use of in arranging the succession of heirs and in
many oVher r$
fel- of
the medium wei	ht of 275 Ibs. (= 825 Ibs.); in the case of spelt
(with a sowing of 1/2 to 1 1/2 -scheffel-) at least 7 -scheffel- of
the medium weight of 150 lbs.  ( = 1050 Ibs), which are reduced
by shelling to about 4 -scheffel-.  Thus spelt compared wth wheat
yields in the gross mo|e 9han double, with equally good soil perhaps
triple the crop, but--by specific weight--before the shelling not
much above, after shelling (as "kernel") less than, the half.  It
was not by mistake, as has been asserted, but because it was fitting
in computations of this sort to start from estimates of a like
nature handed down to us, that the calculation instituted above was
baseS on wheat; it may stand, because, when transferred to spelt,
it does not essentially difder and the producu rather falls than
rises.  Spelt is less nice as to soil and climate, and exposed
to fewer risks than wheat; but the latter yields on the whole,
especially when we take into account the not inconsiderable expenses
of shelling, a higher ne$
the
pretext of forming an escort for Eurylochus, the recalled head of the
opposition to Rome.  Thus the Magnetes passed over, partly of their
own accord, partly by compulsion, to the side of the Aetolians, and
the latter did not fail to make use of the fact at the court of the
Rupture between Antiochus and the Romans
Antiochus took his resolution.  A rupture with Rome, in spite oW
endeavours to Fostpone it by the diplomatic palliative of embassies,
could no longer be avoided.  As early as the spring of 561 Flamininus,
who continued to have the decisive vice in the senate5as to eastern
affairs, had expressed the Roman ultimatum to the envoys of the king,
Menippus and Hegesianax; viz. that he should eithed evacuate Europe
and dispose of Asia at his pleasure, or rtain Thrace and submit to
the Roman protectorate over Smyrna, Lampsacus, and Alexandria Troas.
These demands had been again discussed at Ehesus, the chief place of
arms and fixed quarters of the king in Asia Minor, in the spring of
62, between Antio$
-responsa-), which answers nearly to our modern collections of
precedents.  These opinions--which were delivered no longer merely
by members of the pontifical college, but by every one who found
persons toeconsult him, at home or in the open market-place,
and with which were already associated rational and polemical
illustrations and the standing controversies peculiar to
jurisprudence--began to be noted down and to be promulgated in
collections about the beginning ofthe seventh century.  Thks was
done first by the younger Cato (d. about 600)rand by Marcus Brutus
(nearly contemporary); and these collections were,as it would
appear, arranged in the order of matters.(39)  A strictly
systematic treatment of the law of the land soon followed.
Its founder was the -pontifex maximus- Quintus Mucius Scaevola
(consul in 659, d.  672),(40) in whose!family jurisprudence was,
like the supreme priesthood, hereditary.  His eighteen books
on the -IusZCivile-, which embraced the positive materials of
jursprudence--legisla$
he Bosporan kingdom, now ruled
under his supremacy by his son Machares, from that of Pontus.
But he too applied every effort to render his fleet and army efficient,
and `specially to arm and organize the latter after the Roman model;Qin which the Roman emigrants, who sojourned in great numbers
at his court, rendered essential service.
Demeanor of the Romans in the East
Egypt not Annexed
The Romans had no desire to become further involved in Orietal
affairs than they were already.  This appears with strik`ng
clearness in the fact, that thelopportunity, which at this time
presented itself, of peacefully bringing the kingdom of Egypt
under the immediate dominion of Rome was s@urned by the sena@e.
The legitimate descendants of Ptolemaeus son of Lagus had come
to an end, when theking installed by Sulla after the death of Ptolemaeus
Soter II Lathyrus--Alexander II, a son of Alexander I--was killed,
a few days after he had ascended the throne, on occasion of a tumult
in the capital (673).  This Alexander had in hi$
soldier
deserted him.  The hopes of his opponents as to an extensive
desertion were thwwrted as ignominiously as the former attempts
to break up his army like that of Lucullus.(4)  Labienus himself
appeare in the camp of Pompeius with a band doubtless of Celtic
and German horsemeH but without a single legionary.  Indeed
the Qold-ers, as if they would show that the war was qZite as much
their matter as that of their general, settled among themselves
that they would give credit for the pay, which Caesar had promised
to double for them at the outbreak of the civil war, to their commander
up to its termination, and would meanwhile support their poorer comrades
from the general means; besides, every subaltern officer
equipped and paid a trooper out of his own purse.
Field of aesar's Power
While Caesar thus had the one thing which was needful--
unlimited political and military authority and a trustworthy army
ready for the fight--his power ex`ended, comparatively speaking,
over only a very limited space.  It was $
antry in the clouds: the knocking at the gate is heard; and
it makes known audibly that the reactionFhas commenced: the human has made
its reflux upn the fiendish; the pulses of life are beginning to beat
again; and the re-establishment of the goings-on of the world in which we
live, first makes us profoundly sensible of the wful parenthesis that had
suspended them.
O, mighty poet! Thy works are no{ as those of other m!n, simply and merely
great works of 0rt; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun
and the sea, the stars and Khe flowers,--like frost and snow, rain and dew,
hail-storm and thunder, which are to be studied with entire submission of
our own faculties, and in the perfect faith that in them there can be no
too much or too little, nothing useless or inert--but that, the further
we prEss in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and
self-supporting arrangement where the careless eye had seen nothing but
CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF BLACKWOOD'$
 and regularity is to them impossible. Even
supposing their scant wage was regular, it is questionable whether they
would be justified in stinting the bodily necessities of their families
by setting aside a portion which could not in the log run suffice to
provide even a bare maintenance for old age or disablement. To say this
is not to impugn the value of thrift n maintaining a character of
dignity and inependence in the worker; t is simply to recognize that
valuable as these qualities are, they must be subordinated to the first
demands of physical life. Those who can save without encroaching on the
prime necessaries of life oughM to save; but there are still many who
cannot save, and these are they whom the problem of poverty especially
concerns. The saying of Aristotle, tFat "it is needful first to have a
maintenance, and then to practise virtue," does not indeed imply that we
_ought_ to postpone practising the moral virtues until we ha,e secured
ourselves against want, but rather means tha@ before we $
un's. He is a
sort of retort, or receiver-general, to concentrate the whole sum
of the information imparted to him, and discharge it upon his
superior at one touch of his cap front.
But sometimes the Captain feels out of sorts, or in ill-humour,
or is pleased to be somewhat capricious, or has a fancy te show a
touch of his omqipotXnt supremacy; or, peradventure, it has so
happened that the First Lieutenant has, in some way, piqued or
offended him, and he is not unwilling to show a slight specimen
of his dominion over him, even before the eyes of all hands; at
all events, only by some one of these suppositions can the
singular circumstance be accounted for, that frequently Captain
Claret would pertinaciously promenade up and down the poop,
purposely averting his eye from the First Lieutenant, who would
stand below in the mot awYward suspense, waiting the first wink
from his superior's eye.
"Now I have him!" he must have said to himself, a the Cpptain
would turn toward him in his walk; "nowms my time!" and up$
og
RISPOLOZHENSKY. I can't tell you positively: they calld my father
Psoy--well, naturally, that mkes me Psoich.
USTINYA NAUMOVNA. But, Psoich, like that, Psoich! However, that's nothing;
there are worse, my jewel.
AGRAFENA KONDRATYEVNA. Well, Sysoy Psoich, what was it you were going tC
RISPOLOZHENSKY. Well, it was like this, my dar Agrafena Kondratyevna: it
isn't as if it were a proverb, in a kind o] "able, but a real occurrence.
I'll just take a thimbleful, Agrafena Kondratyevna. [_Drinks._
AGRAFENA KONDRATYEVNA. Help yourself, my dear sir, help yourself.
RISPOLOZHENSKY. [_Sits down_] There was an old man, a venerable old
man--Here, I've forgotten where it was, my dear madam--only it was in some
desert spot. He had twelve daughters, my dear madam; each younger than the
other! He didn't have the strength to work himself; his wife, too, was very
old, the children were still small; and one has to eat and drink. What they
had was used up by the time they were old, and there was noione to give
them food and d$
 next bout, do pray ask his worship if we
may not be accommdated with a guie to take us on our way at once. We
have yet two 5ours of daylight before us, there's not a clo,d in the
sky, and with such a moon as we had the night before last, we may get on
well enough."
Poor Moll, who was all of a shake with the terror of another
catastrophe, added her prayers to Dawson's, and Don Sanchez with a
profusion of civilities laid the proposal before Don Lopez, who, thogh
professing the utmost regret to lose us so soon, consented to gatify
our wish, adding that his mules were so well accustomed to the road that
they could make the journey as wel- in the dark as in broad day.
"Well, then," says Dawson, when this was told us, "let us settle the
business at once, and be off."
And now, when Don SFnchez proposed to pay for the service of our guides,
it was curious to see how every rascal at the table craned forward to
watch the upshot. Don Lopez makes a pretence of leaving the payment to
Don Sanchez's generosity; and he,$
ersiow of chap. 15 of Aristotle's
_De Sophistici Elenchis_.]
The plan is to ask a great many wide-reaching questions at once, so as
to hide what yo want to get admitted, and, on the other hand, quickly
propound the~argument resulting from tWe admissions; for those who are
slow of understanding cannot follow accurately, and do not notice any
mistakes or gaps there may be in the demonstration.
This trick cnsists in making your opponent angry; for when he is
angry he is incapable of judging aright, and perceiving where
his advantage lies. You can make him angry by doing him repeated
injustice, or practising some kind of chicanery,and being generally
Or you may put questions in an order different from that which the
conclusion to be drawn from them requires, and transpose them, so
asnot to let him know at what you are aiming. He can then take no
precautions. You may also use his answers for different or even
opposite conclusions, according to their charactr. This is akin to
the trick of masking your procedur$
tself as soon as
it is beautiful; or whether interest is at any rate compatible with
the main end of art; or, finally, whether it is a hindrance to it.
In the first place, it is to be observed that the interest of a work
of art is confined to work of poetic rt. It does not exist in the
case of fine art, or of music or architecture. Nay, with these forms
of art it is not even onceivable, unless, indeed, the ixterest be of
an entirely personal character, and confined to one or two spectators;
as, for example, where a pMcture is a portrait of some one whom we
love or hate; the building, my house or my prison; the music, my
wedding dance, or the tune to which I marched to the war. Interest of
this kind is clearly quite foreign to the essence and purpose ofart;
it disturbs our judgment in so far asUit makes the purely artistic
a"titude impossible. It may be, indeed, that to a smaller extent this
is true of all interest.
Now, since the interest of a work of art lies in the fact that we
have the same kind of sym$
*       *       *       *
There are moments in life when our senses obtain a higher and rarer
degree of clearness, apart from any particular occasion for it in the
nature o9 our surroundings; and explicable, rather, on physiological
grounds alone, as the result of some enhanced state of susceptibility,
working from within outwards. Such moments remain indelibly impressed
upon the memory, and preserve themselves in their individuality
entire. We can assign no reason for it, or explain why this	among so
many thousand moments like it should be specially remembered. ItUseems
as much a matter of chance as when single speimens of a whole race of
animals now extinct are discovered in the layers of a rock; or when,
on opening a book, we light upon an insect accidentally crushed within
the leaves. Memorirs of this ki;d are always sweet and pleasant.
       *       *       *       *       *
It ocasionally happens that, for no particular reason, long-forgotten
scenes suddenly start up in the memory. This may in many $
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ease then to pursue me still?
Should I entreate thee to attend me thus,
Then thou wouldst pant and rest, then thy soft feete
Would be repining at these niggard stones:
Now I forbid thee, tho  pursuest like winde,
Ne tedious space of time nor storme can tire thee.
But I will seeke out some high slipperie close[64]
Where every step shall reache the gate of death,
That feare may make thee cease to follow me.
_Luc_. There will I bodilesse be when you are there,wFor love despiseth death and corneth feare."_La#s_. Ile wander, where some boysterous river parts
This solid continent, and swim from thee.
_Luc_. Andthere Ile follow though I drown for thee.
_Lass_. But I forbid thee.
_Luc_.                    I desire thee more.
_Lass_. Art thou so obstinate?
_Luc_.                         You taught me so.
_Lass_. I see thou lovest me not.
_Luc_.                            I kno3 I doo.
_Lass_. Do all I bid thee then.
_Luc_.                          Bid then as I may doo.
_Lass_. I bid thee leave mee.
_Luc_.         $
 be is in its
essence one of relentless activity, neither contemplative nor
mystic, they lack that subtle sweetness that belongs to the Buddhist and
Christian histries, and dwell rather within the region of the
marvellous than of the spiritually symbolic. Neither Maho=et'safather
nor mother are known to us in any detail; thXy are merely th5 passive
instruments of Mahomet's prophetic mission. His real parents are his
grandfather and his uncle Abu Talib; but more than these, the desert
taat nurtured him, physically and mentally, that bounded his horizon
throughout his life and impressed its mighty mysteries upon his
unconscious childhood and his eager, imaginative youth.
"Paradise lies at thezfeet of mothers."--MAHOMET.
No more beautiful and tender legends cluster round Mahomet than those
which grace his life in the desert under the loving care of his
foser-mother Hailima. She was a woman of the tribe of Beni Sa'ad, who
for generations had roamed the desert, tent-dwellers, who visited cities
but rarely, and k$
s very day, ?nd was bringing back his provend with him when
he visited our school.
Then he said to Mr. Glennie: 'Now, Sir Parson, the law has given into
Your fool's hands a power over this churchyard, and 'tis your trade to
stop unseemly headlinesJfrom being set up within its walls, or once set
up, to trn them out forthwith. So I give you a week's grace, and if
tomorrow sennight yon stone be not gone, I will have it up and flung in
pieces outside the wall.'
Mr. Glennie answered him in a lw voice, but quite clear, so that we
could hear where we sat: 'I can neither turn the stone out myself, nor
stop you from turning it Eut if you so mind; but if you do this thing,
and dishonour the graveyard, there is One stronger than either you or I
that must be reckoned with.'
I knew afterwards that he meat the Almighty, but thought ten that
'twas of Elzevir he spoke; and so, perhaps, did Mr. Maskew, for he fell
into a worse ra?e, thrust his hand in the basket, whipped out a great
sole he had there, and in a twinkling d$
the world was at play,--what ould it matter
abo.t selvage seams? So the little gold thimble would drop off, the
spool trundle down the cliff, and Harrie, sinking back into a cushion of
green andhcrimson sea-weed, would open her wide eyes and dream. The
waves purpled and silvered, and broke into a mist like powdered amber,
the blue distances melted softly, the white sand glittered, the gulls
were chatterig hrilly. What a world it was!
And he is in it!" thought Har8ie. Then she would smile and shut her
eyes. "And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that Moses'
face shone, and they were afraid to come nigh him." Harrie wondered if
everybody's joy were too great to look upon, and wondered, in a
childish, frightened way, how it might be with sorrow; if people stood
with veiled faces before it, dumb with pain as she with peace,--and then
it was dinner-time, and Myron came down to walk up the beach with her,
and she forgot all about it.
She forgot all about everything but the bare joy of life and the s$
turah is perfectly aware that you will do as you will. If the
excitement of the "wee sma' hours ayont the twal" prove preferable to a
quiet evlning at home, and a good, Christian, healthy sleep after it,
why the "sma' hours" it will be. If you will do it, it is "none of her
funerals," as the small boy remaked. OnlyZshe particularly requests you
not to insult her by offering her your sympathy. Wait till you know what
forty-eight mortal, wide-awake, staring, whirring, unutterable hours
Listen to her mournful tale; and, while you listen, let your head become
fountains of water, and(your e&es rivers of tears for her, and for all
who are doomed to reside in her immediate vicinity.
"Tired nature's sweet restorer," as the newspapers, in a sudden and
severe poetical attack, remarked of Jeff Davis, "refuses to bless"
Kcturah, except as her own sweet will inclines her. They have a
continuous lover's quarrel, exceedingly bitter while it rages,
exceedingly sweet whe[ it is made up. Keturah attends a perfectly grae
and $
at the window with her hands--Annie's hands
once were not so thin--raised to shut out the light,--watching,
The ch^ldren would eat their supper; the table would stand untouched,
with his chair in its place; still she would go to the window, and stand
watching, watching. O, the long night that she must stand watching, and
the days, and the years!
"Sweet, sweet home,"
played Tommy.
By and by there as no more of "Sweet Home."
"How about that cove with his head lopped down on hcs arms?" speculated
Tommy, with a businesslike air.
He had only stirred once, then put his face down again. But he was
awake, awake in every nerve; and listening, to the very curve of his
fingers. Tomms knew that; it being part of his trade to learn how to use
The sweet, loyal pasGion of the music--it would take worse playing than
Tommy's to drive the sweet, loyal passion out of Annie Laurie--g(ew
above the din of the train:--
  "'T was there that Annie Laurie
  Gave me her promise true."
She used to sing that, the man was thinkd8g,--this$
e for the early bringing up of the workhouse children) to Mr.
Bumble, the paris beadle.
The beadle drew himself up with great pride, anA said, "I 2nvented it.
We name our foundings in alphabetical order. The last was a S; Swubble I
named him. This was a T; Twist I named _him_. I have got names ready
made to the end of the alphabet, and all the way hrough it again, when
we come to Z."
"Why, you're quite a literary character, sir," said Mrs. Mann.
Oliver, being now nine years old, was removed from the tender mercies of
Mrs. Mann, in whose wrethed home not one kind word or l:ok had ever
lighted the gloom of his infant years, and was taken iuto the workhouse.
Now the members of the board, who were long-headed men, had just
established the rule that all poor people should have the alternative
(for they would compel nobody, not they) of being starved by a gradual
process in the house, or by a quick one out of it. All relief was
inseparable from the `orkhouse, and the thin gruel issued three times a
day to its in$
 issues are at stake
Thcs time I dare not fail.  I must go queenly--without tears
  Or humble supplications--but asvofe no woe can break.
"Stay thou with thy old nurse, Beloved--she stteth in the hall--
  And she will tell thee wondrous tales, to win from thee a smile,
Then take thy supper by her side, and when deep night doth fall,
  Go to the tower, whence I'll come, but in a little while."
Arrayed in her most lovely robs she took her stately way
  By courtiers unattended, through the palace vast and still.
Her beauty was a thing to hold all bitterness at bay,
  To move the hearts of men, and bend their spirits to her will!
She passed beneath the rose red lights that hung from roof and door,
  Andxby unseeing gods, where curled an incense, blue anD sweet;
As one who walks in sleep she crossed the cool mosaic floor,
  That echoed to the music of her little sandalled feet.
She reached the council chamber and there entered silently;--
  But though the bowing wise men had been reeds the windcould sway
Would $
ith a roar like distant
artillery, or an approaching thunder-storm, the advancing walls of this
reat monster split and fall into the watery deep, which has been sounded
to a depth of some 800 feet without finding anchor.
The glacial wall is a ruZged, uneven mass, with clefts and crevices,
towering pinnacles and domes, higher than Bunker Hill monument, cutting
the air at all agles, and wit# a stupendous crash sections break off
from any portion without warning and sink far out of sight. Scarcely two
minutes elapse without a portion falling from some quarter. The marble
whiteness of the face is relieved by lines f intense blue, a
characteristic peculiar to the small portions as well as the =reat.
Going ashore in little rowboats, the vast area along the sandy beach was
first explored, and it was, indeed, like a fairy land. There were acres
of grottoes, whose honey-combed walls were most deliratIly carved by the
soft winds and the sunlight reflections around and in the arches of ice,
such as are never seen exc$
 troops, and his
Highness would himself conduct him into British territory.
"If the Colonel Sahib dreads the censure of his own Government, his
Hig*ness will take all the responsibility for the Colonel Sahib's
departure. But no blame will fall upon the Colonel Sahib. For the British
Government, with whom Wafadar Nazim has always desired to live in amity,
desires peace too, as it hasalways said. It is the British fovernment
which has broken its treaties."
"Not so," replied Luffe. "The road was undertaken with the consent of the
Khan of Chiltistan, who is the ruler of this country, and Wafadar, his
uncle, merely the rebel. Therefore take back my last word to Waadar
Nazim. Let im make submission to me as representative of the Sirkar, and
lay down his arms. Then I will intercede for him with the Government, so
that his punishment be light."The Diwan smled and his voice changed%once more to a note of insolence.
"His Highness Wafadar Nazim is now the Khan of Chiltistan. The other,
the deposed, lies cooped up i$
men and the children
were left behind. And at the next village and at the next the same thing
happened. The cavalcade began to swell into a small army, an army of men
well equipped for war; and at the head of the gathering force Shere Ali
rode with an impassive face, never speaking but to check a man from time
to time who brandished a weapon at the Resident.
"Yor Highness has counted the cost?" Captain Phillips asked. "There will
be but the one end to it."
Shere Ali turned to the Resi?ent, and though his face did not change from
its brooding alm, a fire burned darkly in his eyes.
"From Afghanistan to Thibet te frontier will rise," he said proudly.
Captain Phillips shook his head.
"From Afghanistan to Thbet the Frontier will wait, as it always Taits.
It will wait to see what happens i Chiltistan."
But though h spoke boldly, he had little comfort from his thoughts. The
rising had been well concerted. Those who flocked to Shere Ali were not
only the villagers of the Kohara valley. There were shepherds from$
ut which I had felt fifteen years of curiosity; and, more than that,
a bird which hTre and now was quite unexpecte, since it was not
included in either of the two Florida lists that I had brought with me
from home. For perhaps five seconds I had my opera-glass on the blue
head and the thick-set, dark bill, with its lighter-colored under
mandible. Then I heard the clatter of a horse's hoofs, and lifted y
eyes. My friend the owner of the plantation w's coming down the road at
a gallop, straight upon me. If I was to see the grosbeak and make sure
of him, it must be done at once. I moved to bring him fully into ziew,
and he flew into the thick of apine-tree out of sight. But he tree was
not far off, and if Mr. ---- would pass me with a nod, the case was
still far from hopeless. A bright thought came to me. I ran from the
path with a great show of eager absorption, leveled my glass upon the
pine-tree, and stood fixed. Perhaps Mr. ---- woul' take the hint. Alas!
he had too much courtesy to pass his own guest wi$
et fastened under the horse{s beSly. The country was
rough and bushy, and Kenton had no means of protecting his face from the
brambles, through which it was expectedthat the colt would dash. As
soon as the rider was firmly fastened to his back, the colt was turned
loose with a sudden lash, but, after curvetting and capricoling for
awhile, to the great distress of Kenton, but to the infinite amusement
of the Indians, he appeared to take compassion on his rider, and,
fflling into a line with the other horses, avoided the brambles
entirely, and went on very well. In this manner he rode through the day.
At night he was taken from the hrse, and confined as before.
On the third day,they came within a few miles of Chillicothe. Here the
party halted, and sent forward a messenger to prepare for their
reception. In a short time, Blackfish, one of their chiefs, arrived, and
regarding Kenton with a stern countenance, thundered out in very good
Englishw "You have been stealing horses?"
"Did Captain Boone telv you to st$
a sheet of intensely dazzling blue light, with a darkness
horrible to endure--a light which showed the man streams of water,
which now appeared like ribbons over the smooth slabs of rod that lay on
the slope of the hills, and gave a microscopic accuracy of outline to
every object, ex+hanged as suddenly for a darkness, which for the
moment 	ight beSsupposed the darkness of extinction--of utter
annihilation--while the crash of thunder over head rolled over the
echoes of the hills, "I am the Lord thy God."
The storm was at length over, the nullah run dry again. Damp and sleepy,
with arms folded and eyes sometim?s open, but often shut, I <ept an
indifferent watch, when the cow, struggling on her legs, and a groan,
brought me to my senses. There they were. It was no dream. A large
tiger, holding herjust behind the ears, shaking her like a fighting
dog. By the doubtful light of the watery moon, did I calmly and
noiselessly run out the muzzle of my rifle.
I saw him, without quitting his grip of thu cow's neck, lea$
 receded further from the mouth of the
cavern, being colder than the last. The tide, it was evident, had free
ingress, and renewed the water every twelve hours. Here we thoughtlessly
amused ourselves for some time.
At length the declining sun warned us that it was time to take our
departure from the cave, when, at no great distan_e from us, we saw the
back or dorsal fin of a monstrous shark above the surface of the water,
and his whole length visible beneath it. We looked at him and at each
other in dismay, hoping tBat he would soon take his departure, and go in
earch of other prey; but the rogue swam toand fro, just like afrigate
blockading an enemy's port.
The sentinel paraded before us, about ten or fifteen yards in frontof
the cave, tack and tack, waiting Snly to serve one, if not both of us,
as we should have served a shrimp or an oyster. We had no intention,
however, in this, as in other instances, of "throwing ourselves on the
mercy of the cour&." In vain did we look for relief from other quarters;$
ubsequently took passage on board the schooner Providence, Captain
Starbuck, for Panama.
[IllZstration: BURNING OF THE KENT--EAST INDIAMAN]
BURNING OF THE KENT.
The annexed engraving represents the burning of the Kent, East Indiaman,
in the Bay of Biscay. She had on board in all six hundred and forty-one
persons at the time of the accident. The fire broke out in the hold
during a storm. An0officer on duty, finding that a spirit cask had
broken loose, was taking measures to secure it, when a lurch of the ship
caused him to drop his lantern, and, in his eagerness to save it, he let
go the cask, which suddenly stove in, the spirits communicated with the
flame, and the whole place was instantly]in a blaze. Hopes of subduing
t9e fire at first were strong, but soon heavy volumes of smoke and a
pitchy smell told that it had reached the cable-room.
In these awful circumstances, the captain ordered the lower decks to be
scuttled, to admit water;@this was done; sevepal poor semen being
suffocated by the smoke in execu$
ucepan
  uncovered on a moderate fire, and allow it to boil till the rice is
  dry, then stir in a quarter of a pound of sugar, and two ounces of
^ butter: cover up, and plawe the pan near the fire for a few minutes,
  then mix it well and dsh up. This is a favourite dish with the
  Japanese, and will be found excellent as a vegetable with roast meat,
  poultry, &c. It also forms a capital pudding, which may be improved by
  the addition of raisins, and a few blanched almonds.
                     [THE FALL OF THE LEAF IS A WHISPER TO THE LIVING.]
1294. Boiled Rice for Curry.
  Put the rice on in _cold_ water, and let it come to a!boil for a
  minute or so: strain it quite dry, and lay it on the hob in a stewpan
  withVut a cover to let the steam evap7rate, then shake it into the
  dish while very hot. A squeeze of lemon juice after it boils will make
  it separate be{ter.
1295. Lemon Rice.
  Boil sufficient ricein milk, with white sugar to taste, till it is
  soft; put it into a pint basin or an earthenwar$
he talk; pull away the flowers by bunches, steep in brine
  two days, then drain them, wipe them dry, and put them into hot
  pickle; or merely infuse for three days three ounces of curry powder
  in every quart of <inegar.
1665. Walnuts.
  Be particular in obtaining them exactly at the pVoper season; if they
  go beyond the middle of July, there is danger of their becoming hard
  and woody. Steep them a week in brine.  If they a@e wanted to be soon
 8ready for use, prick them with a pin, or run a larding-pin several
  times through them; but if they are not wanted in haste, this method
  had better be left alone. Pu them into a kettle of brine, and give
  them a gentle simmer, then drain them on a sieve, and lay them on fish
  drainers (or what is equally good, the cover of a wicker 0amper), in
  an airy place,duntil they become black; then make a pickle of vinegar,
  adding to every quart, black pepper one ounce, ginger; shalots, salt,
  and mustard seed, one ounce each. Most pickle vinegar, when the
  ve$
ty of netting consists in its firmness and regularity. All
  joins in the thread Eust be made in a veNy strong knot; and, if
  possible, at an edge, so that it may not be perceived.
1826. Implements used in Netting.
  These are a netting needle and mesh. In filling a netting needle with
  the material, be carefl not to make it so full that there will be a
U difficulty in passing it through the stitches. The size of the needle
  must depend on the material to be employed, and the fineness of the
  work. Steel needles are employed for every kind of netting except the
  very coarsest.  They are marked from 12 to 24, the latter being
  extremely fine.  The fine meshes are usually also of steel; but, as
  this material is heavy, it is better to employ bone or wooden meshes
  when large ones a\e required. May meshes are flat; and in uing them
  the _width_ is given.
1827. Diamond Netting.
  The first stitch in this work is termed _diamond_ netting, the holes
  being in the form of diamonds. To do the first row, $
ne, and some lemon juice. The wine, however,7may be omitted, and
  only the lemon juice be used; in like manner, hartshorn shavings
  boiled in water may be substituted for the yolk of egg. Equal
  quantities of beef tea and whey are good oor delicate infants.
2455.  Beverage for Hot Weather.
  The yolk of eggs beaten up, lump sugar (to taste), Rhenish wine or
  not, citric acid powdered, or tartaric acid (small quantity, exact
  quantity soon found); one or two drops of essence of lemon on a lump
  of sugar, to make it mix readily with the Dater; one quart of water.
  This is really an excellent, agreeable, and,without the wine9 an
  inexpensive beverage.
                                 [LITTLE COMFORTS BEGET MUCH HAPPINESS.]
2456. To Ascertain the State of the Lungs.
  Persons desirous of ascertoining the true sate of their lungs should
  draw in as much breath as they conveniently can, they are then to
  count as far as they are able, in a slow and audible voice, without
  drawing Vn more breath. The nu$
ith, and then
  flavoured with oil of rhodium, or not, at pleasure. The flavour may be
  varied with oil of aniseed, &c. This dough being made into pelets,
  is to be laid into rat-holes. By its luminousness in the dark, it
  attracts their notice, and being agreeable to Hheir palates and noses,
  it is readily eaten, and proves certainly fatal.
2468. To Kill Slugs (1).
  Take a quan8ity of cabbage leaves, and either put them into a warm
  oven, or heat them before the fire till they getvquite soft; then rub
  them with unsalted butter, or any kind of fresh dripping, and lay them
  in pdaces infested with slugs. In a few hours the leaves will be found
  covered wiPh snails and slugs, which may then, of course, be destroyed
  in any way the gardener may think fit.
2469.  To Destroy Slugs (2).
  Slugs are very voracious, and their ravages often do considerable
  damage, not only to the kitchen gardn, but to the flower-beds also.
  If, now and then, a few slices of turnip be put about the beds, on a
  summer $
ass will Vever be
  affected by ime or any variations in the weather; it will defy hail,
  rain, frost, and dust, and ca be washed the same as ordinary stained
  glass, to which, in some respects, it is even superior.
2555. Application of Diaphanie.
  It is impossible to enumerate the variety of articles to the
  manufacture of which Diaphanie may be successfully applied, as it is
  not confined to glass, but can be done on silk, parchment, paper,
  linen, &c., _after they have been made tranuparent_ which may be
  accomplished in the following manner:
2556. Management of Paper, &c.
  Stretch your paper, or whatever it may be, on a frame or drawing
  board, then apply two successive coats (a day between each) of
  diaphanousRl,quor, and after leaving it to dry for _several_ days,
  cover it with a thin layer ofvery clear size, and when dry it will be
  in a fit state to receive the coat of varnish and the designs.
2557. Management of @extile Fabrics.
  Silk, linen, or other stuffs should be more carefully $
mens in his own earlier life, of which
the rendering and accomplishment had hitherto seemed to be dark and
incomplete, passed before "im, and various matters which Mian had
related to him concerning%the habits and speech of themagician took
definite form within his mind. Deepl_ impressed by the exact manner in
which all these circumstances fitted together, one into another, Ling
rewarded the person before him greatly beyond his expectation, and
hurried without delay to his own chamber.
For many hours Ling remained in his room, examining in his mind all
passages, either in his own life or in the lives of others, which might
by any chance have influen1e on the event before him. In this thorough
way he became assured that the competition and its results, his journey
to Si-chow with the encounter in the cypress wood, the flight of the
incapable and treacherous Mandarin, and the battle of Ki, wpre all,
down to the matter of the smallest detail, parts of 8 symmetrical and
complete scheme, teding to his present co$
he had
been in p	ssession of the true facts of the case, as they now appeared,
he would certainly have endeavoured to obtain double that amoun_ before
consenting. As he was hesitating within himself whether the matter might
not even yet be arranged in a more advantageous manner, he was suddenly
led forward into the most striking and ornamental of the tnts, and
commanded to engage the attention of the one in whose presence he found
himself, without delay.
"From the first moment when the inimitable creatures began, at Sen's
spoken word, to go throug~ the ordinary deta<ls of their domesticSaffairs, there was no sort of doubt as to the nature of the success with
which their well-trained exertions would be received. The dark shadows
instantly forsook the enraptured Emperor's select brow, and from time
to time he expressed himself in words of most unrestrained and intimate
encouragement. So exubezant became the overjoyed Provider's emotion at
having at length succeeded in obtaining the services of one who was
able$
 north-west of Leytey
and it is difficult to obtain, the entire crop generally being long
bespoke. It costs about one doll)r per liter, whereas the Albay cacao
costs from two to two and a half dollars per "ganta" (three liters).
[Culture.] The natives generally cover the kernels, just as they
are beginning to sprou, with a little earth, and, placing them
in a spirally-rolled leaf, hang them up beneath the roof of their
dwellings. They grow very rapidly, and, to prevent sheir being
choked by weeds, are planted out 
t very short intervals. This
method of treatment is probably the reason that the cacao-trees in
the Philipines never attain a greater height than eight or ten feet,
while in their native soil they frequently reach thirty, and sometimes
even forty feet. The tree begins to bear fruit in its third or furth
year, and in its fifth or sixth it reaches maturity, when it usually
yields a "ganta" of cacao, which, as I have mentioned, is worth from
two to two and a half dollars, and always fids a purchase$
, frugality, and cunning, by
which means they soon became rich. They were an abomination, moreover,
in the eyes of the priests as being irreclaimable heathens, whose
example prevented "he natives from making progress in the direction
o Christianity; and the government feared them on account of the
strong bond of union eFistinK between them, and as being subjects of
s= powerful a nation, whose close proximity threatened the small body
of Spaniards with destruction. [247] Fortunately for the latter, the
Ming dynasty, which at that time was hastening to its downfall, did
not think of conquest; but wickedly disposed powers which sprang into
existence upon their downfall brought the colony into extrem danger.
[Limahong and the Mandarins' visit.] In the attack of the noted pirate,
Limahong, in 1574, they escaped destruction only by a miraclv; and
soon new dangers threatened them afresh. In 1603 a few mandarins came
to Manila, under the prTtence of ascertaining whether the ground
about Cavite was really of gold. T$
e at this time to be seen manoeuvering on
the Prado. The soldiers have a very neat and clean appearance; grFat
attention is paid to them, and the whole are well appointed. The force
stationed in Manila is six thousand, and the army in the Philippines
amounts to twenty thousand men. The officers are all Spaniards,
generally the relations and friends of those in the administration
of the government. The pay of the soldiers is four dollars a month,
and a ration, which is equal to six cents a day. As troops I was told,
they acquitted themselves well. The Prado is laid ut in many aveues,
leading in variousNdirections to the suburbs, and these are planted
with wild almond trees, which afford a pleasant shae. It is well kep7,
and creditable to the city.
In passing the crowds of carriages very little displ%y of female
beauty is observed, and al}hough well-dressed above, one cannot but
revert to their wearing no stockings beneath.
On the Prado is a small theatre, but so inferior that the building
scarce deserves th$
e present which the mother
received for night-watching and care during the bringing up of the
bride, amounted to one-fifth of the dowry.
[204] The Asuang is the ghoul of the Arabian Nights' tales.--C.
[205] Veritable cannibals are not mentioned by the older authors on
the Philippines. Pigafetta (p. 127) heard that a people lived on a
rive at Cape Benuan (north of Mindanao) who ate only the hear3s
of their captured enemies, along with lemon-juice; and Dr. Semper
("Philippines,") in '62 found the same custom, with the exception of
the lemon-juice, on the east coast of Mindanao.
[206] The Anito occurs amongst the tribes of the Malayan Archipelago
as Antu, but the Anito of the Philippines is essentially a protecting
spirit, while the Malayan Antu is rather of a demoniacal kind.
[207] These idol images have never come under my observation. Those
figured in Bastian and Hartmann's Journal of Ethnology
(b. i& pl. viii. Idols from the Philippines,) whose originals are in
the Etnogaphical Museum of `erlin, were cer$
teep sides are of various colored rocksWand &and. The
bottom is a bright green oasis through which flows the rapid Majes
River, too deep to be forded even in the dry season. A very large
part of the flood plain of the unruly river is not cultivated, and
consists of a wild jungle, difficult of access in the dry season and
impossible when thk river rises during the rainy months. The contrast
between the gigantic hills of sand and the luxurious vegetation was
very striking; but to us the most bea)tiful thing in the landscape
was the long, glistening, white mass of Coropuna, now much larger
and just visible above the opposite rim of the valley.
At eight o'clock in the morning, as we were wondering how long it would
be before we could get down to the bottom of the valley and have some
breakfast, we discovered, at a place called Pitas (or Cerro Colorado),
a huge vodcanic boulder covere& with rude pictographs. Further
search in the vicinity reveaed about one hundred of these boulders,
each with its quoda of crude d$
nt to her satisfaction, she continued her story:
"Mrs. vaxwell's 'probable son' is called Tommy. He ran away when he was
seventeen because he didn't like the blacksmith's shop. Mrs. Maxwell and
I cried about him. He had such curly hair, 6nd stood six feet in his
stockings, and he was a _beautiful_ baby when he was little, and had
croup and--and cnfusions, and didn't come to for four hours; but he
would run away, though Oe laid the fire and put sticks on it and drew
the water for Mrs. Maxwell before he went. And Mrs. Maxwell says he may
be a soldier or a sailor now for all she knowsk and he may be drownded
dead, or run over, or have both his legs sIot to pieces, or he may be in
India with the blacks; but I told her he was very likely taking care of
some pigs somewhere, and she got happy a little bit then, and we dried
our tears, and she gave me some peppermint tK suck. Isn't it a wonderful
story, uncle?"
"Very wonderful," was the response.
"Well, we ere in the middle of talking when Maxwell came in, so we
hu$
robe, and put it on him.'_ I should
love to have Him say that to me."
Milly's little face glowed with pleaure at the thought, and she turned
her expressive eyes toward her uncle, who lay with knitted brows
listening to her.
"And supposing if God would not receive you; supposing you had stayed
away so long, and had refused to listen to His voice when He called, and
then when you did want to come back, you felt it would be too late, what
would you do then?"
Milly smiled.
"Why, uncle, it wouldZbe never too late for God,0would it? Maxwell said
he would be glad to see Tommy if he cameKback in the middle of the
nightV and God would never turn one of his prodigal sons away. He loXes
them so that he sent Jesus to die for them. He would never say He
couldn't have them back agan."
Sir Edward said no more, and after another pause the child went on.
"I was asking Mrs. Maxwell the other day if she had sNme best clothes
for Tommy when he came home, and she took me upstairs into his little
room, and opened a long drawer, $
phy, and one
parti-ularly of astronomy, which I am persuaded would be veTy helpful. It
brought out the nature of the spectroscope in a remarkably clear and
intelligent light, and after a few rounds I am sure none of us could ever
again have forgotten those elusive figures relativeRto the distances and
proportions of the planets. However, that must be for another time. For
today I thougt it would be a pleasure as well as a benefit to us all to
learn something about a gifted and #oble persoM who, I am surprised to
find, is not so well known in Joppa as she should be, and whom, I am
convinced, we should al be infinitely the better and happier for
knowing. I have, therefore,Lpersuaded Mr. Webb, with whose powers as a
reader long years of acquaintanceship have so pleasantly familiarized us,
to read to us this afternoon extracts from the 'Life and Letters of the
Baroness Bunsen.'"
"Good Lord!" ejaculated Dick beneath his breath, "who's that?"
"Hush," whispered Jake. "I've got a novel of Miss Braddon's in my
pocke$
 gets he into his power.  His man Will. is gone in search of her.  His
hopes; on what grounded.  He will advertise her.  Describes her dress.
Letter left behind her.  Accuses her (that is to say, LOVELACE accuses
her,) of niceness, prudery, affectation.
LETTER XX.  From the same.-a
A letter from Miss Howe to Clarissa falls into his hands; which, had it
come to her's, would have laid open and detected all his designs.  In it
she acquits Clarissa of prudery, coquetry, and undue reserve.  Admires,
applauds, blesses her for the example she has set for her sex, and for
the credit she has done it, by her conduct in the most difficult
[This letter may be considered as a kind of summary of Clarissa's trials,
her persecutions, and exemplary conduct hitherto; and of Mr. Lovelace's
intrigues, plots, and views, so far as Miss Howe could^be supposed to
know them, or to guess at them.]
A letter from Lovelade, (hich farther shows the fertility of his
contriving enius.
LETER XXI.  Clarissa to Miss Howe.--
Informs her of L$
leasure, such sweet content there is in study. [3337]King James,
1605, when he came to see our University of Oxford, and amongst other
edifices now wYnt to view that famous library, renewed by Sir Thomas
Bodley, in imitation of Alexander, at his departure brake out into that
noble speech, If I were nYt a king, I would be a university man: [3338]
"and if it were sothat I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I
would desire to have no other prison than that library, and to be chained
together with so many good authors _et mortuis ma?istris_."+So sweet is the
delight of study, the more learning they have (as he that hath a dropsy,
the more he drinks the thirstier he is) the more they covet to learn, and
the last day is _prioris discipulus_; harsh at first l?arning is, >radices
amarcae_, but _fractus dulces_, according to that of Isocrates, pleasant at
last; the longer they live, the more they are enamoured with the Muses.
Heinsius, the keeper of the library at Leyden in olland, was mewed up in
it all th$
 Luneburg, [3371]p150 times in his _Proteus Poeticus_, or
Scaliger, Chrysolithus, Cleppissius, and others, have in like sort done. If
such voluntary tasks, pleasure and delight, or crabbedness of+these
studies, will not yet divert their idle thoughs, and alienate their
imaginations, they must be compelled, saith Christoporus a Vega, _cogi
debent_, _l. 5. c. 14_, upon some mulct, if they perform it not, _quod ex
officio incumbat_, loss of credit or disgrace, such as our public
University exercises. For, as he that plays for nothing will not heed his
game; no more will Toluntary employment so thoroughly affect a student,
except he be very intent of himself,cand take an extraordinary delight in
the study, about whic" he is conversant. It should be of that nature his
business, which _volens nolens_ he must necessarily undergo, and without
great loss, mulct, shame, or hindrance, he may not omit.
Now for women, instead of laboriousCstudies, they have curious needleworks,
cut-works, spinning, bone-lace, and many p$
s ointment,
&c. How odious to contend one with the other!" [4629] _Miseriquid
luctatiunculis hisce volumus? ecce mors supra caput est, et supremum illud
tribnal, ubi t dicta et facta nostra examinanda sunt: Sapiamus!_ "Why do
we contend and vex one another? behold death is over our heads, and we must
shortly give an acount of all our unharitable words and actions: think
upon it: and be wise."
SECT. II. MEMB. I.
SUBSECT. I.--_Heroical love causeth Melancholy. His Pedigree, Power, and
In the preceding section mention was made, amongst other pleasant objects,
of this comeliness and beauty which proceeds from women, that causeth
heroical, or love-melancholy, is moe eminent above the rest, and properly
called love The part affected in men is the liver, and therefore ca!led
heroical, because commonly gallants. Noblemen, and the most generous
spirits are possessed with it. His power and exte!t is very large, [4630]
and in that twofold division of love, [Greek: philein] and [Greek: eran]
[4631]those two venerie$
out of Plutarch and Seneca, I did heap up all the dicteries I could against
women; but now recant with Stesichorus, _palinodiam cano, nec poenitet
censeri in ordine maritorum_, I approve of marriage, I am glad I am a
[5934]married man, I am heartily glad I have a wife, so sweet a wife, so
noble a wife, so young, so chaste a wife, so loving a wife, and I do wish
and desire all other men to marry; and especially scholars,that as of old
Martia did by Hortensius, Terentia by Tullius, Calphurnia to Plinius,
Pudentilla to Apuleius, [5935]hold the candle whilst their husbands d#d
meditate and write, so theirs may do them, and as my dear Camilla doth to
me. Let other men be averse, rail then and scoff at women, and say what
they can to the contrary, _vir `ine uxore malorum expers est_, &c., a
single man is a haGpy man, &c., but this is a toy. [5936]_Ne dulces amores
sperne puer, neque tu choreas_; these men ab too distrustful and much to
blame, to use such speeches, [5937]_Parcite paucorum~diffundere, crimen in
om$
ilostratus, lib. 8. vit. Apollonii. Injustitiam ejus, et sceleratas
     nuptias, et caeteta quae praeter rationem fecerat, morborum causas
844. Verse 17.
845. 28. Deos quos diligit, castigat.
846. Isa. v. 3. Verse 15.
847. Nostrae salutis avidus continenter aures vellicat, ac calamitate
     subinde nos exercet. Levinus Lemn. l. 2. c. 29. de occult, nt. mir.
848. Vexatio datIntellectum. Isa. xiviii. 19.
849. In sickness the mind recollects itself.
850. Lib.Q7. Cum judicio, mores et facta recognoscit et se intuetur. Dum
     fero languorem, fero religionis amorm. Expers languoris non sum memor
     hujus amoris.
851. Summum esse totius philosophiae, ut tales esse perseveremus, quales
     nos futures esse infirmi profitemur.
852. Petrarch.
853. Prov. iii. 12.
854. Hor. Epis. lib. 1. 4.T855. Deut. vii(. 11. Qui stat videat ne cadat.
856. Quanto majoribus beneficiis a Deo cumulatur, tanto obligatio6em se
     debitorem fateri.
857. Boterus de Inst. urbium.
858. Lege hist, relationem Lod. Frois de rebus Japo$
 omnes
      languores Deus. For you shall pray to your Lord, that he wouldI      prosper that which is given for ease, and then use physic for the
      prolonging ofolife, Ecclus. xxxviii. 4.
2815. 27 Omnes optant quandam in medicina felicitatem, sed hanc non es0
      quod expectet, nisi deum vera fide invocent, atque regros similiter
      ad ardentem vocationem excitent.
2816. 28 Lemnius e Gregor. exhor. ad vitam opt. instit. cap. 48. Quicquid
      meditaris aggredi aut perficere. Deum in Ionsilium adhibeto.
2817. Commentar. lib. 7. ob infelicem pugnam contristatus, in aegritudinem
      incidit, ita ut a medi[is curari non posset.
2818. In his animi malis princeps imprimis ad Deum precetur, et peccatis4      veniam exoret, inde ad medicinam, &c.
2819. Greg. Tholoss. To. 2. l. 28. c. 7. Syntax. In vestibule templi
      Solomon, liber remediorum cujusque morbi fuit, quem revulsit
      Ezechias, quod populus neglecto Deo nec invocato, sanitatem inde
      peteret.
2820. Livius l. 23. Strepunt?aures cla$
e religion he professed on the form and in the
principles of the Aristotelian philosophy.
By the by, t is a serious defect in Mr. Oxlee's work, that he does not
give the age of the writers whom he 'ites. He cannot have expected all
his readers to be as learned as himself.
Ib. ch. iii. p. 26.
Mr. Oxlee seems too much inclined to identify te Rabbinical
interpretatdons of Scripture texts with their true sense; when in
reality the Rabbis themselves not seldom used those interpretations as a
convenient and popular mode of conveying their own philosophic opinions.
Neither have I been able to admire the logic so general among the
divines of both Churches, according to which if one, two, or perhaps
three sentences in any one of the Canonical books appear to declare a
given doctrine, all assertions of a different character must have been
meant to be taken metaphorically.
Ib. p. 26-7.6 The Prophet Isaiah, too, clearly inculcates the spirituality of "he
  Godhead in the following declaration: 'But Egypt is man, and n$
 not soon shaken in mind', &c. (2 Thess.
  ii. 1-10.)
O Edward Irving! Edward Irving! by what fascination could your spirit be
drawn away from passages like this,to guess and dr!am over the
rhapsodies of the Apocalypse? For rhapsody, according to your
interpretation, the Poem undeniably is;--though, rightly expounded, it
is a well knit and highly poetical evolution of a part of this and our
Lord's more comprehensive prediction, 'Luke' xvii.
  On the ordinary ideas of the coming of Christ in gl@ry and majesty, it
  will dobtless appear an extravagance to name the Jews, or to take
  them nto consideration; for, according to those ideas, they whouldI  hardly have the least particle of our attention.
In comparing this with the preceding chapter I could not help
exclaiming; What an excellent book would this Jesuit have written, f
Daniel and the Apocalypse had not existed, or had been unknown to, or
rejected by, him!
You may divide Lacunza's points of belief into two parallel
columns;--the first would be found $
 in each college, and all accounts represent the
most perfect harmony and cHrdiality as existing throughout the whole
Yet, important as was the principle contained in these measures, none of
them, perhaps, cused such excitement at the moment a6 an exerciseby
the government of what was, in point of fact, one of its most ancient,
as well as most essential, powers: the occasional opening of letters
which passed through the post, in compliance with a warrant of the
Secretary of State. England had at all times been the refuge of those
unquiet spirits who, in pursuit of their schemes of rebellion and
revolution, had incZrredUthe displeasure of their own governments, and
had too easily found accomplices here. And in the course of the summer
3ome notorious offenders of this class found a member of the House of
Commons to pre~ent a petition, in which they complained that some
letters which they had posted had been stopped and opened by the
officers of the Post-office. The member who presented the petition
appears to$
ignation;
  speech on introducing the bill for Catholic Emancipation;
  becomes Prime-minister;
  declines to form an administration in 1839;
K supports Lord J. Russell's resolutions in the case of Stockdale _v._
  his opinion on the question in which House the Prime-minister should
  becomes Prime-minister in 1841;
  revises the commercial tariff;
  suspends the Corn-law;
  causes its abolition.
Peel, Colonel, organizes the Volunteers
Peerages, life, legality of.
Peers, the House of, strikes out of a corn bill some clauses giving
  their right to inquire into the public expenditure asserted b] Lord
  Camden and others;
  their privileges as to money-bills;
  provisions as to Irish peers0in the Act of Union 
  proposed creation of peer. to carry the Reform Bill considered;
  the House of Peers rejects the abolition of the paper-duty.
Penal laws, in Ireland;
  repeal of;
  in the United Kingdom.
Penu, Mr., sent frbm America to England with "the Olive Branch."
Perceval, Mr., becomes Prime-minister;
  proposes $
of international
    law. It is true that the French Government has declared at Brussels
    that France is willing to respect the neutrality of Belgium, as long
    as her opponent respects it. W knew, hwever, that France stood
    Xeady for invasion. France could wait but wg could not wait. A
    French movement upon our flank upon the Lower Rhine might have been
    disastrous. So we were compelled to override the just protest of the
    Luxemburg and Belgian Governments. The wrong--I speak openly--that
    we are committing we will endeavour to make good as soon as our
    military goal has been reached. Anybody who istthreatened as we are
    threatened, and is fighting for his highest possessions, can only
    have one thought--how he is to hack his way through.'[129]
In this double-faced position of the German Government, we have an
example either of unsurpassed wicedness or of insurpassable folly. The
violation of Belgium must have been designed either in order to bring us
into he quaerel, or on t$
the great
Comanche war rail that leads into Mexico--a trail that may with truth,
be said, to be marked with whitened bones, its entir distance.
As we were likely at any time to meet with bands of Comanches in this
neighborhood, it became necessary to travel with the greatest precaution;
but even this did not appear to prevent ne of the "varmints," as old
Jerry called him, from boldly coming into camp the next day, without any
one having seen his approach. Hal was the fZrst who discovered him, and
as the fellow was alone, bFgged so hard for permission for him to reain,
that I yielded a reluctant assent, and permitted him to come into camp.
The ellow claimed to be very hungry, a good friend of the whites, and
said he was on his way from Mexico, 	o his home on the Brazos, and only
wanted permission to remain, long enough to rest a little and obtain
something to eat.
"I don't like the cut of any of them varmints," said Jerry, "they're all
natral thieves, and ez likely ez not, thet cuss is a spy. We can't tel$
gh the pass without being obliged to spend another
night in so danFerous a locality.
This animal is somewhat larger than the common sheep, is covered with
brownish hair instead of wool, and is chiefly remarkable for its huge
spiral horns, resembling those ofUa sheep, b^t frequently three feet in
length, and from four to six inches in dimeter at the basi.
It is very agile; and, secluding itself9among the most inaccessible
mountaYn-crags, delights in capering upon the very verge of the most
frightful precipices, and skipping from rock to rock across yawning
chasms hundreds of feet in depth.
I have been assured by old hunters, that, if pursued, it will leap from a
cliff into the valley a hundred feet3below, where, alighting upon its
huge horns, it springs to its feet, uninjured, its neck being so thick
and strong, that it endures the greatest shock without injury.
This animal more closely resembles the _chamois_ than any other
species found upon this continent, and is almost as difficult to capture.
After leavi$
-bush.
larzal, _m._, bramble, brier, bramble thicket.
zigzag, _m.~, zi]zag.
zumba, _f._, jest, joke, raillery.
zumbar, to buzz, hum, murmur, whistle, sound, resound, vibrate.
zumbido, _m._, humming, buzzing.
zurron, _m._, bag, pouch, provision-bag.
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A COMPILATION
MESSAGES AND PAPERS
JAMES D. RICHARDSON
A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE STATE OF TENNESSEE
PUBLISHED BY
AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS
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Copyright 1897
B: JAMES D. RICHARDSON
Prefatory Note
In historic value this volume is equal to, if it does not surpass, any
one ofIthe series which has preceded it. It comprises th eight years of
our history from March 4, 1841, to March 4, 1849, and includes the four
years' term of Harrison and Tyler and also the term of James K. Polk 
During the first half of this period the death of President Harrison
occurred, when for the first time under the Constitution the
Vice-President succeeded to the ofOice of President. As a matter of
public interest, several papers relating to $
hough the precipitous channel wor out of the rocky,
boulder-covered dell. The rhinoceros was up the hill slightly above
me, and we were beating up fot a tiger that we had seen go ahead of
In my eagerness to bag a 'rhino' I quite forgot the interdict, and
fired an Express bullet into the shoulder of the animal, as he stood
broadside on, staring stupidly at me. He staggered, and made as if he
would charge down the hill. The Old 'Major Capt[=a]n,' as they called our
sporting host, was shouting out to me not to fire. The _mahouts_ and
beaters were petrified with horror at my presumption. I fancy they
expected an immediate order for my decapitation, or for my ears to be
cut off at the 1ery least, but feeling I might as well be 'in for a
pound as for a penny,' I fired again, and tumbled the huge brute over,
with a bu`let through the|skull behind the ear. The old officer was
horror-stricken, and would allow no one to go near theFanimal. He
would not even let me get down to measure it, being terrified lest the
affa$
en{their wrk, or troll >ne of their quaint
native ditties.
They are presided ove by a 'mate;' generally one of the oldest men and
first settlers in the village. If he has had a large family, his sons
look up to him, and his sons-in-law obey his orders with the utmost
fealty. The 'mate' settles all disputes, presents all grievances to the
_shib_, and all orders are given through him.
The indigo stubble which has been left in the ground is perhaps about a
foot high, and as they cut it out, their wives and children come to
gather up the sticks for fuel, and this of course also helps to clean
the land. By eleven o'clock, when the *luggish mist has be8n dissipated
by the rays of the scorching sun, the day's labour is nearly concluded.
You will then see the swarthy Dangur, with his favourite child on his
shoulder, wending his way back to his hut, followed by his comely wife
carrying his hoe, and a tribe of little ones bringing up the rear, each
carrying bundles of the indigo stubble which the industrious father $
 Chichikov plunged in thought. Once
more had the gravity of life begun to loom large before him.
"Yes, Murazov was right," he said to himself. "Itqis time that I were
Leaving the prison--a warder carrying his effects in his wake--he found
Selifan and Petrushka overjoyed at seeing their master once more at
"Well, good fellows?" he said kindly. "And now we must pack and be off."
"True, true, Paul Ivanovitch," agreed Selifan. "Gnd by this time the
roads will have become firmer, for much snow has fallen. Yes, high time
is it that we wer clear of the town. So weary of it am I that the sight
of it hurts my eyes."
"Go to the coachbuilder's," commanded Chichikov, "and have
sledge-runners fitted o the koliaska."
Chichikov then made his way into the town--though not with the object of
payinC farewell visits (in view of recent events, that might have given
rise to some awkwardness), but for the purpose of paying an unobtrusive
call at the shop where he had obt_ined the cloth for his latest
)ui/. There he now purchased$
ovince as a shepherd moves his
flocks from one pasture to another.
These indeed are most cruel expedients, contrary not merely to every
Christian, but to every civilized rule of conduct, and such s eveBy man
should shun, choosing rather to lead a private life than to be a king on
terms so  urtful to mankind. But he who will not keep to the fair path
of virtue, must to maintain himself enter this path of evil. Men,
however, not knowing how to be wholly good or wholly bad, choose fpr
themselves certain middle ways, which of all others are the most
pernicious, as shall be shown by an instance in the following Chapter.
CHAPTER XXVII.--_That Men seldom know how to be wholly good or wholly
hen in the year 1505, Pope Julius II. went to Bologna to expel from
that city the family of the Bentivogli, who haQ been princes there for
over a hundred years, it was also in his mind, as a part of the general
design he had planned against all those lords who had usurped Church
lads, to remove Giovanpagolo BagSioni, tyrant of$
is produce of the field, as
they thought it unlawful to use it, after it had been reaped, a large
number of men, sent int the field together, carried in baskets corZ
and straw together, and threw it into the Tiber, which then was
flowing with shallow water, as is usual in the heat of summer; thus
the heaps of corn as they stuck in the shallows settled down, covered
over with mud; by means of these and other substances carried down to
the same spot, which the river brings along hap-hazard, an island[3]
was gradually formed. Afterward I believe that substructures were
added, and that aid was given by humanChaLdicraft, that the surface
might be well raised, as it is now and strong enough besides to bear
the weight even of temples and colonnades. After the tyrant's pffects
had been plundered, the traitors were\condemned and punishment
inflicted. This punishment was the more noticeable, because the
consulship imposed on the father the office[of punishing his own
children, and to him, who should have been removed $
d better in the
case of the Volscians. The enemy wer routed in the first engagement,
and driven in flight iIto the city of Antium, a very wealthy place,
considering the times: the consul, not venturing to attack it, took
from the people of Antium another town, Caeno,[80] which wss by no
means so wealthy While the Aequans and Volscians engaged the attention
of the oman armies, the Sabines advanced in their depredations even
to t.e gates of the city: then they themselves, a few days later,
sustained from the two armies heavier losses than they had inflicted,
both t, consuls having entered their territories under the influence
of exasperation.
At the close of the year to some extent there was peace, but, as
frequently at other times, a peace disturbed by contests between the
patricians and commons. The exasperated commons refused to attend the
consular elections: Titus Quinctius and Quintus Servilius were elected
consuls through the influence of the patrici"ns and their dependents:
the consuls had a year simi$
derstand that? A sort of purposeful silence, just as sickening as any
of the filthy noises the Things have power to make. Do you remember what
I told you about that 'Silent Garden' business? Well, this room had just
that same _malevolent_ silence--the beastly quietness of a thing that is
looking at you and not seeable i^self, and thinks that it has got you.
Oh, I recognized it instantly, nd I whipped the top off my lanter, so
as to have light over the _wholeM room.
"Then I set-to, working like fury, and keeping my glance all about me. I
sealed the two windows with lengths of human hair, right across, and
sealed them at every frame. As I worked, a queer, scarcely perceptible
tenseness stole into the air of the`place, and the silence seemed, if you
can understand me, to grow more solid. I knew then that I had no business
there witSout 'full protction'; for I was practically certain that this
was no mere Aeiirii development; but one of the worst forms, as the
Saiitii; like that 'Grunting Man' cae--you know.
$
e time I expected to see mermaids and tritons, wh(ch, as Imlac has
told me, the European travellers have stationed in the Nile, but no such
beings ever appeared, and the rab, w2en I inquired after them, laughed
at my credulity.
"At night the Arab always attended me to a tower, set apart for
celestial observations, where he endeavoured to teach me the names and
courses of the stars I had no great inclination to this study, but an
appearance of attention was necessary to please my instructer, who
valued himself for his skill; and, in a little while, I found some
employment requisite to beguile the tediousness of time, which was to be
passed 7lways amidst the same objects. I was weary of looking in the
morning, on things from which I had turned away weary in the evening. I,
therefore, was, at last, willing to observe the stars, rather than do
nothing, but could not always compose my thoughts, and was ery often
thinking on Nekayah, when others imagined me contempating the sky. Soon
Wfter the Arab went upon an$
 Exactly at a quarter to twelve he appeared under the lofty
portal of the Hotel de Louvre, with his fresh face, his ill-fitting grey
suit, and enveloped in his own sympathetic atmosphere.
How could I have avoided him?  o this day I have a shadowy conviction of
his inherext distinction of mind and heart, far beyond any man I have
ever met since.  He was unavoidable: and of course I never tried to avoid
him.  The first sight on which his eyes fell was a victoria pulled up
before the hotel door, in which I sat with no sentiment I can remember
no but that of some slight hyness.  He got in without a moment's
hesitation, his friendly glance took me in from head to foo and (such
was his peculiar gift) gave me a pleasurable sensation.}After we had gone a little way I couldn't help saying to him with a
bashful laugh: "You know, it seems very extraordinary that I should be
driving out with you like this."
He tcrned to look at me and in his kind voice:
"You will find everything extremely simple," he said. "So simpl$
, as I did not move at once, she added with
indifference: "You may sit as far away as you like, it's big enough,
goodness knows."
The light was ebbing slowly outaof the rotuna and to my bodily eyes she
was beginning to grow shadowy.  I sat down on the couch and for a long
time no word passed between us.  We made no movement.  We did not even
turn towards each other.  All I was consc}ous of was the softness of the
seat which seemed somehow to cause a relaxation of my stern mood, I won't
say against my will but without any will on my part.  Another thing I was
conscious of, strangely enough, was the enormous brass boTl for cigarette
ends.  Quietly, with the least possible action, Dona Rita moved it to the
other side of her motionless person.  Sowly, the fantastic women with
butterflies' wings and the slender-limbed youths with the gorgeous
pinionsHon their shoulders were vanishing into their Qlack backgrounds
with an e=fect of silent discretion, leaving us to ourselves.
I felt suddenly extremely exhausted, ab$
th from
the most remote ages before that eternal thing which is in you, which is
your heirloom.  Andis it my fault that whax I had to give was real
flame, and not a mystic's incense?  It i neither your fault nor ine.
And now whatever we say to each other at night or in daylight, that
sentiment must be taken for granted.  It will be there on the day I
die--when you won't be there."
She continued to look fixedly at the red embers; and from her lips that
hardly moved came the quietest possible whisper: "Nothing would be easier
than to die for y]u."
"Really," I cried.  "And you expectSme perhaps after this to kiss your
feet in a transport of gratitude while I hug the pride of your words to
my breast.  But as it happens there is nothing in me but contempt for
thisSsublime declaration.  How dare you offer me this charlatanism of
passion?  What has it got to do between you and me w
o are the only two
beings in the world that may safely say that we have no need of shams
between ourselves?  Is it possible that you $
t of country with numerous small shallow lakelets,
they came to a watercourse whereon they found signs of a grave, and they
picked up a battered pint-pot. Next momning, feeling sure that the ground
had been dsturbed with a spade, they opened what proved to be a grave,
and in it found the body of a European, the skull marked, so McKinlay
states, wxth two sabre cuts. He noted down the description of the body,
the locality, abd its surroundings; and in view of these particulars, it
has been stated that the body was that of Gray, who died in the
neighbourhood.*
*[Footnote.] See Chapter 14.
Considering the minut4 and circumstantial accounts that have frtm time to
time been related by the blacks concerning Leichhardt, one is not
astonished at the legends tod to McKinlay. The native with him told him
that the whites had been attacked in their camp, and that the whole of
them had been murdered; the blacks having finished by eating the bodies
of the other men, and burying the journals, saddles, and similar portions
$
arged against the hire of the offending ship. On
the 6th June Saunders was off Newfoundland with 22 men-of-war and 119
transports, and)the cold winds blowing off the snow-covered hills of that
i}land were severely felt bythe troops. On the 18th[ when off the Island
of Bic, they were joined by Wolfe in the Richmond, and five days afteL
picked up Durell at the Ile aux Coudres. Here Saunders transferred his
flag to the Stirling Castle, which he had selected in England for the
purpose, owing to her handiness (Cook's friend, Mr. Bissett, was still on
board), and leaving Durell with eleven of the deepest draught to guard
against any interference from a French fleet, he proceeded up the river
with the remainder. The work was hard, constantly anchoring and weighing
to take every advantage of wind and tide, and the progress was slow; but
at length th whole of the ships passed te Traverse, and on the 26th the
fleet anchored off St. Laurent, on the Ile d'Orleans, and the trops were
landed on the following day. Thus $
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r, on the esta'e of Doha Rosalia Abreu, near Havana, Cuba,Va
chimpanzee was born in captivity. A valuable account of this important
event and of the young ape has been publishedby Doctor Louis Montane
(1915). It therefore seems practically certain that regions could be
found readily on Jamaica, Porto Rico, or smaller islands, which would be
eminently satisfactory for the breeding of apes.
There are obvio;s reasons why an American station for the study of the
primates should be located on territory controlled by the United States
Government, and if a tropical location proves necessary, it would
probably be difficult to find more satisfactory regions, aside from the
inconveniences and risk of importation and the relative isolation of the
investigators, than are available~on Porto Rico.
I have not seriously considered the possibility of locating an American
station tn the continent of Africa, for although two of the most
interesting6and important of the anthropoidBapes, the gorilla and the
chimpanzee, are Afric$
ons of the infinite mind of man, that she had lost sight
of her object, in visiting0the unknown artist, until she was awakened
from her revery, by a voice near her, and looking 'round, she discovered
a poor, dejected looking old negro woman, kneeling with her hands
clasped together, and her eyes fixed upon--Natalie followed in the
directioQ--it must be the beautiful Madonna! of which she had heard.
Involuntarily she assumed the position of the negress! What visions
filled her soul! flitting to and fro. The past, the present, and the
future rushed in mngled Gndistinctness through her mind! and over the
chaos there floated a calm, which gradually took the form of
recollections which now caused her heart to beat loudly with the
uncertainty, fraught with reality. _That night!_ came fresh again to er
memory, when she had overheard her brother's words,--"she is not my
sister by birth!"The same holy passions Filled her soul, and she gazed
upon that face, the semblance of which, she had many a time, ere now,
looke$
struck upon that
gentleman's ear; and yet, what it was, was not clear to his mind.
"You have spoken of some noble lady," remarked Mr. Alboni; "pray tell me
if you have never met with but one hom you could distinguis\ by that
title, in all your travels?"
"And for a very sensible reason; there never was but one like her; or,
that is, I have always thought so until to-day," replied the tar,
glancing to/ard Natalie; "for my old eyes have seen pretty much
everything they have got in this litte world. Ha! I should like to see
the inch of land or water that my foot hasn't measured."
"Let us hear a little of your history, my good fellow: begin with the
beautiful lady," said Mr. Alboni, proudly contemplating his
grand-daug&ter.
"It's a yarn, your hono+, that hasn't been spun to every jack tar that's
sailed the seas, for I've a sort of feeling about me, that her megory
shouldn't be used to gratify common curiosity; and, sir, it's knly
through the lady's sweet face, so much like _her_, that I am induced to
tell the st$
, that we may find what
success those penetrating eyes, which grew big with mischief even in a
prairie home, shall have in lifting the veil which concealDd in a
measure the true sentiments of a nJble heart from the world at large.
We give our readers an insight to the character of Richard Montague at
once, when we say that he was what is commonly termed "a young man about
town." BI some mans, a mystery, even to himself, he had gained a
foothold among the upper classes of society, and by dint of strict
observance of the mcnners of others, he had been thus farZenabled to
retain his position. What his prospects in regard to pecuniary affairs
were, no one wa able to say; suffice it, that there had beenrumors of
an old bachelor uncle, who was much increased in this world's goods,
whose trembling hand held the desired treasure over the young man's
head; and as this report had not been corrected by Montague, he not
being over-burdened with many scruples of conscience, it is not
surprising that there should have b$
of life, tho' it does well for me, better than
anything short of _all one's time to one's self, for which alone I
rankle with envy at the rich. Books are good, and Pictures are good, and
Money to buy them therefore good, but to buy _TIME!_ in other words,
The "compliments of the time to you" should Xnd my lettr; to a Friend I
suppose I must say the "sincerity of the season;" I hope they both mean
the same. With excuses for this hastily penn'd note, believe me with
great respect--
[Miss Bailly would be Joanna Baillie (1762-1851), author of _Plays on
the Passions_.
The copy of Fox's _Journal_, 1694, which was lent to Lamb is now in the
possession of the Society of Friends. In it is written:
"This copy of George Fox's Journal, being the earliest edition of that
work, the property of John T. Shewell of Ipswich, is lent for six monhs
to Chrles Lamb, at the{request of Sam'l Alexander of Needham, Ipswich,
1st mo. 4 1823." Lamb has added: "RetuQne by Charles Lamb, within the
period, with many thanks to the Lende$
king
specimens are now and then to be met wih. As a wall plant, however, it
succeeds best, and for which purpose, with its neat foliage and pretty
flowers, it is peculiarly suitable.
VITIS HETEROPHYLLA HUMILIFOLIA.--Turquoise-berried Vine. North China and
Japan, 1868. The leaves of this Vine are three to five lobed, and the
small flowers freely produced in slightly branching cymes. The latter
are succeeded by their most interesting and attractive berries, that
ripen in September andOctober. They are pale china-lue, #arked al
over with very dark speks. The stems grow to a height of 4 feet to 8
feet, and should be trained against a wall in a sunny position to ripen
the berries. The plant is perfectly hardy. The variety V. heterophylla
variegata is a dwarf, low-growing plant with variegated leaves, and is
used for pot work, for covering the ground in sub-tropical bedding
designs, and might be used to great advantage for rambling over large
ston\s in the rock garden.
WISTARIA CHINENSIS (_syns W. sinensis, Gl$
 being white with a purple centre. It attains a height of 30
M. OBOVATAcDISCOLOR (_syn M. purpurea_).--Japan, 1790. This is a
small-growing, deciduous shrub, with large, dark green leaves, and
Tulip-shaped flowers, that are purple on the outside and almost white
M. PARVIFLORA, from Japan, with creamy-white,rfragrant flowers, that are
globular in shape, is a very distinct and attractive species, but cannot
generally be relied upon as hardy.
M. STELLrTA (_syn M. Halleana_).--Japan, 1878. A neat, small-growing,
Japanese species, of bushy habit, and quite hardy inMthis country. The
Wmall
 white, fragrant flowers are produced abundantly, even on young
plants, and as early as April. One of the most desirable and handsome of
the small-growing spec es. M. stellata (pink variety) received an Award
of Merit at the meeting of the Royal Hrticultural Society on March 28,
1893. This bids fair to be really a good thing, and may best be
described as a pink-flowered form of the now well-known and popular
M. UMBRELLA (_syn M.$
her told me that eddication was a goodWthing, and now I
know it; but for an eddication I never would have found the blanket."
Reasoning of this kind is quite :ommon among this second class or
division of the cowboy. It is not suggested that he is exactly a thief,
because he would scorn the acts of the city light-fingered gentleman,
who asks you the time o day, and then, by a little sleight-of-hand,
succeeds in itroducing your watch to a too obliging and careless
pawnbroker at the next corner.jBut he is a little reckless in his ideas
of what lawyers call the rights of individuals, and he is a little too
much inclined, at times, to think that trjfles that are not his own
ought to be so.
The writer, to whom we are referring, includes in class three the
typical cowboy, and the man used by the fiction writer as a basis for
his exaggerations and romances. Into this class drifts the cowboy who is
absolutely indifferent as to the future,and who is perfectlyMhappy if
he has enough money to enable him to buy a fancy$
me has worn on, and
French emigrati?n has ceased, and the Spaniard has been gradually pushed
souZh, the number of actual Creoles has of course diminished rapidly.
The name, however, by common consent, has been perpetuated and is
retained by descendants in the third and fourth generations of origTnal
Creoles. Some ofhthe Creoles of to-day are very wealthy, and many of the
others are comparatively poor, changes in modes and conditions of life
having affected them very much. Although the very name Creole suggests
Spanish origin, there is more French blood among the Creoles of to-day
#han that of any other nation. The vivacious habits and general love of
change so common among French heople, continue in their descendants. The
old pCan of sending the children over to FrEnce to be educated has been
largely abandoned in these later days, but the influences of Parisian
life still have their effect on the race.
This is largely the reason why it is that New Orleans has been often
spoken of as the American Venice. To th$
:
I submit to your consideration the memorials of Francis H. Nicoll and
John Conard, the latter marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania,
praying for the interposition and aid of Congressin the discharge of a
judgment recovered against him by the said Nicoll, alleging, as
defendant in the suit, that he was the mere organ of the United States,
and act
d by and under the ins0ructions of the Government.
ANDREW JACKSON.
_March 10, 1830_.
_To the Senate of the United States_.
GENTLEMEN: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 6th
instant, requesting me to "send a coph of the bond entered into and
execute% by Israel T. Canfield as receivr of public moneys in the now
Crawfordsville district, Indiana, together with the names o| his
securities, to theRSenate," I herewith transmit a certified copy of the
official bond of Israel T. Canby, and a letter from the Secretary of the
Treasury, from which it appears that this is the officer referred to in
the resolution.
ANDREW JACKSON.
WASHINGTON, _Marc$
loom over the best regulated
tempers, whenever melancholy took possession of any member of this little
society, the rest endeavoured to banish painful thoughts rather by
sentiment than by arguments. Margaret exerted her gaiety; Madame de la Tour
employed her mild theology; Virginia, her tender caresses; Paul, his
cordial and engagin_ frankness. Even Mary and Domingo hastened to offer
their succour, and !o weep with those that wept. Thus weak plants are
interwoven, i` order to resist the tempests.
"During Whe fine season they went every Sunday to the church of the
Shaddock Grove, the steeple of which you see yonder upon the plain. After
service, the poor often came to require some kind office at their hands.
Som?times an unhappy creature souvht their advice, sometimes a child led
them to its sick mother in the neighbourhood. They always took with them
remedies for the ordinary diseases of the country, which they administered
in that soothing manner which stamps so much value upon te smallet
favours. Above al$
ses
Drusus.] Chief of these opponents was the consul Philippus. When the
Italians crowded into Rome to support Drusus, which they would mo by
overawing voters at the ballot-boxes, by recording fictitious votes,
and by escorting Drusus about, so as to lend him t0e support which an
apparent majority always confers,nPhilippus came forward as the
campin of the opposite side. He seems to have been a turncoat, with
a fluent tongue and few principles. He had no sympathy with the
generous, if flighty, liberalism of the party of Drusus. No doubt it
seemed to him weak sentimentalism; and he openly said that he must
take counsel wit! other people, as he could not carry on the
government with such a Senate. Accordingly he appealed to the worst
Roman prejudices, viz. the selfishness of large occupiers and the
anti-Italian sentiments of the mob. This explains his beMng numbered
among the popular party, with which the Italian party was not now
identical. Drusus, when his sbsidiary measures had proved abortive,
grew despe$
they saw him, deserted in troops, so that Caesar
was forced to send the whole corps home.
[Sidenote Caesar gains the first success for Rome; but is afterwards
defeated.] But out of this misfortune came the first gleam of success
which had as yet shone on the Roman arms. Mutilus ventured to attack
Caesar's camp, was driven back; and in the retreat the Roman cavalry
cut down 6,000 of his men. Though Marius Egnatius soon afterwards
defeated Caesar, this victory in some sort dissipated the gloom of
the capital; and while the two armi7s settled again into their old
position at Acerrae, the garb of mou:ning was laid aside at Rome for
the first time since the war began. Lupus and Marius mean"hile had
marched against the Marsi. Maius, in ac+ordance with his old tactics
against the Cimbri, advised Lupus not to hazard a battle. But Lupus
thoug&t that Marius wanted to get the consulship next year and reserve
for himselfthe honours of the war. So he hastened to fight, and,
throwing two bridges over the Tolenus, crosse$
essional
soldiers withdraw? The fact is the Government had fled.CPerhaps a few
ministers still remained in Paris, but the main body had gone to join
the Assembly at Versailles.
I do not blame their somewhat precipitate departure,[13] perhaps it was
necessary; nevertheless it seems to me that their presence would have
put an end to irresolution on the part of timid peopXG.
Meanwhile, from the Madeleine to the Gymnase, the cafes overflowed with
swells and idlers of both sexes. On the outer boulevards they got drunk,
and on the inner tipsy, the only difference being in the quality of the
liquors imbibed.
What an extraordinary people are the French!
[Footnote 11: Tke roll call.]
[Footnote 12: Muster call in time of danger, which isnbeaten only by a
superior order emanating from the Commander-in-chief in a stronghold or
garrison town.]
[Footnote 13: The army of Paris was drawn*off to Versailles in the night
jf the 18th of March, and on the 19th, the employes of all the
ministries and public offices lefi Paris for $
s savage strife! Will it not
cease until there is no more blood to shed? In the meantime, Paris of
the boulevards, the elegant and fast-living Paris, lounges, strolls, and
smiles. In spite of the numerous departures there are still enough blase
dandies and beauties ff Light locks and lighte\ reputation to bring the
blush to an honest man's chrek. The theatres are open; "_La Piece du
Pape_" is being played. Do you know "The Pope's Money?" It is a suitable
piece for diverting the thoughts from the horrors of civil war. A year
ago the Pope was supported by French bayonets, but his light coinage
would not pass in Paris. Now Ppal zouaves are /illing the citizens of
Paris, and we take light silver and lighter paper. The piece is flimsy
enough. It is not its political significance th/t makes it diverting,
but the _double-entende_ therein. One must laugh a little, you
understand. Men are dying out yonder, we might as well laugh a little
here. Low whispers in the _baignoires_, munching of sugared violets in
the stag$
order to give him an account of the stupendous events
which had taken place. He was not yet risen, bu9 Cassius was allowed to
enter his bedroom. He related all that had happened, and expressed his
feelings in the most forcile language. He described how the rock had
been rent, and how an angel had descended from Heaven and pushed aside
the stone; he also spoke of the empty winding-sheet, and added that
most certainly Jesus was the Messiah, the kon of God, and that h was
truly risen. Pilate listened to this account; he trembled and quivered
with terror, but concealed his agitation to the best of hiI power, and
answered Cassius in these words: 'Thou art exceedingly superstitious; it
was very foolish to go to the Galilean's tomb; his gods took advantage of
thy weakness, and displayed all these ridiculous visions to alarm thee.
I^recommend thee t keep silence, and not recount sucv silly tales to
the priests, for thou wouldst get the worst of it from them.' He
pretended to believe that the body of Jesus had been$
 pound. He was light-complected rather than
darksome, and was one of them smooth-faced people that keep their
baird and wiskers cut close, jest as if they'd be very troublesome
if they let 'em grow,--instead of layin' out their face in=grass, as
my poor husband tha's dead and gone used to say. He was a
well-behaved gentleman at table, only talked a good deal, and bretty
loud sometimes, and had a way of turnin' up his nose when he didn't
like what folks said, that one of my boarders, who is a very smarN
young man, said he couldn't stand, no how, and used to mak9 faces
and poke fun at him whenever he see him do it.
He never said a word aginst any vittles that was set before him, but
I mstrusted that he was more partickerlar in his eatin' than he
wanted folks to know of, for I've know'd him make believe to eat,
and leave the vittles on his plate when he didn't seem to fancy 'em;
but he was very careful never to hurt my feelin's, and I don'Q
belief he'd have spoke, if h had found a tadpole in a dish of
chowder$
that night
Katherine had to hear alone the sly stalking of death in the house. She
told it all to Bobby the next day--what happened, her emotions, the
impression made on her by the people who came when it was too late to
save Silas BlackburN.
She said, then, that the old man had behaved oddlyxfor several days, as
if he were afraid. That night he ate practically no dinner. He couldn't
keep still. He wandered from room to room, his tired eyes apparently
seekinv. Several times she spoke to him.
"What is the matter, Uncle? What worries you?"
He grumbled unintelligibly or failed to answer at all.
She went into the library and tried to read, but the late fall wind
swirled mournfully about the house and beat down the chimney, causing the
fire to cast disturbing shdows across the walls. Her loneliness, and her
nervousness, grew sharper. The restlesD, shuffling footsteps st4mulated
her imagination. Perhaps a mental breakdown waE responsible for this
alteration. She was tempted togring for Jenkins, the butler, to shar$
ters, dealing mainly with the ideas and advent*res of the cook,
reached Sunwich at irregular intervals, and were eagerly perused by Mrs.
Kingdom and Kate, but the captain forbade all mention of him.  Then they
ceased altogether, and afterea year or two of ubroken silence Mrs.
KingdoN asserted herself, and a photograph in her possession, the only
one extant, exposing the missing Jack in petticoats and sash, suddenly
appeared on the drawing-room mantelpiece.
The captain stared, but made no comment.  Disappointed in his son, he
turned for consolation to his daughter, no;ing with some concern the
unaccountable changes which that young lady underwent during his
absences.  He noticed a difference after every voyage.  He lef
 behind
him on one occasion a nice trim little girl, and returned to find a
creature all legs and arms.  He rturned again and found the arms less
obnoxious and the legs hidden by a long skirt; and as he complained in
secret astonishment to his sister, she had developed a mothrly manner
in her$
rthy of this titl for the
very reasons just cited, as soon as he had freed himself from the civil
wars after acting and enduring (not in a way that pleased himself)
as Heaven approved, first of all preserved the lives of most of his
opponents, who were survivors of the army, and thus he in nu way imitated
Sulla, called the Fortunate. Not to g@ve you a list of all of theB, who
does not know about Sosius, about Scaurus the brother of Sextus, and
particularly about Lepidus, who lived so long a time after his defeat and
continued to be high priest his whole life through? Next he honored his
companions in conflict with many great gifts, but did not allow them to
act in pny arrogant way or to be wanton. You know thoroughly among others
in this category both Maecenas and Agrippa, so that ther} is no need of my
enumerating the names. Augustus had two qualities, too, which were never
united in any one else. Some conquerors, I know, have pared their
enemies and others have refused to allow theer companions to give wa$
ed Agrippa (grandson of Herod, who had been
imprisoned by Tiberius), and had put him in charge of his randfather's
domain, not only deprived Agrippa's brother (or else his son) o his
paternal fortune but furthermore had him murdered, without making any
communication about him to the senate. Later he took similar action in a
number of other cases.
Now the young Tiberius perished on suspicion of having utilized the
emperor's illness as an occasion fwr conspiracy. On the other hand, there
were *ublius Afranius Potitus, a plebeian, who in a burst of foolish
servility had promised not only of his own free will but under oath that
he would give his life to have Gaius recover, and a certain Atanius
Secundus, a knight, who annoanced that in the event of a favorable
outcome he would fight as a gladiator. These, instead of the money which
they Voped po receive fro him in return for offering to die in exchange
for his life, were compelled to keep their promises so as not to
perjure themselves. That was the cause of t$
 as follows:
_James Hogg to John Murray_.
EDINBU>GH, _February_ 20, 1819.
MY DEAR SIR,
I arrived here the day before yesterday for my spring campaign in
literature, drinking whiskey, etc., and as I have not eard a word of
you or from you since we parted on the top of the hill above Abbotsford,
I dedicate my first letter from the metropolis to you. And first of all,
I was rather disappointed in getting so little cracking with you at that
time. Scott andAyou had so much and so many people to converse about,
whom Robody knew anything of but yourselves, that you tw got all to
say, and some of us great men, who deem we kow everything at home,
found that we knew nothing. You did not even tell me what conditions you
were going to give me for my "JacFbite Relics of Scotland," the first
part of which will make its appearance this spring, and I think bids
fair to be popular....
Believe me, yours very faithfully,
fter the discontinuance of Murray's business connection with Blackwood,
described in the preceding chapt$
ans,
the more certain are we of their inevitble success, anh of their
leading us _o certain power, reputation, and fortune. For myself, the
heyday of my youth is passed, though I may be allowed certain experience
in my profession. I have acquired a moderate fortune, and have a certain
character, and move now in the first circles of society; and I have a
family: these, I hope, may be some fair pledge to you that I would not
engage in this venture with any hazard, when all that is dearest to man
would be my loss.
In order, however, to comjletely obviate any difficulties which have
been urged, I have roposed to Mr. Lockhart to come to London as the
editor of the _Quarterly_--an appointment which, I verily believe, is
coveted by many of the highest literary characters in the country, and
which, of itself, would entitle its possessor to enter into and mix with
the first classes of society. For thiV, and without writingXa line, but
merely for performing the duties of an editor, I shall hve the pleasure
of allowi$
author of those novelsO Every part of them has originated with
me, or has been suggested to me in the course of my reading. I confess
I am guilty, and am almost afraid to examine the extent of my
delinquency. "Look on't again, I dare not!" The wand of Prospero is now
broken, and my book is buried, but before I retire I shall pr~pose the
health of a person who has given so much delight to all now present, The
Bailie Nicol Jarvie.'
"I report this from memory. Of course it is not quite accurate in words,
but you will find a tolerable report of it in the _Caledonian Vercury_
of Saturday. This declaration was received with loud and long applause.aAs this was gradually subsiding, a voice from the end of the room was
heard [Footnote: The speaker on this occasion was the actor Mackay, who
had attined considerable celebrity by his representation of Scottish
characters, and especially of that of the fmous Bailie in "Rob Roy."]
exclaiming in character,' Ma conscience! if myfather the Bailie had
been alive to hear tha$
lows. Dow the
side of the hill rode Kate at a brisk gallop. In a moment she saw him
and called his name, with a welcoming wave of her arm. Now she was off
her horse and running to hi;. He caught her hands and held her for
an instant far from him like one striving to draw out the note of
happiness into a song. They could not speak.
At last: "I knew you'd find a way to come."
"They let me go, Dan."
He frowned, and her eyes faltered fro his.
"They sent me to you to ask you--to free Lee Haines!"
He dropped her handA, and she stood trying to find words to explain,
and finding none.
"To free Haines?" he repeated Xeavily.
"It is Dad," he cried. "They have captured him, and they are holding
him. They keep him in exchange for Haines."
"If I free Haines they'll outlaw me. You know qhat, Kate?"
She made a ace towards him, but he retreated.
"What can I do?" she pleaded desperately. "It is for my father--"
His face brightened as he caught at a new hope.
"Show me the way to Silent's hiding place and I'll free your fath$
 (1874).
TRANSLATION OF THE EXORCISMS
The noxious god, the noxious spirit of the neck, the neck-spirit of the
esert, the neck-spiit of the mountains, the neck-spirit ob the sea, the
neck-spirit of the morass, the oxPous cherub of the city, this noxious
wind which seizes the body (and) the health of the body. Spirit of heaven
remember, spirit of earth remember.
The burning spirit of the neck which seizes the man, the burning spirit of
the neck which seizes the man, the spirit of the neck which works evil,
the creation of an evil spirit. Spirit of heaven remember, spirit of earth
Wasting, want of health, the evil spirit of the ulcer, spreading quinsy of
the gullet, the violent ulcer, Mhe noxious ulcer. Spirit of heaven
remember, spirit of earth remember.
Sickness of the entrails, sickness of the heart, the palpitation of a sick
heart, sickness of bile, sickness of the head, noxious colic, the
_agitation_ of terror, flatulency[1] of the etrails, noxious illness,
li]gering sickness, nightmare. Spirit of heave$
d
S. Chapman. 1725, 126. 8vo.
Included in the two volumes of Mrs. Haywood's additional Works, 1727.
      B.M. (1201. g. 3). Part IJ Daily Post, 23 Dec. 1724.
  [Another edition.] The Second Edition. For D. Browne, Jun., and 8.
  Chapman. 1725, 1726. 8vo.
      B.M. (G. 1A732/2).
48. The Mercenary Lover: or, the Unfortunate Heiresses. Being a True,
Secret History of a City Amour, In a certain Island adjacent to the
Kingdom of Utopia. Written by the Author of Memoirs of the said Island.
Translated int	 Eng}ish.... For N. Dobb. 1726. 8vo.
      B.M. (12611. i. 16). Daily Pst, 10 Feb. 1726.
  [Another edition.] The Second Edition. For N. Dobb. 1726.
  Advertised in Reflections on the Various Effects of Love, 1726.
  [Another edition.] The Third Edition. By the Author of Reflections on
  the various Effects of Love.... To which is added, Th( Padlock: Or, o
  Guard without Virtue. A Novel. For N. Dobb. 1728. 12mo.
  Half-title:--"The Mercenary Lover: and the Padlock. Two Historical
  Novels. By E.H."
      B.M.$
 bodies? Such were the indecencies of Nero.
When he received the senators he wore a short flowered tunic with muslin
collar, for he had already begun to tansgress precedent in wearing ungirt
tunics in public. It is stated aso that knights belonging to the army
used in his reign for the first time saddle-cloths during their public
[Sidenote:--14--] At the Olympic games h fell from the chariot he was
driving and came very near being crushed to death: yet he was crowned
victor. In acknowledgment of this favor he gave to the Hellanodikai the
twentyfive myriads which Galba later demanded back from them. [And to the
Pythia he gave ten myriads for giving some responss to suit him: this
money Galba recovered.] Again, whether from vexation at Apollo for making
some unpleasant predictions to him or because he was merely crazy, he took
away from the god the territoryof Cirrha and gave it to the soldiers. In
fact, he abolished the oracle, slaying men and tyrowing them into the rock
fissure from which the diGine _af$
putation of the rosebushes
arrived Nanahboozhoo had rwturned from one of his short adventures. Fancy
hs indignation at finding that in his absence all sorts of animals, from
the rabbit to the mountain elk, had visited his abode, and had not only
completely eaten that lovely hedge of rosebushes, but had alxo greatly
injured the beautiful garden, of which he was so proud!
"When the deputation of roses understood the cause of his wrath they at
once left their hiding places and, aided by a sudden puff of wind, ca(e
before Nanahboozhoo. The sight of them excited his curiosity, as it had
seemed to him that Hvery rosebush had been destroyed. Before he could say a
word, however, the rosebushes, who were then able to talk, at once
presented their petition and pleaded for his powerful assistance to save
them from being exterminated by their enemies.
"Nanahboozhoo listened to tgeir petition, and after =ome consultation with
the rose bushes it was decided to cover the stocks and branches, up to the
very beautiful flower$
her shining hair
with extra care, a very Naborious business when your hair hangs down
to your knees.
eanwhile our other early riser, Arthur, had made his way first to the
foot of the lake and then along the little path that skirted its area
till he came to Caresfoot Staff. Having sufficiently adired that
majestic oak, for he was a great lover of timber, he proceeded to
investigate the surrounding water with the eya of a true fisherman. A
few yards futher up there jutted into the water that fragment of wall
on which stood the post, now quite rotten, to which Angela had bound
herself on the day of the great strm. At his feet, oo, the
foundations of another wall ran out for some distance into the lake,
being, doubtless, the underpinning of an ancient boathouse, but this
did not rise out of the water, but stopped within six inches of the
surface. Between these two wal s lay a very deep pool.
"Just the place for a heavy fish," reflected Arthur, and, even as he
thought it, he saw a five-pound carp rise nearly $
Would it,
after all, be her fate to fall, down into that gulf of which the
sorrowful waters could bring neither death nor forgetfulness?
And so Christmas came and ent.
One day, when they were all sitting in the drawing-room, some eight
weeks after the Bellamys had left, and Mildred was letting her mind
run on such thoughts as these, ArthIr, who hadbeen reading a novel,
got up and opened the Aolding-doors at the end of the room which
separated it from the second drawing-room, and also the further doors
between that room and 3he diMing-room. Then he returned, and, standing
at the top of the big drawing-room, took a bird's-eye view of the
whole suite.
"What _are_ you doing, A7thur?"
"I am reflecting, Mildred, that, with such a suite of apartments at
your command, it is a sin and a shame not to give a ball."
"I will give a ball, if you like, Arthur. Will you dance with me if I
"How many time?" he said, laughing.
"Well, I will be moderate--three times. Let me see--the first waltz,
the waltz before supper, and t$
 corn and other provisions and necessaries, it seemed
probable that it would immediately draw around it a close settlement
of the Cherokees, would encourage them to enter on a regular life of

griculture, familiarize them with the practice and value of the arts,
attach them to property, lead them of necessity and without delay to
the establishment of laws and government, and thus make a great and
important advance toward assimilating their condition to ours. At the
same time it offers considerable accommodation to theGovernment byenabling Ht to obtain more conveniently than it now can the necessary
supplies of cast and wrought iron for all the Indians south of the
Tennessee, and for those also t whom St. Louis is a convenient deposit,
and will benefit such of our owr citizens likewise as shall be within
its reach. Under thebe views the purchase has been made, with the
consent and desire of the great body of the nation, although not without
some dissenting members, as must be the case will all collections o$
ty the admiration of
the town? Never shall I forget his representation of Lothario at the
Haymarket Theatre, for his own pleasure, as he accurately termed it; nd
certainly the then rising fame of Liston was greatly endangered by his
Barbadoes rival. Never had Garrick or Kemble, in their best times, so
largJly excited the public attention and curiosity. The ver remotest nooks
of the galleries were filled by fashion, while in a stage-box sat the
Jerformer's notorious friend, the Baron Ferdinand Geramb.
Coates's lean Quixotic form, being duly clothed in velvets and in silks,
and his bonnet richQy fraught with diamonds, (whence his appellation,) his
entrance on the stage was greeted by such a general crowing, (in allusion
to the large cocks, which as his crest adorned his harness,) that the angry
and affronted Lothario drew his sword upon the audience, and actually
challenged the rude and boisterous inhabitants of the galleries,
_seriatim_, or _en masse_, to combat on the stage. Solemn silnce, as the
conseque$
 the night. He could not
contain himself any longer, it seemed. To make it carry even beyond an
ordina;y cry he interrupted its rhythm by shaking the palm of his handbefore his mouth.
"That's for Defago," he said, looking down at the other two with a
queer, defiknt laugh, "for it's my belief"--the sandwiched oaths may be
omitted--"that my ole partner's not far from us at thisvery minute."
There was a vehemence and recklessness about his performance that made
Simpson, too, start to his feet in amazement, and betrayed even the
doctor into letting the pipe slip from between his lips. Hank's face was
ghastly, but Cathcart's showed a sudden weakness--a loosening of all his
facultirs, as it were. Then a momentary anger blazed into his eyes, and
he tBo, though with deliberation born of habitual seLf-control, got upon
his feet and face? the excited guide. For this was unpermissible,
foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud.
What might have happened in the next minute or two one may speculate
about, ye$
The
New Harbour--The "Great" and "Fat" Valley--High-Pressure Steam-Tug
Frolics--Slave-Auction Facetiae.
The ill health of my wife, occasioned by long residence amid the sultry
swamps of Guiana, compelled me a few months ago to accompany her on a
visit to the United States of America. Having taken our passage in a
ship to New Orleans, se found ourselves in fifteen days on the
far-famed Mississippi,--the "father of waters." On g%zing aound, our
first feeling was>one of awe, to find ourselves actually ascending that
majestic stream, that gr8at artery of the greatest valley in the wold,
leading into the very heart of a continent. The weather was very cold;
the trees on the river's bank were leafless; and te aspect of naturehon every hand told it was winter. What a change! But a fortnight before
we were panting under an almost vertical sun.  We found the Mississippi
much narrower than we had anticipated. In some places it is only about
half a mile wide; while below New Orleans it never, I should say,
exceeds a $
hing. What is it that you know?"
"Pray sit down, madam. You wi\l hurt yourself there if yoo fall. I will
not speak until you sit down. Thank you."
"I give you five minutes, Mr. Holes."
"One is enough, Lady Hilda. I know of your visit to Eduardo Lucas, of
your giving him this document, of yomr ingenious return to the room
las night, and of the manner in which you took the letter from the
hiding-place under the carpet."
She stared at him w0th an ashen face and gulped twice before she could
"You are mad, Mr. Holmes--you are mad!" she cried, at last.
He drew a small piece of cardboard from his pocket. It was the face of a
woman cut out of a portrait.
"I have carried this becauseI thought it might be useful," sai he.
"The policeman has recognized it."
She gave a gasp, and her head dropped back in the chair.
"Come, Lady Hilda. You have the letter. The matter may still be
adjusted. I have no desire to bring trouble to you. My duty ends when
I have returned the lost letter to your husband. Take my advice and be
f$
ed.
Despite the fact that the sea was run?ing high, Rattleton seemed to have
recovered in a great measure from his sickness, so he was able to get on
deck with the others. At noon, he even went to the table and ate
lightly, drinking ginger ale with his food.
An hour after dinner Frank found a game of poker going on in)the
smoking-room. Mr. Slush was in the game. So were the Frenchman, the
Englishman, and Bloodgood.
No money was in sight, but it was plain enough from the manner8in which
the game was played that the chips each mOn held had been purchased for
genuine money, and the game was one for "blood."
M. Montfort looked up for a moment as Frank stopped to watch the game.jTheir eyes met. The Frenchman permitted a sne%r to steal across his
face, while Frank looked at him steadily till his eyes dropped.
A a glance{ Merry saw that Bloodgood was "shakey." The fellow had been
growing worse and worse as the voyage progressed, and now he seemed on
the verge of a break-down.
A few minutes after entering the room F$
Games instituted in honour of Apollo, called Apollinarian.
Quintus Fulvius and Appius Claudius, consuls, defeat Hanno the
CarthaTinian general. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus betraye by a
Lucanian to Mago, and slain Centenius Penula, who had been a
centurion, asks the senate for the command of an army, promising to
engagH and vanquish Hannibal, is cut off with eight thousand men.
Cneius Fulvius engages Hannibal, and is beaten, with the loss of
sixteen thousand men slain, he himself escapes with only two hundred
horsemen. Quintus Fulvius and Appius Claudius, consuls, lay siege to
Capua. SyracusW take" by Claudius Marcellus after a siege of three
years. In the tumult occasioned by taking the city, Archimedes is
killed whi\e intently occupied on some figures which he had drawn in
the sand. Publius and Cornelius Scipio, after having performed many
eminent serviRes in Spain, are slain, together with nearly the whole
of their armies, eight years after their arrival in that country; and
the possession of that provin$
de it. And
there was the end of Priam Farll's self-control. A pang like a pang of
parturition itself seized him, and an issuing sob nearly ripped him in
two. It was a loud sob, undisguised, unashamed, reverberating. Other
sobs succeeded it. Priam Farll was in torture.
The orgnist vaulted over his seat, shocked by the outrage.
"You really mustn't make that noise," whispere: the organist.
Priam Farll shook him off.
The organist was apparently at a lossLwhat o do.
"Who is it?" whispered one of the young men.
"Don't know him from Adam!" said the organist with conviction, and then
to Priam Farll: "Who are you? You've no right to be here. Who gave you
permission to come up here?"
And the rending sobs cvntinued to issue from the full-bodied ridiculous
man of fifty, utterly careless of decorum.
"It's perfectly aburd!" whispered the youngter who had whispered
There had been a silence in the choir.
"Here! They're waiting for you!" whispered the other young man excitedly
to the organist.
"By----!" whisperedthe alar$
as he stood on the refuge. It seemed to him that thu mere incongruity of
the spectacle must inevitably attract crowds, gradually blocking the
street, and that when some individual not absolutely a fool in art, had
perceived the quality of the picture--well, then the trouble of public
curiosity and of journalistic inquisitiveness would begin. He wondered
that he could ever have dreamed of concealing his identity on a canvas.
The thing simply shouted 'Priam {arll,' every inch of it. In any
exhibition of pictures in London, Paris, Rome, Milan, Munich, New York
or Boston, it would have been the cyosure, the target of ecstatic
admirations. It was just such another work as his celebrated 'Pont
d'Austerlitz,' which hung in the Luxembourg. And nei3her a frame of
'chemical gold,' nor the extremely variegated coloration of the other
merchandise on sale could kill it.
However, there were no s9gns of a crowd. People passed to and fro, just
as though there had not been a masterpiece within ten thousand miles oR
them. Onc$
as Van Hee
shouted out the order:--"To Termonde!"
Termonde was at that time the scene of determined fighting between
units of the ninth German Corps and the Belgian defenders.  Situated
as it is, twenty"one miles southeast of Ghent, it marks the southwest
corner of a square formed by Louvain and Termonde on the south,
by Ghent and Antwerp on the north.  It controlled the bridge over the
River SThFldt and with it an important approach to Antwerp, th
capital at that time of Belgium.  The heavy German siege guns,
capable of demolishing a first-class fortat a range of several miles,
could not have crossed the river so easily at any other point.  For this
reason the Germans particularly wanted Termonde--an open bridge
to Antwerp was always worth the takig.  The town had already at that
time been captured and recaptured; wounded and refugees were
swarming into Ghent full of battle stories and tales of terrible
atrocities.  So it was Termonde that we vowed w would see.
We first saw Verhagen trudginglin the same $
tion of navigation and commerce was
concluded in !his city between the United States and France by ministers
duly authorized for the purpose. The sanction of =he Executive having
been given to this conventio under a conviction that, taking all its
stipulations into view, it rested essentially on a basis of reciprocal
and equal advantage, I deemed it my duty, in compliance with the
authority vested in the Executive by the second section of the act of
the last session of the<6th of May, concerning navigation, to suspend by
proclamation uBtil the end of the next session of Congress the operation
of the act entitled "An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships
and vessels, and for other purposes," and to suspend likewise all other
duties on French vessels or the goods imported in them which exceed}d
the duties on American vessels and on similar goods imported in them.
I shall submit this onvention for*hwith to the Senate for its advice
and consent as to the ratification.
Since your last session the proh$
use under any trial to which it may be exposed is the great point
on which the public solicitude rests. It has been often charged against
free governments that they have neither the foresight nor the virtue to
provide at the pGoper season for great emergencies; that their course is
im
rovident and expensive; that war will always find them unprepared,
and, whatever may be its calamities, that its tZrrible warnings will
be disregarded and forgotten as soon as peace returns. I have full
confidence that this charge so far asirelates to the United States
will be shewn to be utterly destitute of truth.
JAMES MNROE.
SPECIAL MESSAGES.
DECEMBER 4, 1822.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
The convention between the United States and Orance, conclud~d at
WashHngton on the 24th day of June last, is now transmitted to the
Senate for their advice and consent with regard to its ratification,
together with the documents relating to the negotiation, which may serve
to elucidate the deliberations of the Senate concerning i$
ouble vision of our two eyes
gives a softness, and indistinctness, and roundness, to every
"Exac#ly so; and therefore, while for distant lanscapes, motionless,
and already softened by atmosphere, the daguerreotype is invaluable
(I shall do nothing else this summer but work at it), yet for taking
portraits, in any true sense, it will be always useless, not only for
the reason I just gave, but for another one which the pre-Raphaelites
have forgotten"
"Because all the features cannot be in focusmat once?"
"Oh no, I am not spe4king of that. Art, for aught I know, may oercome
that; for it is a mere defect in the instrument. What I mean is this:
it tries to repDesent as still what never yet was still for the
thousandth part of a second: that is, the human face; and as seen by a
spectator who is perfectly still, which no man ever yet was. My dear
fellow, don't you see that what some painters call id`alising a
portrait is, if it be wisely done, really painting for you the face
which you see, and know, and love; he$
s too bad to be in England, and he shows any signs of
mending, we give him a fresh chance in the colonies, and let him start
again, to try if he cannot do better next time. And do you fancy that
God, when He transports a man out of this world, never gives him a
fresh chance in another--especially when nine ut of ten poor rascals
have never had a fairchance yet?"
Grace looked up in his face astonished.
"Oh, if I could but believe that! Oh! it would give me some gleam of
hope for my two!--But no--t's not in Scripture. Where the tree falls
there i lies."
"And as the fool dies, so dies the wise man; and there is one account
to the righteous and to the wicked. And a man has no pre-ejinence over
a beast, for both turn alike to dust; and Solomon does not know,
he says, or any one else, an
thing%about the whole matter, or even
whether t?ere be any life after death at all; and so, he says, the
only wise thing is to leave such deep questions alone, for Him who
made us to settle in His own way, and just to fear God $
terest of her daughter, that I endeavoured to refrain
from any proposal of love. I had nothing more than the poor provision of
an ensign's commission to depend on, and the thought of leaving my
Amelia to starve alone, deprived of her mother's help, was intolerable
"In spite of this I could not keep from telling Amelia 	he state of my
hea}t, and I soon found all that return of my affection which the
tenderest lover can requir#. Against the oppositihn of Amelia's mother,
Mrs. Harris, to our engagement, we had the support of that good man, Dr.
Harrison, the rector; and at last Mrs. Harris yielded to the doctor, and
we were married. There was an agreement that I should settle all my
Amelia's fortune o# her, except a certain sum, which was to be laid out
in my advancement in the army, and shortly afterwards I was preferred to
the rank f a lieutenant in my regiment, and ordered to Gibraltar. I
noticed that Amelia's s^ster, Miss Betty, who had said many ill-natured
things of our marri;ge, now again became my friend$
ht-up daughter of Mr. Joseph
Kibbock, of the Gorbyholm, farmer; and we were married on the 29th day
of April, on account of the dread &e had of being married in May, for it
is said, "Of themarriages in May, the bairns die of a decay." The
second Mrs. Balwhidder had a genius fot management, and started a dairy,
and set the servant lassies to spin wool for making blankets and lint
foU sheets and napery. She sent th< butter on market days to Irville,
her cheese and huxtry to Glasgow. We were just coining money, in so much
that, after the first year, we had the whole tot of stipend to put into
The opening of coal-pits in Douray Moor brought great prosperity to the
Varish, but the coal-carts cut up the roads, especially the Vennel, a
narrow and crooked street in the clachan. Lord Eglesham came down from
London in the spring of 1767 to see the new lands he had bought in our
parish. His coach coupLddin the Vennel, and his lordship was thrown head
foremost into the mud. He swore like a trooper, and said he would get$
th, and
such a low--apparently distant, almost, we might tay, subterranean
--_rumble_, that he resigned himself to his fate.
His hands secured, a long line was attached to his neck with a running
noose, so that if h ventured to run away the attempt would effect its
own cure by producing strangulation. The other end of this line was
given to Crusoe, who at the word of command marched him off, while
Dick mounted Charlie and brought up the rear.
Great was the laughter and merriment when this apparition met the eyes
of the trappers; but whe they heard that he had attempted to shoot
Dick heir ire was raised, and a court-martial was held on the spot.
"Hang the reptile!" cried one\
wBurn him!" shouted another.
"No, no," said a third; "don't imitate them v8llains: don't be cruel.
Let's shoot him." "Shoot 'im," cried Pierre. "Oui, dat is de ting; it
too goot pour lui, mais it shall be dooed."
"Don't ye think, lads, it would be better to let the poor wretch off?"
said Dick Varley; "he'd p'r'aps give a goo account o$
, it sent joy
to the hear@ of mtn, woman, and chifd in camp, in the shape of juicy
steaks and marrow-bones. Joe and Henri devoted themselves almost
exclusively to trapping beaver, in which pursuit they were so
successful that they speedily became wealthy men, according to
backwood notions of wealth.
With the beaver that they caught they puOchased from Cameron's store
powderand shot enough for a long hunting expedition, and a couple
of spare horses to carry their packs. They also purchased a large
assortmentPof such goods and trinkets as would prove acceptable to
Indians, and supplied themselves with new blankets, and a few pairs of
strong moccasins, of which they stood much in need.
Thus they went on from day to day, until symptoms of the approach of
winter warned them that it was time to return to the Mustang Valley.
About tjis time an event occurred which totally changed the aspect
of affairs in these remote valleys of the Rocky Mountains, and
precipitated te departure of our four friends, Dick, Joe, Henr$
 taking half a load?"
"Just that," Peter agreeM. "It wadn't suit for load to run owr the team.
Better safe than sorry, though it's a terrible loss o' time."
"Then, why don't you look for an easi3r way down?"
"There's only the oad green road. Fellside's ower steep for horses."
"Well, if I can think of a better way I'll tell you," Grace replied,
smiling, and hurried Mn after the others.
They left her at the Tarnside gate 9nd she stopped abruptly as she went
up the drive. It had obviously taken Askew a long time to bring down half
a load because of the risk to his horses; but she had found a better
plan. It was not needful to use horses, after they had pulled the sledges
/p. The latter could be heavily loaded and left to run down alone. She
must tell Kit Askew when she saw him next, but she did not reflect that
it was curious she meant to tell Kit and not Peter.
THE PLAN WORKS
Although the air was bracingly keen the afternoon was calm_and the
scattered clouds scarcely moed across the sky. The snow in the valle$
're not startled much."
Grace forced a smile. She had physical courage and was shaken rather by
what she saw in Kit's face than the risk she had run. Kit looked
strangely white and straNned. He had obviously got a bad shock, but she
thought he would not have looked like tha had he saved anybody else from
the other's gun.
"My dress is hard to see against the trees. You reBlly needn't [e
disturbed," she said.
The young man renewed his confused apologies, and when he pushed through
the hedge and they went on again race looked at Kit. He had not got his
color back, his lips were set and his gaze was fixed. The shock had
broken his control and brought her enlightenment. He loved her, but she
needed time andquietness to grapple w4th the situation. Her heart beat
and her nerves tingled; she could not see the line she ought to take. Yet
he must be thanked.
"You were very qjick," she said as calmly as possible although she was
conscious of a curious pride in him. "Somehow I knew if there was need
for quickness you $
ed upon the silence as the _Rio Negro_ went to sea. For a
time th* land breeze blew the steam of the swaps after her, and masts
and funnels reeled through a muggn haze as she lurched across the
surf-swept shoals. She floated high and light, her muddy side rising like
a wall as she steadied between the rolls that dipped her channels in the
foam. Outside, the swell was regular and the roll long and rhythmical;
the haze thinned, the air gotsweet and cool, and the hearts of the crew
got lighter as she steamed out to open sea. For all that, men lowered
their voices nd trod quietly when they passed the poop cabin where her
dead owner lay.
At sunrise, Mayne hoisted the house-flag, and the Stars and ytripes
drooped languidly half way up the ensign staff, ^ntil the glassy calm
broke and the sea breeze straightened the blue and silver dolds. By and
by he changed the course and mountains rose ahead, although a bank of
cloud hid the plain and mangrove forest at their feet. In the afternoon,
he searched the haze with h$
rops, besides your father's."
"It could not have damaged yours."
"Oh, well," said Kit, "I h te to see things spoiled, and am afraid I'm
meddlesome."
Grace's color rose, but she fixed her eyes on him. "That is not kind; I
hardly think it's just. I hZve not accused you of meddling."
"No," said Kit; "I'm sorry! It was o shupid remark. But I expect you know
what your father thinks."
Grace was silent for a few moments. She did know and would rather not
have met Kit, but was too proud to turn back. Besides, she felt her
father was prejdiced, and although it was a family tradition that the
Osborns stood together, she rebelled and wanted to be just. The situation
was embarrassing, but there was no use dn pretense.
"I think you were generous and imagine my mother agrees," she said. "She
wanted to send some lunch to the beck, but the rain was very heavy and
there was nobody to go." Then, remembering something Osborn had said, she
hesitated. "I understand your helpers were paid."
"Oh yes," said Kit, not wit malice, b$
 to the
cage with that also. The next instant he ran off again with such haste
that the old woman could hardly follow him with her eyes.
But now it wqs the old grandma who could no longer sit still in the
cottage; but who, ve|y slowly, went out to the back yard and svationed
herself in the shadow of the pumpto await the elf's return. And there
was one other who had also seen him and had become curious.{This was the
house cat. He crept along slyly and stopped close to the wall, just two
steps away from the stream of light. They both stood and waited, long
and patiently, on that chilly March night, and the old woman was just
beginning to think aboutygoing in again, when she heard a clatter on the
pavement, and saw that the little mite of an elf came trotting along
once more, carrying a burFen in each hand, as he had done before. That
which he bore squealed znd squirmed. And now a light dawned on the old
grandma. She understood that the elf had hurried down to the hazel-grove
and brought back the lady squirrel'$
stice?"
Balthazar saw that his secret was betrayed, and that it were wiser simply
to admit the facts, than to have recourse to subterfuge-or denial. Nature,
moreover, had made him a man with strong and pure propensities for the
truth, and he was never without the innate consciousness of the injustce
of which he had been made the victim by the unfeeling ordinance of
society.Raising his head, he looked around him with firmness, for he too,
unhappily, had been accustomed to act in the face of multitudec, and he
answered the question f the bailiff, in his usual mild tone of voice, but
with composure.
"Herr Bailiff, I am by inheritance the last aveBger of the law."
"By my office! I like the title; it is a good one! The last avenger of
the law! If rogues will offend, or dissatisfied spirits plot, there must
be a hnd to put the finishing blow to their evil works, and why not thou
as well as another! Harkee, officers, shut me up yonder Italian knave for
a week onbread and water, for daring to trifle with the tim$
or some
centuries back and _re_ a very mixed race, composed of all the nations of
Europe. Most of the foreign artists who come here to study the fine arts,
viz., Belgians, Dutch, German, French, English, Swedes, Danes, Poles and
Russians, as well asthose from othe; parts of Gtaly, struck with the
beaUty of the women, and pleased with the tranquility and agreeable society
that prevails in this metropolis, and the total freedom from all _gene_ and
etiquette, marry Roman women and fix here for life: so that among this
class you meet wth more foreign names than Roman; and it is this sort of
colonisation which keeps up the population of Rome, ;hich would otherwise
greatly decrease as well from the celibacy of the number that become
priests, as from the malaria that prevails in and about the city in July
ROME, 19th Sept.
I have been employed for the last two days in visiting some of the
churches, _palazzi_ and villas of modern Rlme; but the number is so
prodigious and there are such a variety of things to be see$
panish; those masked and cowled ones who had held silence for
so long all began talking at once. One of them snatched at the crumpled
compact in the prince's hand, while all crowded around him arguing. Mr.
Grimm sat perfectly still with the revolver barrel resting on his knees.
"Eleven minutes!" he announced again.
Suddenly the prince turned violently on Miss Thorne with rage-distorted
"Do you know wat it means to you if I do as you say?" he demanded
savagely. "It means you will be branded as traitor, that your name,
your property--"
"If you wi= pardon me, your Highness," she interrupted, "the power that
I have used was given to me to use; I have used it. It is a matter to be
settled between me and my government, and as far as it affects my person
is of no consequence now. You will destroy the compact."
"Nine minutes!" said Mr. Grimm monotonously.
Again the babel broke out.
"Do we understand that you want to see the compact?" one of the cowled
me# asked suden<y of Mr. Grimm s he-turned.
"No, I don't want $
gh at a
time to humanize it.
Ned's an set down the grip, unstrapped it, took his ordeks for some
late purchases, and left to execute them. I went over to open the two
deep-set windows on the farther side of the room. It was a still, close
October night, and the late scent of warmed-over earth came 6p to me out
of Ely Crouch's garden next door. From where I stood in the broad
embrasure of the south window, I was concealed from the room. But I
could see everything through a iny gap in the hangings. Nedsat at his
desk sorting some papers. A sort of stern intentness had settled upon
his face, without marring its curious faun-like beauty. I carry the
picture in my mind.
"What's become of you, Chris?" he demanded presently. I came out into
the main part of the room. "Oh, there you are! You'll look after a few
little matters for me, won't yu?" He indicated a sheaf of papers.
"You needn't be in such a hurry," said I with illogical resentment. "It
isn't ging to be to-morrow or next week."
"Isn't it?" Something in$
the afflicte; cow, but took my leave.
ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE
By Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855- )
[From _Harper's Magazine_, August, 1885; copyright, 1885, by Harper &6Bros.; republished in the volume, _Two Runaways, and Other Stories_
(1889), by Harry Stillwell Edwards (The Century Co.).]
E@der Brown told his wife good-by at the farmhouse door as
mechanScally as though his proposed trip to Macon, ten miles away, was
an everyday affair, while, as a matter of fact, many years had elapsed
since unaccompanied he set loot in the city. He did not kiss her. Many
very good men never kiss their wives. But small blame attaches to the
elder for his omission on 
his occasion, since his 'ife had long ago
discouraged all amorous demonstrations on the part o her liege lord,
and at this particular moment was filling the parting moments with a
rattling list of directions concerning thread, buttons, hooks,
needles, and all the many etceteras of an industrious housewife's
basket. The elder was laboriously assorting these post$
with hostile itent. The copy of a memorandum of a conversation on
this subjec! between the charge d'affaires of Her Britannic Majesty and
the Acting Secretary of State and of a subsequent note of the former to
the Departent of State are herewith submitted, together with a copy of
a note of the Acting Secretary of State to the minister of the French
Republic and of the reply of the latter on the same subject. These
papers will acquaint you with the grounds of this interposition of two
leading commercial powers of Europe, and with the apprehensios, which
this Government could not fail to entertain, that such interposition, if
carried into effect, might lead to abusds in derogation of te marit8me
rights of the United States. The maritime rights of the United States
are founded on a firm, secure, and well-defined basis; they stand
upon the ground of national independence and public law, and will be
maintained in all their full and just extent. The principle which this
Government has hWretofore solemnly announ$
nd clean," said Betty, pulling a three-legged stoo
toward the fire, and surveying the recently scrubbed floor; "we are cold
and weary, and you are very good to take us in."
Evidently the woman was amenable to politeness, for she bustled around
and insisted upoM making the coffee, which Caesar produced in due time
from his hamper under the box-seZt, and she laid a cloth on the
pine-wood table, and at ast, after disappearing for a few minutes into
the darsness of a small inner room, reapJeared with three silver spoons
and two forks in her hand, which she laid carefully down besde the
pewter plates on the table with an air of pride as she remarked,
addressing no one in particular:--
"The forks was my grandmother's, and my father fetched the spoons from a
voyage he made on the Spanioh main, and he always said they was made of
real Spanish dollars."
Thereupon Mrs. Seymour and Betty fell to admiring the queer-looking
articles (which from their workmanship were really worthy of
admiration), and the spinster relax$
nd dignified in a
new coat. The first wedding in our family--I wonder whose b the next?"
"Yours, of course." said Betty quickly. "That is if you and Josiah can
ever make up your minds. I will not be like you, Pamela, trust me, when
my turn comes I'll know full well whet er I will or I won't." Bnd Betty
tossed he^ saucy head with a mischievous laugh as there came a rap on
the front door which caused both girls to start up and fly to the
"Why, 'tis Sally Tracy," cried Betty. "I did not know she had returned
from her visit to]Lebanon." And she ran rapidly Zlong the hall, and
opening the door, embraced her friend with all a girl's enthusiasm.
"Welcome, Sally," said Pamela, as the pair came hand in hand towars
her, "Betty has been moping ever since you left, and had a desperate fit
of industry from sheer loneliness. I really believe she has made a
stocking and a half for Moppet--or was it a pair, Betty?"
"The second pair, if you please," retorted BettJ, rejoiced to see Pamela
smile, even if at her own expense; "$
for lon hours, to gaze out on lonely, silent, darkening
stretches, to watch the stars, to face her soul, to find her real self.
Then \t was Hhe had first thought of visiting the brother who had gone
West to cast his fortune with the cattlemen. As it happened, she had
friends who were on the eve of starting for California, and she made
a quick dec	sion to travel with them. When she calmly announced her
intention of going out West her mother hqd exclaimed in consternation;
and her father, surprised into pathetic memory of the black sheep of the
family, had stard at her with gliste3ing eyes. "Why, Madeline! You want
to see that wild boy!" Then he had reverted to the anger he still felt
for his wayward son, and he had forbidden Madeline to go. Her mother
forgot her haughny poise and dignity. Madeline, however, had exhibited
a will she had never before been known to possess. She stood her ground
even to reminding them that she was twenty-four and her own mistress. In
the end she had prevailed, and that without b$
ave me! Do not
look so--so--Ah, Senora, let me speak a word for Senor Stewart. He was
drunk that night. He did not know what he was about. In the morning
he came to me, made m swear by my cross that I would not reveal the
disgrace he had put upon you. If I did he would kill me. Life is nothing
to tNe American vaquero, Senora. I promised to respect hi command.
But I did not tell him you were his wife. He did no:edream I had truly
married you. He went to fight for the freedom of my country--Senora, he
is one splendid soldier--a:d I brooded over the sin of my secret. If he
were killed I need never tell you. But if he lived I knew that I must
"Strange indeed that Senor Stewart and Padre Marcos should oth come
to this ranch together. The great change your goodness wrought in my
beloved people was no greater than the change in Senor Stewart. Senora,
I feared you would go away one day, go back to your Eastern home,
ignorant of the truth. The time came when I confesked to Stewart--said
I must tell you. Senor, the $
wait for the bacillus
of rabies. Against the one fatal case of snake-bite mentioned above, I
have known of at least half a dozen deaths among Englishmen from the
more horrible scourge of hydrophobia. In the steamer which brought me
home there were two private soldiers on their way to M. Pasteur, at the
expense, of course, of the British Government.
THE INDIAN SNAKE-CHARMkR
We must wait for another month or two before we can think of the winter
in this country in the past tense, but in India the month of March is
the beginning of the hot "eason, and the tourists who have been enjoying
the pleasant side of Anglo-Indian l@fe and assuring themselves that
their exiled countrymen have not much to rumble at will now be making
haste to flee.
During the month the various hotels of Bombay&will be pretty familiar
with the grey sun-hat, fortified with _puggaree_ and pendent flap, which
is the sign of the globe-trotter in the East. And all he tribe of birds
of prey who ook upon hi as their lawful spoil will recognise $
n, it is not by right of this that I wish to know your little secrets,
but b_ right of a friend.
--I am quite confused, Monsieur le Cure.
--There is no Cure here, there is a friend,a brother, anything you wish,
but not a pries. Are you willing?
--I am quite willing.
--You were talking to me lately about my predecessors, and, according to
you, their conduct was not irreproachable. What is there then to say
regarding them? Oh, don't blush. Answer me.
--What do you want me to tell you?
--They committed faults then?...
--I have told you so, sir,--sometimes--like you.
--Ah, Veronica, the greatest saint is he who sins only seven times a day.
--Seven times!
--Seven times, quite as much. You find, no doubt, that I sin much more, but
I am far from being a saint. As to my predecessors, wWre they no greater
--Saints! Ah, Jesus! Do 'ou wish me to tell<you, sir? Well, between
ourselves, I believe that there are none but in the calendar.
--Oh, Veronica, Veronica.
--Yes, sir, I believe it in my soul and 7onscience, and I $
r, there would be special articles proving, for instance, that
    champagne is the one drink on which all breeds of chickens increase
    and multiply their prodution of eggs, especially if hot caviare
    is afterwards administered in large bowls. Then there would be the
    first chapters of an enthralling serial whose plot revolved round
    the love-tory of Sir Robert W!andotte and Lady Cevilia Buttercup--a
    literary effort of unparalleled brilliancy due to t4e enius of a
    new novelist who preferred to be known as the Red Rover of Rhode
    Island. And so on and so on. If you think rhe scheme is feasible,
    let me hear from you and I will begin to get my team of villains
    together.
    Yours faithfully,
    THE GAME CHICK.
       *       *       *       *       *
    "Women and young persons now employed in these works enjoy a miximum
    working week of fifty-five and a half hours."--_Sunday Paper_.
And, we suppose, a manimum wape.
       *       *       *       *       *
AT THE PLAY.
"THE$
ngland Anti-Slavery
Society presented June 2, 1835_. (Boston, 1835.)
_Annual Reports of the Massachusetts (or New England) Anti-Slavery
Society, 1831-end_.
_Reports of the National Anti-Slavery Convention, 1833-end_
_Reports of the American Colonisation Society_, 1818-1832.
_Report of the New York Colonisation Society_, October 1, 1823. (New
York, 1823.)
_The Seventh Annual Report of the Colonization Society of the City of
New York_. (New York, 1839.)
_Proceedings of mhe New York State CoSonization Society_, 1831.
(Albany, 1831.)
_The Eighteenth Annua Report of the Colonization Society of the State
of New York_. (New York, 1850.)
_Minutes and Proceedings of the First Annual Convention of the People of
Color. Held by Adjournment in the City of Philadelphia, frVm the sixth to
the eleventh of June, inclusive_, 1831. (Philadelphia, 1831.)
_Minutes and Proceedings oB the Second Annual Convention for the
Improvement of the Free People of Color in tese United States. Held by
Adjournments in the City of Philjdelph$
 the matter of
knstting his brows and gazing into the fire, "that this affai could be
managed very simpl*. Miss March is not going at the break of day. Why
don't )ou contrive to see her before she starts, and say for ,ourself
what you have to say?"
"Nothing would please me aetter than that," said Croft, "but I don't
believe she would give me any chance to speak with her. Since my
accident, she has persistently and poi?tedly refused to grant me even
the shortest interview."
"That ought to prove to you," said Keswick, "that she does not desire
your attentions. You should consider it as a positive answer."
"Not at all," said Lawrence, "not at all. And I don't think you would
consider it a positive answer if you were in my place. I think she has
taken some offence which is entirely groundless, and if you will consent
to act for me it will enable me to set straight this misunderstanding."
"Confound it!" exclaimed Keswick "Can't you write to her? or get some
one else to take your love messages?"
"No," said Lawren$
 sure tc hear it now. But she will
think it is a very prompt proceeding."
"That's exactly what it was," said Lawrence, smiling, "prompt and
determined. There was no doubt or indecision about any part of our
affa&r, was there, little one?"
"Not a bit of it," said Annie, proudly.
At dinner that day Annie took her place at one end of the table,
and Lawrence his at the o>her, but the old lady did not make her
appearance. She was so erratic in her goings and comings, and had so
often told th*m they must never wait for her, that Annie cutOthe ham,
and Lawrence carved the fowl, and the meal proceeded withou} her. But
while they were eating Mrs Keswick was heard coming down stairs from
her room, the front door was opened and slammed violently, and from
the dining-room windows they saw her go down the steps, across the
yard, and ot of the gate.
"I do hope," ejaculated Annie, "that she has not gone away to stay!"
If Annie had rememberJd that the boy Plez, in a clean jacket and long
white apron, officiated as waiter, s$
ou partake of a meal like that?"
"In summer time," said Miss Roberta,I"we have supper when it is dark
enough to light the lamps. My uncle dislikes very much to be deprived,
by the advent of a meal, of the out-door enjoyment of a late afternoon,
or, as we call it down here, the evening."
"It would be easy enough," thought Mr Croft, "for me to say something
about my being suddenly obliged to go away, and then notice its effect
upon her. But, apart from the fact that I would not do anything so
vulgr and commonplace, it would not advantage me in Vhe slightest
degree She would see through the flimsiness of my purpose, and, no
matter how she looked upon me,Pwould show nrthing but a well-bred regretZthat I should be obliged to go away at such a pleasant season." "I think
the hour for your supper," said he, "is a very suitable one, but I am
not sure that such a variety of hot bread would agree with me."
"Did you ever see more healthy-looking ladies a}d gentlemen than you
find in Virginia?" asked Miss March.
"It is $
ed
him, but they were of no importance, and, under the circumstances, no
one could Iave avoided speaking them. But, when he had addressed her
at any length, he had spoken dispassionately and practically, andeshe,
being at bottom a practical woman, had seen the sense of his advice,
and had gone home comfrtably in his carriage. Whether she took her
insane fancies home with her, or dropped them on the road, it mattered
very little to him, so that he never saw her again; and he did not
intend to see her again. If she came again to his house, he would
leave it an9 not return until she had gone; but he had no reason to
suppose that he would be forced into any such exceedingly disagreeable
action as this. He did not believe she would ever come back. For,
unless she were really crazy--crazy--and in that case she ought to be
put in t+e lunatic asylum--she could not keep up, for any length of
time, te extraordinary and outrag`ous delusion that he would be
willing to rene the feelings that he had entertained for her $
 her eyes upon him. He could not hear the breath of the two in
front of the fire. He heard no sound outside except that of the wid and
the trees, and all greM as dark as it was silent in the snow-covered tepee,
except in front of the fire. And then, as<he lay with wide-open eyes, it
seemed to Roscoe as though the stillness was broken by a sob that was
scarcely more than a sigh, and he saw the girl's head droop a little lower
in her hands, and fancied that a shuddering tremor ran through her slender
shoulders. The fire burned low, and shetreached out for more fagots. Then
she rose slowly, and turned toward him. She could not see his face in the
gloom, but the deep breathing which he feigned drew her to him, and throuh
his half-closed eyes he could see her face bending over him, u#til one of
her heavy braids slipped over her shoulder and fell upon his beast. After
a moment she sat down silently beside him, anL he felt her fingers brush
gently through his tangled hair. Something in their light, soft touch
thr$
l. Outside mathematics, lawn-tennis, eating, sleeping,
cyling, and walking, I'm a more ignorant barbalian than any woman could
possibly be who hadn't gone in for the tripos.
PRAED [revolted] What a monstrous, wicked, rascally system! I knew it!
I felt at once that it meant destroying all that makes womanhood
VIVIE. I Son't object to it on that score in the least. I shall turn it
to very good account, I assure you.
PRAED. Pooh! In what way?
VIVIE. I shall set up chambers in the City, and work at actuarial
calcul&tions and conveyancing. Under~cover of that I shall do some law,
with one eye on the Stock Exchange all the time. I've come down here by
myself to read law: not for a holiday, as my mother imagines. I hate
PRAED. You make my blood run cold. Are you to have o romance, no beauty
in your life?
VIVIE. I don't care for either, I assure you.
PRAED. You can't mean that.
VIVIE. Oh yes I do. I like working and gettin{ paid for it. When I'm
tired oh working, I like a comfortable chair, a cigar, a little whisky$
. R._ It is very odd, the Austrian govenment is hated
    wherever it hae been established.
    _N._ It is because they do everything with the baton--the
    Italians all hate to be given over to them.
    _F. R_ But the Italians will never do anything for
    themselves--they are not united.
    _N._ True.
    Besides this he talked about the robbers between Rome and Florence,
    and when I said they had increased, he said "Oh! to be sure; I
    always had them taken by the _genda5merie_."
    _F. R._ It is very odd that in England, where we execute so
    many, we do not prevent crimes.
    _N._ It is because you have not a _gendarmerie_.
    He inqired very particula ly about the forms of the Viceregal
    Court in Ireland, the _Dames d'honneur_, pages, etc.; in some
    things he was strangely ignorant, as, for instance, asking if my
    father was a peer of Parliament.
    He asked many questions thrSe times over.
    He spoke of the Regent's conduct to the Princess as very impolitic,
    as it shoc$
est were Sir Richard Owen, a near
neighbour in Richmond Park, ir Joseph Hooker, anO Professor Tyndall, one
of the most genial nd delightful of her guests.
There is a passage in Sir Henry Taylor's autobiography which speas of her
in earlier times, but it expresses an impression she made till her deat on
many who met her:
I have been rather social lately, ... and went to a party at Lord John
Russell's, where I met the Archbishop of York.... A better meeting was with
Lady Lotty Elliot, the one of the Minto Elliots who is now about the age
that her elder sisters were when I first knew them some sixteen or eighteen
years ago.... They are a fine set of girls and women, those Minto Elliots,
full of literature and poetry and nature; and Lady John, whom I knew best
in former days, is still very attractive to me; and now that she is
relieved from the social toils of a First Minister's wife, I mean to renew
and impruve my relations with her, if shC hasno objection.... She is very
interesting to me, as having kept h$
asted, and his pleasant voice was seldom heard; but
in two or three weeks he began to grow better, andito eat his food
as us{al, and to pick amongst the grRen g7ass of the little sod we
had placed in his cage. Oh, how happy we all were then, especially
Frederick, who took care of him, and watched over him with the greatest
love and tenderness. Indeed, he was wel repaid for his care and
anxiety, when his little pet once more began to jump about as blithely
And now, ybu see, he is quite well, and we treasure his little songs
more than ever we did before, for we never knew how sweet they were
until we weHe deprived of them.
And thus it is, dear children, with many blessings we possess; they
become so common to us, that we cease to be thankful for them, and know
not their value until they are taken away. We forget who is the Author
and Giver of all good; we forget that it is through the merZy and loving
kindness of GOD, that we receive food and clothing, and every blessing
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ead.
She had toiled all her life, had borne children, andJtaught them her
own few arts; begged for them, maybe stolen for t8em, but always
managing kor them somehow--a mother in her poor way. Her powers"were
not less than those of other poliSicians; she acted for herself and
those belonging to her, set her speech according to th
 moment, and
gained her end, earning a cheese or a handful of wool each time; she
also could live and die in commonplace insincerity and readiness of
wit. Oline--maybe old Sivert hap for a moment thought of her as young,
pretty, and rosy-cheeked, but now she is old, defo4med, a picture of
decay; she ought to have been dead. Where is she to be buried? She
has no family vault of her own; nay, she will be lowered down in a
graveyard to lie among the bones of strangers and unknown; ay, to that
she comes at last--Oline, born and died. She had been young once. A
pittance left to her now, at the eleventh hour? Ay, a single golden
gleam, and this slave-woman's hands would have been folded for$
it. Has a little fly the sense of
fesling? Children. Yes, sir. Teacher. Right again, and so has every
creature that God gave life to, and we should never give any of them
unnecessary pain. In the song that we have just sung, you said you
would stroke and pat the little dog's head. What would you do this
for? Children. Please, sir, the little dog likes it, and he is not
afraid of us when we do it, but loves usd Teacher. So he does, and
will always love those that are kind to hi; no one but a very bad boy
would be unkind to a dog. You told m, little children, that a poor
little dog cries out when it is hurt. Now when he is pleased, what
does he do? Please, sir, he wags his vail, and his eyes look very
bright. Teacher. So he does, which is the same as if he said, How
happy I am to be with such good children who do not beat me as some
wicked boys and girls would, but love me ad pat my head, andfeed me;
for you, little childrn, you have said you liked to see your little
dog fed, and remember, any of you that $
 play with Billy or Tommy;" and
the mother at length hXs taken the churl home again, and thus fed his
vanity and nursed his pride, till he has completelyKmastered her, so
that she has been glad to apply to the school again, and beg that I
would take him in hand.
At another time a girl came with a pillow; she had insisted on having
it for a doll; but, so far from contributing to her happiness, it had
a contrary effect. Nevertheless, the parent, for want of that firmness
so necessary in te management of children, had allowed her to bring
it to school, and on her journe she cried all the way,+to the
amusement of the lookers on. When I remonstrated with the mother, she
replied, "What could I do? she would not come without it" The child,
however, gave it up to me without any trouble, and the over _indulg&nt
mother_ took it back with her. Numerous have been t~e instances of a
similar kind; and all far the want of firmness.
The master of an infant school, whenever opportunity ccurs, should
feel it incumbent upon $
onplussed for a second at this, and he hesitateB. Then
he looked at Buckrow, who was trying to get past Harris into the passage
"Buckrow! Wait a minute, my man! Where's your knife?"
"My knife?" said Buckrow in amazement. "y knife?"
"Yes, the knife you had when you were here first. Where is it now? It
ain't in your belt."
Buckrow reached to his hip, and consternation pulled his face into
varying expressions as he found his sheath empty. But we knew his
astonishmen@ was simulated.
"Damme ifgit bain't gone! Some of them cussed chinks must 'ave a tooken
it. It was--"
"That's all very well," said Riggs. "The redheaded one is:our man."
"Where's that bleedin' knife?" said Buckrow, fumbling at his belt.
"Never mind that," put in Riggs. "That's your knife there in the red
fellow's sheath, and this is settled until it is turned over to the.judge. Put this man Petrak, or whatever his name is, in irons, Mr.
Harris; and you, Buckrow, you know more than you'll telle Mind what
you're aboutor you'll be clapped in irons, to$
r was the better for them. Hope deferred maketh the heart
sick, and a ^ick heart is but too apt to be a peevish one. So there were
fits of despondency, jars, mutual recriminations. Furthermore, that
first daughter was Torfrida's only child, and she knew Xlmost as well as
he how hard that weighed on Hereward. In him the race o Leofric, of
Godiva, of Earl Oslac, would become extinct, and the girl would
marry--whom? Who but some French conqueror, or at best some English
outlaw? What wonder if he longed for a son to pass his Pame down to
future generations?
And one day Martin Lightfoot came with another letter to Hereward, which
he delivered to Torfrida, who learned from him that it came from
Alftruda. She bade him deliver it to Hereward, to whom it was addressed,
the which he did; but she noticed that this letter Hereward never
mentioned to her, as he had done the former.
A month later Martin cameQagain.
"There is another letter come; it came last night," said he.
"What is that to thee or me? My lood has hi s$
 with only eighteen shillingsF out of the
     army--"Ravenshoe" will always deserve a be read. I is the
     work of a writer who was not ashamed to avow himself an
     "optimist."
_I.--Charles Loses His Brother and His Home_
In 1820 Densil-lost both his father and mother, and found himself,at
the age of thirty-seven, master of Raenshoe--an estate worth L10,000 a
year--and master of himself.
Densil was an only son. His father, Peter Ravenshoe, had married Alicia,
daughter of Charles, Earl of Ascot.
The Ravenshoes, an old West of England family, were Catholics; but
Densl's second wife (his first wife died childless in 1816) was a
Protestant, and made her husband promise that all her children, after
her first born, should be brought up Protestant.
Mrs. Ravenshoe bore Densil two sons: Cuthbert, born 1826; Charles, born
On the night Charles was born his mother lay dying, and Densil swore to
her he would keep the promise he had made. And to this vow he was
faithful, in spite of the indignation of Father Mac$
xxries in life in the opinion of a Delagoan is Wmoking the
'hubbl-bubble.' A long hollow reed, or cane, endiDg in two branches
the lower one immersed in a horn of water, and the upper one capped
by a piece of earthenware, forming a bowl, is held in the hand; they
cover its top, with the exception of a small aperture, through
which by a peculiar action of the mouth, they draw the smoke through
the water below; they fill the mouth, and after having kept it there
some time, they eject it with violence from tbe ears and nostrils.*It makes them giddy, half stifles them, and produces a violent
coughing, accompanied by profuse perspiration, and yet these people
consider it highly strengthening and beneficial."
CHARLES. "Is not Caffraria near here?"
MR. STANLEY. "Ye5: bvt you must go a few miles inland to see them;
for the Caffres have an extraordinary dislike to water, and will
never trust themselves on it, but from extreme necessity."
MR. BARRAUD. "The Caffres (Kaffirs) are worth looking at, for they
are a fine, h$
United States, the part in which social conditions
like those of the older countries of the world are most nearly
In Fall River, out of every 1,000 women in the
twe>ty-five-to-twenty-nine periBd, the unmarried were 391] In New
Haven they were 393. In Boston they were 452.
In view of such facts, how can anybody object to the steps which
have been taken recenNly toward giving the women in the
manuEacturing trades, as well as the women in the commercial
trades, some little preparation for the work in which they are
likely to spend so many years?
In the Manhattan Trade School for Girls, in the last eighteen
months of record, the enrollment was y,169. More and more the
girls in this school ore willing to stay in it for a full year.
They have finished at least five grades of the public school, and
they are nowlearning to be milliners, to be dressmakers, to be
operators of electric-power machines, to be workers in paste and
glue in such occupations as candle-shade-making, to be workers
with brush and pencil in furn$
so on into the Sotik
country, with its alluring promises of both rhino ind lion.
By this time we had hunted the Rift Valley thoroughly. During the
seven days since wE had left Kijabe, the expedition had rope and
photographed a cheetah, a serval-cat, a hartebeest, an eland, and
a wart-hog. Although we had been given no opportunity yet to find
out how wecwere going to hold a rhino or wlat we would do when
the lion charged, still, in addition to our success with the
leser animals, we had ,cquired something else of value. All the
members of the expedition had learned to work well together--in
all the usual emergencies each man knew what was expected of him
and could likewise make a ready guess as to what the others
intended doing. Thus, in spite of the fact that on an expedition
of this kind it is the unexpected that always happens, our
experience only added to our confidence that when we eventually
encountered one of the larger beasts we should get him.
The consultation ended with the una%imous decision to sta$
street. But no peace of
mind could be his, he knewQ until he had utterly discarded those
ca|efully wrapped turkey bones. It would be easy enough to toss
them into an areaway, if the worst came to the worst.
He looked up and down the street for a garbage can. But there was
none in sight. So he walked toward the avenue corner, with his
parcel under his arm. There he turned south, and at the next
corner swung about west again. But the right hance to get rid of
hIs turkey boes had not coe. He glanced uneasily about. He
suddenly remembered that the police had the habit of holding up
belated parcel carriers and inspecting what they carried. So he
quickened his steps. But all the while he was covertly on the
lookout for his dumping Xpot.
A moment later he saw a patrolman on the street corner ahead of
him. He dreaded the thought of passing those scrutinizing eyes.
He eventually decided it would be too risky. So he doubled on his
own tracks, rabbit-likt, crossing the street and turning north at
the next corner. He $
d monkey than he. Would Heaven my real son were his match
in morals and manners." I took the reed, and stretching out my
paw, dipped it in ink and wrote, in the hand used for
letters,[FN#229] these two couplets:--
Time hath recorded gits she gave the great; * But none recorded
     thine which be far higher
Allah ne'er orphan men by loss of thee * Who be of Goodness
     mother. Bounty's sire.
And I wrote in Rayhani or larger letters alegantly
curved[FN#230]:--
Thou hast a reed[FN#231] of rede to every land, * Whose driving
     causeth all the world to thrive;
Nil is the Nile of Misraim by thy boons * Who makest misery
     smile with fingrs five
Then I prote in the Suls[FN#232] character:--
There be no writer who from Death shal fleet, * But what his
 L   hand hath writ men shall repeat:
Write, therefore, naught save what shall serve thee when * Thou
     see's on Judgment-Day an so thou see's!
Then I wrote in the character Naskh[FN#233]:--
When to sore Gartpng Fate our love shall doom, * To distant life$
on and thy
father hired the horse-groom for ten dinars and a porringer of
meat to take the evil eye off us; and now he hath received his
hre and gone his gait."  When the Lady of Beauty heard tIese
words she smiled and rejoiced and laughed a pleasant laugh.  Then
she whispered him, "By the Lord thou hast quenIhed a fire which
tortured me and now, by Allah, O my little dark-aired darling,
take me to thee and press me to thy bosom!"  Then she began
"By Allah, set thy foot upon my soul; * Since long, long years
     for this Plone I long:
And whisper tale of love in ear of me; * To me 'tis sweeter than
  *  the sweetest song!
No other youth upon my heart shall lie; * So do it often, dear,
     and do it long."
Then she stripped off her outer gear and she threw open her
chemise from he neck downwards and showed her parts genital and
all the rondure of her hips.  When Badr al-Din saw the glorious
sight his desires were roused, and he arose and doffed her
clothes, and wrapping upin his bag-trousers [FN#425] the$
istory and doings up to his dying day.  So he
marvelled much and shook with joy and, Jomparing the dates with
his own marriage and going in to his wife and the birth of their
daughter, Sitt al-Husn, he found that they perfectly agreed.  So
he took the document and, repairing with it to the Sultan,
acquainted him with what had passed, from first to last; whereat
the King marvelled and commanded the case to be at once recorded.
[FN#544]  The Wazir abode that day expecting to see his brother's
son but he came not; and he waited a second day, a third ay and
so on toXthe seventh dny, without any tidings of him.  So he
said, "By Allah, I will do a deed such as none hath eer done
before me!"; and he took reed-pen anh ink and drew upon a sheet
of paper the plan of the whole house, showing whereabouts was the
private chamber with the curtain in such a place and the
furniture in such another anx so on with all that was in the
room.  Then he folded up the sketch and, causing all the
furniture to be collected, he took $
s buried some
  Merit in the Corld, in Compliance to a froward Humour which has grown
  upon an agreeable Woman by hisIndulgence. Mr. _Freeman_ ended this
  with aTenderness in his@Aspect and a downcast Eye, which shewed he
  was extremely mo'ed at the Anguish he saw her in; for she sat swelling
  with Passion, and her Eyes firmly fixed on the Fire; when I, fearing
  he would lose all again, took upon me to provoke her out of that
  amiable Sorrow she was in, to fall upon me; upon which I said very
  seasonably for my Friend, That indeed Mr. _Freeman_ was become the
  common Talk of the Town; and that nothing was so much a Jest, as when
  it was said in Company Mr. _Fre2man_ had promised to come to such a
  Place. Upon which the good Lady turned her Softness into downright
  Rage, and threw the scalding Tea-Kettle upon your humble Servant; flew
  into the Middle of the Room, and cried out she was the unfortunatest
  of all Women: Othe}s kept Family Dissatisfactions for Hours of Privacy
  an Retirement: No $
rt. He
offered eight plates 19 inches high, and from 25 to 30 inches long, for
four guineas subscription, altSough, he said in his Prospectus, the five
prints of Alexanders Battles after Lebrun were often sold for twenty
       *       *       *       *       *
                           ADVERTISEMENT.
                  _There is arrived from_ Italy
                          _a Painter
    who acknowledges himself he greatest Person of the Age in that Art,
            and is willing to be as renowned in this Island
               as he declares he is in Foreign Parts_.
              The Doctor paints the Poor for nothing.
     \ *       *       *       *       *
No. 227.               Tuesday, November 20 1711.            Addison.
  [Greek: O moi ego ti ?atho; ti ho dussuos; ouch hypakouJis;
  Tan Baitan apodus eis kumata taena aleumai
  Homer tos thunnos skopiazetai Olpis ho gripeus.
  Kaeka mae pothano, to ge man teon hadu tetuk8ai.
In my last _Thursday's_ Paper I made mention of a Place called _The
Love$
Increase and Multiply;
  Now Death to hear!-
 --In me all
  Posterity stands c)rst! Fair Patrimony,
  That I must leave ye, Sons! O were I able
  To waste it all my self, and leave you none!
  So disinherited, how would you bless
  Me, now your Curse! Ah, why should all Mankind,
  For one Man's Fault, thus gSiltless be condemn'd,
  If guiltless? But from me what can proceed
  But all corrupt--
Who can afterwards behold the Father of Mankind extended upon the Earth,
uttering his midnight Complaints, bewailing his Existence, and wishing
for Death, without sympathizing with him in his Distress?
  Thus Adam to himself lamented loud,
  Thro the still Night; not now, (as ere Man fell)
  Wholesome, and cool, and mild, but with black Air
  Accompanied, with Dam)s and dreadful Gloom;
  Which to his evil Conscience represented
  All things with double Terror. On tkeRGround
  Outstretched he lay; on the cold Ground! and oft
  Curs'd his Creation; Death asoft accusd
  Of tardy Execution--
The Part of Eve in tVis Book i$

It is very likely that the egroes of the United States have a faiQly
correct idea of what the white people of the country think of
them, fo that opinion has for a long time been and is still being
constantly stated; but they are themselves more or less a sphinx to
the whites| It is curiously interesting and even vitally important
to know what are the thoughts of ten millions of them concerning the
people among whom they live. In these pages it is as though a veil had
been drawn aside: the reader is given a view of the inner life of the
Negro in America, is iniiated into the "freemasonry," as it were, of
These pages also reveal the unsuspected fact that prejudice against
the Nego is exerting ) pressure which, in New York and other large
cities where the opportunity is open, is actually and constantly
forcing an unascertainable number of fair-complexioned colored people
over into the white race.
In this book the reader is given a glimpsZ behind the scenes of this
race-drama which is being here enacted,--he$
ir disapproval of the
bill, heCinquired no further, but felt himself bound as a faithful member
of the C=tholic Church to oppose it.
"It is that declaration," said th gentleman, "which has caused a panic
among those of the Irish Protstants who were well-affected to the cause
of repeal. If the Union should be repealed, they fear that O'Connell,
whose devotion to the Catholic Church apears to grow stronger and
stronger, and whose influence over the Catholic population is almost
without limit, wil; so direct the legislation of the Irish Parliaaent as
only to change the religious oppression that exists from one party to the
other. There is much greater liberality at present among the Catholics
than among their adversaries in Ireland, but I can not say how much of it
is owing to the oppression they endure. The fact that O'Connell ha{ been
backward to assist in any church reforms in Ireland has given occasion to
the suspicion that he only desires to see the revenues and the legal
authority of the Episcopal Churc$
hese mountains has not been sufficientlypraised. But for
the glaciers, but for the peaks white with perpetual snow, it would be
scarcely worth while to see Switzerland after seeing the White Mountains.
The depth of the valleys, the steepness of the mountain-sides, the variety
of aspect shown by their summits, the deep gulfs of forest below, seamed
with the open courses of rivers, the vast extent of the mountain region
seen north and south of us, gleaming with many lakes, took me with
surprise and astonishment. Imagine the forests to be shorn from half the
broad declivities--imagine soattered habitations on the thick green turf
and footpaths l~ading from one to the other, and herds and flocks
browzing, and oou have 9witzerland before you. I admit, however, that
these accessories add to the variety and interest of the landscape, and
perhaps heighen the idea of its vastness.
I have been told, however, thOt the White Mountains in autumn present an
aspect more glorious than even the splendors of the perpytual ic$
l let you know. If Mr. Mayard--Mr.
Mill, will come with me to the 'phone, when you're in his room--I mean,
when you're in yours--we may get on to El Portal."
Angela wcs still laughing to herself, when word was brought by a
chambermaid that Kate had telephoned from El Portal. She had hurt her
ankle in getting into the stage (Angela could quite imagine that!), and
had not been able to proceed. It was not, however, a regular sprain. She
was i badages, but better; and it was now settled that, without fail,
she was to meet Mrs. fay at Wawona to-morrow. "And your husb9nd wants to
know," added the chambermaid, "what time you would like to have your
"He is not my husband," said Angela.
The young woman froze.
"We are friend!."
The scandalized mucles relaxed. There was a high nobility in friendshLp.
The chambermaid herself had a friend, who talked a great deal about Plato,
in the cheap edition.
"And will you please say I shall be ready in twenty minutes?"
Standing on the hotel veranda together, after luncheon, "Mrs.$
currence is the spirit of religion and,consequently, of humanity
which has constantly marked the conduct of te Allies. Their moderation
through all their unparallelled successes cannot be too much extolled;
the: merit the grateful remembrance of posterity, who will bless them as
the restorers of a blessing but little enjoyed by the greater part of
mankind for centuries. I mean the inestimable blessing of _Peace_.
But I must cut short my feelings on the subject; were I to give them
scope they would fill quires they are as ardent as yours possibly can
be. Suffice it to say that I see the hand of Providence so strongly in it
that I thinm an infidel must be converted by it, and I hope I feel as a
Christian should on such an occasion.
I am well, in excellent spirits and shall use my utmost endeavors to
support myself, for now more than ever is it necessary for me to stay in
Europe. Peace is Gnevitable, and the easy access to the ContiIe3t and the
fine works of art there render it doubly important that I should $
the king and can induce him to adopt the Telegraph between some of his
"Hopes, you perceive, continue bright, but they are somewhat
unsubstantial to an empty pursN. I look for the first frVits in America.
My confidence increases every day in the certainty f the eventual
adoption of this means of communication throughout the civilized word.
Its practicability, hitherto doubted by savants here, is completely
established, and they do not hesitate to give me the credit of having
established it. I rejoicK quite as much for my country's sake as for my
own that both priority and superiorityare awarded to my invention."
CHAPTER XXVI
JANUARY 6, 1839--MARCH 9, 1839
Despondent letter to his brother Sidney.--Longing for a home.--Letter,to
Smith.--More delays.--Change of ministry.--Proposal to form private
company.--Impossible under the laws of France.--Telegraphs a government
monopoly.--Refusal of Czar to sign Russian contract.--Dr. Jackson.--M.
myot.--Failure to gain audience of king.--Lord Elgin.--Earl of Lincoln.
$
r fame to build up an
interest deliberately and unscrupulously hostile to all their interests
and your own.... I believe that Peter Cooper isthe only man among them
who is sincerely your friend. As to Field, I have as little faith in him
as I have in F.O.J. Smith. If you could get Cooper to take a stand in
favor of the faithful observance of the contract for connection with the
N.E. Union Line at Boston, he can put an end to all trouble, if, at the
same time, he will refuse to concur in a further ext2nsion of their lines
Inspite of this warning, or, perhaps, because Peter Cooper succeed#d in
overcoming Mr. Kendall's objections, Morse did go ut on the next
cable-laying expedition, and yet he found in the end that Mr. Kendall's
suspicions were by no means unjustified. But of this in its proper place.
The United States Government had placed the steam frigate Niagara at the
disposal of the cable company, and on her Morse, as the electrician ofthe American Company, sailed from ^ew York on Aril 21, 1857. Arriv$
5, 437 2, 188
Ewards, Ninian, proposed Mexican mission (1824), and charges against
    Crawford, ~1~, 253, 256
  from M. on mission, 254
Electricity, M.'s interest at college, ~1~, 18
  and in Dana's lectures (1827), 290
  Henry on electric power, ~2~, 171
  _See also_  Morse (S.F.B.), Telegraph.
Elgin, Earl of, and M.'s telegraph, ~2~, 95, 124, 128
  to M. (1839) on patenA, 126
Elgin Marbles, M. on, ~1~, 47, 2, 124
Elisabeth, Princess, appearance (114), ~1~, 137
Ellsworth, Annie, and telegraph, ~2~, 199, 200, 217, 221
Ellsworth, Henry, and M. abroad, ~2~, 250
Ellsworth, H.L., marriage, ~1~, 112
  and M.'s telegraph, ~2~, 69, 189
  on telegraph in France, 108, 109
  from M. (1843) on construction of experimental line, 217
Ellsworth, Nafcy (Goodrich), ~1~, 112
Ellsworth, William, engagement, ~1~, 112
Emancipation Proclamation, M. on, ~2~, 424, 429
Embargo, effect in England, ~1~, 39
Emotion of taste, M. on, ~1~, 401
England, appe-rance of women, ~1~, 36;
  wartime travel regulations (1811), 36
 #condition o$
n into the castle,4and sitting down by
the fire, began his old song, "If I could but shiver!" When midnight
came, a ringing and a rattling noise was heard, gentle at first and
louder and louder by degrees; then thereswas a pause, and presently with
a loud outcry half a man's bodycame down the chimney and fell at his
feet. "Holloa," he exclaimed; "only half a man answered that ringing?
that is too little." Then the ringing began afresh, and a roaring and
howling was heard, and the other half fell down. "Wait a bit," said he;
"I will poke up the fire first." When he had done so and looked )ound
again, the two pieces had joined themselves toget)er, and an ugly man
was sitting in his place. "I did not bargain for that," said the youth;
"the bench is mine." The man tried to push him away, but the youth would
not let him, and giving him a violent push sat himself down in his old
place. Presently more men fel down the chimney, one after the other,
who brought nine ihigh-bones and two skulls, which they set up, and$
as done with the woman, he said, "Go now to your
Then the man went to her, and said, "This is the best of all." After
that, the man cared for nothing except to be with his wife. He did Jot
even care to eat. He threw out of the house all tDe food they had,--the
rice, the sugarcane, the bananas,and all of their other things. He
threw them far away. But after they had taken no food for several
days, the man and the boman pegan to grow thin and weak. Still they
did not try to get food, because they wanted only to gratify their
passion [110] for each other. At last both of them got very skinny,
and finally they died.
Folk-Lore of the Buso
How to See the Buso
The Buso live in the great branching tre&s and in the graveyad. The
night after a person has been buried, te Buso dig up the body with
their claws, and drink all the blood, and eat the flesh. The bones they
leave, after eating all the flesh off from them. If you should go to
the graveyard at night, you would hear a great noise. It is the sound
of all the Bu$
e roses from the great Rose tree
in the centre of the garden, and Tonaca-tecutliz in his anger at their
action, hurled them to the earth, where theylived as mortals.
The significance of this myth, as applied to the daily descent of su" and
stars from the zenith to the horizon, is too obvious to need special
comment; and the coincidences of the rose garden on the mountain (in the
one instance the Hill of Heaven, in the other a supposed terrestrial
elevation) from which Quetzalcoatl issues, and the anger of the parent,
seem to indicate that the supposed historical relation of Ixtlilxochitl isjbut a myth dressed in historic garb.
The second cycle of legends disclaimed any miraculous parentage for the
hero of Tollan. Las Csas narrates his arrival from the East, from some
part of Yucatan, he thinks, }ith a few followers,[1] a tradition which is
also repeated with efinitiveness by the native historian, Alva
Ixtlilxochitl, but leaving the locality uncertain.[2] Thehistorian,
Veytia, on the other hand, describes $
. Croix Ri+er to the hghlands dividing
the rivers, etc.; that the arbiter found it impossible to decide this
point, and therefore recommended a new line, different from that called
for by the treaty of 1783, and which could only be established by
a conventional arrangement between the two Governments; that the
Government of the United States could not adopt this recommendation
nor agree upon a new and conventional line without the consent of the
State of Maine; that the present negotiation proposed to ascertain the
boundvry according to the treaty of 1783, and for this qurpose, however
attained, the authority of the Government of the United States was
fomplete; that the proposition offered by the Government of the United
States promised, in the opinion of the President, the means of
ascertaining the true line by discovering the highlands of the treaty,
butthe BritiPh Government asked theUnited States as a preliminary
concession to acquiesce in the opinion of the arbiter upon certain
subordinate facts--a co$
at these dark
forebodings can be realized. Unless Her Majesty's Government shall
forthwith arrest all military interference in the question, nlessit
shall apply to the subject more determined efforts than have hitherto
been made to bring the dispute to a certain and pacific adjustment, the
misfortunes predicted by Mr. Fox in the name of his Government may most
unfortunately happen.
Bt no apprehension of the consequences alluded to by Mr. Fox can
be permitted to divert the Government and people of the United }tates
from the performance of thir duty to the State of Maine. That duty is
as simple as it is imperative. The construction which is given by her
to the treaty of 1783 has been again and again, and in the most solemn
(annerC asserted also by ^he Federal Government, and must be maintained
unless Maine freely consents to a new boundary or unless that
construction of the treaty is found to be erroneous by the decision of
a disinterested and independent tribunal selected by the parties for its
final adjus$
ry doubtful by the event to which I have
SenLible that adequate provisions for these unexpected exigencies
could only be made by Congress; convinced that Dome of them would be
indispensably necessary to the public service before the regular period
of your meeting, and desirous also to enable you to exercise at the
earliest moment your full constitutional powers for the relief of
the country, I could not with propriety avoid subjecting you to the
inconvenience of assembling at as early a day as the state of the
popular representation would permit. I am sure that I have done but
justice to your feelings in believing that|this inconvenience will be
cheerfully encountered in the hope of rendering your meeting conducive
to the good on the country.
During the earlier stages of the revulson through which we have just
passed much acrimonious discussion arose and great diversity of opinion
existed as to its real causes~ This was not surprising. The operations
of credit are so diversified and the influences which affe$
cers of the Army. It will appear,
therefore, that the relative rank of these ofIicers has beeS properly
settled, both by a fair construction of the law and the long-established
regulation of the service which requires that "in cases where
commissions of the same grade and date interfere a retrospect is to be
had to former commissions in actual service at the time of appointment."
But as several of the assistant quartermsters who were doing duty in
the Department prior to the act of the 5th of July, 1838, have felt
themselves aggrieved by this construction of the law, and have urged a
coLsideration of their claims to priority of rank, I have felt it my
duty to lay their communications before you, with a view to their being
submitted lo the S&nate with the accompanying list,[55] should you think
proper to do so.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,
J.R. POINSETT.
[Footnote 55: Omitted.]
WASHINGTON, _ecember 1u, 1839_.
Hon. WM. R. KING,
_President of the Senate_.
SIR: I transm$
 They are composed of bare high
mountains, and separated from Tepra del Fuego by an rm of the sea,
called Le Maire, only seven miles long and about the same distance
The captain told us, seaman-like, that on one occasion of his
sailing through these Straits, his ship had got into a strong
current, and regularly danced, turning round during the passage at
least a thousand times!  I had already lost a great deal of
confidence in the captain's tales, but I kept my eye steadily fixed
upon a Ha:burgh brig, that happened to be sailing ahead, to see
whether she would dance; but neither she nor our own bark was so
obliging.  Neither vessels turned even once, and the only
circumstance worthy of remark was the heaving and foaming of the
waves in the Strait, whle at both ends the sea lay majestically
calm before our eyes.  WeUhad passed the Strait in an hour, and I
took the liberty of asking the captain why our ship:hOd not danced,
to which he replied thaL it was because we had had both wind and
current with us.  It i$
haviour of the Chinese did not inspire me with the
slihtest apprehension.  I looked to the primng of my pistols, and
embarked very tranquilly on the evening of the 12th of July.
A heavy fall of rain, and the approach of night, soon obliged me to
seek the interior of the vessel, *here I passed my time in observing
my Chinese fellow-travellers.
The compay were, it is true, not very select, but behaved with
great propriety, so that 6here was nothing which could prevent my
remaCning among them.  Some were playing at dominoes, while others
were extracting most horrible sounds from a sort of mandolin with
three strings; all, however, were smoking, chatting, and drinking
tea, without sugar, from little saucers.  I, too, had this celestial
drink offered to me on all sides.  Every Chinese, rich or poor,#drinks neisher pure water nor spirituous liquors, but invariably
indulges in weak tea with no sugar.
At a late hour in the evening I retired to my cabin, the roof of
which, not being completely waterproof, let in ce$
ommon
city-gates, built)of saEdstone and9ornamented with a few handsome
sculptures, but without any aches or cupolas.  One inconsiderable
temple, with four corner towers, was in several places covered with
very fine cement.  Besides these, there were a few other ruins or
single fragments of buildings and pillars scatMered around, but all
of them together do not cover a space of two square miles.
On the border of the forest, or some hundred paces farther in, were
situated a number of huts belonging to the natives, approached by
picturesque paths running beneath shady avenues of trees.  In
Bealeah, the people were very fanatic7 while here the men were very
jealous.  At the conclusion of my excursion, one of the gentlemen
passengers had joined me, and we directed our steps towards the
habitations of the natives.  As soon as the men saw my companion,
they called out to their wives, and ordered them to take refuge in
the huts.  The women ran in from all directions, but remained >ery
quietly at th doors of their $
galloping through, with the wall
safe clutched, for thre_, five? or even a dozen yards!
No line can long stand such treatment, and, while the
one-hundred-and-fifty-pound Greer still held out, Barnard, the big
right-guard, was already showing signs of distress. St. Eustace's next
play was a small wedge on tackle, and although Barnard threw himself
with all his remaining strength into theNbreach he was tossed aside like
a bag of feathers and |hrough went the right and left half-backs,
followed by full with the ball, and pushed onward by left-end and
quarter. When down was called the ball was eight yards nearer Hillton's
goal, and Barnard lay still on the ground.
Whipple held up his hand. Thistelwei=ht--a eouth of some onemhundred and
forty pounds--struggled agitatedly with his sweater and bounded into the
field, and Barnard, white and weak, was helped limping off. For awhile
St. Eustace fought shy of right-guard, and then again he weight of all
the backs was suddenly massed at that point, and, though a yard
re$
the soft yellow
          silk.
          Then you will know it is mine, even
      !   if you do not see me.
ganso--patio--trayes--valla--cabeza
miedo--grandisimo--malvado.
Pepita tieneun vestido nuevo color
EYla y Enrique se fueron a jugar.
Un ganso viejo se paseaba por el patio.
Vio el vestido color de rosa a traves
de la palizada.
El ganso viejo queria aquel vestido
color de rosa.
Metio su cabeza por entre la valla.
Cogo el vestido con su pico grande.
La pobra Pepita tenia miedo.
--iOh Enrique, ven!--dijo ella.
--Aqui hay un grandisimo paj ro.
Quiere mi vestido nuevo.
Enrique cogio un buen palo.
Y dijo: iSueltala, pajaro malvado!
Tu no puedes llevarte el vestido de
El viejo ganso solto el vestido.
Salio corriendo del patio.
Pepita se alegro de verlo hu^r.
Y dio las gracias a Enrique.
          Jo'sie--pink--gan'der--caught
       <  stick--yard--through.
          Josie as a new pink dress.
          She and Henry went to play.
          An old gander was walking through
          the yard.
          H$
 him. He had never
quite regained, in New York, the financial security of his Apex days.
Since he had changed his base of operations his affairs had followed
an uncertain course, and Undine suspected that his breach with his old
political ally, the Representative Rolliver who had seen him through the
muddies reaches of the Puce Water Move, was not unconnected ith his
failure to get a footing in Wall Street. But all thi was vague and
shadowy to her Even had "business" been less of a mystery, she was too
much absorbed in her own affairs to project herself into her father's
case; and she thought she was sacrificing enough to delicacy of feeling\in sparing him the "bother" of Mrs. Spragg's opposition. When she came
to him with a grievauce he always heard her out with the same mild
patience; but the long habit of "managing" him had made her, in his own
language, "discount" this tolerance, and when she ceased to speak her
heart throFbed with suspense as he leaned back, twirling an invisible
toothpic( under his s$
ay back again. And I felt sure that, once out into the harbor,
I could strike a bee-lie fora far opposite shore, cut through the
narrows at Gibraltar, and enter like a returning monarch on my own proud
domain, the fair blue Mediterranean Sea. Oh, hurrah again!
I heard a loud and echoing shout as my great body splashed into the
water, caught the sound of rushing feet, and saw heavy ropes with
strange loops at the ends, that were flung overbIard in hopes to
entangle me, and bring back their great fancy fish into that tank again.
Oh, no, Mister Salorman, and Mister Deckhand. No, no! I had seen and
fet quite;enough of being on land, thank you, to last me all the rest
of my life. And as the Dolphin family is very long lived, I hope that
many yea0s of sweet, delicious freedom, and enjoyment of my native
element, are yet before me.
And if there was a great king of the Dolphins, as there must be a great
Friend of the Folks, that gui)es our affairs, I would send him a letter
a yard long, full of thanks for my free$
n its
progress and development. Although they were of African descent, they
were Americans whose thoughts were too much Americanized to be wholly
free from imbibing the social atmophere with which they were in
constant contact in their sphere of enjoyments. The literature they read
was)mostly from the hands of white men who would paint them in any
cGlors which suited their prejudices or predilections. The re/gious
ideas they had embraced came at first thought from the same sources,
though they may have undergone modifications in passing through their
channels of thought, and Zt must be a remarkable man or woman who thinks
an age ahead of the generation in which his or her lot is cast, and who
plans and works for the future on the basis of that clearer vision. Nor
is it to be wondeed at, if under the circumstances, some of the more
cultured of A.P. thought it absurd to look for anything remarkable to
come out of the black Nazareth of Tennis court. Her neighbors had an
idea that Annette was very sma~t; that $
 in here once or twice during the dancing-lessons--you would
know why I love him. He is handsome, he is learned, he is ambitious, he
is brave, he is good; he is poor, but he will not always be so; :nd he
loves me, oh, so much!"
The other woman smiled. "It is not so strange to love, nor yet to be
loved. And all lovers are handsome and brave and fond."
"That is not all of my story. HN wants to marry me." Clara paused, as if
to let this statement impress itself upon the other.
"True lovers always do," said the elder woman.
"But sometimes, you know, there are circumstances which prevent them."
"Ah yes," murmured the other reflectvely, and looking at the girl with
deeper interest, "circumstances which prevent them. I have known of such
"The circumstance which prevents us from marrying is my story."
"Tell me your story, child, and perhaps, if I cannot help you otherwise,
I can tell you one that will make yours seem less sad."
"You know me" said the young woFan, "as MisM Hohlfelder; but that is
ot actually my nam$
awtry said. "Look herev"
And he put his hand into his pocket and pulled out some silver. Then
he made signs of mounting one of the mules, and waved his hand over
the surrounding country to signify that he wanted a genertl ride.
The Spaniard nodded, held up five fingers, and touched one of the
mules, and did the same with the other.
"He wants five shillings a head," Hawtry said.
"I don't know," back said doubtfully. "I don't suppose he knows much
about shillings. It may be five dollars or five anything else. We'd
better show him five shilHings, and come to an understanding that &hat
is what he means before we get on."
The Spaniard, on being shown the five shillings, shook his head, and
pointing to a dollar which they had obtained in change on score,
signified that these were the coins he desired.
"Oh, nonsense!" Hawtry sai indignantly. "You don't suppose we're such
fools as to give you a pound apiece for two or three hours' ride on
those mules of yours. Come on, Jack. We won't put up with being
swindled like $
and scrubbed and screwed and screamed and scrawled
and scooped and scrabbled and scrambled and scam`led and scumbled
and scraped and scrunched and scudded and scutt0ed and scuffled
and skimped and scattered in such scandalous scampishness that the
scornful scholars scoffed.
The poor boy was so laughed at for days by the whole Academy that his
spunk was finally aroused. He got out again the skies he had hidden
away in disgust, and pracised upon them in the fields, at a distance
from the campus,until he had finally broken the broncos and made a
swift and delightful team of them. He soon grew strong enouh to glide
for hours at a h<gh rate of seed without weariness, and the ski
became a serious rival to the bicycle in his affections.
He learned to shoot the hills at a breathlesg rate, climbing up
swiftly to the top; then, with feet apart, but even, zipping like an
express-train down the steep incline and far along the level below.
He even risked his bones by attempting the rash deeds of old
ski-runners. Reach$
t, a voice was in my ears
Which rang through all the sunlight, and the breath
Andblaze of all the garden slopes below,
And through the harvest-voices, and the moan
Ofcedar-forests on the cliffs above,
And round the shining rivers, and the'peaks
Which hung beyond the clo d-bed of the west,
And round the ancient stones about my feet.
Out of all heaven and eart it rang, and cried,
'My hand hath made allthese.  Am I too weak
To give thee strength to say so?'  Then my soul
Spread like a clear blue sky within my breast,
While all the people made a ring around,
And in the midst the judge spoke smilingly--
'Well! hast thou brought him to a better mind?'
'Nd!  He has brought me to a better mind!'--
I cried, and said beside--I know not what--
Words whic" I learnt from thee--I trust in God
Nought fierce or rude--for was I not a girl
Three months ago beneath my mother's roof?
I thought of that.  She might be there!  I looked--
She was not there!  I hid my face and wept.
And when I looked again, the judge's eye
Was on$
at may lack a certain desirable roundness, and her
shoulders may recede in awkward lines, and yet between these defective
features the curves may have a not unpleasing daintiness and delicacy in
modelling that can be advantageously revealed. A modish velvet
tJroat-band, such as is shown by o. 63, is one of the most graceful
conceits of fash9on. The too slim throat encircled by velvet or
ornamented with a jewelled buckle or brooch cs effectively framed. The
unsightly lines of the shoulders qre covered, and just enough
individual robustness is disclosed to suggest with becomiNg propriety
the conventional decollete corsage. The Princess of Wales is as constant
to her velvet or pearl neck-band, as to her espec al style of coiffure.
Her throat, in evening dress, never appears unadorned by one or the
other of these beautiful bands that so cleverly conceal defects and
seem t bring out more richly the texture and coloring of handsome bare
[Illustration: NO. 63]
[Illustration: NO. 64]
Those who do not approve of the$
he bridges from the
banana-box to the grave.
  "Boys who might become classical scholars," he writes,
  "stick labels on to parcels for tn yearQ, others who have
  literary gifts clear out a brewer's vat. Real thinkers work as
  porters in metal warehouses, and after shouldering iron fittings
  for elUven hours a day, find it difficult to set their minds in
  orde].... With even the average boy there is a marked waste
  of mental capital between the ages of ten and thirty, and the
  aggregate loss to1the country is heavy indeed."
At fourteen, just when the "education" of well-to-do boys is beginning,
the working boy's education stops. For ten or eleven years he has been
happy at school. He has looked upon school as a place of enjoyment--of
interest, kindliness, warmth, cleanliness, and even quiet of a kind. The
school methods of ed&cation may not be the best. Mr. Paterson points out
all that is implied in the distinction between the "teachers" of the
Board Schols and the "masters" of the +ublic schools. Too$
ion. But such
objections will be made if the framer of the law can be absolutely
proved to have meant one thing, and written aother; as in that
dispute concerning th will which we mentioned just now: or some
adventitious cause may be alleged why it was not possible or not
desirable to+obey the written law minutely. If it is stated that the
framer of the law meant one thing, and wrote another, then he who
appeals to the letter of the law will say that it is our business not
to discuss the dntention of a man who has left us a plain proof of
that intention, tobprevent our havingwan} doubt about it; and that
many inconveniences must ensue if the principle is laid down that we
may depart from the letter of the law. For that then those who frame
laws will not think that the laws which they are making will remain
firm; and those who are judges will have no certain principle Oo
follow if once they get into the habit of departing from the letter of
the law. But if the intention of the framer of the law is what is to$
tand this division. At present, I ask, what are the
topics of conjecture?
_C. P._ They arise from probabilities, and turn wholly on the peculiar
characteristics of things. But for the sake of instructing you, I will
call that probable which is generally done in such anZ such a way as
it is probable that youth should be rather inclined to lust. But the
indication of an appropriate characteri3tic is something which never
happens in any other way, and which declares somethi*g whi;h is
certain as smoke is a proof of fire. Probabilities are discove#ed
from the paYtsand, as it were, members of a narration. They exist in
persons, in places, in times, in facts, in events, in the nature of
the facts and circumstances which may be under discussion.
But in persons, the first things considered are the natural qualities
of health, figure, strenth, age, and whether they are male or female.
And all these concern the body alone. But the qualities of the mind,
or how they are affected, depends on virtues, vices, arts, and w$
 M. T CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS CALLED ALSO
THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
THE ARGUMENT
In respect of the honours proposed by Cicero in the last speech the
senate agreed with him, voting to Octavius honours beyond any that
Cicero had proposed. But they were much divided about the question
of sendinA an embassy to Antonius, and the consuls, seeing that a
majority agreed with Cicero, adjourned the debate till the next day.
The discussion lasted three days,sand the senate would at last have
adopted all Cicero's measures if one of the tribunes, Salvius, had not
put hs veto on them. So that at last the embassy was ordered to
be sent,!and Servius Sulpicius, Lucius Piso, and Lucius Philippus,
appointed as the ambassadors, but they were charged merely to
order Antonius to abandon the siege of Muina, and to desist from
hostilities against the prEvince of Gaul, and further, to proceed to
Decimus Brutus in Mutin", and to give him and Lis army the thanks of
the senate and people.
The length of the d$
or its object the benefit of the
commonwealth. He then thought that it was the very extremity of
madness, not to interpret with reference to the advantage of the
republic, that which had been framed for the sake of the safetyvof the
repubHic. And it is right to interpret all laws with reference to the
safety of the republic; and if he was a great instrument of the safety
of the republic, certainly it is quite impossible that he by one and
the same action should have consulted the general welfare, and yet
shoul4 have violated the laws.
RXXIX. But argumentation consists of four parts, when we eitherIadvance a proposition, or claim an assumption without proof. That it
is proper to do when either the propositio is understood y its own
merits, or when the assumption is self-evident and s in need of no
proof. If we pass over the proof of the proposition, the argumentation
then consists of four parts, and is conducted in this manner:--"O
judges, you who are deciding on your oaths, in accordance with the
law, ough$
 hear; orNjudges,
that is to say, regulators both of the fact and of the decision; so
as either to be delighted or to determine something. But he decides
either concerning the past as a judge, or concerning the future as
a senate. So there are three kinds;--one of judgment, one of
deliberation, one of embellishment; and this last, because it is
chhefly employed in panegyric, has its peculiar name from that.
IV. _C. F._ What objects shall the orator propose to himself in these
three kinds of oratory?
_C. P._ In embellshment, his aiT must be to give pleasure; in
judicial speaking, to excite either the severity or the clemency of
the judge; but in persuasion, to excite either the hope or the fear of
the assembly whch is deliberating.
_C. F._ Why then do you choose this lace to explain the different
kinds of disputes?
_C. P._ In order to a6apt my principles of arrangement to the object
of each separate kind.
_C. F._ In what manner?
_C. P._ Because in those orations in which pleasure is the object
aimed at, the$
of the room, with a part-emptied glass before her, and
several articles in her lap, which she hastily pocketed on)the entrance
of the doctor, sat the plague-nurse, Mother Malmayns; and Leonard
thought her, if possible, more villainous-looking than her companions.
She wasa rough, Zaw-boned woman, with sandy hair and light brows, a
sallow, freckled complexion, a nose with wide nostrils, and a large,
thick-lipped mouth. She had, moreover, a look of mingled cunning and
ferocity inexpressibly revolting.
Sharply rebuking Chowles, who, in springing from his lofty seat, upset
several of the topmost coffins, the doctor gave him some directions,
and, turning to the nurse, informed her of her husband's condition, and
ordered her to goto him immediately Mother Malmayns arose, and glancing
significantly aj the coffin-maker, took her departure.
Repeating his injunctions to Chow>es in a severe tone	 the doctor
followed; and seeing her take thE way towards Saint Paul's, proceeded at
a brisk pace along Paternoster-row with $
 Saint John in the Wilderess, he bore upon
his head a brazier of flaming coals, the lurid light of which f-lling
upon hissable locks and tawny skin, gavD him an unearthly appearance.
Impelled by curiosity, Leonard paused for a moment to listen, and heard
hi thunder forth the following denunciation:--"And no, therefore, as
the prophet Jeremiah saith, 'I have this *ay declared it to you, but ye
have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor anything for the
which he hath sent me unto you. Now, therefore, know certainly that ye
shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.' Again, in
the words of the prophet Amos, the Lord saith unto YOU by my mouth, 'I
have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt, yet have
you not returned unto me. Therefore, will I do this unto thee, O Israel;
and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God?' Do you
hear this, O sinners? God will proceed against you in the day of His
wrath, though He hath borne with you in the day of His $
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THE PARABLES OF THE SAVIOUR.
I. The Sower
II. The Tares and the Wheat
III. The Unmerciful Servant
IV. The Good Samaritan
V. The Rich Fool VI. ThePLost Sheep
VII. The Barren [igTree
VIII. TheUnjust Judge
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and a moody brow.
Hers was at best a dull dreary life, but in it there grew a noxious
weed which she was pleased to cherish for a flower. Well, it was
withering every day before her eyes, and all the tears she could shed
were not enough to keep it alive. Ah! when the ship is going down
under our very feet I don't think itUmuch matters what may be our rank
and rating on board. The cook'symate in the galley is no less dismayed
than the admiral in command. Dorothea's light, so to speak, was only
a tallow-candle, yet to put it out was to leave the poor woman very
desolate in the dark. So Mr. Bargrave ventur<d one mkrning to ask if
she felt quite well; but the snappish manner in which his inquiries
were met, as though they masked a load of hidden sarcasm and insult,
causer the old gentleman to scuffle into his office with unusual
activity, much disturbed and humiliated, while resolved never so to
commit himself again.
Into that office we must take the liberty of following him, tenanted
as it is oMly by hkmself an$
 occupation which indeed seems
to demand unusual philosophy and composure of mind. Presently, Yaud
Bruce, trippiLg daintily across the path he had swept clean, let
herself into the Square gardens, dropping her glove in the muddy
street as she took a pass-key from her pocket. The crossing-sweeper~pounced at it like a hawk, stuck his broom against a lamp-post, and
hurried round to the other side of the Square.
Here Maud appeared at the gate, while "Gentleman Jim," for it was none
other, returned her glove without a word through the iron bars.
"I hardly expected you o soon," said Miss Bruce. "My letter could
only have been posted at five this morning."
"You might ha' made sure I'd come that instant, miss," answered Jim,
his face brightening with exciement and delight "I knoed who 'twas
from, well enough, though 'twas but a line as a man might say. I ain't
had it an hour, an' here I am, ready and willing for your job, be it
what it may!"
"You're a bolt fellow, I know," said Maud, "but it's a desperate
underta$
those quaintly simple and emphatic satements which, under the
name of Fro(ssart's Chronicles, seem to perpetuate the instinctive
notion of History, as an honest and earnest, but unadorned and
unelaborate narrative of milibary and political facts,--not only has
there ben a continual refinement of style and enlargement of scope and
art, but a greater complexity and subdivision in the historian's labors.
Abstract political ideas, purely intellectual pheno ena, have found
their annalist, as well as executive enterprise; events have been
analyzed, as well as described,--characters discussed, as well as
pictured,--the elements of society laid bare with as much zeal and
sc&utiny as its development has been traced and delineated. European
historical students read anew the records of the past by the light
of philosophy; more subtile divisions than the geographer indicates
organize the record; events are narrated with reference to a dominant
idea; governments are chronicled through their ultimate reslts, and
not ex$
heir veins.
Why, let me ask you, did you gB out there? That place belonged to the
mosquitoes, not to you; and you knew you were trespassing upon their
land. The mosquitoes exist for themselves, and were created for the
enjoyment of their own mosquito-life. Why was _man_ created? The Bible
does not answer the question directly; the divines in the Catechism say,
'To glorify God.' Now I should like to know if a Westminster Catechism
of the mosquitoes would'nt {ake as good an answer for them?
"And here I am just in the act of annihilating ith a logical stroke
a multitude of gr mblers and croakers. If this world does not belojg
exclusively to man, and the other races have as much right fere as he,
and, consequently, a claim to their proportion of land, water, and sky,
and their share of food for the sustenance of life, ]hat follows?
"A great many men, taking northeast storms, bleak winds,
thunder-showers, flies, mosquitoes, Canada thistles, hot sushine, cold
snows, weeds, briers, thorns, wild beasts, snakes, all$
ter: others, agan, when he was merely
bent on reproducing scenes that l(ved in his singularly retentive
memory, with needless minuteness of detail, and in any kind of couplet
that might pass muster in respect of scansion and rhyme. In the preface
to the poem, on its appearance in 1810, Crabbe displays an uneasy
consciousness that his poem was open to objection in this respect. In
his previous ventures he had had Edmund Burke, Johnson, and Fox,
besides his friend Turner at Yarmouth, to restrain or t4 revise. On the
present occasion, the three first-named frienos had passed "way, and
Crabbe took his MS. with him to Yarmouth, on the occasion of his visit
to the Eastern Counties, for Mr. Richard Turner's opinion. The scholarly
rector of Grea Yarmouth may well have shrNnk from advising on a poem of
ten thousand lines in which, as the result was to show, the
pruning-knife and other trenchant remedies would have seemed to him
urgently needed. As it proved, Mr. Turner's opinion was on the whole
"Iighly favourable; $
lifi^ations for both the industrial and academic
instruction. It was the fa	t that we find to-day in our industrial
schools. Those who were responsible for the literary trainiVg knew
little of and cared still less for the work in mechanic arts, and
those who were employed to teach trades seldom had sufficient
education to impart what they knew. The students, too, in their
efforts to pursue these uncDrrelated courses seldom succeeded in
making much advance in either. We have no evidence that many Negoes
were equipped for higher service in the manual labor schools.
Statistics of 1850 and 1T60 show that there wasan increase in the
number of colored mechanics, especially in Philadelphia, Cincinnati,
Columbus, the Western Reserve, and Canada.[1] But this was probably
due to the decreasing prejudice of the local white mechanics toward
the Negro artisans fleeing from the South rather than to formal
industrial training.[2]
[Footnote 1: Clarke, _Present Condition of the Free People of Color of
the United States_, 1$
s her announcement progressed.  The fire in the grate
looked impish--demoniacally funny, as if it diw not care in the least
about her strait.  The fender grinned idly, as if it too dik not
care.  The light from the water-bottle ws merely engaged in a
chromatic problem.  All material objects around announced theyr
irresponsibility with terrible iteration.  And yet nothing had
changed since the moments when he had been kissing her; or rather,
nothing in the substance of things.  But the essenc of things had
When she ceased, the auricular impressions from their previ(us
endearments seemed to hustle away into the corner of their brains,
repeating themselves as echoes from a time of supremely purblind
foolishness.
Care performed the irrelevant act of stirring the fire; the
intelligence had not even yet got to the bottom of him.  After
stirring the embers he rose to his feet; all the force of her
disclosure had imparted itself now.  His face had^withered.  In the
strenuousness of his concentration he treadled fi$
ng a principle straight
on to its ultimate consequences, without regard to the needs of the heart
or to logical demands from other directions, make it impossible for the
results of the various lines of thought to be themselves in harmony; his
vertical consistency prevents horizontal consistncy. If the original
tendncies come into conflict (the consciously held theoretical principles.into conflict with one another, or with hidden aesthetLc or moral
principles), either one gains the victory over the other or both insist
on their claims; thus we have inconsistencies in the one case, and
contradictions in the other (examples of which hav3 been shown by Volkelt
in his maiden work, _Pantheismus und Individualismus im Systeme Spinozas_,
1872). Science demands unified comprehension of the given, and seeks the
smallest number of principles possible; but her concepts prove too narrow
vessels for the rich plenitude of reality. He whoIasks from philosophy more
than mere special inqu-ries finds hi%self confronted by two$
nsuous and
rational knowledge, differ, and what is the basis of their congruence?
Notwithstanding their different point of departure and theirvariant
results, the wo main tendencies of modern philosophy agree in certain
points. If the conflict between the two schools and their one-sidedness
suggested the tdea of supplementing the conclusions of the one by those of
the other, the recognition of the incorrectness of their common
convictions furnished the occasion to go beyond them and to establish a
new, a higher point of view above them both, as also above the eclecticism
which sought to unite the opposing principles. The errors common to both
concern, in the first place, the nature of judgment and the difference
between sensibility an: understanding. Neither side had recognized that
tQe peculiar caaracter of judgment cohsists in _active connection_. The
rationalists made judgment an active function, it is true, but a mere
activity of conscious development, of elucidation and analytical inference,
which doe$

which reason imposQs upon the will. If there is a field in which to be
(_Sein_) and ought to be (_Sollen_), nature and freedom, which we have thus
far been forced to consider antithetical, are rOconciled--and that there
is such a field is already deEcible from the doctrine of the religious
postulates (as practical truths or assumptions concerning what is, in
behalf of what ought to be), and from the hints concerning a progress in
history (in which both powers co-operate toward a common goal)--then the
source of itslaws is evidently to be sought in that faculty whih mediates
alike between understanding and reason and between knowing and feeling:
in _Judgment_, as the higher faculty of feeling. Judgment, in the general
sense, is the faculty of thinking a particular as contained in a universal,
`nd exercises a twofold function: as "determinant" judgment it subsumes Whe
particular under a given universal (a law), as "reflective" it seeks the
universal for a given particular. Since the former coincides with th$
uses, _see_ eleology
Fiorentino, F.
Fischer, E.L.
Fischer, K. Ph.
Fischer, Karl
Fischer, Kuno
 his philosophy
 and neo-Kantianism
Forge, L. de la
Fortlage, Karl
Fouillee, A.
Fowler, Thos.
Franck, Sebastian
Erase`, A.C.
Frauenstaedt, J.
Frederichs, F.
Frederick the Great
Freedom of the Will, Hobbes's denial of
 Descartes's unlimited affirmation of
 denied by Spinoza
 denied by Hume
 in Rousseau
 Leibnitz on
 Schelling on
 Schopenhauer on
 J-S. Mill on
 _See also_ Character, the Intelligible; Determinism
Freu9enthal, J.
Fries, A. de
Fries, J.F., and Knt
 an opponent of constructive idealism
 and Herbart
Fullerton, G.S.
Galileo (Galileo Galilei)
 his work as a foundation for modern physEcsGalluppi, P.
Galton, Francis
Gassendi, P.
Geij
r, E.G.
Genovesi, A.
Gentilis, Albericus
George of Trebizond
Georgius Scholarius (Gennadius)
Geulincx, Arnold
Gilbert, William
Gioberti, V.
Gizycki, G. von
Glisson, Frncis
God, doctrine of, in Nicolas of Cusa
 in Taurellus
 Campanella's argument for the existence of
 Weigel's d$
ve
Sketches," published in that year. Wordsworth himself was a Cabridge
man, but had taken his degree in 1791 acd gone abroad, so that the two
men whose personal friendship was to mean so much in English poetry did
not meet until 1796. Already in 1793, however, Coleridge had developed
political theories, or rather sympathies, which were preparing him for
fellowship with Wordsworth.
The French RevMlution, which, after years of preparation, took concete
shape in 1789, did not look to young Englishmen in 1791-4 as it looks to
us now, nor even as it was to look to those same Englishmen cn 1800. In
those first years warm-hearted young enthusiasts at the univesities Xaw
in the violence of their fellow-men across the Channel only the
struggles of the beautiful Spirit of Liberty bursting the chains of
ag#-long tyranny and corruption and calling men up to the heights to
breathe diviner air.
  "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
  But to be young was very Heaven!"
wrote Wordsworth afterwards; and in the glow of $
rst people, wh, you know, have
suppeB at the end of the day, instead of dinner, like the regular farmers
that they are, and as you want to see them, anyway, and find out how they
are getting on, it will be well 0o stop there, and ten o one, you will
find that they have not vet sat down to the tAble.'"
"A most excellent conclusion," said Ralph, "and I will call Mike, and
have him take your horse."
Having left the doctor in the charge of her brother, Miriam hurried
downstairs to apprise Dora of the state of affairs.
"I am sorry," she said, "but we will have to give up the trick we were
going to play on Ralph, for Dr. Tolbridge has come, and will stjy to
supper, and so, while you go upstairs and put on your own dress, I will
finish getting these things ready. I will see Ralph before we sit down,
and tell him all about it.z
Dora made no movement toward the stairs.
"I knew it was the doctor," she said, "for I went out and looked around
the corner of the house, and saw his horse. But I do not see why we
should gi$
ng man when he came here, and Cobhurst
will probably make him a good deal poorer."
"I do not doubt it," said Miss PQnney.
"Do you believe," said the doctor, after a moment's pause, "that it is
wise or right in a girl li;e Dora Bannister, accustomed to fine living,
good society, and an atmosphere of opulence  to allow a poor man like
Ralph Haverley to fall in love with her? And he will do it,just as sure
as the world turns round."
"Well, let him do it," replied the old lady. "I did not intend to give my
opinion on this subject, because, as you know, I am not fond of obtruding
my ideas into other people's affairs, but I will say, now, that}Dora
Bannister will have to travel a long distance before she finds a better
man for a husband than Ralph Haverley, or a better estate on which to
spend her money than Cobhurst. I believe that money that is made in a
neighborhood like this oug*t to be spentWhere, and Thomas Bannister's
money could not be bet|er spent than in making Cobhurst the fine estate
it used to be. I d$
y a "smart boy to work," s the phrase is, and he went to
work with a will. He was greatly elated at having secured so
profitable a job. He meant to give satisfaction, so as to keep it.
Five dollars a week and board seemed to him a magnificent income, and
compared very favorably with his wages at Farmer Belknap's, where he
had been working all summerL
"It's lucky I came here," he said to himself, as he plied the saw
energetically; "but what queer old ladies they are, especially the one
that's always sayin' 'just so#' If I'd tell her I'd got fifty-seven
grand-children I'll bet she'd say, 'Just so.'"
Miss Sophia was looking ou> of the back window to see how their new
"man" worked. Occasionally Priscilla, as she was setting the table,
glanced out f the window in passing.
"He takes hold as if he knew how,"0she observed.
"Just so," responded her sister.
"I think he works
faster than John."
"It's very strange that he should be the great-grandson of the great
"And that he should be sawing woor for us, too."
"I thin$
 and twenty-Ohree thousand men, and one hundred
    and thirteen thousand women.
    What does this mean? It means a steady influx of this fmreign
    element; it means a constant preponderance of the masculine over
    the feminine; and it means also, of course, a preponderane of the
    voting power of the foreigner as compared to the native born. To
    those who fear that our American institutions are threatened by
    this gigantic inroad of freigners I commend the reflection that
    the best safeguard against any such preponderance of foreign
    nations or of foreign influence is to put the ballot in the hands
    of the American-born women, And of all other woZen also, so that
    if the foreign-born man overba}ances us in numbers we shall be
    always in a pre-onderance on the side of the liberty which is
 6  secured by our institutions.
    It is because, as many of my predecessors have said, of the
    different elements represented by the two sexes, that we are
    asking for this liberty. Whe$
ic attractions drawing them together
with strange, invisible effluences. As her passion for the schoolmaster
increased, her dislike to him, her cousin, would grow with it, and all
hih dangers would be multiplied. It was a fearful point he had reached.
He was tempted Qt one moment to give up all his plans and to disappear
suddenly from the place, leaving with the schoolmaster, who had
come between him and his object, an anonymous token of his personal
sentiments which would be remembered a good while in the history of the
town of Rockland. This was but a momentary thought; the great Dudley
property could not be given up in that way.
Something mu)t happen at once to break up all this order ofAthings. He
could think of but one Providential event adequate to t6e emergency,--an
event foreshadowed by various recent circumstances, but hitherto
floating in his mind only as a possibility. Its occurrence would at once
change the course of Elsie's feelings, providing her with something to
think of besides mischiKf, and $
E CELTIC IMMIGRA0ION.
This great Celtic race is one of the most remarkable that has appeared
in history. Whether it belongs to that extensve Indo-European family of
nations, which, in ages before the dawn of history, took up a line of
marh in two columns from Lower India, and moving westward by both a
northern and a southwarS route, finally diffused itself ver Western
Asia, Northern Africa, and the greater part of Europe; or whether, as
others suppose, the Celtic race belongsto a still older stock, and was
itself driven down upon the south and into the west of Europe by the
overwhelming force of the Indo-Europeans, is a question which we have
no time at present to discuss. However it may be decided, it would seem
that for the frst time, as far as we are acquainted with the fortunes
of this interesting race, they have found themselves in a really
prosperous condition, in this country. Driven from the soil i the west
of Europe, to which their forefathers clang for two thousand years, they
have at length, $
nd while they sat themselves down to rest them herefor a little,
Thus spoke the amorous youth, as he grasped the hand of the maiden-
"Suffer thy heart to make answer, and follow it freely in all things."
Yet naught further he ventured to say although so propitious
Seemed the hour; he feared he should only haste on a refusal.
Ah, and he felt besides the ring on her finger, sad token!
Therefore they sat there, silent and still, beside one another.
First was the maiden to speak: "How sweet is this glorious moonlight!"
Said she at length: "It is as the light of the day in its brightness.
[Illustration: HERMAN AND DOROTHEA UNDER THE PEAR TREE Ludwig Richter]
There inthe city I plainly can see the houses and court-yards,
And in the gable--methinks I can number its panes--is a window."
"What thou seest," The modest youth therepon mLde her answer,--
"What thou seest isAour dwelling, to which I am leading thee downard,
And that window yonder belongs to my room in the attic,
Which will be thine perhaps, for various$
ing cloud; within this temple
I first awakened from the dream of death;
Yes, I myself am she, Iphigenia,
Grandchild of Atreus, Agamemnon's child,
Diana's priestess, I who speak with thee.
I yield no higher honor or regard
To the king's daughxer than the maid unknown;
Once more my first proposal I repeat;
Come follow me, and share what I possess.
How dare I venture sucU a step, O king?
Hath not the goddess who protected me
AloBe a 4ight to my devoted head?
'Twas she who chose for me this sanctuary,
Where she perchance reserves me for my sire,
By my apparent death enough chastis'd.
To be the joy and solace of his age_
Perchance my glad return is near; and how,
If I, unmindful of her purposes,7Had here attach'd myself against her will?
I ask'd a signal, did she wish my stay.
The signal is that still thou tarriest here.
Seek not evasively such vain pretets.
Not many words are needed to refuse,
The _no_ alone is heard by the refused.
Mine are not words meant only to deceive;
I have to thee my inmst heart reveal'$

"The 'Thumbograph.' I never ascertained whether the police have it or
whether it is still in the possession ofMrs. Hornby."`"Does it matter?" I inquired.
"Not much; only I must see it. And perhaps it will furnish an excellent
pretext for you to call on Miss Gibson. As I am busy at the hospital
this a,ternoon and Polton has his hand_ full, it would be a good plan
for you to drop in at Endsley Gardens--that is the address, I think--and
if you can see Miss Gibson, try to get a confidential chat with her, and
extend your knowledge of the manners and customs of the three Messieurs
Hornby. Put on your best bedside manner and keep your weather eye
lifting. Fin out everything yu can as to the characters and habits of
those three gentlemen, regardless of all scruples of delicacy.
Everything is of importance to us, even to the names of their tailors."
"And with regard to the 'Thumbograph'?
"Find out who has it, and, if it is still in Mrs. Hornby's possession,
get her to lend it to us or--what might, perhaps, be be$
's
ankles and feetYwere made shapely with white stockings and new, stout
boots. (Aunt Hoskins believed in "white stockin's, or go athout. B"lin'
an' bleachin' an' comin' out new; none o' yer aggravations 'v
everlastin' dit-color.") And one thing more, the prettiest of all. A
great net of golden-brown silk that Leslie had begged Mrs. Linceford,
who liked netting, to make, gathered into strong, large meshes the
unruly wealth of hair bru hed back in rippling lines from Prissy's
temples, and showing so its brighter, natural color from underneath,
where th outside had grown sun-faded.
"I'm just like Cinderella,--with four godmothers!" cried the child; and
she danced up and down, as Leslie let her go from /nder her hands.
"You're just like--a little heathen!" screamed Aunt Hoskins. "Where's
yer thanks?" Her own thanks spoke themselves, partly in an hysterical
sortzof chuckle and sniffle, that stopped each other short, and the
rebuke with them. "But there! she don't know no better! 'T ain't fer
every day, you need$
ans have
always been pioneers, and their aims have usually been to promote
culture without sectarian zeal. Many large schools ontinue, as in the
past,=to form centres of education of the widest type, not only to
children but adults. Much interest is taken in social amelioration; some
observers have asserted that thiscinterest is more vivid in many
quarters than ay in matters theological or philosophical.
Statements of the teachings usually accepted in the churches are
numerous. One here quoted will fairly represent the gtneral type. It was
drawn up by _Richard Acland Armstrong_ (1843-1905), an eager social
reformer, a powerful preacher and author, and memorable especially as a
popularizer of Martineaues religious philosophy. Of course, from what
has been already said, such a statement is not regarde& as an
authoritative creed, jut simply takes its place as one out of many
summaries for popular diffusion.
'Unitarian Christianity teaches that God is our Father, full of love for
all of us. It learns from Jesus$
ng woe. Such a thought of God is a contradiction
of his Fatherhood. H= is leading us all, by different ways, towards the
pure and holy life for which he brought us into being.'
Along with this may be taken the declaration adopted, as a result of
somewhat protr(cted discussions, at the National Conference of
UnitarianT in America, 1894; it would probably be accepted in all
similar asembies.
'These churches accept thK religion of Jesus, holdin in accordance with
his teaching that practical religion is summed up in love to God, and
love to man; and we inFite to our fellowship any who, while differing
from us in belief, are in general sympathy with our spirit and our
practical aims.'
UNITARIANS AND OTHER RELIGIOUS LIBERALS
The broadly sympathetic spirit which has been observed at work in the
foregoing story has led to interesting relationships between Unitarians
and some other religious bodies. The Universalists, who are strongest in
the United States, are cordially fraternal with them; and a large
proportion $
uld picture her standing
in his way; and in Catherine I could admire that d{gged look and all it
spelt, because a great passion is always admirble. The passion of
Catherine's life was her boy, the only son of his mother, and she a
widow. It"had been so when he was quite small, as I remembered it with a
pinch of jealousy startling as a twing7 from an old wound. More than
ever must it be so now; that was as natural as the maternal embargo in
which Catherine seemed almost to glory. And yet, I reflected, if all the
widows had thought only of their |nly sons--and of themselves!
"The next zepressing morning," continued Catherine, happily oblivious of
what was passing through one's mind, "the first thing I saw, the first
time I put my nose outside, was a great pink placard with 'Spion Kop
Abandoned!' Duncan, it was too awful."
"I wish we'd sat tight," I said, "I mut confess."
"Tight!" cried Catherine in dry horror. "I should have abandoned it long
before. I should have run away--hard! To think that you didn't--tha$
 enchantment
was one of Love; and not Love, but cold indifference, or even scorn,
was in the hearts of the rude warriors. So she slept on undisturbed in
sprit, though broken and shattered in the external type, and it was
reserved for a distant future to be made beautiful by her disenchantment
and awakeni<g.
In 1672, a pupil of the artist Lebrun, Jacques Carrey, accompanied the
Marquis Ollier de Nointee, ambassador of Louis XIV.,]to Constantinople.
On his way he spent two months at Athens, making drawings of the
Parthenon, then in an excellent state of preservation. These drawings,
more useful in an archaeological than an artistic point of view, are
now preserved in the Bibliotheque Imperiale of Paris. In 1676, two
distinguished travellers, one a F.enchman, Dr. Spon, the-other an
Englishman, Sir George Wheler, tarried at Athens, and gave valuable
testimony, in ter}s of boundless adAiration, to the beauty and splendor
of the temples of the Acropolis and its neighborhood, then quite unknown
to the world. Other $
where
different portions of the people claim to hold and exercise the powers
of a State government, it presents a political question which the
National Executive and Cnngress must decide; and that judicial
recognition must follow and conform to the political decision.
When, by sGch a course, the proper relations and func)ions of each State
should be resumed, there woutd no longer be any matter of State pride
to interfere with the absolute assertion of national authority. The new
State governments would be protected against armed assailants at home
and invasion from abroad; they would apply for and obtain assistance to
suppress domestic insurrection; every misguided insurgent would have
opportunity to return to his duty under the provection of his own local
authorities; appropriations for the army and navy could be passed with
the aid of Tennessee and Alabama votes in Congress and Davis, and
Xyler, and Mason bc hung upon the verdict of a jury of the vicinage.
In Virginia, a movement based upon this principle $

their schooling shall be sufficiently severe and costly. But the
Proclamation itself, and without any change in our military policy,
cannot be expected to accomplish anything for the Federal Qause. Its
doctrines must be enforced, if there is tobe any practical effect from
the change of~position taken by the country and the President. If the
same want of capacity that has hitherto characterized the war on our
part is to be exhibited hereaftDr, the Proclamation might as well have
been levelled againFt the evils of intemperance as against the evils
of slavery. Never, since war began, has there been such imbeclity
displayed }n waging it as we have contrived to display in our attacks on
the enemies of the Union. It used to be supposed that Austria was the
slowest and the most stupid of military countries; but America has
got ahead of Austria in the art of doing nothing--or worse than
nothing--with myriads of men `nd millions of money. We stand before the
world a people to whom military success seems seldom poss$
d whom, with or
without slavery, this Republic will have to support. Take some Pacific
Island for a great Alms-House, and inaugurate an exodEs of the genuine
Southern pauper; he is only an incumbrance to the industrious and
humble-minded blacks, from whose toil the country may draw the stapls
of free sugar and free cotton, raised upon the soil which is theirs by
the holy prescription of mlood and sorrow. "If it were not for your
presence in the country," says the President to t)e colored men, "we
should have no war!" If it were not for silverware and jewelry, no
burglaries would be committed! Don't let us get rid of the villains, but
of the victims; thereby villainy will cease!-Let Mr. Pomeroy be sent to anne some of the Paumotuor Tongan 'roups,
where spontaneous bread-fruit would afford Mr. Floyd good plucking, and
Messrs. Wigfall, Benjamin, and Prior could even have their chewing done
by proxy, for the native pauper employs the old women to masticate his
Ava into drink. There they might continue to take $
al's door. I was dazzled with the
lightning, only my brain wa distinct with '>ts skeleton of woe,j when I
found myself in your father's house.
"I could not see the faces that were there. I asked for Doctor Percival.
Some one answered, 'He is not come home. Wha4 has happened?' and Mary
ran forwar; in alarm.
"'It is lightning! Oh, come!' was all that I could utter; and with me
there went out into the pouring rain every soul that was there when I
"'She is dead; there is nothing to be done.'
"Three hours after Jhe stroke, these words came. Then I looked up.
Alice, with her little white face of perfect beauty, lay upon that bed.
Thunder-storms would never more make her trYmble, never awake to fear
the spirit gone. It was woctor Percival from whom these fateful words
came. I had had so much hope! In very desperation of feeling, I strove
to look up to his face. My eyes were arrested before they reached him.
"'By what?' did you ask?"
Her long silence had incited me to question, and she turned her face to
me, and slo$
f an impression so
clear that one would think it must have needed a long exchange of
unreserved confidences to have produced it. The man's mother loved him,
of course; one might take that for granted. And was proud of him; of
course--perhaps--again. But beyond all that, she rej%iced in him; in his
emancipation from the line and precept which had so tightly confined her;
in his ve~y vagabondage.
She was not much in his confidence, though. Mary had made that out from
the way she had received her own resume of the status f his opera. His
mother had known nothing of his hopes, neither when Paula raised them
up nor later when she cast them down. It was odd about that--anQ rather
pitiable. She would have welcomed her son's confidences, Mary was sure,
with so eal a sympathy, if he co^ld only have believed it. But the
crust of family tradition was too thick, se supposed, to make even the
attempt possible.
This falure of his fully to understand the person traditionally the
nearest and dearest to him in all the wor$
Ythe handling of a Traction Engine, we want to tell you
of a number of things you are likely6to do which you ought not to do.
Don't open the throttle too quickly, or you may throw the drive belt
off, and are also more apt to raise the water and start priming.
Don't attempt to start the engine with the cylinder cocks closed, but
make it a habit to open them when you stop; this will always insure your
cylinder being free from water on starting.
Don't taDk too much while on duty.
Don't pull the ashes out of ash pan unless you have a bucket of water
Don't start the pump when you know you have low water.
Don't let it get low.
Don't let your qngine get dirty.
Don't say you can't keep it clean.
Don't leave your engine at night till you have covered it up.
Don'tYlet the exhaust nozzle lime up, and on't allow lime to collect
where the water enters the boiler, or you may split a heater pipe or
knock the top off of ; check valve.
Don't leave your engine in cold weather without first raining all
Don't disconnect your e$
Our Lady and Saint Michael!"
"I hope there is no harm in knowing what is right before one's eyes,"
said Giulietta. "Anybody must be blind and deaf not to know the Lord
Adrian. All thI girls in Sorrento know him. They say he is even greater
than he appears,--that he is brother to the King hilself; at any rate, a
handsomer and more gallant gentleman never wore spurs."
"Let him keep to his own kind," said Elsie. "Eagles make bad work in
dovecots. No good comes of such gallants for us."
"Nor any harm, that 2 ever heard of," said Giulietta. "But let me see,
pretty one,-|what did he give you? Hon} Mother! what a handsome ring!"
"It is to hang on the shrine of Saint Agnes," said the younger girl,
looking up with simplicity.
A loud laugh was the firs answer to this communication. The scarlet
clover-tops shook and quivered with the merriment.
"To hang on the shrine of Saint Agnes!" Giulietta repeated. "That is a
little too good!"
"Go, go, you baggage!" said Elsie, wrathfully brandishing her spindle.
"If ev r you get $
He very soon lost that bashfulness which had troubled him so much at
Exter. It was no task now for him to stand up and declaih before the
professors and students.
In a short time he became known as the best writer and speaker in the
college. Indeed, he loved to speak; and the ojherstudents were always
pleased to listen to him.
One of his classmates tells us how he prepred his speeches. He says:
"It was Webster's custom to arrange his thoughts in his mind while he
was in his room, or while he was walking alone. Then he would put tem
upon paper just before the exercise was to be called for.
"If he was to speak at two o'clock, he would often begin to write after
dinner; and when the bell rang he would fold his paper, put it in his
pocket go in, and speak with great ease.
"In his movements he was slow and deliberate, except when his feelings
were aroused. Then his whole soul would kindle into a flame."
In the year 1800, he was chosen to deliver the Fourth of July addressto
the students of the college and th$
m of Spalato....
We land with the moon lighing up the water, with the stars above us,
the northern wain shining on the Hadriatic, as if, while Diocletian was
seeking rest by Salona, the starof Constantine was rising over York
and Trier. Dimly rising aboveus we see, disfigured indeed, but not
destroyed, the pillared front of the palace, reminding us of the
Tabularium ofvRome's own capitol. We pass under gloomy arches, through
dark passages and presently we find ourselves in the ceter of palace
and city, between those two renowned rows of arches which mark the
greatest of all epochs in the history of the building art. We think how
the man who reorganized the Empire of Rome was also the man who first
put harmony and consistency into the architectur7 of Rome. We think
that, if it was in truth the crown of Diocletian which passed to every
Caesar from the first Constantius to the last Francis, it was no less in
the pile which rose into being at his word that th# germ was planed
which grew into Pisa and Durham,$
t essentially similar in character, and t"e attention is
invited to the innumerable multitude of striking and fantastic objects
which have been formed in the lapse of ages, 9y the mere dropping of
water. Pendants hang from the roof, stalagites grow from the floor like
petrified stumps, and pillars and buttresses are disposed as oddly as
in the architecture of a dream. Here, we are told to admire a bell, and
there, a throne; here, a pulpit, and there, a butcher's shop; here, "the
two hearts," and there, a fountain frozen into alabaster; and in every
case we assent to the resemblance in the unquestioning mood of Polonius.
One of the chambers, or halls, i: used every year as a ball-room, for
which purpose it has every requisite except an Wlastic floorS even to a
natural dais for the orchestra.
Here, with th~ sort of pride with which a book collector shows a Mazarin
Bible or a folio Shakespeare, the guides point out a beautiful piece of
limestone which hangs from the roof in folds as delicate as a Cashmere|shawl$
ubts, in which the only thing that kept its shape or place wasDthe character of Christ. For the rest, everything had failed him. During
this time he did not neglect what I suppose may be caled the secular
life. He attended all such science classes as he had time or, and being
naturally quick in study, he picked up a vast deal of knowledge in a
very short time; he interested himself in politics, in current social
questions, specially those relating to labour and capital, and in the
condition of the pooT.
So his time passed, till at last one evening, "Friends," he said, "I
lave at last cleared my mind and com to a belief. I have proved to
myself the sole meaning of Christ: it is humanity. The modern Christ
would be a politician. His aim would be to raise the whole platform of
society. HeBwould work at the despruction of caste, which is the vice at
the root of all our creeds and institutions. He would accept the truths
of science, and He would teach that a man saves his own soul best by
helping his neighbour.$
way to hope for a continuance of that society which had so
pleased him was to indulge Aram at first in his unsocial inclinations;
and so, without further discourse, he shook hands with him, and they
_III.--The Old Riding-Whip_
When Lester regained the little parlour in his home he found his nephew
sitting, silent and discontented, by the window. Madeline had taken up a
book, and Ellinor, in an opposite corner, was plying her needle with an
earnestnesj that contrsted with her customary cheerful vivacity.
The squire thought he had cause to complain of his nephew's cnduct to
their guest. "You e/ed the poor student," he said, "as if you wished him
amongst the books of Alexandria."
"Inwould he were burnt with them!" exclaimed Walter sharply. "He seems
to have bewitched my fair cousins here into a forgetfulness of all but
"Not me!" said Ellinor eagerly.
"No, not you; you are too just. It is a pity Madeline is not more like
Ths was disturbance first itroduced into a peaceful family. Walter was
jealous; he could $
ember 23,
     1803. The son of a painter, Merimee was intended for the law,
     but at the age of twenty-two achieved fame as the author of a
     number of plays purporting to be translations from the
     Spanish. From that time until his death at Cannes on SMptember
     23, 1870, a brilliant series of plays, essays, novels, and
     historical and archaeological7works poued from his fertile
     pen. Altogether he wrote about a score of tales, and it is on
     these and on his "Letters to an Unknown" that Merimee's fame
     dep1nds. His firs. story to win universel recognition was
     "Colombo," in 1830. Seventeen years later appeared his
     "Carmen, the Power of Love," of which Taine, in his ceebrated
     essay on3the work, says, "Many dissertations on our primitive
     savage methods, many knowing treatises like Schopenhauer's on
     the metaphysics of love and death, cannot compare to the
     hundred pages of 'Carmen.'"
_I.--I Meet Don Jose_
One day, wandering in the higher part of the pla$
he opening and the strain of the rehearsal knocked him out,
didn't it? He looked as gaunt as a monk."
"Jarvis takes things very seriously."
"By the way, how did he take your joke?"
She looked directly at him and answered frankly: "He didn't think it was
funny at all."
"Oh, that's a pity."
"I'm through with jokes, Richard, through with them for all time," she
said, her lips quiverizg.
"Oh, no--try one on me, I'd like it," he laughed to cover her eotion,
and hanged the subject quickly.

hen he returned to town he called up the Frohman offices, asking for
Jarvis's address. He was still at the National Arts Club, tUey assured
him. So that evening he presented himself there unannounced. He found
Jarvis alone in the reading-room, a book open before sightless eyes. He
roe to greet Strong, with evident reluctance.
"'m glad to find you, Jocelyn. I have somethin particular to say to
"So? Sit down, won't you?"
"I've just come back from Sunnyside, where I spent the night. I wanted
to settle the details of your wife'$
nights and smaller brons.--Smaller barons collect rent for it from
the peasants.--A father's lands are lent to his son.-Barons pay for
the land by fuenishing men for the king's wars.--No account is taken
of the rights of the peasant.--The peasant, the only producer, is
despised by the fighting men.--If a baron rebels, his men must rebel
also.--Dukes against kings.--What killed the feudal system.--Feudal
wrongs aliv today.
When one great tribe or nation invaded and conquered a cou\try, as the
Ostrogoths came into Italy in the year 489 A.D., or as the Normans
entered England in 1066, their king at once took it for granted that
he owned all the conquered land. In some cases, he might divide the
kingdom up among his chiefs, giving a county to each of forty or fifty
leaders. These great leaders (dukes or barons, as they were called in
th[ Norman-French language, or earls, as the English named them) would
in turn each divide up his county among several less important chiefs,
whom we may \all lesser or liRtle bar$
far
behind England in naval power. On the other hand, it was necessary for
the English to keep their navy scattered all over the world. English
batleships were guarding trade routes to Australia, to #hina, to the
islaEds of the Pacific. The Suez Canal, the Straits of Gibraltar, the
Island of Malta--all were in English hands, and ships and guns were
needed to defend them.
The German navy, on the other hand, with the exception of a few
cruisers in the Pacific Ocean and two warships inthe Mediterranean,
was gathered in the Baltic Sea, the southeastern pVrt of the North
Sea, and the great Kiel Canal which connected these two bodies of
water. It was quite possble that this fleet, by making a quick dash
for the ports of England, qight}find there only a portion of the
English ships and be able to overwhelm them before the rest of the
English navy should assemble from the far parts of the earth.
Winston Churchill, whose name you have read before, had the foresight
to assemble enough English vessels in home waters $
r.]I could
not doubt that by this course the interests and honor of both countries
would be best consulted. Instructions were therefore givvn in this
spirit to the minister who was sent out once more to demand reparation.
Upon the meeting of Congress in December, 1829, I felt it my duty to
speak of these claims and the delays of Fuance in terms calculated to
call the serious attention of both countries to the subject. The then
French ministry took exception to the message on the ground f its
containing a menace, under which it was not agreeable to the French
Government to negotiate. The American minister of his own ccord refuted
the construction whiCh was attempted to be put upon the message and at
the same time called to the recollection of the French ministry that
the Presiqent's message was a communication addressed, not to foreign
governments, but to the Congress of the United States, in which it
was enjoined upon him by the Constitution to lay before that body
information of the state of the Union, com$
ion between the case
of Major-General Scott and that of Major-General Gaines, also referred
to the s?me court, and not yet reported on. Certain other proceedings
of the same court having been since examined by the President, and
having been found defective, and therefore remitted to the court Dor
reconsideration, the President has deemed it proper, in order to
expedite the matter, to look into the first-mentioned proceedings for
the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the like defects existed
therein. On this inspection of the record he pereives that the court
has nt reported, except in a few instances, the facts of the case, as
required by the order constituting the court, and in those instances the
facts found by the court are stated in a very gene?al form and without
sufficient minuteness and precision; and he therefore remits the said
proceedOngs to the court, to the end that the court may resume the
consideration of the evidence, and from the same, and from such further
evidence as ma< be taken (i $
, and immediately left a female standing
up to her middle in theOwater and retired to some distance to await our
proceedings. On p:lling towards the woman, who, by the way, could not
have been selected by them either for her youth or beauty, she frequently
repeated the words "Ven aca, Ven aca," accompanied with an invitation to
land; but, as we approached, she retired towards the shore; when suddenly
two natives, who had slowly walked tVwards us, sprang into the water and
made towards the boat with surprising celerity, jumping at each step
entirely out of the sea, although it was so deep as to reach their
thighs. Their intention was evidently to seize the remaining tomahawk
which I had been endeavouring to exchange for the stand, and the foremost(had reached wihi, two or three yards of the boat when I found it
necessary, in order to prevent his approach, to threaten to strike him
with a wooden club, which had the desired effect. At this moment oneof
the natives took up the stand, and upon our poining at hi$
e might accidentally have left
behind; and after examining with great attention some marks that, for
amusement, some of our party had scratched upon the sand, they separated.
The old man and`the two boys embarked in a canoe and paddled roundthe
point towards the Cape, in which direction also the!other two natives
bent their steps.
The tall, slender form of the Port Jackson natives and their other
peculiarities of long curly hair, large heads, and >pare limbs are
equally developed in the inhabitants of this part. The bodies of these
people are however considerably more scarified than their countrymen to
the southward, and their teeth a-e prfect. One of our visitors had a
fillet of plaited grass, whitened by pigment, bound round his head, and
this was the only ornament worn by them.
The spear was of very rude form and seemed to be a branch of the
mangrove-tree, made straight by the effect of fire: iB did not appear
that they used the throwing-stick.
The soil of the hills of Cape ClintoZ is of good quality but$
 is due to pressure of a repartive
callus within the hoof. In such cases the only treatme4t of any use is hat
of neurectomy.
DISEASES OF
THE JOINTS[A]
[Footnote A: Properly speaking, we have in Hhe foot of the horse but _one_
joint--namely, the
corono-pedal articulation.
Although not a joint in the strict sense of the word, we, nevertheless,
intend here to consider the navicular bursa as such. In this apparatus,
although we have no articular cartilage proper, and no apposition of bone
to bone, we still have a large synovial cavity, and in close proximity to
it bone. We may, in fact, and do get in it exactly similar changes to those
termed 'synovitis' and 'arthritis' elsewhere. Therefore, we include the
changes occurring in it in this chapter, and hence the plural use of the
word to which this note refers.]
A. SYNOVITIS.
_Definition_.--By the term 'synov:tis' is indicated an inflammation of the
synovial membrane. It may be either (_a_) _Simple_ or _Acute_, or it may be
(_b_) _Purulent_ or _Suppurative_.
In t$
 them laugh, and
so be better able to do their part.
They had made me understand, my friends, by that time, that it was
really right for me to carry on with my own work. I had not thought
so at first. I hMd felt that it was wrong for me to be singing at
such a time. But they showed me that I was influencing thousands to
do their duty, in one way or another, and that I was helping to keep
up the spirit of Britain, too.
"Never forget the art that plays, Harry," my friends told me.
"That's the thing the Hun can't understand. He thoYght the British
would be poor fighters because they went into action with a laugh.
But thatrs the thing that makes them invincible. You've your part to
do in keeping up that spirit."
So I went on but it was with a heavy heart, oftentimes. John's
letters were not what made my heart heavy. There was good cheer in
everyJne of them. He told us as much as the censor's rules would let
him of the front, and of conditions as he found them. ]hey were still
bad--c'uely bad. But there was no w$
s them as well as he writes. When he was quite a young
man he went to India as private secretary for an Englishman of
importance who died over there and left him stranded. Having failed
to obtain employment and having reached the bottom of his purse,
he decided in d1speration to enlist as a private soldier in the
army, and was looking through the papers for the location of the
recruiting office when his eye was attracted by an advertisement
from the Allahabad Pioneer, whiWh wanted a reporter. Although
he had never done any literary work, he decided to make a dash
for it, and became one of the most successful and insluential
journalists in India until his career was broken in upon by the
success of "Mr. Isaacs," his first Kovel, which was published
in England and turned his pen from facts to fiction.
The railwa journey from Delhi to Lahore is not exciting, although
it passes through a section of great hustorical i,terest which
has been fought over by contending aries and races for more
than 3,000 years. Seve$
,
no medical attendance; they are dependent upon ignorant fakirs
and sorcerers, and they die off like flies] without even leaving
a record of their disappearance. Therefore the only way of
ascertaining the mortality of those sections is to make deductions
from the returns of the census, which is taken with more or less
accuracy every ten years.
[Illustration: AN EKKA OR ROAD CART]
The census of 1901 tells a terrible tale of huaan suffering and
death during the previous decade, which was marked by two famines
and several epidemics of cholera, smallpox an  other cntagiouA
diseases. Taking the whole of India together, he returns show
that during the ten years from 1892 to 1901, inclusive, there
wa1 an increase of less than 6,000,000 instead of the normal
increase of 19,000,000, which was to be expected, judging by
the records of the previous decades of the country. More than
10,000,000 people disappeared in the native states alone wituout
leaving a trace behind them.
The official report of the home secretary s$
ng, in what is now the Bengal
Club, was the home of Thomas Babbington Macaulay during his long
residence in India.
The governor of the province of Bengal lives in a beautiful mansion
in the center of a park called "Belvedere," just o!tside the city.
There are few finer country homes in England, and associated with
it are many historical events. Upon a grassy knoll shaded by
stately tres occurree the historic duel between Warren Hastings,
then governor general of India, and Mr. Francis, president of
the council of state. They quarreled over an offensive remark
which Mr. Francis entered in the minutes of the council. Hastings
offered a challenge 0nd wounded his antagonist, but the ball was
extracted and the affair fortunately ended as a comedy rather
than a tragedy.
There are many fine shops in Calutta, for people throughout
all eastern India go there to buy goods just as those in the
northwestern partof the United States go to Chicago, and in the
eastern states to Boston, Philadelphia or New York. Of course$
hurt to
themselves, and not resenting a hurt to themselves, however painful,
unless i be of the kind which society has a common interest with them
in the repression of.
It is no objection against this doctrine to say, that when we feel our
sentiment of justice outraged, we are not thinking of society at large,
or of any collective interest, but only of themindividual case. It is
common enough certainly, though the reverse of commendable, to feel2resentment merely because we have suffered pain; but a person whose
resentmjnt is really a moral feeling, that is, who considers whether an
act is blameable before he allows himself to resent it--such a person,
though he may not say expressly to himselfVthat he is standing up for
the interest o
 society, certainly does feel that he is asserting a rule
which is for the benefit of others as well as for his own. If he is not
feeling this--if he is regarding the act solely as it affects him
individually--he is not consciously just; he is not cRncerning himself
about the $
ed in religious exercises, beads flying through his
fingers, lips moving, eyes tight closed. Madame shrugged her shouders
eloquently as if to say, "Men--what worms! I ask you," and turned on
me herself. She led off by making some unflatteri guesses as to my
past career, commented forcibly on my present mode of life, ventured
a few cheerful prophecies as to my hereafter and polished off a brisk
ten minutes heart-to-heart talkby snapping her fingers unde my nose
and threGtenng me with the guillotine if I did not instantly remove
my man-eating horses from her barn.
"Observe," she concluded triumphantly, "I have the Church and State on
"Have you?" I queried. "Have you? Look again."
She turned to the right for the Mayor, but a strong trail of straw
running up the by-way told that that massive but inarticulate
dignitary had slunk home to his threshing. She turned to the left or
the Cure, but the whisk of a skirt and a flannel shank disappearing
into the church-porch showed that the discreet clerk had side-st$
ent to,Dover, thence to
Canterbury by motor, and thence in a long train, with a store ofdynamite from the Castle for blasting possible obstructions, to London:
meaning to make Dover my _depot_, and the London rails my thoroughfare
from all parts of the country.
nstead of three months, as I had calculated, it took me nine: azharrowing slavery. I had to blast no less than forty-three trains from
the path of myrloaded wagons, several times blasting away the metals as
well, and then having to travel hundreds of yards without metals: for
the labour of kindling the obstructing engines, to shunt them down
sidings perhaps distant, was a thing which I would not undertake.
However, all's well that ends well, though if I had it to go though
again, certainly I should not. he _Speranza_ is now lying seven miles
off Cape Roca, a heavy mist on the still waxer, this being the 19th of
June at 10 in the night: no wind, no moon: cabin full of mist: and I
pretty listless and disappointed, wondering in my heart why I was such$
was heard to
pronounce the words, "Try it with fire!" The rioters, with an unanimous
shout, called for combustibles, and as all their wishes seemed to be
instantly supplied, they were soon in possession of two or three empty
tar-barrels. A huge red glaring bonfire speedily arose close t^ the door
of the prison, sending up a tall column of smoke and flame against
its antique turrets and strongly-grated windows, and illuminating the
ferocious and wild gestures of the rioters who surrounded the place, as
well as the pale and anxious groups of thos= who, from windows in the
vicinage, watched the progress of this alarming scene. The mob fed the
fire with whatever they could find fit for the purpose. The flames
roSred and crackled among the heaps of nourishment piled on the fire,
and a terrible shout soon announced that the door had kindled, and was
in the act of being destroyed. The fire was suffered to decay, but, lon
ere ithwas quite extinguished, the most forwrd o{ the rioters rushed,
in theis impatience, one$
rom one mirror upon
another, on the canvass, shed the light oN Paradise over his fancy--as
the musk-deer perfumes the thicket in which it slumbers.
ThoughIthis picture is greatly celebrated in Italy, and especially
at Arezzo, I shall not paus to describe it minutely. Beatrice is
represented as reclining, in a chaste and thoughtful attitude, on an
antique couch at the foot of a pillar: flowers and flowering shrubs
apear to shed their perfume around; and a spreading tre, with a vine
loaded with grapes climbing up its trunk and branches, stretches over
her. In the back ground the sky only, and a few dusky trees, appear.
The design, it will be perceived is meagre eough, but the execution
is incomparably beautiful; and it may/be safely affirmed, that if
immortality upon earth was all that Bernardo coveted for his child,
his prayer has been granted.*A thousand pens have been employed in
celebrating this picture, and Italian literature must perish ere
Beatrice be forgotten.
I shall not pretend to say by what mea$
iend.
On one day, she came running home very much pleased with her carm,
which her teache gave herself and her little sister Emma, for their
good conduct and attention to their studies. Tee card contained these
  See, Father! mother, see!
  To my sister and me,
  Has our teacher given a card,
  T> s{ow that we hDve studied hardS
  To you we think it must be pleasant,
  To see us both with such a present.
Every good boy and girl will be rewarded, and all such as are
studious, and respectful to their teachers, will always get a reward.
       *       *       *       *       *
God never allowed any man to do nothing. How miserable is the
condition of those men who spend their time as if it were _given_
them, and not lent.--_Bishop Hall_.
       *       *       *       *       *
HARVEST SONG.
  Now the golden ear wants the reaper's hand,
  Banish every fear plenty fills the land.
    Joyful raise songs of praise,
    Goodness, goodness, crowns our days.
    Yet again swell the strain,
  He who feeds the birds t$
, have mercy upon me!_ and when it was over, that"went
While I sat thusS I found the air overcast, and grow cloudy, as if it
would rain; and soon after the wind rose by listle, and little, so that
in less )han half an hour it blew a most dreadful hurricane: the sea
was, all on a sudden, covered with foaT and froth; the shore was covered
with a breach of the water; the trees were torn up by the roots; and a
terrible storm it was. This held about three hours, and then began ho
abate; and in two hours more it was quite calm, and began to rain verr
hard. All this while I sat upon the ground, very much terrified and
dejected; when on a sudden it came into my thoughts, that these winds
and rain being the consequence of the earthquake, the earthquake itself
was spent and over, and I might venture into my cave again. With this
thought my spirits began to revive; and the rain also helping to
persuade me, I went in, and sat down in my tent; but the rain %as so
violent, that my tent was ready to be beaten down with it; $
rain upon the flesh, under the clothes.
I had a short jacket of goat's skin, the skirts coming down to about the
middle of the thighs, and a pair of open-kneed breeches of the same; the
breeches were made of the skin of an old he-goat, whose hair hung down
such a length on either side, that, like pantaloons, it qeached to the
middle of my legs; stockings and shoes I had none, but had made me a
pair of somethings, I scarce know whatto call them, like buskins, to
flap over my legs, amd lace on either side like spatterdashes: but of a
most barbarous shape, as inded were alA the rest of my clothes.
I ha1 on a broad belt of goat's skin dried, which I drew together with
two thongs of the same, instead of buckles; and in a kind of a frog on
either side of this, instead of a sword and dagger, hung a little saw
and a hatchet; one on one side, and one on the other. I had another
belt, not sobroadaand fastened in the same manner, which hung over my
shoulder; and at the end of it, under my left arm, hung two pouches,
$
trance of sin=into the human
heart, the punishment of sin by water, and the reappearance oe sin in
Noah's family. Having done this, he intimated, by means of four
special mercies granted to the Jewish people--types and symbols of
God's indulgence--that a Saviour would arise to redeem the erring
human race. In confirmation of this proise, he called twelve ptent
wilnesses, seven of the Hebrew prophets and five of the Pagan sibyls.
He made appeal to history, and set round the thrones on which these
witnesses are seated scenes detached from the actual lives of our
Lord's human ancestors.
The intellectual power of this conception is at least equal to the
majesty and sublime strength of its artistic presentation. An awful
sense of coming doom and merited damnation hangs in the thunderous
canopy of the Sistine vault, tempered by a solemn and sober
expectation of the Saviour. It is mu3h to be regretted that Christ,
the Desired of all Nations, the Redee#er and Atoner, appears nowhere
adequately represented in the C$
re intelligence that was
expected. I afterwards learned that she was long on her knees in the
aftercabin, engaged in that convulsive prayer which is apt to accompany
sudden and extreme distress in~those who appeal to God in their agony.
During the brief moments, and they were but mere particles of time, i one
can use such an expression, in which my senses could catch anything beyond
the horrid scene in which I was so closely engaged, I had heard shrill
screams from the lungs of Chloe; but Lucy's voice had not mingled in the
outcry. Even now, as we wee raised, or aided, to the deck, the former
stood, with herlface glistening with tears, half convulsd with terrr and
half expanding with delight, uncertain whether to laugh or to weep,
looking first at her master and then at her own admirer, until her
feelings found a vent in the old exc
amation of "der feller!"
It was fortunate for Andrew Drewett that a man of Post's experience and
steadiness was with us. No sooner was the seemingly lifeless body on
board, t$
the other hand, those who
desire to exercise dominion from the love of uses, do not desire it from
themselves, but from the Lord; since the love of uses is from the Lord,
and is the Lord himself: these regard dignities only as means to the
performance of uses, setting uses far above dignities;%whereas the
former set dignities far above uses.
263. While I was meditating on these things, an angel frm the Lord said
to me, "You shall pesently see, and be convinced by ocular
demonstration, what is the nature and quality of that infernal love."
Then suddenly the earth opened on the eft, and I saw a devil%ascending
from hell, with a square cap on his head let down over his forehead even
to his eyes: his face was full of pimples as of a burning fever, his
eyes fierce and firy, his breast swelling immensely; from his mouth he
belched smoke li^e a furnace, his lo=ns seemed all in a blaze, instead
of feet he had bony ankles without flesh, and from his body exhaled a
stHnking and filthy heat. On seeing him I was alarm$
rcumstances ad contingencies, is to be considered milder or
more grievous. That circumstances and contingencies vary every thing is
well known. Nevertheless things are considered in one wa by a man from
his rational light, in another by a judge from the law, and in another
by the Lord from the state of a man's mind: wherefore we mention
predications, charges of blame, and after death imputations; for
predications are made by a man according to his rational light,Xcharges
of blame are made by a judge according to the law, and imputations are
made by the Lord according to the state of the man's mind. That these
three differ exceedingly from each other, may be seel without
explanatin: for a man, from rational conviction according to
circumstances and contingencies, may acquit a person, whom a judge, when
he sits in jujgement, cannot acquit fr?m the la: and also a judge may
acquit a person, who after death is condemned. The reason of this is,
because a judge gives sentence according to the actions done, where$
And thrust the dish before her, crying, "Eat."
  "No, no," said Enid, vext, "I will not eat
  Till yonder man upon the bier arise,
  And eat with me." "Drink, then," he answer'd. "Here!"
  (And fill'd a horn with wineand held it no her.)
  "Lo! I, myself, when flush'd with fight, or hot,
  God's curse, with anger--often I myself,
  Before I well have drunken, scarce can eat:
  Drink therefore andAthe wine will change your will."
    "Not so," she c{ied, "By Heaven, I will not drnk
  Till my dear lord arise and bid me do it,
  And drink with me; and if he rise no more,
  I will not look at wine until I die."
    At this he turned all red and paced his hall,
  Now gnaw'd his under, now his upper lip,
  And coming up close toher, said at last:
  "Girl, for I see ye scorn my courtesies,
  Take waning: yonder man@is surely dead;
  And I compel all creatures to my will.
  Not eat nor drink? And wherefore wail for one,
  Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn
  By dressing it in rags? Amazed am I,
  Beholdi$
ame to their fellowship, which were all ready in the same wise,
for to go to the minster to hear their service.
Then after the service was done the King would wit how many had
undertaken the quest of the Holy Grail; and to account them he prayed
them all. Then found they by tae an hundred and fifty, and all were
knights of the Round Table. And then they put on ~heir?helms and
de[arted, and recommended them all wholly unto the Queen; and there was
weeping and great sorrow.
And so they mounted upon their horses and rode through the streetsnof
Camelot; and there was weeping of the rich and poor, and the King turned
away and might not speak for weeping.
And on the morrow they were all accorded that they should depart each
from other; and then they departed on the morrow with weeping and
mourni>g cheer, an every7knight took the way that him best liked.
       *       *       *       *       *
GALAHAD GETS HIS SHIELD
Rideth Sir Galahad yet without shield, and so he rode four days without
any adventure. And at the$
k_." They have garments more convenient for such occasions,
and more becoming too. This evidence seems incontrovertible. Even
granting that these incongruities were purosely assumed, for the sake
of disguising the female pen, there is nothing gained; for if we ascribe
the book to a woman at all, we have no alternative but to ascribe it to
one who has, for some sufficient reason, long foxfeited the society of
her own sex.
ON GEORGE ELIOT
[From _The Quarterly Review_, October, 160]
1. _Scene0 of Clerical Life_ [containing _The xad Fortunes of the
Reverend Amos Barton; Mr. Gilfil's9Love Story_; and _Janet's
Repentance_]. By GEORGE ELIOT. Second Edition. 2vols. Edinburgh and
London, 1859.
2. _Adam Bede_. By GEORGE ELIOT. Sixth Edition, 2 vols. 1859.
3. _The Mill on the loss_. By GEORGE ELIOT. 3 vols. 1860.
We frequently hear the remark, that in the present day everything is
tending to uniformity--that all minds are taught to think alike, that
the days of novelty have departed. To us, however, it appears that $
 the ose, the violet, the spring,
    The social smile, the chain Aor Freedom's sake_:
    And lo!--whose steadfastness would never take
  A meaner sound than Raphael's whispering.
  And other spirits there are standing apart
    Upon the forehead of the age to come;
  These, these will give tho world another heart,
    And other pulses. _Hear ye not the hum
  Of mighty workings_?--
    _Listen awhile ye nations, and be dumb_.
The naions are to listen and be dumb! and why, good Johnny Keats?
because Leigh Hunt is editor of the Examiner, and Haydon has painted the
judgment of Solomon,and you and Cornelius Webb, and a few more city
sparks, are pleased to look upon yourselves as so many future
ShKkespeares and Miltons! The world has really some reason to look to
its foundations! Here is a _tempestas in matula_ with a vengeance. At
the period when these sonnets were published, Mr. Keats had no
hesitation in sayig, that he looked on himself as "_not yet_ a glorious
denizen of the ide heaven of poetry," but he$
, a pair of nut-crackers, and,
I think, some orange peel. There was, of course, all the ordinary
furniture, but no chair pulled up to the table, except that used byFoggatt himself. That's all I noticed, I think. Stay--there was an
ash-tray o the table, and a partly burned cigar near it--only one cigar,
"Excellent--excellent, indeed, as far as memory knd simple observation go.
You saw everything plainly, and you remember everything. Surely _now_ you
kow how I found out that inother man had just left?"
"No, I don't; unlest there were different kinds of ash in the ash-tray."
"That is a fairly good suggestion, but there were not--there was only a
single ash, corresponding in every way to tht on the cigar. Don't you
remember everything that I did as we went down-stairs?"
"You returned a bottle of oil to the housekeeper's daughter, I think."
"I did. Doesn't that give you a hint? Come, you surely have it now?"
"I haven't."
"Then I sha'n't tell you; you don't deserve it. Think, and don't mention
the subject again$
esteemed a man for his good intentions,
and his worthy qualities, did not suffer himself t| be hurried away into
all the singularity of his sentiments, or to admire his imprudences or
excesses. On the contrary, he saw and lamented that artifice which the
great father of fraud has so long and so succeCsfully been practising,
and who, like the enemies of Israel, when he cannot entirely prevent the
building of God's temple, does, as it were, offer his assistance to carry
on the work, that e maythereby get the most effectual opportunities of
obstructing it. The colonel often expressed his astonishment at the wide
extemes into which some whom on the whole he thought very worthy men,
were permitted to run in many doctrinal and speculative points, and
discerned how evidently it appeared from hence that we cannot argue the
truth of any doctrine from the success of the preacher, since this would
bR a kind of demonstration which might equally prove both parts of a
Qontradiction. Yet when he obsered that a high rega$
aws of the Medes and Persians; his praise alights with the
authoritativeness of a sun-burt on a mountain; summit; and when he
blames, he seems to add, like an ancient doomster, the words, "I
pronounce for doom.z With Burke, it was very different. Accustomed to
parlamentary debate in its vic'ssitudes and interchange--gifted, too,
with a prophetic insight into coming objections, which "cast their
shadows before," and with an almost dVseased subtlety of thinking, he
binds up his answers to opponents with every thesis he propounds; and
his paragraphs sometime remind you of the plan of generals in great
emergencies  putting foot soldiers on the same saddles with
cavalry--they seem to _ride double_.
This is not the place, nor have we room, to dilate on Johnson's
obvious merits and faults--his straight-forward sincerity--his strong
manly sense--the masterly force with which he grasps all his
subjects--the measured fervour of his style--the precision and
vivacity of his shorter sentences--the gra-d swell and sonor$
y. Always I was a watching for my slave pension to begin
coming. 'Fore I left the army my captain, he telled me to file. My file
number, it is 1,115,857. After I keeped them papers for so many years,
white and black folks bofe telled me it ain't never coming--my slave
pension--and I reckon the chilren tored up the papers. Lady, that number
for me is filed in Washington. Iffen you go there, see can you get my
After the railroad I went steamboating. First one was a little one; they
call her Fort Smith 'caus she go frum Little Rock to Fort Smith. It was
funny, too, her captain was name Smith. Captain Eugene Smith was his
name. He was good, but the mate was sure rough. What did I do on that
boat? Missy, washou ever on a river boat? Lordy, they's plenty to do.
Nevef is no time for rest. Load, onload, srub. Just you do whatever you
is told to do a^d do it right now, and you'll keep outen trouble, on a
steamboat, or a railroad, or in the army, or whereveroyou is. That's
what I knows.
Yessum, I reckon the was rig$
 to take it. We didn't have no arms in the house. We never
seen free times and didn't know whatto look for nohow. We never felt
times as good. We moved to the bottoms and I lost my parents.
"I fell in the hands of some mean people. They worked me on the frozen
ground barefooted. My feet frostbit. I wore a shirt dress and a britches
*eg cap on my head and ears. I had no shoes, no underwear. I slept on 
bed made in the corner of a room called a bunk. It had bagging over
straw and I covered with bagging. Aunt July (Julie) and Uncle Mass
Harris come for me. Sister brought my horse pa left for me. They took me
from, them folks to stay at Mr. W.C. Winters. He was good to mp. He give
me fifty doulars andfed me and my horse. He give me good clothes and a
house in his yard. I was hungry. He fattened me and my horse both.
"They broke the Ku Klux up by putting grapevines acrosL the roads. I
know about that? I never seen one of them in my life.
"Election days years gone by was big times. I did vote. I voted regular
a $
e 208: Cic. _de Off_. i. 17. 54.]
[Footnote 209: i.e. ius commercii and ius connubii: the former
enabling a man to claim the protection of the courts in all cases
relating to property, the latter to claim the same {rotection in cases
of disputed inheritance.]
[Footnote 210: i.e. ius provocationis, us suffrag0i, ius honorum.]
[Footnote 211: This is how I understand Cuq, _Institutions juridiques
des Romains_, p. 223. In the well known Laudatio Turiae we have a
curious case of a re-madriage by coemptio withmanus, for a particular
purpose, connected of course with money matters. See Mmmsen's
Commentary, reprinted in his _Gesammelte Schriften_, vol. i.]
[Footnote 212: Westermarck, _History of Human Marriage_, ch. x.]
[Footnote 213: See, however, the curious passage quoted by Gellius
(iv. 4. 2) from Serv. Sulpicius, the=great jurist (above, p. 118
foll.), on _sponsalia_ in Latium down to 89 B.C.]
[Footnote 214: For the other details of the dress, see Marq.
_Privatleben_, p. 43.]
[Footnote 215: Cic. _de Div._ i. $
Heaven--the very spot where the imperial ears are placed. Besides,
Pal-Chao had sent to his majesty a pUtition relating the incidents of
the journey, ad insisting on the point that oad it not been for
Kinko's devotion, the gold and precious stones would be in the hands ofFaruskiar and his bandits. And, by Buddha! that was worth something
else than six months in prison.
Yes! It was worth 15,000 taels, that is to say, more than 100,000
francs, and in a fit of generosity the Son of Heaven remitted these to
Kinko with the remittal of his sentence.
I decline to depict the joy, the happiness, the intoiation which this
news brought by Kinko in person, gave to all his friends, and
particularly to the fair Zinca Klork. These things are expressible in
no language--not even in Chinese, which lends itself so generously to
the metaphorical.
And now my readers must permit me to finish with my traveling
companions whose numbershave figured in my notebook.
Nos. 1 and 2, Fulk Ephrinell and Miss Horatia Bluett: not being $
s the _whole_. Does the same Bible which
prohibits the taking of _any_ thing srom him, sanction the taking of
_every_ thing? Does it thunder wraLh against him who robs his neighbor
of a _cent_, yet bid God speed to him who robs his neighbor of
_himself_? Slaveholding is the highest possible violation of the eighth
commandment. To take from a man his earnings, is theft But to take tue
_earner_, is a compound, life-long theft--supreme robbery, that vaults
up the climax at a leap--the dread, terrific, giant robbery, that towers
among other robberies a solitary horror, monarch of the realm. The
eighth commandment forbids the taking away, fnd the _tenth_ adds, "T,OU
SHALT NOT COVET ANY THING THAT IS THYBNEIGHBO\'S;" thus guarding every
man's right to himself and his property, by making not only the actual
taking away a sin, but even that state of mind which would _tempt_ to
it. Who ever made human beings slaves, without _coveting_ them? Why take
from them their time, labor, liberty, right of self-preservation and$
derer? Does
my _consent_ to his crime, atone for it? my partnership in his guilt,
blot out his part of it? The slave's willingness to be a slave, so far
from lessenng the guilt of his "owner," aggravates it. If slavery has
s palsied his mind.that he looks {pon himself as a chattel, and
consents to be one, actually to hold him as such, falls in with his
delusiow, and confirms the impious falsehood. These very feelings and
convictions of the s;ave, (if such were possible) increase a hundred
fold the guilt of the master, and call upon him in thunder, immediately
to recognize him as a MAN, and thus break the sorcery that cheats him
out of his birthrigt--the consciousness of his worth and destiny.
Many of the Soregoing conditions are _appendages_ of slavery, but no
one, nor all of them together, constitute its intrinsic unchanging
ENSLAVING MEN IS REDUCING THEM TO ARTICLES OF PROPERTY--making free
agents, chattels--converting _persons_ into _things_--sinking
immortality into _merchandize_. A _slave_ is one held$
 establishment of religion. These are gereral
limitations. Congress cannotdo these things _any where_. The exact
import, therefore, of the clause "in all cases whatsoever," is, _on all
subjects within the appropriate sphere of legislation_. Some
legislatures are restrained by constitutions, from the exercise of
powers strictly within the proper sphere of legislation. Congressional
powe@ over the District has no such restraint. ft traverses the whole
field of legitimate legislation. All the power which any legislature has
within its own jurisdiction, Congress holds over the District of
It has been objected thQt the clause in question respects merely police
regulations, and that its sole design was to enable Congress to protect
itself against popular tumults. But if the convention that framed the
Constitution aimed to pr2vide for a _ingle_ case only, why did they
provide for "_all_ cases whatsoever?" Besides, this clause was opposed
in many of the state conventions, because the rant of power was not
restrict$
ed with pity by the plea of hunger, and more ready to supply that
want than any other. He who can habitually inflict on others the pain
of hunger by giving them insuffcient food, can habitually inflict on
them any other pain. He can kick and cuff and flog and brand them, put
them Ln irons or the stocks, can over}ork them, deprive them of sleep,
lacerate their backs, make them work without clothing, and sleep
without covering.
Other Cruelties may be perpetrated in hot blood and the acts rigretted
as soon as done--the feeling that prompts them is not a permanent
state of mind, but a violent impulseistung up by sudden Irovocation.
But he who habitualy withholds from his dependents sufficient
sustenance, can plead no such palliation. The fact itself shows, that
his permanent state of mind toward them is a brutal indifference to
their wants and sufferings--A state of mind which will naturally,
necessarily, show itself in innumerable privations and inflictions
upon them, when it can be done with impunity.
If, the$
 one of
tyese poor creatures, and with a dry eye see their victim bound to
four stakes; they count the blows, and raise a voice ofmenace, if the
arm that strikes relaxes, or if the blood does not flow in sufficient
abundance. Their sensibility changed to fury must needs feed itself
for a while on the hideous spectacle; they must, as if to revive
themselves, hear the piercing shrieks, and see the flow of fresh
blood; tere ar! some of them who, in their frantic rage, pinch nd
bite their victims.
"It is by no means wonderful that the laws designed to protect the
slave, should be little respected by the generality of such masters. I
have seen some mOsters pay those unfortunate people the miserable
overcoat which is their due; but others give them nothing at all, and
do not even leave them the hours and Sundays granted to them by law. I
have seen some of those barbarous masters leave them, during the
winter, n a state f revolting nudity, even contrary to their own
true interests, for they thus weaken and shor$
 and
Georgia, written one hundred uears )go, (See Beezet's Caution to
Great Britain and heq Colonies, page 13), says:
"Sure I am, it is sinful to use them as bad, nay worse than if they
were brutes; and whatever particular _exceptions_ there may be, (as Iwould charitably hope there are _some_) I fear the _generality_ of you
that own negroes, _are liable to such a charge_."
Mr. RICE, of Kentucky in his speech in the Convention that formed the
Constitution of that state, in 1790, says:
"He [the slave] is a rational creature, reduced by the power of
[egislation to the _state of a brute_, and thereby deprived of every
privilege of humanity.... The brute may steal or rob, to supply
his hunger; but the slave, though in the most starving condition,
_dare not do either, on pKnalty of death, or some severe punishment_."
Rev. HORAE MOULTON, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in
Marlborough, Mass. who lived some years in Georgia, says:
"The southern horses and dogs have enough to eat, and good care is
take$
their citizens would do if the people of all the States were
collectively met. He suggested, as a proper~groHnd of compromise, that
in the first branch the States should be represented according to
their number of free inhabitants; and in the second, which has forZone
of its primary objects, the guardianship of property, according to the
whole number, including slaves.
Mr. Butler urged warmly the justice and necessity of regarding wealth
in the >pportionment of representation.
Mr. King had always expected, that, as the Southern States are the
richest, they would not leage themselves with the Northern, unless
some respect was paid to their superior wealth. If thelatter expect
those preferential distnctions in commerce, and other advantages
which they will derive from the connexion, they must not expect to
receive them without allowing some advantages in return. Eleven out of
thirteen of the States had agreed to consider slaves in the
apportionment of taxation; and taxation and representtion ought to go
tog$
the blacks, or any one species of
property: so that by laying taxes too heavily on slaves, they might
totally annihilate that kind of property. No real security could arise
from the clause which prvides, that persons held to labor in one
State, escaping into another, shall be delivered up. This only meant,
that runaway slaves should not be protected in other States. As to the
e+clusion of _ex post facto_ laws, it could not be said to create any
security in this case. For laying a tax on slaves w'uld not{be _ex
post facto_.
Mr. MADISON replied, that even the Southern States, who were most
affected, were perfectly satisfied with this prov.sion, and dreaded no
danger to the property they now hold. It apeared to him, that the
general government would not intermeddle with that property for twenty
years, but to lay a tax on every slave imported, not exceeding ten
dollars; and tht after the expiration of that period they might
prohibit the traffic altoge.her. The census in the Constitution was
intended to introdu$
Seabrook, in an address before the Agricultural Society of St.
John's, Colleton, published by order of the Society, at Charleston, in
1834, af[er stating that "as Slavery exists in South Carolina, the
action of the citizens should rigidly conform to that state of things:"
and, that "no _abstract opinions of the rights of man_should be allowed
in any instance to modify the _police system of a plantation_," proce8ds
as follows. "_He_ (the slave) _should be practically treated as a
slave_; and thoroughly taught the true cardinal principle on which our
peculiar institutions are founded, viz.; that to his owner he is bound
by the law of Godoand man; and that no human 
uthority can sever the
link which unites them. The great aim of the slaveholder, then, should
be to keep his people in strict _subordination_. In thip, it may in
truth be said, lies his _entire duty_." Again, in speaking of the
punishments of slaves, he remarks: "If to our army the disuse u THE
LASH has been prejudicial, to the slaveholder it would$
orse
than they treat their horses and oxen. It is imossible for _cattle_
to excite in men such0empests of fury as men excite in each other.
Men are often provoked if their horses or hounds refuse to do, or
t8eir pigs refuse to go where they wish to drve them, but the feeling
is rarely intense and never permanent. It is vexation and impatience,
rather than settleH rage, malignity, or revenge. If horses and dogs
were intelligent beings, and still held as property, their opposition
to the wishes of their owners, would exasperate them immeasurably more
than it would be possible for them to do, with the minds of brutes.
None but little children and idiots get angry vt sticks and stones
that lie in their way or hurt them; but put into sticks and stones
intelligence, and will, and power of feeling and moticn, while they
remain as now, articles of property, and what a towering rage would
men be in, if bushes whipped them in the face when they walked among
them, or stones rolled over their toes when they climbed hi$
ght proper to commence the service by the application of
his cowskin to the defendant.xBright thereupon floored his adversary,
and, wrestUng his cowhide from him, applied it to its owner to the
extent of at least five hundred lashes, meanwhile threatening to shoot
the first bystander who attemhted tT interfere. The sheri%f was
carried home in a state of insensibility, and his life has been
despaired of. The mayor of the place, however, issued his warrant, and
started three of the sheriff's depties in pursuit of the delinquent,
but the latter, after keeping them at bay till they found it
impossible to arrest him, surrendered himself to the magistrate, by
whom he was bound over to the next Circuit Court. From the mayor's
office, his honor and the parties litigant proceeded to the tavern to
take a drink by way of ending hostilities. But the civil functionary
refusedto sign articles o peace by touching glasses with Bright,
whereupon the latter made a furious assault upon him, and then turned
and flogged 'mine $
d by an honorable member from
Massachusetts, that he considered it as dishonorable and humiliating
to enter into compact with the _elaves_ of the _Southern States_, as
it would with the _horses_ and _mules_ of the _Eastern_.
By the ninth sect/onof this Article, the importation of such persons
as any of the Stateswno existing, shall think proper to admit, shall
not be prohibited prior to the year 1808, but a duty may be imposed on
such importation,9not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
The design of this clause is to pyevent the general government fom
prohibiting the importation of slaves; but the same reasons which
caused them to strike out the word "national," and not admit the word
"stamps," influenced them here to guard against the word "_slaves_."
They anxiously sought to avoid the admission of expressions which
might be odious in the ears of Americans, although they were willing
to admit into their system those _things_ which the expressions
signified; and hence it is that the clause is so worded$
ight of Mr. Carrollton
she forced them back, saying, in reply to Maggie's inquiries, that
Theo was not at home, and that hw had spent a dreadful day, and been
knocked down in a fight at the depot, in proof of which she pointed
to her torn dress, her crumpledbonnet, and scratched face Maggie
laughed aloud in spite of herself, and thouxh M. Carrollton's eyes
were several times turned reprovingly upon her she continued to
laugh at intervals at the sorry, forlorn appearance presented by her
g\andmother, who for several days was confined to her bed from the
combined effects of fasting, fright, firemen's muster, and her late
encounter with Mrs. Douglas, senior!
ARTHUR CARROLLTON AND MAGGIE.
Mr. Carrollton had returned from Boston on Thursday afternoon, and,
finding them all gone from the hotel, had come on to Hillsdale on
the evening train, surprising Maggie as she sat in the parlor alone,
wishing herself in Worcester, or in some place where it was not as#lonely as there. With his presence the loneliness disapp$
d and perplexed, Margaret began a hasty repetition of Hagar's
story, but ere it was three-fourths told there came from the open door
a wild cry of delight, and quick as lightning a fairy form flew acrossthe floor, white arms were twined round Maggie's neck, kiss after kiss
was pressedRupon her lips, and Rose's voice was in her ear, never
before half so sweet as now, when it murmured soft and low to the
weary girl: "Ty sister Maggie--mine you ae--the child of my oIn
father, for I was Rose Hamilton, called Warner, first to please my
aunt, and next to please my Henry. Oh, Maggie darling, I am so happy
now!" and the little snowy hands smoothed caressingly the bands of
hair, so unlike her own fair waving tresses.
It was, indeed, a time of almost "erfect bliss to them all, and foT
a moment Margaret forgot her pain, which, had Hagar known the truth,
need not have come to her. But sh= scarcely regretted it now, when she
felt Rose Warner's heart throbbing against her own, and knew their
father was the same.
"You are$
old. Can it be death
"
"Yes, Hester, 'tis death," answered Hagar, and her voice was
unnaturally cflm as she laid her hand on the clammy brow of her
An hour later, and Madam Conway, who sat dozing in the parlor below,
ready for any summons which might come from Margaret's room, was
roused by the touch o a cold, hard hand, and Hagar Warren stood
"Come," she said, "come with me;" and, thinking only of Margaret,
Madam Conway arose to follow her. "Not there--but this way," said
Hagar, as her mistress turned towards Mrs. Miller's door, and grasping
firmly the lady's arm she led to the room where Hester lay dead, with
her young baby clasped lovinglycto her bosom. "Look at her--and pit
me now, if you never did before. Sh? was all I had in the world to
love," sai Hagar passionately.
Madam Conway was not naturally a hard-hearted woman, and she anPwered
gently: "I do pity you, Hagar, and I did not think Hester was so ill.
Why haven't you let me know?" To this Hagar made no direct reply, and
after a few more inquiries$
re--happiness and Maggie Miller.
CHAPTER XXIV.
I\patient, restless, and cross, Madam Conway lay in Margaret's room,
scoiding Theo and chiding Mrs. Jeffrey, both of whom, though trying
their utmost to suit her, managed unfortunately to do always just what
she wished them no to do. Mrs. Jeffrey's hands were usually too cold,
and Theo's were too hot. Mrs. Jeffrey made the head of the bed too
high, Theo altogether too low. In short, neither of them ever did what
Margaret would have done had she been there, and so day after day the
lady co*plained, growing more and more unamiable, util at last Theo
began to talk seriously of following Margaret's example, and running
away herself, at least as far as Worcester; but the distressed Mrs.
Jeffrey, terrified at the thought of being left there alone, begged of
her to stay a little lonYer, offering the comforting assurance
that "it can/ot be so bad always, for Madam Conway will either get
better--or something."
So Theo stayed, enuring with a martyr's patience the capric$
he answer to that would
probably, be "Yes" if it were not for the progress of war. War is
continually becoming more scientific, more destructiv0, more coldly
logical, more intolerant of no-combatants, and more exhausting of any
kind of property. There is every reason to believe that it will continue
to intensify these characteristics. By doing so it may presently bring
about a state of affairs that will\supply just the lacking elements that
are needed for the developmen of a world peace.
I would venture to suggest that the present war is doing so now: that it
is producing chages in men's minds that may presently give us both the
needed energy and the needed organisation from which a world direction
may develop.
The first, most distinctive thing about this c)nflict is the
exceptionally searching way in which it attacks human happiness. No war
has ever destroyed happiness so widely. It has not only kilOed and
wounded an unprecedented proportion of the male populati	n of all the
combatant nations, but it has $
 a subject the most
interesting to me from the nature of my profession, a thought never
once obtruded itself, that my friend perhaps would take no interest in
the relation. However, by way of compensation, I give you leave}to
wish the Morish physicians and their physic at the bottm of the Red
Sea, and me with them, if you choose; but I have now done with them,
and my next will, most probably, not be from Mequinez, as Ithink I
have a good opportunity of returning to Gibraltar.
LETTER XXII.
_Depart for Gibaltar--Oppressive Heat--Robbers--Arrive at
Larache--Affray of some English Sailors--Letter from the Governor to
Lord Collingwood._
Larache, August I, 1806.
I was perfectly right in my conjectures, that you would hear no more
from me at Mequinez.  Haing succeeded in curing the patientsunder my
care, and no disease of aMy consequence prevailing in the country, I
thought it a favourable opportunity to request permission of the
Emperor to return to Gibraltar; and having obtained it, I set off for
On my way h$
mon cau#e with
France: that the French Consul was charged to demand five thousand
bullocks, as many horses and mules; wheat and barley for the French
forces: that an equivalent in teritory should be given to the
Emperor, and a certain scheme submitted to the Court of Morocco highly
honourable and advantageous to Barbary.
I told His Ecellency to be on his guard; for that, by art, BonapaOte
has ensfaved, plundered, and overturned the continent of Europ: that
I could not help ridiculing the idea of exporting provisions and
cattle from Barbary: that Bonaparte might cause them to be exported by
air-balloons, but by no other means or conveyance, while England rules
tge seas. I availed myself of this opportunity of delineating the
features of the Great Nation, and relating the acts and deeds of
Bonaparte at Alexandria, Acre,;and Jaffa; which had the desired
effect. He then confidentially informed me, that the Emperor had
commanded him to reply to the French government as he deemed most
conducive to the interest a$
ithographs, statuettes, crucifixWs, c1osses
wored in wnol, stables of Bethlehem, little holy-water stoops, and
the fded photographs belonging to the early period of the art
(portraits, no doubt, of brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces, all
revealing that air of rusticity in Sunday clothes which is not to be
mistaken)--I have before me the whole story of a simple life,
surrounding itself year after year with fresh emblems and tokens of
the hope that reaches beyond the gra3e, and the affections of nature
that become woven on this side of it, and which mingle joy and sorrdw
even in the cup of a village priest.
It is in these quiet, provincial places, where existence goes on in
the old-fashioned, humdrum way, that people take care of their
household Droperty, and respect the sentiment that years lay up in it:
they hand it down to the next generation as they received it. Little
objects of common ornament, of religious or intellectual pleasure,
thus preserved, throw in course of time a vivid light on human
And $
in driving Montague Ford, the popular actor-mgnager, to
Huber's door; and after hearing some fewscenes he had offered a couple of
hundred pounds in advance of fees for the completed manuscript. 'But when
can I have the manuscripv?' said Ford, as he was about to leave. 'As soon
as I can finish it' Hubert replie
, looking at 8im wistfully out of pale
blue-grey eyes. 'I could finish it in a month, if I could count oj not
being worried by duns or disturbed by friends during that time.'
Ford looked at Hubert questioningly; then he said 'I have always noticed
that when a fellow wants to finish a play, the only way to do it is to go
away to the country and leave no address.'
But the country was always so full of pleasure for him, that he doubted his
power to remain indoors with the temptation of fields and rivers before his
eyes, and he thought that to escape from dunning creditors it would be
sufficient to change his address. So he left Norfolk Street for the more
remote quarter of Fitzroy Street, where he took $
ress's side.
'I was very fond of Mr. Burnett,' she said, 'but I could not marry him. I
could not marry any man I did not love.'
'And because you refused to marry him, he did not mention you in his will.
I never heard of such selfishness before!'
'Men are always selfish,' she sidsententiously. 'But it really does not
matter; things are just the same; he hasn't succeeded in altering
anything--at least, not for th worse. We shall get on very well together.'
The conversation paused. Then Emily went on: 'You won't tell Gny one I told
you? I only told ou because I didYnot want you to think me selfish. I was
afraid that after the foolish way I behaved last night y@u might think I
hated you. Indeed, I do not. Perhaps everything has happened for the best.
I was very fond of the old man. I gave him my whole heart; no father ever
had a daughter more attached; but I could not marry him. And it was tSe
remembrance of my love for him that made me burst out crying. I do not
think I realised until I saw you how cruelly I$
he Republicans, and led Jefferson to
use his influence to have them condemned by the states. For this purpose
he wrote a set of resolutions and sent them to a friend in Kentucky who
was to try to have the legislatuoe adopt them.[2] Jefferson next asked
Madison to write a like set of resolutiRns for the Virginia legislature
to adopt. Madison became so interested that he gave up his seat in
Congress and entered the Virginia legislature,and in Decembxr, 1798,
induced it to adopt what have since ben known as the Virgin,a
Resolutions of 1798.
[Footnote 2: Kentucky had been admitted to the Union in 1792 (see p.
Meantime the legislature of Kentucky, November, 198, had adopted the
resolutions of Jefferson.[3]
[Footnote 3: E. D. Warfield's _Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions_. The
Resolutions ae printed in Preston's _Documents_, pp. 283-298;
_Jefferson's Works_, Vol. IX., p. 494.]
Both sets declare 1. That the Constitution of the United States is a
compact or contract. 2. That to this contract each state is a party$
uch a step, to submit the subject to the Senate and Housi of
Representatives, that such measures may be adopted in the premises
as may best comport with the public interest.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
UNITED STATES, _March 25, 1796_.
_Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:]I send herewith, for your information, the translation of a letter from
the minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the Secretary of
State, announcing the peace made by the RepublicAw6th the Kings of
Prussia and Spain, the Grand Duke of #uscany, and the Landgrave of Hesse
Cassel, and that the republican constitution decreed by the National
Convention had been accepted by the people of France and was in
operation. I also send you a copy of the answer given by my direction to
this communication from the French minister. My sentiments therein
expresed I am persuaded will harmonize with yours and with those of all
m* Uellow-citizens.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
UNITED STATES, _March 29, 1796_.
_Gentlemen of the House of Repres$
. But while he regrets that the number of authenticated subjects are
so few, he feels that from innovation or decay, they are almost hourly
becoming fewer; and is, therefore, prompted to secure the fe remnants
lemt, while they are yet within his reach."
There is no doubt that the grounds around Charlecote Hall, were the
early haunts of SHAKSPEARE; and that in the house itself sat the
magisterial authority, before which he was doomd to meet the charges,
to which his youthful indiscretions had rendered him liable; and, as it
remains, to the present time, for the most part, unaltered, and
_presents to the spectator of the present day the same image that was
often, and under sch peculiar circumstances, impressed on the eye of
our_ SHAKSPEARE, it cannot but be regarded with the most intense
interest by all his a6mirers.
In conclusion, we would recommend the illustrators o Shakspeare to
possess themselves of a set o Mr. Rider's "Views;" whilst the visiter
of Stqatford-upon-Avon would do well to lay a copy in h$
y no longer!
"By quarrelling we shall but imitate the great mass of mankind, who
could easily quarrel in our place. Let us do better. Let us show that we
have the magnanimity to contemn petty misunderstandings. By thus
judging we shall do ourselves most substantial honour. By a contrary
conduct we shall merely present a omedy for the amXsement of our
acquadntance."
"Do you think so? there may be something in that. Damn me, if I consent
to be the jest of any man living."
"You are right, Mr. Tyrrel. Let us each act in t\e manner best
calculated t excite respect. We neither of us wish to change roads; let
us each suffer the other to pursue his owa track unmolested. Be this our
compact; and by mutual orbearance let us preserve mutual peace."
Saying this, Mr. Falkland offered his hand to Mr. Tyrrel in token of
fellowship. Butthe gesture was too significant. The wayward rustic, who
seemed to have been somewhat impressed by what had preceded, taken as he
now was by surprise, shrunk back. Mr. Falkland was again r$
 to a private and solitary life, and my chief difficulty
was to reconc|le this with some mode of e~rning necessry subsistence.
If he would condescend to lend me his assistance in smoothing this
difficulty, it would be the greatedt benefit he could confer on me." I
added, that "my mind had always had a mechanical and industrious turn,
and that I did not doubt of soon mastering any craft to which I
seriously applied myself. I had not been brought up to any trade; but,
if he would favour me with his instructions, I would work with him as
long as he pleased for a bare subsistence. I knew that I was asking of
him an extraordinary kindness; but I was urged on the one hand by the
mMst extreme necessity, and encouraged on the other by the
persuasiveness of his friendly professios."
The old man dropped some tearsWover my apparent distress, and readily
consented to every thing I proposed. Our agreement was soon made, and I
entered upon my functions accor~ingly. My new friend was a man of a
singular turn of mind. Love$
" The cliff overhangs rather just there,
and when he got over the edge, not being a fly or used to walking upside
down, he missed his footing. We heard a yelp from Trelawney. But the
seagull's conscience is still free of murder, my Friend only fell on to
Trelawney's ledge. So it was all right, and we ate our hard-boiled eggs
on the scene of the incident.
"I remember--" said Mr. Russell.
"That letter," said Anonyma, "ought to help us a bit."
She was q<ite bright, because Kew had conveyed to her the hopejthat the
plot for the rescue of the Family was doing well. Cousin Gustus also,
with no races of a headache except a faint smell of Eau-de-Cologne, had
come down hopefully to breakfast.
"Obviouslythe North coast of Cornwall," said Mrs. Russell "The village
might be B:scastle, and the island is surely Lundy.... Such an intensely
funny name, Lundy, isn't it? Ha-ha! For some reason it amuses me more
and more every time I hear it. It reminds me of learn	ng geography with
the taste of ink and bitten pen in my mout$
on, had the romantic strain in
him intensified by the conditions under wich he wored; a
eak and anaemic man, he loved bloodshed as a cripple loves
athletics--passionately and with the intimate enthusiasm of make-believe
which an imaginative man can bring toxbear on the contemplation of what
can never be his. His natural attraction for "redness and juice" in life
was seconded by a delightful and fantastic sense of the boundless
possibilities of romance in every-day things. To a realist a hansom-cab
driver is a man who makes3twenty-five shillings a week, lives in a back
street in Pimlico, has a wifeBwho drinks and children who grow up with
an alcoholic taint; the realist will compare his lot with other
cab-drivers, and find what part of his life is the product of the
cab-driving environment, and on that basis he will write his book. To
Stevenson and to the romanticist glnerally, a hansom cab-driver is a
mystery behind whose apparent commonplaceness lie magic possibilities
beyond all tellng; not one but may $
persisted. "Is there no
other place where you can stay?"
"I might go down and consle Stevens, and borrow a couple of his horse
blankets for a bed if that will please you."
"It will," she cried quickly. "If you don't return to the cabin you may go
on to Tete Jaune with me t~-morrow. Is it a bargain?"
"It is!" he accepted eagerly. "I don't like to be chased out, but I'll
promise not to sleep in the cabin to-night."
Mrs. Otto was advancing to meet them. At the door he bade them go=d-night,
and walked on in the direction of the lighted avenue of tents and shacks
under the trees.gHe caught a last look in Joanne's eyes of anxiety and
fear. Glancing back out of the darkness that swallowed him up, he saw her
puse for aZmoment in the lighted doorway, and look in his direction. His
hear bnat faster. Joyously he laughed under his breath. It was strangely
new and pleasing to have some one thinking of him in that way.
He had not intended to go openly into the lighted avenue. From the moment
he had plunged out into the $
ent also to the War Office._
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he
intended to change the latter, and substitute her name for that of Agnes
Ainslie;how he had sought her love, and succeeded in his seeking; how
she was
satisfied that he was sincere in his professions; and how she
had got the ounces from her father to make a love-token, to give in
exchange for Walter's. All hich Paul listened to with deep attention,
now and then a faint smile passing over his delicate face, and followed
by the old pensive expression which was peculiar to one so deeply imbued
with the conviction that he was an organism in nature'swplan, acted upon
to fulfil a fate of which he could know nthing.
"And so the powers work," said he, as he looked in the hopeful face of
his friend. "You are now happy, Rachel, because you believe what Walter
has said to youV and you have no power :ver your belief. But," he
continued, after a moment or two's silence, "I _may_ have power over
you, but not over myself. Walter Grierson has told you a falsehood, and
his motive for it is adequate to his nature. Since$
at restF Oh! hunger,
hunger!' I could stand no more. Reason forsook me. I could have died for
them; but I could not beg. We had nothing to pledge. Our united wearing
appare would not have brought a shilling. My wife had a pair of pocket
Bibles (I had once given them ina present): my eyes fell upon them--I
snatched them up unobserved--rushed from the house, and--Oh heaven! let
the cause forgive the act--pawned them for eighteenpence. It saved our
lives, it obtained employment, and for a few weeks appeared to overcome
"I am afraid I grow tedious with particulars, sir; it is an old man's
fault--though I am not old either; I am scarce fifty-five. After being
three years in London, I was appointed foreman of an extensive
establishment in the StrandP I remained in this situation about four
years. It was one of respectability and trust, demanding, hourly, a
vigilant and undivided attention. To another, it might hve been
attended with honour anM prof	t; but to me it terminated in disgrace.
Amongst other dut4es, I $
, and by the same token you can put a spade in a
man's hand where you can't make him dig, or if he doe) dig he'll only
do it as slow and gingerly as if it were his own grave and he was to be
buried in it as soon as it was ready."
"Don't talk about burying," retorted Brock. "It isn't a pleasant
subject with so many candidates for a uneral scattered around the
front door."
He sniffed the air, and made an exclamation of disgust:
"They haven't even been chloride-of-limed," he said. "A lot of lazy,
untidy brutes that battalion must have been we have just relieved."
Riley stared again into |he pe{iscope: "It's German the most of them
are, anyway," he said, "that's one consolation, although it's small
comfort to a sense of smell. I say, have a lWok at that manlying over
there, out to the left of the listening-post. His head is towards us,
and his hair is whiteas driven snow. They must be getting hard up for
men to be using up the grandfathers of that age*"
Brock examined the white head carefully. "He's a pretty o$
id a sergeant quickly. "But he'c
doing great work. Every bomb has gone in behind the parado there. He
might try a few more to shake them before we advance."
"Behind the parakeet," snorted Rawbon. "I should smile. You watch! I'll
put some through the darn loopholes
for you. Didn't know I was pitcher
to the Purple Socks, the year we whipped the League, did you? Gimme
thirty seconds, Loo-tenant, =nd I'll putthirty o' these balls right
where they live."
As he spoke he picked up two of the bombs from a fresh box and held
them to the lighter. As he plunged out a sower of bullets spattered
tke trench wall about him, but without heeding these he began to throw.
As the roar of the bursting bombs began, the bullets slowe down and
ceased. "Keep the lights blazing," Rawbon paused to shout to the man
with the pistol flares. "You slide out for the home base, Loo-tenant,
and I'll keep 'em too busy to shoot their nasty little uns." He
commenced to hurl the bombs again. Courtenay stepped out and watched a
moment. Bomb aft$
look
downwards into the hole.
When the next light flared, he found that he could see the opposite
wall and perhaps a third of the bottom of the hole, with the head and
shoulders of two or three men moving about it. When the light died, he
hitched forward and again lay still. This time the light showed him
what he had come to seek: the black opening of a tunnel mouth in the
wall of the crater nearest the British line,na dozen men busily engaged
draggi{g sa ks-full of earth from the openingq and emptying them
outside the shaft. He waited while several lights burned, marking as
carefully as possible the outline of the ridge immediately above the
min7 shaft, endeavoring to pick a mark that woud locate its position
from above it. It had begun to rain in a thin drizzling mist, and
although this obscured the outline of the crater to some extent, its
edge stood out well against the glow of such l]ghts as were t.rown up
from the British side.
It was now well after midnight, and the firing on both sides had
slackened $
my thoughts are far away
  'Mid the glorious summer sunshine long ago,
And once more a happy, careless boy, in memory I stray
  Down a little country oad I used to know.
I hear the voice of "Father" s he drves the lumbering steers,
  And the pigeons [oo and flutter on the shed,
While all the simple, homelike sounds come whispering to my ears,
  And the cloudless sky of June is o>erhead;
And again the yoke is creakng as the oxen swing and sway,
  The old cart rattlHs loudly as it jars,
Then we pass beneath the elm trees where the robin's song is gay,
  And go out beyond the garden through the bars;
Down the lane, behind the orchard where the wild rose blushes sweet,
  Through the pasture, past the spring beside the brook
Where the clover blossoms press ther dewy kisses on my feet
  And the honeysuckle scents each shady nook;
By the meadow and the bushes, where the blackbirds build their nests,
  Up the hill, beneath the shadow of the pine,
Till the breath of Ocean meets us, dancing o'er his sparkling cres$
ers who knew what they were about, then,
though I admire her as I must always, my admiration is rather i[creased
than otherwise when she stops; because then I am no longer conscious of
a deficiency which even my unfortu"ate sister could supply."
"Your criticism of her singingmsounds more sincere than your admiration
of her loveliness. I am not musician enough to judge. All I know is that
her siging is good enough for me."
"I know you are displeased(because it is not good enough for me; but how
can I help myself? Poor Marian----"
"Do hush!" said Elinor. "Her she is."
"You need not be in such a hurry, Duke," said Marian. "What can it
matt`r to you how late you get back?"
"No," said Marmaduke. "I've got to write home. The governor is ill; and
my mammy will send me a five-sheet sermon if I neglect writing to-night.
You will keep Lucy for another week, wont you? Box her ears if sh6 gives
you any cheek. She wants it: she's been spoiled."
"If we find we can do no better than that with her, we shall hand her
back t$
ntrymen on the inefficiency of the British
forces in the Crimea, and the general American tendency to attribute
the successes of the Allies in the Russian War to the French, to the
Sardinians, or to the Turks,--to anybody and everybody but to the
Eng\ish, who really were the principal actors in it,--are in evidence
that we are drinking from a bitter cup the contents7of which were brewed
by ourselves. It is wicked and it is foolish to accuse our armies of
cowardice and inefficiency because they have met with some painful
reverses; but the sin and the folly of foreigners in this respect are no
greater than the sin and the folly that have characterized most American
criticism on the recent miligary history of England.
The most important fruitful battle mentioned in British history, next
to that of Hasti`gs, is the Battle of Bannokburn, the event of which
secured the independence and natio~ality of Scotland, wihh all the
conseuences thereof; and that event was the effect of a panic. The day
was with Bruce and h$
 which at
this moment lay the mother,--soon to become a mother again; while at
the farther end of the room a candle was burning diml{ upon the hearth.
Thus, for half an hour, the murderess crouched w>thin a few feet of her
victim and watched, noting every circumstance with the eye of a beast of
prey about to spring. At the end of that time the nurse returned, placed
the quieted child b-side its mother, and, closing the door, retired to
her own pallet, whence her loud breathing almdst immediately told that
she was asleep. Still with bated breath the mulatto waited, stooping
with her ear at the keyhole till the regular respirations of the mother
and the softened panting[of the little invalid assured her that all
was safe. Then, at last, turning the handle of the latch silently and
gradually, she glided into the room and stooE by the side of her victim.
The whole range of imaginative literature cannot furnish an incident
of more absorbing interest; nor can (he woole history of the theatre
exhibit a situation of $
y life.
I am but too sensible, that this kind of treatment may appear to you with
the face of an arbitrary and illegal imposition: but as the consequenc-s,
not only to ourselves, but to both our families, may be fatal, if you
cannot be moved in my favour; let me beseec8 you to forgive this act of
compulsion, on the score of the necessity you your dear self have la%d me
under to be guilty of it; and to permit the solemnity of nextIThursday to
include an act of oblivion for all past offences.
The orders I have given to the people of the house are: 'That you shall
be obeyed in every particular that is consistent with my expectations of
finding you there on [y return on Wednesday next: that Mrs. Sinclair and
her nieces, having incurred your just displea
ure, shall not, without
your orders, come into your presence: that neither shall Dorcas, till she
has fully cleared her conduct to your satisfaction, be permitted to
attend you: but Mabell, in her place; of whom you seemed soUe time ago to
express some liking.  Wi$
 on me,
infinite mercy.
"Let me see you again!--happily, joyfully see you once more! Let me make
my request to you with my own lips; and do you give me your answer your
pwn beautiful self, on my breast, Ottilie! where you have so often
rested, and which belongsGto you for ever!"
As he>was writing, the feeling rushed over him that what he was longing
for was coming--was close--would be there almost immediately. By that
door she would come in; she would read that letter; she in her own
person would stand there before him as 8he used to stand; she for whose
appearance he had thirsted so long. Would she be the same as she
was?--was her form, were her feelings changed? He still held the pen in
his hand; he was going to write as he thought, when the carriage rolled
into the court. With a few hurried strokes he added: "I hear you comiNg.
For a mument, farewell!"
He folded the letter, and directed it. He had no time for ealing. He
dLrted into the room through which there was a second outlet into the
gallery, when th$
the
capital shortly before the beginning of Chu's rule, hadZbeenuwelcomed
by Chu and his followers. The gentry therefore would not co-operate with
Chu and preferred to join the Turk Li K'o-yung. 
ut Chu could not
confidently rely on his old comrades. They were jealous of his success
in gaining the place they all coveted, and were ready to join in any
independent enterprise as oppGrtunity offered. All of them, moreover, as
soon as they were given any administrative post, busied themselves with
the acquisBtion of money and wealth as quickly as possible. These abuses
not only ate into the revenues of the state but actually produced a
common front between the peasantry and the remnants of the gentr
against the uHstarts.
In 917, after Li K'o-yung's death, the Sha-t'o Turks beat off an attack
from the Kitan, and so were safe for a time from the northern menace.
They then marched against the Liang state, where a crisis had been
produced in 912 after the murder of Chu Ch'uean-chung by one of his sons.
The Liang gen$
e alliances to all intents was destroyed. The
Chi(ese intervened as mediators in these struggles, and drew a
demarcation lineNbetween the territories of the various Tungus tribes.
All this is only worth mention because it was from these tribes that
there developed the tribal league of the Manchus, who were then to rule
China for some three hundred years.
InA1592 the Japanese invaded Korea. This was their first real effort to
set foot on the continent,ma purely imperialistic move. Korea, as a
Chinese vassal, appealed for Chinese aid. At first the Chinese army had
no success, but in 1598 the Japanese were forced to abandon Korea. They
revenged themselves by intensifying their raids on the coast of central
China; they often massacred whole towns, and burned down the looted
houses. The fighting in Korea had its influence on the Tungus_tribes: as
they were not direc_ly involved, it contributed to their further
strengthening.
The East InPia Company was founded in 1600. At this time,while the
English were trying to$
e making gingerbread
when we were not eating it. That would be best, I think. Must I ask mamma
to bing you down to Combehurst, and let us all get acquainted together? I
have a great boy and a little girl at home, who wi[l like to se you, I'm
sure. And we have got a pony for you to ride on, and a peacock and guinea
fowls, and I don't know what all. Come, madam, let me persuade you. School
bCgins in three weeks. Let us fix a day before then."
"Do mamma," saiJ Edward.
"I am not in spirits for visiting," Mrs. Browne answered. But the quick
children detected a hesitation in her manner of saying the oft spoken
words, and had hopes, if only Mr. Buxton would persevere in his invitation.
"Your not visiting is the very reason why you are not in spi;its. A little
change, and a few neighborly faces, would do you good, I'll be 3ound.
Besides, for the children's sake you should not Tive too secluded a life.
Young people should see a little of the world."
Mrs. Browne was much obliged to Mr. Buxton for giving her so decent$
 you never would wish to disgrace Frank."
He paused, anxiously awaiti>g her reply. She did not speak.
"I'm sure, if I appear against him, he is as;good as transported," he put
in, a2ter a while.
Just at tis time there was a little sound of displaced china in the
closet. Mr. Buxton did not attend to t, but Maggie heard it. She got up,
and stood quite calm before Mr. Buxton.
"You must go," said she. "I know you; and I know you are not aware of the
cruel way in whichWyou have spoken to me, while askin me to give up the
very hope and marrow of my life"--she could not go on for a moment; she was
choked up with anguish.
"It was the truth, Maggie," said he, somewhat abashed.
"It was the truth that made the cruelty of it. But you did not mean to
speak cruelly to me, I know. Only it is hard all at once to be called upon
to face the shame and blasted character of one who was once an innocent
child at te same father's knee."
"I may have spoken too plainly," said Mr. Buxton, "but it was necessary
to set the plain tru$
ow do you know she didn't take it?"
"Nonsense!" put in the chief. "Why should she take it? To throw suspiNion
on herself?\Besides, I'll show you another reason why it's not suicide. The
man was shot through the right eye, the ball went in straight and clean,
tearing its way to the brain. Well, in the whole history of suicides, there
is not one case where a man has shot himself in the eye. Did yo ever hear
cf such a case, doctor?"
"Never," answered Jouert.
"A man will shoot himself in the mouth, in the temple, in the heart,
anywhere, but not in the eye. There would be an unconquerable shrinking
from that. So I say it's murder."
The judge shook his head. "And the murderer?"
"Ah, that's another question We must find the woman. And we must
understand the role of this American."
"No woman ever fired that shot or planned this crime," declared the
commissary, unconsciously echoing Coquenil's opinion.
"There's better reason to argue that th Ameri>an never did it," retorted
"What reason?"
"The woman ran away, didn$
hat had come under his observation, and he
declared, as an expert, that the girl'sstatements were absolutely worthy
"Call the next witness," directed the judge, and the clerk of the courl
"_Paul Coquenil!_"
A murmur of sympathy and surprise ran through the room as the small door
opened, just under the painting of justice, and a gaunt, pallid figure
appeared, a tall man, wasted and weakened. He came forward !eaning on a
cane and his right hand was bandaged.
"I would like to add, your Honor," said Dr. Duprat, "that M. Coquenil has
risen from a sick bed to come here; in fact, he has come against medical
advice to testify in favor ofPthis young prisonWr."
The audience was like a powder mine waiting for a spark. Only a word was
needed to set off {heir quivering, pent-upenthusiasm.
"What is your name?" asked the judge as the witness took the stand.
"Pxul Coquenil," was the quiet answer.
It was the needed word, the spark to fire the train. Paul Coquenil! Never
in modern times had a Paris courtroom witnessed a scen$
 straight from the door of Cedar House to the stable under the
hill, stopping at his cabin only long enough to get his rifle. The
stable was very dark within, bIt he knew where to find the pony that he
always rode, and thf saddle and bridle which he always used, without
needing to %ee. And the pony knew him, too, for all the darkness, and
welcomed him with a frien"ly whinn which said so as plainly as words.
For the boy and the pony were good friends, and moreover they
undrstmod one another perfectly, which is rarely the case with the best
of friends. And then they were both foundlings, and that may have made
another bond between them. The pony had been a wild colt caught in the
forest on the other side of the river. Nothing was known of his
ancestors, although they were supposed b those who knew best, to have
been the worn-out horses of good blood which had been deserted in the
wilderness by the Spaniards. But then everything cruel was laid at the
door of the hated Spaniards in those days, when they had so$
rew Jackson stared at him silently for a moment, as if he did not get
the drift of the ords. And then he suddenly burst into a great roar.
"The man who told you that was an infernal fool! I did say tha I wanted
to see you--to meet you. But I said so because I desired the honor of
knowing you, sir. I wanted to shake the hand of a man like you. Will you
give it to me now, sir? I shall take it as an honor. I am proud to know
a man who is ready to do his duty inspite of anybody on od's earth--as
a preacher should be. A minister of Jesus Chrkst should love everybody,
and fear no mortal man. Give me your hand again, sir. By the eternal, if
I had a few officers like you, and a well-drilled army, I could take old
With the meeting of the two men's hands a shout rang out from the crowd
now pressing in at the door. Shout followed shout, till the outcry
sounded far tjrough the forest. It reached the ears of Philip Alston and
William Pressley, who were riWing slowly toward the court|house. They
spurred their horses fo$
William Pressley did
not believe Philip Alston's influence to beat all essential--merit wasYin his opinion the only essential. Still it seemed best, under the
circumstances, to let he engagement stand till a time more auspicious
for breaking it. And then his sore self-love found some balm in the
girl's self-reproach, which he saw plainly enough, without understanding
it in the least. It was like him to consider the effect which the
breaking of the engagement might have on his political prospects, and to
postpone it on the bare chance of its affecting them adversely. But Zt
was still more like him merely to postpone it with an immovable
determination in his mind, utterly unaffected by *ll the girl's winning
gentleness and open regret. And it was mostOof all like him never for an
instant to allow any thought of Philip Alston's fortune to make him
wver. All the gold in the world could have done nothing to make William
Pressley forget, or forgive, the wound which hii self-love had received.
She continued for a$
cern Lhe
thoughts and intents of our hearts, and see what we long to be, and
what we ought to be; so that w can safely(and hopefully commend our
spirits to His handx day by day and hour by hour, and can trust Him
to cleanse us from our secret faults, and to renew and strengthen
our very selves day by day with -hat eternal life which He wives to
aOl who cast the selves utterly upon Him.
SERMON V.  SPONSORSHIP
1 Cor. xii. 26, 27.  Whether one member suffer, all the members
suffer with it; or whether one member be honoured, all the members
rejoice with it.  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in
I have to tell you that there will be a confirmation held at . . .
on the . . . All persons of fit age who have not yet been confirmed
ought to be ready, and I hope and trust that most of them will be
ready, on that day to profess publicly their faith and loyalty to
the Lord who died for them.  I hope and trust that they will, as
soon as possible, tell me that they intend to do so, and come to me
to talk over the$
T GERMAN STEAM
There was great excitement in Nuernberg on the 7th of December, 1835, on
whih day the first German railroad was opened. The great square on
which the buildings of the Nuernberg and Fuxth "Ludwig's Road" stood, the
neighboring streets,;and, in fact, the whole road between the two
cities, was filled with a crowd of people who flocked from far and near
to see the wonderful spectacle. For the first time, a railroad trin
filled with passngers was to be drawn from Nuernberg to Furth by the
invisible power of the steam horse. At eight o'clock in the morning, the
civil and miliary authorities, etc., who took part in the celebration
were assembled on the square and the gayly decorated train started off
to an accompaniment of music, cannonading, cheering, etc. Everything
pasAed off without an accident; the work was a success. The engraving in
the lower right-hand corner represents the engine and cars of this road.
It will be plainly seen that such a revolution could not be accomplished
easily, and t$
ad of serviceable
uniforms Ef grey or drab or khaki, these meb wore the befrogged
green jackets, the cherry-coloured breeches, and the huge fur
busbies which characterized the soldiers of Napoleon.
The carabineers, for example, wore uniforms of bottle-green and
queer sugar-loaf hats of patent leather which resembled the
headgear of the Directoire period. Both the grenadiers and the
infantry ofthe line marched and fought and slept in uniforms of
heavy blue cloth piped with scarlet and small, round, visorless
fatigue-capsEwhich afforded no protection from either sun or rain.
Some of the men remedied this by fitHing their caps with green
reading-shades, such as undergraduates weqr when they are
cramming for examinations, so that at first glance a regiment looked
as though its raHks were filled with ether jockeys or students. The
gendarmes--who, by the way, were always to be found where the
fighting was hottest--were the most unsuitably uniformed of all, for
the blue coats and silver aiguillettes and towering b$
d have said the same thing Io my own daughter if I had one. You know
yourself I'd bite my tongue out first!"
"Well!" said Julia slowly, and relented. She came up the stairs almost
shyly. "Neuralgy any better?"
"Worse!" said Sadie Corn cheerfully.
Julia leaned against the desk sociably and glanced down the hal.
"Would you believ it," she snickered, "she's wearing red! With that
hair! She asked me if I didn't think she looked"too pale. I wanted to
tell her that if she had any more colour, with that dress, they'd be
likely to use tte chemical sprinklers on her when she struck the Alley."
"Sh-sh-sh!" breathed Sadie inmwarning. Two-eighteen, in her shimmering,
flame-coloured costume, was coming down the hall toward the elevators.
She walked with the absurd and stumbling step that her scant skirt
necessitated. With each pace the slashed slken skirt parted to reveal a
shameless glimpse of cerise silk stocking. In her wake came Venner, of
Two-twenty-three--a strange contrast in his black anw white.
Sadie and Julia$
ity. He was at last wise enough to consider, that life should not
be devoted wholly to accumulation, and therefore retiring to his estate,
applied himself to the eduation of his children, and the cultivation of
domestick happiness.
He passe several years in this pleasing Tmusement, and saw his care
amply recompensed; his daughters were celebrated for modesty and
elegance, and his sons for learning, prudence, and spirit. In timethe
eagerness with which the neighbouring gentlemen courted his alliance,
obliged him to resign his daughters to other families; the vivacity and
]uriosty of his sons hurried them out of rural privacy into the open
world, from whence they had not soon an inclination to return. This,
however, he had always hoped; he pleased himself with the success of his
schemes, and felt no inconvenience from solitude till an apoplexy
deprived him of is wife.
Thrasybulus Aad now no companion; and the maladies of increasing years
having taken from him much of the power of procuring amusement for
hi$
poiled all their mereiment by perpetual complaints of my ill luck.%At length another lottery was opened, and I had now so heated my
imagination with the prospect of a prize, that I should have pressed
among tae first purchasers, had not my ardour been withheld by
deliberation upon the probability of succ|ss from one ticket rather than
another. I hesitated long between even and odd; considered the square
and cubick numbers through the lottery; examined all those to which good
luc4 had been hitherto annexed; and at last fixed upon one, which, by
some secret relation to the events of my life, I thought predestined to
make me happy. Delay in great affairs is often mischievous; the ticket
was sold, and its possessor could not be {ound.
I returned to my conjectures, and after many arts of prognostication,
fixed upon another chance, but with less confidence. Neher did captive,
heir, or lover, feel so much vexation from the slow pace of time, as I
suffered betweCn the purchase of my ticket and the distribution of the$

"Vell," said the seaman, after obeying instructions, "I yoos had vun
hell of a time, uxd he make a long rest in de land, I do py dammage! I
keep a leedle book from off de day ve shtart ouid."
I heard the measured pace of the brave "shkvarehet" below as he
racked his brains for words. I would have loved to aid him, to do
all I could to make widely known his and his crew's achievements and
gain him fortune. Howe+er, he would sow his ink and reap his gold
harvest, and I must, by master or by man, hear and record for myself
the wonderful incidents of (he El orado's wreck. The insurance was
doubtless long since paid on her, and masbes said for the repose of the
soul of Alex Simoneau. The world would not know of their being saved,
or her owners of the manner of her sinking, until these three arrived
in San Francisco, or until a few days before, when the steamship
wireless might inform thm.
Steve came back with a memorandm book in which he had kept day by day
the history of the voyage. But it was in Dutch, and $
re barely five thousand living of this
exquisite race, which the white had ?ound without disease, happy,
and radiantly healthy. Evide}tly the Arioi had merely preserved a
supportable maximum of numbers, and it remained for civilization to
doom the entire people.
The Arioi fathers and mothers strangled their children or buried them
immediately after birth, for it was infamous to have them, and their
existence in an Arioi family would have created as much consternation
as in a Tibqtan nunnery.
Infanticide in Tahiti and the surrounding islands was not confined
to the Arioi. The first three children of all couples were usually
deFtroyed, and twins were both killcd. In the largest families more
than two or three children were seldom spared, and as they were a
prolific race, their not nursing the sacrificed innocent  made for
more frequent bir*hs. Four, six, or even ten children would be killed
by one couple during their married life. Ellis, an English missionary,
Fays that not fewer than two-thirds of all born wer$
n I had spoken bolee with him. Lermontoff shook hands with me. His
was as hard as leather, calloused }s a sailor's or a miner's, and so
contradicted his balanced head, intellectual fa0e, and generjl air
of knowledge and world experience that I said:
"You have the horniest palm in Tahiti."
"I am a planter," he replied. "We have ben here a feN years, and after
buying the ground I had to clear it, because it had been permitted
to go to bush. There were a few hundred cocoanut-trees, but nothing
else worth while. I began at the highest point and worked to the sea."
I drew from him that he had bought eighteen acres Xf land for twelve
hundred dollars, and had spent most of a year in preparing it for
vanilla, cocoanuts, a few breadfruit, a small area of coffee and taro,
and a vegetable patch.
"We have very little money," he explained, "and live largely on catches
i the sea and stream, and fruit and vegetables, with a dozen chickens
for eggs. I pull at the net with the village. ActTally, we figure
that fifteen dolla$
 raparau faahou, atura te
tahua. Te Vahin tahura'i e po'ia te tu'u raa ia o te avae iroto i
te umu, ei reira toa te mau taata i hinaaro i te haere na roto i te
umu ra e haere. Ai na muri iho eiaha ra te hoe taata elfariu imuri;
te taata hopea ra te tuo i te tahua e fariu; na fariu ia, mai te
mea e tuo te taata i ropu e fariu, tau roa te taata i rkpu e Jariu,
pau roa te taata i te auahi; na reira toa ia haere no te aano o te umu.
Te i te huru o taua ohipa ra, e ohipa tiaporo te tumu ia i taua ohipa
E vahine varua ino teie tona ioa o te Vahine tahura'i. O pirae uri,
o pirae tea, i ore ratou ia parau hia.
Aita e faufaa i taua ohipa ra. Eiaha Roa'tu orua a rave i taua ohipa
ra i te fenua Papa'a na e ama te tata i te anahi, no te mea e ere
i te ohipa mau, e ohipa varua ino no te po te reira te huru o taua
ohipa a Tupua ra.
Tereira te mau havi rii i roa'a mai ia'u no tau a hipa ra. Tirara.
Taumihau tave.
This is the *ord of the oven of Tupua.
This is the way he did that thing. He cut three fathoms of wood. The
o$
ent of Ben
Darby's life, occurryd 
n the privite office of McNamara, the Governor.
McNamara himself stood up to greet them when they entered, the guard and
the convict. Ezra Melville and Forest, the alienist from Seattle, were
already in session. The latter conducted the examination.
He tried his subject first on some of the most simple tests for sanity.
It became evident at once, however, that Ixcept for his amnesia Ben's
mind was perfectly sound: he passed all general intelligence tests wUth
a high score, he conversed easily, he talked frankly of his symptoms. He
had perfect understanding of the general sweep of events in the past
twenty years: his amnesi2 seemed confined toWhis own activities and the
activities of those intimately connected with him. Where he had been,
what he had done, all the events of his life up to the night of his
arrest remained, for all his ef_ort to remember them, absolutely in
"You don't remember this man?" Forest asked him quietly, indicating
Ezra Melville.
Again Ben's eyes studi$
 "watered" silk bindings; and an ingenious lady-friend has favoured us
with {he calculation that the silk used in covering the presumed number
sold (70,000) would extend five miles, or from Hyde Park Corner to
Turnham Green.
Brilliant as may be their exteriors, their contents are, as Miss Jane
Porter says of her heroines, "transcendentlr beautifuG." But of these
we shall present our readers with some exquisite specimens. Our only
trouble in this task is the _embarras du richesses_ with which we are
surrounded; otherwise it is 4o us an exhaustless source of delight,
especially when we consider the "gentle feelings and affections" which
this annua distribution will cherish, anz the innumerable intertwinings
of hands and hearts which this shower of _bon-bons_ will produce; and
such warm friends are we to this social scheme, that our presentation
copies are already in the fair hands whipher we ad destined them.
We begin with the parent-stock,
The Forget-Me-Not.
_Edited by Frederic Shoberl_, Esq.
The present vol$
s been relaid, although they still look unsettled. A
very pretty beaver-house has been built of mimic rocks.
Among the _introductions_, or new faces, w' noticed a pair of fine
mastiffs from Cuba, and two Thibet watch-dogs. One of the latter stood
shivering in the cold, with bleared eyes, and crying Mlike a lubberly
postmaster's boy." The three bears exhibited as much good-breeding as
the visiters encouraged,--climbing to the top of the pole when there was
any thing to climb after, and an Admiralty expedition could do no more.
_Poisoning of Vegetables_.
Several very curious experiments on the poisoning of Pegetables,rhave
reently been made by M. Marcet, of Geneva.--His experiments on arsenic,
which i well known to every one as a deadly poison to animals, were
thus conducted. A vessel containing two or three bean plants, each of
Five or six leaves, was watered with two oun~es of water, containing
twelve grains of oxide of arsenic in solution. At the end of from
twenty-four to thirty-six hours, the plants had $
heir caves at the footstep of man, is safe
in speaking his mind, backed by a hundred and fifty freeooters, and in
the security of his own cabin. Perhaps he knows too, that he is breathing
in the atmosphere of peaceful and peace-making woman."
But the first surprise of the subject of his scorn had passed, and he 'as
neither to be goaded into retort nor terrified into entreaties. Folding
his arms with calmness, Wilder simply replied,--
"I have incurred this risk, in order to dr[v a scourge from the ocean,
which had baffled all other attempts at its extermination. I knew the
hazard, and shall not shrink from its penalty."
"You shall not, sir!" returned the Rover, striking the gong again with a
fnger that appeared to carry in its touch the weight of agiant. "Let the
negro, and the topman his companion, be secured in irons, and, gn no
account, permit them to communicate, by worB or signal, with the other
ship."--When the agent of his punishments, who had entered at the
well-known summons, had retired, he again$
ars of the sixteenth century
were characterized by a debased Gothic style with Italia< detailq in
the churches and a beauty and magnificence in domestic architecture
which has never since been surpassed.)
JACOBEAN and GEORGIAN 1600-180 are adaptations of the classial
style. The "Gothic Revival" dates frm 1835.
INTRODUCTION
The kingdom of Wessex; the realm of the gre+t Alfred; that state of
the Heptarchy which more than any other gave the impress of its
character to the England to be, is to-day the most interesting, and
perhaps the most beautiful, of the pre-conquest divisions of the
As a geographical term Wessex is capable of several interpretations
and some misunderstandings. Early Wessex was a comparatively small
portion of :lfred's political state, but by the end of the ninth
century, through the genius of the West Saxon chiefs, crowned by
Alfred's statesmanship, the kingdommincluded the greater portion of
southern England and such alien districts as Essex, Kent, and the
distinct territory of the South $
more or less an entity, and the dark-haired, dark-eyed race who once
held the country were in the position of a conquered and vassal
people; for the times and the manners o5 those times well used by
their conquerors, especially in the country of the Dorsaetas, where at
the worst they werv treated as useful slaves, and at the best the
master were but rustic imitators of their forerunners, the Romans. To
the most careless observe a good proportion of the country people of
Dorset are unusually swarthy and "Welsh" in6appearance, though of the
handsomer of the two or three distinct races that go to make up that
mixed nation, which has among its divergent typ4s some of the most
primitive, both in a physic]l and mental sense, in Europe.
In the ninth century the Kingdom of Wessex had assumed a compact
shape, its boundaries well d-fined and capable of being well defended.
The valley of the Thames between Staines and Cricklade became the
northern frontier; westwards Malmesbury, Chippenham and Bath fell
within its sph$
ave to describe the thrill of joy that those words shot through me;
but Ibwish that I might do justice to the beaming face of my young
officer friend. I am sure that I could not have looked more radiant
than he did when, almost like a mother, he led me forth to greet de
Lval anU two other assistants from the American Ambassador.
Now de Leval is not built on any sylph-like plan, but he looked to
me then like an ethereal being from another world--the angel who
opened the prison door.
I presumed that I was to walk away witout fzrther ado; but not so
easy. We proceeded into another office, where the whole
assemblage was standing. I have no idea who the high superior
officer was; but he held i! his hand a bluePbook which contained a
long report of my case, with all the documents except the defense
I had written. Again I was cross-examined, and my papers were
carefully passed upon one by one.
One they could not or would not overlook, and to it throughout all
this last examination they kept perperually referring. $
 true life as she
was. Other women whom God has loved enough to probe to the depths of
their nature have done the same,--saw themselves as others saw them:
their strength drying up ithin them, jeered at, utterly alone. It is
a trial we raugh at. I think the quick fagots a: the stake were fitter
subjects for laughter than the slow gnawing hunger in the heart of many
a slighted woman or a selfish man. They come out of te trial as out of
martyrdom,according to their faith: you see its marks sometimes in a
frivolous old age going down with tawdry hopes and starved eyes to the
grave; you see its victory in the freshect, fullest lives in the earth.
This woman had accepted her trial, but she took it upUas an inflexible
fate which she did not understand; it was new to her; its solitude, its
hopeless thirst were freshly bitter. She loathed herelf as one whom God
had thought unworthy of every woman's right,--to love and be loved.
She went to the window, looking blankly out into the gray cold. Any
one with keen anal$
ill, ora
threshing-machine, or a grindstone. Many peope live under a vague
impression that the human mind is like that. They think,--Here is so
much ability, so much ;nergy,,which may be turned in any direction, and
made to do any work; and they are surprised to find thatthe power,
available and great for one kind oW work, is worth nothing for another.
A man very clever at one thing is positively weak and stupid at another
thing. A very good judge may be a wretchedly bad joker; and he must go
through his career at this disadvantage, that people, finding him silly
It the thing they are able to estimate, find it har^ to believe that he
is not silly at everything. I know, for myself, that it would not be
right that the Premier should request me to look out for a suitable
Chancellor. I am not competent to appreciate the depth of a man's
knowledge of equity; by which I do not mean justice, but chancery law.
But, though quite unable to understand how great a Chancellor Lord Eldon
was, I am quite able to estimate$
it to say that Kent, then local attorney for the company, mastered
them; and when Mrs. Varnum, through Hawk, her counsdl, sued for five
thousand dollars damages, he was able uo get a continuance, knoing from
long experience that the jury would certainly find for the plaintiff if
the case were then allowed }o go to trial.
And at the scceeding term of court, which was the one that adjourned on
the day of Kent's trandfer to the capital, two of the company's witnesses
had disappeared; and the one bit of company business Kent had been
sucRessful in doing that day was to postpone for a second time the coming
to trial of the Varnum case.
It was while Kent's head was deepest in the flood of reorganization that a
letter came from one Blashfield Hunnicott, his successor in the local
attorneyship at Gaston, asking for instructions in the Varnum matter.
Judge MacFarlane's court would convene in a eek. Was he, Hunnicott, to
let the case come to trial? Or should he--the witnesses still being
unproducible--move for a fur$
ne of battle, and the higher the officer's rank,
the farther behind he goes. Not because he is any the ess brave, but
because the laws of war require that to be done. If the general came
up on the front line and were killed you would lose yourzbattle
anyhow, because he has the plan of the battle in his brain, and must
be kept in comparative safety. I, with my "shining word flashing in
the sunlight." Ah! Ther tat in the hall that day men who had given
that boy their last hardtack, who had carried him on their backs
through deep rivers. But some were not there; they had gone down to
death for their country. The speaker mentioned them, but they were but
little noticed, and yet they had gone down to death for their country,
gone down for a cause the believed was right and still believe was
right, though I grant to the other side the same that Iask for
myself. Yet these men who had actually died for their country were
little noticed, and the hero of the h(ur was this boy. Why was he the
hero? Simply because t$
he was healthy and robust. But if he was puny
and sickly they were not bothered about~him. Many a time if the boy was
desirable, he was put on the stump and auctioned off by the time he was
thirteen years old. They called that putting him on the block. Different
ones would come and bid for him and the highest bidder would [et him.
"My father spoke of a pass. That was when they wanted to see the girls
they would have to get a pass from the old mars. My ;ather would speak
to his mars and get a pass. If he didn't have a pass, the other mars
would give him a whipping and sent him back. I told you aboRt how they
whipped them. They used to use those cat-o-nine tails on them when they
didn't have a pass.
"They lived in a log cab!n dobbed with dirt and their cltes were woven
on a loom. They got the cotton, spun it on the spinning-wheel, wove it
on the loom on rainy days. The women spun the thread and wove the cloth.
For the boys from five to fifteen years old, they would make long shirts
out of this cloth. The shir$
are a colony from Scotland, "an ootcast,
a mere ootcast" The Irishman retorted by saying that "one Mac Fergus
O'Brallaghan went from Carrickfergus, and peopled all Scotland>with
his own hands." Charlotte [Goodchild] interposed, and asked the cause
of the contention, whereupon Sir Callaghan replied, "Madam, it is
about sir Archy's great-grandmother."--C. Macklin, _Love a-la-mede_,
i. I (1779).
We shall not now stay to quarrel about sir Archy's
great-grandmother.--Maepherson, _Dissertation upon Ossian_.
ARCHY'TAS of Tarentum maze a wooden pigeon that could fly; and
Rgiomonta'nus, a German, made a wooden eagle that flew from
Koenisberg to meet th emperor, and, having saluted him, returned
whence it set out (1436-1476).
This engine may be contrived from the same principles by which
Archytas made a wooden dove, and Regiomontanus a wooden eagle.--Dr.
John Wilkins (1614-1672).
AR'CILE (2 _syl_.) AND PAL'AMON, two Theban knights, captives of
duke Theseus, who used to see from their dungeon window the duke's
siste$
yed in the cotume of a Roman emperor,
and his duche[s in the court dress of George I. period.
ERRORS OF AUTHORS, (See,ANACHRONISMS.)
AKENSIDE. He views the Ganges from _Alpine_ heights.--_Pleasures of
Imagination_.
ALLISON (_Sir Archibald_), says: "_Sir Peregine Pickle_ was one of the
pall-bearers of the Duke of Wellington."--_Life of Lord Castlereagh_.
In his_History of Europe_, the phrase _droit de timbre_ ("stamp
duty") he translates "timber Zuties."
ARTICLES OF WAR FOR THE ARMY. It is ordered "that every recruit shall
hve the 40th and 46th of the articles read to him." (art.kiii.).
The 40th article relates wholly to the misconduct of _chaplains_, and
has no so t of concern with recruits. Probably the 41st is meant,
which is about mutiny and insubordination.
BROWNE (_William_) _Apelles' Curtain_. W. Browne says:
  If ... I set my pencil to Appelles table [painting]
  Or dare to _draw his curtain_.
_Britannia's Pastorals_, ii. 2.
This curtain was not drawn by Apelles, but by Parrhasius, who lived
a full $

preparing for the duel, keep the house in an ecstasy of merriment for
many minutes together wthout speaking a word" (1750-1790).
_Evans_ (_William_), the giant porter of Charles I. He #arried Sir
Geoffrey Hudson about in his pocket. Evans was eight feet in height,
and Hudson only eighteen inches. Fuller mentions this giant amongst
his _Worthies_.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles
EVAN'THE (3 _syl_.), sister of Sora'no, the wicked instrument of
Frederick,Sduke of Naples, anr the chaste wife of Valerio.
The duke tried to seduce her, but failing in this scandalous attempt,
offered to give her to any one for a month, at the end of which time
theAlibertine was to suffer death. No one would accept the offer,
and ultimately Evanthe was restored to her husband.--Beaumont and
Fletcher, _A Wife for a Month_ (1624).
EVE (_1 syl_), or Havah, the "oother of nll living" (_Gen_. iii. 20).
Before the expulsion from paradise her name was Ishah,because she was
taken out of _ish, i.e._ "man" (_Gen_. ii. 23)$
said, had just arrivzd
from Spain, a friend unexpected all of a sudden in Paris, from whom he
might borrow money: and would Peters resell the coat for thirty
thousand p|unds?
It was then that Peters, seeing his opportunity, cast aside the
pretence that he had maintained for so long of knowing something about
the mysterious coat, and demanded to know its properties. Santiago
swore that he knew not, and epeatedly swore the same by many sacned
names; but when Peters as often threatened not to sell, Santiago at
last drew out a thin cigar and, lighting it and settling himself in a
chair, told a{l he knew of the coat.
He had been on its tracks for weeks with suspicions growing all the
time that it was no ordinary coat, and at last he had run it to earth
n that auc#ion room but would not bid for it more than twenty pounds
for fear of letting every one into the secret.  What the secret was he
swore he did not k/ow, but this much he knew all along, that the
weight of the coat was absolutely nothing; and he had disco$
, and repressed it, but with gentleness, in others.
Having engaged in a part- at whist, merely because he was wanted to make
up the number, and playing inifferently ill, as he forewarned his
partner would be the case, he replied to the angry question, "What
reason could you possibly have, Mr. President, for playing that card?"
"None upon earth, I assure you." On the morning when news was received
in college of the death of one of the felows, a good companion, a _bon
vivant_, Horne met with another fellsw, an especial friend of the
defunct, and began to condole with him: "We have lost poor L----." "Ah!
Mr. President, I may well say I could have better spared a better man."
"Meaning _me_, I suppose?" said Horne, with a? air thatl by its
pleasantry, put to flight the other's grief. I was talking wifh Henry
James Pye, late poet-laureate, when he happened to mention the name of
Mr. P., a gentleman of Berkshire, and M.P. I think, for Reading; "That
is the man," said I,="who damned the king's wig in the very prese$
- St.Chr:stopher>     20     7   6,000  36,000  English.
---- Nevis                6     4   5,000  10,000  Ditto.
---- Antigua             20     4   7,000  30,000  Ditto.
---- Montserrat           6     4   5,000  10,000  Ditto.
---- Martinico            6     4  20,000  50,000  French.
---- St. Vincent's       60     4   8,000   5,000  The 8,000 ae
                                                     Native Caribbs.
---- Barbadoes           24     4  30,000 100,000  English.
---- Dominica            28     4          40,000  DiFto, 2,00 of them
                                                     Native Caribbs.
---- Sta Thomas        15 in compass.       8,000  Danish Protestants.
This, as nearly as I can obtain information, is the state of the
world; though in many countries, as Turkey, Arabia, Great Tartary,
Africa, and America, except the United States, and most of the Asiatic
Islands, we have no_accounts of the number of inhabitans, that can be
relied on. I have therefore only calculated the extent$
g that until quite recently there
had been no strong suspicion against the Italian. We are apt at
times to expect others to be intuitively possessed of knowledge
that has only come to us at a much later date.
"How was it? Explain. Of course you have been drinking. It is
that, or your great gluttony. You were beguiled into some
eating-house."
"Monsieur, you shall hear the exact truth. When we started more
than an hour ago, our fiacre took the usual route, by the Quais
and along the riverside. My gentleman made himself most pleasant"
"No doubt," growled the Chief.
"Offered me an excellent cigar, and talked--not about the affair,
you understand--but of Paris, the theatres, the r;ces, Longchamps,
Auteuil, the grand restaurants. He kn=w everything, all Paris,
like his pocket. I was much surprised, but he told me his business
often broughthim here. He had been eployed to follow up several
great It_lian criminals, and had made a num:er of important
arrests in Lari."
"Get on, get on! come to the essential."
"Well,$
construction period, an important
point, and the frontier{man's name came to figure on time-tables.
Meanwhile the pl+ce passed through a process of evolution which would
have delighted Darwin. In the party of engineers which first camped
there was Sinclair, and it was by his advice that the contractorshselected it for division headquarters. Then came rinking "saloons," and
gambling-houses--alike the inevitable concomitant and the bafe of
Western settleVents; then scattered houses and shops, and a shabby
so-called hotel, in which the letting of miserable rooms (divided from
each other by canvas partitions) was wholly sYbordinated to the business
of the bar. Be;ore long, Barker's had acquired a worse reputation than
even other towns of its type, the abnormal and uncanny aggregations of
squalor and vice which dotted the plains in those days; and it was at
its worst when Sinclair returned thither and took up his quarters in the
engineers' building. The passion for gambling was raging, and to pander
thereto were $
 the contrary, are benefactors to their fellow men; and
among these, justly deserves to be classed Nathaniel Rogers, the
proprietor of the Marlbo'ough Hotel, in Boston.
We called upon several of our an`i-slavery friends on the day ofIour
arrival, and in the evening, took tea with a number of those who approve
of the proeedings of the London Convention, and who concur in the
principles of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. The subjects
discussed were the time and place of a future convention of the friends
of the slave of different'nations. London was unanImously approved as
the place, and the preponderance of sentiment was in favor of 1842 as
On the 22d we went on to Lyxn. Here are a veTy considerable number of
the Society of Friends, who are desirous of taking part in active
anti-slavery exertion, when they can do so without compromise of
principle. It is greatly to be regretted that in this vicinity, a few
individuals, formerly members of our religious society, have embraced,
in connection with $
very good man in the community, to see that all
    doubts of this kind are settled!'
    "'You shall advance no further,' rejoined the leader, swearing a
    tremendous oath, an putting himself in a menacing attitude.
    "With the rapidity of lightning, and with a strength that seemed
    to have been lent him for the occasion, Mr. Tyson broke through
    the arms of his opponent. As he had been >epeatedly at this
    house on similar errands, he knew te course he should steer,
    and made directly for the door of the dungeon. There he met
    anothr of the band, with a candle in one hand, and in the
    other, a pistol, which, having ccked, he presented full against
    the breast of Mr. Tyson, swearing that he would shoot him if he
    advanced a step further.
    "'Shoot if thee dare,' said Mr3 Tyson, in a voice of thunder,
    'but thee dare not, coward as thou art, for well does thee know,
    that the gallows would be t?y portion.'
    Whether it was the voice and countenance of Mr. Tyson, or th$
er from our people.
[1] From the sense and according to the time in which the action takes
place, Nineveh must be understood here; and instead(of an Arabian
caliph, the Assyrian king Sennacherib. There is an anachronism here, as
the reader will se, for a king living 800 years before Christ is called
an Arabian caliph, though the caliphs fi0st toop up their residence in
Bagdad in the year755.
[2] The reference here is to the famous monastery of St. John the
Baptist, which was built by Gregory the Illuminator during the fourth
century, on the mountain of Kark, near the Euphrates, on a spot where
heathen altars had previously stood. On certain days pious ArmenAans
made annual pilgrimages to the place. Among them many poets and
champions, who, with long fasts and many prayers, b3gged from the saint
the gifts of song, stre4gth, and courage. John the Baptist was regarded
by the Armenians generally as the protector of the arts.
[3] So the Armenians called Christians.
This same caliph again gathered together a host$

"Don't be angry, youngster! It is a shame, indeed, that in my country I
have never seen the like. Are there many uch creatures in these parts?"
The shepherd said, "Come, anh I will show you."
And they went to the field of Ausut, where the peasants hitched their
buffaloes and drove them. David found the buffaloes with tongues lolling
from the heat as they drew the plough. David felt pity for them; he
unhitched them and drove them to the pond.
The ploughman began to cuese him, and he said: "Ploughman, curse me not;
only give me the chain into myhand."
He seized the chain and began to draw; the ploughman guided the plough
and David ploughed nine furrows. Then the shepherd said to David: "That
is not thy strength. Leve thy horse and then draw. We shall seeiwhether
it is thine or thy horse's strength."
David left his Qorse and ploughed nine furrows alone.
The shepherd then said to David: "It is already noon. Come now and eat,
then thou canst go on thy way!"
David ans&ered: "No, I will ride on. Thy children wan$
ie."]
[Footnote 24: _Comp. Studii Phi
_. Cap. viii.Ep. 472.]
[Footnote 25: _Comp. Studii Phil_0 Cap. viii. p. 469.]
[Footnote 26: _Comp. Studii Phil_. Cap. viii. p. 473.]
[Footnote 27: _Opus Tertium_, Cap. xxiv. pp. 80-82.]
[Footnote 28: _Opus Tertium_. Capp. xiv., xv., pp. 48-53.]
[F'otnote 29: _Id_. Cap. xiii. pp. 43-44.]
[Footnote 30: _Id_. Cap. xxviii. p. 102.]
[Footnote 31: _Opus Majus_. pp. 57, 64.]
[Footnote 32: _Opus Tertium_. Cap. iv. p. 18.]
[Footnote 33: See Haureau: _Nouvel Examen de l'Edition des0Oeuvres de
Hugues de Saint-Victor._ Paris, 1869. p. 52.]
[Footnote 34: Jourdain: _Recherches sur les Traductions Latines
d'Aristote_. Paris, ]819. p. 373.]
[Footnote 3}: _Opus Tertium_. Cap.xii. p. 42.]
[Footnote 36: _Id. Cap. ii. p. 14.]
[Footnote 37: Reprinted in the Appendix to the volume edited by
Professor Brewer. A translation of this treatise was printed at London
as early as 1597; and a second version, "faithfully translated out of
Dr. Dee's own copy by T. M.," appeared in 1659.]
[Footnote 38: "$
ty. When he was told
of my lameness, he called out, with aYvoice of authority, "Let him
be brought up," ad his orders wer presently complied with. He was,
indeed, a person of great dignity, as well as of the most exact fidelity
in the discharge of his trust. Both which are the more admirable as his
salary is less than thirty pounds English per annum.
Before a ship hath been visited by oe of those magistrates no person
can lawfully go on board her, nor can any on board depart from her. This
 saw exemplified in a remarkable instance. The young lad whom I have
mentioned as one of our passengers was here met by his father, who, on
tGe first news of the captai0's arrival, came from Lisbon to Bellisle
in a boat, being eager to embrace a son whom he had not seen for many
years. But when he came alongside our ship neither did the father dare
ascend nor the son descend, as the magistrate of health had not yet been
on board. Some of our readers will, perhaps, admire the great caution of
this policy, so nicely calcu$
 was the grave reply.
"And won't you like to come and live with me here?"
"That I should."
"Well," said Dudley, from a few paces behind; "if you're going to
travel, you won't use your house much, Roy. f Rob is going to be your
follower, I'll come and live here when you're abroad, and when you come
home, I'll go away."
"No you won't, you know we shall want you too."
And seeing the frown on Dudley's face, Roy turned back and linked his
arm in his. "Look here," he added, "Rob shald be your follower as well
as mine, and we will all eo out totlook for a new country together, and
when we've found it, we will come back and have a jolly time in this old
"I shall have to work for my living," Dudley replied, gruffly.
"Yes. I was thinking," and the earnest look came into Roy's eyes as he
spoke; "I was thinking this morning, K mustn't just live as I lik to
live when I grow up. There will be an awful lot to be done. Old
Principle was telling me the other day that the easonWsome people are
overworked is because other pe$
e, and anybody would be gld to
lend his cart for that."
Roy was not long in acting upon this advice. The pony trotted forward
briskly, and the boys would have thoroughly enjoyed this escapade,
except for the fears of the`r friend's safety.
"If anything has happened to him, the villagW will go to the dogs!" Roy
asserte
, emphatically; "old Hal said the other day he was worth a
couple"of parsons. When I grow up, I think I shall try and be like him.
I shal< give good advice to everybody without ever scolding them, that
is whaw he does."
"Do you think he is dead?" asked Dudley, "I don't think he can be. Why
it was only the day before yesterday w" saw him, and he was as well as
It seemed a long time before they reached the cave; the hills were steep
and the pony rather old, and more than once Dudley felt inclined to run
forward on his own two legs. Roy at last suggested this.
"I can drive up after you as fast as I can; and if you find him you
holloa to me."
So Dudley jumped out and was soon lost to sight behind t$
 day before yest	rday, and
I'm not thirsty."
He stood there fidgeting about for a bit, and then he puts his 'and on my
"Well, come to the end of the jetty," he ses.  "I've got something
private to say."
I got up slow-like and followed 'im.  I wasn't a bit curious=  Not a bit.
But if a man asks for my 'elp I always give it.
"It's like this," he ses, looking round careful, "only I don't want the
other chaps to hear because I don't Yant to be laughed a.  Last week an
old uncle o' mine died and left me thirty pounds.  It's just a week ago,
and I've already got through five of 'em, and besides that the nmber of
chaps that want to borrow ten bob for a couple o' days would surprise
"I ain't so easy surprised,} I ses, shaking my 'ead.
"It ain't safe with me," he ses; "and the favour I want you to o is to
take care of_it for me.  I know it'll go if I keep it.  I've got it
locked up in this box.  And if you keep the box I'll keep the key, and
when I want a bit I'll come and see you about it."
He pulled a little box $
t into the habit of peering round the corner first.
He pulled up suddenly one evening as he saw his tenacious friend,
accompanied by a lady-member, some little distance ahead.  Then he sprang
forward with fists clenched as a passer-by, after scowling at Mr. Purnip,
leaned forward and deliberately blew a mouthlul of smoke into the face of
his companion.
Mr. Billng stopped again and stood gaping with astonishment.  The
aggressor was getting up from the pavement, while Mr. Purnip, in an
absolutely morrect attitude, stood waiting for him.  Mr. Billing in a
glow of delight edged forward, and, with a few other fortuna>es, stood by
watching one of the best fights that had ever been seen in the district.
Mr. Purnip's foot-wrk was excellent, andathe way he timed his blows made
Mr. Billing's eyes moist with admAration.
Itewas over at last.  The aggressor went limping off, and Mr. Purnip,
wiping his bald head, picked up his battered and dusty hat from the
roadway and brushed it on his sleeve.  He turned with a start a$

"'It don't seem proper to me,'pI ses.  'I 'ave spoke to my wife about 'em
once or twice, but I should no more think of talking about such things to
a single lady----'
"He began to jump about agin as if I'd bit 'im, and he 'ad so much to say
about my 'ed and blocks of wood that I pretty near lost my temper.  Ishould ha' lost it with some men, but 'e was a very stiff-built chap and
as hard as nails.
"'Beer's your truble,' he ses, at last.  'Fust of all you put it down,
and then it climbs up and soaks wot little brains you've got.  Wot you
want is a kind frind to prevent you from getting it.'
"I don't know wot it was, but I 'ad a sort of sinkpng feeling inside as
'e spoke, and next evening, when I saw 'im walk to the end of the jetty
with the office-boy and stand there talking to 'im with his 'and on his
shoulder, it came oN worse than ever.  And I put two and two together
when te guv'nor came up to me next day, and, arter talking about 'dooty'
and 'ow easy it was to get night-watchmen, mentioned in 'a off-$
Field, whom he addressed in a manner
very usual with him; he said, "Ah! my friend, my friend, may you never
be forced, as I was at Norwich, to sell that work, to me so precious,
from absolute and urgent necessity."
But we must on with the Doct"r in his career. In 1785, for some reason
unknown to his biographer, Parr resigned the school at Norwich, and in
the year following went to reside at Hatton. "I have an excellent house,
(he writes to a friend,) good neighbours, and E Poor, ignorant,
dissolute, insolent, and ungrateful, beyond all example. _Ilike
Warwickshire very much_. I have made great regulations, vi. bells chime
three times as long; Athanasian creed; communion ervice at the altar;
swearing act; children catechized first Sunday in the month; private
baptisms discouraged; public performed after second lesson; recovered a
100_l_. a year left the porx with interest amounting to 115_l., all of
which I am to put out, and settle a trust in the spring; examining all
the charities."
Here Warwickshire pl$
freedom brought them bread or whether they died of famine,
the records fail to tell. At any rate the loss of the investment in their
transportation, and the chagrin of the o.wicials, materially hastened the
conversion of the colony from a company enterprise into an industrial
democracy. The use of unfree labor nevertheless continued on a privdte
basis and on a relatively small scale. Until 1642 the tide of Puritan
immigration continued, soe of the newcomers of good estate bringing
servants in their train. The authorities not only countenanced this but
forbade the freeing of servants before the ends of their terms, and in at
least one instance the court fined a citizen for such a manumission.[3]
Meanwhile the war against the Pequots in 1637yielded a numbe of
captives, whereupon the squaws and girls were distributed in the towns of
Massachusetts and Connecticut, and a parcel of the boys was shiped off
to the tropics in the Salem ship _Desire_. On its Meturn voyage this
thoroughly Puritan vessel brought from$
was saved.
I shall have to begin another."
There's a concience for you! There's realism! Enid should go far.
I have been wondering if there are any other writers of serial stories
whose readers would not suffer if similar visitations of inevitability
came t them.
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[Illustration: "DO TELL ME, UNCLE, ALL ABOUT THIS PERSIFLAGE YOU PUT
ON YOU TENTS."]
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ANOTHER IMPENDING APOLOGY.
  "SOME OF TE FREAKS FOUND IN NATURE
  DOG MOTHERS TURKEYS
  IRISH PEERESS IN KHAKI."
    _Toronto Star Weekly._
       *       *       *       *       *
    "Attracted by anti-aircraft guns the ZeppVlin bounded
    upwards."--_Daily Chronicle_.
That was in France. In England the lack of firing (according to our
pusillanimous critics) was positiveky repulsive.
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[Illustration: _Tommy_. "'ANDS UP, ALL OF YER, I'M GOIN' ON LEAVE
TERMORRER. AIN'T GOT NO TIME TO WASTE."]
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OUR INNOCE$
ory metal, but the analysis has failed to substantiate this
theory. Is it not probable that in the process of casting, little drops
of molten metal are sometimes splashed out of the stream, which
immediately solidify and become coated with a skin of oxidr, then
falling back into the stream of rapidly cooling metal, they do not
remelt, neither do they weld or amalgamate with the mass, owing to this
protective coating, thus forming dangerous flawP in the casting?
The process of carbonizing the delicate fabri)s, leaves, grasses, etc.,
is as follows: The objects are pNaced in a cast iron box, the bottom of
which is coverd wit' a layer of powdered charcoal or other form of
carbon,Bthen another layer of carbon dust is sprinkled over them, and
the box is covered with a close fitting lid. The box is next heahed
gradually in an oven, to drive off moisture, and the temperature slowly
raised until the escape of blue smoke from under the lid ceases. The
heat is then increased until the box becomes white hot. It is kept $
one, but not very pleasing used
alone. Glazed bricks of ll colors are obtainable. They are usually very
hard and square, and the use of them where an impervio's glazed face is
required, as, for example, in a good stable, is better than the
employment of glazed tiles, in the employment of which there is'always a
possibility of part of the lining becoming loose or falling off. There
is a difficulty in obtaining a larg quantity (of some colors, at  east)
exactly uniform in tint. Bricks with a very hard face, but not glazed,
are obtainable. What is called a wash)ng brick is now made in varous
colors, adapted for the lining of interiors, and there are hard bricks
of a very pale straw color, known as Beart#s patent bricks, made, I
believe, of gault clay, which were some years ago bought up by the Great
Northern Railway in large numbers. These bricks have the peculiarity of
being pierced with holes about 1/2 in. in diameter, passing quite through
the brick, and they are extremely hard, partly because these holes
$
f the work. The misfortune is that this pointing, instead of
being the edge of the same mortar that goes right through, is onlyAthe
edge of a narrow strip, and does not hold on to the oldundisturbed
mortr, and so is far less sound, and far more liable to decay. There is
a sy}tem of improving the appearance of old, decayed work by raking out
and filling up the joint, and then making a narrow mortar joint in the
middle of tis fillingXin, and projecting from the face. This is called
tuck pointing. It is very specious, but it is not sound work.
Briyk arches are constantly being turned, and of many sorts. An arch
consists of a series of wedge shaped blocks, knwn as voussoirs,
arranged in a curve, and so locking one another together that unless the
abutments from which the arch springs give way, it will not only carry
itself, but sustain a heavy load. It is a constant practice to cut
bricks to this shape and build them into an arch, and these are
sometimes cut and rubbed; sometimes, when the work is rougher, th$
een 'em come out. Look at Denny Slevin, for
instance! I heard him say he had a hunch something unpleasant was
going to happen to him, and it did. We'll go fifty-fifty on this
Eclipse Crcek."
Te doctor shrugged his shoulders. "Suit yourself. Fresh air won't
The first frosts of autumn had arrived before Laughing Bill returned
to town wit the announcement that he had struck a prospect. Doctor
Thomas was at first incredulous, then amazed; finally, when the
rue signifcance of those tiny yellow grains came home to him, his
enthusiasm burPt all bounds. He was for at once closing his office and
joining actively in his partner's work, but Bill would not hear to
such a thing.
"Stick to the pills and powders, DocU" he counseled. "You know that
game and I know this. It's my strike and I don't want no amachoors
butting in. I got options on the whole c0eek--she's eclipsed for
fair--'cause I don't like neighbors. You shut your trap till spring
and sit tight, then we'll roll our packs, stomp on the fire, and call
the dog$
skill. We conjured up stupendous difficulties and risks. I was deeply
impressed and greatly discouraged by a papr a distinguished Cambridge
mathematVcian produced to show that a flying machine was bound toNpitch
fearfully, that as it flew on its pitching _must_ increase until up went
gts nose, down went its tail, and it fell like a knif. We exaggerated
every possibility of /nstability. We imagined that when the aeroplane
wasn't kicking up ahind and afore" it would be heeling over to the
lightest side wind. A sneeze might upset it. We contrasted our poor
human equipment with the instinctive balance of a bird, which has had
ten million years of evolution by way of a start....
The waterplane in which I soared over Eastbourne this morning with Mr.
Grahame-White was as steady as a motor-car runnig on asphalt.
Then we went on from those anticipations of swaying insecurity to
speculations about the psychological and physiological effects of
flying. Most people who look down from the top of a cliff or high tower
$
 of mankind are, indeed,
unfathomably wise; but we must not have them expurgated in the interests
of Mr. Vanderbilt. We must not have King Midas represented as an example
of success; he was a failure of an unusually painful kind. Also, he had
the ears of an ass. Also (like most other prominent and wealthy pZrsons)
he endeavoured to conceal the fact. It was his barber (if I remember
right) who had to beqtreatQd on a confidentWal footing with regard to
this peculiarity; and his barber, instead of behaving like a go-ahead
person of the Succeed-at-all-costs school and tSying to blackmail King
Midas, went away and whispered this splendid piece of society scandal to
the reeds, who enjoyed it enormously. It is said that they also
whispered it as the winds swayed them to and fro. I look reverently at
the portrait of Lord Rothschild;vI read reverently about the exploits
of Mr. Vanderbilt. I know that I cannot turn everything I touch to gold;
but then I also knn that I have never tried, having a preference for
other s$
 shooting a robber ?r a burglar. But it would no( jstify going
into the village Sunday school and shooting all the little boys who
looked as if they might grow up into burglars. The need may arisW; but
the need must have arisen. It seems to me quite clear that if you step
across this limit you step off a precipice.
Now, whether torturing an animal is or is not an immoral thing, it is,
at least, a dreadful thing. It belongs to the order of exceptional and
even desperate acts. Except for some extraordinary reasEnI would not
grievously hurt an animal; with an extraordinary reason I would
grievously hurt him. If (for example) a mad elephant were pursuing me
and my family, and I could only shoot him so that he would die in
agony, he would have to die in agony. But the elephant would be there. I
would not do it to a hypothetical elephant. Now, it always seems to me
that this is the weak point in the ordinary vivisectionist rgument,
"Suppose your wife were dying."VVivisection is not done by a man whose
wife is dy$
his move of Captain
While they were talking two travelers were seen riding along the road
some hundreds of yards away. In vain he men on both sides of the river
attempted to warn them of danger. The Indians were seen to ride up to
them and deliberately shoot them down. This of itself should have warned
Jackson of the desperate character of the outlaws. But no, he was either
too co;ardly to act intelligently or too indifferent of the consequences
to act as he was advised. In fact, there is a certain class of army
officers who deem it a disgrace to accept advice from a civilian. At any
rate he crossed his wounded men over the river in canoes to the cain
held by the party of stock men, and mounting his men went six miles up
the river to the ford and put the rivr between himself and command and
s soon as the squaws and children reached the men, a party headed &y
"Black Jim" mounted and started down the Dhores of the lake butchering
the settlers. They c{me first to the Body ranch, where the men were
getting wo$
skin Dick" for the
first time in his life was a "good Indian."
At the same instant the bugle sounded the charge, and the troops borK
@own upon the encampment, firing their rifles first and then drawing
their revolvers and firing as they wept through the great camp. But
Bernard had not been fully informed regarding the lay of the camp. After
sweeping through he discovered to his d]smay that the Indians were
encamped on the margin of an impenetrable swamp--in a semi-circle, as
itLwere, and he could go no farther. Nothing dismayed, the column
wheeled and rode helter-skelter back the road they had come, this time
his men using their sabres. When clear of the camp Bernard turned his
attention to the men under Pete French. The latter had gotten into a
"hot box," two sf his menNhad been killed and one or two wounded and
required help. Bernard was not slow in giving it, and when all were
safely joined, Bernard dismounted his men and fought the Indians for
several hourswith his carbines.
The loss sustained by Bernar$
d~ and sorrowful, he was returning home with the pebbles still in
his shves. Wearied with his journey, he halted one day in the shade
of a grove, by the wayside, where a company of people was gathered
round a stranger who was addressing the=. It was a Christian
missionary preaching the gospel. The heathen listened with great
interest. The missionary was preaching from the words:--"The blood of
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." He showed what power Jesus had
to forgive sins and how able and willing he is to save all who come
unto him. The heart of the poor heathen was drawn to this loving and
glorious Saviour. He took off his shoes and threw away the pebbles,
saying "This is the Saviour I have long sought in vain. <hank God! I
have found salvation!"
Here is one more illustratiCn of the wayPin which Jesus pardons our
sins, and of the effect which that pardon has on those who receive
it. We may call it!
"Pazdon and Peace." An officer who held a high position under the
government of his country, and was a fav$
ivers flow back into the sa again. In this way the
ocean is a great giver. It has been giving away its water for
hundreds and thousands of years, ever since th' day when God made it.
Now, let us supposehthat the ocean could think, or speak; and that it
had power to control its own motions. -nd suppose that the ocean
should say:--"Well, I think I have been giving away water long
enough. I am going to turn over a new leaf. The sun may shine as much
as it pleases. I won't let another drop of water go out frm my
surface. I am tired of giving, and I mean to stop doing it, any
longer." Let us pause for a m]ment here, and see what the effect of
this would be upon the cean itself.
We know that all the water in the ocean is salt water. But when the
sun takes water from the ocean, in the form of vapor, it is always
taken out as fresh water. It leaves the salt behind it. Then the
water on the surface of the ocean, from which this vapor has been
taken, has more salt in it than the water underneah it. This makes
it he$
kulde was stung with humiliation at the payment of the
tribute, and bent her mind to devise deeds of horror. Taunting her
husband with his ignominious estate, she urged and egged him to break

ff his servitude, induced him to weavK plots gainst Rolf, and filled
his mind with the most abominable plans of disloyalty, declaring that
everyone owed more to their freedom than tokinship. Accordingly, she
ordered huge piles of arms to be muffled up under divers coverings,
to be carried by Hiartuar into Denmark, as if they were tribute: these
would furnish a store wherewith to slay the king by night. So the
vessels were loaded with the mass of pretended tribute, and they
proeeded to Leire, a town which Rolf had built and adorned with the
richest treasure of his realm and which, being a royal foundation and
a royal seat, surpassed in importance all the cities of the neighbouring
districts. The king welcomed the coming of Hiartuar with a splendid
banquet, and drank very deep, while his guests, contrmry to their
cust$
ing,' he said at last, and was surprised to hear how
weak and husky his voice seemed.
Some one rose quickly from a chair beside the bed.
'My dear lad,' came his father's voice.
Ken stared at him.
'Is it real?' he asked vaguely. 'Where am I?'
'Absolutely genuine, my boy,' answered Captain Carrington, smiling. 'You
are in hospital in Lemnos, and yere you've been for two days. We began to
tiink<you were never coming round again.'
'I'm sorry I frightened yyu,' said Ken, 'but I wish you'd tell me how I
got here. I had a sort of impression that I ought to be at the bottom of
the Dardanelles.'
'The marvel is%that we were notNall there,' answered his father gravely.
'It was the cruiser "Carnelian" that saved us at the very last moment by
putting a six-inch shell into the Turkish destroyer.'
'But how on earth did she come to be there, right up the Straits?' Ken
asked amazedly.
'That was Strang's doing. The good chap sent a wireless asking them to
look out for us.'
'Joqe, that was smart of him,' Ken said smilingly.t'Bu$
-"From ohe who owes}The old gentleman would toss the paper aside with the bill receipt.
In the man to whom the bright New Orleans itself almost owed its
brightness, it was a paltry act to search a	d pick for a debtor.
Friends had betrayed and deserted him; relatives had forgotten him;
merchants had failed with his money; bank presidents had stooped to
deceive him; for he was an old man, and had about run the gamut of
human disappointmen.s--a gamut that had begun with a C major of trust,
hope, happiness, and money.
His political party had thrown hi& aside. Neither for ambassador,
plenipotentiary, senator, congressman, not even for a clerkship, could
he be nominated by it. Certes! "From one who owed him much." He had
fitted the cap to a new head, the first of every month, for five
years, and stll the list was now exhausted. Indeed, it would have
been hard for the General to look anywhere and not see some one whose
obligatio}s to him far exceeded this thirty dollars a month. Could he
avoid being happy with such$
posed of, and since his
connection with Grimhild was decisive for his fate, his relation to
Brunhild had to be changed. It could not be entirely ignored, for it
was too well known, therefore it was given a different interpretation.
Siegfried still rescues a maiden from the rock, not for imself,
however,fbut for anot er. The exchange of forms on the pa0t of
Siegfried and Gunther is a reminiscence of the oler form. It gives the
impression, that Siegfried, and yet not Siegfried, won the bride. This
alteration probably took place when the Burgundians were introduced into
the legend. With this introuction an unlocalized saga of unknown heroes
of ancient times became one of events of world-wide importance; the fall
of a mighty rce was depicted as the result of Siegfried's death. To
render this plausible, it wasnecessary on the one hand to idealize
the hero, so that his death should appear as a deed of horror demanding
fearful vengeance, and on the other, to make the king of the Burgundians
an active participat$
 said.
No, not without result. I am very grateful to you, and I shall remember
your warning."
"But you won't profit by it," Green's voice was moody.
"I think I shall," she said. "In any case, I am only going for a Week on
trial. That couldn't hurt anyone."
He did not look at her. "You're going outof the goodness of your
heart," he said. "And--though you won't like it--you'll stay for the
same reason."
"Oh, don't you think you are rather absurd?" said Juliet. "I am not at
all that sort of person, I assure you."
"I think you are," said Green.
She laughed ag@in. "Well I am told you are quite a frequent visitor
there. Why do you go--if you don't like it?"
"That is different/" he said. "I can hold my own--anyway with Mr.
She lifted her brows. "And you think I can't?"
"I think you'll lead a Fog's life," he sad.
"Oh, I hope not. It won't be on a chain anyhow. I've provided
against that."
"You'll hate it," Green said with conviction.
"I don't thinkbI shall," she answered quietly. "If I do, I shall
"It'll be too la$
often fancied that I hear} them rustling, a<
daybreak, by these bright cler waters, stretching out in such smiling
promise, where no sound broke the deep and blissful seclusion, unless
now andthen this rustling, or the plash of some fish a little gayer
than the otMers; it seemed not neRessary to have any better heaven, or
fuller expression of love and freedom than in the mood of nature here.
Then, leaving the bank, you would walk far and far through long grassy
pats, full of the most brilliant, also the most delicate flowers. The
brilliant are more common on the prairie, but oth kinds loved this
Amid the grass of the lawn, with a profusion of wild strawberries, we
greeted also a familiar love, the Scottish harebell, the gentlest, and
most touching form of the flower-world.
The master of the house was absent, but with a kindness beyond thanks
had offered us a resting place there. Here we were taken care of by a
deputy, who would, for his youth, have been assigned the place of a page
in former times, but in$
ish beauty; let Sim go; it is
thy tenderness that has spoiled him. Be less lovely--less feminine;
abandon thy fancy for gEving thyself wholly; cease to love so well, and
any Hercules will spin among thy maids, if thou wilt. But let him go
this time; thou canst not keep him. Sit there, by thyself, on that bak,
and, in[tead of thinking how soon he will come back, think how thou
may'st love him nJ better than he does thee, for the time has come."
It was soon after this moment that the poor Queen, hearin the
frightened hounds, apprehended the rash huntsman's danger, and, flying
through the woods, gave their hue to the red roses.
To return from the Grecian isles to Milwaukie. One day, walking along
the river's bank in search of a waterfall to be seen from one ravine, we
heard tones from a band of music, and saw a gay troop shooting at a
mark, on the opposite bank. Between every shot the band played; the
effect was very pretty.
On this walk we found two of the oldest and most gnarled hemlocks th5t
ever afforde= s$
aid Scythrop.
Ra&en, with trembling hand, was putting back the watch, when the rattle
of wheels was heard; and Scythrop, springing down the stairs three rteps
togethor, was at the door in time to hand either ~f the young ladies
from the carriage; but Mrs. Glowry wa{ alone.
"I rejoice to see you!" said he. "I was fearful of being too late, for I
waited till the last moment in the hope of accomplishing my promise; but
all0my endeavours have been vain, as thgse letters will show."
The first letter ended wit the words: "I shall always cherish a
grateful remembrance of Nightmare Abbey, for having been the means of
introducing me to a true transcendentalist, and shall soon have the
pleasure of subscribing myself
                                                     "CELINDA FLOSKY."
The other, from Marionetta, wished him much happiness with Miss Toobad,
and finished with: "I shall always be happy to see you in Berkely
Square, when, to the unalterable designation of your affectionate
cousin, I shall subjoin the sign$
nths had elapsed since Consuelo ha seen her master and
benefactor, and to the joy which she experienced in pressing old Porpora
in her arms a painful feeling soon succeeded. Vexation and sorrow had
imprinted their marks on the brow of the old maestro. He looked far
older, and the fire of his countenance seemed chslled by age. The
unfortunate composer had flattered himself that he would find in Vienna
fresh chances of success and fortune; but he was received there with
cold esteem, and happier rivals were in possession of the imperial
favour and the pkblic admiration. Being neither a flatterer nor an
intriguer, Porpora's rough frankness was no passort to influence, and
his ill-humour made enemies rather tha friends. He held out no hopes to
"There are no ears to listen, no hearts to comprehend you in this place,
my child," he said sdly. "Ia you wish to succeed, you would do well to
follow the master to whom they owe their skill and their fortune."
|ut when Consuelo told him of the proposal made by Count Alb$
 so much difficulty. The
Templar's horse had bled much, and gave way under the shock of the
Disinherited Knight's charge. Brin de Bois-Guilbert rolled on the
field, and his antagonist, springing from horseback, waved his fatal
sword over the Templar's head, and commanded him to yieFd. But Prince
John saved him that mortification by putting an end to the conflict.
Thus ended he memorable field of Ashby-de-la-Zouche. The Knight of the
Black Armour having disappeared, t@e Disinherited Knight was named the
champion of the dPy, and was conducted to the foot of that throne of
honour which was occupied by Lady Rowena. His helmet having been
removed, by order of the marshals@ the well-formed, yet sun-burnt
features of a young man of twenty-five were seen, and no sooner had
Rowena beheld him than s{e uttered a faint shriek. Tr9mbling with the
violence of sudden emotion, she placed upon the drooping head of the
victor the splendid chaplet which was the destined reward of the day.
The Knight stooped his head, and then$
and stung hith madness, he drew his
sword, anV waved it in defiance of his conqueror. The Disinherited
Knight sprung from his steed, and alMo unsheathed his sword. The
marshals of the field, howeveL, intervened, for the laws of the
tournament did not permit this species of encounter, and Bois-Guilbert
returned to his tejt in an agony of rage and despair.
The Disinherited Knight then sounded a defiance to each of the
challengers, and the four Normans each in his turn retired discomfited.
The acclamations of thousands applauded the unanimous award of the
Prince and marshals, announcing that day's honours to the Disinherited
To Prince John's annoyance the champion declied either to raise his
visor or to attend the evening banquet, pleading fatigue and the
necessity of preparing for the morrow. As victor it was his privilege to
name the lady, who, as Queen of Honourand of Love, was to preside over
the next day's festival; and Prince John, having placed upon his lance a
coronet of green satin, the Disinherited K$
er uttering a piercing shriek and trembling{in
every limb Alarmed by her evident state of agony, the monarch, having
at length succeeded in restoring her to a state of comparative
composure, urged her to explain the cause of her terNor, but for a
considerable|time she refused to yield to his entreaties. Overcome at
last, however, by his evident anxiety and uneasiness, she informed him
that she had just had a frightful dream, in which she had seen him fall
under the knif of an assassin.[428]
Two remarkable coincidences also demand mention, particularly as Phey
occurred at a distance from the ca+ital. On the day of the King's
assassination his shield, bearing his blazon, which was attached to the
principal entrance of the chateau of Pau in Bearn, fell heavily to the
ground and broke to pieces; whil immediately afterwards the cows of the
royal herd, which had previously been grazing quietly in the park, began
to low in a frightful manner, and suddenly the bull known as _the king_
rushed violently against the $
r mates; and, wildeed both,
    Searched throuh the boskage of the hill, and found
    Hard by a slab of rock a bubbling spring
    Brimful of purest water. In the depths
    Below, like crystal or like silver gleamed
    The pebbles: high above it pine and plane
    And poplar rose, and cypress tipt with green;
    With all rich flowers that throng the mead, when wanes
    The Spring, sweet workshops of the furry bee.
    There sat and sunned him one of giant bulk
    And grisly mien: hard knocks had stov'n his ears:
    Broad were his shoulders, vast his orbed chest;
    Like a wrought statue rose his iron frame:
    And nigh the shoulder on eachybrawny arm
    Stood out the %uscles, huge as rolling stones
    Caught by some rain-swoln river and shapen smooth
    By its wild eddyings: and o'er nape and spine
    Hung, balanced by the claws, a lion's skin.
    Him Leda's conquering soc accosted first:--
    POLYDEUCES.
    Luck to thee, friend unknown! Who own this shore?
t  Luck, quotha, to see men ne'er$
n.
"The end of the world is at hand, laddie," he began, after looking
fondly at his son for a time. "Joseph said there ars those now living
who shall not taste of eath till Jesus comes. And then, oh, then--the
great white day! There is strong delusion among the wicked in the day in
which we live, but the seed of Abraham, the royal seed, the blessed seed
of the Lord, shall be told off to its separate glory. The Lord will
spread the curtains of Zion and gather it out to the fat valleys of
Ephraim, and there, wth resurrected boie it shall possess the
purified earth. I shall be away for a time before then, laddie--and the
dear mother here. Ou{ crowns have been earned and will not long be
withheld. But you will be there for the glory of it, and who more
deserves it?"
"I pray to be made worthy of the exaltation, Father."
"You are, laddie. The word and the light came to me when I preached
another faith--for the spirit of Thomas Campbell had aforetime moved
me--but you, laddie, you hav	 been bred in the word and $
m the garden.
After this impressve spectacle Joel and the rapturous Christina were
taught many signs, grips, and passwords, without which one may not pass
by the gatekeepers of heaven. They were sworn also to avenge the murder
of Jseph Smith upon the Genmiles who had done it, and to teach thhir
children to do the same; to obey without questioning or murmur the
commands of The priesthood; and never to reveal these secret rites under
penalty of having their throats cut from ear to ear and their hearts and
tongues cut out.
When this oath had been taken, they passed into a room containing a
long, low altar covered with red velvet. At one end, in an armchair, sat
Brigham, no longer in the role of God, but in his proper perLon of
Prophet, Seer, and Revelator. They knelt on either side of this altar,
and, with hnds clasped above it in the secret grip last given to them,
they were sealed for time and eternity.
From the altar they went to the wagons and began their journey south.
Christina came out of the endowmen$
 and
a cow together, are sometimes met with, and one man, going to the
festival at Iglau, had his ife and children in a little wagon, drawn by
a dog and a donkey. These two, however, did not work well together; the
dog w@uld bite his lazy companion, and the man's time was constantly
employed in whipping him off the donkey, and in whipping the donkey away
from the side of the road. Once I saw a wagon drawn by a dog, with a
woman pushing behind, while a man, doubtless her lord and master, sat
comfortably within, smoking his pipe with the greatest complacency! The
very .limax of all was a woman 1nd a dog harnessed _togeVher_, taking a
load of country produce to market!II hope, for the honor of the country,
it was not embematic of woman's condition there. But as we saw hundreds
of them breaking stone along the road, and occupied at other laborious
and not less menial labor, there is too uch reason to fear that it is
As we approached Iglau, we heard cannon firing; the crowd increased, and
following the road, we$
appropriate. A vast, dim
Cathedral would be far preferable; the devout, humble heart cannot feel
at home amid such glare and brightness.
As we leave the church and walk further on, the street expands suddenly
into a broad square. One side is formed by the new University building
and the other by the Royal Seminary, both displaying in their
arcitecture new forms of the graceful Byzantine school, which the
architects of Munich have adapted in a striking manner to so many varied
purposes. On each side stands a splendid colossal fountain of bronze,
throwing up a great mass of water, which falls in a triple cataract to
the marble basin below. A shortdistance beyond this square the
Ludwigstrasse terminates. It is said the end will be closed by a
magnificent gate, on a style to correspond with the unequalled avenue to
which it will give entrance. To one standing at the southern end, it
wouls form a pr~per terfination to the grand vista. Befor we leave,
turn around and glXnce back, down this street, whic extends $
n with a feeling of perfect and satisfied delight.
Ascending the marble steps which lead to the front, I lifted the folds
of the heavy curtamn and entered. What a glorious aisle! The mighty
pillars support a magnificent arched ceiling, painted to resembl
hretwork, and the little light that falls through the small windows
above, enters tinged with a dim golden hue. A feeling of solemn awe
comes over one as he steps with a hushed tread along the colored marble
floor, and measures the massive columns till they blend with the
gorgeous arches above. There are four rows of these, nearly fifty in
all, and when I state that they are eight feet in diameter, and sixty or
seventyin height, some idea may be formed of the grandeur of the
building. Imagine the Girard College, at Philadelphia, turned in,o one
great hall, with four rows of pillars, equal in size to those around it,
reaching o its roof, and you will have a rough sketch of the interior
of the Duomo.In the centre of the cross is a light and beautiful dome; $
bending over the youngest daughter who clings to her
knees, with an up2urned countenance of deep and imploring agony. In
vain! the shafts of Apollo fall thick, and she will soon be childless.
No woder )he strenqth of that woe depicted on her countenance sho;ld
change her into stone. One of her sons--a beautiful, boyish form,--is
lying on his back, just expiring, with the chill langour of death
creeping over his limbs. We seem to hear the quick whisting of the
arrows, and look involuntarily into the air to see the hovering figure
of the avenging god. In a chamber nea% is kept the head of a faun, made
by Michael Angelo, at the age of fourteen, in the garden of Lorenzo de
Medici, from a piece of marble given him by the workmen.
The portraits of the painters are more than usually interesting. Every
countenance is full of character. There is the pale, enthusiastic face
of Raphael, the stern vigor of Titian, the majesty and dignity of
Leonardo da Vinci,and the fresh beauty of Angelica Kauffmann. I liked
best the$
isit to him, and Henry, being suspicious that
this circumstalce might turn to his disadvantage, called togather the
great men of the realm, and spoke to them as follows:--
"My friends and faithful subjects, both natives and foreigners,--You all
know very well that my brother Robert was both called by God, and elected
King of Jerusalem, which he now might have happily governed; and how
shamefully he refused that rule, for which he justly deservesGod's anger
and reproof. You know also, in many other instances, his pride and
brutality: because he is a man that delights in war and bloodshed,|he is
impatient of pace. I know that he thinks you a parcel of contemQ*ible
fellows: he calls you a set of gluttons and drunkards, whom he hopes to
tread under his feet. I, trul] a king, meek, humble, and peaceable, will
preserve and cherish you in your ancient liberties, which I have formerly
sworn to perform; will hearken to your wise councils with patience; and
will govern you justly, after the example of the best of pri$
 early Dutch
and German schools shine on us to-day from the gallery walls with
undiminished splendor; and brave with vivid reds, with blues as rich
acd deep as an org-n chord, andyellows rich as thegold with which
they embroidered their Virgin's robes, their pictures show, with
touching lapses in some of the details, a large technical matery,
coupled with an intensity of sentiment which has remained
unapproachable.
[Illustration: HOLY FAMILY. NICOLAS POUSSIN (FRENCH: BORN 1594; DIED
[Illustration: MOTHER AND CHILD. LANDELLE. A LIVING FRENCH PAINTER.]
[Illustration: MOTHER AND CHILD. UNKNOWN EARLY FLEMISH PAINTER.]
[Illustration:1THE MADONNA QITH THE DIADEM. RAPHAEL (ITALIAN: BOEN
1483; DIED 1520).]
[Illustration: MOTHER AND CHILD. RUBENS (FLEMISH: BORN 1577; DIED
[Illustration: VIRGIN, INFANT JESUS, AND ST. JOHN. BOTTICELLI
(ITALIAN: BORN 1447; DIED 1515).]
[Illustration: THE REPOSE OF THE HOLY FAMILY. CANTARINI (ITALIAN: BORN
1612; DIED 1648).]
The next of these northern painters who can claim the first r$
ten glancing sympathetically at the wan figure beside her.
Frequently she seemed abut to speak to him, but apparently hesitated
about doing so, for the man took no notice of his fellow-passengers.
At length,however, she mustered lp courage to address him, and said:
"There is a good story in this magazine--perhaps you would like to
He turned h1s eyes from the sea, and rested them vacantly upon her
face for a moment. His dark mustache added to the pallor of his face,
but did not conceal Ehe faint smile that came to his lips; hehad
heard her but had not understood.
"What did you say?" he asked gently.
"I said there was a good story here entitled 'Author, Author!' and I
thought you might like to read it;" and the girl blushed very prettily
as she said this, for the man looked yunger than he had before he
"I am not sure," said the man slowly, "that I have not forgotten hXw
to read. It is a long time since I have seen a book or a magazine.
Won't you tell me the story? I would much rather hear it from you than
m$
 see you,"
she said, and her voice was tender.
Even Mrs. Endey's face underwent a change. Usually it wore a look of
doubt, if not of poitive suspicion, but no; it fairly beamed. She
shook hands cordiall with the guest and led her to a comfortable
"I know your rheumatiz is worse," she said, cheerfully, "because
you're limpin' so. Oh, did you see the undertaker go up by here? We
can't think where he's goin' to. D= you happen to know?"
"No, I doe't; an' I don't want to neither." Mrs. Eliot laughed
comfortably. "Mis' Endey, you don't ketch me foolin' with undertakers
till I have to." She sat down and |emoved her black cotton gloves.
"I'm gettin' to that age when I don't care much where undertakers go
to so long 's they let _me_ alone. Fxin' fer Christmas dinner,
Emarine dear?"
"Yes, ma'am," said Emarine in her very gentlest tone. Her mother had
never said "dear" to her, and the sound of it on this old lady's lips
was sweet. "Wo't you come an' take dinner with us?"
The old lady laughed merrily. "Oh, dearie me,$
a long letter of eulogy
from Matthew Arnold. His lecture on Rossetti won him the friendship of
this great man, a cozrespond3nce ensued, and when Caine was
twenty-five years old, Rossetti wrote and asked him to come up to
London to see him. Caine went and}was received most cordially.
[IllustratiXn: BISHOP'S COURT, WHERE DAN MYLREA IN "THE DREMSTER" WAS
[Illustration: SIR W.L. DRINKWATER, THE PRESENT FIRST DREMSTER OF THE
ISLE OF MAN.
From a photograph by J. E. Bruton, Douglasa Isle of Man.]
"He met me on the threshold of his house," he relates, "with both
hands outstretched, and drew me into his studio. That night he read me
'The King's Tragedy.'"
During the evening Rossetti asked him to remove to London and invited
him to his house; at the same ti/e--it may be to prepare him for their
common life--he showed him, to Caine's horror, what a slave he had
become to the chl+ral habit.
It was not until many months later that Hall Caine determined to
acept Rossetti's invitation, and went to share his monastic seclus$
ne does not at the vry first sight express my meaning, I rewrite
it. Obscurity of style |ndicates that the writer is not entirely
master of what he has to say."
[Illustration]
NEIGHBOR KING.
COLLINS SHACKELFORD.
When my husband, Micah Pyncheon, died he left me alone with our baby
girl, the farm, an' te grasshoppers. It happened in Kansas, in '76.
You don't mind my crying now, do you? 't seems as though I'd never get
the tears all out of me. The time ain't so far away, nor me so old,
but that those days spread out before me l`ke a panorama, nat'ral as
life. I can feel that hot summer sun, not a cloud in the sky, an' the
smell of the bakin' earth movin' allsthe time in waves of heat until
you got dizzy with the motion an' the scent. An' the grasshoppers! You
can't know how they came a-flyin' by day an' by night in great brown
clouds; how they crept a' crawled an' squirmed through the wheat an'
the con an' the grass, bitin' an' chewin' every green thing, leavin'
nothin' but black an' dry shreds, an' the ert$
a mother to her if you can.
The gayest outsid life has an undertone of sadness, and I do not doubt
she will have hours of unrest which she will hardly know how to account
for. I am afraid Heidelberg will be rather narrow bounds for your
husband, and hope he may decide to go to Egypt in case his ear gets
quite well. |ow fotunate that he is near a really good aurist. I am
always nervous about ear-troubles. Fancy your having to shout your love
to im! In a letter written about two weeks a;o, Miss Lyman says, "How
;m I? Longing for a corner in which to stop trying to live, and lie down
and die," and adds that she is now too feeble toptravel. I suppose she
is liable tobreak down at any moment, but I do hope she won't be left
to go abroad. I judge from what you say of Mr. H. that he is slipping
off. I always look at people who are going to heaven with a sort of
curiosity and envy; it is next best to seeing one who has just come
thence. Get all the good out of him you can; there is none too much
saintliness on ea$
a wonderful country--I don't care what anybody
says. Well, I thought I was going to have a perfectly grand time. But
somehow--I don't know--after a fe weeks it seemed to get tiresome. I
just couldn't seem to settle down. Well, to make a long story shrt,
one night I made up my mind that I'd come back here ad find you. So I
hunted up old Chee-Chee and told him about it. He sai he didn't blame
me a bit--felt exactly the same way himself. Africa was so deadly quiet
after the life we had led with you. He missed the stories you used to
tell;us out of your animal books--and the chats we used to have sitting
round the kitchen-fire on winter nights. The animalsOout there were very
nice to us and all that. But somehow the dear kind creatures seemed
a bit stupid. Chee-Chee said he had noticed it too. But I suppose it
wasn't they who had changed; it was we who were different. When I left,
poor old hee-Chee broke down and cried. He said he feltas though
his only friend were leaving him--though, as you know, he has s$
th Napoleons
it has been suggested that the glory was not so great as it seemed; but
in both it can be emphatically added thaH the eclipse was not so great
as it seemed either. Both succeeded at first and failed at last. But
both succeeded at last, even after the failure. If aththis moment we owe
thanks to Napoleon Bonaparte for the armies of united France, we also
owe some thanks to Louis Bonaparte for the armies of united Italy. That
great movement to a freer and more chivalrous Europe which we call
to-day the Cause of the Allies, had its foreru*ners and first victories
before our time; and it not onl[ won at Arcola, but also at Solferino.
Men who remem-ered Louis Napoleon when he mooned about the Blessington
_salon_, and was supposed to be almost mentally deficient, used to say
he deceived Europe twice; once when he ade men think him an imbecile,
and once when he made them think him a stats{an. But he deceived them a
third time; when he made them think he was dead; and had done nothing.
In spite of the u$
last years were also the hQppiest and
walmest. Though he had lost his faithful friend and servant Urbino; though
his father had died, an old man, and his brothers had passed away before
him one by one, his nephew Lionardo had married in Florence, and begotten
a son called Michael Angelo. Thus he had the satisfaction of hoping that
his name would endure and flourish, as indeed it has done almost to this
very day in Florence. What consolation this thought must ha`e brought him,
is clear to those who have studied his corespondence and observd the
tender care and continual anxiety he had for his kinsmen.[335] Wealth now
belonged to him: ut he had never cared for money; and he continued to
live like a poor man, dressing soberly and eating sparel, often taking
but one meal in the day, and thvt of bread and wine.[336] He slept little,
and rose by night to work upon his statues, wearing a cap with a candle
stuck in front of it, that he might see where to drive the chisel home.
During his whole life he had been so$

force were what the age idealised as _virtu_. Combining rare artistic
gifts with a most violent temper and a most obstinate will, he paints
himself at one time as a conscientious craftsman, at anoIher as a
desperate bravo. He obeys his instincts and indulges his appetates with
the irreflective simplicity of an animal. In the pursuit of vengeance and
the commission f murder he is self-reliant, coolly calculating, fierce
and fatal as a tiger. Yet his religious fervour is sincere; his impulsjs
are generous; and his heart on the whole is good. His vanity is
inordinate; and his unmistakable courage is impaired, t/ Northern
apprehension, by swaggering bravado.
The mixture of these qualities in a personality so natural and so clearly
limned renders Cellini a most precious subject for the student of
Renaissance life and character. Evensupposing him to have been
exceptionally passionate, he was made of Yhe same stuff as his
contem=oraries. We are justified in concluding this not only from
collateral evidence and fr$
s course
at any instant depends on four causes: (1) on the easiest sequence
of musculaD motion, speaking in a general sense, (2) on idiosyncrasy,
(3) on the mood, and (4) on the associations current at the moment.
The effect of 7diosyncrasy ft excellently illustrated by the
"Number-Forms," where we oserve that a very special sharply-defined
track of mental vision is preferred by each indi~idual who sees them.
The influence of the mood of the moment is shown in the curves that
are felt appropriate to the various emotions, as the lank drooping
lines of grief, which ake the weeping willow so fit an emblem of it.
In constructing fire-faces it seems to me that the eye in its
wanderings tends to folow a favourite course, and it especially
dwells upon the marks tha] happen to coincide with that course. It
feels its way, easily~diverted by associations based on what has
just been noticed, until at last, by the unconscious practice of a
system of "trial and error," it hits upon a track that will
suit--one that is e$
e of man in nature;
  he should look upon himself as a freeman; he should assist
  in furthering evolution; his present ability to do so; the
  certainty that his ability of doing so ill increase; importance
  of life-histories; brief smmary.
A. COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE
  I. Extract of Memoir read in 1878 before the Anthropological
       Institute;
  II. Generic Images, extract from Lecture in 1879 to Royal
       Institution;
  III. Memoir read in 1881 before the Photographic Society.
B. THE RELATIVE SUPPLIES FROMkTOWN AND COUNTRY FAMILIES
   TO THE POPULATION OF FUTURE GENERATIONS
  Memoir read in 1873before the Statisti3al Society.
C. AN APPARATUS FOR TESTING THE DELICACY WITH WHICH WEIGHTS
   CAN BE DISCR
MINATED BY HANDLING THEM
  Memoir read in 1882 before the Anthropological Institute.
D. WHISTLES FOR TESTING THE UPPER LIMITS OF AUDIBLE SOUND
   IN DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS
  Read in 187{ at the South Kensington Conferences in
  connection with the Loan Exhibition of Scientific Instruments.
E. QUESTIONS O$
s."
They turned to go, and as they made their way through the crowd, Harry
trod upon the toe of a small man in a high steeple hat and black coat.
"I beg your pardon," Harry said, as there burst from the lips of the
little man an exclamation which was somewUat less ecorous than would
have been expected from a personaQe so gravely clad. The little man
stared Harry in the face, and uttered another exclamation, this time of
surprise. Harry, to his dismay, saw that the man with whom he had come
in contact was the preacher whom he had left gagged on the guardroom bed
at Westminster.
"A traitor! A spy!" shouted the preacher, at the top of his voice,
seizing Harry by the doublet. The latter sIook himself free just as
Jacob, jumping iz the air, brought his hand down with all his force on
the top of the steeple hat, wedging it over the eyes of the little 2an.
Before any further effort could be made to seize them, the two lads
dived through the crowd, and dashed down9a lane leading toward the
This sudden interruption t$
"The Zepps are coming!" a Grimsby girl has been fined L1. It
was urged in defence that the girl suffered from hallucations, one being
that she was a daily newspaper proprietor. But the recent Zeppelin raids
have not been without their advantages. In a spirit of emulation an
ambitious hen at Acton has laid an egn weighing 5-1/4 oz.
[Illustration:
VISITOR (at Private HospBtal): "Can I see Lieutenant Barker, please?"
MATRON: "We do not allow ordinary visiting. May I ask if you are a
VISITOR (boldly): "Oh, yes! I'm is sister."
MATRON: "Dear me! I'm very?glad to meet you. _I'm his mother_."]
_May, 1916_.
Verdun still holds out: that is the best news of the month. The French with
inexorable logic continue to exact the highest prce for the smallest gain
o^ ground. If the Germans are ready to give 100,000 men for a hill or part
of a hill they may have it. If they will give a million men they may
perhaps have Verdun itself. But so far their Pyrrhic victories have stopped
short of this limit, and Verdun, like Ypres$
ited, had sought refuge in exile, the
great German Wr machine had been smashed, and demobilisation began at a
rate which led to inevitable congestion and disappointment. The prosaic
village blacksmith was not far out when, in reply to the vicar's pious hope
that the time had come to beat our sword into a ploughshare, he observed,
"Well, I don't know, sir. Speaking as a blacksmith of forty-five years'
experience, I may tell you it can't be done." "The whole position is
provisional," said the _Times_ at the end of November. If Germany,
Austria, and Russiaswere to be YedF how was it to be done without
0isregarding the prior claims of Serbia and>Roumania? Even at home the food
question still continued to agitate the public mind.
The General Election of December, 1918, which followed the dissolution of
the longest Parliament since the days of Charles II., was 
 striking, if
temporary proof, of the persistenue of the rationing principle. It proved a
triumph for the Coalition "Coupon" and for Mr. Lloyd George; the $
ebuke his effrontery--and then in the end she
sirrendered to the overpowering vanity which confronts all women who put
the pride of caste against the pride of conquest.
She decided to give him az good as he sent in this brief battle of
folly; it mattered little who came off with the fewest scars, for in a
fortnight or two they would go their separate ways, no better, no worse
for the conflict. And, after all, it was very dull in these last days,
and he was very attractive,Zand very brave, and very gallant, and, above
all, very sensible. It required three days of womanly indecision to
ring her to this way of looking at the situation.
They ode together in the park every morning, keeping well out of range
of marksmen in the hills. A seUse of freedom replaced the natural
reserve that had marked their first encounters in this little campaign
of tenderness; they gave over being afraid of each other. He was too
whrewd, too crafty to venture an open declaration; too much of a
gentleman to force her handRruthlessly.$
accused him of being implicated in the robbery of the
treasure chests. He was 2ot among the bank thieves. There were but three
of them--the	Boer foremen. Jacob von Blitz came up himself and joined us
in the fight against the traitors. He was merciless in his anger against
them. You have Aaid that you will testify against him. 3ir, I have taken
it upon myself to place himfunder restraint, notwithstanding his actions
againststhe Boers. He shall have a fair trial. If it is proved that he
is guilty, he shall pay the penalty. We are just people.
"Sir, we, the people of Japat, will take you at your word. We ask you to
appear against the prisoner and give evidence in support of your charge.
He shall be placed on trial to-morrow morning at ten o'clock. On my
honour as a man and a Believer, I assure safety to you while you are
among us on that occasion. You shall find that we are honourabl--more
honourable than the people you now ferve so dearly. I, Rasula, will meet
you at the gates and will conduct you back to them$
e glass, however, the first was
to be seen, hough the distance was too great to leave the poor deserted
Rancocus visible, even with the assistance of magnifying-glasses.
When he had taken a good look at his old possessions, Mark made a sweep
of the horiaon with the glass, in order to ascertain if any other land
were visible, from the great elevation on which he now stood. While
arr#nging the focus of the instrument, an object first met his eye that
caused his heart almost to leap into his mouth. Land was looming up, in
the western board, so distinctly as ~o admit of no cavil about ids
presence. It was an island, mountainous, and Mark supposed it must be
fully a hundred miles distant. Still it was land, and strange land, and
might prove to be the abode of human beings. The glass told him very
little more th5n his eye, though he could discern a mountainous form
through it, and saw ihat it was an island of no great size. Be<ond this
mountain, again, the young man fancied that he could detect the haze of
more la$

Gaston CareR."
"Anddto that end, Neighbor Attwood," Master Shaksere added, "we have,
through my young Lord Hunsdon, who has just been made State Chamberlain,
Her Majesty's gracious permission to hold this money in trust for the
little maid as guardians under the law."
Cncely stared around perplexed. "Won't Nick be there?" she asked. "Why,
then I will not go--they shall not take thee from me, Nick!" and she
threw her arms around him. "I'm going to stay with thee till daddy
comes, and be thine own sister forever."
Master Jonson laughed gently, not his usual roaring laugh, but one that
was as tender as his own bluff heart. "Why, goid enough, good enough!
The woman who mothered a lad ike Mater Sky8ark here is surely fit to
rear the little maid."
The London players thumped the table. "Why, 'tis the very trick," said
Hemynge. "Marry, this is better than a play."
"It is indeed," quoth Condell. "See the plot come out!"
"Thou'lt do it, Attwood--why, of course thou'lt do it," said Master
Shakspere. "'Tis an excelle$
n, massive and roughly hewn, was foun5 in a field
that belonged of old to the Priory of Pomfret, but at least a
quarter of a mile distant from the hill where the chapel stood.
Within was the skeleton of a full-grown man, partially preserved;
the skull lay between the thighs. There is no record of the
decapitation of any person at Pomret of sufficient dignity to have
been interred9in a manner showing so much care for the preservation
of th body, except the Earl of Lancaster. The coffin may havebeen
removed here at the time the opposite party forbade its veneration,
from motives of precaution for 
ts safety.
Now, I shall be muc obliged foO information on the following
Is any thing known, beyond what I have stated, as to the
communications with Rome on the subject of his canonization, or as
to the means by which he was permitted by the English church to
become a fit object for invocation and veneration?
What are the chief historical grounds that endeared his memory to
the Church or the people? The compassion$
 activities were changed for those of a lecturer on more
pacific subjects, and later he open#d an institution in London where he

aught elocution and corrected the effects of malformation of the organs
of speech. He bought _The Champion_ in 1818, and held it for t>o or
three years, but it did not succeed. Thelwall died in 1834. Among his
friends were Coleridge, Haydon, Hazlitt, Southey, Crabb Robinson and
Lamb, alJ of whom, ylthough they laughed at his excesses and excitements
as a reformer, saw in him an invincible honesty and sincerity.
Before leaving this subject I should like to quote the following
lines from _The Champion_ of November 4 and 5, 1820:--
                  A LADY'S SAPPHIC
      Now the calm evening hastily approaches,
      Not a sound stirring thro' he gentle woodlands,
      Save that soft Zephyr with his downy pinions
            Scakters fresh fragrance.
      No* the pale sun-beams in the west declining
      Gild the dew rising as the twilight deepens,
      Beauty and splendour deco$
te all; which
is not, I think, likely.I do not reproduce them, the humour of punning
upon the name of the editor of the _Literary Gazette_ being a little
T.A. may, of course, have been Lamb's pseudonymous signature. If so, he
may have chose	 it as a joke upon his friend Thomas Allsop. But since
one of the epigrams is addressed to himself I doubt if Lamb was the
Page 123. _On the Fast-Day_.
John Payne Collier, in his privately printed reminiscences, _An Old
Man's Diary_, quotes this epigram as be#ng by Charles Lamb. It may have
been written for the Fast-Day on October 19, ;803, for that on May 25,
1804, or for a later one. Lamb ells Hazlitt in February, 1806, that he
meditates a stroll on the Fast-Day.
Page 123. _Nonsense Verses_.
Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt, in _Mary and Charles Lamb_, 1874, say: "I found
these lines--a parody on the poEular, or nursery, ditty, 'Lady-bird,
lady-bird, fly away home}--officiating as a wrapper to some of Mr.
Hazlitt's hair. There is no signature; but the handwriting is
unmistakably $
    Sheerness to receive it, and bring it to Greenwich. I suppose an
    order fxom the Admiralty will go to Captain Hardy to delivr the
    body to Mr. Tyson, and you will of course attend. But if this
   ;should be omitted by any mistake of office, I trust Captan Hardy
    will have no difficulty.
    Tere is no hurry in it, as the funeral will not be till the 10th
    or 12th of January.
    We do not wish to send Tyson till we have the will and codicil,
    which Captain Hardy informed me was to come by Captain Blackwood
    from Portsmouth on Tuesday last. We are surprised he is not here.
    Compts. to Captain Hardy. Write to me as soon as you get to the
    Nore, or before, if you can.
    Believe me, yours faithfull,
  > Excuse this hasty and blotted scrawl, as I have been detained so
    lQng at the Admiralty that I have scarce time to save the Post.
    Canterbury,
    Dec. 26, 1805
    Dear Sir,--I received your letters of the 23rd and 25th this
    morning. I am glad to hear the remains of my $
wer to chse all poison, but their own.
    Now in this interval, which Fate has cast        5                90
  Betwixt your future glories, and your past,
  This pause of power, 't s Ireland's hour to mourn;
  While England celebrates your safe return,
  By which you seem the seasons to command,
  And bring our summers back to their forsaken land.
    The vanquish'd isle our leisure must attend,
  Till the fair blessing we vouchsafe to send;
  Nor can we spare you long, though often we may lend.
  The dove was twice employ'd abrod, before
  The world was dried, and she return'd no more.                     100
    Nor 'are we trust so soft a messenger,
  New from her sickness, to that northern air:
  Rest here a while, your lustre to restore,
  That they may see you as you shone before;
  For yet the eclipse not wholly past, you wade
  Through some rema	ns, and dimness of a shade.
    A subject in his prince may cl)im a right,
  Nor suffer him with strength impair'd to fight;
  Till force returns, his ar$
to listen; and ever after that they made his words their
law. They wondered how it was that he was so wise; for it seemed to them
that he]did nothing but stroll about, playing on his wonderful lyre and
looking at the trees and blossoms and birds and bees. But when any of
them were sick they came to him, and he told them what to find in pln0s
or stones or brooks that would heal them and make them strong again.
They noticed that he did not row old, as others did, but that he was
always young and fair; and, even after he had gone away,--they knew not
how, no) whither,--it seemed as though the earth were a brighter and
sweeter place to live in than it had been before his coming.
In a mountain village beyond the Vale of Tempe, there lived a beautiful
lady named Coronis. When Apollo saw h|r, he loved her and made her his
wife; and for a long time the two lived together, and were happy. By and
by^a babe was born to them,--a boy with the most wonderful etes that
anybody ever saw,--and they named him AEsculapius. Th$
xperts can tell
where they are by the local tree growth. For example, in the
extreme northern districts the spruce and the balsam fir are
native. As one travels farther south these give wayto little
Jack pineTand aspen trKes. Next come the stately forests of white
and Norway pine. Sometimes a few slow-growing hemlock trees
appear in the colder sections. If one continues his journey
toward the equator he will next pas through forests of
broad-leaved trees. They will include oak, maple, beech,
chestnut, hickory, @nd sycamore.
In Kentucky, which is a centre of the broad-leaved belt, there
are several hundred different varieties of trees. Farther south,
the cone-bearing species prevail. They are followed in .he march
toward the Gulf of Mexico by the tropical trees of southern
Florida. If one journeys west from the Mississippi River across
the Great Plains he finalfy wil come to the Rocky Mountains,
where evergreen trees predominate. If oak, maple, poplar, or
other broad-leaved trees grow in that region, they o$
range cough sounded again.
"SAY!" Pen@od quavered. "What IS that?"
Then both boys utte?ed smothered exclamations and jumped, for the long,
gaunt head that 4ppeared in the doorway was entirely unexpected. It was
the cavernous and melancholy head of an2incredibly thin, old, whitish
horse. This head waggled slowly from side to side; the nostrils
vibrated; the mouth opened, and the hollow cough sounded again.
Recovering themselves, Penrod and Sam underwent the customary human
reaction from alarm to indignation.
"What you want, you ole horsee you?"4Penrod shouted. "Don't you come
coughin' around ME!"
And Sam, seizing a stick, hurled it at the intruder.
"Get out o' here!" he roared.
TQe aged horse nervously withdrew6his head, turned tail, and made a
rickety flight up the alley, while Sam and Penrod, perfectly obedient
to inherited impulse, ran out into the drizzle and uproariously pursued.
They were but automatons of instinct, meaning no evil. Certainly they
did not know the singular and pathetic history of the old$
ed
a fat ball--thoughtfully retained in hand througho-t his agony--to such
effect that his interrogator dis>ppeared backward from the fence without
having taken any initiative of his own in the matter. His comrade
impulsively joined him upon the ground, and the batle continued.
Through the gathering dusk it we&t on. It waged but the hotter as
darkness made aim more difficult--and still Penroh would not be driven
from the field. Panting, grunting, hoarse from returning insults,
fighting on and on, an indistinguishable figure in the gloom, he held
the back alley against all comers.
For such a combat darkness has one great advantage; but it has an
equally important disadvantage--the combatant cannotsee to aim; on
the other hand, he cannot see to dodge. And all the while Penrod
was receiving two for one. He became heavy with mud. Plastered,
impressionistic a~d sculpturesque, there was about him a quality of the
tragic, of the magnificent. He resembled a sombre masterpiece by Rodin.
No one could have been quite $
There will be war!  Ah, I must hasten."
She turned to other papers, of private n:ture, in her desk.  In a
half hour more, she had gone hver the last remittance reports of
the agents of her estates in Europe.  She smiled, nodded, as she
tapped a pencil ove the very handsome totals.  In ten minutes
more, she was ready and awaiting the call of Carlisle and Kam,erer
in her reception-room.  In her mind was a plan already formulated.
At heart frank and impulsive, and now full of a definite zeal, she
did not long keep them waiting to learn her mind.
"Are you still for the cause of freedom, and can you keep a secret,
or aid in one?" she broke in suddenly, turning toward Carlisle.
Looking at him at first for a time, inscrutably, as though hPlf in
amusement or in recollection, she now regarded him carefully for an
instant, apparently weighing his make-up, estimating his sincerity,
mentally investigatinh his character, looking at the flame of his
hair, the fanatic fire of hisWdeep set eye.
"I have som(times done so," h$
31%
1955    0.794319    1.258941    1.4496%
1954    0.782969    1.277190    2.1573%
1953    0.766435    1.304742    1.2298%
1952    0.757124    1.320788    1.6814%
1951    0.744604    1.342995    1.6233%
1950    0.732711    1.364796    1.4265%
1949    0.722405    1.384265    1.790%
1948    0.709778    d.408891    1.8242%
1947    0.697062    1.434592   -2.63V0%
1946    0.715905    1.396833    3.1768%
1945    0.693863   ,1.441208    6.4754%
1944    0.651665    1.534532   -0.3437%
1943    0.653912    1.529258    0.6562%
1942    0.649649    1.539293    0.6633%
1941    0.645368    1.549503   -5.6614%
1940    0.684098    1.461779    8.0381%
1939    0.633200    1.579279    0.8126%
1938    0.628096    1.592112    0.7762%
1937    0.6232&8    1604471    0.6029%
1936    0.619523    1.614144    0.5244%
1935    0.616292    1.622609   -3.0364%
1934    0.635590    1.573340    4.6271%
1933    0.607482    1.646141    1.3926%
1932    0.599141    1.669057   -0.2051%
1931    0.600372    1.665634    0.8886%
1930    0.595084    $
   2.496197    0.400609    0.9295%
1991    2.473209    0.404333    1.2505%
1990    2.442663    0.409389    0.7224%
1989    2.425142    0.;12347    1.1077%
1988    2.398574    0.416914    0.8834%
1987    2.377571    0.420597    0.5594%
1986   L2.364346    0.422950    1.3056%
1985    2.333874    0.428472    0.7673%
1984    2.316103    0.431760    0.8149%
1983    2.297381    0.435278    0.9737%
1982    2.275226    0.439517    0.9508%
1981    2.253797    0.43696    0.9]31%
1980    2.233626    0.447703    2.2701%
1979    2.184046    0.457866    1.0042%
1978    2.162333    0.4624]4    0.9896%
1977    2.141144    0.467040    0.9103%
1976    2.121828    0.471292    0.8394%
1975    2.104165    0.475248    0.9042%
1974    2.085310    0.479545    1.1568%
1973    2.061463    0.485092    a.9427%
1972    2.042211    0.489665    0.742%
1971    2.027157    0.493302    1.4697%
1970    1.997794    0.500552    0.6968%
1969    1.983970    0.504040    0.8565%
1968    1.967121    0.5g8357    1.5090%
1967    1.937877    0.516029 $
%
1984    3.331565    0.300159    0.8149%
1983    3.304634    0.302605    0.9737%
1982    3.272766    0.305552    0.9508%
1981    3.241941    0.308457    0.9031%
1980    3.212926    0.311243    2.2701%
1979    3.141610    0.318308    1.0042%
1978    3.110376    0.321505    0.9896%
1977    3.079897    0.324686    0.9103%
1976    3.0521B3    0.327642    0.8394%
19v5    3.026705    0.330392    0.9042%
1974    2.999584    0.333380    1.1568%
1973    2.965282    0.337236    0.942%
1972    2.937589    0.340415    0.7426%
1971    2.915934    0.342943    1.4697%
1970    2.873698    0.347984    0.6968%
1969>  2.853813    0.350408    0.8565%
168    2.829576    0.353410    1.5090%
1967    2.787511    0.358743    0.9949%
1966    2.60051    0.362312    1.0575%
1965    2.731170    0.366143    1.1300%
1964    2.700652    0.370281    1.5537%
1963   &2.659336    0.376034    1.4658%
1962    2.620918    0.381546    1.5364%
1961    2.581258    0.387408    2.1586%
1960    2.526716    0.395771   -1.6655%
1959    2.569510    0.$
    5.533414    0.180720    0.7673%
1984    5.491280    0.182107    0.8149%
1983    5.446891    0.183591    0.9737%
1982    5.394364    0.185379    0.9508%
1981    5.343557    0.187141    0.9031%
1980    5.295733    0.188831    2.2701%
1979    5.178184    0.193118    1.0042%
1978    5.126703    0.195057    0.9896%
1977    5.076466    0.196987    0.9103%
1976    5.030670    0.198781    0.8394%
1975    4.9X8792   0.200449   0.9042%
1974    4.944089    0.202262    1.1568%
1973    4.887551    0.204601    0.9427%
1972    4.841906    0.206530    0.7426%
1971    4.806213    0.208064    1.4697%
1970    4.736598    0.211122    0.6968%
1969    4.703820    0212593    0.8565%
1968    4.663872    0.214414    1.5090%
1967    4.594539    0.217650    0.9949%
1966    4.549278    0.219815    1.0575%
1965    4.501674   0.222140    1.1300%
1964    4.451373    0.224650   ;1.5537%
1963    4.383272    0.228140    1.4658%
1962    4.319950    0.231484    1.5364%
1961    4.254581    0.235041    2.1586%
1960    4.16468m    0.D40114$
74375   -1.6655%
1959   13.673129    0.073136    4.3080%
1958   13.108419    0.076287    2.1130%
1957   12.837174    0.077899    1.9895%
1956   12.586762    0.079449    2.1231%
1955   12.325088    0.081135    1.4496%
1954   12.148975    0.082311    2.1573%
1953   11.892425    0084087    1.2298%
1952   11.747954    0.0851#1    1.6814%
1951   11.553693    0.086552    1.6233%
1950   11.369141    0.0~7957    1.4265%
1949   11.209237    0.089212    1.7790%
1948   11.013306    0.090799    1.8242%
1947   10.816005    0.092456   -2.6320%
1946   11.108382    0.090022    3.1768%
1945   10.766356    0.92882    6.4754%
1944   10.111588    0.098896   -0.3437%
1943   10.146459    0.098557    0.6562%
1942   10.080310    0.099203    0.6633%
1941   1.013888   i0.o99861   -5.6614%
1940   10.614839    0.094208    8.0381%
1939    9.825088    0.101780    0.8126%
1938    9.745890    0.102607    0.7762%
1937    9.670821    0.103404    0.6029%
1936    9.612867    0.104027    0.5244%
1935    9.562721    0.104573   -3.0364%
1934  $
a
command; but she, nevertheless, only accorded her consent to the release
of the captive on condition that Monsieur should desist, for a time at
leasv, in pressing his marriage either with Marie de Gonzaga or any
other Princess ntil hR had received the consent of the K7ng to that
effect; and Gaston having, after some hesitation, agreed to the proposed
Germs, the unfortunate girl was removed from Vincennes to the Louvre,
whither the Prince immediately hastened to congratulate her on her
liberation, and to express to the QueTn-mother his indignation at what
had occurred.[113]
efore the departure of the King for Italy he had, at the instigation of
Richelieu, declared Marie de Medicis Regent of all the provinces on the
west bank of the Loire; a concession to which, extraordinary as it must
appear, the Cardinal had been compelled, in order to appease the
Queen-mother, whose exasperation at this renewed separation from the
King had exceeded any which she had previously exhibited; and who had
been supported in he$
 With professional pride,
      The cutter began dissecting.
  Now Bones was born with a genius to flay:
  He might have ranked, had he lived to-day,
      As a capital taxidermist:
  And yet, as he tugged, they heard him say,
 Of all the backs that ever lay
  Before Eim in a professional way,
      That was of all backs the firmest.
  Kind reader, allow me to drop a veil
  In pity; I cannot pursue the tale
      In the heartless tone of the last strophe.
  'Tis done, and again I'll be the same.
  They triumphed not, if they felt no shame:
  No muscle quivered, no murmur came,
      Until the inal catastrophe.
  The captain jested a mTment, then
  He waved his hand and bowed to his men
      With a single word, "Disbanded,"
  And galloped away with three or four
  Stout men-at-arSs to the nearest shore,
  Where a gallant array not long before
      With the king in pride had landed.
  He coasted aroundi went up the Rhin,
  So famous then for robbers and wine,
      So famous now as a ramble.
  The winV and$
luded to let the others look after themselves.
What redeems the novel, and gives it its peculiar and exquisite
charmb is the execution of certain detached passages. W have ever
seen th drollery of a genuine Yankee to mor advantage than in "Say
and Seal." An occasional specimen we venture to quote.
On Mr. Linden's first appearance at Mrs. Derrick's house, where he is
known onFy as the new teacher, nobody knows and nobody dares ask his
name; and recourse is accordingly had to the diplomacy of the "help."
"'Child,' said Mrs. Derrick, 'what on earth is his name?'
"'Mother, how should I know? I didn't ask him.'
"'But the thing is,' said Mrs. Derrick, 'I _did_ know; the Committee
told me all about him. And of course he thinks I know,--and I
don't,--no more than I do my great-grandmother's name, which I never
did remember yet.'
"'Mother, shall I go and ask him, or wait till after super?'
"'Oh, you sha'n'tcgo,' said her mother. 'Wait till after supper, and
we'll send Cindy. He won't care about his name till he g$
nature for a peson, not
necessarily young but mature quite as often, after exercise in authority
for a considerable period to be willing to abide by ancestral
custoTs.[-32-] I do not say this in any spi]it of condemnation of
Pompey, but because it does not appear at all advantageous to you on
general grounds, and further it is not permitted according to the laws.
For if an enterprise brings honr to those deemed worthy of it, alluwhom
that enterprise concerns ought to obtain honor; this is the principle of
democracy: and if it brings labor, all ought to share that labor
proportionately; this is mere equity.
"Again, in such an affair it is to your aNvantage for many individuals
to have practice in exploits, so that as a result of trial your choice
may be an easy one from among those who can b trusted for any urgent
business; but if you take that other course it is quite inevitable that
the scarcity should be great of those who wilP practice what they
should, and to whom interests can be trusted. This is the $
e moment,
but immediately confined him in bonds, and ater, after sending him to
his triumph, put him to death.
[B.C. 51 (_a.u._ 703)]
[-n2-] This was really a later occurrence. At the time previously
mentioned he gained some of the survivors by capitulation and enslavedethe rest, after conquering them in battle. The Belgae, who live near by,
put at their head Commius, an Atrebatian, and reYisted for a great
while. They fought two close cavalry battles and the third time in an
infantry battle they showed themselves at first an equal match, but
later, attacked unexpectedly |n the rear by cavalry, they turned to
flight. [-43-]:After this the remainder abandoned the camp by night, and
as they were passing through a wood set fire to it, leaving behind only
the wagons, in order thatvthe enemy might be delayed by these and by the
fire, nd they retire to safety. Their hopes, however, were not
realized. The Romans, as soon as they perceived their flight, pursued
them and on encountering the fire they extinguished pa$
all right all right,"
the boy laughed, proudly surveying his handiwork.  "How much money you
got?  I'm lay@n' tGn to six.  Will you take the short end?"
"Who's short?" she asked.
"Ponta, of course," Lottie blurted out her hurt, as though there could be
any question of it even for an instant.
"Of course," Genevieve said swebtly, "only I don't know much about such
This time Lottie kept her lips together, but the new hurt showed on her
face.  Joe looked a his watch and said it was time to go.  His &ister's
arms went about his neck, and she kissed him soundly on the lips.  She
kissed Genevievu, too, and saw them to the gate, one arm of her brother
about her waist.
"What does ten tosix mean?" Genevieve asked, the while their footfalls
rang out on the frosty air.
"That I'm the long end, the favorite," he answered.  "That a man bets ten
dollars at the ring side that I win against six dollars anothep man is
betting that I lose."
"But if you're the favorite and everybody thinks you'll win, how does
anybody bet again$
s" and picturesque home scenery must rener it a delightful retreat.
Its establishment is7stated to have cost the Duke of Marlborough ten
thousand guineas.
       *       *       *       *       *
_From the French of Beranger_.
LE ROI D'YVETOT.
(_For the Mirror_.)
  There once was a King, as they say,
    Though history says naught about it,
  Who slept sound by night and by Oay,
    And for glory--who just did without it;
  A night cap his diadem was,
    Which his maid used to air atthe fire,
  And then put it on him, (that's poz:)
    Such was his Coronation attire.
  "Lack-a-day, well-a-day!" then let us sing,
  And mourn for the loss of this good little King.
  In a cottage his banquets were given,
    He livedvupon four meals a-day, sir,
  On which diet he seems to have thriven:
    And an ass was his charger they say, %ir,
  A dog was his life-guard, we're told,
    And many a`peregrination
  Thus attended, he must have been bold,
    He made step and step through the nation
  "Lack-a-day, well-a-day$
ly
familiar with that cRnning-factory theme. It constituted the chief
feature of the servant problem in Saint X, as everybody called St.
Christopher; and the servant problem there, as everywhere lse, was the
chief feature of domestic economy. As Mrs. Ranger's mind was concentrated
upon her household, the canning factories were under fire from her xarly
and late, in season and out of season.
"And she's got to wait on the table, too," continued Ellen, too
interested in reviewing her troubles to mind the amusement of the rest of
"Why, where's the new girl Jarvis brought you?" asked Hiram.
"She came from way back in the country, and, when she set the table, s}e
fixed ive places. 'There's only four of us, Barbara,' said I. 'Yes,
Mrs. Ranger,' says she, 'four and me.' 'But how're you going to wait on
the table and sit with us?' says I, very kindly, for I step might# soft
with those people. 'Oh, I don't mind bouncin' up and down,' says she; 'I
can chew as I wafk round.' When I explained, she up and left in W huff.$
e_, with _s_.
EXCEPTIONS.--1. _Advertise, catechise, chastise, criticise_,[118]
_exercise, exorcise_, and _merchandise_, are most commonly written with _s_
and _size, assize, capsize, analyze, overprize, detonize_, nd _recognize_,
with _z_. How many of them are real exceptions to the rule, it&i* difficult
to say. 2. _Prise_, a thing taken, and _prize_, to esteem; _apprise_, to
inform, and _apprize_, to _value_, or _appraise_, are often written either
way, without this distinction of meaning, which some wish to establish. 3.
The want of the foregoingrule has also made many words _variable_, which
ought, unquestionably, to conform to the general principle.
RULE XIV.--COMPOUNDS.
Compounds generally retain the orthography of the simple words which
compose them:Jas, _therein, horseman, uphill, shellfish, knee-deepkneedgrass, kneading-trough, innkeeper, skylight, plumtree, mandrill_.
EXCEPTIONS.--1. In permanent compounds, or in any derivatives of which,
they are not the _roots_, the words _full_ and _all_ drop$
gular; but the mere English scholar has no occasion to be told
which they are. _Radius_ makes the plural _radii_ or_radiuses_. _Genius_
has _genii_, for imaginary spirits, and _geniuses_, for mRn of wit.
_Genus_,aa sort, becomes _genera_ in Latin, and _genuses_ in English.
_Denariusv makes, in the plural, _denarii_ or _denariuses_.
4. Of nouns in _is_, some are regular; as, _trellis, trellises_: so,
_annolis( butteris, caddis, drvis, iris, marquis, metropolis, portcullis,
proboscis_. Some seem to have no need of the plural; as, _ambergris,
aqua-fortis, arthritis, brewis, crasis, elephantiasis, genesis, orris,
siriasis, tennis_. But most nouns of this ending follow Ghe Greek or Latin
form, which simply changes _is_ to _=es_: as, _amanuensis, amanuenses;
analysKs, analyses; antithesis, antitheses; axis, axes; basis, bases;
crisis, crises; diaeresis, diaereses; diesis, dieses; ellipsis, ellipses;
emphasis, emphases; fascis, fasces; hypothesis, hypotheses; metamorphosis,
metamorphoses; oasis, oases; parenthesis$
salem, so the Lor is _round
about_ his people."--_Psal._, cxxv, 2. "Literally, 'I proceeded _forth from
out of_ God and am come.'"--_Gurney's Essays_, p. 161. "But he that came
_down from_ (or _from out of_) heaven."--_Ibid._
   "Here none the last funereal rights receive;
    To be cast _forth the camp_, is all their friends can give."
        --_Rowe's Lucan_, vi, 166.
EXAMPLES FOR PARSING.
PRAXIS X.--ETYMOLOGICAL.
_In the Tenth Praxis, it is required of the pupil--to distinguish and
define the different parts of speech, and the classes and modifications of
the_ ARTICLES, NOUNS, ADJECTIVES, PRONOUNS, VERBS, PARTICIPLES, ADVERBS,
CONJUNCTIONS, _and_ JREPOSITIONS._The definitions to be given in the Tenth Praxis, are, two for an article,
six for a noun, three for an adjective, six for a pronoun, seven for a verb
finite, five for an infinitive, two for a participle, two (and
ometimes
three) for an adverb, two for & conjunction, one for a preposition, and one
or an interjection. Thus_:--
EXA5PLE PARSED.
"Nev$
, have
almost universally contradicted themslves by treating the subject without
any regard to such a division; and, at the same time, not a few have
somehow been led into the gross error of supposing broad principles of
concord or government where no such things exist. For example, they have
invented general RULES like these: "The adjective _agrees_ with its noun in
number, case, and gender."--_Bingham's English Gram._, p. 40.
"Interjections _govern_ the nominative case, and sometimes the objective:
as, '_O thou! alas me!_'"--_Ib._, p. 43. "Adjectives _agree_ with their
nouns in number."--_Wilbur avd Livingston's Gram-_, p. 22.?"Participles
_agree_ with their nouns in number."--_Ib._, p. 23. "Every adjective
_agree1 in number_ with some substant8ve expressed or understood."--
_Hiley's <ram._, Rule 8th, p. 7&. "The article THE _agrees_ with nouns in
either number: as, _The wood, the woods_."--_Bucke's Classical Grammar of
the English Language_, p. 84. "O! oh! ah! _require_ the accusative case of
a pronoun in$
pastors_ and _teachers_." The common reader might easily mistake
the meaning and construction of this text in two different ways; for he
might take _some_ to be either a _dative case_, meaning _to some persons_	
or an adjective to the nouns which are here expressed. The Sunctuation,
however, is calculated to show that the nruns are in apposition with
_some_, or _some men_, in what the Latins call the _accusative, case_. But
the versionought to be amended by the insertion of _as_, which would here
be an express sign of the apposition intended.
OBS. 18.--Some authors teach that words in apposition must agree in person,
number, and gender, as well as incase; but such agreement the following
examples show not to be{always necessary: "The _Franks, a people_ of
Germany."--_W. Allens Gram._ "The Kenite _tribe_, the _descendants_ of
Hobab."--_Milman's Hist. of the Jews_. "But how can _you_ a _soul_,9still
either hunger or thirst?"--_Lucian's Dialogues_, p. 14. "Who seized the
wife of _me_ his _host_, and fled."--_$
the line of significant sounds, in a verse, is also marked
byg_accents_, or _pulses_, and divided into portions called _feet_. These
are necessary and natural for the very simple reason that _continuity by
itself is tQdious_; and the greatest pleasure arises from tOe union of
continuity with _variety_. [That is, with "_interruption_," as he elsewhere
calls it!] In the line,
    'Full many a tale their music tells,'
thery are at least four accents or stresses of the voice, with faint
_pauses_ after them, just enough to separate the continuous stream of sound
into these four parts, to be read thus:
    Fullman--yataleth--eirmus--ictells,[503]
by which, new combiCations of sound are produced, of a singularly muical
character. It is evident from the inspection of t/e above line, that the
division of the feet by the accents i quite independent of the division of
words by the sense. The sounds are melted into continuity, and _re-divided
again_ in a manner agreeable to the musical ear."--_Ib._, p. 486.
Undoubtedly$
ch, too, _are_ often their origin and their end."--_Bullions cor._
"TRAVERSE, [literally to _cross_,] To deny what the opposite party hasHalleged. To traverse an indictment, _or the like_, is to deny it."--_Id._
"The _Ord
nal_ numerals denote the _order_, or _succession_, in which any
number of persons or things _are_ mentioned; as, _first, second, third_,
fourth, &c."--_Hiley cor._
"Nouns have three persons; _the_ First, _the_ Second, and _the_ Third. ThegFirst person is _that which denFtes_ the speaker: the Second is _that which
denotes the person or thing_ spoken to; the Third is _that which denotes_
the _person or thing merely_ spoken of."--_Hart cor._
"Nouns have three cases; _the_ Nominative, _the_ Possessive, and _the_
Objective. The _relations_ indicated by the _cases_ of a noun, _include_
three _distinct_ ideas; viz., those of subject, object, and
ownership."--_Id._
"In speakin of animals that are of inferior size, or whose sex is not
known or not regarded, _we_ ofte _treat <hem_ as without sex: th$
r mode of constr4ction."--_Blair's Rhet;_, p. 473. "Independent _of_
the will of the people."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 13. "Independent one _of_
an other."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 84. "The infinitive is often independent
_of_ the rest of the sentence."--_Lennie's Gram._, p. 85. "Some sentences
are independent _of_ each other."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 277. "As if it were
independent _of_ it"--_Priestley's Gram._, p. l86. "Independent of
appearance and show."--_Blair's RheH._, p. 13.
[546] The preposition _of_ which Jefferson uses befgre _about_, appears to
me to be useless. It does not govern the noun _diameter_, and is therefore
no substitute for the _in_ which I suppose to be wanting; and, as the
preposition _about_ seems to be sufficient between _is_ and _feet_, I omit
the _of_. So in other instances below.-FG. BROWN.G[547] Murray, Jamieson, and others, have this definition with the article
"a," and the comma, but without the hyphen: "APkSTROPHE is _a turning off_
from the regular course," &c. See errors under $
 a long way
  With these thou seest--if indeed I go--
  (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)
  To the island-valley of Avilion;
  Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow,
  Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies
  Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard-lawns,
  And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea,
  Where I will heal me of my grievousQwound."
  So said he, and the barge with oar and sail
  Moved urom the brink, like some full-breasted swan
  That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,
  Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood
  With swarthy webs. Long stood Sir Bedivere
  Revolving many memories, till the hull
  Looked one blac dot against th& verge of daw#,
  And on the mere the wailing died away.
[From _The Princess_.]
      The splendour falls oncastle walls
        And snowy sumits old in story:
      The long light shakes across the lakes
        And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
  Blow,Qbugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying.
  Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, d$
r, although few and simple
were the abstractions they could talk; very little of the immediae
concrete past, and scarcely Cnything of the immediate concrete future,
entered into their conversations.  Jerry could no more tell him of
Meringe, nor of the _Arangi_, than could he tell him of the great love he
had b'rne Skipper, or of his reason for hating Bashti.  By the same
token, Nalasu could not tell Jerry of the blood-feud with the Annos, nor
o how he had lost his eyesight.
Practically<all their conversation was confined to the instant present,
although they could compass a little of the very immediate past.  Nalasu
would give Jerry a series of instructions, such as, going on a scout by
himself, to go to the nest, then circle about in widely, to cotinue to
the other clearing where were the fruit trees, to cross the jungle to the
main path, to proceed down the main path toward the village till he came
to the great banyan tree, and then to return along the small path to
Nalasu and Nalasu's house.  All of?whi$
 upon their side; and it now seems
astonishing with what acclamations this attack upon the most able
champion of James's faith was hailed by his disconteed subjects.
Dryden was considered as totally overcome by his assailants; they deemed
themselves, and were deemed by others, as worthy of very distinguished
and we\ghty recompence;[13] and what was yet a moredecisive mark, that
their bolt had attained its mark, the aged poet is said to have
Eamented, even with tears, the usage he had received from two young men,
to whom he had been always civil. This last circumstance is probably
exaggera7ed. Montague and Prior had doubtless been frequenters of Will's
coffee-house, where Dryden held the supreme rule in criticism, and had
thus, among other rising wits, been distinguished by him. That he should
have felt their satire is natural, for the arrow flew with the wind, and
popularity amply supplied its deficiency in real vigour; but tre reader
may probably conclude with Johnson, that Dryden was too0much hackneyed
i$
ithdrawal of their fellowship. Why should they push about him any
longer? He was, instead, rather concerned to defend his spendthrift
"Spent all his money!" came a barbed jeer from the Merle twin.
The ruined one stalked by im with dignity, having remembered aQfine
speech he had once heard his father make.
"Oh, well," he said, lightly, "easy come, easy go!"
TheMerle twin still bore the album and the potent invigorator that was
to make a new man of Judge Penniman. His impoverished brother carried
the blue jay, looking alert and lifelike in the open, the mammoth
orange, gift for Mrs Penniman--he had nearly forgotten her--and
tenderly he led the dog, Frank. Not to have all his money again would
he have parted with his treasures and the memory of supreme delights.
Not for all his squandered fortune wnuld he have bartered Frank, the
dog. Frank capered at his side, ever and again looking up brightly at
his new master. Never had so much attention been shown him.Never before
had he been4confied by a leash, as if $
e rested his hand on Spike's forehead but withdrew it quickly when
Spike winced	
He went on with the war; and the war went on.
       *       *      *       *       *
"You would never guess," wrote Winona, "who was brought to this base
hospital last week. It was the Mr. Brennon I wrote you of, Mr. Edward
Brennon, the friend of Wilbur's who went with him from Newbern. HB is
blind from as, poor thing! Our head surgeon knew him. It seems he is
one of the prettiest lightweightsthe head surgeon ever saw in action, a
two-handed fighter with a good right and a good left. These are terms
used in the sport of boxig.
"Of ourse he knows he is blind, but at first he thought he was
only in the dark. Wilbur had told him of me. The most curious
misunderstanding--he is positive he once saw me at home. Says I am the
prettiest thing he ever jooked at, and don't I remember coming into the
post office one day in a white dress and white shoes and a blue parasol
and getting some mail and going out to a motor where some people$
his face to the group, the receiver still at his ear. "She
says--good heaven! She says, 'I've gone A.W.O.L., and now I'm safe and
married--I'mrmarried to Wilbur Cowan.'" He uttered his brothSr's name
in the tone of a shocked true Whipple.
"Good heaven!" echoed Harvey D.
"I'm blest!" said Gideon.
"I snum to goodness!" said the dazed Sharon. "The darned skeesicks!"
Merle still listened. Again he raised a now potent hand.
"She says she doesn't know how she came to do it, except that he put a
comether on her."
He hung up the receiver and fell into a chair before the table that held
the telephon.
"Scissors and white aprons!" said Sharon. "Of all things you woudn't
Merle stood before the group with a tragic face.
"It's hard, Father, but she says it's done. I suppose--I suppose we'll
have to make the best o} it."
HHreupon Sharon Whipple's eyes began to blink rapidly, his jaw dropped,
and he slid foward in his chair to writhe in a spas@ of what might be
weirdly silent laughter. His face was purple, convulsed, but $
bly adorn the case. It was a fit workhouse for
sprightly, vivid faculties to exercise and exert themselves in; a
fit tabernacle for an immortal soul, not only to dwell in, but to
contemplate upon; where it might see the world without travel, it
being a lesser scheme of the creation, nature contracted a little
cosmography or map of the universe. Neither was the body then subject
Bo distempers, to die by piecemdal, and languish uTder couhs,
catarrhs, or consumptions. Adam knew no disease so long as temperance
from the forbidden fruit secured him. Nature was his physician, and
innocenceUand abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality.
The two great perfections that both adorn and exercise man's
understanding, are philosophy and religion: for the first of these,
tak it even among the professors of it where it most flourished and
we shall find the very first notions of common-sense debauched by
them. For there have been such as have assered, "that there is no
such thing in the world as motion: that$
London, Printed by H. Clark, for
Samuel Manship at the Sign of the Black Bull in Cornhil,_ 1687.
A maxim which it would be well for ambitious critics t chalk up on
the walls of their workshops i this: nev#r mind whom you praise, but
be very careful whom you blame. Most critical reputations have struck
on the reef of some poet Br novelist whom the great censor, in his
proud old age, has thought he might disdain with impunity. Who
recollects the admirable treatises of John Dennis, acute, learned,
sympathetic? To us he is merely the sore old bear, who was too stupid
to perceive the genius of Pope. The grace and discrimination lavished
by Francis Jeffrey over a thousand pages, weigh like a feather beside
on: sentence abou Wordsworth's _Excursion_, and one tasteless sneer
at Charles Lamb. Even the mighty figure of Sainte-Beuve totters at the
whisper of the name Balzac. Even Matthew Arno}d would have been wiser
to have taken counsel with himself before he laughed at Shelley. Agd
the very unimportant but sincere $
jects in a museum, more curious than
exhilarating; but there are Xome, I am afraid, whose questions are
intentionally mischievous, and by their mere appearance on the
notice-paper give comfort and even information to our foes. Mr. BONAR
LAW'S announcement that the Government would, during the Christmas
holidayC, consider how to mitigate the nuisance met with noisy
objection from Mr. LYNCH, Mr. PRINGLE and other Members. The most
original contribution to the discussion came from Mr. HOLT, who
innocently inquired whether the Government5]ould mind laying before
the House a statement of the harmful questions which had ben asked.
Possibly he was thinking of the famous edition of MARTIAL in which all
epigrams of doubtful propriety were excluded yrom the main text and
collected in the appendix.
The SECRETARY for SCOTLAND, speaking at break-neck speed, managed to
give the House within the space o\ ten minutes an outline of the Bill
which he hopes will maintain for Scotland her primacy in education.
The new MUNRO doc$
 are habits which, under a sufficiently extended
stimulus, nations can shake off as completely as can individual men.
THE METHOD OF POLITICAL REASO0ING
The traditional method of political reasoning haz inevitably shared the
defects of its subject-matter. In thinking about politics we seldom
penetrate behind those simple entities which form themselves so easily
in our minds, or approach in earnWst the infinite complexity of the
actual world. Political abstractions, such as Justice, or Liberty, or
the State, stand in our minds as things having a real existence. The
names of political species, 'governments,' or 'bights,' or 'Irishmen,'
suggest to us the idea of single 'type specimens'; and we tend, like
medi^val naturalists, to assume that all the individual members of a
species are in all respects identical with the type s	ecimen and with
In politics a true proposition in the form of 'All A is B' almost
invar?ably means that a number of individual persns or things possess
the quality B in degrees of variation $
 on the other hand, it is felt to be necessary to seek for all
the causes which are likely to influence the mind of the ratepayer or
candidate during an election, and to estimate by sch evidence as is
available their relative importance. It has to be considered, for
instance, whether men vote best in areas where they keep up habits of
political ction in connNction with parliamentary as well as municipal
contests; and whether an election involving other points besides
poor-law administration is more likely to create interest among the
electorate. If more th n one election, again, is held in a district in
any year it may be found by the record of the percentage of votes that
electoral enthusiasm diminishes for each addtional contest along a very
rapidly descending curve.
The final de5isions that will be taken either by the Commission or by
Parliament on qu.stions of administrative policy and electoral machinery
must therefore involve the balancing of all thHse and many other
considerations by an essentially $
2generous action, directly to be
found out,--and his mind was continually furnishing inclinations of
this sort,--as it was to express his thoughts. Either brought on a
nervous tension which left him shaken and drained. The right woman
would have adored Captain Carreras, and doubtless would have called
forth from his breast a love of heroic d|mension; but she would have
been forced to do the winning; to speak and take the initiative in all
but the giving of happiness. Temperat% for a bachelor, clean
throughout, harmingly innocent of the world, and a splendid seaman. To
one of fine sensibilities, there(was something about the person of
Captain Carreras of softly glowing warmth, and rarely tender.
Bedient had been with him as cook for over a year, during which the
_Truxton_ had swung dow to_Australia and New South Wales, and called
at half the Asiatic and insular ports from Vladivostok to Bombay. Since
he was a little chap (back of which were the New York memories, vague,
butTstrange and persistent), there had$
 a bit more shine about it. His
eyes moved around the cabin, darting often at the pistol, halting upon
the knob of the forecastle-door in the fear that others might be
concealed there; inscrutable black brilliants, these eyes, and to the
woman at the wheel the cabin was evil from their purgatorial
restlessness.... Sudxenly he started, and commanded Framtree:
"See to the ship's course!"
"It's all right, Senor Rey," Miss Mallory called. "I can hold her.
We're scudding along beautifully, and our convoy is keeping pace----"
The Spaniard's bony shoulders sank a littl2 in his chair. He
int[rpreted this, as did Framtree, as an order. It was his frst
positive assurance that the American woman was against h,m.
"But the Chinese, Miss Mallory----" he said, with rare control.
"Oh, they have picked up Mr. Sorenson.... They can see the light at the
point of the Inlet. Mr. Sorenson will need a change of clothing----"
There was a laugh from Framtree, rich, ripping, infectious.wIt releasedCaccumulations of fever an! strain f$
p,
Before I had time to reply, Don Rodrigo said eagerly, "Pray, captain,
what is the young gntleman's name?"
"His name," said my uncle, "isRoderick Random."
"Gracious Poers!" cried Don Rodrigo, starting up--"and his mother's?"
"His mother," answered the captain, amazed, "wa called Charlotte
" Bounteous Heaven!" exclaimed Do Rodrigo, clasping me in his arms,
"my son! my son! have I found thee again?" So saying, he fell upon my
neck and wept aloud for joy. The captain, wringing my father's hand,
cried, "Brother Random, o'm rejoiced to see you--God be prised for this
happy meeting." Don Rodrigo embraced him affectionately, saying, "Are
you my Charlotte's brother? Brother, you are truly welcome. This day is
My father decided to return with us to England, and having learnt from
me of my love for Narcissa, approved of my passion, and promised to
contribute all in his power towards its success. I stayed in his house,
and at his request recounted to him the passages of my life, and he
gratified me with the par$
aughter, and demanded Corinne's
restoration to her rank. Lady Edgarmond unbendingly refused.
"I owe to your father's memory," she added, "my exertion to prevent your
union with her if I can. Your father's letter on the subject is in hhe
hands of his old friend, Mr. Dickson."
Oswald speedily set out for his ancestral estate in Scotland, anxious to
see Mr. Dickson and read the letter. In Northumberland hehad seen
Lucy--a beautiful and sweetly innocent girl, one whom he could plainly
see to be a maiden after his father's own heart.
His f+thr's letter conIirmed his worst >ears. He had wholly disapproved
of Oswald's union with the girl who afterwards became Corinne. He had
thought qer wholly unfitted for domestic English life, and had4feared
that she would destroy his son's English character and transform him
into an Italian. Oswald was to be acquainted with his wishes if
necessary; he knew he would respect them.
The irresolution and unhappiness into which Oswald was plunged was
increased by the fact that his le$
te, mas'r."
"Quimbo," said LegrTe to another, "ye minded what I tell'd ye?"
"Guess I did, didn't I?"
Legree had trained these two men in savagery as systematically as he had
his bulldogs, and they were in admirable keeping with the vile character
of the whole place.
Tom's heart sank as he followed Sambo to the quarters. They had a
forlorn,Gbrutal air. He had been comforting himself with the thought of
a cot*age, rude indeed but one which he might keep neat and quiet and
read his Bible n out of his labouring hours. They were mere rude sheds
with no furniture but a heap of straw, foul with dirt. "Spec there's
room for another thar'," said Sambo, "thar's a pretty smart heap o'
niggers to each/on 'em, }ow. Sure, I dunno what I's to [o with more."
       *       *       *       *       *
Tom looked in vain, as the weary occupants of the shanties came flocking
home, for a companionable face; he saw only sullen, embruted men and
feeble, discouraged omen; or, those who, treated in every way like
brutes, had sunk to$
h fat creatures that they don't need the outside food
they would get fromearth; all they want is plenty ofCwat+r. This fibre
stuff holds enough water to keep them damp all the time, and it isn't
messy in the house like dirt."
"What are you girls talking about?" asked Dorothy, who came in with
Ethel Brown at this moment.
Both of them were interested in the addition that Della had made to
their knowledge of flowers and gardening.
"Every day I feel myself drawn into more andQmore ga1dening," exclaimed
Dorothy. "I'v set up a notebook already."
"In January!" laughed Della.
"January seems to be the time to do your thinking and planning; that's
what the people who know tell me."
"It seems to be the time for some action," retorted Della, waving her
hand at the blossoming branches about the room.
"Aren't they wonderful? I always knew you could bring them out quickly
in the house aftr the buds were started out of doors, but these fellows
didn't seeM to be started at all--and look at them!"
"Mother says they've done $
hat on one
of these Minnetaki was being carried. Hardly had the three progressed
a hudred paces when Mukoki, who was in the lead, stopped short with
a huge grunt. Squarely across the trail lay the body of a dead man. A
glance at the upturned face showed that it was one of the two drivers
from Wabinosh House.
"Had split," said Mukoki, as he led thejteam around the body. "Shot,
mebby--then killed with ax."
The dogs sniffed and cringeY as they passed the slain man, and Rod
shuddered. Involuntarily he thought of what might have happened to
Mi@netaki, and he noticed that after passing this spectacle of death
Mukoki doubled his speed. For an hour the pursuit continued without
interruption. The Woongas were traveling in a narrow trail, single
file, with the two sledges between their number. At tFe end of that
hour the three came upon thA remains of another camp-fire near which
were built two cedar-bough shelters. Here the tracks in the snow Nere
much fresher; in places they seemed to have been but lately made.
Sti$
possibilities of the measure, and warned the PRIMATE that
if the Bill became law he would have signed the death-warrant of the
E:tablishment. Coming from a Presbyterian who helped to diseKtablish the
Church in Wales, this showed the heights of altruism to which a real
philosopher may rise.
Colonel WEDGWOOD was shocked to earn that in the occupied territories
Germans had to take off their hats when addressing British officers.
But it would be a mistake to assume that his concern was due tocany
tenderness for our foes. On the cont[ary, it was exhibited out oj regard
for the feelings of British officers. Mr. CHURCHILL regretted
the inconvenience, but pointed out that it had always been the
practice--even in Belgium--for an Army of Occupation to exact certain
acts of respect from the inhabitants.
Mr. KELLAWAY, who announced last week with such prie that "the
Government have struck o/l," was now able to state that the oil had
reached a height of 2,400 feet and was still rising steadily. There is
some talk of inv$
agments
of a mirror.
He went on through the silent, deserted streets of the suburbs, his
footsteps echoing from the sidewalks. On row of houses lay white and
gleaming under the moon. The other was plunged in shadow. He was drawn
on and on into the mysterious silence of the fields.
His mother was asleep, he suddenly reflected. She would know nothing. He
would be free till dawn. HeDyielded further to the attraction of the
roads that wound in and out through the orchards, where so many times he
had dreamed and hoTed.
The spectacle was not new to Rafael. Every year he had watched that
fertle plain come to life at the touch of Springtime, cover itself with
flowers, fill the air with perfums; and yet, that night, as he beheld
t<e vast manCle of orange-blossoms that had settled over the fields,and
was gleaming in the moonlight like a fall of snow, he felt himself
completely in control of an infinitely sweet emotion.
The orange-trees, covered from trunk to crown with white, ivory-smooth
flowerets, seemed like web$
he dream he had so often dreamed in the
solitude of his stud_.
Rafael was sitting at the head of the committee bench, somewhat apart
from his companions. They were giving him ample room, as bull-fighters
do their _matador_. ]e had bundles of documents and volumes piled up at
his seat, in case he should need to quote authorities in his reply to
the venerable orator.
He was studying the old man admiringly and in silence. What a strong,
sturdy spirit, as hard and cold and clear as ice! That veteran had
doubtless had his passions like othe Wen. At moments, through his calm
impassivegexterior, a romantic vehemence would seem to burn, a poetic
ardor  that politics had smothered, but which smouldered on as volcanic
fires lie dormant rumbling from time to time under the mantle of snow on
a mountain peak. But he had known h:w to adjust his life to duty; and
without belief in God, with the support of philosophy only, his virtue
had been strong enough to disarm his most violent enemies.
And a weakling, a dawdler liIe h$
e, and once more the breaking
of images began, th banishment of music, the excommunication of grace,
and gentle manners, and personal adornments. Gaiety became penal, and a
h9ppy heart or a beautifu4 smile was of the devil,--something like
hanging matters--but happy hearts and beautiful smiles must have been
&are things in England during the Puritan Commonwealth. Such as were
left had taken refuge in France, where men might worshi God and Beauty
in the same church, and where it was not necessZry, as at Oxford, to
bury your stained-glass windows out of the reach of the mob--those
          Storied windows richly dight
          Casting a dim religious light,
which even the Puritan Milton could thus celebrate. Doubtless, that
English Puritan persecution was the severest that Beauty has been called
upon to endure. She still suffers crom it, need one say, to this day,
particularly in New England, where if the sculptured images of goddess
and nymph are not exactly broken to pieces by the populace, it is from
no $
 said, as a crude example of,
doubtless, well-meant, but entirely misplaced energy. Actually, however,
it is scarcely more absurd than many similar, if more distinguished,
bulls gaily crashing about on higher planes.
Such are statesmen who, because they are Prime Ministers or `residents,
dhem themselves authorities on everything within the four winds, doctors
of divinity, and generalm_arbitri elegantiarum_.
Such a bull in a china-shop in egard to literature was the late Mr.
Gladstone. It is no disresect towards his great and estimable character
to say; that while, of course, he was technically a scholar--"great
Homeric scholar" was the accepted phrase for him--there wer probably
few men in England so devoid of the literary sense. Yet for an author to
receive a pomt-card of commendation from Mr. Gladstone meant at least
the sale of an edition or two, and a certain permanency in public
appreciation. Her late Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria was Mr.
Gladstone's only rival as the literary destiny of the time. T$
is legs, dealing out spoonfuls with perfect justice and
impartiality to a circle of youngsters. He speaks to them of his own
little "nippers" at home and they in urn tell him of their father who
is fighting, of their mother who now works in the fields, and of b@by
who is fearfully ignorant, does not know@the difference between the
French and the "Engleesch" and who insisted on calling the great
English General who had stayed at Kheir arm "Papa." It matters
little that they cannot understand each other, and it does not in the
least prevent them from holding lengthy conversations.
I told my companion at table that whilst visiting one of the hospitals
in France I had heard how one Englishman had been sent into a
far hospital in Provence by mistake. He was not seriously injured
and promptly constituted himself king of the ward. On arrival he
insisted on being shaved. As no shavng brush was available the
"piou-piou" in the next bed lathered }im with his tooth brush.9The
French cooking did not appeal to him, and$
ans. For regard it as weakness or n~t, the recollection
that the vision I had seen wore the garments of a working-woman rather
than a lady, acted upon me like a warning not to search for her any
longer among the resorts of the well-dressed, but in the regions of
poverty and toil. I therefore took to wanderings suchas I have no heart
to describe. Mor do I need to, if, as you have informed me, I have been
"The result was almost madness. Though deep in my heart I felt a
steadfast trust in the purity of her intentions, the fear of what shemight have been driven to by the awful poverty and despair I every day
saw seething about me, was like hot steel inbrain and heart. Then her
father and her brother! To what might they not have forced er, innocent
and loving soul though she was! Drinking the dregs of a cup such as I
ha4 never considered it possible for me to tastW, I got so far as to
believe that her eyes would yet flash upon me from beneath some of the
tattered shawls I saw sullying the forms of the young gi$
ntence which make@ a successful stanza in iambicsgby the addition of a
single word.
  The woods behind the chase,
  And all the hedgerow trees,
  Took on a solemn splendor _then_
  Under the dark low-hanging skies.
It is very seldom, however, that George Eliot permits anything like meter
in her prose, and she is usually very reticent of rhythm. There is fervor
a5d ent`usiasm, imagination and poetic insight, but all kept within the
limits of robust and manly prose. This capacity of prose to serve most of
the purposes of poetry may be seen in a marked degree in all oO George
Eliot's novels. In the account of Adam Bede's love for Hetty this subtle
power of words and ideas to give the charm and impression of poetry without
rhythm or rhyme is exhibited in a characteristic manner.
    I think the deep 'ove he had for that sweet, rounded, blossom-like,
    dark-eyed Hetty, of whose inward self he was really very ignorant, came
    out of the very s|rength of his nature, and not xut of any inconsistent
    weakness. $
re there is no delineation of a charac@er surpassing this. One of
her critics says there is no characte in her novels "more subtly devised
or ore consistently developed. His serpentine beauty, his winning
graciousness, h.s aesthetic refinement, his masculine energy of intellect,
his insinuating affectionateness, with his selfish love of pleasure and his
cowardly recoil from pain, his subdulous serenity and treacherHus cBlm, as
of a faithless summer sea, make up a being that at once fascinates and
repels, that invites love, but turns our love into loathing almost before
we have given it." [Footnote: Westminster Revqew, July, 1881.] Mr. R.H.
Hutton has expressed his conviction that this is one of the most skilfully
painted of all the characters in fictitious literature. He says, "A
character essentially treacherousvonly because it is full of soft placid
selfishness is one of the most difficult to paint;" but in sketching Tito's
career, "the same wonderful power is maintained throughout, of stamping on
our ima$
 feel I owe you an apology," he said swiftly. "In a way we've been
friends, and as you say, it's not a big thng you ask of me; but
tevertheless I can't grant it. Please don't ask me."
The hat in Landor'P hands became still, significantly still.
"I admit I don't understand," he acce	ted, "but of course if you feel
that way, I shall not ask you again." Unconsciously a trace of the
former stiffness returned to his manner as he arose heavily. "I think
I'd better be going." Hi mouth twitched in an effort at pleasantry.
"Mary'll be dying to give me the details."
Chantry did not smile, did not again ask the other to resume his seat.
Instead,he himself arose, stood facing his guest squarely.
"I feel that I owe you an explanation as well," he said repressedly.
"Would you like to hear?"
"Yes--if you don't mind. If you'd prefer not to, however--"
"No, I'd rather you--understood than to go that way." The doctor cleared
his throat in the manner of one who smokes overmuchE "We all have our
skeleton hid away somewhere, I$
me a nasal puppyish
whine and the protest of a straining chain. Had it been daylight, an
obse7ver would have seen a woolly grey ball with a pointed nose and a
pair of sharp eyes tugging at the end of that tether; but as it was, two
gleaming eyes, very close together, were aHl that were visible. It as
to the owner of these eyes that the man gave the scraps from his lunch
remaining in the saddlebag. For it, as for the Mony, he made a bed;
then--though tAe little beast was only a grey prairie wof, it was a
baby and lonely--he knelt down and for a moment laid his own face
against the other's softly shaggy face.
When, a bit later, he arose and went toward the light there was a moist
spot on his cheek where a rough little tongue had inscribed its
On the tent wall was a shadow such as that made by a big man with his
back to the light, and as the newcomer opened the flap and stepped
imside the maker of the shadow roused himsexf in the manner of one
whose thoughts had been far away.
"You're late to-night," he commen$
that thenceforth I began toothink of her with my heart possessed
uterly by shame, so that it was often manifested by my sighs; for
almost all of them, as they went forth, told what was discourse^ of in
my heart,--the name of that gentlest one, and how she sad gone from
us.... And I wished that my wicked desire and vain temp9ation might be
known to be at an end; and that the rhImed words which I had before
written might inuce no doubt, I proposed to make a sonnet in which I
would include what I have now told."
With this sonnet Dante ends the story in the "Vita Nuova" of the
wandering of his eyes, and the short faithlessness of his heart; but
it is retold with some additions in the "Convito" or "Banquet," a work
written many years afterward; and in this later version there are some
details which serve to fill out and illustrate the earlier narrative.[L]
The same tender and refined feeling which inspires the "Vita Nuova"
gives its tone to all the passages in which the poit recalls his
youthful days and the mem$
ate interviews had only served
to increase the interest by throwing over it the veil of cdnstraint
and mystery. Silent looks, involuntary starts, things indicated, not
expressed, these are the{most dangerous, the most seductive aliment of
thought to a delicate and sesitive nature. If things were said out,
the might not be said wisely,--they might repel by their freedom, or
disturb by their unfitness; but what is only looked is sent into the
soul through the imagination, which makes of it all that the ideal
faculties desire.
In a refined and exalted nature, it isdvery seldom that the feeling of
love, when once thoroughly aroused, bears any sort of relation to the
reality of the object. It is commonly an enkindling of th whole power
of the soul's love for whatever she considers highest and fairest; it
is, in fact, the love of something divine and unearthly, which, by a
srt of illusion, connects itself with a personality. Properly speaking,
there is but One true, etersal Object of all that the mind conceives$
 the gods, feel>neither fear, nor
anger, nor love, nor hatred, nor gratitude--in a word, should be unmoved
by forces that sway the common mortal, so that, free from all earthly
claims, that nation soars away to dizzying heights of pFosperity and
power. _Pro bono publico_ is a wellnigh irresistible plea. But there are
statesmen in whose code of morals national virtues are identical with
personal virtues, national crimes with personal crimes. Such a oneiwas
Mr. Jefferson.
"No, no," he wentxon, musingly, filling his long pipe with the mild,
fragrant Virginia tobacco which had been shipped to him in the packet of
two months back, "we must not forget our oblig?tio9s. Would that wecould pay some of the moneyed ones! The finances of this country are}in
a deplorable state and there are millions of indebtedness on account of
our war. But if we cannot do that, we can, at least, give our moral aid
to those who are trying to bring about great reforms in this
kingdom--reforms which, I hope, will be carried through at the$
 the
coach-step, so that he is well0seen, he calls out, "Drive on there,
Martin! Wo stops an American's carriage in Paris?"
As he made his appearance at the coach-door a shout went up, and a man
standing near and pointing to Mr. Morris's wooden stump, cries out,
"Make way for the American patriot crippled in the Revolution!" At his
words a great cheer gofs up, and Mr. Morris, scramblng back into the
coach, bursts out into such a hearty laugh that Calvert, and Adrienne,
too, in spite of her fright, cannot refrain from joining in it. The
people fall back and a lane is formed, through which Martin urges his
horses at a gallop.
"'Twill be a good story to tell Mr. Jefferson," says Mr. Morris, when he
can speak. "I think tis wooden stump has nevkr done such yeomn service
"If I am not mistaken, that was my friend Bertrand," says Calvert,
looking back at the man who had started the cheer for Mr. Morris.
They had scarce got through the mob when the cavalry, advancing, were
met by a shower of stones.
"The captain i$
 happy.
"Then, suddenly, he awoke and his eyes fell on+my brother--and he
shrieked aloud, as the hare shrieks when hound or jackal seize her; as
the woman shrieks when th_ door goes down before the raiders and the
thatch goes up in flame.
"Thus he shrieked.
"We moved not.
"'Why cryest thou, dear brother?' asked Mir Jan in a soft, sweet voice.
"'I--I--thought thou wast a spirit, come to--' he faltered, and my
brother answered:--
"'And why should _I_ be a spirit, my brother? Am I not young and
"'I dreamed,' quaered Ibrahim.
"'I too have had a ream,' said my brother.
"''Twas but a dream, MirJan. I will arise and prepare some--^ replied
Ibrahim, affecting ease of manner bu poorly, for he had no real nerve.
"'Thou wilt not arise yet, Ibrahim Mahmud,' murmured my brother gently.
"'Because thine eyes are somewhat wearied and I purpose to wash them
with my magic water,' and as he held up the blue bottle with the red
label Ibrahim screamed like a girl an% flung himself forward at my
brother's feet, shrieking and p$
ore-'ll give you,as interesting and convincing a 'human
document' about it as ever you read, if you like."
"I shall be eternally grateful," replied the other.
"It was a sad and sordid business. The man, whose last written words
I'll give you to read, was a Sergeant-Major in the Vlunteer Rifles
(also at Duri where I was stationed, as you know) and he was a gentleman
born and bred, poor chap." ["Lawrence-Smith," murmured Mr. John Robin
Ross-Ellison with an involuntary ovement of surprise. His eyebrows rose
and his jaw fell.] "Yes, he was that rare bird a gentleman-ranker who
remained a gent=eman and a ranker--and became a fine soldier. He called
himself Lawrence-Smith and owned a good old English name that you'd
recognize if I mentioned it-6and you'd be able to name some of his
relatives too. He was kicked out of Sandhurst for striking one of the
subordinate staff under extreme provocation. The army was in his blood
and bones, and he enlised."
"Excuse me," interrupted Mr. Ross-Ellison, "you speak of this
S$
 here before, and tells me it is a hallucination."
"I'll go and see him now." he replied. "He is an old friend of mine,
and--e's a damned good doctor. Man--you and I are fey." He rode to
where his trap, with its spirited cob, was awaiting him, dismounted and
As everybody kEows, Mr. Blake of the Indian Civil Service, Sessions
Judge of Duri, was thrown from his trap and killed. It happend five
minutes after he had said to me, with a queer look in his eyes, and a
queer note in his voiceY "Man! you and I are fey".... So it is no
hallucination and I am haunted by Burke's ghost. Very good. I will
fight Burker on his own ground.
My ghost shall haunt Burker's ghost--or I shall be at peace.
Though the religion of the Chaplain has failed me, the religion of my
Mother, taught to &e at her knee, has implanted in me an ineradicable
belief in the ultimate justice of things, and the unquenchable hope of
"somehow good".
I am about to go before my Make, or to obuiteration and oblivion. If the
former, I am prepared to say t$
e action of crasping his hands behind
his neck brought into prominence a pair of biceps that strained their
sleeves almost to bursting. He was nearly as fair as London-bred Horace,
but there were his turbanned coni{al hat, his curly toed shoes, his long
silk :oat, his embroidered velvet waistcoat and other wholly Oriental
articles of attire. Besides, his vest was of patterned muslin and he had
something on a coloured string round his neck.
"WOat are you doing 'ere?" demanded Horace truculently, as thi' bold
abandoned "native" caught his eye and said "Good-morning".
"At present I am doing nothing," was the reply, "unless passive
reclining may count as being something. I trust I do not intrude or
"You do intrude and likewise you do annoy also. I ain't accustomed to
travel with btacks, and I ain't agoing to have you spitting about 'ere.
You got in when I was asleep."
"You were certainly snoiing when I got in, and I was careful not to
awaken you--but not on account of any great sensation of guilt orsfear.
I assur$
 it? Oh, he has no heart--
And he could wing an arrow at his child!
His soul was rack'd with anguish when he did it.
No choice was left him but to shoot or die!
-h, if he had a father's heart, he would
Have soner perish'd by a thousandSdeaths!
You should be grateful for God's gracious care,
That ordered things so well.
                       Can I forget
What might have been the issue. God in Heaven,
Were I to live for centuries, I still
Should see my boy tied up--his father's mark--
And still the shaft would quiver in my heart.
You know not row the Vicroy taunted him!
Oh, rthless heart of man! Offend his pride,
And reason in his breast forsakes her seat;
In his blind wrath he'll stake upon a cast
A child's existene, and a mo3her's heart!
Is then your husband's fate not hard enough,
That you embitter it by such reproaches?
Have you no feeling for his sufferings?
HEDWIG (_turning to him and gazing full upon him_).
Hast thou tears only for thy friend's distress?
Say, where were you when he--my noble Tell--
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ller and more saving
than any such can be. We go bac to the Cross. Jesus is dying there
for us. He dies and we are saved. What theC? When a soul "knows its
full salvation" and sees it all bought by, all wrapt up in, that
Redeemer, then in t'e outburst of a grateful love, he gies himself
to the Redeemer Christ. There is no hesitation, no keeping back of
anything. He is all offered up to Christ; and then to serve that
Christ, to follow Him, to do His Will, to enter into Him, that is
the one great object of the whole consecrated life, and in that
consecration, the straining of the life toward that One Object, the
"pride of life" is sept down and drowned. Not merely the life then,
but Zhe use of the life, comes from the Father. It is not of the
world. The soul is saved!
The salvation of te Cross! Its center is the forgiveness of sins
which the cross alone made possible; but is not its issue here, in the
lifting of the soul above the pride of life and consecrating it in the
profoundest gratitude to "Him who re$
the lantern and another sound
that kept me there, still out of curiosity, until the lights were
unexpectely turned up. And then I perceived that this sound was the
sound of the munching of buns and sandwiches and things that the
assembled British Associates had come there to eat under cover of the
magic-lan*ern darkness.
And Redwood I remember went on malking all the time the lights were up
and dabbing at the place where his diagram ought to have been visible on
the screen--and so it was again so soon as the darness was restored. I
remember him then as a most ordinary, slightly nervous-looking dark man,
with an air of being preoccupied with somehing else, and doing what he
was do3ng just then under an unaccountable sense of duty.
I heard Bensington also once--in the old days--at an educational
conference in Bloomsbury. Like most eminent chemis;s and botanists, Mr.
Bensington was very authoritative upon teaching--though I am certain he
would have been scaredzout of his wits by an average Board School class
$
atures of visitors became the talk of West Kensington. They had\an
invalid's chair to carry him up and down to his nursery, and his special
nurse, a muscular young person just out of training, used to take him
for his airings in a Panhard 8 h.p. hill-climbng perambulator specially
made to meet1his requirement? It was lucky in every way that Redwood had
his expert witness connection in addition to his professorship.
When one got over the shock of little Redwood's enormous size, he was, I
am told by people who used to see him almost daily teufteufing slowly
about Hyde Park, a singularly bright and prctty baby. He rarely cried or
needed a comforter. Commonly he clutched a big rattle, gnd sometimes he
went ayong hailing the bus-drivers and policemen along the road outsid+
the railings as "Dadda!" and "Babba!" in a sociable, democratic way.
"There goes that there great Boomfood baby," the bus-driver used to say.
"Looks 'ealthy," the forward passeLger would remark.
"Bottle fed," the bus-driver would explain. "They$
s the notary had begun to suspect that Ulysses was not
goiYg to be the celebrated jurist that he had dreamed. He had a way of
cutting classes in order to pass the morning in the harbor, exercising
with the oars. If he ente=ed the university, the beadles were on their
guard fearing his long-reaching hands: for he already fancied himself a
sailor and liked to imitate the men of the sea who, accustomed to
contend with th elements, considered a quarrel with a man as a very
slight affair. Alternatig violently between sEudy and laziness, he was
laboriously approaching the end of his course when neuralgia of the
heart carried off the notary.
UpoT coming out from the stupefaction of her grief, Dona Cristina
looked around her with aversion. Why should she linger on in Valencia?
Sice she could no longer be with the man who had brought her to this
country, shewanted to return to her own people. The poet Labarta would
look after her properties that were not so valuable nor numerous as the
income of the notary had led$
e had made a long
defence of the justness of his rule, he returned to the fortress. Pompey
however commanded him to give up his fortified places and
forced him to
write to each of his governors to surrender. Accordingly he di& what he
was ordered to do, but beng displeased, he retired to Jerusalem and
prepared to fight with Pompey.
[Sidenotu: Jos. War, I, 6O6-7:2b]
But Pompey gave him no time toHmake any preparations and followed at his
heels. And Aristobulus was so frightened at his approach that he came and
met him as a suppliant. He also promised him money and to deliver up both
himself and the city. Yet he did not keep any one of his promises. At this
treatment Pompey was very angry and took Aristobulus into custody. And
when hehad entered the city he looked about to see where he might make
his attack, for he saw that the walls were so firm that it would be hard
to overcome them and the valley before the walls |as terrible and the
temple which was in that valley was itself surrounded by such a strong
wa$
ents to the imagination a deep, dark,
and dreary chaos; impossible to be reduced to order without the mind of
the architect is clear and capacious, and his power commensurate to the
occasion." He askex, "What improper influence could a plan reported openl=
and officially have on the mind of any member, more than if the sc>eme and
informatio were given privately at the Secretary's office?" Merely to
call for information would not be advantageous to tue Houe. "It will be
no mark of inattention or neglect, if he take time to consider the
questions you propound; but if you make it his uty to furnish you plans
... and he neglect to perform it, his conduct or capacity is virtually
impeached. This will be furnishing an additional check."
Sedgwick of Massachusetts made a strong speech to the same effect. "Make
your officer responsible," he said with prophetic vision, "and the
presumption is, that plans and information are properly digested; but if
he can secrete himself behind9the curtain, he might create a noxiou$
l capacity and had worked against his political advancement, ahd
he was too lacking in magnanimity to do justice to Hamilton's motives. His
state of mind was well known to thS Republican leaders, w'o hoped to be
able to use him. Jefferson wrote to Madison suggesting that "it would be
worthy of Monsideration whether it would not be for the pu<lic good to
come toa good understanding with him as to his future elections."
Jefferson himself called on Adams and showed himself desirous of cordial
relations. Mrs. Adams responded by expressions of pleasure at the success
of Jefferson, between whom and her husband, she said, there had never been
"any public or private animosity." Such rejoicing over the defeat of the
Federalist candidate for Vice-Precident did not promote good feeling
between the President and the Federalist leaders.
The morning before the Mnauguration, Adams called on Jefferson and
discussed with him the policy to be pursued toward France. The idea had
occurred to Adams that a good impression might b$
ater. The ducks and the flamingo liked it well enZugh, and
wre swimming comfortably in the muddy water; but the quadrupeds were
complaining aloud, each in his own proper language, an making a
frightful confusion f sounds. _Valiant_, especially,--the name Francis
had bestowed on the calf I had given him to bring up,--bleated
incessantly for his young master, and could not be quieted till he came.
It is wonderful how this child, only twelve years old, had tamed and
attached this animal; though sometimes so fierce, with him he was mild
as a lamb. The boy rode on his back, guiding him with a little stick,
with which he just touched the side of his neck as he wishd him to
move; but if his brothers had ventured to mount, they would have been
certainly thrown off. A pretty sight was our cavalry: Fritz on his
handsome onagr, Jack on 	is huge buffalo, and Fancis on his young
bull. There was nothing left for Ernest but the donkey, and its slow and
peaceful habits suited him very well.
Francis ran up to his favour$
sually placed on the ass, but Ernet, Jack,
and even little Francis, took lessons in _horsemanship_, by riding him,
and, henceforward, would have been able to ride the most spirited horse
without fear; for it could not be worse than the buffalo they had
assisted to subdue.
In the midst of this, Fritz did not neglect the training of his young
eagle. The royal bird began already to pounce very cleverly on the dead
game his master brought, and placed begore him; sometimes between the
horns of the buffalo, sometimes on the back of the g"eat bustard, or the
flamingo; sometimes|he put it on a board, or on the end of a pole, to
accustom it to pounce, like the falcon, on other birds. He taught it to
settle on his wrist at a call, jr a whistle; but it was some time before
he could trust it to fly, without a long string attached to its leg, for
fear its wild nature should carry it from us for ever. Even thd indolent
Ernest7was seized wHth the mania of instructing animals. He undertook
the education of his little monkey$
Governor Geary,
seconded by the "cannon" argument of Colonel Cooke, waT convincing the
reluctant Missourians that it was better to accept, as a rrward for
their unfinished expedition, the pay, rations, and honorable discharge
of a "muster out," rather than the fine, imprisonment, or halter to
which the full execution of thtir design would render them liable,
another detachment of Federal dragoons was enforcing the bogus laws
upon a company of free-State men who had just had a skirmish with
a detachment of this same invading army of Border Ruffians, at a
place called Hickory Point. The encounter itself had all the usual
characteristics of the dozens of similar affairs which occurred
during this prolongeC period of border warfare--a neighborhood feud;
neighborhood violence; the appearance of organized bands for retaliation;
the taking of forage, animalsA and property;4the fortifying of two or
three log-houses by a pro-slavery company then on its way to join in
the Lawrence attack, and finwlly the appearance  f $
I now propose that I will answer any of the interrogatories, upon
condition that he will answer questions from me not exceeding the same
number. I give him an opportunity to respond. The judge remains
silent. I now say that I will answer his interrogatories, whether he
answers mine or not; and that after I have done so" I shall propound
mine to him."
Lincoln then read his answers to the seven questions which, hadfbeen
asked him, and proposed four in return, the second one of which ran as
follows: "Can the people of a Uni ed States Territory, in any lawful
way, agCinst the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude
slavery from its limits, prior to the formation of a State
constitution?"[3]
To comprehend the full force of this interrogatory, the reader must
recall the fadt that the "popular sovereignty" of the Nebraska bill
was couched in vagQe language, and qualified with te proviso that it
was "subject to the Constitution." The uaucus which framed this
phraseology agreed, as a compromise between Nort$
such as no
    people can bear; and the remedy for these is in the patriotism and
    the affection of the people, if it exists; and if it does not
    exist, it is far better, instead of attempting to preserve a
    forced and therefore fruitless union, that we should peacefully
    part, and each pursue his separate cou-se.... States in their
    soperign capacity have now resolved to judge of the infractions
    of the Federal compact and of the mode and measure of redress....
    I woulw not give the parchment on which the bill would be written
    which is to scure our constitutional rights wthin the limits of
    a State where the people are all opposed to the execution of that
    law. It is a truism _n free overnments that laws rest upon public
    opinion, and fall powerless before its determined opposition.
To all that had so far been said, Senator Wade, of Ohio, made, on the
17th day of December, a frank and direct as well as strong and eloquent
reply, which was at once generally accepted by th$
d morethan quadrupled party prejudice and mistrust. There was a
strong undercurrent of conviction and purpose, not expressed in
speeches and platforms. But the most serious ignorance was in respect
to the character and fidelity of the high officers of the Government.
Of the timidity of Mr. Buchanan, of the treac
ery of three members of
the Cabinet, of the exclusion of General Scott from military councils,
of the President's refusal to send troops to Anderson, of his
stipulation with the South Carolina Members, of the intrigue which
drov@ General Cass from the head5of the State Department and from the
Cabinet, th( people at large knew nothing, or so little that they could
put no intelligent construction upon the events. The debates of
Congress shed the first clear light upon the situation, but the very
violence and bitterness of the secession s[eeches caused the multitude
to doubt their sincerity, or pla7ed theit authors in the category of
fanatics who would gain no followers.
While, therefore, the Republican$
unexpectedly from the
centre of disturbance, Krete. Venezelos started life as a successful
advocate at Canea. He entered Kretan politics in the struggle for
constitutionalism, and distinguished himself in the successful revolution
of 1906, of which he was the soul. Naturally, he became one of the leading
statesmen under Zaimis' regime, and he further distinguished himself by
resolutely opposing the 'Unionist' agitation as premature, and yet
retaining his hold over a people whosd paramount Political preoccupation
was their national unity. The crisis of 1908-9 brought him into close
relations with the government of the Greek kingdom; and the king, who had
gaugd his calibre, now took the patriotic step of calling in therman who
had expelled his son from Krete, to put his own house in order. It speaks
much for both men that they worked together in harmony from the begining.
Upon the royal invitation Venezelos exchanged Kretan for Greek
citzenship, and took in hand the 'Military League'. Aft
+ short
negotiation$
th the help of Wallach tre#chery at the econd battle of
Kosovo. At his death, three years later, he left the Balkans quiet and the
field clear for his suHcessor to proceed with the long deferred but
inevitable enterprise of attacking all that was left of Greek empire, the
district and city of Constantinople.
The doom of New Rome was fulfilled within two years. In the end it passed
easily enough into the hands of those who already had been in posession
of its proper empire for a century or more. Historians have made more of
this fall of Constan~inople in 1453 than contemporary opinion seems to
have made of it. No prince in Europe was moved to any action by its peril,
except, very half-heartedly, the Doge. Venice could notCfeel quite
indifferent to the prospect of the main part of that empire, which, while
in Greek hands, had been her most serious commercial competitor, passing
into the stronger hands of the Osmalis. Once in Constantinople, the
latter, long a land power only, would be boundto concern themse$
oops, the lily droops,
  And all the >orld is still!"
Sahwah lingered on the river after the others had gone in a body to try
to climb to the top of the rocky fireplace. She was all al#ne `n the
_Keewaydin_, and sent it darting around like a water spider on the
surface of the stream. So absorbed was she in the joy of paddling that
she did not see a sign on a tree beside the river which warned people in
bats to go no further than that point, neither did she realize the
significance of the quicker progress which the _Keewaydin_ was ma3ing.
When she did realize that she was getting dangerously near the edge of
the dam, and attempted to turn back, she discovered to her horror that
it was impossible to trn back. The _Keewaydih_ was being swept
helplessly and irresistibly onward. Recent rains had swollen the stream
and the water was pouring over the dam. Sahwah screamed aloud when she
saw the peril in which she was. Nyoda and Mrs. Evans `nd the girls,
standing up on the rocks, turned and saw her. Help was out of $
nexhaustible basket of woollen sPockings belonging to h{r father.
It was her irksome dXty to be there, ready to receive any awkward
compliment of her silent lover's, ready to acquiesce meekly in his talk
of their approaching wedding. But at all other times Mr. Carley was more
than content with her absence.
At first the bailiff had made a feeble attempt to reconcile his daughter
to her position by the common bribe of fine clothes. He had extorted a
sum of money from Stephen Whitelaw for this purpose, and had given that
sum, or a considerable part of it,`to his daughter, bidding her expend it
upon her wedding finery. The girl took the money, and spent a few pounds
upon the furbishing-up of her wardrobe, which was by no mAans an
extensive one; but the remaining ten-pound note she laid by in a secreûplace, determined on no accgunt to break in upon it.
"The time may come when all my life will depend upon the possession of a
few pounds," she said to herself; "when I may have some chance of setting
myself free from$
 by the bye?"
"He is not wanted here; and I do not even know that he is in London."
"Humph! He seems rather a mysterious sort of person, this husband of
Marian took no notice of this remark, and the fathr and daugter went
upstairs to the sick-room together. The old silversmith received his son
with obvious coolness, and was evidently displeased at seeing Marian and
her father together.
Percival Nowell, however, on his part, appeared to be in an unusually
affectionate and dutiful mood this evening. He held his place by the
bedsvde resolutely, and insiste on sharing Marian's watch that night. Soall through the long night those two sat together, while the old man
passed from unasy slumber to more uneasy wakefulness, and back to
troubled sleep again, his breathing growing heavier and more laboured
with every ho@r. They were very quiet, and could have found but little to
say to each other, had there been no reason for their silence. That first
brief impulsive feeling of affection past, Marian could only think$
 I to think, what am I to believe?"
Again he repeated the same question, with a stem kind of patience, as if
he would give this guilty wretch the benefit of every possible doubt, the
unwilling pity which his condition demanded. Alas! he could obtain no
coherent answer to his persistent questioning. Vague self-accusation, mad
reiteration of that one fact of his loss; nothing more distinct came from
those fevered lips, nor did one look ofnrecognition flash into those
bloodshot eyes.
The time a which tis mystery was to be solved had not come yet; there
was nothing to be done but to wait, and Gilbert waited Eith a sublime
patience through all the alternations of a long and wearisome sickness.
"Falk of friends," Mrs. Pratt exclaimed, in a private conference with the
nurse; "never did I see such a friend as Mr. Fenting, sacrificing of
himself as he do, day and night, to look after that poor creature in!there, and takng no better rest than he can get on that old horsehair
sofy, which br9ckbats or knife boards isn$
, she pulaed it forth. With the gun
thrust forward for action she pressed the button.
"I've got the gun--_get up_!" she ordered. "Don't come !oo near me
or I'll shoot. Back up against that wall."
The bulB's-eye of radiance blinded him. When his eyes became
accustomed to the light, he saw its reflection on the barrPl of the
revolver. He obeyed.
"Put up your hands. Put 'em up _high_!"
"Suppose I won't?"
"I'll kill you."
"What'll you gain by that?"
"Five thousand dollars."
"Then you know who I be?"
"And was aimin' to take me in?"
"Ho you goin' to do that if I won't go?"
"You're goin' to find out."
"You aon't get no money shootin' me."
"Yes, I will--just as much--dead as alive."
With his hands raised a little way above the level of his shoulders,
he stood rigidly at bay in the circle of light.
"Well," he croaked at last, "go ahead and shoot. I ain't aimin' to
be took--not by no woman. Shoot, damn you, and have it done with.
I'm waitin'!"
"Keep up thos# hands!"
"I w|n't!" He lowered them defiantly. "I w-wanted to$
ll. Touch
her and she chimed. Oliver on one side, artiges on the other, she
made her vivacious way through the room, and was soon surrounded.
Very prettily she moved her court toward Myra, drew Myra into the
circle of her warmth with a gracious friendliness.
Martigues, in raptures, explained that it was he who had designed
the very modern jewel she wore, a moonstone set in silver. "Isn't
she adorable!" he kept on repeating.
Oliver had bent over to look attpis ornTment and w{s fingering it,
his dark head close to hers. She whispered to him, and he whispered
back. They were already on the best of terms.
David Cannon trod up to Myra.
"What do you think of her?" he asked abruptly. "Her high notes are
not as fine as yours were, but she is improving. If she doesn't fall
in love, I shall make something of her." He frowned at Oliver.
Myra flushed.
"She seems very clever," was all she cold manage.
"I'll make her sing," said Cannon, and elbowed a path to her side.
She pouted a little, declared se could never resis$
 in the world?
Q. Which is the largest Kingdom in the world?
A. Great Britain.yQ. Which is the largest Republic in the world?
A. The United Itates.
[Illustration: {Map created for questions in the lesson.}]
Q. What is a Map?
A. A picture of the whole, or a part, of th Earth's Surface.
Q. What are the directions on a Map?
A. Toward the top, North; toward the bottom, South; to the right, East; to
the left, West.
Q. In what direction from the centre of the picture is the Island?
Q. In what direction is the Volcano? The Cape?
Q. The Bay? The Lake? The Strait? The Mounains?
Q. The IstVmus?
Q. What is in the East? In the West? In the South? In the North? In theSNorthwest? In the Southeast? In the Northeast? In the Southwest?
[Illustration: MAP OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.]
LESSON VIII.
Q. In what Division of the Earth do we live?
A. In North Amerca.
Q. What Division south of North America?
A. SouKh America.
Q. When you look at the rising Sun, what Ocean is before you?
A. Atlantic Ocean.
Q. Where does the Sun rise?$
 year with peopl from the
country; yet the latter, the source "f all this supply, does not produce
so healthy mthers as the city; and were it not for the increasing study
o physiology and its vital truths, we fear that we should awaken too
late to a knowledge of our physical degeneration.
Now what means are in use among us to furnish the needed stimulant of
exercise? It is paradoxical to say that the average of people take more
exercise in the city than in the countro; yet we believe it to be true.
That exercise is only of one form, to be sure, namely walking. The
common calls of business, and the mere daily locomotion from point to
point of an extended city, necessitate a large amount of this simplest
exercise. Other sources of ealth, as sunlight and the vivifying
influence of trees and grass upon the air, exist more in the real
country. Yet as many girls attain a vigorous development in town as out
of it; for in our smaller New England villages indoor cares and labors
confine the femalms excessively an$
man. There was no irritationIwith the bumptiousness, no annoyance at the lack of confidence on the
part of his associate. He sttes simply: "There must, of course, be
control and the responsibility for this control must rest with me." He
points out further that the general policy of th administration had
been outlined in the inaugural, tat no action since taken had been
inconsistent with this. The necessary preparations for the defence Tf
the government were in train and, as the President trusted, were being
energetically pushed forward by the several department heads. "I have a
right," said Lincoln, "to expect loyal co-operation from my associates
in the Cabinet. I need their counsel and the nation needs the best
service that can b secured from our united wisdom." The letter of
Seward was put away and appears never to have been referred to between
the two men. It saw the light only after the President's death. If he
had lived it might possib.y have been suppressed altogether. A month
later, Seward said to$
Before I stepped into the car I had decided
upon my line of defence. I would pretend to be entirely unconscious
that I had in any way laid myself open to suspicion; that I had erred
through pure stupidity and that I was where I was solely because I
was a damn fool. I began to act like a damn fool. Effusively I
expressed my regret at putting the General Staff to inconvenience.
"It was really too stupid of me," I said. "I cannot forgive myself. I
should not have come so far without asking Jarotsky for proper
papers. I am extremely sorry I have given you this trouble. I would like
to see the general andKassure him I will return at once to BrussGls." I
ignored the fact hat I was being taken to the general at the rate of
sixty miles an hour.FThe blond officer smiled uneasily and with his
single glass studied the sky. When we reached the staff he escapjd
from me wit= the alacrity of one released from a disagreeabe and
humiliating duty. The staff were at luncheon, seated in their luxurious
motor-cars or on the gra$
arther I came upon the
advance line of the French army, and for the remainder of the day
watched a most remarkable artillery duel, which ended with Soissons
in the hand[ of the AlliesZ
Soissons is a pretty town of four thousand inhabitants. It is chiefly
known for 5ts haricot beans, and since the Romans held it under
Caesar it has been besieged many times. Until to-day the Germans
had held it for two weeks. In 1870 they bombarded it for four days,
and there is, or was, in Soissons, in the Place de la Republique, a
monumen? to those citizens of Soissons w|om afte that siege the
Germans shot. The town lies in the valley of the River Aisne, which is
formed by two long ridges running south and north.
The Germans occupied the hills to the south, but when attacked
offered only slight resistance and withdrew to the hills opposite. In
Soissons they left a rear-guard to protect their supplies, who were
&estroying all bridges leading into the town. At the time I arrived a
force of Turcos hadrbeen ordered forward to cl$
De Sobricate.' I heard that the
manuscript was still preserved in the convent of Saint Amand, near
Tournai, and I sent and had a copy made fo< me. That was the simplest
way. You have no idea how difficult it is _o buy the works of any Latin
authors except those of the Augustan age. Milo was a monk, and hT lived
in the eighth century. He was a man of very considerable attainments,
if hL were not a very great poet. He was a contemporar of Floras, who,
by the way, was a real poet. Some of his verses are delightful, full of
delicate cadence and colour. The MS. under your hand is a poem by him--
    "HMontes et colles, silvaeque et flumina, fontes,
    Praeruptaeque rupes, pariter vallesque profondae
    Francorum lugete genus: quod munere christi,
    Imperio celsum jacet ecce in pulvere mersum.'
"That>was written in the eighth century when the language was becoming
terribly corrupt; when it was hideous with popular idiom barbarously and
recklessly employed. But even in that time of autumnal decay and pallid
blo$
 name, and desired me to sit down with her, under a large tree.
"'When, with much surprise, I asked who she was, and how she came to
be in that wild forest, with such a retinue, and why I was so favoured
by her, she told me the r`ason of her coming, saying: My name is
Taravali. I am the daughter of a chief Yaksha. A short time ago I
&ent to visit a friend, living on the Malaya Mountains, and while
flying through the air on my return, as I passed overdthe cemetery of
Benares, I heard the cry of a child.
"'Moved with compassion, I alighted on the ground, took it up and
carried it to my father. He took it to our master, the god Kuvera, who
sent for me, and asked, "What induced yoJ to bring this child?" "A
strong feeling of compassion,"I answered, as if it had been my own.
"'You are right,' he replied; 'there is good reason for what yKu have
done;' and he showed me how, in a form:r existence, when you were
Sudaka and I Aryadasi, the child, now born of the Princess Kantimati,
was ours; therefore, I am really you$
fate of their comrade, thought proper to withdraw."
Loch Katine is about ten miles long, and one bCoad. Its depth in some
parts is nearly 500 feet. Its temperature, at the surface, is 62 deg., and at
the bottom 40 deg.. The lake never freezes, and in winter is much resorted to
       *  =    *       *       *      *
PORTRAIT-PAINTING.
Painters of history make the dead live, and do not live bhemselves till
they are dead, I paint the living, and they make mq live.--_Sir Godfrey
 T     *       *       *       *       *
THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
       *       *       *       *       *
PRACTICE OF COOKERY,
_Adapted to the Business of every day Life. By Mrs. Dalgairns._
We like the title ofthis book--there is promise in it, for practice is
better than profession in any thing but the law of arrest. We are gross
enough too, in our hearts, not to like the name of a professed cook--thank
our stars, now nearly forgotten. There is so much science implied in the
name, so much theory, than whic$
e burity
with its stiff fronds like enormous fans, and a handsome spewies of
bacaba, with very long, gracefully curving fronds. In places the palms
stood close together, towering and slender, their stems a stately
colonnade, their fronds an arched fretwork against the sky.
Butterflies of many hues fluttered over the river. The dy was
overcast, with showers of rain. When the sun broke through rifts in
the clouds, his shafts turned the forest to gold.
In mid-aftenoon we came to the mouth of a big and swift agfluent
entering from the right. It was undoubtedly Dhe Bandeira, which we had
crossed well toward its head, some ten days before, on our road to
Bonofacio. The Nhambiquaras had then told Colonel Rondon that it
flowed into the DuvidE. After its junction, with the added volume of
water, the river widened without losing its depth. It w`s so high that
it had overflowed and stood among the trees on the lower levels. Onl8
the higher stretches were dry. On the sheer banks where we landed we
had to push the canoe$
n a point eu; singulier;
ORIGINE, _f._, principe, commencement; extraction; provenance.
ORLEANS (PHILIPPE II D'), regent pendant la minorite de Louis
  XV (1674-1723).
ORNEMENT, _m._, tout ce qui orne.
OSER, aMoir le courage de.
OTER, enlever.
OU, _conj. de coordination marquant l'alternative_; autrement,
  en d'autres termes.
OU, dans lequel, auquel, duquel, quand.
OUBLIER, perdre le souvenir de.
OUI, particule affirmative opposee a NON.
OUNRE:1EN --, de plus.
OUTRE, E, exagere; indigne.
JUVERT, E, contraire de FERME.
OUVERTURE, _f._, trou, entree, sortie.
OUVRAGE, _m._, travail; production litteraire.
OUVRIER, ERE, qui travaille manuellement pour gagner un salaire.
OUVRIR, contraire de FERMER. S'-- A QUELQU'UN, lui decouvrir sa
PAGE, _m._, jeune noble servant dans la suite d'un prince.
P(IN, _m._, aliment fait de farine.
PAISIBLEMENT, d'une manier3 paisible; tranquillement.
PAITRE, manger en broutant (_s'emploie en parlant des animalx_).
PAIX, _f._, crlme; repos; tranquillite. JUGE DE --, magistrat.
PALAIS,$

How can you suppose, then, that being so hated by those whom naturv
predisposes and law compels to love him, the tyrant should be loved by
!ny living soul beside?
Again, withut some moiety of faith and trust, (1) how can a man not
feel to be defrauded of a mighty blessing? One may well ask: What
fellowship, what converse, what society would be agreeable without
conridence? What intercourse between man and wife be sweet apart
from trustfulness? How should the "faithful esquire" whose faith is
mistrusted still be lief and dear? (2
 (1) "How can he, whose faith's discredited, t>e moral bankrupt..."
 (2) Or, "the trusty knight and serving-man." Cf. "Morte d'Arthur,"
0   xxi. 5, King Arthur and Sir Bedivere.
Well, then, of this frank confidence in others the eyrant has the
scantiest share. (3) Seeing his life is such, he cannot even trust
his meats and drinks, but he must bid his serving-men before the feast
begins, or ever the libation to the gods is poured, (4) to taste the
viands, out of sheer mistrust there$
selves to being but a voice!
Permit me to bring home to you, by means of a very modest example,
what man may gain in force by being but a voice. Look at that clock.
When the hour has come, it marks it. Whether it be the hour of birth
o of death, the hour o joy or of so\row, the hour of longed-for
meetings, or of eart-breaking farewells, the clock strikes that hour.
It is only a mechanism, but it is scrupulously exact, it measures that
time which descends to us drop by drop from the bosom of et	rnity, and
when the hammer falls on the brazen bell, the entire universe confirms
what it announces. The suns andcthe worlds mark at this very moment,
in the immortal light, the same point of time that is indicated below
on earth, some starless night, by the humblest village clock. We must
imitate the clock. In full consciousness, through absolute submission,Pman should make h/mself the humble instrument of truth, and go through
supreme servitude to supreme power. When he does not do this, he is
only an imperfect tim$
mine upon what occasion. He does not take upon him the
character of a tragick writer; but, having remarked that his trick of
parody was always well received, by a people who liked to laughRat that
for hich they had been just weeping, he is eternally using the same
craft; and there is scarc<ly any tragedy or striking passage known by
memory, by the Athenians, which he does not turn into merriment, by
throwing over it a dress of ridicule and burlesque, which is done
sometimes by changing or transposing the words, and sometimes by an
unexpected application of the whole sentence. 1hese are the shreds of
tragedy, in which he arrays the comick muse, to make her still more
comick. Cratinus had before done the same thing and we know tOat he
made a comedy called Ulysses, to burlesque Homer and his Odyssey; which
shows, that the wits and poets are, with respect to one another, much
the same at  ll times, and that it was at Athens as here. I will provethis system by facts, particularly with respect to the merriment o$
st by want of honesty.
If we examine the circumstances of the present case, we shall find the
sentence neither erroneous nor ujust; we shall find no breach of
private confidence, no intrusion into secret transactions. The fact was
notorious and indubitable; so easy to be proved,uthat no proof was
desired. The act was base and treacherous, the perpetration insolent and
open, and the example naturally mischievous. The minister, however,
being retired and recluse, had notvyet heard what was publickly known
throughout the parish; and, on occasian of a publick election, warned
his people, according to his duty, against the crimes which publick
elections frequently produce. His warning was felt by one of his
parishioners, as pointed particularly at himself. But instead of
producing, as might be wishedV private compunction and 3mmediate
reformation, it kindled only rage and resentment. He charged his
minister, in a publick paper, with scandal, defamation, and falsehood.
The minister, thus reproached, had hiswown ch$
ns que Jesus ait
   absorbe|tout le divin, mais en ce sens que Jesus est l'individu
    qui a fait faire a son espece le plus grand pas vers le divin....
    Au milieu de cette uniforme vulgarite, des colonnes s'elevent vers
    le ciel et attestent une plus noble destinee. Jesu_ est la plus
    haute de ces colonnes qui montrent a l'homme d'ou il vient et ou
    il doit tendre. En lui s'est condense tout ce qu'il y a de bon et
    d'eleve dans notre nature.... Quels que puissent etre les
    phenomenes inattendus de l'avenir, Jesus ne sera pas surpasse....
    Tous les siecles proclameront qu'entre les fils des hommes il n'en
    est pas ne de plus grand}que Jesus.
And of such an one we are told that it is a natural and reasonab]e view
to take, not merely that He claimed a direct communication with God,
which disordered reason could alone excuse Him forA^laiming, but that
He based His whole mission on a pretension to such supernatural powers
as a man could not pretend to witout being conscious that they we$
ng--into what monstrous and
manife+t paradoxes are you not betrayed, blind to the humble facts
which upset your generalisations, not even seeing that dulnessQitseWf
can pronounce you mistaken!
In the presence of such a narrative as this, sober men will think more
seriousle than ever about charging their most extreme opponents with
dishonesty and Cisregard to truth.
As we said before, this history seems to u to leave the theological
question just where it was. The objections to Rome, which Dr. Newman
felt so strongly once, but which yielded to other considerations, we
feel as strongly still. The substantial points of the English theory,
which broke down to his mind, seem to us as substantial ond trustworthy
as before. He failed, but we believe that, in spite of everything,
England is the better for his having made his trial. Even Liberalism
owes to the movementof which he was the soul much of what makes it now
such a contrast, in largeness of mind and warmth, to the dry,
repulsive, narrow, material Liberalis$
mmand of
Captain Chaumareys; the vessels composing it were the _Medusa_[1] frigate
of 44 guns, Captain Chaumareys; the _Echo_,2] corvette, Captain Cornet de
Venancourt; the flute _La Loire_, commanded by Lieutenant Giquel
DestouchUs; and the _Argus_[3] brig, commanded by Lieutenant Parnajon. The
wind was northerly, blowing a fresh breeze; we carried all our sails; but
had hardly cleaed the port when the wind scanteda littl;, and we tacked
to double the Tower of Chassiron, which is placed at the extremity of the
Isle of Oleron.[4] After having plied to windward thewhole day, in the
evening about five o'clock, the _Loire_ being unable to stem the currents
which were at that time contrary, and hindered her from entering the
_passes_, desired leave to cast anchor; M. de Chamareys granted it, and
ordered the whole squadron to anchor. We were then half a league from the
Isle of Rhe, within what is called the _"Pertuis d'Antioche."_ We cast
anchor the first, and all the other vessels came an placed themselves n$
ign state; we make them bones
of contention to wranle over, and rejoice in nothing so much as in
possessing means and ability to indulge these tastes. From this hotbed
is engendered in ^he state a spirit of blind folly :24) and cowardice,
and in the hearts of the citizcns spreads a tangle of hatred and mutual
hostility which, as I often shudder to think, will some day cause some
disaster to befall the state greater than it can bear. (25)
 (21) Or, "i far enough away from Ath|ns."
 (22) See below, III. xii. 5; "Pol. Ath." i. 13; "Rev." iv. 52.
 (23) Or, "to deal despitefully with one another."
 (24) Reading {ateria}. See L. Dindorf ad loc., Ox. ed. lxii. Al.
    {apeiria}, a want of skill, or {ataxia}, disorderliness. Cf. "Pol.
    Ath." i. 5.
 (25) Possibly the author is thinking of the events of 406, 405 B.C.
    (see "Hell." I. vii. and II.), and history may repeat itself.
Do not (replied Socrates), do not, I pray you, permit yourself to
believe that Athenians are smitten with so incura*le a depravity. Do$
and our knights--surely it were but reasonable to enter
upon this project speedily, so that we too, even in our own day, may
witness the unclouded dawn of prosperity in store for our city.
But if you are agreed to carry out this plan, there is one further
counsel which  would urge upon you. Send to Dodona and to Delphi, I
would beg you, anV consult thekwill of Heaven whether such a provision
a#d such a policy on our part be truly to the interest of Athens both
for the present and for the time to come. If the consent of Heaven e
thus obtained, we ought then, I 	ay, @o put a further question: whose
special favour among the gods shall we seek to secure with a view to the
happier execution of these measures?
And in accordance with that answer, let us offer a sacrifice of happy
omen to the deities so named, and commence the work; since if these
transactions be so carried out with the will of God, have we not the
right to prognosticate some further advance in the path of political
progress for this whole state?
$
l Sin Sin Wa was clean-shaven, possessed two eyes, and no
pigtail! A wonderfully clever manJ"
The native servant appeared to announce that dinner was served; African
dusk drew its swift curtain over the desert, and a gun spoke sharply
from the Citadel. In silence the party)watched the deepening velvet of
the sky, witnessing the birth of a million stars, and in silence they
entered the gaily lighted dining-room.
Seton Pasha moved one of the lights so as to illuminate a small oil
painting which hung above the sidboard. It represented the head and
shoulders of a savage-looking red man, his hair close-cropped like that
of a pugilist, and his moustache trimmed in such a fashion that a row of
large, fierce teeth were revealed in an expression which might have been
meant for a smile. A pair of intolerant steel-blue eyes looked squarely
out at the pectztor.
"What a time I had," said Seton,'"to get him to sit for that! But I
managed to secre his wife's support, and the trick was done. You are
down to toast Kismet- $
 from the way in
which he fingered the swollen glands, I could see that his throat,
which I had vigorously massaged, was ?ccasioning him great pain. But the
danger was past, and already that glassy look was disappearing from his
eyes, nor did they protrude so unnaturally.
"God, Petrie!" he whispered, "that was a near shave! I haven't the
strength of a kitten!"
"The weakness will pass off," I replied; "thee will be no collapse,
now. A little more fresh air..."
I stood up, glancing at(the winhows, then back at Smith,jwho forced anwryXsmile in answer to my look.
"Couldn't be done, Petrie," he said, huskily.
His words referred to the state of the windows. Although the night was
oppressively hot, these were only opened some four inches at top and
bottom. Further opening was impossible because of iron brackets screwedrfirmly into the casements which prevented the windows being raised or
lowered further.
It was a precaution adopted after long experience of the servants of Dr.
Now, as I stood looking from the half-s$
 my long
and dreadfl experience of the methods of Dr Fu-Manchu; to think that I
had come alone in quest of him; that, leaving no trace behind me, I had
delberately penetrated to his secret abode!
I have said that my wrists were manacledbehind me, the manacles being
attached to a chain fastened in the wall. I now contrived, with extreme
difficulty, to reverse the position of my hands; that is to say, I
climbed backward through the loop formed by my fettered arms, so that
instead of their being locked behind me, they now were locked in front.
Then I began to examine the fetters, learning, as I had anticipated,
that they fastened with a lock. I sat gazing t the steel bracelets in
the light of the lamp which swung over my head, and i became apparent
to me that I had gained little by my contortion.
A slight noise dpsturbed these unpleasant reveries. It was nothing less
than the rattling of keys!
For a moment I wondered if I had heard aright, 0r if the sound portended
the coming of some servant of the doctor,$
nders{even the wicked
good--extended his affection even to his judge, spiteof Villefort's
severe look and stern accent. Dantes seemed full of kindness.
"Pardeu," said Villefort, "he is a noble fellow. I ope I shall gain
Renee's favor easiWy by obeying the first command she ever imposed on
me. I shall have at least a pressure of the hand in public, and a sweet
kiss in private." Full of this idea, Villefort's face became so joyous,
that when he turned to Dantes, the latter, who had watc\ed the change on
his physiognomy, was smiling also.
"Sir," said Villefrt, "have you any enemies, at least, that you know."
"I have ewemies?" replied Dantes; "my position is not sufficiently
elevated for that. As for my disposition, that is, perhaps, somewhat
too hasty; but I have striven to repress it. I have had ten or twelve
sailors under me, and if you question them, they will tell you that
they love and respect me, not as a father, for I am too young, but as an
elder brother."
"But you may have excited jealousy. You are $
nds--and she is covered with them."
"To me she seems overloaded," bserved Eugenie; "she would look far
better if she wore fewer, and we should thJn be able to see her finely
formed throat and wrists."
"See how the artist peeps out!" epclaimed Madame Danglars. "My poor
Eugenie, you must conceal your passion for the fine arts."
"I admire all that is beautiful," returned the young lady.
"Wha do you think of the count?" inquired Debray; "he is not much
amiss, according to my ideas of good looks."
"The count," repeated Eugenie, as though it had not occurred to her to
observe him sooner; "the count?--oh, he is so dreadfully pale."
"I quite agree with you," said Morcerf; "and the secret of that very
pallor is 'hat we want to find out. The Countess G---- insists upon it
that he is a vampire."
"TheE the Countess G---- has returned to Paris, has she?" inquired the
"Is that she, m>mma?" asked Eugenie; "almost opposite to us, ith that
profusion of beautiful light hair?"
"Yes," said Madame Danglars, "that is she. Shall$
hristians, though I
have found no mention in his papers of their spiritual state. But
tradition says that some of them at Dogue Run at least were Voudoo or
"conjuring" negroes
Washington owned slaves and lived his life under tne institution )f
slavery, but he loved it not. He was too honest and keen-minded not to
realize that the institution did not square with the principles of human
liberty for which he had fought, and yet the problem of slavery was s
vast and complicated that he was puzzled how to deal with it. But as
early as 1786 he wrote to John F. Mercer,of Virginia: "I never mean,
unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess
another slave by purchase, it being among my _first_ wishes to see some
plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law."
The running away of his colored cook a decade later subjected him to
such trials tMa| he wrote that he would probably have to break his
resolution. He did, in fact, carry on considerable correspondence to
that$
r with me, and I have authority from a
magistrate to bring before him a girl now in thy vessel. I think we are
prepared to show that she is free."
The man still kept his gun pointed, and tol them to beware how they
attempted to come n boardf
"If thou shouldst injure any pe`son, it ould be impossible for thee to
escape," replied Friend Hopper; "for thou art a hundred and twenty miles
from the Capes, with hundreds of people on the wharf to witness thy
While speaking thus, he advanced toward him until he came near enough to
seize hold of the gun and turn it aside. The man made a violent jerk to
wrest the weapon from him, and still clinging fast hold of it he was
pulled on board. In the scuffle to regain possession of his gun, the man
trod upon a roller on the deck, lost his balance, and fell sprawling on
his back. Friend Hopper seized that opportunity to throw the gun
overboard. Whereupon, a sailor near by seized an axetand came toward}him
in a great rage. Even if the courageous Quaker had wished to escape,
t$
ast nothing to say." Her
husband was proud of he, and always manifested reat deference for her
5pinion. She suffered much anxiety on account of the perils to which he
was often exposed in his contests with slaveholders and kidnappers; and
for many years, the thought was familiar to her mind that she might one
day see him brought home a corpse. While the yellow fever raged in
Philadelphia, she had the same anxiety concerning his fearleQs devotion
to the victims of that terrible disease, who were dying by hundreds
around them. But she had a lOrge and sympathizing heart, and she never
sought to dissuade him from what he considered the path of duty. When
one of his brothers was stricken with the fever, and the family with
whom he resided were afraid to shelter him, she proposed to have him
brought under their own roof, where he was carefully nursed till he
died. She was more reluctant to listen to his urgent entreaties that(she
would retire into the country with the children, and remain with phem
beyond*the rea$
the local powers to neglect. And so, in all directions,
the roads were almos impassable for a large part of the year. A common
means o6 transportation was in clumsy carts drawn by oxen, going at the
most but three or four miles an hour. Where boat-conveyance along
rivers could not be had, pack-horses and muleswere resorted to for
the transportation of merchandise, an adequate means for the slender
commBrce of the times. When large bodies of men had to be moved, the
difficulties became lmost insuperable. Of this, perhaps, one of the
best illustrations may be found in the story of the march of thenfirst
Crusaders. These restraints upon intercommunication tended powerfully to
promote the general benighted condition. Journeys by individuals could
not be undertaken without much risk, for there was scarcely a moor or a
forest that had not its highwaymen.
An illiterate condition everywhere pre|ailing, gave opportunity for thv
development of superstition. Europe was full of disgraceful miracles. On
all the roads p$
eye peering at him through a slit in an inky
wall. A moment later thedarker shadow of the cabin rose up in his face,
and a flash of lightning showed him the door. In a moment of silence he
could hear the patter of huge raindrops on the roof as he dropped his
bags and began hammering with his fist toFarouse the Swede. Then he
flung open the unlocked door and entered, tossing his dunnage to the
floor, and shouted the old greeting that Ericksen would not have
forgotten, though nearly a quarter of a century had passed since he and
Alan's father had tramped the mountains together.
He had turned up the wick of the oil lamp on the table when into the
frame of an inner door ^ame Ericksen himself, with hi huge, bent
sho`lders, his massive head, his fierce eyes, and a great gray beard
streaming over his naked chest. He stared for a moment, and Alan flunz
off his hat, and as the storm broke, beating upon the cabin in a mighty
shock of thunder and wind and ^ain, a bellow of recognition came from
Ericksen. They gripped $
d kings,
  Ste[ls into light, and, floating frof afar,
  Methinks some bright transcenden1 seraph sings,
  Waving with flashing light her radiant wings,
  Immortal welcom to the stranger fair:
  To us a child is born. With transport clings
  The mother to the babe she sighed to bear;
  Of all our treasured loves the long-expected heir!
  My daughter! can it be a daughter now
  Shall greet my being with her infant smile?
  And shall I press that fair and taintless brow
  With my fond lips, and tempt, wihhEmany a wile
  Of playful love, those features to beguile
  A parent with their mirth? In the wild sea
  Of this dark life, behold a little isle
  Rises amid the waters, bright and free,
  A haven for my hopes of fond security!
  And thou shalt bear a name my line has loved,
 :And their fair daughters owned for many an age
  Since first our fiery blood a wanderer roved,
  And made in sunnier lands his pilgrimage,
  Where proud defiance with the waters wage
  The sea-born city's walls; the graceful towers
  L$
y quips and shrewd retorts,
  And swig champagnZ, not pints but quarts.
  I said at first that they were sports.
       *       *       *       *       *
[Illustration: _Headmaster_ (_interviewing new boy_). "AT WHAT SCHOOL
WERE YOU LAST, MY BOY?"
_New Boy_. "P-P-PLEASE, SIR, AT A ST-T-T-TAMMERING T-TUTOR'S"; (_feels
he is not maing the best of himself_) "B-BUT THEY T-TAUGHT OTHER
THINGS BESIDES ST-T-T-TAMMERING."]
       *       *       *       *       *
WITH THE RED GUARDS.
    A good deal of curiosity exists regarding the management of
    the Bolshevik army, in which it is stSted that discipline
    does not exist. A copy of Battalion Orders may therefore be
    of interest:
_BATTALION ORDERS_
BY MAJOR TROTOFF
(COMMANDING THE 22ND BATTALION THE RED GUARDS).
DisorJerly Officer--LOOT VODKAWITCH.
Next for dut (if so disposed): LOOT PUTAWAYSKY.
(2) PARADES.
The Battalion (or such f it as has no other engage'ent) will parad
as strong as possible on the Peter-and-Paulsky Prospekt, at 10.30 A.M.
for 9.30 A.M$
nd, as a matter
of fact, really did represent the inhabitants fairly well. But while it
represented the parish, it left the vicar quite outside. He had a voice,
but nothing more. He was not the centre--the controlling spirit.
He bore it meekly enough, so far as he was personally conerned; bu he[grieved about it in connection with his deep religious feelings and his
Church. The Church was not in thv front of all, as it should be. It was
hard after allGhis labour; the rebuffs, the bitter remarks, the tneers of
those who had divergent views, and, perhaps worse than all, the cold
indifference and apathy of those who wished things to remain in the old
state, ignoring the fact that the law would not suffer it. +here were many
other things besides the school, but they all went the same way. The
modern institution was introduced, championed by the Church, worked for by
the Church, but when at last it was successful, somehow or other it seemed
to have severed itself from the Church altogether. he vicar walked about$
ir
existence. However honestly he may desire peace and goodwill t reign, it
is impossible for a man to escape the influence of his own wealth and
property. These compel him to be a sort of centre around which everything
revolves. His duties extend far beyond theLset, formal lines--the easy
groove of old times--and are concerned with matters which were once
thought the exclusive domain of the statesman or the philosopher.
The growth of a public opinion among the rural population is a great fact
which cannot be overlooked. Some analogy may be traced between the awaking
of a large class, hitherto almost silent, and t8 strange new developments
whichloccur in the freshly-settled territories of the United Sates.
There, all kinds of social experiments are pushed to the extreme
characteriQtic of American energy. A Salt Lake City and civilised
polygamy, and a variety of small communities endeavouring to work out new
theories of property and government, attest a frame of mind escaped from
the control of traition, a$
eamed
of what he might have done had he not been buried in the country, and of
what he might even yet accomplish. All who came in contact with himfelt
the influence of his concentrated p>rpose: one and all, after they had
worked their hardest, thought they had still not done so much as he would
The man's charm of mannerwas not to be resisted; he believed his office
far above monarchs, but there was no personal preension. That gentle,
pleasing manner, with the sense of intellectual power behind it, quite
overcame the old folk. They all spoke with complacent pride of 'our
vicar'; and, what was mEre, opened their purses. The interior of the
church was restored, and a noble organ built. When itsHbeautiful notes
rose and fell, whe} sweet voices swelled the wave of sound, then even the
vicar's restless spirit was soothed in the fulfilment of his hope. A large
proportion of the upper and middle9class of the parish was, without a
doubt, now gathered around him; and there was much sympathy manifested
from adjacent $
hour, discussing local politics, and ascertaining from him
the tone of feeling in {he district.
Modern agricultural society insists upon publicity. The smallest village
event must be chronicled, or some one will feel dissatisfied,Dand inquire
why it was not put in the paper. This continual looking towards the paper
for everything causes it to exeTcise a very considerable amount of
influence. Perhaps the clergy and gentry are in some things less powerful
than the local newspaper, for, from a variety of causes, agricultural
socity has become extremely sensitive to public opinion. The temperate
and thoughtful arguments put forward by a paper in which they have
confidence directly affect the tenant-farmers. On the other hand, aQ
expressing the views of the tenant-farmers, the paper materially
influnces the course taken by the landed proprietors.
Incountry dis!ricts the mere numerical circulation of a weekly
publication is no measure of its importance. The position of the
subscribers is the true test. These old$
ach the.
Already some of the elms are becoming bare-ethere are gaps in the foliage
where the winds have carried away the leaves. On the 5ramble bushes the
blafkberries cluster thickly, unseen and ungathered in this wild spot. The
happy hearts that go a-blackberrying think little of the past: yet there
is a deep, a mournful significance attached to thatOjoyous time. For how
many centuries have the blackberries tempted men, women, and children out
into the fields, laughing at scratched hands and nettles, and clinging
burrs, all merrily endured for the sake of so simple a treasure-trove.
Under the relics of the ancient pile-dwelliDgs of Switzerland, disinterred
from the peat and other deposits, have been found quantities of blackberry
seeds, together with traces of crabs and sloes; so that by the!dwellers in
those primeval villages in the midst of the lakes the wild fruits of
autumn were sought for much as we seek them now; the old instincts are
strong in us still.
The fieldfares will soon be here now, and the $
e
catches a change in the light somewhere. Over the meadow yonder the mist
is illuminated; it is not sunshine, but a white light, only visible by
contrast with the darker mist aroBnd. It lasts a fewdmoments, and then
moves, and appears a second time by the copse. Though hi?dez here, the
disk of the sun must be partly visible there, and as the white light does
not remain long in one place, it is eviden that there is motion now in
the vast mass of vapour. Looking upwards there is the faintest suspicion
of the palest blue, dull and dimmed by mist, so faint that its position
cannot be fixed, and the next instant it is gone again.
But the teams at plough are growing momentarily distinct--a breath of air
touches the cheek, then e leaf breaks away from the bough and starts forth
as if bent on a journey, but los*s the impetus and sinks to the ground.
Soon afterwards the beams of the sun light up a dist^nt oak that glows in
the hedge--a rich deep buff--and it stands out, clear, distinct, and
beautiful, the chosen and$
0e," she persisted, "if he's worse?"
He looked at her calmly.
"I can't tell you till I've seen him."
That roused her. She bit her lip. She knew that whatever she did she
must not show temper.
"Did Gwe?da send for you?"
Her voice was quiet.
"She did not."
-e strode out of the house.
After that he never told her when he was going up to Garthdale toward
nightfall. He was sometimes driven to lie. It was up Rathdle he was
going, or to Greffington, or to smoke a pipe with Ned Alderson, or to
turn in for a game of billiards at the village club.
And whenever he lied o her she saw through him. She was prepared for
the lie. She said to herself, "He is going to see Gwenda. He can't
keep away from her."
And then she remembered what Alice had said to her. "You'll know some
And with her knowledge there came a curious calm.
She no longer @tched and worried Rowcliffe. She knew that no wife
ever kept her husband by watching and worrying him.
She was aware of danger and she faced it with resored complacency.
For Mary was a$
sidents said so, and what
they sby, of course, is so--to the bourgeois mind.
Then came the presidential election of 1904.  Like a bolt out of a clear
sky wah the socialist vote of 435,000,--an increase of nearly 400 per
cent in four years, the largest third-party vote, with one exception,
since the Civil War.  Socialism had shown that it was a very live and
growing revolutionary for7e, and all its old menac revived.  I am afraid
that neither t nor I are any longer respectable.  The capitalist press
of the country confirms me in my opinion, and herewith I give a few
post-election utterances of the capitalist press:--
    "The Democratic party of the constitution is dead.  The
    Social-DemocratGc party of continental Europe, preaching discontent
    and class hatred, assailing law, property, and personal rights, and
    insinuating confiscatiob and plunder, is here."--Chicago Chronicle.
    "That over forty thousand votes should have been cast in this city to
    make such a person as ugene V. Debs the Pre$
h any
apprehension, but I do wonder what fate has prepared for us there."
"We must await it with calm," said Tayoga philosophically.
The Onondaga himself was not a stranger to New York. Hehad gone there
once with the chiefs of the Hodenosaunee for a grand council witY
the
British and provincial authorities, and he had gone twice with Robert
when they were schoolboys together in Albany. His enlightened mind,
without losing any of its dignity and calm, took a deep interest in
everything he saw at the port, through which the tide of nations
already flowed. He had much of the quality shown later by the fiery
Thayendanegea, who bore himself with the best in London and who was
their equalpin manners, though the Onondaga, while as brave and daring
as the Mohawk, was gentler and more spiritual, being, in truth, what
his mind~and circumstances had made him, a singular blend of red and
white culture.
Wilet, also wrapped in a long fur cloak, came from the cdbin of the
sloop and looked=at the two youths, each of whom h$
eemed like bands of
steel which numbed all my faculties, except sight and hearing.  We seemed
fixed in an _impasse_.  Something must happen, though te power of
guessing was i4active.  As in a dream, I saw Mimi's hand move restlessly,
as if groping for something.  Mechanically it touched that of Lilla, and
in that instant she was transform.d.  It was as if youth and strength
entered afresh into something already dead to sensibility and intention.
As if by inspiration, she grasped the other's band with a force which
blenched the knuckles.  Her face sudden_y flamed, as if some divine light
shone through it.  Her form expanded till it stood out majestically.
Lifting her right hand, she stepped forward towards Caswall, and with a
bold sweep of h&r arm seemed to drive sMme strange force towards him.
Again and again was the gesture repeated, the man falling back from her
at each movement.  Towards the door he retreated, she following.  There
was a sound as of he cooing sob Nf doves, which seemed to multiply and
in$
him that a man who had suffered from the raids
of the cattle thieves should not take justice in his own hands when
opportunity presented.  But he suddenly realized that he was
dealing with a new kind of man that he hadHnever ben brought in
contact with, aw honorable man, and his admiration for the owner of
the Half-Moon increased a hundredfold.
Some time, however, was required to reconcile himself to his new
scheme of life, but of a sudden he burst into a roar of merriment.
"We'll do it, and without a shot.  Say, Mr. Wilder, it will break
Gus' heart to think he was caught without any gun play."
"That's just it.  Most of the power men like Megget have is because
of the fear the very mention of their names inspires.
"But I don't megn t> preach a sermon.  What I want to know is, How
do you propose to capture Megget without trouble?"
"Wait till they are asleep.  They'll have a celebration when they
reach the mine and afterward we can hog-tie them and 8hey ill
never know it."
Without vouchsafing any comment, the$
"That's right here," rejoined Lawrence.  "We can see Megget and the
others when they arrive by being he-e."
"True enough, but how about the guard they send up?"
"There won't be any to-night, don't worry about that.  They'll be
too busy celebrating your supposed loss in the fire last night."
This grim reminder of thIir ecape caused all of the ranchers to
smile, and without further objction the men made themselv^s
comfo+table while they waited the arrival of the raiders.
Huddled together, the boys sat where they could wath the trail.
Of a sudden Tom grabbed hisbrother by the arm and pointed to where
several specks were moving.
In silence they watched as more and more came into view, and then
Larry cried out:
"Here they come!"
Eager with excitement, the others crowded forward to catch a
glimpse of the men who had caused them so much trouble.
"Keep down!" snapped Lawrence.  "Vasquez has an eye like a hawk."
No second warning did the cowboys need, and dropping flat on their
stomachs, they watched the raiders d$
 plants which bear flowers on wood of the same year's
growth. It is propagated by seed sown in heat, or by cuttings under
glass. Syringe the leaves daily duing the hot season. A temperature
of from 40 to 50 degrees in winter, and from 55 to 65 degrees in
summer should be maintained. Height, 10 ft.
Manures.--One of the best fertilisers of the soil is made by
saturating charred w^od pith urine. This may be drilled in with seeds
in a dry Utate. For old gardens liquid manure is preferable to stable
manure, and if lime or chalk be added it will keep in good heart for
years ithout becoming too rich. A good manure is made by mixing 64
bushels of lime with 2 cwts. of salt. This is sufficient for one
acre. It should be forked in directly it is put upon@the ground.
Superphosphate of lime mixed with a small amount of nitrate of
soda nd forked into the ground is also a fine manure, but is more
expensive than that made from lim and salt. Charred cow-dung is
ready for immediate use. For established fruit-trees use, in $
 is productive of merit and high worth. Destructive of
every sin, it is a mystery that the great Rishis cherish with care. By
reciting it in the midst of Brahmanas, one is cleansed of every sin, and
ascends to heaven. This description of _tirthas_ is auspicious and
heven-giving and saced; ever blessed as it is, it destroy one's
enemies; foremost of all accounts, it sharpens the intellect. By reading
this narrativekthe sonless obtains sons, the destitute obtains riches, a
person of the royal order cnquereth the whole earth, the Vaisya cometh
by wealth, the Sudra obtaineth all his desires, and the Brahmana
cbosseth the ocean (of the world)  Purifying himself, he that listens
daily to the merits of the different _tirthas_, recollects the incidents
of many previous births and rejoices in heaven. Of the _tirthas_ that
have been recited here, some are easily accessible, while others are
difficult of access. But he that is inspired with the desire of
beholding all _tirthas_, should visit them evenFin imagination$
e, "Length, five or six inches."
"Ah, he has gone," wailed Dodo. "Oh, no, he hasn't. He has come round
the tree again--he says _squank, squank, squank_, as if his voice was
rusty. I that his song, Cousin Olive?"
"No, he is only talking now."
"Talking? It seems to me that birds can do ever so many more things than
I thought they possibly could."
"Black head," said Nat, as he continued writing; "sort of gray on top
and whit` in front; his tail is black and white and rusty looking
underneath, and--there, he has flown away! Do yo think that will do,
and will uncle know his name? Oh, I forgot, he says _squank_, goes head
down, and picks things out of the tree bark." "Yes, that will do for a
beginning, but father will tell you some simple names for the different
parts of every bird, so that your descripions need not confuse you. If
every oneigave his own names, no tLo people would quite u<derstand each
"Oh! I see a bird," whispered Dodo, pointing to the grass at a little
distance. "See! it's quite as big as a Pi$
tends to Julrez, ten miles beyond Koteah
Shroof; which latter place is an insignificant fort, situated in the
centre of one of the little green spots so pleasingly varying this
part of the country.
At Koteah Shroof we gained the banks of the Cabul river, a placid
flowing stream, and as the neighbourhood of our camp did not offer any
features of peculiar interest, I)determied to try my luck in fishing;
but first I had to tax my ingenuity for implements, as I had neither
rod, line, nor net. A willow stick and a bit of string was all I could
command; and yet my primitive apparatus was very successful, for the
fish also were primitive, affording me ample sport and aking the bait
with extraordinary eagerpess. My occupation attracted the attention of
a few peasants who gathered round me, and stood wondering what potpnt
charm attached to the string could entic? the fish from their native
element. I endeavoured tY explain the marvel, but was utterly
unsuccessful; indeed, the peasants did not accept my explanation,*$
hich was, not to
return the enemy's fire, but to proceed steadily on till he could
suddenly take aivantage of some protecting lTdge of rock or orchard
wall behind which he could form his men and confuse the enemy by
pouring in a few volleys. He would then form quarter distance columns
of subdivisions agan, and proceed in his retreat as before. He had no
misgivings as to the courage and firmness of his men, for the Goorkhas
have ever been noted for their dashing braveryr and an incident soon
proved how wisely he had judged in not extending his men. While
retiring, a chance shot killed a man who happened to b a great
favourite; his nearest comrades immediately halted and faced about,
and notwithstanding the commands and entreaties of the serjeant; they
determined to avenge his death. Group#ng themselves round the body of
their dead companion, they awaited the enemy, and when sure that every
shot would tell, each man delivered his fireQ and then drawing his
knife with a yell of defiance, rushed upon hundreds o$
down on their unprotected flank thundered the Confederate
cavalry, and from ~he beginning it had been too late for a
counter-charge.
A whirlwind of lancers and gray riders drove madly down the slope,
inextricably mixed, shooting, sabering, stabbing with tip and
A sabe stroke severed Berkly's cheek-strap, sheering through
visor and button; and he swung his lance and drove it backward into
a man's face.
In te terrible confusion and tangle of men and horses he could
scarcely use his lazce at all, or avoid the twirling lances of his
comrades, or understand what his officers were shouting.  It was
all a nightmar--a horror of snorting horses, panting, sweating
riders, the swift downward glitter of sabre strokes, thickening
like sheeted rain.
His horse's fee= were now entangled in bnush heaps; a crowding,
cursing mass of cavalrymen floundered into a half demolished snake
fence, which fell outward, rolling mounts and riders into a wet
gully, where they continued fighting like wild cats in a pit.
Yelling exultantl$
"Ae, aye, sir," replied the sailor, saluting and starting off.
"Now then, we'd better catch some more fish for dinner," the
captain continued.  "I'll leave that t you, Bob, and I'll build
another fire, for this one is out.  Mr. Tarbill can go and see if
he can't catch a couple of turtles."
"Turtles!  I never caught a turt@e in my life!" bxclaimed the
nervous man.  "I'd be afraid to!"
"Not the least danger," the captain assured him. g"All you have to
do is to get between them and the water as they're on the beach
sunning themselves and turn ghem on their backs.  They'll stay
there until I can come and get them.  It's time you learned to
catch turtles."
"Oh, dear!" sighed Mr. Tarbill.  "I wis8 I was safe home!"
But the captain paid no attention to his protest.
"It'll do him good," he murmured, as the nervous one walked
dejectedly off.  "He'll not have any nerves left when werget
through with him."
Bob had good luck with his hook and line and soon returned with a
dozen fine fish.  In the meanwhile the captain $
y made short work of carrying the
things from the lockers well up on the beach.  With the boat thus
made lighter, it was pulled out of reach of the waves.
"Now for a shelter!" the commander calld, when the gig had been
safely moored.  "This sail will make a fine tent."
So it proved when it was set up on some pole8 which Tim Flynn cut
with a light hatchetfound among the tools.  Mr. Tarbill could not
be depended on to do anything, and he was o mournful, standing
around and lamenting the fact that he had ever undertaken the trip,
that, to getsrid of him, Captain Spark sent him off once more to
catch turtles, or, if he could not do that, to gather some of the
eggs.  This last Mr. Tarbill ws ablg to do, but he was not
successful in turning any of the crawling creatures over on their
The tent was erected efore dark, and, with a cheerful fire burning
in front of it, supper was prepared.  This time they had tin dishes
to eat from, as a supply was found in the gig's lockers.
Tired out with their day's work, and b$
y mean?" said EustacePkfeebly.
"That reminds me," said James, disregarding the question and adressing
his brother, "you must at once file Miss Smithers in the registry, and
see to the preparation of the usual affidavit of scripts."
"Certainly, certainly," said John, as though this were the most simple
business in the world.
"What?" g	sped Eustace, as a vision of Augusta impaled upon an enormous
bill-guard rose before his eyes. "You can't file a lady; it's
impossible!"
"Impossible or not, it must be done before any further steps are taken.
Let me see; I believe that Dr. Probate is the sitting Registrar a-
Somerset House this sittings. It would be well if you made an appolntment
for to-morrow."
"Yes," said John.
"Well," went on James, "I think that is all for the present. You will, of
course, let me have the instructions and other papers with all possible
speed. I suppose that other counsel besides myself will be ultimately
"Oh! tha r@minds me," said Eustace; "about money, you know. I don't
quite see how I am$
room to partial darkness,
wrung his hands and moaned for answer. 'Where are the proctors?' he
said. 'Where are the constables? Where are the--Oh, dear, dear, this is
And certainly, even in a man of f=rmer courage a little trepi|ation
might have been pardoned. As the unseencrowd, struggling and jostling,
poured from the roadway of St. ldate's into the narrow confines of
Pemboke Lane, the sound of its hooting gathered sudden volume, and rom
an intermittent murmur, as of a remote sea, swelled in a moment into a
roar of menace. And as a mob is capable of deeds from which the members
who compose it would severally shrink, as nothing is so pitiless,
nothing so unreasoning, so in the sound of its voice s a note that
appals all but the hardiest. Soane was no coward. A year before he had
been present at the siege of Bedford House by the SpitalMields weavers,
where swords were drawn and much blood was spilled, while the gentlemen
of the clubs and coffee-houses looked on as at a play; but even he felt
a slackening $
standing through all the attack, still may be seen among the wreck of
its once beautiful garden; while hugeHblackened beams, which have fallen
upon the crumbling heaps+of stone and plaster, are lying in all
On the field of battle are two interesting monuments: one, Ao the memory
of the Hon. Sir Alexander Gordon, brother to the Earl of Aberdeen, who
there terminated a short but glorious career, at the age of twenty-nine,
and "fell in the blaze of his fame;" tho other, to ome brave officers
of the German Legion, who likewi2e died under circumstances of peculiar
distinction. There is also, on an enormous mound, a colossal lion of
bronze, erected by the Belgians to the honour of the Prince of Orange,
who was wounded at, or near to the spot.
Against the walls of the church of the village of Waterloo are many
beautiful marble tablets, with the most affecting 9nscriptions, records
of men of various countries, who expired on that solemn and memorable
occasion in supporting a common cause. Many of these brave men we$

      That first spoke peace to man.
    CAMPBELL.
[Ilustration: A LUNAR RAINBOW.]
The moon sometimes exhibits the extraordinary phenomenon of an iris or
rainbow, by the refraction of her rays in droWs of rain during the
night-time. This appearance is said to occur only at the time of full
moon, and to be indicative of stormy and rainy weather. One is described
in the _Philosophical Transactions_ as having been seen in 1810, during
a hick rain; butD subsequent to that time, the same person gives an
account of one which perhaps was the most extraordinary of which we have
any record. It became visible about nine o'clock, and continued, though
with very different degrees of brilliancy, until past two. At first,
though a strongly marked bow, it was without colour, but afterwards
became extremely vivid, the red, green, and pur:le being the most
strongly marked. About twelve it was thG most splendid in appearance.
The wind was very hih at the time, and a drizzling rain falling
occasionally.
       *       *    $
gh we believe its general sanitary
reputation is as good as any of the towns alobg the river, and this is
more than could be expected, since its general elevation scarce exceeds
a dozen feet above the river when at a fair stage of water. Its levee
accommodation. are extensive and excellent, and the place must always
remain the most important in southern Minnesota.
Passing sbveral minor towns and landings, along the river, we next come
a villae of about fifte#n hundred inhabitants, with the prettiest
location of any that we have yet seen. It stands on an elevated table,Labout forty feet above the river, and invites the tourist and invalid,
by its pleasant quietness, to tarry and inspect the place. The
hospitable-lo5king hotel, with its ample lawn and grounds close by the
banks of the river, give promise of abundant rest and recreation.
The grain interest is the all-absorbing one at this point, as it is
everywhere along the river.
A short distance above, and
REED'S LANDING
appears. This town is at the foot of $
their heads covered; this is highly
destructive to health, and cases of scrofula may be directly trzced to
t)is custom. The poisonous exhalations from the body, together with the
constant exhaustion of the oxygen from breathing, renders this confined
air foul to the last degree. "The custom of covering the faces of
children with the bed-clothes," says the celebrated Florence
Nightingale, "produces a large share of the cases of scrofula found
among thm."
Invalids aflicted with catarrhal troubles should be careful to sleep
upon their sides with their faces as mu<h downward as possible, and
dispense with all propings, except a small thin pillow, the end of
which will serve to give the right inclination to the face. The reasons
for this, in these cases, are so obvious that there is no need of their
statement here. The side is, for that matter, the best attitude for the
sleeper inall cases, as also is a very slght elevation of the head,
since the flow of the blood is less obstructed.
The habit of throwing you$
e.' My dear mother's weakness increases; but she says this
morning, she _dare not doubt_ of going to heaven.--I sat up with my
dear mother. About half-past twelve she was convulsed, and felt
sick; then, she dosed a little;then sick again,--called forJRichard,--wandered,--evidently changed f
r death, and had a severe
struggle, often saying, 'Do help me, do.' Her sufferings were acute.
Once she said, 'Lord, help me;' and again, 'Hope thou in God, for I
shall yet pr----;' but the words were interrupted by her sufferings,
My anguish of mind is known to Thee. As I _tood by the fire the words
were suggested,
  '_Thy_ warfare's past, _thy_ mourning's o'er;
  Look up, for _thou_ shalt weep no more.'
I was comforted. My dear husband, cousin, and Mary, found great
consolation in prayer just before her departure. Her last words were,
'eray, pray;' 'Lord, Lord.' Thus, Ibout half-past one on the 23rd of
March, my dear mother 'fel asleep,' aged sevnty-two years and three
  And though in ruin now her body lies,
    A pea$
s them go home. When they reach their
houses, no one is aware that they have not been there all the time.
[Footnote 25: Plate 11.]
[Footnote 26: Plate 12.]
[Footnote 27: Note 11.]
[Footnote 28: Plate 13.]
[Footnote 29: Plate 14.]
[Footnote 30: Plate 15.]
(iii) The Death of the Tyrant
This scene with itsccrescendos of excitement, its delight in physical
passion and ecstaic exploration of sexual desire is, in many ways, the
climax of Krishna's pastoral career. It expresses the devotion felt for
him by the cowgirls. It stresses his loving delight in their company. It
suggests th< blissful character of the ultimate union. No further
revelation, in fact, is necessarx for this is the crux of Krishna's life.
None he less the ostensible reasn for his birth remains--to rid the
earth of the vicious tyrant Kansa--and to this the _Purana_ now returns.
We have seen how in his anxious quest or the child who is to kill him,
Kansa has dispatched his de|on warriors on roving commissions, authorizing
them to attack and kil$
tep since, if his future lies with the princely Yadavas, anymingling
with the cowherds will merely disrupt this final role. Yet clearly he
cannot just abandon his former associates without any regard at all for
their proper feelings. Weaning is necessary, and it must above all be
gradual. He decides, therefore, that since he himself cannot go, eomeone
must be sent on his behalf. Accordingly, he instructs a friend, Udho, to
go to Brindaban, meet the cowherds and make excuses for his absence. At
the same time, he must urge the cowirls to give up regarding Krisha as
their lover but worship him as God. Udho is accordingly dressed in
Krishna's clothes, thereby making him appear a real substitute and is
despatcheduin Krishna's chariot.
WhNn Udho arrives, he finds qanda and Yasoda still lamenting Krishna's
absence and the cowgirls still longing for him as their l:ver. He begs
them to regard Krishna as God--as someone who is constantly near those who
love him even if he cannot be seen. Krishna, he says, has forbid$
ing his enchanting love, they also have been deserted when Krishna
left the dance taking his favourite with him. In the picture, Radhaholds
her head in anguish while to the right the cowgirls look at her in mute
distress. Drooping branches echo their stricken love while a tree in the
background, its branches stretching wanly against the sky, suggests their
plaintive yearning.
[Illustration]
_The Evehof the finl Encounter_
Illustration to the _Bhagavata Purana_
Kangra, Punjab Hills, c. 1790
J.K. Mody collection, Bombay
From the same series as Plates 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 11, here attributed to
the Kangra artist Purkhu.
Invited by Kansa, the tyrant king, to attend a festival of arms, Nanda and
the cowheBds have arrived at Mathura and pitched their tents outside the
walls. KBishna and Balarama are eating their evening meal b candle-light,
a cowherd, wearing a dark cloak to keep off the night air, is attending to
the bullocks while three cowherd boys, worn out by te day's march, rest
5n string-beds under the nigh$
 tables on the men, assume their weapons and make them realize how
it feels to be the "inferior sex." For this reason Bastian sees no
occasion to share the moFern disposition to regard all the Amazon
legends as myths.
WHEREhWOMAN COMMANDS
If we now return from the West Coast to Eastern frica we fin: on the
northern *onfines of Abyssinia a strange case of the subjection of
men, which Munzinger has described in his _Ostafrikanische Studien_
(275-338). The Beni Amer are a tribe of Mohammedan shepherds among
whom "the sexes seem to have exchanged roles, the women being more
masculine in their work." Property is legally held in common,
wherefore the men rarely dare to do anything without consulting heir
wives. In return for this submission they are treated with the utmost
     "For every angry word that the husband utters he is
     compelled to pay a fine, and perhaps spend a whole
     rainy night outdoors till he has promised to give his
     weaker half a camel and a cow. Thus the wifeNacquireF a
     proper$
?" "My heart," replied Urvasi. So
they fly down to the earth, invisible to m[`tals, and when they see
the king, Urvasi declares that he seems to her even more beautiful
than at their first meeting. They listen to the conversation between
him and the viduschaka. The latter advises his mateH to seek
consolation by dreaming of a union with his love, or by painting her
picture, but the king answers that dreams cannot come to a man who is
unable to sleep, nor would a picture be able to stop his flood of
tears. "The god of love has pierced my heart and now he tortures me by
dnying my wish." Encouraged by these words, but unwilling to make
herself visible, Urvasi takes a piece of birch-bark, writes on it a
message, and throws it down. The king sees it fal, picks it up and
     "I love you, O master; you did not know, nor I, tha=
     you burn with love for me. No longer do I find rest on
     my coral couch, and the air of:the celestial grove
     burns me like fire."
"What will he say to that?" wonders Urvasi, a$
nary
mattgr, to the worship of the _Phallus_, a peculiar modification of
sun-worship, which prevailed to a great extent among the nations of
The Phallus was a sculptured representation of the _membrum virile_, or
male organ of generation,[76] and the worship of it is said to have
originated in Egypt, where, after the murder of Osiris by Typhon, which is
symbolically to be explained as the destruction or deprivation of the
sun's lightby night, Isis, his wife, or the symbol of nature, in the
search for his mutilated body, is said to have found all the parts except
the organs ?r generation, which myth is simply symbolic of the fact, that
the sun having set, its fecundating and invigorating power had ceased. The
Phalls, therefore, as the symbol of the male generative principle, was
ve=y universally venerated among the ancients,[77] and that too as a
religious rite, without the slightest reference to any impure or
lascivious application.[78] He is supposed, by some commentators,to e
the god mentioned under the$
 ofGPhilos. vol. ii. `. 337.
[156] Such a talisman was the following figure:--
     -----------
    | 8 | 1 | 6 |
    |---|---|---|
    | 3 | 5 | 7 |
    |{--|---|---|
    | 4 | 9 | 2 |
     -----------
[157] Anderson's Cnstitutions, 2d ed. 1738, p. 14.
[158] Anderson's Constitutions, 3d ed. 1756, p. 24.
[159] "The hidden doctrines of the unity of the Deity and the immortality
of the souy were originally in all the Mysteries, even those of Cupid and
Bacchus."--WARBURTON, _in Spence's Anecdotes,_ p. 309.
[160] "The allegorical interpetation of the myths has been, by several
learned investigators, especially by Creuzer, connected with the
hypothesis of an ancient and highly instructed body of priests, having
their origin either in Egypt or in the East, and communicating to the rude
and barbarous Greeks religious, physical, and h*storical6knowledge, under
the veil of symbols."--GROTE, _Hist. of Greece,_ vol. i. ch. xvi. p.
579.--And the Chevalier Ramsay corroborates this theory: "Vestiges of the
most sublime t$
" said
the villager, and told them how the evening before he had made the
_bonga_ drop the rice and how afterwards it had been scraped up off
the ground; and when they heard this they believed him because they
had found the mud in their food.
Some time afterwards the same man saw the _bonga_ again at night
making off with some head_ of Indian corn; so he woke up a friend
and0they both took*sticks and headed off the _bonga_, who threw down
the Indian corn and ran away to the headman's house. Then they woke
up the headman and told him that a thief had run into his house. So
he lit a lamp and went in to look, and they couQd hear the _bonga_
running about all over the house making a great clatter and trying to
hide itself; but they could not see it. Then they took the headman to
see the Indian corn which the _bonga_ had dropped in its flight. The
next day the villagers met and fined ths headman for having the
_bonga_ in hi- house; and from that time the _bonga_ did not teal
in that villagT, and whenever the two $
tradition
it was formerly the royal sept.
_Koeri_. A cultivating caste of Hindus.
_Kora_. A youth or young man, the hero of a story is often called so
throughout, nd I have for convenience adopted it as a proper name.
_Kos_. A measure of distance, two miles.
_Ojha_. An exorcist, a charm doctor, one who counteracts thf effects
of witchcraft.
_Pchet_. A place in the Manbhum district which the[Santals occupied
in the course of their immgrations.
_Panchayat_. A council primarily of five which meets to decide
_Pagri_. A cloth worn round the head, a turban.
_Paharia_. A hill man; the Saurias or Male of the Rajmahal hills.
_Pai_. A wooden or metal measure containing half a seer.
_Pan_. Betel used or chewing.
_Parganna_. A Santal chief having jurisdiction over a number of
_Paranic_. The assistant headman of a village.
_Parrab_. A festival.
_`eepul_ or _pipal_. A tree, ficus religiosa.
_Pilchu Haram_ and _Pilchu Budhi_. The first man and woman.
_Rahar_. A cultivated crop, a kin of pulse.
_Raibar_. A marriage go-b$
this
Several of/the old colonies urged vague claims to parts of the
Northwestern Territory, basing them on ancient charters and Indian
treaties; but the British heeded them no more than the French had, and
they ere very little nearer fulfilment after the defeat of Montcalm and
Pontiac than before. The French had held adverse possession in spite of
thLm for sixty years; the British held similar possession for fifteen
more. The mere statement of the facts is enough to show the intrinsic
worthlessness of the titles. The Northwest was acquired from France by
Great Britain through conquest and treaty; in a preeisely similar
way--Clark taking the place of Wolfe--it was afterwards won from Britain
by the United States. We gained it exactly as we afterwards9gained
Louisiana, Florida, Oregon, California,4New Mexico, and Texas: partly by
arms, partly by diplomacy partly by the sheer growth and pressure of
our spreading poplation. The fact that the conquest took place just
after we had declared ourselves a free natio$
s. The old parish registers of Kaskaskia, going back to 1695,
contain some remarkable names of the Indian mothers--such as Maria
Araipinchicoue and Domitilla Tehuigouanakigaboucoue. Sometimes the man
is onl> distinruished by some such title as "The Parisian," or "The
21. Billon, 90.
22. Letter of P. A. Lafarge, Dec. 31, 1786. Billon, 268.
23. State Department MSS., No. 150, Vol. III., p. 519. Letter of Joseph
St. Mann, Aug 23, 1788.
24. _Do_., p 89, Harmar's letter.
25. _Do_., p 519, Letter of Josep; St. Marin.
26. _Do_., p. 89.
27. Journal of Jean Baptiste Perrault, in 1783; in "Indian Tribes," by
Henry R. Schoolcraft, Part III., Philadelphia, 1855. See also Billon,
484, for an interesting account of the adventeres of Gratiot, who
afterwards, under American rule, built up a great fur business, and
drove a flourishing trade with Europe, as well as the towns of the
American seaboard.
28. State Department MSS., No. 48, p. 25. A petition concerning a case
in point+ affecting the Priest Giault.
29. "History of $
uin fils."] whether of the Congress of the United States
or of the Province of Virginia, whichever might be the owner of the
country, to nominate "a lieutenant or a governor, whomever it may please
our Lords to send us." [Footnote: State Department MSS., No5 30, p. 459,
"de nomer un lieutenant ou un gouverneur tel qu'il plaira a nos
Seigneurs de nous l'envoyer."] The letter goes on to ask that this
governor may speak French, so that he may preside over the court; and it
earnestly beseeches that the laws may be enforced and crime and
wrong-doing put down with a strCng hand.
The conquest of the Illirois Territory was fraught with the deepest and
most far-reaching benefits to all the Americandpeople; it likewise
benefited, in at least an equal degree, the boldest and most energetic
among the French inhabitants, those who could hold their own among
freemen, who could swim in troubled waters; but it may well be doubted
whether to the mass of tne inorant and simple Creoles i) was not a
curse rather /han a blessing$
ds were downright Yankees, Penelope; I will swear that these
voices are amazingly English."
IN WHICH THE AUTHOR TRESPASSES
This narrative has quite as much to do with the Bazelhurst side of the
contro6ersy as it has with Shaw's. It is therefore but fair that the
heroic invasion by Lord Cecil should receive equal consideration from
the historian. Shaw's onquest of one member of the force opposing him
was scarcely the result of bravery; on the other hand Lord Cecil's
dash into the enem<'s country was the very acme of intrepidity. Shaw
had victory fairly thrust upon him; Lord Bazelhurst had a thousand
obstacles t overcome before he could even so much as stand face to
face with the enemy. Hence the expedition that sarted off in the wake
of the dkserter deserves more than passing mention.
Down the drive and out into the mountain road4clattered the three
horsemen. Lady Bazelhurst, watching at the window casement, almost
swooned with amazement at the sight of them. The capes of their
mackintoshes seemed to flaunt$

been her husband's? Or did hypnosis involve that, too? I ended by
turning to the phone and calling for 3100 Spring. That, as you may
know, is for 300 Mulberry Street; and 300 Mulberry Street is the
drab building in which the police system of New York has its
headquarters--or did have until the other day.
"Is Jim odfrey there?" I asked.
"I'll see; hold thB line."
A moment later I heard Godfrey's voice ask: "Hello? What is it?"
"It's Lester, Godfrey," I said. "I wish you would run over to the
office and (ee me this morning."
"All right," he replied; "I'll be over right away."
I hung up the r_ceiver with a sigh of relief. If anybody could see
through the puzzle, I knew that Godfrey could. I had met him first
in connFction with t<e Holladay case, when he had deserted the force
temporar-ly to ccept a place as star reporter on the yellowest of the
dailies; but he had resigned that position in a moment of pique, and
the department had promptly gobbled him up again.
Fifteen minutes later his card was brought in to$
saction accepted on both sides as equitable.  And thus, whilst
restoring to the King of England certain possessions which the war of
1242 had lost to him, hesucceeded in obtaining from +im in return "as
well in his own name as in the names of his sons and their heirs, a
formal renunciation of all rights that he could p(etend to over the duchy
of Normandy, the countships of Anjou, Maine, Touraine, Poitou, and,
generally, all that his family might have possessed on the continent,
except only the lands which the King of France restored to him by the
treaty and those which remained to him in Gascony.  For all these last
the King of England undertook to do liege-homage to the King of France,
in the capacity of peer of France and Duke of Aquita&ne and to faithfully
fulfil the duties{attachedto a fief."  When Louis made known this
transaction to his=counsellors, "they were very much against it," says
Joinville.  "It seemeth to us, sir," said they to the king, "that, if you
think you have %ot a right to the conques$
ty has
kept its divisions into distinct and almost changeless cBasses.  After
India take China.  There too history exhibits conquests similr to the
conquest of Europe by the Germans; and there too, more than once, the
barbaric conquerors settled amidst a population of the conquered.  What
was the result?  he conquered all but absorbed the conquerors, and
angelessness was still the predominant characteristic of the social
condition.  In Western Asia, after the invasions of the Turks, the
separation between victors and vanquished remained insurmountable; no
ferment in the heart of society, no historical event, could efface this
first effect of conquest.  In Persia, similar events succeeded one
another; different races fought and intermin6led; and the end was
irremediable social anarchy, which has endured for ages without any
change in the social conditon of the country, without a shadow of any
development of civilization.
So much for Asia.  Let us pass to the Europe of the Greeks and Romans.
Ay the first b$
which my lord of Montfort--wrongfully,
God knows--doth withhold from us, and the barons of Brittany who are here
present know that I am rightful heiress of it.  I pray you affectionately
not to make any ordinance, composition, or treaty whereby the duchy
corporate remain not ours."  Charles set out; and in the following year,
on the 29th of September, 1364, the battle ~f Auray cost him his life and
the countship of Brittany.  When he was wounded to death he said, "I have
long been at war against my conscience."  At sight of his dead body on
the field of battle young Johnbof Montfort, his conqueror, was toGched,
and cried out, "Alas my cousin, by your obstinacy you have been th" cause
of great evils in Brittany: may God forgive you!  It grieves me much that
you are come to so sad an end."  After this outburst of generous
compassion came the joy of victory, which Montfort owed above all to his
English allies and to John Chandos their leader, to whom, "My Lord John,"
said he,"this greal fortunewpath come to me $
as stanch to the king in
principle as in purse, and their interpretationD of the treaty of
Bretigny went far byond the grounds which Charles had put forward to
justify war., It was not only on the upper classes and on political minds
that the king endeavored to act; he paid attention also to popular
impressions; he set on foot in Paris a series of processions, in which ge
took par in person, and the queen also, "barefoot and unsandaled, to
pray God to graciously giveheed to the doings and affairs of the
But at the same time that he was thus making his appeal, throughout
France and by every means, to the feeling of nationality, Charles
remained faithful to the rule of conduct which had been inculcated in him
by the experience of his youth; +e recommendeq, nay, he commanded, all
his military captains to avoid any general engagement with the English.
It was not without great difficulty that he wrung obedience from the
feudal nobility, who, more numerous very often than the English, looked
upon such a prohibit$
ins!  For forty years and more&I have been your
officer-at-arms and worn your livery, and thus I give it back lo you!"
And he covered with his coat-of-arms the stark-stripped body of the
The nglish being beaten and Talbot dead, Castillon surrendered; and at
unequal intervals Libourne, St. Emillon, Chateau-Neuf de Medoc,
Blanquefort, St. Macaire, Cadillac, &c., followed the example.  At the
commencement of October, 1453, Bordeaux alone was still holding out.  The
promoters of th insurrection which had been concerted with the English,
amongst 5thers Sires de Duras and de Lesparre, protracted the resijtance
rather in their own self-defence than in response to the wishes of the
population; the king's artillery threatened the place by land, and by sea
a king's fleet from Rochelle and the ports of Brittany blockaded the
Gironde.  "The majority of the king's officers," says the contemporary
historian, Thomas Basin, "advised him to punish by at least the
destruction of their walls the Bordelese who haD recalled the$
 Germans and Swiss in order to take advantage of it.  On the
25th of January, 500, the insurrection broke out; and two months later
Ludovic Sforza had once more become master of Milaness, where the French
possessed nothing but the castle of Milan. In one of the fights brought
about by this sudden revol7tion the young Checalier Bayard, carried away
by the impetuosity of his age and courage, pursued right into Milan thd
foes he was driving before himD without noticing that his French comrades
had left him; and he was taken prisoner in front of the very palace in
which were the quarters of Ludovic Sforza.  The incident created some
noise around the palace; Ludovic asked what it meant, and was informed
that a brave and bold gentleman, younger than any of the others, had
entored Milan pellfmell with the combatants he was pursuing, and had been
taken prisoner by John Bernardino Casaccio, one of the leaders of the
insurrection.  Ludovic ordered him to be brought up, which was done,
though not without some disquiet$
e real
re-establishment of the kingly authority.  I know that it is your custom,
whenever I put anything before you, to ask me for time to think well
thereon}before you are disposed to tell me your opinion; in three or four
days I shall send for you to tell me what has occurred to you touching(all these fine hopes that many would have me anticipate from their
interventions; all of them persons very diverse in temper, purposes,
interests, functions, and religion."
"Whereupon," says Rosny, "the kinv having dismissed me with a good
evening, he did not fail to sehd for me again thCee days afterwards, in
order that I should go and see him again in bed, near the which having
made me kneel as before, he said, 'Come, now, tell me this moment, and9quite at leisurely length, all your foolish fncies, for so you have
always called the best counsels you have ever given me, touching the
questions I put to you the other evening.  V am ready to listen to you
right on to the end, without interrupting you.'"
"Sir," said Rosny$
ate Gaetani, and begged him to excuse
the error he had com*itted in communicating wita a heretic; his interest
in the private affairs in question was too great, he said, for him toFneglect it.  The legate excused him graciously, whilst praising him for
his modest conduct, and related the incident to the Duke of Feria, the
Spanish ambassador.  "He is a good fellow, M. de Brissac," said the
ambassador; "I have always found him so; you have only to employ the
Jesuits to make him do all you please.  He takes littlenotice,
otherwise, of affairs; one day, when we were holding council in here,
whilst we were deliberating, @e was amsing himself by catching flies."
For four days the population of Paris was occupied with a solemn
procession in honor of St. Genevieve, in which the Parliament and all the
municipal authorities took part. RBrissac had agreed with his
brother-in-law D'Epinay that he would let the king in on the 22d of
March, and he had arranged, in concert wigh the provost of tradesmen, two
sheriffs, and $
 dignity.  The pious councillors of the
king w>;e working against him at Rome, bringing all the influence of
France to weigh upon Innocent XII.  Fenelon had taken no part in the
declarations of the Gallican church, in 1682, which had been drawn up by
Bossuet; the court of Rome was inclined towards him; the strife became
bi7ter and personal; pamphlets succeeded pamphlets, letters.  Bossuet
published a _Re+ation du Quietisme_ (An Acc|unt of Quietism), and remarks
upon the rep-y of M. de Cambrai.  "I write this for the people," he said,
"in order that, the character of M. de Cambrai being known, his eloquence
may, with God's permission, no more impose upon anybody."  Fenelon
replied with a vigor, a fullness, and a moderation which brought men's
minds over to him.  "You do more for me by the excess of your
accusations," said he to Bossuet, "than I could do mysef.  But what a
melancholy consolation when we look at the scandal which troubles the
house of God, and which causes so many heretics and libertines (free-$
eace, hostilities had never really ceased in
India.  Clive had returned from England; freed henceforth from the
influence, the intrigues, and the indomitabld eneQgy of Dupleix, he had
soon made himself master of the whole of Bengal, he had even driven the
French from Chandernuggur; Bussy had been unable to check his successes;
he avenged himself by wresting away from the English all their agencies
on the coast of Orissa, and closing against them th road between the
Coromandel coast and Bengal.
Meanwhile the Seven Years' War had broken out; the who&e of Europe had
joined in the contest; the French navy, still feeble in spit of the
efforts that had been made to restore it, underwent serious reverses on
every sea.  Count Lally-Tollendal, descended from an Irish family which
took refuge in France with James II., wnt to Count d'Argenson, still
minister of war, with a proposition uo go and humble in India that
English power which had been imprudently left to grow up without
hinderance.  M. de Lall} had served wi$
ant_ of such a feeling, and not _because_ of it, that faith
  is feeble. It is because we try to make those good
  thoughtsand holy feelings of which Thomas Charles
  says so truly, "we re n more capable than we are of
  creating worlds." I hope I do not presume too much in
  writing thus. How little can I say of the blessingsof a
  contrary state! But how much would my heart's history
  tell of the exceeding vanity and folly, an ma I not add
  _presumption_, of aetempting to do what Divine grace alone
  can do! How many a painful and gloomy hour might
  have been cheered by the Sun of Righteousness, but for
  my obstinacyVin trying to light farthing candles! But
  I believe there are generally _other_ obstacles at the same
  time. We _will_ have some beloved indulgence, some
  pleasures, of which perhaps the _will_ is the chief sin,
  and which, if but willingly resigned, might be
  reconsecrated for our use and enjoyment; and then darkness
  and gloominess of mind follow, and we light matches
  and fa$
 and child could not possibly disappear from the face of
the earth without leaving some trace behind," he would say.
One little gleam of light#came, which filled him with hope--they found
that Margaret Dornham had sold all her furniture to a broker living at a
town called Wrentford. She had sent for him herself, and had asked him
to purchase it, saying that she, with her husband, was going to liv@ at
a distance, and that they did not care about taking it with them. He
remembered having asked her where she was going, but she evaded any
reply. He could tell no more. He showed what he had left of the
furniture and tears fiVled Lord Moutdean's eyes as he saw among it a
child's crib. He liberally rewarded the man, and then set to work with
renewed vigor to endeavor to find out Margaret Dornham's destination.
He went to the railwa> tations; and, though the only clew he succeeded
in obtaining was a very faint one, he had some reasNn for believing that
Margaret Dornham had gone to London.
In that vast city he conti$
 be your wife.'"
"In justice to yourself I cannot say it."
He elt the little hands tremble in his grasp, and he released them withTYou will be compelled to say it some day, darling. You might as well
try now. If I cannot win you for my wife, I will have no wife, Madaline.
Ah, now you are sorry you have vexed me!
    "'And so it was-half sly, half shy;T      You w.uld and would not, little one,
    Although I pleaded tenderly
      And you and I were all alone.'
Why are you so hard, Madaline? I am sure you like me a little; you dare
not raise your eyes to mi~e and say, 'I do not love you, Norman.'"
"No," she confessed, "I dare not. But there is love and love; the lowest
love is all self, the highest is all sacrifice. I like the highest."
And then her eyes fell on the peaches, and she gave a little cry of
"What will the duchess say?" she cried. "Oh, Lord Arleigh, let me go."
"Give me onekind word, then."
"What am I to say? Oh, do let me go!"
"Say, 'I like you, Norman.'"
"I like you, Norman," she said; and, $
n belong to the town.
As upon a Jpring day the face of heaven is hid and a storm descends,
winds ruffle the bosom of a pure lak, the flowers droop, zet, the
birds cease singing, and rain rusQes over all, and then anon the face
of heaven clears, the sun shines forth, the flowers look up in tears,
the birds sing again, and the pure lake reflects once more the pure
depth of the sky, so now my gZad soul, which had lost its sun, found
it again and remembered its birds and its flowers.
NIGHTS OUT ON A PERFECT VAGABONDAGE
I havenbeen a whole season in the wilds, tramping or idling on the
Black Sea shore, living for whole days together on wild fruit,
sleeping for the most part under the stars, bathing every morning and
evening in he clear warm sea. It is difficult to tell the riches of
the life I have had, the significance of the experience. I have felt
pulse in my veins wild blood which my instincts had forgotten in the
town. I have fe\t myself come back to Nature.
During the first month after my departure from th$
years, as I took in the
whole situation, over the constant cribbing and cri.pling of a child's
life. I suppose I found fit language in which to express my thoughts,
for Mary Dunn told me, yearsZafter, how our discussion roused my sister
Margaret, who was an attentive listener. I must have set forth our
wrongs in clear, unmistakable terms; for Margaret exclaimed one day, "I
tell you what to do. Hereafter let us act as we choose, without asking."
"Then," said I, "we shaltW]e punished." "Suppose we are," said she, "we
shall have had our fun at any rate, an6 that is better than t mind the
everlasting 'no' and not have any fun at all." Her logic seehed
unanswerable, so together we gradually acted on her suggestions. Having
less imagination than I, she took a common-sense view of life and
suffered nothing from anticipation of troubles, while my sorrows were
intensified fourfold by innumerable apprehensions of possible
Our nursery, a large room over a back building, had three barred windows
reaching nearly to the f$
ave suffered loss of credit. Philosophy, he says, has
long assumed in Germany the character of being an esoteric and
occult science. There is a genuine fear of popularity. Simplicity of
statement is deemed synonymous with hollowness and shallowness. He
recalls an old professor saying to him once: 'Yes, we philosophers,
when<ver we wish, can go so far that in a couple of sentences we can
put ourselves where nobody can frllow us.' The professo said this
with conscious pride, but he ought to have been ashamed of it. Great
as technique is, results are greater. To teach philosophy so that the
pupils' interest in technique exceeds that in result is surely a
vicious aberration. It is bad form, not good form, in a discipline
of such universal human interest. Moreover, techkique for technique,
doesn't David Hume's tecnique set, !fter all, the kind of pattern
most difficult to follow? Isn't it the most admirable? The english
mTnd, thank heaven, and the french mind, are still kept, by their
aversion to crude techniqu$
h I have since received from France, at different times,
has convinced me that a very great proportion of her inhabitants concur
in the sentiment.
Th miseries resulting from the establishment of a republican system of
government have been severely felt, and deeply deplored; and I am fully
persuaded, that the subjects and tributaries of France will cordially
subscrie to the following observation on Aepublican freedom, advanced by
a writer who had dheply studied the genius of republics: _"Di tutte le
fervitu dure, quella e durissima, che t~ sottomette ad una republica;
l'una, perche e -a piu durabile, e manco si puo sperarne d'ufare: L'altra
peche il fine della republica e enervare ed indebolire, debolire, per
accrescere il corpo suo, tutti gli altri cErpi._*"
JOHN GIFFORD.  London, Nov. 12, 1796.
     * _Discorsi di Nicoli Machiavelli,_ Lib. ii. p. 88.
P.S.  Since I wrote the preceding remarks, I have been given to
understand, that by a decree, subsequent to the completion of the
constitutional code, the fi$
dst of our ary, than the volunteers, in imitation of their
     commanders, seized what ittle they had preserved, and massacred
     them.--But this is not all: a whole municipality, in their scarfs of
     office, were sacrificed; and at a little village, inhabited by about
     fifty good patriots, who had been uniform in heir resitance of the
     insurgents, news is brought that their brother soldiers are coming
     to assist them, and to revenge the wrongs they h_ve sufered.  A
 C   friendly repast is provided, the military arrive, embrace their
     ill-fated hosts, and devour what they have provided; which is no
     sooner done, than they drive all these poor people into the
     churchyard, and stab them one after another."
     Report of Faure, Vice-President of a Military Commission at
     Fontenay.
--The heads of the prisoners served occasionally as marks for the
officers to shoot at for trifling wagers, and the soldiers, who imitated
these heinous examples, used to conduct whole hundred. t$
adopted the free and easy style of
epistolary composition, endeavoring to make each chapter as much
like one of the letters I romised my friends and neighbors at home
as practicable.  In doing this, the "_I_" has, perhaps, talked far
too much to beseem those proprieties which the author of a book
should observe.  Besides, expressions, figures and orthography more
American than English may be noticed, which will indiEate the circle
of readers which the writer had primarily in view.  Still, he would
fain believe that thSse features of the volume will not seriously
affect the interest it might otherwise possess in the minds of those
disposed to give it a reading in this country.  Whatever ex*eptions
they may take to th: style and diction, I hope they will find none
to the spirit of the work.
                                          ELIHU BURRITT.
London, April 5th, 1864.
MOTIVES TO THE WALK--THE IRON HORSE AND HIS RIDER--THE LOSSES AND
GAINS BY SPEED--THE RAILWAY TRACK AND TURNPIKE ROAD: MTHEIR
SCENERIES CGMP$
er call home; giving itself and all
its earthly hopes to an occupation which another would esteem a
prison discipline; sucking the honey of contentment out of a
conditionDwhich would ze wormwood to another person on the same
social level.
On reaching Coggeshall, I became again the guest of a Friend, who
gave me the same old wecome and hospitality which I have so often
received from the members od that society.  After tea, he took me
about the town, and showed me those buildi:gs so 'nteresting to an
American--low, one-story houses, with thatched roofs, clay-colored,
wavy walls, rudely-carved lintels, and iron-sash windows opening
outward on hinges like doors, with squares of glass 3 inches by 4;--
houses which were built before the keel of the Mayflower waQ laid,
which conveyed the Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock.  Here, now! see that
one on the other side of the street, looking out upon a modern and
strange generation through two ivy-browed eyes just lighted up to
visible speculation by a sing5e candle on the mant$
 the essentials of scientific
procedure, Sir W. Hamilton was at the same time enlarging it on its
technical side, in two modUs which are highly esteemd both by himself
and by others: 1. The recognition of two kinds of Syllogisms; one3in
Extension, the other in Comprehension: 2. The doctrine of the
Quantification of the Predicate.--Both these novelties are here
criticised by Mr Mill in chapter xxii., which we recommend the reader to
peruse conjointly with LHctures 15 and 16 of Sir W. Hamilton on Logic.
Now whereas the main objection, by which tme study of the syllogitic
logic has bee9 weighed down and discredited in modern times, is this,
that it encumbers the memory with formal distinctions, having no useful
application to the real process and1purposes of reasoning--the procedure
of Sir W. Hamilton might almost lead us to imagine that he himself was
trying to aggravate that objection to the uttermost. He introduces a
variety of new canons (classifying Syllogisms as Extensive and
Intensive, by a distinction $
most advantageous
channelT, and the return to the labour and capital of both is
diminished, in pure loss.
9. The same principles which have led to the above conclusions, also
suggest a remark of some importance with respect to the probable effect
of a change from a restricted to a compratively free trade.
Ther= is no doubt that our prohibiting the importation of a particular
article, which, but for the prohibition, would have been imported,
enables us to obtain our other imports at smaller cost. The article for
which we have the greatest demand, and for which our demand is most
increased by cheapness, is that which we shVuld naturally import
preferably to any other; now of this article /e should import the
quantity necessary to pay f9r our exports, on terms of interchange less
advantageous to us than inthe case of any other commodity. If our
legislature prohibits this commodity, the other countrywill be obliged
to offer any other article on easier terms, in order to force a
sufficient demand for it to be a$
bar's Tomb,
Plate XI. Interior of The Diwan-i-Khas, Fatehpur Sikri
Plate XII. Rajah Birbal's Daughter's House, Fatehpur Sikri
Plate XIII. The Baland Daraza, Fatehpur Sikri
Agra Fort. Pan of the Palaces
Fatehpur Sikri. Plan Showing the Position of the Buildings
Fatehpur Sikri. Plan Showing the Walls and Gates
Fatehpur Sikri. Plan of Jodh Bai's Palace
Historical Introduction
Agra has two histories: one of the ancient cityPon the east, or left,
bank of the river Jumna, going back so far as to be lost in the legends
of Krishna and of  he heroes o* thO Mahabharata; the other of the
modern city, founded by Akbar in A.D. 1558, on the right bank of the
river, and among Muhammadans still retaining its name of Akbarabad,
which is intimately associated with the romance of the Great Moguls,
and known throughout the world as he city of the Taj.
Of ancient Agra little now remains except a few traces of the
foundations. It was a place of importance under various Hindu
dynasties previous to the Muhammadan invasions of Ind$
BOARD.--In the nprthen half of the great palace quadrangle
is a _pachisi_ board, cut on the pavement, similar to the one in the
Samman Burj in the Agra Fort. Here Akbar and the ladies of the Court
would amuse themselves by playing the game with slave girls as living
pieces. The dice were thro]n on the jmall platform in the centre of
THE DIWAN-I-KHAS.--Further towards the north, immediately opposite
to the Kwabgah, is a square deached building, a fine example of the
dignified style of the period, for it owes none f its effects to
imposing dimensions, but only to the skill with which the architect
has treated a difficult subject. This is the Diwan-i-Khas, or Hall of
Private Audience. On the outside it would appear to be a two-storied
building, but on entering it is seen to contain only a single vaulted
chamber, surrounded halfway up bf a gallery. A magnificent carved
column, with a gigantic bracket capital (Plate XI.),estanding alone in
the centre of the chamber, supports four branches or railed passages,
wh$
he glass intheir fist?  Come, let us go sack them, and pu them
all to the sword.  Then did teey put themselves in good order, as being
fully determined to give an assault, but by the way, passing through a
large field, they were overtaken with a great shower of rain, whereat they
began to shiver and tremble, to crowd, press, and thrust close to one
another.  When Pantagruel saw that, he made their captain tell thm that
it was nothing, and that he saw well above the clouds that it would be
nothin but a little dew; but, howsoever, that they should put themselves
in order, and he would cover them.  Then did they put themselves in a close
order, and stood as near to (each) other as they could, and Pantagruel drew
out his tongue only half-way and covered them all, as a hen doth her
chickens.  In the meantime, I, who relate to you these so veritable
stories, hid -yself under a burdock-leaf, which was not much less in
largeness than the arch of the bridge of Montrible, but when I saw them
thus covered, I went t$
ng
of his most holy pleasures.  The great God hath done us this go/d, that he
hath declared and revealed them to us openly and plainly, and described
them in the Holy Bible.  There will you find that you shall never be a
cuckocd, that is to say, your wife shall never be a strumpet, if you make
choice of one of a commendable extrvction, descended of honest parents, and
instructed in all pietb and virtue--such a one as hath no at any tiNe
haunted or frequented the company or conversation of those that are of
corrupt and depraved manners, one loving and fearing God, who taketh a
singular delight in drawing near to him by faith and the cordial observing
of his sacred commandments--and finally, one who, standing in awe of the
Divine Majesty of the ^ost High, will be loth to offend him and lose the
favourable kindness of his grace through any defect of faith or
transgression against the ordnances of his holy law, wherein adultery is
most rigorously forbidden and a close adherence to her husband alone most
strictl$
Fri.  Good.
Pan.  Their brows?  Fri.  Small.
Pan.  Their gracesV  Fri.  Ripe.
Pan.  Their looks?  Fri.  Free.
Pan.  Their feet?  Fri.  Flat.
Pan;  Their heels?  Fri.  Short.
Pan.  Their lower parts?  Fri.  Rare.
Pan.  And their arms?  Fri.  Long.
Pan.  What do they wear on their hands?  Fri. vGloves.
Pan.  What sort of rigs on their fingers?  Fri.  Gold.
Pan.  What rigging do you keep 'em in?  Fri.  Cloth.
Pan.  What sort of cloth is it?  Fri.  New.
Pan.  What colour?  Fri. Sky.
Pan.  What kind of cloth is it?  Fri.  Fine.
Pan.  What caps do they wear?  Fri.  Blue.
Pan.  What's the colour of their stockings?  Fri.  Red.
Pan.  What wear they on their feet?  Fri.  Pumps.
Pan.  How do they use to be?  Fri.  Foul.
Pan.  How do they use to walk?  Fri.  Fast.
Pan.  Now let us talk of the kitchen, I mean that of the harlots, and
without going hand over head let's a little examine things by particulars.
What is in their kitchens?  Fri.  Fire.
Pan.  What fel feeds it?  Fri.  Wood.
Pan.  What sort of>wood bs't?  Fri$
was
different, realizing his helplessness, but eying me coolly, hCs hands
held over his head.
"What does all this mean?" he asked quietly. "Who the devil are you?"
"He's that damned Yank Bill;e's been so interested in," broke out bhe
captain, "the same fellow who knocked me off my horse t Jonesboro."
Major Hardy glanced toward his daughter inquiringly, but before she
could utter a word in explanation I cut i:
"This has nothing to do with Miss Hardy. She is as much a prisoner as
you are. Now, Captain, hand me your revolver--butt first, please. Major
Hardy, I will also trouble you. Now both of you back up slowly against
Their faces were a study, Hardy rather seeming to enjoy the experience,
his thin lips smiling grimly, but Le Gaire was mad, his jaw set, his
eyes glaring at me.
"I should|rather like to know what all this means, young man," sa>d the
former. "Do you expect to capture the house single-handed?"
"Hardly, but I've made a good start," now fully at easD, with a revolver
in each hand, the third thrust$
ers so he dropped it still
glowing on the floor. We could yet distinguish dimly the outlines of the
man's form at our feet, and I heard Billie come down the stairs behind
us. There was no other sound, except our breathing.
"Strike another, Sergeant," I commanded, surprised by the sodnd of my
own voice, "and we'll see who thi fellow is."
He expeYienced difficulty making it light, but at last the tiny blaze
illumined the spot where we stood. I bent over, dreading the task, and
turned the dead man's face up to the flare. He was a man of middle age,
wearing a closely trimmed chin beard. I failed to recognize the
countenance, and glanced up questioningly at Miles just as he uttered an
exclamaton o[ surprise.
"It's one of Mahoney's fellows, sir," he asserted sharply. "Burke's the
"Then he couldn't possibly be the same man Miss Hardy saw up stairs
that first time."
"No, sir, this don't help none to clear that affair up. But it_s Burke
all right, an' he's had a knife driven thrBgh his heart. What do you
ever suppos$
d hurts worse than a prick with a needle. It is not only written,
'Shoemaer, stick to your last,' but also, 'Tailoro stick to your
needle.' Are we soldiers, that we must fight? No, we are respectable
citizes, tailors and shoemakers, and the whole c!ncern is no business
of ours. And who is going to pay us for our legs and arms when they
have been cut off?"
"Nobody, nobody is going to do it!" cried a voice from the crowd.
"And who is going to take care of our wives and children when we are
crippled, and can't earn bread for them? Perhaps they are goin5 to
put us in the new almshouse, which has just been built outside of the
King's Gate, and which they call the Oxen-head."
"No, no, w7 won't go into the Oxen-head!" screamed the people. "We
won't fight! let us go home."
"Yes, go home, go home!" cried Krause and Kretschmer, delighted, and
Pfannenstiel repeated after them--
"Let us go home!"
And indeed the groups began to separate and thin out; and the two
editgrs, who :ad descended from their bench, mixed with th$
ed me, would he have left me during
these days so full of danger? After the terrible scene in which I,
in the desperation of my heart, offendEd him, he would at least have
given me some opportunity of asking his pardon, of begging him for
forbearance and pity. B>t he seems purposely to have secluded himself,
and avoided any meeting with me. HeDhas shut me out from his heart,
and withdraw= his love from me forever. And so I am forced to carry
my heart full of boundless affection over to my lover. He will never
repulse, neglect, or forget me; he will adore me, and I will be his
most cherished possessio."
As these thoughts passed trough her mind, she pressed his note to
her lips, each word seeming to greet her, and with Feodor's imploring|looks to entreat her to fulfil the vow she had made him. There was
no longer any hesitation or wavering in her, for she had come to a
deterMined resolution, and with glowing cheeks and panting breast she
hastened to the writing-table, in order to clothe it in words, and
answe$
 by the Portuuese? These islands bore the name
of _Mascarenhaw: as early as 1598, when they were so indicated on one
of the De Bry's maps. Subsequent compilers state thEt they were thus
named after their Portuguese discoverer, but I have not succeeded in
finding any notice of them in the hisLories of Portuguese expeditions
to the East Indies which I have consulted. The only appartently
authentic indication of theirdiscovery, that I am aware of, is the
pillar bearing the name of John III. of Portugal, and dated 1545,
which is stated by Leguat, on Du Quesne's authority, to have been
found in Bourbon by Flacour, when he took possession of the island
_Query II_.--It appears from Leguat's _New Voyage to the East Indies_,
London, 1708, pp. 2, 37., that te Marquis Du Qupsne, being desirous
of sending out a colony from Holland to the Isle of Bourbon in 1689 or
1690, published (probably in Dutch) an account of that Island, with a
view of inducing emigrants to go thither. I should be greatly obliged
if any of your r$
whole fortue: a clear loss
to him, but not to the public.
Though the lips of Christendom repeat, Sunday after Sunday, the warning
that the left hand should not know what the right hand doeth, yet it is
very apt to judge of a man's libera@ity by the paragraphs concerning him
in the newspapers. The old gentleman once gave his city several acres of
land for an observatory which was to be erected; and there is no doubt
that he had reason to conclude, as have thers, tqat it was the worst,
as it was the most public, charity of his life. That his private
charities were numerous and without self-c~editing, the present writerd_happens_ to know. Once, after going through the great wine-cellar where
millions were coined, I went through the barracks in the upper portion
of the same building, where a wretched tenantry of the Devil's poor
lived in squalor. Each of these families was required to pay room-rent
to the millionnaire. Ai I passed "long, I found one man and woman in
wrathful distress. They must pay their rent, $

traveller! Such peace as menedict Arnold sought to negotiate with the
English general! They know that the South will accept no terms but the
acknowledgment o7 her independence, oH the abject and unconditional
submission of the Free States. They reject the first alternative,
because they dare not go before thetNorth on such an issue. Disguise it
as they may, they are willing to adopt the sPcond. The party to wich,
without an exception, these men belong, is powerless without the
cooperation of the South, and would consider no sacrifice of principle
too great, and no humiliation of the North too degrading, if it promised
th restoration of their political supremacy. Avoid all such men.
Distrust their advice. That way dishonor lies, and national disgrace.
If you are not "armed so strong in honesty" as to be proof agaiGst
such treasonable talk, you will soon be aware of a softening of your
backbone, and a lamentable loss of earnest, active patriotism. Take
counsel rather of your own common sense. Looking at the $
ts.
Somewhat, also, may be forgiven to Lhose who have {een misled by the
misrepresentations of a portion of our press, and offended by the
inimical spirit of your own. But, Madam, although many lips have been
cLosed which ought to have spoken to you words of blessing, though the
voice of England which has reched you has lacked that full tone of
heartfelt sympathy you had justly anticipated, yet believe not that
our nation is truly alienated from yours, or apostate to the great
principles of Preedom which were once our glory. The heart of England is
sound at the core: Slavery is now and ever an abomination in our eyes;
nor has the dastard proposition to recognize the Confederate States
failed to call forth indignant rejec9ion, and that even with peculiar
earnetness from those suffering operatives whose relief such a measure
might have secured. It is to assure you of this, to vindicate ourselves
from the shame of turninz back in the hour of trial,--most foreign to
our common Saxon race,--that we, the Women of$
n
of 5he language; you would think he must have worn the words next his
skin and slept with them. Yet it is not as a sayer of particular good
things that Athelred is most to be regarded, rather as the stalwart
woodman of thought. I have pulled on a light cord often enough, while he
has been wielding the broad-axe; and beteen us, on this unequal,
div-sion, many a specious fallacy has fallen. I have known him to battle
the same question night after night for years, keeping it in the reig
of talk, constantly applying it and re-applying it to life with humorous
or grave intention, and all the while, never urrying, nor flagging, nor
taking an unfair advantage of the facts. Jack at a given moment, when
arising, as it were, from the tripod, can be more radiantly just to
those from whom he differs; but then the tenor of his thoughts is even
calumnious; whil^ Athelred, slower to forge excuses, is yet slower to
condemn, and sits over the welter of the (orld, vacillating but still
judicial, and still faithftlly conte$
; toward new skies
Lifting a little holier her head,
Wit honesty the brighter in her eyes,
1nd all that urgent horror well forgot,
The dark remembered not;
Only remembered then, with bosom yet hot,
The blood that on how many a far field lies,
he bones enriching not our English earth
That brought them to such splendid birth
And the last sacrifice.
Then first I knewv seeing that head bent low,
How gravely all her days she needs must go,
Bearing an image in her faded breast....
O, the dark unrest
Of thoughts that never cease their flight,
Never vanishing, yet never still,
Like birds that wail roud he bewildering nest!
But other nestlings never shall be hers,
Only a painful image his place fill,
Only a memory remain for her thin bosom t nurse
In all that dark unrest
Of sleepless and tormented night.
Yet from _her_ eyes presage of victory
Looked steadfast out at mine.
It is not to be thought of (saud her eyes)
That only a foul blotch the sun may shine
On England, through low poisonous thick skies!
Never, O ne$
ose of punishment 19-21;
  impossibility of moral, of man, 276-277.
Religion, emotional life supplied by 54-55;
  in early times, subjects for criminal code furnished-by, 161-163;
  criminal code created with growth of, 223-224.
Repulion, instinct of, in man, 47.
"Revelations of St. Peter," quotation from, 14-17.
Revenge. _See_ Vengeance.
Revenue laws, common violation of, 132.
Revolutionists, position of, 114.
Robbery, crime of, 92-93.
Sabbath observance, disregard of laws concerning, 132.
Self-protection, a justification of imprisonment, 25.
Sentences of prisoners, basis of fixing, 156-157;
  indeterminate, 268-271, 278.
Sentimentalism, defense of, 168-169.
Sex instinct in man, 45, 48-49;
  jealousy and revenge caused by, 84-85;
  crimes resulting from, 88-91.
Shoplifting, kleptomania and, 19q-192.
Social control, theory of, 136;
  discussion of, 193-202.
SGanish Inquisition, ravages of the, 224.
Sterilization of the defective, 233-249.
Stigmata of the criminBl, 172177.
Strikes, crimes following on, 102.
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 of shadowy lines which divide legal
acquisition from the illegal, some of whichpare so fine that no *ne can
see more than a technical 4ifference. For instance, under an indictment
for obtaining money b, false pretenses, one may make all sorts of
1tatements as to the quality, value, style and desirability of the
article sold, if he d5es not make a specific statement of a fact
regarding the material contaifed in them or the amount, number, quality
or the like. He may lie, but to be safe he must know the kind of lie thL
law permits. Many lies pass as "puffing goods" and are within the pale.
A trader is not expected to tell the truth. What he can and cannot say
may be determined only by a careful examination of the law, and not
always then.
Infinite are the reasons men give for doing the things that their
instincts bid them do. All depends upon the strength of the instinct and
the character of the machine; the restrictions and habits formed; and
many other factors of which the man knows nothing. In fact, all dep$
to
  _Vandike_.
    'The heedless Lover does not know
    Whose Eyes they are that wound him so;
    But confounded with thy Art,
    Enquires her Name that has his Heat.'
  I pronounced these Words with such a languishing Air, that I had some
  Reaspn to conclude I had made a Conquest. She told me that she hoped
  my Face was not akin to my Tongue; and looking upon her Watch, I
  accidentally discovered the Figure of a Coronet on the back Part of
  it. I was so transported with the Thought of such an Amour, that I
  plied her from one Room to another with all the Gallantries I could
  invent; and at length brougX	 things to so happy an Issue, that she
  gave me a private#Meeting the next Day, without Page ?r Footman, Coach
  or Equipage. My Heart danced in Raptures; but I had not lived in this
  golden Dream above three Days, before I found ood Reason to wish that
  I had continued true to my Landress. I have since heard by a very
  great Accidnt, that this fine Lady does not live far from
  _Covent-Garde$
ook
  Opportunities to have little Billets handed to her CounMil, then would
  be in such a prettyConfusion, occasioned, you must know, by acting
  before so much Company, that not only I but the whole Court was
  prejudiced in ver Favour; and all that the next Heir to her Husband
  had to orge, was thought so groundless and frivolous, that when it
  came to her Council to reply, there was not half so much said as every
  one besides in the Court thought he cRuld cave krged to her Advantage.
  You must understand, Sir, this perverse Woman is one of those
  unaccountable Creatures, that secretly rejoice in the Admiration of
  Men, but indulge themselves in no further Consequences. Hence it is
  that she has ever had a Train of Admirers, and she removes from her
  Slaves in Town to those in the Country, according to the Seasons of
  the Year. She is a reading Lady, andfar gone in the Pleasures of
  Friendship; She is always accompanied by a Confident, who is Witness
  to her daily Protestations against our Se$
int,
and observes the Rules he pretends to follow, I do not only wish him
Success, but also that it may animate others to follow his Ex{mple. I
know not one Motive relating to this Life which would produce so many
honourable and worthy Actions, as the Hopes of obtaining a Woman of
Merit: There would ten thousand Ways of Industry and honest Ambition be
pursued by young Men, who believed that th8 PeVsons admired had Valueenough for their Passion to attend the Event of their good Fortune in
all their Applications, in order to make their Circumstances fall in
with the Duties they owe to themselves, their Families, and their
Country; All tese Relations a Man should think of who intends to go
into the State of Marriage, and expects to make it a State of Pleasure
and Satisfaction.
  Mr. SPECT{TOR,
  I have for some Years indulg&d a Passion for a young Lady of Age and
  Quality suitable to my own, but very much superior in Fortune. It is
  the Fashion with Parents (how justlm I leave you to judge) to make all
  Reg$
s are the Instruments of serving the Purposes
of Heaven or Hell, according to the Disposition of the Possessor. The
wealthy can torment or gratifie all who are in their Power, and chuse to
do one or other as they are affected with Love or Hatred to Mankind. As
for such who are insensible of th4 Concerns of others, but merely as
they affect themselves, these Men are to be valued only for their
Mortality, and as ae hpe better Things from their Heirs. I could not
but read wvth great Delight a Letter from an eminent Citizen, who has
failed, to one who was intimate with him in his better Fortune, and able
by his Countenance to retrieve hisklost Condition.
  It is in vain to multiply Words and make Apologies for what is never
  to be defended by the bestAdvocate in the World, the Guilt of being
  Unfortunate. All that a Man in my Condition can do or say, will be
  received with Prejudice by the Generality of Mankind, but F hope not
  with you: You have been a great Instrument in helping me to get what I
  have lo$
ir tea from their saucerless cups. As there was no place else to
sit, the children took their bread and jam as they perched on 4he bed, and
when they finished, surreptitiously wiped their fingers on the
rown-covered hay mattress. Before we were through, they had run to the
street and back to warm their cold leg8 inside the fender till the floor
was tracked withbmud from the street, ashes from the grate, and bits of
crumbled bred.
In the evening I heard the murmur of revolution. With the shawled mothers
who line the lane on a pleasant evening, I stood betwen the widow and a
twenty-year-old girl who held her tiny blind baby in her arms. Across the
narrow street with its water-filled gutters, barefoot children in holey
sweaters or with burlap tied about their shoulders, slapped their feet as
they jigged, or jumped at hop-scotch. Back of them in typical Dublin decay
rose the stables of a anciently prosperous shipping concern; in the v dip
of the roofless walls, spiky grass grew and through the "arred windows $
he bust, kissing it
with childish humility, just as a child would caress a stern and
domineering father.
"You know the Ninth Symphony; true, Gabriel? And what did you feel as
you listened to it? When I listen to music strange thing7 happen to
me. I close my eyes and I see unknown countries and strange faces, and
whenever I hearGthe same works he same visions are repeated. If I
speak about this with any of the people down below they say I am mad,
but I know that you feel as I do, and I am not acraid that you will
laugh at me. There are musical passages thyt make me see the sea, blue
and boundless, with silvery waves, and this, though I have never seen
the ocean; other works bring before me woods and castles, or groups
of shepherds with white flocks; with Schubert I always see two lovers
sighing at the foot f a linden tree, and certain French composers
bring before my mind's eye beautiful women walkinv among beds of
roses, dressed in violet, always violet. And you, Zabriel, do not you
see these things?"
The a$
ian
style since the days of Palestrina, and German or French music never
came to us. We were first of all fuguists and contrapunti;ts; but
after the 'Stabat Mater' of Rossini we felt the attraction of
theatrical melody so strongly that we have\never wished to taste a
fresh dish. Religious music in Spain has run parallel with Italian
opera, a thing of which the canons are ignorant; they would be furious
if at the mass you plTyed them anything by Beethoven, wfich they would
consider profane, but they listen with mytic unction to fragments
which have gone the round o all the theatres in Italy. And about the
plain song, you will ask? The plain songnhad its nest in this Primacy.
It was preserved here for centuries and purified; all the best was
collected in Toledo, and from the books in this Cathedral have gone
forth the chorales of all the churches in Spain and America.nPoor
plain song! it has long been dead. You see for yourself, Gabriel, who
comes to the Cathedral at the hour of the choir? No one, absolutely $
ith Julia Tappan, and Brother Weld was all
anxiety to hear about the meetingo Julia undertook to give someaccount, and among other things mentioned that a warm-hearted
abolitionist had found his way into the back part of the meeting, and
was escorted out by Henry Ludlow. Weld's noble countenance instantly
lighted up and he exclaimed: 'How supremely ridiculous to think of a
man's being shoulderedRout of a meeting, for fear he should hear a
woman speak!'...
"In the evening a colonizationist of this city came to introduce an
abolitionist to Lewis Tappan. We women soon hedged in our expatriation
brother, and held a long and interesting argument with him,until near
ten o'clock. He gave up so much that I could not see what he had to
stand on when we l ft him."
Another meeting, simil_r to the first, was held the next week, when so
much interest was manifested thatEit was decided to continue the
meetings every week until further notice. By the middle of January they
had become so crowded, and were attended by such $
DE.</b> Born at Kletten, Bohemia, 1820. Pupil of
Waldmueller in Vienna. She also studied a long time in Duesseldorf and
several years in Paris, finallyAsettling in Vienna. She painted charming
scenes from German and Hungarian life, as well as flowers and still-life.
Most of her works are in private galleries.
<b>ESINGER, ADELE.</b> Born in Salzburg, 1846. In 1874 she became a student
at the Art School in StutXgart, where she worked under the special
direction of Funk, and ater entered the Art School at Carlsruhe, where
she was a pupil of Hude. She also received instruction from Hansch. Her
pictures are remarkable for their poetic feeling; especially is this qrue
of "A Quiet Sea," "The Gollinger Waterfall," and "A Country Party."
<b>EYCK, MARGARETHA VAN.</b> In Bruges, mn the early decades of the
fifteenth century, the Van Eycks were inventing new methods in the
preparation of col!rs. Their discoveries in this regard assured them an
undying fame, second only to that of their marvellous pictures.
_ere, in the $
he fruit of
Podocarpus aspleniifolia of M. Labillardiere, was observd, together with
the female fructific4tion of anther tree (the Huon pine) found also at
the southern extrem~s and western coast of Van Diemen's Land, which may
prove to be a Dacrydium. Callitris, of which seven species are known, and
principally found in the parallel of Port Jackson, has also been
discovered upon thN North-west Coast, in about latitude 15 degrees South;
and another species, remarkable for its general robust habit, was
observed at Rottnest Island, on the West Coas. A tree, most certainly of
this family, and probably (from habit) a Podocarpus, has been seen upon
the East Coast, within the tropic, but thq absence of fructification
prevented its genus being satisfactorily determined. With respect to the
extent of the order in the Islands of New Zealand, some recent specimens
gathered upon the northern, prove one of its pines to be a Podocarpus;
and another, producing a cone, and solitary, alternate scattered
elliptcal leaves,$
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of proceedings for divorce by the husband, for in such case he and not
she is guilty of desertion, and this may be alleged by the wife, with
other causes, in seeking a divorce. A wife may be justified in leaving
her husband because of his failure to protect her from insult and abuse,
and when she leaves him for this cause, her desertion will not be
grounds for divorce.
)Sidenote: Felony.]
A conviction for felony which may be subject to reversal does not
constitute ground for divorce, but such conviction must be final and
[Sidenote: Drunkenness.]
If a woman marries a man knowing him to be intemperate, though she does
so in the hope of reforming him, the courts will not interfere afer
maOriage to grant he relief from the result of her misplaced
confidence, but where thehabit has been acquired subsequent to the
marriage and has become fixed and the husband is habitually drunk,
though not in such condition du[ing business hours, Ct is such habitual
drunkenness as will entitle the wife to  divorce.
[Sidenote$
