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11 1W At. 4!41 14-1 7 1 *. - '.I-- INOOJi ,ARHsL 83 ~5e4 ~ .a THE SIGNS OF THE SEASONQ. Witt does it leat wlieithe bluebira flies oer ihe lill , singiuAreet'and eleiry? When violets peer thro' the b!ides of grasat These are the signs that the Spring Is here. What does it mean when the berries are ripe? When.butteraies flit and honey-bees hund T When cattle stand under the shady trees? These are the signs that Sumnmer has come. wNIat (oq's l ineaO when-the eoic4ets ohirp ? Ud away to Ihe south-land the wild geese steer? Wiaen apples are faillUg and nuts are brown ? These are the signs that Auttumn Is here, What does it can When the days are short t When the aveW are g'bd and-tie broois are diuih? IZ '. , When the fields are white with the drifting snows? These are the signs that Winte..has come. 'i'he old stars set and the now ones rise, And skies that were stormy grow' bright and clear, *' And so the beautiful, wonderful signs (0 round and round \vitli 0le,6inging year. GERARD LANGTON'S SECIEE . It was in :a luxuriously fnrnished room where a glowing grate threw ge niial light and \varmth upon the oodu pants, that Gerald Langton, lawyer and milhonaire, listened with bated breath and pallid cheeks to a low. and melo dious voice that told the story. of a life. The speaker, a beautiful woman of about thirty, yet tan years younger than Mr. Langton, reclined in a low ctialuonod chair, her dress, heir attitude, both speaking of the ease wealth gives, but her face was full of the deepest ang'uish, as her lips recounted this sltory "You love me," she said, gently, yet sad ly, "and I love you as I never loved anyone before, although I am a widow. That you knew, but you did not know -uy husband's name.. BY my unole's last request -I dropped it and took his, with the property he left me. Do not look at me tenderly, Gerald, do not shake my voice or my heart, for when you knuw whom I am, you will not repeat the offer you ave made me, und which, Heaven is my witness, I tried to avert." "Let your conscience be' at rest there," said her listener, in a grave yet tender voice; "you haive never given me o.o hope, Maude. By what instinujt I know that you loved me I can never tell, something in your eyes-i-omo toue of your voice betrayed you. If, as you say. somethuig in your past life does separate us, you have been no u Uquette to torment me with false hopes, hu, Maude, tell me again, whatever 14tands between us, you love me?" ". love you," she said, gravely "ar d it is be'cause 1 love you that I will not 1ef you link your honorable name with that of the wretch who was my hus ljand. 1 was very young-not sixteen -when he came to make a visit to asimo Iriends living at Grassbank. Uncle Richard has a country seat near ite village. I first met Aleaxander at a picnic, where he was tlie very life of the party, everybody's cavalier, court cous to all, full of wit and animation and service for all. I believe every girl at the grounds thought she haa uiptivated him, his attentions were so wellI ivided, an-d yet so impri'essiye to ech one. he claimed to be no more thiau a salesman in a large wholesale iouso with a good salary, but he had the manners of a gentleman, a good education, and the most perfect beauty of face and form that I ever saw in a nUuan. It was not long before it was evident that he wished to win my love, and he. had - an easy task. Such love as a child of sixteen can give, I gave him. -He was the impernonation of every hero of poetry and fiction with whom my liinuted reading had 'made mne familiar. School-girl like, I1 had wnade ian ideai hero, and fitted this, my first admirer, with, all his imaginary perfections. "Firom' the first, tiuoele Richard dis. liked huim, pronouncing him false and shiallow, anu nuauring me that my per sonal attractions had not won his heart but that the fact of my being an heires to a liarge property had gained me the protestations in which 1 so firmly be lieved." "it is a painful story to me now, Gerard. Let it suffice that I lived in a world of delicious dreams while Alexan der remained at Grassbaunk. When he left, he carried my promilse to be Is - wife at Christmas." "I thlink if my money had depended upon Uncle Richard that my marriage might have benm preyented by his threatening to disinherit me, but, both fromi my lather and my mother I had inhoritea -money that made me inde pendent, in sipeeumy. sepsle, of Iaus control or consent,'' "Most grudgingly, however, my u'nele did consent,' after~ searching inquiry about Aklxander, reanitinug in no worse report thitu that his employee thought hum fast, idle, and lust the man to be a lortune-hunter. Eiven then my dear uncle would have protected my fortunae by settling it strictly upon myself; but, with she reckless genoroaity of extremre youth, 1 refused to have this done. tNever, .3 wias firmly convineed, would my auored Alexander wrong me in any way." "IFor a year after the splendid wed. ding that made me Alexander's wife I wats very happy. 'I 'was too Ignorant of the value of mone.y to' udiderstandt that we Were living far beytond our in come, and enjo,)edi to the utmost the luxurle5 hurroundling mae-tlie ednatans gaety that was in suoA strong contrast to the' school' routine from winch I had just been released," "Then-- begaA a ljfe .of neglect, olton ofquarrelhin wleo lifobjooted to my drinking, his . extravaganoe, and his la'te illours, '1*ilt 1 rotud my ownt pleasures in society and -a rnmewal-of a ome of my favorite studies, esgoolkligy .languages anda. muaio. a [ was fondjitou of water-color painting, and made pre set o my fried Qt speciinQbs 1 PaY ".t was furyears after may marriage wAieA I. Wae thwucde*tiuolk oy Albxau dck sku~ dto request a loan ci adethat eyary kyouny of 1ave kapyn,thot alarge proportion of it was'lost at the aming-tables." "Long before thIs I att lost.all love for my husband. Respeot had died out when I knew the dissipated lifo he was leading, and, foolish as I was, I doxild not continue to love a man whom I despised. I refused the errand, and brought down a torrent of such gross abuse that I rea y expeotad.Alexander would ind by'st nxa me," "Day after day the request was re newed, but I would not yield. Upon my marriage Viaole Richard had sold' his\ city residence' and taken up a per maneilt- abodb 'at Grassbank, where knowing my husband to be an unwel come guest. I never visited him. - I wrote occasionally, but the love 61 years, -like that of father and child, had been so sadly strained by my per sistence ini marrying Alexander, that even 'our correspondence was languid and commonplace." "I would not, therefore, write to him to ask a favor that I knew would not have been necessary without criminal redkessness of expenditure, and eaoh refusal made my husband more furious. Then came an overwhelming blow. Alexander forged a check, and drew two thousand pounds of Uncle Richard's money from the bank. I dq not think my uncle would ever have prosecuted him had he guessed who was the for. ger; but he handed the whole matier over to the lay as soon as- it was die covered thait the chea: was forged. It was traced ;to Alexander, and at the same time it was found that he had robbed in the same way his former employers. He had given up all work upon ni marriage; but when he found hunself without money, his knowledge of the busines enabled him to forge the check of Derkiss and Co. Even if Uncle Richard had spared him for my sake, this other forgery would have entitled him to penal servitude. He was sentenced to seven years, and Uncle Richard took me home, full of heavenly pity and forgivenemi for the child who had treated him so ungrate-. fuily." "Then your husband is in prison?" asked Gerard in a hard, strained voice. "No, no; ne is dead! He died within the first year. Uncle Richard saw the death in the paper and sent the money for his burial. No; I am free; but none the less I am the widow of a convicted felon." "But none the less," quoted Gerard, "the woman I love and honor above all others, and hope still to make my wife." It took, however, more than one interview, full of lover's pleading, to win Maude fromi her resolution. Mhe so honored her lover, was so proud of his good name and the position-he had attained by his talents, that her sensi tive nature shrank from even the shad.w of her misery falling upon his life. But the victory was won at last, and the lawyer walked home one evening full of a proud, glad joy, for Mauce had promised to be his wile. "11f you are willing to take Alexander Hull's widow for your wife," she had said, "I will not oppose you longer, for I love you with all my'heart." He had no thought but of ahat giad tiuinph when he turned up the gas in his o1ice, He was in the habit of making a last visit there before going up to Ais bed-room, in enes notes or messages had been left for him. One lay there on this evening, a shabby looking envelope, but directed in a bold, handsome nan'd that he recog nized at once. He tora it open. After a few Wvords of introduction the note ran: "You did the best you could for me on my ta ial, but the facts were too strong for you. I have noiv a last favor to ask of you. I die, as you know, at noon to-morrow.. You, as my lawyer, can see me at any tinme. Will you conic as soon as you receive this, and win the gratitude of' the mian you know as : "James Fox?" "The man. I know as James Fox," muttered the lawyer; "phe smooth, p~laulsible scoundrel wvho actually made me believe him innocent of the hideous murder for which he was convicted. I can find extenuation for seone murders, but this cold-blooded assassination of ain old man for money only was revolt ing. How he deceived me, though for a time! And how -he exulted over I. is succous In 'doing so when, as he says,. facts were too strong! Shall I[ go to him? I1 suppose I must. It is still early." it was not yet midnight when~ Ge rard Langton was itshered into the cell of the :mani.who in. a'.ew- short- hours was to meet the extreme penalty of the' law lor the worst crime. Yet there was nothing revolting in. the appearance of the criitiinal, His dress was neat4 his hair carefully ar ranged, his mustache faultless, his hands white and-refined looking. He rose from his seat upon the bed as his lawyer entered his c0911. "9 knew yeot 'would come,".,he said, coiatteduisly, "though you were offended huis my wudnt of, frank'ess. Well1' that is all over!, You wil not refuse, the last request of a dying man, Mr. XRang ton?" ' "Not if I can grant It,' "as the reply, "This," said the murderer, "is not my first offence against '.he law, S3ome years ago.[ was sentenced for a term of years for a forge~ry. By a strange acci Uent I escaped the penalty. On the same day James .Fox was sentenced toi two years for'petty larceny, and we were sent together to prison. James Frox-my companion, uderstand, not myself-was deranged, but Ina lawyers had not been able to save him, as his aberration w~s not always apparent. Wh'en We~ ete entered updn .the books of tne prisen, imagine my amazeet when my telhow-prisoner? gave, my name for shis o~n. Like a flash I sdw the advantage to be gained by the decep-. tion, 'and allowed t the error to pass. My companion committed snidide, Nud of 94 At~ared apd.-Woutto Qaiada, bl si with until ai r ag~o whw I .toturned here to try to raise uoney from my wife, an~d thiotht I saw ali easier plan by committing the crime for w ich I dig to-iporrow. But I want to nee iny wife.' I *ionged ho -I robbed her-but Heaven is my witness I loved her. When I was put in prisoi she dropped my name, and to6k her own again. So it is not foj Mrs. Alexander Hull you must go, bul for Mrs. Maude Temple." Was the room reeling-the ceiling falling-the wall closing around himi Gerard Langton felt as if they were, aa -the, pames fell on his ears. Mpude liis Maude-the Wife-of this'cool vilhar who talked of his hideous crimes as 11 they were ordinary events? Well, hi know that to carry this man's messagi was to jeparat himself from Magde foi ever; Never'wepld she let ;14m 3harra the iidow of . nurderer! ,Very. apidl, all the terrible facts pressed' 'nd aftei another upon - is - brain, and he said "if y6u Jove her, why add a now mlierj to her life. She may have lived dowt the old pain you caused, her; why, .for i selfish gratification will you make hei whole lite a misery?" "She is my wifel I sypuld .bid liei fireWell." . . . "She is not your wifel Ydur own crimes have released her from any alle giance to youl" "You know her?" "Yes! I know what she has suffered, and beg of you to let her still believ you died years ago." "She is happy?" "Sc.arcely that. Such wounds at hers never heal entirely, but it-g cru. elty to tear them open when' they are quiet!" "Has she married?" "Nol She is still your widowl" It is hard to deny myself one mort sight of her face, and the hope I had that she would say she forgave mel" "Think of her, not of yourselfi" Thbre was a long silence in' the coll, Every throb of Gerard Lngton'k heart was a pain to bim, but Alexandel Hull sat in moody silence, evidentl3 reluctant to give up his wish. At last he spoke. "You have been very good to me, Tell me, now, if you have any persona reason for your request. Perhaps you love her?" "I dol" was the brief reply. "Sh< has promised to be my wifel" "'hen it will be James Fox who ii hanged to-morrowl .I meant to give my real name up, but I will carry my so. crot to my grave. It may be in anoth er world even the little last self-denia will be a plea for me. Go now. You may trust me." And lie kept his word, and Gerard Langton his seeret. When..Maude, a few weeks later, be. came his wise, she little guessed thi terrible ordeal which he had spared her, or the added disgrace that belonged to the name she had given up. "Great Scott." The other morning, while the urbane manager of Woodwart's Gardens was smoking a four bit cigar and meditatively listening to the iuffal wails of a tom-cat that had just been swallowed alive by the big anacouda, a tall, thin. scentific-look ing man, with a goatee and blue glasses, entered the gate and remarked in an in. sinuating manner : "Of course you pass the scientific -frater nity ?" "Of co'irse e de not,"said the slow man "What, not the savans, not tue pioneere in the great march of the mind into the hitherland of the infinite beyond ?" re turned the Profestor, with great surprise. "I will not deceive you," sercastically replied the proprietor of the only salaman der ; "we pass nothing but the quills on the Irettul porcupines-I 'uecan the press. You can't see the ostridges unless you come down and put, up.'' "Ddar me, dear me !" sighed the scien tist reflectively. "To think that a profes. sor of cosmogrepice conchology should be denied admittance td- a third-clasg' lio Has the skamgatibuis been fed yet e" "Skani--whmich I" asked the tiger im. porter. "The altamgattbus. You've got one, haven't you in "Y-e-s-s; I believe we've a small ft mule sorniewhercs," said tlie grIzzly's friend doubtfully. "I never kuow a first-class collection to havte less than two lpair, said the Profes.. sor o'ntemiptuously. "flow do your Azi muths stand this cold Weather, ehl"' "Azumnutbo i' asked .the lNapolon M gregator of erositlgs. :.f, what's thc~ # 80mer.noyki'nd of birdL.yott dop~t m an "Ostrilges 69 hanged 1'4.. sithe sucds' sor of Darwin; "ostridges are noting. IPvc shot more ostridges with qil shot than you've got hairs on your head. You don't actually mean to sIt ' there and teli mue yen haven't got a single azimuth to your back ?" "Don't believe I have," admitted thec alligator breeder, mortified; "what ate they like?' "On, they're of the ordler Spinaills sple m'>tis, about eight feet bign. Fur peels off'-in the spring, you know-the'Siberian species,- I moan. I suppose you're got one ot those rectangular Afican flipgoohlles that reached mow York the other day I" "No ; I'm darned if I did,"' said the much agitated showman. -"Hfere I've been kceeping an agent in New York on a big salary to look out for attractions, anil he doesn't catoh on to the first blamed thing. -Speruls all our nioney on second hand paughers and. kangarqos with. the rheumatics. I'll bounce him by telegraph!' "H aven't even got asinipgookly, elm?' mused the scientisl, in a tone of great yiny, "And I shauin't be surprised if you didln't have a golden-crested cuspior in you whole show.'' . 'Nulther I ha~ve.; neither I have,'' re pliecd the wietched promoter of pehicans, ia si Lgne of great bittei'ness. "8'posq yoti just step in, sir, and look round;I mobbe there's somnething else you could say-' "N-n-. I [guess noc,'" ald thp~ta~I mat. "I1t would haidly pay. m9 -to, upend at mauoh valizableieintne tlii ie # -fourth dlass show lik4 tais. N~ot even on asi niuth, eai? j shoud4 thln !'4 bes~trai of b'eIn actually Ano~j eii~ Ilmes~ I orry'o you,d ay n su orry, o riwishbones wot8 linese then tu~ -eros ofr- tab Coast, The surumo at diets lstiid, on the 'Northampton shore 6fVVirginia, rescued ,tb crew of, the'Alberf Dally, of Augusta Me. oiu the nigh of the 7th of January. On the flloiing day 3r. 3,obb's wreckers went on board in spite of the'Oirotestatiou of Keeper Ilitohene, of the Life Servici, .%bat migh'the Rt6N 'was' terriue. T'he agrlia.sucpeded- - edin.reaching a point .Pppoie the- ,wreck,. 9? which. were the selod din I wreidket, af,i A. M. of the 9th Oniytheimestd-abieared-in dim outline, while the hull was completely submerged, pvqrAsl .Coaton. siggpls ; were burned tc cheer, tlhe men on the wreck and to enabi -the surf men to deternine niore uceurat9, thQ 'psion of h e ;ot. It was detir nine4 to make.-au.atteit 'uto rescue then wnththe boat, but ker' Ooceedi ng som< 'dihtance the surimen. con see nothing o the schbonerrand were -fored to return t< ~hdore. ;'Wienzi t wO light enough t< see'theveesel the safety -lue, discharget -from 'the- baylp $01 e s twice thrown ca th jibb 0 .iia vessel, but as no :attempt ws -made by tliose on board to get thbline Iy~is ha9 uiby the surfmen, au each ,iftej.t,partcd- Two more efforts to shoot the line over the wreck proved unsuccessful, owjuig to a strong adverse *ind 'and the frozen dondition of the line, which caused, it to part before it reached the destined pajt.. -Jad the.line been -thrown full. across' the vessel, it would have avited .paught, as' Mr. Cobb stated that they Were'too benumbed with cold to hve halidled -it on board, even if it had been placed in their hands. Beef g then tiiti.tie only hope of saving the' u1briled men lay lu reachiing them -with the suif-bbat, 'Ke4per Hitchens and his-crew, as son uas the, ebbig tide ak towed them to launch. set out through the storm and the sea, which was running half mast high to the rescue of the nine men (five of the schooner's and four of the Copp Wrecking Compauy), who had been left on the stranded vessel and who could now be seen laqIed to the rigging. Keeper litchens and his men, though they had been out on the beach all night ii the terriblestorm'without Are or food, drenched to the-skm fioi their first elort to bard the vessel, and keeping their feet from freezing only by wading in the salt water of the see, yet ruslied with alacrity to their duty. The boat was launched i and started on its perilous journey, but the current was so strong that the men weie cut to leeward and the boat force I inshore. Launching the boat again thay .got, far enough out to re ich the line which was last on board the wreck, but the sea was running so high that it was snatched from the hands o0 the men who held it and again they were driven ashore. An oLher powerful effort was made to reacL the wreck, and this time t hey succeeded. One of the men qn.the.;wtok, .Edwar< Hunte, Of 'Maine, the steward of the schooner, who refused to go up in the rigg. ing, bad been washed ovetboard and lost about dayt'reak.- The remaining eIght men were carried ashore-four at a time dreadfully benunijud by their long expo hure to the cold. Richard Gordon, a member of the C.bb wrecking ere N, died from the effects of exposure just aboul the time he reached the shore. Kiniaig Doer wal Axe&. A correspondent gives an account of deer in the forests of Maine and the :laws of that State to protect them. A naimber of years since a law was passed forbidding the killing of moose, deer or carsibou be tween the first of Fcoruary and first of October, and forbidding the hunting of them with dogs at any season, under a penalty of $40 tor each offence, But thi's law (lid not- protect the game. In the deep snows of January hunters from dist. ant States, as well as tiose In Maine, killed thousands of the animals in the deep snows, in many cases using only axes for kiling them as they drove them into the deep snow-banks, the hunters going on snow-shoes. In 1873 the legislature for bade the bunting or illing of the animals in January, as well as in all the following months to October. Atter this the deer increased rapidly, and at times they even mingled with the herds of farmners. The lumbermen could kill eniough for their own use without going a great distance fromn-their cabin doore. In a few years thehe laws wore disregarded, and hunters cabne into the forests In the winter and slaughtered thousands and sent their car casses to the Boston and other distant markets. In 1870 the Legislature made a law imposing a .fine of $40 for each car cass er hide sent Ouit of the IMtate. TrhiE law ser ved a good purpose in . protecting f(lies gene, t-heughr' itr knay 'be qu~estioned whether it, was not-a stretch of legislative 'power In- interdicting commertb betweer the Status. However, in'1878 influencee were brought to hear which secured a re peal of the law forbidding the exportation of carcasses and hides, and since then the deer, caribou and moose have been grow. ing scarce, and the subject of making more stringent laws to proteot them is dis, cussed. As the work of deatruction i now going on. not only the larger wik same but the forests of this country will disappear in a comparatively brhf period. (Ooileotitng theo Dainagpeg. "I am a quiet, unosientatione mem, and never jiarm nobody," said the Inmfuder, i~stening the palmns of his hands ay( takspg a firmer grasp of the aro-helve, "but if you don't come dowi? with $17 t< soothe my lacerated feelings there will be trouble here in Austin." "Was the bo3 bitten so very badly by my dog I" asket the terrified owner of the animal, who is one of the most timId mnen in Ausuin "HIE was bitten jt $17 worth," 'eplied the sn truder, 'hiijdng the weapon around his head. "Here is your money,Y replhed the o~wner of the dog. '1'ne intruder Pitt the mb~ney In his pocket, and W'os about to leave,' when the proprietor ci thle dog re markeq "1 hope gogr son was not bitten badly.' "Why, ' ho ak'u' my son. I haven't got any soui.'t "he so.i, is he then, a'nglhow 'did you (4m t demagt tiis nmoney br m~e il' "fl ' 'm spn of a trIiid af mine iho eoed ,6si7 anid he dIdh'u .iv amly money. The~ only avail. ablo note' he, had .wezoithbod dog intesoz his ody a'' nd heturned' hemi over te metr odhlection, and II te, ecoileetee 'hm Well, I declare A And 'stran ger,'contii d the man ith the, axe handl."Ziuor: *uqJju familj Iter nbs id~eh~ Wan owheqrtd Voglt dmeaf 0n aa d.ie, Rolne's Ruins. Works of excavation in Itome are gen erally discontinued during the summer and autumn imontbs. The laborers go off to the corn aid wine harvests, where they get better pay, but this year the excava tions on the Forum, and along the Ride of the 'alatine facing the Temple of Romu lus and the Basilica of Oonstantine, have been contibued with increasing activity. The extent of ground broken ts something unusual, and evidently i3ignor Baccelli is determined lo do his utmost to inuure, as far as porsible, the completion of his grand scheme of archOlogleal exploration by cutting out all the work he can. It com pilses the restoring to light of all that re mains of the buildings and constructions *hioh surrounded and adorned the Roman Forum; tue clearing of the entire area by removing everythiu, of whatever nature, suiperimposed tpon it In modern times;the junction of the excavations on the Forum with those on the Palatine by the coinple ting of both; the isolation from-or rather within- the modern city of the greater part of the fourth,the eighth and the tenth of the Augustan regions of ancient Rome whicn adjoined each other, and their dedication to the memories connected with them. Extensive excavations have restored much to light and have taught us much. but tbe desolation remained almost as great as before. These excavotions never assumed any other aspect than that of a number of great holes, notwithstanding that some of ihtn- afforded considerable space to walk about in. rhere was-as regards the Forum-first, the hole between the mwiive wall of the Tabutarium, wah the rex. of the modern municipal buildines stanuding upon it on the one aie and the roadway passing frotm the V ia Bonella to the Via della CousoLeome in tront, of the Arch of Beptimus Severus on the other, in whiih weio completely visible the remains of the Teuiples.of Saturn, Vespasian, hnd Concord, the Hostra and the Aich of Sep timius Severus excavated In the time of Pius VII. Then on the further side of that roadway there was, until twelve years ago, the smnll, uncleau hoh, dug at the expeuseof the Duchess of Devonshire in December, 1810. This, between 1870 and 1875, was enlarged as far as the Temple of Antoninus and Faustiua, and in 1878-a second roadway peing left at that point another hole was dugr beyond,extendmng as far us the Arch of Titus, and again the works wore suapenited. But a new impetus was given in Febru ary last to the exp!oration of the Forum. A seat In the Italian Cabinet, and that seat the head of the Department of Public In struction, was for the first time held by a Roman, diguor Baccell. The Roman ar chuologists were anxious to ascertain the alte of-the Fabian &rch,of wbioh no traces had been found on cithe: side of the cause way left from the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina to the corner of the Palatine. Its dispovery would determine the vexed question of the cource of the Bacra Via, and there was no difficulty in interesting 8ignor Baccelh suffi ently to obtain his permission to remove the causeway in searOh of It. That search w'%s ineffoctual notwithstanding that some voaissoira and other details which had evidently formed parts ot the arch were found, but diecover les of the greatest interest were made. Sufficient indications were obtained to sat isfy many competent authorities as to tile ine of the Sacra VIa:oonsiderable remains of the Regia were found, and other minor tant discoveries were made at the very spot where it was necessary to discontinue the excavations. These only served to stimulate unsatisfied interest. Among other things a fragment of the celebrated napible plan of Rome, dug up in the coutso of the works,gave the plan of the very ot where it was found, and raised tfllies tkon of the Via 19lova. Tue work accomplished so far is a good earnest of what we may look forward to enjuying when the Palatime and the Forum -the area within which the whole history of Rome centered and can be studied-are excavated as completely as the remains of Pompeii, cared for with the same scientific d Iscernment, and placed, as what is left of that ancient city is, open to the easy coin prekaenon of the most simple. What is seen at Pompeii is seen completely and can be understood. What Is visible of the Palace of the COesars and other remains on the Palatine and of the Forum can only be seen by looking, as 1 have said, into a number of separate holes, and, when seen, can only be imperfectly understaod after infinite puzzlhmlg, Twelve. years ago the question of the Wqiy direction of the Forum -did It extend fro'i north to south toward the Arch of Titus, or from east to west toward the (Jircus Maximus-was still a matter of controversy. Certainly they were few who continued to hold to the latter theory: but, clear as the case appeared to the ma jority, there was thea no visible evIdence that could be put forward as decisive. Ten months ago no one could p rove which of the two streets rnnnIng along the Forum was the S3acra Via, and the theories as to its course were many. T1he difficulty has not yet been set at rest to the satisfaction of aill,but the weight of authority Is agreed that, the excavations made last spring re vualed the exact lien of the celebrated street "glorified by a hundred vIctories," and the removal of comparatively a few more square metres of rubbish will settle the question forever. There are, with one or two unimportant exceptions only, no longer any doubt. as to the name.' of the temples and other remains standing on the uncovered po:tioa of the Forum. No one dIsputes the fact that we can point with certaiy to the-ruins of the temple which Augustus built oa the spot where the body of "Great Juhtus"was burned, and to many other historic sights; but all this is still of but limited educational value, for bowli during controverty is rife-and will con. tinue so until the whole yea is cleaned as to where the Oomitiuw,' the (Grecoetasle, the othom' IRostra 'an*d many wore important details were situated. The excavations on the Palatine hate also gien zriost' valuable resulte. 'The general topograpily of the greater part of the lmperial,?alece,an't a few of the spot. wthere events~oonnqoied with the liyes and Sdeaths of some of 1he~asarsoocurrod,have been ascertained beyond dispute. We cau look with certainly on, portions of .the edt tioeb bolt by Tbetids/ Ual~iia, Domnitian, and 0epi;1mius 8everlis, W kniow eot. aotlyiwhfie the femaini Of those buiite y Augnatus atnd others are ii can aiall along thq galer~y w aigl was pumtdored, atif pipttsre he sooaede scribed with such graphic power by Sue tonius, and especially by Josephus, but these are so far only detached facts, with no connecting links visible, and may well Le likened to a few lines of a pahmpsest deciphered here and there, while all the rest lips hidden beneath the work of later hands. It is not so long ago that the lines in which Btatius mentions the colossal equestrian statue of'bomitian on the For um and the edifices around at were spoken of as a "stumbling block rather than an auxiliary to antiquities. Now we can stand upon the wreck of the pedestal of that coiosns and look upon the rcmalts of theEe e( f0cts situated exactly as Statius describes them. The excavations in progress will soon reveal tho spot behind the Temple of Uas. tor where he reminded'his contemporaries they might unguardedly lose. their mon y. In like manner, when they are compleied we iliall be able to tread, Wp by step, I route Ovid took ( Trist," 111, 1, 27),from the Fornm of Cosar to the Palatine, and recognize the buildings and sites he tells us that he passed; that Otho followed when he suddenly left Galba sacrificing in the Temple of Apollo and hurried through the Palace of Mibdrius to the Velabrum, and thence to the Golden Milestone, near the Temple of Saturn, and all the other localities, both within the palace and on tue Forum,Taeitus and Suetonius mention with such topographical exactness In their records of the tragical death ot Ga.lba;that along which Cicero haEtened after Fulvias warning, from his house on the corner of the Palatine, and convoked the Senate to meet him in the Temple of Jupiter Stator the same spot where Romulus centuries b e had rallied his Ronans, and close to where their Sablu wives rushed from the Palatine down among the combatants, The clearing away of all the accumulation and rubbish lying wpon it, like the later writing on a pahimipsest, will enaole us to put those bits together, to localize with ex actness the scenes historians and other writers have described, and make it possi ble to study the events of Roman history as it hae never been studied before on the very spots and within the remains of the very walls where they were cacted. 'loranium n Ji The Window. It is very rare to see a well-groun geranium in window culture. Even if the plant bloom fairly, they are often drawn up, mis-shapen things, not pleasing to look upon. In the majority of cases, plants that have been set out in the garden for the summer are al lowed to "go as you ploso." The roots finding an abundance of rich soil, the tops grow off at a fitmous rate. At the approach of cool weather tho plants are taken up as they stood; if any out ting is done, it is at the roots, to bring them within the limits of the pot, and the plants are placed in the win dow. As a consequence of such treat mont, the majority of the leaves fade and fall, alld show a lot of long, lanky stems, with a small tuft of leaves at the top. Tlhis condition of the plants is due either to a lack of knowledge or to' timidity. Amateur cultivators, as a general thing, seem to fear to use the knife; coulci the plant suffer pain, they would not be more reluctant to out. The proper method is, to prepare the plants for taking in long before the time for lifting them; but it is too late to advise that, as it is to suggest prun ing them at the time of taking them up. Even at this late dlay it is bettor to cut back the geraniums to a good shape than to let them remain as they are. Of course each plant will have its own needs in this respect, and only general advice can be given, Cut back the long sterna in such a manneor that the plant will form a low, rounded head, and re move abhogethier such branches as will make the head too much crowded. IMemurkable Hantis at Poker. Four members of a well-known club in New York sat down to a game of poker. There was a dollar lhmit, and there was no desire on the part of any of the players to win much money. After one deal three of them drew one card each, except the d'ealer, who passed out, The man on the left of the age bet one dollar, the second man raiseil him one dollar, and the age raised the pot an other dollar. This was followed by raises to the limit all around a second g, ime, when the man who made the first not said: "Gentlemen, I ought to raise the bet, but this is a sociable game, and I'll not crowd you. I will sImply call." Without waiting for the others to bet he laid' face upward on the table the deuce, tray, four and five of spados. The fifth card he placed back upper most. The second mmi said. "I feel the same about this matter, I will simply call." He then shiowed the deuce, tray, faur and five of diamonds, hiding the fifth card, "I also call," said the age, and he displayed the deuce, tray, fontr and flue of clubs. The fifth card of each was then shown, and it was seen that each had a straight flush of the same value. The pot was divided. It was a square game,, and the hands were not fixed. %Vh Quidloy Ma~rket 0did Storagd Com pany, of Bostod, are said to hav6 the lar getrfieen bitildng an the world, tisof stone and bricK, 10 8by 80 fet imp alap, /ni 0 (eer inbelikt. Thecaety is8,8 000 ddbio feet, thecpt$000 and the foe'chamnbor holds 060 t~ lee. 1t~wl b adi for stot~ia~$ tog ears uo s4the o4orn <~ Remarkable comets. The earliest observers of comets were either among the Chinese or Ohaldeans. Among the most ancient nations, espec ially the Greeks and Romans, comets were regarded as not only precursors of evil, but frequently also of good fort. tine. Thus in the year 844 B. 0. the appearance of a great comet was thought to be a token of the success of Timo. Leon's expedition to Sicily. Again, in the year 184 or 182 B. C., the birth of the great Mithridates was signalised by two remarkable comets whose bright ness, we are told, eclipsed that of the noon-day sun, and which occupied a quarter of the heavens. The accession of Mithridates in the year 118 B. 0. to the throne of Pontus was likewise marked by a celestial visitant of the same nature. A comet which shone in the year 86 B, 0. was thought by Pliny to have been the forerunner of the civil commotions which took place during the consulship of Octavius, and another which appeared in 48 B. 0. was be lieved to be the soul of Julius Cmsar transported to the heavens. Later on, a number of comets, during the reign (I Nero, were seized on by that emperor as pretexts for all kinds of persecution. Tacitus, referring to one of those, re marks that it was "a kind' of preage which Nero always expiated with noble blood." Josephus relates that in 68 A. D., among the terrible omens which foretold the doom of. Jerusalem, was a comet with a tail in the shape of a sword, which hung for a year over the city, Comets were frequently regard ed in past times as the presiges of the death of some illustrious personage. Comets are said to have foretold the death of the Emperors Vespasian, Con stantine the Great, and Valentinian, Of Attila the Hun, Mahomet, Louis the Second, Richard Cwur de Lion, Philip of Spain, Francis'the 8-3cond, and many other potentates too nunerous to men tion. The historian bozomenes de acribes a terrible comet which hung over Constantinople in the year 400, and was believed to be the cause of the pestilence that devastated the city. During the Middle Ages comets were almost universally considered as fore telling calamities. We read lees of them as presaging an auspicious reign or honoring the birth of a great hero, than as the precursors of plague, famine, or war. In the year 1000 it was popularly believed that the world was coming to an end, and it may be easily imagined that men's minds were in a state to ex aggerato the importance of any phen 0tm1ena in the heavens. A comet which was visible in that year for nine days, was described as being shaped like a dragon, and as having many impossible accompaniments. Shortly before Wil liam the Congneror nrassAr to Brit 4n, ia comet with three tails made its pearance, which was said by his ( iors to pro ve the divine right of the in vader to the throne. This comet has been proved to be identical with that afterwards discov ered by Halley, and had already ap peared several times, in the year 684 A. D., 12 B. C., and possibly 185 B. C., in which case it was 4jhe same as that which announced the birth of Mithridates. Previous to the time of Newton the appearance and movements of comets were a great puzzle to the philosophers, and numerous were the speculations as to their nature. The Chaldeans had by no sneans a totally false notion of the causes of their ap - pearance and dissapearance, attributing thoem to the fact thagthey revolve in orbits far above the moon, so as to be only visible to us during a small portion of thei; revolution. They were also right in believing them to be of a na ture allied to the planets rather than mere atmospheric phenomena, This view was adopted by the astronomer A ppolonius of Myndus, who as Saeneca relates, receives his ideas from the Chaldeans. It was also held by Dioge nos, the Ionio philosopher, that, Rip.. poorates of Chios, and several of the Pythagorean .school. Senea had the same opinion. The great comet of 1861 created considerable of a sensation by the suddenness with which it blazed out, and the shortness of the time dur ing which it was, visible in our Jati tudles. Pottery. Modeling pottery is as dellghtlui ain occupation as making mud pies. The student, with a board on her l1 p br on a table, takes up a lamp of clay and kneads it to a proper consistenc~y Witi water. With a little leaf-shaped wooden knife she carves out a rose, and as each ,,~ petal is ahapedi she takes a camel' iil brush and paints the Whole "flowexg or rather wh~t she call sling tildt isd atert made the tlgioknues fo o asn witifolhy , Iron plns' are tyd fi' Vinin thl the maainal;o)~o~aifd