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WHEN 1 COVE THEE.
When sunshine dances on the plain.
And gild the ripe and yellow grain.
And smiles upon the bending sheaves,
And ies between green forest leave,
And nickers on the trembling gnu,
A joyou zephyrs lightly pa-.
Then I love thee.
And when the night veil close round.
Anil moonbeams tremble on the ground,
And soft stars light their lamps on high.
And hang them from the calm blue sky,
Thru iu niv heart of hearts I feel
What day anil night alike reveal
That I love thee.
HOW SHALL I PBAV.
ET X. X. HCLFORD.
How shall I pray' the heathen cries,
who thinks his God of stone
Uemaniis of him a reverence,
iu words that can atone.
Hriw shall I pray' the Papist cries,
. Who fears his soul shall dwell
In Purgatorv much too long,
I'nless his prayers excel.
'flow shall I pray' the Christian asks,
W hose pious thought 't would seeiu
Admit thut leity is vain.
And wishes man's esteem.
A spirit bends with purer thought
In gentle tones to say:
'True prayers were never made of words;
I'll teach you bow to pray:
Pray with yourhands; let every nerve
Be strung with godly might
To expiate all human wrong,
And raise the cause of right.
Prav with your feet; let every step
Some good to all portend;
And for yonrself rejoice to seek
Progression without cud.
Pray with your mind; let every thonght
New truth, new good descry,
tk pure and bright that when revealed
T he cause of sin shall die.
PAINESVILLE
JOURNAL.
A FAMILY PAPER, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE, AND GENERAL NEWS.
VOETOEET.
1 PAESTESVIMjE, LAKE COUNTY, OHIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1871.
NUMBER 11.
Pray with your soul.
w ni
Hast thou a soul
k'hich sorrow's smart can feel?
Then go with heartfelt sympathy,
All human grief to ncai.
Pray thou with every thought and act,
Be thou one living prayer,
So pure in motive, all shall feel
Heaven's guiding influence there.'
DREAMS AND REALITIES.
BY PHCKBX CARRY.
O Rosamond, thou fair and good.
And perfect flower of womanhood.
Thou royal rose of June,
W hy didst thon droop before thy time?
Why wither in thy first sweet primer .
Wliy didst thou die so soon?
For, looking backward through my tears
On thee, and on my wasted years,
I cannot choose but say,
If thou hadst lived to he my guide,
r thou hadst lived and I had died,
Twere better far to-day.
O child of light, O golden head
Bright sunbeam for one moment shed
Uxn life's lonely wav
W hy didst thou vanish from our sight?
Could thev not spare my little light
From Heaven's unclouded day I
O friend so true, O friend so good
Thou one dream of my maidenhood,
That gave yonth all its charms
What had I done, or what hailst thon,
That through this lonesome world till now
We walk with empty arms?
And yet, had this poor soul been fed
VI ith all it loved and coveted
Hail life been alwavs fair
Would these dear dreams that ne'er depart.
That tnmi witn miss my inmost neart,
Forever tremble there?
If still thev kept their earthly p'ac.
The friends I held in my embraco,
Aud guve to death, alas !
Could 1 have learned that clear, calm faith
That looks beyond the bonds of death.
And almost' longs to pass?
Sometimes, I think, the things we see
Are shadows of the things to be:
That what we plan wenuild;
That every hope that hath been crossed.
And every drenin we thought was lost,
In heaven shall be fulillled.
That even the children of the brain
Have not been born and died in vain,
Though here unclothed and dumb;
But on some brighter, better shore
They live embodied evermore,
And wait for us to come.
And when on that last day we rise,
Caught up between the earth aud skies,
Then shall we hear our Lord.
Hay, Thou hast done with doubt and death;
.Henceforth, according to thy faith.
Shall he thy faith's reward.
CELIE.
BY.GEORGE SAND.
FIRST PART.
ME. DTJ BLOSSLAY had just
I installed herself in her new resi
dence of Le Plantier when she
wrote to me s "My dear Ar-
mand, I give you notice that you must
come immediately. Au aunt who has no
son cannot spare her nephew when the
question is about an establishment which
is to be ner last nest in me country, a
shall think that everything is as it should
he as soon as vou are content with our
hermitage. Besides, 1 wish you to mar
ry, and 1 am already sufficiently well in-
lormeu to ne sure mat ueiore uie year is
over you can make a choice here of one
who will exactly suit you."
My aunt Du Blossay had been a moth
er to me: she was mv entire family. We
loved each other tenderly, and I could
refuse her nothing. I set out the same
dav.
I was resolved to please her in every
thing, with one exception. I did not
wish to marry. Not that I was a man
of pleasure ; my life, on the contrary,
had always been serious; But 1 was in
love with that side of independence
which may be called irresponsibility.
Brought up with an affection by an ex
cellent woman, aud preserved as pure as
possible thanks to intelligent and
sympathetic associations I had ac
quired the taste aud feelings Jof persons
uf refinement, and was able to realize
liow rare the real distinction had become.
J saw very well that ray little world was
An exceptional one, an oasis in the intel
lectual desert of the world of to-day a
world which no longer in any way rep
resents a state ot actual society, Dut is a
mere crowd associated to partake the
same nleasures. but without ally real
liond of union between the individuals
of which it is composed.
I was too young 1 was not more than
twenty-live to feel discontented with
life or disenchanted with my age. The
age iu which one is young is, I believe,
Always beautiful; and the thronged, ex
travagant, aud charming Paris that
traversed caused me no weariness. My
aunt complained much of the general
feverish condition of the times. I un
dertook to reconcile her to the inevitable
revolutions. Here I found a thousand
subjects for study, and I loved to philo
sophize with her on the connection be
tween causes and results ; but if I show
ed in my conclusions the tolerance of
my age, it was on condition of entering
the eddy at my own time and no further
than the limit of my own taste. I was
very willing to take part as an amateur.
but not to become its slave. But one
undoubtedly becomes the slave of a given
situation when, either to raise himself to
it or to maintain himself in it, it becomes
tiwessary for him to sacrifice his dignity,
iil l.'isurc, or his opinions. If he is poor
lie must contrive how to make a fortune,
for the lift! of the world is ruiuous. If he
Js rid), lie uniKt apply himself to the labor
of displaying ! wealth. In either case,
he must efface himself, sacrifice his ow
Individuality ,be enslaved or transformed
But for me, as I was -jeitnor rich nor
poor, I did not wish to be forced to be
come either the one or thP other.
grand devotion to a person ' to an idea
jujighthave appeared worthy of a supreme
rt, but to be devoted to the amuse
mviit of people who are as much amused
hy the disasters as by the triumphs of
individuals was to me a piece or roily
.which J am ven yet unable to compre
hend.
Besides,! dreaded marriage as a changi
of condition which might cither mak
liiy habits and occupations subordinate
fot.he probable ambitions of my wife or
create between us a disastrous conflict.
I besought my aunt, therefore, if not to
renounce her project, at least to postpone
it.
"Come now," she said, "confess that
you are terribly afraid that I wish you to
marry your cousin."
"No, aunt; lam not "afraid that yon
will ever think of that."
"And yon are tight. My daughter is
wordly to the bottom of her soul. It
was in vain that I tried to bring her up
iu the same ideas as those in which I ed
ucated yon. What appears wise and
good to yen to her seems 8low,-cruelf In
tolerable. She aspires to escape from
me that she may launch out into the great
crowd, and I must resign myself to see
her make some great ana looiisn mar
riage, or she will die of rage or chagrin
in our solitude. Ah! my dear child,
mothers of the present time are not hap
py, unless they have the wit to be silly!"
Let us say no more aoout it, my uear
aunt. Let us rather wait aud hope. .Er
nestine's seventeen years have not yet
fully declared themselves. Besides, it is
not impossible to find a man who may
unite merit with a brilliant position.
Let us be on the watch for this rara avis
instead of trying to help me to find the
woman of my dreams."
And what sort of a woman is sue,
the woman of your dreams? May I not
hear about her, if only to be. delivered
for a little while- from my melancholy
thoughts ?'
Oh, well I will paint for yon a love
ly and charming portrait yourself for
example." , ?
"Thirty years younger, x suppose r An
well! You do not know what you are
saying; at twenty I was not nearly so
good as I am now. . I had not suffered ;
but as nothing will satisfy you younger
ones but souls entirely new and fresh,
as you must be the first occasion or tneir
tears, you will always oe uooraeu to wea
the unknown; for sorrow makes us
either very good or very bad, and the re
sult can never be known until it is quite
too late to change anything." '
My cousin Ernestine was as pretty a
girl as it is possible to see, very intelli
gent, very amiable, and very good, and
yet with all this she was the despair of
her mother and the torment of the house :
she was a prey to enneuit
There is hardly any middle ground
for young girls; they must be either
very well educated, very stuaious, tana
very intellectual, or discover that they
are very unhappy when tneir parents
cannot or will not exhibit them perpetu
ally. My aunt, who had only a moder
ate fortune, had done all that she could
to keep her only daughter from sharing
the intoxication or fashionaDie lire, sne
had dreamed, like all reasonable mothers,
of making her a very good and discreet
little woman, very modest and very am
iable ; but, like all reasonable mothers,
she had been conquered by the frivolity
of the age; she had fancied that reason
could speak to Intoxication. She had
forgotten that one who is intoxicated has
no ears, that the least hum of the violin
is sufficient to drown the most tender and
the most sensible works of a mother.
The age had come to seek it prey, and
had seized it in this little modest and
worthy household as easily as if it had
met it in the public place. The demon
had entered into - the chamber of the
young girl in the form of the dressmak
er, tne nair-aresser, tne music-teacner;
iu the guise of a young friend just from
boarding-school, in that of the Journal
des Modes. 6r in that of the fashionable
paper consecrated to the description of
the fetes of suchjand' sucn a ducnesa or
countess.
A young girl cannot be brought up in
a cage. She mnst live and see, she must
hear and breathe. Where shall she be
taken, then, in Paris, if not into the sun
light or among the trees? But it is pre
cisely there that .frivolous and- fashion
able Paris loves to show itseuVlt is there
that in her airy equipage and in her most
marvellous toilet the woman of question
able character is passing before the eyes
of this child, who sees only her butterfly
wings witnout a suspicion or ner moral
Insensibility. It is there that men well
mounted and well-dressed lord it over all
inferiors, and that the standing of an
honest man is" as nothing beside that of a
man well booted and well gloved. , .
liow enchanting it is : the young girl
who sees these light cavaliers passing.
dreams of seeing them some day prance
before the door of her own carriage.
She is in love with none of them, but
they all please her. She has no presen
timent of danger- ii the -emotion they
cause her. She is amused"by them, she
jests about them with some witty com
panion as agitated, as giddy as herself.
Both are innocent, vain, and cold ; as yet
it is neither with the heart nor the senses
that thev are alive and tremulous it Is
with vanity, with a thirst for being dis
tinguished, an ambition to figure some
day in this throng through which they
now go gliding timidly and laughingly.
Nothing is more chaste and more inoffen
sive than the dizziness of growing youth :
nothing more deadly, If in the depths of
the soul a powerful germ of -dignity is
not kept in readiness to overcome the
thirst for success and the desire of pleas
ure.
It was this germ of womanly pride
and the entire garden from the winds.
For the rest, the surrounding country,
gracefully indented into valleys of
double and triple folds, was well forti
fied against the winds from the sea.
These regions, intermediate between the
great plains of Normandy and the Chan
nel, are extremely agreeable and smiling.
With no grandeur, but everywhere a
charm; with a wonderful vegetation, a
long extent of rolling land that seemed
expressly made for pleasant views and
walks; with an Influence of the sea sof
tened and purified by the beauty of the
trees and the perfume of the meadows:
with a sentiment of repose and of secu
rity extending even to the foot of the
last rampart of the white cliffs ; with a
rich, well cultivated soil, divided into
farms of a really beautiful appearance ;
with clean sandy roads winding away in
conveniently mysterious curves such
was the oasis in which my good aunt
would have wished to end her days if her
daughter could 'have shared her tastes
and her ideas.
But how little she shared them, this
young victim transplanted into a land
of exile and of detestation ! On the morn
ing of my arrival she was inexhaustible
inner reproaches. upon my acquisition
and in sneers at my artistic taste. It was
well, indeed, that I bad assured myself
with the minutest care or the gooo,qual
ity of the materials and the good condi
tion of the work. She prophesied that
at the first storm the old moss-eaten
house would crumble into dust, Accor
ding to her, the gilded titles, with their
beautiful lichens, were hangings of
mourning, which had been exposed to a
rain of the yolks of eggs. The garlands
of foliage were the ornaments of a wine-
snopoutneaay or a village wedding;
the wooden scales seen between the vine
leaves had the effect of great ugly croco
diles fastened to the walls and trying to
warm their backs in the sunlight. I
forced her to confess that if the house
had been a fairy palace and the country
an iAien, she would nave had as great a
repugnance for it.
"Mon Dieu!" she answered, "why
should you say that I hate the country ?
On the contrary, I love it very much
when it is like something civilized and
lively"
"Like the Bois de Boulougne, for in
stance? The country for you is the dust
of cavalcades and the roll of carriages."
"Ah well! we could have had that
without spending more than this horri
ble hovel costs us, and even if it is a
whim to like what everybody likes, since
everybody goes there, I cannot under
stand why mamma, who professes to con
sult my happiness and to sacrifice every
thing to my health, should have brought
me to this desert, where I shall die of
ennui."
"Are you alone here, then? I thought
you nau plenty or neignnors."
"Ah! but what horrible things neigh-
bors are, whom one must see, stupid or
not, for the sole reason that they are
neighbors, and whom one cannot change.
l declare to you that all ours are maimer-able."
"Well, then, tell me how bad theyjare ;
itfwill do you good."
"And so it will! I ask nothing rbetter.
But no; it would take too long. There
is a score of them, each worse then the
others. I will mention only two, a man
and a woman, whom I particularly de
test."
- ''What is the'name of this unfortunate
couple ?"
It is not a couple, it is an old bache
lor and an eld maid 'who live at the two
extremities of the horizon, and who set
my teeth on edge Dy the praises they give
each other. Pure affection, for if they
loved each other so much, they would
have married, and both profess a horror
of marriage."
"Where do they live, and what are
their names?''
Let us begin with the sex that nre-
V - -
tends to be the nobler. M
not be bothered about that ; how can one
make a vow who believes in nothing?"
"But then she must believe in the devil,
since she has sold herself to him? That
is something in the way of faith."
"Pshaw: you jest at everything, it is
perfectly useless for me to take the trou
ble to talk to vou. 1 was going to pro
pose an alliance offensive and defensive
to preserve us both, you against the al
chemist woman, and myself against the
old fellow who believes in progress "
"Ah, you liartn t told me that you were
afraid of the approach of M. Montro-ger."
"1 don't know whether he thinks, ol
me, but it is certain that mother thinks
of him, for she has condemned me to
hear his eulogy at least once a day. And
Mile. Merquem must lie in the conspira
cy, lor she takes a part in the duet every
time she comes here."
'Does she come often ?"
She comes very Thursday, and we go
to her house every Sunday."
"She receives then ! "
Yes, and quite well enough, but such
sober people that one almost dislocates
one's jaws with yawning at her little receptions."
Does she receive neighbors from the
country, or people irom the city r"
flee to the tastes of her ancestor, who
had irrevocably fixed the condition of
his dwelling. It is certain that the great
low aptrtment resembled the cabin of a
gigantic ship. Happily the windows I
was going to say the hatches opened on
a light gallery entirely filled with exotic
plants, ami it was there that they spent
their summer evenings when they were
not given to walking. It was there that
about twenty persons were talking when
the mistress ot the chateau rose to meet
3.
I was first struck only with her figure,
which appeared to me unusually tall,
but I soon perceived a difference between
the level of the saloon and that of the
gallery, and when she was on an equality
with lis, I recognized that her height-was
nothing remarkable, and that the slen-
derness of her figure was neither angular
nor weak. She was tall and slender, but
graceful and well proportioned. As she
turned her back to the light, rendered
still more brilliant by the sunset, I saw
at first only her profile and the lines of
crnlil flint, tho rprlpnrinti frnm the ' skv
n - - y
brought out upon the masses ot her nair
and on her silk dress of a beautiful dark-
red, almost black. She seemed to me
well dressed, with her hair well arranged,
and not at all eccentric; her maguifi-
least to a knowledge of jurisprudence.
First take a thorough classical education
as a foundation, aud build oh it a com
plete insight into the common law and
of the laws of nations. Such is the
Britisli ideal. Ordinary minds, thorough
ly conversant with legal precedents and
authorities, wield a large influence in
public bodies. Every man of business
consults his lawyer more frequently
than his physician.- The youth who
varies his collegiate course by lessons in
the law academy, emigrates to the West
with rare advantages over those who are
not so equipped. Our Delegates, Sena
tors aud Representatives from the new
States and Territories, are lawyers almost
without exception. A profession which
clothes its disciples with so many facili
ties deserves more attention than it has
received from scholastic institutions. I
do not insist that all onr young men
should study the law, bu where the ac
quisition of it is so easy and the, possession
of it so useful, it certainly deserves con
sideration at the hands of those who
direct the instruction of the people. No
citizen is any the worse for such an ac
quisition. More than a year ago I sat among the
spectators at the commencement of the
Howard University, in the city or wash
AH rWKJfOWN RACE OF GIANTS. I THE CHICAGO CENSIS REPORT.
On Thursday, the public thirsting for
knowledge, especially of Chicago, were
iavorea Dy tne appearance ui uie vni
cago Census Report and Statistical Re
view;" avast mine of interesting and
useful facts about Chicago, embracing,
besides the general statistics of the city,
a complete directory of Chicago, show-
Tbe Discovery of a. Great Charnel
Ilouae Under Trees of Centuries'
Growth Who , First Inhabited
America,
Near Cayuga, Ontario, recently, the
Rev. Nathaniel Wardell, Mr. Orin
Wardell of Toronto, and Daniel Fri-
denburg were digging on the farm of the ing the number of persons in each faml
latter gentleman, which is on the banks ly, their birth-place, and the ward in
of the Grand River, in the township of I which they now reside. The person who
laviiga. When thev had got to live or I furnishes this valuable cyclopaedia oi
six feet below the surface, a strange sight 1 Chicago, its history, its wealth, its com
met them. Piled in layers, one upon top I merce, its advantages, and its people, is
iled Parisians, like us, of old gentry as
mouldy as their houses, and ot provin
cials more or less badly dressed, from the
neighboring towns.
a am sure that there are some perfect
ly well-bred people among them ; other
wise your mother would not take vou
there. To-morrow will be Sunday
shall we go there then ?"
certainly, there is no escape,
"Well! We will postpone the defen
sive and offensive alliance that you offer
me till Monday. We must first see the
nemy, reconnoitre his forces and pene
trate his designs, aud then we can ar
range our plans for the campaign."
l attached so little importance to the
witticisms of my little cousin that I did
not even think of questioning her moth
er about tne lady alchemist ; but, as l
was slightly acquainted with M. de Mon-
troger, l naturally led the conversation
to him.
He is an excellent man." said aunt.
"and I am sure that we shall have in him
a good neighbor, perhaps a friend. He
is reserved and grave, but faithful and
energetic, beloved in the country, and
esteemed oy every one,
"men vou think perhaps
"Of marrying Ernestine to him ? No:
I have no such thought. A man who
has been reasonable up to his fortieth
year will never commit the folly of choos
ing so invoious a child lor his compan
ion, i Knew, besides, that he has had
many better opportunities, and has never
been willing to renounce his freedom ;
and, moreover, I perceive that, even
should he desire it. Ernestine would
think him too grave and too mature. It is
not of this marriage that I tiiink.
nave you any one in view tor her?
"Yes : the eldest son of the Receiver
General of Finance, of whom there is a
very good report, and who is looking out
for a wife in just the same condition of
fortune and of birth as ourselves. We
shall see hiin to-morrow at the house of
our neighbor. Be careful not to give
JLirnestme any cause lor suspicion, or she
will either be coquetish or uncivil. Let
us try to make her appear herself and
suspect nothing."
v ery wen. Hut what is the name of
your neighbor?"
J rue, 1 had forgotten to tell vou. She
is a very interesting and remarkable
person, still young and beautiful, the
grand-daughter of the late Admiral Mer
quem, very rich, and very eccentric, it
must oe coniesseti, but of an eccentricity
wnicn can De cured, lor ner life is irre
proachable. She professes an absolute
love ot independence, and. by the digni
ty of her conduct, she has really con-
de Montro- q,lered the right to live at thirty as if she
ger inhabits the modern castle which you Pe,e 51fty- ftne 1,ves alOMe' aua
see buried in the valley, half an hour's alone wherever seems good to her; but,
walk irom here. He is a man of forty, , ' fi . "-""'.v 'y i:ic, iur
which -would be well enough if he had 8,M nas n. tas.te for snowing herseit, and
the least bit or intelligence in his great ; wuimB w uui
Both ; it is a medley of unhappy ex- cent hair was her own ; andjwhen she was ington, while Professor John M. Langs-
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black eyes, and was a little less prosy in
his appearance; but he has a system,
which is to discourse of himself as a man
of no account before any one has dream
ed of asking what it is. He is at raid
apparently, that his beauty will expose
him to the plots of designing mothers,
and compromise the peace of young peo
ple."
in other words, ne is a man modest
and serious. He is rich, they say ?"
"He is rich and a philanthropist, a man
of the utilitarian and provincial ordsr.
Have you heard or him t
Yes, as the most polite man living.
I do not wish him such a wife as you, but
1 might wish you "
"buch a husband as he; Heaven ior-
bid! A man who might be my father:
who is young in appearance, I admit,
but old in mind, freed from all illusions,
and who spends only six weeks in Paris
every winter, pretending that it is a loss
of time and a weariness. But I see that
that my aunt had not been able to devel- yon are inclined to take his part. I will
ope in her daughter. Then again she pass to the other person. You have not
was inreeu io yieiu to-luevcauie ousu-1 maue up your mitiu anout ner, at
cles. How can one tell girl or four-1 least."
teen or fifteen of the disasters to which I "The old maid? No, I have heard of
the intoxications which beset her may I no old maid during the three days that I
eventually lead? If she is ignorant of I have spent here this spring. You call
tneui, sne may not suspect mem. ai sue ner-
knows them, she will wish to brave them
either out of curiosity or disdain
A little later complete instruction giv
en to a young girl becomes sail more
dangerous, for no one knows what mys
tery is being accomplisned iu her. My
aunt gave mc her entire confidenceand
confessed her perplexities- l iwaa of a
different opinion. She had wished to
envelope her trnestuae in an impenetra
ble cloud, and to keep her imagination
inviolate until the object of a permitted
love should appear. It seemed to me.
on the contrary, that at her age my cou
sin was not sufficiently developed in wo
manly leeling, and that it would be much
better for her to dream of, love than of
ambitiou,
However it was, Ernestine, when her
nerves were in a healthy state, had all
the graces of an amiable child : she ca
ressed ner mother, she was pleasant and
generous, she showed intelligent apti
tudes; but wnen rumeo, mere were
headaches, spites, tears, days of volun
tary fast, feverish restlessness, a thou
sand languors, a thousand caprices, and,
as a consequence, a thousand .cruelties
to wound the heart of her mother.
I had no influence whatever over her.
and I even believe that at that time I in
spired her with aversion. I was too
clear-sighted a brother ,too frank a friend
i nngnt nave acquired- a power over her
by a system of adroit flattery ; but then
1 might have pleased her, perhaps, and
that was what I would not have wished
on any account,
I was already acquainted with Le Plan
tier, from having been there to negotiate
mi jlo iMirciiiiBe in ine name oi mv aunt:
but, being absent for some months, I had
not Deen a Die to aid in giving the finish
ing touches, and was agreeably surprised
to see with what taste she had been able
to accomodate her modest residence to
her wants and her resources. It was not
so much a little chateau as a great old
Norman house, with its relievos and or
naments of wood set in pannels of gray
ish flint-stone. These Northern houses
have a nhsiognomy aud a character of
their own; they are complete to the nr-
list when they are, its was this one of Le
Planner, overgrown with interwoven
vines and honeysuckles, whose flowing
grace softens and relieves the colder
tone of its materials. The Mansard roof
was encased between the windows by a
skillful arrangement of overlapping
slates; on the second (story these casings
were of oak laid on like scales. It was
not beautiful, but it gave the eye an im
pression of solidity and comfort in a
rainy climate. The whole was massive,
the decoration simple. Magnificent trees,
those great beeches which are the cedars
and the palm-trees of certain cantons of
JJormandy, protected Uie whole houne
Mademoiselle Merquem."
"How old?"
"She varies somewhere between thir
ty-live and forty, though she gives her
self out for thirty, it is their way.'
Ugly?"
A fright: long. thin, withered, pe-
dentic, odd. Just try to fancy how she
spends her time, and what use she makes
of her fortune, which is Considerable
they say."
"in seeking the philosopher's stone.
perhaps?""
"Ah, you amaze met you know her?"
"l assure you, no."
"How did you guess the secret?"
"1 spoke oy chance ; but 1 tlunk it is
you who amaze me. The search for the
philosopher's stone is not such a mania
of onr age. No one believes in it, and
your neighbor certainly is not beside her
self." v
"She is. I am sure ot it. But vou
must never breathe a word of what 1 am
going to confide to you. Mamma would
scold me : she professes to have a great
admiration for the sage Merquem, and
it is on this point but you give me your
word or honor not to betray me."
"Yes."
"Well, then, know that mamma has
taken it into her head that you shall mar
ry her."
You made that up. How do you
Know?"
I know that it has been concealed
from me in order to plan it, aud that be
ing a mystery 1 have the right to over
hear it and discover it. Mamma does
nothing else but adroitly question the
stupidest old man in the five divisions of
tne globe, M Bellac, an old savant who
lives at Mile. Jtterquem's house, and
whom the country people about here take
for a sorcerer, because he makes gold
with her, as they pretend. Others say
that they raise or lay the wind, and that
from the top of an old donjon, yonder on
the hill, which they frequent, they talk
to the sea, the clouds, and the stars. The
cook that we have now once lived with
them. She declares that they make poi
sons and dig up dead bodies "
"And eat children ? Really, this is a
nice woman that my aunt designs me
for!"
"You laugh at me. But I assure you
that there is one tiling true in it all, that
Mile. Merquem wonts at night with the
old alchemist."
"And that your mother is curious to
know exactly what science they are
studying.
' "No ; mamma admires studious people,
no matter what they study. When she
questions M. Bellac, it is about the vir
tues and the merits of the lady, and also
she is anxious to know if site has made
a vow never to marry. But she need
house she does me a great honor, aud I
am really grateful to her for having
at first sight admitted me to her friend-
snip."
"Is she said to be a learned woman ?"
"She is considered an educated woman
Some people believe that she is engaged
witn science, because she harbors a re
spectable old savant whom she is able to
talk with and please. It is certain that
he is a man who knows everything, and
that one cannot spend an hour with him
without learning something ; but, as for
her, she denies having any part in these
great acquirements, she never speaks
in any way to make one think that she
knows much more, than others. She is
extraordinary only in one particular,
the obstinacy with vthiclt she persists in
ignoring the joys and pains and duties
ol the tamily."
"Hut, it she is only thirty, and still
beautiful, she may change her mind.'
"She need only, I believe, say the word
to have a very fine man at her feet. It
is said that M. de Montroger has always
been in love with her, and that he is so
Still."
"lie is very timid or very clumsy if
ne nas not in turn been able to in
spire her with love, or, at least, with con-
ndence."
"He is neither awkward nor timid, and
it is hard to say what is the cause of his
want of success. There must be a cause,
however, which we will know iu time
"t or my part, 1 think I can guess it
Mile. Merquem is an egotist."
Not at all. Yov shall see her
and you will be much plcasad witl
her."
"I must take care of my heart then?"
"No;l believe that she will inspire
you with nothing else than friendship.
Women of intellect inspire only what
they will in men of mind!" .
When we approached the next dav the
heights overhung by the chateau of La
uauieue, the residence ot Jllle. Merquem
"I confess," said I, aside to Ernestine,
"that l regret having questioned my
aunt aoout tne alchemist woman. 1 am
deprived of au agreeable emotion at, the
sight of this mysterious manor, where,
thanks to you, i might have counted on
being surprised by the sight ot an old
park inhabited by witches. Now, alas !
I know that Mile. Merquem is neither
old nor ugly, neither a witch nor a sa
vant."
"Ah ! I see," said Ernestine, "that
mamma has already painted her portrait
for you iu her own style. Well, yon
shall see how they amuse themselves at
her house!"
The chateau was of the last century,
spacious and simple, very comfortable in
appearance, built half-way up the side
ot a. rocky lull, to which a hollow slope
made an easy approach anil a pleasant
ascen t.
The old uninhabited manor-house
showed its feudal ruins at some distance
above on the plateau of the cliff. A park
of clustered trees, sloping with rapid de
scent over the declivity ol the plateau,
united the two structures. from the
new chateau, whose back w sis toward the
sea, only the fresh and smiling plains
were to be seen. Doubtless the nne stor
ies of Ernestine had excited some curi
osity in my mind, for I would have liked
to mount the old donjon at once, from
which there must have been a line view,
and the aspect of which announced some
thing formidable: but while we were
passing through the' courts, J-.i-nesl,ine
apprised nie that the entrance to this nest
of the sea-gulls was forbidden to the
vulgar, as it concealed the laboratory of
M. Bellac.
Some old domestics, of sober demean
or, for the most part old sailors, intro
duced us into an immense waiuscotted
hall, too low to be imposing, and too void
of ornament to be pleasant, it wanted
but little, some vases of Uowers or some
foliage, to soften its rigid lines. Was it
the strictness of an old maid's habits
that was felt iu this aiiHterely unorua
lueiited ai'i'uiigemeut, or was It a sacri-
auimated and in conversation I thought
her very beautiful and very young. It
is true that the light of the sunset affords
a very favorable condition in which to
see her. Everything was rose-colored,
and no figures any longer seemed old.
Each flowing moment added to the illu
sion, and when the light finally faded I
still kept the impression of a delightful
countenance. The sound of her voice
was so fresh and so pure, her pronuncia
tion so clear and so delicately shaded,
that I was at once taken with the charm
of it, and for a quarter of an hour saw
only that lace and heard only mat voice.
The first had, perhaps, irrevocably van
quished me. When my aunt presented
me as the nephew already announced and
described, Mile. Merquem gave me her
hand without reserve and pressed mine
with frankness. Her hand was neither
plump nor voluptuous it was delicate,
supple, and fresh. No common place
words had accompanied this fraternal re
ception, but when in her amiable and
confiding manner she had spoken four
words to mv aunt and to Ernestine, i ieit
a spirit of loyalty and of good-will ema
nating irom her that utterly destroyed
for me the malevolence of any remain
ing doubt. It was not really night, for
there was the noonday of the full moon,
and the sky was of a limpid clearness
unusual in this region. It had been very
warm during the day, and no one desired
to go back to the hall, which was lighted.
We remained under me arDor, wnicn
covered a long terrace, whence a wide
staircase descended to another terrace ar
ranged for a garden. Here the young
girls there were six of them counting
Ernestine went to nit among tne nowers
like giddy creatures of the night. The
Receiver-General, with his son, who was
a very young boy with a pretty figure,
followed them without affectation ; both
were gay and lively, and soon we heard
the young people laughing and chatter
ing loudly with their shrill voices. M.
de Montroger, whom I saw for the first
time, wanted nie to smoke a cigar with
him. but he, no more than myseli, wish
ed to remove too far from our hostess,
and we withdrew only by the distance
of a few steps of the grand staircase,
whence we soon returned to take part in
the conversation which had sprung up
between her and some of the older guests
who had not left their seats. Among
these people ot very grave appearance,
and whose conversation was not especial
ly amusing, I listened, however, with in
terest to tne old m. isenac, who seemed
to me to be far above the level of the
company, dulled or stupefied by the com
fortable ease ot provincial lite ; but the
good man was extremely modest and
spoke only when obliged by direct ques
tions. My aunt, who was not yet be
numbed by the life of the village, was a
good talker, but she was preoccupied
this evening with thoughts ot the inter
view ot her daughter with the son ot the
financier; and however much she pro-
lessed to leave all to the will of Provi
dence, still she listened to the voices from
the second terrace much more than to
what was said around her. She was un
able to contain herself long; it seemed
that Ernestine, usually so torpid at the
chateau of La Canielle, was this evening
recklessly gay. She descended to dis
cover the cause, and the others having
branched out into a local conversation
of no interest to me, Mile. Merquem
came and sat' down before me on a chair
which happened to be vacant. A table
was between us, on which they had be
gun to serve tea.
TO BE COXTIXUEP.
ANECDOTES OF PI BLIC JTCEX.
BY COL. J. W. FORNEY.
ton presided over the exercises of a class
of colored young men, just completing
their legal studies. Some of them had
only a year before been unable to read
and write, and one bright, black fellow
was especially patronized by the pro
lessor, because six months before he
did not know his alphabet. Nearly all
had been slaves. There were oral and
written argumtnts. The manner' in
which they spoke or read their produc
tions displayed extraordinary talent. ' I
thought I could detect in their flowing
cadences and graceful gestures close
copies of the old Southern statesmen,
who in past years lorded it over both
parties. There was scarcely an error of
grammar or pronunciation. The logic
and the appreciation of the subjects
treated, which included landlord and
tenant, titles to real estate, divorce, bor
rowing and lending, promissory notes,
Ac, proved hot only careful study, but
intense determination to succeed. Among
the candidates was a woman, who read a
clear and complete treatise on a dimcuit
legal problem, in the enunciation and
preparation of which she exhibited the
precision of an expert and the condensa
tion of a thinker. 1 doubt wnetner tne
older and more extensive Law School
connected with Columbian College,
where the offspring of the other, and
what is called the superior, race are edu
cated, could show, all things considered,
an equal nnmber of graduates as well
grounded and completely armed for the
battle of the future. There are colored
lawyers in most of our courts, even in
the highest judiciary. They are the
pioneers or an interesting ana exciting
destiny. W ith them, uniiKe tneir more
fortunate white brethren, the bitterest
struggle begins when they receive their
sheepskins. They go forth to war against
a stormy ocean ot bigotry and prejudice,
Thev will have to fight their way in
society, and te contend witn jealousy
and hate in the jury-box an iiu the court
room, but they will win as sureiy as am
bition, genius and courage are gifts, not
ot race or condition, but ot uoa aione.
THE AK.TIIKS OF EUROPE.
A series of tables showing the strength
of the various armies of Europe has just
been published in Vienna, irom which
it appears that the total of the forces
available for war purposes in Great
Britain and on the Continent of Europe
amounts to 5,164,300 men, 512,394 horses,
10,224 guns, and about 800 mitralleuses.
The forces of the different nations mak
ing up the above total are given as fol
lows : Russia has forty-seven divisions
of ralantry, ten divisions or cavalry,
eight brigades of rifles and reserves, one
hundred and forty-nine regiments of
Cossacks, two hundred and nineteen bat
teries of artillery, fifty batteries ,of
mitralleuses, making altogether 862,000
men, 181,050 horses and 2,084 guns.
This enumeration Includes the troops in
the Caucasus, Siberia and Turkestan.
Germany has eighteen corps of soldiers,
including thirty-seven divisions oi infan
try, ten divisions of cavalry and three
hundred and thirty-seven batteries of
artillery, making 824,990 men, 95,724
horses and z,uzz guns. Austria nas
thirteen corps of soldiers, including forty
divisions of infantry, five divisions of
cavalry and two hundred and five bat
teries of guns and mitralleuses, giving
733,U23 men, 00,12a norses, i,oou guns
and 94 mitralleuses. Great Britain, it is
estimated, has for its disposable forces
470,779 men and 339 guns. France has
ten corps, composed 01 tmrty-two divis
ions of infantry, twelve divisions of cav
alry and one hundred and forty batteries
or artillery, giving in an ioQ.nv men,
46,955 horses and 984 guns, including
mitralleuses. Italy has four corps, with
forty brigades of infantry, six brigades
of cavalry and ninety batteries of artil
lery, giving in all 415,200 men, 12,868
horses and 720 guns. Turkey has six
corps of Nizam, or regulars, twelve corps
of Redifs, or reserves, and one hnndred
and thirty-two batteries of artillery, giv
ing In all 2o3,2su men, 34,833 horses ana
732 guns.
Switzerland nas ieo,uoumen.-2,7UU
horses and 273 guns. Belgium, 145,000
men, 7.UUU horses and 102 guns. Spain.
I44,yas men, 30,202 norses and 307 guns
Greece, 125,000 men, 1,000 horses and 48
guns. Holland, 122,383 men, composed
of 35,383 regulars and 87,000 militia, also
0,200 horses ana ius guns, servia, 1U7,-
000 men. 4,000 horses and 194 guns,
Roumania, 106,000 men, 15,675 horses
and 96 guns. Portugal, 64,390 men,
6,320 horses and 96 guns. Sweden and
of the other, some two hundred skele
tons of human beings, nearly perfect,
and around the neck of. each one being
string of beads. There were also de
posited in this pit a number of axes and
skimmers made of stone. In the jaws of
several of the skeletons were large -stone
pipes, one of which Mr. O. Wardell took
with him to Toronto a day or two after.
The skeletons are those 01 men 01 gi
gantic stature, some of them measuring
nine feet, very few of them being less
than seven feet. Some of the thigh
bones were found to be at least half a
foot longer than those at present known,
and one of the skulls, . being exhumed,
completely covered the head of an ordi
nary person. These skeletons are sup
posed to belong to a race of people an-I churches, 498 lawyers, 1,385 saloons, 2o
terior to the Indians. Some three years I railroad companies ; 424 physicians ; 140
ago the bones of a mastodon were found druggists, etc. ; that while Chicago has
imbedded in the earth about six miles
from this spot. , The pit and its ghastly
occupants are now open to the view of
any who may wisn to matte a visit tnere.
Later advices from Dunville say "there
is not the slightest doubt that the remains
of a lost city are on this farm. At va
rious times within the past years the re
mains of mHd houses with their chim
neys had been found, and there are doz
ens of pits of a similar kind to that just
unearthed, tnougn mucn smaller, in tne
place which has been discovered before,
though the fact has not been made pub
lic hitherto. The remains of a black
smith's shop, containing two tons of char
coal and various implements.were turned
up a few months ago. The farm, which
consists of one hundred and fifty acres,
has been cultivated for nearly a century,
and was 'covered with a thick growth of
pine, so that it must have been ages ago
that the remains were deposited there.
The skulls of the skeletons are ol an enor
mous size and of all manner of shapes,
about half as large again as are now to
be seen. The teeth In most of them are
still in an almost perfect state of pres
ervation, though they soon fall out when
exposed to the air. It is supposed that
xo. xxxi 1.
Very many people are exercised about
the growth of monopolies. Do thev
ever think of the monopoly of govern
ment and legislation by the lawyers? I
do not repeat a prejudice, but a fact. Take
a seat in the gallery of the Senate or the
House m w aslungtou, or in any ol the
State Legislatures, and you will note
that the controlling minds, with very
few exceptions, are lawyers. All onr
Presidents were educated at the bar ex
cept Washington, Harrison. Taylor and
Grant. Most persons lorget that An
drew Jackson's life, even beyond his
thirtieth year, was given to the law, as
United States District Attorney for the
Territory of Western North Carolina,
and as Judge of the Supreme Court of
the new State ot Tennessee; that James
K. Polk was one ot the busiest men on I Norway, 61,604 men. 8,500 horses and
his circuit; that Millard Fillmore (at 222 guns. Denmark, 31,916 men, 2,120
hrst a tailor's apprentice;, f ranklin horses and 96 guns.
Pierce, James isuchanan and Abraham
Lincoln were distinguished lawyers. It
is true that Andrew Johnson was in no
sense a lawyer, but he had been long in
politics and knew how to avail himself of
lawyers. The Southern politicians of
the generation after Washington, Jeffer
sou and Monroe, such as Clay, Calhoun,
Crittenden, Thomas II. Benton, George
Poindexter, Bailie Peyton, Henry A.
Wise, jenerson Davis, Kobert Toombs,
and W. H. Roane, were famous at the
bar before entering public life. Sam
Houston, af Texas, was not a lawyer,
nor Lewis F. Finn, Colonel Benton's
handsome colleague from Missouri, nor
his martyr-colleague, David C. Broder
ick ; but such exceptions only strengthen
the rule that tne legal profession is, alter
all, the sure secret of successful leader
ship. 1 have often been struck with the
dogmatism of the attorneys who came
into Congress aftei a prosperous career,
and the dclercnce paid to them by those
of stronger mi nds-anrt larger experience.
Thev assert their old habits while they
were advocates or judges, w . itt i es-
senden, of Maine, Jacob Collamer, of
Maryland, 1 haddeus Stvens and John
Hickman, of Pennsylvania, were signal
illustrations. Their opinions wore given
with an ex, cathedra air, and generally
submitted to. The privileges of lawyers
in Congress have often excited complaint.
They can practice in the courts, even in
cases upon which thev have voted in Con
gress. Many do not, scruple to attend to
business in the departments and take fees
for their services, but the laymen the
merchants, the physicians," and the
manufacturers can not, uncensured,
loilow men- examine while holding a
place in the national councils. What.
was true iu this respect in the past is
more true at the present, and will be
truer of the future. The law is the
royal road to eminence iu this country.
whatever men may sav to the contrary;
and it Is natural that it should be so, as
government, property, aud personal
rights are vitally dependent upon law;
thus all Americans ought to include
something of legal knowledge in their
early education. In England every
jilaleimuu is reared, if not to the bar, at
Mr.Ftichard Edwards, whose enterprise
in this line of work has so long been
known, and whose extraordinary indus
try, as evidenced by the volume men
tioned above, will make him still better
known. He certainly deserves the hearty
praise of every citizen of Chicago who
takes pride in the progress ot ins city.
The volume contains 1,205 papes, all full
of useful and instructive information.
Among the facts furnished by it are that
the population of Chicago is 334,270, di
vided among 97,278 families ; that the
united States, Germany, Ireland, and
England, in the order given, are the
four nationalities most largely repre
sented; that the Ninth ward has the
largest population; that there are 175
a population of 334,270, St. Louis has
only 310,064, and Cincinnati has only
216,130; that during 1870 there were 17
elevators, with a capacity for 11,580,000
oushels; that dnring tne same year,
7,062,364 gallons of highwines were man
ufactured in Chicago, and 532,964 head
of cattle received, and 1,853,372 hogs;
that in favorable years the annual mor
tality of lhe city has been as low as 1 per
cent, of the population ; that the 'total
value of the receipts during the past year
was $128,743,573; that the total capital
of banks, national and private, amounted
to $12,600,000; that the assessed value
of property of all kinds was $165,000,000
for the year 01 i8oa-'7U, ana $270,977,
550 for the year 1870-'71.
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THE DIGNITY OF LABOR.
BY ALEXANDER CLARK.
Cats, like quacks, mew-till-late.
A notice of a peal lightning.
A seamstress's exclamation A-hem I
How was Jonah punished? Whaled.
The fastest city in the world elec-tri-
city.
A doctor's motto is "patients and long
suffering." -
Wheels go best when they are thor
oughly tired.
An off-hand fellow one who has lost
both his arms.
What man carries everything before
him? The waiter.
May a turkey be said to be a ghost
when it's a gobblin?
Never confide a secret to your rela
tives; blood will tell. ,
How to make the time go fast use the
spur of the moment.
Why was Eve not afraid of the measles 7
Because she'd Adam.
Base ball wrought the decease of a
Missouri septuagenarian.
When may a man be said to be a be a
book? When he is a tome.
Why is a blush like a little girl? Be
cause it becomes a woman. .
One Mr. Pfannenstelhl is figuring Just
now in the Memphis courts.
The. Patriot Sen is the name of a new
weekly paper in Wisconsin.
Tf time should repair the breaches.
would there be any vest-iges?
Lonar Branch is nearly shadeless. The
principal tree there is the beach.
A mad doe kicked up a syndicate at
Charleston, S. C, the other day.
A Rochester woman drove away a bur
glar by chopping off four of his fingers.
A proud Detroit boy wouldn't taKe
two cents reward for finding a pocket-
book.
A Cincinnati boy and girl, aged twelve
and eleven, stole a lot of clothes ana
eloped. :
Rattlesnakes are so thick In some Indi
ana fields as to clog the mowing ma
chines.
It is asserted in favor of a new lamp
that nitro-glycerine itself wouldn't ex
plode it.
Woman's rights women may yet aspire
to positions in the navy. Lot's wife was
an old salt. .
Pittsfield, Mass., has had an out-door
baby party. The youngest guest was
nine days old.
A minister is said to have lost $240 on
It would seem that employment, from
the morning of creation, when God him
self worked and rested, and when Adam
was commanded to till the soil and sub
due the animals, implies peculiar dignity
and honor. The Maker of worlds
there is gold or silver in large quantifies 1 blessed labor. It is apostolic, it is Christ-
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rods have invariably, when tested, I of education is not complete that does I Longfellow, and is preparing a sermon
pointed to a certain spot, and a few yards I not harden the hand and toughen the I on the text : "The race is not?' etc.
from where the last Datcn or sKeietons i muscle, while it develops tne intellect I vooi many trades-people only give
were found, directly under the apple I and enlarges the heart. The religion 15 0f,nf.M to the pound it is a weigh
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were also fonnd in the pit, were almost I better sanctuaries for acceptable service
petrified. There is no dotiDt mat were a than studies and cloisters and cells.
scheme of exploration carried on thor-1 Scars and knots on the hands are more
oughly the result would be highly inter-1 honorable than rings and gloves. Bronze
esung. A guuu ucoi ui cauiiciucul caiow i out oi lijc fcil 11 ura.il I is uiiire uchuuiiuuu
man rouge out 01 me snops.
in the neighborhood, and many visitors
call at the farm daily. The skulls and
bones of the giants are fast disappearing,
being taken awav by curiosity hunters.
It is the intention of Mr. ITridenburg to
cover the pit up very soon. The pit is
ghastly in the extreme. . The farm is
skirted on the north by the Grand River.
The pit is close to the banks, but the
marks are there to snow wnere me goia
or silver trersure is supposed to be under,
. From the appearance of the skulls it
would, seem that their possessors died a
violent death, as many ol mem were
broken and dented. The axes are shaped
like tomahawks, small, but keen instru
ments. The beads are all of stone, and
of all sizes and shapes. The pipes are
not unlike in shape the cutty pipe, ana
several of them are engraved with dogs'
heads. Tney have not lost tneir virtue
for smoking. Some people profess to
believe that the locality .of Fridenburg
farm was formerly . an Indian burial
place, but the enormous stature' of the
skeletons and the fact that pine trees of
centuries' growth covered the spot go far
to disprove mis iaea.
the face than rouge out
Only a worker attains the true symmetry,
strength anu glory of manhood or
womanhood. Genius itself falters in a
conflict with labor. ' Industry has the
long end of the lever that moves public
opinions, parties, congresses ana tnrones.
It was men with brown laces and sinewy
arms that built the pyramids on Egypt's
plains, reared the temple on Mount Mo
riah, and walled the holy city with ada
mant, circled an Asiatic empire with im
penetrable granite, put arm in arm the
old and the new worlds as whispering
mother and daughter, spanned the
American continent with a thoroughfare
from sea to sea, cut a canal for steamers
in forty months across the desert sands
wnere tne Israelites wanuerea ior iorty
years. It is men with sunburnt leatures
and nerves ot steel mat to-aay wniten
the world's wide waters with the sails of
commerce, navigate all rivers, explore
all lands and subdue the earth as God at
first commanded. An idle man, however
white and soft and smart, is not God'.'
man.
A BVBIEB CITY IN MAINE,
Au Ancient Fort Overdrawn by Aged
Oaki Paiements, tintters ana
Canal Unearthed..
The last "field day" of the Maine His
torical Society was enlivened by an ad
dress from Mr. R. K. Sewall, who said
that at a special meeting of the Society,
held at Augusta, in eDruary, isty, me
question of the existence of paved streets
at Pemaquid was discussed, some alleg
ing ocular demonstration, anaotners ae- ant weekly literary and artistic reunions
SOLID WOMEN.
Mrs. Stanton, widow of the late Secre
tary of. War, now resides in a line man
sion at Germantown, near Philadelphia.
Her income from the Stanton fund is
about $7,000 a year.
Mrs. Cleveland, the sister of Horace
Greeley, is rapidly regaining her health
among the Catskills. She will return to
her city-home in October, and, with her
accomplished daughters, will probaDly
continue during the winter those pleas-
A CHINESE FI ZZLE.
A Chinaman died, leaving his prop
erty by win to nis tnreesons, asiouows
To Fum-Hmn, the eldest, one-half there
of ; to Au-Pm, his second son, one-third
ttiereot : aim to ling-Bat, nis youngest,
one-ninth thereof. When the property
was inventoried, it was found to consist
of nothing more nor less than seventeen
elephants; and it puzzled these three
heirs how to divide the property accord
ing to the terms of the will without
chopping up the seventeen elephants and
thereby seriously impairing their value.
Finally tney applied to a wise neighbor,
Siuii-Piiiik, for advice. Sum-Punk had
an elephant of his own. He drove it into
the yard with the seventeen and said:
Now we will suppose that your father
left these eighteen elephants. Fum-
Hinn take your half and depart." So
Fum-Huni took nine elephauts and went
his way. "Now, Nu-Pin," said the wise
man, "take your third and git." - S0N11
Pin took six elephants and travelled.
"Now, Ding-Bat," said the wise man,
"take your ninth and be gone." So
Ding-Bat took two elephants and ob
squatuiated. Then Sum-Punk took his
own elephant and drove home again.
Query : Was the property divided accord
ing to the terms ot the will ?
DEATH OF A.NTHONCi III AN.
The fate of Vlgneron. a Frenchman.
who was killed on the sands at Boulogne-sur-Mer
on the 10th, in the presence of
many hundred spectators, is, like Ren
forth's, a proof of the foolishness of over-
exertion. He was a man of extraordin
ary strength, aged 45, and was known in
most parts of Europe for his feats of
strength, and particularly for lifting a
cannon weighing tl.000 pounds upon his
shoulders and Ilrlng a lull charge of
gunpowiier. lie whs going tnrougti his
performance with lii.-s usual succchs, but
while in the act of lifting the cannon to
lower it he slipped and tell. The whole
weight of the cannon fell on the face of
the unlortunate man, splitting his skull
completely iu two. Death, of course,
wus lustauiuneous.
n vine the fact. On motion of the Hon.
J . W. Bradbury, a large committee of the
Society was appointed to visit the spot.
On the 26th ot August, following, the
committee proceeded to - Bristol, and
found the. half had not been told, for
sections of pavements, artistically , built
of beach cobble-stones, with perfect
gutters and curbings, were opened and
examined, unearthed from the depth of a
foot or more of soil, above which the
tall-grown grass had long waved and
often been shorn and made into nay,
Further examination disclosed other
facts, showing that Maine had a myste
rious but buriea nistory, to unearm
which the citizens of Bristol were prom
ised a fleld-dav exercise in two years
from that date by this Society, on condi
tion that they would make fuller explan
ations of their ancient remains, and
gather up for the information of the So
ciety all tne fragments oi nistory wimin
reach : and a special committee was or
ganized to take this duty in charge, the
remarkable results of whose efforts in
developing the archaeology of this spot
have seemed to justify the recommenda
tion that a granite snail here be erected
in the history of Maine, to mark the
"beginnings" or .New Jiingiana nere un
covered. '
J. H. Hackleton, of Pemaquid, as the
organ of the sub-committee, having in
charge the exhibit of newly discovered
remains, gave a most full aud intensely
interesting detail ot tacts, relics and
traditions, supported by affidavits of
living eye-witnesses, showing that in
183B a iragment or a gravestone was
turned out by the plow near the ancient
burial ground of Jamestown, marked
with the data of 1606. He exhibited a
leaden ornament, apparently a tag to a
roll or piece of cloth, dug up at N. Har
bor in 1858, bearing the date 1610, and
English letter "H"in the centre. The
affidavit of Mr. Fassett, that in 1753 the
ancient canal showed remains four feet
high, deep and wide, bearing at that
date maple trees eighteen inches in diam
eter. He also exhibited pipes from the
apparent ruins of an ancient factory
there of the patterns or pipes ol clay, in
all respects like pipes classified, marked
and arranged in a museum of tobacco
pipes in Guildhall, London, belonging
to the time of James the First and
Charles the Second of England, seen
there by Mr. Dean, and now compared
with the specimens shown. Spoons of the
pattern of the Elizabethan period, and
in all respects like those dug up at Gos-
nold's Landing, on the .llzaoeth Islands,
were found here and were snown. Mr,
Hackleton also exhibited shot found in a
locality of N. Harbor, where heaps of
Hlinr. from the size of a hnllnr tn a Ifn. 9
have been taken out, 50 lbs. at a time.
and 32 lbs. by weight, within the past
five years, by his afliant, Joshua Thomp
son, ot jn. iiarDor.
At this place nrft thn riit-na nf in an.
cient fort, 62 feet by 01 feet, walls 5 feet
which
lar.
have made her house so popu-
Another wretched victim of intem
peranceMr. Halloway, of Galveston
he drank seven glasses of ice water and
died. . '
Three or four lovers of an minois girl
formed a syndicate against the other and
slew him when he was taking her home
from a picnic.
A wolf went into a Duluth church the .
other Sunday, and was so much affected
that before he got out he was converted
into a corpse.
It will be news to many that Wilkle
Collins has become a convert to the Dar
winian theory but he's . coming out
with a new tale.
Little Nettie Hull, of Alma, Iowa,
swallowed a few percussion caps the
other day, and it was necessary to ad
minister a powder to get rid oi mem. - ,
A householder, in filling un his sche
dule, under the heading "Where Born,'
described one of his children as "born in
the parlor," and the other "up stairs."
Little Vinnie Ream is fingering away
at Theodore Tilton's bust. One good
turn deserves another, and we dare say
Theodore would be glad to reciprocate.
Question (to be asked of the lady you
adore.) What has been the brightest
idea of the season ? Answer (to ne toia
to her in a confidential whisper), Your
eye-dear. .
At Atlanta. Georgia, a boy ate thirteen
apple dumplings for dessert, one day last
week. His friends grieve that they sought
in vain for some obituary poetry suited
to his case.
The simultaneous departure of its
leading clergyman and the wife of its
most prominent mercnant, nas maue a
sad break in the best society of Burling
ton, Kansas.
A gentleman took a lady out for a
drive the other day, and came home
with a false curl attached to the button
wondered
on the side of his can. He
how it could have got there.
Mrs. Henrv M. Field, the accomplished I The San Francisco Alta says that the
wife of the editor of the Evanqelist, ad- crime of jerking the hair out of your
dressed the Laurel Hill Association, at wife's head is not so sinful as it formerly
Stockbridge, Mass., on their eighteenth
anniversary, which was held on the 22d
ult., with great eclat. Mrs. Field speaks
eloquently and fluently, both in French
and English. Her address on French
literature last year at Vassar College was
received with applause.
LIST OF FAIRS.
State Fair Sent. 43-0. at SDrinirfleld:
vv in. i.nnff. rresiaent;
. H. Kilppart, Cor. Sec.:
H. 8. Babbitt Kec Sec
Ashtabula Co. H. J. Nettleton, Pres.; E. J.
Betts. Sec
Athens Co. --Sept. , at Athens; Isaac Stanley,
Pres.: J. M. Gooasneed. Sec
Anelaize Co. Oct. 4-6. at WaDakonetta: J.
Kelley, Pres.; O. T. Dicker, Sec
Belmont Sept. 27-9, at St. Clairsville; David
urose rres; n m. nays, sec
Butler Co. Oct. , at Hamilton; Fergus An
derson. Pres.: W. R. Cochran. Sec.
Carroll Co. Sept. SA-SS, at Carrol ton; Alex.
SimDson. Pres.: Thos. Havs. Sec
Crawford Co. Oct. 8-6, at Bucyrus; Joshuah
Koller, Pres.: George Keller, Sec
Cuyahoga Co Oct. 3-6, at Cleveland; I). L.
Wightinan, Pres.; A. B. Chamberlin, Sec
Darke Co. Oct. 8-6, at Greenville; George D.
Miller. Pres.: J. T. Murtz. Sec
Defiance Co. Oct. 8-6. Defiance: W. D. Hill.
Pros.; Charles P. Tittle, Sec
Delaware Co. Oct 8-6, at Delaware; Larris S.
Felkner, Pres.; Fred M. Joy, Bee
jcuc w-ww, o-o, l oonuiu.J , . unncu,
Pres. ; 8. M. White, Jr., Sec
Fairfield Co. Oct. 11-14, at Lancaster; B. W.
Carlisle, Pres.: John G. Reeves, Sec
Fulton Countv.-Sept. 87-fe), at Wauseon, H. B.
Booav. Pres.: H. L. Morel v. Sec
Gallia Co.-At Gallinolis: McCov Ralston. Pres. :
u. v annuo, sec
Hancock Co.-Oct. 5-7, at Findlay; Hanks P.
Paire. Pres.: D B Beardslee. Sec.
Harrison Co.-Oct. 4-6, at Cadiz; S. Frron,
Pres.; Jacob Jarvie, Sec
Henry Cc-Sept. 20-32, at Napoleon; J. A. otout,
Pres: A. H. Taylor, Sec
Hoc' ag Co.- ct. 5-1, at Logon; C Clowe,
Pres.; H.X. Wright, Sec
Holmes Co.-Millersburg; George F. Newton,
Pres. : B. Herzer. Sec.
Jackson Co Sent 37 -S9. at Jackson C H: Green
inompson, r res; j a eus, s-eci
Jenerson uo. 3io orir&iiization.
Knox Co. Sept. 28-28, at Mt. Vernon; Robert
Miner, rroa. ; ... cv. i.riirnneiti, bpo,
Luke Co Sept. 87-2V, at Painesrille; John
W arren. Pres.: D. W. Mead Sec.
Lawrence Co. I ronton; C Ellison, Pres.;Tbos.
I. Murdoch. Sec.
Licking Co.-Oct. 8-6, at Newark; Joseph
White, Pres. ; I. W. Bigelow, Sec
Logan Co. Oct. 8-6, at Bellefontatne; D. W.
Harris, Pres.; E.J. Howcnstinc Sec
Mahoning Co. Oct. 8-5, at Cnnfield; Richard
Fitch, Pres.; F. W. Boartlsley, Sec.
Medina Co. Oct. 11-18, at Medina; Gaylord
Thompson, Pres. ; X. H. Boat wick, Sec.
Miami Co. Oct. -;, at Troy; Wm. B. Mo-
Clung, Pres; S. R. Driirv, Sec.
Morgan Co Sent. St-89, at McConnellsville; J.
A. McConnell, rres. ; J. !. Adair, hee.
Morrow CO. ept. 6-s. at Alt. t
Talmadgc, Pre.: E. C. Chase, Sec
Morrow Co. Sept. S6-S, at Mt. Gilead; D. S.
OttawaCo. J. P. Lattimore. Pres.
Arrv Co. Oct 4-(Lat New Leaciuirton: Edward
Muse, Pres; T. P. Skinner, Sec
Portage Co. Sept, 25-27, at Revanna; Peter 11
lienn, rres; j luenurg, iec.
Putnam Co sent at Ottawa; win mod
gett, Pres; G D Kinder, bee
cano.uMsv v o wn-i, Rirn-mum, n imam c
Haines, Pres: W H Andrews Sec
ScioloCo No organization.
Seneca Co Oct 10-18, at Tiitln; Wu H Gibson,
Pres; U F Cramer, Sec.
thick, which forty-seven years ago, was r " " "
overgrown with very large oaks, now Summit Co Oct 3-C,l Akron; J as. Hammond,
cleared off. Full descriptions of the
streets of Jamestown, pavements, re
mains of smitheries, as they were half a
century ago, were given by eye-wltuess-es
and laborers had been employed
to remove the ruins and level the streets,
till up the cellars and dig up the pave
ments, and erase the remains.
Tiii'ir,viu (in not S-A f-.al va ... a
naruiount, Pros; K S Siuglutt, sec.
it Maiysvillc; Fhllip Sny-
l'uiou lit Oct 8-6. at.
der, Pres: L l'iier, Sec.
Wayne Co Oct 8-6, at AVoostcr; Corneliu
Smith, Pres; I Johnson, See.
Wood Co Oe 4-0, at Toutoganv; Jas W Ross,
Pres ; G Powers, Sec .
Wyandotte Co vt 11-18, at I'pner Sandusky;
Jlcja 1. Carey, Vrw; A Kali, Sac.
was. Itlsjustasungenuemaniyasever,
but it doesn't hurt as it used to.
It was once remarked in the hearing of
a little girl of thirteen, that the world,
like a mushroom, sprang up in a night.
'I should like to know, sir." assea uie
child, "where the seed came from."
In the Common Prayer Book now used
for the Eoisconal Church service the fol
lowing lines occur in the index to the
hymns :
Mv opening eves with rapture see 23
My Saviour hanging on the tree 86
"Do you publish matrimonial notices
for the subscribers of vour paper?" said
a gentlemanly looking youth, stepping
Into onr onice tne otner morning. cer
tainly, sir," "Well, then, I'll go and
get married, for I don't see any other
way of getting my name in yonr paper,
since you have rejected all my poetical
effusions."
A Georgia negro thought he would
economize by tending his son to school
and then make the boy teach him.
The plan worked well until the young
teacher, loiiowing tne custom oi tne
seminary where he was taught, gave the
old man a thrashing for spelling dog
d-o-r-g, aud thon the latter became dis
gusted and ran away.
Miss Abbe Gilford, of Iowa, having
failed by a few votes of being the candi
date of one political party for fcchool
Superintendent, was nominated by
another party, but declined the honor
because she didn't think it would be
honorable to change her politics so sud
denly. That beautiful delicacy will
wither if Abbe gets into public life.
"Pray, sir, of what profession are
you?" asked a learned counsel of a wit
ness who had come prepared to prove a
fact, and who was not -deemed a very
respectable gentleman. "Sir, I am a
shoemaker and a wine merchant." "A
what, sir?" inquired the learned coun
sel. "A wine merchant and a shoe
maker," he replied. "Then, I may
describe you as a sherry-cobbler."
One of the good stories iu the life of
Young, the tragedian, just published iu
London, is that of a farmer's wife whose
pond had been used by some Baptists for
the immersion of their converts. Hear
ing of it she was vex y indignant, and
vowed that the intruders should lie
kept offiu the future. "I ain't no idea,"
she said, "of their coming and leaving
tneir nasty sins oenina inem in my
water."
A clergyman passing a boy weeping
bitterly, halted and asked, "What is the
matter, my little fellow?" The boy re
plied, "Before, we could hardly get
enough to eat of anything, and now
what shall we do? for there's another
one." "Hush thy mourning and wipe
off those tears," said the clergyman,
"and remember ne never sends mouths
without He sends victuals to pnt into
them." "I know that," said the boy,
but thenHe sends all the mouths to our
house aud all the victual toj oura."