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OUT OF THE DEPTHS.
I BY 3A3rox oatY.
I mu , m mulm s ahoher rlnhln .
Shat time the gloaming was mellow with mar
S And the whispering hlarebells, their curti w
Srindtng,
Swelled the idir1of the dyiag day;
And out of the se of othe r pir, palsi.o
Love the great master, touc ed the keIs,
And the rhyme cBae Mirth Ia the eld, old fash
Ion,
Hal fear, half bhope-ed the wedls ware
('ome, my s oul, let us reason together:
C~om,, for the shIowas duarken aheadul;
Care and sorrow tighten the tether
Life's sun through the mists glows dim and I
red.
Come, ere the long, low light of the summer
Fade to the Irown of the atumn lea;
Come, lest the foot of the careless cemer
Lay weary in paths made rough with grief.
Soil, where thoughts like the white-winged
Snothe s h ofthil dim, de4 e.e,
Wbihe to me thy sweet evlsis,
Whispelr and sigh. but do nct grieve;
Out of the delths of thy charmed chambers
liaise me a song that shall thrill afar;
Kindle thy rure, blow bright thine embers,
lem anher dsoul like ite sgles pl star.
Boul, my sou, that Iet walked thy journey,
Thr ak Wisage talye, io height and scaur,
Whose shleld is dark from a noble tourney,
Whose lance droops low with the weight of I
Look ps yonhills, whose crest bright sunned is
With the last glance that the dead day
Up the voiceoCf thy De Profundis 1
Thrill to those courts where no sorrow lives!
Soul, wilt thou love, where to love is losing?
Log wilt thou wander In ways that err;
Daily with hopes, that thy barren choosing
n V ia s g Notg eal frs Wayliw.
Wilt thou not turn and say to her spirit,
Lot I that love thee wll love no more
This is a hard thing that we inherit:
To love and to weep, lo, this is sore!
Ot of the depths of the heart's d7esu al
Goeas the ong, passionate cry o a
Ah, God! btht the cros, is hard for the ring! i
Ah, God! for the rest and the wings of the
dovel
Alt that in that pare, fatkthihti en t
The dim lost half of my lie might lie!
Ah! that the bud might Ilther the blossom!
Shall these thnlgs be Who knows? Not I.
Out of the depths of the starlit distance .. a
A pale gleam shows where the moon come up,
And bheerp the dre.s of dtlt strange etistence t
May lurk the sweetnets that erowns the cup,
And faith and bho , and the spirit's paAience
Strengthen the beart and lighten theyes..
Ah, soeill my sellat is hop f e nations,
And ik s i , botoy, Mand-hut, sadWise.
go thka, my song speak ,wilyto her;
ing to he.' eslf with her late uand long; 1
Perha she will hoar oh so l
p of lthe etlmof t eer. ,
Rt oat of the dqf.ts it'f & da,.s it fs
may come, like light *ua thp et rll he m
Love's soft glory, our love's calm peacel. "
-Appstfs' Journal.
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"I WILL IF YOU WILL."
The Kay Ilouce is a pleaantlittle hotel.
standing half way up the side of a mount
sin in New lnamlphire.
In the parlor there. one July evening,
were four people-Mrs. St. John and her
dasrghter Elly, Miss Emilly May and Mr.
Millburn. As Elly St. John went-to the t
piano, these two last dlippsd out on the
wlleony, and stood lirlteingvs Elly sung:
"eCould we forget, could we forget!
Oh iat Lathearen rassagye '
The past shld fade like a morning tream,
In a ilae dropof edly stream.
Ah! we know what you would say,
thtt we are too tired to hope or pray;
lor, beet with easeless jar sad et,
liod and ou ca t forget.
"'1 they sorl, will they luetd
Ssety ,
When wi the l pangl and strain r
they are parted ever to meet again?
rver trie shall raet hei given r
neaselesi eart, or hsapy in aven? r
That whleh has be It m be yet
Swe coldealylearn to ;et
But the stars shall cease to rie and set,
fall fer m Ieaven ere we beget.
illy sung with an nlatensity ad pathos j
wMcbornuowed non of s force from b
within, for she was a good-natured, in- a
consequent sort of a girl, who had h
never had a trouble in her lile. The
"m idlmeal ruie a b often quite tl
Lum t of selfgo or experience. a
Milys mualn hurt fly cruelly, and
stirred and roed the old sorrow which e
hadbaut jt beg to fall asleep for a lit
tie. oe ba elly and fondly a
man who hai gewt id of her and left
her, beause be was greatly her Inferior.
Much as she sared, I rejoiced when
her engeg enet with Lewis Leighton
w broken. Ibad kLnow Lewis from
his earliest hildhood, sad La ld always a
disliked him as a selci, e aoelted prig.
Wad iss Mary married him. ber di ap
pointment would have been aaspemkably .
Erser than it was. As she lmmed over
iebsiony whtle lly sung, and looked
salf herhe will the hisrt
-tbeaistP' Then rbe ..aeeo
hmber; butbehadumesma belsbe
whl lbe hait Ilirii bem sh:esllsed
tbt he was aking her t e his wife.
Ho speke at a wery sahrimse no
m t. He and m y had been very
-ood Mards that sumemer. Te hbad
waedemed In the woods, aendal
Waeh lngt.s"had a to Wr2n lls to
awer dreamed as a o*br, and
when he reuentai Intt light
she shom, ad srtsed and alit
Oh hush!l" she saki abaiply. "It
aner ean be-never I"
",Do you then dislike c moch? I
mi vest MULburn, tryinl very ard to
p"ak qu-et. d
Sehavbte to d. -tne s allit '
lek Hm4¶burd tanimrd, a I
ai t.',  tu touea. malt thato
D e_ ted; I av.
Evert went upo thit td , wheat
friend, Dick wen awlttbg ie time
Dick wis hba o laehteen. e b ehaen
trylag to wor hith WV t@magh oep~
ntrteneb br his vametoI lokm.
,her of verad h e ead ban oortally
ly ad s aft s ila3 fie,
"we wtlfnrev to the ba r to. ar
Ad thelaneo erai ti ease, and
mentaly abused Miss Map a "cold
hearted ilety wheeb epithet lsh did net
in the ok t dnraw .
Evert and fick wei wpW hy
ant per
vrscnce of things Inthis world.
She knew that Evert was good and
manly. and sensible. He was In a fair
way to wln reputation at the bar, and, if
not just handsome, was attractive and
ST'here are dozens that would be proud
ad happy to accept his love; and noth
ng would dO butht he must throw it
away on me," thought mily imptdent
ly. "But it's never worth while to pity
men very much. 'hey n. stly get over
etrurbles very easiy, f here is no
mVey lot." Frim wh it may be in
ferred that Miss May was perhaps a bit of
a cvIdc.
Emily My lved with her imother,
in an inland town in New York.
She had a little property of her
own, and, with wiMt he could ears by
her pen, she managed to diess herself, pay
for a summer's journey now and then,
and keep her own hous over her 1asd. ,
& was her way to. look after h4r ek
nektlbores poor or not' to visit, n aw nd
then. at the hospital anid the eountyhouse,
and do what her band found to do. She
made no fuss, and laid w no pales.and
was under no eccleslaical "dlrt tom"
in particular; but I amiinaied t1 thidk
s: e was as useful, and far more agreeable.
than if I d made f hius in a
r ýM ihe het, ilii. ever ýtlaakdd
mer, she came home, and settled quietly
dlown to her wpgk.
She was busy at be da b ne day
October, when a carriage drove rapidly
and s tped e doornd Ie
rang e b. i went to tlhe r
herself, upon whdth Dick's hurry seemed
suddenly to subside; and when he came
into the parlor, te qpete to ind mat
diflculty il lCea ai n , and lm
ly, greatly wondering, asked after his
friend Miltbwrm.
" Oh, Miss May," i sala. wth a shk-t
in voice, " Evert is dying."
s'n lm ~ ystarty. and
ow N ad been rather melo amat-1
Ically luclined. He d meant to t llke
the hero of a lady's novel, and administer
a severely inflexible reproof to the woman
who had trifled with Evert; but in Mis
May's pmssaese hbefadis
ticahle, and willly refrained.
" le went ot shooting with a fool of a
boy, and 4e, te boy, fired wild, and
Ever# was, badly hurt, anti fever set in;
and, h ! Missl ay, he keeps asking for
you, and 10 won't be quiet; and the doe- a
tor said, i'oucotftl you ought to come,
far itu might maka difference. There's
hl note. and Mrs. ]illburn's." [
'lThe do P r yrot saccinct, I# con
-r Ig tI state o the a*,'MisN s.'s
f htpjosbly ke'p 'thso nt
ll lW4n' o ,w an incoheM otted
-ist , bwn 4thl unknown young lady
-imce oi s. >r boy.
 y not retfuse; her mother
hurrd o ho nd in two hours she was
seatei beesMek, on her way to Spring
field.. IHetre etions were not pleasant.
Every one would talk, and suppose there
was aroman Elly St. John would be
smretak My aralgi ir w was S
a little chatter-ba ; and to try to make a
mysterf 1N the maMer lSlkI. be a
worse.
take ih.L class on Sunday- And
w-hato td ofQtbr .LMIi
promied fo' i
In"g " '" wer
men ny', l
beo M t would
have a hippopotamus'handy in the house;'
and if Mr. 6ll p l  !u
horribly em rrasing I
On the whole, ]Li May's s were
rather those of veation than romance.
They rode all night, and when Emily
reached the door of the handsome old
fashioned house n Springfield, she was
enancious of "lookinglike a fright," anad
wished herself anywhere else.
The door was no sooner opened than a
she was embraced by a little old lady In I
black, ad a pretty girl an elegant
morning dress. Both were In tears, and
had evidently be for sme time on the
verge of hystecs ; and Emily at once set
t down as " women who
of you! So
. Mlllburn.
guardian an- I
and I were 1
,e u tone ;
then hae ,
SIfh he there might
ila chance the doctor;
'hut so m on nursing'
ali the d expressive
slnce. , and sob
bng, one would
Eml-- one -drop of I
witer."
'he e, w . ily's critical 4
ets, lioqh-nythlng but capable, wasI
fusing over. in way that was
"ost a t of
and as the ice r
t ftheglass she
:" Tbas ~S , Lsaid, In her ordi
sweet beVy Now if you
SW1 try~rbieUietjrlW lsaj with you."
or rbut e fe dis- 1
guss i excl d in some
aaisure to snbade a time, he
-_s completely yl m
:-Now nursinga in a fever
apsends ths novel; but, in
s ral a but a ro
;Emly May, at Evert flmlbrn's bed-1
ide, feldtsk ln an etreie!ylse po
sltl; int b eh t rek  a forthere
was nothlg b dan. Thenumrse
only cyand rustle abot, and eovnest
a~ -ddlr exeedihly, werand e
to hlyselfte rulve dramed you wrs
_aga-*  ,, wha fatint "Now
I s it tou snd o phantom. '
had gsme s t thi deatr
,andIkse idlh-f;ii d m leale
at last he mlght posblylve a few
daysbutnw longer.
3Ya tirreenuesstehg IhtS time
there was remaimesho wed tak h
ame. is heart was set on this ki,
adle plaidwrC r what se sh a
theele ben, with a vohe 'en that
wle v4entsly talk; ad e s so o
d i e sowel and iweop
suret m n tthn not ya
fuse dear 1Evert' t request.
Emily did what nine women out of
ten would have done, and consented.
" What hiarmn can it do"' she thought.
" It is only a mere form, but It gives me
the right to be with him to the end, and
will prevent any talk; and he is so good,
and has loved me so well; and if it com
fort. Idm now to think that my name
ll1 bb Millburn in.tead qf .iay, why
should T refuse?" Andl thoh it crossed
herminnl thati a. dld P4 pwoullbe
v-ry . e" IbaiEO Mr, nil hoe tstcrl hers
smelf heeause tis sillr Ilotb had c 'me to
her unbidden and twitedv up her hair
tight and pl n. and went to mn.et the
lergynman in icr ol! black mohair, which
bad become considerably spottedt down
the front in the course of jher nursing.
The atlwas tuaihas b olt ai pssible,
and then Mrs. Millhburn sent every one
away, and for two days the bride stood
over the bridegroom. and tt against
leathtSll lhaiwas ready toalt. ,
The deter gave up the patiet en
tirely, and eerst to do Maytldnl : and.
as sometimes happens in like eaMses, he
too kr trn for the better; and slowly
the l ce trembled, the scale inclined,
_bd ite had won.
SI'll tell you what it is," said the doe
tor. " your wife haasaved your ,th"
vert tuml iis hhli P* p illow.
r1d mmor emy but s!e had
ntthe iex coom. where
she sat down, feeling, tor the first time,
a ck. that she was actual.
ta tr .I f should she do? What
could she say ? ow could she tell Evert,
ter all, that 4 he only eomraU him as
e wbuld hav ge to Frt Iurphy, it
he had sent for her, and consented to that
marriage rite as she bad lenrher silver
candlesticks to hold Father Flanagan's
blessed qidlleashea Judy Murphy died ?
re dodtor went down stairs: and
presently Mrs. Millburn and Iiatty came
to her, and overwhelmed, her with em
braces $nd 5atitude, a1d 4 poh.t applique
set, add gmentary talk about her
Sthings," and proposals to send for her
othir, i ale td .togtier. Emily
resolutely put aw y thought for the time,
but she could not help feeling, in an odd
surprised w , that she was not unhappy.
and despid herself for having a sort of
ashamed, furtite Interest in those "things'
which Mrs. Millburn and Hatty were
A weekd tater that y, Evert was al
lowed to slt'up in his chair, white and
wan enough. bufvitlks k of returning
health and life. mi I ttingalmost
with her 4a to hi, ag out into
the UIssing lea s bra the great
elm.
" e ' she aimwe L d a yr, uti she
did Mbturn her h~ -
" mnlyJ di t ell."
Nodeswer 4
& i ao ,hch Il what
Wles ffMl ke no
advantge ry q4 r 2 Iill set
you eoas su D as il Iei o wish
Sto'spare you trotle3 lw e all
blan* on myetf, I btamwr db long
ing to be mray; nd ac r' Iql ld delay
what must come at tlast?' I dap say Dick
and Prs. ,aey, the ntise, an do all 1
ne- ow."
'llYr'sr r HMrs. Mary's attend
uuuo I am sure k is nothing to tmi," said
.lv. in a remarkably cross manner.
""'ouareaa ry with. me, but there
i.abe no didl , ler. You came
awa mfi home sdeh ly that it would
u-b tly nal you to return to
your mother tnow.
f3 lt here, to Eveft's dismay. Emuily hid
her face, ailbegas to eryhn quite a pas
sionate and dlattrssful fshion. Evecrt
ioseith ji c lty..atd went to her, -it
ai not more fti-pbree seps.
"De you rvw4o lllgoursell ?" she
said through her sobs, and she took hold
-! hi and mdpde iim sit dowpn.ind then
turn~l away, and laid her henl TOn the
win w seat. :
"What ean I do?" he said, distressed.
"It's to bad! Oh, it's too bad !" she
said in the most unreasonable way.
"I know it, Kmily. You are as free a.
though no word had ever passed between
us. Do you want to go to-day I will
make it easy for you with mother and
Hatty," he said, with a pang.
She went on cryinz, and then in a min
are she said, In a most incoherent fashion,
"I-1 didn't think I was so very disa
greeable." The words dropped out one
by one between her sobs. "But. of
ourse, If you don't want me--"
"LEmily ! What do you mean? Will you
stay ' Will you really try tocare for me ''
he asked, with a sudden light in his eyes.
"I don't know. I--did think-as mat
ters are, we might try to make the best of
it," she said in the faintest whisper, while
the color ran to her fingers' ends.
"You will?"
"I will if you will," said Mrs. Millburn,
with a sweet, shy snile.
And she kept her word--From the Al
diues for April.
e Value of Time.
pring s nominal . The feld la
bors of the year will moo. commene, andI
we should see that·leverytba is ready for
energetic, tematio work. How to make,,
money by farming is the great question.
There ae two ways of ptingtich. One ]
Isto spend lesthan yoa earn; and the
other Is to earn more than you pend. It I
myy bethoe ht that this is a d ltl m
without a dlirene but uch Is not the i
ease. The farmer who aias to save 50
centsaout of every dollar he ge is very
different man from the Armner who aims
toget50 lstead t$l.00. One saves
utas much monaey as 'he other. Butt
the latter ha jast twlo a much to spend
as the former. And it will make quite a
diflerenee to a armer and to his famil
and to the eomallnity in which he lives,
whether he spends 5l00 or $1,00 a year;
or still more whether he spends $2,000 in
stead of $1,000. The distinction wenu make,
therole, is Obe with eosuaderlg. We
.iea__e__ us .Oom, but we .Ielleve sti
moftIn wbr.g aWh Jolk W hnason was
iowIng one hot day in his summer fal
8 ar auegMce bay some eattle.
Mr. J. told him aprice and then started
the horseb, Sand tie fCiniher walked by his
-de. He w.vory fAt, and theland was
soft and mellow, and the perspiration soon
burst fom every pore. ythe time he
got s the lad of the wiifta
to 'iplitth 4tlbsace." l rr. it ne
. ni dthe butcher d ed by
When they got back to the
_m~hiughd tr. .: pairP i a e plow
tiiarted t bhorses. "Bold on
obtihe buhel maer. "I'll
take 'ea; I would not walk up and 4
tat lde lagai or detble money
He.ib a man who knew his own mind
hr.-w wat Wlh cattle were worth; and
saove be ksess IA salass of time. He
knew that a~ and h tea were worth
0cep~saaahb . Be knew that if he
stppo4 ad eant ae ritb the batclher
thl men the Sold would be liktely to do
laswork Lwhbhewaskne. An houae
dtaletsk weald p twMeem t him 50
etntd. He was -duiimlne to save 50
cents and run e ·rit oilf the batcher not
gvinr wbhat the ttle were worth. And
this affords one reason why Mr. Johnson
has Elislslgriatoiunlbrt, broroaght up a
a'eda evarea huntred
a by farming.-Amei-rici
AgriUlidst. . -
A NKw ExGr.xND paper describes a
"boardintg marm "' whose economical
tendenc'h s hlad her to p!ace her boarders
upon an allowance of matches. Every
evening at tea she goes round and place
a single match at the plate of each board
er, aad sabould that mitch fail, there is no
appeal to the match safe,
Death of a Noted Woman.
Oxa of the strangest careers of modern
times has just terminated in the death of
Lady Elklenborough at Damascus. Forty
) ears ago she was one of the most noted
women in Europe, and her residence in
the East. has long beet a sort of seanda
lous romance. The daughter of the late
Admiral Sir Henry Digby, beautiful, wit
ty, and rich, she named In 1824 the Earl
of Ellenborongh. who was afterward
Governor-(eneral of India, and who at
that time was one of the most brilliant
men of the day. She was about seventeen
years of age at the time of her marriage.
and Ellenborough. who was a widower.
was thirty-four. They lived together
some slx years, sad her dissolute conduct
was a cause of scandal for some time pre
vious to the catastrophe of her elopement
with Prince Felix Schwaramberg, a cele
brated rose, then Austrian Minister in
London.. The event caused an immense
sensatio.i in the world of aristocracy and
ftshion. Ellenborough procured a di
vorea from Parliament and never married
again; but. his runaway wife soon sepa
rated from Schwarzenaberg, and in !412
married Baron Venningen, a Bavarial.
Tiring of him presently. and with her
great wealth and personal tascinations
having little diflleultv in procuring di
vorces under the easy laws of Germany,
she was marrie.ln succession to five other
individuals; but as none of these unious
met her expectations, they were all dis
solved after a short duration. In 1sl.1 she
was living in Athens with her eighth hus
band, a Greek colonel, Count Theodoki;
but without waiting to become a widow
she had this marriage also diPsolved, ald
set out for the Levant. During a journev
fron licyrout to LDam.scus she found a
new atlinity in the person of an .1rah
camel-driver, kInown as Shelkh Abdul,
whom she married] after the Arab fashion.
and who was the ninth and last of her
conjugal partners. For a whole year she
accompanied him on his journeys between
Beyrout and Babylon, faithfully fulfilling
all the duties ot a earneldriver's wife,
even to milking the camels. Tiring of
this n oadic life, she built for herself a
charming palace In DIamascus, where she
has since lived in her own style, a great
object of curiosity to all European travel
ers. -Abdt", aen.a..... ..a . L....l... as a
V4 eela.4.iwp IUy s Pitably e
tertaoied bytier whenever he came to the
place. AogZ t ic gorut u com.
plettwd nrl tw/h e I pqiYears.
leaving a co ossal fortune to her aitimes
of the Digby family in England, and a
memory of warning and of shame.-N.
,..&Wa. . . , , . "
Comtagoks and Ihletiea Dtsle sses
nu. SrMas Tnrn'.sov, a well known
English physician. recently lectured on
the above topic in London; and from his
discourse we glean the following:
It is considered a settled fact that dis
cases of a contagious nature are caused
and spread by inflnences largely within
the sphere of human government and
control. Every form of Infeetlous fever
has its idiosyncrasy. Enteric fever and
choilera tend chiefly to disseminate them
selves through water. passing into the
we.lls and fountains of daily supply, and
at times traveling from house to house in
the milk cans of easy conscienced dalry
men. Scarlet fever hibernates in a drawer
anl. aml, oL Qles for9 with
.ame olh a4Tm am to be
thrown with it around the threat or head,
of some new videim, and so start thence
upon afresh career. Typhusfever crawls
sluggishly from hand to hand and mouth
to month, and is immensely sociable in
its spirit, languishing away when con
demned to solitary ooaanement. Typhoid
fever generates itself where ilth. ovey
crowding and Impare habits of life pre
vail; and relapsing fever glides in the
track of privation and misery.
The means now knows of controlllng
these evil malatrants are, in the main,
careful isolation of the sick, the preser
vation of the water from which daily sup
plies are derived hn uncontaminating
purity, the uannedrpi' asqaJlatlou
alike of hospitals and dwelling a'ousea,,
the immediate removal from the vicinity
of active human life of all excretions of
the sick, and the destructiooof their mor
bife inflaenee by aixing them with an
tiseptic and tusiafeting agents (such -
carbolic acid, sulphuric ad, chrides 9
lime and , aa of potash,
and charcoal),, spraat livingtpv, o
ance of any kind -of exeesses, a. abve
all the cultivation ofan intelligent famili
arity with natual laws.
In regard to anlsepti. and disinfec
tants, Dr. Thompsea states that It should
be understood that agents of the
character of carbolic acid are properly
aantislsles, and perste mainly by rret
ing the process of fermentation and de
cnmpositlon, while agents of the nature
of Condy's fluid (permanganate of
potash) chloride of lme, and especially
charoal, are dislneeants, and aet by al
sorbing the nogious products of ecdis
position. This e showed by perimma,
a few drops of carbolle aid casig a
eessation in the evolution of gas Iubbles
from a fermenting soltion of suar; and
the violeant color of Comdy's Idk was in
stantly discmharged wh&n combined with
water in which ws a taune of sulphureted
hydrogen. The lecturer also exhibited
remalis of a rat which had been plaoed in
a Jar of eharcoal six yearsao. Only the
bones and afew hairs were to be seem;
and although the jar had been cover
etpn~ldatllton. no
t of d le smell was at any
Ir Is very orty'bow mq of the
bst novels of the present day tdl with
more or less distinctiveness npon ale
tiom of religious belief. We set aslde, of
ours, tho, e m y _sorics-a ezg•.
tnt 'their1Atbther5 the veciet ii.
blsh-wlia confessedly stories with
'Wlpl tti_ to. Il"voocate
cettain theological tenets is of the very
essence o the book. In these, if we only
ath lYct, n utl. w~eb-Ometimes
r eemy  'gndsf~y be strived! 4
by erely gand at that of the publib
er-the reider Ils.ebld t oce to fore
east *to fare w ch is provided fbr
hiba, Im i l~e to read or not to'
read according as his bias may innels
him. liBut evem la thes which assume eo
meh diactleC ofee, and whose writers
wonld fairly rpdate ay maeh desigh as
toitemu th gret problems of sllg
ion, intmdf beg Ettlt ignored or
disguised in vagune gnerlties, are as
snmed as having a momentous influene
upon human uia . TIhey are not b gh
pCWzalnmtip te the e ah round, perh ,
but they.o eviently present to the us
ott ejJ uasemeuts&a 9grsve mp
tae."our deneraflon be indeed go in"
reverent and Irreligious as It is said to be,
the traces of character are not to be found
in our highest works of fiction. If there
is skepticism in them, it is skepticism in
the better sense of the word. The doubts
are those of the honest doubter; the
q~estioning is not of a seeering or cap
tlous kind, but has the earnest tone of the
inquirer who seeks an answer. Even if
prevalent formsk of belief are sometimes
heldi up somewwhat rudely to the light,and
shown to be here and there but thread
Iare spiritual raiment, it is without preju.
dice to the living body of truth which
they are intended to cothe.-Blackwoord.
The Stery of Two Levers.
Twenty-six years ago Jamnes Sanderson,
a r". pectabe person residing in the Scot
tish lebrides, then verging on 40 years.
maele court to a girl some 16 years of age,
and was accepted; but a rival much
vounger interfered, and bore off the prize.
''his made Sinldrsonifeel revengelfu ; and
the girl's new lover having been enraged
in smuggling, Sanderson inffored upon
him. and he liad to leave the islands, to
which he never'came back. The people
were so violent against Sanderson that hle.
too. was forced to leave, but had married
before doing so. his wife being taken to
spite his old mistress, who had not got
married.
Arriving on the American Pacific coast
in safety, he bought a la ge tract of land
a few miles norti of Fort Langley. and
ldevoted himsltIf to its agricultural devel
opment with so much energy and skill
that a few years made him comparatively
,wealty. Better than this, however, the
new life brought with it such endearment
of the woman whoma he had wedded with
out other love than he had been able to
simulate fur her deception, that the in
er.ase: of their children was his conversion
I$ 1. he became a widower, he remained
so ten years, when he sent home to a sis
ter in the Hebrides, to engage a wife for
hiin. Hlis old flame was selected, and
said -he was willing to go to him whom
shel had jilted twenty-4ve years before.
Frorn time tune of her second lover's
hnau.ty flight under the denunciation of his
enemnr. the smnugler's sweetheart had
never heard of that Individual agai; and
the lapse of time and the Increasing bur
dens of her lowly estate made her muek
less imperious at forty than she was at
sixtcen. The wealthy farmer of British
'ohanll s her ample means for her
outtit an vage, and the long voyage
was accomplhshed without incident as far
as Sau Francisco. From the latter eiy
she was to proceed up the coast to her
drstioiiro on a steamer in which a pas
ae was specially aeeued for her, and
whie awaiting this vessel she was seen
nn reeoldzed at a hotel by the acepted
love, of her youth, who had bieen Cali
fernisa ver skies hle untimely *44pture
from the ebrhjes, T w ad ranam tis
meeting, a long sory dh elh ide, ard
ala.. f'r the'waltlng wlsr-%k fll rei"
eal at thed love. * .
Moth lovers, however wev mgnah so
bered by the discipline of maturer years;
and the lady having explained by whose
wish and means she was in Ameriea, de
dclared that shemust go onwardas she hay.
promisel, and full her engagement if it
was still exacted. She would faithfully
tell all to him who awaited her at the end
of her journey, eqnlss that she could
never love him now as she had lately
thought possible, and abide lIy his own
dciclon. If he yet claimed her he must
he obeyed: if not she would return to
San Francisco. "As the story ends with
her reappearance in the Califernlaneity a
few dayssao, and quie marriage there to
the former smuggler, it may be inferred
that the Colum wowr was at once
senible and magsaimous under his last
diappointment, and 4aally proved him
self the friend of the woman with whom
fate had twice denied him a nearer, dearer
relationship.-4hesrd (N. 8.) atriot.
Ratio of Live Stock to NpaIatiem.
PaoF. THEMIOLa RoLpas, of Oxford
University, Enagland, has omleda cmli
ous table sho the proportion of do
mestieated live s *ik to po laftlon in the
shief countries in the world. lIthows the
following results:
Great Britain : one cow to every 12 pes'
sons: one sheep to every person; and one
pi~ to every 10 persons.
-rancehas a cow to every 6 nemns; a
sheep to every person, gnd apIg toevery
6 personaos.
Sweden has a cow to every 31-. pen
sons; a sheep to every 2 3-4 persons; :and
a pig to every 13 ersehs.
Norway has a aw to* 1-2-4 shep to 1
--and a pito 1w 8 IprFC .
Denmark hs a ow to l--a shlep to l
and a pig to 4persons.
Prussla hasa eow to -a sheep to l
and apig to 6 persoms.
W urtemburg has oov( to 4-a sheep to
2 3 4-and a pg to 7 perons.
Bavaria has a cow to 3-4 sheep to 2 14
--and a pig to 5 penMes.
Saxony. has a cow to ;6-sheep to S
an-l a pag to persons.
Hlollandfas a c~w to 4-a sheep to 4
and a pig tf12 persons.
Belglum has a cow to 7-4 shoeep to l-.
a a pgto 8 persons..
Austria has a eoow to 6-a sheep toS
d l hat It mo? 1 t 31-.4 sheep
to --and a to 7 14 promna.
The United te hasacowto4 perses
-a sheep to each persob-and a pig to
1 -2 peftons.
-- C-.
Ga.wxo ia snubjectL b itself. Its
miseries have e1 learned in su ring.
and rhymed in mog. It is the dread of
masculine bnhmanty, and s onre of the
things that pld y trhaser some
smlable wome into fltAl and fualt-and
in ones, and make happy homes tempa'
rldlistrelng. Now ifere is no need of
l the dia~e d imoevemlmee, the
lsdehe sad pnemoals and -
that come I the tr. a lsnin. The
is urgent necessity tiat once a ear, at
lestr, and perhaps twlee,motprs of the
hose shold uMndergo the me thIroqh
senovation. Let your weekly elesm!n
and sweqep s bse as as m
stiill dust and dirt slft Ii nahide in
unsuspected places, and mags will de
potd their ,eggs in apetsi and .
Paint will pow dlgy, sad cWag
come .grlme4 with smoke. But most
of our spring el binag is done too
son, udhbefore we ana- withot Ares
safIlv " The very is benslkeeper die.
likes t kadle them re in ths et, when
the prloa orlsain ; gd,
ifIt be aMedo.r 1irwtin her' amn ,
that dcleasing ir alwdys to he dme at a
eatala tie, a o mttr w t hem westher,
theme will be dsyawhsrts t to have ire
is to be very ,perhape
slek. For, as our e says.
there are spengs wh the remes
wen'the cozemrqd hwithmlskm, d it is
almost fatal , at hast, L tIo ialte dis.
ease, to turn the house ot o rs ad
wtndows till their rigor is latasd."
S!egua t topand tse m room at
a n resthetwee. det Fanpay's end'
your.qrs for or e aand
diown to mother's and the egesthsmen
Leave stairways and hails till you have
fnished the parlor floor. Only clean on
bright sunny ilays and when you feel
well. By extenmling over three weeks
what is usually accomplished in one, you
will save time, temper, and health, for it
is not work that hurts, but worrying over
work.-eMrt and BHome.
timlshaing.
WE all agree to consider "gush" un
worthy; "gushing people," whether in
parlors or periodicals, are accepted ob
iects for satire. Now, as we have known
soome decidsail v gushing people in society
and in the public prints to "peak of -"gush '
with derision, we infer that there must
be some amlbiguity as to the meaning of
tihe term. It is. pelrhapts, worth while to
ask, "What is " gush,' and in what does 1
Its inferiority inhere?" Usually. though
not necessarily, persons who gush, ad
mire rather than criticise: but whatever
they do, they do with profusion. The
voice is commonly in alighlkey ; but it
is not wrong or unworthy to admire. I
" Gush'' is not objectionable because it is
pitched in a high key. There is very 1
genuine and exquisite admiration. Much c
min literature in which the k~y is high has c
value and truth.
The objectionable quality of "gush"
is, not that it po".esses these
qnallties, hut thaf it profetses
them, and possesses them not. Ad- t
mire all you choose ; you are but one lit
tie beinJ In this boundless universe, and
you have all outside of you to admire. !
the higher your ecstacies, the deeper
your worship, the greater you are un
questionably ; only be sure you don't lay I
elaim by written word, or splech or gest- I
tire. to ecstacies which you do not feel. I
If you love your kind, and are "human," I
there is in the boundless expanse of his-.
tory, in the experiences of thire people I
among whom you imove, sufficient oppor- I
tunity for all the "sympathy" you can I
command. Your sympathies, and appre- I
clations. and subtleties about your friends a
may be never so supelrftine they may be
uile beyolndl the reach of plain people, I
but itf you are sure of their truth, you can i
never be justly accused of "gnsh." It is I
only when you tollow some loose fashion, I
wi•hen you take some half.formed. super- I
fleially-felt impression. and. In some a
modish way profces a depth or an eleva- I
tion which you do not poisess-it is only
then that you may le sadd to '" gush."
F tacy, spirituality, love, joy in the per
ception of betuty, all these are true:
"gush" laialse. Now, it may often hap
pen that a young,perjon, or for that mat
ter an old oin, may not have sufmeent in
tellectual peer or auelbts depth of e-x
perienee to test the trth.Of any effusion
of the niA&. o rgl mewbere re- 1
nmrkslhosw mw ,tlste wu t fr
than to e true. Truth for th r, ea a
elaly whsr .attepsts the Miore a.
,ppýib believes iu
'a sonething whhe is worth the atten
tion of men, must, of course, first, hlself I
believe that Ihe is truthful. Sometimes I
he is mistaken, he often is; but, 1
after all, the owly consent which Is I
worth anything Is the writer's own I
certainty that he Is right. He must c
take upon himself the responsibility of be- I
ing mistaken ; but in most of the * lsh,"
we see there is no such even mitaken I
consent of the intelect and conscience.
Really, the writbr half knows be (very
often shie) is talking nonsense; if he 1
priced truth safllelatly, he would not
speak so. "Gush," we think, therefore,
is often the result of a ieble nt , but
oftene the result ofS lack of dignity and
the want of in instinetve love of tth.
We doubt if nmun persas writ "gush"
for the love of I); but people who make a
livingby witing, and who have at stated
times to cover so much sapQe with ink,
even when they are capable of better
things, dor too often acqube a way of
writing frea the bad iste e the head
or the heart, and of awrching the deep
er themes of life with pest and Isldaeri
ty. This is the " gsh" whh is utterly
objectionable, whether it be written for
the public or spoken In the ear of Mend
sblp.--Heark and BsH.an
--- ~t--
UC'on this head, Dr. Hall, in his Jour
al of Helelth, itmorausfy dsom s m
the endeney oathe tness follows:
It is really agreat wonder that every
body i not ead ad usrted a the
world tself aused up enth ly, If the thous
andth part of what is told as about micro
scopical mdlot r"diseo ,"oelled
is trues One m will have it that the
glorlous Union over which the stripes and '
sta float so p dly will soosa come
dpoplatedbeca s re1ittable people
t r adren; do-s
tred myriads of bugs In the chatelras I
and waterfalls of the ladies, boring into I
their skulls and suckng out all the e.I
maltiag brains of the dear .delIdtfhia. !
A German saeas now tells us that every I
sl, of tea we take is full of oil? globuls I
wlakch get Ito the lugs diret, .,weaken
thtem, set up a cough, and the person dies I
of consumpIon. 'Anather man has found I
that the pset spri water, l as
crystal toll appearance, if let al0a will
d~post a sdledment whieb gmmahotes ty- I
polver' he proposs that ev- a
erybody ah quit drinking whiett. An
other ays that brd  sao mch lime I
in it that it is turing us all to bone, and I
makes us stiff in the joints, that bein the I
reoneas be as litheb, spritly old
en nowrdays; hence we arefull of
mps and rheumatse long befbre our
time theore we had better quit eating
tbad altogether, and live on raeend sa
go and tapioca. The Water ee lkM as
sues thait pork sad beans and ham and
eS are full of abominable tricAiae, and
f one is swallowed and gets f,y
into the system, he,ele r 1t. wll
breed a million more in a short time, and
that reapt bee has juvedIle tae ms tain
it. ATsbhe omeTo.,Ds, sad Has
ry, all in a row, leaded dowa with micr
scpsan ltims widt shw as
plia day that the atir swarming with
living monsters and putridM pelof,-whlih
By into the taoth aud crawl up the nose
ad clreep into the ear; hene it is death
to breathe such pestilential as, and that
the best way i to keep tbe mouth shut,
slug up the nose, and ram cotton into the
ears.
* Ever so may learned profesonal gea
gemen have been torturing poor figures
for years to make them tell-the stupendous
bth@ everybody is either cusy or soon
will he that the annual increae Is ten
fier euL consequenatly n eleven years
evrybedy wil be eaoay, and more too.
Theact le that the people who spnd
their time habtc-h.|,tlhetfonaerie.,
eught.to be put to work and be made to
earn an hones llviig. This world bbs
been pretty we takan ar et fr some
thosads of Yea, incresg in coomfort
and wealth and life, the a.V lesgt 0o
which ist ha doahed ewMi two cen
threfold h tliSd-tft stttB_ tl I- that
the Grnt krs af a will soaaae al
the naonstie forces of life for the ft
ture as eventually to make "the Wlenes
ad solitary p it he glad, adthe d,
ertto rejoice and blossom as the rose,"
and the race he hhppy .tll.
Forn thousand English ministers urge
the Archbishop of Canterbury to support
in the House of Lords the bill to legalize
marriage with a deceased wife's ister.
Why should the parso be so prtial't
their slstrestin-t
larital Respemsblilty.
A mrnrors question r dinkf the re
sponmibility of a hu4bahnd for the acts of
his wife has recently been decided in the
supreme Court of Illinois, and in deliver
ing tihe opinion of the Court Judge Thorn
ton took occasion to make an elaborate re
view of the changes which recent legisla
tion has made in the legal relations be
tween man and wife. The case In ques
tion was one of slander. Anet :lobsoon
had sued one John Martin for slanderous
words used respecting her by Margaret
Martin, John's wife, and the ease had
come to the Supreme ('ourt on appeal.
The decision was that the husband was
not liable. The Court held that a liability
which has for its consideration rirhts con
ferred should no longer exist when the
consideration has failed. If the relations
of husband and wife have so changed as
to deprive him of all rights to her prop
erty and to the control of her per
son and her time. every principle of right
would be violated by holding him still
responsible for her conduct. So long as
the husband was entitled to the property
of the wife and to her industry, so long as
he had power to direct and control her.
and thus prevent her from the commission
of tort, there was some reason for his lia
bility. The reason has now ceased. The
ancient landmarks are gone. The maxims
and authority and adjudications of the
past have faded away. The unity of hus
band and wife has been severed. They are
now distinct persons, and may have sepa
rate legal estates, contracts, debts, and
injuries. The chains of the past have been
broken by the progression of the present.
and the wife can now enter upon the stern
conflicts of life untrammeled. She no
longer elings to and depends upon man,
but has the legal right to battle with him
In the contest of the forum, to outvri
him in the healing art, and to climb with
him the steps of fame. And as her brain
and hands and tongue a her own, in
the judgment of the Court sil alone
shouldi be held responsible for any slan-'
ders she may utter.-New York ASb.
PasamlaL
Ax English paper has given an inter
esting and curious account of Pagmaini,
which it would be worth the while of any
one Interested, as so many people are
nowadays Inquestions of "temperament"
to readit tis emmon to talk about the
artistic or poetic temperament as if there
4a-oumr ntoet.
Peiate r ite, or mu siciand s n
o ke-Pf- f&ab tntt the daenheces
oma-. --- a-- I " are
almost as great as the dlietenesa between
these again and all others. The tempera
eant of a aian, r Instance, on whom
physical causes act oddly and instantly at
times, at others not at all ; who travels
with the greatest speed from place to
place, taking care In the hottest weather
to have the carriage windows closed; who
delights to talk loudly while rattling over
the roads; who resents being spoke to while
waiting at Imn to change horses; who, on
ariva l-at his hotel throns all the
doors and windows open to take an
"alr-bath ;" who is very fond of money,
but carries papers of imnenswa value in a
pocket-book, mixed with concert tickets
and letters; who seldom notices scenery
or cares for the sights of foreign towns;
who cares little where he sleeps or what
he eats or drinks, but when he goes out
to dine generally eats so much as to bring
on Illness; who is in the habit of remain
ing taciturn for days, at other times
however, of joinlangin conversation "free
ly ;" who, after dinner, habitually sits
in hi roem in total darkness till half-t
ten, when he goesto bed; who is continu
ally mixing with men, but has no friends;
who is faithful to both his parents, is at
times very generous, and who, if any one
mentions music in conversatio, relapses
into sullen silence or goes off into some
other part of the room-what sort of a
temperment Is this, poetic, artistic, archi
tectural, dramatic, or lunatic? It is none
of these, It is the musical temperament,
the traits havingall been Iaiusted by
Paganini himself.-N. Y. Naion.
The ruby ranks third in hardness among
preo nu sses. Its color varies fro the
ightest pink of rose tint to the et
carmine. Specimens are often f in
hleich blMe exhibited in one part and
red in another; sometimes the two colors
are nmore or less intermingled, producing
purple shades, and even greater varlega
tions are occaonally seen from the pres
ence of additional ors A ruby, either
too light r too dark, is notas desirable as
one of an Intermediate shade. The most
highly priaed are those of the '"Ieon a
biod" ,,olor, a pane deep redee from
the casts of either blue or yellow. This
shade exactly agrees with that of the fresh
blood o4 a pie as seen when dropped
on white paper. The best rubles are al
ways set trasp nt, but those delicient
in color are backed by ftoll of appropriate
shade. In buylag a stoa set with foil the
purehaser will naturally be on his guard;
but where it is without a back it may be
snpposd that its real color is apparent at
a glance. Not so. Someswlndllng jewel
ers sucaeeded in the plan of lining the In
side of the buand made toencircle the stone
with crimson enamel of such a shade as to
lend a proper hue to a faulty gem.-Ez.
A Willfl Weman.
A rF.AL argonat of fearful vitality, a
tall and extremely ugly female, ealled at
the postoea. yesterday, tendered aninety
alae eoppers to the urbane clerk, and
msked io len thereof three eent stamps.
The olidal remarked that he could only
receive taour coppenrs a legal tm rd
deavord to eonvince the fmae that he
was guided by certain rales, and bhad no
latitude in the matter. She waxed wroth,
and remarked that when nla the course of
human events it became apparent that
United States coln was to be resed by a
fta ellell, the thought her
bd died in rvain, and eosad
rdi duty to bring the Oovernment
to ecounmt. Then sbe ped the eorridor
of ts pone ati she had made thi
tthr eparate tenders of the coppers
autl obtaied tgrty-thre three ant
staA. DrinzASr frse cika wito the
clerk she ga much e nsolicited ad
aies .und.othirwlse contributed to the
of spectators.-asa Francisco a
DsnopSr, Mian., aspires to be a health
reort, and won't hear of havinq such a
thing as a regir ngraveryardlsstt sbould
-etr invalids rom going thither.
A crs-opsanrrv cemmanion called the
of German extraction, long
teson.near DufBfao, are attracting at
Tax taes In Cslilornla-Stata, county
and munlcipal-range from three to four
per cent. on the value of property.
TwaR is a farm in Essex county, Mas
sachusetts, which has been in the posse- .
slon ofthe same family for 231 years