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CUHMERLET GAP. J ' • CKArTEH L ' Henry Clay Glennta*, letonraph I operator at Lindenbory railway >u- i ' duo, ul at hie drak aa the doak c toned , In of a gloomy April evening, a dosen i or more years back. A 1*11, light- I L built young n*° of maybe aerenmnd- i twenty, wtth- a fall, cloaercropped , : Us- a beard, and a dever, good-look-ing 'fcoe 'brit, about the eyes and . j mouth there were troubled lines that 4 aeemed to lndlcate some prreent, srear- | ■ big care. The cold sioctbeaatcrly rain J heal drearily on Uw paaca ', the aaslies i , rattled dionany in the eddying wind. I " There waa nothing going throngh the 1 ^ lino this boor nod ran re, and G terming I ' leaned hack In hia chair In thought i ■ that hia attitude ahowed was not at I - all picaunt company. He got up after > a'srbDe and took down hIaJ|Ct and coat (torn the sralh It woe nearly ! ' eeaon by Iba nltea clock. The.UUonntastar fsliercd him thrae-<]t»rtera or ' on hour ; there sraa no train doe atll I , the laike Matt,- nine minutca of eighL I I to .went out, and up the bleak, wet streets. Getting home, bo left hit wet co*> In the passage, and passed cm op 1 the stalro. lie leaned back oa the i landing a minute, with eyes looking . down, and IbCe compressed In distasteftrtTrrory. Than be stepped tor-word • quickly, mod area I in. The table waa : afl ter lwo- Heoide It a lady sal - stitching upon some needlework in i her lop. Iler cheek flushed rf he aune In ; but she did not look op. He . came and sat down opposite. The : ^ angry flush remained ; bet lips were i, firmly ■hat 1 *hf worked on, loop over ■ n-q'. an 1 flu not raise her eye* er torn - her head. '"'Nary," lie said, his tone was low i and gentle. " Mary, I want to loll you ■ a stray.'" , I She glanced up askance at his face, OS though surprised. But her eyes I went instantly bock to her lap, and I i her lingers worked on. loop over loop, i - G terming went on ; his rok* a little I graver, hot gentle and low aa before. > " On the North Rock Rood, just be- , ' Vrmd the Southdown Mills, there la a I ' little country store, kept by aar John ] O'Notl and till wife, Jane. I've known i \he paik by light a long time now— I honest, simple, hard-working folks, 1 and prosperous, loo, as things go. I ' They have no boys and only one girl— i Jenny, after bar mother. I remember , her a Utile, toddling thing. In a pink ] flock and gingham apron, as I nsud to i see her playing about the place when 1 i went out and in from the form. She ■ was a bright, merry child, and a glad pet at home, aa you may suppose. . John was never tired at talking about < bar is a child, and praising her clever- ; runs and winning wajo. lie vowed he'd moke a scholar of ber If he , worked his nails off to do H. Well, 1 ZZSZZZZZL'&Z school, ana in (he tkll went off to Fori ; ; IHlf iMiitute. tn Tidewater. The I ; ouly.CAAsetaUw. was their waekly tetsw4 rV*e latsr*. U .^t to be »l

■I Hiding saying among the men about I , the ilabon, ' There'. John and Jane | wauta a letter from Jinny.' When I : want down to the office to-day I saw ; them coming over from the poat-otDa*. f Both looked anxious and troubled." 1 »i "'Mr. Glrnntng,' tdys John, "wei haren't no word bum oar girl to-day. ' It's the first time It's missed, and we j foci a little doublaome like. We want | ■ you to aond word by the telegraph, and ask how It ia.' " I sent the message to Jenny, at I Fort H1U: *"No letter to-day. Anything V wrong?' ■" In half an hour the answer came NAt.'s "Nothing wrong. Well and happy* • jEStNvO'JfnL.' J " The old pair were in great glee j OTrr their 'Ktlrrhy bdegtaph.' They ! went off as happy aa birds. That was about two o'clock. At threo-fif-teen this came." He took out some . u-lcgraph slips from his pocket, teleelsd ' - one and pushed It across the tabic. She turned Iter bead and read : "Jenny O-Neil d|ed here by on a<j: ddent this afternoon. WIU you break It waa addressed to a clergyman of I.ldcnbury, and signed by the prind- ' pal of the Tldo water HehooL" ^ Gleaning watched ber as she nod. ' He had thought the sad story would ' soften ber. Sba hod a woman's heart, ' I think ; it did soften her. She too re- f incrr.be red the bright, fair- (isoed young ° girl an the North Rock Road. But the seemed to strive against the fool- c ing i aummoned her pride to steel her { against letting him sec. Her face - ftuslied np with a thrill of pity and ' * sympathy ; she could pot sec the work ( in her lap plainly for dimness in her j ^ eyes. Bat she bit ber Up, aud kept back the tears that almost brimmed ( over, and forced ber fingers to work on. I loop upon loop. " Mary," he told— his voice was and { and low, " I was wrong to say what I did. I was hot and Ul-tcmpcrvd then, and hardly knew what 1 did. I'm sorry, Mary. Wont you let It go ?" lie leaned his head ou his hand „ looked In her lace, and waited for her : c to speak. She did not raise her eyes. f He went on, with a very mournful f tone. There was a wounded look in , t his eyes ; she knew it, j^^fth slie did > ( not turn ber own, or j^pdviu frier, y. her lap. Very graycly he talked on U> her, pleaded with her earnestly aud j ' sadly. There was no reproach In his ! f words, uo note of blame, though thenwas room. She kept her mask ot.AU; he , , thought she was nnmoT^^Bnt I think the white teeth dosed upon tbr ' think tne white teeui citwea upon tie

Up inalda, and the woman's heart tlirobbed hotly nwkMMli. Suddenly slie started visibly ; ii^Pust liare seen it. But It waa not for anything be i had said. She felt in her pocket, ■ turned ovar the work-box by ber side ; I got np and looked about the room, i polled out a drawer or two, lifted a • or a raper. Sho did not seem to • find anything r but came back and sat 1 down aa Ifofore. "Henry," she said, "when you're I' reuly/we'll havo our tea." I • Her votes was low and calm— pbiln- ■ forosb' I al*r did not Bft her hand, i He otaried up at thai as if the had I struck him. A look of sharp pain . Imo Ms face. He got up quick - ) and walked about the room, his ; head bent and his bands behind him, I a pltlM, aimless way. After a : be stopped suddenly, Owing the ; window. I " Mary," he said, "oome here." ' voice was stern. Hhegntap and stood beside him. f curtains hung apart. He swept I them wide with'hla hand, and points-! , through the glass. [ "Look," ha said, t Across the street slie saw a lighted i window, with the curtains drawn s aside. Inside, a thick-set and comI mon-looking man was playing about ■ the room, with a euriy-haired child ; a I woman by the table looking oa with a I lioppy amile. As they looked a peal 1 of ringing, childish laughter flame i dimly to their ears. He let lbs cur1 tain fall, leaned back against the wgll, i end looked ber In the face. Her eyes ) flashed bright, an angrier flush swept 1 up, and dyed her cheek deep red. lick r words were bitter when she spoke. i "Well," she said, "what of all that? Why didn't you marry hue 1 Stuart yourself ? The fool would have i had you for asking.'' She laughed a mocking laugh. " I wish to God—" he began. But i stopped. She went hack and sat 1 the table. He came and sat down , opposite, lie sat silent awhile, 'his i head tank In his bands. The attitude was one profoundly mournful — the air - of a traveler lost tn some unexplored i forest, who tita down disheartened at i finding po path, seeing uo way i to the light A straggling lock of ■ hair fcU down upon his fiwe. He , lifted his hand and drew oat, one, two, , three gray Itaira. " Look, Mary." he ■ said, "I'll Wtwentyaeven in Jahe." That antra ranched her visibly ; hi. i hair and tsce were not like that when . they two married, nineteen months [ ago. lie went on, with a mournful • rotoe : "I wo* alone in tbo world. 1 I was lowly, and wanted help. I told . yoa that two yours ago ; you moat re1 member, Mary, I mm I'd be tree to - yon through good or evil. God helpI ing me, I'U keep my word. I said I'd r tgy lo make you happy I meant to be , happy myself. I meant' to do right - by yuu. In the main. I think I have ; I lit least. I've roid li.rd wocfekt Umra, I ^XJ^k4*wh«IaBM!far' » them I am booeatly sorry, a. for OH f my fsltlnt- in fore and doty. We r ought lo ha hoprr ****, , w«,«rr r railVr of us that ; 1 hardly know - Bow we came to this miserable pom. r I «» no way out of it now, for yon orl a mm God help and forgive us both 1" r ! Hhr iiftrd ber eyes from ber ftp at ! ■ •' » I froudughtal full with « hot, ffurfKd

it j thee, "what do yoa want? What ' a I would yon have ? Am I happy ? I Have I no heart ? db pulse ? no nerves w . than eon be eat and stung ? Because k I am too preod lo show my pain ; bej cause I will not mope or whine ; be- 1 oi canae I laugh to hide the bitter aclic f r. and void ; bite my lips till Ibey bleed, I e ; and crush hack the sob that chokes, it ' and ths tears that blind me, do you ; d think I am Ice or stone ? Must you ! turn on me, too ? Had I not enough ? t Y'ou known why I [parried you. Was, | it my own free choice ? 1 was a fool ; g | I know It, but I my it was not; I my | ; ,'lt was not. You say no one forced e V me— how do you know ? Noonesald, < > you shall or you shall not ; we are - 1 post that day. 1 wish to God they : had ; I would have laughed and bad j my way. But ia that all ? Do you j know how a petty household tyranny t can wear and warp ? A father's preference, a brother's incereand scoffs, a . sister's anger, a mother's averted lace? j I waa a coward ; I know iL If I hail it to lire over, I'd walk through fire, first. Feu were clever and handsome ; they all liked v». Y ou know what I mean. You knew it then, aud should have set me right. For you I broke . my faith; I was afraid of the world's silly laugh— poor, blind fool that 1 was I I broke my faith, 1 my ; that yoar sin and mine. Four n>, I say ; for you knew, and should have died first. Do you pitv me ? Do you grieve for your port in making my life < shame and a lie ? Pity ? You blainc my neglect, taunt me for my coldness - of heart. Heart ? I tell you 1 have no heart. Yon hear men's lira to my ■ 1 You distrust your own wife's < | word. You are passionate with me ; I harsh, hard, cruel. Y ou spoke lo me I i to-day as no man has a right. I will i ! not bear it again. I will uol bear it I I warn you to beware. Fou mag mat- t | U-ir wards re-se frsv." i | " God forgirt you I" lie said. Thai i l was all. He got up and went out. i ! His head eras bent, bis face was hag. i Kurd, but neither anxry nor -tern. i Slowly and sadly he went down the . stairs. He wondered how it would end. lie could not understand her , ! persistent anger, her fierce rejection of j j his overtures He had been wrong ; | he owned it freely, Hia temper was , at times ; but she eould not bill , that she had tried him beyond , I patience. So, lie could not under, i stand, or ace his way. Drawing ou , hia coat, his faro was turned toward , the stair. The gas-Uglit slioue upon a , folded paper lying 0.1 the second step. , | soiled and torn. lie stooped and . I picked it np. ne glanced inside ; It I waa written In capital li tters, nnreir- ■ | j capital uppar-

ently unmeaning. A horrible strap!- , ' cion flashed upon him— might not , 1 what he ha4 overheard be true V He 1 opened 'the door and went out. He , ' stopped at the conw-r, under the lamp. ' Ojiened the paper, and held it to the ' light It waa a sheet of common note paper, folded in three. A wet boot- ^ heel bad apparently trodden upon one side as it lay in the fold, and ground , off apart of the writing just below the . first four words. A pulpy shred connected the parts and ahowed what space was gone. Tills was what re- , J (1) re a kwt roirr <k.t a- , ., ,, .. — 1K|P 1 , TV— HTU ATSL'O. |3) rt SB BBYV AJDXN XAUKNB. i The rain dripped down upon the paper; he sheltered it with his hat, ' and stood, with bead bare, in the beating rain. He folt in his heart that . that fourth word could hr but one. t He found the key in a minute's time ; | a' simple school-boy trick. He foil that that word must be Mary. He tried it through the sentence, counting 1 two letters back ; o-m-c-a-t-r-A-y. , " Jfyprar, rfror Jfor,. " The rain dripped from his hair ; he ' t shivered— was it with cold ? He felt i sick and faint ; he thought lie should ' , folL He aw the lighta ol the Merri1 man House over the vfay. He stagj grred across, through mud and water » balf-knee deep, heeding neither gutter , nor pool ; went in and np to the bar. ■ "Brandy," he told. He lifted the I fo-ttle ; but his hand alronk too much, r "Poor It." Ills voice sounded hoarse I and strange Tire barman took np i the bottle and half filled the glass . Glenning steadied hiaisulf by the bar. , He spilled a little aa he lifted the gtass. ( He art It down empty. " More," he aald. He drank it off and went out. I The church clock waa striking eight. I ne ran on down to the station ; he , was half an hoar lata, lit sat down I at ma desk. There was nothing going ' i through Um wins from L. ; only now : r and then some message about the ] trains on the railway line. The cipher L changed after that first Unc. The i r burning spirit ast him all ablaxr ; his : f brain waa on fire, his heart a leaden B weight. He studied thorn next legible 1 words with a mad anxiety. Tbey ' . were plainly the end of a sentence, the < - rest of which was gone. He tried the , words this way and ihsl counted i j forward, backward/ one letter, two i , loiters, three, four, five. He felt sure 1 It was some stmpte trick of spelling; [ but be could make no aanae of thau I foe a long time. Socneooe camcstamp- . Ing in now and then out of the rain ; , but he paid no heed, worked away at . Hint terrible puoole that sunned so I like child's play, aad woo, in fact, inch , deadly earnest work. t (7> t* MMMwi. ) Five hints to teachers. (J), Do not r trovh anything that yoa do not tboej ongbly nnderetaad- W Do md toll c your aohotaaa what they can tell yon. e tS) ■VVhaleriir you leB your sclwilars, , Dike them tell you again. (4) Giro i. ealy naaiasks commands and than r Insist 1. thmr bring obeyed, (ft) Give lt tbeyarr in llmcfcaBa^ occnr*llr>nw'"®e « Coigns of vantage Spucie. ^ A tresa* taihbtarar— A peacock. d Sjdm Wroppere— Bomtru.

ti ' TSUI MMSlssr or AMEBIC a bt THE ( HISESt. w Was Coinmbus the first discoverer le ; of America, or did be only rediscover ( b- | that continent after it had, in remote i - ' ages, been found, peopled and forgotIC | teu by the old world ? It is curious !, I that this question has not been more i, ' generally raised, for it Is very clear a lliot one or two things nnui be true : u either the people whom Colnmbns ? j found in A merit* must bars bre-n dre- , s j resided from emigrants from the old j ; world, and therefore America waa y ; known to the old world lefore Coluiu- 1 d but' time, orelao the aborigines of the [ I, | western hemisphere were the result of i e spontaneous human generation, the JT development of man from a lower; A «i«ciea at animal, or descended from a i second Adam and Eve, whose origin ; r would be equally puzzling. Unless - we are prepared to east aside Holy t the origin of the human rate, we must ! 1 believe that was at one time eominuni- ' . new. Probably this communication I took pkiee on the opposite side of the , 7 coast of Asia and the side of Amenta t most remote from Europe; and 1 be- 1 ; habitants of eastern Asia may have ' I been aware of the cxistanee of Ameri- i t cm. and kept up intercourse with it . The impenetrable barrier the Chinese , always anxiomt to preserve be[ween themselves and Hit- rest of Hie1 i quite possible llial Utcy should have j ; their knowledge of America to themselves, or, at any rate, from I , Europe. The objection that the art of , Chinese to ens* the l'aclll. and land on the western shore of Amerienis net conclusive, as we have now found thai ' . arts ami seienro* a hit-It were once gen. j orally supposed to lie of qulle modern | origin existed in China ages ami ages j before their discovery tn Europe. The I amongst others had In-ti practiced in China long before Europeans bail any idea of them, Why then should not ■ Hie C liinese have hri-n equally, or more i 1 in advance of us in navigation? The! ; stately ruins of BanllH-c, with gigantic - lion would puxxlr our modern engineers. the Pyramids, and other remains ' of driUxatlun and tlir existence of arts . and seienro in times of which KnroI historians giro no account.

■ of Hie Inhabitants of Asia, were once • fure its discovery by Columbus, is that : many of the Arabian utnso with wliom ■ 1 have conversed on this subject are • ■ fully convinced that lite ancient Am- j ' binn geographer's knew of America. | • and In support of Hits opinion, paint 1 countryto the west of the Atlantic is ' of mine, General Hussein Pasha, in a ' called En-.Vviir-Et-l'ajnr. quotes from Dirldrki, and other old writers, Utshow this. There Is, however, amongst Chinese records not merely vague reference to a country to the west of the Atlantic, but a circumstantial account of its tliaI cowry by the Chinese, long before Col- , umbos was born. A competent aotbority on such mat- [ tore, I. Haulay, th e Chinese interpre- . ter in San Francisco, has lately written ait easay on this subject, frtjm ; which we gather the following starts ling statements drawn from Chinese . historians and geographers: Fourteen hundred years ago even America had been discovered by the i Chiooro and described by them. They ( stated that land to be about 20,000 | Chinese miles distant from China.— . About BOO years after the birth of . Cerist, Ilnddhlst priests repaired there ■ and brought back the news that they r had rae*. with Buddhist Idol and religious writings In the country already. i Their descriptions. In many respects, . resemble those of the Spaniards a tbotij sand years years after. They called i the country " fttsouy," after a tree which grew there, whose leaves resent - , bled those of the bamboo, whose bark , the natives mode clothes and paper out I of, and whose fruit tbey ate. * These , particulars conespoud exactly and ro- . tmrkahly with those given by the . American historian, Prescolt, about , the maquary tree In Mexico. He [ states that tlie Alices prepared a pulp r for paprrraaklng out of the hart of jt this tree. Then even its leaves were i - used for thatching; Its fibres for makj Ing ropes; its roots yielded a nourishI ing food, and its tap, by means of fer- j i mentation, was made Into an intoxl- j i eating drink. Tito accounts given by j r the Chinese and Spaniards, although . a thousand years sport, agroe In stat- . Ing that the na tires did not possess I any Iron, bat only copper; that made > all their tools for working In stone and ■ metals out of a mixture of copper ami ; tin; and ther, ia comparison with tbe i nations of Europe and Asia, thought - but little of tbe worth of silver and gold. Tbe religious customs and t forms of worship presented the same > characteristics to the Chinese fourteen i hundred yean ago. There is, mora, a remarkably resemblance between the religion of the Altera and ths Buddhism of ths Chinasc t as well Kl between the manners anil - cuetoras of the Axtsos and those of the 1 people of China. Thereto alCTa great - similarity between the firstum of the , Indian tribe, of Middle and South S America and those of the Chinese, ami i > as IUuicy. the Chinese intorpstar of i a whom we spoke above, stalea, between ' s tbe accent and most of the monosyllabic words of tbe Chinese and Indian ; tangnagea. Indeed, this writer giro. , a list of words which point to a doss

■v , there must have been emigration ftuni ; China to the American continent at a er most early period indeed, as tbe office } rial accounta of the Buddhist priests dc j fourteen hnndred years ago notice >t- thoce things as existing already. IYrus haps new, old records may be recorre ered In China which may frirnith frill ■r particulars of this question, o : It it, at any rate, remarkable, and as confirmative of the Idea of emigration *• . from China to America at some remote Id | period, that the time of the discovery ' «a of America by Hie Spauinrds the In- 1 n- ditui tribes on the coast of Hut Pacific. ' j lie ) opposite to China, fiw the most [Art, ! . enjoyed a state of culture of ancient I ■ lie i growth, while the inhabitants of the I j er : A thru tic shore were found by Euro- i |xxins In a statu of original barbarism , in ■ If tbo idea of A met tea having been ■ m ; discovered before lite time of Cohim- j ly bus Is- cornet, it only goes lo prove t af | that there ia nothing new umler the , st j sun, and Hist Shelley was rigid in hi. in | not find one spot whereon no city \ n stood." Admitting this, who can tell , te whether civilization did not vxist in , e . America when we were pluoged In i * | barbarism? and, stranger still, whether , cognizance? Possibly, man is des- j v i tilted, in striving after civilization, lo j be like Sisyphus, always engaged In " down" "fcvalf Jfo'uz.a"' ' e As an lllusiration of Rarmnn's hnb- { n j count: Bnmum retabs the fidlowing ' '• lite Museum, and la gged some mota y. J Ll hi. living? He* replied thai It. , .otid J n | lw gla.1 .if any >.h at a dollar a .l ty.. I ' * I I handed l int n quarter of „ dollar K , ami re i tiro, and I would . tttploi Int.. ! ' " nt light lals.r at a dollar and a half a I ' > day. When lie returned I gave him * 'Now.' said I. 'go and lay a brick f * on tbe sidewalk at the eornerof Bread- . L" the Musemtt; a third diagonally oerere ] <• the way at the corner of Broadwny t * put down the fourth tin the sidewalk *■ then with Hit fifth brick In hand, take * Hie, other, making the rirooit. ex- I

' changing your brick nt every point. Hand say nothing to any one, ' •What Is lite oli|ert ..ftbi.?' inquired ' the man. " I 'No matter,' K tvplted; 'all' yon ! j need to know is that it brings you flf- ' j teen rents Wages per linur. It is a lot 1 you must seem to he as denf as a post; 1 pay no nltrnlhm to aoy one, but at- " tend faithfully to the work, am! at Hie 1 end of every hour by St. Paul's clock ' show this ticket nt the Museum door • enter, walking solemnly through every I hall in the building; pans out nnd rv« ' ""wi >01" WOrk"' " to hiin, so long a* he could earn bis • began his round. Ilalf an hour afterwards at least five hundred |sTople watching hts mysterious movements. He had assumed a military step and r bearing, nnd looking as solter as a " Judge he mode no response whatever | r to the constant inquires as to the obII ject of his singular conduct- At tho end of the first hour tho sidewalks in " the vicinity were packed with people all anxioos to solve the mystery. The " man, at directed, then went into the e Museum, devoting fifteen minutes to s ■ solemn surrey of the halls, nnd afterwards returning to this round. This " was repeated every hour till sundown, e seutn a dozen or more persons would J buy tlekrts and follow him, hoping in I" gmUiy their curiotuity in Bsgrird to the ' purpose of hit movements. - This was ' continued for several days— the curious |* people who followed the ranu Into the Museum considerably more titan pay 0 hit wages— till finally the policeman, to whom I had imparted my object, ' complained that the obstruction of the sidewalks by crowds had become so " seHotw Htal I must call in my • brick man.' Tim trivial Incident excited ^ considerable talk and amusement; It advertised me, and it materially nd1 | ronecd my purpose of making a lively H corner near tbr Museum. t A Mm Act. it or HosEwrr At a • | party one evening several contested - i the honor of havlrtg dune the moat ex- - traonUnary* thing. A reverend gen- - tk-man was apimintcd Judge of their f respective pretentions. 1 One produce!! his tailor's bill with a - receipt attached to it. A buzz went s through the room that this could not e be outdone, when 1 A second one proved that he had 1 Jasl arrested his tailor for money that e was lent him. t "The palm ia hia," was the gener>1 oub try, when the third put in his .1 claim. e " Gcutleinan," aald be," " I cannot i bout of tbe feats of my predecessors, but I liars returned to the owners two ! umbrellas tbey laft at my house. " h I "l!ll hear no moiel" cried theos- „ too is hod arbitrator. "This Is the very j acme of bonsety ; it is an act of vtrture e of which I never knew any one enpat'bte. Tbe prize" — 0 j "Held!" cried anoUmr, " 1 have h ! done still more than that." ij | " Impossible."' cried the whole cotnA pony. "Let as bear." r) " I hero been tektng-my county pai. per for twenty years, and have paid n ; for it every year la advance. , He tookiha prize— Jmrton Boy- ■ ■ , ' " - 1 Joy Is as fleeting as it iacapUvailag. .A

, TABUII A DII7IK. ' I insscd the winter of I84R4 1 in the very hospitable eitr Of H .where I 1 wa« fbrtunstc as to form an extended ~ circle of agrenthlcacqaaintancce, who, by their genial and Intelligent social " interconrse, eontribntetl greally to my happiness, nnd enabled me to while ^ away the monotony of a protracted 1 tory manner. In the spring following, as I was about taking ray departure, my fro nds cnlkvl, and after wishing ' tut- all manner of good fortune, hade 1 , tnr a kind adieu, nnd all. excepting my | particular friend, J. 8 . hod left — ' | detained me for some time on the 1 ' little porch fronting' the hotel, seeming te say good-bye; but as It was I nearly time for ths ament of the train | was forced to tear myself away from him, and was on the point of stepping ' 1 tltc carriage when ho entreated me I 1 come bock and lake a farewell glass, j I was obliged to decline, remarking j I closed the carriage door, that we ( would postpone our drink until my re- 1 self with the fervent anticipation that ' might soon he permitted to revisit | the excellent friends I was leaving he- j hind, But alas for Hie realisation of I my cherished aspirations! my tortu 1 ous trail ltd me into Texas, Mexico, j Arkansas, and Utah, and it was near- ' twenty year, before I could get! The time came at last, however, and anxiously drove toward the old homany changes ; but, to my surprise, I found all lite surroundings looking pmnstonishment there was my old friend, J. 8 , who was tile last In bid me the littfe porch, apparently In the same arm-chair, and with his feat raised at i ' l" "h"1 n!*"n|' | Getting onl of th- earring. I walked directly up to Idm, gave him a heavy lie looked up witli aaumlshmmit, I lie soon apprvrinirtj rite joke. and. aeta* tub kallkx Son. Fallow liiin front Hit scene of his dclntu-h. J

, visions less bright. Enter now the f family circle. Barents surrounded by r The eventing' has been spent in anile mated conversation nnd the sweet In- , r terrhangc of nlfi ctionate endearment. t y But tlicrn is unu who used to share all . this, who was the centre of that circle. Why is he not here ? Tho hour of de- * their FaUier and God. A voice Hiat '- ing. An hour rolls away— another e Itour luts gone. Why has all cheerfol- ' u ncas gone ? Why do these parents d start at every footstep ? The step of a Hurt son and brother Is heard. The r door is opened —he staggers in before - litem, and is stretched out at their feet e in all the loathsomcncas or intoxlcan Hon. "Oh, who shall tell the sorrows e of a home made dark with tin e Dr. Way/and. r Ralph Waldo Kherson says : * "Show us an intelligent family or hoys b and girls, and vrc will sltow yoa a family where newspapers and pcrlodi- ' enls are plenty. Nobo<ly who has ' been without these private tutors can know their educating power for good ^ or evil. Have yoa ever thought of the r innumerable topics of dlacuaslfin which * they suggest nt the breakfast table ; ( the important public rorasnres with tvhielt. thus easily, our children become ^ scqunintcd ; great philanthropic queations of the day, to which, uncon-sdous-0 the general spirit of intelligence which k | is evoked by thrscquict visitors ? Any , thing that make* home pleasant, cheerlt fol and chatty ; thins the haunts of vice and the thousand and oneavcuucs of tcmptaUon, should certainly be re- ' gnnled. when we consider its influence on the minds of tho young, as a great a soda! and moral Ugbt." d Tine Does It.— Time has a wooderful power in taking the conceit out '* of persons When a young man first emerges from the school and enters upon the career of life. It is painfotly * amusing to witness his self-sufficiency. Ho would ltsve all the world to know * tint he has " learned out"— that he is master of all knowledge, and con unravel all mysteries. But as he grows older he grows wiser ; he learns that he knows a great deal less than he sup- ^ posed he did, and by the time be * reaches to three-ecore years, he is prel<arod to adopt as his own tbe senti- " moot of John Wesley : "When I was young, I was sure of everything ; in a ° few years, having been mistaken a thousand' times, I was not half u sure " of meet riling* aa I was before. At J present I am hardly sore at anything * but what God has revealed to man." A singular phenomonon was wlte nessed at Keypad last Wednesday. After about on boor of flood tide tho t- hay began to recede and fell about a (hot ; then commencing to rise again, " It came in with great luxe, making the d highest tide seen there for many years, and doing somewhat of damage to tbe A dangerous ■ appendage — The nrvfe MD

ltsat-TBH« LETT VMWIE UtevwtlkwfistsMlwswUL II S, n,Milfi«!U stair, le WlthltoasasMeftt.nr.rM. d Uk« • wsaetaaet It wat.^ Waila, saS will .arts z.'uaU i Br th. err. ft rrstaiear EHbt^ht lihrolrrarda " ^"ttetauhqUi i si tta th.tr ih-utdrr. h.14 the'.hi » | J'he Gatherer. >t i A stirring event — Making a tasty L ! pudding. S Common sense and snbatantiol bornee j spun garments are not much used in ' 7- 1 these days ' Introduce changes in your rending I and in your studies. He who reads 1 ' but little at a time, retains that little " i the better. * Sweet are the uses of adversity, | which, like the toad, though ngly and ^ venomous, wears yet s precious jewel I I in hit head. Look out for paint, at the girl said, ' I when the man about town went to Use _ her last week. I "You seem to "walk more erect titan S I usual, my dear sir." "Yea, I have - ts-en straightened by circumstances. ' ' r When a young lady offers to hem a , , cambric handkerchief for a rich bach - e eler, she mcsns to sew in order that tin | 1 may reap. " A bachelor editor, who had a pretty 1 unmarried sister, lately wrote to att1 other editor similarly circumstanced. ' "Tfeasr exchange !" That alone can be called true reflneI mcnt which elevates the soul of man purifying the manners by improving the Intellect. ; Beware of dwelling ou the number of your good qualities. It was King 1 htvid counting his subjects that deI prived bint of them. > "I hope this hand it not counter ' e faft,*' said a hirer, as he was toyiu. ■- best way to find out i« to ring it." was » the net reply. k When rite heart is pure, there is r hardly anything which can mislead the understanding in matters of per- ; L Why can't the captain of a ship keep ■ a memorandum of the weight of his '

, nnrhor without weighing it every tiuii \ . he leaves port. ■ I Traveler : "Sltow me toa room with"'* ! ■ a good lire, waiter, I'm so tiueod •"*, 1 - and then bring me a glass of ah*, for | : I'm Itwfol dry." Many s man's word is aa got*! ns j ' Itis bond, but it it well enough to add J that both are worthless. An ultra fashionable lady has forbid- j den her sou to play the "national games," for fmr ho may bo pretualure1 ly tailed. A wag proposes lo publish a newspaper to be called rite Grout, with an | original tale every week. Seeing a cellar nearly finished, a wagish author remarked that it was an . excellent foundation for a story. , "Can't you ttust me Mr. Butcher, f for a little meat this morning ?" "No. . you owe me for that already oa your i Why don't you oak your sweetheart - to marry yon ?" "I have asked ber." • "What did she say ?" "Oh, I've the refusal of her." The ever actlvo sod. restless power of thought, if not employed shout , what is good, will naturally and ttnak voldably engender sviL Ureal talents renders a man famous, , great merit procures raped, great , learning esteem, bnt good breading "Wlfen men break their hearts." roll marks a cynical female writer, "It Is '■ the same at when a lobster breaks ooa i of its daw«— another sprouting Imroee d lately, and growing In it* place." • Next to integrity and smartness, ' courtesy It the most desirable capital, ^ and the most available for a young 1 man. Those who possess it, if they Y have brains and energy, are as certsld to go up ss a kite Is with a fair wind An anxious mother inquires whether It Is necessary, during the presence of "bulls aud bears" iu the city, to ^ keep ber ahildrua off the strata ? A Neubo being caught stealing from a hen roost, excused himself, l^r i- saying, " dst he only come dor. to B*s 1 if dc chickens sleep wld der eyas open.'. 1 "Son," sold a careful Quaker to a * spendthrift, "thou art a sad rake '» Y " Nay. father," replied the prwnlss- • Ing youth, " thou art the rake and I r am the spreader." ,1 * SATs a writer la Blahnod: "I res member s cruel old schoolmaster M mine who always accompanied his fl» ' gellotlons with the oesurauee we| Ursa him yet tbr this too urging, iitjl _ that the time would come when o . 'ij ' thank -hiin on our knees for thee* wholesome floggings; bnt after a I mg " lapse of years I have fait Do gratllude ' nor Aver met a schoql-feUow who did.'. 1 child goes astray, not because there is : a want of prayer or virtus at homo, hut simply because horns tacks sun . r hi ne. A child treed, smitas tut mnal ss flowon used sunbtama. Chddra 0 look little beyood foe present moment , If a thing displeases, they are proa. faalt-ftnding ia star ia th* ascend., ntfl