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* "Ail alone? and In a brown etudy, aa I Ure-^ J hope I lie Ten' t interrupted yon, Clayton? 11 *■ Ad if briak little I)r. Coltrail erer m- . tempi, d anybody! Doea theaoaabine interrupt the flower* in the garden— the fevered brow in an Anguet tooraD ing? We rather think not! ' And Dr. „ Col well waa a man decidedly after the order ef eunahina and briak breaoea a "Not at all. Doctor— take thia arm- " "Well, 1 win," aald the Doctor, do- ~ poalting hlmeelf comfortably In a neat of criimon coahlont, and flinging hie | bat oa an oppoeite table. "And yea " ahall tell me what makea you look to : . "Did I look deapondent? • • I "Did pout A pretty qogation tnaak an old fcllow who haa held you on bll 1 * kneetodnyatlmel AeifldidnTknow : " every change of your countenance aa completely aa If It were a printed booh! ' * Something la wrong, Mark, ao out with ° "Really," aald Mark Clayton, fatngh- ! tag I waa not aware " * "Waant ateer..' O, fiddleatlck, * Mark! Ferhapa you're not aware that t a you kre a totally dlflkrent man from 1 1- the eheerfol, eunny-hearted (UIow of 1 gix month* alnce. Some influence er ether hd* chanc*d you to a penelve, - low aplrlted apoOtret. Eietae the * wonl, Mark, bat I nature you It* eminently appropriate!" h "Thank you, doctor! " agid Clayton. : r "There now— waa that a genuine ~ laugh? Not a Mt of it-only a hyArr- ' leal cnchtaalio# that an honeat nirn < ought to be mahamed of. fat me feel I: your pohe, toy boy. Hnm-m-ha-a-1; all right there. Now, then, If you - don't apeak ont III— I'll — 11 » What Dr. Colwell would have done, a In that cote, neter was made know to J the world, for Juat aa the worda were - trembling upon hlalipthrdimropened, and 1 benulifhl young tody gwept Into J the room, bonneted and ihnwlad, aa If J for a walk. Tlv old man" atarted uo » with briak gallantry. * "Mnt Claytou -and aa roar rut a U pink! 1 needn't oak after your hoalth, "I an very well, thank you. Doctor. . Dear mc, Mark, bow wry warm the J room la!' Why haven't jmi lighted the" J C**T " « Mr. Clayton olwyed by Instantly I!t luminaling tl» room. Ilia wilt threw "Whafe thia envelope on the table? Th-kiaa fcr the opera? " .. . "Veal. 1 thought you w.mld ttke to liear the new prima d.m ma." "WoO, I ahouMn'l then. Hi <q«- s | » always makea my head ache. I wish : Jtta .could ever ngttvmW my llkee and I -brightly." ; "Thea," odd Oaytott, atuiHng', I ! > M alaioat afraid pree-wt Rue hrare-t ■ let I bought this morning in retwm- ; bran™ of the day w- were engaged W I rf^cdhe^Xurm-ta&alng

"/cannot wear the thing," aald tha . wifc, pcttlhhly giving the W»K bSfr a pueh along the table. "I wieh, Mark, you would take your fret off the lender .it —of all the diaagreeabte habits men pick up, that it the went! " Mr. Clayton removed hie feet from their obnoxious position without a wetd: tha old Doctor sat observing the > Maple in eifroea "Tour handkerchief, dear," Said Mark, leaning forward to restore an embroidered cobweb of fine muslin that had slipped from hit wife's lap. As Mrs. Clayton took It, the ottered a little impatient sound. "Mark— yon have been smoking! " ! "Only one cigar, Nina— and that ] waa two'hours age. I didn't suppose your olfhetory nerves were so delicate- . ly Strang. " "It U too had, Mark, ' fretted Nina Clayton, "when yon know how I Late "It shall be the loot time, pun! " aaid the hnefaaad, caressingly. "Come ting same of Dr. Colwcll'e Ihrorite Scotch ballads before tea." "I don't feel Uke tinging," said I Nina, petulantly. 1 "Flay something, then.'' 1 "I suppose it never occurred to you I thst I might possibly be tired, after my I 'walk!" "I beg your pardon, daar; I did set < think ofiL" I "Of course not; men are privileged 1 * to be selfish. By-the-way. did you get ' me that new piece of music? " < "Never once thought of it! But I'll, be sure and bring it home to-morrow. " '■ "Von needn't," aaul Nina, applying 1 ihc cobweb handkerchief to iter eyes I "I don't awe for it new."' 1 1 "Why, Nina, Ign't it Just at good i I. 1 to-morrow as to-day? " - Mrs. Clayton made no auswer, bufj I left the room, shutting the door behind d her, with no gentle hand. Mark row c from his teat, with a disturbed coun- 1 tenants, as if to follow her. » ".Hit still, Mark," said the Doctor, quietly poshing Mm back Into the chair. <-• I "I've diacovered the secret of your changed aspect now!" I "I assure you. Doctor, the duct not b I "Vet. yen— I understand! She'e !' ; simply a tpollrd, petulant child, who b baa uncontciously fiillea into tha habit • of lading fruit with everything that it occfil*. But Mark— she makes yoor n llfr miserable.'' a Clayton* hand had Mien upon his h n "I can't deny it. Doctor— I am miserable; ami yet I know that Nina lovre U dearly, in spita of ail these irvila b Ulideu. Oh,' Doctor, bow happy I ii Should be if she was ogly Utr Nine of The Doctor had Men adjusting and n re -adjusting hie spectacle* and polish- b the glasses thereof, frith great en- n for a minnte or so, Suddenly bs n stopped, nod filed hit keen gray eves Mark Clayton* frcr. a Mark Clayton* free. I'J

', "Shall I tall yon how to work the c d, transformation': " • "Do. Doctor." "Then you must premie* to adhere i * to my commands strictly slut literally 1 - —no halfway obedience" ~ I * "It shall brlmpUcitl " I J" 'Very well," said the Doctor. 1 * "Whnt dor* make you so lata tail t morning, Mark? •' ! '• Mrs. Clayton was sitting in front of s the steaming urn. in that earns little r room, which tha fresh sunshine of tha t '' October morning, and the high-beeped * j glow of the fire both strove to enliven 1 1 —and not in rain— as her husband 0 i loung»d slowly into the room. ! "Jtole/ It* a pretty stats ef things J j if s man cant be allowed the poor pri- ' vilego of a morning nap! " ^ * | Nina Clayton looked np la blank as- ' ' tonishatenL Never before had her ' husband addrvnard her in that eurly * ' : tons of voire. Mr. Clayton took his ' 4 seat, giving his wife* work-baekat ttn j snregetlc push with hi* freL "I wish yon would keep your things ' * ; in their places, Nina! Confound this ' . coffee: it* hot enough to take the tain i *: off a fellow's throat!" "| "I thonght vou liked it wsrm,'' (old ' T the shesbed wife. 1 ' : "T'AnsfAl I llkrd it warm! If yon C t went mt to SBtoenlded to death, why J * don't you delist once? There— don't ' " 1 go to potting milk in and spoiling the ' j whole thing. I thonght sos-a mess 1 - for the pigs! " ; Nina conk! not stand it for a moment longer, bat began to rvy softly, behind 1 ] the urn. Mr. Clsytao twncej out of ' the roots, or he would have broken his . premise to Dr. Colwell In a moor un- * pardonable manner. However, Mrs. Nina had recovered j * ' her rosea and bright eyes by die time I ' 0 her h unhand returned to dinnrv. Be ' ^ " sens silent and morose: but ths liUle 1 ' * wife was determined to be amiable. ! * " and went to the piano Immediately af- ] ter the meal was over to give him the ■ n music far which he tunallr petitioned ' in vain. She had srarrely struck a ' * few preliminary chords, ere he inter- F '• rtipled her. >' "I ffiah you'd slop dramming on ' that piano wbrn my head aches!" T ® • "I did not know your bead ached, *" * Mark!" 1 "Vou might hare known it If yon'd take the trouble to n. dice!" ' Nina* Up quivered. Cbyton rose j , and took his bet " Where are you rsing, Mark?" ' " Is It indisprrwib! • that I most re- 1 1 0 [tsal all my proceedings to you. Mrs. Qeyton?" * "No; Un -but 'J "I'm going to the tasntrs." j . " But, Mat*, Usetyalton's are coa^ . " * " Very wall, wlwi rfll? ' ' T " What win they Uttok ir you are ; "They will probably think that il!{ JT srrres yon- qtibe right I.r imtkiug ap- ] - prdntraenU witauut r jasuttiiig your ; , husband. In any n mt, R Is nothing rr to me what they Htink!" ' > !v And he ha<! "aftcd out of the bourn I " Wire Nina hed re-reeved from tar I

n burst ef aoha which was bar only reply k Sa bta xokind spreqb, To-morrow was, and the next day, r and still Mark's demeanor remained n unaltered. Poor Nina waa thoroughly wretched. What could be the mstn ter? Wat Mark becoming deranged, a or— and a cold chill of horror ran s through her frame at the very ides— ' waa it possible that the wee losing her i place in his affections, a "I would die, by my own hand, did t I believe that!" was her inward e|ecul- ■ slot; for, in her heart, Nina loved . Mark with a love almost amounting to idolatry. • The upshot of Nina* troubled selft communings was, however, that, on 1 one morning Within a wrek of the - above detailed events, the was setting In Dr. Colwell* Study, citsely veiled, 1 and robed In a quiet, pearl-grey dreaa, B at If dreiroos of avoiding attention as much ae possible. Ter to whom could ' Nina confide her griefr more naturally 1 than to the old man who had known I her hatband from the days of her iofrocy? 1 " Mrs. Clayton?" was the Doctor* surprised exc'unaUon on entering lite room in which be had been apprized 1 that " a lady" desired to speak with Nina threw ailde her veil an bant ! ont crying; the interview was not a long one: and when at loot the old gentleman dismissed his patient, with fatherly kits, her free was radiant, through its mitt of tears. When Mark Clayton came hrmte to dinner bo found hit wife tinging si her j " I supplies you have not put those j I on my collars." said he grim- 1 " No, I haven't, Mr. Mark," avid j little lady, archly defiant; "and 1 confessed yourself very sorry for the ! Illurlietrd character you hers been ! acting Uteiy!" "Nina!" Mark spoka with some uncertainty. "Ma.k!" And she buried iter scarlet cheek on shoulder. " Ah, sir, no use in dissembling sny I've been to Dr. Colwell, and ail about it; and, indeed, Mark, the added, with a quivering lip, " the it not thrown away. For until own conduct was mirrored before t mt to your actions, I never dreamed j how very, very disagreeable I was making myself!" " My dear little wife," said Clayton, j tenderly smoothing back her dlthcvci- ! 1 led carle, "If you did but know whnt it has cost me " "Not another word!" said Nina, | imperatively patting her hand on hit mouth: "it lot been a bitter lesson, ! but it hat not been loot on mt. l«t me taal onr compact of future happl- ' with thia kiaa!" " Vtry willingly, at far at Lam concerned, Nina. Bat do you think you eerued, Nina. Bat do think

1 ever forgive Dr. Colwell for pre- 1 tenting the bitter pUI?" " 111 tend for him 10 tea tlili very 1 evening," said Nina, fiutterlng*briek!y j like no energetic canary bird, round the dinner table; "snd let him see that I sow behave myself like a good little girl!" And from that moment Dr. Colwell j had a word of fruit to find with Mark Clayton* looks Nay, he was ' woat to assert that Clayton and bis pretty wife were the happiest couple in whole acquaintance! LtOTra awa nil NrwsrArrn*. - It it a great mistake it female ednca- . tioa to keep a young lady* time and attention derated to only thsfitthiooaMe literature of tH-ei... iryon Wcmld quality her for conversation ran must give her awoe thing to talk about, give ber education with the actual world and its transpiring events. Urge her to read newspapers and become frmilisr with tbe present character sad inprovemente af onr rmee. Bistory ii ' of some importance, hut the post world It dead, tnd we ban little eotnpora- ; tiraiy todo with It. Onr thoeghtk snd 1 our concerns should be for tbe present ' world, to know whet it is snd tmprorr 1 tt* condition. let her hear intelligent conversation concerning thy mental. ppHlieal, anil •foiigtooe improvements of oar time. Let tbe gilded annuals and potaia OB the contre-Mble be kept a part of The time covered with journals. 1*1 the fcmily— men. Women and children - rend ihe newtpaperr.. 1 Wbsta Wtr* SnotrLDBa AlphahEttcallt. — A wife should he anilaj benevolent, charitable, domestic, . set. Industrious, Judicious, kind, loving, modest, neat, obedient, pleasant, quiet, reflecting, sober, tender, urbane, 1 virtuous, wise, x-emptuy, yielding | ami araloua.— fifrrtenyr. A husband should be likewise; but SB old maid contributor, a good maty of term, alphabetically and uniare alaurd, tone, captious, dopTsvcd, exasperating, false, gloomly, igtmrnnt, Jealous, kn«ipiah, Uxy, mean, negligent, obdurate, porfiigate, quarrslsoi ie. rash, selfish, tantalising, ogiy, vexing, whimsical, x-crhating. yawning, and so forth. | ! An Incidbwtox* Moboax* Raid, j i — When this venture-some rebel lava- ! J ded Ohio, some five hundred militia 1 J hastily collected, and reported fordnty, j asking the commander of our forces to 1 appoint offlcrt*. lie told then, to ri -ct from their ranks, sod the choice fell I upon a brave but Inexperienced cltfctrn, ! who at n nee eommencvd putting them | through the tactic*. He moved rapid- ' ly to the front and centre, baltrd, faced about and gave the folio wing cc-mcd . ' In the dialect peculiar to Sot! Item : Ohio; i "Ia** wihl tear! tote year gnns: I prei*re to thirken and raarchrndw«ys! i And midst Aneh a veil us was never hearel in fhnoe "disgins," the ' gsiloal colonel dasbsd off to search of the gray-becks, followed by his Impa-

ir : -a naxxsnYixxt.' The New York .Sua has an editorial l\ j giving some good advice to parents— : to give their boys a good trade. That I is the brat " friend ta need" tlie editor j knows of as Rfc wears oa, snd he adds; ' Every day (we are told) there are in- ' stances of men slipping from high - rounds to the lowrat one In the ladder ,r of wealth. Business mvn find themselves engulfed in the sea of financial 1 embarrassment, from which they ' emerge with nothing hut their person- ; '* ing. Clerks, tales tnea nnd others find J themselves thrown out of employment j with no prospect of speedily obtaining 'B place* which they are competent to " fill, and with no other means or gain- ? Ing s livelihood. How ntsny men ' there are in this city to-day, some of whom have fttmilies dependent upon , them for anpport, who bewail ths mistake they made in not learning useful trades in their younger days. There are hundreds of them There are men * here who have seen better days, men of education and business ability, who envy the mechanic who haa a suie I support for himself snd finally In his , handicraft. Parents make a great mistake when they impose upon the t brain of their boys by tlic task of suitporting him without preparing his , hands for emergencies '' tlie Itnlllt of life a* erery prudent general enters' tits battle of armies —with 0 a reliable reserve to tall hack upon In 1 case of disaster Erery man is liable , * I point at some siagr ofllfr, and it Is hardly nccetsary to refer to the large pro- . I portion er men who reach that point , , ; No man is |»»>r who Is the muter of a , I trade. It is a kind of capital that tie- , ° | lies tlie storm of financial reverse and , been swept away. It consoles him ' , In the hour of adversity with Ihe as- ' , ' j su ranee that, let whatever may befall , j port' of himself and his family. Cn-i \ fortunately, a silly notion, tlie off- | I spring of a slum aristocracy, has of , , I late years led many parents to regard , ' a trade as something disreputable, | i 1 1 with which their children should not 1 , J | br tainted. Labor disreputable! What , _ I wsubl the worhl be without It? It it ( , j | tlic very power that moves the world. 1 , A power higher than Ihc throne of ar- i | istocracy has enabled labor, and ht ' , ! who would disparage it must set him- - , ' j sell above that Divine principal, " In , I the sweat of thy face shall thou eat > 1 bread." A tradeisa " friend in need," J legacy which tlio poorest father may ' ; -J give him son. and which »bc richest I , ] i gold. t Wnklnttsn i~i'm lit. Mother. | t

Wastiiugton repaired ts Fredericks- | burg, to psy his humbie doty to his j ' I mother, prepsratory to his departure ' J j to Now Y ork. A11 siTccting scene en- j 1 | sued. The son, feelingly remarked ' | the ravages which a torturing disease | h:ul made upon tlie - aged frame of his j mother, and thus addressed her: — hj "Tlie people, madam,' have bran * ' fatracy of the United States, but before 1 I have come to bid you an iflrctionnte - j farewell. So soon as tbe | uMic bosi1 ness which most necessarily lv e ncound | tered in arranging a new government, l- 1 can be disposed of, I shall hasten to d I Virginia, and" — it | Hers tlie matron Interrupted him. * [ "Ton will see me no more. My d i great age, and the disease that is fast t approaching my vitals, warn me that I- I slut!! not lie long in this world. I 1- trust in God, lam somewhat prepared * for a belter. Bat go, George, ftilfil tee d high distinira which Heaven appears i- to assign yon; go, my son, and may d that Heaven* and your mother* it blessings bo with you always." r Ths President was deeply affected, it His head rested upon tbe shoulder of I, his parent, whose aged arm feebly, yet a ftrndly encircled his neck. ■ That brow on which fame had g wreathed the purest ianrel virtue ever ■- nave to creatrd man. rctaxrd from its n lofty fearing. That look which could have awed a Roman Senate, in its Pa, bridsn day, was bent in filial tender - nesf upon the time-worn features of 1- this venerable matron. The grant man wept A thousand - rerolle* lions crowded upon hit mind, - ts memory retracting terms long pant :, carried him hack to the paternal man1, slon, and the days of his ynptli; and I there tec centre of attraction was hit mother, whose core, instruction, and t discipline had prepared him to reach j the topmost height of latidlblo aml>itlou; yet how were hi* glorim forgot- >. ten while he gaxr<l upon her. from whom waited by time and mabdy, he I must soon part to meet no more. The matron* predictions were true. I The disrate which had so long preyed upon her frame, completed its triumph ami she expired at the eg* of eighty- | five, confiding in the promise of lat- '. mortality to the humble believer. , j Wear a Rmilk.— ' Which w|H you . I do, smile and make others happy, or '0 j bo crabbed, and make everybody around yon miserable? Ton can HVv .. > among Bowers and singing" birds, or In t the mire surrounded by fogs or fougs. ' The amonni of happiness which ynn. ! can produce Is lncslculsble if mm will j only show a smiling face, a bind lieart, 1 ami tptak plrasaul word*. On the . "taerhand, by sour looks, cross winds, " snd s fretful disposition, you ran make hundreds unhappy almost beyond e»- ; durance. Which will you do? Wrar '• a pleasant countenance; let Joy bean in your ere, and love glow cn your fare :r bead. There it no Joy so great as that r which springs from a kind set ends ' pleasant deed, and you may feel it at night when yoa rest, and at morning •- when you rise, and throughout the day when about yoor dally hasltwae. > 1

>! ' rr jj' ~ WheS the other day the New Rdhptil ( and Old School Clrtfrehes kissed' ret.-l, : r_ other at Plutlmrg, somk tine salt). ; . "NoW. Lofd, letfost thou bvy^rvhut 1 depart In pence!" We Ht Jti*i th- ' J the (itbef tta*. We -wttnt to llfc nOw ! . i more than ever to seo ho* (hatters win ' j J coma out. It Is wrongTu frhnt to die | ^ in aitcii s time ss thik, whtn the nrtn- ' .' let arewhcclMj: into line, and the bst- | tcries of earth knd helisml heavrrt are . " ; being nnlimbrred P>r IheccntcsTwhTeh ' s!iSll decide who shall HNrachc snpre- ^ ms<-y of this World. . ~u ■ * " have spent too much tlu:e In ec , ' iTleslsstiral pugilism. Wc -MiTtl "Ifest ' 1 shout s hundred years in guhrttnfc firr f Methsdlsts. Wttd 'drowning Baptists. i snd besting I'resbyt< rmti, t», (hath f ' wfltfi the decree*, and himmielliac j Episcopalians wflh the buft -end of tlie liturgy. As at Bothwel! Bridge Ihe ; ' Scotcii shay quarrelled among them- , 1 selrea. eighteen ministeA'; with sight- , 1 eon different opinions, ' conti tiding t ' most fiercely, until Lord Claverhotu* ' came down" with disdpllix-d troops ' and swept ihe field;' to In the time , • wiieti hosts of darkness in iiiail of hell t ' mg. OM 8ehanr!gnlnil New Sehooi. ' ' Free-will Baptists against ch.s* ebniiiitinlonfkre, Methodist Clmn-h North' 1 against Methodist Church IWtiyfi.'ahil c Odds, when, Torgetting ererythttig bin we fought and the Cap fate' trim h-.l us r on, we might have shontrd the victory through onr I-ort! druis Christ ! * Thank Gad that so many of the 1 _[ rains of th^ Chnreli -iiare had their | " horns sawed off, snd that tlie civteSI- '' nstlral c-hnatlcleer* -hare lost their j . Tlie bosks of ennirorershtlltt* j - , ' webbed, until even the bookworms j |; will get tired of the tlnmbrous liters- 1 ; Slid dr|isrt frotli'oM li-alher-teM-ks I "' 1 and same day the hooks will I*- east ' i Into the fire, Slid just twfore the hist the consuming trrolls Ihe Image of two . religious combatants with their lutnds „ ! way. Bigotry it un d'fljlhhl y i Tlw Episcupnliati liun in eatiiq: straw , , like a 1'realiyti tian ox; and Baptist , "and I'edo- Baptist, while lavi.gl) die- 'J J fU*'^ h"n,M*r j " Usi of tan llaly Ghost. Vut.zT 11 [' j sesL loug as front Mulberry, s'.ivit t,, I ^

h I eluding all tar inuuhrr t-:' Ihc •• wins- ^ * I key ring," tlic Pope and hit enrdiuaia ' * Aud ir it shall be found out thai all ' •" j our. I'd »by lerinu brttbreq have been I foreordained to carpal life, Bishops - " Simpson aud Jsnta will rejoie': wllli J " us iu .lire fiirr-.onitnutiou Ij' this brother will preach in gown pud bauds n and tan Western pioneer shall proclaim ■* the pttpel ju hb. shirt slet.vcs, may ' " the hlrasing cuma dawu upujpl-uth the ' '' preachers, i-it- is too short, and the work too great, to a iow tUapuhttiiu. j " about non-esieiitiala If a tlyunning . I- tnan Is to be pulled out uf the Hoods, j '■ it makes hut UtUc diflcrcnu whether ■ the hand you rpaeh out to hiu> has 00 0 it buck-skin tuittcn or kid-glqyc. Let us all go to preaching- fend. '• |io!lshed Psul uy Pi Athejil, au l plain. ." y Bartholomew down among the tolling '< smacks by tha sea, Do pot. look so ,l anxiously Into yhur . pockets for your k diploma from Yak. or your licytoe ■I from presbytery. II tec Lord .doo " * not send yep into tlic ministry, no * » canon of tlic Church can shoot you iu- ' 7 to it But if lie bos put Ills hand on * your head, you are ordaimal and juur * worklng apron .ahall be tbe robe, and 1 '• tlw anvil your pulpit; and while you 11 'Y are ami ting the irou, the liaiamrc.nl f II God'a truth will break the flinty ltsart in piece*. Peter was never a #"pho- ^ more, nor Jobu a, frtshuion. llerlan T 1 Page never hjtnl lltat f tauguut to * tlie porabolo bisect tbe. anglnforond , ^ at tbe poiut of x-ontact by a jy-rpendi- " eular to the directrU and a line drawn ' •- to the focus. If George MiUcr should J ,r attempt ciiemical expetimcots in a phlluaopbec.* laboratory, . he would J soon blow hitquplf up. Aud hundreds ( '• sf men grandly useful, were never g bouquet, flung /rem the ladles', gal- 1 d t, * tjuick! Let. us Had our work. 1>« I w preach a sermon— yoa give » tract--h ,au hand * : flower- yu sing a song- " f" give a crutch to a latoe.piau ■ pou * leach tha Snbhath class their A, B, C r 0 —pea knit a pair of nocks for a found- ° * ling— you pick a splinter from a child s finger. Do somsthlngl - Do ,it now! ' •- IT. riU Js 4ta d jso.i! — CA.-Ijjoi al A IFort. . .. , ' h - t ,. D«» Sea SotnrwW. — The laytiig f of mfirlne ritWes, It it stated, hat given f an extranMlhary Imptilse tdinventioin , of deep sca'sodhdlng appnrntnk lh t u the laying of theeshle fcWweett Ireland < T and NrwfeinBdYand, ImjinHhM fortl ( J tsst^lwjssij s T ocean* huttom. The mean dsiHb taleUa t L feci, or ovcr 'twtv iftflr* and "a quarter: a pUtrarfV/Otat Pudi ex'tcjiding ftyra'yt 11 .tar Mnkapf- Nswfnsranastl fas witlim - , >- one htmrired and fifty RtUss otttuc Iriab t i * coast. -ThslBetrtlty whefd ft» Athrn- J h lie reaches Iu greatest depression Ikfj^-Jic " liqvsd to le a widncfiaiui, rqngmg jpqa, | " thousand miles .east Slid • wots, - and 1 ,r havings depth eqsal totar height' or I " A Sehbd fess«^'catecLiJ«Jnp' blt.'l st P« Jft® Wishing qtsqtlon; ' „ " Wliatwaaatadotagivo-lithtVqJliSit QT world?" "Matrbes," cried one of ths j ynusgstsra, after a pause.

RfChaw ivraHMMbtter mateng in- ; qutries cwneertllng Ihe Ortx?fi^*itd hit1 tot* ef tbe Order. - He ariCs.1— "Are j ' tlwre any grottndsliir claiming the ex- 1 ' of Masonry In tac period pro- j ; ceding the birth of Christ? or that Sol- ' omori and HTiam. Xing of Tyro, were | Mitsohs; or'thaHt had any connection I . whatever with the Bktstntan Myste-j TIte Oihjret fe ah Interesting One, j ] but to enter into even s rutkory examof it would require far more j I tints and spare tlrnh we have at our | command. I " poit 00 subject, prcfeiWy, have tears, -d writers' more widely dif- ' A- certain class ofmcn, a lit fie j . over-anxious for th- dignity of the Or- ' tier, have represented itcoevel with the 1 world; <*hcrs Influenced by an ippothr / invention of English Jesuits, to IwotBOta lite views ot that intriguing and dangerous association. Somcphihave labored to prove that arose during tlie Cmoadra; tlou it was n secondary otdcr of rliiralrr ; dial its forms originated from forward* adapted to the peaceful hab- , itss of scientific men. Some have attempted. with considerable ingenuity and learning, to dwluee lit origin from , tlie institution of l'vtbagoraa. M. llarouol, iu bis "Memoir* <A Ja ailgD of the .'(esiplat*; while others, Willi a degree t.i uulice and audaeity rarely to U fouud in the clutracb-r of -Iigtiiuuto men, have imputed the ortj tiuns advetss to the Interests of gtMal . -"Veniuictu, and pursuing the viUianj uts and chimeriiiil project of leveling I 'ire distinctions of society, and freeing | .rufous «,r morality .nnd religion. * The precise jierln! whi'il Fn-enutson- 1 ry aroeu muW ever remain a subject of j mure coqjncturet ii i> sufliuirtit that it , un justly l.i> cl.iiui to an origin far 1 oiorc reuwte thuu licit of any. other -ocioty iu extol entx. ' There arc good reasons fur believing * Hint the io.vsU.ms of Diunysia and were Sdielie. nl' Freemasons. ' though tiio-tun-d with tee dotkrinas of < - A l.iut I.ISWII liundrnp t.SM la-fore- , f lit jcee i n qu ntif ber ■laughter, resided "h'lui Triptofenius, nt Eleusis, and io"(i 1 acted turn ill lite knowledge ol'ugritfe Mine lime Ihe Uionrsl.ui mysteries I were instituted In honor of Bacchus, ( who luvcptefl tlleatre-, and tnsmwted | striking siuiitaritv in tlic external , forms of ti.es/ sccrel Rtshelattons. and 1 Hie Slid more striking similarity of the

objects tfo-y had In vlira . are strong |wouia that they were only different ° enelnian mtaten/e were bottud by the 1 most an fit! engagement* to conceal the " lit struct font I Set reoeivul. and the ■'tvimiaies licit were performed. None 1 wire admit ted us raddidates till lliey * lai pcreoua were appiiute.! to examine fl 'and t>rep:uvtiie(ti for initiation. Tlioee « whose conduct waa fauad trregubr, or wlio had been guilty of rrima, were re- c >1 ti-d to unwortay of Initiation, while „ tlie succtsbful candidates were Instructed by significant symbol* tn tbe princfplra of religion! entortad to quell ewry ' 'turbnleu t appetite and passion; and to merit, by the. improvement of their minds, and tha purity of their hearts, F tivec iuettible benefit a which they were r sHU to receive. <' ted to tea inemtias; grand offioera pre- ' sliced ever tkeir aekemhlics; their em- 1 hletnwwtas exactly similar to took* el 11 Freemasonry; and the candidate advanced from one degree to another un- x tit be received all the lessoni of wisdom I and virtu® which the priests could im- • part. Tli te ore some of the features 'J resemblance between ibo Ekasialan ■ inyiteriiA and. tfjusV fi^Freotnnsonry. 7 ', The ojiiiiiou'of Prraraasons that The , Order eiishd and flourished at the hniidlfij' of King Splnqtep1* Tctniil* is f DdWau eo'prrgnaot with ahkunl- ( it/ st nuii- men wnold tnaky it ajipear. , Prom authentic touree* of information tve know t(la( the mysteries pf Bfcchus, (IT lire Dlonysiau mj»tcric», .wyre iostitilled ubout four hundred yeprii before tbe rylpfb Of ffiilohlon; *nJ! there", are 1 xirmig rraSope for belie ving that even ' the akeociatiau ofDioaysian Architect* eflat3 forfeirq lh® building of the Tqm- < ^fie. (t fraa ' not, Indprd, u'utO About ' \hrea h dif J red years Iwfore the.birth uf ' C'lirist tfisi ti'iey wrre incoiporated at Tens, under the King* of Pergamoa, but it it universally allowed that Ihay 1 .lottg .iietora their Kttlement in ' Ionia, and that Ibcy alto existed in the I land 'if Judea. ... I Dr. Rohinsou insert^ th«t llxy came "Pegsia into Syria and introduced 1 tlmt style of architecture which is I called Grecian, and ainae wc are. in- I formed hy jpkephus that Apecice of | archftoctare waa naed at the erection ! of the Temple, we may well infer not ' only 'that three architect* rxtoted before I feign of Solomon, but teal they n--:r'.Ml him iu budding, that roagnifl- , rant fie^ricwjiich heereclod to the Gad t Nothing can he more *impla and , am* Went , than the creed of tee Fru•JfrrnBlWfpceruaig the slat* of the Order ft fhat jwriod. Tbe vicioity of ■' to Kgypt— the couaoction i:"f Solomon with lb* royal faaiily of ttot" kingdom -lb* progrra* uf tb* r rferi r' n't u r h m ^to"^^*terimre"*Bd Ana of lararl. are additinasd oonaidcrntipu* which correhorata ta* *eath-'-menu ot Prartnatoa*, and .fWoira ! ' thertftwn the charge* of rrainllty and ■ - with which tliev have barn rafo*qnantty branded.

'■iss* iseUme ettoyvtau, " l.JA.s.4 bj tXaks^i: ... K rraftsii far t*a vert' ***-- a -wtot*««ar Tiueis* wleesfe.eWtasw. c L...1SX ■^ntox'ta Aira*-*7-AutkI^M* ta^reaTos - • ■ 'Tie' tto eto! s' o'to'.t' 14cra. mt lijhMbimi. kra* 1 * rnoiMr t am ts« busr every ruw ••!■*• IM elty'i esjvwi **U. New, wit* hearse KM atodaf ptuwv. Lib ism s* !*• tauy rov* ! ' ' •»)'•■ be-s-fsrl - WwUj stHii etui whirl swe?t '* I'rom Ibt throscM as* I v«) pi v.sirst, Tho Gtoherey. A "etnilo" that foretells sorrow- . •«e- j-on take in a bar room. Whatever you dislike In. another, take care to correct la yourself. . Weep for love, but not fox anger: ' cold rain never brings flower*. - qurat is made of liirn, gives tes> late. To prevent grey hairs -keep jronr lo ad shaved. Warranted. * There is'no harm In a glas* of whis-key-providing vou allow it to regain In the glass. The latest thing out— the goo, when it 1* turned off, and everybody has gone bed. Lncold, uorthrro countrias, by a wise providence of nature, the mountolu are clad in firs. GrAtltnde ie Ihe music of tho heart wheu it* chords are swept by tbe breezes of kindness.

Wby Is a beautiful and AisclnatlBg girl like a butcher? Because shs.it s ■killing creature.'* Mr. Snappers gave a aurpriat to hit wife the other day; hespoksa plsaaant word and did a generous dad. The attitude of 'the Govtrntaeol towards the Spanish gunboats It •nggrstive of Peruvian bark. Why do youog Ladies whiten tbstr fare-*; Because thry think tha powtfor will make th m go off. "Mime lawycxs resemble folks who sleep in say position; it mailers not on which tide they lie. When is the totter L like a ftora of un|wraltoled gsnsresity? wires It enable* a lady to make ewer a fewer Why Ie a railing ship Ilk* a. atilp propelled on the Archtmedtao priad; pie? Because It Is nurtod by fto craw (screw.) Mr Sirams rays If it. wasn't for the hole in the hoop you couldn't pat It .n the barrel, and ths barrel would buret. ■ • one of Butasrfartl*giili1smnifp(»M rive* us the secret of Ms unusual unction: " Tho cross girts nt much to •ay-" What flowers should ladle* nrarebto . and what flowere" ihould tMy • not resemble? They should be roaan, ho* not primroses. ... Wby dose th* ueir maaa bear the name and form of a stolds?- 'ltorause It mows down nor Joy* aad *utl*ere as moves onward? A handsome youag tody ft running for engrossing elerk In ths Chdiforala I^ghitoture. The danger it that th* ' ehgroU ths attention id tbor1 tbha the procvedings of that hodj A Rhode Island preacher' to. pre claiming Jhst any man who use* tocannot be saved. Tfie® we shall - a number of preOchera iqwd )Mre where linen clothe* art frgai tender. Aq old man once aaid: I was bore at the wroog time; when IwasayouuE young men were of an acoount— that 1 am ao old man, old. men qf uo ascopnL . Soma anwretota* tb* story of a ptaa who was too lazy to pay- hie prayers. 1 He wrote out hit devotions on foolacap, - and tied them to the foot- ef I comb. Before retiring, ho would I teem np to heaven and axc'aiai, "Thorn's ay senlUnopt#," oral Jnrej. ' .bed. The feBowine opiksphs wars to*4p found tn s country ebmcb-yart : My tsls'sttea*. AM tasrere* Mm Tbe wt Mi at* Mewtat kafaketa cad W*'t Is S bar Ijw. W, BvtttfahckacflMMta" ■ SU2..re. i ""^rataM tahwar*