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 I Mt,l..l|i» UV^li I ' 7 4' Autumn Song. Into the fielila flew k iittle bird In the joyoai luDshine his *oDg wu heard old straggle most begin again, und the story of Guy's love, bis tenderness, his ceaseless thought of her, all their happy companion- ship together, mast be "as a drtam that is And wondrvjia sweet was the song of his past, and as a tale that ii told." There were lay. I no half measares in Jane's creed. Believing Farewell, I am going 1 " it seemed to say, â€" herself free she bad given herself np body, ' Far, far away Mast I travel to-day." To that sweet tield-mnsic I lent an ear It made me sorry and glad to hear With an aching joy, with a gladsome pain. My heart rose lightly, then sank again. " Say heart, say heart. Art thou breaking for pleakure, or b:eaking for pain " The leaves around me fell sadly down. Then I eaid, " Alas the Autumn is Dish The Sumn-er swallow has homeward nown. I'crchance, thus love and longing tly, â€" Far, far and swift. With time they drift. But the sunshine streamed aruund me anew B ck to me rjn ckly the little bird flew. And ang, as be Faw my falling tears, â€" " Love knows no Winter in his years. Nay, nay For love, there is no such thing It is, and it must be always, Spring " _^ m â€" â-  â-  â€" • » JANE H£ABN'S TRIAL. A HTORV IS TlIREK^tllAPTERH. CIIAPTKR II.-iosTlsiEi., lie: could not meet her gaze. He felt aa if he were stilling, though the breexe Wew Softly In froiiithe sea and the freshness Tf an Autumn evming was in the air. " Uu't this the p^th that leads into the pine wcMxl â€" our favourite walk " he said presently. .\nl Jane answered " Yts."' she waa awed by the sure intuition if 8mie coming evil Bne felt like a child whom Konie one was leadinif into a dark nxm full ormyaleri' UB horrors. C-ay had some dread- ful thinu to tell her uf tliat she was aure. Well, she was no coward, and she wouM hIiow him how 4rave she could be. Linked hand iu hand the two followed the pathway tl|at led into the w'ocmIs that were now gray and gtiostly with the gathering ahadows. Robin .s.tng no more. A thousand stars in place of one here and there shone overhead, the hoa nolJitiU .\^aObt the rocks more loudly, for the wind was rii-ing aa the night fell. ., Colonel Daulxney, looking likeanilhouttte a^^iniit th dusky bky, [laced lestlcsitly u)i and down, up and down, the ^anku. If thoni: two for whom he uatchol and waitid hail not liecu (iuy Challoncr and .lan lli-arn, he mi^ht have thought that I'M.- lion and despair had w n ilie lay, and that itover Uio'c should li Hce hia wartt'a iiwii-t face ijT lint'-u to hy .pintle voice. Ab things were,' the I'ol'iitl l-new that though the |iarting letwe):Ii tiie one-time toveis iiii;4ht he as the very Id; eknes-i and bitter- hi .1.1 f ileuth IttielF, liiii would .s'.rei.ythen the wonr'li lie hiveii to do the ri}{ht, anil hhriiik Iroin Ihi thou^lit ol n iii\g her lair whiti' lili' aullii-'l, I v n tor lim own .i-ake, an Iri III till- touch "t a ri il-liot iron. He truitt- id I'liy utterly; I iit thiH wailing Iried hini HI'i' t Mow Would Jane look wheu she eaii.i liiek lioin that 1,'itelul walk alon^ the Hhorr Wli;it .ihoiild he do lo try and coiii- ioit hir I Would ;iiy come with her or would liti I uie iih in-, widowed and deso- lali' iiideixl, even thouoli .^till a wile « Jiiit hrfore xhe went out »* e had been Mii)/iiiK nlioiilil he i'\er I.e.-ir her nini; again â-  V hat wax In lie done ahoiit Walter lliaru? l*Militli â- Â» liu could olili^e .laiie to ^o back to Irtiii and then there wan tier income â€" the lenioin- of the fortune that had been !ii mini r.'ilily .s|U.indi red ye-, that wiiuld he a t' iH|it:itioit to till' man, no dmilit. How the oloni'l winheil ihat Walter lliarn wire one of thoHi itirii, activi ly I ru*-l, repellent, .K'l-s, l'r 111 whom tlie law can ea.sily prnttet ;uiy woman ' .\.h it w';ui, th':re w,a.-i no law a^'iiiiat a man ifowly breaking lii^ wile's htai't by millet .ind iiidilli-ri ikce no law ai^'iiict a m:iii tn-atin^ liiti wit'e with rather !• --( eoiiMih ration than he would an'article ot fiiriittiiii- 111 h .-4 hoii.-iehold nor yet, if a wom.iii wi II fi ol iiioui.h to leave her world- ly IM.SSI-SJ.IOI1S ii'ii^iiardi-il, could a liiaii be ).i^i-.-iiti d tor m.Llviiig away with tniiii. No; 111" II- wa-i no appeal a;;aiii9t Walter lli.irii nolle unli-r.H hi- had hd a dmHidiite lilt' tindi r I over i4 a lal^e name aiel faUe liHiiti4K *iraiiteil thi.- what end was to U ;.'aitM-d by drai^i^iiii: -laiii-H name In-fori- the |iiilili and ciMii;; that iiiiri^hte'iis critic the eh. nil e III -ayini; lh.it Ihen- had In uii ' faulUt oil liolft Mi.le.-t, no doulit " Kven when a woiii.-iu'.-i womanhooil would lie draped thioiiKh till- mire ly KLiyin^ with it man ' who^i- only li a.-iti re ni to degrade her, there lirn heart, and soul to the new life, the eiqaisite new life that had opencl oat before her. Her days, her nights, had boen full of thought and fnll of dreaming of Uny Chat- loner. She had searched her own mind to discover its f all st capabilities in the way of entering into those grand pnrsaita he loved. She did not want to try and tarn herself into an aggressively learned woman she pnly wanted to attain to the power of being re- ceptive and appreciative, to be at once am- bitious for him and proud of him, and to be both these things with nuderstandiog. The old life of pain and straggle had once grown dim and misty it h.id seemed a thing unreal, as though it were the story of some other woman that Jane had once read with a mighty pity stirring at her heart. Now it was the new life, the new beauti- ful happy Ufe that had opened like a flower- strewn vista tefore her, that must be set aside at the call of right and duty. In Jane'a eyes marriage was a holy thing, not a mere contract to be broken at wilL If a woman, for the sake of, and in defense of, the purity of her own womanhood had to leave her husband, then henceforth she miut face the world alone. As long as the man to whom she had vowed to consecrate her life lived, nu matter what his sins against her, no other man could be more to her than^a true and loyal friend. This was J:ine°B creed â€" an old-fashioned one, no doubt, as the world goes now, but sweet and pure as the sceqt of those old- fashioned garden (lowers that are going out of favour now-a-dayK, too. " I have done no wrong," she said, lifting her sad, ti.'ed eyes to the old Colonel's face, and making him ft:el as if it would do him gool to swear a good round oath at things in general and Walter Hearn and his whims in particular "and (luy had done no wrong. We do not know, either of us. When we did we kissed each other many times, and said good-bye." The quite, hopeless resignatiop of Jane's look and voice maddened the ColoueL And tioB here on earth tnm the man she loved and revered, yet shoald ehe and Got io heart and soal stand aide by side, aa thoM who strive together to " endnre onto the end," living life patiently and bnvely as heaven had ordered it for them. She had striven after the ideal, aad to a certain extent the had not failed, for Walter Heam admitted that hia wife was "im- proved," and joked about that whim of hia aa a thing that had had eood reealta, and taught Jane many lessons of eommon setiae. She was not always fretting h.nelf over things nowadays, he said, bat had learned to take things quietly. Also, she cared little for outward show, and spending little on her- self, left all the more for him, though he had the grace to refrain from savins so openly. At ^1 times the sources of Walter Hearn't income had bean wrapped in mystery. The supply flavtuated, too, like the wataas of the Nile now overflowing hia oolfen aa the river its banks again, showing nothing bat a vast expanae of deaolatiooa. Since those years spent in Araerioa this intermit- tent character had become more marked. Jane's income he kindly foreatalled as a rale, and when he did leave her anv residne of it, took great credit to himself for so doing, and made expansive reference to men who were "close in money matters to their wives." People (women mostly) said what a pity it was that Walter Hearn s wife dress- ed so shabbily, (which was not true, for though simply, Jane was Uways daintily and neatly dressed. They also said it was no wonder he left her at home so much and prefeired to be se n with more "stylish" women. The truth waa that when he was going out anywhere, Jane's husband would say to her " You can come with me if yon like, but it will cost twice as much as my going alone," and there WaS an end of the matter. Well, things had gone on in thia sort of way, sometimes better, sometimes worse, always cheerless for the patient wife, and Jane thought she was getting used to it getting less sensitive than of yore, pleasing her husband better, in that bis indifference did not make her suffer and annoy him by evidence of the same, aa it uted to do, Jane thought these things and was thank- ful for them, not knowing that the real truth lay in the fact that her physical vet there was nothing to be doneâ€" absolutely powers were failing under a long-continued nothing. strain, and that she did not feel things ai Mrs. Daubeney was so frightened by Jsne's stony calmness, dim eyes, Hud white, weary face, that she hardly dared speak at all which was perhais a good thing, since there are times io life when eveu thegentUst words sear like hot irons, and such a time had come to^ Jane Hearn. .She made all her own plans, packed all her own things, went about the house quiet- ly seeing to.this or thatâ€" rmore able to think of what lUuht to be done than cither her guardian or nis sorrowing Wife. .She had de terniined to go down to Southampton and meet her husband. "I want to leave all Ihc old life I ehind me," she said. " Vou will not see me for ever .so long. Walttr will not care to come, 1 know â€" jou renumber he never did. He will write to you, 1 dare ^ay, and I shall write. Vou must not mind if I have not much til say ahout Dly!^el^ 1 do not think Uure will be much to say." "Won't you be viry lonely in London, my dearie!" .Mri' Daubei cy ventured to s.'ky, gently stroking Jane's hand â€" the hand whereon the wedding-ring glisteneil, and whire oiii'e a 8in).;le amethyst, lluy's gift, had shone with softest lustre, a linely place for any one friends." " 1 shall not mind," said Jane. " I think I am a person who is better without friends -an uusyinpathi tic .sort of person, you know," .»he iidded, with a smile the sight of which sent pour .Mrs. Daubeney out of the room. The story of lluy's love for Jane Hearn, and hejs/iir hini -the -tory of those madly happy mouths by the Western seaâ€" was lo lie burii'd lb- p down beneath the earth of acutely as she once had done simply because the tired heart began to beat more feebly than of yore. What she mistook for patient renigoatioD, was in truth but a bodily las- situde that, if there had been any loving eye to watch her, would have told a soiry tale. And then, upon these worn-out nerves of hers came the ordeal of the waiting and watching for news of that missing ship. While life lasts hope never quite dies. She had thought that in a time to coaic â€" a time still very far away, but somehow and somewhere â€" when they were veiy old, she and (iuy mi^iht meet aga ii, might be friends and eompanioDS, might perhaps speak to gether of the dear old times. But now, as a two-edged sword, the thought that she might never see (iuy again, pierced her heart. When a vessel is re|urt- ud "missing," hope ever dies a lingering death. There always seems to be a chauce, and the mind clings to that chance as a drowning mm to a rope. It was so in thisca-e; the slow agony went on day after day, week after week. Once, aa Jane was searching for the ex|iected paragraph, a strange and wonderful sensa- Loudon is tion came over her, the letters danced and who has no wavered a moment before her eyes, and then â€" veil, she was away on the shoie near the dear old home, she carried a long tangle of sea-weed in her hand, and Ciuy was beside her. She heaul the low murmur of the sea, felt the warmth uf the suns'hine, and the close grasp of her lover's hand on hers. But ju!it as liuy tuined and lo ktd upon her, just as she met the exi|uisite sudden sweetness of the smile that she had loved, the Vision faded and s' c awoke to realityâ€" a strange and commonplace icality too â€" for aliiiuL it, and .lane w.is going away (torn all her late surroundings into a life and an at- mosphere far removed from any of them. She could nerve herself to kiss the dear dead^aic uf her lo.st hope and calmly draw the covi ring shroud about it but she cnuld not hear to let others look upon it laid so low- It was lost, dead to her fofever, but sacred lieyoiid all words â€" hers it was and iuy's. Nil one ele had part or lot in it. The (.'.tlonel and Irs wife felt that it was Inst that Walter Hearn sliould i^ever know of this line episode in .lane's life. Why hliould he, iiuleed " He liad no right to such k'nowbdge. He had acted a lie he had lieen utterly unfaithful to the woman ho had vowed til love and cherish. In his heart the Colonel girded terribly a^'ainst the determination of Jane â€" this go- ing lack to a miserable lifeâ€" but he knew it was nil use to protest. Vou cannot bring ship til which (iuy Challoner was now at- tached sailed on that scientific ijuest which was absorbing the interests of nations. The I 'olonel saw the notice of this and secreted the paper that contained it but he subse- the law to bear U|Kn a man because he blots till ioiiiid .ruel and iinrij/hteous ones "Ut all the brightness from a woman's life who will ay that, be tlllil^M how they m.-»y, and ntarves her heart. He may e.ire not one III r |.|a. I- IS l.y her hiiHliaiid'H side, while jut or tittle, though she weep herself blind, haiiil.s ail jii.t waiitiiiL; to east a stone .it her and yet the world sees no flaw in hia con- l.owid hi-.id. What I haiiee, thin, was there "'uct. He may sec her sick and suffering, l..i .lain who h 111 no 1,1a, keiied bruises ti and show her leas sympathy than he would »I.,'A, hyt iiiily II lilrediiig 111 art â-  give to a lame hunter in his stabh -i or a sick •• i'l rlia|« ih, l.l;iiki;iiaril may not want hound in his kennels, and the world will h. I U.-k," tbouith't till- Cdonel, trying to ""ly e-all the woman "exacting." The â-  I r him.-..-',f up a bit "perhaps he might C"li'"el knew that these things were so, and Ik williiii: to .n, ept .1 a loii.-ideuition to felt his own helplessness to staml between leave her alone.' Jane and coming troulde. laor, lor, M-r separati d from (.uy l^hal- About a week before the date of Walter liiii.i; .lane, wi .iry-ho»rte,l and sad-eyed; Hearii'.-s expected arrival in Kngland, the .lam mvi-r Miigin^' abmit the houie as she ii-e.l to •)•, hut yi-t .lain- safe uijder his own rir.,t, watchcl iiver, loved, comforted pi'i^ps a litll*- III I' id's owii giKHl time, hy hii^elf and thyt dear Wife of hisâ€" these were the MMiiins that Ui- old man waacoiijuriii^' upas '|uently wore such a guilty air that Jane 111 paused to aii.l fi-ii in the gathering dai k- suapected the truth. •\ •- Uiit the ,\l^illiul ijulckly lied at last, ihaMi- i away Into the land of dreams by a l^.iltablo iiality« .\ .siditary li^ure came l,,\ily toward Jiiiii throuxh the ghnim. lam-, hi r '!aii|H ,1 linioU falling against lier •Inns, the gha.itly whitini-.isol her Im-e show- ing atiaiik-i-ly in tlie faint gray light that .till lin|;,-ri'ii. "Where 1.1 -where Im " stimmored. the t oloiH-l, li'.--ini: Ills hi-ad eonipletely, and wishing I III II Were uear to help him iu his Mire extri mity. "Uh\ 7' .Haul .lane, eoiiipleting bis i^cut eiiie lor liiiii. " I left hull ill the wihmI, the wood aliove the shore where we have had so many walks and talks together, I went liican^r he told iiie it waa best i-o. I loukeil l-it-k and saw hini tyini{ on the :;i'ouiid. I va« .;l.iil I omld not Si c lii face. If he had • -kill up* 1 iiiii;lil haM- 'iire h.ick, and thru I shouhl iii'Ver ha\ iilt hini any more, tiny will not e line here .igaiii he is ;^i'liig awav to night wc have said goutl-bye to eacli other, you know. It will lie a long good.liye, guanly a long, hun; giHMl-bye. " If she had wept, if she ha,| sobhid her III art out over t'li.t •sorrow that had come upon her, the olonel thought he could have h. riu' it lietter liut^tlio.ic dim, lack-lustre eyi-s, those pallid lips that spoke so calmly, au,1 in siioli Htrao^e, dreamy fashion, of this terrible |iartiiig in tire words "Come in, my dear, come in,"' he'said, trembling, -lane smilcil. " Creat heaves!" he thought " what a smile.' hand in his, she let him might have led a little child. .lane's eyes were dry they had the -dull and vacant look you may sec iu those of a sleeji-wrfkcr. Her brain was numbed, dsz- cd by excess of misery she only know that she and her dear love had given each other a kiss good-bye, and that it was tor a long, long time. forget fulness. Few people knew anything she was lying on her bedroom floor, undcr- " â-  â-  neath the window, with the paper crumpled in her hand. " I must have fainted," she said to herself, rising with some dilbculty, and making her way to the bed. How weak she felt, lying there and surely the rushing sound of the sea beating upon the shore was still iu her ears Walter Hearn was going out for the day with some friends of his, a lady and her hus- ' band, people whom Jane disliked and thor- I oughly distrusted. He came noisily up the j stairs with his great-coat oo. Hung the bed- room door open widely, and then stood still, staring with no particular sympathy, but a good deal of annoyance, at the prone figure on the Wl. " Why, .lane, here you arc, are you! I've been hunting you all over the place." Then, as be noticed the pale face and shadow-darkened eyes on the pillow " What the devil's the matter with you ' Belle Craven and her hutband are here, and it looks deucctlly uncivil, you know, for you not to show." Jane dragged herself wearily from the bed the room swam before her eyes, the rushing sound was still m her esrs, but somehow, she hardly knew how, she got down stairs, and greeted the loud-voiced, over-dressed ' woman who was called " Belle," and the man with dyed h.iir and lacquered mous- tache, who had the good luck to be her husband. It was Mrs. Craven's habit to ray that she and her husband "understood one an- other thoroughly," which was certainly, true, since perhaps two more perfectly un- scrupulous people never lived, and each j played into the hands of the other perfectly. I Walter Hearn was a v.iin fool, and Mrs. j Craven fooled him to his heart's content â€" I and her own. She treated him as a man thrown away â€" absolutely thrown away in marriage managed to insinuate that his ' ife was a "dowdy," an ailing, spiritless creature, and the like and he was cur I enough to let her say these things â€" or rather I hint them â€" unrobuked. While the fair Belle duped the man, her husband won his money at icant a double gsme which this precious pair played steadily, with a constant change of victims, much to their own ad- vantage. Laughing, talking, and making more noise than was at all well-bred, the trio at last set out upon their day's pleasuring, and Jane was left in peace. Then she Uid her down once more â€" rest, silence, time to think, those were the things she craved for. The rest was coming the silence was near. The day was unusually tine and warm for so early in the year. It seemed as if the wind had worn itself out with its own violence, and the storm and gales of the last week chaoged to quiet, while litful gleams of sunshine brightened a sky flecked with fleecy clouds white as driven snow. Jane was sleeping with a smile upon her lips. Three hours later, when the house- maid stole up stairs to see if she could get her mistress to take a cup of tea, she was sleeping still more sonndly. Not alone, for bo tidiagi ever Eogland of the miaaiag ahip in which Gay Challoner had sailed away fiom hia dear Icve. That story is one that will never be told ' ' antU the sea girea np ita dead." QoldM tlia Tool for Bzcbuife- Gold poassiSBS many marita for lerTing aa money It is dean and beaatifnl, light of weight in combination with high value, hard and slow to wear away by ose, capable of great sabdiviaiaB, and â€" what is very import- ant â€" as coin admits of being ramelted at once and without trouble or loss into the metal of which the coin is made. Thus re- melted, it recover* all ita fall powers aa a commodity. As to the great point of stead- iness in value, it is not perfect no oommO' dity whatever ia. Neverthelesa, it exhibits great powers of retaining an anchangCd market value. At one or two great epochs it has undergone great changes of coat of firodaction, and of consequent worth, main- y due to exceptional circumstances in the yield of the mines but they have been comparatively rare. Allegations of serious alterationsof value have been brought against it within the last half century, but we main tain that they have never been proved. It is very easy to say that the discoveries in California and Australia have acted largely on the value of gold, but there is no harder matter than to give a proof that all prices â€" and all must be effected in the value of the money of which prices are formed â€" have beeli really and markedly affected by new contributions of the metal from nnlooked fir mines. Mr. Bagehot did not believe that such proof had been established, nor is Prof. Walker far removed from this feelins. It may be that som has maintained a stead- ier coat of production and value down the ages bat corn is msnifestly too heavy and too bulky to do the work of money. It is obvious that it cannot be made common money but contracts, such as leases or be- ({uesta, might be framed on the basis of pay- ments of definite quantities of cirD, esti- mated in the prices of the day. Such con- tracts have been made, often with great suc- cess. Gold fnrthei possesses the enormous merit of being largely used in the arts. The demand for it for ornaments, chains, plate, and other articles is very large throughout the globe, and is a powerful supporter of its steadiness of value as money. It is a metal widely used and possessing a distinct mar- ket of its own. The demand in that mar- ket, 6f course, comprises every object for whilh it is employedâ€" money as well aa or- naments. It would be a great loss if its use were confined to money alone for then there would be uo second force to counter- act tie Suctui^ions in the demand for it for money. By being used simply as a metal, as it becomes dearer or cheaper in its own market a tendency arises to increase or di- minish the demand for it for metallic plir- poeis, and thus tie disturbing force on its value is weakened by having to work over a large area. As coining is uulimiteil and (ex- cept for the State) costless in England, gold can be taken from the circulstion or added to it with the greatest ease. One further re- course which England possesses in maintain- ing ciiuibbrium iu the value of her gold money is her excellent system of Bank of England notes. Under the law of 1844 a vast supply of thoroughly- tafe notes is con- stantly supplied to the money of the nation. Fifteen millions of paper pounds costs but a trifle for uo expensive gold has been bought and kept in store for them. The pa- per circulation has never fallen so low as to reach them- They are made safe by excel- lent securities pledged by the bank for ob- taining them, and are a faultless currency. One function still remained to be supplied, tiold is too valuable a metal to serve as small coin. Every nation requises a large stock of these small toolv. England called in silver to perform this small but necessary work but she did not thereby, in the true sense, become bi-metallic. Shillings arc a legal tender for debts only to the extent of 40s, Their supply is limited for the Government is under no legal obligation to coin silver, as it is to coin gold. Further, though they are rated to the sovereign in the pioportion of 'JUj., they do not possess silver worth the twentieth part of that coin. Thus they are not full, true money, possessing as metal as much value as they claim in respect of the sovereign. They are in reality counters and their definition is not silver coin passing for what they are worth as silver, but tick ets for the twentieth part of a sovereign. If silver should decline very seriously in value, they would be cxixibed to the danger that shillings of correct value might be gorged with good silver, and, being slipped into cir eulalion, render their numbers excoseivo. If such a peril were to befall them, a new coinage of shillings of greater weight of sil- ver would become inevitable. As counters, they do the work of money as well as if they were full coins, the positive wsnt of the country for such small tools giving them an unassailable position. CHAPTER in. " Let it be as a dream that is [last, and like a talc that is toldâ€" let it be ss though it had never been." I .lai.e Hearn waa going back into the old banen, arid life the old life of ceaseless self. repression, of utter lack of sympathy, of cheerless days, one following the other in an endless monotooons procession She was like one who, footsore and weary, had been led to the gates of a paradise of peace and rest, a beautiful land "flowing with milk and honey," and then dragged back into the sandy desert already travers- ed with sore pain uid travail. She had learned what were the possibilities of Ufe, and then been set face to face with its black reaUties. Walter Heam's last "whim" hsd been most suoceufuUy carried out. He had had his fling, and now, as he pleasantly put it, he was coming home again to settle down into an exemjUary domestic character. Jane knew fnll well what that meant. She knew the old routloe off by heartâ€" the utter diaregsrd of everything and everybody save the whim of the hour the utter indi^erence to his wife's happiness that bad characteris- ed his conduct from the early days of their married life the cnltivatiao of a kind of society utterly detestable to her the spend- ing of every possible farthing he ooald lay his iiands upoia, and, worst of all, the posing as a i(eotle-spirited victim to domestic worry â€" a great aool linked to a woman who nei- ther ondeiatpod or appreciated him. She knew what had been tha galling of the chain that boond her life, and nowhad aha not also taatad of the sweateaM of libartjraDdpaaoa and lava! Aad aaw tta " l)o not keep I said, uoniiiig up Whind him and laying her I arm alxmt Ins neck; "it is norealkind- 1 ncss tell me -is (iuy gone "' j I " Yes, yes, my dear he sailed yesterday, " stammered the troubled man. At the time .lane said notliini,' she only shivered and I ereiit up to the lire, leaning closely over it ' and holding out her hands to the blaze. .\fterward, .Mrs. Daubeney, going soflly to her room, ope-ued ti:o door stealthily to see Jane kneeling by the lied with her arms ' thrown np ai-ross the coverlet. No sobs ' shook the slight frame thus prostrate at the feet of tiixl better, indeed, if it had been so belter if tears had come ss some relief to the bitter aching of the poor tortured hvart. j A few days later Jane Hearn left that [ileasant home beside the sea. No more .should she watch the changing shadows come and go u|on the bosom of the waters no i more should she watch the little boats, with red sails set, hio seawards bending to the w'iml no more wander along the rocky shore or under the tall spires of the pine wood -that fateful wood where she had seen her lover lying prone upon the dark earth, I his face hidden on bis outstretched aims â€" the arms that might never more enfold her I Jane was gone, and the house she had left seemed to the old Colonel aud his wife like a cage from which a sweet-voiced bird had flown, leaving it empty and desolate. The Winter was past, the Spring was com- And puttiuK her j ing. The buds began to swell upon the lead her in as he luanches of the trees in the London parks. Last year's leaves, lying brown and withered on the ground, were swept up into heape, so that the young grass-shoots had a chance to peep up aud try what they could do to make the waking world fair with a soft green carpet. But though these flrst signs of coming verdure were plentiful enough, it was what is called a " late Spring and furious gales presently swept the sea and scoured the laud, bending down the tree] and doing their best to shake the tiny buds off and scare the birds from their wooing. A shadow, too, a ghastly shadow of great dread, was over the land. The ship that had sailed upon that mo- mentous quest was missing. In vain was search made upon the broad wide sea for any traces of what had been so fair and brave a thing eager watching, agonized listening for gleam of hope or sound of tidiuss, were alike in vain. Day by day were to ba seen in the papers paragraphs headed, "The Missing Ship " day by day hope pined and died day by day the shadow on the land and in men's hearts deepened and grew. One woman read those cheerless daily rec- ords dry-eyed. She went about her daily duties she was gentle, uncomplaining, ready of eye and band as ever but Jane Hearn s heart was breaking within her â€" for that missing ship was Guy Challooer's. She coatd not realize the idea of death coming in such swift and terri)le form to him who seemed so strong, so brave, so fall of all manly enduranca. Through aU ths troable of the old life begun again through this seoood dual ex- perience of neglect and selfish indiffereaee throagh striving after tetter thingsâ€" efforts (nch aa only a woman brave and true coald be capable of to draw her haaband nearer to her, to win him closer to her aide the thonght of Guy and of that short story of their lores and hopes io the Summer that was gone had cheered and strengthened her, Tlw more worthy she could bis, the more she could oonqaer heraelf, the higher the standard to which she coald live, we more woald she feel as if, in spite of aD oatward aarwaBoa, in apita of ail width d Softly the shadows lay upon the bosom of the sea birds were singing their sweet fare- well to the day that was done the room where Colonel Daubeney and his wife sat by a cheery pine knot tire began to grow dark, save for the flicker of the resinous flames. The old people loved the gloaming, and always put off ringing for the lamp aa long as they could. Many a time and oft did they hold long converse at such times about their dear child Jane, she who had gone out of their lives and left a silence such as may be felt when a strain of music, pas- sing sweet, dies into silence. This evening their hearts seemed more than ever full of her. The Colonel had just said he would give anything he had in the world to bear her singing once again about the house as she used to do, when, all at once, he grasp- ed his wife's hand, and the two listened intently with straining ears. What wss that low far-off sound I Waa it the sound of a voice loved and lost They could catch no words, listen ss they might, but the old familiar melody of a song both had loved came plainly enough through the stillnesa, aud then, between the parted cur- tains of the f9Tt»»n oppo dte, they saw Jane herself moving slowly toward them. Upon her face waa a tender shadowy smile her eyes shone with a soft and lambent lisht her hands, white as Uly-blossoma, fell in front of her, olaaped the one in the other. "Jane, Jane I cried the (Holonel, and would have risen from his place but that his wife held him back " Let me go," he said hoarsely, putting her aside, but Dy that time he reached the other side of the room no- thins waa there save the growing shsdows. "Wife," he said, ocsmng back pale and â- hmirinf;^ â- â-  we hava both beoi dreaining. " Mrs. Daabeney only wept silently in answer. Her hasrt was foDâ€" fall of dire and dread fotehodinn which she shrank from patting iota woraa. The next day atraofa Mwa caaaa to that qaiet hooae. Walter Heam's wife had been fbwad hriag dead aposi bar bed she had diadj^a h aft the smile atill lingerin^i afaont har lqa^ bar cheek pillowed on her hand. Jane Haam'a Trial waa o*«r. Her tired •psrit, weary from the battle oflifa. from the atovo^ to bold the ri^t, so mattar at wh^Mat. bad drifted oat into tbs English Society of the Present Day. Mr. Jennings, the London jrrespondent of the New York ITorW, who is far from be- ing one of those who purvey scandals for the purpose of lending piciuancy to his let- ters, or "lashes the vices of the aristocracy" for the American market, complains of the great degeneracy of morals and manners which has taken place in the latter days of the reign of Victoria. He compares it not only with the days of the Prince Regent, but of Louis XV. of France, and the lestor- ation in Ejigland, not in grossness of man- ner and speech, but in cynical contempt of good character and the impunity which known immorality -enjoys. Aristocratic ladies sgainst whose characters scandal has become certainty are not only received but sought for in the best society, and only on exceptional publicity is there condemnation or ostracism. "The prince of Wales' set" is notorious ss a collection of rowdy an d dis sipatcd youQg noblemen, and the whole tone of the highi r society in London is such as has called forth the indignant invective of John Bright. The reception of Sara Bernhardt in the best English society, which was consid- ered a wonder ^and an eccentricity on this side of the water â€" and which, by the way, it is to be hoped we may not imitate â€" may be accounted for in an easier way, and Ade- lina I'atti is in a fair way to recover some- thing of her position in the fashionable world. All this is very different from the early years of the reign of Queen Victoria, when the Lady Flora Hastings was done to death by slanilerous tongues, and no woman, who had been divorced for whatever cause, could approach the virtuous skirts of royalty. It was supposed that the days were forever past when such a ruler as George Prince Re- gent, and the society which he gathered about him, would be tolerated in Kngland, and that virtue and decorum were hence- forth to be characteristics of the English court. But the reaction has come. The em- inently respectable, commonplace and decor- ous Prince Albert has been succeeded by his son, who is famjliar with the coulisses of the French theatre^' and goes to Parisian races on Sunday. The widowed queen has retired into seclusion and the tone uf society is that of a younger and later date. Perhaps it is a revulsion from the too respectable and em- inently tedious life of the court as revealed in the diaries of the queen and the memoirs of the prince consort, as the license of the restoration followed the asceticism of the commonwealth, and the debauchery and in- fidelity of the regency succeeded the devo- tion of the latter years of Louis XIV. and if decorum had not been so tedious and com- monplace, it would not have been followed by cynical disregard for reputation, and a seeking for liveline'js and pleasure under any form. It is a bad sign, however, and, if there is not a change.it may bearmore surious results in the growth of radicalism than are confined to the manners and morals of the aristocratic clau themselves. It is not im- possible that the continuance of the hdlae of lords and royalty itself may depend upon the personal good character and the respect of the people for thoee who compose them, and at present, to say the least, they are not strengthening themselves by their conduct Gkn. Pi.£A80irroN claims to have had the best horse in the army daring the war, "I bought him," he says, "from Prince de Joinville. The Prince paid $3,000 for him, and I got him when the Prince was going away for $600. He was aa gentle as a lamb, with the courage of the de^ and the speed of the wind. He ooold go withoat eats^ or drtakiiuL and waa aa pretty aa a wonaa. He coold jamp aaytbiiu brfor* him. I left him in ^wrge of a bagUr oaa day, aad that waa the last I erer saw of either the bagler or the hocae. They went over to the eaa- my." Thb English oorreapaadaait of tha CiaraJt- -T- hss thit mnst itiaaisl fwshiiilhiiia ia ta- oatd to the aSsota af tha BariaWbUriAai it nseomsa a law. He aaya " AH psalauliua to tha elMreh in ita ehniebaa m wall aa ehareh-yarda ia kom forarer. TMb m, « Tarda ia aa*a foran the dissataUabaaat, DiaMtabliabai Cbvek will ro oU Xn^aad Tba gt w ^s aad orewa will go â- aa^tlndia Touiro rOLKB. Tn* OooxBf •, BoTB- Trae ooarage, my boys, do yon know what itmaana. Know what asakea the heroea in hondredaof aoaaeaT Iti birth waa in HaaTon, its parent ia love, And twaa sent to as here, a rare gift from above. The aoldier, while balleta aroand him aie WiUoft'rSft To in^ shelter hia life, on the fold of the dy- his comrade, the wounded to Soch deeds we eonnt worthy, and class with the brave. No day paaaes o'er as bat comes to oar ear Some story of darinff performed without fear Some sinking one snatched from a watery grave; All honour to heroes, on land or on wave. Bat the tmest of courage, boys, often n qairea More pluck than it takes to face battles or fires And real self-denial, over selfishness won, Is a struggle that never while life lasts is done. Who sticks to tbe right fur the sake of the right. Upholding it manfully,truth against might Who Booms to deceive, though a prize be the gain. The stamp of tni« courage is on him aet plain. The man who OMets innlt, contumely, dis- praise. While fallen humanity helping to raiso. Who seeks no reward, and who works with- out noise, I think you will grant he has true courage, boys I No matter how humble we may each think oaraelt No matter though small be oar share of earth's pelf Let us be but unselfish, whatever the test, True honour is ours, boys leave to Heaven the rest. Unselfishness, boys, is tbe feature we scan. Complete, in the life of the perfect God- Man And where was true courage like that which laid down That beautiful Life, boys, to win us death's crown Trae courage, my lads, in unaelllshness lies. Its promptings through life do you never dtspise i Strong efl'ort you often will find you must make, But make it, boys, make it, for true courage' sake Ho'w the Geese Saved tbe Baby. (CONCLUEKD.). But the child had trotted by Rubin Hood, down the long (lath, all the way to the river, and was so pleased at the feat that she lauglied aloud- It was the first chance she had ever had to get alone to the river. Somebody liad al- ways been on liund to pull her away just in time to save her feet ftxm touching tlie water. Now they touch- ed it in comfort, and little cool i-i|i|)le8 washed over the toes of her stockings â€" she had imlled her shoes oil long ago in the Jiouse. She ran uj and down the edge of the water a few times, and then began picking up sticks and stray leaves to throw into it. Higher and higher her spirits rose with the s|iort. If it had not Ijecn for Barbara's .song, Robin wuuld surely jiave heanl Elsy shout. But Robin was lazy in liis old age, and was actually snoring. Elsy spied a pretty goose-feather, and gave it a toss. The breeze carried it fartheV out on the water than the small maid intended. But she was fearless, and catching at some cat-tails growing on the bank, alio nradod in after her fea- ther. She stumbled over the uneven bot- tom, and the stones hurt her soft little feet. Down she wenC,1^head and all under water, just as th^ geese came, ready at last for their S'v^iin. When they saw Elsy splashing about, they thought she waa trespassing. Or jier- haps they undei-stood jierfectly well that the liver, although safe for them, was a dangerous place for the innocent baby. Wlio knows? Certain it was that as Elsy went down under the water, the geese ilapjied their wings, and made a tremendous racket. They made such a noise aa never had been heard in the place before. They wakened old Robin at last, and brought him quick as a flash to his post of duty. Oh, he could make noise enough then, to be siu-e I He could tear round the bouse like a hurricane, dash down the (lath and into the water, seize little Elsy's dress, and hold her head above the surface until her father came to the rescue, plunged into the river, and in another minute had borne his darling safely to land. Her blight eyes were closed, and her form lay quite senseless against her father's bosom, but she opened her eyes again befoi-e long. John Evans and his good dame told their cliildren and grandchildren hundreds of times how it was old Robin saved Elsy, when, as sure as anything, the whole credit was due to the geese. The- Revenges of Frencbwomen. BALKriTL IMFLUBNCE OF THE PBIK8T8 ON THS FRSNCU FAIULY. ' " An English Flaneur " writes to the PM MaUOauUt as follows " The case of Mme. de Tilly aud her diabolical revenge, detailed in the newspapers, will awaken some such questions as these in the people's minds Why is it that, among a chivalrous, aflfect- ionate, and generous nation, such evidenoes are daily forthcoming of a low standard of domestic moraUty in the better ranks of so- ciety Why is it that in one relation of life only our neighbors should be tried in the balance and found wanting T We know very well that ths old orthodox notion concerning the frivolity of the French people (regarded as the ofi'spring of Voltaire) is on the wane yet thonghtfnl observers find themselves un- able to account forany apparentcontradiction. I«t them, however, become actjuainted inti- mately with French family life of the better classes and they will have no difficulty in ac- counting for Mme. de Tilly's wrongs or re- venges. The fact is, a Frenchwoman is daily and hourly practising little revenges on her husband â€" and why Because be does not adhere to the routine laid down by her oon- feasor, and because, as she does adhere to it, she feels heraelf a superior being, bound to exerciae, in so far as she can, an mquisitorial authority. She cannot prevent him from throwing aside saperstitiona, she cannot make him believe in Our Lady of Lourdee;' but she can use a little wholeaome persecu- tion. Being mis tr ess of the house, she fdr- bida meat on Fridays and saints' davs. Sometimes three may happen in a week and pleaaant ttat for a hardworkinc basinaas man â€" two cms for one meal and a bit of fish by way of Saaar â€" bat, of coorae, for the sake of p saoe and qoiet he naoally sabmita. Then, again, if ahe cannot indnoe him to spsad half lua life inaide a ohorch, she can punish him by negUnHag her hoaaabold datiaa and p er p e ta sUy being there Rsarad ia tha eoMTeat aadar tha inflaaaoa of priaa ta wbaa aehool ia OTer aad bfa begins, aa ordinary Frsaeh- womaa ia ia aa aMas «f the wotd a eom- paaiaa tabar b aabaa d if ba iaaaadaoatad ama, thavaaatt baa^ that ba m Maaa eka- wbMW far ay^athy, aad alaa ta ahaha «ff tba ihaeklaa that faitar Um at boasa. Win, ttea aia fHHly boacdi at wbiah, if tha head of tka baaaa to HMk aa aaaHa tba BMtablia^ â- OM sbmp bar abealdata Witt die. gaurtaad makaa a iiiii k nalaaktajt to ia- avin bar ohildiaa witk tha a eaa be ba* aae NBMdy ft i^woti, ao that tha wifa'aqrafifthiwud iateraata ara thoaa of bar hosfaaad. Wbaa sadi a reaalt baa teen obtaiaad we ahall, without doabt, hear laaa of Freachwobao'a wrongs and their revaagaa." â-  I *m* â€" • â-  • Oonrsiffct ia tbcBibl*. (N. T. Hsrald.) Tha work of raviaing tha Bible was bagua ton yean ago in England. The most learned biblical scnolars in the world have takeu part in it. llie result of their labours is awaited with the keenest interest in all riviliaed ootwtriea. It is now annoonoed that the reriaed New Testament has been printed and will soon be given to the pnb- hc. Tbe important and interesting question has been asked as to whether the work can be protected by copyright in the United States, or whether any publisher is free to reap a rioh harveat by leprinting it without lioense. It appetira that, while the revisers have worked withoat pay, all the ezpeaaea of the revision have been borne by Maoiml- lan h Col, the antborixed pnblishers, who hare inveated more than a hundred thoasand dollars in the nndertaking. They will have a monopoly of the publication in Great Bri- tain, and of course are desirous of enjoying the privilege in this country, where tho salea are lutely to run into the millions of copies. It ia said that tbe American Bible Society has agreed not to republish the re- vision without authority, and that the Bap- tist Society has warmly declared that it will not *• pirate tbe Holy Scripturee.' But there may be other Aitaerican publishers with more zeal to spread the new gospel among the people and less scruple ooncern- ing the meum and tuum aspect of the matter. On one side it is argued that the Bible u common property, and that if it were other- wise the present revision would not be en- titled to protection in this oountrp because it is a foreign pubUoation. It U maintained on tbe other hand that under certain oir- cnmstances literary property may exist in the Bible as well as in any other book, and that copyright in the new revision m y be secured in the United States on the ground that a part of the work has been done by American scholars. What is the lawT Undoubtedly a revised New Testament or Bible ma/ be a proper subject of copy- right wherever it differs materially from the old text. Long ago Uie sovereign in England claimed the excrasive right of printing the English translation of the Bible, aud lawyers defended this claim on principles of property â€" namely, that the translating had been done at the public ex- pense. That the British c pyright will vest m the present revision is clear. It is equally clear that American copyright could have been secured for it if the work had' been doue wholly by citizens of this country. It is not less true that no copyright will cover the revised edition in the United States. Since the fonnatiou of the Government, Cou- gress has acted on the principle that foreign literature is not worthy of encouragement or protoction. In the case uf joint native and foreign authorship copyright may vest in the native purt wtfeu this is material in amount, and can be separated as an integral part from the foreign. The revision of the Bible is the joint production of American and foreign seholari But the work of the several revisers has been so interwoven that no distinct or separable part can be s lid to be the production of any one. Copyright in the revised Bible will be recognized in Can- ada, Australia, and other British posses- sions. It will be protected iu the principal countries of Europe under existing interna- tional copyright treaties. In the United States alone of all countries ttie law will give it no protection. Here the work may be pi- rated at will. Unlicensed reprints, literal or garbled, may be issued without limit or legal restraint. The law allows this to be dune simply because tbe work is the fruit of foreign instead of native scholarship and in- dustry. The Stars of Autumn. The fall months bring with them a new set of constellations to take the place of the summer stars, and act as ushers to the greater glories of tbe winter heaven.' Along in September, when the brilliant Vega is sinking in th«vest, Capella, the most beau- tiful, thoughMiot the greatest oi the north- em stars, is rising in the northeast. South of Capella, and rising a little later, are the storied Pleiades, or Seven Stars, which may claim precedence over all other stars for -historic interest. These Virgins of the Spring, as they are sometimes called, be- oanse they rise with the sun in May, share with Orion and Arcturus the peculiar hon- our of having their name inscribed in the book of Job. It requires a very good eye to detect more than six stars in the Pleiades. The seventh is very dim, and the anciente accounted for the fact by saying that one of the sisters married a mortal and then hid her head for shame. The Pleiades now ries a little before ten o'clock in the evening. Later in the fall the farmers' boys, who are by no means unmindful of the beauty of the autumn sky, when returning home at night from the husking bees, often point to a peculiar group'of stars in tbe east, shaped exactly like the letter These are the Hyades, fabled to be the sisters of the Seven Stars. The brilliant red star in the upper left-hand comer of the letter is Aldebsjan, or the Bull's Eye. Still later, when Andromeda is shining overhead, and the huge outlines of the Whale, the largest of the constellations, cover tbe southern sky, the twins. Castor and Pollux, rise, and with them rises the giant Orion, with his lion's skin and club, chasing the bull. But Orion, of the " flam- ing wonders " of whose belt Edward Everett never wearied of talking, belongs rather to the winter evenings, when' shining near the meridian with the Great Dog at bis heels, he seems to reflect his glory over the whole heaven*. The evening sky will be made particularly attractive this fall by Jupiter aind Saturn, which shine very close together, and attain their greatest brilliancy within a few weeks of one another. Jupiter is in perihelion near the end of September, and it will be twelve years before he is so bright again. I that k, ifastbafall^ Lager for England. If there was such an organization in Eng- land as a moderation society, they would rejoice at the prospective surrender of one of bitter beer's strongholds to Gambrinus, the god of lager, as a step in the right di- rection. It is understood that Younger, the celebrated Edinburgh ale brewer, is making extensive preparations for brewing lagei. He does this in conaequenoe oi the largely increased demand for a lighter beer. In India aud many other hot climates English ale is pronounced too strong and too much of a narcotic, and it is begiuning to be said that ite stupefying effects make it an unde- sirable day drink. They wsnt a light dinner beer one tha' can be used without dulling the intellect or prooucing lethargy. After the Paris exhibition of 1878, an American firm ot brewers who made a dis- play there sent a part of their exhibit to London, from whence five barrels of bottled lager were sent to Bombay. An order for more was the immediate result. To this comparatively recent shipment can be traced the presoit export trade in lager beer which England is doing with her colonies. This week the London agent cf a Bjston soda water fountain manufacturer is shipping a costly and magnificent fountain to the Cape of Good Hope. I waa disappointed, though not a little pleased, to find out by the recent dii.cussions in Parliament upon Mr. Glad- stone's new malt tax how "bittah beah" was really made. An Englishman seldom expresses a favourable opinion of American ale, and if you ask why our brew is not equal to the British, you receive the stereotyped reply; "you aven't the 'ope, me boy," Now, daring the discussion aforesaid it was stated upon the beat authority that one of the moet important oonstituents of English ale ia a prodaot of Yankee aaise, grape aug- Advartlalng Pays. It is semetimea questioned by merchanta, aaya an axohanga, whether advertiaiag pays. The qaeatioB will hardly bear diaoaaaion in the light of the fcdlowiag faots, rates for traaaiaat advertisements being figured. Tbe CbiohaM IWtwM, gets for a column, one year 9M,00D. The New York AraU re- eeives for ita lowest priced oolomn, 999,728, aadfbritBhigaat9M8,00a Tba Naw York IWtaa* raeaivaa for ita loweat 110,704. and for iu higbeat, $86,648, and thaaa pvars are uavar at a loas for advaitiaaaMaa to fill their oiaana. Tbair p4raaage ao*aa aot from aay daaira ta aaaiat tha i sa ji ae ti ve p^Nra; bat from bai i aws aiaa who Sad it profitaUa toadvartiaa. Km abraa-yaar-old lad by the aaiaa of Ladford foaad laMy. ia tha giaral of Baqaab Creak, Georgia, a larM tr^Mfaoat, para Mm aawbira, w s iij s sia p ad. aad aaarty aa tooh^eqaMa, aad wo rth, by tha oaaalaaT doOan. '"" *^ OEVBSAI- Haif 8» otiand ia owned by 70 eroaa. Am anoomous donaviou of $fiO,000 hw joit been given to the Melboame CathadraL No woman, however nervooa, haa a righ* to wake np her boaband from a sound al. to toll him, on inoairing what's the uiatU "Nothing, only I wanted to know if y were awake." Two Iowa boya were amnaing theau-lv by throwing a heavy ramrod iaa high aa th could. Ouo of thsra met his dcati by tr missile deoending with the velocity of »â- !., let and penetrating his bead. KiMo Alfowso spends hours and.hou talking with hia bride by telephone. A ye fromWiis date he will p^' blv hi.e a 1 gb ning-rod man to run his end of the maohii while he losfs at tbe cinba. Ha appeared to be almoat gone. Bollii bis eyea to the partner of his boaom, gas|ied "Bury roe 'neath the weepii willow, and pUut a siugle wiiite ium aby my head." " Oh. it's no use," she snapp out) "yonr noae would scorch the roota He got we 1. 'â-  ' At Madrid, a prisoner recently aentew by oourt martial to be shot for participat in the attack on a train by biigands, b.;! his execution made revelations inculpat several families of high pcaition. He accu them of not only protecting brigandsge, i of sharing in the proceeds. The Rev. Dr. We.igrr, one of the old- miisiuuariis iu Calculti, who had given 1 siiecial attention lo B'blio»l traiii.Ut.on io t Sanscrit and Bengali language*, is dead. I Has an accomplished Sanscrit aohuUr, ai his version of the Bible is used by all 'den minations of Christians in Bengal. Bonn was drunk when he undertook a'C'nsi' n on a tight rope, at Clyde, Ohio, the tower of the Town Halt T' e inolt'tu shouted to him to go back, but he ke straight aliead, staggering at every steft » length he dropped Ins balance pile, and t--.- backward, but like a fltsh he wrapped I right leg around the rope, and he'd on. I said afterward that the loas of tbe p sobered him instantly. A Balloon ascent wae made at 'h bourg on the occasion of tbe fete given the municipality to Grevy. The general ',. s rection of the wind being from the land r â-  the sea, a Government steamer was sent »"r. to secure the safety of the aeronauts. Af V having travelled for more than an bour^.- the direction of Portsmouth, the aerona opened the valv.s and returned safely shore. More than 100,000 spectators wit- nessed the experiment. Not alciiiental.â€" When a man-in a Ver- mont grocery store was sitting upon thi' edge of tbe counter, and his f-jet slipped and he raked the whole length of his back on the counter's edge and sat square down in. a bushel basket f Cfg^, wnieh stood right where he couldn't miss it, tbe grocer was horrified, and exclaimed: " Was it an ac- cident " aud the victim replied, " By crim- u8, sir, if 30a insinuate that I skun my baek, and got myself into this mess on pur- p»e, I'll jam your bead into the- remains of those eggs " (;kn. Eobekts has officially telegraphed the Euglish government from the neighbour- hood of Candahar, that he haa defeated and dispersed the Afghan force under Ayoob Khan. Tne attack on tbe prince's camp ap;)eira to have been iu the nature of a sur- pris" Several guns were captured, and tt.e two pieces taken from the horse artillery at the time of Gen. Burrow's defeat were re- covered. Lieut. McLean, taken prisoner on the »am occasion, is reported to have been murdered after the battle began: The Bri- tish loss was comparatively slight. Itoberte gives only the casualities among- tbe Earo- pean regiments. He is silent as to the Se- poy death los^-. Ayoob is supposed to have retreated to Herat. An Italian Beauty Burned to Death. All Italy is mourning the tragic end of Signora Adelina Paolini, who was the lielle of the Peninsula. Surpassingly beautiful, al- ways attired with taste, constantly changing her toilet she attracted all eyes wherever she apiieartd. Villa liorghcse, the Pincio aud the Corso â€" tbe Carnal street aud shell- road of Rome â€" had no more faithful frc- (juenter. The 17th of July she was sitting with her mother and a gentleman iu her parlour, which was lighted by a petroleum oil lamp hanging from the ceiling. Tbe gentleman rose. As he did so, his head knocked the lamp, which oscillated and fell, falling so usfortunately as to pour all ite contente on Adeli as dress, and to 8i;t lire to the oil. Instantly one sheet of flame, panic-stricken, she ran into tbe drawing- room and threw herself on the fljbr. Her mother and the gentleman strove to put out the fire they |succeeded only in burning their hands and legs. The (ire spread to the curtains, and from them to the furnitureâ€" the whole room was in flames. The gentle- man went to the window and cried "Fire!" "Help!' The front door was loc'-.ed. A hatter s journeyman got an axe and battered dow.i tlic door. Firemen came aud found three wounded [icrsons to he cared for. While some of the tin men battled with the flames the others tcndel the wounded. A cab was sent for to carry Adetira to San (iiacomo Hospital. The hospital surgeon instantly saw thit the unhappy lady was doomed. She was in a swoon. He admin- istered soothing medicine, and presently she recovered eoueciousness and lingered in ia- expressible anguish u'jtil 4.30 a.m., when death released tier. She was put in her cof- fin the next day. The coffin was filled with carded cotton. Her tortured mouth, all awry afccr death, revealed her beautiful teeth her whole body, save her legs, was a cinder her right breast bad completely disappeared, burnt to ashes she looked like a negro packed in cotton. She was only three-and-twenty. ' English Ideas of Tanner- It is wonderful bow the attention of Eur- ope has been focnsaed upon Ir. Tanner in counting house and club, cb6p house and street, evei-y person one met seemed to have Tanner oa the brain. The medical men liave searched their records to find jiaallel cases. A rather interesting one is related â€" Sarah Jacobs, a Welsh girl, who^e pareato in 1867 alleged that she had taken no food for two yean. For the purpose Of netting the question at rest a committee w.is lormed on the recommendation of medical men this committee procured the services of four skilled nurses from Guy's hospital, whu scrupulously watehed her tor eight day-^, at the end of which time ehe diid. H. 1 il th wss a triumph for scfence, which g ve nu considciaiion to the disturbing influence of such a watch upon a frail, hysterical girl, whom a puff of air or stern look threw into convulsions. Her father ami mother were found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. As t^ the alleged previous fasting, the Judge told the jury that she must have been fed; that no oi:u'cjulu ll\e without food, uU thut uU.n she was watehed it was natural that she should die. The Queen's counsel declared that if 40,001) doctors affirmed the possibili- ty of .ivi..g long uithoal food, hii o.'.;i cum- mon sense would disbelieve them. Had Ur. Tanner's fast occurred before that trial, perhaps it would have influenced the jury and saved the parents from a long penal servitude. Tbe case is related of a fat pig which was buried in ita sty for 160 days, Uneath a cha'k slide of Dover Cliffy and was dug out at the end alive, although much reduced in weight. 0«*toM to EewblJe^ It u lomew^a' difficult t, Why it ahouid be the fact that ,L'"*«fc monarahiM than »..„! 1 '"^Biii^ monarchiea i_ republics ia 18 FDBLIRBKP PEIDAY MORNING la time to meet the eirly ma Is ^,o-«tains tbe I tes^ F.rci.n and Proviroial ^w% Local In;e!lgieu.e, County .ti lanr "â- *""• '^^jBVflBY ICojMa^cial Matlcri ao.l I Mi»aaCai.y. fLSS in '.dv.inoi:, |1 SO i. tki*« months IS if not paid till enil of U«a y*»' Ko |-a- sr dis.oDiiiiOi'U uutil aU arraarattes r id, except at thv oiitsoa •â- ! tbe ub iahe|r t Mid psrties rtfu-in* V^V" without uayip; v_ Ip will J 'leld rtjan^a*'" ' "• •'•o«;" ^;A'V, they oo«»y with the rules. -v^(ter« aj.ir^n«d to the Editor mast Je post- aken fr.j '7, I' aiwise thty may not be t I lfic». OF ADVERTISINC. $50 00 .% 00 18 00 10 UO 4 60 50 ^%i^, •;r one )ear d.. do do do lines and under, first ins.nion Esch subacqocnt insertion Ifi 'lom SIM to tea liner, first insertion 7.' Each subsequent insi rtion 25 'ver ten lines, iliat insertion per line 8 Each (nbraqacnt insertion ' 2 The Lumber of lines to be reckoned b\ -he s|«ce occupied messured by a scale of oliil brevier. Advertisements without pecitic directioos will be publish rd till for- id an-l charged accordingly. All transitorj '.dvertiieinents mast be iu the offi;e of pab- icstion by 11 o'clock on the 'Ihurslay lomiog preceding their pubbc^tinn. C. W. RUTLEDCiE, Pr. jirietor. Mrs Editors. i ,-*-f. vXTKACTS raOV A .SPKKCH DKLIVakail BY JIIARLWS. FHEKMltfi Yo Tl* ANNTAI mxetim; or Tua xaw vokk pKici.s a» sociATioM AT •raoY, ' Elitora are bom, not made. Vou rani.ot grind them np in heaps as ynu can do diic- I tors, or lawyers, or clergymen. There ii- noeoUtge where they are taught. Th.«e i- nocunieulum for them to study. There are no pr..f. ssors of newsi»a|erj. Tl ere ar. 10 dijilomas and there are no deg^e- s for an ditor. Perhapa I sbnuld aay that nom- 01 e ordinary aebools in which other |.r 'iv* liona are taught, answer fur the news|a Vub!ic,-and every one straigutu'.y •- "â- â-  "^^^ •* •«*" "' " " pri 'ting Hi re love with it. Hut they smm fouV j 1 ' *^'°*" " " »;• "" of the ty|K:, were admiring merely an idea, a phtUI atm^pheri of the oompoeinK-r...iii. that would never iu this worid, ^l^,^ ^\^^ "' »» "ditor cannot b-. Ui.ght in an milUnnium, be found eniA.Klie I ,n ,„ '^«™-, Jhe e are no b. oks »r ma,terst.. ' ... ... shape. Indeed th.s is die gnat a./""""' ^^ ""f »rtl..t the editor must objection to ie,.ubUcs h ag.i. t ««r'"'"=, 8*""'"' " «:°"" " "" '•o""-*"' -r tional monarch.os-th. s ia' 1. • »"«'" But though you cannot le.ch edi- They promise mi.clf ami p. n..r,. 1'" "â-  »'=*'?»' °' aoademies, you can teach There is a grand tiisplay of b paintca TweH •'own da\s wi| an odd 1 visit choose that ya aw»y fj ly enjo general l| Kline go log. K| V( rsi br.'Uirhtl h'SKeni" iii.r liey in a Hajj ladder. Would higher -.1 tickle torg.tt her mar'kel I thit wh| ev. r, whirl oj Nut 1 N'.venil] I c.inseioi^ Miy ^)i ciiiii|«ra| ft e ill,: ou^hi l.| iiig Miyl I vii^-uely| sliiiuhl I • anil. I. I Tl. -ill Is I ni IJ July, but little fruit, little of the kind ifaat wa; antici|at oys. And afur you have taught the lioy firing of cannon, rejoicing of niob'sll:.' '""'ool. yo" ~n t«cb the ei.u.r in i of .leeches, and celebrating of K. ..r."'"'^;.""" »"' j* ?7.'"' "u" '" '"""' -• ' ...» ' im St the wrong end of the "Bh»p. Start '"'"'y J im down among the rollers cn-l t'.c lye 1- .. It.- .1 *â- â-  'rushes snl he will work his way to the candi'l, the defect is not in the nrinr ,_..»„„ .•-. u .1. u .11 ,.â- ' 1 • iu r '"'â-  anctum. \\ hen he gets therr he will know repub.canism but m the men wi,oa.-,„w to stav Uiere. But if you start hio, at out. I. we had pcrfict men M 'iij,.:,,,^ „„ct .r, the p,«babil.t.e. are that he It aed to be ruled l-y l..,...e«M; ,,,„„„„ g^j ^imielf in the cellar. 1: 1. former-It would idtogelli. r I, a TO»ti„e of the evil, if our timc-s th.... not oulv actory method of governnant, i,.i „, ^egarl to th,-, but equisJIy with ng.r.l C, that condition IS fulfilled the rozpj,^ II trad,, ;^„, ,,r.,fe,,i,^i^he you.t,. „.«n be as often tbe mx duboU a- thi w. re unwilling to begin the bott n The arc pr'.fouod new spaper \\ Uness the terrible effecU 01 re^. u b^jades of a printing-,rti* should be a^ aiex- let looee in tbe times of the 1- re»..;i I.: raWe as the gndet of sn army There tion and the later Fieneh lon.inunc.u ,ould be no removal except for cause and glaring corruption ami mal-admmian o promotion except tor merit. The history that KT only too evident in the i:.1 the newspaper prets proves the 1 o«it on I admini tiou of our neighl.. ur» :: ere take. Tne best, the ablest, the most Unit, il Siatea W herefure »e •;, jccestful edit.^r» this land has priKlu. ed nan 11 d IS not yet, nor. We iw -une up from the rule and cimposiog stick, likely .I.J for many centuries tuaiiui.-. hsve known scores of tramping j..ur for a republican form of goveminenl, tjinters wh 1 hail every qualili atiou fiir there u no certainty, nor any secur.-.j.riUiant success in journalism except the the best representative men shall beaie of stead) habits; m n o'^wide learn- or even that the majority of ci.e eiecu.;! g, sparkling genius, and conimamling in- be the men best qualitled t.. eicroiMllect. And I never yet saw a Hnetly right of choice. This s why repul.lici, ucated man who was fit for an editor, less indeed we except those wfaicfe, ley are two starchy and st'ff. Thev are Switzerland, live a 6emi-eomau.se po.rj nice anil ur. cise. existence, always tend to ultimately bt.d profound. A mouarchies, and, though it may MOuld die iu a we.k daring prophecy, yet tie are not surtu nly and etjually fatal to a newspainr, warranted by historical prec.deut iu naorancc and profundity. But I thiuk .f that our two^reatest republics will, I; e two it can stand ignoianct: the better, by, follow the example 01 their prelecii* there are a ^reat many people who are and choose for themselves a kiuj. I'riMwant, and very few who are profoun.l. will be tl.e tirstfroni th- n.itiiic .•! lU ]T-»niel Webster undertook to write an i-ili- and the influenic ol the e.xan Ic ' "ial for a neH8|ia|)er. It was leven cj- former history, and the Uuitcni Su.'i "ns long and ko'id with statesmanship and foil .w 80 sutn as a man arise-s \l. ..adom. But the edit.r ailvised him to de- Washintitoii, o»u Becoto »j imusen-.â„¢. er it 10 C'oug.uM. "miJ Itt ii,o nowajNiper miration and love of his countrymen, It sometimes hapjcns that a school »bo, unlike him, will m.t scruplo Iu .ater out of a job, or ai; bilious of fame, ' the supreme power thus plsced in fai'i bisks laurels ai.d cash iu the iditoiial i,ane- n. The$..' are th. worst failures 'n the -•... .^â€" ^ig ^g^ The\ invariably r» • on their .ALL SOBTS, S"** w:Mn they write, uw ruied p ,kj-, all their i's, oros all their i'», au'l .1 â-  1 â- Â»Â« every sentence before it goes to pres;-. Tl-Mlis have greatly changed, k -ey ,rc ,1^ .gne-l '.o su.ce,d better or days It was the Christians who b.n^„thlv ., larterly pâ- lMl.atiun^ or tho^e stripis, butnowitisthepcnilei.l..;. ripht'nm ut once a e.i, tl.an ..•. th. " WHiiKE will you put ine wli.i.l 'y l" â-  'f auythin is cal.ilated to to sec you at your castle in the airV "i "' i ' ' " ' °f •" e litor, it is to ti-e I'tlh' sitl tary let I ..geti.eif atii.t:. IIiggln^ • ijua-jy .Maoii, ll.'rac fiou.;ii and til nie It I ' slian 111 Tins only .Irlliiliul surrotiiM ' .leli^hTi'l -tMl V i-ehe-. invitati' â- | aften.." th.ri e as»ur'.i inati. i was iiioi in ver, I illlll t V fort w .i I to rao-e never " wa- t. n was lea. I ^har.llji grteting| up to I iiig ro. ace'i. tail Has the ncj knew IKIUll.l the best] always fun of seen bef^ 1,.' h.. He hskI H ith a ra llllU-i It ellect Iiu-tiy UT-i â-  a gentleman of a witty girl, study," she replied. •Iu ji-iehooma ur laboring ovi r a paraiiraph. m.-u DuRiNu the -first six e erasur.'s at.d interlineations, the stop- fc' ""' "^fii-g. tic tcaiigs up aud l.»- llE seems to hsve been sh.t in tt^ niiigs again, tbe C( nsultations of tl.e phragm," said the doctor. " Oh, no tion^ry, the wise l6ok at th.- wall the claimed his weeping listener, "hew«ibl sb -ut grammar, and the greU doubt in the lower end of the saloon." mt idess, are frightful to behold. 1 state THBBridgtown (Me.)Aeirf callnlv^"»1' 'â„¢"' *hen I say that I have «en " The types last week made us sav tbV. '« "' "" " gentlemeu spend two preco.us sbowers were not strticient to' mt.: " '" "yni: to put a simple statement in wai.ts of milkmen,' ic., in. ead ,â- ( "W-^'P""' **" "'t' "" I:*" ».ir- a of grammar kills them. And yet the ^, ^. tor must not fail in grammar. His sen- ,00 I. "'"" f "A*""-* """t becl.arout, pre-^ise, au.l per- sent year 390 ships were registered m {j^j |,e must d.. it without Viertion Und as unseaworthy, and were m ., ^^^ ^^e s*.mc ease and fre^oi.i thai "^*i "l^e**^"*** fr..m procec, 11 ;; t- ,.„„y engage in cot,Nersi.t:..\.: " h,. while 125 others were irevcutedlr«ai«jity he geta when he goes through the be.au e overladen. des. He cannot bring it with him fr^im A KKUuiors trie' c 11. d " I'u S"' ' "W»er pri.fession. Theie arc iio..sibU Trust in Princes" was thrown int.. theaeptwrns, but they are rar.-, exoeedintdy of a simple old (ierman. He rtad thf«. »"'• only prove the rule. Tbe sJioe- I and soliloquized " Veil. 1 don d pntker had better stick to bis la.t, the drust in princes. l»ey must pay d,rc«»lmaster to hu sch.K»l, aud the editor dis shop chust Jcr same as a vite uiantbs sanctum. No man lan be ..n edit..i -, 1. I does not un.lerstand all the details ..• A o'.dfan::crs v 1 :. who h.-d .i ' 'hueiLess. He must le competent t.. that wss notorious for breaking iti^- ,ny gap, in any pUc at any moment one occasion fell asleep in churdi. I' niiist know how to do all that is need- ber slumbers her elbow unluckily oWfi he done on a newspaiier. He must b. ed a bible, wheu, to the amus.ment "c to write a leader or a itaraTai.h at a fellow-worshippers, she was heard t« meat's notice, or without any" notice at in a very audible voice, " anither ho« He mu^i be a man of .|u.ck pcrcN. '»"»'«'•" I, of prompt decision ..nd force of thai Not long ago a new railway was o~"' V*. ""'^* • le»dcr. He. mut in the Highlands. A Highlander t'"""" ^^e ship. Donald heard of it, and bought a tick' *â-  *»» 'i.:^::^ th;^,f;^;ir:^'-^^ -^^^^^ »*, vai.ey „r ^u.,.., collision took plsce, and poor ^* f ':;nr:^i,^^X^ ^t ::!::' t.rownun«eremou.ou.lyintoapark. ,i,^uc and pern ant nt a°d f^r th, recovering hu sen«i he made the be.t ,;„„ r j, ^.^ B'shoys of way home, when the neighbours a»klâ- ^,^^, Do^q (J^^jt i. smj-s how he hked bis drive. "•'h, r ^„^ur,.ed his Donsfd, " she liked it fine, but they '".tings have awfu' quick way in puttin me ..ot. " ,(„„. and Cashel h efforto, and been held in behal The Habit of Bolf-Oontrol If there is one l^bit which, above all others, is deserving of cultivation, it is that of self-control. In fact it ioclades so much that is of valne and importance in life, that it may almoat be said that, in proportion to ita power, does the man obtain his manhood and the woman her womanhood. Tbe abili- ty to identify itself with the hisher parts of ^-j JJ^y onr nature, and to brina all the lowest parte j^ ^^ ^-^^ into subjection, or rather to draw them all upwards into harmony with the best that we Li ow, is tbe one central power which nap- pUes vitality to all the rest. How to de- velop this in the child msv well absorb the energy of every parvnt bow to cultivate it i I bimaelf may well employ tbo wia-^om and eothaaia%m of every youth. Yet it ia no myst'ri'^as or complicatad path tha kadi to '.lid goal. The habit of self-control ia but the aooumalation of continned acts of aelf- u..nial for a worthy object it ia but tha re- pea t ad authority ot the re aa on over the im- palaaa. of the jadgment over the ijtolina- tioo, of the aenae of duty ovar tha deairea. He who has ao^uiied thia habit, who can govam hiawa^ uMligently, without pain- tal aflbrt, aad vlthoat any fear of revolt A POI-DLAR Macou minister receuUy-jg^.j^j,^^ District Sni«=rintende. the night thirty miles below .^merifliu, in tj^e lamoh Distiict m th a backwoodsman, whose house c^miir' ,iucet of Jndi», n-contly captnnd a co- only two rooms. In the morning j^J| ^^ liekPit in his right hand while h member of the family, in rcsiionse »i«,ted out t si.nie Iriends the uoisi.n plication for a wash bowl, broirght » jj^ sudden effort the reptile dart- old tin pan, and after the lace W^n, head f..rward jui-t tar enough to completed, hunted up about seven f ^h thp point of the index hnger ot lien- an old tuckiag comb for him "to arraii^ j^j^ ^^^ Uiiipite every ellort to hair with. During the progrei-s*t t-;, tj, yf^^ he died in three hours, portent cerei lony, the following c**' e ... between the two took place "'JIi**" Episcopal church ncenlly built jt you wash every morniu' " fd?." '"»â-  " western terminu- .if the North- comb your hair, too?" "Yes." '^J^citic Bailroa4#r.a,.l to have the old don't it look to you sometimcshi* yoiTOWir «n thu ..oi.,»„jnt. The buihling ii- heap of trouble to yourself " â„¢* l"g' and was put up in les* than .ea weeks. The tower is an iium iie fir Urdbk.â€" There u scartc.y any wijj' :, whiob was seventy feet hi^h, but which as beauty without order; or, il there «. been cut off lorty feet alx.ve the groun.i, alw-8»»dly impaired by disorder. As" surmounted with a bell an 1 cross. The we know, is the very parent "f »*• ,• of the tree snow that it is at least 275 orderly person can do more Wsir« m '""/H old. The church lo ks out on and d.i it better, and with lesi fstigiX. ,^, In the rrar M.innt Kak one who is disorderly. He does n^' *** height of 1 1 .000 feet A little rectory idany time in looking for tool* ot »* baaa built close by the church, e knows just where to finl "";»• ij;.i,,„, nf M.^i. does he suffer the annoyance of h»^'°'" nj^er i t • ft^f '.â- !" » •*""»" without things that are lost or brokea, "^j^^J" 1;„ *« ' „""' S*^'"" ' rarely loses or break* and the ordwi ^^^ ^,^^,^ ^^ ^^ m ,pp. man can find her things st the ni» ,c^rehman to the liria- m. 1. even with her eyes shut. -ooil ordef" j,,,y^y ^, Jlituali.tie b^Ii^^ " arlf one kind of beauty and it isss r.'^hrf^d v .. question of tbeTdmim. itisbeaatifaL And all theother »;^^j^^ j^^^j^ ^^.j^^^j^^;^ ^^^^ ^ww beauty arein themselves orderly.snu »• u^ ^jjjij^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ win ^.d Oidar. â- Mjp ag of the ' A)i:nus Dei' in conuee A HCNGARIAN peasant named Ji'^tZ*^' Commn ion flic,-. .Ml those ing ooovicte I of ttoabn.' was f""*^^ W^e ^erlectly haimie s m them receive fiftv blows. The Judge from hia i^ypatitaa an4 pawl(iM, iiai within him tha aonroa ol all raU power apd of all tHM happinaas. Thaforea aad energy wUeh ha liM pat lortli d» ky day, and holu by hmu, iahetaathMitad, eravaodiaiiaiahad Oil tha eoatraiy it has inoroaaad by siaiahad I ' aae, ana haa haoaoM aWoacar aad kaaaarlqr aad, althoag^ it has already oomplatad ita wgifc in tiia pMk it ia atiJl hia waU-triad, Iraa, mi^tmfn^w f aftm far faitaia oob' I'uget rises t explained to Jsnose that he "iigl" »Pf' ths Ober Tribunal, should the «?'«^ ' him aatbo severe. Janosc t°?"_*L^ of this right Meanwhile, "Pj'JJt Honoor caused the prisoner to ** dowa to a bench in the court, ana p» sapsrviaad the fullexecutiollof thes-- A 11;; wa.^ latar the Ob^'-Tn^-il ed tbe punishmaat from titty vu • â-  "^^orthwith the od*. c*'**^ hpit they had bsen declared to be orderja^^ twenty blows. ... moned Janoae to court, aud lie down again on the bench ana ^^^ hi* luitinated uonishuieut. 'u,,^ wretohad anpellant pro**^_i. j aarved his Honoor, " the decrees c le Church of England that was Chnrch had not ordered them, had a right to ir-lrr them of his own free mind. To iiion and agitate the Church of it to the other about mat- seemed to him til be an io- folly, io face of those gnat which they had to deal, io soul for it He might matter of taste but who his soul was one bit lifted «aase a pair of lisfated wax 1 an the holy table duing the 0( tha Saoramaat r" eovercl I lim tu.iil goml t(j |.repii. aa\ ol III iliisceuc aiiil th»i ing, I IM (Millsh, ..f llle fe th. (.fl.l lii.*t .1: .erlain K 1 'ie It worll.l 1 hail I lial.il ..il 'â- '"K. aii.l over ally H very lia when Wi tion I .lireetioii «h.atla t-al.l soiii tin^liiAUl stl.lle trd I aii.i t. ' faeliin.ll ha\*( prol c nqiariia l.ls llll,j JMikeli jep.a. .Ij slorv I .1ai..aJ ••. i vc H01.VI' lars ami iiii\tliili^ â- â€¢ Well may It. Iliel ago. Itj a .urate,] Imt I III les." tha I .\traM io\er ot f it au.il nng for eiigagema of till uncle, ei it to in I'ebriJ I -Sunday I married, ried hi happiest l»elicve t only eaci tliat we ..•'imi. thi oughly f^Ien.l^ a: CC" ») anxiety. •' llii mouths, iiiysleri' je^t t.. pressioi ' liecaine advice at pletely a perfectly the hejrt] to Ih-, 11; count f they con open-air lant. Iu wile gre took to n bed apparent!; went initi hours ov mon. J tlir. e-i viter, wb^ my ahseno herself she s .lead •' You me but il that wliati thought anxiety ha and that r I did uiy oecded, lol that I was f teheed.