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FINDING MAMMA,
[AM, INCIDENT OF THE FEVER PLAGER IN QUESADA.]
Some other's prattling baby,
Lost in the city streets,
Smiling with pretty wonder
In every fase he meets.
Answering in baby-fashion,
To all who bid him stay: I'm doin' to find my mamma; She's went and runned away."
Strong men, with eyes o'erbrimming,
Caress the sunny head; They know that last night they laid her
With the unnumbered dead,
And heard her prayer when dying:
"God-bless-uy-baby-doar---- And-being-him-8000-to-met-me-
1-cannot-leave-im-hore."
But still the sweet lips murmur
To those who hid him come :” I'se dot to find my mamma. Before I tau doo home,"
The dimpled checks grow palar, The eyes are fever-bright, The little feet are weary
Beneath the falling sight. -
They found him in the star-light;
The rosy lips were closed, And on the baby forehead
The peace of death reposed.
How bad the mother'e spirit
Found answer to her prayer?
We only know that mimima,"
And home, and heaven were there! Mrs M. L. Rayne, the Argonaut
THE GOLDEN MILESTONE.. Leafless are the trees; their purple hranehes Spread themselves abroad like reefs of coral,
Rising silent
In the red sca of the winter sunset.
From the hundred chimneys of the village, Like the Alfreet in the Arabian stury,
Smoky columus Tower aloft into the air of amber.
At the window winks the flickering firelight; Here and there the lamps of evening glimur,
Social watchfires.
Answering one another through the darkness.
On the hearth lighted logs are glowing, And like Ariel in the choven pine tree,
For its freedom Groans and sighs, the air imprisoned in them.
By the fireside the old man is seated, Sooing ruined cities in ashes,
Asking sadly
Of the past what it can ne'er restore them. By the fireside there are youthful draumers, Building castles fair, with stately stairways,
Asking blindly
Of the future what it cannot give them.
By the fireside tragedios are acted, In whose scenes appear two actors only-
Wife and husband, And above them God, the spectator.
By the fireside there is peace and comfort; Wives and children, with fair, thoughtful
faces,
Waiting, watabing For a well-known footstep in the passage. Each man's chimney is his Golden Milestone; In the central point from which he measures
Every distance Through the gateways of the world around
him.
THE CHINA MAIL.
visit
[No. 4843.JANDARY 11, 1879.
Now Jerome, in translating the passage from the Hebrow of Exodus, made the Latin Vulgata say of Moses, as he came down from the mount, that his face, or head, was harned or had horns on it, when he should
There is no scalptor uncle. There is no tresson thore” anything suspieloos in that? It seems to was a physician somewhat out of practice, have translated it, "His very face, or head,
The desk was quito empty, with the exception of two or three scraps of waste paper. On one of those the expert pounced, and returned with an air of elation to the other room. He then unfolded this sorap of paper, and disclosed a half sheet exactly the air of the paper on which Elinor Basumont's letters were written, in which oblong holes at intervals had been out.
heart, and a selfish, disdainful spirit en-why you should have all the ram things much smaller and we should enjoy' the' throned in the will, as to preserve beauty of to yoursolt," an elegant mansion with a litter of swine So my uncle had the letters for a week, "When I was in London last week I saw in the basement, a tribo of gipsies in the par- and found them very much as Parker had our cousin Barry, fresh from Windsor. lours and owls and valtarea in the upper described them. The suspicious symptoms There is little change to be observed in part. Badnces and beauty will no more had increased, the stock axchange res-him--not much as you would expect. keop company a great while than poison ponded more sensitively than ever; but Come to us on Friday. Yours, vory allo-
ELINOR B will consort with health, or an eleganteary- not the slightest ground for suspecting any tionately,
My uncle road this out loud from begin- ing survive the furnaco fire. The experi- one transpired. My uncle was bewildered, ment of putting them together bag boon and Parker was rapidly verging to insanity.ning to and, and then said, "Do you sen tried for thousands of years, but with one "It is certainly not the clerk," anid unvarying result.
said me very innocent." like the mind. There is nothing that so re-be, pushing back the letters of the day. "Hum! It may be. Was there any fines, polishes, and ennobles face and mien "By the way, how does young Beaumont thing else in the desk?" said he, addrons as the constant presence of great thoughts. get on Sho seems a nice creature, that Ing Parker. The man who lives in the region of idens, sister of his, to judge by her lettore.
You may go and look," growled that moonbeans though they be, becomes iden- do is the best hand In the office, a potentate; and he led the way, the export lised. There are no arte, no gymnastics, to long night; and his sister is a very sweet, following. cosmetics which contribute a tithe so much ladylike creature. They are orphans, poor of the dignity, the strength, the canebling things, and he supports her out of his of a man's looks, as a great purpose, a high silary. She called at the office two months determination, a noble principle, an un- ago, and I gave him leave to see her for quenchable cúthusiastn. But more power-a few minutes in my room. But he knew fal still than any of these as a beautifier it was against rule, and has not seen her of the person is the overmastering purpose here again? and pervading disposition of kindness in the heart. Affection is the organising force in the human constitution. Woman is fairer than man because she has more affection
So he spoke to the first lord, who thought than man. Laveliness is the outside of lovo, the affair serius enoit,h. Kindness, sweetness, goodwill, a prevailing It must be in the letters," said my desire and determination to make others unclo. happy, make the body a temple of the Holy As you please," said the obisf, but Ghost. The soul that is full of pure and though you cannot find it there, perhaps generous affections, fashious the features an ther can. I would try an experi."' into its own ungelic likericas, as the fuse by My uncle had no faith in exports or Bow inherent impulso grows ju grage and blog-street ranors, and mistrusted them. But sume into loveliness which art cannot equal. he could not refuse to try the experivient There is nothing earth which so quickly suggested. So the moet experienced transfigures, personality, refines, exalts, deiphecer in London was summoned tuto irradiates with heaven's own impress of council, and to him the letters of the day loveliness, as a pervading, prevailing kind- were secretly submitted. nces of heart. The angels are beautiful because they are good, and God is beautiful becauso He is love-Christian Globe.
THE PRIVATE SECRETARY. About the beginning of this century, when the revolutionary wars were raging, com. munfeation in cipher was naturally very prevalent; and Ingenuity was taxed to the utmost on one hand to invent, and on the other to detect the medium used in secret correspondence. As a rule, the decipheror had boten the cipher, and no known motbod was secure of detection. If oou-. ventional signs merely wors used, the re currence of the different symbols gave a key easily followed out. Some ingenious spirits corresponded by reference to the pages and lions of particular-books-others by an agreed vocabulary. But these last methods, although they might preserve the secret, disclosed what was often quito an dangerous, that there was a accrot. I am about to tell you of a plan which for a long time was not only undetected but unsuspected.
it was at that time when the first Napoleon hai neserabled bis fleetoj and transports at Brost, with the ostensible and aa la generally believed the real view of making a descent on England. The greatest precautions were observed by the English government in regard to correspondence from France, and an amount of espionago was practised at the post office which left Sir James Graham's subsequent per- formances in that liue far behind. The na tional excitement was intense, and the political department was administered with Iron sway.
My uncle, Sir George Trevor, was, as all the world knew, high in the admiralty, and as it was from him that I heard this anecdote, its veracity may be depended
upon.
But what are we to do " sald my mcla; "I think I will speak to the first ford.""
He read them all very carefully, looked at them in the light, and looked at the light through them. At laat ho put them all anide, excepting one from Elinor Beaumont.
"She lives in Jersoy, Beaumont told be. Their father was in business there,"
And does she always write about the amo kind of things-aunt's rheumatism, picnics, squire's tea parties and the like?"
"Mach the same, excepting when she speaks of Beaumont himself."
«Hum!" said the expert. "Well, sir," said my uncle, who was rather impatient of the man of skill's pom- posity, and what may hum' mosu? Have the young woman and bor aunt's rheumatism done the mlachief
"Elum! She dates from Fleet street !"
And why should she not date from Flest atrest, air?"
He then placed this half shoet over the letter, and handed both, thus placed to my uncle whose astonisked eyes read the fol- lowing words, which the boles left visible: Fleet wind-bound. Fifty sails of the line, twenty-five smaller. Should the wind change, expect us on Friday."
where.
"But what put you on the scent?" asked my uncle afterward, with many apologies
to the expert
daughter, aged 14 was quickly sont to a brightness was as the light; and he had neighbour for assistance. He was buying horns coming out of his hand," where the trees from an agent of a Now York aurery, version should have boon; His very hands to be delivered in the fall. Both mon radiated light, or had rage-pencils of light hurried to the home of Mr Patte, and found streaming forth from them. him and his wife nearly senseless. Potts frothed at the mouth, and his eyes nearly atarted from their sockets. The children ware Boroaming in terror and fear. Mrs, Potts was revived, and the agent, who went to work on the giant woodman radiated light," sending forth its beams to stretched on the floor. Mis Potta was told the view of all Israal. In each of these to procure samo strong tes of a certain kind three verses in Exodus the same, word is of plant growing in the meadow, and, while used by Tereno in his version. In the 29th this was being done, Dr. Gephart, the agent verse he makes read, "When Moses and the farcer lifted Potts to a bench and came down from Mount Sinai, ho held the threw his head back to the wall. His two tables of the law, and knew not that his throat was swollen, and he was given water face was horned;" in the 30th veree, to drink. He then breathed slowly, and Aaron and the children of Israel, looking asked for more water. Gradually he revivad on the face of Moses, saw that it was and he slowly told his at ry. The Doctor horned and in the 26th voras, "they w at once realized what bad taken place. the face of Monos, that it was horned."" And Strong, hot tea was then administered, as the Vulgate was the Bible of the Roman which caused a violent vomiting, but noth- Church, and the only version familiarly ing unusual was ejected. All that night known to Michael Angelo, when he turned Mr Potte suffered, but his friends remained as ho naturally would to the book of Exodus with him, sitting up by turns and taking for a description of the appearance of Mokas, caro of him. During the night he had ton and found that the verses we have quoted spasmes. At 5 o'clock to the moralug the described him as horned, or having horns, Doctor placed a wet towel on Pott's breast, then, to be true to the language of Scripture, and then held his ear plese to it. He then he put these horna on the head of his status turned away and so md to be borror of the grast lawgiver of Israel. So strange struck. His worst fears seemed to be rely may one wrong translation mystify and At 6 o'clock he told Mr Potts that mislead for ages interpreters as well as "The devil!" asid bay uncle; "and alized:
he had certainly swallowed some sort of artists-Rep. Tryon Edwards in Sunday Nolson ordered off to the West Indies."
Then was there, as you may suppose, htesing, reptile, because its movements Afternoga hurrying and marrying, and running and within him could be distinctly heard. Ports chasing, and dispatching of government was very weak, but still he said he would
Wrex the Scotch papers described what vuriera, and semaphore telegraphs, and submit to any treatment. Dr. Gephart carrier pigeons, and all the Old World assured him that he would stand by him, manner of men the City of Glasgow Bank. means of communication then in fashion, and do all he could. Finally Mea Potts directors were, a little fact came out which The key than obtained, disclosed the whole was told to heat a pot of milk. Then Potte I hope will not be lost alght of. I call correspondence, which turned out to be a tabaled the steam of this by bending his particular attention to it, because it looke connected series of letters from the French head very low. Instantly he fell back in a more like a jest than the grim fact which One of the directors always most government, amuggled into Jersey. The strangling apasm, and it was thought he it is. result history knows; the intended invasion would die. He was with difficulty revived. storuly refused to road a Monday's news- "Who is the lady that writes this ?" said was abandoned, and Napoleon, went else-We must pursue that plan," said the paper, because it bad to be printed on the Doctor, and moro milk was put on the Sabbath-day. This is almost like tho jast the taciturn man of skill at last.
A very sweat young woman,
cald
stove. Potts was then led out under a that In Soulland the hens are not allowed Parkur, smartly; sister of my private
shed roof and asked whether he was to lay eggs on Sunday. A Scotchman whom willing to undergo that treatment. He I know informs me that he was carefully secretary."
Does she write often 7”.
"I suspected the trick from the first, consented. A wagon was pushed in and tralued as a boy to be a bank director, for the men got in it. Above was a cross he was not allowed to whistle to his dog on *Yea; she is his only correspondent, and although it was a very good specimen of
it The letters were too inaccent, and had beam. A strong rope was tied to this the Lord's day He might call it in Enge writes about twice a week."
"Where does nka live 1”
too little point in them. But they were and then securely passed around the lish, or all it in Ganlio, but whistling was! done with admirable skill. The grammar lower limbs of the suffering man. The devillab. It is to be hoped that the present was complete, and the little duia or marke wagon was then pulled away, and Potts exposure may bave a good effect in red using was left hanging head down. He was to its absurdity the Sabbatarianism which which banglers use to guide them in writing the words which are to be read were entirely afded in holding his head up. Then the is the opprobrium of Scotch religion. These absent. The way in which the deception boiling milk was brought, and he inhaled Sootab elders devour widowa' houses with is effected is this: The correspondent before the steam. Dr Gephart lield Pott's mouth out compunetion, but they excommunicate a compositor who has an engagement on a commencing takes a plece of paper and open. The patient's tongus protruded and outa boles in it, which, of course, in the his eyes started. The thich stoam fowed daily paper, and therefore has to work on two half sheets, exactly correspond. They into his threat, and the poor sufferer made Sundays. I do trust that our friends of the a noise as if choking. Then quick as Scotch press will use the present opportunity each take on-belt aheet, and, when letter is to be written, the writer de arraugen thought the Doctor saw a head protrude, to give a deathblow to the degrading the words that those intended to be read and, saizing it with his naked fingers, he superstition which raises the fourth com, shail appear in the holes when the half-quickly pulled, and the reptile, was dashed mandment luto. the greatest of all, and in too many cases makes it the substitute of sheet is placed over the paper which is the into an empty bucket. Mra Potts was
When the correspondent.reworking, like a beaver, and, while; the all-World. same size,
MEMPUIS before the plague, had a po ceives the letter, he places ble half-sheet Doctor was expporting the husband, the over it, and reads off the words as you did. wagon was backed in and in a few seconds pulation of 50,000; but of the people who The difficulty, which was so well conquered Potts was lying on the ground nearly dead, now remain only 3,000 are in health. The in the case, is to make the senso run He was given some whisky and water and fever prevalls in various parts of the coun fluently, and to prevent any visible break-was robbed with comme towelling, and try included within a radius of ten miles of ing to the writing. Without the half-sheet finally he seemed to be resting easy. His the city. Fifteen volunteer physiciana baya," with the holes in it no one can have the eyes ware bloodshot, and every vein seemed died in Memphis, and twenty others ara bulged and ready to burst. He was carried sick. Eight Catholic priests and five Pro slightest clow to the real meaning.
"My suspicions, once aroused, were con into the house and put to bed, and light teaiast miniatore have also perished. At firmed by the inquiries which made. food was administered. Bia throat was Vicksburg physicians foar weather and con- The whole story about the sister was a very sore, but still he was thankful when sequently a renewal of the fover with black- fabrication. The letters did come from told that the reptile had been removed. vomit. Second, class mail matter has been The Doctor was soon busy examining it. burned by quarantine officers at Galveston, Jersey, the answers went to Fleet street, to
slugular-looking one, and and postal agents protest against its wanton
When fever appenrad: at.... the charge of very notorions foreign agents. The suake was Bat if our friend had not been fool enough measured nineteen inches in length, but at destruction.
the thickest part of its body it was not Chattanooga the town was almost depopu to leave his half-shoot in the desk we might more than half-Inob. It was dark green Iated in a single day. The rush was for the have groped in vain for the mysteht and on the under sild and black on top, and mountains. Old buildinga, abandoned long
Beaumont disappeared that night was never heard of again at the admiralty. apparently had no scales. It was killed ago, were filled to overflowing. The earllest It transpired afterwards that some accom and put into a bottle filled with alcohol. historical notice of yellow fever is in Lizon's plice had warned him of the expert's visit Mr Potts said he would not have it in the History of Barbadoes," where it is said to to the admiralty and his inquirios in Jersey, house, and never wanted to see it again. have broken out early in September, 1647, He made as attempt to get admission to The tree agent took it with him, saying he and before the end of the month "the his room, but was scared by the sounds he would never forget the incident in his life. living were scarcely able to bury the dead."
During the next 150 years the disease was heard, and, contrived to escape to France.
several times epidemio in the West Indies, The lady who acted the sister, and who
BOARD SCHOOL COMEDY.
but did not become very asvere nntil 1793, visited the admiralty, partly to put the
The absurd interrogatories at times pro-when it destroyed no fewer than 6,000 men authorities off their guard, and probably to exchange the key for the cipher, was a posed by examiners in board schools often at Port Royal in a few months. In 1804 Parisian celebrity who, before and after produce somewhat ludicrous answers-it was brought to the south of Spain, and wards, was renowned for her daring in indeed the cleverest children would neem visited Cadiz, Malaga and Garthagana, its to be those who, Instead of answering the greatest force falling upon Gibraltar. where, political intrigue.Fraser's Magazine,
examiners according to their folly, dodge in four months, 54 officers, 864 soldiers and them humoronsly and reply as though they 5,028 others died, and only 28 in 14,100 of were dealing with more propounders of a population osoaped au attack.
A clockmaker's daughter, conundrume. (From the Reading (Pa.) Eagle.)
a vacaney on the police force of an Irish eslled upon to explain the meaning of "the Faren Potts, aged 45, is a woodman devil and all his works," said that his town was one Patrick Murphy, whose residing about two miles, from Warwick "works" meant his inside. A boy of appearance before the Mayor was hailed furnace. For the past six months he has genius, asked what he understood by with cries of "He can't write." The Mayor been clearing a tract of land for his brother-poor in spirit," replied, "Them as have said he was only there to take down the in-law, about one-half mile from his home. Hittle gin left in their bottle." Conscience names of applicants, who would come a A friend He is a stalwart, broad-shouldered man, baving been described as "a hinward fortnight later for examination. and wears his bheir close cut. He has a monitor," the inspector called upon anset Murphy-in a fair round hand the copy clean face and boavy jaws. On Tuesday tutelligent pupil to say what a monitor was, "Patrick Murphy," and kept him practicing. and Wednesday of this week Mr Potts when the youth replied, "A lironolad." at it assiduously. When the eventful day
most Such answers a
Turkey ls the capital of arrived, "Take that pen," said the Mayor, passed through probably one of
and write--write your name.” As Pat terrible ordeals of its kind that any human Norfolk, "Tureen is the capital of Chiner" being was ever called upon to endure. And would pass in a burlesque as jokes, The took up the peu exclamations arose, "Pat's all in the presence of his wife and four boy, however, who gave “Devonshire, a-writing; he's got a quill in his fist !! children. Wednesday of this week he left Exeter, Littikos, Numbers, Stronomy, "Small good will it de him; he can't write home as usual ourly in the moraleg, taking Jupiter, Judges, Ruth," &c, as the namas wid. it." All were dumbfounded when his dinner with him in a kettle, as he gene of the books of the Old Testament, was Murphy recorded his name in a bold round rally remained all day. He says he worked apparently in earnest. So also was that hand, and the Mayor declared "That'll do:” until noon, ate his dinner, and at 1 o'clock other ind, who, fall of what Strauss but one of them shouted, "Ask him to write worked-on as usual. About three in the would have called the stern common- somebody else's name, Yer Bozor," Write afternoon he became drowsy, and the heat sense of ordinary mankind," said that he my name, Murphy," said the Mayor. was oppressive. As he was working by the did not know what a miracle was; that Write Yer Honor's name!" exclaimed job he concluded to take a nap. He rested if he saw the sun shining overhead at Pat. Me commit forgery, and goin' into in the shade of large ost near a clump of midnight, he should call it the moon; the police! I daren't do it, Yer Hunor." rocks, his head lying on his coat near a that, if he were told it was the sun, ho
A CHAPTER ON STIxes.--The pain caused projecting root. How long he slept Mr should say it was a lio; and that if the by the sting of a plant or insect is the result Potta does not state, but suddenly he was echool-examiner in person declared pool of a certain amount of said poison infected awakened by a choking sensation. He tively that it was the sun, he should say into the blood. The first thing to be dons jumped up, and, as he jumped, realized that the school-examiner was worry is to press the tube of a small key firmly on that he had his month open during his nap, drunk."
the wound, moving the key from side to side to facilitate the expulsion of the sting and its There was a strange taste in his mouth, and his throat felt raw. Suddenly he ejected about a half capful of slime, and for a time WHY MICHAEL ANGELO PUT HORNS accompanying poison. The sting if left in the wound, should be carefully extracted, he thought be had been polsonad. He felt
otherwise it will greatly increase the local
"I should be sorry to prevent her," said the unmored philosopher. "Has this cor- respondence continued long ?"
"Oh, yes-a couple of years or so, but not nearly so regularly as lately,"
For how long regularly ?"
About two months "That is, about the time when you firat suspected the betrayal of confidence 1"
Really, my friend, if you can't see farther into a millstone than that, you may give up the profession," said my uncle, Take my word for It, the Beamounts have nothing to do with it. Rubbish."
Hum!" and with that the man of skill took his hat and departed, paying he would The two days, however, were five before he came back and was again closeted with uncle and Parker, with whom he had fallen into great
The dispatches to and from the admiralty wore the subject of the greatest vigilance return in two days, and the most stringent regulations. The clerks were not permitted to send or to receive letters which were not submitted to the chief clerk, and it was believed that disavor. lotters addressed oven to their private "Wants to make a job," said the latter- Hears the talking flame, the answering night-residences were frequently opened at the "a regular humbug."
post office.
"Sir George," said the regular humbug, At the time I speak of the chief clerkhas Mr Beaumont a locked desk in his was an elderly man of the name of Parker room?" - wizened, wiry, dapper individual, a Imbued with the official tincture of White-
In his farthest wandering still he sees it,
wird,
As he heard them When he sat with those who wore, but aro
not,
Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion, Nor the marching of an encroaching city,
Drives an exile From the earth of his ancestral homestead.
Wo may build more splendid habitations, Fill our rooms with paintings and with
sculptures,
But we cannot Buy with gold the old associations.
THE VISITORS BOOK AT THE INN.
Only a shower-swift darting thunder, rain; Linger a while; the blue will come again: Meantime, with idle fingera turn this pago Of ink-stained relies that such hours engaged. Here is a stream, along whose narrow bank Lies the dead refuse, dry and stale and danic, While, like the brook that stranded litter
shames, Runs the glear record of more modest names, This book's a glass which shows the varied
face
Of wisdom, folly, gaiety, or grimace, Here the pure laugh has rippled v'er the page; There the rank jest betrays too cunning age. Here, the keen faah has lighted up the leaf; There, heavy wit bus dragged its ponderous
sheaf.
hall that it had become second nature to him,. He was a genial and kindly scal, keen and energetic in the affairs of his office, and in all others a mere child,
"Yes, sir," said Mr Parker, "he han.” "Have you a koy which will open it 79 "I have and what of that ?" "I wish to have the desk opened without his knowledge, and the contents brought to me."
"And on what pretence,” said my uncle, "do you propose to put this insalt on a mau against whom there is no reasonable ground of suspicion, and who has not been allowed to speak for himself."
"There need be no fusult, for he will know nothing of it; neither will any one
#1 will not permit it, sir."
He had engaged as his private secretary a young fellow of the natue of Beaumont, who was one of the most promising subordinates in the establishment. He was a modest, unassuming mau, very good looking, with a countenance and an air angecative of de- pression and melancholy. He was oridently of good education, and probably well-born elen." aleo, for his mannsre were exsy and indicated native of Jorasy,
"Hum! Then I can do no more in the and had been introduced to the notice of business." good breeding. He was the admiralty authorities by aomo influen- "Bat," cald Parker, whose official tial member of the Parliament. He wasnotions made him unwilling to break off much liked in the oflios and discharged his the negotiations in this manner, "what protence have you for doing this to Mr duties to perfection.
Beaumont, and not to the other clerks ?"
Shall I tell you? There is no such person as Elinor Beaumont, and the ad- droes in Fleet street is a notorious haunt of suspected foreigners.
before my uncle with a visage pale with ne morning Parker presented bimself woe, and trembling with excitement.
"Why, what is the matter, Parker? Has Bonaparte come?"
"He may have, for aught I know," sald "Things are all wrong, Sie Parker.
George!"
• What are wrong ?” The letters are wrong. There is a spy among us. I have known it for long; now i am quite sure; but I eaunot find bim Here, kind good nature notices good cheer: Parker went on to explain that be There clumsy folly shows its vaunut leor. See ponderons Pride her grand approval had some time suspected that some one in
mark,
the office communicated their private in- He had While snug Contentment southes the cynic's formation and dispatches outside.
redoubled his precautions; but more than over confirmed in his suspicion, was entirely beflod in his endeavors to detect the culprit.
bark
Look how the boor has left his blotted trail; But the deft scholar's arrows pierce the veil, And teach the graceless witling or dull faol His thoughts to chasten, or bis munnera
school,
But "such is life, "-itself u curious glass O'er which the varied visions flit and pass;
But, Parker," said my uncle, "how do you come to be so sure that your secret has transpired 7"
By the funds, Sir George. They answer to the news as surely as the ball down stairs
Good gracious!" said my uncle, chang- ing color, "you don't say that ???
It is the fact, but you will see the necessity of being cautious and silent in the matter. Detection hangs on a thread as it stands, and a whisper will break it."
What do you mean," said Parker, about Elinor Beaumont! I have seen **There is no Elinor Beaumont in Jersey, I bave sent and ascertained the fact."
"I am sure there is some mistake about all this, which Beaumont can clear up. Let us send for him.”
her."
"If you do the game is up. - I trust, in fact, le doua not know of my visits. We cannot be too cautions in these matters."
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very slok, and he vomited copiously and Why did Michael Angelo put the horns "Pedantio ass," muttered my uncle; had paios. After vomiting he felt as on the head of his Moses? The answer is irritation. The poison of stings being said, but I suppose we had better give him his if he was going to strangle, beasuse, found in a wrong translation, by Jerome, common sense points to the alkalies as the own way. If you west Parker and me here he says, something worked into his thrust from the Hebrew into the Latin Vulgate, proper means of gare, Among the most
Our roadside inn at which one stays does to the rope. I find them going upsid at soven to-night, we shall have this won-trom his stomach, and then suddenly disap-which is the nocepted Bible of the Roman easily produced remedies may be mentioned
Then vanishes ;--and so goes or the play!
Ok see! Heaven smiles, the fretful storm is
post,
Shut your book light shines o'er all at last. -The University Magazine.,
down as if they were sitting in the office," said Parker, potsonifying the stock exchange for the moment.
Have all the letters to the clerke been examined atrintly ?"
"Yes, I examined them all myself." **Find nothing in them ?" "Mighty little. Some are from home, some from friends, and some of them from sweethearts," said Parker, twisting his face into a griti sutle, "and rum things they say in them,"
derful desk opened, and your great dis peared. Minutes seemed hours to him, and Charch. In our English version of the Bible, soft soap, liquor of ammonia (spirita of he says he wa terribly soared that per. three times in the book of Exodus, (Chap. bartshorn), smelling salts, washing soda, coveries shall be made.".
They met again that evening. The desk spiration stood is great beads on his forexxxiv., 29, 30, 35) it is said that when quick lime made into a paste with water, was opened by Parker, and a bundle of head, and he trembled in fear. Fie is about Moses came down from the mount "his face the juice of an onion, tobacco juice, chewed lettere, ofrefully packed up, all from Elinor 6 feet 2 inches tall, and weighs 198 pounds. shone," and the common impression probably tobacco, braised dock leaves, tomato juice, Beaumont, and a quantity of circulars, play He worked no more that afternoon, but is that the face was all over radiant, as if wood sabes, tobacco ashes and carbonate of SOURCE OF PRUSONAL BEAUTY, A bean-
bills and shop recelots were handed to the went to the spring and filled bis kettle with rabbed with phosphorus in a dark night. sode. If the sting be severe, rest and cool- tiful person is the natural form of a benu-
expert.
water. When he stooped to dip it out, he The Hebrew language, however, like almost ness should be added to the other remedies, tiful soul. The mind builds its own house.
That gentleman read through the letters, says he distinctly felt something twisting all of very early date, is in many respects more especially in this case of nervous sub- and moving in his stomach. Then he felt what may he called an object language;jects. Nothing is so apt to make the poison so active as heat, and nothing favors its The soat takes precedence of the body,
and seemed much struck by the last. and shapes the body to its own likeness.
"Read that," said he, handing it to my possible that during his sleep he must have that is its terms are not so much abstract as A vacant mind takes all the meaning out
had his mouth open, and swallowed some taken from and expressive of visible forms.otivity less than cold. Let the body be of the fairest face. A sensual disposi And the young men's lettera, Are As the letter is Important, I give It en-thing- The thought nearly overpowered And the Hebrew word here used in a word kept cool and at rest and the activity of the tion deforms the handsomest features. A they rum, too?"
him, and he says that he relied on the water expressive of shape, and signifying both a poison will be reduced to a minimam. Any cold, selfish heart shrivels and distorts the They are more careful, like as they
"120 FLEET ST., Sept. 24, 1803. · ` he had in his kettle to keep himself from hora and a pencil of light; for as the horn activo exertion whereby the circulation is beat look. A mean, grovelling spirit takes know I am to see them; but Lord savo "My Dear Charles-Although we had an being strangled: As he walked towards of the oriental buffalo and a pencil of light quickened will increase both pain and awall- all the dignity out of the figure and all the you, Sir, they are all stuff; not a ha'porth adveres wind all the way, we made without home, every time he felt his throat filling he were both conical in shape, the same word. ing. If the swelling be severe the part may character out of the countenance. A clic-of harm in them.".
difficulty the port we were bound for. My drank plenty of water, and by the time he was used for each. It is the same word be rubbed with sweet oil or a drop or two of rished hatred transforms the most beautiful "This matter must be seen to," said my aunt, in spite of the weight of her fifty bad reached home be had drank nearly that is used in Habakkuk, (Chap, ii, 3 and laudanum. Stings in the eye, ear, month lineaments into an image of ugliness. It is uncle; "I have had my own misgivings on years, enjoyed the trly very much, and is every drop la the kettle. He was fright 4,) and where it is said: God came from or throat sometimes lead to serious con- as impossible to preserve good looks with a the same subject. Bring me all the letters ready to sail again. I hope you think of ened, and when he told his wife that he had Teman, and the Holy One from Mount equences; in such cases medical advice brood of bad passions feeding on the blood, which come to and are sent by the clerks sending the line you promised on the 25th either swallowed a snake or a lizard she Paran; and his glory covered the heavens, should always be sought for us soon as a set of low loves tramping through the for the next week. There is no rasion and come yourself, as our party is now dropped to the floor in a fit. The oldest and the earth was full of his praise; and his possible,
uncle.
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