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Maliny, and are reproduced as a contrast to of the gold in the, coffers of kings and The, above letters were read in evidence, out;" inglorious Brownings and Swinburnes up again; but everybody recovered their

[No. 5002.-July 19, 1879.

SPOUTOMANIA. | termost to express, the noble soul dwelling | I cashed the broker's check, walked through

tera," "On Saturday, Me Sententions | Mr Lincoln added, Well, he wants to be within. As trees grow heaviest on the side the streets with the money in my hand to

The rhetorical contagion has spread from Janbram read (professionally) the whole of Foonsul to London. Oh, dear 1 where the light falls, so the face shapes my room, packed it, and just had time to. South Kensington to Lancaster Gate, from Ben Jonson's "Sejanua" to an assembly "I will obsérve, in conclusion, that the THE DEFENCE OF LUCKNOW.

itself to the light of the soul.

patch the stearer. Mr Hutchins made Carltonouse Gardena to Grosvenor square;

at Westchester House, The audience William Ferguson incident occurred, and ALL monarchy has been softened by the the arrangements for my departure. and society has taken to ponting. They yawned slightly, for Mr Sententious Jaw within my personal knowledge though I [The following lines appeared in one of greatness of its arts, its parks and gardens F. G. Havens was at the wharf to see me all do it. Fests and Peerenses, Ritualistic bram is gives to grunting and to groaning have changed the nature of the detalla, to the Indian newspapers shortly after the and by its full and free amusements. Much off. I know nothing of the $18,000 currency priests and curates of the discrtablished and swallowing his words, and gasping in a keep William from recognising himself in

missing,"

Irish Church who have commuted and fearful manner in the attempt to bring them it. Mr Teungeon's latest ballad. The rythm, queens and emperors has taken the form of

All the readers of this article have In of cousas, is not original, nor is the design architecture which the poor could love, of and during the reading the prisoner shed unknown to fame; pró-Rafaellite painters spirita: when the Duchess of Crevecoeur some sweet and gushing hour of their liven ambitions; but there is surely a realistic golden altars where the poor could kneel, tears copiously. Mr Forivner and Henry and dialectical old maids, Treasury clerks Uncle"” (“ Dowa among the Coals" as the bero. I wish I knew how many there are bad sung → Tommy, Make Room for your played the role of Magnanimous Incident power whics Tenugson's pagan on Lucknow of immense parks whore the poor could Trigon, Receiving Teller of the bank, and guardsmen of a literary then, every- with all its grandeur and pathos, its polish wander with their neatly dressed children, testified with reference to their system of body in society is spouting" away a qui encore), and the accomplished Lady Spark! among them who are willing to talk about and beau-y, canuot boast of.]

of immense galleries where the people could doing business, eto., and Assistant District | mieux mieux A few years sides Constantia, Heartsease had noted one of the Rosalind consequences that fwd from it.-Mark breeza, with pretty, graceful Miss Harriette that epiaude-and-like to be reminder of the see more beauty than even a king could stay Boyaden rented the case for the Countess of Cockayne (she would be and Cells scenes from As You Like It Twain, in the Atlantis Monthly, own. Thus, has benevolence come to

prosecution.

angry if you called her the Dowag, 1), Was counteract barbarism and despotism as May then read in evidence a letter written by who had the courage to take the fare," as

John Lord Love, counsel for the prisoner, nearly the only grande dame de par e monde They all do is ; and in candour le mpat be admitted that some of them." do it" so and June come at last to dissolve the ioy the prisoner from London to George Hat the Irish say in s London drawing-room, eluquently so ele.antly, and in such exo 1-1 chains of winter. Wore it not that the

lent taste, that you are often puzzled to

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Cawnpore-1857.

With body wasted and worn,

With a heart as bevy as lead,

A women sat where her husband's form

On the blood-stained fl or lay doad. Women and children, wild

With hunger, round her pressed: One little babe--ber iufant obild-

Was starving on her breast, And thus, with weary song, she lulled

Ber dying child to rest.

Roar, Roar, Roar, Oh! that incessant din

From the enemy's guns without, And our own fer guns within,

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A FOINE BOY.

European nations are thas. Boftened by shins, dated December 16, 1878, an follows: Some say that it was the Bishop of Topga determine whether they are professionals or left the Queen's dominious and crossed, the

some forms of tenderness towards the people, everywhere would come insurrection and anarchy. Republics must do as much for the poor by private generosity as kings have done for them by power and pride.

THE TRIAL FLAWRENCE HALL

Our readers will femember the arrest

here, early in the year, of Lawrence Hall, an absconding, bank clerk from 'Frisco. We now read in the San Francisco Bulletin of Mingle their roar with our groans and the 8th ult, that his trial on an indictment

shrieks,

Shell, and musket and gun, Gas, and musket, and shell,

And turn this place into Hell.

Roar, Roar, Roar,

Will these hideous guas never come,

Boar, Roar, Roat; Must death be our sole raleano ? Must al—the good, the brave,

The young and the old bus die i Must we vaiuly pray our God to save?

To Him must we vainly cry?

Death, Death, Death;

In every shape and form;

Death, Death, Death,

Bidea on the iron storm,

Be comes with the burtling shot, He comes with the bursting shell ; While wounds, starvation and disease

Do his dread work too well,

I bave lost my husband dear,

Two brothers and their wives;

And while my heart is wearing cut Death takes my children's lives ; Dosth, Death, Death- *Mid Misery, hunger, and woe; My last child dying, my husband dead,

Iourt thy friendly blow!

Why should I shrink from death

When my dear ones all are gone? They lives were raded in want and wos,

And why bo:T ́us my own l

Oh husband, good and kind, Bu dear and true to me,

Why should thy wife remain behind,

When death hath taken thes!

Death, Death, Death,

I hear the weary ms an

Of another sobbing wife reply

To her Iusband's dying groan, And 1 hear the dreadful cathe Of a soldier in his pain; Another hour that wretched man

Will never curae again.

Death, Deuth, Death; Beneath the embankment there ;.

A braband tends his wounded wife.

While friends kneel round in prayer, Their tears fail thick and fast

On that blood red sod,

As their dying friend's last torlure past

Her soul takes flight to God,

Deab, Death, T'eath ;

Yon feverish woman seems

To be happy 'mid those joyous sosten

Which come but iu ber dreams,

But bet weury wasted form,

Her fiercely burning head,

Proclaim that soon her troubles o'er,

She too must join the dead.

Last week ber husband fell,

Shot down, close by her side,

And her aged, prey-haired mother

In that burning Larraok died.

Her only sister followed,

Struck by a bursting shell ; To-morrow she will join them all, Down in that hidecus well,

Chware-my-loved ones all-

Once more in life again, Oh were they only safe from bere, From all this grief and pain I' From all this carnage, woe sad strife

To see them safely By,

for grand larceny in stealing $18,000 from the London and San Francisco Bank

"I have deceived you and Tricon about those gold notes; there are no notes in the vault. I bave written to Mr Scrivnar to inform him of the fant. Ses him on receipt of this. For God's sake forgive me for the great injustice I have done you both. My only object in life will be to endeavor to that reason alone do I care to live:" refund that money to the bank, and for

The Court then took a recess.

This closed the evidence in the case.

Tabou (a Colonial who is always about town, and seems to have forgotten where

asored Truth.

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in the art of elocution; while other mai-old blue and white Nansio, or converting bis bishoprio is) who instructed her ladyship is perhaps a les idiotle craze than collecting Yes, "they all do it ;" and Spoutomania tain liat her instructor was Smokeface, the one's dining-room Into the semblance of walking gentleman at the Volatility theatre; scullery by covering the walls with olumsily at all events, one evening, in the presence painted plates from the Art Puttery of a small and early" company, convened Studios" it is better to spont than to after a dinner party, Constantia, Countess talk acandal Spouting is preferable to This afternoon the defence introduced the India-Axminster carpet; planted her right gambling, or sitting to see pigeons mas or Cockayne, advanced to the centre of ber: following witnesses to prove the good cha--foot on a gigantis non flower, and the other reoter of the prisoner before the commission of the offence charged: Thomas Bron, Ca.

on a colossal magnolia; swept. aside her mille Martin, James W. Burling and De prodigious train with one hand, and plant- teotive John Meagher.

ing the other skimbo, tea-pot fashion, broke out into Byron's "Isles of Gresce." That "fetched" them. She spared the distinguished assemblage not one stanza; and the way in which she suited the action to the word in "dash down yon cup of Samian wine," by deuding one of Mr Mortlock's toughened glasses spinning from one end of the salon to the other, had an electrical effect. The applause at the conclusion was so deafening as to wake up Lord Nortiboy, who had been sleep for the last twenty minutes, and who now declared Lady Cockayne's oratory to be mons'ous fine, adding that he always thought Julla's Letter to be the grandes thing Byon ever wrote. Constantia Coun- teas of Cockayne, happens to be one of the

Mr Love then briefly addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner Mr. Royedee declined to sum up the case. Judge Blake, read the law applicable to the case. After an absence of a few minutes the jury re- with a verdict of guilty of grand larceny, with a recommendation to the mercy of the Court.

BUSINESS IN CHINA,

Fergus O'Brien, of Galway, Ireland, had

safely at Castle Garden on a stormy day, and the good ship which brought them over blue waters with his wife and one child,

February, ▲ D., one year ago. After the uded her freight, living and otherwise,

usual preliminaries attending disembarka tion the emigrants a-parated, going to the north, south, east and weat. The Pennsyl little family to Philadelphia, and after he vania Railroad brought Fergus and his

uad found a residence for his wife and -sbild, which domicilary location consisted of two rooms ou Frout stroot, he was not long getting into employment himself.

Now, Mrs Fergus had a female cousin, who lived in the same house, and who wa an incorrigible practical joker. According 19, when the first of April came, around she decided to fool" her outan Fergus. She laid her plans so as to have. Mrs O'Brien out of the way for the morning, and then sent a lad with a note to Fergus, where he was employed as a stevedore, which read thua ;---

A GRATEFUL' HUSBAND. One day a lady was driving through the principal street of a great city with hor little boy, when the horses took fright and dashed madly away, hurling the coachmen from his box and leaving the occupants of the carriage paralysed with terror. But a brave youth who was driving a grocery waggon threw himself before the plunging animals, and succeeded in arresting their fight at the peril of his own. The grateful lady took his number, and upon arriving at | her home she related the berole not to "DEAR COUZIN: Accept my congratula- her husband (who bad read, the books), who tions. You are a feyther. Come up to listened with streaming eyes to the thrilling onot. From your mindful cousin,

KATTE recital, and who, after returning banks in conjunction with his restored loved ones, tu P. 8. It's a foise boy, and weighs be- Him who suffereth not even a sparrow to yaat twisty pounds," fall to the ground unnoticed, sent for the

While the boy was gone with the note, Mrs five hundred dollars in bis banda, said, elaborately in hastily extemporized gar. bore young person and, placing a sheque Katie made haste to borrow a negro baby! Take this as a reward for your nobis amants, she deposited it in the big alothes need a friend, remember that Thompson

((Imiter), began in the Mun otpal Criminal Court that morning. The prisoner was for many years employed as the bank clearing house clerk. On the 17th of Desember last the day he surreptitiously departed on a steamer for Yokohamis, Arthur Scrivner, the manager of the bank, received a letter written by the prisoner in which he says:- I am not a criminal. In a moment of unaccountable-forgetfulness 1 committed the first act of dishonesty of my life. On glowing accounts of the stock market I took $500 of the note money. Leat it. In hopes of regaining my loss, a propriated more lost again. Driven to despair and despera- tion I went in de per and dee er and the black, the mercantile day is turned to of the Light Brigade;" the Honourable William Ferguson, and if ever you shall basket and sat it before the fire. Then she dreadful result-raination and disgrace.

Arriving at Hongkong, he wrote another letter to Mr Sorivner, dated January 30, 1879, in which he said

There are few things more depressing than to have a conversation with an old China hand" at the present moment. It does not matter whether we meet our acquaintance in China or in England, he to signally melancholy equally incapable of The commercial heavens are hung with resing any gleam of light on the horizon,

rayless night. The background is crowded with the blunders of diplomacy, the outlook occupied with the sinister victories of com- bination-loving natives. Slowly and surely it seems to the veteran merchant the for. eigner must be custed, and all the trade pses into the hands of the Chiness. We are not prepared to say that this state of mind need rarprise us. There is curtainly canse for disappointment with the China trade, and there is cause for disappoint. mont with trade everywhere. In what portion of the globe can commerce be said to be fourishing! The ground

long has been fashionable, fes Colonel Plunger followed suit with "The Charge Miss Slattern made a decided bit with Longfellow's Endymi n;" ani Mrs Bogie, of bilen Barbee, took the town by storm with Sir Walter's Bonnie Dundee." She intended, it in understood, to have followed this admired resitation with Burns's "Holy Willie's Prayer!" hat Bogie (a most exem plary man who has since come to grief in connection with a bank north of the Tweed) wouldn't hear of it. For a while the four ladies above mentioned had things orato- rical pre ty much to themselves but even tually Madame la Marquise de V-urien, ne Cascadette, of the Theatre des Nudites, striving from Paris with Victor Hugo's

M Spadden bas a grateful b-art," Let us proceeded to gather in the neighbors to witness the effect of her joke. Notaminate learn from this that a good deed cannot fail to benefit the doer, however humble het may be.

AEQUEL

oon, either, for by the time the last one had got safely stowed away Fergus came up the steps, clearing four at a leap.

**Let me see the spalpeen-the bye,” says he

set

Hist!" says Katie, "ye'll woke him.

But the caution came too late, for the

Martin and all my friends. I walked the has been gone over until we are wearyJeanne," Bezanger's "Souvenira du Pou- | take her into bis house, Before long she ping his hands.

William Ferguson called the next week and asked Me M Spaddan to use his in fuence to get him a higher employment, he feeling oapable of batter things that's slapin', he is. Now, don't make athir driving a grocer's waggon. Mr M-padden all lot yer pap: at him." got him an under clerkship at a good salary strong langs of the eight months old moke

Presently William Ferguson'a mother fell sick, and William Well, to cat the up a tremend us rasket.

That's. O'Brien," says Fergus, clip- story short, Mr M'spadden consented to

"Mither o' Moses, frat an yearned for the so-fety of her younger petite be her gat wid his voice! He children; no Mary and Julla were admitted could be barkin the hounds alriddy in also, and little Jimmy, their brother. Jim-uld Galway. Be gorra, 'll say et he my had a pocket-knife, and he wandered kuns bis father." into the drawing room with it one day alone, and reduced ten thousand dollars worth of furniture to an interminable value in rather less than three-quarters of an hour. A day or two later he fell down stairs and broke his ack, and seventeen of bis family's relatives came to the houre to attend the funeral. This made them ac

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He had picked the basket up to carry it to the window, when the young African, having got his hands free, onde short work of the wrapping about his face.

Terra au 'ounde !” said Fergus, dropping the basket," is that my spalpesu? Is that a freeborn American cition is that frat I sim to this blessi ceanthry for, to be the fayther of a nagur, and misself not nay- seralized. It's my joty to kiss him, yez say Howly Muses! but its a hard one."

He stooped to the task, however, but it was too much.

"Be the sod of ould Ireland, but bla breath amule like onions and wet dog mixed Fvat, a brither he'll make till his white sister. But where is Aileen? Aileen, sushis? Boushis! 1y did you make me father of a naggu. Look at his liga, as crooked us two rainbows ep iced together.

was born a fool. It's an O'Brien all over, barrin the color, and he can't bilp that."

Aileen made her timely appearance here, and denied the maternity. The house was oleared in a thrice, and Fergus has one less of his wife's relations to entertain,-Phila delphia Transcript,

MESMERISM IN CHINA.

I was compelled to devise some scheme by which my guilt would be concealed, and så one crime leada on to another, perilous as it was, I daily deceived the Receiving Teller, Mr Gilmore, and others, who fre quently inquired about those gold notes, For two whole months I presented myself as usual at the bank. I faced you, Mr streets of San Francisco with-let me ask of the traversing it, and various causes you to believe me- heavy conscience in of the distress have been reckoned up ple," and Desaurier's "Monsieur et Ma deed. I could indur it no longer, so I and discussed agata and again. We dame Dennis," spouting in French became resolved to leave California. I arrived in have heard until we are tired of hear for a time the rage and Lady Cockayne Yokohama, and baring made several seing that the distress at home may be and ber compagnes had some diffulty in quaintances I was soon informed of the traced to the extravagance and, thrift holding their own. Madame de Vaurien, selegram received for my arrent and extra-lessness among producers during the in. however, returning to the Continent by dition if possible. Also, a later one, saying Astion years 1871-4. We have listen the way of Monte Carlo, Jericho, Coventry, "Let him go for the present." Embarked od to disquisitions on the silver ques- and Hongkong, up ating in French lost ite on the Oceanic, and thanked Heaven that tion until we have discovered a now yogue in society. Perhaps society did not the affair was probably quieted in San meaning of the proverb, and under feel quite certain that its French was after Francisco, and that I was given a chance stood hos speech as silvern and ailence the manner of that formerly spoken at to repair the wrong I had committed. But golden, in a sense of which we never Stratford-atte-Bowe. no. In hongkong, as you know, I was dreamed until we listened to the in- Spoutomania in English, however, rapidly quainted, and they kept the kitchen oo arrested, and it was not until after three days terminable arguments of the bi-metal and continuously increased; and it has now cupied after that, and likewise kept the seclusion in the "Debtors' Jail" that I lists and their adversaries. We have become chronic and general. Just recall to M Spaddens busy hunting up situations of was made acquainted with the facts that been assured of the necessity of "cheapen-yourself the half-a-dozen London houses various sorts for them, and hunting up convinced me that was being puuisbeding production," and have learned how which you may have had the honour to more when they wore this out. The old ast only for my own sin, which God knows deadly has been the barm wrought by visit in be couras of last week. On woman drank a good deal and awore a good is burdensome enough, but also for that if affording facilities to firms without capital. Monday there was afternoon tea at the deal; but the grateful M'Spaddene knew it another. Mr Crombie, Manager of the There are experienced men who have Barones de Lypay's, all the the great as their duty to reform her, considering Uriental Bank, soting for your bank, spoken woll and wisely on all these subjects | Hebrews пета there-there the Von what her son had done for them, so they howed me the telegram which asked if I in our ears, and though we have acquiesoed heenies, the De Poissonfrits, the Montelave nebly to their generous task, Willian denied taking $13,000 on the morning in their reasonings we have never found morency-Sbagbage, the De Courcy-Jade- came often and got decreasing sums of left. I told him I most emphatically denied much benefit from their proposad remedies. gass, old Sir Barabbas Mangerloan, and money, and asked for higher and more taking a cent from the bank that morning, Year succeeds year, and in spite of the all the Misses Horse'sech (3). Little Isaas lucrative employmente-which the grates not himself could iver sht pa pig in a and that if there be a deficiency of $13,000 nostrums offered by experienced economists Zerubbabel (formerly in the nocturnal M'Spadden, more or less pr mptly procured lane, at all! at al. "

hinking the ke bad gone far enough, more than the $24,000 1 have acknowledged, the revival of prosperity seems still afar refreshment line, Haymarket, now of the for him. M'Spadden consented also after there must be another colprit. If such bef. The man who landed in China twenty Genti ity Theatre) was engaged (profes some demar to fit William for college; but the jovial cousin told him it was an April indeed the case, and if you have not as yet or thirty years ago does not see any probalonally) to recite Tom Ingoldsby's Coro- when the first vacation came and the hero fool.

"It's no fool at all. Niver an O'Brien been able to account for the missing 313,000, able date of return to his native country nation. Miss De Smouchy followed of requested to be sent to Europe for his I am ready and most desirous to lend you with a competence; and a sense of baffled course, with her highly-admired and ex. health, the persecuted M'Spadden rose every assistance in my power to expose endeavours, jaded spirits, and failing health quisitely comic monologue, "I should like against the tyrant and revolted. He plainly him, and I firmly believe in my ability to oppresses him as he surveys the past. If to buy something to shell; Banaback and squarely refused, William Ferguson's do so if you think proper to supply me he is a philos pher, he placidly contenta Efendi, of the Imperial Ottoman Gender- mother was so astounded that the let her with full particulars in the matter. I was himself with small mercies; compares his roerte, in a fez (his real name is Moss gin bottle drop, and her profane lps refused When she recovered she released from custody after having sur- fate with the lack that has befallen many Jacobs, and he went out to Constantinople to do their ffice.. rendered to Mr Crombie everything I had, of his neighbours; resolves on a less with a view of selling 1,000 stand of flint said in a half-gasp, "Is this your grati even family photographs and souvenirs, ostentatious future for his children than look musketa "converted" into breech-tude? Where would your wife and boy be I go home under the impression that I am he had once dreamed of; thanks Provid- loading rifles to the Porte), gave his inspir. now, but for my non?" not to be criminally prosecuted.

enge for the portion of digestion left to ing improvised narrative of the battle of William said, “Is this pour gratitude 1

To the priests of Tao, the religion of Under date of March 11, 1879, the pri- bim, cultivates taste for reading and Bimbashi Ogion; and young Hakonnase, Did I save your wife's life or not? Tell me

Pure Reason, who dabbled under bygone persuades himself the climate of China is of the Frankfort banking arm, gave, with that!" soner wrote from London to F. Rodwald, after all preferable to that of England. If a beautiful lisp, "On Jordan's banks the kitchen, and each raid, "And this is his attaining immortality, is dus the discovery Boven relations swarmed in from the dynasties in alchemy and in the science of saying ----

the old China band, however, is not a Arab's camels stray," from the Hebrew

So much for Monday. On Bratiinde !"

of kang-fu and its application as 6 mesta "When I first took the $500 in gold notes, philosopher but a Philistine, he rages Melodies,

William's sistera stared, bewildered, and of healing the sick, All complaints are I alno+rely thought I could replace them on against the natives no savages and pagans | Tuesday a reception at Constantia, Coud said, nd this is his grat" but were held to be equally amenable to its power,

who should be thrust bag and baggage over teas of Cockayne's. Whitehall Jenkins the following day, int seeing my i ability the rim of things, and denouses all the enumerates in his rag the names of B.S.H. interrupted by their mother, who burst though not all persons; professors of the to do so, and believing there was little diplomatists who have over resided at the Hereditary Grand Duke of Moderig. into tears and exclaimed, "To tiuk that art stating plainly that hang fa can exér chance of my deficiency being discovered, I stayed until it was too late. Then, in the Peking as a band of incapables who have sobinken, bis Grace the Duke of Dunder my painted little Jimmy threw away bis sies no influence whatever over others than vain efforts to recover my locass, speculated over-paid profession, and who have been Lady Brightpoker, Mrs Breakdown, Mr and M Spadden rose to the occasion, and be his skill in the art, is requested to attend never understood the rudiments of their head, the Earl and Countess of Grimariber, life in the service of such a reptile is those who have faith. The modus operandi Then the pluck of the revolutionary is an follows:-A Taouist priest, known for desperavely, met continually with misfor tune, and finally driven to despair, resolved befooled in evry instance by the astute Mrs Marrow boe, of Taffy town, South Wales to communicate to Mr Sorner my disgrace. Mongolian politicians with whom they hays (they are coal people), and many more, replied with fervour,ut of my house, at the house of a sick person for the Jur been confronted If the unlucky man has as having been present on the occasion the whole tribe of you! I was beguiled pose of administering kang fu; and accord. 'Mid the cannon's roar and the yell of In the belief that G. H. Hntables who, to not the safety valve of political distriabes, and Whitehall Jenkins was to a certain by the books, but shall never be beguiledingly, after arranging what is to be paid make my account good with the paying or the consolation of philosophy, he extent correctly informed by the under again once is sufficient for me. And for his services and securing part of the | teller, daily paid me gold ovia in exchange takes to habits which make matters re idly butler. But the egg-regions man was not turgidg to William, he shouted, "Yes, sum in advance, he proceeds to fit up within

for the amount of gold notes which I wan supposed to have in my check-box, and

worse and so a disappears from the scene, told that in the course of the evening the you did save my wife's life, and the next the patient's room an altar for burning in which he never verified in the bellef, I say Though we may strive, however, to congeal charming hostess moved her audience to man that does it shall die in his tracks!”

Not being a clergyman, i place my text that he may be suspected as my accomplice, the more painful features of the si ust on tears with Hood's "Bridge of Sighs, and

are to shouts of laughter with her inimitable at the end of my sermon instead of at the and to avoid his getting into trouble, by cynicism and banter, there

Here it in from Mr Nosh thought it best to entrust to him my secret, very sad aspects of it presented every version of Kefoozium, the Daughter of beginning. To my surprise, instead of approving of day. Those China residents who go the Barber;" nor was be told that the Brooke Recollections of President Lincoln, my resolution of making a clean breast of home tall shocking stories of meetings Reverend Compound Lightbeele, late of the init Scribner's Monthly i

H, Hapkett, in bis part of Falstaff, everything to Mr Hariver, he immediately with old friends in a dilapidated condition, Iri h Church, gained golden opinions with condemned it in the strongest terms. He and the hand is often in the pocket for the "The Night before Larry was Stee ched." was an actor who gave Mr Lincoln great assured me that my case was not as deaps- eleemosynary sovereign. A person of some Of course he was ergored; and he followed delight. With his usual desire to signify rate at I imagined, and begged me to leave experience in the vicisitudes of trade in "Larry" with the patriotic ballad of to others his sense of obligation, Mr Lin his own When the priest thinks he has everything to him, as he would do all in his the farmost East gare it as his opinion that "The Irish Brigade at Fontenoy," The coln wrote a genial little note to the actor, accomplished this he commands the patient Obius money don't stick, and this general company were delighted; but expressing ble pleasure at witnessing his to perspire or to become cool, or gives in power to save me. He represented to me aphorisa has Dumerous and grievous Lieut-General dir Hercules Omphalebury, performance Mir Hacketh, in reply, sent structions for the regulation of poles and - the burrors of ten years' imprisonment, that confirmatory illustrations. The pages of K.U.B., whose great-grandfather was badly book of some suiti perhaps it was one of heart, in each case according to what he being the least time. I would get, as Mr Mix Smile's Self Help" and "The Art of wounded in the small of the back in the his own authorship. He also wrote several sonceives to be the exigencies of the ill- Borivner, the meanest, the most beartless and most unscrupulous man that ever lived Rising in Life," would no doubt apply us engagement in question, did not apparently notes to the President. One night, quite ease. The whole scene it rendered as im (his very words) would make a terrible ex- with arimating exhortations to plack and appreciate the Rev. Lightheels fyrio, and so, when the episode had passed ons of pressive as possible by Blence and by darke Into the well, with frantic start

ample of me and would show ton no mercy. Ierseverance wherewithal to close this was heard to growl sotto vols that it was my mind, 1 went to the White House in ening the room, with the exception of one She plunged-and joined the dead. I was convi ced, and at his request I gavo article, but we have no epirits left to hunt like the Irish feller's dooeed impudesse." swer to a teatage: Passing into the oil lamp, by the light of which is dimly him my word and honor that I would say up the platitutes, and must content On Wednesday, the Hon. Mr Vashti re resident's office, I noticed, to my surprise visible the allhoutto of the robed priest Wezx a man purenes money only his fes-nothing to Scrivner and to allow matters to ourselves with recommending the example cited a considerable portion of Mr Algernon Hackett sitting in the anteroom as if wall waving his large sleeves in the art. The Swinburne's Bothwell" after luncheon lng for an audience. The President asked imaginative faculty of the sick man is thus tures become narrowed his eyes shrink remaid as they were until it was decided of Mark Tapley.-N. C. D. Netta.

at Lady Fountainhead. The Hon. Mes me if any one was outside. On being told, excited; and hence, perhaps, the reason and converges his smile, when he has any, whion would be the best step for me to take.

Yashil uenally recites in a sedentary atti. he said, ball sadly, Oh, I can't see him, I why even in these days of prohibition Chla hardens his language fails of poetry and Two weeks afterwards be assured me that One of those grest and e mfortable down to a telegraphic dispatch; be seems be to go to Jagan, Again 1 was influenced dentends the Micsissippi with a verilettons recumbent and writhed. When, sa pero friends and acquaintances in this place. You ata from a well-timed administration of erasment; his letters to a friend dwindle the only thing I could poteibly do would a samabips which the Yankees constructtade. Sometimes she sits down a la Turque, can't see him i I was in hopes he had gone namen osy still be found ready to declare- On the occasion mentioned she was entirely away Then he added. Now this Just that they generally, however, their friends illustrates the diffictity of having plesonat | or relatives—have derived undoubted bane- to have no time for anything, because his and consented to go, but to take only suffl- rapidity. When loi a ory makes itself to bert has only one thing for which it aient money to take me theks. That he be heard: "A man in the water!* " 8kplaation the bit the heart the enthus know how I liked Hankets as an ictor, and kang fus All my own attempts to be pre-

among her auditors was "tremendous, wither time. What he calls the pressure of concedere i ridiculous. I was already dis: orice the astive baptain. Then turnin. What cecurred on Friday? If I remember how I wrote to feli hím 10. He sent me sent at such scene have hitherto proved business is often only the want of any other graced, said he why go away s palper himself towards the parser. he demande, right, a strong contingent of the arities that book, "and there I thought the matter successful; and the shore account le pressure about the heart; but when the No, taks all the money you can. "Must I ** Has he paid his fare f“ He has paid, grey, and the sasitled Upper Ten ment would and. He is a master of his place in gathered chiefly from conversation, sided soul curlee slong with its gold seeking a say if I believed him again. Bellerad replies the parveke." All right then over to the Evangential Lightermen's M the profession, I sunkesa, and well fred in by a few stray hinta gleaned from "Tholst love of learning and all study, then the every word he said, as though he was the howls the captain, and the steamboat aion Babools a Tiger Bay, Blue Anchor but just bemuse we had a little friendly pamphlets which contained illusions so the Many face nida ench your to the expres. best friend I ever had. The day before my retakes its course, leaving the passenger Flaide Warping, and date relations prependence, such as soy two wer might imbject. That something akin to marmara sivaness, and the eyes and mesin and departure I took to my room $1,900 of the behindi: if the unbaggy man had not paid and musical performances for a los have be white mưa tun... What do you the le oven now pressifed LS China popka patky on the face are taxed to lay sie ante munap. The muentug of my departono in advango. he might have been saved. —— milegan kanak) of the talonka | suppose be waste 1 I could not gtam, and to be beyond all @DADE~ PYKUTIMIDIN

How gladly would I yied my life,

how gladly would I die!

With a body wasted and worn,

With a bear: as heavy as isad,

A woman nursed her dyin child,

With her husband before her dead.

Death, Death, Death.

In weary tones, with guaping breath,

Mid inisery, sickness, wounds and woe,

the foo,

She sang this song about Death,

Her husband's corpas was thrown That evening into the well,

Whose block deep mouth for victims yawned,

Like the very mouth of Hell; Death, Death, Death

Her babe-the last was dead

Heart-broken, from that bloody floor, She rose and staggered to the door,

Then passed out, to return no mere ;. While the mars phone overhead.

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The cannon's roar, the foe's wild yell,

Ber own, ber shild's, her husband's

knoll...

Upon her car unbraded fell.

The broken prayer alone she said,

hen pressing to her burating heart The babs from which she could not part

cense and joas paper and for worship gene- rally. Muttered incantations follow, as the priest walks slowly and with prescribed stops round and round the room. By and bye he approaches the sick man and parily raises him, or turns him on bis back of side, or lifts up a leg or an arm, or gently sham poos him, the object being all the time to bring the sick man's miod into rapport with