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any one but me, so I would not let mamma write. / “Miss Stalman is very ill a-bed, sir," said the Are you glad, Bluebeard ? ”

servant, “and missis is with her.” “ No, dear,” said he, “ I am not glad to think of “Merely say I am here, and beg Mrs. Stalman losing you."

not to come down on any account, unless it is quite " Ås if you could lose me! I will not submit to convenient.” be lost! And besides, you must be glad because I He was shown into the drawing-room, and the am so happy. And you will like him very much, I servant lighted one jet of gas in each of the chandeam sure, won't you?"

liers in the two rooms. They looked very dismal “He wrote very bad exercises, Laura; I don't under this aspect, and his heart ached at sight of a know how I shall be able to manage it,” said he, pile of Laura's songs, which had been carelessly trying very hard to smile.

heaped together by a servant. The top one bore Ah! It was hard work. Laura made no secret her name, written by Shepherd, and from a little of her love, and gloried in showing it. As for Mr. work-basket on the table a piece of work peeped Shepherd, Mr. Pringleson could not look at him for out which she had been doing for him, and over a sufficiently long time together to see how much or which Edward had often seen her smile. how little he might be in love. Yes. It was hard The door opened noiselessly, and the poor mother work to appear pleased and interested, and to seem came in. They greeted one another in silence, and to devote long hours of attention to Mrs. Stalman's she sat down and sobbed. discourses !

Mr. Pringleson rose and paced the room for a By and by preparations for the marriage began while. to be talked about. “Mr. Stevens has been speak-! “I know nothing about it,” he said at last, “being to me about the settlements," said Mrs. Stalman. yond the fact of the marriage." “ It seems there will have to be trustees. You will 0, it has been such a sad business! Such a sad be one, of course ?” But here Mr. Pringleson was business! I thought at first it would have come very resolute. “I would far rather not have the right if only you had been here; but now I see it responsibility. A pressing occasion has arisen, was for the best. I am glad it is all over,” — she too, for my going abroad. I must go, come what spoke angrily, — “for he is a false and mercenary will."

villain.” The wedding was to take place in August, and he Mr. Pringleson did not by any means contradict went abroad in July. He had not been in Paris her. since that early visit, on his return from which he “He appeared in his real character when they had first met Laura. He went on through Germany, began to talk about the settlements. He wanted perpetually changing the scene of his distress, and more money than the trustees would allow, and Mr. trying to persuade himself that he had done right in Stevens was very angry about it. At least, I think leaving no address behind him in England, so that that was it. At any rate he told, first Mr. Stevens, news from home might not disturb his search after and then me, that he could not carry out the martranquillity. Yet after all, somehow he found him- riage on such terms. He went away, leaving me to self speaking to Mrs. Goldridge, who turned up one break it to her. Ah, my friend, my friend ! I wantday at Homburg, and inquiring after common ed you sadly then.friends with great eagerness.

“How is she now?" “Well,” said she, after some talk: “I have been “ Very ill; but, thank God! out of danger." waiting very patiently for you to tell me all about Does she speak of it much ?" the Stalmans; but it seems to me you are going to “Never. She never mentions his name.” be as close as ever."

Many would have seen her if they might, some “I have been away longer than you have, and from curiosity, some from kindness; but only one have had no letters. The — the — marriage took person was admitted to see her. Day after day, place in August, I believe? The day was not fixed Mr. Pringleson sat long hours with her. They when I left, but the month was."

never spoke of the trouble, and often sat silent; Mrs. Goldridge opened her eyes very wide: but those hours were the most precious hours in * Good gracious! Have n't you seen Monday's Laura's life. “0, it is a wonderful thing to have Times ?

a friend !” she said one day at dusk, as he sat by "No."

her couch. She added, as she kissed his hand : “I * Come bome with me, and let me show it to feel so comforted when you are here; you seem to

understand so. Sometimes I think you must have She would not tell him a word more, but con- known some trouble like mine." veyed him to her lodgings, produced the paper, and “Yes, dear Laura,” he answered, in a very low pointed out an announcement under the head of voice. “ Neither you nor I can love twice!” Marriages, in which the bride and bridegroom's names were respectively: Geraldine Royle and W. But the questions that remain to be propounded Payne Shepherd.

are, whether she really loved but once, and if once, * You are ill, Mr. Pringleson!”

whom? And if she had deceived herself in sup“ No, no. I feel the heat a little. Nothing, posing that she loved that shallow scoundrel, whom nothing. How long have you known of this?” did she love when she undeceived herself? Guess !

“I knew nothing of it before I saw it in the As for Mr. Pringleson ; – that he did not love paper. Only I heard before I left home that the twice, and that he never tried to do it, can be Royles were all right again. It appears the failure stated on oath. And yet he got married, mistrustful of their bank was a false report: was, after all, con- of himself in that wise, as he had been. If he had fined to some comparatively unimportant losses. been mistrustful of himself, whom might he have They never actually stopped.”

married, even before he saw himself in the glass and

found he was forty-two? Guess! And whom did Within four days, Mr. Pringleson arrived at Mrs. he most happily marry after all ? Guess! It was Stalman's house. It was night.

not Mrs. Stalman. Guess again!

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number of devils that have entered in and taken portion of a universe outside her own circle and possession, more or less permanent. The human her own mind. creature who has never been thought to take an This simple discovery would of itself effect a revinterest in what is right and wholesome will, in olution that might transform her from being an ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, take an inter- | insipid idiot into a tolerably rational being. As it est in what is wrong and unwholesome. You can- is, the universe to her is only a collection of rich not keep minds in a state of vacuum. A girl, like bachelors in search of wives, and of odious rivals anybody else, will obey the bent of the character who are contending with her for one or more of which has been given, either by the education of these too wary prizes. All high social aims, fine design or the more usual education of mere acci- broad humanizing ways of surveying life, are undental experience. Everything depends, in the or- known to her, or else appear in her eyes as the dinary course of things, upon the general view of worship of Mumbo Jumbo appears in the eyes of the the aims and objects of life which you succeed, de- philosopher. She thinks of nothing except her priliberately or by hazard, in creating. A girl is not vate affairs. She is indifferent to politics, to literataught that marriage has grave moral and rational ture, - in a word, to anything that requires thought. purposes, itself being no more than a means. On She reads novels of a kind, because novels are all the contrary, it is always figured in her eyes as an about love, and love had once something to do with end, and as an end scarcely at all connected with a marriage, her own peculiar and absorbing business. moral and rational companionship. It is, she fan- Beyond this her mind does not stir. Any more poscies, the gate to some sort of paradise, whose myste-itively gross state one cannot imagine. There are rious joys are not to be analyzed. She forgets that women who are by accident more degraded phys. there are no such swift-coming spontaneous para- ically. Mutatis mutandis, there are none more de dises in this world, where the future can never be graded, morally and intellectually, than those arty more than the child of the present, indelibly whose minds are constantly bent upon marriage at stamped with every feature and line of its parent. all cost, and with anybody, however decrepit, horThis castle-building, however, is harmless. If it ever silly, and however evil, who can make a settledoes not strengthen, still it does not absolutely im ment. poverish or corrupt, characters. Of some castlebuilding, one cannot say so much. Character is assuredly corrupted by avaricious dreams of mar

FOREIGN NOTES. riage as a road to material opulence and luxury.

The French papers report the death of Madame There is, indeed, no end to the depraved broodings

Victorien Sardou, wife of the celebrated drainatic which may come to an empty and undirected mind.

author. If the emotions and the intellect are not tended and trained, they will run to an evil and evil-prop- M. THEODORE ROUSSEAU, the eminent French agating seed. Rooted and incurable frivolity 16 landscape painter and gold medallist of the Exthe best that can come of it; corruption is the hibition, has been struck with paralysis of the left worst.

side. People madly suppose that going to church, or

If we are to believe the statements of the Abbé

lo giving an occasional blanket to a sick old woman,

Zantadeschi, the climate of Catania is the most will suffice to implant a worthy conception of the aims of life. At this moment, some mothers are

agreeable in the world, and the one best adapted perhaps believing that the dull virtue of the country

to persons suffering from pulmonary affections. will in a few days redress the balance which had AMONG the literary persons named in the French been too much discomposed by the rush and whirl official journal as having obtained the Cross of the of the town. As if one strong set of silly interests Legion of Honor is Mr. Spiers, Professor of English and emotions could be effaced at will by simple at the École des Ponts et Chaussées, and author change of scene, without substitution of new inter- of the English and French dictionary which beans ests and emotions. Excess of frivolous excitement his name. is not repaired or undone by excess of mere blank

MATTHEW ARNOLD's new volume of poems reness and nothingness. The dreariness of the virtue of the villeggiatura is as noxious as the whirl of the ceives great praise from the leading Lond mercenary and little virtuous period of the season.

nals. The London Review says, that “ Mr. Arnold's Teach young women from their childhood upwards

New Poems," are marked by such beauties of de that marriage is their single career, and it is inevit

scription and thought, and such power of art. 28 able that they should look upon every hour which is we can find in no other living poet but Tennyson." not spent in promoting this sublime end and aim as

The deaths from cholera in Italy this year have so much subtracted from life. Penetrated with un

already been very numerous. It appears from offwholesome excitement in one part of their existence, I.;

nce, cial reports that between the 1st of January and the they are penetrated with killing ennut in the next. | 15th of July there were no less than 63.370 cases. If mothers would only add to their account of

32,094 of which terminated fatally. The disease marriage as the end of a woman's existence — which

was most prevalent at Girgenti, in Sicily, where may be right or it may not - a definition of marriage as an association with a reasonable and reflective

| 16,014 persons were attacked, and 7,310 died. being, they would speedily effect a revolution in the M. R. RADAU, in an article on the quickness of present miserable system. To the business of find- volition, in the Revue des Deur Mondes, likens the 1 ing a husband a young lady would then add the not body of an animal to a telegraphic network, along less important business of making herself a rational which messages are continually passing to and fra person, instead of a more or less tastefully decorated | For instance, he says, when a whale is harpooned doll with a passion for a great deal of money. She the nerve affected instantly telegraphs to the might awaken to the fact, which would at first creature's brain, “Harpoon in tail." Upon while startle her very much no doubt, that there is a great the brain telegraphs back, "Jerk tail and upeet

Saturday

boat.” But as these communications occupy, ac- Majesty at once held out his cigar, but as the Walcording to M. Radau's calculations, a couple of lachian was lighting his own from it, he found himseconds, there is time for the men in the boat to get self suddenly seized by the King's two orderly out of the way of the tail before it begins to lash officers, who were alarmed and surprised at the imthe water.

proper familiarity of the young man. The King at

once ordered the culprit to be released. But," THE Pall Mall Gazette occasionally contains says Jeames, " when the Wallachian discovered the some very neat specimens of old news. This for liberty he had unconsciously taken, he was struck instance, from a late number of that journal : dumb, and left Ems that same evening.” “ Musicians will hear with interest of the progress of organ-playing in the United States. A large THERE is a life-raft now exhibiting at the Crystal new organ has just been completed in the Boston Palace, says the Spectator, which appears for its Music Hall, and has been opened before a large and

purpose to be nearly perfect. It is the invention of enthusiastic assemblage of listeners."

an American, and consists of three cylinders of gutta

percha 24 feet in length and 2 feet in diameter, inThe King of Bavaria, as is well known, is pas

flated with air and lashed to light planks, above sionately fond of the theatre. He constantly makes

which rise two light masts and sails. An iron locker presents to those actors or actresses or singers who

can be placed on deck for stores, and then with a excel in the performance of a favorite part. His Majesty recently sent a large nosegay of fresh alpine

board amidships to act as a sliding keel, and a rudder,

the craft is fit for duty. Three Americans started in roses to Fraulein Mallinger of the Munich Opera,

her from New York, and in spite of tremendous seas with a small note lying among the flowers, saying

s, saying she reached Cowes in forty-three days in perfect " that he had gathered them himself.”

safety. If all is true that is said of the vessel, the A PETITION is now being signed by the French problem of the best lifeboat to carry in sea-going exhibitors and the population of Paris' to beg that ships would appear to be completely solved. the Palace of the Champ de Mars, as well as the gardens around it, should not be done away with,

THE Vienna actress, Fraülein Gallmeyer, having but preserved as they are. On the other side, the quarrelled with the Viennese public and the manamilitary authorities are most anxious that the Champ ger of the theatre, was desirous of breaking off the de Mars should, at the end of the Exhibition, be re

engagement which obliged her to return to the capistored to its former use, - viz. the drilling, reviews, / tal. In such theatrical contracts, however, marriage and maneuvres of the troops garrisoned around

alone authorizes the non-fulfilment of a contract beParis.

tween manager and actor. As there was no help for

it, Fraülein Gallmeyer resolved to marry, and chose The Figaro speaks of a little revolution which is for her purpose an insignificant individual of the said to have occurred in the household of the Prince Pesth Theatre, where she, at the time, was playing. Imperial. It says: “M. Monnier, his preceptor, The agreement was made between the parties, that, cannot agree with the Prince's governor, General on leaving the church door, they were to separate, Frossard, and has consequently sent in his resigna- one to go to the right, the other to the left, and never tion. The Emperor is believed to have the highest to meet again; nor was the soi-disant to have any opinion of the capacity and scientific attainments of conjugal claim on his wife. For this mere cession the general, who has himself educated his two sons of his name, Fraulein Gallmeyer has to pay a sum so well that they have passed through the Polytech- of money. All was settled, and the “happy day” nic School with great success. The Emperor is said even fixed. But when the time drew near, she preto have accepted the resignation of M. Monnier, ferred changing her mind to changing her name, and and given the complete control to the General. The sent to her intended the usual theatrical excuse for education of the young Prince is to receive a decid non-attendance, that she was hoarse, and could edly scientific direction.”

not come to be married ”; and thus put off, sine die,

the prearranged wedding. “M. DE DREYSE,” the Erfurth Gazette states, “has invented a new rifle which throws grenades or ex- THE Paris correspondent of the London Star plosive bullets, and which is shortly to be 'tried at says : “ The trial of Madame Frigard for the murSpandau. It is a breech-loader, on the system of der of the widow Mertens, one of the most celebrated the needle-gun, and sends the missiles to a great grandes lorettes of Paris and its environs, has prodistance and with extraordinary effect. Its indirect duced the deepest sensation and the greatest excitefire against fixed covered targets is affirmed to pro- ment all over the country. Perhaps, the most duce most surprising results. The grenade, when amusing and the most curious incident of this cause filled and ready for use, is perfectly safe in the célèbre is the discovery and seizure made by the pocket, and so delicate in its construction that, once police of all the cartes de visite of the hundreds of it leaves the muzzle of the rifle, it will burst in admirers of the modern Phyrne, who, one and all, passing through even a sheet of paper. On ex- had their photographs taken to embellish her muploding, the fragments produce most disastrous seum of contemporary lovers. The unpleasantness effects, scattering over a space of five feet by three of this affair is that the papers now freely publish The rifle is light and easily handled."

the names of the suitors of this woman. These

names, indeed, were read aloud before the court, 6 JEAMES," writing from Ems, sends the following and this gives us a curious insight into the underanecdote to one of the London papers : “ The King currents of Parisian life. I cannot help noticing the of Prussia, who is passing a few weeks at that water- diversity of ranks and stations, of tempers and ing-place, was smoking his cigar the other evening opinions, of ages and education that are here reprein the Kurhaus, when a young Wallachian, unac- sented in this strange museum. Another thing quainted with the King's person stopped him on the which is well worthy of attention is that married stairs and asked him very politely for a light. His men, landlords and proprietors, have contributed

among the rocks for queer-looking mollusks; when letic sports, even dancing, as life-preserving powers; so many households are familiar with collections of for they all impart properties which, by giving a crawling creatures alive or dead; when batrachians more perfect control over the limbs, put us in a are among the domestie pets of our youngsters, — position to sustain little or no hurt in case of accithat there should still be intelligent women who shriek dents. Ethardo, Blondin, Leotard, and other acroat a poor little spider, an earwig, or a cockroach! bats, also the Zouaves in their wonderful military

" Why are you afraid of a toad?" I asked a lady feats, are examples of what training may do. (The only the other evening, on seeing her rush franti-word discretion might claim some space here, were cally across the road away from one.

we not addressing intelligent readers who know "O, I always was afraid of toads. They are so what precise portion of valor that quality forms.) cold ; they hop so."

Practised with discretion, then, these accomplishCold-blooded, depraved young toads! Pernicious ments procure for us a sort of immunity from dancreatures! Why hop ye so?

ger, so that happen what may, we shall — figura"Good gracious!” cried another lady, and a sen- tively speaking — alight on all fours, like a cat. sible one, too, in most respects, “I would rather be Such an adept is puss in the above-mentioned feats, shut up in the black hole than be in a room with a that she has obtained the credit of having nine rat," on hearing me say I had once watched some lives. Her steed, from kittenhood, has been a rope half dozen perambulating my chamber abroad, be- line, a waving bough, or the topmost branch in a fore taking aim with walking-boots, bits of firewood, gale of wind. Puss must possess that faculty which and other missiles, which I invariably piled on a phrenologists connect with the organ of vitativeness chair by my bedside for that purpose. Not but in conjunction with form, size, weight, comparisos. what rats are sometimes savage and dangerous; and &c. ; à faculty which enables us to recover, page I confess that it was only after a week's experience quickly, to dexterously convert a loss of footing into had assured me that those rats had other aims in a leap, and so save ourselves from a fall. It is a view than to molest me, that I took such calm sur- faculty to be acquired in youth, and the more it is ver of them.

cultivated the fewer will be the losses of life from With all respect to my two lady friends, such casualties. cars date from the dark ages, when toads and spi- Of all the modern clubs, the swimming clats, and ders were fabulously invested with homicidal powers, of all the popular feats, the swimming matches are when entomological societies and aquariums had no among the most useful and life-preserving. Toe 21 existence: and had these fears no worse conse- of swimming is one of the most important: Tet in quences than to make the terrified women appear England it has been, till of late years, 022 of the ridiculous, we might laugh at them and leave them; most neglected in education. We read that is a but, by teaching the rising generation to be as fool- as great a disgrace for a Roman youth to be able ish as themselves, these weak persons are deeply re- to swim as for a Spartan youth to be a coward: yet sponsible for their foolish terrors. To each trifling in England we can scarcely take up a newspaper injury positively attributable to a spider or an ear- which a death from drowning is not recorder wig, twenty serious injuries, simply through fear of Four school-boys in one dar at Brighton, but le cheru, could be enumerated.

since; three more in the north while I write the Therefore, by familiarizing weak aunts and sensi- and the recently published - Reports * inics tive sisters to the contemplation of “ ugly bugs " and that in one year (1864) the number of persoas ad tame toads, and thus by aiding to overcome harmful dentally drowned was two thousand serea bu antipathies, we may welcome our young naturalist and fourteen! as one agent in preserving and prolonging life, - The organ of ritatiseness which we jest po** u n lie, eren thongh it be at the sacrifice of a credited to piss, and which indicates the sus few other lives lower in the scale of creation. And tion to cling tenaciously to existence, desthis somewhat extravagant recommendation of the phrenologists inform - by creating a certa study of natural history will be justified by the case sistance to disease, contribute essentials to the of the lady who died on seeing the spider. For, ervation of life. Dr. Adam Clarke. Kui ma soppose such a nerrons individual to be the mother! Schüler were examples of strong in re

a large tumily, or the superintendent of a number disease: 50 were Dr. Andrew Cabe od sa young children, what à quaking little set she i Bronté family. And the Lds who deist the

t soon coarert them into br her constant dis- of a spider was an instance of ra iaid 2 = piar of terrors: Ser exclamations of horror at a yielding to foolish fears.

brid spider!"*" poisonous toad!" At the sae. An example, in proof of the powe Z u rate at jackets and shoe leather, at the cost of glass telligent man can acquire over bis on frase. Dr cases and broken bowls, let our chiliren - always be cited in the case of an American CERTE neud cious guidance and in moderation - be wiro, in position of entsord sy een couraged to take and poke among the sea-weed. ir said to hare sared bis isme to Tamide over besiges and ditches to hunt out He had, on some specie, occasio, been izraes. and truer up whatever of the wonders of Gui's preach at Lyschoury, in the bus regions T

mentin excites their curiosity, and - sabequently, , cinia After an evening cere a T e * We wil borg eir reverence. was retarning to bis i n br

. TAN Seramaling and chasing has the farther ad- axb. to avai a hiil, was bem esrare s rantam erlening misle as well as mind, and maile: leaving the boases an adat 3 of im p utarai ims that agility and read- serase earstida on ethasde la

.. ir N e only to be obtained through the cul- 'tai pare beat the stered gratis trat a the corporeal powers And thon this ani palware of the sitersta prace mar sem sale and trinai to write about, it is not aboat to cross, woza - w dn

. PTYTT 02, eren in these dars on gymnasiums, wboad the right very dark- rich a r e a 1748 ya mning, tam ing. jamping, swimming, the deep cattia. c to site rocks. La t er

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Consciousness returning, he became aware that he “Whar is ye?" asked the woman. was lying on his back, unable to move a limb, or “Down - here - hurt!” the poor gentleman draw a breath. Feeling himself on the point of managed to ejaculate, in successive gasps. fainting, the horrible thought flashed upon him, that One of the strange characteristics of negro nathere he must lie and die, the road being impass- ture is that of being terrified at the idea of an inable.

jured or a suffering person; and the man again Suspended respiration, whether caused by a urged the woman along, but her curiosity was unviolent concussion, or by drowning, can, we know, satisfied, and while she delayed, the sufferer put be sometimes restored. But to achieve this — as forth another effort to cry, " Come down! I'm the Royal Humane assistants can testify - several hurt!” Then she prevailed on the man to help her persons set promptly to work, and place the insen- down the cutting, guided by the sufferer's moans. sible patient in such a position as to expand the On finding him, and so injured, lights and further chest, using friction and a variety of stimulants to assistance were procured, and the minister was carset in motion the breathing apparatus. But here, ried along the level to a house, and there laid upon in solitary plight, lay an injured and helpless man, the floor. A surgeon was sent for, who discovered whose only aids to recovery were intelligence and that the hip was, by the violence of the fall, forced force of will; and prompted by these, he set him- | into the socket in a very remarkable manner; and self at once to work to rekindle the furnace of life on ascertaining the spot where the accident ocin the physical vestibule, the lungs. His first efforts curred, he pronounced it barely short of a miracle to inspire were agony, but, after intense exertions, that the sufferer had not been killed, affirming that, benumbed and stiff as he was, he drew a feeble by using those extraordinary efforts to breathe, and breath, then another, and another, of gradually in- so preserve consciousness, he had positively saved creasing power; each fresh inspiration invigorating his own life. and encouraging him. Whilst engaged in these It is not all persons who, having studied the laws efforts he still lay motionless, but, having accom- of health, and being duly impressed with their implished the breathing, he next endeavored to portance, are in a position to obey them as their move; when he discovered that besides being judgment would dictate. In the preparation of bruised, stiff, and sore, one hip was so severely in their own food, or in the ventilation of their own jured as to render him utterly incapable of rising. homes, they may be compelled to defer to the prejHe felt he was maimed for life; and the shock with udices of ignorant or arbitrary elders or superiors. which this idea forced itself upon him, almost sur-Their occupations may be sedentary, or too propassed that with which he had reflected on the longed, to permit of sufficient recreative sleep or possibility of being left there to die alone on that exercise. But the attempt to regulate their own dark winter's night. With the prospect of lame health must not be relinquished for all that. There ness and deformity came ruined hopes, and he is always a best thing to be done under any circumalmost felt tempted to relinquish the struggle for a stances whatever; and a sensible person will conlife so blighted. Conscientious reasoning, however, sider what that best thing may be. The seamstress dictated the necessity for additional exertions. He at her sewing-machine, for instance, the student, or must now endeavor to make himself heard by the the writer, who sits bent forward, hour after hour, few who might be passing above at that late hour. can, on a temporary change of occupation, vary his To utter a sound in his exhausted condition re- attitude by leaning well back in his chair, or by quired another great effort, and it was only after standing erect with well-expanded chest, so as not many struggles, – practising his voice as it were, - to defraud his lungs of their complement of vital air that he managed to produce a faint noise in the one moment longer than is necessary. When, after throat. Husbanding his fast waning strength, he long sitting, the circulation becomes torpid and the then waited, listening eagerly for an approaching brain weary, he can set his window open for a few footstep. When, after a considerable interval, one minutes, even in mid-winter; and, if a short brisk was heard, and rescue seemed at hand, the moan he walk out of doors during the interval be impractiuttered was too feeble to attract attention. Con-cable, let him go through a series of gymnastics, or ceive the agony of mind of a man thus bruised, ex-wrestle with imaginary burglars in his own sanctum, hausted, benumbed, whose only hope of life lay in and he will not find his minutes thrown away. It is making himself heard afar off. And now the town better for a person in health and of sedentary emseemed hushed in sleep, and the air was laden with ployments to walk in the rain, rather than not walk snow, which threatened to fall and cover him, and at all. he began to resign himself to the death which “ Blue-pill, madam? Stuff-a-nonsense, madam. seemed inevitable. Once more, however, persons You can't want more blue-pill; take exercise, madwere heard approaching, and he recognized the am, not blue-pill," cried an honest doctor to a slugvoice of a chattering negress. The hope of being gish patient. ** Take exercise. It's only lazy folks heard was slight indeed, yet in a moment of silence who want so much blue-pill.” Which reminds us of our poor friend summoned all his feeble strength to our old friend Abernethy, who, after listening to a cry. A slight grunt or groan only escaped him, long list of ailments detailed by the anxious mother but the woman heard it." What's dat?” she ex- of a languid daughter, growled out as he put on his claimed, -opping short.

hat, and returned a shilling of the fee, “ Buy her a « Reckon it is a drunken man”; said her com skipping-rope." panion. “Come 'long."

It has been aptly said “two thirds of a man's " Whar ’s he den? ” argued the daughter of Eve.woes begin in his stomach." And perhaps two And another minute or two elapsed while this point thirds of those are curable by himself. To walk off was debated, the man urging the woman onward, ill humors is something more than a moral feat; being “scared," as he told her. With each effort such moral ailments in most cases having root in the the prostrate man gained courage, and, in a pause actual physical ones. of the chattering, he summoned power to cry,

Lately, in London, Dr. Lankester held an inquest " Come - here."

over the body of a gentleman who fell suddenly in

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