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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-08-08, Page 2Auggst 8 i384. Ballad et the allrene. Today, as in the fabled days a ad. !rho pireos at beside the summer sea, With wreaths of rout 'merle tneir Ina* of gold, fitriking their -wires tr? wonatelle melody. Xrezile-lhnherl and crimson -lipped, afar they see The winged iwrift-sailing ships speed on be- fore The breeze that bean Mem paid their island shore, And stretching forth their immfy er*If.full strong Their voices rise above the onan's roar, And, sweet and clear is borne the airenssong, l3t111 from the ships, thesnesinere behold The cool, green shade.of 13alra and orange tree, The glowing fruit above the vernai mo,4, „ Where lie at ease with hair blown loose and free „And half-closed °yea and folded wings the Three. "Oh, come," they sing, "here rest forevermore Where never conaes the dust and strife of war To Steel oer wage the fragrant summer long. Here where the storms and froits of life pass o'er I" And sweet em4 clear is borne the eirenEs' song, Ah 1 ye three siren ehapes that ever hold The luring prizee of our defitlfly Who call like the timorous and the bold To taste the glowing fruit of phantasy-, Fame, wealth and Tower--swift-fopted' forms that Ilee, Leaving thern lone who still with groans im- plore Some sovereign balm for alk the woes that throng - Nor years, nor life, the vanished days restore. And sweet an&-elearie borne -the sirens' song. ENVor. , Prince -never yet bath come the conqueror woo from his peat beside the bonded oar Both ktiop upon his homeward course along, Nor e'en. doth turn one weary glance ashore - And sweet and clear is borne the. SiXene' song, PHYLLIS. BT THE DUORBee. Author of "Molly BaWn,', " The Baby," "Airy Airy Lilian," eto., etc. . • "My dear fellow, you grow bearish," expostulates Sir Mark, with ` ,rairied browe and amused glonoe. 4.4,Wwwither beneath your worde. Abuse yourself as much as• you please, but &Spare the rest of uo. We like to think rselves perfeettona . it ia very rude. of youth undue -helm eo brusque- ly. Aud how can you give. utterance to' 'Ibuch sweeping assertions in auth'oompany•2 Have you forgotten your wife is present?" " No" -with a forced smile -44 1 hath not. But I fear even Mrs.- Carringtou 'cannot be. oonaidered altogether harnalees." Ho pendia this remark with' a curiously- Melia& exprenion oast in my direction. • "Never mind, Dirs. Carrington," exclaims Thornton, with his usual vivesity. At all events you may count upon one devoted admirer, as 1, for ray parts do not belisae you have.a fault in the world." • • "Thank you,'S I answer gayly, though seoretly I am enraged at Marmaduke'w look and tone. "Thank you very Mob, Mr. Thornton. I coneider myself fortunate In having secured your,good opinion. But, Marmaduke"-addressing him with the utmost coolness -"how uncivil you oan be! I say nothing of ray own feelings -I kw*/ am hopelessly wicked; but your guests, what must they think? • Tehe Lady Blanche, for instance': is she. not looking the pioture of innocence, -though no doubt speeohleee with ' indignation? Surely you will exonerate her P' .' • • "No, not even Blanche," replies Marine- au's*, ;, but even DA he condemns; her he sends upon her one of his very sweetest bmiles. • . "1 am the more planed thatyou do not," says her ladyship, in her* low, soft tones, returriiiig,hia glance fourfold. ":Even if it were possible, I would not be altogether good. Perfeotion in any shape is thione, thing of whioh we nonest tire." . "The day is olearnig ; the rain has almost ceased," announces Lord Chandos, solemnly, at this moment. / spring to my. feet. "No 1" cry I, 44 you don't mean it?" 411 am almost sure I do," replies he, sen- tentiously. And there indeed amid the clouds, as 1 run to look at them, shinee out o dazzling piece ofhlue sky that grows and widens as I gaze. "It still wants a Mater to one," I say, rapidly. "We will have luoish at °m - aro matter whether we eat it or not -and' then we shall start for Warminster, and 1. shall see my rink anneal. But firat I mud g� to the gardens. Sir Mark" -in a coquet- tishly appealing trine, outing at him a very friendly glance from my, gray -blue eye's- " will you come with me and take pare,of me as .far as the gates? I have something very particular to say to -Cummins." 1 make a little pause) maliolonely, and raise my long. lashes just So much as per- mitame te obtain a glimpse of Paarmaduke. He is talking pleasantly to Lady Blanche, and evidently means me to understand that he Li ignorant of my.conduct. But I oan Bee a frown on his forehead and tier - tam lines about his mouth that. tell me plainly he has both seen • and heard and condemned, and I am satiefied: • " I shall be delighted," says Sir Mark, with prudent coldness, and together we leave the room. An hthir later; lunch is over, and I am rushing up the stairs to don ray -walking - attire.. On the topmost landing stands Bebe, already dreseed and about to de- scend. As I meet her gaze it arrests me. Surely some expressionthat ojosely_resembles woe characterizes her face. Her eyebrows are slightly elevated, her lips • at the corners curving downwards; her cheeks- are inno- cent of nature's rouge; a suspicious pink- ness theta upon her lids. ' Dear -dear -dear! is there nothing but trouble in this world? I, of course, am wretched -that -goes without telling -but prettybright, piquante Bebe, must she too. be migerable ? What .untoward thing min have occurred to bring that wistfol look into her eyes? Turning to my maid, who is following me at a respectful distance, I speak aloud: "Martha, I will diepenee with your en. vine this afternoon. PaisaBeatonn, is here, and will give me any assistance rimy require."' . • ' So saying, I drew my friend into my rom and closed my door. " • Now, Bebe, what is it ?" I eekpuribing her into & lounging -chair, and beginning a vigorous search for thy aeal.skin jacket Martha, is a, good girl -the best of girls - but the can never pot anything' in the risme place twice running.- • " Oh, it is nothing -nothing," -outwore Bebe, in a tone al, oat comicial in ite 'dis- gust. "My pride * had a alight fall -my nonce% has been a little lowered -no more. hate myself" (wifils a petulant 'tamp of the foot) " for takidlt. it so Mob to bort; but I do, and that is the fest, and I oannot vet overcome the feeling. If 1 did not know I mat have looked like a foolish culprit all the while, I think I would not eh greatly mind; but my tailor was coining and going in a inaddenieg feehion ; and then hie tone -so . "Chandos' tone, I suppose, you Mean? But you forget, dear; I know nothing." " True, of 001Iree not. Well, after you left the library that time with Mark, the whole .party broke up and &mottled abeUt the hotieti , • to prepare for this drive, all ethept myself. I atayed on-uninoldly, as it busied out—to finish my novel, Until I should be called to hanoh, It interested me and r thought myself sure ol solitude for &VWs time, bAt to loos than three minute* the door was re. opened, and Chanties came "Well ?" 1 say, as the makes a long pause. " Unfortunately, it etruok me that his coming book so soon again to where he knew I way alone looked, you know, rather perlioular-as if he wished to say some- thibgrivide to me; and -.1 had no desire totear 'Ob, Bebe 1" "Well, believe me or not, as you will, 1 really dreaded- hie saying anything on the -old topic -te snob a degree that 1 rose and made as though I would blatantly quit the room. ,0121" cries she, with an Jere - attainable bluoh and movement of the hand, "I wish Iliad died before I did that." 44 Why, darling?" " Oh, need you ask? Don't yoti see how it betrayed my thoughte? Why, it looked as though I made quite sure be was going to propose again.Can'tyou, underatand how horrible it was?" nye Bebe, burying her face in her hands with a hysterical laugh. "He underatoodit so, at all events. He stopped right before -me, and said,, deliberately, with his eyes fixed on mine, 'Why do you leave the room ? I came for a book and for nothing else, I assure you.' Thus taken aback, I &dually etammered and blushed like a ridiculous sehool.girl, and said, weakly, It is almost time to think of droning... We start so BOOM And besides -I—' Could anything be mere foolish? 'One would . think I had,'the plague or the pestilence, the way you rush from the room the momenta enter is,' says he, impatiently. 41 swear I am not going to propose again. I have had enough of it. I have no desire whatever to marry a woman against her will. I asked OU to bet my wife tor the second time, a week or two ago, thinking any poverty had been the cause of your former rehired, _rand ' Was juatlY punished for my conceit. "Bellerve ma, I have brains enough hi retain a lesson, once I have learned it ; eo yott way lot down, Misp Beatoup, wish the oertanity thatl shall never. -again Offend yeti in that way.' I could', never' tell you how 1felt Phyllis, during the utterance of 'these word. My very blood was tingling with Share& My eyes would not be lifted; tind besides they were full of teeth. 1 felt I hated both myself and him." • "It was a very curious opeeoh for him to make," oat, 1, feeling both puzzled and indignant with Chaudoe. "1 think he was quite right," deriares she, veering round to resent what seems like an attack on my shirt. "11, must have angered and disgusted him to see me so confident of his lasting affection as to imagine him ready to make a fresh offer every time people left us tete-a-tete. I think any man with spirit would have done just so. No one itt to be blalned but myself." . "On the other hand, wby should he con- clude you thought anything of the sort ?" I say, defending her stoutly in spite of her- eon. 3' He only proved the idea to be quite as u:ppermost in his mind as it was in yours. I would have said something t� that effect had I been•you." "Said, my dear! I oould not have even thought of anYthing at the moment, I was so confused. It ie the siniplest thing pos- eible to think what would .hove been the mitred thing to seasand to make up neat little' speeches, hen an hour after the effort* laity for tittering them is passed, but just on the instant how few have presenoe of inind 1" ' ' . "It was provoking," say I, 1' and" --with an.irrepreesible little laugh-" fanny; too. My Own impression is; he did wine baok to renew his pleadings, but saw by your man- ner it would be useless. Pity you did not insist on knowing the title of the book he was so anxious to profane. At all evento it is nothing to be mieerable about, dear Bebe."' "Oh, I 'than% be miserable, either. Now that I Wive told some one I feelbetter. I 'have had a geed ory, brought on by thorough vexation, and will now diemin both the nourence and his lordship froni ray mind." , 44 Shall you find that an essytask ? The latter part of it, I mean?" • • "Quito easy -nothing more so," replies elle, with ra saucy uplifting of her Chin as the leaves raw As the hat I wish to wear has been looked away in a certain part of a wardrobe where I am certain' no hat was ever stowed before, it takes me some time to distorter it. When at length I do so, I find I am considerably behind time, and catobbig up my gloves,run hastily along the gallery, and down the western corridor, that will bring me a degree Sooner to the hall below. As I turn the corner I corns without any warning upon Marmadulte' and Lady Blanche Going, evidently in deep and inter- esting converse. I stop short ; and both, looking up, esie me. ' Rage and indignation fill •me at thie unexpected encounter. What can Mils woman have to whisper to my husband that might not be said in public ? 1 • Blanche with the utmost compcsure, nods her head, smiles, and vanishes down the staircase, leaving -me alone With Mai- machike ; while he stands frowning heavily, mid apparently mob annoyed by,what has mat been said. His black looks deepen as. his eyes "rdeet mine; but as, with raised head and haughty lip, I page .hiisa 'by; he suddenly moves towards me, and, throwing his arms round me, strains me passionately to hins and, turning up my face, khan me twice, thrioe,,upon my mouth. , Still aniarting under my angry thoughts, I tear myself from bis embrace and nand Aloof, panting with mortifintion. „ "How dare you ?" I gasp. . 44 Don't attempt to touch me," •, "-What 1 has your bulb:Wan Vlreadll changed to hatred ?" says he, bitterly, as Walk rapidly away'. . The aun shines with redoubled power and brillianoy, and, toiling up Carlisle* street, we find ourselves before the door of the principal hotel in.Warrainater. Such a goodly turnout as oure is seldom Eieen even in this busy, bustling town and the waiters atd,bostler °Me out to admire and tender then services. To the enterprieing owner of this grand hotel belongs the rink, and- thithei we bend our foototepo. To tam the world on wheels -to see the latest, newest vainty of the Great my ambitioo. Turning a corner; we enter a gateway adjoining the hotel ; we pass the mystio penal, we pay the inevitable shil- ling, throw ourselves upon the meroies of the moveable barrier, and find oureelvee there. Just at first the,outeide oirole of admirers prevents our oatohing sight of the perform - ere, and the dull grating noble of the machines falls unpleariantly on our eare. We draw nearer the chattering, gaping orovvd, end by degrees edge our way in, until we too have a full vlew of all that 10 10 be seen. "Surely ' there is a mistake rioniewhere, and it is wheelti, wheele, wheels," not love, that " makes the world go round." On they come, by tiVoS and threes, in single file, in shaking groups, all equally iraportant, all taloa with a desire to get. -:- nowhere. La novioe Genies running, stag. Piing, hamming *Moran* ; evidently her acquaintance with this new Mode of kW. maiden Wee of this vainest halt an hour. ago. , The mow& paean on, SS' she Out follow it ; so, with s, leek of tear upon her fitee that mounts almost *, agony, she totters onward to .."brave a thousand° baba,' A, sudden rush PIM her -the fainten toliell does n -she reels; het heels (that on. ordinary occiselons, to Judge by their. sppear. anoe, must be the stanthest of supporte) refuse to uphold her now; her lipo parb to emit a dyIeg temp, already she molls the ground, whop a kindly band from bebibd seized her, steadies her with goid•natured forge, end, with a emit° et aoknowledgment, that confesses the misery of the,foregoing minutes, the owe more *Una, trips and °nimbi,* to her fate. , 1 am delighted, entranced. I find nneelf preeently ' Isughiug gayly and with all my heart, the galling remembrance of the last few hours ,swept oompleteiy from my bthin, t ory 04 Ohl" at every casualty, and ease, my compaiden's arm ; I admire and amile upon the suonesful, I begin to wish that I too could elate. " Here comes the adept, with eyes fixed questioninglyupon ther watchful orowd. ..1:heir approving glances fire him with a mad desire to prove to them how superior he is to ifle oorapeers. He will do more than skate with cousumate grace and nee ; he will do better then the 46 outside edge ;" he will waits. 44 Oh, daring thought 1 Now shall he bring down the well-deserved plaudits of' the lookennon. He turns -one, two, three -it hi a swing, a hop, not perhaps a ball. .room performanee; but ot least a moues. Eyes become 'concentrated. He essays it agent, andegiun victory crowns hie effert. .Yet a third time he makes the attempt - alas 1 that fetid three. Is it that Iris heel oatohea his toe, or hie toe catches hie heel? The roman at loan is the same ; over he goes; diagram is ,on bin; with a crash he and the asphalt rant. ' 44 It -la -Intsnotenous, I think," breathed, Sir Mark in my, ear'in's, deprecating tone, and then ltiokipast Me at Bebe. • "11 is fatiguing," minima Harriet, with a yawn: " /Imo, if you don't gob Me a chair this instant, I shall faint." . "It is delioioue,". declare I, enthusiasti- cally;, 44 Itis •the nieeat thing I ever- saw. Oh 1 I wish I could ekste." • "11 makes one giddy," says , Lady Blanche, 'affecitedly. "Do they never turn in this place ?" . Almost on her worden bell tinilies somewhere in the distance, and as if by Mittgi0 they, all swerve round and ACM he contrary way -all, that is; except the tyro0;Whci °oboe' lielitity, and -without 'a mbnient's Warning; to their knees. And now the band' strike° up, and the last fashionable oiling bomes lingeringly to our ears. Insensibly the musebal por- tion of the community on wheele falls into a gentle'swinging .motion and,undulatelo the liquid strains of the tender "Mamba" " Thiole better,". nye Lady HandoOok, sinking into the chair tor whith her faithful /times had done battle. Bebe and Thornton, hand in hand, skim past Mi. • 44 Oh 1 I mut, I win learn," I cry, excitedly. "1 never sew anything I liked so much. Sir Mark, .do get me a pekoe skates and let me try. It looks quite elm - pie.. Oh, it Billy were.but keret' Sir Mark goes to obey ray oommeaide, and I nand by Harriet's chair, too-inter- eated tor conversation. How they fly along 1 the women with more grace in their movements, the men with.. more science. Here is the fatalhother turn; the numbers are increasing: whirr, crash, . down they come, four together, causing an indesorib. able acme of confusion. Two from the outside °bole rush in to wooer their fallen darlings. It is a panic -a melee. Yet stay; atter all 11 18 nothing; they are up again, • 'lathed but undaunted: it is allat:_hfortune of .war. Vogue la galere. A tell young man'blonde and slight, attracts my . notioe.' Half an hoar ago he struck me as being -the gayest Of the gay; now hie expression, se he slowly wendo his way through the skaters, is sad and care- worn in the extreme; the terroge of tho. rinkare oppressing' him sore, anxiety .is printed on bis brow; he has but one (thought from start to finish -how to read& uninjured the chair he has 'just left.. He never takes but Ona. turn at a time round the arena, and never pine his haven of asfety without a long -drawn sigh oareliet The fear of "ridicule lies heavy upon him. Bub what will you? Rinking is the fashion,' and •for, what does a young MD live if not to follow the mode?- • • ' .1 see, too, the 'elderly gentlenaan, who, with beet knees and compressed mouth, maya. to rival hie juniors. He win be young, anclhe . iain skate, whether his •doo- • tor "*111 let him or no." Me l a jeumesse 1 La jettnessis, in the form of 's diminutive' damsel, follows closely in his wake :she is ef tiny build, and has her band clasped by one. of the tallest young men it has ever been my luok to behold. . . - "I pity that yoring men," says Harriet. "Titania has secured him for her own." , And indeed it teems like it. Where she may choose to lead him for the next hour there must he certainly go. Were he dying to leave her, • to join Bonn other, 44 'learn and dearer," h 'II not be ablesto do so. irsli1/4‘, Can he sot : e te and sok her to sit down before he aho a any inolinatign so to do? Can - he feign fatigue whezi she betray st no symptoms of flagging, and regards him with a glum fresh se when they started? • He must only groan and suffer patiently, even though -he-known-the demon' Of jealotiey is werkieg mischief in the 'lout of his beioved as she site silently watahing him from a distant corner. ' ":What wonderful vitality that small creature develops 1" says Harriet. " Pro. bably, at home, if asked to rise twice from the chair, ahe would declare • herself fatighed and ennuyee to the last degree; here she keeps in motion for an hour at a stretch, and is .still nailing and radient." The game seems hardly worth the can dle," remarks Sir James, gazing after Titania's' very insipid -looking cavalier. 44 My ,dear, it is worth ten thousand can dles," returhe hie wife. 44 That is young Woodleigb, and you know he came in for all that money at his uncle's death. In such a canoe yen would not have her coun- tenance fatigue 2" "Here climes her contrast," remarks Sir /ernes,' as a . slight, dark woman, very pretty, with just a sowpcon of coloring on her pale cheeks, and enough shading round . her lids to make her dark eyeti darker, skateS by. "I have been watching her," gays Hu. riet. "She is Mrs, Elton, whose husband died Ian year -much to her satishiction, ari people say. gee, Phyllis, he* She is sur- rounded by admirere : every tenth 'the accepts+ a new aspirant to her bend, es far as rinking g008: Ab, my deer 1 eel) whet it is to be a bewitching .widow -far better than being a lovely girl. And Jules pooitively refuses to give MO a chance of trying whether would bil'a 13UOOOSS if so oiroumstanced." Sir /antes smilee comfortably, and eo do I, while* watching the gay widow as she beam, and awe's], and languithes, accord. ing'to the mood of each companion-mu- ing all in turn, and knowing herself as uni. versally adored bV the oppooite sex as she is deteeted by her own. "1 had great difficulty in getting your - tastes. 1 - eliarar it these are email enough?" withiers. Sir Mark in my ear • ,I beheld him hitt equlppd fey t• he fr telltreed bTall entilined e boD*barr1.c under h Orel the artistes 18 . Vhay proved to be the right aloe, and soef I findMyselt standing en Noe wheels' ( at apparentlY•gia yery *Vey grkY reeettn',11 arm, ' inthei moat • mllettisl manioc), graspieg Qb, what is the matter with my Imola? They wOra't etay still!" I ory, desperately, an my body hetrave on inclination *lay been Atii upon the, ground. 44 They nail thews?" "Yee. Try to walk a little, and you will find itsesier. Ili is wonderful how soon one geto used to the gensittion." I sumnion all my plubk, and get round the plow three times without stopping or falling, thanke to Sir Mark's strong arm. As I resell my startingtoint once More, I pauee and sink into o vaant ohair, 44 I will rest a little," I breathe hastily. "1 am dreadfully tired and frightened, had no idea, it would prove se difficult. Go away, Sir Mark, and take a turn by your- self; and perhaps later on, if You come back for nie, I will try again. Oh, 1 wonder how on earth -ib is all these people manage to keep upright?" 44 Don't lose heart," says Sir Mark, smiling. 44 Once on a time they all felt juet as you do now. Indeed I think you- a very promising beginner. . He leave us, and ilarriet and I fall to criticizing the performers again. After all, I thizik the beginnere amuse me most, more eapeoially now, when I oan "deeply aympatinze ' with their terrors. The way they atileable against each other, their fre- quent falls, their earnest faces -earnest as though 11 were a matter of life end death itt whioh they are engaged -all combine to excite my risible faculties to the het • degree. I laugh merrily and heartily, my color rises, I clap my hands with giee as two fet Mao, coming into oollieion, fall., prostrate alutoet at my feet., • • "How you enjoy everything I" eels Har- riet, patting roe on the ahoulder, and laugh - Ing herself through sympathy. " 11 18 all so new to me," I return, with delight ; and, glancing 'up at her, also catch Sir /awe' eyes fixed upon me, filled with pleasant amusement., There are little boys with 'spindle lege Who look all boots and no body; little boy. rinkere and little girl-rinkers, who do their work sio beautifully and show suoh unlim- ited go as puts their elders to theme. Sir Mark conies batik again,and again I ampersuaded to rise and court fortune. In my turn sr:ramble and totter and push' and try to believe I am enjoying the moment. Atiength I break into a little slide -insensibly, as it seems -and after that matters go more smoothly.. ` • " 1 now you are getting into the way of it," exclaims Sir Mark, almost growing excited over my progress. 44 /wit keep on like that, and non you will muter Half an hour elapses. The others of our party, who have been at it longer thin I nave, and to whom it is no novelty, have tired of skating, and atand once more together in a group. , As I approach them, attended* by Sir Mark, I pause to utter a few words. "11 iS lovely, delicious. I am!,getting on capitally. • I shall • do it perfeotly in no time," I gasp, concededly ; and, instantly equal • parts of water, may be used for be *11 At" ell the filintee be ASIATIC C11011hEIRA• Hew 11 Pune 4114aeriesk rreateue • Weeks anili Its illeekler7.04 Article et .1cipeolal ineterne: ' ox T. Direinli, It D. Tk. Editor 'Atha Fingeeku British Whig. Chisnliness everything is eejoined as One of the greet means of preventau,g dis- eases, and. slut cholera. innonget tbe rest. We have read that when a geese plague wen devastating the OW Of Athens to the days ef Hippoorateo, the father of the heal. fog art, this. groat physiolah was brought • from hie home in Cos to stay the prOgrese • of the deeedful poitilenoe. When he biol examined the condition of the city he ordered fires to be made in all the street, and public equareo, and conanandecithe in. habitants to pile thereon all the refuse and filth, infected clothing, bedding, furniture, everything that ciould harbor the germs of disease, and 0OUB111320 them. Time was hot spent in carting refuee away to a nui- Fiance ground; the sir was not contaminated by loads of poirion dragging thole weary along.the streets -fire, the - great deetroyer and also the mighty cleans- er, did the work noon the Not, quioklyand touts *hot main thottla eoeur in ruin«. of stwb terrible felsitenerle, for .; the vet? • oondition.a of mind and morels thell greets 6 P44, 3.10 Ore seek as Open the gates to• the invader Ana invite hie entrance. . Tivery mail to his post" should be as Minh the watchword in fearful epiderain as in war; oed our duty, to the weak and helpless should never be forgotten. We have indicated whet thinge predie- pose to the cholera, and we may safely eay that their opporates fortify against it. The proteotives are everythieg that keep the body)in good besIth and the mind at pew; benne good, sound,freah andwell.preserved food, preyed). 094aked and eaten m models eaten, pure wider, weak tea or coffee, or milk as a'beserrige, regular meals, regular boues ond the avoidance of expounis, etz- pecially such as include gudden changes of temperature, regular, hithito ot life, and the strictest temperance in all things condom meterially to robust health, an impart the Power of resisting the germs ot diens° and throwing off ite attacks. Delhate perilous should be extremely ortutioue, and shwa wear flannel underclothing although it He summer weather, for the ohangee here axe ' sudden, and wool h the beat material to en - Bare an equable temperature of the body. thoroughly, and the city wsmade clear. mCholern is frequently preceded by And nob not only was the city made clean, nub runts the pestiferous air that had been long sumBlight dierrhosa ; persons, therefore, find- - , of 'the stomach and bowele and menng and festering undisturbed, .1hong iag themselves affected in thio manner put in motion by tbe fires, lett its nomome when the cholera is about should at once abodes and amended to the clouds, while nse the proper remedies for suoh cam- phunts. n'inrilly, peace of mind is apew- erful protection against tbe invasion of onplera. Let us do all our duty in regard to prohibiting its coming, to fortifying our - salon against its attacks, and then meet it cool and determined as the soldier meets hie foe. Let our worldly affairs be so arranged that they shall not fill our minde with care in the prospect ot our being called away. ' 44 Bs just and fear not" is a. most appropriate motto at all times, but it , seems to have a peouliar appliiiation to " times of public) calamity. Let no aot upon the advice of the poet and we shall awe oureelves; much anxiety And fear and increase our °henna cf escape. the pure breath of heaven from the green Aelds beyond the city% bounds, from the overhanging mountains and the ever.' changing sea, came careering bato the abodes Of death, bearing upon its pure wings the eureka of %healing balm, crown. ing the sufferink with relief and breathing life into the dying. And we are told that the . plague was stayed.7 Whether this account be sober truth or nought but fable, the lesson taught by it is one that should inner be forgotten. We are not) in the midst of a ;plague, and therefore need.not the speedy raethod of cleansing indicated by roaring fires in our streete, and squares -we are warned in dale and haVeabmidant opportunity to carry out onr eanitary regu- lations. Removing illth is a proms that requires no directions; but disinfection may require a few words of explanation; and these cannot be better given than by appending a few more extracts from the Board or Health's recommendations. For convenience a few disinfectants are here grouped together: (1) Solution of corrosive sublimate: 1 oz. to 2 galls. (2) Solution of sulphate. of copper s 1 lb. to.5 galls. (8) Solution of chleride of zinc: water, 1 gal.; suliihate of zinc, 4 cm; com- mon salt, 2 oz. (4) .Soltition of chloride of lead : dissolve two draehins of nitrate Of lead in a quart Of water -then, in a larger, , vessel containing agallon of water,dissolve two tablespoonfuls of common salt (chloride of sodium); mix thetivo solutions together and store tor , daily use. (5) Mnotioof carbolic 'acid ;part in 20 to 40 of I Fix the pillow higher, Heger.- • water. • (6) Solution of copperas: • lbs. What, is that "13ilver Threads" that he sommeroial sulphate of iron 101gal. water. is_ starting in on now? Ye gods! Tbe last (7) Solution of chlorinated sodi, (or lime). . time I heard that fiendish ditty was in the (8) Carbolate of lime. (9) Chlorine fumes : 230 car ooming out. A little fellow with peroxide. of manganese, 1 part ; sulphuric elephantine nerve and an alleged tenor - • ;mid, 2; ohloride of "sodium, ; water, 2. voioe Rang it all -all the sixteen verses. TO be mixed in a glazed dish and plaoed on 'And, ohl the conductor named to eujoy it a warm stove or other heating surface.. (10) Silver Threads Among the Gold! " Qh 1 Eames of .burning eulphar (sulphurous Wagner? Wagner? Isn't i• that •the acid). (11) Heat 2120 .to 2500 F. _wedding awash from Lohengricr that be .,Dieinfectanto .27t. ..... dilated_ _with ,_hasashangeci. tonowts-,HowaL .needa-must- • offer 1 who have heard the Thomas ertheatra play the number three times and the Heosishel fiddlers 'eight times. The Wedding mash on & barrel Organ Ah he ie almost through. Bathe my head with camphor, Roger. . •He is stopping! I am better now. There, he starts again! "Tho Bay of Dahlia:" an innocent song, indeed, if well sung. Yoa • remember, don't'you, we lieerd Kitty Cowles sing it the night wecalled-sat seems .so • many years ago. '1 retnember her sweet lips. Shell married now. There he goes again -playing it over. Oh, dear, dear 1 Th'ere, he makes the crank go faster: Notioe the dioreseendo. .Bat ha 1 hat How my . head aches! ' Help ! Murder! What is that, Roger 1 Is not that 44 Sweet Violets?" Drop the dio- tionary on the beggar's head. Throw.those beer bottle's at hina-alrof there. Drop the case out, too, if none of the bottles should prove fatal. Throw the monkey something that will poieon him. Use 'ow up Olsh-h 1 My head 1 Give me a drink.7of , water - please. . " Sweet Violets!" Didn't I waltz to -that onee in Belem, and didn3 my part- ner faint away in my arras after not a half a dozen step, and didn't I faint 100, kers flummix on the floer ? It breaks my heart to think of it. I have an account to settle with that bandmaster. If I turn .,aseassiiii, • . heaven help .him. Couldn't he ',see we weren't natives of Salem, and infer that we 'had heard:" Sweet ViOlets." . before 7 I • wouldn't have kioked at any other tune. There, there, that is better ; 'now smooth the pillow down. . • , . Will he, oan he, ploy another? How many tunes are there before it is played out? What, 44 The Last Rose. of Sum- mer !" What have I done? And that is a. long one and a slow one, too. To think how I heard that sling once. 'Twee at the opera one night when Kellogg' sang ; they made her sing it three times. I was in the gellbry; but I will never !ergot it. I almost fell Over the rail; its it was, 1 dropped my hat down. . Oh, Roger, bathe ray -head- water 1 water I Get that nicely polished . revolver oub of the table -drawer --ib isn'b loaded -and point it at the fellow.. ' Hal He stops! And right in the mid- _dle of .his wretched grind! There, hies done; and going. Thank heaven for this , deliverance! • How my templee throb! • Help me up. I'm all right now. There. Let's go out to Milton or somewhere before the villein gets around the block again.' Bony° tuat when thy summons wines to join The innumerablecaravan that moves To the pale reafmff of shade, where each shell take His chamber in the silent halls of -death, Thou go not like the quarry slave at night Scourged to his dungeon, but, maple& and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave , Like one who wraps the dra,pery of his couch About him, and lies down te pleasant dreancaL:1 ' CONCOHID OF SWIEET SOUNDS,. A Han Who Has dome Hods in'Hint-- selt, and Fel is Fit toLyreasons and Stratagems. There, Roger; there ; I am easier now, aside cholera -stricken Boston Globe man. But will the organgrinder never go away-? Great heavens! He has jun come! 'Ohl slipping, I fall forward helpleeely into ray oompanion's arms. , . • • I gat a severe shook, but think myself lucky in that I have escaped the ground. Sir Mark holds we a shade longer, and perhaps ohade more tenderly, than the occaison retakes ; and, looking up, I catch BlanohoGoingli.eyeri, ancLoan see that she. wears upeo her handsome face a simile, half insolent, wholly auspiciouri. The others must see it, too. ' mmExtreme anger grows within my breast. engaging myself nem Bir. Mark's Sup- port, I stand alone; though- insecure, and feel that I am rapidly becoming the color of a rich and full-blown peony. Certainly raybitterest enemy could not sown me of blushing prettily; and this knowledge, added to what I am already smarting under renders me furious. . I repent my first. moves' I regret havisgi so tar poen in to popular opinion as to with- draw myself front Sir Mark's sustaining arm. • Hastily iturning to him again -- unmindful pf Harriet's kind little speech -I hold out to him my hand, and &admen him with unwonted impressement. " Thank you," I say;."but*. for you I should have come to ignominious grief ha the very midst of my. boasting. I am in your debt, remember. Will you add to your goodness by taking my hand yet again for a round or two? • I want to be a degree more enured. Ibis • not every day, I add, with a gay, coquettish' laugh,'" a lady will make you 'a. generoue offer of her hand." •Marmaduke, as well as Blanche, hears every word. Sir Mark takes my hand, very readily, and together we vanish out of .sight. . • . As usual, once my naughtiness is a fait accompli, I suffer from remorse. When mi next I find myself near ''Duke I am ld arid submiseive as a ringdo4e. Would he but speak to me nriiir I feel I could and be pardoned with the utmost oheerf nese; Alas ! he rumble mute and appa- rently unforgiving, being in the dark as to my untitled mood. A deep Miriosity to learn his exact humor towards me seiZes hold of me, and for the satisfying of it Isdetermine to ellen fire and be the first to break down the barrier 'of Ohne° that his risen between tie. "What a pity we must leave this plan so soon 1" I say, with. exceeding geniality. 44 It opens again at half -past seven. If we do not start for home, -"Duke, -until ten- • o'clock, why ehould we not*spend another hour here after dinner ?" . , . "At that hour the place will be thronged with ehopkeeperb and the townfolk, gene- rally," replies he, in his coldest tones, with. out looking at me. "1 should not mind them :in thp very least," eagerly. • . " dare say • not: there are few thillg you do mind; but / should," 'returns 'Duke, ;slowly and decisively, and, walk- ing away,, heves,. me tete a -tete with Sir Mark Gore. • ' - All the sweetnees within Me changes to gall.. I Otis once again angered and cubit. tered ;ley more, I long to rebenge myself upon him for the temerity- of his man. ner. At nth -moments who has not fund the tempter near? (To be continued)._ A tramp atoned. at a house on Main street the other day and asked for some- thing to sotto 44 Which do you like the beet ?" •ariked the hired gir1-4' steak or chop 7" The tramp, meditated a minute and, then replied, 44 Chop." "Step right thin way," said the hired girl; here's the axe and there's the woodpile." • A Suakim despatch Hays: Friendly tribes on the mainland, near Azig, .have been murdered. Seienteen thousand rebels aro aroundElualtim and make iiightly•attaoke on the town, coming within abort range of thb garririon, Senora andrnarines landed, but the rebels' fearlesely danced and Waved their spears in broad daylight within two miles of the fort. washing the hands anu other parts of. the 'body. 3 and 4 may be used for cups and other utensils; these if employed for drinking purposes, should be rinsed in clear Water after Mit% , the disinfectant. 1, 4, 9, 10 and '11 may be used for bedding, clothing tiiid other textile fabrics. Carpets, curtains and other colored &W- • oks, besides ,being cleansed by the ordinary processes, should be exposed to the aotion of 'heat (sub -no, 11) for moral hours. 1, 5, 9 and 10 may be need for ,woodwork of furniture without fear of injury in the highest strength • mentioned. 5 should be employed for scrubbing flooth. 2 and 6, especially the former, may be used for disinfeetbig niviee excreta, oto. The •carbolic acid solution may be' made to per. meate the aur by spray from an atomizer, and so assist . in destroying germs in breathable air by actual contact). In re- gard to the • use of; 9 and 10 it must be remembered that they have bleaching pro- perties, imperially the former. • N.B.-Extreme caution should be used in the. noring of these disinfeetents, especially those which are (minden and odorless, as most of them are strong poisone. Several Of then are 'expected to be used only when contagious diseases are aotually present; the others are for the purposes of general cleanliness and -should • beneed as appliances for the prevention of disease. .' • 'We have already learned that the cholera follows in the paths 'ef commerce and emigration, besides advancing on its own aociount. Our duty then is plain with reference to ehipe, travellers, bag. gage, goods, And everything, ' no matter what, coming from infeoted localities. A thorough system , • of -quarantine, not necenarily for fortydays BB the term im- plies, but a time ellidOieUti to' extend be. ond the period of the incubation of the olera, say ten or twelve day, should at least be required Eicaraples of cholera having _Woken out on ships during the, voyage, when all the passengers taken on board were healthy, and of its having occurred amongst healthy immigrants upon the unpacking of their trinika iri distant and isolated parts of America, when; no cholera previously existed, peoves that it min be, and is, conveyed in household -stuffs and other goods. Bedding, clothing and everything belonging to persons coming from countries where „onolera • prevails, . should, therefore, be detained at the port of entry long enough to be entirely ins. packed and thoroughly cleansedand dis- infected by nome of the applidatione men- tioned above before they are allowed to pees into the interior ,of the country. Next what individual care. should. each one take care of himself in the close of an invasion of Ainatio cholera? In the first place "Be not afraid." Fear relaxes and unfortifies the whole man and renders his System more liable to beoorae the re- ' Again, fear is nimbi- losophioal in the face of great calamities. Do not run away from yceie own looalitied to seek for others into whioh cholera nuty cot come., but endeavor to make your own snob that the disease can gain no foothold there. Of course there are exceptions to this, as to all rules, andthose who are feeble, or for other reasons are susceptible or the diseaee, had better fix upon high and dry eituations in the open country, and retire to theee before the "cholera wave" is upon them; for then it may be too late, and their, flight will not benefit themselves but will eerve only to coined the plague and to inflict its calamities upon int:ascent ViOtilth3 who otherwise would have eiesaped. We learn from the newspapers that peo- ple are fleeing in umbers from Marseilles and Toulon. Thie is certainly wrong, bat 1 cannot quite endorse the sentinlents uttered in a, late Globe editerial, which atig. =times as base, contemptible Red cowardly, those Who run' Away from the terrible disease, for it iff ecareely in human nattire not to fly from danger when oppor- Utility offers. I hold that it ie thaOt ;infer- Not.on the Harry , A Nebraska girl writes home from Cali- fornia that the •stories about rich and speedy Marriages for women in that Eldorado are pure humbug, saps the Troy Times. There are more men than women, but in her opinion most' of them have run away from the maritalbonds elsewhere , "A wonaari," she says, "is of less, cense- .quenee here thau anywhere in the world. The Cbineee do most of the washing and housekeeping, and work at about the same wages that gide • and wGmen would find necessary: There mighty little marrying and giving in worries° here. The men, don't seem to be anxious about it, and the girls are so well up to stuff that thear won't ehoourage a meu till they knoW all about his former' life and make sure he hasn't a ' surplus wife or two soinesviadre east." She is going back tp Nebraska,. L _ Sir ffaill ArItley, the Duke of ltrEarlbor- •ough, Lord Lonsdale and thd. Earl of Shrewsbury, are among the Many re- presentatives of aristoorrioy who now run HanSOM cola for hire lo London. , Oniony to animals in London is exposed in the binding of 5,000 tottoines puked together in nineteen alleles, Many of them were dead and putrid, while the living_wait long periods till they are required. "Nail portraits" are the latest fancy among Gallic lovers. A miniature likenees of the beloved Tide is photographed on the thumb nail, so that the devoted swain easy always have her image before him.