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Patience.
A maiden with tire pensive picture fare
Whose revert/spas don) With dim tlesPeir ;
Vain the labglting Muliesitis woe thy. ensile,
°arose thy nut -brown hair.
Too long have ehadows held dominion there,
A cano submipaion wielding to grim Fate ;
Abeam that cannot pierce the dsraened Olonokl.
A mournful ory, "Too late,"
Ab, rico, the gold still gleams from 'neath that
blue,
"Patience, thy Lave will ecree ;" already r„now
The rolling sun of day in mighty power
breake from the green bilis' brow.
Gleams forth, and gives thee love'srefulgent
hope,
Thy anz200ms smile responsive in a lace*
Whose every glance betrays a noble soul,
Touched with beauteone grace.
Patience sublime, thro' wondrous change and
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Traversed axe oft thy paths in saddened Woe ;
t Hope leads Love along the shining waY
beneath the aunset's glow.
A eniudei idea or eariba.
What makes it night? I want to go
Way off behind the sky and see,
Theworld's as round as it can he, •
Somebody told me,so I know.
Yon yellow moon, bow bright you are 1
Have alkthe stars been put to bed? • .
And is it true, as, pursey said,
Tbas you're the baby stare' maranla ?
And are they sometimes naughty, too?
I cried a little bit to -day;
The tears would come -where do they stay,
When people's oyes won't let thera through?
The clocks are striking in the toivn.
Oh, dear I I haven't said my prayers,
The little birds, I think, [nog theirs- •
I heard them when the sun went down.
Where did it go, and why ? Some day.
I'll know a great deal roore,I guess.
When I'm not so sleepy. Yes,
Mamma, l'ut coming right away.
PHYLLIS.
ea THE anonnas. •
Author of "molly Bawna "The Baby," "Airy
Fairy Lilian," eta, eta
"Then by your own words and actions,"
be goes on in the tame measured fashion,
. suppressing forcibly the fire and agitation
that lie beneath his gold exterior, " 1: have
seen a hundred tinaes how little real atm.
loon yea entertain for Carrington ; there-.
lore you are not bound to him by the ties
of love. Will you net consider for your
awn sake? I offer you my name, my rank,
everything I pone*. Few men would be
tempted to do so muoh, perhaps." •
"Sir," say I, feeling half °looked, "be.
lieve me, I fully appreciate all the morn
lioes you would make for my sake. Pray
spare both me and yourself the redital of
them."
"Sacrifices?" interrupts he, eagerly:
"no, indeed! I never thought of it in that
light. I only meant to put the case clearly
before you exactly as it is -without- any
false lights. I tell you that 80 fork= ray
present proposition to you -being a sacrifice
on my part, I would gladly go on my knees
to you this moment, if by doing so I could
gain your ooneent to my plans. I will take
you to any part of the world you may
ohm* to name, at home Cr abroad. I shall
be prouder, more blest than I: can say, if
you will cement to be my wife."
" Have you quite done?" say I, in a tone
treacherously calm. "Have you anything
more to say? No? Are you auto? Now
Eaten to me. Even if the oirounastancee
were totally different -if I were free as air
-if you were the last man on earth I *Mild
zionmarry you. Whether I do or do not
love Marmaduke, is a question, I decline to
answer to you. At all events, to ray own
way.of thinking, I am his wife now, and
shall ever remain Bo -until death divides
us. But este whether or .not I love you,
feel no hesitation about answering that. I
• look upon you as the lowest, the meanest
of men, to come here behind your friend's
bath to traduce him, and insinuate
lies about him, so tie to do ,him injury in
the eyes of the woman he loves. I loathe
and detest you with all mybeart.
I am staring him valiantly in Outface as I
utter these denunciations. My cheeks are
orimson with rage, my eves are flashing ;
for the moment all my old' strength, 'and
more than my old spirit have returned to
Ino. I have worked myself through the
Spree of my el?queinie. into sixths passion,
that I literally treleible from head to foot.
1 feel bumbled and ineulted in my own
twee. All these monthe of lonely weari-
ness have failed to bring home to me the
fact that I am not a married woman: This
man's complete aooeptanoe of it has mad-
dened me.
"Thank you," says he, slowly; "but
pray 'do not stop yet. There must be some-
thing more you wish to say: Don't mind
me ; don't take my feelings into considera-
tion."
"1 deal," I reply, viciously stamping my
hot. "But as it happens, I have said all
I ever wish to say to you. You may take
from my lips now the very last words I
shall condemend to utter to you. Leave me.;
I hate and despise you 1"
"1 will,",cries he, furiously, losing sight
of all the self-ituposed restraint that. hi*
bound him during the last fifteeirminutela
"But I shall take something else, the. As
you decree we shall part here never to meet
again ; I sball at leaet kiss yeti in farewell,
for the insolence you have shown me."
"His face is full of anger and settled
purpose; he is white to the lips;• his eyea
gteara steadily. There is no sign of Walier.
ing or relenting about him.
Oh, bow I regret my intemperate speech.
An awful fear ecizes hold of me. I can al-
raost eanoy•his committing raurder with
that look in his eyes. I forget all' but a
wild desire to eeottpe, and; breakieg from
him, I rush madly towards the bare, un -
walled cliff that overhange the sea.
But a very little space divides me from
the edge, as his hand catches and °loses on
my arm and drags me roughly backwards.
The sexton, all prying eyee and gaping
mouth, shows toe, heavily veiled as I am,
into the Carrington pew, guessing inatinata
ively, though be has never then me, that
the atrange lady of Hazelton has at last
given in .and °maimed a °raving for spirit.
ual•oonsolatiob. •
I kneel and pray as in a dream. l'he
voices of the village ohoir rise up around
me, yet thathely enter my dulled tar.
The LitanY, With all its grandeur, all ite
solemn beauty, fails to impress my Sick.
oned soul.
I eit alone, apart, my veil cltatai doave,
nay hands Waved upoti bay knee*, turning
neither to the right not left, dimly Con-
scious that the sermon I hear Bo coldly •Is
far beyond the average of those usually
nerved up to the congregating a Minot°,
almost forgotten country toWns.
When it ie over, and tny neighbors have
'Well departed, I move down thsi aisle,
and Make rny way down again 10 My her.
ventage, untaoved, unsof timed, by all hate
beard and seen.
After the mookety called is at an
end, I go to my chosen sittizig.thom, and,
getting into' tt window that oferIookitit
small inlet of the ma, Mt down tri toy
0000tint naming. . •
PreeentlYt far off through the b
eomes the Honed fig impatient hlashatin
cannot hear distibotly, tat' thick ar
• ancient oaken doore that divide weir=
hall; but thee it, is a double knock]
small dpribt.
Thia thought, .00 foreign, being 10
apOn Met atter quite six months of pe
isolation, rabies* nervouenees that ie
akin to fear, within my bteetat. I wa
ropitokking eXpeottuaoy for what is to
low, Perhaps the vim, emboldene
iny appearance la hie church, hail d
mmed to etrike while the iroo, ip
opinion, nmet be hot, and has ridden
to try an a gain 400eas to the one harde
thine,' who diegracee his narielt. M
oonjeoturee guilt through my mind,
tide take e root. It remit be to.
Steps in the hall. it passible the
hae admitted lohn on bit Own resPoonlibi
against my orders, or has be /omit bis w
setting his duty before him lee an exo
for his impertlnence ? ,
Steps up the steam, alorg the pieisag
steps almost at the door.
Bpring to aoy feet, and pueh back
chai4 Who is it? Who is it I hear?
lama° still farther ta the window, chi
the mutable 'to steady myself, I put It
my hands up to my bead, to etine the w
sob that rims in my throat.
Neorer, nearer I I lean against the w
dew -shutter% arid am trembling like
in ague from head to foot, ail the 4
open*, and Marmeduke comes ,
Our °yeti meet, and then of a sudden
great oalm falls upon mei •
"She is dead," says he wearily, and
flings bin:Olen into the chair near which he
le etanding. He makes no atteropt to
time nearer, to the, to touch me after that
Ant long, eager glanoe.
As for me, I cannot utter even one poor
word. Ana I glad? Am I sorry? Am I
half mad with joy at the very eight of
him ? or am I -altogether indifferent?, I
hardly know. '
"She is dead." The worchi keeptinging
in my eased Pay brain echoes them. "She
ie dead -dead 1"
A. clammy moisture, told and weak,
(revere nay face. My hande fall to my side
lifeless,
"Not" -I etammear..-2not-You did
not -a."
" Murder ber ?" eupplieslie, with a bitter
augh., " No hough I could have dor* so
with a good will, I refrained from that
When eeathed neir she wataying shrouded
inho.wh, etaw)efan nolo' ab.e ?" I. ask "and
"In Florence, a fortnight ago, of some
malignant fever. I have come here with as
little delay as paeeible to tell you of it."
I glance at him curiously.' Is is net the
old Msamaduke who has come back th me.
Bela travenetained, woezi, and thin. Hie
voice has keit its old ring, his eye its bright -
nem. • There le sovaethiug dejected in his,
ery attitude. ' •
Such a meeting, after such a parting!
marvel at it inwardly, though conecious
would not haveit otherwise. '
Alas I how wroagly thing have gone
with us during our brief married life, from
begittning to end I It is indeed true that
When the miat and the rain arise to blot
ut hopes, 'inir nine nor vengeance can
WEI* to make exietience quite the same
again?
"Hew on I tell that the is really dead ?II
ay. I, moodily; ," you deceived rae, once:
erhaps some day the come to life
again to defy and tueture me."
"1 do nob think you have any right to
peak to me in that vista" replies he, quietly.
I may have deceived' you passivenr. once
n mytife by...forbearing to mentioti *hat
ould do no geed in the telling, and miglit.
ave paused you grief, or at least, unpleas.
ntnees.' But to you or any other being I
ave never lied. I saw the woman dead
ith my own eyes. I attended her funeral.
did not ',think proofs neosesOrY ; but 11
ou remiire it can prodnoe a witness."
He pauses calmly for te reply, being
terly passionless in his manner; bOt I
ve him none. I am still wondering at
obange in him, the change in myself.
"You will not believe me guilty of false-
od in such a ease ?" • be says. "You
rely must see I am. speaking the truth,"
"I auppose so," I ittura.ur at length.
Poor woman 1 , She did not long Outlive'
r revenge." I sigh heavily, and My head
oops. 'My. thin white fingers clasp and
clasp one another aimlessly, My
oughts are so indiatinot I can put them
80 116. shape. The light tails upon my
nt figure, my slight, shrunken form. •
Phyllis 1" ones Marmaduke, springing
hid feet with a sudden, sharp change of
ne, " how white you are! how,emadated
w altered in every way Have you
en ill ? 011, my. darling !"-with a groan
I have ruined your life, and broke]
ur heart; have I destroyed your health.
?" • ,
He makee an impetuous movement
ardS me, as though he would catch me
his arms. ' •
Don't do that," 1 cry, hastily, elitink-
further into the ream of the window.
0 not touch tve. Iteraembiir you are
-my husband." • •
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. a' True," he Mao, in a low voice ; "1 had '
forgotten that; you dowell to remind me.
• Portunately it is a matter that can slociabe
put right:" - • •
"Is it?" I question, coldly. "Can may -
thing that has Once gone wrong ill that
world ever be put • right again, I wonder ?"
Thiel can at all °venni," regarding we
closely. ." We Must be nu -tried 'again here,
add withoilt delay.- The - feW who know
mar 'wretched story can be ourantoesses,
and 'no one beyond heed be a bit the wiser.
You forget that walla have elute, and
that one's inn must always find one out."
"There was 220 premeditated sin in is
09,60* and" -speaking • •somewhat 011rt1r,--
" do? 1208 believe we have been found out.
On my way•thmagh London coming down
here,' I Bounded a few of ray acquaintances
on the sultject, and all seemed ignorant of
the real, IMMO of bur eeparation. However,
that is an Outside ' question altogether.
The principal thing now la to put oneself
beyond the reach of scandal "'When will
you Wish the ceretemiyaPhyllis? Next
week I fear, this being Friday, it will be
impossible to arrange it sooner. You tvill
want some of yOur Weeds with you."
He le °alai agaih, lout is now ?leaching
rem narrowly.
" I don't know," I say deliberately,
"whether I shall consent to a second mar-
riage. I have grown acetuitobaed to nay
present life; solitude stilts Me. Now /
tree ; then—"
I have eoteraely, I think, rightly tialtun
toted the full Offen of my Words. Striding
ferward, laCarmadtilal eeizea me by both
same, and, turnittg, forces ble tO meet his
gaze.
' " What are you Baying lie cries, fiercely.
"What folly le "this? DO 7011 10104'11Sr
for all thew poet months I have been half
Mad, what thinking 61 the blight 1 hate
brought upon your , hopot, and are you ea
ineeneible 80 11 8148 yet% ma hesitate %beet
accepting this moo Only way Of redeemittg'
it ? /*mar dislike 80 toe mist hate grown
indeed, if at Muth 11 titai; yott eau Maria
from taking biy talc"
"You mislunderstand me. 1 only slitbak
from the:aging 80y pitifient Cahn :Mode Of
"PO you lama' What the world will do,
when sooner or later 18 finds ont the With
-4113 it surely WIli? Do you know it will
out you, avoid toil, womid you in every
Pentble way ?"
Why Should I care?" 1 inteitupt, reok-
leeely. ".&W thee mouths I bays done
without oonopeasionehip; theta le no memo
*by to the future I 'Mould feel the want of
it. Beeides, they =met see it is through no
tautt of mine that thane have so arranged
themselves."
" The world will never be iontent with
the true version of tbe story. It will not
rest without adding to it suoh Wee outlines
as shall serve to render it more palatable
to its ecandel•loviog eare. Yeti must be
indeed onaorant of itt weys if you imagine
otherwiee. It wilt leak why, wben the
tanetaele was happily removed, I did not then
tin0atthryaty7conu? Wbat answer will you make
"Who will queetion tae 7 It I abut
myself away front every one, bow shall I
be affected oy the surmises of society 2"..
"You talk like a foolish child, and like a
very elash one. Am I unwoithy ot any
consideration ? How shall 1 bear to looir
on while eoolety vilifies you to its hearts
oanteut and JES81243S you without a rag of
reputation You in your present Peeirien
-a woman witheut a name -would have
as muali chance of adiniseiou within your
own circle as the veriest Pariah that could
be produced, I will not listen to your
folly.. Even it you hate me, I shall insist
upon your marryiug me." -
"Bow can you Maim ?" 1 oak almost
aogrtly. There ie a wild, unsettled throb-
bing of my heed that puzzles me. I
scarcely know what it is I would or would
not wish. Ad these past months of bitter,
maddening thought and unbroken loneli-
ness haveacruebed the life within my breast
end dulled my intellect. "You . have MO
°laird upon 'me?" .
"No," in. a °hanged, softened voice. "1
cannot, indeed, insist, but 1 can plead -not
nayeelf, Phyllis, but for you. I have
put thecase befote you truthfully, and now
entreat you to become my wife before the
real reason for our separation gets abroad.
I offer:. you my name alone. Once
having put you in possession of that,.I
swear I will rid you-ot nay pretence forever
if you yam. is Will that content you ?
, Why ehould the idea be so repugnant to
you? unlees, indeed--"
. Here he pauses, A deep -red, passionate
'flush stiffuses his We. Placing bis hands
heavily upon nay shoulders he once more
compels me to meet his eyes.
"Unless, indeed, you wish to hold yourself
free.for another? If , I thought that -if
during my absence you bad 80814 any one
who—"
Oh, yesl" I interrupt, bitterly ; "that
iS so likely 1 My married life has been tio
pleasant -such a prosperous one -that
doubtleas I am in a narry to try it again.
No ; believe me, I have fixed my affections
on no one duriug your absolute. You are
quite safe there. I am as beart-whole as
when you left tee. 1 feellao wild desire
to throw repell into the arnaet of any man."
He drawa a long, deep breath.'
"1 would kill you," ,he•says, slowly, " if
for a moraent I doubted your ttuth.'
"1 am hardly Worth the killing;" return
I, with a little, faint, chill • smile, looking
upon nay Wetted halide and fragile figure
au it reflects itself in an oUpositenairron
" Wby do you want me so much ? I have
always beeo more of a tormaut to you than
joy, -and now I have lost even those •few
poor little charms I pompom* have thought
I possessed. Ice Itself cannot be colder titan
the woman you taieh for -the emend time to
maaa year own. . Why will you not take
the theme of escape I offer ?" Be makes
a movement of impatience. ' "You are
unwise iu letting it slip.. What Canyon
see in me to love ?"
"Just what 1 always•saw in you to love.
I cannot change. • To me, you are not wife
a -the most precious thing on earth. I will
not giveyou up." .
"And you saw tier; lying dead a" I say,
irrelevantly. , .
"Yes, Have I not told you so already?
Why name her to me 7"
"Poor scull HOw strange she must hove
looked," I say, dreamily, "tying there
with those rootlet*, burning eyes forever
closed- so cold, so white, , so still. And
you looked down.. upon her. You Were
gladlo see her there," with a shudder.
"You rejoiced that death had stepped in to
conquer her and free you of a cheinthat
dragged. , 181511 dreadfulpiciture."
, A very natural. one, I think. Glad?
Ye* I was glad. I was more than that; I
was deeply thankful to see her there, pow-
erless to work her wicked will or pollute
the world again. I think -1 hope I forgave
her ;,.but I was glad to Bee her dead."
- There le a pause. Weary of atanding, I
sink into a Os air, I path back my hair
from my forehead, which has begun to
throb a good deal, arta then let my hands.
fall listlessly into my lap.
Kneehng down beside me, he takes one
of there gently and stroke* it. While be
does so, I examine hin:t Critically. Ile has
grown moralike himself by this time and
but forth° hollows in hie clothe, and
his moustache is 'somewhat darker and
longer, I see no great. alteration. Verily
be has emerged from the fight unscathed,
and triumphant in comparison with me.
nie your real !objection to my pro-
posal," he says, Softly.- •
"Does my disinclination te be married
so match surprise you 2" I ask, slowly and
gravely. "Until .1 sLiNV you I was a light-
hearted ohild"-I feel that now by force of
corittast, though ohms that' !wooled mysell
ill used; 1 dia not know the 'meaning of
real pain, of bitter enduring ehame-that
cruelest of all heart -aches.' You enlighten
me."
"Phyllis --my Iove-spare I"
"Here, in thie quiet Boot, lam at pekoe.
My life is pipe trona we slowly; I have
little etrengthieft ; do not urge Inc against
tay will to enter again into the turmoil and
troubles of every day existence."
a' Oh, my darling, don't speak so /Irma-
leesly. The melancholy of your life has
caused you to exaggerate . the evils of your
state. Change of air and a geed debtor
Will do wonders for you. Only do not
waste time. Delay is often fatal. Phyllie,
think of your mother: Per her peke, pro.
50100 to Marry me again next Monday."
"Very well; you shall have your way,"
return, farly beaten by his vehemence and
determination. •
"That is wiee1 that is sensible 1" he
says'eagerly. "Aly other 0011188i you
adopted could obly be suggested by weak
and morbid sentiments. Everything Wee
ota ettall be as you wish. I will go loath. to
London by the night mail to arrange mat.
ere, Se let me know now any things you
May reqUire--What Weeds as Witnesees,
or instalade."
"Harriet and ' Bebe, I suppose; Mid
Dora and George Aehurst. That will be
liffidieratateill it ISM?"' •
YoUr mother .
gantitis ? Oh, tai I oh, no I" I ivy;
eeping. Not mamma. She deemed me
er/nY &et. Wedding ; 1 Will not have her'
OW. We Would both be thinking of that
II the time, ana it would break her heart.
ut go to her, and tell her everything.
he may fihd Berge otinecilation, in your
dings."
"1 will g0 to her tan:Omar," he whie-
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Btrangemore. Oast I bring you anything
from there?"
" Seed no Martha. I would like to
bevi,eibweilrlw.itriihntyuclisarimny," dear, dear
why do acei ory so bitterly? Of wbat
ama tbioltieg 2 Surely yeu umat eee th
am only acting for the beet, III tease
to what you propose, I would, deserve
011500 01 blackguard; no terna would be
livxati to apply to me. Sooner or ht
darling, you will acknowledge this,
thank me WM, firnmelie."
"1 suppoee so," making a violent e
80 euppreee MY fiebe. "I am only w,
and nervous. Your coming was 00 an
peotea ; you [Mould have warned me.
I have been so quiet here. Xtemember
have pee:Mead that I shall pot be dietur
afterward*. You will still leavre
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mymelf. I am fit for ;nothing else.
8148 pain -this feautnetia Will you
the bell and get me a glass of wine?'
Be receives nae as , I totter feebly
ward, and lays me On My °ouch with
utmostteadernetei and a good deal of
pidation.
Xhett he rings the bell, and aa the na
eaters, giv,es the order by the wine in
old clear nuick voice, that 100500 80 no
belong so ontmely to Strangenlore ea to
aid en place in this other home.
Not until I am quite recovered,
apparently little the Weree for illy fel
12eafft dot* be take his leave. Gen
kiseing my hands, with tae manta
that he will be back again with tbe rien
• I have eXpressed a wisb for, on the cote
Sabbath, bequits the house as enietlY
Ise entered it.
On the Sunday, about the middle of is
day, Harriet aud Bebe arrive. Dora a
George Ashunit follOw hem in time 1
dinner. I Will see they are ail more or In
shocked at the (Menges that bave tak
plaoe ill my eppearainieT-though 0,
refrain front sayiog so.
Bebe lays hereon out to amuse a
arouse by retailing to ray languid ea
all the raoBt swat goeteipand raciatt pie°
of eoandal from the Louden world, bit
bit, as it moues to her. • •
Lord Harry has been at
:and was well received there in apite of
that has come and gone. Lord August
was jilted by Miss Glanville, • Geer
1trookts found the air of Monaco didn
agree with him, and was obliged to e
change into another and less detirab
regiment, to me what time and ,Ind
would do for him. The Duke hennaed°
wretzbed matt% in •the eyes of the wOrl
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appeare provoking contented and happy.
" And he really abould not do that, yo
know," Says Bebe ; "10 isn't good form
be in such high spirits with the tide
popular opinion. so dead against you. T
Bee thena tbe theatre is immense) fun
dou't believe she ever saw one until eh
married him and came to town), he sittin
beside her and expleining everything, aball big °yeti and pleasureable excibeneen
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• Duriug the troublesome timee before
and mabeequerit to the revoluttha. the 18100
of Shoals, off the coast of New liarophire,
were the resort and hiding ;Ueda of the
freebooters who haunted the northern
°omit, and flies° silent rooka, if they mould
speak, would tell many a tale of bloody
cruelty and gloonay wrong. The pirates
used to *owe here to divide and hide their
booty, and naelttup the eilverplate they cap -
tared from the colonists along the oast.
For a long time it was eupposed that
bushels of doubloons were buried in the
gaping ereviees ot the rooks, or the little
°twee that have Web eaten gut of the
ledges by the restless tide;.but the place
was; thoroughly marched by immoral gener-
ethane ot fieloarmen, and notbing more vela -
able eban a rusty outlet* or a bursted
blunderhuse was ever found. The grand-
daraes tell how Otipt. Kydd rime here
often," as he sailed, as he eailed,"ond there
ate legends of other pirates quite aS fierne
. and fres as he. The Star Islandinted to be
haunted by a beautiful spectre with long
white robes and golden treaties reaching to
her heels, who used to come out of some
undiscoveted cavern at dawn, and shadiog
her ayes with a hand that wea as white and
beautiful as a lily's bosom, gaze off
upon the eea Itt liopelees expectancy of
the return ot a clipper that sailed
away and never came back again.. The
story goes that a blood,y-hearted old
pirate, being pursued by a cruiser, brougbt
nis •beautiful minarets here and left her
while he went out to battle, telling her that
by -dawn he would be back again, but he
canoe not, not even till now, She died of
starvation, but her faithful *tit still
conies to the mamma of the hilted ate the
sun risee oath morning, to meet the corsair
who never returned. There are eight of
the islands, the strudiest beivg as large, or
rather as small, as a city building lot, and
the largest containing only a, couple of
hundred ocres-.nothing but bare,
rooks, carved by the inclement waves into
Orange grotesqueness, and covered
by no vegetation except low, cling,
ing vines and the New England
blueberry. Four of the islands are in-
habited, the largest, the Appledore, bears
a hotel 'and a, few cottage*. Star island
heal another hotel and a small. settlemeot
of fishermen ; a third has a few Ashermen's
huts, and the, fourth has a bold, white
lighthouse springing out of ita °rest. They
were discovered by Capt. John Smith, the
friend of Pocahontas, who in 1614 explored
the New Englaod mist 10 1112 open boat, and
epant some time here making repairs and
reefing. On Star island stande the only
Monument erected m Ai:aeries to Capt.'
John Smith. It is a rude affair -a pis.
matio shaped ellen ofmarble, upon a
pedestal of sandstone, inscribed at length
With the record of hie valorous deeds, and
-some oyelopeditts say he is buried here,
but that is a mistake. .
" And how as Chandos ?" I ask, pre-
sently.
" Hew ban I tell you; my dear, when1
see so little•of him? He hag been 'Making
grand tour somewhere, and 'raking ap
old' bones,' we hear; but the 'where? is
wrapped in mystery-Joricho, most pro.;
bably ; it would just suit his dime! dingo -
intim." • •
She Speaks heartlessly,' but her low,
broad forehead -wrinkles ever. Bitola a little.
" 1 lute, wherever be is, he will come
back safely," I eay, kindly ignoring bar
manner. 1 liked him so much.- To me
be never appeared dismal. And your
Chips, what, of him?? •
Ah ! my poor Chips! . Be , sailed for
India a month ago. -Such a leaveaaking
as we hadi It would have melted an Ama-
zon. I asaure you I very nearly wept; and
1 aertainly kissed him. So did Harriet -
twice -who was on the spot doing propri-
ety. I thought that was taking an untair
advantage of we, And he is m ahoot every
tiger in Bengal, and to 'send mothe shine.
At long last I shall- be embarrassed by my
riches." • •
After dinner, we are all asses:a-led in the
drawing-roons, we become aware of some
noise that etarongly resemble11 /Snuffle in
the hall. It isfollowed by the sudden open-
ing of the'door; and the apparition of Mar-
tha on the thresheld, flushed:with victory,
and -with-her boxinetartistically a,wry, •
Seeing me lying on the sofa, she loses all
preeenee , of Mind of whieh her etook
wee always email), and, regardless of
beholders, rushea forward, and precipi-
tates; herself at my feet. • • -
"011, Mies labyllis ! Oh; ma'ani I" Bays
she,- with a lamentable „ sniff and a xiice
forgetfulnees of manners, as she takea nota
of my leanness, "oh, Miss Phyllie I my
dear, my dear 1 .How terrible bad you do
look, to be shore I" •
Here she falls to kissing and to weeping
over my hand,, family Waltham into loud
,sobta• The old epinster appellation, suiting
as it does my present position so neatly --
albeit unraeant by my faithful handmaiden
•-araisies within 1:00 a grim mese of amuse-
ment, I cheek, it however, as being unfit
for preeent.coinpany.
" Noesense, Martha," ' I say, kindly; -
"don't go on like that. I dare . say, now
you have come to take oare of me, I shall
recover my beauty. 1 shall • feel quite
insulted if you cry over me arly more."
'Martha, 'come with 'mo," baps Bebe,
with authority; and Martha being like‘sll
good ones of her 0104214 instigaively
rieee, said leaves the roora close at Mimi
Beatoun's heels.
"What a dreadful habit those people
have got of giving way to their feelings on
every possible ocoaeion 1" exclaime the
usually serene Harriet, wrathfully, alEl the
door closes, coming to my side to shake up
my pillows and get rid of her irritation,
. (To be coetinued)
A musilmr.LICese ar mistaken lam:atty.
7raircion ce,bRiina 'Pays ; Mr. Hawkes
an author well known in Liverpool, beam a
striking resenablanbe to the Duke of Edin
burgh, who 18 now cruiaing in the Trieh
channel. Bar. Hawkee a few nights ago
entered a theatre at Cora and appeared In
a prominent box. The addience believing
that theta were honoted by au Unexpected
visit front the Duke rose and cheered. Ma
flawkes, tvhca is a reariaf inimitable eelf.
posseseion, 118 once took ih the situation.
inetead Of eetreatitag, be accepttd the
greefieg and bowed hut thanks with all the
dignity and geace of royalty. The Manager
Was so amazed at the attempt to pereonitte
the Duke that he seized Mr. Hawkes by
the collar Ana foriably ejected him trona
the theatre. The following day Mr,
alawkes siinablenda the manager before a
megistrate for assault and battery. Mr.
Hitwaltes iawore tbat he had given 210 excuse
forihtriitilenee-With Which be had-beim:I--
treated. The audienoe oheered and he
bowedt that was , The magistrate
fined the amanager ten thillings for the
asesiult.
• Om
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out -Yon Buy you are in loVe With
two girle, both beantiful, one "divinely
tall," and tile other "a perfect little fairy."
Matry thelittle One. She -won't itted-110-
hutiolt eine fora 'dame, tAZiv.111atuu4o.4.10 qt,%?..1
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WIVES WANTED Ole TDIA.11,4
,
Eccentric Geattleosen wink Alsurissopial,
• Insentionie '
• Daniel F. Shugone, the farmer who has
?pent oonsiderable time and money in his
.•
efforts to free Ella Larabee, the pretty
young female burglar of Brooklyn, tor the
purpose of making her bis wife, has ap-
perently given me all hopes of success. He
entered the Labor Bureau in Castle Gar-
den yesterday morning,and approaching
Manager Connolly he said abruptla : " I
want a wife: May] speak to Some of the
immigrant girle here !wad see if any of
tbenawould like to get married? I am
not11poor Mad. I have --got a snug little •
farm on the outskirts of 33,ostota, and can
support a wife comfortably;" • '
Mr. Connolly gave him permission to
plead his cause with the girls present.
They all laughed at him. No one appre-
ciated the offer of his hand and heart. He
then took a seat on a bench and waited
patiently until another ship came in and a
eirveeer.hlot of youha girls entered the' Labor
Bureau. -He met with no suooess, how-
' About 4 o'olook yesterday afternoon a
trournef reporter entered the bureau- and
meeting Sougone asked •- .
" Have you broken with Nellie 7"
"'Well, yea,; I guess I have, I thiok
ehe is a little too naught' for mo."
While the reporter wee still speaking
with Shugone a thin, nervous -looking man
entered the bureau, and, sliding up to
Matron Boyle, aaked ; • -
" Have you got a wife for me yet 2"
"No, Mr. Martin, I have not," she re -
The new -corner said his name was
Michael Martin. He hi 52 years Of age, and
was married once, and nad a family of
seven children.--Bix SODS sod is daughter.
His wife, died about five years ago, and
since then he has been • travelliog about
searching for another wife. s
" How have yea eumeeded /so far 2"
asked the reporter. •
"Well, I have had two .or three ladies'
at toy house ma trial, but none ot, them
suited." ' • •
"Did you marry them ? "
"Oh, no. Just hired there fiist, ,to see
if they could work. If 020 suited me I
would have married any one of them." .
" Where do you live ?"
"I've got a fine farm out in Trenton, N.
J. Waen I • leave here I am going to
Matrimonial bureau at the miner of
Eleventh street and Sixth avenue.",
. " Oafs any one go there and gets wife ?"
asked the reporter.
"011, no. You must .13e vouched for by
some one who is known there. They run
it as an employment agency." aa• •
44, Are there many thouplaces. in the
oity ?"
"1 only know of one more, and thatat in
Nassau etreet. Well, good -day," and the
login:anew old wife.hunter started up town
for the matrimoeiel bureau. Mr. Simone
left ahortly afterward,' saying he would
call again taday.-Necti York Journal.
NOVELW188825 IN WATAIINLELOSS.
Inav0,041 vial vanilla, oiaaq nalait
,
load Mama Wale Amine,
"Thorn) no fear of a watermelmf,famfoe,
tale lamina" mild is dealer at Arqh Street
wharf to a Philadelphie Prue reporter, am
be,gazed upon a pile cf the 'widow, green -
coated fruit. "They are coming in by tag
beat loaa. They peace mostly from Jersey
and Maryland just now. 4ar1y in the
season they 82022112 am far south ea Georgia/.
and Plorida. They range in prim from 112.
to I/15 a hundred."
a, liner° do they go mostly 2"
aaa hotels and boarding-houses; to
simimer-resoit hotels particular. A
few are bought for private families. But
they can't be relied .or to reek° an every.
day trede. The poor pscple buy them 11
good demi an Saturdayetor thuiday dinners.
Young people buy them for wbat they eall
wateranelon parties. Atter they eat out
the red part they enjoy themselves by
banging the rude on one anotheee heads.
A good many timet they supplement the
rinds with their Mite. The boarding -home
and hotel trade Is a pretty ateady one. •
You see, twenty cents' vvortla of melon will,
maks a bigehow and go a grea way ea
demon." •
"Any new varieees this year ?"
"Well, we have the vanilla and the
letuon-flavored watermelon. They are got
by injecting the vanilla flavor or inserting.
a bit of lemon into the stein while the,
melon is growing. The flavor ie taken up
by the pulp and makes a delicious com-
bination. On/y epicures know of this
wrinkle and we therefore have few of the
doctored epeoiee on sale. You, ran get a
toothsome dish by plugging 'a melon,
jectieg a little fine Mares; motoring the
plug and allowing the wine to be taken
up ay the fruit, But, beware, the Qom -
halation is; as seductive as Roman puncli."
Any aew ways of preparing the melon
for table •
" Weli, I've been eating melons for forty
years, and I still prefer "era plain, Some
at nay customers, however; like am mixed. '
Orie of my beet • hoarding -house owatomers
bus Watermelon Baled every Sunday in the ,
season. Site,prepares• it, elle says, as oho
dine lettuoe--outs the red part of theanelen
up into bits, adds pepper, Salt, vinegar and
It ought to make 'em sick, but she
does say her boarders just fight tor it.
Another familythat I know of pour
naolasees on their nielotts. A good 'many
people, I believe, always add a equeeze of
!men to the fruit. A -Boston family that
deal with me are always partienlar to have ,
their melons firm and just ripe and don't
haggle about price when they get 'em to
sum They have the melons mit into little
strips and eat 'em with cold baked beans.
put, as I said before, for my part I like 'em
blain."
LONGEVITY *NO /Lamolt. .
Work Ereacrvea the liiieulth,. idleness
Weakens is,
• Errimion, the veteran inventor,' Was 81.
years• ola recently.is in excellent
.health, and wothe,at is head, sixteen hours
It day, thus proving an exception 'th the
general rule, ake .many °there that ma
received without . a question, that •
hard work kills is a foamy. Perliape
it might ' ba • fairly asserted that .
busy men live longer than idle Men. ;. that
work is, after sal, the true ehair of lite
Mta
Many noteworthy inences where- lengeaf
ity coincides with remarkable' mental'
'abtiaity will easily occur tO the render,-•
• Wan het Sophocles more than iainet
• when,to preveahat be was not in his •dot- '
age-ae h18 heirs Maimed, in• order to.get,
his ruoney-be wrote one of lie greatest,
tragedies ?• Did 005 Hemboldt do Moria
;work et-feuracore • than many bright men •
do at tortya Goethe, tie every Mae knowe,e
died with pen in hand at the age nt eighty-
two., Von Batik°, the foremost of living
historiaus, 13110 it028 published another, .
'volume of his Thaversai History ; he will -
be eighty -bum years old next December,.
Carlyle end Emereen ion zone of their
vigor until they reached three scare .yeare
arid ten. . ' • . • '
And, to -day,, who imagines, that Oliver
. Wendell Holmes, already on the.verge ot, .
Seventy-five, is old? Longfeilow • did aome
ot his best work. shortly before his death,
at seventy.fiver, •andWhittier is itow two
years older :that. The vast energima •
whom sum iu many • direetiens are known
as Victor Hugo show 'no signs rif deorepia
tude,,althounia is" more than eighty-twoyears moo 'Victor Hugo waS born. Histo-
mane, it may be remarked, have usually
been tong lived. . . • ,
Voltaire died at 84. Thietay and Mich.
let at 76; Mignet and Guizot at 437. George
Bancroft is now 84, end George Tit:Amor
lived, to, be SO. In public, life we have had
:several relent eisireples of great men whose
power for staineauship dur not diminish
through age. 'Gladstone in nearly 75, and,
Palmeretou was Prime Minister at the
time of bis death, two days before be had
completed. his Slat year. BenjarainPrank-
lin, In the last osintury, lived to be 84,
These instances Duffle° tO show, that,
there are constitutions which not only eon
bear, but whioh•ttotually need the etimulus
et hard. Work up ton Very advanced period.,
(if course, on the other bans], ' might be
cited the remarkable men who died young,,
but even irom their experience the face
toight be brought out, not that they were
klikd by overwork, but by irrational work.,
"(Mutiny, tat in the male of Keats, early :
death is theresult of chronic 418011864.Shelley, who ie always mentioned among,
these whose lives stretched but a span, was
'drowned accidentally, and there as geed
reameato believe that but for this he would •
have lived to nia age, because he was phy-•
eke* strong.
Raphael, Mozart, Boron, 'Burns and
Schubert Siudeuinbed just at an age when
naott men reach their prime, but • it must
net be forgotten that the last three Under- .
ruined their health by • eacesses. Shake.
;Testa, Nepoleon, Cp3sar and Beethoven
recognized teethe unnealled giants in their -
respective depertinente, died at -between •
afty and eixty. But on the other hand •.‘
Miebel Angelo, tban whom no man ever .
expoided more atiergy upon his Va238
aOhleVeirielitao lived to beninety, and
Titian Wait hinety-nine. It is evident,
therefore, that while no tiara law can be
eetabliehed, theta is a relationship between
longevity and labor. Work preserves the.
hem* while itlletiese teede to weaken it. -a
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Illovr so Increase au Atople EroIN
It ie said a larger orop of apples ha raised
when a hive ef bees 10 stationed in the
orohard. The beat vieit every ftower,
busily flying frOm one to Another, and then
passing to an adjoining tree. The pollen
on their bodies is rebbed against the pistils
of inyiiada of fibwere, which become ferti-
lized in this way. Matly of the strange
modifbiations ha the form *1 flowers are
due to ineecte, the transfer of pollen ftom
alffereat ve.tieties vomiting in hybrids.
Darwin remarks that "all experimenters
have been struck with the wouderful vigor,
height, size, tenacity of lite mod hardinese
of theirhybtid produotione." He Wag the
Arseto show that from a Sewer fertilized
by pollen from a different t Itut the Bend •
lines were much ettonger than leom its
ownapollena ne-wil2d_toad. inmate itra
nature's great agebts in perfornaieg this
aot of arose -fertilization.
If tilatati. ever laughs it Must be at hypo -
°rhea They ate the greateet dupes hobs%
They three hina betlee thee any othete
but twelve lab Wages. Nay, *hat ie etill
more extraMdittary, they tiubmit to greater
•
Inure Os Cafe* Elint.
Pitt Nava York Deteetive--Here is an
(Attest to Bhadow young Grimee, the banker..
rto • has takeu seven Million Iran the
veultia
Seeped Neer York Detective -And yett
want me to help you catch him, I elates° ?
tt_reet.t..1.-Iteard_that,....he_hasabaughtaa
ticket tot Quebec."
"Tho train shirts; at midnight, don't 18 7"
If yetio
Ail right then. We *ill begin watching
his house early next Week."--Phikklelphict
Call.
atoramaaaiona_ abate aaaa aim:mud cal& Geed, the iteres conaretanicated, More
tistus. 'abundant greWe.- - _ _
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