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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-4-5, Page 6nen . EIETTIE'8 F11111E11 ean pray that You may be ale te love and field Egremout. He had a ;Wary from the honor turn." office already, and if he purobeeed shares Teacup were broughe en, followed by the pertnership with the portioa his father aX oireataeerre Youlict. CHAPTER XentIL—(Conneetuea.) He was confirmed in this hope by finding that Mark's arrival was not unveelanne to Peremont, evlao aeeneed to have forgot- ten the unpleauantuess with whieh be had •'regarded the engagement, and only cerium - leered that his nephew had been Alice's nitampion, resuming old customs of depend- -ewe, making him act as amanuensis, and Arreigning the destiny that had restored so • lovely and, dawning a creature only to anatch her away, leaving nothing but a head- strong girl and helpless baby. I'leat poor Mtn fellow wee all that could be desired at hie age, but Nattie felt her beautiful mother almost insulted whea the elder ladies talked of the wonderful resem- blance° that the Canoness deolared to have been quite startling in the earlier hours •-of his life. For the coavenienee of -one of the aponsers, he was te be christened in the afternoon following the funeral, the 'others being—by his mother's special en- treaty—bla sister and ,Mark. Egremont customs were against the lanliea going to the funeral, se that Nuttie was kept at Thome, much against hex^ will ; but after the luncheon she escaped, leaving word with her aunts that she was going to walk down eto church alone, and. they were :ferry en- ,ough for her to let her have her own way, especially as her father, having been to the numeral, had shut laimself up and left all the rest to them. The Egreinont family had a sort of en - Closure or pen with iron rails round it clotie te the church wall, where they rested under filet slabs. The gate in this was open now, and the new hmde grave was one mass of efiowers,—wreaths and crosses, snowdrops, hyacinths, camellias, and the like,—and at the feet was a newer pot with growing • planta of the white hyaointh called in 'Innance "lye de la rierge." These, before they became frequent in England, had been srown in Mr. Dutton's greenhowle, and leaving been favourites with Mrs. Egremont, it had come to be his custom every spring to bring her the earliest plant that bloomed. enTuttie knew them well, the careful tying up, the neat arrangement of moos over the earth, -the eenliar trimness of the whole; and as Mark, awl interrupted them ; an, after a would eignto him, his enema would al- ehort interval, they parted at the park gate, •reany Eva what he would nave at Brian - and Ursula, walked home with Mark, waked field, and there was every prospeot of its in - from her dull numb trance, with a cruehed crease, botk p.s he became more valuable, feeling as ff she had been beaked all oyer, and as the busineea continued, to proper. and yet with a purpose within her, If the descent in life had been a grievence to the ledien the agency would have been au enfinite !moo, hut having swallowed so much es Annaple said, they might as well do it in earnest, and to team purpose. Pernaps, too, it might be detected thee under the cireum. stances Annaple would prefer the living in a small way out of reaoh of her sister's visible oomps,ssioia. So the raatter was settled, but there wee an under °anent in Mark's naincl on which he had not entered, namely, that his pre- sence at home might make all the difference in that reformation in his uncle's habits which. Alice had inaugurated, and left in the hands of others. With him at hand, there was much more °hence of Gregorion being dispensed with, Ursula's authority maintained, little Alwyn well brought up, and the estate'tenants, and household properly oared for, and then he smiled at his notion of supposing himself of cm ranch importance. Had he only had himself to consider; Mark would have thought his duty plain; nut when he found Miss Ruth - yen end her mother so entirely averse, he did not deem it right to sacrifice them to the doubtful good of his uncle, nor indeed to put the question before them as so muoh a matter of conscienee that they ahould feel bound to consider it in that light. He did indeed say, " Well, that settles it," in a tone that led Annaple to exclaim , "1 do believe you want to drop the umbrellas I" " Non he answered, it is not that, but my father wished it, and thought it would be good for my uncle." "No doubt," ;end Annaple, "but he has got a daughter, alio a sou, and a brother, and agents are plentiful, so I can't see why all the ,family should dance attendance on Lady Ronnisglen, much miadoubtiog Mr. Egremont's style of society, and dreading that Mark might be dragged into it, added her word, feeling on her side that it was cle- arable and just to hinder the family front sacrificing Mark's occupation and worldly interest to a capricious old roue, who might very possibly throw him over when it would be almost impossible to find anything else to do. Moreover, both she and Annaple believed that.the real wish was to rescue the name of Egremont from association with umbrellas, and they held themselves bound to combat what they despised and thought a pieoe of worldly folly. (To BE omiTreissn.) CHAPTER XXIV. nulls on vninngLus, ne toldinto hie handle is tondis wales nano—anew= " Meekt liark 1" A little figure stood onthe gravel road leading through Lectombe Park, and liftedup an eager face, as Mark jumpen down from bis borse. "1 made euro you would come over," "Yea, but I could not get away earlier. And I haae so much to aey to you and your mother, Annaple ; there's a great proposi- tion to be considered." "Oh dear 1 aitel here ie John bearing down upon us. Never mind. We'll get into the rnithern room and be cosy 1" " Well, Marr," said Sir John's hearty voice, "1 thought you would be here. Come to luncheon e That's right 1 And how is poor Egremont? I thought he look- ed awful at the funeral." "He is fairly well, thank you; but it was a terrible shock." " I should think so. To find such a pret- ty sweet creature just to lose her again. Child likely to live, eh?" "Oh, yen he is a fine fellow, and has never had anything amiss with him." "Poor little ohap 1 Doesn't know what he has lost 1 Well, Nannie," as they neared the house,"do you want a tete-a-tete or to take him in. to your mother? Here, take the horse." "Come to her at once," said Annaple; she wants to hear all, and besides she is expecting me." Mark was welcomed by Lady Ronieglen with inquiries for all concerned, and especi- ally for that "peor girl." "I do pity a young thing who has to take a woman's place too come a kind of private secretary to him. Yon know he gets rheumatism on the optic nerve, and is almost blind at times. He would give me £300 a year, and do up the house at the home farm, rent free. What do you say to that, Annaple e'' • Theerewas a silence, then Annaple said : "Give up the umbrellas ! Oh What do shecoked, the remembrance of the happy son," she said. "It takes too muoh out of times of old, the sick longing for all tnat her 1" "I should think Ursula had plenty of spirit," said Annaple. "I don't know whether spirit is what is wanted," said Mark. "Her mother pre- vailed more without it than ram afraid she first sounds of arrival and hid herself in the is likely to do with_ it." friendly shelter of the great family pew; "Complementsanswer better than paral. but she had to come out and take her place, las sometimes, but not always," said Lady though she conlentardly utter a word, and it Ronnicielen. TM all that she could do to keepfrom sebbing • "Which are we ?" asked Annaple de - aloud; she could not band. the babe, and =rely. • the Canon had to take on trust the name "Not parallels certainly, for then we "Alwyn Headworth," for he could not hear should never meet," responded Mark. "But the words that were on her trembling lips. here is the proposal. My father and all the It was soon over; and while the baby and rest of es have been doing our best to get my his attendants, with Miss Headworth, were uncle to smooth Ursula's way by getting rid being packed into the carriage, and her of that valet of his." uncle and. aunt bowing off the grand god- "Theman with the Mephistopheles face.' father, she clutched her cousin's arm, and "Exactly. He is a consummate scoundrel, nein, "Mark; where's Mr. Dutton e" as we all know, and so does my uncle him- " I—I didn't know he was coming, but self, but he has been about him these twelve now you ask, I believe I saw him this morn- or fourteen years, and has got a sort of hold ing." on him—that—that—It is no uee to talk of "1 know he is here." • it, but it did not make that dear aunt of "Do you want to see him?" said Mark mine have an easier life. In fact I should kindly. • not be a bit surprised if ne had been a hind- " Oh, if I might 1" ranee in the hunting her up. Well, the fel- Then, with a sudden impnlee she looked low thought proper to upset some arrange - ; back into the church, and recognized a ments my mother had made, and then was Via* fignote and slightly bald head bow- more insolent than I should have thought .ed down in orke of the seats. She even he could have been towards her. I pointed him out. "No doubt he is waiting suppose he had got into the habit with poor for -as all to be gone," said Mark in a low Aunt Alice. That made a fulcrum, and voice. "You go into the Rectory, Nuttie; my father went at lay uncle with a will. I 'there's a fire in the study, and I'll bring] never sew my father so roused in my life. •exim to you there. I'll get him to stay the I don't mean by the behaviour to his wife, might if I can." ' •but at what he knew of the fellow, and all "Oh, thank you 1" and it was a really , the harm he bad done and is doing. And fervent answer. • •lactually my uncle gave in at last and con- • Mark waited, and when Mr. Dutton rose, limited to tell Gregorio to look out for an- -was quite shocked at his paleness and the :other situation, if he has not feathered his -worn look on his face, as of one who had :nest too well to need one, as I believe he struggled hard for resignation and calm. !leas." ffeetarted, almost as if a blow had been j "Oh, that will make it much easier for struck him, as Mark uttered his name in the Ursula 1" cried annaple. porch, no doubt having never meant to be I "In he goes," put in her mother. pereeeved nor to have to, speak to any one ; "I think he will. I really bad no notion bub in one moment his features hadrecovered , how much these two years have improved their usual expression of courteous readiness. I my nuclei To be sure, it would be hard to He bowed his head when Mark told him live with such a woman as that without that Uraulanvanted to shakehands withhim, , being the better for it I But he really peems and came towards the Rectory, but he en- to have acquired a certain notion of diffy 1" tirely declined the invitation to sleep there,. l They did not smile at the simple way in declaring that he must return to London which Mark spoke of this vast advance, and that nigh t. • ' Lady Ronnisglen said, "1 hope so, for the Mark opened the study door, and then sake of his daughter and that poor little went away to secure that the man whom he boy." had learnt to esteem very highly should at I I think that has something to do with least have some refreshment before he bit ib," said Mark. "He feels a responsibility, the house. • and still more, I think he was struck by • Those few steps had given Mr. Dutton having a creature with bine to whom evil time to turn from a mourner to a consoler, 1 was like physical pain." and when nettle came towards him with her , "It will work,' said Lady- Ronnisglen, band outstretched, and "Oh, Mr. Dutton, I "Then," went on Mark, "he took us all ndr. Dutton!" he took it in both his, and by surprise by reeking me this proposal—to with a calm broken voice said, "God has :take the management of the estate, and be - been very good to us in letting us know one ' you think, Mark ?" like her.' • I " My father wishes it,' sceid Mark. "He "But oh 1 what can we do without her ?" , would, as he had promised to do, make over " Ah, Nettie 1 that always comes before ,to me my share of my own mother's fortune, is. Bat I saw your work and your comfort and that would, I have been reckoning, just now." I bring us just what we had thought of start - "Poor little boy! I shall get to care ing upon this spring at Micklethwayte." about him, I know, but as yet I can only 1 The same now," said Lady Rennisglen, feel how nenoh rather I would have her." after some reckoning, "but what does it "No doubt, but it is her work that ie lefb mad to ?" you." "Well—nothing, I am afraid," said "Her Work? Yes 1 13ut oh, Mr. Dutton, ' Mark; "as you know,. this is all I have to • you don't know how dreadful it is 1" !reckon upon. The younger children will He did not know what she ineant. Wheth- have hardly anything from their inother, so er it was simply the burtheri on any !sudden- :that my father's memo muse chiefly go to ly motherless girl or any *eclat evil on her them.' father's part, but he was soon enlightened, "And this agency is entirely dependent for there was eomething in this old friend ' on your satisfying Mr. Egremont?" that drew out her confidence beyohd all "True. but that's a thing only too easily was gone, did what nothing bad hitherto effected—brought an overwhelming gush of 'There was no checking them now that they had. come. She fled ihto church= the A Visit to Polnpeii. It was on a bright sunny day that I drove from Vesuvius to Pompeii. The city, it will be remembered, was buried beneath twenty feet of volcanic) ashes and pum jice- stone, ust eighteen hundred years ago. About the middle of the last century it was rediscovered, and ever since its excavation has been prosecuted with varying energy. A larger part has now been disinterred, and the result is a revelation of the conditions of old. Roman life, such as is exhibited nowhere else. • The houses, of course, are roofless, the woodwork having been Ignited by the red ha ashes and scoria. But their internal arrangements, their painting, and their con- tents •are e preserved. It induces a strange sensation to walk the narrow streets of this long -buried city--thef vary from fourteen to twenty-four feet wide—to observe the ruts made bythe cartwheels eighteen °ere tnries ago, and. to see the stepping stones across the streets, with the marks of horses' hoofe. On either side are small shops just like those of Naples tolliy, for the sale of bread, meat, oil, wine, drugs and other articles. The signs of the storekeepers can, in places, be seen'and even the stains of the wine -cups on the marble counters. A barber shop, a soap factory, a tannery, a fuller's shop, a bakery,with eighty loaves of bread in the oven, and several mills, home oleo been found. At street corners are stone fountains, worn smooth by lengthened use. The dwelling houses have a veatibule open- ing on the street, sometimes with the word "Salve," "Welcome," or the figure of a dog in mosaic on the floor, with the words, "Cave canem," "Beware of the don" Within was an open court, surrounded by bedrooms, kitchen, triennium, or dining - room etc. The walls and oolumns are bean - Wally painted in bright colors, chiefly red and yellove, and adorned with beautiful frescoes of scenes in the mythic history of the pagan gods and goddesses, landscapes, etc, - In public places will be read the election placards and wall scribblings of idle school boys, Opposite one shop is the warning in Latin, "This is no place for lounging ; idler, depart." The public -forum, the basilic:4.er coure ofjustice'with its cells for prisoners; the temples of the gods, with their shrines and images' their altars stained with incense smoke, andthe chambers of the priests; the theatres, with stage'corridors, rows of mar- ble seats—one will hold 5,000 another 20,- 000.roersons : the public baths, with niches for holding the clothes and toilet articles, marble basins, for hot and cold water, etc., the street of tombs; lined with the menu- onents of the dead, and the ancient city walls and gates, may all be seen almost as they were when the wrath of heaven descended on the guilty city. About two thousand persons are supposed to have perished in its ruins. In the howls of Diomedes the bodies of seventeen women and children were found crowded to- gether. At the garden gate was discovered the skeleton of the proprietor, the key in his hand, and near him a :slave with money and jewels. In the gladiators' barracks were found sixty-three akeletone, three ot them in prison, with iron stocks on their feet, In the museum are preeerved several others, even when he repressed her, and done. However, as you say, this agency oasts of the ill-fated inhabitants in the atti- she could not help telling him in a few mur- has no future, and if that came to an end, I tude of flight, andin the very death struggle. Inured furtive words such as she knew she should only have to look out for another or Among these are a young girl with a ring ought not to utter, and he fat it almost take to farming." on her finger, a man lying en his side, with treason to hear. "Opiates 1 she-wae alevays "Aix? ask poor John if that is a good remarkably wefl preserved features, and trying tokeep my father from them 1 It speculation nowadays 1" said Annaple. others. The very texture of the droll may was too much for her 1 My uncle says I "Fortunes are and have been made on be seen. The sight of this dead city, called mutt try to do it, and I can't." the ambrellae," Bela Mark. Greenleaf forth from its grave of centuries, made Poor child !" said Mr. Dutton kindly, has a place aimed equal to Monks Horton, the old Roman life more vivid and real *too& cut to the heart at the revelation of and Dutton, though he makes ir shove, has to me than all the classic reading I had sweet Alize's trial ; " at least you can strive, realised a considerable amount. and there is always a blessing on resolution." 1 " Oh yes, let us stick to the umbrellas ever don,—Peectscene Hotore. • I" "Oh, if you knew 1 and he doesn't like cried Annaple; "you've made the plunge, me. I donee think I've ever been nice to bit, so it does not signify now, and we edema The aeatitig—or perhaps more properly and that vexed her 1 I haven't got her be so muoh mote independent oat of the -way etendiefe-noleeneeitY of the eight largest ways. ' of everybody." ohnrchee in Europe is said to be s followe " No " said Mr. Dutton, "bub you will{ "You would lose in coeiety," said bitarit, St, Peter, Penne, 54,000 /manes ; Milan learn others. Leek here, nettle, You used "excepting, of course, as to the afienee , Cathedral, 37,000 ; St. Paul, Paine, 25,000 ; to be always craving for grand and noble Horton people ; but they are often away." I St. Sophie, Constantiaople, 23,000; Notre teaks, the more difficult the better, I think 1 " Begging your pardon, Mark, is the e Dmnee Paris, 21,000; Florenee Cathedral, you have got one now, More severe than much to lose in this same neighborhood. ' 20,000; Pisa Cathedral, 13,000 ; $t, Mark, ever tonld have been thought of—and very laughed Antutple, "now May will go." • Venioeh 7n00. noble. Whatare theme lines about the task 1 " It is not so much a (petition of liking," The other evening just at dusk a Brook - bequeathed from bleeding tore to son ?added her mother, as of what is for the field, Conti., farmer as he walked from the Tenn it eike that You are bound to go on best, and where you may wisho be—say ten barn to the house heard a pet kitten that with her work, and the mere helpless you years hence," was following him give a squeal a distress, feel, and tta, mote you throw youreelf Looked at in this way, there could be no Ile whirled eremite reed saw a big fox mak. on God, t 18 mere God will help you. question but that the umbrella company hig off with the kitten in its month, anti in Ile takes elle will for the deed, if promised to make Mark a richer man in ten Tito of the efforts of the farmer it got away only you 1s ve will enough ; and, Nuttie, you years' time than did the agency at )3ridge. With its victim. TUB LAST OP TEM PIRATES, ine was or the Wal Sowell and he hats Just Med Pa Honolulu—Ms 'tenuous leed and Steen Clouds, A vessel Which arrived from Honolulu a few clays ago broughe news of tlie deatla of a i man who s described as having been "the deuce of a fellow, wicked and big, with a vino like thunder."- Twenty - we awe ago, we are told, he was a pirate; for eome years before his death he heal been a hermit. • In the days of his wickedness and power he commanded a vein& called the Red. Cloud, staunch, unusually fast, and furnished with powerful mina. Periodically this carnaine- red craft disappeared from the seas, and in her place would come another, all in sombre black, and called, the Black Cloud. This piece of theatrical effect, which cost nothine more than a little paint, had it's enpected infinence upon the superstitious hands of the sailors who were sometimes sent in pur- suit of the vessel, Kest of them fully be- lieved that there was aomething uncanny about the crab, and thee the captain had supernatural help. In those days he was the terror of the South Paolo seas, and the British Government set a big price on his head. Hundreds of attempts were made to capture him by fair fight and by traps, and by every means that could be devised. But he eluded all the traps, came out victorioue in all the fights, and in every case trailed away with the traditional scornful laugh of the pirate king. He had a Spanish name, which nobody remembers now, and he was supposed to belong to that nationality, al. though he spoke Spanish, English, French, • and German • all with equal fluenoy. At last a young English. nobleman, loving adventure, and desir- ous of the reward, undertook to capture him. After cruising around in the Pacific for some time, he came late one afternoon directly upon the Red Cloud. The bucca- neer spoke the Englishman, asking where she was bound and what she had on board. The reply was that they were looking for the pirate, that they knew they were talk- ing to him, and that he had. to give himself up at once. In an instant bright lights ap- peared all over the Red Cloud and her Cap- tain answered in good English : "I will see you in --first 1" Then a oannon bali whizzed through the air, but it was aimed too high, and passed above the weasel. "I will see your there," shouted back the Eng- lishman, and a broadside from his guns aimed low, sent the Red Cloud to the bot- tom of the sea. But the buccaneer escaped, and not long afterward he and two of his crew appeared in a rowboat on nee barren island of Molokini, which is near the East Matti islands of the Hawaiian group. It is a small, barren, rocky place uninhabited. There his two companions even left him, mei there he lived alone for twenty-five years. Since his landing there he was called only Morrotinee, the native name for the is - and, A sailor, who has been going to and fro from the Sandwich Islands for ten or twelve years, learned all he could about Morrotinnee, and says that he was much liked and feared by the natives. They carried to him all the delicacies to em found in the kingdom, and enabled. him to live a life of ease and luxury. They said he was a toll man, big and commanding, with a voice like thunder—so powerful that they firmly believed he could cause the wind or the waters to subside. They would not al- low white men to go near the island if they could help it, probably because they had been so commanded by him, and when he died they buried him near the place where he had lived, with much mourning over his departure. Garibaldi's Marriage. Garibaldi, in his juese published Antob o- graphy, gives the following accounna his marriage: "I had never thought of marriage, and I thought myself unsuited for it because of my too independent nature and propensity toward an adventurous career. To have a a wife and children seemed to me an entire contradiction in one who had consecrated himself to a principle which, ho never 'ex- cellent, would not have permitted me while vindicating it with all the ardor of which I felt myself capable, to enjoy the quiet and stability necessary for the father of a family. Destiny decided otherwise. I had need of some humanbeing who would love me. Without such an one near me existence was becoming insupportable. Although not old I knew men well enough to know how diffi- cult it is to find a real friend. But a wo- man, yes, a woman, for I had always con- sidered them the most perfect of beings, andwhat men may say, it is infinitely easier to find a really loving heart among them. "I was walking on the quarter deck of the Itaptirica, wrapped in my sad thoughts, and having reasoned the matter i11 all ways finally concluded to seek it wife for myself who would draw me out of this depressing and insupportable state of thins. My glance fell by chance upon the henget; of the Barra, a little hill thus called at the en- trance of the lamina of St. Catharine, in Brazil, on wbioti are some simple but picturesqiie dwellings. With the aid of my glass, which 1 habieually held in my hand when on quarter deck, I flaW a young girl. I ordered the men to row me ashore in that direction, and disembarked ,and made for the house which contained the object of my voyage, but could not find it, when I en- counteredea person; of the place whom I had known 071 my first arrival. He invited me to take coffee at hisnhouse. We entered, and the first one on whom my gaze fell was the one -who had caused my caning on shore. "Ib was Anita, the mother of my chitdren, the companion of my life, in good and evil fortune, the wernan whose courage I have so often admired. We both remained in an ecstatic silence, gazing in each other's line- aments something whioh shall revive re- membrance. At last I saluted her, and I said, "You trinst be mine." 1 Epoke but little Portuguese, and I spoke *act auda- cious words in Italian. However, I seemed to have some magnetic power in my insolence. I had tied a knot which death alone could break." The French Consul in Montreal has com- mitted the unpardonable offence. He hoist- ed the netenoh flog at half -matt on the death of Emperor William. Hence, any amount of fiery and indignatiot. Isn't this a very small matter? It was merely an ex- pression of sympathy with a neighboring nation at it tine of natimeal loss. It had n� political significance whatever. The French Preeident sent his condolences. The Ohief Consul of France at Quebec also had the flag at half-mast, Wily ell the ado 7 The French ought to have more menlinees atid self-respect. All that woe done was not worth making any ado about, lloth profes. sedly Christian nations, and yen if they were ten times heathen, apparently, they could not hate each other worse, "Leve your enemies 1" Love 1 yes, love them with a rifle bullet or a bayonet thrust 1 An ex. preesion of respect for it dead &moron' Something very like a crime 1 The Timber Wealth of Qatari°. The timber wealth of Cameo is immense. One gete bewildered when told of so many thousands of millions of feet of lumber, but when the price is sot down at a hundred and fifty millions of dollars, the thing can be more easily estimated ; and then it is to be remembered thet if proper Entre were taken of this magnificent heritage, it may be made to yield alarge yearly income aad at the same time continue as valuable as ever for generations. It is mad that there is more timber destroyed every year by bush arcs than ifS taken out by ell the lumbermen in •the provieen Tt is further said that a very great proportion of those fires is caused by the chips made by the lumberer,s being left on the ground and allowed, to become kind- ling wood for gigantic conflagrations, Why not make all lumberersclean up and care- fully burn all the rubbish they make ? Such fires as are now °Mennen never took place in the days of the Indians and !timely muoh leas ought they to occur. now. It would of course cost something to insist upon such regular cleanings up. 13at though it did ib would pay a hundred fold. The loss oaused by fires in a single season is far greater than precautionary measures would cost in twen- ty. Then again too muoh importance can- not be attached to the work of reforesting many parts of the Province already &prier - ed of its timber to.far too great au extent. There are large portions of land in India that have 'become quite barren from the destruction of the teak forests, and acme parts of Ontario are front the same °auk threatened with the same calamity, The early settlers thought only of gating quit, of the treesaas if they were an intolerable nuisance. In their zeal they went foolishly too far, and novr they must set about plant. lag others. In one respect it is as well, for the old forest trees could not be very well preserved in small patches. They had to come down, and what still stand will have to follow. But farmers who are wires and far-seeing will be taking good care to have strips of new plantations put down, so as to afford shelter to their crops and cattle, pre- serve their wells from drying up, and add to the beauty and amenity, as well as to the money value of their farms, Nothing is more discreditable than to see the bare, un- sheltered farm buildings in many localities, and.the repulsive bleakneas of their whole siwroundiogs, while, on the other hind, nothing looks cosier or more attractive than even a comparatively small, and, possibly, really shabby house he the midst of a nice clump of treea. It is pleasant to know that many farmers in various parts of -the coun- try are becoming ashamed of theroselves and their establishments, and are planting trees as earnestly ancl as wisely as they know how, The advice of the old Scotch laird to bis son is a good one, Aye, my son, be plena' in tree. They will be wrowin' while you are sleepine" Such 'tree planting is very pleasant and may be made very profit- able as well. Itis a good thing to try to de- velope a taste for this among the school- children, as is being done in almost all the public schools of the Province. The yearly "arbour"holiday for tree planting is like- ly to become a permanent institution, and a very valuable institution it will be. ' Unhappy Marriages. • • It is not very often that such subjects as that of "unhappy marriages" are taken to the pulpit. Sometimes, however they are, and perhaps it would be beneficial if this were done oftener. One preacher lately said, a good many plain, wholesome things on the subject, and young men and women might study them with advantage. He said that the first desideratum of a happy marriage was a good home. No young raan shouldernarry until he can provide a comfortable home for his wife. He could do this by giving up smoking and drinking, and by putting money in the savings bank. Fifteen cents every working day spent on tobacoo and beer would amount, in nine or ten years, to between 400 or 500 dollars So that if a youth begins :taxing at 14, he will -have a comfortable sam. of money to start a house at 24 years of age. Marriage before 21 often ends in misery. After a man has the raeans to furnish a home, heSi at liberty to select a partner in life. Una fortunately there are more women than % men in the world, and the evil effects of this over -proportion are numerous. In high life there is a desperate struggle for hnsbande, and girls lead fast lives and indulge in all manner of eccentricities so as to attractatten- don. The qualities which attract are not al- ways those which retain. In the humbler walks of life there is also an unwholesome competition, which leads indirectly to eaely marriages, and directly to unhappy mar - Hagen Another important factor is the de- fective education of women. It is generally forgotten by parents that in marryiog a man needs a companion, and so they give their daughters a few showy accomplishments and a touch of company manners, and then think they are fully equipped for bang wives and mothers. Every girl should be well up in the sciences of scrub-ology, bake- ology, boil-ology, make-ology, bbitoh•ology, and mend -elegy before she presumes to en- ter the blissful state of matrimony. Want of principle, moral deflection, a dirty person, and a bad disp osition on the part of a wife tend to weaken the sanctity of the marriage tie. Discord often arises from the face of the contraceing parties being of different reli- gions, or of a. converted huaband marrying an unconverted wife. Yea, and a careless, dissipated self-suffident boss of a husband makes many a wife somewhat tired, • Slave Gbh in. Egypt - "Slave Girls in Egypt" is the title of an article in a recent number of the Saturday Review. The writer paints in glowing col- ors the position of the slave-girlin theEgyp. tian h�uaehold. The paraileb drawn tureen the lot cf the Sougani girl and that of the English drudge, "who rises early ancl goes to bed late, working eight or twelve hours a day, either in her mieerable garret or in a huge manufacturing hive," tells Infi- nitely in favor of that of the black girl and woman. The writer admits that this naay be due to "the fashion of Egypt, where every man ie a brother and every woman a sister ;" and the slave is looked upon cut one of the family, being wen housed, well • fed, and wanting for tenting. She works bard, but she is allowed to have a good deal of the sunshine of life, and from per. eonal 0 eery& ion the ayri or avers that is seldom one Call find- a black girl without an infectious broad grin on her polished tace." When she wishes to marry she be - comet free, often receiving a dower from her master. Ho—" Do you know, Miss Mabel, I have discovered why my t rain is so active 1" She—" No, Mr, Minuswit, What isyour • th 1 Ile—" It's beeatige I so often start it train •of thought." Sht.—" yee l The 'limited."' Praia, Henry of Battenberg, after disk - ceding both arms and the shpulder blade in If George Washington never told it lit hunttitg, has been absolutely forbidden by pronably Martha never asked him if he the Queen, to haat any more, loved her just as much as he used to den flints for the Study of English IS the caption of an article in a recent num- ber of tile Chri>liorn Union, which is worthy the attention cf all. Surely there is great ' need a improvement in this direction. As we move about in aomety how few do we fiad who speak in elegant, exact, discrimin- ating English. It is it delight to listen ta those who are masters of their mother tongue, and we feel it would be well if in all our schools more attention was given to the study of Anglish, and also if parents would theineelves be more particular in their ehoioe of language, and would by example n.,5 well as precept so instruct their children. The writer referred to urges that children anal yelling people should not only read good poetry and good literature' but ahoulcl in ad- dition memorize good English, We quote some paragraphs front the article: It is not enough for children toread these things; they must learn them. Hire children to learn "by heart.''They will thank you for it. Little follneaften earn pocket money by picking up tie weeding the garden, shoveling saow,- d the like; It is goad to give them a little mental exer- cise in the game way. I remember well when the nursery funds were replenished in this way. A dollar for repeating perfectly "The Deserted, Village," a dollar for the "Ancient Mariner," seventy-five cents for Grey's "Elegy," and fifty cents for "Burned Marmion's swarthy cheek like fire," This money was well invested, and has brought gratitude.iLiCl Cultivate ate evmpot:ehabit ainitteoref 3:11o:fat ip9ln.ea sure and In his "Life and. Letters of Lord MaCaU. lay" Trovelyan gives a charming picture of the family oirole in Great Ormond Street. When the writerfather, Sir George Tre- velyan, first joined it he says he could nob imagine who a ere the rititter people to or about whom the family were talking. At length he discovered that they were the characters in navels, chiefly those of Jane Austen, with whom Macaulay and his sis- ters were so familiar that they _talked pages of her books. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett, Jane and Bingley, were constantly intro- duoecl in their own very words; and who doubts that to this memorising and quoting of Jane Austen Macaulay owes something at least of his rioh store and treasure of words? . Raskin' in his new autobiography, ascribes much ofhis knowledge of English to the patient storing away in bit mind and daily repetition of chapter after chapter ot the Bible in the King James version; and we all remember how.Pope spent his boyish days studying over Spencer until he had him , by heart. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight we all quote," says Emerson ; and if we borrow the words of the quotation as well as the idea we may be as much acne- er in diction as in thought. Let any boy learn the description of the Venus of Milo in Clive Newoomen letter to Pendeemis, and he will never see even a a plaster cast of "the divine enslaver" that there will not spring to his lips the noble words of Thackeray's noble mind A class of wheel -girls once 'beaked vei-- batint Addison's charming "S (tater " paper on tne exercise of the fan. Then they knew Addison's style, and needed to study no oritioal volumes about Addison's style. The delicate humor, the subbile sate NSM, the restraint, the polish, and the power of the eighteenth century eineyests became a genuine possession of their ieenda. Again, I would suggest, make chiletren, even little children, narrate. Bargain with them, "I'll tell you a story if you will tell me one afterward." I knew this to be tried with a class of little children, and the result was surprising. Stumbling, stuttering, and embarrassment very soon gave way to ease and cophdence in the telling of some simple little tale or anecdote, and gradually there/ developed the beginning of that oommand of language afterwards so indispensable. Play word games. Verbarium, word - stealing, the rhyming game, capping verses —these make words the subject of thought, and thought of them gives mastery of them. In this connection, tor a last and homely hint, consider where you keep your diction- ary. If it is on too high a shelf, or too low a shelf, or under a pile of other books, it will not be easy to look into it. Pub Webster or Worcester or gout old Sam Johnson on a table by himself and teach children the habit of looking to him for counsel. Then language "fit and fair and simple and sufficient "will come to them as a natural and righttul possension. Take Care, There are some things that it well-bred young lady never demi :— She never accepts a valuable present from a gentleman aenuainte,nee unless engaged to him. She never turns around to look after any one when walking on the street. .• She never takes supper or refreshments at a restaurant with a gentleman after attend- ing the theatre ualese accompanied by a lady much older than herself. • She does not permit gentlemen to join her on the street unless they are very intimate acquaintances. • She does not wear her monogram about her.person or stick it OV9 her letters and envelopea. She never accepts a at from a gentle- man in a street. car without thankine. him. She never forgets her ball -room engage- ments or refuses to dams with one gentle- man and immediately dances with another. She never snubs other young ladies, even if they happen to be leas popular or well faltered than herself, She never laughs or talks loudly in public places. She never raises her lorgnette and tries to stare people elk doesn't know out of count- enance on the street. She never wears clothing so singular or striking as.to attract particular attention in public. She never speaks slightingly of her mother g t e y e on care w e er her 0- havior meets' with maternal approbation or not. . flow to be Miserable. TjIhnewret'esrurieiseiniouiss'arbeiws 1 Well, Iezniltirlin't learned how • Mobbe there's some, tho', ez hern't enjoyed The simon-pure article, un-erloyod ; STehoeht ibeheirisatio,ttrhee.iymm;du:chcianukioeircetsetwwak:OVI Their most expedishus route tow go ew e yv e. Woll, e ou say Tew "get thar, : Vicst, te* get Clean over your head an' ears in debt; (Thet's f ust-olass ',darter" to'rd feelln' glum, An almost elsal to guzzlin' rum 1) 755 second unreel din,1 I'd think it lot 'Bout ther things I needed an' hadn't got; I'd say mean things ormy feller men, Let my heir grow long an' shaggy, an' then, rd erlow my boots to run down at heels, Find fault with the quality of my meals, Pereilintt es VI; en p tlibl 1 ne o n' the shedders ; By doing of this with a Steadfast will . Iteir kin reckon On reaohin' old idiseryvillo ! The number of female book agents him steadily decreased for the Mee goodie years, 'and is how only thirty • per cont. of what it was eight years ago. It takes it pretty giri to be a succeeded eanimeser, and pretty \e- sirls have no trouble in getting married. 714.