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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1895-12-27, Page 2T A 3.11 La 0.8 MiE1t 27, 1895 CaaieePTER, XT. ed sige they eets their two eyesi on, I lute came this, netre'e one 01 tne beet, "1 emend beet remember each allege pups o" tee Beaeon &most reined, end were, no mattafenbiou for it, Xas it =exude ie Thet were mese preelpwi Go me, be cones roiled (quiet; there, me beaety, t ,m 843(1 ease. 1313a93 new, I tell ye), and noe Oh! 1 eoald play tlie womae with Mine tiara eau anYthitte." <wee," TIM eld mini 813098 lima regerile hie ..,,exam cbetb, uter eeprevingly. ney, almost oon- tenintuouely. " To tell nen herself " Ilan 80881e I 880119dmet ece wey yea abenla strange attraction for Claeissa. To tibnile it WAS OW boys, Ice e " aaye Ste 8,123e$ 131001119, meekly, hear, faea to few, what tbie ber °Ideae .0 enereeree anyenee else, tuayway," friend will say Le her engagement with persists foe, doggedly, Leoxace is a matter of anxiety to bor., " Veer little eellow l-doex little fel- Silo well know at onee by hie eyea and aly inr,hmeall'zietMetsft Is'ztoorn, ift,,,r?s pat- smile wlietber be approve$ or dleale- ting its beed foviegle„ as it barV)2)ade Provee her oboice, 1Y, and Makes erantic, efforta to get Driving along the road to Ser0P0, be- from .the's exraa to hers, while n?ill , , shrilth ein amieert, being filled witll an hind leer ponlee, " Cokes " 0311. " AM, ' overwhelming arneUnt of sympathy, Niel* eer little tough Irish terrier. " Better leave biro to zue, Miss," saes bole upright joe, regerding the injered innocent "Secretary Bill," sitting beside her, es ewer= es bait a dozen leliithtlitareaptbeinnat's roper 881810 kialleiskunecebvsis mood. shall ()ogle to tell James about it. in a solemn reaasuring manner, 'yon aedgeo she wonders 8133113100519 1301" she lionest weetherleeten face to Claxissa, She /meth to goodness he NVon't be0 bouil d. Yet them pups" (clisguste, in en ateeegeve mood, thee. ee e eine, 16) " islike children, anus ungrateful, Ear tbe sake o' your handsome face, leads ep to his findieg fault with everY- now, he'd g0 to yell new it lie could, -Ailing, and Melting things to pieces, forgetein 01 all My kindrie,es to him. and generaLly condemping the sound 111Vesyle1;"'telsy* dells -wsYldo' athe w's1'44" If in up a oe, rising rom be - judgment of otbers. (As a rule, Clax- his knees,-elmered, perhaps, by the lent is a little unfair in lier searet come thought that his favorite pup, if only ;eines scrape's character.) followmg the common dietetes oe aloe ' meets 031 It evill be so much better if she can mg gierumnahae,asellemtehtahrileaalelleoettlieurean• only Come uPon him out at doors, in his dertone, wed finally carries off the pup homeliest mood, with a cigar between to his kennel. " I am too sneezed for speecb," says his lime or bis pipe. Yes, hie pipe will Sir James, rising also to hie feet, and be even better. Men are even more gen- contempiating Clarissa, with admire, ial with a pipe than with the goodliest time That man," pointing to Joe's habitue. • retiring figuee, "has been In m3r fa - Well, of course, if he is the ther's servic,e, and in m ' ine for fifty 'great years. and never before did I hear 'a civil friend he professes to ba -heavy eta- word frora his lips. I think ha 801(1 9088 /Weals on the verb, and a. little flick face was handsome, just now 7. --or was -e Joe," so.ys Miss Peyton, ele- :which the epirited bet doeile creature veting her rounded chin: '" I down - resents bitterly, -he must be glad at right esteem him. He knows sthere • the thought time she is not going to beauty lies." leave the country, -is, in foot, very like- 0150w he differe from the rest of the w "nel seys Scropa.not loekingat ber. ly to spend most of her time still in .uoes he? That is uakmd. I think. Pullinghara. Not all of it, of °purse. Horace has duties, and thopgh in her seeret soul • she detests town life, still there is a jo.y in the thouglit that she will be with tame helping him, .encouraging him in his work, reeoicang in his successes, syra- • pathizing with Ins fall--, but no, of course there will be no failures! How stupid of her to think of that, when he 1.9 so clever, so learned, se --- Yet it would be sweet, the, to have him fail once or twice (just a little, in- significant, not- worth -speakingeabout nert of a defeat), if only to let him see losa ate goad love hiM !Wen tae more ler it, of the whip C01 "Cakes's" quartera, 1 air lirdt" , She laushee, and miles to herself, and, turning suddenly, bestows a most unexpected caress upon " ;Secretary Bill," who wags his short tail in return -that is, what they left him of it - lovingly, if somewhat anxiously, and glances at her sideways out of his wonderful eyes, as though iienrou.s of assuring himself of her sanity. Oh, yes, of course James will be de- lighted. And be will tell her so with the gentle smile that so lights up Ms face, and lie will take her hand, and say he as so glad, so pleased, and— With a sbarp pang she remembers how her father was neither pleased sum glad when she confided her secret to him. He had been, indeed, distress- ed and confounded. He had certainly • tried his hardest to conceal from her • these facts, but she had seen them all the same. She coul(1 not be deceived where her father was concerned. He had felt unmistakable regret—" Be quiet, Bill! You sheen't come out driv- ing again if Yea can't sit still! _What a bore a dog Is sametemes I" Viaell, after all, he is hee father. It is only natural he should dislike the thought of parting frora her. She thinks, with an instant softening of her heart, of hew necessary she has be- come to him, ever since her firtal re- turn home. Before that he had been dull and distrait; now he is bright and cbeerful, if still rather too devoted to his books to be quite good for bim. He might indeed, be forgiven for re- garding the man who should take her • from him as an eneray. But elm is different; be is a mere friend, -a dear and valued one, it is true, but still 'on- ly a faiend,-a being utterly indepen- dent of her, who can be perfectly happy without her, and therefore, of course, unprejudiced. AU will, she feels sure, say everything kind and sweet to her, and wish her joy sincerely. James, too, is very sensible, and will see the good points in Horace. He evidently likes him; at least, they have always appeared. excellent friends when together. Dorian, of course, is the general favorite,-sbe acknowledges that, -just because he is a little more open, more outspoken, perhaps -easier to understand; whereas, she firmly be- lieves, she alone of all the world is capable of fully appreciating the in- nate goodness of Horace I Here she turns in the huge getaway of Scrop.e ; and the terrier, growing ex- cited, geves wee to a alaarp bark, and the ponies swing merrily down the avenue; andjust before she comes to the hall door her heart fails her -that sereething that never errs -tells her jamas Scrope will not betray any plea- sure at her tidings. Before she quite reaches the ball door, a groom comes from a side -walk, and, seeing him, Clarissa pulls up the ponies sharply, and asks the man, - "3 -8 Sir Jaxnee at home?" " Yes, miss; he is in the stablee, I think; leastways, he was half an hour agone. Shall I tell him you are here 3" "No, thank You. a Shall go and find him tayself." She flings bet reins to her own groom, and, with Bill trotting at her heels, goes round to the yard, glad, ab least, that her firat hope is fulfilled„ -that • he is oat of doors. As she goes through' the big portals into the ivied yard, she sees before her one of the stablemen on hie blocs, sup- portieg in his arms an injured. euppy. ; with all a woman's tenderness he is examining the whiting little brute's soft, yellow mew, as it bangs mourn- fully dowieWard. Sir James, with a pipe in his teeuele -this latter feet Clarisse hails with eapture,-is also bending anxiously over the dog, and is so absorbed in his eon-, temptation et it as not to riotiee Clare isee's approach until Sh6 IS CIOSS be- side lane "'Whet is the neater with the poor little thing?' she asks, eaxnesbly, gaz- ing with deep pity at the poet peppy, that whine sdismally and glances up with the peculiarly tearful appealing expression that belongs to setters. " A kraiek of a stone, miss, taytlitr znorei nor less," exclaims the rnan 831- " That'a the honest thuth: $ir ames, Yo33 take tee word Met. S00/0 th6t6 raSeally boys as is ever arid allus about this 'ere yard awl spends • their lives shyin' stones at every bless., Why,"says Clarissa, with a soft laugh, full of mischief, ' should any one be The they air seems dark, the sky blied to tee claims of beauty i" • 'cadets, the clouds sad and lowering. ' WaYI indeed? It is, as I have been Vainly he tries to understand how he told, 'a joy forever.' No one nowadays Les come th love, -with such a bound - disputes anything they are told, • do lees passion, this girl who loves hiM they?" not at all, but has surrendered herself "Don't be cynioal, Jim," 'says Miss wholly to ono unworthy of her, -one Peyton, softly. What an awful thing utterly incapable of comprehending tbe it will be if, now when her story is ab- nobility and truthfulness of her natuxe, solutely upon her lips, he relapses into The world, that only yesterday seem - his unsympathetio mood! • ed so desirable e place, to -day has lost "Well, I won't, then." says Swope, its charm. amiably, which much relieves her. And "What is life when stripped of its then he looks lovingly at his pipe, which disguise? • A thing to be desired 113080 - he bee held (as in fluty bound) behind not be." With him it seems alniost his back ever since her arrival, and sighs at an and. An unsatiefaotory thing, heavily, Rid protheies to knock the ash- too, at its best, -a mere " glimpse into ea outo " Oh, don't do that," says Clarissa, en- treatingly. "I really wish you wouldn t 1 " (This is the strict truth.) rein, No, I baYe reetbioa itgeleet " Tire sylay do you. log es If Yee bad?' eay$ Mies 1,,eytoe, pettlably, feeseeing a Ithele one letting lum eyes rest en Iden for e 'element only, te araw then% again with a deeper Ithwer, lamer entatner fing9,01t8 7314449 tliixigs aaott ere like papier - etaleee, Pas.- elm has Mena a talse Move, eta Wesbee leanly her last words enesaid. ' Dtha yeer father disapprove, tben asae Mere tareugb idlerieSe thea a deslre'te Ireew, Instinctively he lade tbat, no Plat- ter wbae oestaelee may 'be tarowe 101 tide girae WAY, seal she will oaxxy hex point end Marry the Mall she ems plea - ed to love, • Nay, wIll get iliffieeltiee but inel'ease her steadfestness end melte stroeg the devotime thet gzenviug be aer heart? • Not until now, this inottient, evben hope has died and despair sprueg into life, deem he know how freely, hovv togetber, be hoe levished, ales entire af- fection of his soul upon her, During all ehese past few menthe he bee lived and thouglth and boped bee for her ; and now --all is it an end. lailte a beavy blow from mum unseen hand tale terrible news es,s teflon upon lam, leaving hilt spent end broken, end filled with something that is age:m.110d surpriee the depth ot the misfortune that bas overtaken bim. It is ea a revel- aticee, tbe asvakening to a aenee of the longing that bas been bis -to thelteow- ledge of the cruel ;strength of the ten- dernese that binds his heart to hers. Withe. slew wonder he lifts 111$ eyes and gazes at her, There is a petulant expression round her mobile lips, a faint bendbag of her brows that be- speaks disoontent, eordering upon an- ger, yet, withal, she is cents lovely - so sweet, yet so unsympethetio; so gen- tle, yet so ignorant of all.be is at pres- ent feeling; With a sickening dread be looks foe - ward to the future that still may lie before hhn. It seems to him that he oan view, lying stretched out in the far distance, a lonely cheerless road, over evhieli he naust travel whether he will or not -a road bath and dusty and companionless, devoid of shade, or rest or joy, or that love that could transform the barrenness into a "flowery mead," He that loses hope," -says Con- greve-" may part with anything." To Swope, just now, it seems as if hope and he had parted company, forever. The past bas been so dear, with all its vague beliefs and encertain dieamings-all too sweet for realization -that the present appears unbearable. the world of might have been. Some words read a week. ago come to him now, and ring their changes on his brain. Rion ne va plus, -the You know you are dying for a, smoke, hateful words return to him with a per- m:Biel-perfectly love the smell of to- tinadty not to be subdued. 91 18 with bathe. There is, therefore, no reason diffietate he refrains from uttering why you ahoule deny youraelf." them aloud. " Are you really euite sure?" says "No; he cloth not disapprove," says Saone, politely end hopefully. • Clarissa, interrupting his refleotions at " Quite, -utterly. Put it in your this moment; Ile has given his full mouth again. And -,do you mind?'- consent to my engagement." She with a swift glance %inward, from un- speaks somewhat slowly, as if reraem- der her scat plush hat -" I want you brance weighs upon her. "And. even to eome for a little walk with me." "To the end of the world, with you, would 130 a short walk," sees &rope, with a half laugh, but a ring in his tone that, to a woman heart -whole and unoccupied with thoughts of another mane must have meant much. "(3030- 03008 me, madam." ' "I have something very -very -very important to tell yoe," says Miss Pey- ton, earnestly. This time she looks at her long black gloves, not at hina, and makes a desperate effort to but- ton an already obedient little bit of ivory. us q1eed ble faelfaientrel lay ta. Uwo, , beyilag 0,01.1eleeeed Meetien, epee iepaesionately. Clala AS he luta sale does not nedere Maud the tereable slafliggle it theta to utter tempo worde in an orelintlaY tone, and Web a fee?, Whtea,1411 • • botreys no anentel Oxeiteinninle See enlace,•Ha' teeth varese. She • eentelatealee and Meths the heed flip reale ' Ilaneoeglad we aro friertils again," oho flays, And Pow tell me whedlea Were so berrid at fleet! You Miglit test as well 'Imre began as Yoe beam an oe; Wenila Itaare saved trouble and time, (reproathfully) "all any teere," "Poreeps 1 velne you 80 IngelY that Ileitis the thonght ot teethe you," seys Sprope, pelliating the ughnees of his °Walnut ea best he may. leis voice very earnest. " riow onil You are of me, " says Mini Peyton, with iiorae wonder ited mueh pleesere, To tide he finde it ienpoesible to intik° any emswer, "Wheueyer I wish 1 had had, a brother, 1,0aWaYs ahiele of you," goes on she, Ineaseutly, " you are $O-80-cmiet, and Your scoldings so lialtheeeted. Nov, yen though rather late, ,Wash me joy." " deer, dear girl,' eays Seroee, if I were to speak forever, I could not toll you how I long for and desire your aappmess. If yoor life proves a$ ceem ad peaceful as I wisb. it, it will be a desirable life indeed I You have thought of me 88 your other:Mlet nie i be your brother ndeed,-one in whore you. oan confide and trust shouicl trou- ele overtake. you." He says ells very solemnly, and again Clarissa's eyes fill with teers, She does now what she has not done since she was a little, impulsive, loving girl; she lifts her head and presses her lips to his cheek. For one brief naoraent he holds her in his arms, returning her °arose, warmly, it is true, but with ineffable sadness. To her, tbis embrace is but the sealing of a fresh bond between them. To him it is a silent farewell, a final wrenching of the old !sweet ties that have endured so long. Up to this she bad been everything to him, -far more than he ever dream- ed until the rude awakening came, - the one bright spot hi bis existence; but now all is changed, and abe belonge to another. He puts liar gently from him, and, With a kindly word and smile, leads her to the garden gete, and so roan,. d ,,to where her ponies are iMealealitlY awaiting her coming; after which he •bids her good-bye, and, thrning,. goo in doors, and locks himself into his own private den. (To be Continued.) • HUGE TIDAL WAVES. They have turned into the orchard, now bereft of blossom, and are strolling carelessly along one of ith side -paths. The earth is looking brown, the trees bare; for autumngreedy season -has stretthed its hand ' to reap the ripen- ed fruits the whith the earth had yold." "Are you listening to me?" asks she, presently,- seeing he makes no response to her first move. Intently. He 710S not the Very faintest idea of her meaning, so speaks 110 in a tone light and half amused, that sell.YetI wanted to tell Yoe. otherwise she might have done. sooner came, thinking, believing, I should re- thanc,evesympathy trom you; and now leads her to betray her secret " Ls it an honest mystery," be says what have I got? ()lily harsh cruel carelessly, "01' a common ghost -story, or a state secret? Break it to me gent - if he had net, there is 01111 somethmg that must give me happiness; it is the certainty that Horace loves me, and love him." Though unmeant, this is a cruel blow. Sir James turns away, and, paling vis- ibly, -had she cared to see it,-pluoks a tiny piece of bark from the old tree against which he is leaning. There is something in his face that, though she understands it not, moves Clarissa, to pity. "You will wish me some good wish, after all, Jim, won't ,you.?" she says very sweetly, almost pathetically. "No, I cannot," returns he, with a brusquerie foreign to him. "To do so would be anthill hypocrisy." "There is silence for a moment: Clarissa grows a little pale, in her turn. In his turn, .he takes no notice of her emotion, having his face averted. Then, in a low, faint. choked voice, she breaks the silence. • "If I had been wise," she says, " should have stayed at home this morn- , and kept my confidences to me- ' There is nothing to break," says Clarissa, softly. Then she looks down at the strawberry borders at her side, - new brown and aged -and then says, m a very low tone, " I am going to be inarned I " There Is a dead silence. Sir James says nothing. He walks on beside her with an tuifaltering footstep, his bead erect as ever, his hands clasped in their old attitude behind bis back. The sun is shining; some birds are warbling faintly (as though under protest) 111 some neighboring thiciret ; yet, X think Scrope neither sees the sun, nor heeds the birds, nor knows for the moment that life flows withit him, after that little, low -toned soeeoh of bers. Then be awakes from his stupor, and ruosing himself, save, huehily, yet with O cortam amount of aelf-possession that deceives her,-- " You were saying--?" "Only that I am going to 130 Mere ried," tepeats Clarissa, in a somewhat obanged tone. The nervousness bad gone out of it, and the natural hesita- tion ; she is speaking now quite come dly and dearly, as et some surpriee trays itself en her voice. Serope is aware thee his heart is bea ing madly. He hes stopped, and is leaning against the trunk of an apple tree, facing Clarissa, who is standmg in the middle of the path, His face Is ashen gray, but his manner is quith calm- " Who is 113 3" he asks, presently, very lowly. s "Mr, Bratisconibe,"-00111y. " Dorian " " No,Horece." "ley:lab it had beert Dorian," he sae's, R is the last straw. And why'? " detnands the, angrily. She is feeling wounded, disappointed at his reception of her news; atid now the climax has come. Like her father, he, to, ptefets Doriam-122y, by bis tene, cuts a, slur upon Hortme. The 101 - plied dislike outs her bitterly to tbe lave ' What 8711 thing Ineve Yon to sae of Horace,' she gees on, vehemently, that 7011,80 emphatically &dere favot of Dorian eerhein you aro with him you Profese great friendship bitn, end 1108 behind hie back you seek to ma- lign him to the woman he loves." "rem are unlade" Says Setae°, wear. ila, al know nothing bad a Horan°. I raerely eald wishe It had been Do - words I If I had known--" "e0larisse, 3" THE IVIONTHWITH 21 PAYS JUMP al 'ailE DALEliDla OP 1114EVEN DAYS Ili 1682, 913 eniaeil 'glob nreoestant temearliase, AeCei.:3,14r0041IZilleili4x0e14erirefiiet":4)344."111444911 Did yoe ever hem. ot the famous sheet meal]. of Oetober, 8111011 baa only twenty-one (Wee aortae three %tare les ago, in Southern Eterope, men triea to cerreet 411 error that hed been grow- ing centineelly for more thee a thou. sane yeare, and the result was that they celled the day peter ()etcher 4, 102, October 15., inetead of Catcher 5, Ties roots of the error rue back into the darkness of prebistoric tame; foe et the dawn of history men are found using three waits or measures of time; two of these ere aependent on tee sun'e apparent motion, the Y.3aT arid the clear, or group of seven days; the other IS de- pendent ori the moon, the tuner month, Now, as these three units bore no com- mon Pleasure, we eau see that it woula he 'impossible to fix anniversaries by combining all of the units; yet this possible thing is what the Eurepean world has been trying to do for nearly twenty centuries, Other people have treated the problem in a similar way; thus the ancient Egyptians tollowed a purely solar yeur of 365 days; so every four years its commencement fell one day earlier with respeet,to the seasons, and in the course of 1400 years any as- tronomical event, as the vernal equinox or the longest day, would have happened on. each day of the year from December 31 backward to January 1. The modera Mobaanmedan year, on the other bend, is regulated solely by the moon.. ORIGIN OTP OUR CAI,ENDAR. T11080 met sweep the twist a China at Least TWICO Every Venn Twice a year -at each ecminox-the famous tides of the Tsien-Tang river, that flows from the borders of Wanted, ruhkien, and Chekiang to Hang Chow bay, attain their greatest height, and a bore of sometimes over forty feet M height sweeps irresistibly up its shallow and funnel -shaped estuery, often producing tremendous havoc to the surrounding eountry-hence the name, " money -dyke," from the amount expended. in successive thiethries on its embankment. It is seen at its best at Hang thaw, theeprefeetural City not far from its mouth. Twelve or fourteen minutes before it is visible a dull, distant roar is heard, moinentarily swelling, until that wall of tauddy water, tall as the bulwark of the biggest liner, as over- whelming as a glaeier, sweeps into " Yes! If any one had told rae you would so treat me, I should—should —" It is this supreme moment she chooses to burst out crying; and she cries heartily (by which I mem that she eves way to geeef of the most odic - went and. agonized desoription) Air, at least five minutes, without a cessation, reeking her lament openly, and in a carefully unreserved fashion, intended to radars his heart to water. And not in vain is her "weak endeavor." Sir James, when the first sob falls upon his ear, turns from her, and, as tbough unable th endure the sound, de- liberately walks away frora her clown the garden path. 1Vhen he gets (mite th the mid of it, however, and. knows the next turn. will hide him from sight of her tears or sound of her woes, he hesitatea, then is lost, and finally coming baok again to weere she is standing, hidden ter a cambric hanclkerehief, lays his hand up- on hex arm, At his touth her sobs W- oman. Don't do that!" he says, so rough- ly that she knows his heart is bleed- ing, "Do you hear me, Clarisea t Stop, prying I It isn't doing you anY good, and th is driving me mad. What has happened? -what is making you so un - 318999 ?" • "leu. ara" says Miss Peyton, with a final sob, and it whole twiny° of re- proach in her voice. " Anything so un- kind I never knew. And lust when had come all the way over here to tell you. what would tell nobody else ex- cept papa 1 There was a tinae, elm," (with a soft„ but upbraidieg glanee), " vvhen you would have beed sweet Mal •kind and, good to me on an Masi= like this. areletale that bv OW= are to pealed ine certain dees, Feyeant of rena ea netee, * the et caerteent of Majority, or 88919+41031 of epprentithe eiliee, 7 7 7 811811 31013 be accelerut- oU Perene, * If eerverita' wege$ axe eel:taint pale et tee queeter daye, eleven tattye' wages mey be dedlided one ea lietherat (Maxtor, Ana the 80, 0190317539 103' Ibe faun go 709018919 ona atieh *Were scene oe M =ete peevieiens et the pet. Xtwill be reed- ily believed that rgeorant people could, kot onderstand, thee and we are told 01 011101?6 11169914119 terough ihe land,orye beet Give us pack our eleven days" Stilee gale tnne tliere Las been lace caange ip tbe celenclar, but tee neea of euirorelite" ainong peoples in censtant ietercoorse bee led to tee batrediretleo In the ernited states arid Canada ea what ie celledeteedard dine 0111' 80' IneMbeatee Of this eo remelt etange Mee judge somewhat tbe immedittee re - !exits bete, for convenience and confus- ion, of that famous change 18121031 (1900- p01 ten clays erom the month of Octo- per, 1582, THEM HARDEST CAMPAIGN, Tee nritleli Artaty4 Worxt experience 33'00 - I3 the artifice. In tbe early part of the winthr thee battalions in the front were gePerally on dile), two nights out of three, and later eveey elternate writes We get our ideas and prinoiples re- garding tbe calendar from two sources, Roinan and Jewish. Every one knows that the names of the month are Latin and in the histories we read how various 11061411 rulers °hawed the dis- tribution ot days within the month, ete., to suit their•pride or political sclaemes, much as =Tern politicians hasten or postpone a Convention, a.nd brought things into great confusion until Julius Caesar decreed that the coming year should consist of 365 days, and every fourth year of 366. The extra day was to be baserted between the 2418 and 25th of February. Xn their way ot number- ing the days of the month, welch seems to neap awkwardthe 2418 was sexto cal - endue or the sixth day before the ealen- das of March. When the extra day VMS inserted it was called the second sixth, or, in Latin, bis eexto ealendas, whence our word bissextile. From. Jewish sources no get other features. The great Jewish festival of the Passover was celebrated on the very dee of the first full moon after the spring equinox; the early Christians. or niany of them, took the same daybut this led to charges of heresy, to discus- sion, criticism and even contempt; so it was decreed, probably by Constantine the Great, in A.D. 32o, 10 connection with the Council of Nicaea, that the Christian festival, Easter, Should be observed on the Sunday following the Passover, and the other movable feasts of the Church were laade dependent on this. So the element of a fixed day of the week was brought into the calcula- tion in addition to the movements of the sun and moon. sight round the bend a mile away. Not a boat is to be seen on the lately crowded river; all are hauled up on the huge embankment, and moored fore and aft with a dozen rattan cables, for none but ocean-going steam- ers could stem the current, and even they would need skillful navigation. As the eagre nears the roar becomes deafen- ing as a sterna at sea, drowning the ex- cited shouts of the thousands who line the walls, until finally it foams past in turbid majesty, hurrying toward the heart of China. Tbe Chinese annals tell how, a thou- sand years ago, Prince Wu 8118 made 500 "daring" archers shoot half a dozen arrows each at the advancing flood, and then, after praying to Wu Tsz-si (tbe tutelary deity of the stream and origin- ally an upright Minister, whim body was cast into the river after Wu had coral:tatte(1 suicide), teat tbe key at the dike water gate into an envelope and threw, it into the stream, whereupon the waters retired!. But as by that they would have flowed bark in any ease even the Chinese did not regard the experiment as very miraculous. A onple of hundred years later the Emperor San Teens had ten iron plates, each weighing about 150 pounds, sunk in the river by way of propitiating the spirits, but tbe water promptly carried away both charms and embank- ments. Only last century a Hang - Chow tea merchant leaped. tnto the river, like another Marcus Curtius, to avert the annual disaster. She naoyes a step nearer to him, and lays her hatd-the 11131310, watin, puls- ing hand he lovee SO paseionately-upa 011 hie arra. Her, glance is half offend- ed, half beseeching: Serope's etreegth of will gives way, and, itetapherically speaking, he lays himeelf at her feet. 'If 9 Ire been uncivil to 'you, fa - glee me,' he sage, taking her hand from his arm, and holding. it closely in hie own, ' You, do not know you cannot enderstate; and I Dm glad yeti do nob. Be happy I There la no stib- stitnbsal why yoe. abeille na trace from life everY tweet it can af- ford: you ate youts, the werld. is be- fore yo 811(1 and the 1070 _ °eat desire is Yours. DrY YOST eyes, Wises,: Mir tears pierce my heart," The Divine Lullaby. I hear Thy voice, clear Lord, I hear it by the stormy sea, Wean wurter nights are blaek and wild, And when affright, I call to thee; It calms my fears end whispers me, " Sleep well, my child." I hear Thy, voice, dear Lord, le singing Winds and falling snow, The curlew chimes, the manight bell, " Sleep well, my child," it murmurs low; "9130 euarclian angels come and go - 0 child, sleep evetl." I hear Thy voice, deer Lord, Aye, though the singing winds be Though hushed the tumult oe the deep, My fainting heart witla anguish chilled By Thy assuring tone is thrilled- " Fear not, and sleep'!" Speak one -speak on, dear porde And when the last dread night is near, With doubts and fears and terrors Oh, let my soul expiring hear Only eliese worcle of heavenly cheer, • "Sleep well, tny child!" a -Eugene Field. importance of Vaeeiration. The journal of needielne and Sci- enee calls the attention a opponente of vaccination te Italy, where it is only sporadically ectrried out, and where, in consequence, outbursts of smallpox aro frequent, well° blindness from emall- pox, whieb is neatly eta/teed out in England, ttiil has many vidiras in Xtaly. atdelYfile WevaTLt1us spleifnet ;Theof inea the rallk: Were inuetereil carrying great coat and. blanket jut before dusk, and marched through a 800- .9 naud into the trenches. - These were out up hy deep holes from. which bowlders and stones had been. taken, and into theee lades on dark: nights the men ofthn fell. When the: soldier reached:Ms position he had tee sie svith his back to the parapet and hie feet drawn close up under his body t0. allow others to pass aloug the 8 -foot - 18.3(10 trench. If he was not detentei for a working party, nor for a plekee io tlace trenches or in advance of tbem, he' might lie down, resting as best he could, in a wet ditch. * * * Tee relief a . the sentries could snatch a dog's slee9. for four hours out of six, hoping their comrades would, by remaining on the - alert, give them time to jump na ere' the enemy was on them; but for the two hohrs that each man was out near the enemy, the strain on the nervous. SYStem would have been great even to O robust„ well-fed man. These sentries. had necessarily to atand absolutely still, silent and watchful, and as the sever- ity of the wintet became more and wore marked, numbers of men whose frames 13.11 a81 17 I 'efiirleVOsel le a!bkfieeOneDeednd 1 VE de bound inttlasedellusornt! UNABLE TO MOVE. "One bettalion which lauded nearly 900 strong early in November MS aCt11- a11y in the trenehesonx nights out of seven, and then became so reduced, not only in 313112217098, but also ia the men's. bodily strength, that it was unable for some time to go there again. • * "` When the soldier get back to camp, he used to lie often in a puddle which chilled his bones, under a wornout tent,, through which the rain beat. The less robust would fall asleep completely worn out, to awake shivering, and i13, many cases to be carried to a hospital tent, scarcely more comfortable than the tent which they had left, and thence to a grave in two or three days. Those who were stronger went out to collect roots of brushwood, or of vines, and, roasted the green coffee ration in thee tin of tbe centeen, afterward, as already desoribed, pounding it in a. 18e903e013 of' shell with a stone, ere they boiled it for use. Others, unequal to this laborious, process, seemed drink their rum, and,. eating a piece °fee' cuit, lie down again. in the great coat and blanket whicb. they bad brought, often wet through. from the'treftelies.e .--,, ,_ • e le the afternoon 'thereefdier was sent on 'fatigue' duty from eve to seven miles, according to the position of hie camp, usually to Balaklava, to bring up rations. On his return ho had again to gather Mel, in order to boil the salt beet or salt pork in his mess tin, which did not hold water enough to abstract the salt. A portion of the meat, there- fore, only tva.s consuxned, and it was necessary from time to time to tell off men to bury the quantities thrown away. Salt pork, which was issued two days out of seven, NVaS frequeutly eaten by tbe men in its RAW STATE from the ail -Dimities of feeding fuel to cook it. " Shortly before dark the eoldiex either marched back to the trenches or laid down to sleep if he NVSS not on . Waist in front of the camp. Meny men disliking to repert themselves sick, were carried back frora the trenches in the morning, and died e few Louts afterward. Those who reported sick were taken to the hospitel, in many eases nearly a bell tent; here the mere lay, often in mud, on the ground, and in many instanc.es their diet was only salt meat mad Wedeln They were, moreover, so orowded together that the doctors could searcely lease between the 'patients.' As 18.6 had no ambulances, end the lereneh could not always lend. us mule -litter transport, many were nee cesserily carried on cia,valry horses, sylaida, slipping • on the hill outside of Bithiklava, often caused further injury Drtheag: more thhaannthoepeten oilltion, ea I was returning from. )3alitklava, I nest to party a sick, mainly frost-bitten, rid- ing cavalry hotses, the troopers leading them and holding the men on e but the ground was often covered with snow ' and very alippary, and ml the hill above Eadikm I once saw every man dashed to the ground from the horses slipping - awl falling on the hillside. Later tbe sick who were utimble to hold on were fastened into the sad.dles, infd !Some died on the journey." THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR. In this year, 825, tbe vernat equinox fell on March 21, and if Caesar's work in establishing the Julian calendar had only been correct, this event would have happened on this date forever. But nature seems to abhor simple ratios aarauch as she was said to do a vacuum 'Unfortunately for simplicity the year is not exactly 05 days 6 hours, but about 11 minutes 14 seconds less; so the inser- tion, of the extre day in four years was overdoing the correction, as was known even in the dark ages,' but after the revival of learnino and the 'establish- ment of observatories it was commeated on in the Council of Trent. and was very much discusse(1 by the mathemati- cians. And by tbe middle of the dx- teenth century the hundreds of small errors had accumulated to ten days, so the vernal equinox fell, not on the 21st, but on the 111213 of Mareh. This was the condition 01 tbings when in 1572 Pope Gregory XIII. was elected. He realized the glory that it woul& be to his regin If this confusing matter were settled, and ao set a company of mathematicians to wark out the prob- lem, not only of rectifying the old er- rors, bilk of providing rules to prevent errors in the future. The herdest part of the work WEIS to fix the movable Church- feasts without doing violence to the traditions; that a goo0 deal could be sail, about the work is evidenced by the book of 800 pages written by (Ra- vine, one of the company. The result was that in 1581 a papal bull was issued, declaring among ether things, that in 1858 the day Wowing Ootober 4 should be called October 15, and that centuries ahould not be leap years unless divisible by 400. Rulere and Stetes that were then Catholics responded to tbe Pope's re- quest for ateeptance of the reform ; in France the ten dive were dropped after December 9, 1582; in Catholic Germany the change 19/15 made in 1584, but the Protestant States delayed until Febru- ary 19 (Match 1,) 1800; in Switzer- land and Poland there was such resis- tance made that the troops were neces- sary to suppress it. ,In Russia the thange has not yet been made, and as tee Julian calendar called for leap yeses in 1700 and 1800, when the Gre- gorian did not, the dates 89 the Rus- sians are twelve days beland those a the rest of Europe. 91 ahrietmas 1311(13 11 bridge, bell break ; if he finds eaont, he'll Make one. ENGLAND'S LATE ACCEPTANCE. The oliange was long, delayed in Pro- testant England, which would not willingly accept an alleged reform due to a. Pope that bad encoureged the Artnada. But the need of the uniform- ity among neighboring States was too great, and in 1.751 Lord Chesterfield in- troduced in Parliambet it bill for the retorm of the caleeder. Some details of the law may be quote(1 from a maga- sine a September, 1752; "September le -This day the Gregorian style took place in all Europe, Asia, Africa and America. This day had not this act passed, would have been the 30. of Sep- tember, but it era,s 11018 reckoned the 141311, elevet nominal days being omitted. Beery fourth year will be bissextile, or leap year, until 1800, 18111013 will be a common year a395 days, but 1804 well be a leap year. Easter ahd the mov- able feaste thereon depending are to be racketed eccordirig to-tbe new tables prefixed to the aot of. Parliament, All the elated ieast days * * 0 are tithe kept on the same nominal day as hereto. fore, Court% lairs eta, appointed for fixed times aro to be held on tbe thane natural days -that is, eleven claye later in date. * * Similarly with Printing a Mohammedan Book. The Imperial printing office, says the Leaiesvefntla.e• liSsalh'ail" bd,Boiuhsbaursi.3aPrwionit•kingsvhegb, the laluesulnaans consider as the Most, sacred work after the laoran. This work, which is regarded With ao meth, reverence throughout Mame contains over 7000 haclis, or mamma precepts and sentences of the Prophet, trans- mittea by tradition, and which have been collected by Ismael Emhartone of the most celebrated MIMS of 'Islam, who lived about the middle of the third withal of the Hegira, The longest Wagon bridge in the world ts sittieted 112 GalveSton, 9e. It is more that three milee long, and spans Galveston bay, from north to south, It Is built mainly of wood and bee otte draw. It is also one ot the widest,. if not the eviaest, bridge.% 18Ainerma, allowing the passage of three vehiciol at one time,