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The Exeter Times, 1888-4-26, Page 4FATIfEit, arit OrrertmeTTewat CHAPTER XXVI.--(ColiTiauzn.) "Miss Nugent says that you set eveTY- thing right that yen do but look at, Mr. DuttOil," she Bald ; "so we are prepared to receive you as good geniui to help its oub of ear tangle,' M. Dutton was afratel that the tangle was far peat unwindiug, and, of course, the details, fat) far as yet itnowe, Were discussed. There wits, in treth, nothing, for whioh Mark could be blamed. Re had diligeittly attended. to his office -work, whit% was mere routine, and, conscious of his own inexperi. mace, and trueting to the senior partners, he had only, beccene anxious at the end of the yeaniewhen he perceived Goodenough's avoidancd, of a, settlement of accounts, and detected shetlilinm He had not understood cinough of the previous bueiness to be aware of the deterioration of the meatier of dealing with it, thongh he did think it scarcely what he expected. If he had erred, it was in eating too much as a wheel in the ma- chinery, keeping his thougbts and, heart in his own happy little home, and not throw- ing himself into the spirit of the business, or the ways of those coneerned in it, so that he had been in no degree n controlling power. He had allowed his quality of gen- tleman to keep him an outsider, insteect of using it to raise tbe general level of the transactions, so that the whole had gone down in the hands of the unscrupulous Goods° =ough Isesatinapie listened 4pd knitted quietly while the affairs were explained on either hand. Mark had had. oae serioue talk with George Greenleaf, and both had had a stormy scene with. Goodenough, Then Mr. Dutton had telegraphed his arrival, and Greenleaf had. met him in London with hopes, bred of long and implieit truse, that his sagacity and perhaps hia weelth would carry the old house through the crisis. But Mr. Dutton, though reserving his judgment till the hooka should have been thoroughly exeanined and the liabilities completely understood, was evidently in- clined to believe that things had gone too far, and that the names of Greenleaf aud Egremont . could only be preserved from actual diehonour by going into liquidation, dissolving partnership, and thus getting anit of Goodenough. Mark listened resignedly, Annapie with an intelligence that made Mr. Dutton think her the more clearheaded of the two, though still she could not refrain for her little jokes. "I'm sure I should not mind how liquid he became if we could only run off clear of Goodenough," she said. "You know what it means 2" said her husband. "Ob yes, I know what it means. It is the fine word for being sold up. Well, Mark:a-Sever mind, we are young and strong, and it will not be a bit the worse for the Billy -boy in the end to begin eM the bottom of everything." "1 hope—may I ask—is everything em- barked in the poor old firm ?" said Mr. Dutton with some hesitation, "Ail that is mine," said Mark, with his eat& on the table and his chin on his hand. sa'But I've got a hundred a year, charged on poor old Ronnisglen's estate," said An- naple. "Ail the others gave theirs up when they married, and I wanted to do so, but my dear mother would not let me; she said I had better try how 1 got on first, Think of that, Mark, a hundred a year Why, old Gunner or Thorpe would think them- , at selves rolling in riches if they only heard that they had a hundred a year 1" "Yon won't find it go far!" "Yes, I shall, for I shall mates you lire on porridge, with now and then a sheep's head for a treat! Besides, there will be something to do. It will be working up again, you know. 13n0 seriously, Mr. Dut- ton, I have some things here of my dear mother's that really belonv to Ronnisglen, arid I was only keeping till he comes home. Should not they be got out of the way ?" "My dear, we are not come to that yet! I hope it may be averted 1" cried Mark. But Mr. Datton agreed with the young wife that it would be much better to send , these things away before their going could excite suspicion. There was only a tiny silver saucepan, valued as a gift of " Queen" Clementine, to an ancestress, also a silver tea- pot and some old point, and eomenotvery val- uable jewellery, all well able to go into a smallbox, which Mr. Dutton undertook to de- posit with Lord Ronnisglenei bankers. He was struck with the scrupulous veracity with which Annaple decided between what had become her own property and the heir- looms, though what she claimed might, pro- bs,bly be sacrificed to the creditors. Mark could. hardly endure to see what made the crisis so tenthly real. "That I should have brought you to this 1" he said to his wife, when their visitor bad at length bidden them good -night. "If we begin at that work," said Annamle, "10 was I who brought you? I have often thought since it was rather selfish not to have consented to your helping poor Ursula with her heavy handful of a father 30 was all money grubbing and grabbing, and if we had thought more of our neighbeur than ourselves we mie.ht have been luxur- iating at the Home Farm, or even if your uncle had quarrelled with you, he would not have devoured your substance. I have thought, So often, ever since I began to see taus coming. "My dear child, you den't mean that you have seen thse commg I "My prophetic Emil 1 Why, Mark, you have an good as inferred it over and over again. live felt like scratching that Bade- nough whenever 1 /net hiin in the street. I inuet indulge myeelf by calling him so for owe In strict privacy.' "You have &greeted it all the time, while I only thought how unconecious you were." "Not to say stupid, considering all you told me. Besides, what would have been the Use of howling and moaning e,nd being disrital before the time? Fot my part, I calla clap ray hands even now at vetting rid of Goodenough, and his jaunty, gracious air! Come Mark, 10 vron't be so had after all, you'll see." "Nothing cam be 'so bed' white you are what you aretmyllan." " That'e right. While we have each other and the Billy -boy nothing matters Thereal plenty of work in UP both. and that cod man will find it for its I or, if he doesn't, we'll get a yellow van and knit stockings and eel' them round the country, How jolly that would be 1 Imagine Janet's fate. There, thetas rigist," as lice mitrlicry evoked a ensilm "1 ehould be ashamed to be unhappy about tide, when our good name is mated and When there le a blueing on the mem') she added in a lower voice, tenderly basing her husbanclai weaty bier*. CA.A.PIER astir Stott 010 irenuistoivr, "Ana the boy that Vvaliced beside 100, Ile cenid tot understand Why, Olbeer in mine, ttla, closer, I prefie'd bis warner sof 6, Intad,."-1,0aOrstOMV The agony of a firm like Greenleaf, Good, enough and Co. pork' not be a rapid tdrieg, and. Xr. Dutton lived between Lention end Mieltlethwayte, (ex* several weeks having much to endure on all, sides, Trie sealer partners thought it au alinest and decidedly eegrateful thing in hini not to throw in ).is means, rtr at any rate, offer his guarantee to tide them over their difiii °tables. Goodenough's tergiversations and concealments needed a praetised hand and &mite head te unravel them, and often de - coined Mr,• Greenleaf himeelf i arid when, for a time, he was conviimed that the whole state was so rotten that a crash was in evitable, his wife's lemeatatiene and coin. plaiets of M. InItton amid undo the wlaole, and it was as if he were doing thein an injery that the pair accepted the com- fortable prospeet he was able to offer them in Australia. Re would have made the like proposal to the Egremonts,but found that Mark held himself bound by hiepromise to his father not to emi- grete,a,na thoughtof tome kind of office -work. Before trying to procure this for him, how- ever, Mw Dutton intended to see his uncle, and try whether the agency, once rejected, could. till he obtained for him. Learning from Miss Nugent that the Egremonts were in town, he went up thither with the pur. pose ef asking for an interview. There was e new church in the immediate neighborhood of his house in it state of growtle and development congeniel to the St. Ambrose trained mind, and here Mr. Dutton, after old Mieklethwayte oilstone, was attending the early matins, when, in the alternate verses oa the psalm, he heard. a fresh young voice that seemed to renew those dap gone by, and looking across the central aiele his eyes met a pair of dark ones which game a sudden glitter of gladness at the encounter. That was all he saw or cared to see. He did not take in the finished completeness of the very plain dark- dress and. hat, nor the womanly alt of the Retie figure ,until they clasped hands in the porch, and in the old tones Nutte exeltumed "I've been hoping you would come to Lon. don. How is Monsieur ?" "Da high health, thank you, the darling of the steamer both going an coming. I hope your charges are well?" " My father is tolerable, just as usual, and my little Alwyn is getting more delic- ious eatery day. He will. be so delighted to see Monsieur. I have told him so many stories about him!" "Do you think I may call on Mr. Egre- mont ?" "Oh do He is ready to be called on between two and three and we always have Wynale downstairs then, so that you will seriatim too. A nd you have been at Mickleth- wayte. I am afraid you found a great change in Aunt Ursel." "Yes ; but she is very peaceful and happy." " And 1 have to leave her altogether to dear excellent Miss Nugent. lt seems very, very wrone, but I cannot help it! And•how about Mark and Anna le 7" "1 think she is the bravest woman I ever met "Then tbiogs are really going badlyawith the dear old firna ?" "1 am hoping to talk to Mr. Egremont about it." "Ah 1" Nuttie paused. Towards Mr. Dutton she always had a stronger impulse of confidence than towards any one else she had ever met; but she felt that he might think it un- becoming to say that she had perceived a certain dislike on her father's part towards Mark ever since the rejection of the agency and the marriage which perhaps was regard- ed:as a rejection of herself. He had a habit of dependence on Mark, which resulted in personal liking, when in actual contact, but in absence the distaste and offence always revived, fostered, no doubt, by Gregorio; and Canon Egremont's death had broken the link which had brought them together. However, for his brother's mike, and for the sake of the name, the head of the family might be willing to do something. It was one nf Nuttie's difficulties that she never coal i calculate on the way her father would take any matter. Whether for better or for worse, ho always seemed to decide in diametrical opposition to her expectation. And, as she was certainly less impetuous and more dutiful, she parted with Mr. Dutton at her own door without any such hint. These three years had been discipline eueh as the tenderest, wisest band could not have given her, though it had been iesensi- ble. She had been obliged to attend to her father and wateh over her little brother, and though neither task had seemed con- genial to her disposition, the honest endea- vor to do them rightly had produced the affection born of solicitude towerds her father, and the strong warm tenderness of the true mother -sister towardslittle Alwyn. Ursula Itgremont was one of those natures to which responsibility is the best training. If she had had any one to guard or restrain bei', she might have gone to the utmost limits before she yielded to the curb. .As 10 was, she had to take care of herself, to bear and forbear with her father, to walk warily with her household, and to be very guarded. with the society into which she was thrown from time to time. It was no sudden ehange, but one brought about by experience. An outbreak of impatience or temper towards her father was sure to be followed by his galling sneer, or by some mortification to her desires; any act of mis- management towards the servants brought its own punishment; a,nd if she was tempt- ed by girlish spirits to relax the quiet, stiff courteey winch she observed towards her father's guests, there followed jests, or semi - patronage, or a tone of conversation that offended her, and made her repent it. Hap- pily, Mr. Egremont did not wish her to be otherwise. One day, when she had beea betreyed into rattling and giggling, he spoke to her afterwards with a cutting irony which bitterly angered her at the moment, and which she never forgot. Each irksome duty, each privation, each disappointment, each recurrence of the sweeping sense of desolo. laden and loneliness had had one effect—it had sent her to her knees. She had no one else to go to. She turned to her Father in heaven. Sometinaes indeed, 11 was in mur- muring and complaint at her lot, but still it Iwan to Him and Him alone, and repentauee sooner or later came to aid her, while re- , freahments sprang up around her --little successes, small anbievemeets, pleaaant hours, tokens thee tier father was pleased or satisfied, and above all, the growing chat= of little Alwyn. The speoialgrievance, Gregorioie infigenec, had ecarcely dwelt oa her at &et as it ha cl dorm on her mother. The men had beeia . very cauticee for tome tiinoi knowing that his coutinuroce 00 his situetion was in the utmost jeopeady, and Mr, Egremott had, in the freehness of his grief for his wife, abetsited froat relapsing into the habit from which elle had wealsed him, When, however, the Canon was dead, aud his SOP at • distatce, Grettorio began to fool mere mute, and in the realm sorrow of his mac - ter over the blow that had takon avow en o ly lattither, he adrnitiitieweilsoothitig drugs tin er another wile, ao that 'Ursula% na her itexpetienee, aid not detest What was going ana i3tin bodet that the habit had been renounced, 411 she did know Was thet it entirely Useless for her to attempt to Oz. ert any authority over the Yalet, auti that the enlY way to escarp° insolently polite ale- obeclieecie wart to let him alone. Moreover, plans to whielt Ler father had agreed, when, 'noodled by her, had often been overthrown after his valet had 'teen with him, It was a life full of mire and diseppointueenb, yet there was a certain .pring of ttust that kept Ursula's youth from being dimmed, and enelided her to get a fair share of happn, ness oub of it, though she was very sorry not to be more at Bridgeport, where she could haveworked with all her heart with May Condamine. Moreover, Lady Kirkaltly's absence from London was a great loss to her, for there was no one who was BO hind or so available in taking her into society'and Nuttie, though mistress ef her fatheraihousei was pot yet twenty-two, and strongly felt that she must keep within careful bounds, and xxotattempt to be her own 0 haperon. (To ar, CONTINUED.) Women as Rulers of Men. History does not encourage us to consign the State to female rule. England owes one civil war to the temper of Margaret of An- ion, and another to that of Henrietta Maria. Mary was an impersonation of liability to clerical inficienoe. Anne overturned not only a Ministry, but the polley of the country, and robbed the nation of the fruits of its vim taxies to gratify the spleen of a favourite waiting woman. Under the results of re- cent researches the reputation of Elizabeth for statesmanship has collapsed. It was her good luck to give her name to an era of na- tional greatness, but her own political char- acter, as it now stands revealed to us, is that of a false and heartless ooquette. Her ill: treatment of her servants, such as Walsbag. haul, was not less conspicuous than her par- tiality for handsome scoundrels like Leices- ter, or dancers like Sefton. Her negdect of the national defences on the eve of the Spanieh invasion was little short of treason- able, and the nation eavesi itself in its sov- ereign's despite, Caroline, the Queen of George II., did good service by upholding Walpole but she did it in a womanly way. If we look to the history of other countries we shall find its testimony the same. In France the Regent Anne did pretty well, because she put herself into the hands of Mazarin ; but Catherine de lrleclicis end the Pompadour did far from well. Tbat female rule is not essentially favorable to peace, the exploit sof three nearly contemporary Queens, Elizabeth of Spain, Maria Tteresa of Aus- tria, and Catherine of Russia, are proofs enough. Female ambition or passion,' if it takes a warlike turn, is likely to be render- ed more dangerous by the in esponsibility of sex. Isabella of Castile is the paragon of female government; but she had Ferdinand at her side and she established the Iniquisi- tion. Mr. Mill thinks that Charles V. show- ed ftis high appreciation of female statesman- ship by setting women of his family to gov- ern the Netherlands; but Charles had no men of his family available for the appoint- ment, and the result of these female re- gencies, though little of the blame may be due to the regents, cau scarcely be said to have set the seel of success upon the experi- ment. It is childish to talk of the good government of kings or queens who reign but do not govern. Rats .Among Friction Matches. Fire Marshal Whitcomb, of Boston, re- cently made a test for the purpose of learn- ing whether rats could and would start a fire by gnawing matches. Three large rats were placed in a wire cage cents inine a bunch of matches. The first night four fires were set by the rats and others were caused during folloVring days. Examination of the matches showed that only the phosphorus ends were gnawed, and that some of them were car- ried some distance from the original bunch. The rats had plenty of good food, but ate the matches as though they liked them wen. The fire marshal is quite certain now that rats carry matches into their holes, and there gnaw them, and that many a conflagra- tion thus originates.—[New York Sun. Ase An .E.xpensive Army. Do you know that there are about eighty thousand commercial travellers in the Unit- ed States? Surprised to here ? Yes most people are When they are told of it; lint it's a fact, nevertheless. You may also be sur- prised to learn that each one of them spends on an average $3,000 a year or a total of $240,000,000. lf you add to this their salar- ies, averaging itt the least $1,000, you have a total expenditure by commercial travellers of $320,000,0a0 a year. This is naturally spent in all parts of the country; but the hotels and railroads get the lion's share of it. During the last ten years there has been a great change in the character of the commercial traveller. The old Bohemian type has almost entirely disappeared from the road, and drinking men are much more rarely met witla there than formerly. A Romantic Career. The life and adventures of Thomas Des malknes, a miserably clad man, who was sentenced by a London magistrate yesterday to tw-c, months' hard labor for fraud, should furnish interesting material to novelists. He belonged to a gooci family e.trd was edu- cated as a surgeon, in which capeeity he en- tered the Bombay medical staff corps. He was dismissed for bad conduct, and enlisted in the Bombay Horse Artillery, from which he was expelted with ignominy for theft, after undergoing a term of imprisonment. Thomas then became a fakir, or religious mendicant, and roved all over India in dis- guise. Getting tired of this,he turned Euro- pean again, passed some time in a work house, worked on railroads, became a con. stable on the Calcutta police force, then druggist's assistant, parson, missionary and professional ewindler. A Fair Arrangement. Husband (at dineer)---" Yes, my dear, we've got to (hie) begin to economize." Wife—" I think so too John, and I will rriake an agreement witlyou. I will get along with one pair of gloves each month if you will promise to ride home every night from your cfiiise." • ‘43foroy," wr w. n. maverrs. 1 sew a beton ef iteet break Mkrough the cloud and threw its hols radiaime on the orowd, Aud 31110 up s peer sorrowing, soul, And made him Seel a newer, brighter whole; pent him on anew with Joy evened To. reach through "Mercy's" beam the distant geal I saws ray of lope peer though the 0,115,0, That did a wandering gazar'it mind enlist To know its matting', Yea, to understand That ray of hope breeking over the land Ole learot :rem it of wrong he should resiee If he hoped, or ‘thferey" at the mestere band. saw a gleam of truth, it pierced up through The portals of the ageds.aet, in view i 10 flashed into my soul and tole Inc ; That I must be ever ready at the call Of Bina, Who bids us forward to pursue LTato the goal through tender •.idercy's " Han. I saw a spark of We come from the dead That filled my heart with joy—made the whole Me To see the dead once more erectly stand A:living spirit by the Lord's command ; It made rae fear no longer death, its dread, For "Mercy' took me kincny by the hand. The Month of Spring, sr Wm, 8.JANE.s. Winter's rimy frost has eons, Snows no longer bleach the field; Gladsome Springtime flecks the lawn Thick with violets blue, that yield Winsome scents that obarm the air, Spreading frsglance everywlaere, Hurricanes no more do blow, For gruff March has vanished; Zephyrs now waft to and to Fertile ram, far banished IS tise torpor of the flowers By the warmth of April showers. Mating birds now build their net, Sprouting trees put forth thew leaves; Busy ants the grass infest, seriegs the wheat to grow to sheaves. Hail this harbinger of Spring, Every conscious, living thing Thins are moving even in India. A ebort time ago there was a fancy fitir at Bombay, at whica the Duchess of Connaught ad. Lady Reay held stalls and sold to all cotnersi The sale was for the Ortma Female litoepital, Bnt the tyranny of caste for- bade any llindoo or Mohaiemedan ladies s. froni assuming simileir positions or even ' making their appearance at the fair at all, What Was be/ be tame? On a patticular day between 10 kta 3 theme oppressed unfortte teems were permitted to come end see after a all meseulitie beings had been turned °tit of the building, The poor things ran about , and enjoyed. themeelves Wonderfully, But a gad filet irt iteeo ot the tate Of things Wheri Wien this libtIe freedom was an innova- tion. coneeded by the momealiee brutee bet , With releetanee, Bring Another to Jesus. BY JODI( intim, Tastotos. "And he brought him to Jesus."— Jan 4, 42. First give thyself to Jesus Then briog your nearest friend, He beelcons to reoeive us. And loves us to the and; Thus shall we haste the coming Of our dear absent Lord, His love our souls consuming Shisll magnify His Word. Then still bring more to Jesus As jewels for His crown, The world will soon believe us And lay its tribute down, Exchanging doubt and sadness For Jesus' loving glance, Our hearts shall sing with gladness To Bee His cause advaace. Then tell the love of Jesus O'er all the earth around, No other hope could cheer us, No other help be found; The One whom Satau feareth Shall come in power again, When that glad day uppeareth Our Lord and King shall reign I The Sin of Omission, BY MAIM:MKT Z. SANGSTER. It isn't the thiog you do, dear, It's the thing you leave undone Which gives you a bit of heartache Al the setting of the sun. The teuder word forgotten, The letter you did not write. The flower you might have sent, dear, Are your haunting ghosts to -night. The stone you might have lifted Out of a brother's way, The bit of heartsome counsel You were hurried too much to say, The loving touch of the hand, dear, The gentle and winsome tone That you had no time nor thought for, With troubles enough of your own. These little acts of kindness, So easily out of mind, These chances to be angels Which even mortals find— They come In, night and eilence, Etch chill, reproachful wraith, When hope is faint ant flagging And a blight hae dropped oa For life is all too short, dear, And sorrow is all too great To suffer our slow compassion Toss tarries until too late ; And it's not the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you leave undone, Which gives you the bitter heartache At the setting of the sun. Beautiful Plata. Sash beautiful, beautiful hands, They're neither white nor small, An you I know would scarcely think That they were fair at all, I've leaked on hands whose form and hue A aoulptor'a dream might he, Yet are those aged wrinkled hands Most beautiful to me. Such beautifnl, leautiful hands, Tho' heart were weary and sad, These patient hands kept toiling on. That the children might be glad. I almost weep as looking back Te childhood's dist:tat day, I think how these hands rested not While mine WM at their play. Such beautiful, beautiful hands, They are growing feeble now, For time and pain have Ifft their work On hand and heart anciiirow. Alas I Alas I the nearing time, And the sad, sad day to me , When 'neath the daisies out of sight Those haccia will folded be, But oh! beyond the shadow land When all is bright and fair, I kaov; full well these dear old hands Will paluit of violory bear, When crystal streams through endless years Flow over golden sands, And when the old grow young again 1111 sp my mother's hand, The Prodigal San. 131.T, R. WILKINSON. The Prodigal son had wandered Far away inc fore7gn land; And equandemd the portion given him I3y a father's bountiful hand. Alone as the night is 'aging Aid all through the dreary' day The wind swept cold (rani the mountains, And the sky was sodden arid gray, Famishing—weary —.forsaken ; Poor Ivanderor, thy ruin's complete ; Thou fam would'st appease thy hunger With the husks the swine did eat. Where now are the ithnds that lured thee TO,SeetIOS of folly and.Vice False friends, thy wcalch had purchased, At such grievous sacrifice. Heavily the chill rain is beating On his poor defenceless head ; And none but our Ileavenly enther knew 01 the rem nbant tear$ he shed, " Ilow many servantS of nay path, r 'Have bread enough ati 1 to spare ; And lowish here of hunger In the storm and demists air." But list I Ile prays 1. r deliverance In very abandon of helpless despair; Wis sobs pierce tho night, rind eau Ileayen Iernoved by that passionate prayer 1 And a holy voice whippers "Peace I ' Thy Sing aro forgiven thee ; Wenceforth lot thy life be stainless; wise up—go forth—and be free I" And the rsin teased its dreary beating. The wind Sank to a gentle Sigh The moon icsoited torn, in ber betany, Silvering earth, ancl the deep twilit on high And bled was that by, Worn and wooly, And he rank to Natal repose; And in dreams his Spirit Wandered To the land et the Vine and the rose. And just 11,3 the Min gilt the maintains, Mit shone in glory along the bit; lie grew, and returned to his rather Ear away o'er the wide roiling Sea. And 0, there were heatts filled with rapture, When thst wayward soi wag forgiven; AnO volees bn prayer end thaeltsgivine Ascended like incerale 16 fidaVeri, 5. YOUNG k(BN WHO WE AB OftgAT, chartea James, PoX. Was in Parliament at nineteen. The great Cremwell left the University of Cernloriclge at eighteen, • Lord Barron graduated at Cambridge when sixteen, and was called to the bar at twenty-. one. Peel was in Parliament at twenty;eue, and Palmerston was Lord of the Admiralty at twenty-three. • Henry Clay was in the Senate of the United States at tWenty-srine contrary to the Constitution. John Ilarn:rton after graduating at Ox- ford, was a student at law in the Inner Temple at nineteen. G1.184W11£1 Adolphus ascended the throne at sixteen ; before he was thirty-four he was one of the great rulers of Europe. Judge Storey was at Harvard at fifteen, in Congress at tweuty-pine and Judge of the Supremo Court of the United States at thirty-two. Martin Luther had become largely dis- tinguished at twenty-four, and at fifty six had reached the topmost round of his world- wide fame. Conde conducted a memorable campaign at seventeen, and at tweaty-two he, and, Turenne also, were of the most illustrious men of their tune. Webster was in college at fifteen, gave earnest of his future before he was twenty- five, and at thirty was the peer of the ablest man in Congress. William II. Seward commenced the prac- tice of law at twenty-one, at thirty-one was president of a State convention, and at thir- ty-seven Governor of New York. Washington was a distinguished Colonel in the army at twenty-two, eatly in public affairs, commander of the forces at forty. three, and President at fifty-seven. Maurice of Saxony died at thirty-two, conceded to have been one of the profoundest statesmen and one of the ablest generals which Christendom has seen. Napoleon at tvventy-five commanded the army of Italy. At thirty he was, not only one of the most illustrious generals of all time but one of the great lawgiverof the world. At forty-six he saw Waterloo. The great Leo. X. was pope at thirty. eight, having finished his academic training, he took the office of Cardinal at eighteen -- only twelve months younger than was Charles James Fox when he entered Parlia• ment. Only one civilian out of the Presidents of this country gained his first election after he was sixty, and that one was James Buchan- an. The chance for the Presidency after sixty is small and erowing less. William Pitt entered the university at fourteen, was Chancellor of the Exchequer at twenty-two, Prime Minister at twenty- four and so continued for twenty years; and at thirty-five was the most powerful un- crowned head in Europe. From the earliest year of Queen Elizabeth to the latest of Queen Victoria, England has had scarcely an able statesman who did not leave the university by the time he was twenty, and many of them left at an earlier age. The late Lord Beasonfield left the clois- ter and entered the great world early, SA did John Bright, and commenced his politi- cal career by writing a book at seventeen, in which he predicted that he would be Prime Minister. Hamilton was in King's College at sixteen, when seventeen he made a notable address on publio affairs to the citizens ef New York; at twenty he was entrusted with a most important mission to General Gates; was in Congress at twenty-five and Secretary of the treasury at thirty-t4o. iJohn Quincy Adams at the age at four- teen was secretary to Mr. Dana, then Minis- ter to the Russian court; at thirty he was himself Minister to Prussia; at thirty-five he was Minister to Russia; at forty-eight he was Minister to England; at fifty-six he was Secretary of the State, and President at fifty-seven. There have been twenty-two President of the United States, five of whom were elected at fifty-seven, and six attained that great office before the age of fifty. Three military men, past sixty. have been elected. Two died very soon, and the other was Gen- eral Jackson, and he was but sixty-one when elected. Jonathan Edwards acquired early renown as the greatest metaphysician in America and as unsurpassed by any one in Europe. He commenced the reading of Latin when six years old. At ten he wrote a remark- able paper on the immortality of the soul. At the age of thirteen he entered Yale Col- lege, where he graduated four years later. He Took Fives "Paper, sir ?" he called as a dignified, stiff -back old gent passed the corner. No notice. "All about the fire, sir 1" No notite. "All about the war in Europe f' continued the lad as he followed along. No notice. "Alt about the scan -dal I" shouted the boy at the top of his voice. "What scandal I" exclaimed the stiff back as he halted; "you may give five copies, my son?" Adroit, " Patrick, did Mr. Brow call ?" "Ho • did, sorr. "Ansi did you give him an evasive ans- wer ?" "I dicl, sorr." "Well, what did you say ?" "J: axed him was his grandmother a monkey, sorry, A Mother's Anxiety, They were out riding. "Can you drive with one hand, Mr. Sampson?" she asked, and she asked it very sweetly. "0yes," he replied, "but I think it looks better to drive with both." "Perhaps it does," she saidi 00a cold, convinced tone of voice, and then added : "We mustn't be gone too long, Mr. Sampson, mamma wilgbe anxious." Trite to his Motto. Patient -•--"Then you think it's all up with Me, doctor ?" Doctor—" I'm afraid 80 " • Well, we must all die once, anti I may as well go now as aftervvard. You're sure I'm going ?" • Then let hie have your bill. " D.—" My hill! My dear Sir, this is very unusual, Yoe should (rite your thoughts to more serious mattere." P.—' fJy triatto hes always. been "pay as you go," and now that I am going 1 want to go he paid and went, A X841^Ealer. A very large and anolentlooking that* has been swimming abont Taboga fiay Oe cently. 10 15 known to the islanders PA generally down the bag- by its marks, awl by thoee who know it is c oiled the "Som. brera," owing to its having eaten a men of Anton some yeare ago wider peculiar dr- eurnstances. It appears schooner was sailing elewly off Anton Peint when the hat 9f oue of the crew was blown overboard,. The man jumped Into the sea to regain his hat, when he was seized by this shark, which promptly dived with its prey. Subsequent- ly, off the Morro Island, the same animal was seen to seize the brother of the Rev. Ulnas, of Tabege., while he was bathing, and to carry him nucler. No further traces, of this second victim were ever seen. The same shark is credited by the bay sailors with other deethis, hnt the. instances men- tioned are vouched foe by many. The na- tives who claim to notice it as an manna' visitor, spelt of the incidents. as a matter of island history, dating from the period when the factory of the Pacific Steam Nay, gation Company was at -the Morro, ancl when the animal first acquired notoriety by eating an Illoglishinan who attempted to, swim from a vessel then eit anchor there to another. All the fishermem have a peculiar, and it seems well-founded terror of this ani- mal, and none will dive in the vicinity of its hauet, although the water is not -over five feet in depth. In connection with this oar- niverous monster the old inhabitants of Ta- boge relate a legend, and in which they Dew pear to have perfect faith, which is worth recounting. They believe that below' the spot where he so constantly swims when on his periodical visit to Tobaga there lies a valuable coral bed, and when in that vicinity the shark believes it to be its peculiar duty to keep constent and careful guard over that treasure. One thingin connection with this peeni liar legend s, however, certain, and that is that none of the bay divers— and they are all good men, as they have proved when pearl fishing—will attempt to dive in that vicinity, and you comet per- suade any of the islanders addicted as they are to the water, to bathe in that place. This animal, we are informed, is of t00. shark species and not a marine monster of the fiat -headed type, suoh as was the last big one caught there some few years ago by an Italian man-of-war which was then at anchor off th et island. Artemus and the Bore. As Artemus Ward was once travelling ire the cars, dreading to be bored, and feeling miserable, a man approached him, sat down and said: "Did you hear the last thing ma Horace Greeley ? " Greeley? Greeley ?'' said Arteinust "Horace Greeley? Who is he ?" The man was quiet about five minutes. Pretty soon he said "George Francis Train is kicking up a. good deal of a row over in England; do yon think they will put him in a beadle ?" "Train? Tram? George Francis Train ?"' said Artemus, solemnly, "1 never heard of him." This ignorance kept the man quiet for fifteen minutes ; then he said: "What do you think about General Grant's chances for the Presidency? Do you think they will run him ? ' " Grant ? Grant? Hang it, man," mid Artemus, "you appear to know more strangers than any, man I ever saw." The man was furious. He walked up the car, but at last came back and said: "You confounded ignoramus; did youi ever hear of Adam ?" Artemus looked up and said: "what was his other name ?" A Fair Settlement. Citizen—What's this, Uncles Rastus, bill of six dollars for sawing a cord of woo? Uncle Rastus—Yes, Bah ; three days, twct dolia,hs er day. Citizen—But it doesn't take you three days to saw one cord of wood? Uncle Rastus—it do, sa,h, when I wuks by de day. Citizen—H—m. How would it do, Uncle Rastus, if I settle the bill by giving you the wood? Uncle Rastus (dubiously)—Dat wood am only truth 'bout foah dollalis, sah. Citizen—True. Well, what if I should throw in the saw and sawbuck? Uncle Rastus—I spec's dat would be 'bout right. Jes' receep de bill. Mistah Stuffs wif my name hitched onto it. I lcaint write, but, bref de Lord, I kin saw wood. An. Extension. Physician's Wife—Are your affairs in very bad shape, John? Physician—Very; but I hope to pull through. My creditors have extended my paper to the middle of the watermelon season. Didn't Work for Once, " Will you be kind enough, pa," said Bobby, in a low, well -modulated tone of voice, "to give ma another piece of pie?" "No, shed replied the old man, "you've had enough." "Ma,'said Robby, with a dubioi "you told me that politeness always pays.' "'Mabee Makes Perfect, Amateur Farmer -1 can't understand what the trouble is with that brindle cow of mine. She hag stopped giving down her milk. Old Hayseed—P'raps you don't know how to milk her. Amateur --Well, I ought to know how by - this time. I've milked that cow half a dozen, times a day for a month. Out For the First Time. "An' how's your husband, Mrs. Maloney ? All tbe long while that I've been away , 1 I've not heard a worrud about him." "Sure he wint out the first time to -day In the months, for he's been very bad." "Is diet so?" "Faith itis, Mrs. Ryan An' an litigant funeral he had." Innocence Imposed Upon, Caller (to Bobby, in his first trousers)— " Those are nice trousers, Bobby, for a little boy." Bobby (proudly)—"They ain't boy's trolls.. ere. Ma says they are regular men's trous- ers." Cellet—ii Ate they ?" Bobby—" Yes, indeed ; they're made over from an old pair of pa's." Broken SItinbers, Dutriley—)tou don't look as if you had en- joyed a very good eightei rest, Brown. Brown—I didn't. A cracker kept me awake most of the night. Mustiest—I shouldn't think eating a crack. er would interfere seriously with your sleep. Irown—Oh, 1didn't eat the cracker. The baby. ate it fa bed.