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k`werd, a-prond rarevtell, -
nger- and repentant tears, -
A fe sounds dull like a thuftled714,elis,
()ugh weary space of years. 4 ,
. ,
0 Ugh' tongue that:idly-Bpi:arc F"-
ooliSli heart, go prond.,ta-bel_
fish lovers, who they Wake .
etCtistoalate the truth to seel-
.
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reliant. He wentaway,
ashe was-lert alone to grieve, -
miner; shane_ae sun by. dayi,
d pater rose the:Mow:tat:eve,
cetorth for -each the Sapphire sheen
eivg-Eaver in the stunther skies; ; •
gold -n tights- upon the green
- •i faded-intasombre-dyeg.
secno-or birds, Me rip:Tiling-WI
-fauntain as It rose and -Telt, .
theta alltuneless had become,
rts.r.4.gg fur hope adreerY knell.
•
.ti
SallleYparied-and' the
Or love rolled on its fai airway
Artb, stretch -edit desert plain out wide,
il•Cherein no fair
.•
Yet. oft landdid he:
• 0011 _ as she passed
afincorn ; and In her fancy she
Beheld as she saw higa,bist:
llTn til threngli„thethary beartto heart ,
Drew niii though oceara-relled between;
Timephicki!g eutlhe ranklino-dart.
•-The' lingered over *het bad been. ,-• .
xtb layinglonging for
• "ta roTalisn tongue that idly spake
Q foulisnIovers,,who 4 last •
To your olv.appalistuiess awake.
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A Story in Three Tarta,
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- VAMP!.
IRS t171t4T- Tign
Eleven years :ago, it Aye - eleven,
-,renteinbe ,-' for 'it was the - year after I got-
• It
my` first' icture_ into the Academy (I had.
only gal**, for Suffolk street and the Dad:.
: ley before), and that was.* 1860. :It was
eariy iii the spring„-,toa„ and. I wasdown, in
rrey Sketching, working. up:- backgrounds.
a fact, for a-eouple. of - pictures, both of.
which I hoped soon:- to submit to the dread
conclave. who . riile. at Burlington lionise!
There was a.-- little - inn at the Meeting - o
three - CTOSS TOadSx . SOMeWhereS betVirebri s
DorkingandSheere ; and there I put up for.
headquarter's, Making longer. or ,sharter-ex:=
eursions therefrorn according as I found the,
neighboring skies and.'" bits" propitious, or
the reverie.
I -had been.outone .day painting at a. bit
.. ,
of moorland; dark brown 'earth, dAghia here
and there with i;bit of golden. furze blow,
sore. two three tall fir trees -standing up -
to their right, . their trunks picked .out. Sharp!
ly against -a pale; far-off slr,y,_ It was for
background to_ my -Priscilla, the Puritan
Maiden, - the best bit '�f coloring -ever r
Net that, you will remember it, though;
thiktigk, it wasn't rejected either: "wish,. it
had been instead: of being "skyed," where
no one could see it, in the. darkest .oerner.-:'. of
'the' Academy„ and obligedtostick there till_
the end. of .July when Willis, :the picture,
dealier sat in my studio,and said
‘-fIlly dear fella v. if you'd shown me that
before you it ; 1 might have „offered
you three figuy or . -
As it AVaSoffer Me anything -4-
. . •
antl if you. want, to see. it .., you have only t�
leak under a_ pile Of Oki canvas inmy models
dressing room. - It would go for under three
tiures but that hasnothingto_*da_With
story.
I had been -painting for the best part �f the
as --.1. Said, making' the most of the.
sky, , a misty': opaline tint throwing up the fir
,treei wonderfully,- and *giving an improved
tone' to •the browns and_madders of the bit -a
moorland and then, a suciclar.breeze cable
Out, brightly„; the dim, -pearly Sky broke- up
into sharp whites and blues : and I packed
up my traps to gekome. The " effect " was
over for that -day at all -events 'and I wanted
a walk. There was a good bit �f afteriician..
still -before nie: I determined to take wile* -
roilte homeward, and go- through the park of
certain.nobleinan in the neighborhood;
place of Which I had often heard, though- I
had never happened to visit it before. •
-Wonderfully beautiful, too; it Was when
got: there,. which Was not forsomeI
didn't, know my way a bit, and had. an -lin?...
conquerable dislike (I have it novi)-te asking
it of other
- The land rose and 'fell„ now in sharp
ridges, thickly wooded: with deep ferny -
`clefts betEeen : now in =Loth, green rol-
lers, lik tic waves of an inland sea, dotted
over N1r.,,v- Alie beeches, and spt ofe.her sind'
. :there hij: a dark Scotch pine, .or an emeAld-
:areh in all the first glitter of its early Spring
rgarnitnre. It was a lovely scene altogether,
-ana-1.- wandered On, now . taking one path,
now another; and anon striking across the
' grass to catch S.7 nearer view of one of the
soft -eyed, slita-legged deer, or disturb a; hare.
from its bracken covert, 1 -
•at once oceurred to -me to wander
w ere -I as going .
: -
wascomingdownoneof the graisy.un-
flulations in the park.' The sun was jut.
Setting, amrthe light fell an one side' of :the
straight silver stems of the Scotch firs
and larches, having the other Side dark, and
throwing long lines Of black •shadow -'across
the coppered-cOlorecl- leaves which Covered_
the doping woods below; to that they sig.
gested-S. nilisical- Score with its lines and its
giant-black-stalked. -crotchets. -That Weocl
looked too dense, however, to be a portion ot
the'park ; and if it were not, I had strayed
.to. ttip-Viireina furthest . point from that
desired. to reaeli.--- Still it was bet-
ter to ascertain the truth; the -sin would be
down in a few moments ; and if, As I !Swiped -
ed, *that, mass of -,brown: foliage .was the ant -
skirts Of iNtC11.1CVIVO0d, I was a good eight
miles . from home„ -and hadbettergive up, the
'thought of walking thither, and betake -my,
self insteadto Ditchley village, in the hope
-of finding Sortie sort of a. conveyance.
• The groundgot steeper, and the OaSs
poorer, as I descended. A thin 'belt, of
7 scot& firs: stood up it the bottom, out Of an
undergrowth of fern and -ragged Shrubbery':
and when -I had passecl this I -saw,that my-
suiPicicas -Were correct. -My hand rested. on
the =dent,. roeS-groWn paling which Sur-
split:tied thepark, while beyond .the - deer;
ditch on the further side stretched a nonow
:-..Strip :of .brown, mirshy-leoking -Mookand,
shut in by the aforementioned woods.
- The sun had set by --now, and there -Was
methiligr dark and. threatening about the
•
-. . .
belt of dutiky foliage, and. deep, iniPenetra-.
-bile shade* before me; something .linspeaka=
•. bly -melancholy in that lonely bit of common,
broken only by an occasional hillock; or pool.,
Of blackish water.- throwing back a dullgleaM
'- to meeethelialelight . of the. -.evening. sky :-•
. Something Which -ni.hde, me inclined to cling.
,
to. this rotten park. paling as a signoflunian
habitations and civilization. To .- reach
Ditchley„,I Must cross ,that bit of . comm on
and the wood beyond;- .' if I: followed the •._
' pa-
ling Imust come out -somewhere! - -,I deter
mined to folio* thepaling.
The. light grew fainter and More clhaky as
I advanced, the landscape blacker andmore:
indistinct - ',had Often been out at this time
before 1. -'not- unfrequently had only found My'
way back to niy- lodgings by the clear light
of the moon ; but never in all my life had . I-
-experienced., this unaccountable. feeling. of
i -nervousness and depression which positively
'Macletine start and shiver sound,
li
of a ruatlirig among the firs a ., d undergrowth
. . . -
On my: right.n. - . -. , , ,. - _ "i •:-_ :.,
It Was nothing -but Inst. such a rustling as.
had several tiniesbefore-Chstarbect rtne---.7-the,
aSsage . of a _ fallow- edeer *rough the dry ,
. rend:sof its _bracken. cover; Yet (mock at me
,if . you - wal)-17-11-. -e'IO-- Heaven ' I Stood
still, _drenched from head id- footwith:6; cold .
-de* of perspiration, and turned my head ta---
-
look for the innocent- eansefetthe noise with
the slow, .still inevernent of one Who expecte
to see something .terrible -even, .._ perhaps, .
the enemy of Mankind itself.
L-- Instead,: I . saw. . nothing,' - ., Nothiflg,_ that i
• s -but a darkish pgteli.- among,: the bushes,
which, at first,- I thought was the shadow of
-A.. -man. - They were. not high.,enoligli;-- haw,
.ever; to conceal even a deer:= and the belt of-.
frees; among which they 'grew, was. Sa thin,'
-r could clearly: gee through-. it to - the steep,
grassy ridge -- beyond. , It could but have been
-a; harp„."-sta,rtled from its farm,: and gone be-
fore I couldturn my head; .. IlaUghed aloud -
;at -myself ai-I walked on,: and then stopped :
-short, with a positively !sick feeling Of dread
as the rustling began_ again I- . and this . time
Ssaike-L--toirty sharpened senses-4hp-, steal,
thy tread of a ,_man's .fOotstepa through the -
brake at my right-hand, that I looked.:- over
my 'Shoulder :With the .full - anticipation- Of
seeing him there,: - .- . - 4- - - 1- . ' -;
. Again -nothing! . Nothing 'but--_:4aving'
shadow among the ShrubliprobiblY, cast. by .
T one of the fir trees, looking blaCker for:
the paleness of the evening light4a Mere
-shade, which- Might_ even havebeiti fancy, -
for itiseemed, to fade-. and. disappear : as I
looked -at -it; and I Went on again resolutely.
The rustling sound went on Loo. Yea ; there
was no MistakingitnoW., it Was the creen-
ing, careful step of -.a man_ following-, some-
,thing--oman who did not Wish to: be heard:
--Could it be -such -mistakes.; have been Made
- through. the medium of -disordered nerves -
the sosnd af. my awn footsteps, translated.
by a feverish imagination. to a.little distance
-frem me ? - ' '
--I stood still again to try.
:The shadow -tread went . on, crushing the
--Ary leaves beneath it step by titep•'; Caine up:
.
to me, Still on my riglit.:'.passecl me -(it May .
have been fancy; but I-couldalinoskawear I
felt the shadow on Me then, s- i-lici- with it -a.
strange,: cold sensation, - as -- of an icy :
draught); ,went on a- few -- yards,. - and their_
paused, -ii thOnglr-he,:if it were _a Man, had
.suddenly _panght. sight:Of the _ object he was
pursuiug. ' - - - - .;-'-.
Quite involuntarily. I -.stepped -forward, .:
gazing eagerly to seeit too-' - and, :to my great'
• relief; saw, . at the distance Or aljo iit_twaity
- • t -
-yards fro nil mei A Toth* lady! : - T1, • : : - -
- The path I Was fallowing -had, - been - ,
' ing upward for some time.. It reached the
' brow uf a: long ridge at . a little. distance,
Where the siender,, seanty-haved boughs of
• a tall birch tree feathered down taitear the
_paling& in a sort . of natural arch,- beyondwhck you 'could see -a Sria,ce . of cold- gray -
'bine sky. Beneath this-arch...She Stobd,, her
. headturned, looking, backaver her shoulder
. at me: ' She had on a canary7co1ored _ goyim,
--with 2, White bloominess on the edges of it,
as:though it were made,_ Of velvet,: and cut,
inthe quaint eidjashionect style which we-
! rarely see -nowadays -except in pictures,:
square-shaped lacross , the :'.. bosom.:1 . The-.
-sleeVis were puffed, and slashed in some.
, darker- calor; . above the .; and: the -neck
was bidden bia ruffling ofkerchiefcif lace:
- Staniing there, she looked :rather .above the 1
middeheight in women; . and the exquisite -.•
shancat her head and .limbs, the latter ra-
ther. skposedthan hidden i :by. the: straight, ,
.clingngfelds of her gown;' - the fortifier ' un- .
coYered„.-Save: for '. a • wreathof; Soft, _Shining
blackliair, curling law onthOT forehead and
dawn her neck,*mild . have attracted: the-.
eye o' any man; had he an artist's' dull lie .
hind it or not.: In her - left -hand she -held
somehing like a leathern strap„ celled 1,1P .
and, as she turned. her head; f caught the
• brakti,--quivering gleam- of what looke4. like
a dater. Of diamonds, , pendant -franf- her--
threst s:and ears. . Her face I will not at._
tennit:ta -describe: : It was simply that. of
the moat- lovely woman I have ever yet- Seen; •. •
- Iis.ve said that she was looking 'back at:
nio, butas1 gaied at her, -I saw, with a re -
tuts of the same- Strange feeling I have be-
-fart noticed, that her eyes rested, not on me, .
but on. sornetAing to my right; and, in the
,Sane Moment I felt that she; too,. was listen --
in -0e the - Shadow„-.: ' - Ny, more;-. She was .
...
loan* at it. -----. --'
-.i.bnost before I ceiild. r this, the-
, ,
- hrely, -listening'', express'.
--Clingedto one Of innigle&feary----
:II 1 .1117 V
' .are, - .struggling With strong distasteful pride.. •
Sb flung back her_ head. - witkan i impatient
getiire - and, turning her head. abruptly
rand,ilisappeared over the ridge.
In the same breath the -rustling . sound , be-
-again,- glided from j Me.: up the hill, and/
dsappea.red toe,: - : . - - - . ' ,- . • ' ---,-. ri
--I suppose I must havestoodwhere IT was
"fr -a minute or so, beforepinning' my- on -
rd way, in •the hope .of seeing soniething
, . - -
;bre of the lovely lady of the park:- I .was
.,sruggling With_my own insane folly in hav- -
.igTallowed. myself to connect her'adeven:fora'
,scOnd, with the rustling whichl:diaturb-
,. . -
--ti ray Morbid- nervousness; and . in having..
• ,
: 'bcome possessed
with thei
-idea that .t was _
. • . _ - . .
kfil*e,: , and no other, - whom this -creeping.
sadow-was following.; and. that sheknewlit
a..Well. as, I _did. - .I Put the fanciful notion .
fonx. me -with an -effort, and was :trudging
toWly . on; -_when a _midden-1. sharp,- -wailing
ay_ rose from the other side oftheridge.; . a
-roman's- . cry, -so plaintive, I so': shrill With
,eadly terror' that *grasping My stick tight -
r,_ I tore- up the iath and -gained, the spot
•;71i. re -the girl: had stood, before another-tiiiir '
1
ite conld have elapsed. .. The. echoes- of ithe -
!, try were Still trembling on the air. as I stood -
:here; anciTIlooked. down for the -:cause of it, -
!..ully expecting to :see 'that the. ;girl :had.
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a las ti sis PO az
eitherfallen, or had been attacked by sonie.
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animal Which had alarnied her. •
To, nit intense .astOnishnient there ,as. no
_
one whatever in sight!
- The path sloped downward `from .fiy feet
and stretched out straight . and milrokeik;
with the high paling and fiat con:midi= 'one,
side and the lineoftrees on the other Just".
at the bottom two or three rabbits hitt come
out, and were feeding as .quietly at lie edge -
of the grass as though nothing ha e passed
that .way within an hour. They_thrw back
their- ears, cocked_ up their little NOW tails,
and. Were Off like a.shot when 1 shoed
"Where are you? - Are you hrt ?" but
-
the card..and saw mitten in penc
the nitrueand--Ltiiidati.
_
_Ditchley.Abbey ? Well 1
in the liaMe to make.ine.Sitart?
bly heard of- the place z before. • !lit Was
tolerably well-known one, and beIon
- an equally well-known peer. The.gle
the. Abbey were mentioned witlrhoiror in tlie
county gaide-hook: 1 had ev.
that l had Once been to .-the:rilace, and "Int
- Seen some of the ladies of the haiii4 It
have been along time back,. at .-all eV
--Myideas- on the subject were most indist
:-artd-I had notevenhad an- idea' that
there was no ether response, no ,otfrr sign of Abbey was -within a drive ofmypre
any one hearing nie, and my voice ;ed away- I. -residence. My friend's train came (sip w
in echoes against:the silent litoads:1,Even.the . - 1 was still looking at the card-,' and I droPie
rustling sound .had ceaied, and wh it the it on the. platform, and with, it menMryi
chilly; nervous' feeling I had 04.srienced. :had been trying to :recall. - ::. ' 1-
, ,
As I went on; indeed, I begantopk•myeelf In due :time, however, 1 drove over to t
Whether I had notfaneied the cry I.felt as Abbey,. a.magnifiCent Place, 'palatial in s'
if I had been in a dream, ' Of, whit the only_r and ugliness,- and approached. by one of tli
real thing was the girl I had seen Probably 'finest avenues in the south of England; an
.she was arie of Lord Marldesilaughteri. Was welcomed very di 11 b M ha i
cor a y- y y s
Theremightbe:italics ball thatight at the
*Abbey, and she had dressed -ear, and cane
out for a stroll. in the park, disturbed.
by • the intrusion- of a stringeOke Myself:
The cry- (if cry there had bes) epthe
from the other side of the ridgemd from no
great distance; and, as the trs. were no-
where so thick that I could *see through .
-them. for several hundred yard it evi,
-dent that she had neither meither hurt, nor
frightened so: seriously is .toe _ prevented
fromrunning very sivittly out sight. -
. I *went hn; therefore; „withiorMare delay;
a.,-na in another Minute or 43. -came On i;
park keeper's - lodge, at a twin the path; -
With -a -Woman. sitting ontsicbt• peeling po-
tatoes into a wooden tub: -
- She stopped to look at mEs Came- up,
and-ansWered My query as tin -nearest vil-
lage by pointing tondry Caliinini
of smoke riaing above the ediaf the common
at a little distance,and tolli .nie that that.
was Ditchley. Ys, . it :beige& , like the T
abbey,. to Lord-.Mailoes.,, - -Oh; _
'certainly ;_ a -Young thavith E
tera; and. his wife not ta-siiandsome
way; though a - dear,- goody, but. a , sad -
invalid. • They were '• hog SOIlle grand '
doings at the • Abey that ;ening, and:my
lord's.sister had just CaVin passing, and
carried off the eldest brio help With - the:
decor-Ai:one. the-miisidom.-.. She . Were
hrealildftniely' 11 1 belciaet 14atreahnootYt, ariviidtil
hblueP
eyes; but as to -her Idrejthe dame . had'nt-
'seen- her, had been Inuiy0ors, and the boy
had only run in to tear he was wanted
She didn't know hat kleY was, _ had
never:heard-of it; and. to a shriek (here;
she -stared it m ratlOari:dy,. as though:
thinking. I Was a little Of .nVi mind) there
ha,d'ut been none in. hearing, wi'ont I
meant the peaeooksAy lord kept a.
" mort" of than wild Sim preserVes ; and; •
indeed; she'd got so net° then screeching -
that she didn't pay no -int itiow: -
And that Was it; , 03011rEle. r had not
known of the peaccie f9sr1.3,:uhr rest, have asked the Ties*
Mylast conjecture:waprobably arect.' - r
don't remember ever :1-ghing Mortheaffily
than I:did at the recalction Of iny;wn fan-
ciful cowardice, whaten minntedater, I
-found, myself _Sitting ha blazing 'firiu the
Most coinfortabIe roowf the
I should have liked I-have.seen nikarcl's.
sister again though. lovely face -Welt_
in My mind for weeks; and
fixed. it there . by nising a sketch cii,er;
from memory, as shsiitood Under the
- birch, looking back .
THE, SEOND
PA4'r 11.
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Ten years. had -parsed over My head 4,
theoccurrence of tb incident mentioned
my last chapter to speak the truth
had. faded so entirelr_ out of My -Mind thi
-anybody-had aSkedme about the events
that isming-excursita, I aril- certain. it WO'
forming 9
as ..'*,ar from c ifon4;._ but it is a remarkable piece
hofaveti -ieriturr ed_ .7.n:ternary
f had -traveled Mu& More in theintervalof antiquated mortuary hunifer • _
had lived for Sotheitirne in‘Roing. Nap1
an p
*add a name as a successful artist; last, _ e• death mmemorytiweair'ot- ohm: this
spot least; marriedanestablished myself -in LO!• • * -
don, the father- of sitin. girlsi and _a bOY-si 18 hundred and 40 too.- He was
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TT:FAITH- ..-SOCHSSTB.R..
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• ' • • I
, ::-Ttrhord ni.treastires,- or to Waste. them
uselesslybOthl.fare • sins' • against • Society-
--Everything Should *be put to Some tee, ,Y.4,
. _ •, . ,
ievrialiotforetlhat there --is,use-in beauty;
.• • ..
• nor demand that things which punster only
to the frnertaste‘,-shall needlessly_ be Made
.*Sertrre-the:gtosSerappetites.- I say -f! need-lessly," for 1 think -
no•thOughtful :member d
the 'great hinnanifamily; i,01.1oire to lavish
Much upon his Or her -tastes," . when
-iiirroundedby ineighbors Who are suffering _
for.'. the: most camincin-- necessaries -of. life.. .
There is neither beauty nor. utility in -packing
away, mereli_foriproseriation, ,articles- that -T..
Caul&giv.6-pisosurer-o:canfortto-hinninbes
though no longer 'servicable to
!Amply -because they are oars: It
.-Seaowe :illlilds-esl economy, or pure seltiSh.-
l,think might all nfforel More generosi- -
ty- in , our lives. We ',Might trust
who introduced me W.. his - wife and- sister ourselves -or :rather we Might trust the --?•91V. --
in-law, and a .couple of men friends `
_like • Verschoyle, were down - for the sh�ot.
ing, and _ with., whom we all sat down to
lunch. . - -
During' the meal gathered- that. Lor
Maioles. himself was traveling on the Conti
.1
nent for his wife's health, andthat his biro -
ther was only staying at the Abbey for th
- home shooting, And the vicinity - to the - rep
ment towhich he, as well as Verschtayleand
one of the other men, belonged.- :_ h
The conversation, hoWever, chiefly turn
_ _ .
on.art, compnment to me, I suppose, M
stranger, and to the idea. (only ,too correct
one, I fear) that painters and singers ar
_never thoroughly happy en anyl- sribjeet ant ,
of their own profession. any • fate, the
usu.al,silliness and inanities common to those
cultivated members of SoCietyWho wouldn't I
know a Titian from -a Gainsborough if left to
themselves, Were said by my- hostt
.and her husband, Verschoyle _chiming
• with the air of an A. R. A. at thefvery least
and bringing out such reperteire " of
studio slang tlieway of " bits, ' "effects,"
"modelling," and '"tone,", &c„ that • he was
equal to a whole' crew of sedond-ratelSuffolk-
street artists rolled into one and Boon as
lunch -was over he repaired -the picture.
gallery, - .
I have no space or time for dwelling
. paintings. t -There were some very gitiOd ones;
and some equally trashy;' a very fair. collec-
tion of old masters; and ,a lengthy array 'f
family portraits. 1 These had a . gallery [
themselves leading out of - the organ roam. ,
d we came to thein at the last, Our -• heat .
wing considerably more interestin descant;
ni on them than on the more :interesting
,pictures we had just been seeing.
1 All at once a strange feeling came Over me. -
1 saw nothing, and heard nothing; 'Ibut '
hands grew cold as ice, and a Sick, skiverin
sensation crept along every Vein in My bodA-,
bringing hack to in one breath the rust
ling sound of that shadow step whieh I la,c1
heard, . or had fancied I heard, = ten years
„ago,. in the very park on to which the win-
dows of the picture gallery were looking.
Row it calm, or whence it came„ I know not,
but in that moment the terror I:had sO leng:
forgotten was there, .as plainly and; vividly as
though the sound of . the. stealthy footstep
wereeven then in my ears.- I Was standing
facing the window, and with my back to &-
picture. Something made me turn round;
though with a feeling of reluctance which. I
could not define; and look at it wasthelife-size; half-length portrait �f a man in .the
dress of the Stuart era, very well painted, but
with a dark, evil face, strongly lined, and.
wearing a; peculiar look in the eyes; half
sombre, half passionate, which gave -a
sinister expression e ,to the whole;edunte-
nance. F
,
great Giver -and share rnore freely. with
those who have need, without _Worrying
pliant our oWir-T.tb-marraw and its supplies.
What would happen, doyou suppose,
if ali
the members of allthechurches should and-
denly eonie a.great deal nearer than ever :be.;
fore to obeying that inost.trying teitipnt to
the young man of igreat possessions, who de.- :
sired to be -a.- follower of Christ ?=,-" Sell- all
that and give - to the poor then
-Come and follow. me." A good deal Ott corn-
-taa:4 • "
woo\ some. wo ave to...go along With the
attempt to obey .such - a command... , • _
- But only think of all the chests anfrolasets
full of :out -grown or old.faahioned, but
strong and warm fgarments, to be found in
:imany hOntea at vOiese doers the -wolf 'never
how* and where Winter's frosts cause no;
Then think of. thesuffering- poor, .
*heti we "have always with us." .A great :- -
dealofthoughtless wickednesiis practiced
in cutting ' up for Carpet rags or _for . linings; -
.garments Which -M. ight do. a great deal of ser-
vice someivliere, their- present _shape, I f
never thought of this Until a. friend took me:
to -teak many years,. -ago- for cutting up a
•g.004 04._ek :for some trivialp nrpose,becauseT
-1.-did net care toWear it. Only .think of.
all the stitchesinthat sack - she
When a,-gaiMent-las been cut out and
Made; it ought, ifisissible;. to be Worn out in
;that shape:. ' 1 thought so too; when I came .
tale* at the subject.. For this reason,. good
[-garments should bp made with simplicity, so
1.thaata'tohifeeYnMsivaye.:foneene
never book leek Old,14814f-,Aleds"
in
-In some-, families it is customary to pass.
baby -clothes from bile_to another, T as different,'
'nimbus have need of them, and this prac-
tice tends to the itiqrease of sisterly love and
sympathy. : , The world . will gain by it, as -
such affection and helpfulness overflow their
family Iimits, until the strangerandthe poor
feeltheireffects. A common sorrow., or a
;common _ danger, draws human beings to- •
.gether,lirrespective of theoldbarriers: of fa- -
sect, or nation. ...In times Of war, or
pestilence, people begin to_fee1 their depend.. .
enee upon each Other. T There - are ea 1 many
[charitable k". Homes"- and Children's Aid
Societies,"Wane tor .• help, that no one
, ought to feel justified iiilioarding unused old
! clothes, which have warmth And .comfort in
therri.-. Chazityibegins at home;"
•TOcONTINUEp.
• 411 111111• *
Seine, Odd things in Epitaphs.
It is saidthat the following epitaph comes
man tolerably well -to do in the world whc
papered his house with dingy green, and
hung it with cracked Japanese plates made
a fortnight back in England. CouldTany hi;
stividual have passed more completelY out _ot,.
• by his uwn. ;
It was not one of, the new kind;
but aold-fashioned
„brags barrel, and of such is the:
Kingdom of Heaven."
e following -is -another- exampie of the
the realms of youthful- dreams a.nd fancietther loose way the engravers of the epi -
to the modern shams and fashions of ththa managedli) jumble up with, tr. text
day ? uritationS, and it has the advan-
Ameng my acquaintances -and lietng welltiPtui*?1.'4
off,. I, had a large circle of them -was one
Captain Versehoyle the -son of one of our
merchant princes, and heir to a collection of
pictures worth some hundreds of thousands.
He had a very fair'taite-, for art himself,
had had a couple ofstudiesfrom me; and
had got into a way of dropping in at our
house; now and then of an evening, to have a-
gain& of billiards With me, or. to play over
some of his own musical compositions to my
wife. -
When the time for the annual suninter ex-
odus drew near, on this particulat-,year,
.happened to mention one day that, after . a
month .t the seaside, w •
of being, apparently genuine:. It is co.
'wife' and the children to
from a tombstone -in, Pennsylvan'
•I Battle Of Shiloh,
April 6, 1863. ,
in D. L' was born March .26, 1832, in the
a Of West...Dreiden, State of New -York, ,where,
acked- cease from trodbling and the weary are at
e efforts to compress within the. spec
ipnall epitaph (the cost of cutting' each
' being a matter Of serious Consideration
ny cases) a description of the cause of
very frequently lead to .curious re -
AS witness the following from a eliureb.-
,In Glastonbury, _Conn. 1 '
riere lies one whs's
Life's thread's wit
der: --sheivas
'gate -for Septem-
•
" . t
=," •
. *111-'1:tat live and. thiive, even- there,' if al-
ways:kept:at haniet :
Itis not at all fair for those who can af-
ford to purchase reading to keep it au to
themselves; whilepoorer people about them
are hungering for something to read. ; Self
kye itself,1 should lead us to de all in OUT
power toward educating our neighbors, so
that we and our children have good and in-
telligent society. How, childish Are those
en of Wealth who ishut their fine -galleriea
paintings entirely from the public, imagin-
g that ;they somehow get more pleasure
rom such exclusive possession of coveted
reasiires, than they could if the treasures
ere open for the enjoyment of others.
'
.1
MY* ,HOMe.
Poverty fore s its victims into strange po-
itions, sometimes. . Not far from a respecta-
le street in a Western city, is an open lot,
aving.asloPe toward the street. It .seems
01 be covered by at, crop of old ashes ,emp-
ied from the neighboring dwellings- and
cattered about in little Conical heaps.' On
his rather dreary.leoking lot an old woman
fl the neighborhood has made her home,
eying been ,expelled from her cellar for
ina-
ility to pay rent. tThelpreisent ,dwelling is
curiosity. It consists of an da tool -chest,
Ch as is Usedb3t . street contractors in
hich to house their sheiels and picks. The
overshutsdown slanting, and forms,- when
osed, the,rooffito keep oitthe --rain, dew,
eet and snow. night the old lady- de- .
ends into her house and, closing down the
-deaf, disappears like Itt
tday-time the .ever is held open by a
ake, and. the apartment is ventilated. The
rinture of thislIhninble dwelling. seems to
c snsist of a few ° tin utensils. and EOMespare
a,gments of oldcarp
ets spread. out
, on a
Gard; forining aSeat and a shelf. _ The kit-
enis betWeen two, 7 -no roof over
but the sky—where an iron pot *inters
a few embers; fed by the chips and,
which the outcast -contrives to 'gather -
'er during the day. • This is redneing
use
old expenditure to a very fine point.
, I ;
-
. .Die4ggS'
Er. Henryi-Meiggs,1: the enormouslywealthy_
id contractor- of South -Arnerica, is a
tiv, e' of -New_ York State, and about sixty -
'e years old.- He first _sought his fortune
California and'opened tip the great 'timber
tereits of that Westerncbast. -- He engaged
many scheme -a- of public benefit. - But
b ing Obliged to borrow •money the usurious .
tes Of interest theprevailingin Caifrornia
t • ok him beyancl-hisillepth, and he went to
S uth Amrica leaving -behind him heavy
1' bilitiek _There hem*: large sums as a -
ilioad -contractor and then settled th,-'Cali..;
He °Wm- two residences -one.
the ,City . of Lima -and the other in the
burlis---z-where he -dispenses hospIality to -
ry Am- itcan or foreigner, and esPecially.
Californians, on every. passible occasion.
o -ericair was !ever lard 'pressed for
ney without 'Mr. Meiggs- coming t� - his
cue and-sUpplying him with means to; go
is any part of the world he _might ,.. desire.Quintal" or -private dwelling -house; is
sibuated itt the midst Of sixty acres of pieta.
&' re grounds, filled With the rarest fruitsandwent •
and turned rou I- • express 118 --
was . going for a fortnight's -shoating to a
friend's place; about- ten mules from Reigate.
If we were there, he should''. be able to see
something of us. How . jolly! -1
- Of course I echoed his -_ pleasure. The..
:young fella* was a- puppy and a noodle;
but a gentlemanly. puppy -too, and nota
bad -hearted noodle I rather liked him on
the whole. • _ - -
-"Sure enough, I had not been ten days at
Reigate; and Was standing, one afternoon, On
the platform of .the London and Brighton
with: a friend, waiting for the train which
was to Convey him to townt, when, lowering
myeyes from one of the Most glorious golden
sunsets ever voneksafed to the Oyes of man,
I saw standing up black against the saffron -
colored sky two men - at the -further' end,
- of the platform, one af whom was making ve-
hement gestures of recognition in iny direc-
tion. -
- Needless to say it was Verschoyle, and. the
moment we were shaking hands, and he
had introduced his friend, who turned out to
- be his then host; and Who Met me very cor-
dially, and gave me his card •with a.hearty
- invitation to -come over to lunch any day and
seethdpicture gallery, of which he said. his
brother, the owner of the places was -very
-proud. :When they were gone I looked at
•
. of thander."
writer copied some years agar -three
;OM the stoneover the grave of
e first who killed.in the Glasgow:
bythestages, or omnibuses as they
edthere-whiCh also Were of a -pric-
escriptive-character. They are as
"Here lies the body of Jane Gray, :
.
The *finer of her death was thug:
• She wasdrav, Over by a 'bus."
;confusion of sentences sometimes
at curious mistaltes, as witness themfol-
oin a cemetery near Cincinattf:
"Here
lies—
Who came to this city and died
for the'benefit of his health."
a fine as the closing sentence of the
the gravestone of a station -master
&tan the Glasgow & Sorithwes-
ad near Kilmarnock, in Ayrshire
_
y years ago : -
He died imsomplaining in
No pain without medical aid."
very fair specimen of the I blun-
11 dais of epitaphs. It is'from.fhe
urying-ground at .lieesevillel. New
lies the bodies of two -sisters dear:
uried in Ireland; the other lies here." •
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