A VISITOR TO LOVE. j I twe hct In tlie tiwir Unlit, In tlio fnr liRht: In tho aay-dHwn, wbt-u tbe sun U ou tha ( la tlio" evonlnn. 1"n tn0 llll"lnor ' tn0 Thi"'"'!?'!'1 of the vines comes peeping throutfli. I And her eye. n In tho sweet and far Arnnb"iitlfii nml tender, nml lier rheek Is frncrnnt witU tlio freshness of the Mny- But tlielrosy Hp re ll,cnt wbon 1 Pclxk Perhnps the woven love-words thnt I !rln& Phe'trensiires In sweet sllenee'-llltlo Bhe'drnther hear the sonits the mini-Is Tu1n?1eiir to tho lowlier mings of onrlh. j Yet, wherefxro from the seraph-guarded ne.vom!,n,where shines the dnrk, dlvldins ,'hoe""wnlers lavo the shliilnK shore lin- mortal, . , , 1 In Unlit and night comes Imek my hc to me? I Forever comes! O, doultlti heart! no ' heaven . I Ilown'er Its walls may tower the stais ,Wltli"i!Btei that look down on the mifor- j Can slay the hands that love holds out Frank 'l? Klmiton, In Atlanta Constitu tion. TAKEN AT HIS WORD. At tho age of twenty-five the life of e London bachelor Ih Hpduetivc to ti tenthen lnviitrlimlion, Imt afterwards It grows less pleasant to contemplate. One gets selfish, and a selfish man de teriorates rapidly. So it was n shock to me to brush n gray hair one morn ln( out of tuy celibate whiskers. Ab normal? No; a careful Investigation showed that there were more where that came from. I sat down, a brush In either hand, und contemplati.tl. !Vhen 1 rose to complete my toilet I bad determined to marry Surah llervy as soon as possible. Sarah was a superior girl; there could be no doubt about that; men called lier BtroUK-iuiuded, eccentric, and were rather afraid of her; not but what there were plenty of them ready to brave any danger there might be. She preferred historical, biographical and iven philosophical books to novels. She had found out a simple style of dress which suited her. and kept to It, only ullowlng such modulations as ,were necessary to avoid au appear ance of affected indifference to the pre vailing fashions. The instinct was a true one, for her principal beauty lay In a certain classical grace, a soft dig nity, which I cannot attempt to de scribe, but which would certainly have town marred by llorid dressing. Though I knew that other men had tried and fulled I felt fairly confident. "She has more head than heart," eald Maurice, for example, "and It will take a clever fellow to get round her." Exactly; but I was a clever fellow In my own estimation. To confess the truth, a more con ceited coxcomb than your humble ser vant, at tho time I am ppeaklng of, never leaned over the rails of Hotteu Bow. There were no fewer than live young ladles whom I thought I could Lave for the asking, and Sarah llervy was one of them. I was ou very Inti mate terms with her, It was true, but directly I tried positive flirtation I found that she would not drop into my mouth quite so readily as I had anticipated. She was Intelligent, friendly, lively, confidential even, to a certain extent, but most dilllcult to make love to. For example, we were engaged one day In art criticism, counting the leaves on a rre-Kaphaelite Ivy-bush to see whether it had a realistic allow ance, when I took occasion to draw her attention to a spoony couple, in tended by the artist to be the most prominent objects in the picture, and tried to make use of them. "What would painters and poets do .without loveV 1 began. "I cannot Imagine," said she. "How strange it is that the most unpleasant tilings In natuie, lovers and pigs, should be so pleasing in art." "You are hard ou the poor things, BUrely," said I. "Am I?" she continued. "Well, fond as I am of Ward's pigs, I never could look at the real animals without dis gust." "Oh, I grant you the pigs," said I, feeling clumsy; "I meant tho lovers." "Well, can there be any spectacle more idiotic than a couple In that con dition?" she asked, pointing to the picture. "The question sounds cruel, coming from one so calculated to reduce a nun to it." "There!" she said, with a frown, and a petulant tapping of the foot, "that Is the worst of being a girl; one cannot talk freely without being suspected of fishing for compliments." Of course I knew that Miss Sarah's sentiments would become modified when the right mau turned up; but I was evidently not the right man at present, at all events. She was not to be carried by assault, as I had hoped. I must attack according to the rules. Love must be disguised as friendship; flattery must be implied rather thau expressed. Above all, I must main tain tho opinion which I knew she had of my abilities; for she quite wor shipped talent. I learnt, the Athenaeum by heart every Sunday. I did. My memory was wonderful in those days. And Miss llervy, who did not see that Jour nal, credited me with having read all the books, heard all the music, formed an independent judgment ou the plays and pictures, mastered the astronomi cal, geological, philosophical discover ies chronicled In Its pages from week to week. My plans were disconcerted by tho Hervys going out of town. Mr. Ilvrvy was a director of a hundred boards. Mrs. llervy was not Sarah's mother, but the second wife, with a tendency to bronchitis, which sent the family to a house they hud near Ventnor when spring returned with all Its sweets, east wind included, and tbe period of migration had now arrived. But I was not utterly checkmated, for I knew that my friend Freshet had a castle somewhere at the back of the Isle of Wight, and would be too glad to go there if ho could get any fellow to stay with him, for that was his con stant object. I went to the club wo both belonged to, and found him playing at billiards and smoking a pipe with his coat of anus on it in alt-relief. I said tho pipe was coloring. I praised bis game. 1 uixike of yachting, which ho lived for, and promised to 'take a cruise with him. We dined together, and spoke of the castle, which turned out to be within n couple of miles of the Hervys' place. He asked me to go down there with him; I agreed, lie said he would make tip a party, and wrote to the housekeeper to get rooms ready that very evening. You might do anything wll'li Freshet If you knew how to play him. I had known Mm at school and al college, poor fellow yet why "poor fellow?" He was rich and happy, and If he had a vague, uneasy seml-con-sclousness at times that people were laughing at hi in, It did not seriously damage his self-complacency or his digestion. Hut one always says "poor fellow" of n good natured man who Is below the average In wits, and Fresh et was certainly that. Three men besides myself agreed te lle Freshet's guests, mid 1 was some what annoyed to find that they were nil admirers of the girl I bad cal.-u lated on monopolizing. The reason v;is simple: Freshet had gone about asking nil the men he knew, and only those who were attracted by the knowl edge that the fair Sarah was In the lielghboorh ied accepted tin Invitation. It was a case of Natural Selection, it did not promise to be a very cordial group; however, I Haltered myself that my presence was much more Injurious to their chances than theirs were (o mine; ami, as each of them had prob ably arrived nt n similar conclusion in his own favor, and ns, moreover, we were all men of the world and not Arcadians, we rubbed along very well together. We had never alluded to the secret attraction which had drawn us indi vidually to the castle, but pretended Intense interest in the place and neigh borhood. Were those cottagers Fresh et's tenants? Was there really once a ditch and a drawbridge? Was that pigsty part of the old keep? "15y Jove!" in chorus. On tho morning after our arrival some one proposed n stroll over to Ventnor; some one else said: "Ity the by, were not the Hervys at home?" It was then averred that llervy was a "rattling good fellow" (which I take to mean one who has jingling mate rials In his pockets), and that it was a moral duty to look him up. So we called, nml n queer game of courtship was started. Four competitors nud only one prize; and no younger or eld er sisters, or other spinsters, to divide our attention, and make tilings less awkward. What a pretty tournament we might have got up. If such things hud not gone out of fashion! And as if four lovers were not enough for one girl, our host took the Sarah fever very badly, to our great amusement for when we were at home, nud not occupied with whist or ' pool, we amused ourselves by mystify-1 Ing Freshet and his present passion, which seemed to us outrageous, formed a new subject for the exercise of our wits. The fact was that I found myself a great deal less alone with Miss llervy than I had yeen in London even, and my weekly cram of Athenaeum was for tho most part lost labor. Indeed, two of my old rivals showed country accomplishments which threw me somewhat In the background; one rode, and the other tennlsed in n very su perior manner, though 1 did not fear I l.iat anoli f ii ,-nll t l.ia ulmiil.l iti'ibi. ,i,tt- ' real impression ou so lofty an Intelli gence as Sarah's, I did not quite like the opportunity thus offered to men who were undeniably amongst the clev erest of the fops who dangled about her. Prudence suggested that it would b? well to spoil their little games when possible, even If I could not nt the moment profit directly by the man oeuvre; for of course I could not In terrupt a rival's tete-a-tete personally j without a row. So whenever Martlu- I gale's riding lesson, or Mallet's Instruc tion In tiiiitila niMt.iOi(t.l t.t Im .....a ' l.VM ,U lllltfl l J' l tl , I II ItS HIT lllf, dangerously confidential, I set Freshet at them. The honest fellow had no notion that his guests were his rivals, and took each of us in turn into the confidence of his passion. So he had no compunction whatever In falling In with my views whenever 1 suggested that he should constitute himself nn odious third. "It was nothing to Martingale or t fnll,it lilir lin Yvtla miniina 111 tli-t, mini- ' ter," he reasoned. The others did not perceive my man oeuvre, or make reprisals, and as Freshet never took the initiative, 1 was left lu peace when I managed In my turn to secure tho ear of the fair Surah. "Why do you all laugh at Mr. Fresh et?" she inquired, on one of these oc casions. "I don't know. People always have," 1 answered. "He was the only child I ever heard of who practically attempted to catch birds by sprinkling salt on llielr tails." "Did you see him?" "No; tho lirst time I ever witnessed his naivete was later, when we were schoolboys together, and watching the sale of a horse. The purchaser, after having stroked his legs down, etc., in regular order, weut to his mouth. 'Klslug seven,' said the would-be seller. " 'Ay, all that,' replied tho other. " 'How did he know the horse's age?" Freshet asked me, nud I, being u country-bred lad, was so amused by his greenness that 1 replied: " 'Hid you not see the gray hairs about his nose?' " 'Oh!' said Freshet, quite contented. "Presently afterwards we met a gray. " 'What nn old horse that must be?' cried Freshet." "It was a perfectly natural deduc tion from the information you had given him," said Sarah, smiling. "Perfectly; his blunders always are. That is what gives them their piquan cy." "I see," said she; "his nature is so trusting that no amount of experience can break him of placing confidence in his fellow-creatures. Well, perhaps he deserves to be laughed nt." It was evident that Sarah's kind heart did not approve of the lllrpant manner lu which we wuu in the habit of treating the mau whose hospitality we eujoyed, und 1 resolved not to quiz him ngulii in her presence. Indeed, when I thought about it, was ashamed of making a butt of him at all, and determined to discontinue the practice. A d yet, so powerful Is custom I put the most cruel hoax pos sible upon him tl.o very next day, for, bored by his praises of an object I could appreciate so much better, and Irritated by professions of a love which aeenittd to burlesque my own, I told him thht it was wonderful be was so Mind ns not to see his passion was re Mijjied. u usual, he put Implicit faith In in oiuh; the Idea of Irony or "chaff" never occurred to him. "I should never have dreamed It!" he cried, grasping my hand. "What a thing It Is to have n friend!" He hurried oft to the stables, ond In five minutes I heard lilin cantering, along the road. My heart smote me; I had no Idea he would be so prompt, j It was 11 o'clock In the morning, and i presently Martingale and Mallet, who ; were always late, came down to break- ( fast. "Where Is Freshet?" asked Mallet. "Oone to propose fo Miss llervy," said I, and they roared. Freshet, of all blockheads, to rush In where hum ha! really Intellectual beings feared to offer! Wo awaited his reappearance as n gourmand watches the twisting of the cham pagne wire. At lunchtlme he arrived; his horse In a foam, his necktie twist ed. He grasped my hand; 1 felt very guilty. Don't be excited, old fellow," 1 stammered; "1 had no Idea that you would rush oft like that. If I was mistaken" "I'm your debtor for life! Congrat ulate mo. you others; 1 have offered to Miss llervy, and been accepted." "Accepted!" In chorus. "Yes. I should never have dared ask if It had not been for Penyolin." I thought there must be n mistake, but. there was not; and they were mar ried in the June following. I acting tis Freshet's best man. That was ten years ago. They are tho happiest couple 1 ever knew, and so grateful to mo! If ever you want to get any thing out of Mrs. Freshet talk to her husband and pretend to show defer ence to what he says; she will sub scribe, safe. A Pent In the Honse nf Commons. The House of Commons has some 070 members, and it has seats for little more than half the number. Even if we take Into account tho members' galleries, which run along two sides of the chamber, there still Is not near ly room enough for all the men who are entitled to take their places In t In House of Commons. What are the members to do who have not got seats? They are to do the best they can to do anything they like short of taking seats in the House. They may crowd the bar I do not mean any place of refreshment, al though they may crowd that bar, too. If they please 1 mean they may stand below tho lino which Is supposed to represent the brass bar that can, when occasion requires, be drawn out from either side, and so conjoined us to rep resent the division between some peti tioner or some alleged offender and the House of Commons Itself. They may stand in the newspaper room or the tea room; they may fall asleep In the library; they may walk ou the ter race; they may lounge In the smoking room; but they cannot sit in the House. As In England there are so many superfluous women who could not pos sibly find husbands hero under our present matrimonial system, so lu the House of Commons there are so many members who cnunot possibly Hud feats. The struggle for seats from day to day is a curious and interesting competition, of which, so far as I know, tbe English House of Commons has an absolute monopoly. It is in one sense a question of lirst come first served. The House of Com mons usually meets at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. A member may come down to the House as early us he pleases and select a seat. If ho comes very early say at 8 In the morning ho has, on ordinary occasions, a fair chance of a good place. He selects his place and he puts his hat into it. Then he goes nway, to return at 3 o'clock, when prayers are said by the Chaplain of the House at present and for some time past my distinguished friend, Archdeacon Farrar. In the meantime our member lu quest of a seat must not stir one inch outside tho buildings which belong to the House of Commons. His claim to a seat Is supposed to rest on his at tention to the service of the House, and If he crosses a threshold for one moment outside the precincts of the House his claim to a sent Is forfeit. So he spends from 8 o'clock until 3 lounging about the library and the smoking renins and tho newspaper room, and at 3 he comes back Into the House and listens to the prayers. Then, having complied with all that ceremonial and having spent his whole day lu nominal service of tho House, ho is entitled to lusent In a little brass frame nt the back of his seat a small card bearing the printed word "pray ers" and his own name written be neath, and thus he has secured that seat for the one sitting only. The struggle has to legin afresh ou the very same conditions on the morrow. Justin McCarthy, in tho North Amer ican Iteview. A HUtorical TtullilIiiK. The old Stnte Cnpltol nt MlUeduo vllle, Go., wlilcli was burned to tho ground recently, hud beeu tho aceno of many striking historical occurrences. The accession convention met there In ISill, and loss than four years after wards some olllcers of Sherman's army, thou occupying Mllledgevlllo, mot In the capitol, organized a mock conven tion, and rescinded the resolution by which Georgia, undertook to leave the 1'nlon, which could not spare her. 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