-— T ONLY WAIT. When the spirit worn and weary, ‘Neath its dally load of care, Fiads the pathway long and dreary, And the burden hard to ber; Tired with hoping, falat with fearing, Sighs to reach the golden gate; Then, In accents soft and cheering. Patience whispers, “Only wait; For a brighter day is dawning, Joy awaits us in the moroing-- In the beauty of the morning— Oaly wait,” © sad hearts, whose soundless sorrow Dares not let a murmur fall, Only wait and trust the morrow— God's great love 1s over a'l. Only wait, O wounded spirit, By the cross of life welghed down ; Thou shalt surely earth tnherit— Bear the cross and win the crown ¥or a brighter day isda#plog, Joy awalls us iu the morning in the beunty of the morning-— Only walt, Our Young Folks, —— The Boy and the Highwayman, At a social gathering in New York city, not very long since, & Hoottish gentleman told the following story. A Lancashire boy—John Willet by name—was sent by his father to the fair at Warrington, to sell a cow. The tad led the cow six miles to the fair grounds, where he Was fortunate enough net only to make a ready sale, but to obtain a larger price than had peen anticipated. Having completed his business, the lad looked around until he became tired, when he con- cluded to set forth on his way home- ward, In all probability his sale of the cow and his pocketing of the proceeds had | been watched by a man who had de- termined to get the money if he ¢ ald. Tne possibility of being robbed did not occur to the boy—especially as It was broad daylight, and in a publi: thor- oughfare, nesr the large town of War- rington. The boy started for home. At a lonely spot, the road led through s deep vale, beneath the shade of over- | hanging willows, a man on horseback came up from behind, passed on a few yards, and then suddealy wheeled aboat, and demanded young Willet’s money or his life. “No fooling, lad! I saw you take the gold piece and the silver. Hand it over, or you are a dead boy." yards along the banks of the rivers, they were obliged to wait while the men went on shors, cut down trees and prapared them for fuel. Mr. Rosevelt discovered, in a former yoyage, a coal-bed near Yellow Bauks or the Indiana side of the river, and purchased of the State government the privilege of taking fuel from it. The early chronicles speak of the intense excitement created among the settlers along the Ohio by the appear ance of the steamboat. No rumor of the strange boat had reached them ; they gszed with astonishment as the singular oraft without sails or oars, and ahead of the current, pass before them, On a still, moonlight night, the ves- gel suddenly appeared before Louls- ville, and allowed the steam to escape from the steampipe. The inhabitants were alarmed, and rising from their beds, rushed out to ascertain the cause. Many fl dn terror, declaring that the comet then visible had fa'len into the Ohio, and produced the strange hissing sound, Oa arriving at the coal-vein, it was discovered that a large quantity of coal had been quarried out and laid on the shore by tileves, who intended to carry it off While the hands were Joading the boat with this coal, the settlers in great alarm flocked to inquire if they had not heard the strange noises on t ie river and in the woods during the previous day. The voyager laughed at their fears, believing them to be created by the noise by the steamboat. s had not only felt the ear h tr:mble, but seen the shore shake. The next day the voyage was re- sumed. The weather, though it was in November, was op oressively hot. The atmosphere was thick and heavy, theugh still. The sun shone like a red ball of fire. The vast solitudes water seemed enveloped in a mourn- it as “an awful day ; so still you could have heard a pin drop on the deck.” In the night they often heard a rishing sound and a violent splash Then large portions of the shore would tesr away from the land and fall into the river. The voyagers were oon- The lad looked at man and horse— the one an evil, blear-eyed fellow, the started back upon the ran, for the rob ber was between him and his home, Of course the highwayman spurred on in pur uit; and when the boy knew {hat the pursuer was upon him, he leaped upon one side, then took the silver pieces from his pocket and cast them away upon the ground at would run again. his horse and hastened i> where he saw several of the shillings and half crowns amongst the grass, probably then overtake the boy at his lelsure. his saddle, he stopped and pick the back of the head, and knocking him down. After this, to leap into the robber’s saddle and start for home was the work of buts moment, And the boy reached his home with- out further adventure, where his father, astonished by the manner of his son’s arrival, was still more astonished when he heard the story. In the saddlc-Hags were found over ten pounds in silver, eight sovereigns, two gold watches and a beaatiful gold mounted revolver. The horse and the watches were ad wertised, and ers long a gentleman from Bolton appeared, and proved that the horse and one of the watches were his. He had offered ten pounds re- ward for his horse; and this sum he gladly paid. And when he had beard the boy's story, he made him a present of the wateh, which was one of Dent's pest chronometers. For the other watch no owner ever appeared, and that the father took. A year later our hero was very sure he recogniz d his acquaintance of the highway in & convict who was on his way, with many others, to the penal colony of Bolany Bay. « As for John Willet himself,”’ said Douglass, in conclusion, “ the last time I saw him he was high sheriff of his county, and one of the most popu lar snd efficient officers in the king- dom, First Steamboat Down the Ohio. In 1811, several years after Fulton had introduced steamboats on the Hudson, the first steamboat which ever sailed on the western watsrs was _ built at Pitteburgh. She was called the New Orleans, and In October of that year she made her experimental voyage down the Ohio, carrying her builder, Mr. Roso- velt, his wife and family, the engl- neer, the pilot, six hands and several . servants. As there were then no wood or coal vinced that there had been an earth- | quake, On the second day there was a similar strange appearance of the sky. | and the terrible convulsions of nature increased. The pilot, becoming | alarmed and confused, declared that he did not know which way to steer. The | channel had been so changed, that | where deep water had been there lay | large trees, with their roots turned upwards. The trees on the banks of the river swayed to and fro though there was | no wind, and now and then some | giant of the forest would be tossed | into the roaring walers, When night approached, the voya | gers sailed hour afier hour, seeking At | jast they came to a little island, and there they moored, | for a safe place to tie up the boat. All night they kept watch on deck. Msny times they heard the n ine as earth and trees slid from the shors and were swallowed up in the river. Some times the land was so shaken as to jar the boat from stem to slern. The next morning they could not recognize any point—the shoras and channel had been wholly changed, calling on, they found themselves pear the mouth of the Ohio, and about noon reached a small town called New Madrid, on the right bank of the Mis sissippl. Many of the inhabitants had flad in terror to the higher ground, and those who remained pleaded to be taken on board. From New Madrid they passed be- yond the effect of the earthquake, but the river was found to be unusually awollen for the time of year, and full of trees. They reached Natchez the last week in January, 1812. finee then many vessels have pass. od over those waters; but for strange adventures and fearful perils, we harily believe any voyage will ex. ceed that first trip down the Ollo and Mississippi rivers,— Ex. Covering Arrears. There died a few weeks ago an old man who may be mentioned here as Uncle Reube, For thirty years he solid his vote as often as there was an election, making no bones about it and sceepting the market price with. out 8 murmur, One fall, ten or twelve years ago, he went to the man who had generally bought him, and sald: “Mr. Blank, I guess I won't sell my vote this time.” “You won't! Why, what on earth ails you, Uncle Roube 7 "Well, I want to see how it seems to coast a free ballot once” “You'd better take the usual two! dollars,” “No, I guess not; I'll try it the other way once, even if it kills me,” Hoe kept to his resolution and const a free ballot, but he didn't feel right over it, snd at the next election he insisted on having four dollars to COVE ArTeArs, A Seg Trout. In astrange lake in Norway it is well always to try first with spinning tackle, a bait trolled with a long line from & boat rowed slowly. It will tell you if there are fish to be caught; it will ind out for you whera the fish most haunt, if there are any. Wa had a curious experience of the value of this method on a later occasion, and on one of our failures. We found a lake joined to an ar n of a flord by 100 yards only of clear runuing water. We felt certain of ficding salmon there, and if we had begun with flies we might have fished all day and have caught nothing. Instead of this we began to spin. In five minutes we had a run; we watched eager- ly to sse what we had got. It was a whitiug pollock. Wewenton. We hooked & heavy fish. We assured ourselves that now we had at least a trout. It turned out io be a cod. The sea fish, we found, ran freely into fresh water, and had chased trout and salmon completely out. At Btromen we were in better luck. We started with phantom minnows on traces of 8 ngle gut, 40 yards of line, and 40, more in reserve on the reel. Two men rowed us up the shor: an arm's length from the rocks, Snething soon struck me. reel flew round, the line spun out. In | the wake of the there was a | white fl sh, as a fish sprang ioto the | air. Was it the Dachess salmon? It | was very like it, any way, and if we had lost him, it woul: have Leen en- tered down as asalmon., It proved however, to be no salmon, but a ges | trout, and such a sea trout as we had never seeq ; a bull trout, not al peel, mot s Welsh sewin, or Insh white trout, but a Norwegian, of al kind of its own, different from all of them. It was the first of many that | followed, of sizes varying from three | pounds to the twelve pounds which | the mate had raseorled; fine, bold | fighting fish, good to look at, good to catch, and as good to eal when we | tried them. Finally, in the shallower | water at the upper end a fish took me, | which ficm ita movements Was some- thing else, and proved to be a iarge | char, like what they take in Der ven- | water, only four times the weight. | Looking carefully at the water, we saw more char, swimming leisurely near the surface taking fies, We dr pped our spinuing tackle and took | our fly rods, and prmsently we were pulling im char, the blood royal of tne | salmonice tae elect of all the finned children of the fresh water, as if they | had been so many Thames Clab. | The boat not English Stroiling Players, | The company live wherever they | ean fi ad lodgings among the working | people of the neighborhood, generally | sharing the kitchen ss a sitting room | with the natives for the sake of cheap- ness. Fancy tragedy queens presiding | over tea and bloater banquets, or Pau- | line, the proud beauty of Lyons, steam. ing her pride over the wash-tub, or Juliet with her sleeves tucked up and | practically em ployed in makiag home- baked bread, tossy nothing of Richard (11. assisting in the domestic circle | by peeling potatoes! All this, together with an occasional glimpse of faded | stage finery blending with pots, pans, oudly assorted crockery, sud mining | or agricultural implements, and you have a picture at once unique and by | no means rare. As a specimen of the | art reqiired to make their small funds | go as far as possible with regard to marketing, the following fact is a fair sample. Four young meu lodged to | gether in the same house, sharing, in addition to the usual kitchen, a double. bedded room, and as they shared the room in pairs, so they lived with re gard te food, each pair choosing what. ever articles of consumption suited them best. On one occasion they al went together, one Saturday night, to purchase SBanday’s dinner. Atter a little wandering about among the butchers’ stalls one couple pur chased a small roast of beef, which looked quite a picture of mixed red and white—30 much so, in fact, that the other couple decided for beef also ed a plece perfectly lean, giving for the act of this ecr>nomical reason: “Their beef is 80 mixed that most of it will turn to dripping, which the landlady wanages to crib. Now, ours is all lean, and as both pieces are done together in one tin our meat gets the benefit of their fat, and we lose none o' the flesh!” Well, now, Saturday night has arrived, the booth is ready, a crowd assembled, and the company out on parade. The women pace back- ward and forward, linked arn in arm and are dressed with little or no rel gard to the unities of time or place, Look there, for instance, at that boy- like young lady, arrayed in all the faded glofy of MacGregor hose and a Staart plaid, to which are added a pro- fusion of short white muslin skirts, with a low necked bodice. I am afraid that such a costume would not be a desirable one among the 8otch mists of the Highlands, But what has na- tionality to do with the matter ? It Is the opetiing house in a» new town; each y wishes to frame her figure and face in the most fascinating way, and so wears whatever becomes her best ; hence this mixture of garments, from the stately threadbare velvet down to the humble washed-out tar — Yeu, stone the woman let the man go freel Draw back your skirts lest they perchance May touc: her garments as she passes ; Bat to him put forth a willing band fo clasp with his that led her Lo destrue’ion And disgrace, Shut up from her Lhe sacred Ways of toil, that she no more may win an Honest meal; but ops to him all honorable Pathe, where he may win distisction, Giveto him fair, pressed down measure; of Life's sweetest } ys, Pass her, O, maldaen, With a pure, proud face, if she pets out A poor, polluted palm ; but lay thy hand ian dis on bridal day and swear to cling to him With wifely love and terder reverencs, Trust bi o who led a sister woman To as fearf il fate, Yes, stone the woman-—let the man go fres! Let one soul suffer for the guilt of two Iti«the docirine of & burried world, foo out of breath for holding balances Where nice distinctions and iv} istices Are calmly weighed, Botab, now will 1t be On that strange day of los! fire and fame, When men shall stand be ore the ove true Judge? Bhall sex make then a difference in Sin? Sha l He, tue SBearcaer of the bi iden Heart, in His eternal and divine decree Condemn the woman sd forvive the man? - —- lp rs Anti-Corset Philosophy and History. Oue poison is no rule for another In sueh matters. The letters in the Eng- lish Mechanic, and a little book full of others, selected from 8 now exlinet periodiesl which I met with about ten years ago, called Figure Training and others subsequently in the san ¢ msgs. zine, amply prove that, The greal ing they could pear, especially in stays q ite stiff in front, both pleasant and beneficial, and them was a | surgeon. Bme, however, find it ex- pedient to ranain under con'raection ouly a few hours in the morui and the surgeon discarded his stays when taking strong exercise which seems | natural ; but others lace tightest for | riding, and iadies mostly in the even- | AKIMOUEK iF A ing, snd some er joy and recommend | confinement in stays all night also— | an old practice which used to be en- f reed in some families and schools, few wrote that theyJdound regular long | and stiff stays much nicer and better | tor their health, Two or three said stand and walk much | longer in them than without, and that | could gave it up. Many had begun it under | kind of compulsion, but had soon come to like it, even afler severe | treatment at first, As I said befor: | the philosophers got much tue worst My philosophy sbout it is that all those statements of personal ex perience, with their variations in de. all, are worlth infinitely more for | i 5 jungs and diaphragms and | deal naturally), nature and anatomy, (Greek women in flesh and marble, and the unquestioned bad effect of | unduly tight-lacing, which proves | 8 ich a multitude | not possibly be either mistaken or lying about the fact of their own good schoolfellows, sisters, mother: friends, notwithstanding or in coustq rence of thelr having been con- tracted into the smallest circumference | they could bear for many years of thelr lives, It is very easy to be mis. pils, fact of it cannot be doubtful. And that, with sundry medical letters such as I have alluded to, ia the sum- mary of all those letters containing any personal exper.ence. There were one or two about ladies who had ob- stinately persisted, in the face of manifest warnings that they were in- jurimg their health, and of course did #0. I remember reading years ago, in an sxiract from some medical newspaper [ think, that the Empress of Austria was killing herself with tight lacing, for she happened to be lil, and was famous for the smallness of ber waist— which seems to be specially cultivated there, and is even enforced on boys as well as girls, according to a gentieman who was at school in Vienvs, and learned thers to enjoy being laced as tight as possible in long and stiff stays, though he was very angry at it at first, as was the case with many others of the above-mentioned writers. Well, she is now a grandmother, and we are told every year thatshe ls still consplo- uous in our hunting fields for her riding and her figure. In one of those lettars an old lady of eighty-five sald that she used to be contracted into fifteen inches when she was young, and, indeed, the com- of their own span, or from four teen to fifteen luches was often spoken of, up to about forty years ago from very early times as the standard to be aimed st by ladies, and frequently reached and occasionally even thir. teen ; but more in foreign countries than this, though there was one con- fession of it In the] book on figure training. Of course, I am not advo. eating those exireme snd foolish and reductions, bul_only using good health under them, to prove the monstrous exaggerations about the danger of walsts which contain twice as much as those. You,at any rate, will see at once that a waist of twenty inches contains twice as much as one of fourteen, and eighteen nearly half as much again as fifteen, I cannot imagine what books Lady F. Harberton has been reading-—or not reading—to write such amazing things as that twenty. eight inches is a proper size for a young woman's waist, when it 18 a full size for a well-made young man, Its just worth notice, on the reit- erated assertions about Greek laxity, that the term, ‘‘wasp waisted,” in several forms, is as old as Aristopha~ nes, And it is certain that the Romans severely laced and shoulder- strapped their girls, and even starved them, if necessary to make them slen~ der and upright. “Juvenose et graci- les et sic amantur,”! Terence says; and Macauley, who had read ever ;- thing, said that the Roman ladies did ti.l worse things w preserva their for ns. Whatever are the reasons for it, it is quite clear from history that corsets and tight-lacing in ene form or another have been the windmills of dress reforming Qixotes for 1000 years at least, Tne wind has some- times lulled, and they have fl sttered themselves that they had stopped the enils; but it has always risen again and knocked over the philosophers, t-olerical, medical and general,” and probably always will; so they may as well save their preaching for some —— Man-Hunting in Siberia. Sorry, indeed, even when death does not come to put an end to bis ex- lstence, is the lot of the conviet whe has succeeded in escaping from the mives of Eastern Siberia. Witheut resources of any kind, he must beg or rob his way back to Russia, The al ternative of seeking employment is one which often has disastrous conse- quences, The convict of the lowest type regards the Siberian ocolonist as an inferior, and has a saying which describes him as “blind for three days after birth.” But the colonist has his revenge. He works the supercilious convict like a beast of burden, and gives him as little rest and as little food as possible When wages are demanded the colonist has an original way eof satisfying his la borer. The money is paid without demur, but before the convict can get clear, he falls dead, killed by a baile! from the gun of his cruel emplo; er. This method of payment is some. times car-ied out on a large seale. It is adopted in the case of vagabond laborers who, having finished their sutumn work in the flields, return te the neighboring village to be paid off, The wages are forthcoming, and the labor ‘rs allowed to depart with their hardly earned money. But they lave no sooner gone than the peasant far. mer assembles his neighbors and Lave ing provided them with horses snd firearms, the whole party sallies f roa in pursuit of the vagabonds, The ri= turning laborers are speedily over thing more amenable, or al any rate -ly Art Notes, sp The fist exhibition of Japanese art ever made at Berlin is not open, being the collection of Prof. Gierke, of Bres- An equestrian group by Watts has been cast in bronze for Chester, Eng- land, It represents Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester. A year azo Queen Victoria bestowed This confers the privilege of the Q een’s signature to the diploma of membership The workshops at Paris in which Bartholdi has been oconfecting his days and Saturdays. Unless they are of the artistic fraternity, a small entrance fee is asked, pupil he once was, Falguiere was born at Paris have been cleansed by a very gimple process in use with crayon and pastel painteis; they have been cleansed with bread. The Athencum reports that they have sustained mach less damage than was supposed. A very large sum has been realized for the materials of an old house in Paris in addition to a oar. of 300,000, tion. The old beams were eagerly sought by cabinet-makers, the lead of the roof was a mine, works of art were found behind the wainscot,and marble mantels and staircase, doors and win- dow-frames found s market at good figures. Mr. George du Maurier, of London Punch, has acknowledged the dedics tion of “ College Cuts,” a pablication from the Columbia Spectator, and writes: “1 can heartily congratulate the artists or their work. The execu: tion and composition seem to me in most cases excellent, and it is delight ful to see good peint-work from young hands when there is so great a general tendency to use washes and trust to the engravers interpretation.’ Last May the General Assembly of Rhode Island passed a resolution ap- propriating $10,000 for a statue to Burnside whenever $20,000 shall have been subscribed by private persons or otherwise. Towns And cities were au. thoriz=d to appropriate a fractional part of 1 per cent, of their tax valua- tions for 1881, The committee having the statoe in charge announce that $18,500 has been subscribed and an effort is now being mad » to raise this to $20,000 or $25,000 and claim the $10, 000 from the State, The stone cross brought by Charney from Teotihuscan is creating some ex- citement in Paris. It is about 4 feet high, thick-set, with a relief on one of ite faces in the shape of a blunted Greek oross, and on the base four crosses In rellef. M. Hamy, Keeper of the Trocadero Museum, holds thst it 1« an emblem of Tialoe, god of storm and rain, one of the oldest of Mexican gods. The presence of such crosses in Mexico caused the Spaniards to believe that Bt. Thon as, whom they identified with Q relzalooat!, had preceded Chris the fact that Indies lived long and ia\ tianity in Mexico. & ¥ taken ; most ar: killed on thespot, ail his | confederates. The only respect shown for aut'.or- | ity is the prevalent babit, wher: rob- bery has been the motive of slaugh er, of concealing the dead, The murdered | convicts are usually cat up and mu | tilated, and the remains buried in | out-of-the-way places. This hunting {of the “hunchbacks,” a8 the | escaped convicts are often called | in derision, has gone on for years, | entering so deeply into the habits | of the people that it has escsved | the attention of few travelers through | Eastern Siberia, “Where sare the | men?” was asked of a woman loi in | charge of a small village adjoining | the highway. “Gone after the hunch- | backs,” was the reply. Buch i: the | prevailing demoraliz ition in this re | spect that boys have been heard to | ask their fathers to kill vagsbonds in order that they may see “how the | fellow will roil on his hump.” In { come of the governments it is certain | death for a convict escaped, or still | under supervision, to be caught re- turning from the mine. Occasionally the soldiers imitate the colonists in their expleitations of the vagabond. | The Cossack, as well as the ordiaary | colonist, covets cheap labor, and is | in the habit of rewarding with an | ounce or two of lead the convict who | declines to pass from one condition of | bond slavery to another. | Daring the colonization of the | Transbaiksl region the hunti:g of | vagabonds was one of the common di= | versions of the newly arrived settlers. | From Tomsk to Chiti there is a local- | ity that bas rendered itself noterious for the pursuit on a large scale of es- | caped convicts, In the Tomsk gov- | ernment itself whole villages sre de- | scribed as living solely by the rob- | bery of vagabonds. The river Karasan | has been so filled with the bodies of murdered convicts as to become pu- trid. Near Fingul open woods are known as a favorite ground for the slaughter. The whole of the district is full of the memories and traditions of Biberian man-hunting. Heroes of he sport are still alive. Bitkov, Romanov and Zivorota were each ex- per: in different ways. Romanov, for instance, gained celebrity in the wil. lage of Fingul, where he was in the habit of lying in ambush close to the highway, and shooting down every vagabond who passed. 1p the autumn evenings Bitkov used to pick off stragglers along the banks of the river Augar. During subsequent sport along the Biryus there were ii divid- ual Siberians who boasted that they had brought down 88 many s: sixty and in some oases ninety vag: bonds, Only upon one of these hunters of men do the vagabonds seem to have taken vengeance. They select~d one Paramonich, who had been ail his life engaged in killing convicts. The vagabonds assembled together, seized him and brought his career to a close by plunging him alive into a cau aron of incandescent met metal, The picture sttribated to Carrancio soquired for $2400 by the Umizi at Florence, is incomplete, as if it had formed part of a larger soene. The background is filled by a hill. An eo clesiasstie In rich robes stead: sur rounded by soldier: with halberds; a Moor snd a negro are near hin A man in a dark robe lined with vellow whispers in his ear. In front of the principal figures and running scross the picture is a beam, on which a man site with his feet in a hole in the ground, He looks backward at the eoolesiastic with a ma sion, According to the drawing is excellent t very rich and luminous,
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