A — N THE EDGE OF THE MARSH. — IN NOVEMBER, 3nd sienna and rusty gold ll the year on the marsh is old. Blackened and bent, the sedges shrink Back from the sea pool's frosty brink. Low in the West a wind-cloud lies, Tossed and wild in the Autumn skies Over the marshes, mournfully’ Drifts the sound of the restless sea IN JUNE Fair and green is the’ hin June ; Wide and warm is paps noon. The flowering rushes fringe the pool Wiih slender shadows, ha and cool From the low bushes ‘Bob White” calls; Into his nest a rose-leaf falls, The blue-flag fades; and through the heat, Far off, the sens faint pulses beat. yr. His First and Last Success. himself, So, love and sympathy could have given substance to his vision, Tony had lived royally to the end. Unhappily, love and sympathy, useful things in their way, were powerless They helped him, it is true, when he had to bury his boy for £5. But mate ters did not better with the fleeting vears, and so it came to pass that when, after twenty of them had shuddered away-his gentle wife having long since passed with all her hopes, to the practical quiet of a suburban cemetery—he found himsel{ in The back streed, ofa provin- cial town. dying in the dingy poverty of he realized that, for good {orill, he had either not-had, or if it “Poor fellow and in distress. "What a pity it will write so grandly and not keep to nature,’ Mrs, number three, letter across the breakfast table took some clotted cream, elawed up brother’s handwriting with a glare. ‘Keep to yOu mean. is Clive, passed and his nature, Keep to business, Confound the fellow. He never makes a half-penny by his wretched scribbling, ] or keeps it if he does. Only the daughter writes for five more—I suppose to bury him, of it they must manage with two.”’ Mr. Ba Harbinger, Harbinger & Clive, the check and sent it, and carefully brother, conduct in the rel, many years ago, from his birthright : but it isonly him to say that he had hated him hon- estly and cordially evér since. Having, moreover, of monial experiences, led to the great tallow interest, regularly to several lo¢ked up a rich relative in earned a reputation for but solvent, suffering, the married wrote payable to order to eldest crossed, his course of a family in the coyrse altar the heiress to a scribed societies, missionary mad house, ing real, wherever A8815t1 met with at moderate rate of 50 per cent, and three for their to add that he , all money, it is superfluous Knowr iltogether a Of a different brother, Anthony. in tallow : to his last half-penny to save a He was cursed with that amiable leprosy which who know about it cal Artistic nature, when his fat died. He forgave the brother robbed him. : He had, too, vague that life was meant for something bler wives, wid lely was safe man.’ He did not believe but he twice beggared himself friend. people at who had wronged him, had her, who than the skinning of society Mo: SOver, thi what could be got out of it, he wrote. In a word, he was altoge an unsafe man. But there was a Grub Street days and most of up and. down jt out Anthony. figure in their stupendous. they could themselves, those who at elbows, knew 1 > wap 1 literary world- Yet they had done They had done long clay pipe, one of by giving him a of porter and showing him to Parnassus: that classic was ascended thus in those days. So Anthony looked upward, with long clay pipe and pot of porter, and and-twenty “Somebody.” As back in the club with a guinea entrance fee, and hailed by some of the first intel- ects of the time, and by a good many of the second as ‘“Fony.””’ Before him, therefore, was a future of no common order, Many contributors of verses to provincial papers would have given their eyes for such. an opening... Tony recognized this sterling fact and was grateful. Heré he was instructing a certain — sometimes an uncertain portion of the British public at the rate of 75. 6d. a column.’ Having, notwith- standing ; his. method of ascending Parnassus, considerable depth and culture, and withal a quiet sense of humor, if striick him that, undeniably glorious as was “this' work, it was not exactly of a kind which he had proposed to himself a short time since, when taking his degree at Cambridge. He bad looked to a more exalted platform A perpetual lounge in the company of Steele, Addison, Goldsmith, Thackeray and Macaulay, was what that magic phrase, a *‘literary career,” had con- ured up for him. Literature was not only to supply him with a comfortable competency —this obviously, as a matter of course— but was to sweeten, adorn, and elevate his life. Confident of its power to do this, he married a gentle girl, who with even purer and nobler aspirbtions, hoped with all his. hopes, and saw all with his eyes. Indeed, with them saw yet more than he for she would never for a moment have consented to his making himself thor oughly comfortable on. the ideal plat, er gr A nt roo fom ba had, had tome to him unawares, he had somé- how missed his chance,’ Pom Berry- { more, who never ‘walkéd without an original five-act comedy of his own in | his coat pocket, set it down {0 the ini- ¥ of what every genius who has never belonged to it knows at the *‘ Dramatic Ring." The Tom { did, that t whose names | were figuring everlastingly on | playbill were in league with metropoli- | tan management generally, for the sole | purpose of ‘strangling out’’ rising ge Their signs and passwords were There was no secret about it, did not know, but few public he select every nius, Khown. They met once a week in a coal-cellar in the Adelphi, and buried an official {| MS., bought by the pound from a stary- ing outsider. Here he was dying, poor fellow. © And | a8 with his wasted hand, he stroked the wir of the pretty child, a slender who sat by his bedside, came over his eyes, and he cried but in a thin, sixteen, i & mist fasta gis, feeble, and ling “WwW what will she do without His little daughter Kissed i forehead, him i YOlce Merciful me?" his white toast and, bright, smile, whispered a great deal of loving me! Hegven, ithout 5 5 give Sonie and water, with a hopeful chatter in his ear. It ought rallied the forces of and want to have aman ds in poverty . for its substance was as Yor wr Ma a ie jartholome {3 w which would pay a » rent, That was something, 3 $ . 4 Lilal But what was to the m Mr, Tarragon, ti he manager That was quite Theatre Royal ? us ; could be read again and again, uld words say more than this ?’ Dear Sin: 1 | have read your piece, “The Dark Waters,”® again carefully, and like it, and propose putting it up for my open- ing on the 10th, This will give us three clear rehearsals. As to terms, we will say a pound an act, Does this suit vou ? I'm sorry vou are still indisppsed. If you can’t look in on me to-day T will call on you to-morrew and bring my leading man with me. He wants a little more **fat’’ for himself in the and will explain, He is right this. Act LL must have a little more backbone in Think this over. Yours, faithfully, SYDNEY TARRAGON, THEATRE ROYAL. i tag about it, “There wasn't the good fortune com- ing at last >" “The author of “Dark Waters’ said nothing, but drew the hand of the loving little speaker to his pale lips. At that moment a portly personage | with a flaxen beard, concealing a very cruel and ugly mouth, pushed himself, { without knocking, into the sick-room, and sat himself down in the one easy chair, with his hat on. **A nice fellow you are, coming down to this place and getting ill. I heard at the club last night you were really bad, but you don’t look it, "Why, you'y twice as much color as I have, What a humbug you are.”’ Mr, Bartholomew Clive got up quite annoyed. {*‘I might have saved myself this jour- ney.’ he said, glancing savagely around the room ; *‘its clear I've had it for nothing.” The dying man looked at his portly visitor steadily. A faint fire eizfiled int his eye. “1 did not ask you to take it,’’ he nid, measuring out his words slowly, with the emphasis of restrained but rising passion ; ‘I haven't sent for you, and, a3 | am dying, in the name of God, if you have anything human about you, go, and let me die in peace.” He drew his child close to him, The other glared at him in earnest now, “Oh, this is your gratitude, is it ?v he growled, with set teeth, ‘“Well, it's just like you, You've always been the same-—~never been grateful for anything anybody has ever done for you, Here I've come down from town merely see what I could do with your girl, if anything happened, and you abuse me as if I hadn't helped you out of half a dozen messes—yes, over and over again, And you back her up against we, do you? Why, but for me she'd have to go to the work-house and you know it. you rail at me like bh ane Food better 100k” quty ac me too far.” RA (ARG Cleat notthuch Sh struck him this was a neat speech, and he gave it with point. The child mads a movement toward him, She vn speak, but her quivering voice broke tears. She could only clasp her father tightly in her arms, He was sitting up erect in bed now—a wild, fatal flush in his cheek, His portly young brother had, with an instinet of self-preserva- tion, drawn near to the door that led to the sitting-room beyond, for he did not like being cursed by anybody, even ona death bed, but in a war of words, with a safe retreat before him, it greatly sodthéd him to have the last. And so he took the handle and held the door ajar, not noticing that, as he did so, two figures enlered the sitting- softly from the other modest entrance that opened on the grimy flight of stairs outside, room Both the new comers were clean-shaven, smelled of tobacco tempered with gas, and had braid upon their coats, One possessed quite a brand-new hat. This was Mr. Sidney Tarragon, the manager of the Theatre Royal. The was distinguished by a rich brown wig, of teeth, and a plaited pair of eyeglasses, At night, carefully made up and with the first pick ‘of the wardrobe. he did not look more than about forty-seven It had that he Lear five years ago in his own hair, was an eminently useful profession. This was Mr, other an almost too excellent set as Romeo, had played He the Tarra- been said member of Sidney gon's leading man. The two came about them, each other, and attitude tive edges of two unsteady chairs. There Then ners the “leave looked ied to down in an of rapt attention on the respec- inh on listened, tip-toe, smiled, noike finally sat horse-hair was a moment's pause, a ous, earnest voice broke zi! “ge * shignce | me, vou coward !* if eried. ‘Leave me, darkened the that here ad Come enough to Have my wh life, ross my death-bed vou must Isn't it ight ot He and cast vour hideous shadow? becatise 4. who have 8, seventy Lines seven a change might Coine hae Wl through Ia) of indiffere: eleventh Years heart! Es 1 wn on You when the i you I of very has struck, and witness that, spite myself, name 1 bear, the blood t within my veins are utterly me Deca Inysierious them nage Does this which has both. you 7 I ommon $ sound so terrible tH } 1 ‘ wk back 0 the day when, with smooth words, proffering your aid like jef, ay, 1 and te e last words that 1 sl lips, tell me, if vou dare, that f then, vou have as a brother, vou robbed me ath Look back me with tl I say, to that wall ever hear frog tell i Your I CAD me if or the You wrong sou did me borne me not ugnant and undyin You answer—noth- whiten as I speak: whiten of the speaker was back, feeling for some- thin hatred ey ing; but- The choked ; thing with his darkness, ery, YOioe he fell hands, as one in There was a child's agonized and then the last “But it over.” the whispered. in broken gotten—and I say you—with dying breath.‘ forgive you My child ; it's over ; WwW ords sinking accents, came, is me “for- 10 brother,’ (rod help me.” to There was a prolonged burst of ap- viause from the four hands in the little sifting-room. “Capital! that’s what it wanted. You've kept all the fat for the finish, my boy ; and, by Jove, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll make it five down, and a fifteenth share of the net, if it runs a fortnight. There!’ It was a magnificent offer, and the jubilant manager, as, with a “1 hope 1 don’t intrude,” he peeps playfully round the door into the chamber of death, knew it, Magnificent, however, as it was, it met no response. A swooning girl knelt by a figure that lay prone, in an awful stillness, on a small iron bed, while something uneasy and ashen cow ered and crouched in a corner, Mr. Sidney Taraagon's practiced eye took in the tablean at a glance and noted its defective stage management. “This hasn't been rehearsed,” he thought rather soberly to himself, And he was right. “Act III" had not been réliearsed, But it had had a little more “backbone put into it, and now--the curtain was down, and the play was over, et tf stesi The Traveler gives us the important news that a well-formed spotted fawn was born at the deer park on the Com- mon, this morning, It is to be hoped the mother enjoys the *‘ thrift that fol- ows fawning." «Commercial Bulletin. A AIAN 2 * To remove ink stains from linen, dip the ink spot in pure melted tallow, then wash out the tallow and the ink wil come out with it. night fmt i A man's mind is like his a ta bed-it The S Disponaecy. CHRONIC DYSPEPSIA. —The atrophy —-wisting—which characterizes declin- ing vital power showsitself in the whole digestive tract. The mucous membrane that Hines it from the mouth down- ward is greally thinned and toughened, Many of the glands, including those which * secrete digestive fluids, wholly disappear, while all are more or less rasted. The consequence is slow and imperfect digestion. The aged, mainly from eating food in quantity and quali- ty such as they had previously not been accustomed to, and sometimes through the influence of other chronic diseases, especially bronchitis and hearteomplaint, are very liable to chronie called by physicians gastric catarnh. In this disease the membrance of the stomach is unevenly thickened and hardened, Minute parts of it. The the gastric juice obstructed by fat from fatty degeneration. motion (peristaltic) of the intestines is impeded. toms of eating, dyspepsia, mucous ulcers cover large tubules, from which is poured, are often globules, The stomach resulting natural and Among thesymp- in the constantly ; are a after to food, SeNKe weight stomach aversion ed : thirst, heart-burn ; ed in Pressure ; Ol unless highly season- d pain in the stomach, spot, 1 especially for drinks ; diffus- relieved by distrust of wakefulness, or Jdook- be caused but t L0- tt er acl or a small ut dos Pondene : frritabilit disturbed sleep ; ing skin, not only friends ; a mallow or dirty The disease may food, drinks, too li by lmproper bacco, aleoholie § ee cise, mental or manual labor aft The doctor still £r eal- ing. should have charge of be di- how- the case, his treatment will rected mainly to the diet, fies ys th is matte r, HIGss, ever, the patient co-operates with him his efforts will be COO s ino it Rien Y + 51 HE. Wi Suc PETRLION Loomis fACe BLEEDIN a chil be placed in it instructed of the This many will feel inelin Chie Ww AWS stops remedy is has never been instance, ey or LuMna Sinyvrna How Turkey, and states tl * regs 05 F pied ¢ Ove] sufficient ange $ 5 # place over w flannel shirt bandage yourself with a bandage : profuse the of perspiration and Wearisome ensue on loins, quickly plaint, A UmiLp’s Ben. —A should slope a little from the foot, that the little higher than the bend the neck to pillow, You ae this Oli ( hild ‘8 the head be 80 aay feet, hut neve shouldered, cramps the veins and ar teries, and interferes with the circulation of the blood. child feathers, A————— esa— Never. Never eat any article of food simply to save it, as the stomach cannot well of saving a few mills, It is better econ- omy te throw such things to the swine or the birds. Dyspepsia implies a loss far greater than could possibly result from the loss of a little food, which or- dinarily, might be kept till the next meal, Never eat in haste in consequence of a want of sufficient time. It is far bet- of food (that might be enough, even), improper haste, What is gained in time is lost in the amount of nourish ment appropriated. It is emphatically true in this case that “‘haste makes waste," Never imagine that the more you eat the more you will be nourished for the opposite is often true. We are nourish- ed by what we digest, and not simply bp what is taken into the stoma’, In some cases the labor of digestion de- stroys more strength than the amount of nourishment will afford. Tuere is mare practical starving from eating too much than too little. Salt was first manufactured in this country,at Syracuse, N ew York, in 1788, Clips. S— Near JeweLny,—A Turin jeweler has made a boat, formed from a single pearl, with a sail of beaten gold studded with diamonds. The binnaecle light at its prow is a ruby, and an emerald serves as a rudder, Its stand is a slab of ivory, The whole weighs Jess than half an ounce, and the price is 85000, Apour Moxkeys. This is a recent ordinance in the town of Bellary, India : “Resolved, that as the loose monkeys in the town have become exceedingly troublesome, by attacking women and children carrying eatables, turning the tiles of the houses, in the town, these caught and sent out into and that arrangements be monkeys may and roofs over- of the animals be the jungles. made that not any injury while being seized,” receive AximaL Crigrs.—Amongst their pi Te The oyster-growers on the coast of France have discovered that oyster shells which are thrown back into the sea produce thirty or forty-fold in two years. The theory is that the young oysters attach themselves to the old shells in preference to any other object on the bed of the sea. -—— E mperor William's Wardrobe. An interesting and extensive ward- robe is that of Emperor William, His uniforms comprise one of each of the regiments of the guards and of the body regiments, one each of Baden, Bavaria. Saxony and Wurtemburg, four Russian uniforms and one each of his Austrian regiments of the line and hussars, The civilian suits are elegant and chiefly dark, although a light pair of pantaloons is now and then tolerated ; the regular head-covering is the high silk hat. The hunting-suits renewed, on are rarely many fancies, Arabs ‘that every rate of animals by its chiefs, curious to whom the pay obeisance, others are The king of the diles the Nile, Fleas near Siout., The king of at in the Holy and deputations of lives Tiberias, Land, a certain day in his palace, in the the sitiuted midst of beautiful gardens Lake of Genesareth,”’ WASHINGTON S Washing public BTYLE.—President on never went to Congress on business except in a state coach by coach was an object cream-colored horses. which admi of the now in the streets of the drawn six The excite the ration throng even city. was built in the shape of a hemisphere, and its panels were adorned with Cupids of 1 equalled surrounded with flowers Florida and of fruit not to be f California. The oo arrayed. in and worthy achman Were $e veries of white searlet, POsTAGESTAMPS, — It always has puzzie for thrifty persons what with used postage-st icing monk has solve he has papered the walls Imonasier siected eight hun- €mi then usand st sorted th ac ALPE, and 4 ty of animal and NET aesigns, such as IWers, mollces, 3 Saad ca I LE UHik nd inscriptions, the day the task together wit! was finished, EMenso here LONGYELLOW, alike of poetry in an anecdote of the a week § a4 touch and i pathos R. WwW. i before #14 Tag # voia ine Emerson, Only or two his death he stood Longfellow, his friend Or mans m his he years, return after “That been funeral ceremony, he said, gentleman whose funeral we have attending was a beautiful but 1 forget The failing memory of Emerson was unable the of the intelle and trace sweet and soul ; his name.” dead moral the to retain the but left | Kindred mind. | Tur WHOLE | rerman writer, “external”? poet, ‘tual | beauty an unfading on Hoag, — described Boel ner SOMew bat a | who for a wager would eat a whole cherries including the | strength of teeth and power of swal- i lowing enabled him to masticate, or, at stones, | least, to munch, into small fragments, glass, earthenware and flints. He pre- { ferred birds, mice and caterpillars, but | when he could not get these delicacies he put up with mineral substances ¢ mee he devoured pen, | pounce, and seemed half inclined to deal in the same way with the ink-stand | itself. He made money by exhibiting his powers this way until about sixty years of age, after which he lived nearly twenty years in a more rational way, —- Marniace Fees,—The story of a | New York pastor who was in the act of admiring a $20 gold piece which he had received for a marriage fee when a messenger from the groom arrived to | exchange it for a small bill, reminds a | elerical experience of the Rev. Christo- Several years ago ona very cold day that excellent man rode on horseback a distance of six miles to perform a4 marriage ceremony, As he was about starting for home, having duly authorized the two hearts to beat as one, a coin was placed in his hand, He dropped it into his pocket and rode away. When he got home be looked at it and lo! it was an old-fashioned copper cent. The next morning the groom appeared at his door, and, having ex- ment how the annoving mistake had handed the clergyman a quarter, Fireproof paper is being made from a mixture of vegetable fibre, asbestos, Thr decrease of the public debt in | June was $4,800,476, and for 11 months of the fiscal year (to June 1st) was $119, 795,061. i ¥ borax, and alam, in certain definite while in ink, also inde Of Shi viel cunutisnants, With + the ad- ' dition of graphite. olde; Most have long nd inter- the better a of the been principle the | esting pieces { different sent to museums, dress tempt. except the | worn on the day of i Perhaps the most Nobiling’s at remarkable piece is | the Emperor's brownish-gray havelock, | which he wears in the Spring and Pall and with which, ty-five years old, he is not willing to part. All his uniforms and | BUits are made by a member of the same | family, i Sur { on his drives, althoug | nearly twent whose predecessors presented { the young Prince William with his first | uniform. Numerous as the contents of | the wardrobe have been and still are, it { has never held an article which nearly | every citizen looks upon as an indispen- | sable one a dres viz. NZ-ZOWn. TE — The Oldest Bank- Notes. The oldest F money," ban k- notes are the “fiving iA ir ‘convenient money first 1 Chir FV. Tu notes were issued Originally these the treasury. to the under Government experience «i BO a change system of banks jo | spection and control. The early Chin- 3 4 Yue +1 > © 5 greenbacks’’ were in all essentials similar to the modern bank-notes bear- 4 } vif $e } 1¢ ing tne na the bank, the d % and Over and exoriation +t Sen § y Lice Ol Lhe pain Sling. “Produce all you The notes printed in blue ink on paper made the the mulberry tree. 39 B. C. is preserved in Museum at St. Petersburg. The Empress Josephine Had $12 money, {| Cane were from I One fibre of issued in 12 1 : i the Asiatic L000 for and the end of carried baskets Sols to her inspection, » boug ing ti whether she needed it or not. pin vel out each of and at Year Shi pkeepers room for hi everyt 1al pleased her. Her toilet Samsyined much time, and she lavished efforts on the preservation and embellishment of her person. unwearie she changed her linen three times a day, and Huge baskets were breught to her containing different dresses, shawls From these she selected her costume for the day. She possessed be- tween three and four hundred shawls, and always wore one in the mornings. whieh she draped about her shoulders with enequaled grace. Bonaparte would scold her sharply for her extravagance, and she would tearfally promise to re- form, but she never did. After the same car>, even when she saw no one, She diel covered with ribbons and pale rose-colored satin, Note Machine. ———— The pianist need now no longer de- spair. After innumerable attempts in past times to construct an apparatus which would print off characters rep- resenting any piece played on its key- board, one has at last been devised which is successful. Its outward form is that of an ordinary cottage pianoforte, but hidden underneath the keys is a cylinder covered with paper, Upon this paper certain little nibs attached to the under-side of the kevs make their mark, after being. supplied by wmechanicay means with suitable ink. This trans. cribed harmony can afterwards be readily translated into | the ordinary musical notation, a task which is suffi- clently simple to be undertaken by a person of ordinary intelligence. SS Asbestos Paint. It may be mentioned that the fire-re- sisting properties of asbestos may be communicated to ordinary paint. Paint mixed with asbestos liquid is, we un- degstand, largely used in this country for several purposes, such as coating wood exposed to heat. Zhres oats
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