an IREEAVES. All day the reapers on the hill Have plied their task with sturdy will, But now the field is void and still; And, wandering thither, I have found Tue bearded spears in sheaves well bound, And stacked in many a golden mound, And while cool evening suavely grows, Aud o'er the sunset’s dying rose The first white star throbs snd glows, And from the clear east red of glare, The ascendant harvest moon floats fair Through dreamy deeps of purple air, And in among the slanted sheaves A tender light its glamour weaves, A lovely light that lures, deceives— hen swayed by Fancy's dear command, Amid the past I seem to stand, : In hallowed Bethlehem’s harvest land And through the dim field, vague decried, A homeward host of shadows glide, And siekles gleam on every side. Bhalows of man and maid I trace, With shapes of strength and shapes of grace Yet gaze but on o single face A candid brow, still smooth with youth; A srangquil smile; a mien of truth— The patient, stap-oyed gleamer, Ruth } ee ————————— AN INNOCENT DEOBETION, WAY. it is delightful! Absolutely pers feet, Mr. Tregarvis!"1 never saw a wore splendid view! How kind vou were to bring me here,” A grim, rock-bound region on the Notth, Cornish eoust; inland a grace ful steel-biue river, bounded by verdant pes and a stately grey bmw among its terraces upon the banks, ‘I'lie house was peculiar in its a~chitecture, as well as its solitude; and May Probyn’s blue eyes, after wandering over the land. scipe, came back to dt “] ris is a handsome placel” Her companion, a bandsome, stal- wart fellow in 8 miner's suit, seemed averse to replying; but his grave glance grew gloomy to severity. “Do you Know who aives there, ¥r Tregarvis?!’ she asked, The young man answered the ques tion with reluctance. **Nb ong at present, 1 believe.” After a moment, He added: “It is called the Grange,” Phd irl looked up at her companion quickly. _ 4 sar dandlndy 401d me its history esterday,” ‘‘How theowner, Squire ferschioyle, died there last year; that his only child had married against his will; that he ra¢éived her child when she died, yet always hated the, father, who was never alowed to see the boy, who grew up-as heir to the property; yet Ins graadfather quarreled with him on his dying bed, and left his beautiful estate to the daughter of a brother, whom he had not seen since infancy.” The young man's grave was a study in its play o he looked at the girl. “Did sha tell you what the quarrel was about?’’ “She did not know.” Oswald Tregarvis spoke slowly, “The Tather was a good, but dnfoc unate man. He gave up the boy with reluctance, at the prayer of his dying wiley He deprived himseit humble but upright life he lived solis tary. But when the son was of hge he made himself known to him. The two men came to love each other. The grandfather had never shown affection for thé boy, whose heart starved in his breast through all his youth "for a little lowe, 2 » ’ on The young man paused for a nos ment, thén went on again, “His father Lad been a miner in his routlh. He returned to a superior rafel of it In his old age, and sta- tioned himself near his boy. There was no hope tbat the grandfather blonde face { emotions as dearer to each other. Then came the old man’s long, last sickness, called his graudson, and biddin repudiate his father's na his, informed him what he hiumbis sole heir. - The you In every other way 1 have tiled to please you grandfather, buf tifis I cannot do.” The old man may Have and take made oan re- them, but Ris ahger was terrible. He turned the g he had Bever be- fore had eause to reprimand oul of the “Do you keow whit he did’ thea?” “Joined his father, went« into. the mines, and worked with him.” “He was very brave. The grand- father was unreasonably cruel.” The young man hurried fal from the rock against which he h d “been he cams to that Rr “8 todielt his will, bequeathing the Grange to him'in ase of his cousin’s deaths, Iam afraid,” be added, with a i upward glance at the lowering clouds above them, “itis going lograin; you cannot sketch today.” § The girl gla took up the satchel, containing artists’ materials, up bere ‘another time,” rocky slope man 4+] ean come she said, ‘vows The two went down the a fair curls showing their crispness under the simple cap. : May man fleetly up the old staircase to her mother’s room, and Oswald went back to his labor, He walked and worked with a mus- ing eye, It had cost him something, stirred him painfully, to refer to his experiences, He was not in the habit of speaking of his misfortune, His unjust disinheritance was a sore gpot, which he was fond of probing. Aad 2 new thought haunted him now, which he tried to put aside; and, leay- ing his monotonous task, began to talk with the men about a proposed blast- ing of rocks, for which a heavy train would soon have to be laid, i “You'll be careful, boy--eh? Blast ing is dangerous work,” said a bent, little man, mn a low tone, at his el- Ww. “I'll be careful, father,” with a rare gmile. “We shall not be ready for a few days, anyway.” But when work hours were passed, the haunting thought again took pos. session of him, his blue-eyed girl, whom he had known but a brief month —he loved bier! After he had parted from her the truth broke upon him. How fair ana sweet she was, and how fragile! Who should wih must keep oc@refully this delicate flower, though May Probsn was far from believing herself not strong, and, indeed, had a peculiar elasticity of constitution. It was rather a tenderness and sensibility of nature, which seemed to need protection, and the fostering care of love. 4 Did he read aright those eyes of blue? Had he found favor in the'r sight? . The thought wade his countenance luminous for a moment; then it grew downcast, He was a poor and homeless man, He had no wish to wed one he loved to such misfortune. What would any woman gain by giving up her freedom and independence to marry him? He could not support a wife in comfort. He would never ask this girl to live on the wages of a mining overseer, How lovely she was in the Sunday calm of tne next day, walking slowly along the pretty path of the old garden, among the tall red holiyhbcks, in a match her eyes! He walked by her side, The atten- tion with which he regarded her did not discompose her. It was part of May's chang that she seetsd qu te un- conscious of her beauty, and unaware of its effect pon others, asked; “that the heiress of the Grange is ‘going to take immediate a “1 have not heard.” And *It does not matter to me.” But something matiered, down wearily when rustic seat under an old tree, “The housekeeper told Mrs. Lord, our landlady, that they were expecting Miss Verschoyle this week, Bat per- haps you do not like to talk of this?” “["do not!" he answered, "briefly. He missed her glance of sympathy, but Le felt that she pitied” him; vet, she could 90t know how the world seamed chaos aboul Nal ~ Wauld he had paver been Born if the best things of his life—afféetion home, wife must ‘be denied him “He loved this girl! he wauld love ug other, and vdded, He sat 1 reticent face of Oswald ,Tregarvis be- trayesd little, < Day by day he fought hs fight. Tias Miss Verschoyle, this utkpown cousin of his—how fortunate Was shel He recollected that he would be ex- gl to call on her. “Ah, that was asking too auch! Though he ned have against her. He had heard He bel'eved was. an orphan. Yes, she was (XE so Round and round went the weary cirele of tiought. There was nowhere yelief but in the depths-of toll in the mings, Physically wearled, he would spend kis nights in slesp” instead of thought. Ab leagtly cane the day appointed ior blasting the. huge mass of rocks Fwhich obstructed the opening of an- other shaft. The task was his, and the trust ai ortant one. e teiin jal apd the locality clesp@d, No need $0 Wain those who were familiar. with the danger of such an explosion, bat a look-out must be kept for persons unconscions of the peril. : Xet all seemed as it should be. The sure red spol was creeping Lh. fhe hill on ils way to the powdlder-lilled drills Fahe explosion would cone, nd no one ments of rock. “is 3 v : ‘Gathered in knots st intervals of , the gnen waited for the rible report of the blast, Suddenly a handl grasped Oswald's aii EE “Look there, boy!” whispered old Murs Tregarvis, honasaly. Oswald followed his father’s point. ing finger to the top of the hill, A. yamand figure stood there. id did mot know who it was, He ‘only saw that she had come over the hill from the other side, and ing, had turned to look back, over the landsca , He saw, too, that the other ge is at fhe foot of the hil," he Dogs! Call to het ou "catinbt do it. tore o pn A AEE PAP) grandfather's heiress! Only one little instant he lingered, but in that brief time Satan made a bid for his soull “She does not heed—she does uot understand!’ he ered, his voice breéak- nj suangely. hen he was off, Ho was a swift runner. He bad a powerful voices, too, and he used his legs and lungs with the desperation, The distant shouting had failed to at- tract the girl's attention; but as Os- wald came aeross the Held, she turned her head and looked at im. 4 In that instant his voice failed him; but his wild leaps brougut him to her glide, “May! are we too late?” His ery, as he snatched her up, was ambiguous; but she grew white.— She clung about his neck. Speechless- ly he bounded down the rocks she had lately elimbed so leisurely, Roots and Lbrasches snapped unter his stron tread, Once he slipped, and it seemec as if they would be whirled to the bot tam, but clasping his precious burden ti hier, the young man bounded to the hill’s foot, and springing into a cave, lost his footing ac last, and fell, as the whole world seemed drowned In the volee of the exnlosion, Hestruggled up, *‘My little darling! ave you hurt?” “No, no! But you look so dread- fully—ssxOh, what is the matter?" He told her, She could scarcely be whiter, when she understood what her peril had been; but her broken words confessed her love with her gratitude. “Sweetheart! pure soull’”” he sobbed, “1 ‘am not worthy of your dear love, Buta moment ago, I had the beart to let you perish, 1 thought you were my grandfather's helpess,”’ And so I am. Dear Oswald, will you not share my good fortune with me?" “Youp» “1 am May Probyn Verschoyle. 1 have played a little ruse, II was a harmless on You will forgive me, 1 wanted lo Know you, and I did not want you to bate me at the siart, Come; here is the carriage; let us go and look at our home together.” How could he resist such soft be- guiling? And, indeed, there was no longer any need to deny his heart, eh ———————————————————————— *$iaif » Dollar At Least. Ee ass. A stranger who got into the Union swileh locomotives had not aman at work in the flour sheds seized him and pulied him off he track, The stranger for a moment, but after he had taken a seat on the plat (ru and got his breath he cailed out: “My mao, that was nobly done, | suppose you can make use of $5,000 in cash?” “Well, parhiaps.”’ The stranger brestbed Leavily, rubbed his arm and after a minus con- tinued: “Yes, I feel just like making you a present of a thousand dollars,” his first observation, but it wasn’t for the nour-rolleriofind fault, Ile brushed away at the stranger's hat to gel the dust off, and ashe banded it over he wis informed: “1 think vou would know where (0 put a nundred dollars if you badd it, eh?" . “L want sothing, sir. You were dager, and 1 pulled you away.’’ “But I shall insist upon your ace cepting something. You certainly saved my live, and I shouldn't begrudge $25." He got out his wallet which wa crowded full of bilis, and as he handled them over he remarked: “Ten dollws would buy your wile a dress, and every Lime she wore it you could think of we.” Yes mir,” The bill came’ oul bul was quickly replaced, and after 8 minute spent in somes mental calculation, the stranger all at once handed out a $2 bill with thie observalion: “Iere, my man, go aud get you a pew hat, and ret assured 1 shall ever be grateful vo you." “Then it was seen that the laborer was painfully embarrassed. He shifted from one leg to another, looked up and down the shed, and wnen asked the trouble he replied: “Please, sir, but haven't you any small change about you? 1 think a quarter would be plenty of reward for saving your life.” “A quarter? Well, considering the radroad pays you for Lhe time you were hau 5 around, anaybe that is enough, Here 18 is and 1 in - again, you can look for half a dollar at least,” tine of the Legends of Caps May Poin, There are somo old reminicences of Cape May that are quite interesting to our Neues; na them this may be apropos: Ab bis rears ago, what is now Known us ay Point was Under the control of Hon Downs Ed- munds; some of his workmen found one day on the marled surface of trees Pam. The signs created a lo ent, and ’ ’ ey To They found marks : which directed Sham 10 4 certain spot, now within a few feet of Lily Lake. Mr, Miller carried ths money rod. At od It 4s | as he could bo oi lie a a ha nt ety men like Sowers, le Blaskos Bo Easily. - romeiniagor “But didn’t you see him blush?” “Well, what of that?" “Don’t you think he was lying?” “No, I don’t. I know he was telling me square truth *’ “Do you know the circumstances?” “Yes, and I know he told them just ad they were,’ “If sounded like a lie anyway. ’’ “That is why he blushed,” said Mr, Denison, for this talk was taking place in his law office just after the departure of a young man who had been sued and was seeking advice from his attorney. “I venture to say no man has had more trouble than I with blushes, and 1 think I know some of the causes be- hind them. You may have noticed that I blush on every conceivable occa- sion, If a question is put to me quick~ ly, I blush, If I meet a friend slap on the street—unless I see him some time before I reach him—I blush, If any- body speaks my name from behind or frown some unexpected quarter, I blush, As much as I have been before juries, cate refers to me as ‘the “irned coun. sel for the defense. Hang it! I blush on all sorts of occasions, and yet I don’t believe anybody would say 1 am an es pecially modest or bashful man. “No, sir.” continued the old attorney, “J have blushed and blushed all my life, and the more I blush the more [ try not to to, and the more I try not to the more I blush, Above all, the mean. &8t blush is just such n one as you saw on that young man’s face just now. I know just how he felt. He knew he was telling a pretty hard story, and he could see in your face that you didn’ believe him, That's why Be blushed. If he had been talking to me alone he would not have blushed, because he knows I am familiar with the circum- stances he related; but you looked doubtingly at him, and he feit your mistrust so keenly that it brought the blood to his face.’ After a little pause Mr, Dendson cop- tinued: *I never pay the least attention to blushes when examining a witness, The blush is not, as is too often bellev- ed, the evidence of a lie. Nor is it a true signal of embarrassment, I know that, for I have been told that I was blushing purple when I was as cilm and unembarrassed as I aw at this mo- ment. There are many causes for my blushes; some of them purely physical, I think; but often when I am telling something—soma little personal recol- lection, perhaps, that amounts to npoth- ing--I get it in my head that somebody doubts some part of it. Then 1 blush. Then 1 feel that 1 am blushing, and 1 say to myself: Now he will see me blush and will be sure to think I am lying,’ and that makes me blush all the mue, until finally I can feel my face bum and glow like a coal, and I say to my- self: “Now he issare ] am lying, and he thinks I know be issure of it,’ and s0 I. stand and blush because I think he doubts me until, perhaps, I really make him doubt we bécanse of my blushes. ** — Sen Monsters. The kraken i¢ deseribed in an ancient MS, (about A. D. 1180) attributed to the Norwegian King Sverre; by Olaus Magnus (1553); and by Christian Fran. cis Paulinus of Elsepach (1643-1712). Ponloppidan’s work was published in 1751, and Mr, Lee, supporting what he says by quotations, describes him as a conscientious and painstaking investi. gator, who did his lesb to separate truth from falsehood and exaggeration and who wrote in a modest anid candid gpirit, The e which Mr. Lee notes, and which 15100 long for repro- uetion here, contains a desegintion of ihe krakeu gathered fod the reports of the fishermen, who from time to time seen il; and, allowing for exag- geration, it agrees clofely enongh with the deséription of a gighntic entitle. fish, Pontoppidan, getting confused in his genera, show nevertheless, some shrewdness when he wrole that “‘as this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the pol ype or of the starfish kind, as shall ter be more fully proved, it seems that the parts that are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the ten tacula or feeling instruments called horns as well as arma.” The Bisho went on to Lament that, as there seéme little hope of seccumtely obferving a live kraken, nobody iad embraced an opportunity which onoe cceurred of ex- amining an entire dead specimen. This opportunity he had heard of from the Rev. Mr. Friis, Minister of Bodoen, in Nordland. ! Mr. Friis related that ““in’ the year 1680 a krake (perhaps 8 young and foolish one) came the water that haus et wien the rockaand elif s ip tiie wg; though the gene cfistom of that creatine 15 to Keep seve. ral leagues from land, and therefore, of course, they must die there.” This row" passage and the comments on t known te do any great harms, except they have taken away the pi those who consequently could not bring tidings. ’’ cv fe to discriminate between friend foe, and ultimately becomes very 1 of what Mr. Lee has to teil us about the octopus (of which he says that an ordinary; specimen may very well ‘be dangerous to bathers) and its ten-armed relatives, we come lo the fact that no octopus {s known to have attained such a size as is necessary to account for the kraken, and which is perhaps more im- portant, that it does not tb on the surface of the sea, but hides and skulks in corners beneath, ‘‘Sepia might pass as a microscopic miniature of the great Scandinavian monster, bat lacks the attribute of size, There is no reason to believe that any true sepia has a body more than eighteen inches] Asto the existence of gigantic calamaries, there is pienty of evidence, which, how- ever, Mr. Lee fells us was not finally accepted either by naturalists or laymen until in 1873 two specimens were en- land, and a portion of ons and the whole of the other were brought ashore and preserved for examination by zoolo- gists, The first was seen hy tW0 mus 2080 off Belle Isle, Conception bay, y took it for a piece -of wreckage, &nd struck it with a gaff, upon which J shot out two tenacular arms as [£10 seize them, They severed the arms with an axe, and the vreature moved off ejecting the inky fluid. They de- scribed its body as being 60 feet™in length, and said that when httacked it reared a parrot like beak as big as 4 six- gallon keg. Reconstructed by Professor Verxill from the fragments preserved, the crea- ture’s body is shown to have been 10 feet in length and 2 fest 5 inches in di ameter, “Long tentacular arms, 92 feet, head two feet, total length about 44 feet.” The six-gallon keg beak would be about three inches long wn the upper, 14 inches in the lower mandible, About three weeks later a smaller cala- mary of the sane species was caught in a herring net in Logie and brought ashore entive, but for the loss of its to cut off; and it is noted that they had great difficulty in dispatching it. Doth specimens were preserved by the care of Rev. M. Harvey, of 8t. Johns, New- foundiand, Es ree tigi The Old Time Doctor, The old doctor who years ago was such a great man in Arkansaw, has re- tired from practice. Hig old saddles Bags hang on the quilting frames ander the shed, and his grand-children peel apples with his surgical instruments, The bones of his old horse have been used as a fertilizer by some progressive Yankee, There was a day, though, when the old man now so gray and fee- ble, was strong, almost as stiong as the medicine he carried, His word was law in namervus households, Quinine aod calomel were the only medicines fof which he had any respect. When these medicines failed, it was thought time for the patients to call on a higher power for naturalization papers in an- other hemisphere. The lancet was a great factor. If aman was shghtly ill, bleed him, If he was dead, wait awhile. Bleeding was a mania among the doctors. It taged like an. epidemic, If a man had his left arm torn off, the next thing was “‘souce’” a knife in has right arm, It did not seem to enter the minds of these “old timers’ that a man needed blood, With them, flesh ight enter the Kingdom of Eseulapius, but blood was excluded, gested to several physicians with whom he was holding a consultation that it would no doubt be betier not to bleed the patient any more. The old physi. cians looked at the young fellow in amazement, and one of them found breath to exclaim. “What “Isaythat 1 dont think that it would be a good idea to bleed hima any more at fpetent. The old physicians looked at each other, and sorrowfully shook their beads, “Upon what do you base this wild as- sertion, sic?" “1 base it upon comtoon sense. The patient was suffering in the first from loss of biood, thén we bled him, and now, I say, that it- would be betler to wait until he is able to stand another drain upon his system.” “He i8 hopelesdly insane,’ said one of the doctors, meaning the yo fellow, “I don’t know that his case is. hope- jess,” one of the party replied, ‘bat (it goon will be unless humediate action Is taken, Ie needs bleeding,” and they seized him and cuba hole in his scalp, All of these old fellows have retired {rom practice, with records red with the blood of their countrymen. They have not become jeconciled o the new ‘and Jess boisterous mode of practice, and even now, if one of them should be ealled upon, he would have his knife in the patient in jess than five minutes, mn A AISI — Petrifida Oysters. : sl ii Nite Tawrence Bis natural History bureau of the Jib-boom Jub New London, Conn., with a euri- ous freak of nature. It is a branch of white birch, covered i» YOO YOR THOUGHT. Prejadice is the reason of fools, Health is the vital principle of bliss, Yaith Is a higher faculty than reason. Ii we build, gh, let us begin low and deep. Discretion of speech is more than eloquence. . : Splendor and extravaganceare masks for poverty. crack the nul. He has hard work, indesd, who has nothing to do. Truth becomes sffective by frequent contemplation. The figsb and worst of all faults is to cheat ong’s self, The great aureole encircles only the brow of the dead, Choose the path of virtue, and im- tate a high pattern, As every thread of gold is valuable, $0 Is every minute of time, Advice is seldom welcome, who need it most take it least, I've heard sunning old strangers say, fopls for argdinents Hse wagers. "Prosperity 18 no jast scale; adversit ‘is Lhe only nee to weigh friends, Selest’ a worthy object in life, and bend all your efforts ju that direction. The weakest spot. of every man is where he thinks himself the strongest, Women are happier in their illusions than in their most agreeable experiences Knavery is suppl and ean bend, but honestly = firth and upnght and not. The Progress of rivers to the ocean i» not 80 rapid as that of the man ft error, Petty singularities: are peonfs little mind, instead of an originality genius, That action is best that procures 1 greatest’ happiness for numbers, The more we do, the more we can d the more busy we are, the more leisu we have, No principle is. more noble, as is sone more holy, than that of a tru phedience. A certain amount listrust | wholesome, but not so much of othe | as of ourselves, He who is the most slow 152 piemise Is the ost faithful in the per. formance of it, Neyer let vour zeal outrun you charity, The former is but human the latter is divine, Sorrows are like thunder clouds: h the distance they look black; over oul heads hardly gray. If ye do well, to your own behool will ye do it; and if ye do evil, aginst yourselves will ye do it, Where we may nol pe able lo ex tirpate an evil, 1} 1s still our duty to d what we can to lessen it, Steadfastly set your face needless delays in doing any no the good of your fellow men To judge of the real importance an individual, ope must think of effect Lis death would prod eK Taketsp one by ene ihe plain, peacti- cal duties that lie nearest to hand perform them ns fast a8 possible A wike may stands firm in fremities, and ‘besrs the humanity with a divine temper. Those ¥ y SEs the 3 EF iva ai * ais i 5 or yg - 1: i f WY 0 True goodness is like the glow-wor lin this, that it shines most whe: eyes except those of Heaven are it. Weigh not so much what men as as what they prove, remembering truth is simple and naked, 30d n pol invention to apparel her comelis . By desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite kfiow what it is, and cannot do what we would, wi are part of the divine power against evil. Alas! if the principles of content. ment aré mot within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as sooni add a cubit to a man’s stature as to his happiness. Doubt has been the great discoverer, To question an old lie is usually the first step fowands the truth. Itisan act of heroism to dispute a moss-grow: error out of existence. Profanity never did any man the least good. No nan is richer, happier, or wisér for it. It commends no one to society; it is disgusting to refind people and abominable to the good. A wise and good man will turn ex- amples of all sorts to his own advan tage. The good he will make his patterns and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoud, Try to repress thought, and it is hike trying to fasten down steam-—an explo sion is sure 10 follow. Let thought be free to work in its own appropriate way, and it turns the machine, drives the wheels, doss the work. ‘Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learns in no other, and scarce in that; for it Is tre. we may give adviees bat we cannot give conduct, 4 Ser #50 a ef POR ds a