RT na AT FIrrY-ONE, Jesting 14 over with me forever ; Life ig too sober at fifty-one ; No Jonger 1 worship the witty and clever; Things that amused me I loathe and shun, I have come to the summit and now begun To sink to the vale on the other side ; There's a damp in the air, there's a gloom on the sun, Whose warning the vapors of Orcus hide. And my fellow-travelers, left and right, ¥all away from the track, as we downward hile, To their soveral homes; sight; But I hear the bells as they bid good by ; How lonely I feel as I get more nigh To my destined inn, a dismal place! shut from all glimpse of the goodly sky, And the sunshine of every friendly face. Yet what is te dread ? there's a Master there Full of pity, te welcome the weary guest; Who wil bind the footsore, and have a good care Of every poor soul that seeks his rest, I tremble to ge to him, unconfessed, I beg But I carry a passport within my breast Of hi vod vr hima mo letters from priest or pope, 1 deathless nope, LAIZ7AE, MY GIRL In the year 1861 there resided in the western part of the State of Illinois: family by the name of Waldron, whic consisted only of the mother and two i children, the eldest, Tom, aged 20, and Lizzie, 16. Mrs. Waldron, from an at- tack of fever, had become blind and partially helpless, passing her time al- most entirely in knitting, in which she was rapid and skilful. Despite her the old woman was Vv being of a naturally he blindness, contented declared, happy, disposition, and, s often blessed in her children. “My girl Lizzie’ and “my boy Tom" were perpetnally in her mouth, and in espects the old woman was en- tirely “My girl Lizz was an angel, as far as such beings ever inhabit the earth; and her el baby, her pet, and no baby was eve petted and waited on with the care and assiduity that Lizzie waited upon he mother. With Tom it was different, He was not a bad boy, only what ule call wild; but this his mother did not know, for to keep the knowledge from her was part and parcel of the the care of Lizzie, When Tom was supposed by mother to be working on the farm he would be carousing at the village tavern, and when he was under the influence of liquor he would quarrelsome to everybody but Lizzie and his mother ; the former could do anything with him. and the later was in profound i norance of his shortcomings, and on in contact with him when, himself said, he was Waldron.” an entirely witl some 1 ht ee’ rigas., mother was h pe » his be Yu » Ye iy came as ” as OT om entirely natural sequ i all her go wl qualit es Was weel heart . and ti a oil 8A at sweetheart { iii and only « in assertion must be taken with this n. that Gastave Ullman was n 301 Of wa adopted son, who did not know almost was and had name, which father his Hs ow was, n forgotten own Greorge Stanton. His history was that he was one of scores of little waifs sent West by a New York charitable society for adop- tion among the farmers, Old Ullman and his wife, who were childless, had he boy, liked him, and had taken him. He was then 10 years old and lizzie was six, and boy and girl had been daily together ever since, until Lizzie did not recognize any difference between Gustave— the old folks had dropped his real name and called Lim by that of the old man—and her broth- er Tom. slave had Jittle to complain of his life. It was poverty, but not want. The cid couple saw the affection grow ing up between Gustave and Lizzie and They looked forward to an early marriage, and it was not the death of her father, which occured when Lizzie was 10 years old, wen tL x11 in approved of it unt as nothing had been openly spoken about it, nothing was said in opposi- tion ; yet when, a year after his father’s death, young Tom began to develop his wildness the careful old Germans began to look with serious apprehension on iitimate result of such a marriage, Gustave and Tom had always been fast f1iends, and the former had tried every possible way to win Tom from his reckless ways, but without success, Many and many a time had Gustave taken hold of Tom's neglected work upon the farm and brought things up to standard, though it must be con- fessed that when a condition last for weeks at a time, he worked with a will that would soon catch up with lost time. But the strangest thing of all this strange story, for it is a true one, was the remarkable resemblance beiween the two boys in many things, and yet, when seen together, the absence of all likeness, In age, size, form, features and manner they were alike, and stranger still, in the tone of voice and manner of speaking, and yet they were not alike on comparison. It was npon the voice that Mrs Wal- the PL LS YI ON RISC { declared that even with all her atten- { tion it was only with great difficulty { that she could distinguish the talk of { the two boys apart. But at last | a trouble out of Tom's wildness that | was greater than had ever been dream- | ed of. There had been a squabble and | general fight at the village tavern, and Came es swearing positively that Tom Wal- | dron struck the blow, Tom was ar- rested and fully committed for murder. | The news, as ill news always does, flew | fast to the biind widow’s house, and the found Gustave and Lizzie | sitting on the front porch, talking, for the first time they had directly broached | the subject between them, of thelr love, and, as a consequence, their mar- riage, and the newsot thegreat trouble fell upon them in the birth of their happiness with terrible force, As soon Lizzie's first ex | messenger of as she could speak - clamation was: “Oh, know anything about this.” Gustave! mother must but gn Gustave agreed with her, It Or was it to be managed? i i ¥ kept from her for a day two under the pretense that Tom had gone sometimes which he did imple county town, to get ning sments, seeds, ings as might be wanted such t farm, ow th ear, when he genet and as it was n ¥s LA ¥ s0 between Liz do, and whil stave hurried n, Li: her country town to see Tor into the house to watch £ VISILOIS ¢ ) y : see that no indiscreet Iropped in to tell her mother the bad news. In back. he had much , found T just awakened from # (zustave came il. He had havi its} FULREI +3 ui when to te 16 evenin Of Course om prison, ber, h and he had been recommended iis to Bee A offic; ao inal lawyer and had gentleman had prompt the best he could do Tom from the gallo: ught which wou 1 . TO in gully 1d be imprizonn this he would do for a fee of five hn dollars, a sum Le afterward i he heard three hundred when and though, at the same them that they would for the young blind mother young time, he need dred dollars more conti penses, : Where The entire m amount t Wal i ed dollars from? Five hundr Was Te mney of O HILLY iron Kept i jut the problem was to be solved Tom himself the day, Lizzie having charged Gustave's mother on the matter of secrecy, left her in charge of her mother and went with Guslave to see Tom. After they had tal it over in every way Tom said : oy next ked “Now, Lizzie, you know that if they don’t get this money they will hang me. There's old Pierce, he will lend the money on a mortgage on the farm. Whether mother would rather have me hanged or not I don’t know, but I leave it te you." From Tom's cell to John Pierce, Liz- zie went immediately, and found that Pierce, an old, crabbed, quarrelsome man, was perfectly willing to lend the money on getting a mortgage for the amount on the Waldron farm. So far, There was no doubt that the mother would be perfectly give the mortgage, but the doing so | would involve her knowing all about it, and this Lizzie knew would kill her, or render her future life miserable, a0 good, willing to Between herself and Gustave matter was discussed that night, and end justified the means. The means were simply this: Gustave must, as far as he could, personate Tom, and the rest must be left to chance, that chance was to be it was impossible it was not taken until the old lady her- | self forced it. On the third day she | kept reiterating : | “Where's Tom? He's been away for three days,’ and she began to lag over her knitting, and so Gustave came in apd played Tom successfully with the blind mother. The war of the rebellion had just broken out and a ery had gone up through the length and breadth of the land, a cry of patriotisin from old and young, and all were rushing to the field. Tom had talked of it and his mother and sister had been silent. Gustave had talked of it, but Tom had decided that they could not both go, and only the day before his arrest he had said to his mother : “Mother, I believe timt Gow calls 190 to go to the defence o my country, and if Gustave will pledge himself to stay at heene I will go. 1 know he will soe that everthing goes right, and my oh 1 and I shall come back a colonel, mother; | perhaps a general ; who knows 77 The mother only smiled a sickly smile, but said nothing. Now, on the ter of Tom Waldron, he took up the sub- | ject where Tom had left it off, and said : I “Mother, Gustave has promised to stay home, and see to our farm | their own, and his father and mother have forbidden him going. I shall therefore enlist to-morrow.” ‘‘Giod knows best, my dear son, and if he calls for you I must be content,” said the old woman, resignedly. And that afternoon and embraced the old woman, and went forth, leaving her te believe that Tom { had followed his desire become soldier, Gustave and a And now there was one more trouble, and that was the mortgage. It was terrible, but it evils choose the least,’ Lizzie sald, “Mother, I should like to have a comfortable outfit, and You know get any was “of two Tom take a id Lp little money with him. is doubtful whether he will for three months yet, and only enough to keep us until n, 1 n the ie wins to come have help of a friend who will not let his name, hundred doll ole {or Mrs Waldon at once con Three vears was a lor Ig iollary lollars in, and lend me a if mention but will ars for To this sented time to pay a hundred « POOL Tom must be wade comfortable, lizzie had the mortgage rea ly . and her mother oF 16 win ng signing Then y knew ali abou Was 1ollara, , Whe ndred « ys b i i I 311 Situation, an nd mother, er via vi lod 3s guarded is the shox but the old woman bowed het 1 said, with a gas ana “God's will be done, children. Tom was a good boy and a dutiful one, and I am glad that if he had to taken from that he died an honorable death for his country’s sake.” And ever after, when she spoke of Tom it the same strain, and then lazzie feit sure she had done right, and that the evil she had had been really blessed. But how Gustave ? cl be ine Was in chosen about Tom's death, Gustave had laid before his adopted parents his wish to make I Waldron his wife, and was met | by them with the most determined op- position. At first they i ground of their youth and afterwards on of Tom, threatening that if he persisted they would appeal to | Mrs. Waldon aud tell the whole story about her son. Of course this settled | it, they held the power; aud when he told Lizzie, she declared that their mar- riage must not be spoken of again, but | finally they both agreed that they would never marry any one else and that they | would wait for years, and so the second year of the war rolled by. One evening in the early summer Lizzie had just parted from Gustave. She had walked down to the garden gate, and stood there a minute walch- ing his receding figure up the road when she heard her name called in a i low tone, and instantly saw a figure | advancing toward her out of the shad- | ow of the wood, Lizzie stood para- Az20 opposed it on the account | the arms of Tom. | “Come into the woods, darling,’ he | said, “I may be pursued now, and it will give me a chance to get away.’ into the woods, within sight of the house, they went, ard there Tom told the story of his escape from prison, and, of course, his knowledge that he must be pursued, and that his pursuers would come there first, and yet he could not help coming there himself. He wanted to see Lizzie. He wanted to see his blind mother. He wanted to see Gustave ; but the sight of a couple of flitting shadows about the house goon convinced him that he could not do the last, and so they crouched in the darkness for » while, and then ATER the ground, got away, and lizzie, from the same cause, got back into the house, and was there a short time | afterward to receive the two detectives who were looking for Tom, She managed to get rid of them, that was certain, no matter what her story was, and a month after she re- ceived a letter from New York, Tom | had enlisted and his name wag Brown, | The letter was written in such a way | that even if it had feii into the hands | of detectives it would not have been supposed written by the escaped con- vict, nor could he have been traced by it. Then year another trouble came up. tinseen another rolled on, and The mort- gage became due, and there was no the John Pierce i money to pay it, though interest | had been paid punctually. wanted his money, or he wanted Lizzie Waldron for his wife, when he pro- to cancel the lizzie demurred, Auythin and, the meanti Lil posed mortgage. g for t ie ine, in me, sl Was recely letters from Tom with more m i 4 i closed than it seemed right vate to send, Then, one day, to make a long there appeared | father, wl lon him when , had done what and left him a couple 0 s 11 month cr A A —— Fhe Cirele of Privelege. HG ALSO, with noble famiil r s of 1 wivie But exam- 3 regulate the fortunes of competitors; and priyilege soon resumes its influence, If the bestowal of the most envied dis- tinction is examined, it will that the minister of the day, however powerful he may be, is bound to recog- nize the claims of the great nobles, though they may have rendered no im- portant services to the country. The exalted order of the Garter, the Thistle, and St, Patrick are exclusively confer- red upon noblemen. No English peer | below the rank of an ear] is thus dis. tinguished by the Garter, and it is said that the late Lord be seen Palmerston waz the decorated, In some cases ancient lineage, blue blood, only viscount ever so ! and eminent services combined to ob- tain the much-prized ribbons, were the circumstances of the earl of | Shaftsbury, for whom no earthly honor can be too high, jut an examination of the orders | proves at once that high rank and other | personal or political circumstances, and not great services rendered to the coun Such | the most part obtained these honors, That these greal personages would | deem themselves neglected and injured | if the minister overlooked them, and { bestowed a vacant ribbon on a man of | humble position, no matter how great | his scientific or literary or parhamentary | They are almost worshipped by the people who are about them. The pri- vate tutors at Eaton are too apt to re- gard a young nobleman as a godsend, The patrician boy of noble family is humored and pleased, and so induced to praise his tutor, If he proceeds to a University be is toadied and flattered. He discovers 1n a thousand ways that it matters little whether he works or plays, seeing that privilege is a pleasant substitute for industry. And when he emerges into the world privilege follows him everywhere, Some noblemen pass through the fire of flattery unscathed, and place before themselves a high standard of duty and responsibility. But if the greater number are spoiled by their surroundings it is the natural result of obvious canses, i Praodenee patifol. " omen | The city of Paris has just in of something lik francs, left to the town by Prudence Batifol, Off the Faubourg Montmar- tre there formerly existed the des Deux herited | a fortune ce 400,000 Passage Soenrs, and Prudence was a thoroughfare. The tenants were prin- cipaully working people, for which her mother made dresses at a reasonable rate, and little Prudence was early in- nal handicraft. She succeeded mother as dressmaker the Passage des Deux to her in ordinary to Soeurs, but ambition was to have a handsome apart- ment of her her own with richly furnished «1 as iaw in matters of fashion and style, She Ww vorked early and late walling-rooms, filled with ladies who would well-dress wee pt her opinion saved up a l pen ’ nies, and atl last the day came when left the janitor’ first 4 OOK 3 lodge and mos floor apartment, home the dres | fel 1 but han Liem made, y ith a paper ol hich now can hardly for the i Posse gon Prudence, roake them up in ich were displ ing terwards Girardin, In wealth Prudence alway rema ned “ouvnere,'’ pious, ecor Her city is accompanied with the condit portion of the int simple wonomical and charitable. bequest to the On of her year in aiding that a crest money shall be used each some meritorious work-g business for herself. irl to set up in The Oia Frigate Shannon.’ At the foot of West Eleventh street, New York, lies the old frigate Shannon, a crack frigate in ber day, commanded by one of the best single-ship captains ever trained in the British Navy, and victor in the only sea duel where the gridiron flag went down before anequal adversary. The stout old ship is stately and distinguished-looking still, in her England hither, and of Standard oil from here to Englind. is like a queen dethroned, and in exile is queenly to the end. With unusual consideration She and the old hull is practically in the 1813 when she put her helm up and ran off under short canvass to allow the EE. ——————— King of Sweden, Kmmg of Sweden. killed in Germany portion, including the heart, was sent home and laid in the Church at Ridder- holm, while the rest was embalmed, placed in an urn, and depomted in the Cloister Church of Weissenfels, The latter edifice being now in a very de- cayed state, it has been determined to send the urn with its precious contents to Sweden, in order that it may be added to the rest of the heroic King's remains at Ridderholm, Contentment gives a crown where for. tune has denied it, “You are on the wrong tack,” said the pilot's wile, when the hardy son of the lond-sounding sea sat down on it, und rose with the usual exslamations, “No,” ho replied, after a oritioal exatni- nation, “1 am on the night tack, but shoot me if 1 am’ton the wrong end of it ” Co od Custorns of Cochin-CUhiine. Leaving the vast and, for all practi- purposes, unexplored country of Laos out of the question, since pays tribute to Biam, that part of the great peninsula cal £4 ik Cochin great he north, lying adjacent to China; Anam, just beyond the Makong river; Dangtrong, on the castern coast, and the French on the south, The northern ad ochin-China is properly termed China is now composed fur provinces: Tonquin, on ¢ colony, of £ the western covered with dense forests, the . ith eastern part mountainous, BO ile generaiy ern an alluvial plain, The elim being in the central in the south. with great wnsidered healthy offers great extremes, cool in the north portion, and Typhoons swee No part PEAns, very hot p the coast force, JT Inost Fes le those of Slam na and flora Cambodia ep of LOUs “hold, bad” LUAU t untenance NOON “3 i ID Lhe ered. of i Of or a » Ja or ~ Ive an A ( h unijue IAnguage, zation he generality of Asi- There i trange commingling vices a the virtues, Great ality, for instance, is marred by he practices of thieving and lying. The dress consists of a series of colored chemises, the number being regulated by the season. Both sexes wear trou- ses, sometimes silk, sometimes colton, | White is the mourning color. Men wear turbans of black crape, women of blue. Overcoats consist of palm leaves stitched together, The hat is made with a sort of brim, which throws off the rain however heavy the floods may be. Women either let their tresses fall down to their slippers,or coil them upa la chignon. Silk purses, sometimes col- ored and embroidered, are worn on the jeft shoulder, and contain betel or to- bacco, With the rich these purses are borne by servants. The great staple is rice, but bacon and eggs are as much relished there as in England, So are jellies and roast game. Eggs are neve: eaten fresh: the worse they are the higher price they bring—especially if they contain embryo chickens. Cooks | employ swallows’ nests in order Lo ‘size’ soup. Upon some occasions the fes! | of an elephant is handed round. It is | the test of good teeth and good diges- tion. Tea and rice beer are common beverages, bul water-