Forgive and Forget. Oh I torsive ana forgot, for tbishfols too fleot in* To waato it in brooding o'er wrong® we havo met; It is bettor, far better, to smother otir auger, To teach the proud heart to fergivo and lor ge. In tho path we mnst tread, leading down to the valley, Are crosses and trials to lift and to tn-ar: And the chalice of Ufa Iroui which wo aro drinking Oil boars to our lips drops of sorrow and caro. But lifo is so short, bo it sunshine or shadow, That wo cannot s(Tortl to brood over a wrong; Let us lift up our burdens and bear thorn on bravely, Wo'll lay them down shortly, It cannot l-o long. Then forgive and forgot I If the friends you love fondly rrove themselves to bo falao and unworthy of trust. Deal with them kindly, for they are but mor tals, Erring, like us, for,we, too, aro but dust. Deal with them tenderly, pity their weakness; We know every heart hath its evil and good; Ti o all liavo ono l ather in llcaveu, heuce arc brothers, Then let us forgive and forget as no should. The Alionby Ghost. Ia all tho village cf Hax >nbolmo Ihero was no one more nnltkelv to be tho heroine of a romantic adventure than poor, plain, little Margaret Heudcr ■on. Howevt r, alio was modest, swect tempered and moderately clover, and girls of this kind will always find seme admirer as long as sensible men exist. Not that at the time my ctory commen ces Margaret had a lover; on tho con trary, she bad always been too busy to entertain an idea ut once eo pleasant and so extravagant. Indeed, there was not much room for extravagance of any kind in Margaret's homo. Her father was the only village schoolmaster, and his salary was cightv pxrands a year—not a very great income when there was a large family to sup>- port ont of it. And unfortunately Margaret's eldest brother, who ought to have been a great help to tho family, was a great trouble—a genuine human black sheep indeed, who had, however, finally taken himself away to foreign pastures. Mngaret had been his only friend when he was at home, and it was gen erally believed that even in his self im poied banishment ho kept up a regular correspondence with his sister, but there were no proofs of this, and Mar garet nover in any way alluded to him. But no ill fortune lasts forever. By dint of hard and persevering efforts Ma'garet at length acquired an educa tion which ho thought might warrant her advertising for the situation of a governess. This applica'ion brought her an answer signed, "Alico Selby, for Idy Alionby." Alionby castle was in a distant shire ; it looked almost like going into a foreign country to Mar garet, but, upon the whole, she pre ferred it so. 80 Lady Alionby'a terms were at once accepted, and a week afterword she found herself standingalonoat thegaUw of Alionby park. Tho stage-coach had dropped her and her small I rank there, and after waiting in the lodge a quarter of an hour a quiet old lady, driving a low pony-phaeton, called for her. She introduced herself as "Mrs. Selby," and after ome alight apology for not being there when the coach arrived she re mained silent. The caatle stood on a slight em nonce, and was surrounded cn three sides by dense woods ; the fourth was open to the wild boating cf the Atlantic on a rough, rocky ooast. The entrance ball struck Margaret as peculiarly dark, vast and chilly; but they passed quickly' through it to a small parlor in which a coal fire was brightly blazing. Here, over a eup of tea, Mrs. Selby, in as few words as possible, explained to Mar garet what she was expected to do, and what she was expected not to do. In the flrat place it vu evident that Lady Alionby might be a myth for aught Margaret would be likely to see of her. "She receives no visitors and has a peculiar dislike to strange faoea," eaid Mrs. Beiby; "and ss the left wing of the castle ia set apart for her use you wi'l be required on all ocoaaicns to avoid it" " And my pupil 7" " The right wing ia placed at her dis posal and yours; it ia ample enough to render any treapaaa upon the center cf the oastle unnecessary." " Will not Lady Alionby give me acme directions about the education of the ohild intrusted to me f" " She ia satisfied to leave it to your discretion. Every week I shall exam ine what progress baa been made." There waa a strange air of authority about the little old waiting woman, and Margaret sat half-inclined to resent it; bnt ahe waa somewhat awed by the pe culiarity of her position, and tho strange stillness and isolation uf the life into which ahe bad droppmd. Perhaps Mrs. Selby wished to teat faer patience and self-restraint, for she cnt in silence and impaaeiveness until the day waa quite dead, and there waa no light of any kind savo the dull glimmer of the red coals in the grate. llien alowly, and with a deep nigh, "ho lit a candle, and aaid, "Come, if you aro rested, I will take yon to your rooms and yonr pupil." Margaret followed her in a queorly indifferent mood : all her interest and cariosity secmod to havo evaporated. "Ho soon,' she mattered—"so soon huvo I caught the dream like feeling of the place." Through long marble halls, cold and dark, they passed, until they reached the oastern wing. Hero there was a broad llight of handsomely carpeted stairs, which led them into a suite of splendid apartments. The first scemod to bo a kind of library and musio-room; the second, a parlor of great size, and very richly furnished. lint Margaret's attention was at onoo fixed upon a child who was lying in a graceful attitude on a rug of long whito silky wool. The fire glowed ovor lier white cheeks, and made strange glanc ing light in her silken dross, and tipped with a rosy hne iho little white sandals of the tiny lady. Hhe looked curiously up from her book as the two women approached her, and when Mrs. Selby said, "Julia, this is your new governess," sho stood up and examined ' Margaret with a frankness that had in ! it something extremely charming. Evidently the scrutiny satisfied her. I She laid her daintily-mittened band in Margaret's and said: "You will do, I shall like yon, I know. Mrs. Selby, you ' may go awav now." Mrs Selby smiled at the small lady's air of anthority, but took with apparent j pleasure her dismissal. Then Margaret j drew a chair to the fire and sat down, ' determined to await patiently the next move in this strange life drama. Julia seemed to havo also vho fame intention. She sat on a stool in front of Margaret, studying altc rnately tho fir,-, a picture in her book, and then tho j face of her companion. There was i something uncannily premature in the elf-like child, oven her wonderful beauty had an intelligence about it boldly at variance with tho baby frock and si ken sandals. Sy and-bye tho child stepped lightly across the rug, and laying her open book on Margaret's knee, said, gravely: " l)o you believe Robinson Crnsoo ever saw that one naked- footprint on tho sands ?" " No," answered Margaret, boldly. " I do," said the child, with a posi tiveneHl that dofl-d contradiction. " Did yon ever read tho Castlo of Otranto 7" " Yej." "don don't think the castlo was haunted, eh f' " Certainly not," answered Margaret, with a still more decide 1 emphasis. "Oh, but it was! This castle is haunted too. You will find that ont; all my governesses do," said the weird little woman, nodding her head myster iously. Margaret was so oonfosed and astonished by the calm assurance of this assertion that sho could think of no commooplaco that was strong enough for contradiction, and half afraid of her eerie companion sho asked, "When do you go to bed, my lady T " When I got sleepy. Lan not sleepy to-night. List night I heard some one walking about in the next room at this time. I want to see if they come back again." " They 7 Whom do you mean ?" "I don't know; do you? Alison ssya tbey are my ancestors. What are ancestors ?" By this time a creeping feeling of fear that ahe could not quite control took p>oasession of Margaret. She glanced cautiously behind and around her; even the strange shapes that the spider-like legs of the furniture took in the dim corners of the large room filled her with a vague, unreasonable terror. " Oh, you are frightened I" said the ohild, in a voioe that was half scornful, half indignant. This imputation Margaret stoutly de nied; bo', in spite of all her efforts to app>ear indifferent she perceived that the keen mental sight of her pupil bad measured her weakness and despised her for it. " Touch the boll." Margaret obeyed, and ilmoat immedi ately an old woman appeared. " Yon may put me to bed now, Alison. I am very much disappointed;" and, with the shadow of a courtesy sho dis appeared with her attendant through one of the many doors communicating with the parlor in which tbey ware ait ting. It waa not a very pleasant beginning, bnt better came of it than Margaret hoped for. The dreamy, anperati.ioua ohild found a kindred spirit in her teacher. Tboy soon fell into a nurse of reading which was aa new and fasci nating to M irgaret aa to the child. The library waa ransacked for weird atoriea and poems, and the little lady delighted in nothing so much as in hearing her gov -mes* read or recite snob morsels of baanted literature aa tbe " Ancient Mariner." One night tbey bad itood at tbe win dow watching the great, wavaa of a rising atom lash themselves into foam and spray among tho rocks. The wind wailed pitifully; the rain beat agaiust tho window panes—it was a dreary night. Suddenly she became aware of a draught of coldor sir, and the next mo ment of an influence altogether strange \ and unfamiliar. The child opened wider | her groat dark eyes, and slightly nodded at Margaret. In a few moments her lips parted, and she said, slowly, "Look up." Murgarct obeyed her mechanically, and saw—yes, she was sure she saw—a wild white face peering in at them, as a lost spirit might gaze longingly into some paradise he never oonld enter. From this time forward Margaret was kept in a constant and restless uncer tainty. Tho strangost things wore con tinually happening. If she loft a book that she had been reading open at one place, tho mark wonld bo removed to somo other part that generally in some way or other referred to conversations which she had believed to have only boon heard hv Julia. Tho child's cloth ing was changed and removed, her cur tains parted, and in tho halls and oor ridors onsido their usual sitting-rooms flitting footsteps wore often distinctly audiblo. Nor was Margaret personally free from annoyance. Daring her walks with Lady Jnlia eho was often certain that tho materials of her work basket had been rearranged, and on one occa sion a letter which she was writing to her brother was taken away, and dur ing her absence tho following day inys teriously restored. She began now to strongly suspect human agency in all these) annoyances, and a dreadful fear entered her heart; perhaps, for some wicked reason or other, the peoplo around tho little Julia were desirous of utterly unnerv ing and destroying the child's mental powers. It was possible that such a wicked design accomplished might place the inheritance in other hands. "If there is any conspiracy against this innocent child I shall discover it," she said, almost angrily. And forth with dismissing all idea of supernatural inflnence or Interference, she set her self, with a patient will, the task of meeting this disturbing ghost, whoever or whatever it might be. Early in the spring Julia had a dan gerous fever, and Margaret drew very near tho chill in this crisis. As soon as it was possible to move her tho east wing was deserted for a time, and rooms in the c.-nter of tho castlo were appropriated to the invalid and Mar garet. Bat though she moved cautiously and kept constantly on tho alert, she could not see anything tangible enongh to accost. Frequently she beard rapid stealthy footsteps along the corridors, and one night when the sick child bad suffered a dangerous relapse slow, heavy footfalls were distinctly to be board in the room above them all through the long honrs of that anxious night It might bo a week after this, Jalia was recovering again, and Mrs. Holby had watched her until after midnight in order that Margaret might rost awhile. Then she resigned her place to tho governess. But a singular fool ing of nnrest possessed Margaret. She could not sit still; she glided np and down tho room, and frequently looked out of the window and into the long corridor that went by tho room. There was a large oriel-window at the end of this corridor, and in its curtained recess a cushioned chair or two. Aa the waning moon l>egan to rise above the horison thia recess became perfectly distinot in all its details, and Margaret noticed particularly that over one of the chairs was a abawl or gar ment that looked in the wan cold light aa if made of somo soft and snowy white tcxtnre and color. When she looked again the shawl .had been removed. She sat calmly down sod reasoned about thia event, and in about half an henr again examined the window recess. The moon shone full into it now, and reclining motionless in one of the chairs was the figure of a man. Without daring to think ahe advanced cautiously toward it. The figure never moved. Hue stood at its side ; ahe examined the wan handsome face; but the man was evidently in a deep sleep. Margtret then returnod to her room acd wrote: "I have watched you aleeping to night, and felt a great pity for you. If I can help you, return to morrow at tho same hour. You may trust me. " JULIA'S OovßuxKax." For Margaret was now certain that some wioked plot involving both the child and tho man was in progress, and •he was resolved to defeat It. Tho nest night the moon was later, and the oriel waa in shadow,"bat there s%t her visitor. lie bad, thon, noticed and understood the note she had laid within his baud. She cautiously approached him and he rose to meet her. An hour afterward the pale moon touched with a strange light the eager listening face of Margaret, and the pale handsome tnau, who seemed very un willing to put with ber. Then a rapid and beautiful change came OTcr the grave jdain governess. Her face grow almost pretty. She startled the atill rooms with snatches of song. The child grew rapidly well in the new vitality aronnd it. And ono thing was noticeable: Margaret grew gayi rns night approached; oven Mrs. Helby saw this and began to watoh her with a onrions look of suspicion. Still it was not until tho middle of August that tho mystery was solved. Ono warm still night, whon tho heavy odor of tho honeysuckles llllod tho air, Margaret, having soon Julia in tho first dreamless sloop of childhood, stole quietly through tho deserted chapel of tho castle into tho thick shrubbery that snrroundod it. There tho ghost of tho corridor was waiting for her, and Margaret was c las pod in his arms, and kissed and caressed as beloved women havo always been kissed and caressed by their lovers. Perhaps thoy had much to talk about, for Margaret staid much longer than usual, and when she reached again tho old chapel Mrs. Helby suddenly con fronted her. " Miss Henderson, whom havo you boon to moot ?" " Lord Ilichard Alionby.'' "Ah! You know, then—" " I know all, my lady ; even more than you do." " Whom are you addressing?" " Ltdy Alibony, Lord Richard's mother." " What a traitor my son has been I" "No, my lady, you wrong him." "Howdid you discover Lord Rich ard T Then Margant truthfully related all her fright, and the way in which suspi cion of a mortal presence had oomo to her. She described their first meeting in the corridor. " Your son,"' she aaid, " weary and lonely in his long confine ment, did mo tho honor to feel inter ested in my life. Ho watched mo, and being jealous of some unknown person to whom I wroto he stolo my letter and thus discovered that tho brother with whom 1 corresponded was in tho service of Colonel John Chaloner. " What is it that you say f Hpeak quickly. Does live V "My lady, I have given Lord Rich ard this night a letter from him." " Margaret! Margaret! Then my son may look the world in the face again? Ho is net a murderer 1" "He is waiting to tell you this." " Rut come with me, Margaret —we havo evidently one interest in this mat ter." 80 for the first time in hor two years' scjoura at Alionby Margaret en tered tho left wing of tbo castle. It Lsd l>een for six years the unsuspected residence of a supposed murder. 80 long ago, in a quarrel with his Cousin Chaloner, Lord Richard had shot, and it was supposed killed, his opponent. Chaloner did not die, but utterly ruined in credit and reputation, when be had found himself recovering, he had persuaded hia relatives to circplate a report of bis death and provide him with the means of commencing life again in Burmah. What the result might be to his cousin he had not cared to contemplate, but certainly, until Margaret wrote to him, he had never imagined a punishment equal to aix years' imprisc nraent and remorse. The general idea had been that Lord Richard had fled to India, or, as some said, to Central Asia, and that Lady Alionby was striving to atono for hor son's wrong by adopting and educating John Chaloner's daughter as the heireas of Alionby. Bnt the fashionable world had now a gennino sensation. First the return of Colonel Chaloner with a large fortune from Bnrraah, and a few days afterward it was authoritatively stated that the L uly Alionby had reopened her Lon don mansion in order to celebrate the retnrn home of Lord Richard. Oreatly to tho chagrin of many fine matrons Lord Alionby retnrned with a wife, "an exceedingly plain person,'' ss the Dacheas of Courtney aaid, dis approvingly. Bnt tho "exceedingly plain prson" cares very little for snob criticism. Bhe is the idol of her bus bsnd's heart, and the mistress of one of the finest homes in England. lion Sailors rnll Teeth. Sailors often suffer from the tooth* scbe and have to bear the pain as best they can until they reach the shore. Ono day a captain seeing a sailor's taonth in a bad condition, asked the c*ue. The poor fellow had soflered si long with a bad tooth that his pa tenco gave out Then he took a chisel a'id a hammer and fonnd a comrade who was willing to cut off the top of the tooth for him. That asm a voyage the captain was caught by an aching tooth, the pain from which became un bearable. The remedy of the sailor had proved so much worse than the disease that the oapttin was nnwilling to try the chisel. His ooutrivsnoo for ex tracting the tooth was ingenious thongh intricate. He fastened a long wire to a ballet, wliioh he plaoed in his pis tol with the wire hsnging out. Semir ing the wire to the tooth, he opened his month as wids at poas'bla and fired. His ingenuity waa rewarded, for the tooth follow* I the ballet into the air. Hi fEVriPIC SCRAPS. Rod snow is a one-celled sphering! plant, green or red in color, wbioh may bo incroased by division, and is pro pagated rapidly in water or melting snow. In a year the number of respirations is, in most persons, over 9,000,000; and 12i,000 cubic feet of air carried through tho lungs purifies ft,ooo tons of blood. In a uniform temperature Umber will endure for ages. The wooden piles on which Venice and Amsterdam are founded remain aound because of tho constancy of the oondiUons to which thoy aro exposod. Water insects carry air into the depths of the water by holding it nnder the wings or legs, or by the minute hairs which cover the body. This frequently gives them the silvery appearance of a globule of mercury. There is a species of acaci in Bouth America whoso bark yields twenty per cent, of tannin. Unfortunately it is gathered by tho profligate method of stripping the bsrk as high as a man can reach, and then leaving the tree to die. A curious electrical phenomenon was recently witnessed during a thunder storm in France by M. Laroque. Tho tallest cf a group of lilies was en veloped in a diffase violet glimmer, forming an aureole around the corolla. Tho light lastod eight or ten seconds. On its disappearance the pollen of the flower was found to havo been scat tered, evidently by tho electric fluid- It is not state! that the lily was other wise injured by tho remarkable mani f citation. A physical map of Japan has been made which is indeed remarkable. It is ."500 or 400 feet long, and is made of turf and rock bordered with pebbles, which look like so much water. Inlets, rivers, mountains, etc., are reproduced in this model. Latitude and longi tude are indioated, and tho position of cities. Ingenious devices illustrate also botanical studies. This map is at the School of the Nobles in Tokio, and is constructed in the court behind the school building. Inflames of News) • er*. A school-teacher, who had been a long I time in his profession, and witnessed the influence of a newspaper upon the minds of a family of children, writes ss follows: I hsve found it to l>e a universal fact, without exception, that tbose scholars of both sexes and of all agog who have access to newspapers at home, when compared with those who hTe not, are: 1. Better reader*, excellent in pro nunciation, and consequently road more and understamliDgly. 2. They ara better spellers, and de fine words with ease and accuracy. 3. They obtain a practical knowledge* of geography in almost half the time it reqnirea of others, as the newspapers have made them acquainted with the location of the important places, of nationa, their government and doings on the globe. 4. They aro better grammarians, for having become so familiar with every variety of style in the newspapers, from the common place advertisement to the finishing and classical oration of states men, they more readily comprehend the meaning of the text, and constantly analyse its construction with accuracy. 5. They write better compositions, nsing better language, containing more thoughts—more clearly and correctly expressed. 6. Tbose yonng men who have for years l>een readers of newspapers are alwaye taking the lead in debating eo eieties, exbibiting a more extensive knowledge npon a greater variety of subjects, and expressing their views with greater fluency, clearness and cor rectness. Ureal In Death, The Uvea of the truly great are sim ple and void of ostentation. Love of display no more enters into the daily life of a genuinely solid man, a pro foundly in tell actual man, than does water into the composition of pure wine. Men of genius and men who do the thinking for the world dwell for the most part away and far removed from the showy things of fashion. They have no time to enter into the business of trifles or to mingle in the pastimes of the butterflies, that love novelty as a moth doth the glare. Simple in all things their simplicity is perpetuated to the ending of life, and even in their entombment no mocking display comes to disturb their going oat from the dwellings of men. What more simple life can be well im agined than that of Longfellow—than that of his friend the poet-philosopher Emerson? And yet they were great men. The world pronounces them snob, and over their newlv-made graves two con tinents stood in mourning. Mot only in their works is contained the wisdom they wrote, bat in their lives as well, and not the least Important lessen to learn is the simplicity attending their peaceful, unostentatious funeral in the quiet country ohorehyards of Oaaabridge and Oonoord.— Ow ContinmU. CLIP PI *OB FOR THE CUKIODB. * An ostrich egg in considered erjuivaJ lint to twenty-four eggs of the domestic lien. Ante, always waging war on each other, are said to (liatingaiab friend from foe by the odor. Awiaasin, assassinate an 3 their de rivatives come from hashheesh, the Arabian word for hemp. In 1806 certain seeds which bad been brought from Itrazil in a fleece of wool germinated after four boars' boiling. Analyses of pumpkins show that th rind of the vegetable is nearly three and a half times as rich in albuminoids as the flesh. I'aper mad< from strong fibers oaa now be oompressed into a substanoe an hard that nothing but a diamond can. scratch it. The largest human skull has a ca pacity of lit cubic inches, being about twice the size of the smallest adult human skull. A proposal has been made to treat yellow fever patients by artificial oold in order to kill the poisonous germs of the disease. Ar. English fishng Lost lauded a hali but weighing 187 pounds, in wbosa stomach was found a fine salmon weigh ing twenty pounds. An American anatomist maintains that owing to the diminution in hard knocks and butting the human skull is becoming thinner. A strip of land bordering the Medi terranean, 100 miles in length and five or six in breadth, is the raiain-produo ing territory of Spain. In Western China the mountain Omi, which has a "halo" and which is in height 11,000 feet, is almost exclusively inhabited by linddhist monks. The art of iron im lting was known in England daring the Roman occupa tion, and steel working was practiced there before the Norman conquest. The common synonyms for the Devil, Old Nick, Scratch and Harry, are all derived from Finish or Scandinavian terms Nickel, Sohrat and Hari or Herra. Arkansas nasa mineral spring whose wslcrs turn as red as blood when bot tled, and Kentucky has an oil well from which refined petroleum, all ready lor domestic use, profusely gurgles. It is a curious fact that there is now running in Alsace a petroleum refinery which is supplied by wells dug by hand to the oil bearing rock, instead of be ing bored as is done in this country and the whole industry of producing and manufacturing has been in the bands of one fsmily and successfully conducted for over one hundred and fifty years. A Hint for Sleeper*. A plenty of bresthing space round one's bod, remarks the Christian Union, can l>e only an advantage and benefit; and it is raggtwted that some of the " morning dullness " and actual head ache so often complained of may be traceable to sleeping close to the side of the room and breathing all night the air reflected from the wall. A physician was lately called to pre scribe for a young lady. Ihere was "nothing the matter" with her aba declared, " nothing bnt a terrible head ache." Erery morning she awoke with a headache and it lasted nearly half the day. It had been going on for months , —ever since they moved into their new house. The doctor tried all the old remedies and they all failed. Riding and archery were faithfully tested, study uid practice were cheerfully given up. Nothing did any good. •• Will you let me see your bedroom?" asked the doctor one day, and he was shown up into the prettiest little nest imaginable. Nothing wrong about tbe ventilation. The windows were high and broad, and were left open every night, the patient said. The bed stool in one corner against the wall. "How do you sleepf" says the doctor. "On my right side, at the book of the bed, with my face to tbe walL Lou lit— the front best." " She does P says the doctor. ' So, do I. Will yon do me the favor to wheel that bed into the middle of tbo room and sleep so for a week ? Then Ist me know sboat the headache." Tbe middle of the roosa, indeed t And there wars the windows on one aide, and the two doors on the other aides, and the mantel with its Macramn lambrequin on the fourth aid*. There was no place for the bed bet just where It stood, in the corner. " Never mind, saenfio* your lambre quin," urged the doctor; "just for * week, you know." The lambrequin was eaortflsed, tbe bed moved where it had free air an both sides, and the heeloobe disap peared. _____ The Alitor who was as ted by a "bash ful subscriber'• if he could tell him " the first step toward matrimony " and replied " mis step," was either s pun*) star or e horrid old .bachelor,—Mo nfc teim Htraid.
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