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MR. MERTON'S LESSON.-
f CANNOT wait any longor. I must
X have my money, and if you cannot
pay I must foreclose the mortgage and sell
the plaoe," said Mr. Merton. '
" In that case," said Mr. Bishop, "it
will of course he sold at a great sacrifice,
aud after all the struggles I have made, my
family will again be homeless. It is very
hard. I only wish you had to earn your
money as I do mine ; you might then know
something of the hard life of a poor man.
li you could only in imagination put
yourself in my place, I think you would
have a little mercy on me."
" Jt is useless talking ; I extended this
one year, 'and I cannot do so any longer,"
replied Mr. Merton, as be turned to his
desk and continued writing.
The poor man rose from his seat and
walked sadly out of Mr. Morton's office ;
his last hope was gone. IIo h:id just re
covered from a fit of illness, which had used
up the moans with which he had intended to
make the last payraont on bis house. True,
that gentleman had waited one year, when
he had failed to meet the demand, owing
to illness in the family, and he had felt
vory much obliged to him for doing so.
This year he had been laid up for several
months, ' during which he could earn noth
ing, and all his savings were then needed
for the suppoit of himself and family.
Again he had failed, and now he would
again be homeless, and have to begin the
world anew.. Had Heaven forsakon him
and given him over to the tender mercies
of the wicked?
After he had left the office, Mr. Morton
could not drive away from his thoughts
that remark to which the poor man in his
grief bad given utterance : "I wish you
had to earn your money as I do mine."
In the midst of a row of figures, " Put
yourself in my place" intruded.
' Once after it had crossed his mind be
laid down his pen, saying : " Well, I think
I should find it rather hard. I have a mind
to drop in there this afternoon and see how
it fares with bis family ; that man has
aroused my ouriosity."
About five o'clock he put on a gray wig
and some old, cast off clothes, walked to
the residence of Mr. Bishop and knocked
at the door. Mrs. Bishop, a pale, weary
looking woman, opened it ; tha poor old
man requested permission to enter and rest
awhile, saying he was very tired with bis
long journey, for be bad walked many
miles that day.
Mrs. Bishop cordially invited him in, and
gave him the best seat the room afforded.
She then began to make preparations for
tea. -The old gentleman watched her at
tentively. He saw there was no elasticity
in her step, no hope in her movements ; and
pity , for her began to steal into bis heart.
When her. husband, entered, her features
relaxed into a smile, and she foreed a
cheerfulness into her manner. The travel
ler noted it all ; and be felt himself forced
to admire this woman who could assume a
cheerfulness she did not feel for her bus
band's sake. After the table was prepared,
there was nothing upon it but bread,buUer
and tea. They invited the stranger to eat
with them, saying : " " We have not got
much to oD'er you, but a cup of tea will re
fresh you after your long journey."
. lie accepted their hospitality, and as
they discussed the frugal meal, he led them
without seeming to do so, to talk of their
own affairs. , , ,..;
"I bought this pieoe of. land,", said Mr.
Bishop, , " at a very low price, and instead
of waiting as I ought to have done, until I
bad saved the money to build, I thought I
would borrow two hundred dollars, .The
interest on the money would pot be nearly
so much as the rent I was paying, and I
would be saving ruouoy by so doing. ' I did
not think there would be any difficulty in
paying back the borrowed money.' But
the first year my Wife and one of my chil
dren were ill, and the expenses, left me
without the means to pay tha debt. Mr.
Merton agreed to wait another year, if I
would pay the interest. 1 did that, This
year . I was for seven months unable to
work at my trade and earn anything ; and
of course when pay day comes around and
this is very soon, I shall again be unable to
meet the demand.!' , ,. ,
' " But," said the stranger, " will not Mr.
Merton wait another year, if you make all
circumstances known to him ?"
,",No, sir,", , replied Mr. Bishop, ' saw
him this morulug, aud be said ha must
have the money, aud should be obliged to
foreclose the mortgage." '' "
" He , must be very hard-hearted," re
plied the traveler.
" Not necessarily so," said Mr, Budiop.
" The fact is, these rich men know nothing
of the struggles of the poor. There are
men just like the rest of mankind,' and I
am sure if they but had the faintest idea of
what the poor have to pass through, their
hearts and their purses would open. . You
know it has passed into a proverb ; "When
a tpoor mat) needs assistance be should
apply to tha poor," The reason is obvious.
The poor only know the curse of poverty.
They know how heavily it falls, crushing
the spirit out of a man ; aud to use my fa
vorite expression, they can at ouce put
themselves in the unfortunate one's place
and appreciate bis difficulties, and are
therefore always roady to render assistance
as far as they are able and if Mr. Morton
had the least idoa of what I and my family
had to pass through, I think he would be
'willing to wait several years for his money,
rather than distress us."
With what emotion the stranger listened
may be imagined. A new world was being
opened to him. He was passing through
an experience that had never been his be
fore. Shortly after Uio conclusion of the
meal, he rose to take his leave, thanking
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop for their kind hospi
tality. They Invited him to stay all night,
tolling him he was welcome to what they
had.
He thanked them and said, " I will tres
pass on your kindness no longer. I think
I can reach the next village before dark,
aud be so much further on my journey.
' Mr. Merton did not sleep much that
night. He layed awake thinking. He had
received a now revelation. The poor had
always been associated in his mind with
stupidity and ignorance, and the first poor
family he had visited he had found far in
advance, in intelligent sympathy and real
politeness, of the exquisites and fashiona
ble butterflies of the day.
The next day a boy oalled at the cottago
arid left a paokago in a large blue envelope,
addressed to Mr. Bishop.
Mrs. Bishop was very much alarmed
when she look it ; for large blue envelopes
were associated in her mind with law and
lawyers, and thought that it boded no
good. She put it away until her husband
came home from his work, when she hand
ed it to him.
IIo opened it; in silence, read its con
tents, and said frequently, "Thank Heav
en !"
" What is it John ?" inquired his anxious
wife. ' -
"Good news," rcpliod John;-"such
news that I bad never hoped for, or even
dreamed of."
" What is it what is it ? Tell me
quick I want to hoar if it is anything
good."
"Mr. Merton has canceled the mortgage,
reloasod me from debt, both interest and
principal, and says any time I need
further assistance, if I will let him know I
shall have it."
" I am so glad, it puts new life in me,"
said the now happy wife. "But what can
have come over Mr. Merton?". ' ,
" I do not know. It seems strange after
the way he talked to me yesterday morn
ing. I will go right over to his office
and toll him bow happy be has made us."
' He found Mr. Merton in his office and
expressed his gratitude in glowing terms.
' "What could have induoed you," be
asked, to show us so much kindness ?"
"I followed your suggestion," ' replied
Mr. Merton,' "and put myself in your
place. I expeot it would surprise yon very
much to learn that the strange traveler
to whom . you showed so much kindness
yesterday was myself," , ,,., ,?
Indeed 1" exolaimed Mr. Bishop, " can
that be true ? , How did you disguise your
self so well ?'.' ... . ,. i .....
: "I was not so much disguised after all,
but you' could not very readily assooiate
Mr. Merton, the lawyer, with a poor way
faring man ha 1 ha I ha 1" laughed Mr.
Merton. ' n... . . . . i .
"Well, it is a good joke," said Bishop j
"good ' in more senses than one. - It baa
terminated very pleasantly for me."
"I was surprised," said Mr. Merton,
" at the broad and liberal Views you ex
pressed of men and their actions generally.
I supposed I had greatly the . advantage
over you in means, education and culture ;
yet bow cramped and narrow-minded have
been my views beside yours That wife of
ypura is an estimable woman, and that boy
of yours will be an honor to any man. " I
tell you, Bishop," said the lawyer, becom
ing animated, "you are rich rich beyond
what money can make you. Yon have
treasures that gold will not buy.' I tell
you, you owe me no thanks. Somehow, I
seem to have lived years ' since yesterday
morning. I have got into a new world.
What I learned at your house is worth
more than you owe me, ' and I am your
dobtor yet. Hereafter, I shall take as my
motto: "Put yourself in my plaoe," and
try to regulate my actions by it. '
"' Ladles Should Bead.
ui (- ...
" It Is a great mistake in female education,
to keep a young lady's time and attention
devotod only to the fashionable literature
of ..the day. j It. you) would qualify her for
conversation you must give her something
to talk about, give her education iu the
actual world and it , transpiring event.
Urge her to read the newspaper, aud be
come familiar with the present character
aud improvements of our race. , History
Is of some importance ; but the past world
is dead we have nothing to do with it.
Our thought and our concerns should be
for the preseut world ; to know.wbat it is
and improve ita condition. , Let her have
an intelligent opiuiou, and be able to sus
tain conversation according to the mental,
moral and religious improvement of our
times. Let the glided annuals and poems
on the contre-tuble be kept a part of the
time covered with weekly and dally jour
nals.' Let the whole family, men, ' women
and childien, read newspapers.
Harried Without Knowing II.
lA Mr. Thoma Cooper, an Englishman,
has publiahcd an account of his travels in
Thibet, whloli ho visited disguised as a
Chinaman. Among his stories is the fol
lowing :
lie was just halting for breakfast, after
leaving the Thibetan town of Bathang,
when a group of young girls, gayly drcssod,
and docked out with garlands of flowers,
eame out of the grove and surrounded him,
some of thorn holding his mulo, while
otbei-s assisted him to alight. He was
theq led into a grove, where he found a feast
prepared, and after ho had eaten, and
smoked his pipe, the piil came up to him
again, "pulling along in their midst a
pretty girl of sixteen, who was attired In a
silk dress, and adorned with garlands of
flowers." He adds, "I lind already noticed
this gill silting apart from tlios others
during the menl, and I was very much as
tonished when she was reluctantly drained
up to me, and made to seat herself by my
side ; and astonishment was considerably
heightened when the rest of the girls began
to dance round us in a circle, singing and
throwing their gnrments around me and
companion." The meaning of this singu
lar performance was, however, made clear
to Mr.1 Coopor. He had been married !
without knowing it. At first ho tried to I
escape the liability ontailed upon him ;
but such an outcry was made by alt the
people around that he was forced to oarry
off his bride. He managed to got rid of
hor before very long, by transferring her
to ore of her relations, but even that was
not treated as a dissolution of the marringe.
On his way back be was joined by a Thibe
tan dame, about thirty years old, who said
she had come to him with the consent of
herhusband,to supply her daughter's place.
We can well imagine Mr. Cooper's sur
prise at meeting with this novel proposal
on the part of his mother-in-law.
Courtship of Savages.
' Among the aboriginal blacks of Austra
lia, courtship as the precursor of marriage
is unknown. When a young warrior is
desirous of procuring a wife, he generally
obtains one by giving in exchange for ber
a sister or some other female relative of his
own, but, if there should happen to be no
eligible damsel disengaged iu the tribe to
which he belongs, then he hovers around
the encampment of some other blacks until
he gets an opportunity of seizing one of
their leubros, who, perhaps he has seen
aud admired at one of the feasts of the
oorrobories. His mode of paying his ad
dresses is simple and efflcaoious. With a
blow of a war club he stuns the object of
his "affection," and as she reoovers her
senses, brings her home to his own gun
yale in triumph. Another method with
wife-stealera is to ascertain the camp-fire
at which the' girl whom he oovets sleeps.
When he gains the knowledge, he creeps
close tj the camp on some dark windy
night, and, stretching out Ills spear, inserts
ita barbed point among her thick, flowing
locks, turning it ' slowly around, some 'of
her hair beoomea entangled with it ; then
with a iiudden jerk, she is aroused from her
slumber, and as her eyes open she feels
the point of another woapon pressing
against her throat. She noither faints nor
creams. She knows well that the slight
est attempt at escape or alarm will cause
her Instant death ; so, like a sensible wo
man, she makes a virtue of ' necessity, and
rising silently she follows ber captor to be
gin a life of toil from whioh she ia not re
leased till death. "' 'r:! ;'.""' '!'
, .Who are Your Aristocrats! ' ,'
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,., . If- f. . t ,1 ...r
n, Twenty years ago, this one made oaodlea,
that ohe sold cheese and batter, that one
butchered, a fourth thrived ou a distillery,
another was a contractor on canals, others
were merchants and meobanica. They are
acquainted with ' both ends of society, as
their children - will be after them though
it would not do to say so out loud t for
often1 you shall find that these toiling
worms baton butterflies and tbey live
about a year. Death brings a divisiea of
property, aud it brings new finaneiers I
The old gent is discharged, the young gent
takes his revenues, and begin to. travel
to ward poverty which be reaches before
death, or his children do, if ho does not. -So
that, in fact, though jfhere is a sort of
moneyed raoo, it is not.bejeUiUi'j ; it is ac
cessible to all. The good seasons of cot
ton.' will send a generation off men Up a
score of years, will bring them all down,
and send their, children to- laboj. .,,The , fa
ther grubs, and grows vicky. tha children
trust, and spend the mouey. The ohlldreu
in turn inherit the price- and go to shiftless
poverty ; next their chiltlrea, reinvlgorated
by fresh plebeian blood, aui by the smell
of the clod, come u again.' Tuns society,
like a tree, draws its sap- from the earth,
changes it into loaves, and spreads them
abroad in great glory, shads them off to fall
back on the earth, sgain to mingle with
the soil, and at )engtb, to reappear in new
dress and fresh garniture. ' :! ' t '
' tW Is it wrong for m to use rouge I"
asked a homely splcster of her clergyman.
"What do you use it for?'! "To to
make' rne handsome.! 'Well madam,
gu8 IV will do no harm for' you to use
lOUKf, for, you e homely', euyuh even
with it.- ' . -i '' '' ' '
Old Timber.
Probably tho oldest timber in tlio werld
which has boon subjected to the use of
man is that found in the ancient temples of
Egypt in connection with the stone-work,
which Is known to be at loast four thousand
years old. This, the only wood used in
the construction of the tomple, is in the
form of ties, holding the end of one stone
to another to its uppor surface. When two
blocks were laid in place, an excavation
about an inch doep was madeiu each block,
Into which a tie shaped like an hourglass
was driven. It is thorcforo very diffioult to
force any ' stone from its position. The
tie appear to have been of t!ie tamarisk or
shittem wood of which the ark was con
structed, a saorod tree in ancient Egypt,
and now very rarely found in the valley of
the Nile. The dovetailed ties are just as
sound, now as On tho day of their insertion.
Although fuel is extremely scarce in the
country, these bits of wood are not lare
enough to make it an object with the
Arabs to huave off layer after layer of
heavy stone to obtain them. Had they
been of bronze, half of the old . temples
would have been destroyed years ago, so
precious would they have been for various
purposes.
German Genius.
It is less than seventy yoars since illu
minating gas was introduced. Writing
from London in 1807, Walter Scott sneer
ingly referred to the folly of a German who
actually proposed lighting the streets of the
city with coal-gas. It is to Germany that
the world is now indebted for an invention
which will probably supersede lamp-lighters,
their torches and ladders, and also
electrio wires. Certain German engineers
have constructed an apparatus which is
quite simplo, and can be fixed to all gas-
jots. It acts solely by the increased pres
sure whioh is laid on from the gasometer
at lighting time. When the gas is turned
on at the main, all the burners fitted with
the apparatus are at once lighted, and the
diminution of pressure can be so regulated
as either to lossen tho amount of gas con
sumed oi totally to extinguish the flame.
By this means a whole city can be simul
taneously lighted, and one man be enabled
instantly to do the work which scores are
now required to perform in a slow and
laborous manner. In this,as in some other
departments of practical science, the pres
ent generation has little more than crossed
the threshold. ,
The Secet of their Power.
A gentleman one day earnestly requested
Mr. Webster to speak in the Senate on an
important subject. " I have no time," was
the roply. I have no time , to master the
subject so as to doit justice, "But Mr.
Webster," urged the applicant, "a few
words frem you would do much to awaken
publio attention to it.." .' "If there be such
weight In my words as you represent," re
joined the great statesman, "it is because
I do not allow myself to speak on any
subject till 1 have imbued my mind with
It" . ' "
" Men give me the oredit for genius,"
said Alexander Hamilton ; "all the goqius
I have lies just in this when I have a sub
ject in band, I study It profoundly. , Day
and night it is before me. I explain it in
all its bearings. ' My mind becomes' perva
ded with it. ' Then (he effort which I make
the ' people ' please to call the fruit of
genius.. It Is the first fruit of labor and ,
thought' ' ' V '. ',".'
; '' The Population of China. ' "
'' Abbe David,1 who has recently devoted
some years to the exploration of Chinese
territory and the study of the people,' say a
that the estimate of statisticians that the.
total population of the Chinese Empire is
but 100,000,000 souls is entirely ineorreot
The error is due to the terrible ravages,
made in certain small political divisions,
which have rebelled at times, and in which
wholesale) massacres have reduced tha in
habitants to one ; half and some eases one
fifth their former numerical strength. . Tha
province f Eiangsi is, however, the least
populated, and the average of each canton,
therein is 4,000 people... . There: are 4,345,
oantons, making an approxiaiate total oft
17,880,000 inhabitants.!; Among the 18
provinces of the Empire, It is certain that
several largely exceed Eiangsi in popula
tion ; but taking the above given aggregate
as a uuit, there must be at least 300, 00000
individuals in the' country.
tW It is a Strange characteristic of Rus
sian juries that they sonslder, theuisclvea
unbound by any law, and, Indeed, by any
evidence, if ' directly their feelings are,
touched.' Lately a private teaoher was,
shown to have stolon to the amount of 100,
roubles the things were traced, and, in.
short, the man did not deny it, It appeased
that' he had been, driven, ta it by sheer
want, aud tho circumstance were Certainly
of a pitiful nature. The mau was acquit
ted, and a purse made up for him by the
jury aud the publio. ' Such verdicts con,
stautly com'. A fraudulent bankrupt, as,
an exeuse for not keoping book iu . his.
business,' as required by law, ' pleads that
others do not, and be I acquitted, . A man,
hires a piano and pledges it the next day,
pleading that it was all the. oame to tho
owner whether it stood with him or iu
pawn, aud be, aguiu, is acquitted. It Is tlift
same In more serious oases.