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CHAPTER XVX Very dittereot, indeed, was the air of Mr, Soowdsa hh she greeted the Kmer sons on the eauiioa of tfctsseeend visit from that which she had displayed at her first appearance at their humble and unpreteutioos borne. Suffering Is a great eveler, and whether it comes in tlte 'form of mental or physical attiietioo, or both, it natters very little; the leveling prooosu goes on all the same. "The laws o' mercy. Mint Snowdeu! Can It be partible that you are oomin' baek to us so mhmi V asked Mrs. Etn ar son, ner voice ana wanner Betraying a welcome not at ail discernible in iter word. "lea, my Oear lire, r-merson; j-ou treated me ao well but yesterday, that I am like k sidled child, and must needs Unanaes yet further upon your good na tana. Bat where are Grace and 'LooaoT" "Gone over to see their Hew land ln. yond tbe rise. They're lalkl n of build In', and are already t-etlllit' down to bosiotwe like old people." "Jost so with John and Iiillie," wa Mr. Soowden's very remdble rejol oder. "They are an admirable couple. Yon moat be very proud of year daughters, Mrs. Emerson." "It don't beeome us to be over proud of nothih1, Vttm Snowden. We're ooi HMtnded to humble amdves that we may be exalted, aeeordin' to script er." "Ke vertholuae, I feel that we have a right to feel a juotillable sense of satis faetioo when ourehildreu'do well. Cer tain it it that we cannot help experi encing a deep sense of humiliation and sorrow if they do ill.' "That's so, Mies Soowden, tliat'e so," sighed Mrs. Emerson, though what it was that earned a vague tremor of ap prehension to dart suddenly through her vein and nerves, xne eoukl not for her life Imagine. "Though, as fur me, if do any it, which orient to aay it, Pve never bad any occasion to feel hum bled because of any partie'ler wroogdoln' on the part o' aay o' my children," she added, after a panee. Mrs. Snowden w seised with a sod den impulse to make a eouftdeut of Mrs. Emerson, and throw herself upon Iter generosity of heart; though why she ebon Id have thought of such a thing, no body but herself could have imagined, and even she eould not havedl vineti tlte roaoon bad she stopped to ask herself eoocerninK it. IWt intu ition is a woniRiiV forte. It Is often emphatically asserted that a woman's mason is simply "becanse." . But be that as It may, this reason, if such it may be called, is oftentimes more potent and unanswerable than the gravest philosopher's "why." "Mrs. Emersou," said Mrs. Snowden, and she was not even panting now, so overpowering were Iter emotions, "the shadow and substance of a great trial "Mrs. Kmerson, did you ever have n son of your own V asked Mrs. Snow den. Again that Men memory that like a poorly concealed well-spring, wasalways ready In bubble to the surfaee upon the slightest acltation, sought vent In a silent fit of heart-felt weeping. "Yes, Mrs. Snowden; I did have a sen, but God took lilm." "Would to Owl that lie had taken inlue, Mrs. Emerson," was the fer ventrejoiuder or the uulmppy visitor. "Why ? What ii the maMer ?" "I cannot keep it from you, Mrs. Emerson, so I will tell you all, ami throw myself and son upen your mercy. Aionso lias betrayed a young girl to her ruin." "I knowed it; I (elt it the minute you spoke of a great trouble. Hut, really, now, and upon the honor of a mother, didn't you know a word of this till to day?" "I first learned it lat evening, Mrs. Emerson, and I am out now upon a miesion of mercy, determined to make whatever reparation is possible." "Why dhiu't 'Lonzo marry the girl?" "For tite same wicked reason that prompts all other fellows in like cir cumstances, I suppose. The girl loved him to distraction. But, poor olillii, she'll never suffer over It any more." "She i9u't dead 7" "Unfortunately for her, no; I would to heaven that site were." "I do not understand." "Alas, do. Site Is oraiy." "And her child T" "Ia homeless orphan." "Then I mean to have it." "O, Mrs. Eniereon; would you take it as your own ?" "Of course I would, If I could only have It so nobody woahl Interfere. Is It it rfrir' "Yes." "I thought so." "Ami why did you think so V "I don't know. I s'pose it was only became. Bat, I've had a warnin' of this, and somehow it don't seem Midden like. Where Is the poor erasy mother ?" I suppose she is in lim asylum by this time. And the. child will be upon the town." "Would yoo allow that?" "I couldn't help myself. Mr. Soow den would not fiermit me to Interfere with It." Mrs. Emersou did not believe a wont of that, but she was too generous to say so. The idea that the wiry, nervous lit tle man whom ebe had met at the wed dlugeouid ever successfully oppose the specimen of ieminiue avoirdupois be fore her, when that specimen had her will set, was simply absurd. But Mrs. Emer-oo eould not help but look the in eredntity idle did not speak, uud Mrs. Snowden seeing the fact, thought fur ther explanation neesry. You see, we have a large family of marriageable daughter. And we can not allord to Hjioil their chances by a (while scandal. Ihtt you ctuild take the child and nobody would ever dream that anything was wrong." "Has tile poor girl no mrenH?" "She has a father." "Doesn't he want the child ?" "No. You see, the law in some In explicable way mwgnisee married women as men's property. And when my poor, misguided son got Into this trouble, the girl's father, who is a very hard man, demanded heavy damages In you turned up your nose at the idea of QUE EUROPEAN COERESPONDENOE living In the country," said Grace, a lit tie pettishly, for in truth she was sorely disappointed over the bursting of all her magnificent air castles. Alnnzodld not reply, nor Indeed did he appear to take any notice of her querulous reminders. She was his wife now, and it mattered little to him if site did fret, teeing lie hail all the ad vantage. "How soon do you propose to begin with the building?" asked Grace, after a long pause, as they halted upon a gentle rise, which she 11 mil I y decided to ohooseas a location. "I can't tell exactly, Grade dear. Tt would tie very hard for me to tear thyself afray from "you' for a" Mitticietit length of time to order the uecessary material,"' he avowed, with a melting smile which Grace was certainly to he pardoned for enjoying, so very bewitch ing was It. "Then, dear, let me go with you. I can go wherever you can." "But It wouldn't be at all ladylike for you to seem to take so much Inter est in my aflalrs, darling. Now that you are my wife, you must trust me to manage my own business.' "And am I to iiave no will ot my own ajmut anything ?" "Oh, certainly. Ladles always have it will of their own, my dear. IVut I mean that you must not expect to in terest yourself too ruueh about business matters'. My mother lias never known anything at all alio tit my father's pe cuniary a I1U Irs. It is Ids delight to shield her from every annoyance, and he keeps her in blissful Igitorauceof all hii financial perplexities." "Then Alonzo, you will pardon me, dear, but lie doesn't do right, either by your mother or himself. I'll warrant he'd not get off that way if lie hud me for a wife. I consider it n wife's duty LETTS NCMBKR SIXTBC. SOUTHERN ITALY. When we see what we have proposed for our last letter, aud go over metitully the places to be mentioued, Verona, Florence, Pisa, Genoa, Milan, Turiu, and the beautiful northern Italy, we can but Instinctively tdirink from the at tempt to crowd into one letter whut would receive poor treatment In n half dozen. Verona Is attractive to the traveler for two things, the amphitheater and the swindle known as Juliet's tomb. Next to the Coliseum at Home, the Ve rona Amphitheater is the grandest work fef Hie ancient Bomnne whBh. lias come down to us. But little inferior In size to the Coliseum, it Is so remarkably well preserved that In its vast rows of seats which rise one above unolher hardly a stone Is missing, aud it could seat its audience of fifty thousand peo ple as comfortably now as in the un known time, more than two thousand years ago, when it was built. If the arena was excavated to its former level and the dqngeous and ileus cleared out, the Iloman prefect might again take bis place of honor, the Roman audience again crowd in upon the stone seats, and even the gladiators ami wild beasts spring from the under-ground passages futo the arena as in former times. There is perhaps nothing In the Eng lish language so attractive to lovers us Shakespeare's "Borneo aud Juliet," ami this Is probably the reason why travel ers who stop at Verona, almost without an exception, go through a large garden to an ordinary house, and in the wood shed adjoining, gaze In admiration ou u large stone horse-trough, which, with out the slightest foundation in fact, is called the tomb of Juliet. Nothing can be less romantic, and after one fair view ! of thesupposed wonder, itbeglns todawu to 1m a lilnHiittM fur liur liiiultatu! In everything. If I had thought to sink T n" llmt lbe ,,0,e lM one of to the level of either dollshlp or drudg ery on your hands, I should never have consented to niarry at all." those numerous devices wliteh are so common to get money out of the utiiu itated traveler. It "Which Is Just the mine as saying that you do not trust me as a wife should trust her husband." Alonzo's air was that of an aggrieved j and injured man now, and Gruee some how felt that she had been unreasona bly self-asserting. "Be It as you say, 1113- dear," she said, with an air of resignation. "Though I don't feel satiaHed, because everything is turning out so diilerenlly from what I bad anticipated. I can't help feeling as though you hail caught mo through falte appearances. Ami yet, I wouldn't wrong you for my life." Perhaps It was well for Grace that the clatter of her horse's boofa umhi the 1 flinty road which they had now reached 1 011 their way bona-ward, prevented Iter j husband from hearing this last remark. For certainly trouble was coming to them in another shape quit soon enough, and there was no need of her aggravating matters by raising an Incip ient quarrel over their iecuuiary con cerns. To be rantlnned.) has fallen upon our household. It is a money, wbirh my husband met. But trial of which I did not have the faint- this did not compel the roan to take est suspicion before my son became your care of the girl. It only appeased Ids on-in-law, and your daughter became wounded honor according to men's code. mine, else I should have washed my So lie turned her and the child adrift." hands of the entire responsibility by telling you all before the marriage took place. Are you ready to hear the worst?" Mrs. Emerson sank into a ehalr and rocked rapidly to and fro. "I knowed it! I knowed it! I told Pap all the time there was ssmetbin' wrong. Bnt 'Inio has oeh a takln1 way, Miee Snowden. There eeukiu't toy of ns resist him. "You know all, then?" and Mrs Soowden gave vent to a deep sigh of relief. "What should know, Miss Snowden? 29o; I don't know uothiu', for certain, only it has 'pea red to all of us, not even 'oaatln' Grace herself, that some mystery afloat." "But soppofte Aionso were yoar own eoo, Mia. .emersou, your very own. Would you love him tbeb. in sidte of hi faolte !"' "It would be ag'in oatur1 If r didn't Mies Snowden. Bot you haves't torn' we what was the matter. U'8 uothiu1 about a girl, is it?" "Whatever made you think of that?" "But it was tlie gal that was dam aged, I should 3ay." Ami so would any woman decide, my dear. Men do not look at justice In the same light that we do." 'I should say they didn't, if that's the wBy they manage matters," said Mrs. Emersou. "But I've always had enough to do to look after my own affairs, and leave law-makin' to the men." I am afraid wa women have been eulpably negligent all along the by gone years, else we'd have had things different," was Mrs. Soowden's very wise rejoinder. "It ain't quite clear why you. should o' come to me about this trouble." said there was 1 irM Vnunu, u-i,i. .. i.vt- r ,iun !. straetiou inher usually not very expres sionless face. "I really didn't mean to tell you any thing about it, my dear madam. A sud den impulse seized me, though, and I obeyed It. And now, since you express yourself so humanly, I feel as though the angel might have prompted the idea. My business here was meant to be strictly nrivato with (I akl Aiooso's mother turning ghastly Uoti ,K you klKlw alK)Ut p"e, in !""' """" w-i- naps you nut belter tell the captain " iM evwuniw wnraunni. . leil HUH 7 1 EUeSS I will Vnii "Oh, nothin', only he's so slick- ,wt catch me keepiu' nv imm,int long tied, like, and no doubt he's bad a secret like that from pap." takln' way among other women besides While this conversation was xolng on the Emereons. I beg your pardon if I between the mothers, Alonzo and hurt your feelin's, but I told pap an Grace were ridlug here and there over Buffs. Do our fair readers know for what the Spanish rull was used at the outset? To conceal the yellow throat of the Queeu of Navarre, and to hide a scar on Henry Il.'s neck ! Books have lieen written about the run, atiauiemasiiorieu nt its wearers yes, even murders com mitted witli its aid, if contemporary soandal.mongers are to be believed. Have not Catherine of Medluis' detract ors accused tier cqteuly that she poisoned Queeu Jeanne of Navarre by a perfumed rull, ami persuailHl the LluKeor Aien eou to get rid of his brother Henry by having him scratched with a poisoned ruff pin. There were Spanish rufls and Medicls ruffs; single, double, triple piled, and dspdalian mils of cambric; rufls of lawn, tluted and straight, embroidered and edged witli gold, silver, pearls aud pre cious stones; ruffs of cut-work, rufls of bone, lace, etc The Spanish ruff came first to England under Henry VI If., and was made of cambric, lawn, or simple linen, a lluled ring of moderate dimen sions encircling the neck, and worn by men and women, high and low. vivid Imagination to realize that the officious attendant who is jingling our money in his ocket, Is laughing at us as a party of nlnneys while he smiles -o blandly upon us as we quickly take our departure. There Is probably 110 city In Itoly which is, on the whole, so pleasing to travelers and In which so many cul tured foreigners live, as Florence. Be sides being a city of palace's, nod beauti ful drives, It is the blrth-idnp- and home of art. Her many beautiful churches, her numerous ami rich galleries of art, and her hundreds of studios and artists, make her u favorite home of literary and cultured people. Florence has been the birth-place or home of many dis tinguished men, and their homes are yet polntedutit to the traveler. Among th eise may lie mentioned Miehuei Au- gelo, Dante, Galileo, Ghlberti, Machia- villi, and Amerigo Vespucci, from whom America took its name. In the English cemetery lie tbo remalnsof Mrs. Brown ing, Walter Savage I.indor, Theodore l'arker, and many English aud Ameri cans who names are not so widely known. Every one can remember the picture of the leaning tower of Pisa, which used to be in all the geographies, and I can well remember that I thought there was something supernatural about it that kept It In this position right in the face of nature's laws, and when climbed its one hundred and eighty feet and looked over Iheside aud saw myself hanging In the air thirteen feet outside the base, the supernatural Impression was not In the least removed. At the first glance you cannot get rid of the im pression that the tower has commenced tipping over. It is supposed that after the structure was commenced one side sattleil, and that In finishing it, care. was taken to make the lower side the lighter, so that the center of gravity of the whole mass might not fall outside of the base. Galileo used this slanting tower Kverv peasant hath hi. .lately bande. j ' experiment" ' neiei MonilroiM ruffes, bow cotlr iwevcr lu " 14ws of gravitation. The baptistry of The size gradually increased; one ring ; lbe catl)edrul Is a circular building, and was pi eti op tne oiner, cosily 1 "; u celebrated for Its marvelously beauti ful echo. The attendant sounds the four notes, do.mi.iot, do, and the whole and edclncs of Ileticella and Fleniih lace introduced. Freuoh and English courtiers vied with eack other who should wear the largest rut I. A ttiitd of an ell was its depth under Catherine of Medieisnnd Henry III.; but in England they wore their rufls n quarter id a yard deep iu Elizabeth's time. A Lakk of Fike. Mrs. Braev, an English woman who accouinleil her husband In a recent yacht voyage around the world, thus describe, ine loss or the Holy L.anu, tne arcnnisiiop crater of the great Sandwich Island j1Bj flfty.tbree ship-loads of earth from volcano, Kllauea: "We were standing 1 yu Ca,very conveyed here in order that bumlrMl feet below us. and nearly a mile ' There re "'"' other things of interest across. Dashing against the otitis nu ! in this old, decaying city, hut we must the opposite side, with a noise like the (?aV(j Uem aml clae far,,er Up the roar m a stormy ocenu, w , ,i. tlmdv ituatMl nllv nf I ' I TJ mnwa w r - - the gals both of 'em, that a dashin', citified young chap like him would hardly o' eoine out here to this uupre tendin' place, and among such plain people, to make a marriage settlement if he hadn't had some reason for it that wasn't on the surface." Mrs. Emerson's memory was shorter than the reader's, else she would nave recollected that it was "pap" in stead of herself that prognosticated evil. their new iloraaiu, the former secretly intent upon calculating bis probable realizations from its speedy sale, and the latter openly planning, with the In nocent artlessness of a child, as to the site, style and surroundings of her new country abode. "It will not be as you promised, any way, Alonzo, for you told me that we should have a city home, with elegant furniture and a grand observatory. And AsI florv liniiiil Inva hnrlrtl ihrlr till lows upon an iron-bound headland, and Genoa, which has been celebrated from then rushed up the face of the ditli to H tue for Its cxeell-nt sea-port. It toss their gory spray high in le air. , 1111ls ,.4e nges, ami the 1 ue restless, neavnig iaKe .Kmc- ;. ,., ,,..,, , M,ll,rt lltllilklutfl ,iu,ur rmtriitif. tli wnfOH lor wwci - - -----o two minutes tocether. There 1 cit. While it libs many churches, "as au Island 011 one side nf the lake, I ,.al.e and naileries. It has none of To-!!?1' Uie ller' waves denied to at- .Ial importance to a casual visitor, . If uenTo H T ' ' but many which arc well worthy the nt On the other side was a large cavern, ' teution of the art critic who has time i11', Ue burning mass rushed ' , disposal. It Is associated In the impetuousSVonetr Sganllc American minds chiefly as the home of stalactites tlmi .,: ..... ..i. ..r r-i. .minis, and the traveler Is shown his materfaTfor1 tl1 0'"K,"K UP lue n1ui1 ' palace and two statues of him, one of It was all terriiTiv . 1 . uu . them very fine, itany who reau tuts uSto will recall the adm.rab.e article describe such a scene." 0n the celebrated bank of St. George. which appeared In one of our leading magazines a few months ogo. This was one of the earllests aud most famous banks In Europe, and came near absorb ing the entire republic of Genoa. From Genoa, u ride of less than a hundred miles northward brings us to Milan, the capital of Lombardy, the second city in Italy in population, and the most prosjierous. Itaud Turin show evidences of being largely modern cities, most of the streets being wide and well paved, ami many of the buildings very line. Siuce the revolution of 18o9, no cities iu Ilaty have made such rapid improvement as these two. The rich plain iu which the olty is situated lias, been fought for by French, Austriana and Itnliaus from time immemorial.. The battle fields of Lotli and Marengo, where the great Napoleon won such signal victories, ami of Maueuta, the military glory of Napoleon I IT., are all near the city. While Milan lias cared for her material prosperity, she has not neglected her opportunities for art, and to-day is a vigorous rival of any city in Italy In these matters. Milan, the graud, is uoted the world over for her wonderful cathedral, which Is the larg est and finest gothiu church in the world. It covers au area of about two and a half acres, and is distinguished more for its exterior decorations than for the beauty of its interior. There are positions from which the view across the cathedral discloses a wonderful number of great pillars ami gives au impression of massiveness which I do not remember to luve received in any other cathedral. The chattel of St. Borroiueo, un derneath the chureh, is rich iu work in silver and in prealnus stones. But it is a visit to tlie roof ami spires of this great cathedral which calls forth our wonder ami admiration. Tlie roof, which is of blocks of solid marble, is such a labyrinth of turrets, hutments, anil elaborate ornament of every kind that guides are generally sent up witli the narties to itreveut them from wan- does not require a j ,eTujr uround and losing the way. From the platform of the spire the view is probably tlie finest to be had from any cliureh-tower in tlie world. The broad plain of Lombard), which lies be low us, is seen to lie bounded on the north by the best known of the Alps, and on the south by the Appeniiies. To the extreme east, beyond Turiu, the lofty Mount Ceuls can be distinguished. Not tlie least interesting of all is the wonderful roof which we look down upon, with its thousand of pieces of stat uary, for it is said that when the deco rations are completed there will be ten thousand marble figures, mostly nu the outside ot the building, and more than half of thesearealreaily in plaee. There is a small engine on the roof for hoist lug material, ami houses in whlah the workman cut the marble. The roof is almost a city in Itself. In one of the Inferior ehtirrlies is the celebrated "Ijttst Supper," by Vernundo de Vinci, one of the best known ami most admired of the great 'xiintings of the world. It has unfortunately received very bad treatment, and is now very much injured. Probably no finer face of the Savior has ever been paiuted, and yet the great artist himself said that he was not able to realize on the freso his conception of the heavenly beauty, aud grace of the countenance. There was a very beautiful copy of this picture in tapestry at the Paris Exposition. Tlie gallery of Victor Emmanuel, a covered arcade, with shops on each side, costing more than $1,500,000, is the fin est building of its kind iu Europe. Wlien its two tnousaml gas jets are lighted in the evening, it Is as brilliant a plaee as one can well imagine. We were pleased with Northern Italy, with the enterprise and ambition of the people, ami most of all with the confl deuce which they seemed to have in themselves to again beeome a united and (Miwerfui nation, loung Italy has shaken "II the dust of her former dead es, ami arising In all the hope and vigor of her newly found life, is making rapid strides toward regaining what she lost while she slept, and many who read these lines will live to see her again, as of early times, a power omong nations. I tlo not feel that I can conclude this series of letters without thanking my many readers for the Interest with hich they . have perused them ami borne with my Imperfect attempts to place before their minds what mauy of them have not as yet had the pleasure of seeing with their eyes. From the first I have most painfully realized how Impossible It was for me in the narrow limits to which it was necessary to re strict myself to tiegln to tlo justice to the many things of interest in the places mentioned, and It has been with great regret that I have been obliged to leave uunoticrd things Iu which I was greatly 0UE WASHINGTON LETTEB. To thk KnrroB op thb Xkw Northwest: Mr. Blaine certainly has cause to feel that be is a popular man, since the no tice that he will make a formal speech always suffices to crowd the galleries and lobbies with people who are anx ious to hear him speak, hundreds lie ing unable to gain admittance to the galleries when he was speaking in sup port of his resolution looklnjj to inves tigation of tlie recent Southern elections. Every nook and corner was occupied by listeners; the floor with Senators and members of the House ami other priv eleged persons, while tlie plebeians jammed the galleries and the corridors, and with strained attention, listened during his hour's eflort. It is not his eloquence or his arguments whioli at tract these crowds, for he is not the equal of Voorheea in oratory, or of Bayard or Edmunds iu solidity. But there is a certain uuiinal magnetism about him whieh attracts the masses, much as was the case with Henry Clay, ami as a consequence, he never makes his speeches to empty seats. Mr. Clay was tiie only man ever iu the House or Sen ate who was uniformly greeted with au audience, and his peculiar power of fas cination or attraction never ceased to draw around him, aud to the galleries, a pleased audience. It seems strange that so many men, blessed with large intellects, who in the courts command princely fees, am! whose legal and argu mentative powers are unsurpassed, should so lack in ability to command listeners iu the halls of Congress, aud whose auditors are mere empty seats, and that, too, at times when they are debating measures utlecting the weal or woe of our country. We can only ac count for the faot on the same ground that we admit the power of some illiter ate preacher to surpass his learned brother ministers in swaying the masses with sweeping revivals. We may often laugh at the painful lack of scholarship, the uncouth muuuers iu the pulpit, aud tlie ignorance of all the graces of oratory, aud yet we have before us the undis putable evidence of power in the eflrcts produced upon the crowds which pour in night after night for weeks to listen, ami to be afleetet! by him. So in the capital. We do not regard Mr. Blaine as the intellectual equal of some of his associates, but he has beyoud this a magnetic force whieh the others do not dome seems tn fill with echoes and re echoes, ami before they have died away lie repeats the notes, nnd the two echo choruses are heard blending and com bining for nearly a minute. Near this Is the burial ground, a quaint structure, remarkable from the fact that lifter the The Oaarities of a Poor Woraat. Ou a 8equestereT"lillslde of North beituate, nestling amoug green hills ami woods, stands an ancieut cottage em bowered with creeping vines and gay flowers, and surrounded by fair or chards, whose trees are red and goWen with delicious fruit. Here reside a woman indefatigable and beneficent, always busily at work for somebody, although she has neither husband nor child, ami no means but this little farm and its appurtenances. Her home is " pleasant and tidy, sweet and genial, aiid happy are the many recipients of her generous hospitality; but she is so busy doing good deeds for the ueedy, her time is too precious to waste on vain superlitiities. She wears no gewgaws, trails, or overskirts. But nearly every week tiil cold weather comes, she may be seen in her plain wagon, laden with cooti things for the poor, driving into Providence. In summer you may see this wagon loaded with fresh whortle berries, with her own hands from her own Jam!, to make glad the Old Ladies' Home; and the next week the poor children of the Shelter are delighted with a similar donation. In apple time sbe is seen cheerfully driving up to the. same institution, and the children shout for joy as a generous hag of Sa psoas is poured out before them. The next time she visits the city, the old ladles at the Home bless her with cheerful voices for a barrel of the same delicious fruit. A little later in the season, the aged men of the Home are gladdened, their hearts not soured, but sweetened by the acid gifts, as she loads their table with a plentiful supply of fresh cranberries, picked by her own nimble fingers from her owu prolific meadows. The poor children of a certain institu tion seem to be drooping ami puny. She" knows that uothiiig puts new life Into little children like a joyful surprise. So she goes to a genial confectioner and says, "I waut ice-cream ami cake for thirty. What is the cost?" He makes a liberal discount, and away with a light heart, she bears the sweet burden to de light the little ones, whose sad lives were so early bereft of chi Idhood's sweet ness. She pays the bill, and takes it to kiud ladies with purses, who gladly re lieve her from the pecuniary part of this sweet work. She is interested in an aged woman, sick ami helple-s, who must not be hustled oil' to the al ms-houee, for she is a sister iu the ehurch ami must be kindly eared for. So our heroiue, so fertile; in practical plans of relief, obtains means to board and uurte her for three loug years, tenderly as if she was bh own mother'. One album bed-quilt which shedevised tor Her support. Hint with the aid ot friends, nobly executed, realised over $400. True it is, that "where there's a will there's a way." Happy the destitute, bed-ridden crip ple, suffering and lielplees, that en grosses her sympathies, so active ami warm, tor ever afterward the pitiable or be read by soine one who is sick, sour, ami sou, bpcaue so selfish, aud who may lie in cited thereby to go and do likewise, for get herself, bless others, do good as sbe has opportunity, and as an ample re ward here below, find lierelf well, vigor ous, and happy. Mm. R. C Mather, in Jrovidence Journal. possess, and through it he has eager I invalid hteks no comfort that money or listeners instead of empty benches for ! inemls can procure. his audience. I H"Mi'. too, Uw worthy mission, near , , , 1 ' or remote.ready to fail for want of funds, Congiess has got down to its oma- . ,at 9he m ner heart." Forthwith mental work of introducing bills by the ; its needs are supplied ami the good work hundred. An occasional one may Ue : prospers. passed, provided it has no real merit, hut 1 I"llthe ol,,en "BW- be?f"I U,e "l f V, , , , ',. priming was known, this erneifcnt the real labor so far has been in reading widow, so indefatigable in doing good, the titles nf the ollereti bills, ami then re- ! would have been canonized as a model ferrim; them to the proper committees, i for sisters of charity, and her memory Mr. Edmunds has delivered himself of ! I" through the eturtes as , , , , iH,,t Auiaraoev or Saint Indefatigable, annblespeeeliiufavorof ameudlngotir ,ut in thexe latter days of the news electoral system of voting for President, paper and pre, her published example but other Senators am handling hl I " perhaiw meet the eye of some proposition without gloves, so of course j SS. ILil II of tl... f .... . f . a I . I .. f ( .. , ' lietl, and our next President may en-j counter the same difficulty iu getting the seat which Mr. Hayes met. No one j doubts that Congress sllould'amend our electoral law, but no two legislators cun agree as lo the mode. j Cougres made provision last winter for enlarging Pennsylvania Avenue where it meeh Capitol gate on the west, by removal nf several houses on the north side of the street. These have recently been torn down, aud in a few days vehicles and etlastriaus will not be forced, as in the jstst, to encounter each other iu a thoroughfare so narrow as to render passage iu busy times, as difficult and dangerous as iu Broadway, New York. The erection of the Peace Monument produced this contraction, but the removal of five buildings gives ample sitoce for all purposes, ami adds much to the aptearanee of the Capitol grounds at this point. A small corner was also taken off the botanical gardeu; thus the sweep around the moumeut is much wider, and certainly much more graceful ami pretty. Our Chief of Police has at last given orders to stop our oyster hucksters from blowing hortrs while selling their bi valves upon the streets. Heretofore a tooting horu greeted one at every turn, accompanied by a screech or yell of "oysters" from the cracked throats of some colored gentlemen. But Mayor -Morgan wins our gratitude by cutting off the horn, even though he cannot In terfere with a freeman's right to howl his wares upon our streets. Felix. Washington, December 13, 1S7S. A Franklin county. North Carolina, man, who is 49 years old, is said never to have heard a sermon, never read a chapter in the Bible, never fired a gun, and never saw n white couple married. An old granger who came Into town to imrohase a piano for his daughter. interested, uud whieh I am sure would 1 the agent If lie hadn't one with a ' ti II. In tliwum "wi truiuni ull nt . been enjoyed by my readers. As I look back on the work I have tried to ac complish, my highest hope is that while I may have interested ami benefited somewhat those who have followed me in my wauderings over u portion of the old world, I have excited in them a de sire to know by study or travel, more of the nations of the past, aud nf those achievements iu art aud civilization whieh are the pride and common herit age of the eutire Caucasian race. O. R. Bukciiard. handle in the end, "so we cull all give it it turn once in awniie:-' Year after year there is renortetl from the iMtent office an excess of receipts over total expenditures, until a surplus if considerably over $1,000,600 has ce cum mat eu. Honesty is the best policeman. Tlie5eare hard times; but for all that, up in Milford, New Hampshire, they advertise church sunners at ten mntu Ktitl beg their patrons to "please come hl3p." ! It takes light eight minutes to come from the sun, but It must have required 50,000 years for it to come from the fat- I thest visible stars. Home. "Home," wrote Lady Bui we ri long ago, "Home: piaee to keep wt6rand children iu. Mutton-chops: food tar ditto." Many a wife of lo-iiay must smile a little bitterly over this defini tion which the Euglish lady. In her bit terness, gave of the word; for there are mauy men who actually regard home as a place where tbnee incumbrances are to be stowed away, ant! where tbey themselves simply sleep and take break fast. I tlo not allude to overworked men who have no time to rest, but to those with ample means, wh,e business hours are from say ten to three, and who have tlo good reason for leaving the women they have bound fast by means of the marriaaru eereaioov. to speud their time much more desolately iiihu any witiow or vpinsterever spends hers. Alas! for the poor wife whose hus band, liaviug caught her in the matri monial noose, simply cages and feeds her; who dines at his club and goes to the opera afterward with his friends; whose amusements are not of the. sort to lie shared with his wife, ami who sel dom spends an hour in her society, save when too much dissipation has given hi in the headache anil an indiges tion, ami he desires to growl at seme iHidy. He may give her rieh clothes and a floe bouse, hut he has only par tially kept the promise made at the altar. He lias endowed her with his worldly goods, but lie cannot lie said to love, cherish ami protect her. The wife of the workingtnaii who comes home to her after his long day's labor, and who is glad to walk out with her ou holi days, dragging the baby wagonaud car rying the next you ugest child, Is a far happier woman. All! home is a place to live in, a place that should uol be deserted for any other by either wife or htisbaud; ami a wife is not it weH-dressed house-keeper, but the partner of her husband's tife; ami when you said to this woman,' "Will you marry me?" you meant, or xktmkl hare meant, "Shall our two lives be come one? Shall our cares, our Joys ami our sorrows mingle? Will you help me? Shall I help you? And shall we part as little as we can uutif death parts us?" Many a lonely heart beats within the bosom of a wife, and many a woman, too proud to utter reproaches, bears the strange solitude and neglect to which some men consign their wives in a blind depth of selfishness impossible to women often absolutely Ignorant of their own deeds Jfar Kyle Dallai, inXew York Ledger. Divorce is on the increase in Ver mont, the number of divorce oases in 1877 being two to every thirty marriages.