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THE TEMPTER.

' BT LKK O. HARRIS. , i ; Only a glass, now and then , with a friend I r' Why should they warn me and bid me bewareT i . , i h ' - - ' . Ha loves me, I know, and my love will defend, f. And lead him away from the treacherous snare.' . ) The tempter will fly, and the blush of his wine Grow pale in the garlands my love shall en- . twine. , . ' " Only a glass ! And pray where Js the harm? t 'Why should affection be startled at this? XTan Bacchus betray with his roseate charm, . When Hymen has hallowed his cup with a kiss? , . Away with your warning, so gloomy and grave! . . , . The tempter my lure, but affection caa save. ,. . . . . . . - ? ,; . . . Oalyaglass! Shall I torture for this . A heart that la beating responsive to mine? In doubt there is sorrow. In faith there Is bliss, And love can not drown in a goblet of wine. Thus trusting in love she goes with him a ' bride, ' Kor sees that the tempter still walks at his side; . . ' . ; Only one glass, deaf twas hard to decline- ' Kay, do not weep for so trifling a thing. Old friendships must mellow their autumn . with wine, . " , While love wears the crown of perpetual I . . spring . But often, Oh, often, her eyes sliall be dim While love dwells with her and the tempter with him. Only a night, now and then. In the street . : Crazed by the demon that lures him to roam. While hope is awaiting his staggering feet, " And love, like a hermit, sits pining at home. Only two lives, In their bitterness seen, Walking apart, with the tempter between. -Only a drunkard ! Lost! Lost and undone ! Can this be the end of affection'! design? Oh, hope, hast thou fled from the sorrowing one? . - Oh, love, hast thou died In a goblet of wine ? Oh, garlanded faith, thou wert fair, thou wert sweet, -i . But the tempter hath trampled thee under his - feet. - . Only a hut at the edge of the town " , ' Empty the cupboard and naked the floor Wretchedness sits at the hearth, with a frown, And famine is crouched, like a wolf, at the door. .Well may the eye of the mother grow wild, 'Who lists to the wall of her famishing child. Only a coffin come, wretch, and draw nigh, ' Thy wife and thy child are both slumbering there; ? iKneeldown lu thy anguish of spirit and cry: "Have mercy, O Godl on my bitter despair!" But the tempter shall mock thee : "These loved ones of thine Were sold unto death for a goblet of wine." . Only a grave ! where the bones of the poor . Mis gle together, so scanty the room ; r Where the eye of affection can find them no more, . . ' And even the rose Is forbidden to bloom. Oh, sweet was her faith when his wooing begun. But this Is the end, and the tempter hath won. Only a warning this ditty of mine Oh, may U waken some slumbering heart. Close as the garlands of love may entwine, , The hands of the tempter can tear them apart; Affection recoils from his pestilent breath, And kisses from him are but kisses ot death. LewlsvUle,Aug.24,1878. ' 1 . .STORY OF THE THREE CAPTAINS. IGeorge A gust us Bala, In Belgravla. "We are three brothers, all following the sea from our youth upward, and all captains Captain Horace, the eldest, and your servant tocommabd; Captain Paul, who is but two years my junior, and Captain Desire-Bienalme-Dieudonne-Marie, the yougeat. A long list of names, but then our mother loved her youngest child to dearly, and prayed for his coming ro fervently, had waited . for him so patiently and so long. And then All his namta came to be shortened into one Desire so that there was no barm in his having a deck cargo of appellations, was there?" 'Not at all," I made answer; "I have a eood many more Christian names myself than I know what to do with, or that I ever make use of, save when I have to swear an affidavit." "You see," went on Captain Bayard, "De sire Is no less tbsn 12 years younger than 1, and 10 younger than my brother Paul; but between 1'aul and Desire there was an other child a eirl. Maiie Jeanne. She wss Paul's Junior by nine years, and, poor lamb, she died when she was but two years old. Thus my mother praytd and waited six long years until Notre Dame de la Grade listened to bar pray em, and ' Desire-Bienaime-Dieu-. donne Marie was bom. In less than two days, if all goes well, we ought to be in sight of Notre Dame de la Grade. You have seen " it high up there on the colline as you enter I think I ma le some stupid remark about the church ot Notre Dme de la Garde being built on the sight ol an ancient temple of the Domina Maris. Connais pas," quoth' Captain Bayard, "tber say the same about Cape Colonna. Laissons la ces vieilles histoires. Our mother was always prsyme to Notre Dame de la Garde, for she was the devoutest of Catho lics, and when she died, leaving uesire, a child of eight to the care of my brother Paul nd myteif, she made us promise that we would bring up the tor in the ancient faith. My brother and are Protestants of the Protestants, Huguenots de la vielle souche, and have been so since the days oi the reiormation to these. We came from Nimes originally, and at the time of the dragonnadM, when Pere la Cbaise and Madams de Maintenon (nne drotesee eel lei a, toute begueule qu'elle fut) pr-uaded the Grand Monarque to revoke the Edict of Nantes, a branch of our family took refug- in England. They were silk weaver?, aud set up our looms in a district of your city of London called, I think, EpiUville." "Soiultields." I mildly sazirested. "(Teste poeible. The branch of the Bayards of which we are now the representatives csme on to Marseilles, which has ever been a liberal, generous and tolerant city From tie beginning of the eighteenth century to the beginning of this we were, from father to son, armaieurs, or ship builders. But when steam navigation came In the fortunes of wooden ship building, at Marseilles at least, men'-out. Our fattier was not rich enough to start a great iron ship building yard; so he realized bis property, invested his modest pecule in the five per cent rentes, and retired from business altogether. lie had a right to enjoy bis leisure, since he bad been working hard for forty years. But, recognizing the fact that we most march

with the spirit of the age, he brought us, his

sons, np to the sea. xms is wny we are an three of us captains 1, jiorace, wno am fifty-two; Captain Panl, your servant, who is fifty, and Captain Desire, who is just now entering on his fortieth year. "Paul and I -were very young men he eighteen, I twenty when In the year '46 Desire, by the death of onr good mother, was left under our guardianship. We were both Ol us wen Berring lue aiaie a as mu aspmuk on board a frigate; he as an eleve'or cadet at Brest Wa knew that until we were at least thirty yesrs old there would, be no chance of gaining a grade which would warrant oiw st tting np a home for ourselves in Marseille The great question was to know what to do with Desire during the long jerm of years which must necessarily elapse before wecould think of going to Housekeeping. You may cmue at me notion oi a saiior guiu$ iw housekeeping at all; but 1 must explain to you that, according to our father's behests, we were all, alter attaining the graae ot lieutenant in the eervice ot la chose publique to join the mercantile marine.' how, a manof war's man needs no other borne than the successive ships to which he is appointed; whereas a merchant captain should have a comfortable pied-a-lerre in his native port, to which he can from time to time repair between his voyages. He must have plate and linen and some bottles of old wine wherewith to entertain his comrades and neighbors.' lie should have a cat, and, is possible, a wife and some children in an case, a femme de menage to look aft things and keep all orderly and ship-shape. . "Our father had sent us in our boyhood to the public Lycee at Marseilles, whence we returned in the evening to our home on the Chemin de la Corniche, hard by the old restaurant of La Reserve, where the bouillabaisse used to be so good. There is still a Reserve where you may eat bouillabaisse, but it has deteriorated. It is now thought unfashionable to add a dash of tallow to the flavoring. Our father had a horror of private boarding schools where boys only learn to be selfish and gluttonous, bullies or parasites, cynics or hypocrites, and where they forget all the quiet teachings and gentle discipline of home. So we pondered and pondered as to how we should bestow our Desire, until, by a happy inspiration, we thought of Madame Yeuve Babocuf, an excellent woman whose husband had been drowned long years before in a storm in the Black sea. He and all the crew of the brig of which he was master went down one terrible night off Yarna. The widow enjoyed but a very modest pension from the commercial firm who owned the ill fated brig and in whose service her husband had lost his life, and I am afraid that she bad been fain to eke out ber narrow income by needle work. It was thus a matter of great joy and ' comfort when she consented to take Desire en pension, sending him to the Lycee, when he became old enongb, every day for his education, but boarding, tending and indeed taking entire charge of the boy. We. knew that we could trust her, for she had been one of the dearest friends of our mother, and it was pleasant to think that the poor widow woman would now be made quite comfortable in her cir cumstances by the 70 francs a month which our tuteur (for, as none of us were yet legally of age, our money matters were managed by a guardian, our good uncle, M. le Pasteur Blot of Avigon.) agreed to pay her for the child's maintenance. And, to crown the pleasantness of the arrangement, Madame Veuve Baboeur had a charming little seraph of a child, a fair haired girl full four years younger than Desire, and who, we predicted, would prove a delightful playfellow for him. The little girl's name was Angelique, and .yon will hear more about her during this radotage. "Well, Paul and I went in due course to sea and were tossed about in all parts of the world, and worked hard to achieve the rank which should entitle us to take command of a merchant ship. It was no fault of my good brother Paul that I got my lieutenanty first. . I had the luck which did not fall to bis share. J'eusde la chance voyez-vous, Monsieur. I was serving in a corvette In tbe Chinese archipelago. We had a brush with pirates, and I had the fortune to be in a boat which captured one of the rascals' junks. I was additionally favored by being wounded in the left shoulder by a poisoned arrow; and, enfin, I got my grade and the cross to boot" Here Captain Horace's voice slightly trembled; and so full and clear was theliglit of the moon that I almost fancied I could see a blush mantling on his features. ' "My wound," went on the captain, "kept me in a hospital at Macao for a long time; and then I was sent back to France on sick leave. When I got well and strong again, my discharge from the navy was granted to me; and I entered at once into the service (we were, then under, tbe empire) of the Messageeries Maritimea. I have been on ill tbe lines, lieutenant en troisieme, lieutenant en second and commandant.. I have tried to do my du'y and to win the approbation of my chiefs; and while I have been in command I have always endeavored to earn the resDect and esteem of my officers and men. llere.my individual history comes to an end if tbe captain of a Metsageries steamer can be said to have any history beyond going out of the port of Marseilles and returning to it if he does not happen to get drowned between whiles. "There remains, however, something to be said about Desire. The little lad was never strong he would be stronger, we hoped, when he went to sea; still Madame Yeuve Babceuf had taken scrupulous care of him, aod there were some rosea in his cheeks when at 13 years of sge the state (with our consent, bien entendu), claimed him, and he was entered as an eleve on board the fregate-ecola at Rocbefnrt Otherwise tbe conscription maritime couid not take him until he was 10. He had made wonderful prberess in mathematics while at the lycee at Marseilles, and rapidly rose to the rating of aspirant But the exact and somewhat mechanical discipline of a man-of-war did not suit Desire's studious and docile, but somewhat dreamy and romantic temperament He quitted the service early, to take quits subordinate rank in the mercantile marine, and was a long time in China (where I got my grade), first mate of an opium clipper. Then he returned to the Mediterranean; but it was a long time before we could persuade him to enter tbe service of the Messageries. It was too military, too mechanical, he urged. At length, when Desire was bordering on30, Paul and I, who by this time were bc'.h captains, in siated tbat he. who was a cleverer navigator tbsn either cf us, should put him-elf in tbe way of being a captiin too. So he went second in command on the Leghorn Civita, Yecchia and Naples line. Speedily he rose to be commandant, and that rank he has retained for ten years. We are, as I have aln-afy remarked, three captains who love each other very dearly, as brothers should do. All that we have we possess in common, aod the banker who takes orders from one of us takes orders from all. "While Desirwss a lad, we had the paternal bouse on the Chemin de la Corniche; but when we had obtained our rank we solemnly went Into housekeeping. Sometimes it was Paul, sometimes myself, sometimes Desire, that kept house. Occasionally it would happen that two of us were at home at a time, and one memorable jour de 1' an it so' chanced that we were all three on leave. We dined together, and gave a ball in tbe evening. We were bound to have a femme de menage, and right glad should we have been had It been in accordance with

les convenances for Madame Yeuve Babceuf (who during five years had acted a mother's part to little Desire), to come andkeenhouse for us. There wa unfortuately, one fatal objection. Desire's tiny play fellow, the little girl child with tbe fair hair, Angelue, had sow grown to be a beautiful young woman of twenty-six, and we were three eaptains two of us vieux lonps de mer, and all of us an married. So we were obliged to submit, in the way of a femme de menage, ' 1o the kindly tyranny of La Mere Gigotte, '' a good old woman of the neighborhood wb had knwn our mother. - .', . "Scores of times since her seventeenth year had Angelique Eeboeaf been asked to wed. The most advantageous partis had been proposed to ker; but she always answered, with a smile and a bluaK that she would never leave her mother. 'Nor do I think,' U9ed to add Madaeae Yeuve Babeeof, that when ' I am dead,. Angelique will take a husband. Cest une sainte fille, et.je crois qu'elle entrera en religion. It was, indeed, habitually bruited about tbat Angelique BaboDuf intended to become a nun; and It Is certain fast the Abbe Verjus, ot tbe Provencal missionary preachers, was continually at the whlow Baboeuf s house, and in gloomy confabulation with Angelique. In fact, the neighbors whispered that the Abbe (who had had prodigious success in persuading young girls to enter into religion) was by no means disposed to wait for Madame Yeuve Babceufs death before he induced Angelique to turn nun. There was no time like tbe present, the Abbe Verjus thought I suppose. He was a tall, bony, sour-faced man, with the largest shovel-hat that I ever saw off the stage at the Opera house at Yalentia, where they sometimes play the "Barber ' of Seville," and where there used to be a capital Don Basile. Nobody liked the Abbe Verjus except the women, and they were afraid of him. I am sure he was no favorite with the regular cure of the parish, M. l'Abbe Bontemps a capital fellow as cures go, Don enfant s'il en fut who took his wine like a man, didn't mind a game at tric-trac now and then, and never bullied his Catholic parishions, nor preached against us because we were Protestants. I suspect, tbat he looked on the grim visaged missionary priest as an interloper who was fishing without warrant in his waters, and trying to catch the most delicate of his' trout He had known Angelique since her babyhood, iust-as he had known our desire; and unless am very much mistaken, he had far different views for the daughter of the widow B&bocuf than those entertained by the missionary. "We three captains had long been the good-humored laughing stock aud the merry reproach of our quarter for the reason that we obstinately remained bachelors. We were called the 'Incorrigibles, the 'Inflexibles;' but the women were not quite so angry with Captain Horace at 42, or with Captain Paul at 40, as with our youngest, scarcely yet 30. Desire Sans-amour,' 'Desire des Femmes.' 'Desire Cceur-en-tole,J such were the malicious nicknames conferred on him by saucy, girls and spiteful old maids. Things became serious. Every time Paul and I came home trom a voyage and chanced to meet, we conferred gravely among ourselves on the matrimonial question; and we never failed to agree with each other that, although we ourselves might be incorrigible, indefensible, inflexible old bachelors, it was Desire's bounden duty no more to scandalize society and aggravate the girls, but to get marrUl while there was yet hope of somebody being glad to have him. This, lam glad to say, was also the opinion of 1L l'Abbe Bon temps. This was the grave and earnest judgment of our minister, M. le Pasteur Pauvage. This, expressed in stronger and homelier language, was what our femme de menage, La Mere Gigotte, thought "Sac a papier! rues bons messieurs,' this worthy dame would say, planting her hands on her hips. 'I am growing old, and blind, and deaf, and before I lose both my eyes and my ears 1 want to see the face of a pretty girl, and to hear the voice of children in this house. I want some one to call madame, and who will scold me for not putting eaoLb leeks in tbe pot-au-feu. I want a newiesire to dandle on my knee. I want to feel little hands pulling my apron, and to hear little feet pattering after me when I go to the cupboard where the confitures allons done! Captain Horace ; allons done! Captain Paul. ' If Captain Desire doesn't chose a wife before Easter, I shall begin to think he ha got one already a black one fome where labas among the Chinese or the Hottentots.' ' "'We were all very fond of La Mere Gigotte, and allowed her to talk'what rambling nonsense she chose; but we felt that in this case the words she had spoken were the words of wisdom. I soon afterwards wrote from Naples a very strong but verjr affectionate letter to Desire; and Captain Paul subsequently penned him a strong one from Constantinople. In less than a month it chanced that Paul and I both found ourselves at Marseilles with a whole eight days' leave before us; and before we had been 36 hours at home, back came Desire from Algiers and Tunis with a fortnight's leave to the good. 'Now or never!' said I to Captain Paul. . i "We threw out grappling irons and boarded him at once, tribord et babord. We ran into him as with the ram of one of those new fashioned ironclads, of which I will not deny that I am not ' passionately fond. We succeeded, after a long and furious combat, in getting Desire to agree to the proposition that one of us must be married; out be obstinately refused to exercise his right as the youngest and best looking of us, to be mar ned first 'If it is to be done,' laughing, 'let us toss np. Pile ou face!' neadortail! All to put down together. Three five franc pieces, and the odd man to win, and be mar ried as soon as ever he can persuade somebody to have him.' "I have an abhorrence of teasing, which leads to drinking absinthe, to reading the Rappel, and to other crimes; and besides, I was averse from leaving to blind chance the question of a beloved brother's happiness. But Captain Paul gave me a nudge and slightly pressed his right foot on my left one. I kept silent knowing Paul to be a discreet and judicious personage. 1 " 'Agreed!' cried my discreet brother. A demam la partle. We'll toss to-morrow after dinner, and La Mere Gigotte shall see fair play We left Desire to himself after this; and in a few minutes Paul told me that -he was going to Marseilles. He had some business, ' he said, with Isreal Schmoorz, the money changer of the Rue St Ferreol. r " 'You may as well get me change, brother,' said I 'or this confounded Italian pa per money. I want some fire franc pieces for my next voyage.' Precisely,' replied Paul; 'I, too, want some five franc pieces, and mustcbange some Turkish medjidies.' He looked remarkably knowing as he went down town, did Captain Paul, and I could not' help fancying there was something in the wind. "We dined the next day together, and La Mere Gigotte served us up an exceptionally succulent repast When tbe dessert was cleared away and we had lighted our cigars, Captain Paul said, gravely: " 'Brothers, the hour for wooing of Fortune has arrived.' " 'I am ready,' cried Desire, pulling forth a handful of five franc pieces. " 'And I, too,' said I. Feeling in my pocket, nevertheless, I found to my discomfiture that my gousset did not contain a single piece de cent boos. " I can lend you one, brother. quoth Captain Paul. 'I stupidly forgot to change your Italian bank notes when I went to Israel

cbtn oorx yesterday. Voi la la piece,- belle et

onne.-;i rt'-4 'loi-ih ilTroH: ( "He put the coin ?n my hand. ." ! 'Are you ready, brothersr cried Captali Paul.''4 .'.,',. . i-.vo ;-, .. -'c 'All ready we answered. '. 3 )o ir. - :& . "Spin, 1 Down., Cover,- Uncover.. - Facetoes face, ., - , , , , ' '-We bad all come doVn heads5"1 'K?i " e noveau. ' Spin. - Down. Covct, TJncovr; r4face tous face. , : - 7 ; .."Again, we had all come down 'heads . "Encore nne foie. . Spin. Down. Cover. Uncover. ' Deux 'face, nne pile.-' Tails are out. - 'Desire, you are old man.'. ; Desire, yeu have won. r Desire, you mnst be married.'. "How we erabraced the dear boy, how we talked nonsense and laughed ana wept over him, yen may Imagine and I nee not describe. 1 It was a glorious evening in April, and we bad duted at '5 o'clock. Toward o'clock Desire, observing that he felt somewhat agitated, and that a walk along the Chemin 4e la Corniche might calm his nerves, put on hie hat and went out 'Another cigar, brotherr asked Captain Paul of me. " " 'Wtlliigly,' I replied, 'although it is against my rule r r t . . -, .Y' 'I think I know where Desire is gane,' remarked Captain PauL looking more know ing than ever. - -- 'I don't think at all about it I am simply aura. He bas pone to i ask the hand of Angelique Batxcuf in marriage.' ... "Desire came baek about 10, very nervous, but radiant ' : - ' - ; " 'I have seen M. i l'Abbe Bon temp,' he Mid. v . ; j ' . j j , - , - . " 4 You have see somebody else, mon garcon,' returned Captain Paul, roughishly. 'Tell us, petit. Is the ship launched? Does she ride in' fair water? "Is Ler head well set? Is the affair, finished? .-r v r 1.17 ".'It is '' " 'Pour de vrai? pour de bon? -; ' ' ' -1 .".'In truth, and foe good said Desire.' . it uv. - 1. ir... r: it. i .v-t.j J - - - j ' vug, j aide wguuo, guuuuru iuj uear old brother Jraul,. improvising withj his two hands a speaking trumpet, as though he were hailing a ship ten tables off. ' 'Ohe, la-bas! A bottle of the- very 'oldest . Moulin-a-vent Four glasses and of the biggest We are going to'drink to the health of Madame Adgellqe Bayard, nee Babceuf.1 " ' '-. "Desire told as afterward bow his woelng sped. He found Angelique sitting with the widow in the twilight sadly enough,! or the old lady's eyes were beginalng to fall her, and she wae no longer able to ply her spinnig wheel. As Desire entered, be passed on the threshold the long, . lean figure of the Abbe Verjus, vinegar face, , shovel hat and alL ' He looked very sourly at Desire, and shook his umbrella at him. However, he made no movement, to re-enter; the house, for he had often heard our brother spoken of as one of the three incorrigible and inflexible bachelors of the Chemin de la Corniche and tbe salt sea 'Desire Sans amour,' as Desire Desespotrdes Femmes.', So he . took his grim self oft . , . "The old lady, saying ' that she would see whether Agathe, the servant, had', trim me J the lamp, hobbled - away into the kitchen. The twilight was deepening. Desire could not see . how pale Angelique was; ; but he could see that she was trembling very much In her chair. - . i 1. - . ," 'You are come ' to say good by,' she faltered. 'You were here yesterday; and when yon come the second time tt is always to say farewell. You are going to sea to the cruel, cruel sea again. ' When you return there will be no Angelique to bid you welcome or farewell j . . u 'Are you going away, then? M4Yea " 'Away from Marseilles and from your mother? 'I am not going away from Marseilles, and I shall see my mother sometimes.' : " 'You are going to be married? " 'No And here Ang lique began to weep. 'I shall never be married,' she sobbed. 'Never, never, no more than you will be. You have told me so-a hundred times "But I am going to be married,' said Desire, stoutly. "The girl started from her chair and stood up in the middle of the room. She spoke; and terror, wounded pride, rage, even, were In her voice. " To. whom, Desire? to whom, Monsieur? Who is It that has conquered the inflexible, the heart of iron? Is it Aglae Pinson? Is it Jeannette Du Bou-g? Is it Louise SainteCroix? Is It Amandine Theriot? ah! if It be Amandine, la creature!' , "It is Angelique .Babceuf replied my brother ttratghtly and stoutly as a sailor should answer a question. I do not approve of trifling with young girls' feelings. 'It is Angelique, my playfellow, ma bieu aimee, my adored one. Hols! Madame Yenve ltabceuf be eon tinned at the top of his voice, 'will you bring the lamp quickly?. I think Angelique Is going to faint , . "But there was no fainting about her. He would have clasped her In his arms, but she broke away from him; and as the widow came in with the lamp Angelique flung herself on her knees before a little painted and gilt image of Noire Dame de la Garde' " " " 'Mere de to a tea les meres,' she ' sobbed, 'thou hast heard my prayers, and ' my despair is turned into joy. Reine des cieux, thou bast bad compassion on us poor, feeble creatures on earth." Then she was silent for a time, still on her knees.1 Then she arose and came to him and 'kissed him, and told him that she would try to be a good and obedient wife. 'And although I shall tremble much on the dark " and stormy nights when you are at sea,' she said, 'I know that Onr Lady of the Watch Tower will protect you.' Then they knelt together at the good old widow's feet and asked her blessing.. " 'It was time quoth roe old lady archly, as she kissed him on tbe forehead. , j - ..j "'How timef Desire asked. ., V 'M. l'Abbe Verjus bad nearly persuaded Angelique. My dear daughter was to have been taken away from me; and I, forsooth, nnder the patronage cf M. l'Abbe, wae tod bare been received into the community of aged lay pilgrims . "Desire looked at Angelique. 1 "'It is si she replied, hanging her head, 'I was in despair. , I bad consented to take the, rows as a &jeur de la Misecioorde, and tomorrow morning I was to commence my novitiate-- ' ; . , ; - "There's nothing ; more to be said," remarked . Captain Bayard, "for It is getting very late, and we bad best turn in. Stay, I may as well tell you that our house on the Chemin de la Corniche is now full of children, and that Captain Desire is thinking of giving up the sea altogether and s'artlng as a ship broker In the Can nebiere. lion soir, J M. le Passager." ' "Good night captain." "A moment," said Captain Horace, halting on the threshold of his cabin; "did you ever hear of a pious fraud, and of means being justified by the endT' "Certainly." "Did you ever bear of two five franc pieces each with two beads instead of a head and a tall apiece?" "I can realize the idea of such a sophistication." "I think that Israel Schmoor was very usrful to us in that tossing trick of ours, and that under the circumstances the means were justified by tbe end." And then, with a'grave chuckle, Captain Bayard went to bed. Elkhart: The'brid) at Osceola fell to day as a team and three men were crossing. One man is probably fatally hurt by a horee taiuug onuim.

i '. . t j it . . . r MLet the piny go on, nor spoil the pleasure of tne evening 10 many, Because or tne- sorrows of one Individual'- M to last -. words In the theater. , , . Buch was the generous fesron of his lifV '" 1 AU other e rst, h Imeelf the least of alL . This was thve meeaage whieh he left for us Let us remember as. we bear his pall. , ,, Through the temptations f the amor's fate The care, tbe cup, tbe applaore, tbe fciren's song - He kept within h's soul one cloistered cell - Where purest thoughts and solema prayers ' ' belong. - - - - - ' He took w3h mode-it mien gay Fashion's smile, ..;.... Ana bore w tlh patience her lm pertat frown : But neltner usrnetl nin from his cherished work ' ' He lived to ornament, to amuse the town. In his own realm what presence equalled Tats The "Lover," -Husbajad' Hero of the Hour?' - To fondly woo, t delicately love, . - . v-; . Bubtiy suggest such was-bis gentle powr, Tbe fairies gave him (mid telr various gla These from his cradle, frt, . the power to charm, ' -....' A smile whose sunlight lighted up the soene A joyous gayety which knew not harm, . t .... . 1. . . j Features as chiseled as the Grecian lad'a Vhora erst Diana honored with a kiss, Nor In the favored sail tries shall we find . ; A face mora classical or rare than this . Which Death to-day has frozen into stone. Swept oft the smile and clesed tne glorious eyes, - - Silenced the voice whose eche haunts us still,. A summer day grown dark mid summer skies! ' - . - .-. . -1 - . - , ,. Great King of Terrors, did he see Thy face In that vast crowd where late he said "Fare- . welf WaULng for Mm ; wert Thou behind the scenes. Of in the pit, or gallery, who can tellt " Greeted by men's applause and smiles, i o . 1 1 women V , ul earns a waif thrown on yope shores,'' he -I asked a Urine, but with lavish hands r You save iaetiowers, and fruits, and Winer and bread. . 1 'There was appreciation warm aud true, I eaa not speak yet thus my meaning tends, 1 trembling waited for your praise or blame, -- The curtain rose lof eyery tace-a friend's." Deey.Ln his heart this sacred pleasure glowed: . It wrapped him like a garment soft ana 'warm. - Would it ha 1 been an armor without Joint. " To fend olf words which hurt and did him ' - j harm. " 1 . ' . t - Few but the friends he loved and trusted In ' Knew all the Injuries which he forgave. . Be burled these snarp arrows In himself, Like Wlnkelrled, and bore them to tbe . ' grave. . , r ' : .'.:,,..? For us he lived, worked, Buffered, struggled, died, ' - 1 r That we might smile, "Let still the play go 'i- onf " Can we forget as he; disease and pain. - Can we deny the wreath so bravely won? ' No! on each festal night-at banquet gay As Drama smiles with fascinations new. . . Then shall his Image ooine to round the scene, Ana rosy ups snau wpisper Jnoniagnev r .... ' - -- . 1 ti .... . . , ' In quiet homes where most he loved to be, Where fir is are bright aad friends are warm and trae, . . Btlll will the circle gather round- his shade, 1 ' And talk In tender tones of Montague) i. Ji And by thoM had of sickness and of death, Within his Iaorite church! when prayers ascenu, Let hunitle pleas be breathed for Montague. EDUCATIONAL HATTERS. A'. A Massachusetts ladyr whose name is not made public, has given $25,000 for the endowment of a theological department of Oberlin ccdiege as a part of. the $100,000 which it has been proposed should be raised as a fund for the college. , A new department bas been established in the university of California known as the Hastings law college, - of which Professor John N. Pomeroy, of Rochester, has become the bead.- The college opens with 76 students, as follows: Senior class, , 10; middle class, 11; junior class. 45. From the proceeds of the sale of the Moody and Sankey hymn books, Mr. Moody has given $5,0(0 to Wellesley college for women. It is not specified what use shall be made of the money, but it is said that it will be permanently invested as an endowment fund for a Moody and Sankey scholarship. ' "" the summer school of languages at Amherst has tow been in session six weeks and the catalogue contains the names of 214 pupils and 15 instructors. Twenty-three states have been represented, besides Japan and India. The languages that have been stndied are Latin. Jreek, Hebrew, Sanscrit, German, French, Sjmniah and Italian. . It .is proposed that a new university be founded in Siberia, and 430,000 roubles have been given for that purpose. The government has sanctioned the enterprise, and the town of Tomsk has been selected as the Bite. The suggestion is made in a Russian journal that the year 1882. the third centenary of the Russian possession of Siberia, would be an appropriate time for the opening of this new seat of learning. At the annual meeting of the agricultural convention of Georgia last week the president's address. In referring to the present drawbacks to farming in that state, cited as a means for counteracting them the extension of popular education. Professor Grote, of Alabama, a member of the entomological commissu-n, spoke of the cotton caterpillar and explained tbe work of the department of agriculture, and a resolution was passed recommetding that the commission be permanently sustained. , . At the meeting of tbe Minnesota state education tl association at Minneapolis last week. Pre fident Johns In bis annual address gave some interesting statistics of the public schools oi mat state. . xne average wages of teachers in the common schools per month are $37.61 for male teachers and $23 88 for female. Allowing ten mouths as the term of service, this gives an average salary to male teachers of only $376 GO, and to female of onlyt283.80 aum?, he said, "which do not exceed, taking board and washing into account, tbe wages of ordinary day laborers or hired help." Bat the average length of tbe school year in 187 wai not ten montbs. but 5 2. ' from which it is evident that their calling I will not dignify it with the name of profession can not supply them witti the necessaru s of life.". No one with a family to support can subLtt by teaching, and hence people can not make it a life work. The result is tbat the common schools aie taught by young and inexperienced persons, who adbf t tbe profession a a temporary expediency. Of teachers in the graded schools timllar remarks were male, the average silary of principals being only $734.55, and cf assistants only $351X48. Among the defects growing out of the school system. President Johns mentioned tbe following: The ' extreme youth of the . teacher; their Ins lfflcient knowledge, and their lack of professional preparation. Canon Farrar, in Social Notes (London), speaks of the need of arousing attention in the s'udint, and relate) some amusing mistakes th.it pupils have made for want of It "When a boy," he proceeds, "said thst algebra was I sort of wild donkey aU over stripes,

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Jtdidot show fhat'the'bor was stupid ignorant but only tbi nobody had ever told hirn what-algebra was.". When he was a teaeherar Harrow and Marlborough. Canon Farrar says he used often in . Joke to tell his pupils tbat no answer, however ignorant could possibiy amaze- him, because "they had ossified the power of astonishment' He farther relates that '.'one of the most powerful and lucid .lecturers who ever lived told me that on one occasion be bad been delivering lecture pon The Brain," w'aich seemed to hi a to be as clear 83 banian words could make it; but at the end ot tbe lecllra a lady crane sraaling np to hiB,eonplimeated him on the interest and value of his lecture,' 'but,'' she said, 'Professor Hailey, I never knew before that we- haJ scrme of onr brains outside ou? skulls? I bare beard that at one of the universities, a student being asked to describe tie chief sourer of revenue in the Shetland isles, remarked that tie inhabitants 'acquired a precarious ffubtfeience by washing one another's clothes1 wi&out its ever having' occurred to him bow very precarious a rrvenue obtainei from washing one another's clothes would be!'' - The recent elbseof tbe academical year in France was solemnized-by the distiibttrran of prizes at the 3or bonne, for vrtiich aU tie public schools of the com try hd been permitten to compete-. - The- three chief prizes thoee for higher' mathr5oatics.Lairc?ODposition and French : compositionall fell for the first time to one coHege, that of Louie le Grand, in Paris. The same lyc Je alsotOok: away 21 minor prizes and 9frMaccTeaita' TheCollege Stanislas, of Paris, receive 2 prizes and 51 "accessits," and next in order came the chief lyeees of the capital Oondortr. Corneille, St. Louis Fontanel and oiibers: Ttthe provinces only the prizes for geograpbx' and chemistry were? awarded through thecolleges of Lec'oure and Mom pettier r- but -on tbe whole tbeprovinces were immeasurably behind the city. - A correspondent of 1 the Pall Mall Gazette explains this curious facte by pointing out how the maovrers of the Paris schools strengthen their classes every year with recruits from the brightest boys in the country schools. - Every August prizes are distributed in each school. iu--the country, aside from those given at the general distribution at the Sorbonne, so that a manager need only glance at the class lists to find who . are tbe longj headed bova. Every .. lycee . in.. Paris . has . a certain number of scholarships, some-- oft whioh are bestowed by favor of the government on the sons of needy gentleman, while the rest are at the disposal of the managers.. When a boy bas been selected in the country the arrangements with his parents are a mere question of money, and of course they will try to make the best terms for hiasv1 In. general the agreement is tbat the lad shall get his board, schooling, clothes and pocket money all free, and that his traveling ex--peases shall be paid when he comce bonte for th holidays. This bargain, may involvean expenditure higher than. the valuoof the scholarship, but an enterprising, manager, it Is intimated by Pall Mall's correspondent, will seldom hesitate to draw a little on the eefaool funds In favor of a boy wb looks clever and is industrious, r "On the whole," concludes the correspondent, "this artificial forcing of prize boys caa not be said to have much In i its favor. - By aU - account the ' boursiers are goaded on by the masters, whodevote . the . largest share of . their, time tothem, leaving ordinary pupils te shift fdr tbemtel ves; so that the- fact ol a school Laving won a number of : -prizes is no indication of the education commonly given there, , It only proves that tbe manager was lucky. In his scholastic speculations, and that be wasvery ably seconded by bis atsirtants in cram ruing particular boysj but It affords no guarantee that the hundreds of other pupils in the school the paring ones f-et an equal oreven a sufficient share of tutorial attention."

. : - The JVext Hexise 'Will Bet eas-IS.. u i ;i :j Washington Posq "We never bet, but we will enter into an arrangement with anybody wbom it may concern to pay a certain sum of xiocey for every straight republican elected to congress over and above the number of. 110, provided the party of the second part will agree to pay a similar sum for every one short of that number. Those able aud astute political calculators who profess to be sanguine that the republicans will carry the next house may find. In our proposition an opportunity to illustrate their faith by their works. We bare surveyed the field carefully and are confident that our information is as reliable aod exhaustive as any that can be obtained. Oar conclusion b that, instead of gaining the 14. or 15 members required to give them a hare majority of one or two in the next house., the republicans will lose from 12 to l8of the eats now held by members of their, caucus. We do not expect that more than , three, or perhaps four, of these will be gained by the democratie party as a caucus organization,, but tbey will be wrested from tbe republicans by a class of men whoee views on tbe money question, which is really the chief subject ot the agitation of the Immediate future, ' will be even more .-' radically at ..variance with the republican caucus policy . than the average senti-. ment of the democrats in congress. As to the issue between the democrats, and thegreenbackers. it is mainly one of organization; and there need be no insuperable difficulty in devising measures which will substantially unite the votes of the two in the legislation of tbe ensuing congress, excepting, perhaps, bait a dozen . fanatics'- from New York city, and that immediate financial; neighborhood. But the republicans may aswell hang their barpa on the willows. Their representation in the next congress- is fairmore likely to fall under 100 tbsn to exceed, the number required for a bare majority. Tbe Haradiic Tale In Snataspeare. To the Editor of tbe Sun Sir The following assertion appeared in Sunbeam August 15: : "Shakespeare make use of tbe words, 'Thereby bacxs a. tale,!' in, four of bis plays." Will you please give act and scene?- Q ' CoucsutM, Aug. 16, 1BJ8. In "Othello," acts, scene r.. . flown O, therby bangs a tale. First Musician Whereby hangs a, tale, si? '. Ia "Merry Wives I Windsor." act 1 seen 4, Mrs. Quickly remarks: - "WeH. thereby hangs a ta Ac eood faith it ka sacb aaotber Kan." . In "As i ou Like It," Act 2. scene 7, m th middle of Jaque's first speech: , And so, from hour to hear, we xlpe aad zipe. Aud then. Iron hour t hour, we lipe-sisKl rot. . - And thereby bangs a tale. And in the -Taming of tbe Shrew," act 4. scene 1: Grumio First, know my horse U tired : my nuiKter and raiNtressbave fallen out. Curtis Howt Urnraio Out of their 'addles Into the dirt. Aud thereby hangs a tale. CincinEAti Enquirer: M. A. Burton, sheriff of Lawreoce county, Indiana, In company with officers from Bedford, passed through. Wheatland, having in charge four thieva whom they captured three miles west of there. The thieves had stolen a pair of horses and a wagon near Madison, this state, on last Sunday night, and had ma le good their escape thus far on their way out west i grow up with the country.. The officers in charge will return the thieves to Bedford, where they will be given info the bands cj the proper authorities.