Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1882 — Page 2

MATH AMD UVE. BT DEAN BTAKLET. i- » O Death! how sweet the thought That this world’s strife is ended; That all we feared and all we sought Are In one deep sleepsnded. No more the angnlsh of to-day To watt the darker morrow; No more stem-call to do or say, To bread o’er sin and sorrow. O Death! how dear the hope That through the thickest shade Beyond the sleep and sunless slope Our treasure store Is laid. The loved, the mourned, the honored dead That lonely path have trod. And that same path we too most tread To be with them and God. O Tiife! thou too art sweet; Thou breath’st the fragrant breath Of those whom even the hope to meet Can cheer the gate of death. Life is the scene their presence lighted; Its every hour and place Is with dear thought of them united, Irradiate with their graoe. There lie the duties small and great Which we from them inherit; There spring the alms that lead os straight To their celestial spirit. All glorious things, or seen or heard, For love or justice done, The hopeful deed, the ennobling word, By this poor life are won. Oh Life and Death! Like Day and Night Your guardian task combined; Pillar of darkness and of light. Lead through Earth’s storm till bright Heaven’s dawn shall shine!

SENT DOWN.

Charley Quedglington was in a thoughtful mood. This was an unusual thing for him. As a general rule he didn't think; but the most rackety and mischievous and debt-incurring, non-de-bating undergraduates have their moments of thought, though they may studiously conceal them. And Charley’s thoughts, this sunny May morning, as he glanced into the blazing hot quadrangle, waiting until it should be time to partake of Gordon’s luncheon, were not very pleasant. k Tf your name comes before us again," the Dean had said grimly, with his sternest aspect—and the old gentleman, the jolliest of talkative hosts at dinner, could be very grim and stern about 12 o’clock in the day—“if your name comes before us qgain, Mr. Quedglington, wo shall have no to send you down for a considerable period. You are never out of trouble, either in the college or in the city. This is the last time you will be warned, sir. Consider yourself gated after 6 for the rest of the term.” “And, by Jove, I believe the old gentleman means it,” ruminated Charley, stretching his legs upon the window-sent and puffing his cigarette smoke into the reces es of the sheltering sun-blind. “As sure as fate I shall get into a row before the end of the term, though it is only a fortnight off. There is Cummings’ wine to-night, and they’ll go and draw the bursar afterward, and then the fat will be in the fire; for, whether I am there or safe in bed, the porters will swear to Mr. Quedglington—small blame to them.” And he laughed with a keen appreciation of his own bad eminence. “Umpli 1 It’s nil very well;,but if it comes to rustication won’t the governor be savage ! He’s a jolly old boy, and he’ll swallow the bills with hardly a grimace; but this- affair wouldn't be quite a coating of sugan to help them on their way.” Charley’s forebodings were not without a more than usual share of probability. There was not much chance of the most popular and reckless of St. Aldate’s men keeping out of a row for the remaining weeks of the summer term. The dons had been very longsuffering with him. There was so much good in him at bottom, the great luminary said in confidence after dinner, and the lesser lights agreed with him’. He looked so young; a dark-complexioned, handsome fellow, hardly as old as his years, and with but the faintest symptoms of a mustache, to which only his i*cdut knew how much care and time were devoted. He appeared quiet -enough, and not very strong. Appearances, however, are deceitful; and • o barley was not long in impressing his set with his utterly thoughtless, reokiessgayety, which yet had not a grain of Teal evil at the bottom of it. His father, the Arohdeacon of Loamford.was a' rich man, and a famous pillar of the church. Charley would be well enough off some day; so that the mere getting into debt would hurt no one very much. But the Archdeacon had passed through his college career without a reproach, and was a great preacher, of note elsowhere than in eccle uastical circles. It would be a terrible thing if the son of such a man should be put to open shame, and sent dpwn like the son of any godles Earl or weak-minded Bishop. “Hullo, Charley 1” cried a jovial young voice from the quad below, at this point of his meditations; “you’ll breakfast with me to-morrow ? The best ta - ain for Watlingbury is at 12:30." “I’m not coming,” answered Charley rather shortly. “You’re not coming?” cried his intec’ogufor. “What is up now? But v. i - moment and I’ll be with you.” Aiid n,> the echoing wooden staircase, so shady and cool in comparison with the blaze end sunshine outside, came Cumfoings, three steps at a time, and du-Omd into Charley’s room. “What is up now?” he repeated. “The Dean has sent for me, and says he’ll send me down if my name goes up aga<n this term.” “Phenghl that is bad. It would not suit your book 'with the governor, would it, Charley? But he has said the same often before. ” “He means it this time, and he has gated me after 6 for a fortnight.” “Gordon, what do you think is the latest ?” cried Cummings, leaning out of the window and aocosting a man in

a many-colored coat who was leaning out of a ground-floor, window not far off. “Quedglingtonhae been sent for, and gated until the end of the term. He says he won’t come to Watlingbury to-morrow.” “Gammon! 11l come up and dray the badger. What is a gating?* Gordon should have known*, for, Charley excepted, no one at St. Aldate’s had .more experience of it. Watlingbury races were strictly forbidden to the undergraduates of the University; and even the somewhat lax roles of St. Aldate’s were upon this point ?trict as those of more learned colleges, ’he areival of the trains from Watlingbury, at any rate of those late in the day, was attended by a proctor and bull-dog, to see if any of his flock had been astray; while a watch was also kept upon the roads which led from the city in that direction. “Look here!” cried the tempter, clad for the occasion in the flame-colored blazon of the Hon. Richard Gordon, “if we get back by the 4 o’clock train we shall see all the best of the fun, escape the proctors, who will not be on the look-»ut until the 6 o’clock train, and save Charley’s gate.” “It’s all very well fdr you fellows to risk it, but I can’t afford to be sent down.-’ “Pooh! not a chance of your being sent down! It ain’t like you to funk. What a capital time we had there last year! And cousin has a horse running and we can get the tip from him.”. “Are you sure that there is a 4 o’clock train?”

“Certain. Come, that is a good fellow. ” “Then, by Jove, I will!” cried Charley. And as no promises are so well kept as those which please ourselves, he kept his word to the letter. He was too young to find the pleasure turn to dust and ashes. He thoroughly enjoyed his afternoon on Watlingbury race course; and, for once, the tip, wonderful to relate, was the straight one, and the affair went off capitally. “My boy,” said Gordon, taking him a little aside about a quarter to 4. “you have just time to' catch your train. We’ll risk it; but if vou are not a fool you’ll be off.” “I’m not going,” cried Charley, recklessly. “Then you are a fool,” answered the other; “take my advice and go.” It was such a rare thing for Gordon to give advice of this kind that our hero took it as that of a good angel, who, instead of the suggestive flame-colored blazon ou Tuesday, had assumed, with much appropriateness, a fashionable frock coat of Quaker-like gray. Quedglington readied the station just in time to tumble into a first-class carriage already pretly full. Many of its occupants looked as if the tickets in their pockets might be of which was, and is, the color of lirst-plass tickets upon the Watlingbury branch line. Charley locked them over with the superciliousness of St. Aldate’s, and came to the conclusion that, if undergraduates at all. thev hailed from some college more than a Sa,hbatli day’s journey from the center of University life. They had lunched well, and were loud and noisy, as wa3 Charley some-' times; but, somehow, then* loudness and noisiness were not like the Same things at St. Aldate’s, and Quedglington regarded them with much the same disapproval that filled the Dean of St. Aldate’s when brought face to face with his, Charley’s, vagaries. His gaze settled at last on a face in the far corner which, under the circumstances, caused him some surprise. It was so decidedly out of place. It was that of a rather pretty girl, with a fairhaired,, graceful little head, set off by a small gray hat. It was a face formed to be either gravely sweet or coquettishly smiling; but now it was a frightened, piteous little face. The sudden irruption of the noisy and excited crew into her carriage was ev dently not to her liking; but, as she was sitting at the end furthest from the platform, it was no easy matter to extricate herself. “ she’a a governess, and a pretty one,” thought Charley. “Certainly she is traveling fii'st-class, so she must be a Newnham or Grrton girl. They get a lot of money. I wish I had some sisters who wanted a governess.” It was not Quedglington only whose attention she attracted. The young men, thdir bets settled, turned toward her more of their regards than was polite or pleasant. From this they advanced to making eulogistic remarks upon her appearanoo to one another, and generally to talking rather in a way that madeQuedglington’s face hot with anger. By the tme the train stopped at the junc'ion Charley was on the point of interfering. The young lady rose, however, and, taking up her cloak, stood prepared to leave the carriage. Her tormentors made way for her not an inch, but sat with their knees meeting across the passage. “Would you be kind enough to let me pass ?” she said bravely, in quite a steady voice. But they were heated with excitement and the wine they had taken at luncheon. Charley had come to the conclusion by this time that they were not ’Varsity men at all, and we will trust and hope that he was right. At any rate they sat still. > “I think, ’ r said one, with mock politeness, "that the ticket you showed at Watlingbury was for our destination. We do not change here.” “And we really cannot spare so pretty a face. We are hoping to have the pleasure of seeing you home.”

So Jhe girl was in fact a prisoner; the noise upon the platform made it impossible for her to get help from there. Her eyes wandered ronnd the flushed faces, and rested upon Charley's, flushed too, but from a different cause. She saw that he was not of the others. “Don’t let us have any of this rot 1” he said quietly. “Let this lady pass, if you please.” They all turned upon him as he rose and with some roughness pushed two or three of them aside. TJie girl just touched his h md, stepped lightly past them, and was out of the carriage in a moment before they could recover from their surprise. “ Confound you! What business is it of yours? ” cried one, standing up and catching hold of his collar. Charley did not answer him in words; his blood was up, and, as the other maintained his hold, he struck him between the eyes with all his strength and some little science. The man fell back among his fellows, and all rose up and hit out at Charley rather wildly', who warded off a blow or two, and then stepped lightly backward on the platform to avoid others, He was only just in time; before they could follow him the train began to move; a porter, who, in the hubbub of the station, had seen nothing of it, slammed the door; and the last that Charley, standing upon the platform, saw of his opponents, was a group of angry faces framed in the quicklyniuving window. He turned around with a little laugh of triumph, and saw his damsel, so lately in distress, standing at his elbow. She was much the more self-possessed of the two now. “ Thank you so mush,” she said prettily ; “ it was foolish of me to be afraid; but they really were rude, were they not? I am afraid now that I have caused you to be left behind; it does not matter much to me, but it may to you. ” “ Not a bit,” answered he, with a vivacious mendacity which impressed her greatly. Yet he was not unmindful that now he could not get back to college until after 6 o’clock, and would certainly be reported for breaking his gate, even if his visit to Watlingbury escaped detection and he did not, upon his arrival at the station, fall into the hands of the proctor, as was most probable. “ They were awful brutes, were they not? I am very glad that I, was there to be of some assistance to you." “And I cordially share in that feeling,” she said, with a laugh of pleasure at the thought of the blow he had struck. “I am going to see some friends who 1 live here; but I hope I may have some further opportunity of thanking you. I am greatly obliged to your bravery.” She looked brightly up into Charley’s face, held out a little gloved hand and was gone, quite conscious, however, that the young fellow’s eyes were fixed upon her as she passed out of the station, and probably not illpleased by the fact. She was gone, and he was left to kick his heels for a couple of hours in a dreary station and get What amusement he could out of the - refreshment room and the book stall. In time the next train came and lie rejoined his astonished party. ( “Your name and college, sir, if you please ? ” “Quedglington, St. Aldate’s." The proctor had known quite well both his name and college, but preferred to go through the old formula. So a fine was the least to be expected as the -result of the Watlingbury trip, in addition to the penalty to be paid for the broken gate, of the nature qf which there could bo little doubt, after the Dean’s solemn warning. And, therefore, when his scout, on calling him next morning, said that the Dean requested the pleasure of his company at 12 o’clock, Charley felt that he might as well tell Bunn to begin packing his things. A breakfast with Gordon, however, cheered him up a little, but the momentary gavety. sank down again at the door of the Dean’s house. “ What will the governor say ? ” he groaned. When he was ushered in he saw no sign of relenting in the Dean’s face. “You were not in college Tuesday, Mr. Quedglington, by the time at which, for you, the gate closes. I am also informed that you returned from Watlingbury by a train arriving after that time. The doings at Watlingbury were disgraceful, six, as I have good reason to know. ' I cannot imagine you have anything to urge.” Charley regarded the third button of the diaconal waistcoat with a stoical calmness. “After the solemn warning we gave yoa only two days ago, I think I am exercising some leniency in merely sending yon down until the end of this term. You will go.down to-day. Good morning.” Quedglington of St. Aldate’s was not the man to plead, even if he could think of anything to say, in mitigation of sentence. He turned to leave with a silent bow, when the further door of the library was opened, and a voice he knew exclaimed: “I beg your pardon, uncle; I thought you were alone. ” Charley looked up in astonishment. It was his friend of the train. “Good gracious,” said she, recognizing him at once, and coming in; “I am glad you are a St. Aldate’s man. Unde, this is the gentleman who interfered on my behalf yesterday, and avssed his train through lub kindness. IV-ham yon will thank him for me.” “It was nothing at all,” murmured Charley. •

“This is vary remarkable,” said the Dean, in the accent of Dominie Sampson. “If this is so', I have to thank you for doing, not only my niece, but myself, a great service." “It is so!” cried Miss Gertrude pettishly. “Indeed, indeed! Then it is very remarkable. This is my niece Gertrude, Mr. Quedglington; lam greatly obliged to you—greatly. Will you be kind enough to run away, Gertrude, and we will talk, about it again.” In a few minutes they were alone again. “£fo that was how you missed your train ?” asked the head. Charley nodded. “Well, I am greatly obliged to you. You are an honor to the college—in some respects. But of course I can make on alteration upon this account. You had no business going to Watlingbury or returning from it. So I must say good morning.” Even Charley thought the Dean was treating him a little cavalierly, but he was not one to make much of his services. He made for the door. “Ah, yes, '* said the Dean, when his hand was already upon it; “do you know my brother Sir Richard? No, I ,think not. He has asked me to send him a rod or two to make up his party. My wife 1 and niece are going to his place in the North, to-night. Perhaps, Mr. Quedglington, you would escort them, and stay until the end of the term, when your home engagements fall in. Would it su t you ?” “I shall be delighted, sir,” stammered Charley, the vision of Miss Gertrude, petulantly stamping the floor with the smallest foot the male imagination can conceive before his eyes. “Very well; you had better dine here early, as they go by the 8 o’clock train.’ Your letters could be .forwarded from here,” added the Dean, with a slight cough, “and then,,perhaps, you need not trouble your people with your change of places. You go down to-night, then. Good-morning.” That was how Charley Quedglington was sent down. Sortie people -are inclined to think that it was all a plan of Mrs. Dean’s, and a very successful plan, too. But that, we know, is all nonsense. One thing about it is certain —that, to this day, the venerable Archdeacon is totally ignorant, and so are his intimate friends, that his son ever incurred the disgrace of being sent down from St. Algate’s. —London Society.

The English Villages.

A comparison of the villages in England will at once disclose the existence of certain elements in their names w hich are shared by immense numbers of them. A dozen or so of these are familiar to every one in the shape of word-endings, although not always capable of being rightly interpreted. There is a list somewhere in Camden of many of these terminations, which is worthy the notion of others besides archaeologists. Borne few of these are intelligible enough, such as the “fords” where rivers were passable or ferries existed; the “ports,” the “bridges,” and the “hams,” which in effect may be regarded as only the Saxon equivalent for “villages.” Others are much more likely to be misunderstood, such as “ton,” which, although generally taken to be a corruption of “town,” is really more antique, meaning originally, as it is said, a hedge or ditch, and so a fortified place. Often, however, it is said to be equivalent to “dun,” a mount which appears occasionally in France also, as in Chateaudun. The “hursts” are woods; the “graves” are groves or caves; the “dens” are villages, the “holmes” places surrounded with water, the “stoke” is a tree trunk, and is applied to places where timber was sold; the “burg” or “borough” is net, as many persons suppose, a town, nor yet a place where the earth has been excavated, but a mound or castle; a “bourne” or "burn” is not a boundary or limit, but a river. Then there are’ prefixes which are often misunderstood. The “aid,” which so often reappears in different counties, is nothing more than “old,” and “all’ is often a corruption of it, though sometimes, like "hal” or “hall,” it records the former existence of a “hall” of some kind. In some cases the prefix must be interpreted before it is possible to understand why it should\ have been so commonly used. Thus villages in England, and “Chari,” or “Charle,” of 23 more. Each of these words represents the old British name for a city. “Cliff” is the first syllable in 35 villages or towns; “Church" in 32; and “Kir”' or “Kirk,” which is the same thing, in more than 70. “Lang,” meaning long, is the first syllable in about 90 villages, and so is “King,” which would • very quickly be adopted by any place in which a royal person had resided.

Nine Tailors Make a Man.

The word tailor, in the phrase “Nine tailors make a man,” had originaUy (says an exchange) no sartorial reference at all. From Queen Elizabeth —who is said to have acknowledged an address from eighteen tailors by saying, “Thanks, gentlemen both—” to Carlyle, the saying has been mistaken. The original -word is “taler.” The exact spelling is not known, but it is connected with the “tally” of “tale” of Milton’s shepherd; or it may be “tollers.” In some parts of England on the death of a parishioner, the church-bell tolled once, three times, etc., according to the age of the dead person; say, once for an infant, three times for a girl, but always nine times for a man. So passers-bv would say, when the bell had a topped, “Nine talers make a man.”

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