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AN OLD LIAID’S OPINION OF MODERN HUSBANDS». Little knowing, whisker gr: ’fop»lipg1~easingr, nature leash. _ (fold rings wearing, fob-chain glaring, Tailor waiting, hatter rating, Up'ra going. debts still owing, Oyster dining, midnight, ehiiniiifV. Wife a weeping, late watch keeping, t‘hililren lying. "Bread, broad," crying, (fold it" til sighting. shawl defying. " Pour ' slowly l‘lllg‘lllg‘, him home bringing, I’p-stairs reeling, gropin", feeling, ('ursin r, blaming, wife il -]]fllnillg, ’l‘eiirs ( espising, wrongs surmising, East-horse driving, never thriving, Money spending, money lending. Betting, losing, wife refusin'r. Nauuht for caring, most. . pairing, Never km’rwmt,r how world‘s going, Needle plying, deeply sighing, Ile out walking, sporting, talking, Life enjoying, stomach cloying, She home staying, patient praying. Love still knowing, be false grownur, Pleasures smiling, poor wife filling Up her measure, net with pleasure, lint with sorrow, bought each marrow. \Vbat dreadful lives for patient wives. ~ â€"â€"‘v i 74 «WA.â€" ~â€"*â€"-‘ A MAN OF HONOR. BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON. CHAPTER IV. Mll. I’AHEIHKIUK LICARNH SOMETHING TIIE ('I'S’I‘HMH OF THE COUNTRY. A ISUU'I‘ When our two young men reached the sta- tion at which they were to leave the cars, they found awaiting them there the lumberâ€" ing old carriage which had been a part of the Shirley establishment ever since Mr. Ililly could remember. This vehicle was known to or ‘ybody in the neighborhood as the Shirley carriage, not because it was older or clumsicr or uglier than its fellows, for indeed it was not, but merely because every carriage in a Virginian neighborhood is known to every- body quite as well as its owner is. To Mr. Robert I’agebrook, however, the vehicle pre- sented itself as an antique and a curiosity. Its body was suspended by leathern straps which came out of some high semicircular springs at the back, and it was thus raised so far above the axles that one could enterit only by mounting; quite a stairway of steps, which unfold themselves from its interior. Swing- ing thus by its lcathern straps, the great heavy carriage body really seemed to have no support at all, and Mr. Robert found it no- cessary to exercise all the faith there was in him in order to believe that to get inside of the vehicle was not a sure and speedy way of securing two or three broken bones. He got in, however, at this cousin’s invitation, and soon discovered that although the motion of the suspended carriage body closely resembled that of a fore and aft schooner in a gale, it was by no means unpleasant, as the worst that the roughest road could do was to make the vibratory motion a trifle more decided than usual in its nature. A jolt was simply impossible. As soon as he got his sea legs on sufiiei~ ently to keep himself tolerably steady on his seat, Mr. Rob began to look at the country or, more properly, to study the roadside, there being little visible, so thickly grew the trees and undcrbrush on each side. “ How far must we drive before reaching Shirley '3” he asked after awhile, as the car- riage stopped for the opening of a gate. “About four miles now," said his cousin. “ It’s five miles, or nearly that from the (‘ourt House.” “ The court house 2’ 'thre is that ‘3 ” “ (l the village where we left the train! 'I‘hat’s the (‘ourt llouse.” ” Ah I you Virginians call a village a court house, do you ? ” “ f 'ertainly, when it’s the county-scat and ain’t much else. Nov and then court houses put on airs and call themselves names, but they don’t often make. much out of it. There’s Powhatan Court House now, I belieVe it tried to get itself called ‘ Scottvillc,’ or sonic- thing of that sort, but nobody knows it as anything else than Powhatan Court House. Our country seat has always been modest, and if it has any name I never heard of it." “ That's one interesting custom of the country, at any rate. P ‘ay tell me, is it an- other of your customs to dispense wholly with country roads? I ask for information merely, and the question is suggested by the fact that we seem to have driven away from the Court House by the private road which we are still following." “ Why, this isn’t a. private read. It’s one of the. principal public roads of the county." “ How about these gates then?" asked tobert, as the negro boy who rode behind the carriage jumped down to open another. “ \Vcll, what about them 7 " “ \Vhy, I never saw a gate across a public thoroughfare before. Do you really permit such things in Virginia?” “ 0 yes I certainly. It saves a great deal of fencing, and the Court never refuses per- mission to put up a gate in any reasonable place, only the owner is bound to make it easy to open on horsebacer-«or, as you would 'iut it, ‘by a person riding on horseback.’ 'ou see I am growin circumspect in my choice of words since have been with you. Maybe you will reform us all, and make us talk tolerany good English before you go back. If you do, I’ll give you seine ‘tcsti' nionials ’ to your worth as a professor." “But about those gates, Billy. I am all the more interested in them now that I know them as another ‘eustom of the country.’ Ilow do their owners keep them shut? Don’t people leave them open pretty often ‘3 " “ Never ; a Virginian is always ‘ on honor. ' so far as his neighbors are. concerned, and the man who would leave a neighbor’s gate open might as well take to stealing at once for all the difference it would make to his social standing." It was not only the fates, but the general appearance of the roatl as well, that aston- ished Young l’agebrook : a public road, con- sisting of a single carriage track, with a grass plat on each side, fringed with thick under- growth and overhung by the branches of great trees, was to him a novelty and a very pleasant novelty too, in which he was greatly interested. . “ \Vho lives there?" asked Robert, as a large house came into view. “That’s The Oaks, (‘ousin Edwin’s place.” “ And who is your Cousin Edwin?" “My (lousin Edwin? Ilc’s yours too, I reckon. lousin Edwin Pagebrook. He is second cousin, or as the old ladies put it, first cousin once removed.” “ Pray tell me what a first cousin once re- moved is, won’t you, Billy ‘Z ] am wholly ignorant on the subject of cousinhood in its higher branches, and as I understand that a good deal of stress is laid upon relationships of this sort in Virginia, I should like to in- form myself in advance if possible." “ I really don’t know whether I can or not. Any of the old ladies will lay it all out to you, illustrating it with their keys arranged like a genealo rical tree. I don’t know much about it, but reckon I can make you understand this much, as I have Cousin Edwin’s case to go by. It’s a ‘case in point’ as we lawyers say. Let’s see. Cousin Edwin’s grandfather was our great grandfather ; then his father was our grandfather‘s brother, and that makes him first cousin to my mother and your father. Now I would call mother’s first cousin my second cousin, but the old ladies, who pay a good deal of attention to these matters, say not. They say that my mother’s or my fath- er’s first cousin is my first cousin once re- moved, and his children are my second cousins, and they prove it all too, with their keys.” “Well, then,” asked Robert, “ if that is so, what is the exact relationship between t‘ousin Edwin’s children and my father or your mother ? ” “ 0 don’t I you bewilder me. I told you I don’t know anything about it. You must get some old lady to explain it with her keys, and when she gets through you won’t know who you are, to save you.” “That is encouraging, certainly,” said Mr. Rob. “ 0 it’s no matter I You’re safe enough in calling everybody around here ‘cousin’ if you’re sure they ain't any closer kin. The fact is, all the best families here have inter- married so often that the relationships are all mixed up, and we always claim kin when when there is an ghost of a chance for it. Besides, the Page necks are the biggest tad- poles in the puddle; and so, if they don‘t ‘cousin ’ all their kin»folks, people think they’re stuck-up." “Thank you, Billy; but tell me am I, i being a J’agebrook, under any consequent; obligation to consider myself a tadpole dur- ; ing my stay in Virginia ‘5 ” l Billy’s only answer was a laugh. “ Now, Billy,” {obci't} resumed, “ tell me about the people of Shir-1y. I am sadly igno- rant, you understand, and I do not wish to make mistakes. Begin at top, and tell me how I shall call them all.” - t “\Vcll, thcic’s father; you will call him Uncle Carter, of course. Barksdule, you know.” “ I knew his name was Carter, of Course, but I (lid not know he had ever been a miliâ€" tary man.” “A military man I No, he never was. \Vhat made you think that? ” “ \Vhy, you called him ‘(‘olonol. ”’ “ t) that’s nothing! You’ll find cv -ry gentleman past middle age wearing some sort of title or other. They call father ‘ Colonel Ilarksdale,’ and Cousin Edwin ‘ Major l’: . brook,’ though neither of them ever saw a tent that I know of." “Ab! another interesting custom of the country. But pray go on.” “ lv‘v’ell, mothi s ‘ Aunt Mary,‘ you know. and hen there’s Aunt Catherine.” "‘ mdeed I who is she? Is she my aunt? " “ 1 really don’t know. Let me see. No, I reckon not ; nor mine either, for that matter. I think she’s fathers’s fourth or fifth cousin, with 21 remove or two added possibly, but you must call her ‘ Aunt’ anyhow ; we all do, and she’d never forgive you if you didn’t You see she knew your father, and Ireekon he called her ‘ Aunt.‘ t's a way we have here. she is a maiden lady, you understand, and Shirer is her home. You’ll find somebody of that sort in nearly every house, and they're a delightful sort of somebody, too, to have round. She’ll post you up on relationships. She can use up a whole key-basket full of keys, and run ’em over by name baeluvards or forwards, just as you please. You needn’t. follow her though if you object to a headache. All you’ve got to do is to let her tell you about it, and you say ‘ycs’ now and then. She puts me through every week or so. Then there’s Cousin Sudic, my father's niece and ward. She’s been an orphan almost all her life, and soshc‘s alwayslived withr ‘ ,lr‘ather is her guardian, and he always tolls her ‘daue‘hter.’ You‘ll call her ‘(louum Sue,’ of course.” “Then she is akin to me too, is she? “ Of course. She's father’s own brother’s child.” “ But, llilly, your father is only my uncle by marriage, and I do not understand how a, “ 0 bother I If you’re going to count it up, I reckon there ain’t any rnl relationship -, but she’s your cousin, anyhow, and you’ll offend her if you refuse to own it. (‘all her ‘ t‘ousin,’ and be done, with it.” “Beingr one of the large. l’agcbrook tad- poles, I suppose I must. Ilowevcr, in the case of a young,r lady, I shall not find it diffi- cult, I dare say." CHAPTER V. MR. l’AHElilzth MAKES AN At‘QI'AIX'l'ANf'lC. Mr. Ilobert had often heard of “an (lld Virginia welcome," but precisely what eon- stituted it he never knew until the carriage in which he rode drove around the “ circle " and stopped in front of the Shirer mansion. The first thing that struck him as peculiar about the preparations made for his reception was the large number of small ncgroeri who thought their presence necessary to the oeeaâ€" sion. liittlc black faces grinned at him from behind every tree, and about a dozen of them peered out from a safe position behind “ole mas'r and olc missus.” Mr. Billy had tele- graphed from Richmond announeingthe coni- ing of his guest, and so every darkcy on the plantation knew that “ Mas’ Joe‘s son ” was “a comin’ wid Mas’ llilly from do Norf," and every ouothat could find a safe hiding place in the yard was there to see him come. Colonel Ilarksdale met him at the carriage, He is Uol. (‘artcr t v fail. You'll come to The Oaks, Robert, of) course. Sarah Anti will expect you very’ soon, and you mustn't stand on ceremony, you know, but corneas often as you can wlule you stay at Shirley. “\Vhat do you think of (lotisin Edwin, llob '5 " a rldd lfiilly w hen the guests had gone. " That. he is a very excellent person, and “And what? Let's hear what, you think." , “ \Vcll, that he is a very dutiful husband,” 1 “ llob, I'd give a pretty for your knack of sayianr things. Your touguc's as soft as a feather-bed. Bill} wait till you know the madam. You’ll say. " “ My son, you shouldn’t prejudice Ilobcrt against people he doesn’t know. Sarah Aim has many good qualities "I suppose.” “ Well, then, I don’t suppose anything of the kind, else she would have found out how good a man (‘onsin Edwin is long ago, audr would have behaved herself better every way." “ \Villiani, you are uncharitablc I " ” Not a. bit of it, mother. Your charity is like a. microscope when it is hunting for some- thing good to say of people. Ilid you ever hear of the dead Dutchman 1’" . J “ Ilo pray, llilly, don’t tell me any of yod?‘ anecdotes now." “ Just this one, mother. There was a dead llutchman who had beat the worst Dutch- man in the business. When the people came to sit up with his corpscwdon’t run, mother, I‘m nearly through r they couldn't find any- thing good to say about him, and as they didn‘t want to say anything bad there was a profound silence in the room. Finally one old Dutchman, heaving a sigh, runarked: ‘ Vcll, Ilims vas vouc goof; sehinoker, any-v how.’ but me see. (‘ousin Sarah Aim gives good dinners, anyhow, only she piles too much on the table. See how charitable l am,mother. l have actually found and designated the madam's one, good point." “ ( ‘ome, come, my son," said the Colonel, “ you shouldn’t talk so." Shortly after tea the two youugincn plead- ed the weariness of travelers in excuse for an early bed going. Mr. llob was offered his choice between 'ing alone the lllllt‘. loom, which is the .s to guest chamber in most V' 'iian hon ', and takinga bed in llilly’s room. llc promptly chose the In“ and when they Were. alone, he turned to ' cousin and asked : “ Billy, have you such a thingies a dietiow ary about ‘: ” “Nothing; llllL :1. law dictionary, I believe. \Vill that do ‘1 “ lically I might." “ What doyou want to find?" asked lliily. “I only wi i to ascertain whether or not we arrived lime in time for ‘ siiaek.’ You said we would, I believiv.” “ \Vell, we did, didn't we 1’ H “ That is precisely what I wish to find out. Having,r lli‘Vel‘ heard of ‘ snack I until you mentioned it as one of the things we should find at Shirley, I have been curious to know what it is like, and so I have been watching for it ever since we i'ot here. Pray tell me what it is 1’" “ \Vcll, that‘s a good one. l must; tell Sudic that, and get lfer to introduce you for- mally to-morrow. " ” It is another interesting custom of the country, i suppose. " “Indeed it. is; and it isn’t one of those customs thatarc ‘mnrehonored inthe breaeh than in the observaue -,‘ either.” tutu! do not know. ’J. ("I IA I’TEIt VI. l\lll. I’ACI‘lIlIfOOK \IAlll'l‘l A (#001) I.‘~II‘I{I’5«'SIU.\'. Young I’agcbrook vas an early riser. Not that he was afflicted with one of those unfor- tunate consciences which make of early rising a penance, by any means. lie was not pre- judieed against lyingabed, nor bigoted about getting up. He quoted no :ulages on the subject, and was not illogical enough to be- bcliovc that getting up early and yawning, for while the ladies were in waitingr on the porch, as anybody but a \r'irginian would put it. in the porch, as they themselves would have phrased it. The welcome was of the right hearty order which nobody ever saw outside of Virginia a welcome which made the guest feel himself at once. a very part of the estab- lishment. Inside the house our young,r friend found found himself sorely puzzled. The furniture was old in style but very elegant, a thing for which he was fully prepared, but it stood upon absolutely bare, white floors. There Were both damask and lace curtains at the windows, but not avcstige of carpet was any- where to be seen. Mr. Ilobert said nothing, but wondered silently wherher it was possi- ble that he had arrived in the midst of a house-cleaning. Conversation, luncheon, and finally dinner at four, occupied his attention, however, and after dinner the whole family gathered in the porelr for really I, believe the Virginians are right about that preposi- tionrsl will ask Mr. ’ tobert himself seine d: y. He soon found himself thoroughly at home in the old family mansion, among relatives who had never been strangers to him in any in) )er sense of the term. Not only was Mrs. llarlksdale his father’s sister, but (Tol. Barks- dale himself had been that father’s nearest friend. The two had gone west together to seek their fortunes there; but the (‘olonel had returned after a few years to practice his profession in his native State and ultimately to marry his friends sister. Mr. Robert soon found himself literally at home, therefore, and the feeling was intensely enjoyable, too, to a young man who for ten years had not known any home other than that of a bache- lor’s quartets in a college community. IIis reception at‘ Shirley had not been the greet- ing of a guest, but rather the welcoming of a long wanderinu son of the house. To his relatives there to scorned precisely that, and their feeling in the ease soon became his own. This “ clannishncss,” as it is called, may not be peculiar to Virginia of all the States, but I have never seen it half so strongly inani- festcd. anywhere else as there. Towards evening Major l’agebrook and his son Edwin rode over to call upon their cousin Robert, and after the introductions were over, “Cousin Edwin " went on to talk of Robert’s father, for whom he had felt on unâ€" usual degree of affection, as all the relatives had, for that matter, Robert’s father having,' been an especial favorite in the family. Then the conversation became more general. “ \Vlicn are you going to cut that; field of tobacco by the >rize barn, Cousin Edwin 7” asked Billy. “I see its ripening pretty "ap- idly." “ Yes, it‘s getting pretty ripe in spots, and I wanted to put the hands into it yesterday," replied Major I’agebrook, “but Sarah Ann thought we’d better keep them plowing for wheat a day or two longer, and now I am afraid it’s going to rain before I can get a first cutting done.” “How much did you get for the tobacco you sent to Richmond the other day, Edwin ‘5 ” asked the Colonel. “ Only five hundred dollars and three cents a hundred, average. ” “ You would have done a good deal better if you’ sold in the sprinir, wouldn’t you 2’" “ Yes, a good deal. i wanted to sell then, but Sarah Ann insisted on holding it till fall. By the way, I’m going to put all my lots, ex- cepting the one by the creek, in corn next year, and raise hardly any tobacco." “ All but the creek lot? \Vhy that‘s the only good corn land you have 'tldwiu, and it isn’t safe to put tobacco in it either, for it overflows a little.” “ Yes, I know it. But Sarah Ann is dis- couraged by the price we got for tobacco this year, and doesn’t want me to plant the lots next season at all.” _ . “ Why didn’t you bringUousin Sarah Ann over and come to diinier to-day, (‘ousin Edwin? ” asked Miss Bai‘ksdale, comingr out of the dining'room, key-basket in hand, to speak to the guests. “ Oh I we've only one carriage horse now, you know. I sold the black last week, and haven’t been able to find another yet.” “ Sold the black I Why, what was that for lousin Ed? I thought you specially liked him 'I ” said Billy. ' ' “So I did, but Sarah Ann didn’t like a black and gray together, and she wouldn’t let me sell the gray on any terms, though I I could have matched the black at once. Winger ' has a. colt broken that’s a perfect match for him. Come, Ewing, we must be going. Sarah an hour or two every morning would bring health, wisdom, or wealth to anybody. In short, he was an early riser, not on principle but’of necessity. Somehow his eyelids had a way of popping themselves open about sun- rise or earlier, and his great brawny limbs could not be kept in bed long after this hap- pened. I'Ic got up for precisely the same reason that most people he abeil, namely, beâ€" cause there was nothing,r else to do. ()n the mornng after his arrival at Shirley he awoke early and heard two things which attracted his attention. The first was a sound which puzzled him more than a little. It was. a steady, monotonous scraping of a most unao countable kind~somothiug like the sound of a carpenter’s plane and somewhatlikc that of a saw. find it been out of doors he would have thought nothing of it: but clearly it was in the house, and not only so, but in every part of the house except the bedrooms. Scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape. )Vhat it meant he could not guess. Ashe lay there wondering about it he heard another sound, greatly more musieal, at which he jumped ‘ont of bed and began dressing, wondering at this sound, too, quite as much as at the other, though he know perfectly well that this was nothing more than a human voices. Miss Sudie’s, to wit. lie wondered. if there ever was such a. voice before or ever would be again. Not that the young woman was singâ€" ing, for she was doing nothiné,r of the sort. She was merely uiving sortie directions to the servants about llouschold matters, but her voice was music nevertheless, and Mr. Bob made up his mind to hear it to better advanâ€" stop here by any means, as we shall see ini du > time. “ If you’d really like to ride, I’ll have the her; brought,” said the little lady. “And you with me ‘3 " “Yes. if I may.’~ ' ll be more than happy." up to the barn and tell Uncle .dlc Patty for me and (lraybcard for yo ;’ Zobcrt. Do you hear? Excuse me Honour Robert, and I’ll put on my habit.” Ten minutes later the pair rcincd in their horses an the top of a little hill, to look at the sunshine. The morning was just cool exliileration which comes of nothing else so s .rer as of rapid ridintcr began to tell upon the spirits of both. (‘ousin Sudie was a good rider and a graceful one, and she knew it. Robert's riding; hitherto had been done, for the most; part, in cities and on smooth roads ; but he held his horse with a firm hand, and controlled him perforce, of a strong will, which, with great personal fearlessucss and a habit of doing well whatever he undertook to do at all and undertaking whatever was ex- pected of him, abundantly supplied the lack be bad of experience in the rougher riding)r of Virginia on the less perfectly trained horses Ill use there. He was a stalwart fellow, with shapely limbs and perfect Case of movement, enough to be thoroughly pleasant, and the' so that; on horseback he was a very agreeable young gentleman to look at, a fact of which Miss Sadie speedily became conscious. “or I“ c-a were chiefly without a cavalier, as they were usually taken early in the morning be- fore her cousin lilly thought of getting up ; and naturally enough she enjoyed the pres- ence, of so agreeable a young gentlemanas Mr. Hob certainly was, and her enjoyment of his company” she being a woman was not di- minished in the least by the discovery that to his intellectual and social (Li'fCUllljilIHlllllclltS, which were very genuine. there were added a handsome ' ,e, a comely pe 'on, and a. Illfltllly (‘lltllllSlf‘Slll ffll' (lllli‘lltlfll' Chlll‘tllSIl. When he pulled some wild flowers. which grew by the roadside without dismounting W a trick he had picked up somewhereishc wondered at the. ease and grace with which it was done ; when he added to the flower :1 little elusl r of puer berries from a wild vine, of uh :h i do not know the name, and and a sprig of sumac, still wet with dew, she admired hit. taste; and when he gallantly asked leave, to twine the whole in her hair, for her but had come oil’, as ,good looking young women} bats always do on such occa- sions. she thonghthiin “just nice." It is really astonishing how rapidly at:- quaintanceships form under favorable circum- stainzes. 'l‘liesc two young people were both shy, both of them, and on the. pres ling day had hardly spoken to each other at all. \Vhen they mounted thci horses that morii< ing they were almost stranger and they might have remained only half a. quaintanccs for a week or :i fortnight, but for that morn- , e. They were gone an hour, perhaps, in all, and when they sat down to breakfast they were on terms of easy familiarity and genuine friendship. ['i‘o nu ('UX'I'INI'ICI‘.] inigsi 4.. 4â€"...» n» PERSONAL. Vox linoun, tho sculptor of tho Hermann monument, has been granted a. pension of 2,01%) marks by I‘lmpcror \Villiam, half of the .nnoiin , to be enjoyed by his wife in case she outlived liini. 'l'here is some, discussion of the propriety of a further grant to the arti:.t by the lleiehsiag, inasmuch as a con- sidcrable portion of his own property has been swallowed up in the, work, and his eye- sight has suffered material injury. 'l‘tii; tie-.‘spaper eiirrespondents who are privileged to sail with the Prince of \Vales in the Scrapls are ldr. Russell for the. Timex, Mr. Sula for the Tefeqraph, Mr. Senior for the Daily News, and Mr. Sydney Hall for the Graphic. They are to be permitted to have the entire run of every thing; in the way of spectacle and joliilimtion, and to join in the elephant hunt which is to be the grand fun of the whole trip. rmoxiz the lecturers announced for the C(lllllliyg season, none willmcet a more hearty welcome than Paul lhiIlhaillu. 'I‘hrough his books and his lectures he has already became familiar to most of our readers. .\lr. I)n- (Thaillu is a discriminating traveler, and his recent tour in Scandinavia has made him as familiar with the picturesque features of the extreme North, as with the gorillas and dwar of equatorial Africa. A: a lecturer, his power of vivid description and dramatic narration, gives him unusual advantages, and he is as instructive as he is entertaining. M r. llu (.‘haillu has not forgotten his young friends. and will continue the custom, which be first established, of giving matinee lec- titres for their benefit. IS .liasxv liisn, as she appeared ata party recently in London, is thus described : “ She dresses her hair in precisely the same style as when in America twenty-five years ago. It is but slightly tinged with frost, and is near- ly as full and flowing as of yore. Age has more particularly left its imprint in the shape of erow"s-feet on her chin and neck, and at the corners of her eyes and mouth. She has the same blended expression of firmness and sweetness oftnniper, the same winning smile and the same simplicity of behavior. She was dressed in a dark ash»colored silk, with a rich India shawl thrown loosely over her shoulders. (hi her head was a small straw hat bearing a short phone. She was accom- panied by her husband and two lovely daughters, aged about; eighteen and twenty, tage by going; down stairs at once. Now I happen to know that this young,r woman’s voice was in no way peculiar to herself. Every well bred girl in Virginia has the same rich, full, soft tone, and they all say, as she did, “ grauss," f‘glauss," “ bausket,” “ cyar- pet,” “ cyart," “gyarden,” and “gyirl. llut it so happened that Mr. Bob had never heard a Virginia girl talk before he met Miss Barks- dalc, and to him her rich ( Zerinan (Us and the musical [ones of her Voice Were peculiarly her own. Perhaps all these things would have impressed him differently if “(‘ousin Sadie" had been an ugly girl. l have. no means of determiniinor the point, 'nasmucli as “ (hula-till Sudie ” was certainly any thing cch than ugly. .\I r. {obei‘t made a hasty toilet and descen- ded to the great hall or passage, as they call it in Virginia. As he did so he discovered the origin of the scraping sound which had )uzzlcd him, as it puzzles everybme else who hears it for the first time. My pine “tags I‘ looking very much as their gifted mother (lid at their age. Mr. (loldchmidt shows the effect of age and study, his head being bald and shining.” Tut: hardcat waking student of the age works at a time when most persons are asleep. Til. Libtre, the lcxicographcr, goes to bed about the hour when M. 'I'hiers, the early-rising statesman, gets u M. Littrc flourishes upon night work. I cis very little the junior of M. Thicrs, being seventy-four, and is quite as healthy, possibly quite as happy, and most certainly quite as wise, so far as book-learning is concerned, as the ex- President. At twenty~eight Iiittrc was a polygot. lle could have told a woman “I love thee" in ten languages, yet he did not say this inoue, but took care of his mother while she lived. Afterwards he married a portionlcss girl. lie was not an entire strangâ€" er to politics. llc carried a gun during the revolution of i830, he wrote articles during (which is Virginian for the needles of the pine) were scattered all over the floors, and several negro women were busy polishing the hard white planks by rubbing?r them with an implement made of a section of log, a dozen of corn husks (“ shucks,” the Virginians call thorn a “ corn husk ” in Virginia signifying a cob always), and a pole for handle. “ (lood morning, (lousin liobert. You’re up soon," said the little woman, coming out of the dining-room and putting a soft warm little hand in his great palm. Now to young ’agebrook this was a totally new use of the word “ soon,” and I dare say he would have been greatly interested in it but for the fact that the trim little woman who stood there, keyâ€"basket in hand, inter- ested him more. “ You have caught me in the midst of my housekeeping, butnevcr mind ; onlybc carc- ful, or you’ll s 'p on the pine tags : they‘re as slippery as gl. . . .” “ And is that the reason they are scattered on thefloor‘l" “ Yes, we poliin with them. Up north you wax your floors instead, don’t you?” “ Yes, for balls and the like, l believe, but commonly we have carpets. ” “ What I in summer time, too‘.” “ 0 yes, certainly. \Vhy not"! " “ \Vhy, ther‘re so warm. \Ve take ours up soon in the spring, and never put them down again until fall.” This time lvlr. Robert observed the queer use of the word “Soon,” but said nothing about it. He said instead : “ \Vhat a lovely morning it is! How I should like a ride horseback in this air I " “ Would you let me ride with you ? ” asked the little maiden. “ Such a question, Cousin Siidi ‘ I" Now I am free to confess that this last re- mark was unworthy Mr. l’agebrook. nngrammatical, it is at least of questionable construction, and so not at all like Mr. Pagts brobk’s usage. But the demoralizing effect Ann said we must be home to tea without of Miss Sudie Barksdale’s society did not’ If not i, that of 181.8, and he is a member of the pre- sent National Assembly, but never speaks; he prefers to be silent in twelve languages. If all the letters in his dictionary (every word of which he wrote) wereput in a row, they would stretch nearly fifty miles, and this is only a portion of his work. Eonvxo Yarns, in the London World, writing of Mr. llclaiie. editor of the London Tlmcs, says : “ llpon the death of Harness the Times was e. tablished upon a pedestal of greatness and power from which no subse- quent efforts have been able to dislodge it. liarncs himself was not merely the acutest and most 2 oinplished writer of his time ; he was the f t newspaper editor who fairly showed the statesmen of his day what the power of the press mightbe, and the negotia- tions which took place between Barnes and Lord I..yndhurst both before and after the tcform fill] of 1832 would furnish an intern esting and important chapter in the secrft political history of the period. Mr. Delano owed it, therefore, to his predecessor that he was on his immediate installment in Printing- housc Square an eminent personage. Through- out his career as editor of the Times he has steadily and conspicuously increased the prestige and the dignity of his position ; and to dwell upon the chief incidents of that caa reer would be to write the political, and in great part the social, history of the last three decades. It may seem a hard and unworthy thing to say that Mr. Ilelanc is at the. present moment one of the very few London editors who are welcomed, and not merely received or tolerated, at the great houses of London. llut it is the severe fact.” .7â€"4vâ€"aw. >A_._ A ()lCN'I'IdHIAN in forciin parts, who had murdered his father and mother, his wife, and a few other relatives, trusted that the jury would take as an extenuating circum~ stance the fact of- his having attained the age of fifty without ever having committed such acts before. TERILLING NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE BQUINOX. ’ Demprdring Efforts to Stop a Leak~The Steamer’s Awful P1unge~Thirty43ne Hours on a Bit of Wreck In a Terrible Storm. ' [From the Chicago Tribune] i llcuben Burr, the sole survivor of the illâ€" fatcd Equinox which went down during the storm of Friday, was picked up on Saturday mornin'r. He was floating on the pilot house, , and had been thirty-one. hours in the water. l The poor fellow was in a. very exhausted con- l dition. His story is as follo vs : “ I turned in at 8 o’clock Thursday nigh . The sea was at that time runnningr very high, with a heavy wind. The sea was frightfully rough, and the ship was hard to stcarâ€"- pretty well unmanageable. The captain told me to go and call the owner. I went into the cabin, and saw the two girls, who told me f‘apt. Scott had just gone aft. 1 then went aft, and the mate and] went down the stairs. \Ve saw the water coming in, but not very bad. After doing,r what we could to stop it, the mate went forward and I went 'midships. Directly afterward I heard a dreadful rush of water. 1 went aft once more, and saw the water coming up the stairs clear to the upper deck. I ran forward and told the mate of our condition. He came aft with a light. The water was rushing in through a loose board. I held the light, and put my foot against the board while the mate nailed it in its place. But as soon as the board was nailed the water burst it open again. The mate said, ‘ It’s no use ; we are gone 1‘ I urged him to try again to fasten it, which he did ; but. it was again forced open, and the sea. rushed in and put out the light. We then came up and informed the Captain of our mishap. The owner. (Jap- tain and myself could do nothing. \Ve made several efforts to nail up the board and stop the rush of water, butof no avail. The (kip- tain then called out for an axe to chop open one. of the gangways to roll out the barrels of salt. Several men ran to execute the order ; but before anything; could be done in that direction the Captain cried out, ‘It’s no use ; we are gone ‘2’ At that time the upper deck was below the water. The Captain blew the whistle to stop the engines, and cried out for the men to leave the wheel. ,I camcafttlien, and tried to lower the boat 011 the starboard side ; but the ship went from under us, and we were washed away. The Captain and myself swam together side by side for a short time, and we then got hold of fender boards, which kept us afloat. At that time the wreck was keeping the seas from the women, and they still cried out to the schooner for help. I donut think the boat could live after get ting clear from the wreck. I saw the first cook on one of the gaugways stretched out. full length, and the second cook, who was on another board. The Captain left hold of the fender board and got on the gang“ .vy. That was the last I saw of him. “ The pilot house floated near me, and I managed to get on it. The cook 1)itSSl‘.ll. by, and I said he had better try to get on with me, but he replied, ‘ No, I am all right.’ le went to leeward of me, and disappeared out of my sight. The second cook, who had a life prescrvcr on, 0t on the pilot house with me. \Ve manager to get clear of the wreck, and then lost sight of the others. \Ve went with the wind, but the pilot house n as heavy, and did not drift very fast. \Ve held on by the posts which support the wheel. The sea kept washing in er us, and it was all we could do to keep on. We stood side, by side until the break of day, and had a fearful time. Thc other man scorned rather cheerful. I felt a little down. I told him two or three times there was no chance of being saved, but he kept saying we would come out all right. We were both cold and wet, and source knew what to do to keep up our circulation. We held on by one hand, and pounded *aeh other with the other to keep warm. My com» pauion seemed to get weak toward the break of day. lle complained of his legs being tired, and sat down. I told him he would last longer if he stood up, and I pulled him to his feet again. Ilc tood awhile, but every time the sea struck him his hands g: ve way from the post. There was no keeping)r him on his feet. Ilesat down perfectly exhausted, one ()filllfi legs sinking to the floor of the pilot house. \Vhe'i day broke we sighted two scliooiicrs. He kept telling me to hail them. I saw they were too far off to attract their at- tention to us, but to satisfy him I keptshout~ ing for help. He was getting weaker and weaker, and I could not help him in any way. At last he gave one shout for help, and his hands completely lost: their power, and he was not able to straighten up I tried to pull him up, and he rolled back and simply groaned. His foot came out of the. hole in the floor and the sea washed him niftlie pilot house. I grabbed him and pulled him on. Another heavy sea came and washed him completely out of my reach. lle threw up his hand slightly, and then sank, That would be about half-past fivo Friday morning. I thought my turn had surely come. My strength was failing fast, and I had to make strong efforts to keep standing. I knew if I gave way it would be all over with me. 'I stamped my feet as hard as I could to keep warm, but just as I was at my last struggle, I saw something like a blanket flouting up from the floor. I pulled it up and found it was a blanket and a white spread. This dis- covery was a perfect blessing to me. l had no strength to wring out much of the water. I hung them on the posts for a short time and then wrapped them round me. They seemed to warm me a little, and nerved me to keep up. llut still I shivered with the cold. The time dragged on to midday. flow it passed I ~anuot tell. “ At noon I saw two schooners, but my heart sank when I realized they were. too far off to heedniy creis. I made up my mind to pass another night of it, but hoping all the time something would come to save me I was a little warmer during the afternoon, and had somewhat- recovered my spirits. lot the shivers still crept over tire. The two schoon- ers were all I saw that day. \thn the sun went down I became cold again, and shook so I could scarce maintain my hold of the posts. I had to stamp my feet; again to pre- vent losing the power of my limbs. The sea began to go down at night, and that helped me a little. After dark I pulled the blankets closely around me, laid my head against one, of the posts, and encircled it with my arms. I dozed off to sleep, but every time the. spray .lchflJl‘ (l})(‘.lllll'zf. -farin laborer’s hours. citrch tip Illx . a horseshoe in the mouth of a \thn he “ crime to” he looked around at each one in the crowd, and disuersed the crowd by saying : “ Will some oh you geimnea shoot me wid a, pistol? v A nigga dat’s as big a fool as l is ain’t got. no business libin.H -énrâ€"va~> . . “ WliA'." object do you asked the doctor. The young man he. fated forach moments, and then replied: “ It appiars like a jacked-is, doctor, but I rather think it is your shadow.” m j IiEli 7 .Le , Ill doiit appear to be much limit to a A man who has been working for a New Caanan farmer, putting in thirteen to sixteen hours a day, quit on Saturday. “ What‘s the matter ‘.’ don’t you like the place '3” asked the farmer. “ 0, y s, I like place well enough," explained the ‘hand,’ “but the nights are getting,r so long I'm alt id I can’t do a. full days work.” The farmer smiled like an invalith Jhmburg/ Akwa Steers .â€"--I’urposcs, however wise, with- out plans, cannot be relied on for good results. Ilandoin, or spasmodic efforts, like aimless shots, are usually no better than wasted time and strength. The purposes of shrewd men in the business of this life are always followed with carefully formed plans. ‘ththcr the object is learning, honor, or wealth, the ways and means are all laid out according to the best rules and methods. The marincrhas his chart, the architect his plan, and the sculp- tor his model, and all as a means and condi- tion of success. Invention, genius, or even what is sometimes called inspir. tion, can do little in any department of theoretic or pr- tical science, except as it works by a well- formed plan. Then every step as an advance toward the acctimplisbmcuf; of the object. Every tack of the ship made accordng to nautical law keeps her steadily nearing,r the port. Each stroke of the chisel brings the marble into a closer likeness of the model. No effort or time is lost, for nothing is done rashly or at, random. w. yum-«mom. m Ti} or rm: 'Ti'rl:ftlfln'bfl/l‘s llarf/I..\'ll'lrl,f Institfufe, I‘ITTSISIII ll, l’.\. [LVN OUT. 7. ' ULOSES' IVOV. fl. Ailtll‘t‘t's, A. .I. NELLIS, Pres. T. I. I. EXPOBETION m in ()l’ G A, Wllili 'ISUY A l GORDON PRESS l IN noon o'toni. Al'l'i.‘{ A'l‘ THE OFFICE ()l“ TIIi‘l ., .. ’l. a N0. A uxilln ry Publishing Company, Hamilton. Ml TF1 PIANOS I sum. 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I dozed iii this way all night, and, strange to say, the night secured to pass away very quick. At the break of day I imagined I saw land, and spread out the blankets to catch the wind. I was deceived in this how- ever; the land was only some dark clouds. Off to the west I saw a schooner, but she was far from the reach of my voice. Still I did not lose my spirits again ; I felt cheerful and hopeful. The sun rose, and you can have no idea how happy its“ rays made me. 't‘hey warmed and nervcd me to hold out. I was was then in the middle of the lake. About 8 o’clock the schooner Panama hove in sight. Those on board saw me ; there was no need for me to holler. They signalled me, and I waved the bed spread in response. I shall never forget my feelings at this point. All my suffering was forgot in a moment. I only knew I was saved, and the pangs of hunger and cold left me at the thought. 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