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THE EVENING BLESSING. izv mun; EMPTY/L, ] Now the last. faint. beam isfading, Shadows into shadows shading, ' ’l‘wilight over all pervading Like a floating cloud ct” incense. While the moon looks down serenely, Calm, majestic, high 8.](l queeuly, And so pure that all unseemly Shrink-i and blushes with her gazing. (-‘eiltly glide the. moments golden, Filled with memories sweet and olden. Of the paths our feet have troddcii, And the friends flint time has proven. Now. as falls the darkness, slowly, Comes a blessing. pure and holyâ€" Comes at. eve and evening onlyâ€" l)ovclike, nestling to each bosom. Still small voices‘ now are calling, Spirit. mites like music falling By their magic power out-wa ing Every thought of sin and sadness. Oh I no hour is nearer lleavcn 'J‘han the silent Sabbath evenâ€"- Ilcaven blcst and Heaven givcnw- As a Bcthcl in ourjourney. .4 «>--- » “wirg MAN OF HONOR. p‘r )Y GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON. CHAPTER VII. nu. raunimoox LEARNS SEVERAL 'riiixos. After breakfast Robert walked out with Billy to see the negrocs at work cutting to- bacco, an interesting operation always, and especially so v. hen one sees it for the first time. “Gilbert,” said Billy to his ‘hcad man,’ “did you find any ripe enough to cut in the lot there by the prize barn?” “ No, sah ; dat‘s do greenest lot of tobaw- kah on the plantation, for all it was plaunted first. I dunno what to make uv it.” “ \Vhy, Billy, I thought Cousin lidwin owned the ‘prize ’ barn ? ” said Robert. “ So he doesâ€"his.” “ Are there two of them then? " “ Two of them ? What do you mean ? .Evcry lantation has its prize barn, of course. “I cod 1 IVho gives the prizes? ” “ Ha! ha ! Bob, that’s good; only you‘d " , ’bctter ask me always when you want to know (about things here, else you’ll get yourself laughed at. A prize barn is simply the barn in which we prize tobacco.” “And what is ‘ prizincr’ tobacco ‘r ” “ Possibly ‘ prize” ain t good English, Bob, but it’s the standard Ethiopian for pressing, and everybody here uses it. “'0 press the tobacco in hogslieads, you know, and we call it prizing. It never struck me as a peculi- arly Southern use of the word, but perhaps it is for all that. You're as Sharp set as a eir» cular saw after dialect, ain't you." “ I really do not know precisely how sharp But a ci :ulai' saw is, but I am greatly inter- es.ed in your peculiar uses of English, cerâ€" tainly." l3 )0!) returning to the house Billy said : “Tell I must let you take care of yourself for two or three hours now, as I have some papers to draw up and they won't wait. Nevt week is court week, and I‘ve got a great deal to do between now and then. But you’re at home you know, old fellow.” So saying Mr. Billy went to his office, ‘which was situated in the yard, while Robert . ‘olled into the house. Looking into the diniiig~room he saw there Cousin Sudic. Posâ€" sibly the young gentleman was looking for her. I am sure I do not know. But whether he had expected to find her there or not, he certainly felt some little surprise as he looked at her. “ \‘v'hy (‘ousin Sadie, is it possible that you are washing the dishes ‘.’ ’7 “ O certainly ! and the platesE-and cups too. In fact, I wash up all the things once a day.” “ I’ray tell me, cousin, precisely what you understand by ‘dishes,’ if I‘m not intrud- ing,” said Robert. “ 0 not at all I come in and sit down. You'll find it pl )asanter than by the window. ‘I)islics?’ “'liy, that is a dish, and that and that," pointing to them. “ I see. The word ‘ dishes ‘ is not a generic term in Virginia, but applies only to platters and vegetable dishes. \Vhat do you call them in the aggregate, Cousin Sadie? I mean plates, platters. cups, saucers, and everything." “ Vt'hy ‘things,’ I suppose. “'e speak of ‘ breakfast things,’ ‘ tea things,’ ‘ dinner things.’ ’iut why were you astonished to see me washing them, Cousin Robert?” “Perhaps I ought to have known better, but the fact is I had an impression that South- crn ladies were wholly exempt from all work except, perhaps, a little embroidery or some such thing. ” “ (I my 1 I wish you could see me during circuit court week, when Uncle Carter and ( lousiii Billy bring the judge and the lawyers home with them at all sorts of odd hours, and they always bring the hungricst ones there are too. I fall at once into a chronic state of washing up things, and don’t rccovcr until court is over." “But really, eousiiiâ€"‘pardon me if I am inquisitive, for I am greatly interested in this life here in Virginia, it is so new to mewhow it that you must wash up things at all ‘1 ” “\Vliy, I carry the keys, you know. I’m housekeeper. " “ \Vcll, but you have servants enough, certainly, and to spare." . “0 yes! but every lady washes up the things at least once a day. It would never do to trust it altogether to the servants, you know.” “ N one that are sufficiently careful and trustworthy, do you mean '3" “ \Vcll, not exactly that ; but its our way here, and if a. lady were to neglect it people would think her a poor housekeeper.” “ Are there any other duties devolving upon Virginia lirusekccpcrs besides ‘washing up things?’ You see I am trying to learn all I can of alife which is charmingly strange to me as that of Turkey or China would be if I were to go to either country.” “ Any other duties? Indeed there are, and you shall learn what they are, if you won't find it too stupid to go my rounds with me. I’m going now.” “I should find dullness itself in v. ith vou as my fellow observer of it “ Right gallantly said, kind sir,” said Miss Sudie, with an exaggerated curtscy. “But if you’re going to =makc pretty s )ecchcs I’ll get impudent directly. I'm dreadfully given , to it anyhow, and I’ve a notion to say one inipudent thing right now. ” “ I‘ray do. I pardon you in advance.” " \Yell, then, what makes you say ‘ Vir- ginian honSekce )crs ‘3‘ ” ' “What else s ould I say?” “\Vliy, Virginia housekeepers, of course, like anybody else.” ‘ ‘ Rut ‘ Virginiahis not an adjective, cousin. You wouldiiot say, ‘England housekeeper’ or ‘ France. housekeeper, ‘ would you ? " asked Robert. ,. . “ No, but I would say ‘ New York house- keeper,’ ‘ Massachusetts housekeeper,’ or ‘N cw J ersoy housekeeper,’ and so I say Vir- ginia liousckeepcr,’ too. I reckon you would find it a little troublesome to carry out your rule, wouldn‘t you, Cousin Robert? ” “ I‘m fairly beaten, I own ; and in conside- ration of my frank acknowledgment of de- feat, perhaps you will permit me tobe a trifle iinpu dent. ” “After the gallant speech you made just now, I can hardly believe such a thing pos- sible. But let me hear you try, please.” “ 0 it‘s very possible, I assure you !” said Robert. “See if it is not. “That I want to ask is, why you Virginians so often use the word ‘ reckon ’ in the place (if ‘ think ’ or ‘ presume, ' as you did a. moment since? ” “ Because it’s right," said Sudie. “ No, cousin, it’s not good English," rcâ€" plied Robert. “Perhaps not, but its good Virginian, and that‘s better for my purpose. Besides, it must be good English. St. Paul used it twice." “ Did he? I was not aware that the Apos- tle to the Gentiles spoke English at all.” ‘ "Conic, (lousin Robert, I must give out dinner now. Do you want to carry my key- basket 7 ” * 'csting y CHAPTER VIII. MISS SL'DIE MAKES AN APT QUO'I‘A'I‘ION. My friend who writes novels tells me that them is no other kind of exercise which so perfectly rests an overwrought brain as rid- ing on horseback does. His theory is'tl‘iat 4 when the mind is overworked it will not quit work at command, but goes on with the labor after the tools have, been laid asnle. If I the worker goes to bed, be either finds it im- possible to go to sleep, or sleepinghe dreams, his mind thus working harder in sleep than if he were awake. \\'ulking, this novelist. friend says, affords no relief. (In the con- trary, one thinks better when walking than at any other time. But on hora .bucl‘. he finds it impossible to confine his thoughts to any subject for two minutes together. He may begin as many trains of thought as he chooses, but he never gets past their beginning. The motion of the animal jolts it all up into a jumble, and rest is the inevitable result. The man's animal spirits rise, in sympathy, per- haps, with those of his horse; and as the animal in him begins to assert itself his intel- lect yields to its master and suffers itself to become quiescent. Now it is possible that Mr. Robert Page- brook had found out this fact _about horse- back exercise, and determined to profit by it to the extent of securing all the intellectual lest» he could during his stay at Shirley. At any rate his early morning ride with “ Cousin Sadie” was repeated, but every day when decided rain did not interfere. He became greatly interested, too, in the Virginian sys- tem of housekeeping, and made daily study of it in company with Miss Sadie, whose key- baskct he carried as she went her rounds from dining-room to smoke-house, from smoke-house to store-room, from store-room to garden, and from garden to the shady gable of the house. where Miss Sudie “ set ” the churn every morning, a process which consisted of scalding it out, putting in the cream, and \VI. pping wet elqths over the head of it and far up the daslicr handle, as a precaution against the possible results of carelessness on the part 'of the half dozen little darkoys whose daily duty it was to “ chuii." Mr. Robert soon become well versed in all the mysteries of “ giving out " dinner and other things pertaining to the office of housekeepcriau office in which every Virginian woman takes pride, and one in the duties of which every wellsbred Vir» ginian girl i. wroughly skilled. (Corollary 7 good dinner and gencrrl comfort.) Old “ Aunty " coon are. always extremely slow of motion, and so the young ladies who carry the keys have a good deal of necessary leisure during their morning rounds. M mi Sadie had a pretty little habit, as a good many other young women there have, of car- rying a book in her key-basket, so that she might read when Aunt Kizzy (-I really do not know what proper noun this very common one is an abbreviation) made up her tray. Picking up a volume he found there one morning, Ilobert continued a dcsultoi'y con- versation by saying : “ You don‘t read Cousin Sudic‘!" , “ 0 yes ; I read everything-~01“ anything, rather. I never saw a book I couldn’t get something out of, except Longfellow." “Except Longfellow f” exclaimed I'lobcrt in surprise. “ Is it possible you don't enjoy Longfellow? 'thy, tli. . is hcrcsy of the rankest kind I " “I know it is, but I am a licrctic in a. good many things. I hate Longfellow‘s hexa» meters ; .I don‘t like Tennyson ; and I can‘t understand Browning any better than be im- dcrstands himself. I know I ought to like them all, as you all up North do, but I don‘t." Mr. Robert was shocked. Here was a. young girl, fresh and healthy, who could read prosy old lilontaignc‘s chatter with interest ; who knew l’opc by heart, and Dryden almost as well; who read the prose and poetry of the eighteenth century constantly, as he knew; and who, on a former occsaion, had pleaded guilty to a liking for sonnets, but who could find nothing to like in 'l‘cnnysoii, Longfellow, or Browning. Somehow the dis- covery was not an . u'ceable one to him, though he could hard y say why, and so he chose not to pursue the subject further just then. He said instead : “That is the queeic. heard yotri‘you all.’ ” “ It’s a very convenient one, you‘ll admit, and a. Verginian don’t care to go far out of his way in such things.” _ ” Yeu will think me critical this morning, (‘oimin Sn lie, but I often wonder at the care- lcssness, not of Virginians only, but of every- iody else, in the, use of contractions. ‘ Doir’t,‘ for instance, is well enough for a contraction for ‘do iiot,’ but nearly everybody uses it, as you did just now, for ‘ do not.’ " “ Do don’t lecture me, Cousin llobei't. I'm a heretic, I tell you, in grammar." “ ‘Do don‘t ‘ is the richest provincialisni I have heard yet, Cousin Sudie. I really must make a note of that." “ Cousin Robert, do you read Montaigne Y" “ Sometimes. \I'liy ‘3 " “Do you remember what he says about custom and grammar ? " “No. IVhat is it ‘1 7' “He says it, remember, and not 1. He says, ‘ they that fight custom with graimiiar are fools.’ IVhat a rude old fellow he was, Montaigne, do you, , Virgiiiiunioin I‘vc - - - l . . I git up Ilolcyl dis amt plowiii’ inaustcrsl field, g'loiig ! I tell ye I” As I’hil turncdaway Dr, Harrison rode up. “ Good morning Mr. l’agebrook. On your way to ‘ 'I‘thaksY” “ I was, but if you are going to Shirley I will walk back v. ith you I” “ (I no 1 no I I am only going to stop there a moment. I am on my way to see some pa- tient. . l‘lxenholni, and as I had to go past Shirley I brought the mail, that‘s all. I’ll not be there ten minutes, and I know they are expecting you at ‘ The (,laks._’ I brought Ewing along with me from the Court House. Foggy had been too much for him again.” “ \Vhy the boy promised me he would not gamble again." ‘ _ “ Oh I it's hardly gambling. Only a little game of loo. Every gentleman plays a little. I take a hand'niysclf, now and then; but Foggy is a pretty old bird, you know, and he's too much for your cousin. Ewing ought not to play with film, of course, and that’s why I brought him away with me. By the way, we’re going to get a fox up in a day or two. and show you some sport. The tobac- co‘s all out now, and the dogs are in capital order as thin as a lath. You must be with us, of course. \Ve‘ll get one up in pine quarâ€" ter, and he‘s sure to run towards the river ; so you can come in as the hounds pass Shir- Icy." “ I should like to see a fox hunt, certainly, but I have no proper horse,” said Robert. “ \\"hy, where’s (lraybcard‘! Billy told me he had turned him over to you to use and abuse.” “So he did, and he is riding his bay at present. [hit Graybeard is quite lame just now.” “Ride the bay then. Billy will be back from court to-night, won't be ‘3 ” “ Yes, but he will want to join the chase, I suppose. " “ I reckon he will, but he can ride sonic- thing else. He don‘t often care to take the tail, and he can see a much as he likes on one of his ‘coiiestogas.’ I‘ll tell you what you .can do. “'iuger‘s got a splendid colt, pretty well broken, and you can get him for a dollar or two, if you ain‘t‘afi‘aid to ride him. You must ii'ianage it somehow, so as to he ‘ in at the death I’ I want you to see some riding." , M r. Robert promised to see what he could do. He greatly wanted to ride after the bounds for once at least, though it must he confessed he would have been better pleased had the bounds to be ridden after belonged to somebody else besides the gentleman fami- liarly known as “ Foggy," a personage for whom Mr. llobcrt had ecrtainly not conceiv- ed a very :at liking. That the reader may know whether his prejudice was a well- founded one or not, it will be necessary for me to go a little and gather up some of the loose ireads of my story, while our young nm is on his way to “ The (hil' ."’ I have been so deeply interested in the ripen- ing acqimiutanceship between Mr. Rob and Miss Sudic that I have neglected to intro- duce some other portloiiages, less agreeable perhaps, but not less important to the proper understanding of this history. Leaving young l’ugebrool‘. on the road, therefore, let me tell the reader, ‘in a new chapter, something about the people he had met outside the hospitable Shirley ma. sion. CHAPTER X. cuiijriv eoxomaxixo “ recur." Dr. Charles Harrison was a. young man of twenty-five or six, at distant relative of the Burksdalesfi so distant indeed that he vould never have known himself as a relative at all, had he and they not been Virginians. He was a young man of good parts, fond of field sports, reasonably well behaved in all exter- nal matters, but without any very fixed moral principles. He was a gentleman, in the strict Virginian sense of the term. That is to say he was of a good family, was well educated, and had never done anything to disgrace himself ; wherefore he was received in all gciitlcmen's houses as an equal. Ilc drank a little too freely on occasions, and played bluff and loo a trifle too often, the elderly people thought, but these things, it was commonly supposed, were only youthful follies. He would grow out of themâ€"â€"marry and settle down after awhile. He was on the whole a vcryagrecablc person to be with, and very lllllcll of a gentleman in his manner. “ Foggy” raves was an anomaly. ' is pre- cise position in the social scale was a very difficult thing to discover, and is still more difficult to define. His father had been an overseer, and so “ Foggy ” was certainly not a “ gentleman." Other men of parentage similar to his knew their places, and when business made it necessary for them to visit the house of a gentleman they expected to be received in the porch if the weather were tolerable, and in the dining room if it were not. They never dreamed of being taken into the parlor, introduced to the family or invited to dinner. All these things were well recognized customs ; the line of demarcation between “gentlemen” and “common peo- ple ” were very sharply drawn indeed. The wasn’t he ? " Mr. I‘agcbrook suddenly remembered that he was to dine that day at his c usin Edwin’s house, and that it was time for him to go, as he intended to walk, Graybeard having fallen lame during that morning’s gallop with Miss Sudie. CHAPTER IX. MIL I’AGEIHIOOK MEETS A}: _U‘gfi‘AIN’I‘fiNI‘I‘T. Mr. Robert left the house on his way to “ The. Oaks ” in an excellent humor with himself and with everybody else. Ilis cousin ’iilly and his uncle (‘ol. Barksdale were both absent, in attendance upon acourt in another county, and so Mr. llobcrt had recently been left almost alone with Miss Sudie, and now that they had become the very best of friends our young man enjoyed this state of affairs right heartily. In truth Miss Sudie was a young lady very much to Mr. Robert‘s taste, in saying which I pray that young gentleman as handsome a compliment as any well regu- lated man could wish. Mr. Robert walked briskly out of the front gate and down the road, enjoying the bright sun and the rich coloring of the October wood- lands, and making merry in his heart by run- ning over in his memory the chats he had been having of late with the little woman who carried the keys at Shirley. If he had been forced to tell precisely what had been said in those conversations it must be con- fessed that a stranger would have found very little of interest in the repetition, but sonicâ€" how the recollection brought afrcqueiit smile to our young friend‘s face and put an addi- tional springinoss in his step. His inter- course with this cousin by brevet may not have been especially brilliant or of a nature cclculatcd to be particularly interesting to other people, but to him it had been (3‘ - tremely agreeable, without doubt. “Mornin’ Mas’ Robert," said I‘hil, as Rob- ert )assod the place where the old negro was Working. “How is ye dis niorniii 2" “Good morning, PIIII. I am very well, I thank you. How are you, Phil ‘3 " “Poorly, thank (lod. Ila! ha! ha! Ilat’s dc way Bro” J 0c and all do folks always says it. Dcy never will own up to beiii’ rule well. But I tell yc now Mas’ Robert, l’iiil’s a well nigger always. I keeps up my eend of do row all do time. I can knock dc spots out of do work all day, dauncc jigs till two o’clock, an' go ’possum huntin’ till moriiin7 comes. Is ye ever been ’possuni huntin" Mas” Robert ? ” “ No, I believe I iicvcr limited opossums, but I should greatly like to try it. I’liil.” “ \I'ould yc? (liin inc yer han’ Mas’ Rob- ert. You jos set dc time now, and if I’hi] don‘t show you do sights o‘ ’possuiii huntin, you ken call me a po’ white folkscs nigger, dat’s a fac’. ” ' Robert promised to make the neex try ap- pointment in due time, and was just starting off again on his tramp, when Phil asked : “ \Vharc ye houu7 dis iuornin', Mas" Rob- ort ? " “I’m going over to dine at. "I‘hc Oaks,‘ Phil." “ Yer jest out do house in time. Dar comes Mas' Charles Harrison. ” ' “ I do not understand you, l’hil'. Vt'hy do you say .I am out of the house just in time? ” “ Mas’ Robert is you got two good eyes ‘3 M as’ Charles is a doctor you know, lint dey ain’t nobody sick at Shirley. Maybe he‘s he had gone to theTcourt house for the pur- two classes lived on excellent terms with each other, but they never mixed. The gen- tleman i 'as always courteous to the common people. out of respect for himself ; while the common people were very deferential to every gentleman as a matter of duty. Now this man Raves was not a. “ gentleman." That much was clear. And yet for some in- scrutable reason his position among the pew plc \\ ho knew him was not exactly of a coni- mon man. He was never invited into gentle- nien’s houses precisely as a gentleman would have been, it is true; and yet into rcntle- incn’s houses he very often went, am that ipon invitation too. W'licn young men hap- pened to be keeping bachelor‘s establish- ments, either temporarily or icrmancntly, “ Foge ' " was sure to be invited pretty fre- quentIy to see them. As long as there was no ladies at home “ Ii‘oggy" know himself Welcome, and he had played whist and loo and bluff in many genteel parlors, into which he never thought of going when there were ladies on the plantation. He kept a fine pack of bounds too, and was clearly at the. head of the “fox hunting interest" of the county, and this was an anomaly also, as fox-hunting is an eminently aristocratic sport, in which rentlcmon engage only in company with gent emen ~~exccpt in “ It‘oggy‘s” case. I’recisely what “ Fe gy‘s ” business was it is difficult to say. I e was constable, for one thing, and (’1 qflicz‘o county jailor. One half the jail building was fitted up as his resi- dence, and there he lived, a bachelor. some fifty years old. He hired out horses and buggies in a small way now and then, but his earnings were principally made “ bluff" and “loo.” Once or twice (‘olonel Barksdale and some other gentlemen had tried to oust “ Foggy " from the jail, believ- ing that his establishment there was ruining a good many of the young men, as it cerâ€" tainly was. Failing in. this they had him indicted for gambliiig'in a public place, but the prosecution failed, the court holding that the jailor’s private rooms in the jail could not be called ti public place, though all rooms in a hotel had been hold public within the n'icaning of the statute. This man‘s Christian name was not “ Fog‘ gy," of course, thoughl am unprepared to say what it really was. He had won his sonbriquct in early life by paying the profes- sional gambler, Daniel K. Fogg , to teach him “how to beat roulette,” am then win- ning his iuoney back by putting his purchased knowledge to the proof at Daniel’s own rou- lette table. Everybody agreed that “ Foggy” was a-good fellow. He would go far out of his way to oblige anybody, and, as was pretty generally agreed, had a good many of the inâ€" stincts of a gentleman. He was not a pro- fes nal gambler at all. He never kept a faro bank. He played cards merely for amusement, he said, and there was a popular tendency to believe his statement. The botâ€" ting was merely” to “make itinterestiug,” and sometimes _the play did grow very “ iii- teresting ’° iiidced« «interesting to the extent of several hundred dollars frequently. Now, only about a week before the morn- ing on which Mr. Robert-met Dr. Harrison, . i As pose of calling upon the doctor. \Vliile there young Ilarrison proposed that they go up to Foggy's, explaining that Foggy was “ quite a character, whom they ought to know ; not a gentleman, of course, but a good fellow as . his cousin I’Iwing l‘agcbrook there playingl cards. The boyâ€"afor he was not then ofage i-vwas flushed and excited, and Robert saw i at a glance that he had been losing heavily. On {olrcrtis entrance he threw down his , cards and declared himself tired of play. “I'll arrange that, Foggy,” with a. noel. “ (I any time will do ! ” replied the other. “ liow d‘ye do, t'harley‘.’ Come in.” Dr. (‘harlcy introduced Robert, and the latter, barely recognizing Foggy’s greetingh turned to Ewing and asked : “ \Vha-t have you been doing, Giving? Not I gambling, I hope." ' “ O no I certainly not,” said Foggy; “ onlv a little game of drawâ€"poker, ten cents ante." “ Well, how much have you lost, Ewing ‘? ” asked Robert. “ How much more than you can pay in cash, I mean '.’ I see you haven’t settled the. score." Ewing was inclined to resent his cousin’s questioning, but his rather weak head was by no means a match for his cousin’s strong one. This great hulking Robert I’agcbrook was “big all over,” Billy Barksdale had said. His will was law to most men when he chose to assert it strongly. Ile now took his cousin in hand, and made him confess to a debt of fifty dollars to the gambler. Then turning to Foggy he said : “ Mr. Raves, you have won all this young man’s money and fifty dollars more, it appears. Now, as I understand the matter, this fifty dollars is ‘ a debt of honor,y in gambling par- lance, and so it must be paid. But you must acknowledge that you are more than a match for a more boy,,and you ought to ‘give him odds.‘ I believe that is the correct phrase, is it not ‘3 " “ Yes, that’s right ; but how can you give odds in dravaokcr ‘3 " “ I am going to show you, though I am certainly not acquainted with the mysteries of the game. You and he think he owes you fifty dollars. Now my opinion is that he owes you nothing, while you owe him the precise amount of cash you have won from him ; and I propose to effect a compromise. The law of V irginia is pretty stringent, I be- lieve, on the subject of gambling with people under age, and if I were disposed I could said the boy, I give in some trouble on that score. But I propose instead to pay you ten dollars~just enough to make a receipt worth whilostand take your receipt in full for the amount due. I shall then take my cousin home, and he . i pay me at his leisure. Is that satisfac- tory, sir?” M r. Robert was in a towering rage, though his manner vas as quiet as it is possible to conceive, and his voice was as soft and smooth as a woman’s. llad Foggy been dis- posed to presume upon his antagonists appar- ent calmness and to play the bully, he would unquestionably have got himself into trouble of a physical sort there and then. To speak plainly, Robert Pagebrook was quite pre~ pared to punish the gambler With his fists, and would undoubtedly have made short work of it had Ii'oggy provoked him with a word. But Foggy never quarrelezl. He knew his business too well for that. He never gave himself airs with gentlemen. He knew his place too well. He never got himself involved in any kind of disturbance which would at‘ tract attention to himself. He knew the consequences too well. He was always quiet, always defcrential, always satisfied ; and so, while he had no reason to anticipate the thrashing which Robert I’agebrook was ach- ing to give him, he nevertheless was as com- placent as possible in his reply to that; gentleâ€" man. “ Why certainly, Mr. Pagebrook. Incver meant to take the money at all. I only wanted to frighten our young friend here, and teach him alesson. He thinks he can play cards when he can’t, and I wanted to ‘break him of sticking cg s,’ that’s all. I meant to let Iiim think he lad to pay me so as to scare him, for I feel an interest in Ewing. ‘I’on my word I do. Now let me tell you, .15 'i we‘ll call this square, and you mustn’t play no more. You ilay honest now, but if you keep on you’ll c eat a little after awhile, and when a man cheats at cards, Ewing, hc’ll steal. Mind, I speak from ex- perience, for I’ve seen a good deal of this thing. (Ionic, Charley, you and Mr. Page- brook, let’s take something. I’ve got some splendid Shield's whiskey. ’ Mr. Page-brook summoned sufficient cour- tcsy to decline the alcoholic hospitality with- out rudeness, and, with his cousin took his leave. Ewing outreath Robert to keep the secret he had thus stumbled upon, and Robert promised to do so upon the express condition that Ewing would wholly refrain from pla ~ ing cards for money in In urc. This the you b promised to do, and our friend Robert con» gratulated himself upon his success in savin his well meaning but rather thick-hoadm cousin from certain ruin. [To an CONTIN UEl).] 77+~74~W DOMESTIC RECIPES. CREAM or TARTAR rubbed upon soiled kid gloves cleanses them well. To Srirrnn FINT LAcic.â€"â€"Dissolve a lump of white sugar in a wineglassful of cold water. S'roNn-MAsou’s saw-dust is infinitely bet- ter than soap for cleaning floors, and much more economical. A Mixruuii of oil and ink is a good thing ,to clean kid boots with ; the first softens and the last blackens them. To waterproof fishingâ€"lines apply a mixture of two parts of boiled linseed oi and one part good size. Expose to the air and day. IS sudden attacks of diarrhoea, a large cu i of strono, hot tea, with sugar and milk, wi frequentI bring the system to a healthy state. To TAKE oiniAsr. FROM VV'Ai.i.-rAriiiz.~â€"Lay several folds of blotting paper on the spot, and hold a hot iron near it till the grease is absorbed. A TEASI’OONFIII. of powered borax dissolv- ed in a. quart of tepid water is good for clean. ing old black dresses of silk, cashmere, or alpaca. INK may be. taken out of a. carpet by a lit- tle dissolved oxalic acid or salt of sorrel rub- bed on with flannel, and afterwards washed off with cold water ; then rub on some liarts- horn. To MARIE lime whitewash that will not rub off, take one half-bushel of unslacked lime, one gallon of salt, two pounds of tallow, and water enough to make it of a consistence to brush on. IT is said that silk which has become wrinkled may be made to appear like new by sponging the surface with a weak solution of gum arabic or white glue, and ironing on the wrong side. \Yxx rmwnus, if left out in the drizzling rain, will be thoroughly cleaned in a short time, and will look wonderfully refreshed and thankful. The hand-writing of a thou- sand house flies may be ol'iliteratcd in this simple manner. Tun removal of foreign substances from the car may often be accomplished by doubl- ing a horse-hair in the form of a. loop, placing the patient upon the side, passing the loop into the car as far as it will go, and then turning it gently. ., hissinsn I’ovi.rit:ii.â€"Stir linseed flour in- to boiling water, in sufficient quantity to form aponltice of proper consistency, and be- fore application smear the surface with a litâ€" tle olive or linseed oil. If irritation, with great pain and tenderness, or hardness, should prevail, it will be necessary to substi- tute a dccoction of po ,py heads for the com- mon water. This poll tice is in general use in all the hospitals. Naviiu paper a wall over old paper and paste. Always scrape down thoroughly. Old paper can be got oil~ by dampening with salcratus and water. Then go over all the cracks of the wall with ilaster of paris, and finally put on a wash 0 a weak solution of carbonic acid. The bcstpaste is made out of rye flour, with two ounces of glue dis- solved in each quart of paste. Half an ounce of powdered borax improves the mix- ture. â€"~-â€"â€"-~-â€"4~~â€"<4l>>â€"a~4>-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"w “ Wni‘ are my eyes so weak ‘2" said a King street “ swell " to a. bachelor friend, the other ever li vedfi’ afraid Miss Sudie’s gwiiie to git sielt. I'Ii,__.' , l'poir going to li‘oggy’s, Robert had found ‘ day. “Because they are in a weak place," was the dry answer. m LONDON ’8 GREAT MYSTERY. The Strong Chain of Evidence Against the Prisoners. [b‘iom the London Times] An extraordinary chain of evidence has now been completed, leaving no reasonable doubt as to the identity of the woman whose mutilated body was discovered in Southwark Saturday. Acting immediately upon the information of the witness Stokes, the divisional police of 'IVhitechapol, set about investigating the private history of the prisoners, and they found that the male prisoner had relations of a questionable character withfsoveral women. Above all, they found that he had cohabited With a woman who passed by the name of Mrs. King, and that when he visited her he was known as Mr. King. llc first knew her about three and a half years ago, when she was little more than twenty-one years of hgc, and was assistant to a milliner at IValtham Cross, where her parents lived. It is said he met her at Broxbourne Gardens, on the banks of the river Lea, a favorite resort of Londoners, and a place of highly‘ respectable character. Her father first knew of her intiâ€" macy with the male prisoner by discovering that she was encaente, and by her confession that Wainwright was the father of her child, for she came to London on the discovery of her condition, gave up her name as Harriet Laneâ€"her true namchand with the full knowledge of her family, lived as the mistress of \Vainwright. She often visited her rcla‘ tives, and when urged by her father to return home, her answer was, “ Wainwright keeps me like a lady.” Exactly twelve months ago last week her father lost all direct trace of her, and, though telegrams purporting to have come from her have, been received, and letters in a. man‘s handwriting, yet nothing has been known of her, even though all pos- sible inquiries have been made, since the early part of last September. THE MISSING \VOMAN. Another woman now comes on the scene, and the history of Harriet Lane as Mrs. King, the wife of the prisoner VVainri ht, is carried another stage. This is M rs. W'ilgmore, now living at Stratford. She knew Mrs. King~~~kncw that she lived under the protec- tion of the prisoner \Vainwright at Sidney square, Mile End. A twelvcmonth ago, the llth of Se )tembcrmon the very anniversary of which ay, it will be remarked as an ex- traordinary coincidence, the prisoner was ap- irehendqd with tho remainswthe woman, Ifrs. King, by arrangement with the pris» oncr, cnga ed to remove to Stratford, to the house of h is. “Vilniorc. By this time Mrs. King had two children, of whom the prisoner- was and is, for they are living still, the ac- knowlodged father. The boxes of M rs. King were packed up and removed to Stratford on the Ilth of September last year, and the two children and the boxes were left in charge of Mrs. \Vilmorc. Mrs. King, having arranged to be away for an hour or two, saying she had to meet \I'ainwright at half-past4 p. in. , then left Mrs. “'ilmore, and from that day, a. twelve month ago last Saturday, M rs. King has altogether disappeared, leaving no trace behind her. Mrs. \Vilmorc applied several times to the prisoner \Vainwright, and his answer to her was that his late mistress had gone off with a Mr. Fiskc, who had gone to irighton,»~ so “'ainwright at first said~ and afterward said she had gone to Paris. He, however, held himself responsible for the charge of the children, and paid her £5 a month from September until last July, when he stopped the aymcnts, saying that he should make it alFllp in November, by which time he was in hopes, it seems, that he should have passed through the difficulties of his bankruptcy. Photographs of Harriet Lane, aha: Mrs. King, show that she were her hair in the same style~~curling over the foreheadâ€"as the hair had been worn by the woman whose mutilated remains were found in the bundles conveyed by the male prisoner from his late premises in the \Vhitcehapel road to the ire- miscs, the key of which he held in the ' or- ough High street. The remains, which have been placed in a coffin fitted with a glass lid, were seen yesterday by the relatives of Bar- riet Lane. The body was medically examined. yesterday with more care than had been pos- sible before, and it was found that. it had been externally preserved in some respects, while decomposed internally. \Vhoever had buried it had, from ignorance, perhaps, of the action of chloride of lime, or to cover the smell of decomposition, placed this disinfect- ant with the body in the secret grave, and the earth, thus largely mixed with a preser~ votive, has kept the body from being resolved into its elements. The grave by a mistake in the report of the police court proceedings, is stated to be five feet long by two inches. It should have been five feet by two feet, and it was a little over two feet deep. The ground was surrounded with brickwork, and it is possible that whoever dug the grave, in which it is now considered the body lay for a year, found it difficult to go deeper from the obstructions. REMOVAL OF THE BODY. The motive for removing the body has yet to be elucidated ; and it is suggested that as the property is to change hands~for it is for saltyâ€"it would most likely have been dug up for necessary changes in the sewerage, thought by the unwholesomc smell of the place to be necessary. That the body was removed from this spot is unquestionable, and it seems also that this was du up with the new spade, and mutilated a Tow hours before Saturday night last with the new hatchet, both of which instruments were found in the house. The other articles found in the house were a broken light-colored silk umbrella, and with the corpse, avclved band for the hair. The spade and hatched are traced to the prisoner s possession, for he told Stokes to sell them, am he would give him half of what they fetched, enjoining him at the same aimc to say that they were his own. The prisoner was described in the police court proceedings as “ manager of a school- house.” It should be stated that he described himself as a “manager” to Mr. Martin, of New street, \Vhitechapel, and that he lived himself in “Schoolhouse lane, Chingford." It was in this lane that his wife and children lived in furnished lodgings. Tho prisoner’s connection with the “Hen and Chickens ” house in the Borough is ex- plained. The house was let to his brother Thomas last January, and opened in the hardware business. The stock was sold off in July, and the brother’s whereabouts is not known. The police have received many anonymous communications upon the subject, but all that is known for certainty is that the prisoner was in possession on Saturday of the keys belonging to his brother’s late premises. At the inquest, doubtless, the result of of the combined efforts of Superintendent Garforth and Inspectors Fox and McDonald will be laid before the Court. . â€"r.-â€"~Aâ€"¢. .yhi mmâ€" AGRICULTURAL NOTES. Traveling Threshing Machines. It is a quest-ion worthy of consideratimi, if it is not more economical, as well as more convenient, for a farmer to own his horse- power and threshing machine, than to hire one of the large machines which go from place to place to work. The cost of threshing by one of these, is perhaps e< ual to oneâ€"tenth of the crop. It is attended by considerable ex- tra expense in providing extra hands, or ex- tra teams, and there is some waste in doing the work in a hurry. The labor is excessive while it lasts, and there is, moreover, the cost of boarding hands and horses. For a crop of 1,000 bushels of grain, the cost will amount to over $150. VIch a two-horse power machine, costing $275 to $300, this work can be done in five days, without bur» ry, inconvenience, or loss, and often without extra help. other pu oscs, which will thus reduce the cost attac red to the threshing. Upon farms that have 500 or more bushels of grain to threin each year, it would certainly seem better to have a machine of ouc'a own, than to hire a traveling machine. I Onions Sown in Fall. Last year we published an article by Peter Henderson in which he gave the experience of a Long Island market gardener who sowed Ihis onions iti‘autunm. “'0 gave the plania ,trial in our own garden last fall, but the ‘ sowing was not made until the very end of ; iSepteinber, and the young plants did notI , as are to be marketed green or very early. The horse-power will also serve - m .e. ~V”MWW._ make sufficient growth to stand the very se- vere winter, even though they were well cov- ered. Still the success, though only partial, was sufficient to show thatthis method is worthy of consideration, and from the amount i that came to maturity on our bed this sum» 5 incr, have no doubt that it will answcrwhcn- ; ever sets are used ; but where onions can be raised directly from the seed, there will be no advantage from fall sowing except for such The idea is to now the seed in the fall at such _ a time as will allow the plants to form a, bulb large enough to stand the winter, and yet not so large as to run up to flower the next sea- son; in fact, .to raise onion sets, which in- ; stead of being harvested, are to be left in the ground, where they will be ready to grow as soon as. spring opens. On Long Island the middle of September is found to be the best time to sow; further south it should be later and north of that earlier. Success will large. Iy depend upon the time of sewing, and this for any particular locality can only be ascer- tained by experiment. The covering should not be put on until cold weather has stopped the growth of the bulbs, and may be leaves, straw, marsh hay, or other litter. Leaves applied while it is snowing will not blow about. Eating Fruit. We hardly know how to account for the popular impression that still prevails in many rural districts, that the free use of fruit is un- friendly to health. It has much to do with the scarcity of fruit gardens and orchards in the country. As a matter of fact, cities and villages are much better supplied with fruit the year round than the surrounding coun- try. There are hundreds of farms, even in the oldest parts of the land, where there are no orchard, and the only fruit is gathered from a few seedling apple trees grown in the fence corners. The wants of cities are sup- plied not so much from the proper farming districts, as from a. few men in their sub- urbs, who make a buisncss of growing fruit for market. The farmers who raise a good variety of siuall'fruits for the supply of their own families, are still the exception. The villa rer, with his quarter or half-acre lot, will iavehis patch of strawberries, his row of currants and raspberries, his grape vines and pear trees, and talk intelligently of the varieties of these fruits. I'Iis table is well supplied with these luxuries for at least half of the year. But there is a lamentable dearth of good fruit upon the form from the want of conviction that it pays. It does pay in per- sonal comfort and health, if in nothing else; The medical faculty will bear testimony to the good influence of ripe fruit upon the ani. mal economy. They regulate the system bet. tor than anything else, and forestall many of the diseases to which we are liable in the summer and fall. A quaint old gentleman of our acquaintance often remarks, [that apples are the only pills he takes. He takes these every day in the year, when they can be found in the market, and fills up the interval between the old and new crop with other fruits, He has hardly seen a sick day in forty years, and pays no doctor’s bill. \Vc want more good fruit, especially upon our farms, and the habit of eating fruit at our meals. This is just one of the matters in which fariners' wives can exert an influence. Many a good man would set out fruit trees and bushes, if he were only reminded of it at the right time. (hie right time will be. this autuinirmat least in all but the coldest parts of the country. A few dollars invested then will bring abundant Returns, in from one to five years. It is more intimately connect- ed with good morals, than our philosophers think. \Vitli good digagtimi it is quite easy to fulfil the law of love.WAurere‘cmzAgricul- tun'slf. ..-..._._,._,q,. ‘0’... . 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