do you remember how you set me thinking? 
I do. Since then I have stuffed the days 
full of work—just such as came to my mind 
and hand to do. And the result is I am 
growing beyond my anticipation. As I said 
before* my life is widening out, seemingly 
without effort of my own; and I am willing 
to give the effort, of my heart, or brain, or 
baud, or nil ; and why should I not succeed 
in being happy? Why should I not look 
bright? Why should I not grow beau¬ 
tiful? Content makes beauty in a woman. 
And these women who live for self, and 
wonder why some one does not. worship 
them and labor for their gratification and 
over eight hours a day, do not hesitate to 
impose on their stomach more than fifteen 
hours' work, nearly double. After a night’s 
sleep, we wake up with a certain amount of 
bodily vigor, which is faithfully proportioned 
out to every set of muscles, each its rightful 
share; the stomach among others. When 
the external body gets weary after a long 
day’s work, the stomach bears its share of 
the tatigue; hut, if, when the body is weary 
with the clay’s toil, we put it to bed, giving 
the stomach meanwhile a five hours’ task, 
which must ho performed, we impose upon 
the very best friend we have, the one that 
gives us the hugest amount of earthly enjoy* 
THAT LINE FENCE, 
r,lrn,er Smith camo home in u miff 
From tain Held the other (lay 
W A^her * W h««ft" t0 ° WU '°’ th0 P rid * h* 
At her wheel was spinning away, 
And, ever anon, u pay little song 
With the burr, or her wheel kept time 
And his wrathful brow is clearing now 
Under her cheerful rhyme, 
“Come. como. little Turk, put away y,„ lr work 
And listen to what 1 say ; 
What can 1 do but a quarrel brew 
With the man across the way? 
“ 1 hate built my fence, but he won’t commence 
To lay a single rail. 
Ills cattle get Id, and the feed gets thin— 
I’m tempted to mnko a sale !’’ 
“ Why, John, dear John, how you do goon 1 
I’m afraid it will he as they say.” 
No, no, little wife, j have heard that strife 
In a lawyor’s hand don ’t pay. 
“ Ho is picking a. flaw to drive me to law. 
J am told that ho said he would : 
And you know, long ago, law wronged tno so, 
I vowed that. I never should. 
“ So what can I do that, t will not rue. 
To the maYi across the way ?’’ 
" “ tb “ t ' s wh ®* 5 -0 " *>mt, 1 Help you haunt 
That man with 11 speotor nnxy y 
Thirty dollars will do to carry you through, 
And then you have gained a. neighbnr ; 
It would coed yon more lo peep in the door 
Of a court, and much more labor. 
"Just use your pood sense-let’s build him a fonce. 
And shame bad act out of the fellow.'” 
They built up his part, and sent to his heart 
Lovo’a dart, whore the good thoughts mellow. 
That very same night, by the candle light. 
They opened, with interest, a letter. 
Not a word was there, but three greenbacks fair 
Said the man was growing better. 
EVERY-DAY LIFE 
THE ORLEANS PRINCES. 
IV LEAD PENCIL, 
The accompanying portraits and bio¬ 
graphical sketches of the Orleans Princes— 
the Count of Paris and the Duke of Chartres 
—’will prove interesting to many of our read¬ 
ers at the present juncture. Though it is 
hoped that Fiance will continue a Republic, 
yet the French people are so changeable and 
unreliable that it is not impossible that it 
may be the destiny of one or both of these 
heirs to the throne to become inonarclis. 
The Count de Pnvls. 
Louis - Philippe Albeht d’Orleans, 
Count de Paris, was born in Paris the 24tli 
of August, 1838. He is the eldest son of the 
Duke d’Orleaus who lost his life by a fatal 
fall from liis carriage, in July, 1842. A dis¬ 
tinguished French writer bus said:—“ Never 
did the death of a prince cause so general 
expressions of grief. Everywhere in France 
was felt the profoundest sadness over the 
fate of this brave prince, in whose character 
were centered so many traits of genuine 
French nobility and chivalry.” 
The Princess Helene, the widow of the 
kcii presumptive to the throne of France, 
guided the education of lief two sons, the 
Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres. 
She devoted herself entirely to this task, 
persuaded, as she afterward wrote, “ that 
the sentiment of the beautiful ought to be 
developed in the hearts of the children.” 
Bui :die understood, also, at the same time, 
how to implant the germs of truth, integri¬ 
ty, and patriotism in their minds. 
Misfortune seemed to give strength t,0 the 
sold of the young Prince, lie was only 
four years of age when death bereft him so 
unexpectedly of his father’s support, and 
affection. At his tenth year the Revolution 
of 1848 deprived him of his country and 
inflicted upon him a banishment of twenty 
years, the bitterness of which was removed 
not long ago by a decree of the National 
Assembly. 
It was in this country Unit the Count de 
Paris passed through his apprenticeship of 
war, giving his services lo the Northern 
army (hiring a period of two years. Subse¬ 
quently he returned to England, where he 
murried the Princess Isabella, a daughter 
of ihe Duke de Montpensier, his uncle. 
During Ids absence from France, the 
priaeu made extensive travels. I iis ordinary 
place of residence has been at Twickenham, 
near the banks of the Thames. There he 
was surrounded by Ids family, and there, 
also, his two children were born, viz., the 
Princess Marie-Amelie-Louise-Helens 
and Prince Louis-Philipfe-Robert. 
On ids return to France, Ihe Count de 
Paris was received by M. Thiers at Ver¬ 
sailles. In Paris he lives in ihe house of 
Count Paul de Segcr. 
The Duke De Clinrirea. 
Robert, Duke de Chartres, was horn In 
November 1840, and is the second in order 
of the sons of the unhappy and beloved 
Duke d’Orleans, whoso career was so sud¬ 
denly cut short by the fatal ftcident in 1842. 
The Duke de Chartres took an active part in 
the ranks of ihe Republican armies during 
the war with the Southern States, and fought 
subsequently with distinction on the plains 
of Lombardy in the Italian campaign. Dur 
tog the late Franco-German war he enlisted 
as a private soldier in the regiment of Gen. 
Brand. 
After the capture of Rouen and the retreat 
of Buiand towards Havre, the Duke hast¬ 
ened to the Loire army, then under formation 
an I command of General Chanzy, and was 
afterwards appointed brigade major under 
Central Dargknt, and partook in a con¬ 
spicuous manner in all the engagemenis of 
the Loire army. In the combats off Orleans 
he once put himself at the head of a hand¬ 
ful of fearless soldiers, carried off a Prussian ( 
battery and made a prisoner of the com¬ 
manding officer. Thrice the cross of the i 
Stuffing Time With Work. 
“ I do wonder how Irene manages lo do 
so much. She seems always to have leisure, 
and yet I know she accomplishes more than 
any five of us girls. There is no splitter 
and fret about her. She is always leisurely 
busy.” 
WILL SHE RIDE OR WALK? 
ihe center ot the city is like the palm m 
a hand. From it the long fingers stretch out 
one over the mill dun); another along the 
flats; the longest of all bridges the river, and 
then going on mid on, the straight wide 
street steadily rising until it overlooks (lie 
bay suddenly bends like the crook of a linger, 
until its tip touches the water. 
It is a ladder—u hill of difficulty—to the 
dweileis at Ibis end of thus town, most of 
whom began life at its foot, in the dingy 
shops and tenement-houses there, and have 
slowly struggled up:—some lo the long 
blocks of comfortable dwellings; others, go¬ 
ing on Still further, have reached the most 
pretentious point of all—that lying close 
down to the water upon the other side. 
Iheie js an air of newness, a flavor of 
Jonah’s gourd about the Itnlio-Cbinese pago¬ 
das with French roofs hero. They seem, 
indeed, to have sprung up in a night, the 
dampness of the mold still clinging to them. 
There is a .straining after pinnacles and 
lowers and top-kuots in architecture—afteref¬ 
fects quite disproportioned to means in land¬ 
scape gardening, and, in fact, an evident 
attempt to orowd to their utmost capacity the 
present limited space and time. 
This is the foundation built upon the rock 
—gold. Another generation will develop 
the fine arts, and possibly the sciences. 
In the meantime, I will tell my little story. 
Paul Hayes was sent hero to preach the 
gospel, tor there are churches. Some of 
them, even so soon, are beginning to pride 
themselves, not upon their sanctity, but i.p.m 
the high social position of their members; in 
other words, upon the distance at which 
they live from the foot of the street, which 
is their social scale. 
Fortunately, Paul’s church was not among 
these. If one lias to deal with ignorant peo¬ 
ple, it is better to take them in the rough. 
Iron in its natural state holds wonderful 
possibilities. But iron—spoiled in the smelt¬ 
ing—wlmt can one do with it? 
His church was only a mission chapel, 
supported by a richer society of the same 
denomination; his people—the men and wo- 
THE COUNT OF PARIS AND THE DUKE 
happiness, and why their lives arc so barren 
and others so rich, have not yet learned that 
(///iiu/ is better than waiting, and work is 
I tetter than worship!” 
You ought, to have seen Soloansis’ eyes ! 
'•’bey were like electric fire. And her step 
was as elastic and strong as if she had trod¬ 
den paths over the Mountains of Delight all 
her life, And T kept on with my musing; 
and I remembered that the lives of men are 
only fruitful when their days are stuffed as 
full ot work us a turkey is with dressing. 
Jncnt; and it tins overtaxing is continued, 
it must ns certainly wear out prematurely ns 
the body itself will, if it is overworked every 
day. 3 
And if persons eat between meals, then Hie 
stomach is worked so much and so constant¬ 
ly, that it becomes too weak to work at all 
It is to he hoped that every intelligent parent 
will press these things on the attention of 
their children as a matter of conscience, be¬ 
cause dyspepsia, like consumption, lias its 
foundations laid in a large majority of cases, 
during the “teens” of life.— Hall's Journal 
l he passion for angling is by no means 
limited to any class of society. The most 
eminent poets, painters,philosophers, states¬ 
men and soldiers have been fond of the art. 
Trojan loved angling, and Nelson threw the 
fly with bis left hand, after the Spaniards 
bad shattered his right arm. Ovid, Boileau, 
Goldsmith, Rossini, were anglers. Dr, Pa¬ 
lsy "’as passionately foml of it, and in reply 
to the Bishop of Durham, as to when one of 
his most important works was to he finished, 
said:—“My Lord, I shall work steadily at 
it when the fly fishing is over.” Walter 
Scotl, infinitely susceptible to the beauties 
of nature, was delighted with angling, and 
more than one passage in his work betrays 
his predilection for the sport. Walton lias 
styled the gentle art ns “ the contemplative 
man’s recreation.” We do not think that, 
angling Should be classed with acts of cruel¬ 
ty, for fish and all cold-blooded animals are 
less sensitive than Hie warm-blooded ani¬ 
mals, and Hie act of hooking a fish is proba¬ 
bly attended with less pain than we imagine, 
as the cartilaginous part of the mouth con- 
laius no apparent nerves. A trout will often 
continue to pursue insects after escaping 
from the hook, though he will shun the arti¬ 
ficial ones. The pike will seize the bait, 
even when the mouth is full of hooks. 
Sharks are also remarkably insensible to 
pain. 
LABOR CONDUCIVE TO LONG LIFE. 
In view of the short duration of life en¬ 
tailed by some occupations, it must be re¬ 
garded as consoling, yea, as a sublime fact, 
i hat labor in general does not tend to shorten 
life; hut, on the contrary, I»y strengthening 
health, lengthens life; while on the other 
hand, idleness and luxury are productive of 
the snme results as the most unhealthy oc¬ 
cupations. Dr. Guy, an Englishman, in 
calculating the average duration of life of 
the wealthy classes, arrived at the very sur¬ 
prising result, with regard to adults, that 
the higher the position in the social scale, 
the more unlimited their means, the less 
probability of a long life. We have so long 
been accustomed to consider the possession 
HEARTY SUPPERS. 
It requires about five hours for a stomach 
to work on an ordinary meal and pass it out 
of itself, when it lulls into a stage of repose. 
Hence, if a man eats three Limes a day, his 
stomach must work fifteen hours out of the 
twenty-four. But the multitude of mechan¬ 
ics who are wildly clamorous for only “eight 
hoars a day,” are the very ones who, while 
they are angered at being required to work 
water, 
“ To the days of tho lifted it adfleth length ; 
To the might of the strong it uUdeth strength 
It freshens the heart. It brightens the sight; 
’Tts like qwafting a goblet of morning light.’’ 
