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in the morning. I will manage it some way in 
your absence that she shall he taken out." 
Marie begged the privilege of taking it Just 
once more, but her petition bad no effect upon 
Mrs. Lk GhA.ni>. She marched a* straight to 
the accomplishment of her designs as a veteran 
soldier would march to the cannon’s muzzle, if 
convinced it was necessary. There was a thread 
of iron inclosed in the velvet affability of her 
character little suspected by her chance ac¬ 
quaintance. Fortunately for her husband and 
children, she was an affectionate, sensible 
woman. 
Poor Major! The blow had fallen—her dream 
of delight was shivered to atoms! Wild con¬ 
jectures. like truant children, played hide-and- 
seek In her brain. Kbc would Wlite. The stran¬ 
ger would think her unkind- a thank less prude; 
but whom could she trust. She knew not his 
name; who else would know it? No solution 
of the problem offered Itself, and she retired to 
dream out the thousand tortuous difficulties 
that haunted her waking. She cried, she pray¬ 
ed ; but no miracle was wrought to save her. 
Miust was the stern alternative, the duty, the 
fate—call it anything but Inclination*—that sent 
her adrift with her young charges. The weeks 
rolled out, a month; and but for Ihh Marie 
would have been happy. Dwelling In secret 
meditation upon that morning interview, it 
assumed an importance in her poor brain, that 
the reality failed to Just ify. Splteof all tills, 
youth and vitality asserted their claims; loving 
words and sweet little children rounded and 
developed little Marik Into something more 
lovely than the month just gone had found 
her; a pathos lurked in the beautiful eyes a 
far-away look, as if searching for a lost gleam, 
enhanced her brightness, as purple shadows 
intensify the sunlight. [Concluded next week. 
A MATRIMONIAL CHALLENGE. 
A young lady of Alabama, visiting in Mem¬ 
phis, was lately walking along the street with a 
young gentleman, when he jokingly proposed 
to step into a church near by and get married; 
the young lady assented and started toward the 
church. When the young man saw that she was 
disposed to humor his joke, lie backed down 
and acknowledged himself beat. Proceeding 
still further they mot a mutual acquaintance, a 
bachelor business man, and the lady’s compan¬ 
ion told business man howshe had backed him 
out on the matrimonial proposition, whereupon 
business man remarked to her, “You can’t 
buck me out." 
She answered. “ Yes, I con.” 
The parties laughed and chatted u little, when 
they started off to get a license, each supposing 
dial the other would give it up ; but the docu¬ 
ment was duly procured, and the matter began 
to look serious. The next thing was to tie the 
knot; at length a preacher was lound ; by this 
time both parties began to draw long breaths, 
but neither would give up tc> the other. They 
entered the church, and the preacher pronounc¬ 
ed the words that made them husband and wife; 
there was no flinching from the vows ; neither 
would take a “ dare,*’ and the result was a mar¬ 
riage—a foolish marriage. 
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INTEREST ON FRIENDSHIP. 
The Stockton (Cal.) Independent says:—In 
1850 a young man named Osborn, who had re¬ 
cently arrived at f ixe mines from the East, pen¬ 
niless and friendless, was taken sick. He told 
his condition to a fellow adventurer named 
Hitchcock, who was a little better off, and I he 
latter promised to ‘‘see him through.” The 
promise was kept, and when, after two months 
of illness, Osborne arose from his bed, bis 
friend handed him $250 to bear his expenses 
and to procure tools, saying to him, “ If ever 
you get able you can pay me buck, but do not 
worry yourself and injure your health in trying 
to make the money too quick." One year and 
a half from that time Osborn sent Hitchcock 
§1 ,*250, with the following note“ I’ll pay inter¬ 
est, on friendship.” His labors proved remu¬ 
nerative, and in 1873 lie was worth $350,000. 
Wnile in .San Francisco he met and recognized 
bis old friend. When they parted, after several 
day’s companionship, Osborn gave Hitchcock 
a sealod package, with t.he injunction that it 
was not to be opened until he was on the cars. 
There Hitchcock found that it contained a 
deed for one-sixth of a rich silver mine, with a 
small note containing the words, “ Interest on 
friendship.” Hitchcock has sold this interest 
for $80,000. 
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A ROMANTIC WEDDING. 
An Oregonian occupying a seat under the Old 
Elm on the Common recently was disturbed by 
the arrival of a small party of ladies and gen¬ 
tlemen beaded by Dr. Dio Lewis. The party 
halted under the gas light, and forming in an 
Irregular half-circle, a gentleman walked out, 
bolding a paper Id his hand. Immediately an¬ 
other gentleman leading a lady stood in a circle 
fronting the first-named, who, in a low, musi¬ 
cal voice,serenely audible, rnadcaehort address 
to the parties, who joined hands and then sa¬ 
luted with a kiss. Dr. Dio Lewis steps forward, 
and Imitating the example, salutes the ladyand 
congratulates the gentleman. Others follow, 
doing likewise, and then the party returned to 
the Bellevue parlors. The stranger inquired of 
a gent leman who stood gazing at the retreating 
party, what this romantic episode meant, and 
was rewardod with the answer that Rev. Wil¬ 
liam R. Alger had just bound together in the 
bonds of holy wedlock Mr. Fisher M . Clark and 
Mrs. 5. Helen Tripp. The stranger dropped his 
chin on his breast a moment .inri said, “ la that 
the way you do such things in Boston?” “It 
appears so.”—Boston Journal. 
SHtq 3fttqaqg tStdijIft. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Baddeck, nnd Tlint. HnrI ol Tiling.—By CHAS. 
Dudley Warner. Boston: James U. Osgood 
& Co. [16mo.-pp. nil; price *1.] 
We have frequently allowed ourselves to be 
led. by our aversion to books of travel, into 
saying thing* from which It Is now difficult to 
retreat. But, with this little volume before us, 
we Intend to suspend the rules by unanimous 
consent, and take back some very severe glit¬ 
tering generalities In the way of strictures upon 
such books. In our baste we may have said 
that nobody should ever write books of travel. 
Those words wc now proceed to swallow. Mr. 
Waknek has added another ftp his list of pleas¬ 
ant, books. At this season of the year, when 
everybody and his family are traveling for 
health, pleasure, or because It Is the thing to 
do, and each is comparing notes with the other, 
is launched this little volume, beside which all 
our notes for comparison would appear awk¬ 
ward and uninteresting. Mr. Warner's style, 
while elegant and instructive, Is so smooth, so 
dreamy, that the reader becomes his compan¬ 
ion in the summer voyage, and enjoys all the 
beauties of the scenery without any of the dis¬ 
comforts and annoyaneos of traveling. The 
description of the Provincial family of excur¬ 
sionists and their conduct, on page 173, ct ncq., 
is so true to nature and so ludicrous, that it 
alone would repay on© for reading the hook 
were the rest uninteresting, which It Is not. 
Give us more pleasant travels and less labored 
heavy reading on the subject, and we may sus¬ 
pend the rules altogether, and oven amend our 
constitution. 
Valentino, the Countess. — By CARL Detlee. 
Translated from the German by M. 8. Philadel¬ 
phia ; Porter & Coates, [izroo.—pp. 877.] 
This clear and rather elegant translation is 
worthy of a place In every family library. Val¬ 
entine, finding her love for Rknb a hopeless 
passion, is finally Induced to marry Count Wis¬ 
hed? BONN, a gentle, kind, half-lmbeclle, by 
whom she attains a social posit ion commen¬ 
surate with her birth. A subsequent meeting 
with ItENR awakens the old passion, but does 
not tempt the Count ess beyond her power of 
resistance. The authoress carries her reader 
unfiaggingly to the end, and leaves a favorable 
impression. Of course, we Americans can 
neither appreciate nor understand the aristo¬ 
cratic tone of all the characters introduced nor 
yet their extreme virtue under all temptations. 
In a country whore one man Is as good as an¬ 
other, and Often a good deal better, the people 
are not expected to fully comprehend tnose 
remarkably good qualities of head and heart 
which are transmitted from lather to son 
through innumerable generations, if CAUL 
Detj.kf had only given us one real good had 
man. It would have been a relief from actual 
monotone of virtue and goodness. We hope 
to be forgiven when we say we are somewhat 
skeptical at the sl;:ht of so much virtue. We 
desire u little spice occasionally. 
The Legend ot'Julml and Other Poems.—By 
Gicokuk ICliot. Boston: James It. Osgood & 
CO. [12mo — PP- 253.] 
Not many years ago, when this authoress 
astonished the readers of current literature 
with a powerfully written book (“ Adam Bode") 
the inquiry became general- “ Who is George 
Eliot ¥“ Since that time we have made a pleas¬ 
ant acquaintance with her through subsequent 
works. The intensity of her prose works made 
for her friends, wherever they were read. And 
now she adds a volume of poetry, not as pow¬ 
erful as her prose, but withal pure and chaste 
in style and upon well-chosen subjects. “ Aga¬ 
tha," the second poem in the book, has pecu¬ 
liar merits. Beautiful is the picture of the holy 
maideua of the mountain who attract the love 
and reverence of all tlie surrounding country, 
by their kindly deeds and saintly lives, so that 
the lads and lasses 
“Made their sport gentle as » feather-stroke, 
That Agatha rcigUt like the waking for the love 
it showed.” 
Life Under Glass.— By Geo. A. Snovic. Boston : 
James It. Osgood it Co. 
The object of this little volume is to urge 
the construction of glass sanitariums in our 
Northern climate for the use of invalids who 
cannot seek a milder climate abroad. The facts 
and arguments to sustain the feasibility and 
probable results to follow the realization of 
this project are interesting, and we shall refer 
to them again. 
Complete Arithmetic .—By William g. Peck, 
L. L. Ii. New York; a. 8. Barns • X Co. [Octavo; 
pp. 818; price 90c.j 
TuiB, the third of the Arithmetic Series, by 
the same author, appears to be plain and sim¬ 
ple as well as complete. The propositions are 
concisely stated, and Still cover all the princi¬ 
ples necessary as the foundation of a good com¬ 
mercial education. 
Prudence Pnlfrey. —By Thomas Bailey Al¬ 
drich. Boston : James R. Osgood X Co. 
THIS is a New England story—a good one. If 
we were to give its outline, as we might, it 
would detract fmm the interest the reader 
would take in it. Take out* word for it, it is 
worth reading, and reveals phases of life that 
are by no means infrequent nor improbable. 
We Acknowledge the Receipt front Messrs. 
Chambers, Brothers & Co., of Fifty-second 
street and Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, of 
their beautifully illustrated Catalogue and 
Price List of Folding Machines. As a test of 
the accuracy of the illustrations, we cite the 
fact of their being mounted photographs of 
excellent workmanship. Wo notice, with pleas¬ 
ure, the elegance as well as perspleuouansss 
with which manufacturers of late have pub¬ 
lished their ca t alogues and of all we have seen, 
hardly any compare in those qualities with the 
one before us. If this book Is any indication 
of the manner in which the firm does its busi¬ 
ness, it can but be a good house to deal with. 
Old and !Ycw for July, (Boston: Roberts 
Bros.,) contains the continuation of Anthony 
Trollope's serial, “The Way We Live Now 
an excellent article by G. W. Powers, entitled 
“Technical Education,” ami various other ar¬ 
ticles of interest. Wc cannot confess to any 
pleasure in seeing t lie had taste of its publish¬ 
ers displayed by allowing advertising pages to 
be inserted in tho body of t.he magazine. This 
is an innovation which should be discounte¬ 
nanced in magazine publishing. 
New Mimic.—We have received from H. 8. 
Mackie, Rochester, N. Y„ " Bohemian Girl,” 
Transcription, by Leopold Haak. Easy and 
brilliant variations on the melody, “ I Dreamt 
that I Dwelt in Marble Halls,*' " Kathleen 
Mavourneen," Transcription for Plano, by H. 
Leopold. Ingeniously varied, the popular 
melody loses less than usual of distinctness 
and prominence. We recommend both these 
pieces to our readers; they are not difficult and 
arc effective. 
The Interim Bonn I Review for July and Au¬ 
gust. is received from A. S. Barnes & Co., 11. Y. 
City. The lending article is by It AT Palmer, 
D.D., and is entitled, “ William Cullen Bry¬ 
ant and his Writings.” The other articles are 
“ Coal and its supply;” “ Thirteen years of Free¬ 
dom in Italy;" "The Catholic Reformation In 
.Switzerland “The New Revision of the En¬ 
glish Bible“Orthodox Church;" “Books.” 
Tile Eighteenth Aunuul Report of the (sec¬ 
retary of Hie Maine Board of Agriculture is 
received. Over 40(1 pages are devoted to this 
report* hut the volume includes in addition 300 
pages devoted to an abstract of returns from 
the Agricultural Societies of Maine, including 
the Report of the State Pomologioal Society 
hitherto noticed. It is an exceedingly credit¬ 
able volume. 
The Popular Science Monthly (New York : 
D. Appleton A Company) for August , is as meaty 
:ts ever, containing articles bv I)r. J. W. Dra¬ 
per, It. Lewis, .Jr., Camille Flammaiuon, 
Prof. Goldwin Smith, Dr. Burt (..Wilder, 
Prof. John Tyndall, Hon. Lawrence John¬ 
son, Prof. Asa Gray, besides anonymous arti¬ 
cles of much Interest and value. 
The American Uyclopiedin, (D. Appleton & 
CO., N. Y. City,) sixth volume, is received. It 
includes topics alphabetically, from Dempster 
to Everett. This edition of the work is a care¬ 
ful revision of the former one published by the 
same house, is carefully illustrated with en¬ 
gravings and colored maps, and Is a necessity 
in every family. 
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SPARKS AND SPLINTERS. 
A pair of drawers—A sjmn of truck horses. 
The hymn for the Centennial—Old Hundred. 
Ministers of the interior—The cook and the 
d oct or. 
Aim high, but not so high as not to be able to 
hit anything. 
The largest room in the world, is the room for 
improvement. 
Question for florists— Is not a rich mandarin 
a China Astor? 
An unpleasant sort of arithmetic—Division 
among families. 
Sulphur comes from Vesuvius ; therefore it 
is good for eruptions. 
When a woman blushes and weeps, can she 
be said to raise a hue and cry ? 
Mrs. Orek, who took a second husband the 
other day, evidently wanted to ore-mate. 
Dobbs thinks that instead of giving credit 
where credit is due, the cash had better be 
paid. 
A toast—W oman; the last and best of the 
series—if we may have her for a toast, we won't 
ask for any t>ut-her. 
When a lady stands at the hymeneal altar 
with her intended, you may know that she is 
about to draw her beau into a knot. 
Gen. Butler’s complaint is “ural colic,” 
and an unsympathetic scoundrel thinks it 
should be called ” tu-ral-ural eolio.” 
Henry Pierce, a criminal with only one 
arm, escaped last week from the Knox (III.) 
jail. But then he bad two good legs. 
There Is nothing more calculated to weaken 
a boy's moral character than to get his fishing- 
hook fastened on rubbish in the river. 
A Missouri man who swapped wives with 
another Missourian got a cow, a calf, thirty 
good steel traps, and four children "to boot.” 
What is the difference between a Jew and a 
lawyer ? The one gets his law from tho 
prophets, and the other his profits from tho 
law. 
FROM HARBOR. 
BY EMMA BUHT. 
Steadfast in single purpose. Lord, I pray. 
Strong heart, and steady eye to pierce the way 
When fogs obscure; and stealthy shadows creep 
Over the day. And mastering hand U> keep 
The way discerned with nerve not * vor-tense, 
Fine-strung, and tremulous, like wind-harp whence 
E’en passing breezes draw rare melodies: 
Nor nerve of Iron. O God 1—to sail my seas. 
Give quietness of Heaven—reposeful strength, 
That knows the Power beyond, that knows the length 
And breadth of being; and of self tho scope. 
And he there- lettered on the pennant—" Hope.” 
Hope ?—Yea. Hope. The wonderful untold, 
Unknown (foreshadowed In the wish), unfold. 
A plummet give to sound the mighty deep; 
And while ut sea, wilt Thou my spirit keep? 
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 
The Rev. Dr. It. W. Dale, an English preacher 
of some note, has recently printed a series of 
discourses on the ten commandments, which 
have excited considerable attention from the 
London press. Discourses on the command¬ 
ments very commonly arc full of strained ap¬ 
plication, while the preacher attempts to make 
lii* text appropriate to modern circumstances, 
but there is nothing of the kind here. 
“THOU SHAV.T NOT STEAL,” 
Here is an application for the eighth com¬ 
mandment : 
“If a workman, who is paid to work ten 
hours, takes advantage of the absence of the 
master, or foreman, to smoke a pipe and read 
a newspaper for one hour out of ten, he steals 
one-tenth of his day’s wages. Ho does the very 
thing that a shopkeeper would do who gave 
him fourteen ounces of butter or sugar instead 
of a pound, or nine yards of calico when the 
hill charged ten. An assistant in a shop who, 
instead of caring for his master’s Interests as 
if they were his own, puts no heart into his 
work, exercises no ingenuity, treats customers 
carelessly instead of courteously, and so dimin¬ 
ishes the chancel of their coming again, gets 
Ills salary on false pretences, does not give the 
kind or service which he knows his employer 
expects, and which he would expect if be were 
an employer himself. He cannot hut know 
that his services are worth but half what they 
would he If he did hi* best. Instead of earning 
the £40 a year for which he is engaged, he doss 
not earn more than £15 or £20, and he practi¬ 
cally steals the real.” 
A man who knows how to drive home blows 
like that, and is not afraid to do It, is to be a 
power in the community. 
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MINISTERING. 
Pure religion and undeflled is " ministering,” 
not the other thing, “ being ministered unto.” 
It is handing over the morning paper to another 
ftir first perusal. It is vacating a pleasant seat 
by the Are for one who comes In chilled. It is 
giving UP the most restful arm-chair or sofa- 
corner, for one who is weary. It is “ moving 
up " in the pew to let the new comer sit down 
by the entrance. It is rising from your place 
to darken the blind when the sun's ray streams 
in too brightly upon some face in the circle. 
It Is giving your own comfort and convenience 
every time for the comfort and convenience of 
another. This Is at once true courtesy and real 
Christianity. If wa mean to copy the spirit of 
the Master we must be ready in every relation 
of life, and at every hour of the day, to give up 
being waited upon, and to practice this self- 
sacrificing, beneficent and “ministering” gra¬ 
ciousness of spirit and conduct.—Her. A. A. 
Stom, D. D. 
A GOOD SUGGESTION. 
The Northern Christian Advocate remarks : 
“ When you close a saloon—or after trying fail 
to close one—it will bo well to see that other 
more harmless but equally attractive places arc 
opened to receive those who go to the saloon 
by reason of its eooUU attractions. Every town 
and village should have, as it can easily afford 
to have, a reading-room, open to all, A small 
fund can support such, while a considerable 
sum to buy a full assortment of papers and 
magazines will prove economical. Let this bo 
open in the evenings, and it will do all the more 
good if a smoking-room is attached, though 
this last suggestion must not be construed as 
an indorsement of the habit involved. We sim¬ 
ply say that, since smoking is not a crime, it is 
bett er to provide a safe place for young smokers, 
than leave them to saloon tender-mercies.” 
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If man, or woman either, wishes to realize 
the full power of personal beauty, it must be 
by cherishing noble hopes and purposes, by 
having something to do and something to live 
for which is worthy of humanity, and which, 
by expanding the capacities of the soul, gives 
expansion and symmetry to the body which 
contains it. 
-- 
GrvE the brain a chance as well as the arm. 
Do not let the animal eat up the soul. Let the 
body be the well-fashioned hulk, and the mind 
the white sails, all hoisted—everything, from 
flying jib to spanker, bearing on toward the 
harbor of glorious achievement. 
