THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
“ I cannot guess,” she replied. 
“ i should leave Gars wood lor a few months, or 
longer. This house is haunted, l am sure, for you.” 
“ That. Is just It,” she acknowledged ; «it is 
haunted. It 1 go Into the Itbrary, T see my hus¬ 
band there. I fancy 1 hear his voice in the corri¬ 
dors. There Is not a room In the house which has 
not some sad or sorrowful association. I should 
like in go away, Marian. Will you come with me ? 
Mamma cannot ” 
“ I will go with pleasure.” she replied. “ Where 
shall we go? Shall It be to Scotland, Switzerland, 
or France?” 
“ Let us go to Normandy.” said Lady Cheveulx ; 
“ and 1 should like to stay away some time. I er- 
haps If your mamma, wants to see you she will pay 
us a visit there. Wo will take some prett y chateau; 
and then 1 shall regain what 1 have lost—my 
health and youth ancl.spirits.’’ 
so it was settled ; and In three weeks after that 
conversation Lady cheveulx and Miss Hethoote 
left Garswood, to spend some mont hs In pictur¬ 
esque Normandy. 
Lady L'hevenlx sent for Darcy Lonsdale, and sa id 
farewell to him. She did another tiling which 
pleased the. lawyer very much, thottgli he said little 
about it. When passing through London she sent 
such a hamper of toys to the Lonsdale children as 
had never been seen before. There was not one 
amongst them forgotten. To Katie she sent such 
ornaments that, her eyes were dazzled as she looked 
at them; to Darcy himself she sent a superb dia¬ 
mond ring. 
In the letter that accompanied t hese presents 
she said— 
“ I did not see your son, to bid him farewell; but 
tell him that! send my kindest wishes, and thanks 
for kind sympathy and help that I shall never 
forget.” 
Durey Lonsdale looked at his son when ne read 
the message; but Felix turned away without a 
word; nor did lie ever mention Lady chevenlx's 
name. Darcy Lonsdale was pleased with her 
thoughtfulness. 
“ Her sorrow has done her good,” he said to his 
wife. 
But that obstinate little lady shook her head 
gravely; even the sparkling ornaments had not 
changed her opinion. 
The state-rooms at Garswood were closed, and 
silence reigned where poor sir owen had at times 
made daylight hideous and night terrible. Again 
the neighborhood was delighted. Nothing could 
ha ve been more proper. People told each other, 
with sympathetic laces, that “ dear Lady chevc- 
nlx" had gone abroad to recruit herself after her 
great trial. Even Lady Rohe said to herself that 
It, was one of the most sensible, t hings she could 
have done, and that, alter all, she had turned oul 
better than she for one bad ever anticipated. 
I think Lavtnla,” she said, “ that It was fortu¬ 
nate you lost such a chance. A widow with so 
much wealth ! It Is very sad. I never like to 
think ol It.” 
“ I would not have changed places with Lady 
Cheveulx tor all the money sir Owen was worth,” 
said the curate’s wife. “ I have at least a good, 
kind husband, mamma; while the poor girl lived 
In fear of losing her life. Money Is a great advan¬ 
tage ; but it Is not all the world. 1 am happier 
now than 1 should have been had l married sir 
Owen.” 
Alter a few days the gossip about Lady ChevenLx 
died a way; while she and Marian made themselves 
comfortable In their pretty chateau. Violet soon 
recovered her bloom; a lovely tinge as of a blush 
rose came to her face, her eyes grew brighter, and 
lost all their shadow; the last few years seemed 
to fall from her, and she looked young and lair— 
as she had looked when she married sir owen. 
“ You appear to be so well,” said Marlon to her 
one day, “yet you are so thoughtful. What are 
you always thinking about, Lady Glievenix ?” 
“Am I always thinking?" she asked, with a 
happy brooding light In her eyes. “1 did not 
know It.” 
*• What Is It about ? Something pleasant, I am 
sure, for you smile as you think, and at times a 
little pink flush creeps up to your hair even. 1 
speak to you, and you do not hear me. I leave 
you, and you do not miss me. Why is It, 1 won¬ 
der?" 
But Lady Ghevenix made no answer. She never 
Imparted to any one these the most treasured 
thoughts of her life. 
(To be mHUnuecl.f 
THE NEW YORK PEDESTRIAN MATCH. 
The result of the walking match which fora 
week was the one theme of metropolitan con¬ 
versation and journalism is now known. The 
proper thing tor the patriotic American, as we are 
Informed by the beat imh authority, Is to abuse 
the Englishman who has won the champion belt 
for pedestrlanism, and takes 11 back whence It 
came. We hare got so far down from the original 
idea of the republic that we must pick out our 
citizenship Instead of Inviting all tne world—as 
the Chinese are now learning,— and that nobody 
hut an American must win any stake or honor 
here—-except an Irishman. This Is one lesson of 
the contest. 
Another lesson is that barbarism is not ex¬ 
pelled by our gloss of civilization. The exhibition 
of these, six days at Gilmore’s garden was as purely 
brutal as a bull-light,—the hulls are eliminated, 
that Ls all the difference. There are a good many 
Btorles afloat, of course, that the race was sold, 
that O’Leary was bought, and Ills retirement a 
humbug, certainly there is a basis lor suspicion 
In the fact that the man whom everybody counted 
first should break down with nothing done, that 
the man least thought of should come off second 
best, and the one expected to be second should 
turn out a poor third. But It seems certain t hat 
the champion Irlsh-Amerleuu entered the contest 
a sick man. and was Inhumanly outraged with 
stimulants to keep afoot so long as he did, Every 
participant In the match suffered a physical 
wrong that must shorten his life. It was a 
thoroughly brutal show. 
And It was carried on with brutal surroundings 
and appurtenances. It ls a triumph of debase¬ 
ment that taints our civilization. The place In 
which this boasted athletic contest was waged was 
a miniature hell of drunkenness and profanity. By 
posting policeman two yards apart around the 
arena, the riot, threatened by race animosity was 
prevented, but the threat was there, and the evil 
passions of t he lowest grade of the people, the no¬ 
torious criminal class of New York, were pandered 
to by a sale of liquors never surpassed if indeed 
ever equaled in this country. 'The week at, Gil¬ 
more’s garden was a disgrace to the great city and 
to American character. 
The great, newspapers gave up their space and 
their attention to this performance. There seemed 
to be no other Interest under heaven worth con¬ 
sideration, except the question whelher the Eng¬ 
lishman, the American or the Irishman should 
win. This ls t he one great International competi¬ 
tion of the year 1879. The character, the resources, 
the future of countries hung upon It. H, has been 
quite painfully amusing. 
The Interest, has not been coniined to the roughs 
and reporters, however, but all the city was agog 
with teverlsh anxiety; Rowell and O’Leary. Ennis 
and Harrlman were household w ords In the mouths 
or all New York; Wall street did not watch the rise 
and tall of stocks more closely than the hourly re¬ 
cord of their respective miles, and streets, hotels 
and social gatherings were invaded by this barren 
topic, it Is evident that the public mind has little 
to busy Itself with of serious concern when this 
primitive sport, common to red Indians and black 
Africans, and only “Improved ” among us by the 
vivacity and vulgarity of the gamblers who are 
chiefly concerned m it, can absorb the attention so 
thoroughly. The public mind ls as vacant and 
trivial as a child’s. 
There Is a certain legitimate interest In human 
endurance and achievement, but Its limit, In a trial 
so speculative. Inhuman, profitless and vicious as 
tills has been, Is altogether passed .—sprinaJleM 
Republican. 
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THE RESULTS OF INTEMPERANCE. 
1. A Harvest of Poverty, it results in the 
waste every year, In Hit* L ulled States, of seven 
hundred million dollars. It would pay off the na¬ 
tional debt in three years, linearly equals the 
sum paid for wages in all our manufacturing In¬ 
dustries, It would give two and one-half barrels 
of flour to every person in the country. No wonder 
there are hard times. There are one hundred and 
sixteen thousand paupers, two-thirds of whom 
came to the poor-house through intemperance. 
Wo eslimate. that the world consumes twice as 
much as these lour nations (England, France, Ger¬ 
many and the United Matos): spirituous llquore, 
314, 031.88? gallons annually; beer, 2,7DT,29l,632 
gallons annually; wine, 1,452.239,914 gallons annu¬ 
ally. Thus the cost of liquors in the world, in ten 
years, Is $G4,405,<)42,list, or tulee the value of the 
United States of America.— Parker. 
2 . Harvest of Chime. Three-quarters of all 
crime In this country ls connected with intemper¬ 
ance. This nation receives In return lor tills traf¬ 
fic, sod murders, boo suicides, 100,000 criminals, 200,- 
000 paupers, 6rt,ui)0 deaths irom drunkenness, 600 ,- 
000 besotted drunkards, 800,000 moderate drinkers 
who will be sots ten years hence, 600,000 homes de¬ 
stroyed, 1,000,000 children worse than orphaned.— 
/'. Parker, 
a, A Harvest ok Ignorance. Intemperance 
stands in the way of all moral and mental progress, 
it, ls opposed to churches, schools and education. 
Free schools cost in the United States, $95,400,(too a 
year. Rum costs 700,000,000, or more than seven 
times as much. 
4 . A Harvest of Disease. It ruins the body. It 
makes It subject to disease, and Its victims are tar 
more likely to be carried away by prevalent dis¬ 
eases. A temperance man ls far safer in times of 
cholera, or when wounded, than an intemperate 
one. 
5. A Harvest ok Lost Souls. No drunkard can 
enter the kingdom of heaven. 
-- 
MrjTTON Hams,— As a change from a too frequent 
pork, eggs and poultry diet, mutton hams would be 
very desirable. A sheep slaughtered occasionally 
would furnish sufficient fresh meat for a week’s, 
consumption, without the legs and shoulders. 
These may be cured as hams, and afford a tooth¬ 
some change of diet, cither sliced raw or lightly 
broiled over clear coals. To cure the lianis, pro¬ 
ceed as tallows: The legs of a fat sheep are cut, 
Into the shape ol hums, and rubbed over with a 
mixture of equal parts of bay salt and brown su¬ 
gar. They then remain twenty-four hours. A 
pickle is made as follows: two pounds each of bay 
and common white salt, six ounces of saltpeter 
and one pound or brown sugar are boiled In lour 
quarts of water, the liquid being skimmed as It 
bolls; when the pickle Is cold, the hams are put 
into it aud kept, covered lor two weeks. They are 
then taken out, wiped dry, hung up and smoked 
over a slow lire of damp wheat straw. The knuck¬ 
les slioidd be Ailed with brown sugar and tied over 
closely with pieces of bladder. The liains are then 
hung up in a warm place, which causes the fat to 
melt partly and become absorbed by the lean meat. 
A lew sweet herbs may be pounded and mixed 
with the pickle to add desired flavor. The shoul¬ 
ders may be prepared by removing the blade bones 
and treating them as above, taking care to nib the 
openings with plenty ol the mixed salt and sugar. 
When taken from the pickle, they should lie sewed 
up. To keep the meat, place It in a clean box be¬ 
tween layers of sweet hay; cover with a cloae-llu 
ilng following lid, upon which a weight should be 
laid .—/luslMi Journal (\f l.'hrinislnj. 
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Office-holders are not like sunflowers: they 
never give the God, when he sets, the same look 
that they gave when he rose. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Improved Dwelling* lor ihc Laboring 
Classen.— New York. G. I\ I’utaam's Sons. 
This pamphlet of 45 pages, appearing as It does 
simultaneously with the agitation of the horrors 
of the tenement-house system among t he property 
holders of this city, is calculated to accomplish 
much good. There is no question which so vitally 
concerns the well being of a nation as that of the 
health and comfort of the working classes. Not¬ 
withstanding the efforts of the various charitable 
and hygienic societies, there seems to have been 
thus faj-so little done, that in 1878 the death rate 
In this city was 24K per nearly one-half of 
which was furnished by children under flve years 
of age. By such statistics the pamphlet demon¬ 
strates the need or improvement m the construc¬ 
tion oi the dwellings ol the largest portion of our 
inhabitants; describes some model tenements, with 
diagrams, Ac., and gives some valuable sugges¬ 
tions as to the means ol effecting the much-de¬ 
sired reform. 
Out of His Reckoning. By Florence Maryatt 
Boston: Uoriug. Price uoe. 
This lit tle story of domestic life ivlll be enjoyed 
by those with whom the author Is already a tavor- 
Ite. Tlierc ls nothing at all sensational about, it, the 
only villain being a well-mannered youth whose 
greatest fault Is Ills Inability to decide which ol 
two charmers he w til marry. 
Haw U •• Saved the Old Farm mid How It 
Beeaille a New Farm. By u Young Farmer. 
Boston : Lor tug. Price &(ic. 
'I lit- Inst ructive work M ill furnish many useful 
hints to the rarming community, and as the 
“ hints ” are conveyed In a most entertaining style 
the book can be read for pleasure as well as profit. 
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MAGAZINES. 
Hakfek’s for April.— Berg und Thai, sketches 
In Tyrol. 11 .— G. K. Waring, Jr, With 15 Illus¬ 
trations. The True Heaven. A Poem.—Paul U. 
Hayne. To a Bed ol Tulips. A Poem.—Robert 
Herrick. With an illustration by Abbey, sculp¬ 
ture lu America.— a, G. W. Benjamin. With Hi 
illustrations. Picturesque Edinburgh.—lltden S. 
Conant. With 12 Illustrations, .street Scenes in 
Havana.—Frank 1J. Taylor. With live illustra¬ 
tions. The Ancestry of Brtldder Bones.—olive 
Logan. With 17 illustrations. The Philadelphia 
Zoo.—Marie Howland. With 10 illustrations, cor 
Cordlum. A Story of No Mans Laud— Lizzie w. 
chamjuie.v. With one illustration. The Practical 
Interrogation of Nature.—Dr. J. W. Draper. How 
Abel M‘April Preached for Mr. Smith. A Story. 
U’hareli Music In America.—Mrs. A. B. Blake. Dr. 
MltehlU's Letters from Washington: 1801-1813, 
Young Mrs. Jardlne.—Dinah Miiloek cralk. With 
three Illustrations. A Kitchen Garden.—K. P. Ron. 
The Voyage of St. Brandan. A Poem.—william 
Gthson. Richard Henry Dana,—R. U. Stoddard. 
C'helidoulsma. A Poem.—A. T. L. Editor’s Easy 
Chair; Editor’s Literary Record; Editor’s Scleu- 
tlflc Record; Editor’s Historical Recoirl; Editor’s 
Drawer. 
Fish as Brain Food.— Since dm lug the acts of 
sensation and intellection phosphorus Is consum¬ 
ed In the brain and nervous system, there arises 
a necessity to restore the portions so consumed, 
or, as tire popular expression Is, to use brain food. 
Now, as every one knows, It ls the property of 
phosphorus to shine In the dark; and as llsk In a 
certain stage or putrefactive decay often emit 
light, or become phosphorescent, it has been 
thought that tills is due to the abundance of 
phosphorus their flesh contains, and hence that 
they are eminently suitable lor the nourishment 
of the nervous system, and are an Invaluable 
brain food Under that Idea many persons resort 
to a diet of nsh, and persuade themselves that t hey 
derive advantage from It lu an Increased vivid¬ 
ness of thought, a signal improvement, in the 
reasoning powers. But the flesh of flsli contains 
no excess of phosphorous, nor does Its shining de¬ 
pend on that element. Decaying willow wood 
shines even more brilliantly than decaying flab; 
it may sometimes be discerned afar off at night. 
The shining' in the two cases ls due to the same 
cause—the oxidation of carbon, uotnr phosphorus, 
lu organic subst ances containing, perhaps, riot a 
perceptible trace of the latter element. Yet surely 
no one found himself rising to a poet ical fervor 
by tasting decaying willow wood, though It. ought, 
on these principles, te be better brain food than a 
much larger quantity of fish.— Hr. J. w. Draper, 
m Harper's Magazine 
Tire Liurary Table, which has heretofore been 
published a.s a Fortnightly, will, after the 22 d of 
March, be Issued weekly, it will be Increased to 
32 pages, several new departments will bo intro¬ 
duced, and u number of distinguished contributors, 
In addition to t.bose whose urltings have already 
placed tills journal In t he foremost rank of period¬ 
ical literature, have been engaged. Dr. MeCosh, 
who is regarded by many as the ablest orthodox 
minister in flits country; Junius Henri Browne, 
the popular magazine writer; Edgar Fawcett, the 
author of so many charming verses; Henry w. 
BelloM’s, II.D., L.L.D., the distinguished L ultarian 
divine; Rev. o. B. Frothtngham accomplished as a 
preacher and writer; Thomas Bailey Aldrich, that 
most delightful of authors; Rev. chas. a. narro¬ 
wer, t he popular Methodist minister, whose origi¬ 
nality and brilliancy make him attractive as a 
preacher and an author; G. T. Lanlgan, oue of the 
most Industrious and Instructive editors of “The 
World,” who also has au enviable prominence 
through Ills delightfully humorous poems. Geo M. 
Towle, the latest of whose works, “I’lzarro” and 
“Vasco do Gama,” should earn for him the eternal 
gratitude of parents. Abbey sage Richardson. 
Edmund u, stedman, J. T. Trowbridge, Arthur 
Gilman, Samuel Osgood, D.D., L.L.D., are a tew of 
the well-known and brilliant writers who are an¬ 
nounced as contributors. 
The characteristic features will be, Independent 
discussion of social and political topics, comments 
on current events, critical notes on literary topics, 
reviews of neu- books, biographical and critical 
papers on noted contemporary authors, contribu¬ 
tors miscellany, notes and queries, “ a forecast of 
new books,” and a weekly review of Finance and 
stock markets. The drama, music and the fine 
arts will each have separate departmens, conducted 
by the best t a lent 1 hat can be secured. Subscrip¬ 
tion price, $ 2.50 ; six cents per copy. Messrs Both- 
well & Hinton, No. 1 Evening Fost Building, New 
York, are (he publishers. 
Eclectic Magazine, The April number of the 
Eclectic contains twenty articles, and there is 
scarcely one of them which does not possess some 
feature of special Interest and value. The one 
which will attract most attention, perhaps, is t he 
lecture on The Eleetie Light, delivered by Prof. 
Tyndall, at tlio Royal Institution. Tills Is the 
opening article of the number, and Is followed by 
a remarkably entertaining paper on Edinburgh 
Society Seventy Years ago, containing personal 
reminiscences ol Jeffrey, Sydney smith. Brougham, 
and the rest of the famous group that founded, the 
Edinburgh Review, besides other prom lent flgures 
In the society of that period. Another highly en¬ 
tertaining article ls one on The Evil Eye, and other 
popular superstitions; but the paper which, after 
Prof Tyndall’s, will arouse most interest ls the 
opening instalment of John Stuart Mill’s Chapters 
on socialism, which promise to be a pregnant 
discussion ot a subject of 1 lial Importance at the 
present time. 
The remaining articles are as follows: Animals 
and their their native Countries, by Alfred Rus¬ 
sell Wallace; the concluding part of The Earth's 
Place In Nature,” by J. Norman Lockyer, F. 1{. s . 
About Joseph Addison; the second Instalment of 
Mademoiselle de Mersac, which promises to be a 
fresh and charming story; A Broken String, a 
poem; the second paper on Ancient Egypt, by 
Reginald Stuart Poole; At the Convent Gate 
(poem;, by Austin Dobson; Mesmerism, Plau- 
cht-ite, and Spiritualism In china ; Robert Dick, 
the Tburao Baker, by William Chambers; The 
Pope’s New Encyclical; A Flower (poem); A 
Biographical Sketch of the. Rev. James 11. Fatr- 
chlld. D. D„ President of Oberlin college, which 
is accompanied by a steel engraved portrait; and 
four well-illled Editorial Departments. 
st. Nicholas for April— Opens with Little Pu¬ 
ritans, an article from the pen of Horace E. scud- 
der, describing child-life among the early settlers 
of New England. There are two Illustrations, by 
George L. Baines, one of them. The Tithlqg-man 
keeping order among t he Little Puritans at church, 
lormlng the ironllsplrcc of the number. Thomas 
Hughes, the famous author or 'torn Brown’s soliooi- 
Daysat Rugby, contributes a lively English boys’ 
story. 11 u met Preacott Spoffc nl ls represented by 
the first hall of a story entitled A boy Astronomer, 
one of the Illustrations being by O. 8. Reinhart. 
The Now York training-school for Little House¬ 
maids, popularly known as the Kitchen-Garden, 
with tile gables and songs of the children, are de¬ 
scribed by Olive Thorne In a long article prorusely 
illustrated by Jessie Curtis. Celia Thaxter, pre¬ 
sents a lovely Easter Song; Lucy Larcom, a charm¬ 
ing April poem entitled, Shower and Flower; and 
Mrs. Mary Mapoa Dodge, some, comical verses 
about. The Little Big Woman and the Big Little 
Girl. There are two tales of adventure: one, A 
Morning Call from a panther, dealing with life In 
Hindustan; the other. Spoiling a Bombshell, de¬ 
scribing, with the aid of a striking picture, the 
daring act of a midshipman during a sea-fight- 
Besides all this, there are : a biographical sketch 
of John Milton, with three portraits of him at dif¬ 
ferent periods of his life; a story of German fairies; 
and the usual overbrimming supply of good things 
In the editorial departments—Jack-ln-the-Pulpit, 
Letter-Box, and Riddle-Box. 
The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the 
Board of Education of the County of New York, 
tor the year ending Doc. 1878. The “Report” ls 
interesting reading. From It one learns, among 
other t hings, that for “ accomplishments” so called, 
the following sums were expended; .special teach¬ 
ers of music, $12,871,80; special teachers of drawing, 
$25,775,40 ; special teachers of German, $13,597,15; 
special teachers of French, $2,10. 8peclal teach¬ 
ers of philosophy, chemistry and science, are re¬ 
ported nothing. The whole amount of money 
drawn from the Comptroller lor purposes of public 
Instruction, during the year, $3,288,874,93. Male 
teachers receive not less than $1,500; female teach¬ 
ers, an average not exceeding $800 (the justice ot 
tills must si tike the most indifferent observer). All 
the schools liave been examined at least once dur¬ 
ing the year, and a series of tables arc given, 
showing the results in each class uf schools. In 
Instruction (that Is percentage attained In st udies), 
under the head of “ excellent ’’—t he highest classi¬ 
fication—inale schools are recorded as 244 , female 
schools, 317 . I 11 discipline, male schools, 401 , fe¬ 
male Schools, 4«ti. 
The following table of “ comparative proficiency ’> 
ls extremely Interesting: 
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tt-52 
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Pi? 
11 
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38 
Male Bchools... . . 
82 
ID 
73 
69 
41 
Female grammar sehook 
98 
80 
92 
92 
56 
l 
The report says *■ the female grammar schools 
have Improved in every respect, and are superior 
to the male grammar schools in all t he matters re¬ 
ferred to. Seventy-nine members of male schools 
suspended, two in female schools. Much space is 
given to outlining methods Ot instruction and to 
discussing Hanlturycondlllonsof the schools. These 
two divisions alone should recommend the book 
to the Careful consideration of every one Inter¬ 
ested lu the cause of education. Salaries paid to 
the officers and teachers of the College of the City 
oi New York, amounted to $ 1 19,107,20. Whole num¬ 
ber of scholars entered tor the year, 1,263. 
