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[For Tbe Sonny South.] O a L Y. BY EDITH. Only a careless meeting After years estranged; Only a formal greeting, Though hearts are still unchanged. Only a good-by uttered From lips that were proud and cold; Only heart-strings fluttered By love and grief untold. Only two lives severed, Bearing their burdens of pain; Only two paths widened, To meet not here again. Only a restless wanderer, Striving to flee from care; Only a quiet home-life, Whose calmness means despair. Marie down in his arms, for she had fallen off “And happy woman, too. Harry ! for I have hold up no better pattern than the dear friend to a shadow. As he placed her in the arm-chair met my ideal, and found out that I should have to whom I acted so treacherously." and arranged the pillows around her, she said: been a miserable woman if I had married a man ****** “How good it teels to be petted ! I feel as if too weak to command my respect. This love of The last “good-by” had been said, and the I had been put in possession of a new sense of mine is so restful, for I know I love one who has steamer was nearly out of sight, when Harry led feeling.” made the religion of Christ the fixed principle his weeping wife back to the carriage in which “Poor little sister, said Harry, smoothing ot his life; and I shall not be afraid that if every- . ^ er mo ther sat. back the short curling hair from her pale fore- thing in life don’t happen just as he thinks it .* j ftlu sorry for yon, Harry." she said, when head. “ Truly, you have Lad but little petting, ought to, he'll take to drinking, or do something he took his seat: “ for when I see what Marie is. an <* I am sure no one on earth deserves it more. else as weak and wicked. and know how far short of her I come, I feel It that is your opinion, said Lillie, snap- When Mr. Stuart called, Harry recognized in t h at I am a real imposition on von. I am going pislily, “I wonder you did not volunteer your him the only son and heir of one of the wealth- to trv an a overcome my faults.'but vou must be services for life. I am sure you had encourage- lest capitalists in the country. The family were pat i e 'nt with me. for it will be hard‘work, and I ment enough to do it. of course delighted—Mrs. Harry particularly so, am so easily discouraged.” “ It is a source of everlasting regret to me that as he told her he “would have to get her to ex- I did not,” said Harry, in a tone which left no ercise his horses while he was in Europe.” doubt of its earnestness. Among other investments. Mr. Stuart owned “ Harry — Lillie! said Marie, looking from the paper of which Mr. Cleveland was editor, one to the other in astonishment. .“ Do you So soon as Serapliina heard of the engagement, wish me to return to my room ?” she called with Mr. Cleveland to see Marie. [For The Siimiv South.] CHARLOTTE CORDAY. BY GRIMES. “I don't see what you are fretting about so,” said Mrs. Howard. “Yon are no worse now than when Harry married you, and are a decided improvement on that other girl he tried to marry. He wanted an old plough-horse, and went and got a skittish little colt. 'Tain’t every man that’s ' 1 1 hif i t :; a ' s n , ot 4he first Passage-at-arms Marie They were both embarrassed, for they knew that g 0t 'sense enough to break in a high-mettled, flfl U ll TlPKSPfl nPtWPPTl t liPTli I In 11’ f liot mnrn . lie ^st n n 1>,1 n 4- .1 . 1 4 . 1 4-1.*. . . ® _ . _ . ® had witnessed between them. Only that morn- Mr. Stuart had a most delicate regard for all the ing, Lillie “wished she had not been such a fool courtesies of social life, and they dreaded lest i)K t fl rn fl rv V flip firgt. man fli a I oom o olnniv” arwl f li oi l* imnnlUATi non .-»»». 1 ^..1 ^ 4* Y 1., „.. n „1 J blooded horse. It can’t be done by whip and History affords no greater example of female heroism than Charlotte Corday, and our purpose is here fo give a succinct account of that hero ism which placed her name on history’s page. During the Keign of Terror in France, in the year 17!>2, the principal powers of the govern ment were lodged in the hands of Danton. Marat and Bobespierre, three of the most un principled and daring men on record; indeed, it would be almost impossible to find, in the pages of history, three men who exerted a more pernicious influence over a people. Marat is described as being the worst of the triumvirate. “Nature had impressed the atroc ity of his character on his countenance: hideous features, the expression of a demon, revolted all who approached him." This devil incarnate Only a grave ’neath the willows. And a weary heart at rest; Only a stricken mourner, Who bears within his breast as to marry the first man that came along;” and their impoliteness and neglect of Marie should Harry responded that “he was sure no one had become known to him. They were, however, more reason to regret her haste than he had.” received politely. Serapliina’s gushing demon- Harry told Marie he was “perfectly misera- strations were met with quiet dignity, and no ble and wished he was dead,” and Lillie weep- reference whatever was made to the past until. spur,—they break the spirit; then what's the R sjhited the minds of the people to the highest horse good for? Harry married you against my wishes and advice, and knew as well what you were before you married him as he does now. So he has nothing to blame but his own lack of common sense. As to your wanting to be like .SniZArz; Hegret that means forever, Like the sob of the restless tide, For two lives wrecked and ruined By “only** a word of pride. [For The Sunny South.] CHOOSING A WIFE. BY MRS. LEONARD CHAPIN. PART SECO.\D—Concluded. ised she “should do just as she pleased,” and correspond with his paper, now would not allow her to have her own way “Oh, Albertus!” lisped out his wife, “how in anything. She despised housekeeping; he can you ask dear Marie to do anything of the knew' it before he married her, and now had put kind, when you know she is so retiring?” her at it contrary to her wishes. “ She might use a nom de plume," he said. The fact was—Lillie, being a silly, vain girl, “Certainly,” said Marie. “I could take the was very lond of attention. It made no differ- one you gave me, Mr. Cleveland.” ence who paid it, so long as she received it; and there had been some talk about a young Italian, who boarded where they did, being rather cial in his attentions. Harry, being very high- forgotten little ‘Alpaca Howard,’ have you? toned, was of course indignant. He went imme- “ wl --* —-j w- . --- ould do you. Harry preferred you to Marie. He had his choice, bloody career. pitch of terror. His purpose was to behead two hundred and eighty thousand men, to “secure the peace and tranquillity,” as he said, of his country. He was about to carry into execution his sanguinary purpose, but the hand of a heroic woman cut him short in the midst of his and never cared one cent about Marie until he found she was out of his reach. I tell you, my child, it ain’t one bit of use trying to please men; and as to their whining and complaining about their wives, and laying all tlieir rascality at her door, it’s natural; old Adam pitched the , and I gave you. said Mr. Cleveland, coloring tune in Paradise, and every mother's son of them I 11 the midst ot these thrilling events, C ilian, scarlet, and glancing uneasily at Mr. Stuart. will sing it until the end of time, or until the Corday, then twenty-five years of age, espe- Yes, said Mane, archly. “Y’ou have not women stop raising them. It’s been an everlast- b°ld and daring enthusiasm, and by the Charlotte Corday was born at Bouen, in the year 17(18. We know nothing of her life prior to the death of Marat. In the year 17113, France, as every one knows, was in the midst of famine, pestilence and bloodshed. Terror was the order of the day. Charlotte Ly* her ..top raising them. It’s been an eY'erlast- °. ola 111111 oaring entnusiasm, and by the love of - - - . ing Yvonder to me that that first batch of them liberty that nature had implanted in her bosom, \\ Hat is that. said Air. Stuart, coining up. which fell from heaven didn't charge their fall arrested the course ot the bloody tvrant, Marat, “Nothing,” said Ylarie. “ We are only decid- to some woman.” whom she imagined was the instigator of nil ing what nom de plume I shall use when I Yvrite “Maybe there were no women in heaven,” tllese atrocities. She imagined that if he Yvere for Mr. Cleveland’s paper.” said Harry, laughing in spite of himself. ’ dead > there would be an end of war,—that lib itum t you go to Europe when you were “if 8 j ust tbe rev erse,’ replied Mrs. Howard. ert - v and freedom which she so ardently desired “Dr. Leland says ‘there will be none but women would again reign supreme in her native land, and children there; the married women will go ; ^he resolved to attain that end by sacrificing, if there as martyrs.’ I believe it, too, for it would necessary, her life, not be much of a heaven with the men lording it over everything, and ‘asserting their rights,’ as they'd be bound to do if they were let in. With these thoughts uppermost in her mind, she set out for Paris. On her way, she was cheerful and happy, and conversed with the travelers in the most pleasant and agreeable manner. Her temper was naturally serene, and diately and rented a furnished flat, and took his The summer was over. It had been an unu- , wife to housekeeping, sually trying one to poor Marie. She tried to | Harry entreated Marie to go back with them, reconcile herself to what seemed to be her fate, and when every entreaty failed, threatened to take but the question would come up: : to drinking. It was a very trying position for married?” asked Mrs. Howard. “Am I to accept this blank, useless existence ; Marie. She could not mistake the fact that the “I can’t say we went to Europe,” said Mr. as my fate? I am not a fatalist, and yet I have j love she had so longed for was hers at last; but it Cleveland. “ We only stayed a few weeks, and settled dowD, and am making no effort in my had come too late, and she would not encourage like the rest of the ladies, Seraphina insisted on own behalf. I will not even be able to render it by her presence in his house. She pitied him, spending most of the time among the dress- the usury on my one talent, Mrs. Browning but only as a brother did she care for him now; makers, liair-dressers and milliners of Paris.” says: : all other love Yvas as though it had never been, “I should suppose she would do just that Thev'assume so mnch and have so little erotind “ ‘Let ug be content to work— i for he was the husband of another. wav,” said Mrs Howard. “These perfectly 7 •? aas “ m ® 80 rimch ; and have so little ground To do the thing we can, and not presume i Lillie had insisted on linvino her share of the 1 si mnle women A L ” seperiecuj fo r lt . I don t know where men get tlieir opinion ... , To fret because it's little.’ u i 1 simple, women always do. ofwomen. I am sure they don't get it out of the though possessed ot more than masculine cour- I didn t say ‘perfectly simple, mother said Bible, for the Saviour of the world was not the she still retained all the refinement and del- Harrv. I told you Cleveland said his wife was see d of the man, but ‘the woman ’—Mary’s, not Tn i ii » .. _ r TT Joseph’s. Even in the fall, suppose Eve was the *i "A’ , sald Mrs. Howard, “he put it <j rst to eat tbe f ruB . are we no t fold that she , 5 , . , , T that way yy hen he was married; but he has found reasone d a bout it first, and was convinced, be- cluded to spenfl her winter in Florida During out he put the cart before the horse long before fore she t o Uche d it, that it would ‘make her her illness, her hair had been cut short, and she this, 111 bet. , t : wise?’ Adauihad no such lofty ambition. It wore it brushed from her forehead in Bosa Bon- As soon as Sue heard of Ylaries engagement, was some thin| to eat, and, man-like, he was heur style, and looked more like a girl of four- she determined to lose no time in paying her bound to eat f t if tbe wbole world was lost for een than a maiden of twenty She found at homage to the “ rising sun. A feeling of shame it Noab . the head of the next generation, didn’t the hotel, where she stopped with her party, the made her reluctant to meet her injured friend •rs of her sex, it she could only have most cultivated and refined people from all parts face to face, before paviDg the way a little. This that the reason she could not get out G f t be Union, and felt just like a bird which, she did by sending an elegant bouquet, accom „ . property; so Mrs. Howard sold her home and But I am not doing what I can. My mind is everything else, gave Ylarie one-third, and going to waste. I have no attrition by associa tion with intellectual people—no sphere of use fulness. I am simply a passive verb—to be, to do, and to suffer.” The deepest remorse would always follow an indulgence in these feelings, for the poor child did not know that tried nerves and overtaxed energies caused them, and that her Heavenly Father saw no sin in a desire to be useful. Like many others been sure she was going to live with Lillie, gave her the rest. ' .... By the advice of her physician, Ylarie con- of the rut into which she had gotten, was that an angel stood in the way, she would have ceased beating the beast and, like Balaam, bowed down with resignation to God’s will. Of this, how ever, she Yvas by no means assured, and often asked herself, as Milton did— ** Will God require day labor, light denied?” “Everybody’s asking me what’s the matter with you, Marie, that you look so pale and thoughtful,” said Mrs. Howard. “If you ain’t contented and happy, it’s a terrible sin, and you’ll have to answer for it in the judgment. For my part, I think it’s awful to be flying in the face of your Maker as you do, when he has crowded you Yvith blessings and gives you plenty to eat.” Mrs. Howard, like a great many others, was . . . “So foolish as really to think That all women care for is victuals and drink, And while she is furnished with that sort of diet, Her feelings and fancy will starve and be quiet; But a sensible woman is not like a mouse,— after having been caged for years, had been sud denly turned loose. She had the largest capacity panied by a perfumed little note that overflowed Yvith congratulations and good Yvishes, and de- for enjoyment, and there was no drawback upon dared that she took “the truest delight in the it, for she was neglecting no duties. “My Heavenly Father has removed the bur den from my shoulders,” she said, “and means me to be happy.” Boarding at the same hotel with her, was a very elegant-looking young man. He Yvas in deep mourning, and did not go into the ball room or join in any of the sports that were going on. His dignified bearing and intellectual face happiness of her childhood’s friend. Ylarie chanced to be out w r hen this effusion arrived, and Mrs. Howard took it on herself to send back the note and bouquet, with the follow ing characteristic response: “Ylarie is not at home, and if she was, she has too much sense not to see through this sud- I generation, do any better, except that he did as millions of his male descendants are doing up to this day. He brought a curse on his family by drinking; and it wasn't YIrs. Noah’s extravagance that drove him to it, either. I tell you,” said the old lady, straightening up herself, “they call women ‘the weaker vessel,’ but I confess I don’t see it.” [For Tlie Sunny South “FAITH MILLS.” I am surprised that no one has seen proper to den atvakening of affection for the ‘childhood’s take the initiative in offering encouragement to friend ’ you found so convenient in borrowing | your modest correspondent, the young author attracted Ylarie’s attentionrand when she became da J' s > and thought fit to forget so completely j that is to be,—Faith Ylills. I trust she Yvill not acquainted with him, she learned that he had when you no longer needed her silk dresses and for a moment attribute this silence of your rend- recently passed through the sorrow that had cast jewelry to help you make a decent appearance.” | ess to any spirit of indifference. On the con- such a blight on her life, and he was mourning 0f course, Sue was greatly chagrined at the trary, I dare say that many have only been wait- the recent death of his father having lost his l° ss ° 4 an acquaintance that W'ould reflect such ing for some one else to speak first, and many mother only a few years before. Association s °cial distinction upon her. She w r as disap- : more still who, fearful of not being able to ex- with a refined, intellectual Christian mother had pointed, too, for another reason. Her husband press themselves fitly, have preferred to remain made it impossible for him to take pleasure in had encouraged her to make prompt overtures ; her silent and hopeful Yvell-wishers. For my the society of the butterflies of fashion he met ° 4 friendship to Ylarie, in the hope of ingratiat- part, I avow' myself not only a Yvell-Yvisher, but She needs more than cheese and the walls of a house." I everywhere. Ylarie was more like his mother, ing himself with Ylr. Stuart and obtaining money an admirer already. And now', having said this i n ber views of things, than any one he had 4o P ro P his failing business. The losses that much, I do not hesitate to offer one or two crit- A letter from Lillie roused Ylarie from her evgr lneb jj er cbe erful disposition, dignified had resulted from his connection with Wilmot, ical remarks upon the extracts from her manu- manner and intellectual conversation won his together Yvith Sue’s extravagance, had almost - script which you published in The Sunny South heart, and he was always at her side, whether made him bankrupt, and he found that as his | in a late number. reading, walking or driving. He was a refined, fortune waned, so also did his wife’s respect and : Hoyv happens it that the phrases and senti- chivalric gentle'man, and did not, as one of g ood temper. The brilliant wit he had admired | ments to which one, in the excitement and fer- coarser nature would have done take it for so much was now often exercised at his expense \ vor of composition, feels most strongly attached lethargy. She wrote that her teacher was going North for six weeks, and wanted the graduating class to go with her. They would have a jolly time. It would cost only a few hundred dollars; so she begged to have the amount forwarded to her, and also the jewelry her father had given 1 coare " ml re ' ,uu llave . o“ e ’ laKe « »r ■ XT' retort and stinuinu alTusions ,M„™. belonging io hi? tot . Her mo,t B*»« JSf "Si—SS; extravagant requests were complied Yvith, for YIrs. Howard said: icaey of her sex, and it is said, possessed an un commonly handsome figure. The second day after her arrival in Paris, she purchased a knife at the Palais Koval to des patch the bloody tyrant, and thus bestoYV liberty upon her country. On the third day she went in search of Ylarat, and after much difficulty, found him in the bath. When she entered, lie was inquiring the names of the proscribed dep uties of Caen. Upon being informed, he said, “They shall meet with the punishment they deserve. ” Charlotte Corday exclaimed, “ Y'ours is at hand ! ” and plunged the fatal knife into his bosom. He fell, and w'ith a loud cry, expired. She Yvas immediately seized and taken to pris on. When she was brought forth to her trial, she was perfectly calm—a smile was upon her countenance; she knevv her fate, but she Yvas resigned. She Yvould not alloiv them to prove the death of the deceased, but interrupted them by saying: “ These formalities are unnecessary; I killed Ylarat..” “ What tempted you to commit the murder ? ” “His own crimes.” “ YVhat do you call crimes?” “ The misfortunes he has inflicted upon France since the EeY'olution, and which he Yvas prepar ing to increase. ” She was then asked: “ Who are your associates?” “I have none; I alone conceived the idea.” “ What did you propose to yourself by put ting Ylarat to death ? ” “To stop the anarchy of France,” Y\'as her reply. “ I have slain one man to save a hundred thou sand; a wretch, to preserve the innocent; a sav age monster, to give repose to my country. I was a Bepublican before the Bevolution, and have never failed in energy. ” “ YVhat do you understand by energy ? ” She replied:* The sentiment which' animates those Yvho, an attachment which rarely fails even to survive He felt that to win the love of a pure, sweet There is no such thing as love without respect. ; the circumstances which produced it—are sure spirit like Ylarie, would make him happier than Woman must reign royally over the empire of to be the very ones to receive the black cross of disdaining their own safely, sacrifice themselves for wT“‘lT u ' ' , „ • j he had ever expected to be again in this world, home, or else it will be all anarchy and confu- the critic? YVhat, for example, must the critic the sake of their country. YVe must skimp ourselves, Ylarie, and gratify j j je ba( j beard- f rom those who knew her of her slon - She is the central figure in the family, ; say of such expressions as these: “The blue birth he \Vhen T h fir make 14 a !l U P *° by and by. domestic habits and beautiful devotion to a hyp- and if her husband does not respect her him- of the violet,” “The gray birth of the.morning?” \\ hen Lillie reached New York, she 'wrote that ocbondr i aca ] mother and he felt that lie risked se lh and see to ** that every one else does, then And Yvhat an extraordinary Yvoman she must upon arriving, she sent her card to cousin Harry, no t b ; n „ j n w i s hing to make her his OYvn he had better break up his establishment, or have been who combined Yvith many other similar who called immediately. The girls had all fallen j “But will she marry me?” stay at home and take charge of it; for no woman excellencies “the intellect of a Newton and the dead m love with him, lor hewas killingly hand- He asked himself the question a hundred times whose self-respect is crushed out is capable of soul of a Goethe.” YVill not the critic ask—nay, sc l ni . e ' one had gone with him to the opera the d an( j cou j d no * answer f or a i* bnnffb preparing immortal souls for the great business will not even the reader ask—how happens it night belore, and had her hair bleached for the j jjarie’listencd bv the hour to him as he told of of 'life and the happiness of eternity. YIen make , that the world has heard not more of her? But OCCaSlOIl. xiarry pronounced it a decided im- I • * 1 • iL‘„ 1 1 M wnmpn what, t.liPV n.rp* t.lipv PTH*.nnraop tnpm tn this. HPrhjms. is Vivnprp.rifir»iRm • nnrl if ert YVhen the sentence was pronounced, an excla mation of joy burst from her lips. She handed two letters to the President, one of which was addressed to her father. She said: “Pardon me, my dear father, for having dis posed of life without your permission. I have avenged many victims and prevented others. The people will one day acknowledge the ser- For your sake, Every 7 letter came filled with cousin Harry’s s ? u er ? f ... ., ... , . sayings or doings. Ylarie read them all to her l she us ? d . no niore ffmnll anty w,th bm than with mother, but the most accomplished physiogno mist could have detected no symptoms of jeal ousy in her pale face and quiet smile. The storm that had swept aver her had left her beaten any of the other gentlemen. Indeed, he had thought of late perhaps she stayed in her room more on account of his conspicuous, attention. And this was so; for Ylarie had told’ her heart she could not trust it, and did not like the habit but it was impos- ill not be injured to gratify their ow 7 n love of power. | Faith Ylills nor any of your readers w 7 ill for a | by what I have done. Farewell, my dear father. Lillie had informed Ylarie that Harry never moment imagine that I have paid more attention Forget me, or rather rejoice at my fate: it has spent an evening at home. He had joined the to these one or two minor defects than to the sev- i sprung from a noble cause. Embrace my sister club of “Merry Bachelors,” who met to sing, ! eral real excellencies of the extract. There is a carouse and drink. i vivid imagination, a wealth of language, and, “He don’t let me go out of an evening, and I above all, unmistakable evidences of study. a -i . -l , • ,i i auc tuuiu uuii ti uat 11, uiiti uitl nut llKt LUG DHOil , — — o * «. ^***»*^, down and weary, but she was patiently subrnis- , ^ ^ ^ gotten into of fluttering nnrl sending the ! ^ ere ancl mope find wish I was dead,” said The last message from “Philip” is a most ten- frnm’: D :\. ret M r , Ue<lt0hfehke0nereC0Venng MllK! Lillie, weeping. ‘ der and touching 0 little note. “I am glad you irom a se>ere illness. , .1 r i. _ _ 1 -» Arnrip wns nni YVhen Harry’s letter came announcing his en- art can ! e “ ear the “ ; for l 1 ® was a stran g er . bad gagement to Lillie, Mrs. Howard stormfd. I H i ,’ TV° man ? “Harry engaged to Lillie ! YY’hy, it is prepos- ! T aUl1 V 60 ? 1 *’ ’\"’ aS n ,° too,,, LiMi. r 't «»pported i.„he dLJve, 1PS to be, on twenty-five hundred a year. YY hat can after they left Florida. And she really thought so until one evening when he had been more than usually interesting, and taken her w'ith him along the castled Bhine, the yelloiv Tiber Lillie be thinking about? YVhy didn’t Harry court you, Ylarie ? He’s always preaching about wanting a household angel, and now he’s gone and engaged himself to a girl who knows no more about household duties than a cat. He’s like Tom Stokes, who, when his wife was in want of a cook, Yvent and hired her a nurse, and got mad because the woman couldn’t make pies. . _____ . ,, And that will be just the way Harry will do, at *?? monarch ?t mountains Ylarie s eyes He'll be expecting Lillie to do 'all sorts of things b ?“ WtT “ for th g e L? i \ 16 she knows nothing about, like your father did * P c n K-! l Vo A ^ 7 v A™ 6 ' A 'A iad when he married me; and she'won’t do them, AA 'll r iFt L > m u 'T^ I'V* and there'll be a continual fuss. Oh, deary me! “ 0t P«*P?r ‘bat she should allow herself to be- I do wish that men were not such fools; their A , A e , ded m as4ran S e J’ bh f wo 1 uld g° ... , , , , , , t.n npr sistpr s unH fV»ar» tr\ wnvl- Ao 0L0 want ot sense makes all tlie trouble there is in affairs. Ylr. Stuart thought the best thing was to take Harry out of town for the summer, and break him off from the new associations he had made. • “You knoYv my doctrine,” he said, laughing. “ Get him right, and the rest will come so.” for me, whom I love with all my heart, as Yveil as my relations. Never forget the words of Corneille: “ ‘ The crime makes the shame, atid not the scaffold.’ ” She retained the same intrepid calmness and resignation to the last, and “when led out to execution, she gazed Yvith undisturbed serenity on the preparation for her death. Her appear ance was that of a lovely female, bearing Yvith , .. ■ . .. • i , ,,.,, meekness and inward satisfaction a triumphal zeal, it is this one ot sympathy m behalf ot those ,, . ,,,, , . . , . J 1 .g 7 . , fete of which she was the obiect. When the ax who are just entering upon the struggle of liter- fprrrlir , o(pr1 h - J Ylarie Yvas quite distressed at the state of ! are frail,” says lie, “because they cannot keep you long from me,” is a sentiment which I re gard as very delicate and loveable. Now, if there is one subject upon Yvhich I am fearful of becoming extravagant from excess of had terminated her life, the executioner seized Ylarie, by Ylr. Stuart’s request, offered their airy life. Nor can I think of any work that could , , .... , . , ’ „.fo„ij.i th Ja oxwi ntwi ootJ.tontfoT, tl.or, o*,'r,„ „ ber head, beatiful in death, and gave it several and the arrowy Ehone, and together-they had famished cottage at Newport, with coach and afford me greater satisfaction than rendering a buffet t ’ be in(li „ n ant spectators shuddered at - - j. an( j mar ^i0 roo f horses, to Harry and Lillie for the summer, on service to such a one. Jb or the reason just given, ^. g tt ^ r< ^ c b 1 climbed the graceful minaret . - ulo awwu . of the many-pinnacled Cathedral of Milan, and condition that Lillie would resume her music I forbear to say more upon this line. Marat's funeral was celebrated with great pomp glided over the waters of the enchanted Lake of under the tuition of their old governess, whom I know how difficult it is in the multitude of and hjs remains were consigned to the Par- Como, and from the vale of Chamonni gazed up Marle sald sh e would send for. Ylarie had two passing objects, to catch the public eye-how th His euloev wa8 Pronounced bv his at the monarch of mountains. Marie's eyes objects in making the proposition: she wanted much more difficult to catch the public ear. ; friend8 ' and support trs, extolling him almost to I i.i„j , to give Lillie employment, and also to bring her Can Faith Ylills hope to please this capricious - - -- ’ e .. under madame's influence. She tried to show public? Y’es, if it deserves to be pleased; if not, Harry how arbitrary and ungenerous hewas, and then she can hope to defy it successfully. j to her sister’s first, and then to work. As she j was bidding Ylr. Stuart “good-by,” he retained the little hand in his and said: “It must be only good-evening, Yliss Ylarie. for I am going to New York with you. I could not live here one day without you. ” And as he told him how disappointed she Yvas in him; for instead of being what he had promised to be—a patient, kind and thoughtful husband—he had become a stern, tyrannical master to one whom he knew had never been controlled in her life. Both Lillie and Harry promised to begin again, and improve by the sad lessons of the past. Ylarie told them that in their own strength they YY’ill she not give us something more from her pen through the columns of The Sunny South? YY’. D. Trammell. What Savages Think of Twins. In Africa, according to Dr. Eobert Brown, the birth of twins is commonly regarded as an evil read in the trembling hand, averted eyes and could do nothing, but with God’s help they could I omen. No one, except the twins themselves and crimson cheek, that he was loved even as he had do ey ervthing. At her earnest solicitation, they ; their nearest relatives, is allowed to enter the prayed to be, lie asked: “Can you guess why I had erected a family altar the morning she was hut in which they first saYv the light. The chil- go to New York?” ' to leave for Europe; and as Harry prayed God dren are not allowed to play with other children, “It is your home, is it not?” said Ylarie. 1° Fless the dear sister so soon to be separated and even the utensils of the hut are not permit- “Yes; but I am going now because it is your f rom them, who had been to them as a messen- ted to be used by any one else. The mother is a deity. Yionuments were reared to his memory throughout France. Charlotte Corday was in terred Y' ithin her humble grave. Posterity has disposed of them otherYvise. His name is held up to the world as synonymous Yvith cruelty, persecution and tyranny — as the assassin of thousands, and the meanest of men ! Hers is associated with those Yvho have become martyrs to their country’s cause, and whose names are dear to every patriotic heart! (Original—By “.Jay.”) Shades of our pretty babes,—from tha embrace Of those who Jj°re them they are gone to grace, With their pure presence, the elysian groves In which the mother of Th' Anointed roves, Hand clasped in hand with whom Th' Anoir+od kwes; And Mary's bosom now gives blissful rest To those who erst had sought a mortal mother’s breast. the world." The preparations for Lillie’s wedding devolved j on Ylarie, who was kept too busy to give her own : sorrows a thought. She felt that the match was not a Yvise one; but, then, it must be that Lillie j was the only style of woman Harry could fancy. ! He had loved Julia YYilmot, and the two were - very much alike. They had known each other ! from childhood, and had entered into the en- j gagement with eyes wide open; so she hoped it ! Yiouhl turn out ligLt home, I am going Fo^beg your mother to let 8 er from heaven to lead them in the right way, not allowed to talk to any one not belonging to ■i r. ne , ued to II11 l jA “.-“f ' vlt “ tae respon- | Yon „ 0 fo E urope w jt b me j’ n s j x wee jj S as my Ylarie felt her life had not been an entire fail- her 0YY 7 n family. If the children both live till sibilUy she was assuming, and she wrote Harry ^ ife . May j as ‘ b herr ’ ■> „re, after all. the end of the sixth year, it is supposed that , sister Mane was trying to get her out of j Marie was no coquette, and though she would ****** Nature has accommodated herself to their exist- — tlie notion of getting married, by making her not nnsoU g b t be won, vet she felt no hesitanev “ YY'ere vou at Ylarie's wedding’” asked Sue of ence, and they are thenceforth admitted to asso- Under the ruins of the old castle of Dagobert tlnr . ot 1 most as if it was an execution. He i n accept i D g a fo ve tba j was tober precious be^- Mrs. Cleveland a few days after it had taken ciation with their fellows. Nor is this abomina- the Abbe Dennis found a nest full of eggs. They sent a pLyiul remonstrance to his “old maid yond a £ y b | r heart bad ever know £ a nd when place J tion of twins restricted to Africa. In the island have been there 1,200 y ais, hidden from the she looked up at him through tears and said, “No, it was strictly private,” replied Mrs. of Bali ‘ near Java, a woman who is so nnfortu- light and the air and the changes of tempera- “I should like above everything else to go with ’ Cleveland. ' nate as to bear twins is obliged, along with her ture, and the hen herself had, perhaps arely you,” he knew she would, 'and was happv. “A stingy affair for such rich folks, I should husband, to live for a month at the sea-shore or escaped, Yvhen the falling walls sealed her eggs vY'hen they reached New York, Ylr. Stuart went say,” said Sue. among the tombs, until she is purified. The hermetically for future times. Abbe Dennis put with Marie to her brother-in-law’s home; then “Their poor friends don’t think so. They Khasias of Hindostan consider that to have three of the eggs under a hen, and they were left her, promising to call in the evening. gave presents, instead of inviting them as vou t w i ns assimilates the mother to the lower ani- hatched. 111 Dnring the morning, Ylarie announced her and I did.” said Seraphina. * mals, and one of them is frequently put to engagement to the family. “YY'ell, I have nothing left to give,” said Sue. | death. An exactly similar belief prevails among “Is he rich?” asked YIrs. Howard and Lillie, “God found he could not trust me with riches, some °f the native tribes of Y ancouver Island, both in one breath. and has taken them back. I am sorry my poor Among the Ainos. one of the twins is always “I cannot tell,” said Ylarie. “I have never husband had to suffer for my sin. He is over- killed; and in Arebo, in Guinea, both the twins given that a thought. I only know that I love whelmed with grief, and I am too miserable for and the mother are put t.o death. sister,” and told Lillie not to mind her, but to think of their wedding-lay as the birth-day of a life of bliss, for it should be no fault of his if i her life Yvas not one of perfect happiness. It was Christmas day, n^e 7 - a year after Lil lie’s wedding. Harry and she YY'ere again at home, and Ylarie had been brought down-stairs for the first time in six weeks. She had been desperately ill, and Yvhen the doctor despaired of her life, Harry and Lillie had been summoned by telegraph. Lillie protested against going; A leanish and child-like Connecticut Y’ankee, wearing an unsuspected jacket of lead, is gath ering in $5 bets at Newport, by offering wagers that “you can’t guess within 100 pounds how much I weigh.” said she “knew nothing about nursing—had I him, and shall marry him if' he does not own anything.” “ 4 Said one man to another, “If it wasn’t Sun- never nursed iui“ one in her life,” and thought j one penny.” “ Ylarie would go to work and help him,” said Oregon has set an excellent example. There day, what would you take for that lumber ? ” hard Yvh- '.i Harry insisted on her accom-| “ Happy man !” said Harry, in a voice of dolo- Seraphina. was but one poet in the State, and they have got “ If it wasn’t Sunday, I'd tell on,” was the ing him. This morning, Harry brought J rous pitch; to which Marie responded: i “ Thank you for the suggestion. Y'ou could him safe in prison for a long term. . very proper reply. ■■■■Hi