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ONLY WAIT.
Wi ex* ire spirit worn and weary,
'Neath Its dally load of oar-,
SFinds the pathway long and dreary,
And the burden hard to be ir;
Tired with hoping, fal-it with learlnr
Sighs to reach the golden gate;
Tfben, In accents soft and cl.eerlnsr.
"Patience whispers, “Only wait;
For a brighter day Is dawning,
Joy awaits us In the morning—
In the beauty of the morning—
Only wait.”
* sau hearts, whose soundless sorrow
Dares not let a murmur fall,
Only wult and trust the morrow—
Qod*s great love Is over a".
Only wal*, O wounded spirit,
By the cross ol life weighed down ;
Thou si alt surely earth luberll—
Bear the cross and win the crown ;
For a brighter day Is dawning,
Joy awaits us in the morning—
Jn the beauty of the morning—
Only wait.
Our Young Folks.
Jit,* Boy and the Highwayman.
At « social gathering in New York
-city, not very long since, a Scottish
gentleman told the following story.
A Lancashire boy—John Willet by
name —was sent by his father to the
Mr at Warrington, to sell a cow. The
lad led the cow six miles to the fair
grounds, where he was fortunate
enough not only to make a ready sale,
but to obtain a larger price than had
i&een anticipated. Having completed
hi* business, the lad looked around
until he became tired, when he com
eluded to set forth on his way home
ward.
In all probability his sale of the cow
and his pocketing of the j roceeds had
oeen watched by a man who had de
termined to get the money if he could.
The possibility of being robbed did not
occur to the boy—especially as it was
broad daylight, and in a public thor
oughfare, near the large town of War
rington.
The boy started for home. At a
lonely spot, the road led through a
deep vale, beneath the shade of over-
. hanging willows, a man on horseback
■ came up from behind, passed on a few
yards; and then suddenly wheeled
about, and demanded young Willet’s
.money or his life.
"No fooling, lad! I saw you take the
;go)Ld piece and the silver. Hand it
*over, or you area dead boy.”
The lad looked at man and horse—
.he one an evil, blear-eyed fellow, the
ther sleek and handsome—and then
tarted back upon the run, for the rob-
er wa6 between him and his home.
Of course the highwayman spurred
in pursuit; and when the boy
new that the pursuer was upon him,
had introduced steamboats on the
Hudson, the first steamboat which
ever sailed on the western water* was
built at Pittsburgh.
She was called the New Orleans,
and In October of that year she made
her experimental voyage down the
Ohio, carrying her builder, Mr. R s’-
velt, his wife and family, the engi
neer, the pilot, six hands and several
servan te.
As there were then no wool or coal
yards along the banks of the rivers,
they were obliged to wait while the
men weut on shore, cut down rees
and i ropared them for fuel.
Mr. Roaevelt discovered, in a former
voyage, a coal-bed near Yellow Bauks
on the Indiana side of the river, and
purchased of the State government the
privilege of taking fuel from it.
The early chronicles speak of the
intense excitem. nt created among the
settlers aloi g the Ohio by the appear
ance of the steamboat. No rumor of
the strange boat had reached them ;
they gazed with astonishment as the
singular craft without sails or oar*,
and ahead of the current, pass before
them.
On a still, moonlight night, the ves
sel suddenly appeared before Louis
ville, and allowed the steam to escape
from the steampipe. The inhabitants
were alarmed, and rising from their
beds, rushed out to ascertain the cause.
Many fled in teiror, declaring that the
comet then visible had fallen into
the Ohio, and produced the strange
hissing sound.
On arriviug at the coal-vein, it was
discovered that a large quantity of
coal had been quarried out aud laid on
the shore by tuieves, who intended to
carry it f. ft.
While the hands were loading the
boat with this coal, the settlers in
great alarm flocked to inquire if they
had not heard the strange noises on
the river and in the woods during the
previous day. The voyag* rs laughed
at their fears, believing them to be
created by the noise by the steamboat.
But the squatters insisted that they
had not only felt the ear.h tremble,
but seen the shore shake.
The next day the voyage was re
sumed. The weather, though it was
in Novemtx r, was oppressively hot.
The atmosphere was thick and heavy,
though still. The sun shone like a
red ball of, fire. The vast solitudes
around them and the surface of the
watt r seemed enveloped in a mourn
ful twilight. One chronicler describes
it as "an awful day ; so still you could
have heard a pin drop on the deck.”
In the night they often heard a
rushing sound and a violent spla-h
A Sea Trout.
In a strange lake in N rway it is
well always t> <ry first with spinning
tackle, a bait trolled with a long Hue
fr >m a boat rowed slowly. It will
tell you if there are fl.h to be caught;
it will find out for you whirs the fl-*h
most haunt, if there are any. Wa had
a curious experience of the value of
this method on a la^er occasion, and
on one of our failures. We found a
lake joined to an arm of a fiord by 100
yards only of clear running water.
We felt certain of fiading salmon
there, and if we had begun with flies
we migLt have fished all day aud
have caught nothing. Instead of tbis
we began to epln. In five minutes
we had a run ; we watched eager
ly to see wh it we had got. It was
a whiting pollock. We went on. We
hooked a heavy fish. We assured
ourselves that now we had at least a
(rout. It turned out to be a cod. The
sea fish, we found, ran freely into
like young lady, arrayed in ail the
faded glory of MacGregor hose and a
Stuart plaid, to which are added a pro
fusion of t h >rt white muslin skirts,
with a low necked bodice. I am afraid
that such a costume would not be a
desirable one a uon^ the 8 :otcb mists
ofihe Highlands. But what has na
tionality to do with the matter ? It is
the opening house in a new town ;
each lady wishes to frame her figure
and face in the most fascinating way,
and so weais whatever becomes htr
best; hence this mixture ol garments,
from the stalely threadbare velvet
down to the humble washeu-out tar
latan.
Anti-Corset Philosophy and
History.
fresh water, and had chased trout and
salmon completely out. At Btromen
we were in better luck. We started
with phautom minnows on traces of
single gut, 40 yards of line, and 40,
more in reserve on the reel. Two
men rowed us up the shore an arm’s
length from the rocks.
S>mething soon struck me. The
reel flew round, the line spun out. In
the wake of the boat there was a
white fl ish, as a fish sprang into the
air. Was it the Duchess salmon ? It
was very like it, any way, and if we
had lost him, it would have I een en
tered down as a salmon. It proved
however, to be no salmon, but a sea
trout, and euch a sea trout as we had
never seen ; not a bull trout, not a
peel, nit a Welsh aewln, or Irish
white trout, but a Norwegian, of a
kind of its own, different from all of
them. It was the first of many that
followed, of sizes varying from three
pounds to the twelve pounds which
the mate had recorded; fine, bold
fighting fish, good to look at, good to
catch, and as good to eat when we
tried them. Finally, in the shallower
water at the upper end a fish took me,
which ficm its movements wa.3 some
thing else, and proved to be a large
char, like what they take iu r wen-
water, only four times the weight.
Looking carefully at the water, we
saw more char, swimming leisurely
near the surface taking flies. We
dropped our spinning tackle and took
our fly rods, and ^rasently we were
pulling in char, the blood royal of the
salmonii’se, the elect of all the finned
children of the freshwater, as if they
had been so many Thames Club.
2ie leaped upon one side, then took
the silver pieces from his pocket and Then large portions of the shore woo d
st them away upon the ground at
e roadside, and started as though he
mid run again.
rittf an oath the man leaped from
horse and hastened to where he
w several of the shillings and half-
rowns amongst the grass, pro!ably
thinking he could secure those, and
then overtake the boy at his leisure.
But the boy had a plan of his own.
On the instant the man leaped from
his saddle, he stopped and picked up
a, laige stone ; the robber stooped over
tw> pick the silver from the grass;
young Willet made a bound and hurled
the stone at the man, striking him on
the back of the head, and knocking
him down. After this, to leap into
the robber’s saddle and start for home
vwat; the work of but a moment.
. And the boy reached his home with
al further adventure, where his
' her. astonished by the manner of his
'6 arrival, was still more astonished
n he heard the story,
in the saddle-bags were found over
rten pounds in silver, eight sovereigns,
<4wo gold watches and a beautiful gold
,unted revolver.
The horse and the watches were ad-
irtlsed, aud ere long a gentleman
rom Bolton appeared, and proved that
the horse and one of the watches were
ills. He had offered ten pounds re
ward for his horse; and this sum he
ladly paid- And when he had heard
j* boy’s story, he made him a present
©f the watch, which was one of Dent’s
laest chronometers. For the other
•watch uo owner ever appeared, aud
that the father took.
A year later our hero was very sure
© recognized his acquaintance of the
ighway In » convict who was on his
way, with many others, to the penal
*>loiy of Botany Bay.
Ab for John Willet himself,” said
Louglaes, In conclusion, “the last
dciB I saw him he was high sheriff of
the oouuty, and one of the most popu
lar and effluent, ofllcers in
English Strolling Players.
le king
te: r away from the land and fall into
the river. The voyagers were con
vinced that there had been an earth
quake.
On the second day there was a
similar strange appearance of the sky.
and the terrible convulsions of nature
increased. The pilot, becoming
alarmed aud confused, declared that he
did not know which way to steer. The
channel had been so chauged, that
where deep water had been there lay
large trees, with their roots turned
upwards.
The trees on the banks of the river
swayed to and fro though there was
no wind, and now and then some
giant of the fore.-t would be tos°ed
into the roaring waters.
When night approached, the voya
gers sailed hour after hour, seeking
for a safe place to tie up the boat. At
last they came to a little island, and
there they moored.
A11 night they kept watch on deck.
Many time9 they heard the noise as
earth and trees slid from the shore
and were swallowed up in the river.
Some times the island was so shaken
as to jar the beat from stem to stern.
The next morning they c$uld not
recognize auy point—the sho res aud
channel had been wholly changed,
calling on, they found themselves
near the mouth of the Ohio, and about
noon reached a small town called New
Madrid, on the right bank of the Mis
sissippi. Many of the inhabitants had
lied in terror to the higher ground,
and those who remained pleaded to be
taken on board.
From New Madrid they passed be
yond the effect of the earthquake, but
the river was found to be unusually
swollen for the time of year, aud full
of trees. They reached Natchez the
last week in January, 1812.
Hlnce then many vessels have pass
ed over those waters ; but for strange
adventures and fearful perils, we
hardly believe auy voyage will tx
d that first tikulown the
The company live wherever they
can find lodgings among the working
people of the neighborhood, generally
sharing the kitchen as a sitting-room
with the natives for the s«ke of chejp-
ness. Fancy tragedy queens presiding
over tea and bloater banquets, or Pau
line, the proud beauty of Lyons, steam
ing her pride over the wash-tub, or
Juliet with her sleeves tucked up and
practically employed iu making home-
baked bread, to say nothing of Richard
III. assisting in the domestic circle
by peeling potatoes ! All this, together
with an occasional glimpse of faded
stage finery blending with pots, pant,
oadly assorted crockery, and mining
or agricultural implements, and you
have a picture at onoe uniqi e aid by
no means rare. As a specimen of the
ait required to make their small funds
go as far as possible with regard to
marketing, the following fact is a fair
sample. Four young men lodged to
gether in the same house, sharing, in
addition to the usual kitchen, a double-
bedded room, aud as they shared the
room in pairs, so they liyed with re
gard to food, each pair choosing what
ever articles of consumption suited
them best. On one occasion (hey al
went together, one Saturday uight, to
purchase Sunday’s dinner.
After a little wandering about among
the butchers’ stalls one couple pur
chased a small roast of beef, which
looked quite a picture of mixed red
and white—so much so, in fact, that
the other couple decided lor Peel also
aud the caterer for the second pair, to
his companion’s astonishment, select
ed a piece perfectly lean, giving for
the act of this economical reason
"Their beef Is so mixed thut most
of it will turn to dripping, which the
landlady manages to crib. Now, ours
is all leau, and as both pieces are done
together in one tin our meut gets the
benefit of their fat, and we lose none
o’ the flesh!” Well, now, Saturday
night has arrived, the booth is i^ady,
a crowd assembled, and the company
out on parade. The women pace back
ward and forward, linked arm iu arm
aud are dressed with little or no rel
fU to the uuitlaa of tim^y fclaoe,
One* poison is no rule for another in
such matters. The letters in the Et g-
lish Mechanic, and a little book full oi
others, si lei ted from a now ixinct
periodical which I met with about ten
years ago, called Figure-Trainivg, and
others subsequently in tbesauue maga
zine, amply prove that. The great
majority of the writers—I may say all
who wrote from their own experience
—said they had found the tightest lac
ing they could near, especially in stays
q lite stiff in froi.t, both pleasant aud
beneficial, and among them was a
surgeon. S mie, howev. r, find it ex
pedient to remain under contraction
ouly a few hours In the morning and
the surgeon discarded his stays when
taking strong exercise, which eeems
natural; but others lace tightest for
riding, and ladies mostly iu the even
ing, and some ei joy and recommend
confinement in stays all night also—
an old practice which used to be en-
f reed in some families aud schools.
Men generally prefer belts, but not a
few wrote thst they found regular long
and stiff stays much nicer and better
for their health. Two or three said
they oould stand and walk much
longer in them than without, and that
their health relapsed whenever they
gave it up. Many had begun it under
some kind of compulsion, but had
soon come to like it, even alter severe
treatment at first. As I said bef> r?,
the philosophers got much the worst
of it iu those discussions.
My philosophy about it is that all
those statements of personal ex
perience, with their variations in de-
ail, are worth infinitely more for
practical purposes than all the talk
about lungs and diaphragms aud
capacity of chests (which vary a great
deal naturally), nature and anatomy,
Greek women in flesh and marble,
and the unquestioned bad effect of
unduly tight-lacing, which proves
nothing but itself. Bach a multitude
of persons of all ages and kinds can
not possibly be either mistaken or
lying about the fact of their own good
health, or that of their children, pu
pils, schoolfellows, sisters, mothers
and friends, notwithstanding or in
constquence of their having been con
tracted into the smallest circumference
they could bear for many years of
their lives. It is very easy to be mis
taken in attributing either good or bad
health to a particular cause, but the
fact of it cannot be doubtful. And
that, with sundry medical letters
such as I have alluded to, is the sum
mary of all those letters containing
any personal expi rleuce. There were
one or two about ladies who had ob
stinately persisted, in the face of
manifest warnings that they were in
juring their health, aud of course did
so.
I remember reading years age, in an
extract from some medical newspaper
I think, that the Empress of Austria
was killing herself with tight lacing,
for she happened to be ill, and was
famous for the smallness of her waist—
which seems to be specially cultivated
there, and is even enforced on boys as
well as girls, acoordlng to a gentleman
who was at school in Vienna, and
learned there to enjoyibeing laced as
tight as possible in long and stiff stays,
though he was very.uugry at it at first,
as was the case with many others of
the above-mentioned wr.t9rs. Well,
she is now a grandmother, and we are
told every year that she is still conspic
uous in our hu t u/ fl’Ms for her
riding and her figure.
Iu one cf those leltars an old lady of
eighty-five said that she used to be
contracted into fifteen inches when
she was young, and, indeed, the com
pass of their own span,^or from four
teen to fifteen iuohes. waH often spoken
of, up to about forty years ago from
very early times as^the^staudard to be
aimed at by ladles, and frequently
reached aud occasionally even thir
teen ; but more iu foreign countries
than this, though there was one con
fession of it in the] book on figure-
training. Of course, I am not advo
cating those extreme and foolish and
dangerous reductions, but cnly using
n
good health under them, to prove the
monstrous exaggeratb ns about the
dangt r of waists which oontain twice
as much as those. You, at any rate,
will see at onoe that a wa,’st of twenty
inches contains twice as much as one
of fourteen, and eighteen nearly half
as much again as fifteen.
I cannot imagine what books Lady
F. Harberton has been reading—or not
reading—to write such amazing things
as that twenty eight inches is a proper
size for a young woman’s waist, when
it is a full size for a well-made young
man.
It is just worth notice, on the reit
erated assertions about Greek laxity,
that the term, "wasp-waisted,” in
several forms, is as old as Aristopha
nes. Aud it is certain that the
Romans severely laced and shoulder*,
strapped their girls, and even starvedf
them, if necessary to make them slen-J
der aud upright. "Juvencse et graci,
les et sic amautur,” Terence says;
and Macaulev. who had read every;
thing, said that the Roman ladies dil
till worse things to preserv* thel
firms. Whatever are the reasons for
it, it is quite clear from history that'
corsets and tight-lacing in one form or
another have been tne windmills of
dress reforming Qiixotes for 10001
years at Ie*d. Tne wind has some-J
times lulled, and they have flittered]
them<elve3 that! hey had stopped the]
sails; but it has always risen again]
and knocked ov<r the philosopher*/
• clerical, medical au-i general,” anc
i robably always will; so they may as^
well save their preaching for some
thing more amenable, or at any rate
preach more rationally than they doj
Art Notes.
The first exhibition of Japanese
ever made at Berlin is not open, being
the collection of Prof. Gierke, of Breq
lau.
An equestrian group by Watts,
been cast in bronze for Chester,
land. It represents Hugh Lui
Earl of Chester.
A year age Queen Victoria bestowey
ou the Water-color Society the rig
to call itself the Royal. This eonf
the privilege of the Q, men’s signal'
to the diploma of membership.
The workshops at Paris in wt
Bartholdi has been confecting
"Liberty Eulightening the Woi]
are thrown open to visitors on
days and Saturdays. Unless they]
the artistic fraternity, a small ey v |
fee is asked. \
Falguiere has been elected
Academie des Beax Arts, by a-’S
mej rity over Crauk, Mercie and
rias, to take tbe place Jouffroy, wh^
pupil he once was. Falguiere was 1
in 1831, and has several fine works
the Luxembourg.
Baudry’s pictures lu thdfcpera-houel
at Paris have been cleansed by a verj
simple process in use with crayon ai
pa tel painteis; they have b«
cleansed with bread. The Athenasui
reports that they have sustained moot
less damage than was supposed.
A very large sum has been realif i
for the materials of an eld house
Paris in addition to a hoard of 300,004
discovered in the process of aemoli-1
tion. The old beams were eagerly!
sought by cabinet-makers, the lead of]
the roof was a mine, works of art were!
found behind the wainscot,and marble]
mantels and staircase, doors and win/
dow-franaes found a market at
figures.
Mr. George du Maurier, of Lof/uj
Punchy has aoknowleiged the
tion of “ College Cuts,” a publiot j( -
from the Columbia Spectator,
writes: " I can heartily congratulat
the artists on their work. The cxeout
tion and composition seem to me ini
most cases excellent, and it is delight-1
fui to see good p Mut-work from young
hands wnen tueio le so great a general
tendency to use washes aud trust to
the engraver’s interpretation.”
The utone cross brought by Charm
from Teotihuucun is creating some
citement in Paris. It is about 4
high, thick-set, with a relief ou
its faces in the shape ot a bl
Greek cross, and on the base tour
crosses in relief. M. Hamy, Keeper
of the Troci dero Museum, holds thai
it is an emblem of Tlaloo, god of stoi
and rain, one of the oldest of Mexioa!
gods. The piesence of such crosses I
Mexico oaused the Spaniards to belle;
that St. Thomas, whom they ldenti
with (Juetzaleoatl, had^preoedfid
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