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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 * ant y le.M«*l i / i it