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Stilled now be every anxious care: See God's great goodness everywhere; Leave all to Him in perfect rest:

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What he thinks best that best must be. For God disposes; if He will, He can my life with pleasure fill.

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WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER XIIL.— Continued. The doctor, as we have already more than once affirmed, had nothing of the snob or parasite in his nature; yet so great is the influence of a title in this country, and so utterly does it upset the solid common sense of every born Englishman, that the doctor began to take a tender and peculiar interest in these young men, especially in the case last mentioned. He made many inquiries about them, though curiosity was the least of his defects; and he was never tired of listening with the closest attention whilst the Colonel, whe knew them pretty well, though not intimately,described them in his way. ‘What sort of a fellow is he, Harry Ughtred? Well, he is a very de- cent fellow, rather good-looking; blue eyes eyes and fair hair, and if you look st him with a magnifying glass you may perhaps detect something resembling a moustache.’ (Here the Colonel complacently pulled the handful of strong brown hair which adorned his upper lip, and which was clearly visible to thenaked eye.) ‘As to the adornments of his mind, I really cannot tell you much. He isn’t exactly a highly cultivated young man I should say; but he was educated at Eton and used to write Latin verses at one time. In short, you know, he is like scores of other young men—a sort of young swell in general, with nothing very particular or individual, But I don’t know very much about him, I have only met him sometimes at my wife’s father’s: he is a friend of Bass enthrope, my brother-inslaw, but he isn’t a friend of mine only an acquaintance. To tell you the truth, the Ingleborough family are rather too great family for my taste. I daresay they’re very pleasant people, you know, and that sort ofa thing; but I don’t care much to mix myself up with dooks and people of that kind,’ ‘Why, you married an earl’s daughter,’ otserved the doctor. ‘True; but I didn’t mawyr he becoz she was an earl’s daughter. I met Helena when | wasa young fellow, and she looked so pretty and nice, and she sang so delightful- ly, that I fell in love with her, She might have made a better mateb, a muoh better match in every way; and perhaps in point of money, I might have mawid more prur dently without going very far from Sooty- thorn; but we were spooney, doctor—we we were both of us spooney—and s0 we got mawid; and—to teil youa secret which | wouldn’t confide to everybody—we’re both of us spooney still; at least I am, though her ladyship has perhaps recovered from that malady by this time.’ There was just a little tinge of exorious. ness in John Stanburne; and, like other men who have that pardonable and amiable weakness, he could never be quite happy for a day without either seeing his wife or talking about her. During their occasional brief separations, when she left him alone at Wenderholne on visits to friends of hers he did not much care about, his old house~ keeper would come into the breakfast room every morning after the post-bag had arriv. ed, and enquired if their were news of her ladyship, and how her ladyship was, and whether her ladyship had borne the injury well, and so on; and it was Jobn Stan- burne’s greatest pleasure to answer these questious, and under a hundred pretexts to talk with the old housekeeper about his wife. So, when he had a discreet middle» aged listner like the doctor, he would talk on the same subject whenever 4 proper op- portunity appeared to offer itself; and as tout chemin mene a Rome, it is found in the practice of conversation that every subject somehow leads ultimately on the central one. It may seem odd that a man like Colonel Stanburne should talk so unreserv. edly with a man in every respect so differs ent from himself; but the doctor’s manner invited confidence in more ways than one. He was the best of listners, and no one who knew him could entertain a doubt of his discretion. Hence he gradually became John Stanburne’s most confidential friend ; but as even in the frankest natures there always remains & residium of reserve, 80 when we say that the Colonel talked unre- servedly, the word is to be understood in the sense which is unusually attached to it _that is, taken with limitations. If he had talked quite unreservedly, and if the doctor on his part had been absolutely frank in the expression of his private opinion on every matter submitted to him, great evils and great miseries might have been avoid- ed, and a life which was darkened by stormy clouds of trial might have passed in serenity and peace. h é It had been announced to the inhabitants of the parsonage that the representative of the house of Stanburne intended to call there that afternoon; and though it would be an exaggeration to state that the pre- parations made were on a magnificent scale, it is not an exaggeration to state that the preparations for his reception were worthy the skill of Mrs. Prigley as a manager, and her husband's ingenuity and taste. New carpet’s they could not buy, and so there was no in thinking about them ; and though Mrs. Prigley bad indulged in the hope that’ Mrs. Ogden’s attention would be drawn to the state of her carpets by tha accident with which the reader 1s already acquainted, so as to lead, it might be, to some act of generosity on her part, this re- sult had not followed and, indeed, had never suggested itself to Mrs. Ogden, who had merely resolved to look well to oe feet whenever she entered into the par i. at the parsonage, a5 on dangerous an treacherous ground. Under these circum igley gradually sank into

stances, Mrs. Prigiey bis

dition of mind which accepts as In inet ty he outward and visible signs of evitable ¢ rf and though a lady must igupegumnre Vi she will be indeed be brought low before

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| ¢ | condition of absolute nakedness, poor Mre. Prigley had come down to this at last; and she submitted without a murmur when the husband expressed a wish that ‘the old rag ’ on the floor of the drawing room might he removed outof his sight. When the deal boards were carpetiess, Mrs. Prigley was proceeding with a sigh to replace the furniture thereon ; but the husband desired that it might be lodged elsewhere for a few days, during which time he kept the door of the drawing room locked, and spent two or three hours there every day in the most mysterious seclusion, to the neglect of his parochial duties. Mrs. Prigley in vain en- deavored to discover his occupation there. She tried to look through the keyhole, but a flap of paper had been adopted to it on the inside to defeat her feminine curiosity. She went into the garden and attempted to look in through the window but the blind was down, and as it was a little to narrow, slips of paper were pasted on the panes to make up for the deficiency. The reverend master of the house endeavored to appear as amiable and communicative a8 usual, by talking volubly on all sort of subjects ex- cept on the mystery of the drawing room: but Mrs. Prigley did not consider it con- sistent with her self-respect to appear to take any interest in his discourse, and durs ing all these days she preserved, along with an extreme gentleness of manner, the air of a person borne down by secret grief. An invisible line of separation had grown up between them; and though both were perfectly courteous and polite, each felt that their days of mutual confidence were over, There was, not however, and differ- ence in their respective positions; for the parson felt tranquil in the assurance that the cloud would pass away, whereas his wife had no such assurance, and the future was dark before her. It was true that, notwithstanding the outward serenity of her countenance, Mrs. Prigley’s was sus» tained by the inward fire of wrath which enables an injured woman to endure almost any extremity of mental misery and dis- tress.

We have seen that the Shayton parson had that peculiar form of eccentricity which consists in the love of the beautiful, He had great projects for Shayton church which as yet lay hidden in the privacy of his own breast, and he had also projects for the par- sonage, for which the realisation, to the eye of reason and common sense, would have appeared 'to remote to be entertained?for an instant. But the enthusiasm for the beau, tiful does not wait to be authorized by the Philistines,—if it did, it would wait till the end of all things; and Mr. Prigley, poor as he was, determined to have such a des gree of beauty in his habitation as might be consistent with his poverty. Without be-« ing an artist, or anything approaching to an artist, he had practised the drawing of the simpler decorative forms, and was real- ly able to combine them very agreeably. He could also lay a flat tint with a brush quite neatly, though he could not manage a gradation.. Rut with si forms. and flat tints it is astonishing how much may be done that is decorative in a high degreo; and our parson from pure love of this purs suit, had become a fair workman, so as to be able to execute almost anything of this kind that his fancy suggested to him, His projects for the parsonage included a good deal of such labour as this, and they were the more feasible that he would have no wages to pay. When it had been fiaally de cided that carpets could no longer be af- forded, Mr. Prigley saw that the opportu- nity had come for the exercise of this talents; but he was far to wise a man to confide to his wife projects so entirely out~ side the orbit of her ideas, He had at- tempted, in former days, to inoculate, but he had been met by a degree of impenetra- bility which proved to him that the renew- al of such attempts, instead of adding to his domestic happiness by creating closer com- munity of ideas, might be possibly detri. mental to it, by proving too plainly the ims possibility of such a community. Mrs, Prig- ley, like many good women of her class, was totally and absolutely devoid of culs ture of any kind, She managed her house admirably, and with a wonderful thrift and wisdom; she was an excellent wife ina certain sense, though more from duty than any great strength of affection ; but beyond this and and the Church Service, and three or four French phrases which she did not know how to pronounce, her mind was in such a state of darkness and ignorance as to astonish even her husband from time to time, though he had plenty of opportuni ties for observngit. And the worst of it was that any attempt to enlighten Mrs. Prigley only irritated her. They had pass~ ed thousands of hours together by the fire- side in perfect calm and quiet after the children had been put to bed, and if Mr. Prigley had been allowed to employ those hours in the education of his wife, she might have been not merely his housakeep-~ er, but but hiscompanion. Every attempt of this kind had produced unpleasant re- sults, and the husband found that the wife could not endure to be set right on any point, however kindly and delicately. So there had been nothing for it but to leave the lady as she first came to him; and the gulf between them remained for ever im~ passable. ‘ She has the pride of a duchess,’ thought the parson, in the sad secrecy of his own breast, ‘and the education of a maid-servant.’

But what was he doing in the drawing room? He was doing things unheard of in the Shayton valley. In the days of his youth and extravagance he had bought a yaluable book on Etruscan design; and though, as we have said elsewhere, his taste and culture, though developed up to a cers tain point, where yet by no meaps perfect or absolutely reliable, still he could not but feel the singular simplicity and grace of the ancient art, and he determined that the decoration of his drawing room should be Etruscan: On the wide area of the floor he drew a noble old design, and stained it clearly in black and red; and when it was dry, rubbed linseed oil all over it to fix it. The effect was magnificent! the artist was delighted with his performance! But on turning his eye from the perfect unity of the floor, with its centre and broad border, to the old paper on the walls, which was covered with a representation of a brown angler fishing in a green river, with a blue hill behind him, and an equally blue church steeple, and a 2ow which had eaten so much grass that it had not only fattened her but coloured with its own greenness—and when Selita counted the number of copies of this interesting landscape that adorned his walls, and saw that they num,

content to see the of her floors in a

bered six score and upwards—then he felt

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tsolved to abolish it.

endurable ones were beyond his means,and the cheap ones were not endurable—so he purchased a quantity of brown parcel paper, of which he took care to choose the most agreeable tint; and he furtively covered his walls with that, conveying the paper, a few sheets ata time, under the topcoat. When the last angler had disappeared, the parson began to feel highly excited at the idea of decorating all that fresh and invits ing surface. He would have a frieze—yes, he would certainly have a frieze ; and he set to work and copied long Etruscan prox cessions. Then the walls must be divided into compartments, and each compartment must have its chosen design, and the plan-~ ning and the execution of this absorbed Mr. Prigley so much that for three weeks he did not write a single new sermon, and, I am sorry to say, scarcely visited a single parishioner except in case of pressing ne« cessity. As the days were so short, he took to working by cand'!e-light; and when once he had discovered that it was possible to get on in this way, he worked till two o’clock in the morning. He made himself & cap-candlestick, and with this crest of light on the top of his head, and the fire of enthusiasm inside it, forgot the flying hours. The work was finished at last. It was not perfect. A good critic might have detected many an inaccuracy of line, and Some incongruousness in the juxtaposition of designs, which, though all antique and Etruscan, were often of dissimilar epochs. But, on the whole, the result justified the proud satisfaction of the workman. The room would be henceforth marked with the sign of culture and of taste. It was a a little temple of the muses in the midst of a barbarian world. But what would Mrs, Prigley say? The parson knew that he had done a bold deed, and he trembled for the consequence, ‘My love,’ he said one morning at break- fast time, ‘I have finished what I have been doing in the drawing room and you can remove the furnit»re thera whenavar you like; but I do not wish to have anys thing hung up against the wall—they are sufficiently decorated as it is. The pic- tures,’ (by which Mr. Prigley meantsundry worthless little lithographs and _prints)— ‘the pictures may be hung in one of the bedrooms or wherever you like.’ Mrs. Prigley remained perfectly silent and Mr, Prigley did not venture to ask her to accompany him to the scene of his artis» tic exploits. He felt that in case she did not approve of his work,the situation might become embarrassing. So immediately after breakfast he left for the parish, and said that he would probably dine with Mr. Jacob Ogden, who, by his mother’s com- mand, had kindly invited him to do so when he passed Milend about one o'clock in the day. And in this way the parson managed to keep out of the house until tea-time. When hecame back in the dusk of the evening, it was not without a feeling of nervous anxiety; What would Mrs. Prigley say? He knew he had committed a great crime; was it possible that Mrs, Prigley would forgive the crime for the beauty of the result? Alas! what hope was there that she would be sensible of the of the beauty of the result? What did she know, of Etruscan art—or any art? She could not tell Gothic architecture from Greek. If you showed her a drawing from the Parthenon and told her it was Gothic, she would believe you; If you showed her a Gothic capital and told her it was Corins thian she would equally believe you, and in both cases feel equally indifferent. It was not that Mr. Prigley dreaded any criticism, for to criticise one must have an opinion, and Mrs. Prigley, in these matters, had not an opinion. All that Mr. Prigley dreaded was the anger of his spouse—of the spouse whom he had not even gone through the formality of seeming to consult. He was punished, but not as he expected to be punished, Mrs, Prigley said no- thing to him on the subject; but when they went together to the drawing room at night, she aflected not to perceive that he had done anything whatever there. Not only did she not speak about these things, but though Mr. Prigley watched her eyes during the whole evening, to see whether they would rest upon his handiwork, they did not seem to perceive it even for an instant. She played the plan she had fixed upon with marvellous persistence and self- control. She seemed precisely as she had always been,—sulky; not in the least ; there was not the slightest trace of sulki- ness, or anything approaching sulkiness in her manner—the Etruscan designs were simply invisible to her, that was all,

They were not so invisible to the Colonel

when he came to pay his visit at the par

sonage, and in his innocence he compli-

mented Mrs. Prigley on her truly classical

taste. He had not the least notion that

the floor was carpetless because the Prig~

leys could not afford a carpet—the degree

of poverty which could not afford a carpet

was not conceivable to him as a possible

attribute of one of his relations or friends.

He believed this beautiful Etruscan design

was preferred by Mrs. Prigley to a carpet —to the best of carpets—on high esthetic grounds. Ah! if he could have read her heart and see therein all the shame and vexation that glowed like hidden volcanic fires! All these classical decorations ap- peared to the poor lady as a miserable sub.

stitute for the dear old carpet with its alternate yellow flourish and brown lozenge,

and she regretted the familiar fisherman whose image would meet her wherever her eyes might rest. But she felt a deeper shame than that which belongs to being visibly poor or visibly ridiculous, The room looked poor she knew, and in her opinion ridiculous, but there was something worse than that and harder far to bear. How shall I reveal this bitter grief and shame— how express the horror which I feel for the man who was its unpardonable cause? Carried away with enthusiasm for a profane and heathen art, Mr. Prigley had actually introduced in the frieze and elsewhere, several figures which—well, were divested of all drapery whatever! ‘And he is a clergyman, too,’ thought Mrs, Prigley. True, they were simply outlined; and the conception of the original designer had been marvellously elegant and pure, chast~ ened to the last degree by long devotion to the ideal; but there they were, these shameless nymphs and muses, on the wall of a ChrR@fan clergyman: John Stanburne, who had travelled a good deal, and who had often stayed in houses where there were both statutes and pictures, saw no~

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hat he had too much of it, and boldly res

He looked at all the wall papers in the shop at Shayton, but the

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taste. ‘What will he think of us?’ said Mrs. Prigley to herself; and she believed his compliments were merely a kind way of making her feel less uncomfortable. She thought him very nice, and he chatted as pleasantly as he possibly could, so that the doctor, who had come with him, had no social duty to perform, and spent his time in studying the Etruscan decorations.

Colonel Stanburne apologized for Lady Helena, who had intended to come with him ; but her little girl was suffering from

an attack of fever—not a dangerous fever,

he hoped, though violent,

Tbe doctor, who had not before heard of this, was surprised; but as he did not visit Wenderholme professionally, for Wender- holme Hall was, medically speaking, under the authority of the surgeon at Rigton, whose jealousy was already awakened by our doctor’s intimacy with the Colonel, he reflected that it was no business of his. The fact was that little Miss Stanburne was in the enjoyment of the most perfect health, but the mother thought it more prudent to let the Colonel go to Shayton by himself in the first instance, so as to be able to regu~ late her future policy according to his report. Mr. Prigley had come in before the visitor had exhausted the subject of the fever,which he described with an accu- racy which took in these two very experi- enced people,for he described from memory —his daughter having suffered from such an attack about six months earlier than the very recent date the Colonel found it con, venient to assign to it.

To be Continued, —_— TWO SMALL PEOPLE.

Two of the smallest children in the world for their ages, says the Philadelphia 7imes, which are twelve years and two months and twelve years respectfully, were introduced to the faculty and students of the Jefterson Medical College yesterday, Senorita Lucia Zarata, a sprightly brunette, is a fraction under twenty inches high and weighs five pounds in her elegant street custome, which includes complete female garb, from a bons net down to the modern gaiter, the latter being less than three inches long. It was explained that she was born at San Carlos, near the City of Vera Cruz, Mezico, and that her parents were both large and heal- thy persons, She speaks Spanish fluently and understands a smattering of the Eng~- lish tongue. Gen. Mite will be twelve years old on the 6th of October. He was born at Green, Chenange County, Yew York, his parents bearing the name of Flinn, the father, who accompanies the diminutive, weighing 171 pounds. At his birth the General weighed two and oneshalf pounds, His avourdupois now is nine pounds; height twenty-two inches. He is ablonde, Ihe General wore a ball-room costume, consists ing of black coat and pantaloons, white vest and white necktie. During his visit to the college the little fellow talked fluently and was,quite active, and, when not treading on the trail of her ladyship’s dress, was busily engaged in casting affectionate glences at her. In presenting the Liliputians to the admiring assemblage Prof. Getchel said that he had brought the couple there to intro- duce them from the Philadelphia Museum, at Ninth and Arch, as something wonderful even in this wonderful age, He explained that he had made a careful examination of the subjects and found them healthy, intel- ligent, and perfectly formed. The heart of either, said he, is not larger than an ors dinary size hickory nut and the liver in equal proportion, and yet they performed the functions as perfectly as those of fully developed men and women. ‘Their brains, he added, correspond well with the s:ze of their bodies, and their intelligence surpass~ es their size. At the conclusion of the Prof, remarks the General shook hands all around and the pert Miss bowed and threw kisses at the gallants with whom she had been coquetting.

THE INVENTION OF SUSPENSION RRIDGES BY THE CHINESE 1600 YEAKS AGO.

The most remarkable evidence of the

mechanical science and skill of the Chinese

at this early period is to be found in their

suspending bridges, the invention of which

is assigned to the Hen dynasty. Accord-

ing to the current testimony of all their his-

torical and geographical writers, Sheng-

leang, the commandersinschief of the army

under Koutsoo, the first of the Hans, un-~

dertook and completed the formation of roads through the mountanous province of

Shen-se, to the west of the capital. Hithers

to its lofty hills and deep valleys had rens

dered communication difficult and circuits

ous. With a body of 100,000 men he cut passages over the mountains, throwing the

removed soil into the valleys, and where this was not sufficient to raise the road to the required height he constructed bridges,

which rested on pillars or abutments. In

other places he conceived and accomplished the daring project of suspending a bridge from one mountain to another across a deep chasm. These bridges, which are called by the Chinese writers, very appropriately,

‘ flying bridges,’ and represented to be nu- merous at the present day, are sometimes so high that they cannot be traversed with~ out alarm. One still exists in Shensse stretches four hundred feet from mountain to mountain, over a chasm of five hundred feet. Most of the flying bridges are so wide that four horsemen can ride on them abreast, and balustrades are placed on each side to protect travellers. it is by no means improbable (as M. Pauthier suggests.) that, as the missionaries in China made known the fact, more than a century and a half ago, that the Chinese had suspended bridges, and that many of them were of iron, the hint may have been taken from thence for similar construction by European engineers. —Thorton’s History of China.

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thing here but the evidence of cultivated UNCLE SAM AND THE INDIANS,

| Another Treaty has been made between | the American Government through their Commissioners, and the Indians of what is | known as the Spotted Tsil Agency. The | Indians were unwilling to sign, Spotted Tail | complained that this was the fifth Treaty he shared in making and in every instance the whites broke their side of the bargain. The Government agents defrauded the Indians, who were not paid the smal! annuities pro- mised, and did not receive the cows, horses and wagons and other things promised, and the lands assigned the Indians were tres“ passed upon. He said :—