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— ONTRY | POUTRY, —— eee, ~~ ee ee 8 ee te eee THE DREAMER. | All day the white haired woman sits Beside the open door and knits; | No living thing her dim eye sees,

|} <As busy with old memories, | She dreams her dreams of what hes been, And knits her old time fancies in.

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She thinks of those who long ago

Went out across the threshold low, | flow many times her listening ear~

Has thought familiar footsteps near,

And she has started up to find A dead leaf rustling in the wind.

But never as of those who lie

Beneath the wind and tender sky,

With tolded hands on quiet breast,

All wrapt about with peace and rest, She thinks of them. For her they tread The green earth with her. None are dead.

Though years have fallen like the leaves Above the graves where summer weaves lier grass fringed coverlets, to keep

Safe hid from us the ones asleep,

dhe sees them all. Not vrass nor mold Can hide the ones she loved of old.

She talks with them. When brown-winged bees

Make merry in the locust trees,

She thinks he comes and sits with her

Whose voice was love's interpreter.

O, dreamer! young again to-day,

What matter if your hair is gray ?

Sometimes she thinks that round her knee Iler children play in happy glee,

And when they tired and sleepy grow, She sings some song of long ago,

And on her loving mother breast

She rocks her little ones to rest.

O, dreamer, knitting all the day

Your dreams in with your stitches gray, Yours ts a happy, happy heart—

A haunted world from ours apart;

The years that turned your tresses gray Have given you back your youth to-day.

LITERATURE.

WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER IV.—Continued. Mr. Prigley restored the harmony of the evening by admitting that the people who sold land were generally the old landowns ers and those who Lought it were usually in trade— not a very novel or profound obsers vation, but it soothed the wounded pride of Mrs. Ogden, and at the same time flat- tered a shade of jealousy of the old aristo- cracy which co-existed with much genuine sympathy and respect. ‘But we shouldn’t say Mister Stanburne now,’ observed the Doctor, ‘he’s Colonel Stanburn. ‘ Do militia officers keep their titles when not on duty ?’ ask Mr. Isaac. ‘Colonels always,’ said the doctor, ‘ but captains don’t, in a general way, but there are some places where it is the custom to call ’em captain all the year round. In the old militia times there was a Captain Black, stone in Shayton. You remember him well enough, Mrs. Ogden, but he died be- fore Mr, Prigley came to the place. He was only a militia officer, but everybody captained him. I suppose Mr. Isaac here will be Captain Ogden some of these days.’ ‘ T was not aware you intended to join the militia, Mr. Isaac,’ said the clergyman. ‘I am very glad to hear it. It will be a plea sant change for you. Since you left busi- ness you must often be at a loss for occu~ pation,’ ‘I've had plenty to do until a year or two since in getting Twistie Farm into or- der. It’s a wild place, but I’ve improved it a good deal, and it amused me, I some- times wish it were to be all done over again. A man is never so happy as when he’s very busy about carrying out his own plans.’ ‘You made a fine pond there, didn’t you ?’ said Mr. Prigley, who always had a hankering after this pond, and was _ resolv- ed to improve his opportunity. ‘ Yes, I need a small sheet of water. It is of use to me nearly all the year round. I swim in it in summer, I skate on it in winter, and in spring and autumn I can sail about on it in a little boat, though there is not much room for tacking, and the pond is too much in a hollow to have any regular wind.’ ‘Ah! when the aquatic passion exists in any strong form,’ said the aquatic Mr. Prig- ley, it ‘ will have its exercise, even though on a small scale. One of the great priva- tions to me in Shayton is that I never get any swimming.’ ‘ My pond is very much at your service,’ said Mr. Isaac, politely. ‘I am sorry that it is so far off, but one cannot send it down to Shayton in a cart, as one might send a showersbath,’ Mrs. Ogden was much pleased to see her scheme realising itself so naturally, without any ingerence of her own,,and only regret» ted that it was not the height of summer, in order that Mr. Prigley might set off for Twistle Farm the very next morning. How- ever enthusiastic he might be about swims ming, he could scarcely be expected to ex~ plore the too cool recesses of the Twistle Pond in the month of November—at least for purposes of enjoyment; and Mrs. Og- den was not Papist enough to encourage the good man in anything approaching to a mortification of the flesh. But Mr. Prigley relieved her mind by as~- serting in a very emphatic manner that no thing would give him greater pleasure than to see the pond at any time of the year, and that his aquatic passion, like that of Mr. Isaac, took various forms, and adapted itself to the season. Mrs. Prigley’a couns tenance began to wear an expression of un, easiness, if not positive alarm, for she had hitherto congratulated herself on the very circumstance which her lord regretted— namely, the absence of deep water in the valley of Shayton. There was nothing but a little brook, which in any other region would have clothed itself with all the love- liness of shady alder, and graceful birch, and broad fern, and blue hyacinth, and trailing pedlar’s basket, and a thousand other charms and beauties too long to en-~ numerate, but which in the Shayton valley happened to pass close to the works of an extensive calico printer, where the refuse of the dyes that made the calico lovely and desirable in the eyes of drapers and their customers produced quite an opposite efs fect on the poor brook, so that no tish could live in it, and scarcely even the thirstiest of cows would drink of it until it had purified itself by along pilgrimage and diluted its dark waters by admixture with the clearer tributaries which joined it.

Little Jacok had been admitted to the ceremony of tea, and had been a model of good behaviour, being ‘seen and not heard,’ which in Shayton compr.sed the whole code of etiquette for youth when in the presence of its seniors end superiors, Luckily for our young friend, he sat between the doc- tor and the hosiess, who took such good

| care of him that by the time the feast was | over he was aware, by certain feelings of ‘tightness and distension in a particular region, that the necessities of nature were | more than satisfied, although, like Vitellius | he had still quite appetite enough for an- | other equally copious repast if only he had / known where to put it. If Sancho Panza had had an equally indulgent physician at | his side, one of the best scenes in ‘ Don Quixote’ could never have been written, for | Dr. Bardly never hindered his little neigh, bour, but, on the other hand, actually en- couraged him to do his utmost, and men- tally amused himself by enumerating the pieces of tea cake and buttered toast, and the helpings of crab and potted meat and the large spoonfuls of raspberry jam which our hero silently absorbed. The doctor, perhaps, acted faithfully by little Jacob, for ifnature had not intended boys of his age to accomplish podigies in eating, she would surely never have endowed them with such vast desires; and little Jacob suffered no worse results from his present exercise than the uncomfortable tightness elready allud- ed to, which as his vigorous digestion opera ated, soon gave place to sensations of com- parative elasticity and relief.

The parson’s children had not been ad. mitted to witness and partake of the fes« tival, but had had their own tea—or rather, if the truth must be told, their meal of porridge and milk—in « nursery upstairs, They had been accustomed to tea in the evening but of late the oatmeal porridge which had always been their breakfast had been repeated at tea time also, as the Prig- leys found themselves compelled to mea- sures of still stricter economy. People must be fond of oatmeal porridge to eat it with pleasure seven hundred times a year; and whenever a change did come the children at the parsonage relished it witha keen. ness of gastronomic enjoyment which the most refined epicure might envy, and which he probably never experienced. The de. coction which in England is supposed to possess the flavour of coffee, and which no foreigner can swallow without mingled ass tonishment and horror, seemed to these children a drink of exquisite delicacy, though something of its delightfulness may, itis true, be attributed to the treacle with which Mrs, Prigley liberally sweetened it, They cared much less for tea, which seem-< ed to them comparatively thin and poor ; aad such tea as these children tasted, rens dered obaque by a cloud of blue milk, was certainly not likely either to injure the ner~ vous system or exhilerate it.

Litéle Jacob was conducted to the nurs- ery, where he found his young friends ina state of excited expectation. It was un- derstood that this was to be a magiclantern night. Papa possessed one which he kept locked up in his study, and displayed only on rare occasions. Mrs, Ogden and uncle Jacob were entreated to spend the evening and accepted; but Mr. Isaac who began to feel the necessity for alcohol and tobacco, of which there were no sign:<t the parson- age, resolved to make his escape, which he did under the pretext that old Sarah would be sitting up for him at Twistle, and that the road was long. So he rode off on his mare, which had been duly cared for in Mr Prigiey’s empty table, and transferred her in the space of ten minutes to the stable at the Red Lion, transferring himself at the same time to the parlour in that house of entertainment—a place redolent with the odours his nostrils best appreciated. Here he would have remained till he was put to bed, if the worthy doctor had not (only too well) known where to find him, and invited him to smoke his pipe and drink a glass in his own house; for the doctor, as we have said, was neither in practice nor precept a teetotaler.

As the magic lantern was supposed to be displayed for the amusement of little Jacob, his grandmother and uncle might partake of the pleasure without any sacrifice of their dignity as grown-up people ; and they found the entertainment quite interesting and des lightful, though the only delight they ac- knowledged consisted in witnessing that of the children. There were five little Prig- leys, and it is a curious fact that the par- son’s children were the only ones in the whole parish that did not bear Biblical names. All the other householders in Shayton sought their names in the Old Tes- tament, and had a special predilection for the most uncient and patriarchal ones; but the parson’s boys were called Henry and William and Richard, and his girls Edith and Constance—not one of which names are to be found anywhere in Holy Scripture, either in the Old testament or the New. When Mr. Prigley had displayed all the

slides of his magic lantern, the children res turned to the nursery, and the parson made an attempt to sound Mr, Jacob Ogden on the subject of architecture by showing him a book of engravings, in which all the English varieties of ecclesiastical Gothic were amply described and illustrated, But Mr. Prigley’s efforts only resulted in bring~ ing home to his mind the discouraging con-~ viction that his visitor was in a state of total darkness on the stibject. Architec- ture was not in his business, and he felt under no obligation to burden his memory with the, to him, over-subtile and fanciful differences betweenvarly English, and de~ corated, and perpendicular, The only architecture that he really loved and understood was that of an extensive cotton mill, with eighty windows on a side, al! exs actly alike, and a tall chimney for a tower; and such a mill was to his feeling a finer sight, and a sight that awakened more earnrst interest and enthusiasm than all the churches and cathedrals in Mr. Prig» ley’s engraving book. The parson was not aman of cultivated taste; he had the supers stitius veneration for all Gothic architecture whic! accepts all authentic Gothic as ad- mirable, and cannot discriminate between the good and middling, and _ the positively bad artists who designed the cathedrals of the middle ages; nor was his knowledge very accurate or extensive. But Mr. Prigley differed radically and eésentially from his guest, and from every other man in Shayton, in having the idea for the beautiful and some enthusiasm for it. Even the doctor had not the slightest tincture of this passion, but devoted himself wholly to scientific truth. What Mr. Jacob Ogden cared for may be told in a future chapter. CHAPTER V.

About a month later in the year, when December reigned in all its dreariness over Shayton, and the wild moors were sprinkled with a thin covering of snow, little Jacob began to be very miserable.

His grandmother had gone to staya fortnight with some old friends of hers

| beyond Shayton, and his father had de- clared that for the next two Sundays he | would stay at Twistle, and not ‘ go bother. | ing his uncle at Milend.’ Mr. Prigley had | walked up to the farm and kindly offered | to receive little Jacob at the parsonage during Mis. Ogden’s absence; but Mr, Isaac had declined the proposal rather | curtly, and, as Mr. Prigley thought, in a manner that did not sufficiently acknow- | ledge the kindness of the intention. Ins deed the clergyman had not been quite satisfied with his reception; for although Mr. Isaac had shown him the pond and given him something to eat, there had been, Mr. Prigley thought, symptons of secret annoyance or suppressed irritation. Little Jacob’s loneliness was rendered still more complete by the continued absence of his friend the doctor,who,in consequence of a disease then very prevalent in the neighborhood, found his whole time abs sorbed in professional pressing duties, so that the claims of friendship, and even the anxious interest which he took in Mr, Isaac’s moral and physical condition, had for the time to be considered in abeyance. We have already observed that Mr. Jacob Ogden, Milend, never came to Twistle farm at all, so that his absence was a matter of course; and as he was not in the habit of writing any letters except about business, there was an entire cessation of intercourse with Milend.

It had been a part of Mr. Isaac’s plan of reformation not to keep spirits of any kind at the farm, but he had quite enough ale and wine to get drunk upon in case hig re- solution gave way. He had received such a lecture from the doctor after that evening at the parsonage as had thoroughly fright~ ened him. He had been told with the most serious air that a doctor knows how to assume, that his nervous system had already been shattersd, that his stomach was fast becoming worthless, and that if he continued his present habits his life would terminate in eighteen months. Communi- cations of this kind are never agreeable, but they are especially difficult to bear with equanimity when the object of them has lost much of the combative and res cuperative powers which belong toa mind in health; and the doctor’s terrible sermon produced in Mr, Isaac, not a manly strength of purpose that subdues and sur- mounts evil and passes victoriously beyond it, but an abject terror of its consequences, and especially a nervous dread of the Red Lion. He would enter that place no more, he was firmly resolved upon that. He would stay quietly at, Twistle Farm and occupy himself—he would try to read, He had often regretted that business and pleasure had together prevented him from cultivating his mind by reading, and now that the opportunity had come he would seize it, and make the most of it. He would qualify himself to direct little Jacob’s studies, at least so far as English literature As for Latin, the little he ever knew had been forgotten many years ago, but he might learn enough to judge of the boy’s progress, and perhaps help him a little. He knew no modern language, and had not even that pretension to read French which is so common in England, and which is more injurious to the character of the nation than perfect ignorance, whilst it is equally unprofitable to its intellect. If Mr. Isaac was an ignorant man he had at least the great advantege of clearly know- ing that he was so, but it might not even yet be too late to improve himself. Had he not perfect leisure? Could he not study six hours a day if he were so minded? This would be better than destroying him. self in eighteen months in the parlor of the Red Lion.

There were not many books at Twistle but there were books. Mr. Isaac differed from brother Jacob and from the other, men in Shayton, in having long felt a hankering after various kinds of know- ledge, though he had never possessed the leisure or the resolution to acquire them. There was a bookseller’s shop in St. An- drew’s Square, in Manchester, which he used to pass when he was in the cotton business on the way from the Exchange to a certain oyster shop where it was his cuss town to refresh himself, and he had been occasionally tempted to make purchases, amongst the rest the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Scott, and the ‘ Ens cyclopedia Britannica,’ He had also bought Macaulay’s History of England, and subs scribed toa literary edition of the British poets in forty volumes, and a biographical work containing lives of eminent English-~ men, scarcely less voluminous, These, with several minor purchases, constituted the whole collection—which, though not extensive, had hitherto much more than sufticed for the moderate wants of its pos+ sessors. He had read all the works of Dickens, having been enticed thereto by the pleasant merriment in ‘ Pickwick ;’ but the Waverley Novels had proved less at~ tractive, and the forty volumes of British poet reposed uncut upon the shelf which they adorned. Even Macaulay's history, though certainly not less readable than any

novel, had not been honored with the first

perusal; and Mr. Ogden kept his books

in a bookcase with glass doors, the copy

was then technically a new one,

He resolved now that these books should

be read, all except perhaps the ‘ Encyclos

pedia Britannica,’ for Mr. Ogden was not

then aware of the fact, which a successful

man has recently communicated to his

species, that a steady reading of that work

according to its alphabetical arrangement

may be a road to fortune, though it must

be admitted an arduous one. He would

begin with Macaulay’s history, and he did

begin one evening in the parlor in Twistle

Farm after Sarah had removed the tea

things. He took down the first volume

and began tocut the leaves. Then he read

a page or two, but in spite of the lucid and

interesting style of the historian, he felt a difficulty in fixing his attention—the difti-

culty to all who are not accustomed to reading, and which in Mr, Ogden’s case was perhaps augmented by the peculiar condition of his nervous system. So he

read the page over again but could not compel his mind to follow the ideas of the author; it would wander to matters of every interest and habit, and then there camea sense of unutterable darkness and blank- ness, and a craving—yes, an all but irresist- able craving—for the stimulus of drink.

There could be no harm in drinkinga glassful of wine—everybody, even ladies, might do that—and he had always allowed bimseif wine at Twistle. He would see whether there was any in the decanters. What! notadrop. No port in the port décanter, and in the Sherry decanter no-~ thing but a shallow stratum of liquid which would not fil) a glass, and was not worth drinking. He would go and fill both de- canters at once. There ought always to be some ready in case any one should come, Mr. Prigley might walk up any day, or the doctor might come and he always liked a glass or two of port.

To be Continued

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WASHINGTON

OUR LETTER,

Wasuincton, D.C., July 17, 1876. From about the 20th ult. until Friday, the mercury in the thermometer at the Signal Office in this city remains above 9:)°, except in two or three instances ofa few hours duration. Theaverage tem-~ perature for that period was about 96°, The nights were almost as intolerable as the days and sleep was almost out of the question, ‘The list of the dead from sun~ stroke and those more or less permanently disabled by the terrible beat is very large; and the stockholders of the various street railway lines regard with great anxiety and many apprehensions of bankruptcy the daily increasing number of death among their stock. The situation in the House and Senate Chambers was such as to excite the sympathy of even those who regard Members of Commons as public enemies, deserving the reprobation of all honest men. Neither apartment has any direct communication with the outside air, but they are artificially supplied and are almost entirely surrounded by retiring and con:- mittee rooms. The thermometer usually ranges from 90° to 100°, and the distress of the Members of the House was augment~ ed by the obstinacy of ‘ blue Jean’ Williams whose sturdy denunciation of extravagence has led to cutting off the usual supply of lemonade. But the heat has given away to a delightfully cool atmosphere for the past forty-eight hours and the interest in mundane things is gradually reviving. The dead.lock between the Democrats of the House and the Republicans of the Senate appears as formidable as it did two weeks ago, although a few of the bills in dispute have been compromised. Among those still before Conference Committees are the legislative, the army and the consular and diplomatic bills. Almost every day during the past two weeks assurance have been sent from this city that they were ina fair way to be compromised; but the resuits have not justified such predictions, and I hear it whispered now, that an agreement is not likely to be reached on some of them at least, and that the Democrats will con- sent tono adjournment this summer—only arecess, ‘The silver bill as agreed to, pro- vides for the issue of $50,000,00) subsidiary coin—silver to be a legal tender for five dollars, and the greenbacks paid into the Treasury for silver, no? to be retired. The river and harbor bill which passed the House some months ago, and which was so generally denounced as a swindle, is now before the Senate; but its treatment by that body so far justifies no hope that its responsible features will be wisely moditied. On the contrary, Senators manifest quite as much eagerness to make themselves popu- lar at home at the expense of the Treasury, as did the Members of the Lower House, by procuring appropriations for mud pud- dies, frog ponds and unnavigable streams. It is expected that another struggle will take place to-day in the Banking and Cur- rency Committee on theproposition to repeal the resumption act,but the defeat of the soft money wing is ‘confidently predicted, It is a subject fraught with much embarass~ ment to the Democrats, and they play around it as a small dog of experience does around a large wood chuck, knowing its dangerous character, yet determining on the mastery. The House managers in the Belknap trial have finished their evidence, except what will come from the examina-~ tion of Evans who, up to Saturday night, had not putin an appearance. It is the general verdict that they have handled the case very successfully, so far as evidence was attainable. But I believe the impres- sion is growing that they will fail of secur- ing a conviction, unless Evans can give something more positive than anything heretofore proved, as Marsh, who has been chieily relied on to prove Belkaap’s official conduct to have been influenced by bribes, testifies that there was no bargain or under- standing of any kind that the ex-Secretary was to receive anything from the Fort Sill appointment, The tendency of Marsh’s testimony has been, | think, to convince the public that the two Mrs. Belknaps bad more to do with the appointment than their husband, if there was even a tacit under« standing as to a reciprocation of favors, it was between them and Marsh. President Grant’s recent letter, releasing Mr. Bristow from obligations of secrecy, is regarded as a shrewd check-mate move. Yaryan ap- pears to be in danger of forfeiting the sym- pathy extended to him because of his sum- mary dismissal by his ungarded utterances and his proness to repeat idle gossip. The ripple occasioned by Mr. Jewell’s resigna- tion has to a great extent subsided. I don’t think the President could surprise even his own party now. His eccentricities are so well known that his probable action in any

case only excites curiosity. SAXON:

SCENES IN THE BRITISH PARLIA- MENT.

One incident only of general interest oc- curred. Sir Eardley Wilmot endeavored to have the Lord Chiet Justice’s salary raised to £8,000 a year on account of his long and distinguished services, but the proposal was to Mr, Whalley what the waving of a red flag would be to an excitable bull in a pas- ture. The hon and irate member challeng- ed the proposal in no measured terms, and with much indignation. Had the house not heard of the great Tichborne case? Had not the Chief Justice sent that unhappy baronet to a dungeon? What had the British public said about the condition of the trial in petition after petition? The house shouted ‘ order,’ but the more they shouted the louder and warmer became Mr. Whalley, until the Chairman, Mr, Raikes, interfered firmly, ruled the hon. member out of order, and restored the discussion to its former wearisome level.

At nine o’clock the house reassembled, if ten members can be regarded as consti. tutinga house. Of these seven were Minx isterialists and three Liberals of varying shades, Mr. Dillwyn was called upon, and addressed the benches for a considerable time on the enlivening subjects for the lus nacy laws. His audience once touched 23. The hon. member was allowed to close his speech in peace, but a like fortune did not await his seconder, Sir Eardley Wilmot. He had scarcely commenced his speech as seconder when Mr, Ripley, seeing nothing before him but emptiness, requested the Speaker, who je officially not colour but number blind, to count, and, nothing loth, the Speaker did. Three minutes’ interval added Mr. Ward Hunt and a member un- known to fame to the twenty odd already

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THE ESCAPE OF THE FENIANS,

Letters from Freemantle give details of the chase of the six escaped Fenian con« victs, ‘(hey were recognized by the water

| police, who informed the Governor that the