After the jvtoriu. drawers. F?ar gave ner strength. She ness, a black mass interposed between immediate favor by those among whom The Beantiful Gate. All night, in the pauses of bleep, I heard lifted, half pushed it against the door. her eyes and the floor Suspense being he visited. He was told that in a certian The moan of the snow-wind and the bi a Not content with this, she seized a table, over, the time of action having arrived, It is a fair tradition, one of old, part of the county of Limerick, which it Like the wail of Thy borrowing children O, That at the gat,e of Heaven called Beautiful to increase the strength of her defence. every tiling seemed to pass with magical appears he came, there was a crock of God Ihe souls of those to whom wc ministered The leg was broken, and when she touch rapidity. The robber thrust his head Who cry unto Thee. gold hidden under a white-thorn Dush in On earth, shall greet us, a* we enter in, But in beauty and silence in the morning ed it it fell with a crash to the Hoof. A cautiously forward, Mrs. Marti'ii bent a garden, which was so clearly pointed With grateful records of those lowlv deed* broke, long echo went sounding through the down. Of Christian charity, wherewith fraii man out to him that there could be no mistaking O'er flowing creation the glad light stream house, and she felt her heart s.nk within trotters his hnmble loan unto the Lord, There was a half-choked crythe the locality. He was further told ed Oh, think, if this be true how many eves, her. But the echo died away, and no sbund of a knife falling on the floora And earth stood shining and white a^ 1he that among the gold was a remarkable Whose weeping thou hast stilled, shall glisten one came: so she piled the fragments of -ouI convulsive struggle. Pull! pull! pull! circular piece or coin, with which he there the table upon the chest of drawers. Of the blessed redeemed. Mrs. Martin heard nothingsaw nothing should return to Denmark, but that he How many hearts, whose burden thou hast Tolerably satisfied in this direction, she Oh, glorious marvel in darkness wrought! but the scarf passing over the head of the shared, might become the possessor of all the With smiles of promise the blue sky bent, proceeded to examine the windows. They And heavy feet, who*e steps were turned bJv bed bet-veen her two naked feet. She gold in the crock with the exception of A if to whisper to all who mourn thee were all well protected with iron bars. had half thrown herself back, and, holding hat particular circular picee. The Irishman Love's hidden intent. Back to their homes elastic through thejor The walls were papered, and, after careful her scarf with both hands, pulled was obedient to the letter. He returned Of new found hope, and sympathy, and love, examination, seemed to contain no with desperate energy for her life. The to Denmark with the circular Shall welcome thee .vithin the gate of bliss THE INTREPID MOTHEK. signs of a secret door. conflict had begun and one or the other The golden city of Jerusalem. piece, and kept for himself all but that. Mrs. Martin now sank down into a must perish. The robber was a powerlul A Traveler's Title. The Danes were rejoiced. A very aged chair to reflect en her position. As was man, and made furious efforts to get The diligence from Paris +o Chalons Dane, having been.rubbed with the wonoerful A JLittie Advice by Josh Billings. natural, after having taken all theee pre loose but in vain. Not a sound escaped *topped one evening, just atter dark, circular piece of gold, at once bepame cautions, the idea suggested itself that from his lius -not a sound from hers. some miles beyond the little town of young again, fresh and vigorous as Dear girlt,, are you in search of a] husband? tbey might be superfluous, and she smiled The dreadful tragedy was enacted in Rouviay. to set down an English lady and in the days of his boy-hood. So witti at the thought of what her friends would silence. her child at a lonely roadside avberac other Danes. You have brought back," That is a pumper, and you are not requested say when she related to them the tenors Mrs Martin expected to find a carriage "Well, mother Gueraid," cried a young said they, "the Blaiad na oze,' the blossom to say "Yes" out loud, but aro of the night. Her child was sleeping leady to take her to the Chateau de Senart, man, leaping out of a carriage that stopped of youth, and Ireland shall be poor expekted tew throw yure eyes down onte tranquilly, its rosy cheeks half buried in a distance of some leagues, whither before the door ot the auberge next evermore. the earth as tho you was looking for a pin the pillow. The fire had blazed up into she was repairing on a visit, but was told morning "what news have you forme? and reply tew the interrogatery with a a bright flame, whilst the unsnuffed candle that it had not yet arrived. The landlady, Has my mother arrived?" qnauit Story of a Tournament- kind or draulin sigh. burned dimly. The rx was full of a tall, coarse looking woman, who Is it your mother?" replied the landlady, Not tew press so tender a theme until pale trembling shadows, but she had no allowed her into the vast hall that served who seemed quite good-natured A correspondent of the American Register it bekums a thorn in the flesh, we will superstitious fears. Something positive at once as a sitting-room and kitchen, after her night's rest. "There is a lady translates the story of a tournament, presume(tew avoid argument) that you are could alone raise her alarm. She listened ooscived that the roads were so muddy up stairs waiting for some friends: but which took place before Duke Charles of on the lookout for something in the male attentively, but could hear nothing and difficult at night that there was little she does not speak French easily, and Savoy and the duchess and the ladies and line. Let me give you sum small chunks but the howling ot the wind over the chance of her friend arriving before the seemed unwilling to talk. We could lords of his court, the record of which is ov advice how to spot your future husband roof, and the pattering of the rain against morning. ''You had better, therefore," scarcely persuade her to go to bed. still preserved in the archives of Turin. the' window-panes. As her excitement she said. make up your mind to sleep At a royal banquet, one of the lords of Show me the room cried Arthur, 1. The mau who is jeallous every diminished, the fatiguewhich had been here. We have a good room to offer you, Blonay, he being a married man, asserted running into the house. little attenshun which you get from sum forgottenbegan again to make itself and you will be much more comfortable that the married man was as gallant and They soon arrived by the door. other fellow yu wud find after yu are felt, and she resolved to undress and go between a pair of clean, warm sheets formidable in deeds of arms, and in all "Mother! mother!""cried he, but received married to him he luvs himself more than to bed. than knocking abount in our rough things, as the unmarried man, and that no answer. he duz you, and what you mistook for country, especially as your dear child Her heart leaped into her throat. For the married woman was as virtuous and The door is only latched, for we have solissitude yu will discover has changed seems sickly." a moment she seemed perfectly paralyzed. worthy of praise as the unmarried woman no robbers in this part of the countrv,'' to indifference. and offering to prove it h\ (he lance or Mrs, Martain, though much fatigued She had undressed and put out the candle, said the landlay. Jellosy isn't a heart diseze, it is a liver sword, if there was any one who wished by her journey, hesitated. A good night's when she accidently dropped her But a formidable obstacle opposed kompliint. to contradict it. rest was certainly a tempting prospect watch. Stooping to pick it up, her eyes their entrarce. They became alarmed, but she felt confident that her friends involuntarily glanced towards the bed. 2. A mustash is aot bdispensibie it especially when they heard the shrieks of De Corsant, of Savory, an unmarried would not neglect her, that, after a moment, A great mass of red hair, a hand, and a is only a little more hair, and is much the little girl, and burst open the door. man, presented himself as chapion for the hhe replied, I thank you, madame gleaming knife, were revealed by the like moss and other excressences often The first object that presented itself unmarried. Duke Charles,seeing that the I will sit up for an hour or so it is light of the fire. After the first moment doz the best on sile that won't raise any question was not provked by hatred or was the face of the robber, violently upturned not late, and the carriage may come, after of terrible alarm, her pesence of mind returned. thing else. Don't forget that those things malevolence, and that they wished to from beneath the bed, and with all. Should it not, I shall be glad of She felt that she had herself cut which you admire in a fellow before fight to pass the fime, and for pleasure as protruding tongue and eyeballs the next your room, which you may prepare for off all means of escape by the door, and marriage you Avill probably dislike in a well as for the exercise of ai ms, gave his was the form of Mrs. Martin in the position me at any rate." was left entirely to her own resources. husband after, and a mustach will get to consent. There were to be two trials in which we left her. She was still Without uttering a cry, but trembling in The hostess, who seemed anxious that ith the lance and fifteen strokes only be a very week diet after a long time. pulling with both hands at the scarf, and every limb, the poor woman got into bed her guest should not remain in the great with the sword. If the nr nied man was 3. If husbands could be took on trial, glaring wildly towards the head of the by the side of her child. An ideaa room, suggested that a fire might be made conquered, he must beg for mercy ot as Irsh cooks are, two-thirds ov them bed. The child had thrown its arms planhad suggested itself. It had flashed Mile. De Savoy, and of all the unmarried above but Mrs. Martin found herself so would probably be returned but there around her neck, and was crying: but she ladies of that house, and from one lady through her brain like lighning. It comfortable where she wasa pile of faggots don"t seem to be enny law for this. paid no attention. The terror of that out of the house of Savoy, who should be was the only chance left. .is blazing on the vast hearththat Thefore, girls, you will see that after yu dreadful night had diiven her mad appointed by his conqueior. If the unmanned she declined at first to move. Her daughter git a man yu have got to keep him. ev*u Her bed was disposed that the robber man was conquerrcd he was to about five years of age, soon went to if you lo* on him. Consequently, could only get out from beneath it by The Artistic Girl, ask for mercy of the Duchess of Savoiy sleep in her lap, and she her&elf found that if have got enny kold kittles in narrow aperture at the head without and of the wife of Lord Blonay. whilst her ears were anxiously listening It would be a delusion to suppose that the house, try him on them once in making a noise and it was probable TO the carriage-wheels, her eyes aecasion.tlly she enters the roem. She is not one of a while during scouring season, and it he The arrangements completed, the two that he woald choose, from prudence, this closed, and slumber began to make its the soft, gliding creatures invented by swallers them well, and sez he will take champions met on the 12th of May, means of exit. There were no curtains iu&idious approaches. novelists, and supposed to steal into the sum more, he iz a man who, when blue 1504, on the square befoie the Castle in the way, so Mrs. Martain, with terrible heaits as into the presence of the hero. Iu order to prevent herself from giving Monday cums, will wash well. of Turin. On the fiist trial they faught decision aud noiseless energy, made a Miss daw bursts upon jou at once, like a way, she endeavored to direct her attention with so much address the lances weie running knot in her silk scavf, and held 4. Don't marry a pheiler who is alwus well-trained hurricane. She is expansive, to the objects around her. The apartment broken to pieces. Having received new it poised over the aperture by which her tellin how his mother do/ things. It \& eloquent of voice and of gesturewere I was vast, aud lighted more by the lances, De Blonay broke his boldly, and enemy was to make his appearance. She too hard to ween a a yung oue quite sure that the remark would not cost Corsant, encountering the shock, breastpiece, glare of the fire than by the dirty candle, had resolved to strangle him in defence .1. If a young man can beat yu playing girth and saddle ail were carried me mv life, I would say she is noisy. Yet stuck into a filthy tin candlestick that of her own life and that of her child. on a pianner and kaut hear a fisn to the ground with the chevalier in such there is nothing about her to which exception stood on eno of the long tables. Two or The oosition was an awful one and horn playing on the street without a way that every one believed it was all can be taken. She speaks goud En thiee huge beams stretched across halfway probably, had she been able to direct her turning a summersault on account of over with him. Not so, however Corsant glish with an elegant pronunciation. She up the walls, leaving a space filled attention to the surrounding circumstances, the music that is in him, I sav leave him, sprang immediately to his feet, ready to is perfectly fresh and frank, and has a with flitting shadows above. From these she might have given way to her he might answer to tend babe, and if yu do nis duty with the sword. The combat habit of saying what she thinks, which, depended a rusty gun or two, a sword, tears, and endeavored to raise the house set him hoeing out the garden, jou will was sustained long and bravely, and it charming as it is now, augurs ill for the several bags, hanks of onions, cooking by screams. The ,fire on the healthunattended find that you have got to do it yourself. would have continued longer if Duke man destined one day to call this thing of utensils, &c. There were very few signs A man whoze whole heft lies in musick tohad fallen abroad, and now Charles had not ordered them to desist. brightness his own. She is this morning that the house was much visited, though (and not too hefty at that) ain't no better gave only a dull, sullen light, with an Duke Charles accorded the honor of the clad in enthusiasm, and dark green of the a pile of empty wine bottles lay in one than a seedlitz powdei but if he luvs to occasional bright gleam. "Eveiy object day to the married lord, but acknowledged hue known as Moiris green. Her figure, corner. The landlady sat at some distance listen while yu sing sum gentle ballad, in the vast apartment showed dimly and that the champion of the unmarried -had very tali, slight and elegant, is freely from the fireplace with her two sons, who yu vrill find him mellw and not soft. uncertainly, and seemed endovred with done his duty bravely. Following the shown through the tight robe actually laid their heads together and talked in But don't marry enny teody for just one a restless motion. Now and then a conditions of tke combat, De Corsant knelt strained over it her fair hair is not laid whispers. viitew enny quicker thau you would ^lop mouse advanced stealthily along the floor, for pardon before the Duchess ot Savoy smoothly in any intelligible order, but a man forjjst one fault*. Mrs Martin began to feel uneasy. The but, startled by some movement under snd the married ladies of the court, and suggests that it has been brushed in opposite idea entered her mind that she had fallen the bed, went scouring back into its hole. i. It is one of the most tufftst things then set out for the Castle Blonay, which, directions by insane ladie's maids. into a resort of robbers and the words The child breathed steadily in its unconscious for a female to be an old maid successfully. after a long and perilous journey,, he safely A Rubens hat of astounding grandeur of "Ces'eMe," (it is she), which was all she repose the mother endeavored A great many has tried it and made reached, and asked grace of Lady Catherine conception crowns this startling figure. heard of the whispered conversation, continued also to intimate slumber, but the a badi job of it, and had a hard time. of the Castle and now having paid Miss Daw is armed with a book ot sketches, to alarm her. The door leading man under the bed, uneasy in his position, the penalty of the vanquishedT Every body seems to look upon old maids he asked and has just come from Heather!ey's into the road was left ajar, and for a could not avoid occasionally making for his discharge. jist as they do upon dried herbs in the or the Slade School of Art, I forget which. moment she felt an inclination to start up a slight noise. garrethandy for sicknesbaud therefore, She is full of art and artistic talkthat is On the next day Lady Blonay gave a and escape on foot. But she was far from Mrs Martin was occupied only with gills, it ain't a mistake that you shud to say, of art of one kind. Her yearnings grand banquet, and invited the lords and any other habitation, and if the people of two ideas. First, she reflected on the extraordinary be willing to swop opb with some, trucheartsed toward music and poesy are of a very mild ladies, married and unmarried, of the the hous really entertained any evil designs, delusion by which she had phellow for a hwsband. The swop nature, as compared with her enthusiasm neighborhood. Then De Corsaat met the her attempt would only precipitate been led to see enemies in the people of iz a good one but don't swop for any for the arts plastic and pictorial. Miss beautiful Zolande, cousia of Lady Blonay the catastrophe. So she resolved on the house and a friend in this red-haired man. who is respectable jjst because his Margery Daw has made good progress in and he concluded that by taking a wife patience, but listened attentively for the man and, secondly, it struck her that as fathe? is. You had better be an old maid both of the latter. She has thrust aside he should better sustain the caissse of the approach of her friends. All she heard, he could fear no resistance from a woman for 4,000 years, and thesu join the ShaKers, painting ou pottery with scorn and derision married than he had done that of the unmarried however, was the whistling of the wind he might push aside the chaiis that were than tew buy repentaeca at this price. she has advanced from water-colors at the tournament o Turin and the dashing of the rain, whicn had in the way, regardless of the noise, and No noman ever made this trade who to oils draws and models in the Mfe Lord Blonay returning tour days after begun to fall just after her arrival. thus avoid the snare that was laid for didn't get either a phoof, a mean cusr or school. Whether she will become a second and giving his consent, the nuptials were About two hours passed in this uncomfortable him. Once even she thought, while ber a clown, for a husbandi Rosa Bonheur remains to be seen. celebratMl in the good Castle of Blonay, way. At length the door was attention was strongly directed to one 7. In digging down into this subject I Probably ag she has both beauty aad when De Corsant bravely cried, "If any thrust open, and a man, dripping wet, spot, he had made his exit, and was leaning find ti digging goes harder the fuirther money, she will marry a broad-acred one says- aught against the marrid man, came in. She breathed more freely, for over her but she was deceived by a 1 get. It is much easier to inform yu squire and hunt three oays a week in the he must settle it with me, and I will *o this now-comer might frustrate the evil flickering shadow on the opposite wall. who aot to take, for tke reason there is season, but wherever she may go. her artistic to him what was done to me in the tournament designs of her hosts, if they entertained In reality there was no danger that he more of them. at Turin!" instinct? will go with her. This type any. Re was a red-haired, jovial-faced would compromise the success of his I don't think you wail foller my asivice of girl iias been greatly en the increase looking man, and inspired her with confidence sanguinary cnterpiise the shrieks of a if I give it, and therefore I will keep it, since the death of fancy worka species A Petrified Papoose* by the frankness of his manners. victim put on hi guard, might alarm for I look upon advice as I do oasfcor-ile of industry which produces, at great expense "A fine night for walking!" cried he, the house. There recently came into Washington, a meaD dose to take and a meant dose of time and money, a large number shaking himself like a dog who has Have you*e\er stood, hour after hour, without company of kith or kia, an Indian to grre. But I must say one thing,, girls of entirely useless and worthless ai tides. scrambled out of a pond. "What have with your Sishing-rod in hand, waiting papoose, of the Arspahoe- tribe. He or spile. If you can find a bright-eyed, Onr artistic gfrls are by no means free you to give me? I am wet to the skin. with the ferocious patience of an angler is a little fellow and is petrified, and has well balusted boy who looks uposa poverty from the taint of esthetic caat, and plunge Heme I disturb nobody. Give me a bot- for a nibble? If you have, you have been set ia state in the Smithsonian. az sassy az a child looks upon riches into the mysteries of decoration with unflinching some faint idea of the state of mind in on opposite He was found in a wild loaely mountain $ $ wine." Ranged1 who had rathen sit down wpon the courage. which Mrs. Martinwith far other interests gulch in Dakota, in a hollow tree, in The hostess, in a burly, sleepy tone, curbstone in front of the Fifth Avenue sides, they debate with much vivacity at stakepassed the timer which were also conveniently placed told her eldest son to serve the gentleman, until an Hotel and eat a ham sandwich, then go and at great length the respective merits old clock on the chimney-piece told one knife and. food in the gripsack" for use. and then addressing Mrs. Martin, said: inside and run in, debt for his dinner and of trie systems now in vogae, including hour after midnight. Another source of until his spirit should reach the happy "You see your friends will not come' toothpickand who a maa with a sort the style knowu as decoration by plot" hdnting-grounds. His face is painted in anxiety presented itselfthe nre had and you are keeping us up to no purpose. of pluck that mistakes a defeat for victory in which every thing is considered with red streaks, and his garments- are fine and nearly burnt out. Her dizzy eyes could You had better go to bed." mi advice is to take him body and soul refference to the employmeat of blue and gaudy. A rare Arapahoe blanket, made scarcely see the floor, as she bent with "I will wait a little longer," was the reply, snare him at onst, for he is ai stray trout, white china. The artist girl is very proud by hand by the tribe,, and which would feasful attention over the head of the bed which elicited a kind of shrug of a breed very ska*se iu our waiters. of knowing distinguished painters. She bring fabulous prices amoag connoisseurs the terrible noose hanging, ilke the contempt. talks feebly to and of them, and has views was wrapped about the little fellow in hia sword of Damocles, abeve the gloomy The red-haired man finished off his as to their method of work but the summit pine-tree cradle. He is a very small aperture, "What," she thought, "if he bottle of wine, and then said: C.ipt. Peabody, of the bark C. A. of her ambition i-? reached when wanderer from bis Western camp-fire,, delays his appearance until tne night has "Show me a room, good woman. I Whitmore, is smder arrest at Boston tor Stodge, R. A., or Scumble, A. R. A., introduces and looks lonely enough peeping from completely died away? Will it not then shall sleeo here to-night." cruelty to his second mate,. Elwood, resulting her portrait into an Academy his glass ca at the living throng ofpalefaees be impossible for me to adjust the scarf Mrs. Mai tin thought that as he pronounced in lias death. The trouble occurred picture with a eatching title, such as "Ask and the ghastly multitude of skeletons to do the deedto kill this assassin these words he c^vst a protecting during a voyage from Cardiff to Papa," or "The Mitten," "At Last," and that rear their wire-tied bones in the to save myself and my child? O, God! glance towards her, and she felt less repugnance Hong Kong, in the summer of 187Q, and, so forth. Then she is supremely happy, great museum hall. He probably does deliver him into my hands 1" at the idea of passing the night according to the affidavits of the crew and having sworn the artist to secrecy, not enjoy his visit to civilization as much A cautious movement belowthe dragging in that house. When, therefore, the redheired Peabody's treatment f Elwood was outrageous. quietly tells Jawleigh, who is "connected as he would if he conld walk the streets. ot hands and knees along the floor man, after a polite bow, went up He confined him in chains with the press," all about the matter, surrounded by a crowd of yelling gamins a heavy,suppressed breathingannounced stairs, she said that as her friends had not rode him on the keel of a boat, and scrubbed knowing, the sly puss, that the world will and crowding nurse-girls if he could that the supreme moment was near at arrived they might as well show Ler to a him with a bxoom and salt water. certainly be informed of her identity take one squint at the shop-windows, or hand. Her white arms were bared to the bed-ioom Around his wrists were sores, and there with Stodge's or Scumble's model.All visit the big east-room of the Great Father shoulder her hair fell wildly around her were five wounda in bis head. The Captain "I thought it would come to that at see the steam strftet-car that now rolls the Year Hound. face, like the mane of a lioness about to had a small bank made for him, last," said the landlady. "Pierre, take down the avenue without the aid of leap upon its prey the distended orbits four feet long and one and a half feet the lady's trunks no stairs." horses, or watch the yellow lights blaze ot her eyes glared down, upon the spot wide. It was so short that Elwood's Curious L.egeud. In a few minutes Mrs. Martin found out at nightfall like summer fire-flies, knees almost touched his chin, and he where the question of life or death was to herself alone in a spacious room, with The Irish have a curious legend respecting swarming over the marshy city of the died in this bunk from tho injuries he be soon decided. Time seemed immeasurably a large fire burning on the hearth. Her what they call Blaiad na nation's capitalit would be jollier for had received three days after the last lengthened outevery second first care after putting the child to bed oze in other words, "The bloom of him, but not for us. For dirty live Indians beating. The Captain was arrested at assumed the proportions of an hour. But was to examine the coor. It closed only youth." The legend is this: An Irishman we can see nearly every day, but Hong Kong but fled, and it was only a at last, just as all lines and forms began by a latch. There was no bolt inside. at one period went to Denmark, not a grand frozen little warrior like this. tew days ago that he was found in Boston. to float bgfore her sight through an indistinct She looked round "for something to barrioade where he was hospitable recieved, much Washington Cor. Chicago Times, medium of blended light and dark- it with, and perceived a chest of to his astonishment. He was taken into