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•â- Tha Place Where the Uld Ilorae Died." Ju the linllow, by tbti luiUard. where (be crop la tall and rank. Of ttit} duck Ivaf and the uetllo crowing free, Where thu briimblu and tho bruiliwuod Htrai;glv blindly cjVr tbu Imrik, Atid Ihf pyat j-rk- acid chattnrs on tlio troo, Tboro's a (o:icu I nover pass lu thu eod^'ufi and the Kraas, Hut ffr vttrv eharuu [ turn cny l:>^a(l aside. Vvhiltf thu learH coiiin thick and liot. And my cur»f! id on thu Bixit â€" 'Tig thu place wiitru llit> eld humu died. Tliuru'H hit) hoof upon thu chimney, there's his hidu upon thu cliair, A buttur iiuvur t>'-iit liini to tlio rt'in. Now, for all my lovo and caru, Ivo an ouipty â- tall and baru : I Bhall iiuver tide itiv t>'>illant liorso atfaiu! How hu laid tiiiu out at spncd, llow hu Im-tid tu havu a lend ilow hu HPortu'l in liU tiH^ttlu and his pride ' Not K (lyur of i1m> hunt Waa buDtdu him in thu front. At the plu<--u wheru thu uld homu diud! Was ho blown â- ' 1 hi'.rdly think it. Did lip all p'.' 1 caiiuot ttdl. Wo had run Ittr forty triinuteb in the vale, Hu wan rcuchin}{ at lii.-H bridlu. hu waH going h'roHR and wutl, .â- \nd hu iiuvur huuiiiud to falter or to fail ; Though 1 H 'nK^tiniuH fancy too, 1'iiat liiH iluriiji^ bpirit know The task huyond the ciiiipaMi of hiti Btridu ; Vet hu faced i^ truu and brave, And dropped into hiu uravu. At thu place whuru thu old liurtiu died. t waa tip in half a niiniUu. but hu never seemed to stir TboUi{h 1 Hcorrd him with iiiy ruwelH in thu fall : la his life he had not felt befuru the iiisultof thu Biiur. And 1 knew that it wan ovur oocu for all. When inotioiiluHH he lay In his clieur uhh bud of clay. Huddled up without an ufTort on hin sldnâ€" Twaa a hard and bitter utroke. For hiri honest back waa broke, At the place w hero the uld horae diud. With a nui^h Bo faint and fuublu that it totiehed mu liku a t^roaii, " l-'arowull. ht> euuniod to murmur, " cro I die ; " ThuQ ael his tuuth, and Htrutchod hia lituiiH, and HO I Btood alone, While tbu morry chaio wont heedless Bw<*ep- ing by. Am 1 woniiitily and weak If the luar waH on my cheek Kor a brotlierhoo<l that death could thud divicle ' If, Blf-kenod and amar.ud. Through a woeful mist 1 Kazeil, On the place whuru tbu uld horsu diud. Thoru aro men both Roo'l aiul w!bo who hold that, lu a futiiru htatu. Dumb creaturud wo have eheridlie<l hero below Shall dive iiH joyous greeting when wo pass the guld<iii Kate ; Ib it folly that I hope it may be bo? Kor never man had friend More eiidurmt{ tu thu und, Truur mate in every turn of timu and tide ; Could I think we'd meet ai;aili. It would lighten half my pain At the place wheru thu uM horde died. â€" Wlx'jie Mfli tite. A NOVEL. CUAl'TEU V. TI!K MOI'.SK AMI TIIK I.IOS. Ths bit; oatK>'<8 of Untied prupriotore, wboro Diiitbiir c ' ^1 ii^r irou hsu bovn found, wbure no now i' 'ua have Bprunt{ up, and the Bemi'dbtscli I villaB iloar to the jerry builder aro ah >ei unknown, do not repre- •ent thoir former income norconBideration. Farms arc no lun){er forttincH, ami fields <lo little more tlian pay for thoinaelvea. The Karl of KiR»>dhoUH'j was an example of the rathlusanoad of tlio timeH. There was no poBBible blame to be found witliliim and bia. Tliey had lived the ordinary lives of -ordinary f>*llaut gentlemen, (iiijuyiin; tlic â- unahine while it lauted, and liuliuvini{ in ill evorlaatiD^ oontinuanue, by direct provi- dential ordering, for their bom lit. Xhoy had not been Bpeiidtlinltiidf an e.xtniva^aiit kind, and Ihoy had not been iiiunBtrously vioions. Noithur had they coinu to the front as ureat ({(inorala nur as noted Htatos- men, thoui;li they had boun for Kunoratioiia ofBoerii in thu army and navy, nur bai they eadod aa Kovcrunent uftiuials of bi^h rank after be^inniii^ an attauhos of very proble matiu value. Btill, thu family wcalth*had Hlowly ducreased both in actual bulk and relative proportions, till, aa has been said, the preuent earl had buoii forond to lot the nastlii (or what rental it would fotoh, and live in the Dowur House with aa mnoh eoonoiny as ho onuld command and more modesty than hu enjoyed. It was, howovor, his only hnpu, but evmi with thid things did not mend, and thu ruil 11 )ii couchant, which wai thoir proud family crest, was daily more eharply pineliinu within that (jailing not of debt and diflie.iilty drawing ever tighter mid ti^^htor round it. What was to bo done? Iluw (rum that provutbial dtono (•0% the desirud blood? The KinffsliouH) ohU a must bo still (ur ther clipped ; and if thu foul llond liiinself held Ihu iiliears hu iiiiiHt bu dealt with as a i;entleoian and (^uurtnotisly entreated. TIra estate went up as far as the pardon wall of Itedbill, and that bit whiiih my lord cuuld â- ell without his nun's cuiinunt was just what would nuit tho (ixminor tu buy. It was grief and pain to tralViu the land, which rupruuoutod hia diKiii'y. (or thu â-ºjold of a man whom, in former days, my lord would not have taken into hiu serviou as a xroom, nor admilte<l his hum into his house as a â- hoe-black. Itut those debts were pressing ; money was absolutely necessary, yet as dinioult to liiiil ns i( buried in a pot lionnath the rainbow ; thii .Inwii were eharks o( n mord (oriiiidablo kind than Miles Hta»{^ would bo, and that bit of poor land would fetoli a Kootl price if tho hiranto millionaire, on whose garden wall it abutted, Hliould desire to have it, and so throw out aiiutlutr runner into tli-i rich soil of landed pro- prietorship. My lord w«H no (Uiristlar. democrat after thu pattern ul bin dauxhter. Ou the non- trary, he looked at slati^a and prinnipalitlos aa of divine ordination, and hold tliu tani- porora therewith aa rebels against the ex proaa deorae of the Alml|{hly rebels with whom tho polioeman'a trunohoon wan the only viilid arutimonl, and a (olon's prison cell tho ri){hteuiis ruinody. In this swoop- ing condemnation, however, he did not Include that daughter his duliKht, as it baa been aaid he usuil (n call her. Like many othor luviiii: and therefore ilU)|{iual |inople, love made a line of ita own, and allowed a now prinoi|ilii to appear when it tonnhnd hiinaelf. Had it been Molly, the dairy-maid, for instaiuvi, or Mrs. (Man- rloarde, or even |Mra. Htewart though aa (hs wife of a cler^tynian she waa ollloially (roe of certain )ihil>inthropic fads uaviare to the million who had maintained the naaential anperiority of the hiitnan beiii|{ over tho uonveniional i Uiiuii of nrlHlonratio Kontlohood, he would have eonsiijned any one u( them to tho eternal peroition (or which ahe had qaalitied herself. Bat Lady EU/abeth was different. The inexhaastible fountain of mercy would ^tAut forgiveness for a mistake which in the bouadlesa expanse of knowledge would figure a3 a virtueâ€" a little awry, and with a kink somewhere in the golden thread ; bat always a virtu>', and to bo rewarded as each. Lord JOaatat.e bad told bis father of Lai^y I'^lizabeth'a damaging coadeaceoaion at tho tonnia party, and he bad himself, with his own ariatooratio and aagust eyea, eeea her shako handa with the omad'haon at the oburuh door on the Banday following. Ue had aeen and wondered, but be had not ioterfered, partly because of that bit of land which had been weighing on hia mind for some time past ; partly becanse ho thought that if it waa her good pleaaare to tiad any merit in that extraordinary-look- ing young man called Caleb Btagg â€" to my lord hia very name waa enough -i(, in tho plenitude of her seraphic sweetness, she thought her grace and condescension would in any way, or to tho amallest degree, re- deem him from the gross burden of hia inheritance ; well, that waa just her good- ness warping her intellect- The earl, her father, did not share her belief, and had ao part in her choice. Hly is always Sly, ami the sty does not breed lions. Nor is it politically desirable to aim at such aocial or personal tranamutatioa. Morally and religiously, of coarse, it was all right, but then he was not so moral nor so religious either in a transcendental way aa she. Men never are ao good as women, aud she waa bettor than moat women, if ho waa no worse than the average man. All this gentle playing at providence and philanthropy pleased her, hia delight, who took the shine out of them all; and i( no one profited, it did no one any harm- Wherefore ho merely raised hia eyebrows when he aaw hia daughter's act of condeaoensioa before tho whole congregation, and said not a word to bring a shade of sorrow on that pure, sweet, holy faoe, whiuh was to him tbe deareat thing in life. Besides, again, ray lord had the true Knglish geatleman's feeling with respect to the action of women. lie gave them their head up to a certain point ; on the one hand, booaaao they wore half of hia own order, whose statas touobed his own, and who were thorofure entitled to respo>:t as their birthright; on tbe other, for contempt as to what they might do. The two motives had their oomtnon source in pride; which id not wholly bad. When tenderness is 8tiporadded,as with my lord forhisdaagliter, the thing takes another complexion, and whiit was the lofty toleration u( coatompt bsoumos tbu free gift of love rocogoi/:ing (<iual moral rights. All the same, the ox-miner and his family were of a dilToront lloah and blood from thu tlosh and blood of thoae born lu the purplu, in ray lord's estimate of human value , aud hia dear delight's undoubted virtue had aa undoabtedly a queer twiat ia it somewhere. It was a proud day for Milo3 Htagg when my lurd'a agent wrote to him, ulToring him that parcel of land known ax the Utjdhill liraos for suoh and audi a sum; which, truth to say, waa about throe times its market vAue. One third had been added bscause of that abutment of the garden wall ; the other, bectuae it was the Karl of Kingshouso who opened nogotiations at Booond hand with Miles Htagg, the ex- miner ; thu third, was tho solid base linu of which those other two made the sides of the trianglo. Without a traort of anotibiahncas in hin rou'.>h hewn c!iar*i^ter. Miles could not be indilTorent to siioh topjy-ttirvydom of con- ditiucs nt was implied in this ofTcr. It waa simply hnnitn iiatiini that ho Hhould bo proud of thn consciousness that he, only a few years ago a mcruilay- laborer, cam ing his twenty to thirty Hliilliiiga a week, should now bu ablu tu help my lord, who was like a littlu god among them nil. " I'ruii 1 ! ay, that waa he, biiroly," as he mid to Nancy, who waa partly ja/.ud and partly frightened hy the event. And yet ho ft.t sorryâ€" alnmit ai.li-«tned â€"that the gre»t an I powerful shniild 1<- Fo humbled aiirl brought bo far lo«. lli^ would rather havu iiogotiated for Lady Kli/.abeth's hand on the more c<|iial terms of money for rank, and as good a lad as ever stopped for a likely lady's husband and the father of her lady ship's bairns, 'fhat would have been a fair exchange and no robbery, he said . but this oMor of It parcel of poor land for threu times its market value was such a coiifes sionuf need. It made him downright sorry fur the grand old family, and ho was no wiuo minded to stiill at tho evident oxtor lion, nor would hu haggle over the price Ho would pay my lord what ho asked, and much good might the brass do him not said irunionlly, but in surious uarnest. LIo, Miles, wanted naught with so.'.iety for bimsulf, though he was main glad that (!alub should have his whack. He wanted truly to sue his lad woddod to a lass with a gnind name, so that hu shotlld thus bo nhlu to (oiiiid a family, as sunh wealth as theirs Hhould do. Ho wanted liady Dli/.aboth as his daughtur-in law, but hu was not going to put down this on thu backof the cheque, 'riiings must come as they wonld.and C'aleb miidt strike his own seam in his own way, knowing as how hia daddy was at his back tosecoiid all his elTorts. llonon the bargain wits eunchidod be tween thu horny-handed ('neius and tho empty-handud aristocrat on the strictest buainoBS (outing; and my lord never knew how muuh hu owed to tho guiiorosity of thu man hu generally doeignated as " that bruto " when ho upoku of liitn at all. My lord paid part of his nioru pressing debts with thu ex-minor's money, am) tho ex minor wondured what on earth ho slinuld do with tho land now that be had it, and what good would bo thu luaes to him when thoy won- of iiono to hid lordship. " 'I'liey'll itn to remind thoo, Miles, that a fool and his mnnoy'a soon parted," said Jim l''ialior, striking hia long obin. And Miles anawerod, with n voice like a fog horn, " Ay, man, that will they !" laughing aa if the loss of so many thou saiida stood aa a huge Ihiancial jokn. " Tho worat bit of land all round the oountry-sido !" oonliniiod Jim, always in his qualityof Janus Mentor on tho one side and Thersites on tho othor. ' That'H about it, Jim," rntnrnoil his (ormsr mate and present patron. ' 'X'heiu Ihistlus and rugwurt fairly hot ray garden," cutitinuud Jim. " It takoa a man's time to kco i down t' woods an tliea over the wall." "Well stub 'em up, Jim," said Miles, routibly uhoery. " Thou'at got to bo glad. man, as I've bought the land. Thy garden '11 be all tbe cleaner now that I've got my right to tbe ploaghiog ont ! " " Ploaghiog !" repeated Jim, disdain- fully ; "as if ary a ploagh as waa ever forged would go in among them stones ! I think thou'st losing thy eyesight. Miles. Why, t'laod is fell-land, top and bottom ; aud unless ye can staff pillows with thistle seed, I don't see what ye'll make of it, or whers the vally of it lies, nohow. ' " We'll see !" saidMileB,laaghing amain, and slappiog hia pockets aa he waa wont when pleaaed. " If I don't find a vally for tbe land, tell ma my name's not Milea Stagg, and call me Jack Kobinson in- atead." " Jack-pudding, Jack-fool, Jaok-ass ! That's what I'll call thee," grumbled Jim, walking back to hia turnips aa stiff as a soldier on parade, and as sour as an unripe lemon. Bat if the purchase of this parcel of land, this part of the great earl's estate, with ita rijb crop of ragwort and thistles, did not add much to MileiStagg'seassutial poaition as a landed proprietor, still less advance by even a hair's breadth that dar- ling dream of aristocratic alliance which he caressed, as Bottom might have caressed Titania ; it touched Caleb's position in the society of tbe place, and materially im- proved hia questionable holding. It was one thing for this rough and birscto Sly, this ex -miner Btag-4, to have boaght Red- hill ; to have built a hideoas new house on the site of the old, dark, tunible-dowo, in- convenient Elizabethan gem ; to have set up " glass " by tho acre, and to let surly old Jim Fisher neglect all their poten- tialitiea when he had done so ; and another thing to bay the braes direct frotn my lord himself. The former owner of Kodhill had been an absentee, holding a coffee plantation in Jamaica, which ho ooald neither leave nor sell, and which did not pay its working expenses, and the house had been let to any one who would take it â€" now to a shady captain, who, as they aaidinthoae parts, "shot the moon" one night when the place bad got too hot for bim, and now to a farmer who turned the ban<iaeting hall into a granary. Tbua ths neighborhood had felt no twinge of resentful sympathy for diaposseasion of an honored holder when Miles Btagg had bought the place, nor disapprobation of the new man's " land grabbing." Nor had it felt personally or local ly enriched by tbe miner'a gold which bad flowed over the aaaa and had dons no good to any oae at home. When it came to tbe opening of a direct conduit when ray lord lowered bis crest so far as to condescend to sell part of the great Kingahoase estate to tbe former miner, and had got throe times ita market value for the parcel â€" then the neighborhood pricked up its ears and rubbed ita dry handa together, and wondered if, perobani j, any drops of tbia beautiful golden ointment would ever moiaten thia and that and tho other of tboac curved and hungry palms. ''* CUA.ITEU VI. irAB on JMON i.Mur. The Karl of Kingahoase was devoted to aatronomy : tho countess to embroidery. ISetwecn these two absorptions lay a wide tract of domcstio freedom by which Lady Elizabeth protiled, noone iuterfering. Her father, whoao favorite puraait caaaod bim to tnrii night into day, was asleep when ho should have been awake Uer mother who had grown indolent in her compar- ative poverty and aeoliision, aakod only to bo let alone, wrestling with the diniculty of shades and stitches and mourning in com- pletion the annihilation of endeavor. Hence Lady P'^li.'.tbsth lived her own life emphat- ieally, and carried out tn the utmost of which she was capablo the philanthropic doctrines which in " I'araon Lot's " time would have gone tinder tha name of Christ- ian Bocialiam. tib-) ronnived whom she would, aud did as she would, and the only one who ever dreamed of objecting was her brother Kuatace, and be found no audience. His father pooh-poohed him in favor of hia delight, and bis mother followed suit in f-vor of her iudolonca. It Elizabeth really »<:it too far, and did wli«t ahe ought nut, that, p.ovjd, would neceaaitata her own stricter surveillance and more aotive oom- panionahip ; and (or this the effort would bo too great. Of the two, ahe preferred to hu an ostrich rather than a tly, and to slick her head intotheaand.aeeing nothing rather than to light on a window-pane, looking all waya at once. Huataco was so tulgoty I ahe Maid, plain- tively, to my lord : and he had always been jo'alona of Kli/aboth. Why could he not lot her alone .' If she liked to havu dirty little children about her, and give them tea and cakes in tho park, there waa plnnty of rouiu and no one aulTored. Aud if she chooao to admit thia wonderful young man thia hideona young Htag^^ and to talk to hiiu as if bu wero a human bning li>u any other, that waa lior affair, and no other peraon'x. Slip, my liidy, supposed tho yirl was iipt thinking uf marrying him, and it was very :tmiablu of hor to try to ma^u him leaa odioiia than ho was ; in view of his reapoiis- ibilitiea, indeed, it was moru than amiable it was meritorious ; for aasuredly the napkin in which this imitieuHO nngi;et was wrapped left inucli to be desired ou tho Bcure of pattern and get-up generally. Hy tho grace of which reasoning it came about that Lady Klix.abetli was untnoleatod, and Lord Euslaoe went bao\ to his regiment decidedly not thn victor ; and ('alob Hiagg was mado free of those wide and shallow stairs which led up to Lady Klizabetb's quaint and artistically furniahod room. This waa one of the doors which opened for him in aomu sense eunsequcnt on that sale of Ued- hill Itraea. Thus it uamu about that Caleb was really a good deal at thu 1 >owur lloiiso, whieli at one titnu he would rather have gono into a lion's dun than entur ; and that Lady Kliz- aboth, taVing her mother's view of his respotuiibilities, and agreeing with her as to tho pattern anil gut-np of the napkin, did what ahu could to bring thia heir to millions Bomewliat into lino with at least tho ordinary gentry of tho country, and hor e.x ample intlitenoed others. It inlluencod Mrs. Clanrioarde perhaps inure than any othor. Whoie Lady I'.li/.a both wont, maauor folk might follow, and Mrs. Clanrioarde followed so fast as to out- run her pioneer altogether. Uer door opened aa wide na it would go, and not a week passed w ithout aonio expreaainn of material interest on the part of the mother of Eatelle for the only son of that rough hewn Craaua of Uo\ihill. Itul it was uphill work. Hetweeu her resolve to domoatioalo Oalob Htagg and 1 hia distroea under the proooas and evident diaincliaation to anbmit to it, who would win ? " It ahall not be," aaid the French woman, sattiog her teeth bard, when aha read the young man's refusal to the third invitation she had aent him. " Bat if be doea not want to come, poor fellow, why aak him, mother? " aaid Eatelle fallotcompaaaioufor the unhappy creature, whom her mother ao amiably ptrsecuted and ao humanely distressed. "It's oar duty," saidMra. Clanricarde, with admirable aelf-command. " As Lady Elizabeth aaya, it ia sach a pity that tbe owner of auch large responsibilitica shoald be so little fitted to the use of them." "Bat it makes him ao unhappy, ' said Katelh. " He ia just miaerable all the time he ia here. Be gives me the impreaaion of a worm that has been trodden on. I am sare he ia far happier with bis own people than with aa." " You might be of more aae to him than voa are, my dear," aaid Mra. Clanricarde. " Young people understand each other so much better than they understand as older folks. If yon would ta4e bim in hand as Lady Elizabeth doea, yoa would perhaps make something of a gentleman of bim. ' " He aeems even more miserable with me than with yoa," objected Eatelle. « " That is becaase he sees voa shrink from him â€" that yoa despiae him," aaid her mother. " No, I do not deapiae him, mother," re- tamed Eatelle, gravely ; " that would be ancharilable and unchristian." " Yea, that is just what it is," said Mrs. Clanrisatde, a little eagerly. " It ia really ancharilable, really unchristian. Estelle. and I am very sorry to see my daughter cheriah such an unholy temper. Yoa know that I am not one of your dreadful democrata, and that I hold to the distinction of clashes and all that, but thia is quite different from anything of that kind. It ia not an ordinary case at all. God baa endowed these people with wonderful means either for good orevij â€" and it isoar duly - all of Ul to do what we c;ia to insure that they shall be for good." " Yes, I see," aaid Eatelle, alowly. " So that I hope, my dear, you will be kinder to thia poor desolate young man," continued Mrs. Clanricarde, bringing down thehammerof principle ones morewithawill on the healed iron of sympathy. You aro doing a religions daty, remembar, and Lady Elizabeth aets you the good example." Warmed by her mot her' a words, and with all hor cooaoienoe ruuaad, Kaielle took heart of grace for her charitable work, and the next time that Caleb Btagg suffsred him- self to ba caught she was so sweet and kind and gentle that her trodden worm scarce knew on what leaf he waa resting, nor what bird was singing there in the bushes over- head. And at thia momsat Mra.Clanricarde hated ths yoang millionaire, and would havu alaia bim if abo ooald. Bat Eitelle was not so passionately dis- coaraged aa her mother. She had no: the aame reasons. " Poor fellow I " she thoaghl, pityingly. " What a misfortune to ba lo shy and un- gainly '. And fancy hia being ao much afraid of me. As i( any one in the world need be afraid of me ! " And then she thought of Charlie Osborne â€" dear, handaome, well-mannered Charlie, that /*-i/c princepi among men, who would do everything better than any one elae. and who waa the deareat fellow in the world â€" as beautiful in heart as be waa in person â€" and withoat a flaw that ahe, hia lover, and, in a manner, his worshipper, could discover. Ah, if mother would only believe in him aa he deserved to be believed in, and allow the engagement between tli?mtobe openly oonfesaed â€" standing (oursquaro on that sound ground of f attire auccesa â€" that ground which waa to Eatelle as true as jas- per foundations rf the Oreat City wall I But mother was inexorable on this point. It was like asking one parched with thirst to cat ham aud anchovies, to beseech her, {K-nnilessasshe waa,tOBllowof a prospective marriage and present engagement between her daughter and Charlie Osborne burying her one available talent in the earth and planting her beet investment in foredoomed failure. It waa absurd to ask it ; it would be criminal madness to grant it. And there the matter ended, and no more need be aaid. Which waa bat cold comfort for Kstelloto carry on hor qaivering lip when Charlie had argi'd her to press his claim ou Mrs. Clanri- oarde once again as so often beforeâ€" when, perhaps, ho had written a letter aa sad as tears and has warm as living blood, and had had for all reponse a negative as sharp as knives and as cold as it waa sharp Then the two poor tortured lovers had. nothing for it but to hold each other by tbe hand, look into each other's bqanliful eyea Bwear to be faithful through life aud unto death, and aerarate iu haste â€" fear of detec- tion mingled with doabt whether thoy oould meet again to.morrow â€" on Katolle's aide, doubled with ahameat her deceit. Vor hy this time Charlie waa forbidden Lea Baulea altogether, and all his iutercourae with Eatelle w.«sooutrabandfrom the atari to the finish. And really for a girl who bad boon pro. perly educated and aagoly leutured to have run like a lapwing under cover of a hedge, then etiddonly ta appear in tho ganleti aaniitering np the broad walk, aa oool as a oiKMimber, with oyea yet bright from unshed teara, and lipaa little redder than usu«l by force of being unduly preasod really to have to stoop to these subtorfug.^a for the sake of a lover as against a mother, is a trial to tho oonsoieneo of a severe kind I No uondor, then, to indemnify that mother for this nnooufesaed infraction of bur orders, tho poor girl iiiadu herself no sw;Hit and gentle to Caleb Sta^jg that he was sometimea daied aa by a vision of glory, and sometimoa mado to feel like a brui.ied worm trodden under fml by a bird of paradise. Then he would iltiiigo i;,lo tho woods and bury himaelf out of sight or ho would mount tho fella and disappear over the other Bide ; and often in those latter days ho would lie down with hia (ace turned to tho earth, aiidaob like a child (or some strarge pain about hia heart for whieh ho oould give no name nor cause. When in these moods he used to be so still that tho birds Hew low about him, and tho beea bu.-.zed round hia hair, losing their way among tho heather. Hours would pass while he was in thia state, half of trance and half of agony. It soemed to him na if he bore in hia heart all the sorrows of tho world as if hu and his nature made common cause with death, aud joy waa blotted ont forever. And then sometimes this incod would pass for nothing more iatrinsio tbau tho cry of a lark in tho sky, or the sonlight shining on a tract of grass of I'arnassoa or on the bronzsd spikes of the bog- asphodel. Changeable as an April day, he did nok know himself at times ; and if he did not. scillleas did his parenta. Milea was of the two the more seriously disturbed. He thoaght hia lad waslo«iagBu:h wita as be ever had ; bat Nancy said it was jaat dyspepsia- which she pronounced " diahpepsy " â€" and pre- scribed peppermint drops aa a fine remedy. Then the mood would paas altogether, and not a trace of thia deep, if dreamy, sadneaa would remain. Inviiationa would come either from the vicarage or from the Clanri- cardes, from the curate or the doctor, tha retired major or the half-pay captain ; and Caleb would go to the gathericga with th« rest, and ba ths " cynosure " on more accounts than one- When he had been with Lady Elizabeth he va calmer, more reconciled with himaelf and life, and fitter for such duties aa fell to his share. She had that powcf over him, which some women possess, of soothing the perturbed s.pirit, aa when a cool hand rests lightly on a fevered brow ; and had it not been for her, the poor omad'haan woald have found things harder than they were, though why tbey shoald be hard at all waa a puzzle to him, for which he had no solation handy. The Uedhiil miner lad, whom so lately no one had known, was now quite u per- sonage in the place ; and though he waa as roughly caat and rndely moulded as coold well be, he waa all the same the Golden Calf to thos3 wanderers in tbe desert of impecunioaity, and being golden, thoagh • calf, was gently entreated and conrteously entertained. Who would not have been? Who3e father could and would give three times its market valae for a piece of land, bearing mostly ragwort and thistles, and pay tho money down, like a man, on the spot, neither discount itaked nor objection mado? No wonder that he waa made muuh of by the society of Kingahoase 1 No wonder that he waa courted by Mrs. Clan- ricarde, to whom at thia moment Caliban himaelf, if a millionaire, would have been welcoLue aa a potential son in law ! and no si-'ondcr that, aa a conse<jaence, this un- wonted excitement was almost too much for bim, and, together with other thing*, disturbed hia mental equilibrium somewhat gravelv. CHAPTER YII. pang. It was the birth hour of his eonl with the one, of his social humanity with the other. In both he suffered; but tha pangs of tha latter w^rs unspeakabla and unappeasable, while the joys in the formar overshadowed tho pain. When the soul coufeaaea its sins, ia not tire very confeatioa self-healing? And all thia time his father added to hia anguish by hia coarse congratulationa whenever be came home from one of thoae Kingahoase gatherings, bis ripe imagination plucking the fruit that was not yet even in tbe bud when he arged his son to carry the earl's daughter in terms that barm the poor fellow's heart witbin him lika so much shrivelled parchment. Meanwhile all this mental torture waa hidden from the two who caused ii. To Lady Elizabeth poor Caleb waa a well- deairing, well-deserving, nuformed, bat capable creature to instruct and develop ; to Estelle b« was a haman animal lo whom, for compassion's sake, she waa aa gentle as she wonid have been 10 a horse or a dog, but with whom she (ell no more possibility of comradeship and infinitely less fami- liarity of affection. Of a truth, it waa Beauty and the beast ; and the Boast was the sacrifios. Bometimss a horrible thought crossed Eatelle's mind, but it waa one ao degrading to lior mother as well aa to herself as to be almost blasphemous. Aud yet she could not wholly banish it. Her mother's praises pricked the poor girl like witches' needles. She felt their invisible points aud smarted nnder them, but she had to keep silence. Of what good lo ery out? and to whom could she cry ? Lady lUizabelh'a liking (or the Beast â€" which, by the- way, seemed to her a kind of maiuesa -staled her lips to her; and Charlie had enough troubles to bear aa thttiga were, sho need uol to add to them htr own ahare. (To b« Continued'. tfuperatltlouB and Ktsures. \'irgil tells ua that the gods esteemed odd mimbera There were seven wise men in antiquity and aavcn wondera of tho world. Miraculous powora are auppcaed lo be ^)Of seased by tho eeventh daughter. Nine grainsof wheat laid on a four leaved clover enables one to see the fairies. It is an ancient belief that achange in tbe body of a man occurs every seventh year. Falstaff says : " They say there is divin- ity in odd numbers, cither by nativity, chance, or daath." The number three was the perfect num- ber of tbe rythagoreans, who said it reproaeiited the beginnitig middle and end. In the Faroe islands tlisre ia a supersti- tion that seals cast ctl' their skins every ninth month and assume the human shape. Among the Chinese heaven ia odd, earth ia even, and the numbers I, ;t, 5, 7 aud il belong to heaven, while the digits are of the e.->rth, earthy. Tlie Siamaso have a legard for odd num- bers, and insist on having au odd number of iloora, windows and rooms iu their houses, and that all staircases must have an odd number of stops. ICiilen for Fat People Mm! for Leau. To increaao tho weight : Kat, lo the c.x- leti. of satisfying a natural appetite, of fat tueats, butler, cream, milU, eoooa, choco- late, bread, potatoes, peaa, parsnips, ear- rots, beats, farinaceous foods, as Indian corn, rioo, tapiooa, sago, corn starch, pastry, custards, oatmeal, sugar sweet wine* and ale. .-Vvoid acids, exercise as little as po.-<s ihlo, tleep all you can and don't worry or fret. To rotluce the weight : Eat, to the ex- tent of satisfying a natural appetite, o( lean meal, poultry, game, eggs, milk mu.ieratoly, green vegetables, turnipa, suo- ouletit fruits, tea or ooffoe. I^rink limo- juico, lemunado and aoid drinks. Avoid fat, butter, oreatu, sugar, pastry, rice, sa^p, tapiooa, corn, ttacoh, potatoes, carrots, beeta, parsnips and sweet wines. Exercise freely. â€" Mtdical liuU.r. m • â€" The United States troops drove 600 families out of Oklahoma, Tex., on Wed- nesday. They are now encamiiod around I'urcoll, I. T. Bomo of the people resisted, and had to ho titxl to waggons aud pulled out.