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SKETCHES OF WALES AND WELSHMEN. By J. Kilsby Jones. Penry Pleading for Wales. On mature retiection, Penry had the 8trong$pt natural inducements to comply *ith the demands of Whitgift. His life "a.s rendered doubly valuable and pleasant in the same degree from his elltface about this time into the most "acred and intimate of human relation- ships. But the surrender required by the Archbishop could not be made. Had an etorbitant tax been levied—however oppres- sive or unjust-it might have been paid to the utmost farthing. Had the lending student been called to forego acade- 1nica.l distinctions, or to relinquish honours lly won, he might have yielded every title, and, with them, every prospect of emolunient. Or if the sentiments uttered by him, and deemed so obnoxious, had been imbibed without inquiry, and broached as Matters of vague and idle opinion, they might have been disavowed with the same levity But for a sincere and earnest man ¡' to part with his profoundest and most L cherished convictions would be to anni- i dilate his conscience, and to render, if possible, [ his very being a nonentity. The truth was 'I 111 him—and there it would abide-immortal 48 the soul in which it was enshrined. Moreover, he felt that he held the truth in tr*st for his country, and for the wor as most precious endowment God give him and yet, further, that he under obligation no l— ""f «o contend for it in the eight and sue tfh »f Him who had constituted him a mtness, I and charged him to be faithful unto death. In these views Penry's w.fe entirely con- burred. Gentle, modest, affectionate, and Withal devoted to the cause of freedom and of truth, she was eminently titted to be the companion of the young reformer and con- fessor. Meek and unobtrusive, she took f' no part in public service. Seldom she could offer advice or suggestion, but she honoured her husband with the most loving confidence. She complained of no Privation, and bore, with unmur- muring patience, the loss of his society at times when it would have afforded the sweetest pleasure or the best alleviation— teady to undertake the tedious and Perilous journey in seasons the most incle- "lerit, or to pass months in loneliness, or in the solitary care of her helpless babe. She "Ould do nothing to quench the zeal or to enhance the trials of her faithful partner. She had no words of flattery, and well she knew that the utterance of them would have been as distasteful as injurious. Smiles of approval were almost as unseasonable in the deep affliction which both were called to endure, but tears she shed-not of regret, but of deep and tender sympathy --tears mingled with fervent supplications *nd they supplied a balm to him who was greatly mindful of them" in absence and in bonds and though none on earth re- garded them besides, they are all written in the book of Divine remembrance. Penry fixed his residence not far from the house of his father-in-law, Mr Godley, at Northampton. There, also, he was near many of the Puritan ministers, and often met with them in brotherly conference and "Ot Christian worship. A few ancient families in that locality es- Poused their cause, and through the influence I of Mr Snape, of Fawsley, Sir Richard (I l(ightley identified himself with them, and Jent the aid of his purse. The manor house of Fawsley contains a spacious hall, well a(tapted for an assembly of divines, still kept in admirable preservation. Enclosed 1n a rich expanse of wood, and standing on a gently elevated lawn, enlivened by two fine sheets of water, it furnished a beautiful retreat for the band of Christian Whren who yet remained true to the cause for which so many had been exiled or cast into prison. Sir Richard "'as the steadfast friend of Penry, and soon after his settlement at Northampton he convened a meeting of ministers and friends to consult as to the best course of action uUder the difficulties that accumulated lIpon them every day. The High Commis- sioner made a determined effort to suppress their preachiiuj, and long before a decree vi as issued from the Star Chamber to deter them from printing. The decree of the Star Chamber (Jan. 9, 1566) was to the following effect That no person should print or publish iiiy book against the Queen's injunctions, rJflÚnances, or letters patent, set forth, or to be set forth, or against the meaning of them." "That such offenders should forfeit all their books and copies, and suffer three mouths' imprisonment, and never practice the art of printing any more." That no person shall sèll, bind, or stitch Bucli books upon pain of twenty shillings for every book." Cnder this severe and twofold compres- sion, mentally, the Puritans had scarcely freedom to breathe. The secret council a Fawsley were called upon to decide with tspecr. to the establishment and manage- ment of a press. With the exception of Penry, the member, of the little conclave Were mainly interested in the advancement of Church Reform. "The whole contro- J versy," said one of their number, Detweeu us and the bishops is, whether the external government of the Church of Christ be a thing so prescribed by the Lord in the New Testament as it is not lawful for any man to alter. Peury accepted this statement of the ques- tieu at issue but his opposition to the Anglican prelacy arose chiefly from the obstruction it earned to the entrance of the iJocpd into ihe laud of his birth. Had the J primacy been represented by one like Leighton or Sumner, concealing the lustre of official rank beneath the veil of Christian humility, and labouring as the lowliest for the extension of the truth as it is in Jesus, Pouiy would probably have had no heart for contention on points of discipline. The iaesi part of the sins of our bishops," I ho cu>ys. "hath been in the maintenance of j unprofitable superstitions and corrupt cerc- monies. If they but yield free passage unto j the truth, and lior authority unto the Church in other matters, they should not be greatly molested for these thiii-.Im. Our controversies ) urise because they are not permitted, with ) the consent of the servants of God, to sinoiiur. persecute, deprave, and corrupt the ) t-i idi;. Of that religion which in name they prof'c.<s and to undermine ;ttid lead captive ) the Church of God in this laiid." In the h ui.seupsiou oi the question as to the h «?stublishinr-nfc "f a printing press it was li found tliat some, wore « f opinion' that tho 'l iv.osz effective publications, \wuler existing ) circumstanced, would b;s tii ;se which, with keenness and severity, should expose the pride, luxury, and oppression of their adver- saries. They said, "Since all serious and sober iueans ito, reclaim the bishops have proved ineffectual, let us try other and more pungent. If we cannot make them odious, like Elijah with the prophets of Baal, let us try to make them ridiculous." Penry was uot of this number, He would not," he said, feed the humours of busybodies, who, in- creasing themselves still unto more ungodli- ness, think nothing so well spoken or written as that which is satirical, and bitingly done, against lord bishops." Some of the brethren even maintained that the exercise of wit in the cause of religion was unseemly. Carnal mirth," they said, "while it tickles the flesh, wounds the soul. An angel thought 0 himself too good, and Satan not bad enough, to have railing speeches brought against him." Hours passed away, and with them the opportunity for action. The project would, in all probability, have fallen to the ground but for the solicitude of Penry for the spiritual welfare of his countrymen. Since the time of my release," he says, "I see myself bound in conscience not to give over my former purpose in seeking their good by the rooting out of ignorance among them." The question of reformation might be deferred to a more convenient season, but the cause of salvation would admit of no postponement. Penry, in the issue, accepted, therefore, the charge ot the ark of freedom, and engaged to provide an asylum for it. Mrs Crane, a widow, was the first to find room for the Pilgrim Press. Unmoved by the "afflictions of the gospel," she offered a part of her dwelling at Moulsey, in Surrey, as & printing office. There Penry spent three weeks at midsummer, 1588, and towards the close of the year he met, at the same place, his friends Udall and Wigginton, during a brief respite from their long and distressing imprisonment. The first work sent out by Waldegrave, who was employed at Moulsey, is entitled < £ A View of Some Part of Such Public Wants and Disorders as are in the Service ef God within Her Majesty's Country of Wales, together with an Humble Petition unto the High Court of Parliament for their Soeedv Redress." -,¡- The tone of the address, like that of the Prophet of Anathoth, is that of severity blended with tenderness. With boldness and dignity he rebukes the conduct of the bishops those who, notwithstanding their ungodly proceedings," he writes, "have hitherto kept themselves within the bounds of the callings wherein the Lord haa placed them. The reformers, in all submission and duty, entreated that the cause of God might be equally heard. "They have never, as yet, presumed themselves to take in hand the correction of anything. But, on the contrary, they have always hitherto presently betaken them- selves to imprisonments and bonds and would never suffer the truth to have a hear- ing, nor any man with quietness to stand in the defence thereof. God's servants cannot wink at their proceedings unless they would betray God's truth and the liberty of the Church." The practical counsels contained in this publication show that Penry was some- thing better than a fiery poiemic. Con- cerning you, my dear countrymen, whom God of His infinite mercy hath translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the blessed possession of the heavenly Jeru- salem, I beseech you very earnestly that you would be careful to walk worthy of the Gospel of Christ. Be careful hereof, whether your abode be in England or Wales. And, at any hand, endeavour to live where you may enjoy the means of the Word. And be careful to have the Lord purely worshipped in your families. Take heed of the profaneness whereby the most now living are drawn to contemn God's judgment against their sins. Labour diligently, as far as your callings will sufter you, to be a means to convey that treasure into you country whereof you yourselves have been made partakers. Particularly, let me here put you in mind, right honourable and worshipful, who of my country are in this Parliament, to acquaint that honourable court with the miseries of our country, and tG be earnest for a redress. L And you, my brethren, who having fit gifts, and are ernployec4in the ministry, either in your own country or in England, forget not, I pray you, to be remembrancers of Sion. I would to God Intight join with you, an d you with me, in some endeavour whereby the means of salvation might be had in our own country. It is my hearty desire."

FISH PARENTS AND GUARDIANS Sticklebacks are not by any means the only fish which take care of their helpless progeny durintj the first weeks of infancy. It must be remem- bered that our acquaintance with the domestic habits atod manners of tishee, and especially of the marine species, is but sporadic and fragmentary opportunities for observation are rare on the sea- bottom, while as for aquariums, the life there is so strained and unnatural that we learn for the most part little more from that source than one would learn of the intricacies of human existence by watching the interiors of prisons and convents. But even among the few fish at all intimately known to us at present, there are several which deserve high commendation for their able and conscientious discharge of their paternal duties. Cartain catfish, for example, and many other species, construct nests like good fathers, and guard the spawn deposited in them by their unnatural spouses. One siluroid bearing the suggestive classical name of Arius actually carries the eggs about with him in his inoutb, and there devotedly hatches them. There is a nsh of the Sea of Galilee locallv supposed to be the very kind from, whose mouth'St Peter took the miraculous denarius for the payment of the Apostle s tribute, and this pious and well-prin- cipled creature (even his scientific name is chromis sacra, ) holds his eggs in the same fashion, and hatches them oat in his capacious pharynx. Among the pipe-fish and sea-horses, in- cluding the well-known luccocampus of the Medi- terranean and the Westminster Aquarium, nature has gone one step fun^her in the direction of parental supervision. These fish have a regular pouch like the kangaroo, ln which the excellent papa retains th« youug till thay are of full uKe to Shift for themselves. Yet even here it is the fond father, not the gay and careless mother, who wheels about the family perambulator; oniy two known cases occur among tish where the mother takes any part at all in the hatching or education of her own young. One is a cattish from British Guiana, whose under surface becomes fcoft and spouRy ajtor the spawn- ilig season. The mother, as soon as she has laid eggs, presses them hard into this spongy mtegu- inonc, by lying on top of them. There they 6tick., and she oarrfes them about m the pits thus formed, much as the famikar Surinam toad carries abuut. her hatching ova and tadpoles in tha skin of her back. The other instance is that of a singular pipefish from the Indian Ocean, who forms a pouch for her young by allowing her ventral tins to coalesce with the soft skin cf her under surface. These two examples of devoted maternity, however, scarcely suffice to absolve the mother-tish as a class from the general charge of heartless desertion brousrht against them by modern ichthyologists. From The Theory of Tittlebats," in the Cornhill Magazine" for April.

The treatises on social etiquette will have to be amended in order to include the very latest way of declining an invitation to a reception. Thus Mr Henry Willard a.'J Mr Joseph Willar-d are two brother millionaires in Wrshington who do not cultivate the virtue of brotherly lov, Mr and Mis H^nry Willard. At home, Jan. 15 from 9 to 11 p.);)," Whereupon Joseph sent a card to Henry reading: Mr Joseph Willard, also at home Jan. 15 fitoin 9 to 11 p.m." Tbiit was short, sweet, and graphic.

WORKMEN'S TOPICS. BY W. Abraham, M.P., Mabon. TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION AND THE WORKSHOP. Having described in my last two letters some of the technical schools and the methods of instruc- tion in handwork in this and a few other Euro- pean countries, I should now like to attempt to answer the question so often asked What is the object of instruction in handwork ? That the answer is not always the same seems to me to arise partly from the difference of opinion as to its importance and partly from the different methods of giving the instruction. Putting together the various opinions upon the matter we find the one ideal view of handwork if that it is not only a means of intellectual culti. vation," but, when considered from different sides, is an important link in higher education,and can scarcely be ranked too high as a link in the true education of mankind. StilJ. when hand- work instruction is reviving and awakening, it might be easily overrated as positively refining and, on the other hand, some may fail to look at its practical side. It is, and has been, maintained with great force .1 .L_J-1- -I_L and with much justice that nanawors aoes noti have its full rights unless it is regularly incor- porated in the school course, and receives such treatment that it may exert an educating in- fluence on the child, inasmuch as it aims to develope the pupil's eye and his sense of form and beauty. Therefore, such teaching should have an acknowledged place in the higher as in the lower schools. Again, if we start with the acknowledged fact that it is the duty of public schools to impart such skill to female children as every girl ought to possess, should we not also teach boys to use their hands, so that every man, to whatever station in life he may belong, should acquire such power that he may not stand helpless on any occasion in life, as a consequence of one-sided education ? It is held that the teaching should begin with the handling of tools most often used in daily life, as, for ex. ample, the knife, axe, hammer, plane, saw, file, and, possibly, the paint-brush. A persou of very moderate ability in the use of these tools, or only one of them, will often find such ability of value to him; at any rate he will have acquired a prac- tical knowledge which will be of use, and he will be prepared to employ his spare time for the re- pairs of furniture and utensils, as well as for the making of simple objects for the ordinary purposes of life, and for the decoration of his home. It is asserted that domestic industry in our 'I -A_rI ¿.1- 1_&. country districts Has retiograaeu in tne last decade, and even more seriously m the last two decades. We are assured that in many places, where hand labour does not tax all the working force of men and women, and where formerly during long winter evenings whole families were accustomed to sit around the fire-place with work in hand, there is now nothing but idleness. No doubt the extended operations of factories in later times have made it easy to obtain many objects of necessity which people once had to make for themselves or go without. Again, ad. vancing civilization has brought in a division of labour whereby much that in former days lay within the field of the farmer's industry has been absorbed by trade work. Then, if it is true that the large industries in our own time are likely to stifle domestic industry, and that the farmer, the cottager, and lodger are often without occupation, there certainly is no better remedy for this evil than the introduction of handwork for both sexes in our common county schools. Thereby children would be given an early inclination and desire for work, and a comprehension of the value of time which would be useful to themselves and to others also. And what is more, there would be no more clumsy and awkward servants as there now are and there would be laid a good foundation for diligence and domestic history in our homes. Hence nothing could be more desirable than that steps should be taken for the introduction of handwork into schools by the founding of periodical courses at convenient places in the country, and that such instruction, from the very beginning, should be brought into the right track. Also some aid should be given in guiding the arrangements of the schools Where such instruc- tions is to be introduced. And inasmuch as public assistance would be needed, there should be inspection to make sure (1) that the work is done in accord with well devised plans, (2) after tasteful patterns, (3) that teachers know how to induce their pupils to carry out their work with exactness and care, (4) that where circumstances are favourable, and especially if inviting thereto, the instruction imparted be adapted to local re- quirements. In towns and industrial districts generally, the schools themselves should try to work in the service of industry-in conjunction with a large manufacturing establishment, which would afford facilities for acquiring technical knowledge, such as no science school of the ordinary kind, apart from workshop practice, could possibly offer. A typical school of the kind suggessed is found in Messrs. Mather and Platts workshop school, Oldham. Bearing in mind my allusion to Cardiff in a former letter, I will take the liberty of pointing out some of the provisions made in this school, and their effect. As a lule the school provides science teaching for about eighty scholars, _„i i L- L=u- amnlrtvftd in thfi _o..lr" wno must oc apprentices eiuyv- no stranger being admitted. The drawings, it is stated, are of engineering work actually ia pro- gress in ttlg foundry. The teacher lectures on the drawings, explains and makes calculations, and the lads the next day see at the works the y very thing they have heard about in the school, the teacher trom time to time taking them through the works for that purpose. In order to give practical illustrations respecting work that may be in process of construction, patterns, models, and details of machines are taken into the school from the workshop, and the parts of maciiire, which have been sent to the school for class instruction are seen afterwards in their proper place in the whole macniues. It is the opinion at Messrs Mather and Piatt s that the best method of combining instruction with actual experience is that a school should be a part of a workshop, and form a department, in which the apprentice must be compelled to serve a portion of his time every week after ordinary hours in the workshop as a condition of his apprenticeship. The teachers are the draughts- men in the works, duly qualified for the purpose, and who by this teaching add to their ordinary income. A deputation from the Royal Commission on Technical Education visited this school in May, 1882, and a question was put by the chairman as to the advantage derived by students in being employed in the works, and trained there, rather than in science schools. The teacher to wuom the query was addressed replied, "The advantage is that I know what such person is working at every day, and have the opportunity of pointing out something connected with the work he is doiug." The students are rewarded, not only for pro- ficiency in drawing, but for regular attendance, and actual proficiency in their manual work. It is also a condition employment that apprentices shall be regular in their attendance. The Chairman asked Mr Mather himself what advantage the, works had derived from the schools. Mr Mather replied: An incalculable advantage. We have to send out abroad yearly one, two, or more thoroughly c.-)itipeset)t men, who shall not ba simuly mechanics in the ordiuary sense of the word, but who shall be able to turn their attention to auy kind of mechanical work coming within their duties, whether they have done the work before or not. We had the greatest difficulty in finding such men, until we began to take them from this school, and since the school has been established we have been able to send boys of 20 to 21 long distances from Kngiaud, aed to place in their bands work which they have not had much to do with before. Being intelligent aud informed J tuev hll.ve nJade competent teachers of others, and have given the greatest •fctisfation. We have had cases of students, not yet of agA. holding positions, with waget; of JB4 per week." The boys, I found, are not legally apprenticed. luey make a solemn promise, that's all, and are receiving wages all the time. They become good workmen at an earlier- ago than they otherwise would, and in the last few years a vast improve- ment has been found in all the work these young fellows do. Lads of 17 and 18 have work which before would not have b6en given to men under 25. Mr Thorp, the general manager of the works, saia tnat tne ettect upon the workshop of the training which the boys received in the school was that iustead of requiring draughtsmen to look after every separate job. the young fellows who are growing up now can make their own drawings, make their own patterns, and tit them together, and erect'them, where it used to require a separate man fgir e^ch department." The men are most ititeilijrtiit, and can understand and execute their work much better and at a. much earlier ge, and the foremen are taken from the young men who have beep in the echool.

WELSH NATIONAL STORY. Llewelyn; Or, The Last of the Welsh Princes. An Historical Romance. BY BERIAH GWYNFE EVANS, Author of Bronwen," "Soundhead and Cavalier," Owen Hughes" The Heir of Glyncjon," &c. &-c. CHAPTER XXX.—AN UNEXPECTED RESCUE. Meredydd apEdnyfed having obtained audience of Llewelyn, and having executed his message of warning—naturally to the no small snrprise and anger of the Prince-returned to the apartments he had provided for Gwen. He bad arranged with Llewelyn that no sign should be shown Ap Gwenwyowyn that they were aware of his crime, until Gwen should herself have audience with the Prince on the morrow, when the traitor could be summoned to face her, and be possibly thus led to acknowledge, in his first dismay, the treachery of which he had been guilty. Meredydd had there- fore been instructed to warn Gwen against show- ing herself, lest Gruffydd should be made suspicious, and flee before justice could be meted out to him. n X A .1'¡ Intent therefore upon this message, Mereayau arrived at Gwen's apartments, only to find that she had gone out. Induced to seek her by other considerations than that alone of obeying the man- date of his Prince I. Meredydd soon discovered that the maiden had been seen taking the path which led to the river. Following this path the sound of voices soon struck his ear, and glancing through the trees he was moie than surprised to find Gwen and her old. though treacherous lover apparently deep in earnest and friendly conversa- tion. Foolish, jealous Meredydd was almost ready to believe that Gwen had either played him false in pretending to be so very displeased with Ap Gwenwynwyn's treachery, or that the honeyed words and plausible manner of his rival had once more given him the ascendancy in her mind and affections. As he gazed, too tar away to under- stand the words, whose murmur alone reached his ears, he saw the fancied lover seize the hand of his mistress and press it to his lips. He either did not, or would not, see the shudder with which she withdrew her hand from his clasp. His heart was filled with bitterness, and, cursing the weak- ness which had induced him to place his affec- tions upon one evidently so unworthy, he turned and retraced his footsteps up towards the palace. Poor Gwen! had she but known how near to I her her true lover was while her false io verso vainly pleaded his cause, how her heart would have bounded with joy! Meredydd made his way moodily up the steep path, and had almost, reached the top when be fancied he beard a scream. Pausing to listen, he became convinced that a mufflad or stifled scream came from the direction in which he bad last seen Gwen and Gruffydd. The truth fiasned upon his mind. Gwen was either being murdered by the vengeful chieftain, who had been maae aware that she possessed bis secret, or she was being carried away. Cursing now the jealous folly which had led him to depart rather than suffer the pain of witnessing what he bad thought was a lovers' interview, he made up, to some extent, in rapid and energetic action for the remissness of which he had lately been guilty. Through a break in the trees he, from his elevated position, saw Ap Gwenwynwyn hastening towards the beach, bearing Gwen in his arms. The sight filled him with fury. Heedless of all obstacles, he dashed down the steep slope in a straight line to intercept the fugitive. r_ .3 1- Ou his part GruffyddapGwenwynwyn had been too intent on making good his retreat to his vessel I without loss of time to notice the commotioninade in the wood above bim by Meredydu's headlong progress, and he found himself suddenly and unexpectedly confronted on the path by bis rival, whose drawn sword and flashing eyes were sufficient evidence of his intentions. With a muttered oath,Ap GwenwyawyD, seeing his retreat cut off, dropped his burden on the ground, where she lay inanimate. False Welshman and base villain that thou art cried Meredydd advancing upon him, thou hast sealed thy fate." Boast not till thou art sure was the fierce rejoinder, and the other's ready sword leaped from its scabbard ready to meet the onslaught he expected. in justice to him be it said, Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn was neither a novice nor a coward, but could handle his sword with the dexterity of a practised hand and with the determination of a bold heart. Under ordinary circumstances be would have been perhaps a match for his present opponent. Now, however, Meredydd's im. petuosity was such that, heedless of danger to himself, lie rushed on the other, beat down his guard, wrested bit; sword from him, and threw him at full length on the green sward, almost before his opponent had time to be in doubt as to the result of the combat! At this moment Gwen revived from her swoon, and saw Meredydd standing with his left foot upon the breast of bis fallen rival, with his sword. point at his throat. Take thy last look at the sun, and utter thy last prayer to heaven, ap Gwenwynwyn, said Meredydd. Thou hast already lived too long to commit treachery, us hath been tby won thy childhood upwards. Praised be the saints that to me is left the pleasure of ri country of so unworthy a son.. • Tne other looked sullenly upwards, recognisin that his last moment had arrived, and ye too proud to ask his life of his rival)> a, conscious that any such appeal would e In any case be remained f ^ht hopes more with disappointment that his n had thus been shattered, than by fear o pending doom.. "On, Meredydd! Meredydd!" cried Gwen, rising and running up to him, Spare hi in spare him fi Spare him ?" cried the other, 0 wo further treachery and harm to Wale? an our Prince ? No. Gwen, no, though even thou askest this of me, it cannot be. I should be a recreant myself did I but let him escape V" "Nay, but," she pleaded, "remember thou did'st promise me to spare him his life this once." Meredydd looked his disappointment. "The Prinofthn nniri if let him go. Thow knowest he deserves to die the death." Yes, I do know but I know, too, that thou wilt keep thy word. Thou didst proviso to spare his life." oes hard "Well, ho be it, then. Though it goes bard against the grain, and iny good sword thirsts for his blood. There is, however, one cDmfort; I spare him his life only to hand him over to the care of those who will see that be does not much harm again." 2 "Nay, Meredydd, .thou doest not things oy halves. If thou sparest his life, thou wilt also let him go free, whither he likes and as be likes. 'Tis not sparing him to keep thina own sword from taking his life, if thou dost employ the swords of others to do the same work.' But, Gwen, I never promised—— Meredydd Dear Meredydd if thou didst promise, thou wilt do so now, for my sake, aud the look she gave him was irresistible. The and the look she gave him was irresistible. The honest fellow gave up the unequal contest, and, addressing the prostrate man, said Go, then, traitor, and thank Gwen for thy life. Yet, ere thou goest, listen. I swear that- were Gwen ten times as dear to me as she is, and were she to plead as she never pleaded before- even that will not save thy life from my sword if ever again thou dost cross my path by laying finger to touch her." Threatened men live long," said Ap Gwenwynwyn, as he got up apd made his way towards the beach. What impulse made him turn to look back as he left the woud ? Whatever it was, he cursed himselt for it, for the sight he saw was more bitter even than death itself. Gwen, resting her bead on Meredydd's bosom, her white arm around his neck, and with upturned face accepting the kisses so fervently poured upon her lips and cheek. And is this the end of my sehetpiug he aeked himself, as he ground his teeth together in impotent rage. Shall he whom I have hated since the days we were boys together, shall he reap and enjoy the rewards I had purposed for myself ? Gwen and fortune smile upon him now, and doubtless he expects to occupy with her in Wales, and Llewelyn's favour the proud position I had pictured to myself as filling soon. But no let me be calm and think. It will indeed be strange, unless I can bit upon some plan which will help me pay my debt to both Gwen and Meredydd. The first thing is safety. Then revenge," and he hurried to his vessel and departed with all speed, lest some messenger of Llewelyn's should intercept him, even at the last moment. CHAPTER XXXI.—AN UNEXPECTED PROPOSAL. The next morning Meredydd was summoned early to attend the Prince. He hardly knew bow to comport himself, whether he should bluntly confess that be had connived at the traitor's escape, or take it for granted that Ap Gwenwyn- wyn was still within reach. He was not long left in doubt what to do. As soon as he entered the Prince's chamber, Llew- elyn said— Meredydd. Gwenwynwyn hath escaped us. I have just had a letter from him." "A letter from him !'I exclaimed Meredydd, in unassumed surprise. JJath the traitor ventured to write again to you, my lord 2 Doth be excuse or deny his treachery r' He doth not deny it, but gives me cause to believe he could excuse it had he but the oppor- tunity for doing so. He hints at some disappoint- ment in love. Ha! thou needst not blush, and canst, I believe, well afford to be merciful. To put the matter shortly, his letter amounts to this: He acknowledges he did connive at the King of England s base action in intercepting my betrothed on her passage to Wales. Yet he points out very properly that be had abundantly proved his repentance therefor by discovering to me that other plot whereof I told thee last night." Why, then, should he flee 2" "That be also explains. Knowing Gwen's recital of the share he took in preventing the arrival of the Lady Eleanor here would set me against him, and possibly induce me to take extreme measures before he could explain him- self, he thought it better to place himself out of harm's way. Nay, do not laugh, but list to the whole story. He offers me sufficient proof of the change in his feelings towards me. Thou knowest be bad told me of this last plot against my life. Of the share taken by my twin brother Dafydd, and others, in this plot, he hath abundant proofs in writing at Castell Tre'r Llyn,* and these be offers to hand over to any trusty messenger whom I will send there for them, on the sole con- dition that this messenger must be a man whom I can trust with so important a secret." And for himself 2 "For himself he asks nothing but a safeguard for himself to pass through Wales to England, such safeguard to expire in seven days if I so see I fit. What thinkest thou?,, Meredydd paused. An undefined and indefinable suspicion possessed his mind of Gwenwynwyn's honesty in this. And yet what was there sus- picious in it ? Did it not appear, indeed, to be the work of a man who bad seen the futility or the error of his past treachery ? His attack on Gwen last night, might have been the result of an un- governable passion at the moment, and it was certainly neither fair nor chivalrous that be, Meredydd, should allow his personal enmity to stand in the way of Llewelyn s getting to the root of that dangerous conspiracy which threatened his very life. I think," said he at last, that from any other man such an offer would require no second thoughts, but should be accepted at once. Coming from one who bath proved himself so frequently a traitor, it requires more caution. Yet, if be be honesand I admit it is possible be may be-if he be honest, that service .he offers to render by giving up thoe papers, is indeed a great one, and should atone for many past errors." So, too, do I think. ThA matter is well worth trying. We do not lose much in any case. Even if the information Ppot fi0 valuable as we hope for, we, after all, only low the sprry satisfaction of doing away with a traitor. 1 If these documents be of no value, he will never dare show his face in Wales while I live. In any case be is safe from pursuit uow, so that I am inclined to do as he asks. Wilt thou, Meredydd, undertake the journey ?" Meredydd started. Could this be the object of Ap Gwenwywyn ? To get his successful rival in Gwen's affections etfectnally within his power? A shudder passed through his frame ae he thought of this possibility. But then, again, he thought how could Ap Gweuwynwyn possibly have surmised that ha) Meredydd. would have been the one fixed upon by Llewelyn for this important and delicate com- mission? Then, again,, wad it fair that be should allow bis personal jealousy to interfere in any way with the interests of his Prince ? For be: could not help confessing to himself that his enmity to Gruffydd was certainly intensified by, if not indee(J maid due, to their lifelopg rivalry. All these thoughts flashed through his mind, and though they occupy some time in reading, they were instantaneous in presenting themselves to him. Indeed, the pause before he replied to Llewelyn was so slight as to be har(Uy Yes," said he, I will go Four simple words indeed, but full of meaning. Full of meaning to Llewelyn-for they prac- tically represented the placing of proofs of the treachery of the conspiratora in his hands. Fuller of meaning to Meredydd, for be know they represented the possibility of placing himself entirely in the power of his most deadly enemy. And when wiit thou, start?" asked the Prince. As soon as you provide me with the necessary authority, and the safeguard for Ap Gwenwyn- wyn," was the reply. "Good," said Llewelyn. But thou wert ever ready, and believe me thou wilt not regret this readiness to serve me now." Thill, however, Meredydd could not help doubt- ing, but though doubting he at once made his arrangements for his departure. (To be continued.)

Welshpool Castle.

IDENTIFICATION. Met your friend Skips, yesterday, an$took a drink with him. Nice fellow 1" Couldn't have beeu Skip* he's in the country, What did he drink ?" I'll swear I saw him. He drank lemon squash." I- That settles it. Twasn'; Skips."

•^Sfcmes," said a grocer to his new boy, "what have yon been doing iu tbe back-room so lopS?" I was !V the dead flies out of the dried cur- rants, sir^s^jplied James. "You were?" replied the grocer, with much disguat. Au' your father told me that lui thought you were born for the grocery business, You had better study for the ministry, James. DOMESTIC FELICITY. My dear," aid a Troy wife to her husband, I know that I am dreadful cross with you at times, that I am not. as patient as I sbould be. and I think the samo'eaa I)e said of you." "Yes, certainly," he frankly acknow- ledged. "I am almost as bad as you are." "What's that ? "I say th^t I am jptt as much to blame as you are." I think," went oo the lady, ".that we ought to cultivate a mutual tolom- tion of each other's faults," *ad.she bent over sod fondly kissed him. Yoa are not lottking well, to-night, dear, he said, strbkuag her'hair. No, she replied, uiy feet painme-dteadhiily." That is because you wear shoes two sizes t&u you." Thto twjble beps o|ce mote.

TALK OF THE TOWN. J GIPSY ART-HAND OVER-A CROWN ON YOUR PALM —IGNORANCE IS BLISS-ALL THE BLUE JACKETS ARE OVER THE RIVER-SHOW-UP SUNDAY—A PRETTY PRINCESS-GRACIOUS ROYALTIES-TRUE NOBILITY-VIOLET CAMERON-A NEW COKEDY- SIDE LIGHTS FROM AN ARTIST'S ATELIER— —SINGERS AND PROFIT—NOT MARKETABLE— OUIDA'S TOOTSIES. WHETHER there is truth or not in the aJt of palmistry, one thing is certain-its professors make wonderfully good hits at times. Of course we only hear of the bits, never of the misses. There are certain signs on the band, which, when- ever met, indicate the one and the same thing such as the length of the line ot life which sweeps round the thumb, the distinctness or the contrary of the line of fate, which cleaves the palm, or ought to do so in success, and the depth and equality of the lines of the heart and the bead, which run athwart the palm. The art is a "gipsy" specialty, cultivated by the wise and foolish of modern civilisation, written on and traded on by the idle and the curious. I own to a sort of indifferent belief in it. I shall test it in a few years as I am given only some five years more of earthly pilgrimage. Miss Rosa Eaugbad-is the High Priestessof the art in London. She fills columns of two well-known weeklies every Saturday, adding divination from hand writing to her accomplishments. She has every book that ever-in Europe-was written on palmistry, one 300 years old. It was not an art in those vanished days-it was a science, and closely related to astrology. A talk with Miss Rosa Baughan on the subject is a revelation, making one reiterate Hamlet's trite observation about there being more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy. Indeed, I begin to think that it is a sign of wisdom, in these enlightening days, to be credulous. A story comes from Germany that, over twenty years ago, I A GIPSY Tolm JBS EMPKBOR HIS FORTUNE I in this wise. Tb Kaiser bad not come to his honours then. He was walking in a forest, and met the swarthy wanderer, who took his hand and read it, saying she saw a big crown indicated, a double one, and adding that be would live till 96. Recently, at a ball, a Russian Countess, an adept in the same art, after looking at the Em- peror's band, told him the same thing, i.e., that be would live until he was 96. The Empress Josephine, when a young girl, had her future, its crown, its sadness, all foretold by a gipsy. Well for those whose lines are cast in pleasant places. Query, would we work out our own destiny more to our advantage if we really credited the reading of our hands ? I trow not; fate is an occult power —to be forewarned is not always to be foreirmed. I fear my readers will despise Zinco." but I also believe in the stars. Your luck in life depends in the star that rules your destiny. Very living are these orbs-very knowing too-look them in the face and they'll wink at you. All sorts of occult beliefs are interesting—some are beautiful. It is said that the gift of a beautiful voice never leaves the earth. When a great vocalist dies, his or her "voice" enters, that instant of time, into the newly quickened soul of a newly-born babe, and so, from throat to throat, wanders through decades of time. The University Boat Race for 1887 is now numbered with the events of history, and I will content myself, after presenting to my public THE RIVAL OPERATORS, with giving a parody suitable to the occasion:- Row, row, Light Blue and Dark Blue; Come, my lads, winna ye row staunch without quiver ? Row, row, Oxford and Cambridge men All the Blue Jackets are over the river. Hurrah for the banners now waving above the prow Hurrah! for the badges so famous in story Ready, get forward, then, sons ot the mighty pen- Row for your Quads, and your Varsity giory. Come, Dark Blue and Light, from your Battels and Commons, Come from your Little-sroes, war!ess, and Mods.; Come to the post—don't you hear the loud summons; Come, Cam., with a swing, and run up the odds. Bunting is flaring, the great unwashed blaring Feather your oars and slide without quiver. England shall many a day tell of the gailant way All the Blue Jackets went over the river. Show-up Sunday is just the day with an excuse for extra visiting, and the Saturday preceding for extra teas. I went to Miss Lili Stackpooie's studio to see her portrait of the. Princess Victoria nf Teck (the beauty par excellence of the Royal Family). There were present at the large gathering H.R.EL the Duchess of Teck. and bin Serenity I tbe Grand Duke and his son Victor. The Teck Royalties are great favourites-they are so kind and genial in their manner. The portrait in question is an excellent likeness. It was painted at the White Lodge, where the handsome young Irish artiste was received in the kindest manner, lunching with the family. The young Princess very strongly resembles the Princess of Wales, though hardly tip to the standard of beauty of H.R.H The portrait of the Earl of Iddes- leigh, by the same artiste, is also a very happy likeness. I read some little time ago, somewhere, that there was only one family in China who had a heteditary peerage—the famify of Confucius. The members of the peerage retain their titles solely through merit. The sons of peers are elected to their titles by merit only. and lose their grade through misconduct. This is as it should be. Perhaps it is what we are tending to; it is to be hoped so. I was at a big play recently, and saw a pretty, innocent-looking young artiste, with a regal suite of diamonds oil her lovely neck-I know how obtained. In China the donor would have lost his caste, one of the highest in the peerage. Auother very beautiful aitiste is VIOLET CANIMS. She did not go down, or rather up, in the States. The noble lord who ran her on the boards, is, so I hear, a poorer man in purse, but richer in experience. I weot to a matinde of the" Great Filiciad at the Gaiety, recently. The theatre was closely packed, as the play had excited a large amount of attention. I have no room- I never have-for the plot, which is a strong one, and will require strong acting. Mrs Dacre (Amy Rjselle) performed her role—tbe noble wife of one of the two villains of the piece- sympathetically and beautifully. In one of her dresses, ivory plush, satin, and lace, she looked lovely. Mr Dacre enlisted the sympathy of the audience, as be was called and recalled before the curtain. His performance was admirable. The Filiciad is a swindling mine, and the hit at similar companies was capital. The city man has a splendid impersonation. Mr Van der Weyde has taken a series of strik- --1- _L. _L r T"a..1"T"'1o. _L_ ing pnotograpns 01 jjorotDy uene wnat an inspiration the name is? Heiells me, as a curious fact, that singers, opera or otherwise, do not sell. That even the transcendant Patti does not, nor ever did,go off therefore he seldom publishes opera- tic sttrs-publislaing mean-" ng free gri,,tis fornothing. One prima donna, at present drawing well, paid him lately 260 for photographs taken by him. The scene at his atelier after the late drawing- rooms was like that of a levee, so many in full Court dress came to be taken. Lady Randolph Churchill and her sister in-law, Lady Curzon, were photographed together, and a very pretty group the twain make. I asked Mr Van der Weyde if he had beard certain scandals lately, and he said he had, but that they were, utterly baseless and vicious. A certain royal scion was named in connection with the story but," said Mr Van de Weyde, laughing, anything mort- absurd could hardly be conceived why, they're neither of them built that way." Ouida is still among us, studying high life from the life; she is asked out here and there as a curiosity. Irving made his bow to her, and offered her a box for Faust," to which courteous and kind offer Mdlle. de la Ramea replied, Do you think I'm going to any English theatre to see acting ? Come and see me at the Langham, if you like. A lady told me she went to call on the great novelist, and was received in a darkened chamber, where Ouida lay on a couch, in a pink satin tea gown, showing with careless artfulness her feet, which are singularly-and pliirally- small. ZINCO.

DOING-UP A FLY-SCREEN MAN. He bad a sample fly-screen under his arm, and be turned aside and entered a little shoe-shop on Lafayette-street East. I vbas very busy to day," said the cobbler as he looked up. Y-e-s, 1 suppose so, and so are the flies," was the reply. My friend, have you given any thought to the momentous query-' Shall I keep the flies out or in this summer ?" 1 have to get dis boot done in balf-an-bour." Exactly, aud I don't propose to hinder you. I am taking orders for fly-screens. You can peg, peg away, while we talk, talk fly-screens." I doan' vhant some." That is to say, you propose to sit in this shop all summer and encourage the visits of winged' insects. Do you know how much time a man loses in four months in striking at flies I doan' figure oop cn him." "Cf course you don't, but I have. You will lose just two days in every month. That's eight days thrown away, and not a fly killed. Now, then-" I doan' want some fly screens." That is, you think you don't. How many cubic feet of air do you think comes through that door in four months ?" "Maypesix." Maybe millions. How much dust do you sup- pose accompanies that air?" I vbas werry busy." Exactly, but more than two bushels of dust enter this shop by way of that door, and you inhale at least half of it. How many microbes accompany the dust ?" Dis shop viias under mortgage, you see." "That's all right, but for ten hours a day you inhale 100 cholera microbes an hour." Und maype I moov avhay to Chicago in Juue." "Suppose you do. A fly screen door is port- able property. There are flies, aud dust, and microbes in Chicago as well as Detroit. Do you want to die of cholera ?" If I die it vbas all right. If I Jive I baf to work Vat oil der time. 1 vhas a great bandt to be ahne in my shop." Certainly you are, but the question remains, 'Shall flies light on you or not?' I will make you a door- I vbas werry busy." "Dont doubt it, but you owe something to yourself, Two doiiars and a half will buy the door complete, and I want to tell you that our-" "Great goodness, go avhay. I vas busy. I doan' vhant some doois. I doan' vhant some fly-screens." You don't. If you don't want a door why did you encourage me ? Why did you take a quarter of an hour cf my valuable time ? Do you suppose I can stop and figure up cubic feet of air, and bushels of dust, and numbers of microbes to gratify idle curiosity I like you to go avhay." "Well, I'll go. Why didn't you say so at firsl? What have I done to you that you should want to injure me by robbing me of my time ? Your cou- dudt is outrageous, sir—grossly outrageous!" The shoemaker jumped up and locked the door as soon as the man was out. For a moment they glared at each other through the dusty glass, and then the fly-screeu man baid- *4 It's a shameful case, and I'll keep an eye on you. It is just such trifling conduct as yours, sir, which has brought this country to where it is. Why didn't you tell me when I came in that you didn't want a fly-screen door?"—Auiencan Paper.

A Texas preacher predicts the world will come I to an end in ten years. Texas people have no time to loose. They who have never knewn prosperity, can hardly be said to be unhappy; it is from the re- membrance of joys vta have lost that the arrows of affliction "re pointed. When in Africa, Henry M. Stanley gives up cigars, and confines him-elL to his pipe. This may, after profound reflection, be attributed to tbe immense quantity of uiggerhead in that country. Length of life is to be estimated not by number of years so much as by Koud work done-uot by endeavours solely to advance our own fortuue and reputation or comfort, but by persevering efforts to promote the welfare of our feiiow-uisu. L Explorer Scbliewaunls gettiug realty to mass a voyage of discovery up the Nile. Our Govern- ment has given him instructions to uuearth tue original protectionist, if possible. They want him as a companion for the inuinmy ot Rameses II. Woman (in uuper window to young man at door);44 We don't want no envelopes. Y'mu¡{ man (with package in his hand): But you— Woman: "No 'buts.' We don't want no stationery." Youue man (turning to go): 44 That 'ooma.n '11 wonder vy she didn't get no invitation to the weddin' Infinite toil would not enable us to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little we may often look over it altogether, So with our moral im. provement-we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit which would have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere. There," said a clerical-looking mau, pointing to an individual who had just emerged from f. Ll salooQ and stumbled into the gutter: 44 you see vthe rsjsults of beer." And there,* said ared- ,nosed lookiiig person pointing to the IsYp aud imposing residence ,.f a brewer on the opposite side of the street, "you also see the results of beer."—Herald..

Samuel's Sentiments. ) Samuel at a Female Football Match. 1 Upon my word, sir, I am almost afraid to pen I anything about football, so disputatious have tho lovers of the game become lately, but of course I I have no alternative, as you ask me so nicely, even though I may get a drop kick or be picked up a dead ball in consequence. And if male lovers of the game are so fractious, what must female ones be? There's a nice little sum for you to do on your slate. Perhaps if I say anything a.bout the Amazons (" Hammer-zons" perhaps I might, 44 axin' yer pardin," call them) they will apply for an injunction to restrain me from doing some- thing or other-but here goes—I must venture my ¡. awl, as the shoemaker said when he pawned his tools. I went to a North-country town, sir, to see, as was announced on a very bilious looking bill. "A Grand Ladies' Football Match, between Madam Kenney's Famous Edinburgh Texm and Madame Wills' Grimsby Town Team," the prize being a 44 Handsome Silver t^ip." You will please note, sir, that it was announced as a Grand Ladies' Match—therefore, presumably, a match between grand ladies, and not a mere scuffle between persons of the common herd. Going down from the station in a waggonette, I was pleased to notice that nearly all my male fellow- passengers were going "merely out of curiosity, you know," and that they, without a dissentient voice, strongly deprecated such an exhibition. Still they were going, you see, sir. Much profitable and ingenious speculation was indulged in as to what sort of apparel the ladies would wear. It was agreed on all bands that for a player in petticoats to kick the ball would be well-nigh impossible, though it was decided in a very emphatic manner that the wearing of a good strong elastic improver would have its strong advantages, and with this sentiment I found my- self able to agree. There was not, by any means, a brilliant rush at the gate; indeed,it beemed to strike me there were a good many more people outside 44 CAN ANY ON Y ER SEE ANY ON 'EM ?" the walls of the grounds than inside. Possibly the former folks belonged to the seio-all-you-ca n -for- nothing, elimb-up-a-teiegraph-pole, bang-up-by- your-eye-lashes, sit on-the-broken-bottles-on-a- wall-top brigade. (By-the-way, I should think that these last-named folks must be those to whom novelists refer when they speak of persons with a glassy stare.") There were, at first, not many people on the grand-stand, but such as did patronise that elevated, but decidedly chilly, position were chiefly of the bald-headed, ancient i masher order of loveliness. There were, however, several ladies present to give countenance to the proceedings-very remarkable-looking ladies they were. too, some of them. They were, in sooth, chiefly distinguished for the brightest of golden locks and the blackest of eye-brows and eye- lashes, and they appeared to be well known to the crowd. Several solitary strangens sat apart in gloomy exclusiveness, and one of these, who looked like a poet, had doubtless come not out of curiosity," like the rest. but to sing of the glories of the new era of female muscularity. A spirit of jocosity pervaded the waiting assemblage, and one gentleman with a short clay pipe audibly expressed himse f to the effect that be 44 was fair an* glad 'at his missis couldn't fake at football, as she was good-like enough to tackle him as it was, partickler when she reached down the rollin' pin." After much waiting, much chaffing, and much stamping of feet to keep the cold out, a shout went up that the teams were coming. 'Pon my word, sir, the two bodies of players came down to the ground as though they were a party of convicts in custody. Policemen were on all sides of them, but whether the beauties in biue were on mashing bent, as is their bent (siy uogb), or whether they were there for the purpose of pro- tecting the female footballists from other mashers, deponent sayeth not. The ladies them- selves were tor the most. part attired in capacious ulsters which, doubtless through the absence of ) petticoats, seemed to hang on them like sheets 44 BY GUM IT'S LIKE A TRANSFORMATION SCENE." might be supposed to do on clothes-props. But immediately the ladies reached the enclosure they instantly began to doff thersens," as a gentle- man near me said. Thi& rather questionable act so excited the admiration of a young man in a big overcoat, who stood on the grand stand, that he begau to dance wildly" about, and to shcut. 44 By gum, it's like a transformation scene." I regret to say that m his exuberance A FULL BACK. lie overbalanced him- self and fell down four steps light upon the poodle dog of one of the fair ones with the golden locks, and that lady—consider- ing that she was a lady-u-sed language which I can only characterise as unbe- coming. But about the players. They having taken off their superincumbent gar- ments, stood revealed attired iu-w.11, at- tired in the ordinarv garments of male footballists, nothing more nor less. I < should not like to say that their costume was any better than that usually worn by corpses des baUd, a coryphees axe popular iy called, but it was certainly no worse. (It. couldn't very likely be worse, but that's got nothing to do with the case.) It fat meant muscularity, some of these females, sir, would have beeu muscular indeed. Iu regard to certain of them, I couldu't but think, on contemplating their bulk, that they had somehow missed their way, and come to the football field instead of going, as they ought, to the agricultural show. The enthusiasm—if enthusiasm it was—of the crowd, when the ladies stood fully displayed in all their war paint, vented itself in shouts of laughter, for very stiff (" lumpy," a friend of mine called) did some of the players look. But the farce went on, and the ladies, after pulling their fringes straight, a little feminine act which they had evidently Dot yet forgotten, got to work. Now, sir, I am uo footualiist myself, but I certainly am one in a sufficient degree to tell you that the game was au uncommonly slow one. It rather suggested that the players to it had suddenly been awakened up out of a dead sleep and that they had not yet got their eyes fully open. The ladies seemed to find rapid loco, motion emphatically difficult they ran, in fact, as though the lengthy garments usual with their sex still burg about them, and when they fell, they smoothed down their ankles as tbougb they fancied that petticoats were still there. iu this they suggested the young ladies who come a cropper on the ice, and inont beauiinely endeavour- to conceal their ankles. The admonitions from the crowd were both numerous and iinpoilte in deed, the latter bad. quality, that "f pronounced unpoliteness, was apparent in all the playful humour indulged in by the crowd, but. even this verbial fusillade did not succeed in galvauibing the 44 grand lady teams up to couuert, or ratlier football, pitch. The game grew most wearisome, despite occa- sional fratches (which might or might not be pare of the show) ainongtit the playens cfhemse! ve*. In regard to these wrangles, the evidences of the players being females were particularly observ- able. There was distinct inclination ou the part of the ladies to indulge in tooth and nail contests -in fact, to seize hold of each other a> biioÍr and to scratch each other. One I "COMING UP TO Tiig SCtATCr. conclusion I certainly did arrive at. and that is that I should not like to act as referee in a 44 ladies' match "-in fact, I'd rather be a second Brigbam Young at once. More and more tire- some did the game become, for the players therein were certainly not fair to gaze upon indeed they seemed to monopolise a considerable share of tbe snub noses, toothless gums, and frowsy hair which afflict this troublous' world. 44 It's awf'ly slow, dear boy," drawled a young man near me to his companion, who was chewing the stump of a cigar in a disconsolate manner let's cut it." What this brilliant youth expected to see I don't know, but be sidled off, and so did many more people, including a stout elderly female, who very bitterly designated the players forrard hui. xnd brazen things." Whether she, in the trst category, referred to the" forward" players I can't say. Perhaps the disappointed young gentlemen expected to see the lady players stand on their heads, or something of that bort; any. how, they were evidently suffering from some grievous disillusionment. I went away early myself, good sir, for I bad had enough, aud mere than enough, of such an unedifying exhibition. Whether the ladies played a Rugby or au Associa- tion game I can't say, but, at. a stern moralist, 1 should rather thiuk that it must have been bad association game. The rising generation were clamouring to get into the show for uothing as I emerged from the ground, sir, but you can best judge as to how they looked as they trazid through the vacated pay places by gazing at the appended picture. "TMFIKCTNtt. SAMUEL: 1|IS .ShuHKFW

A NARROW ESCAPE. Slimkt-us-l' I understand you i.re going to get married I)e Joues-" Yes, to a most charming girl; Miss Marie Mimosa." Slimkins—" Mimosa Why thatV the young woman who just won JEoCO from tce for damages in a breach of promise tuit." De Jones—" Guer-s you're right. I know she said she expected that amount from a relative ebe lost lately."

'P- SCANDAL MONGERS. Do you hear fhe scandal mongers Passing by Breathing poison in a whisper, In a sigh < Moving cautiously and slow, Smiling sweetly as they go Xever noisy—ftliding smoothly as a suake— Suppiug here and slidiug there Through the meadows fresh and fair, Leaving subtle alime and poison in their wake. Saw you not the scandal monger As she sat, Beamiug brightly 'oeat.Ü the roses On her hat ? In her dainty gloves and dress Augel like, and nothing less. Seemed she—casting smiles and pleasing words about. Oace she shrugged and shook her head, Raised her eyes, and nothing said. When you spoke of friend, &,ud yet it left a doubt Did you watch the scandal monger. At tbe ball ? Through the music, rhythm, beauty. Light, and all. Moving here and moving there, With a whisper light as air, Casting shadows on a sister womatt's fame- Just a whisper, word or glacce-. As she floated through the dance And a doubt forever haugii upon a n<\me. You will find the scandal mongers Everywhere; Sometimes men, but often women, Young and fair; Yet their tongues drip foulest slime, And they spend their leisure time pasting mud en those who climb by wórk an) worth Shun them, shun them as you go- Shun them, whether high or low; They are but the cursed tif-rpente, of the earth. •

GLAMORGAN ANTIQCITIES.—An article uy MU Butterwortb, ou Kenhg, is held over till next week. It is said that Tennyson smokes a il;Lln clay pipe. From his late efforts, we inferred that hiv siuoked cigarette. -Pittsbu;-g Chronicle. They don't build large builditigti in Ciiicago any more, They simply 4" erect commodious struc- tures." A bear hugged a Pennsylvania girl tu -ieath the other day. The expression on the face showed that her end was painless. We learn up to the present time that Pence Alexander hat, castric fever, bmall-pox, vanelviu. For a man who is out of a joh, we should think ht was rather extravagant.—Rochester Post-JSxprcts. Butcher tu young housekeeper: c. 1 have upturns left, mum, but a hiud-quarter vi lamb and I wer.* Young housekeeper: Very well. You may send a small liind quarter of liver." Y(m cau always tell a bachelor by the wiy he handles a baby, says an exchange. Ou the con- trary, you can always tell a bachelor by the way be doesn't handle a baby. An Illinois paper has the following 44 The funeral services of the late William P. Lew it were somewhat hurried to eu^b.'z his estimable and grief-stricken widow tc c..tch the two >ck rain for Ohicago. where she jjoet. to visit trieudt."