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 do not perceive a tree to which we can fasten ourselves. It appears to me that the chase must be given up."

"Wait, my dear Dick; you never could hunt in grass higher than yourself. We shall find a favorable place presently."

It was, indeed, a charming excursion—a veritable navigation upon this sea—so beautifully green, almost transparent—undulating softly at the breathing of the wind. The boat now justified its name, and appeared to cleave the waves, except when a flight of birds with splendid plumage escaped sometimes from the high grass, and with a thousand joyous cries broke the illusion. The grapnels plunged into this lake of flowers and formed a furrow which immediately closed behind them like the wake of a vessel.

All at once the balloon experienced a great shock; the grapnel had no doubt been caught in the fissure of a rock concealed beneath the gigantic mass. "We have caught," said Joe.

"All right, throw out the ladder," said Kennedy.

These words had scarcely been uttered, when a sharp cry resounded through the air, and was thus commented upon by the travelers.

"What's that?" said one.

"A most singular cry!"

"Hollo! we are moving."

"The anchor has detached."

"No, it is all right," said Joe, who was hauling at the rope. "It is the rock that moves."

A great disturbance was now perceived in the grass, and soon a long and sinuous form raised itself over them. "A serpent!" cried Joe.

"A serpent!" said Kennedy, snatching up a carbine.

"No," said the doctor, "it is the trunk of an elephant."

"An elephant, Samuel?" and Kennedy, as he spoke, brought the gun to his shoulder.

"Wait, Dick, wait."

"Without doubt, the animal will pull us along."

"And in the right direction, Joe."

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Rh It has become somewhat of a sectarian name in some parts of India, but it is here taken only as meaning the eternal religion.

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 tusks, with a most graceful curve, which appeared about eight feet long—the flukes of the grapnel were firmly fastened between them.

The animal tried in vain with his trunk to loose the cord that bound him to the car.

"Go ahead cheerily!" cried Joe delighted, and doing his best to urge on this strange turn-out. "Here is quite a new way of traveling. Talk of a horse, indeed! An elephant, if you please."

"But where will he lead us to?" asked Kennedy, shifting his gun from hand to hand.

"He will take us wherever he likes, my dear Dick; have a little patience."

"Wig-a-more! wig-a-more! as the Scotch peasants say," cried the delighted Joe. "Go on, go on."

ThThe [sic] animal broke into a rapid gallop, he flung his trunk from right to left, and in his boundings he gave some violent shocks to the car. The doctor, ax in hand, was ready to cut the rope if occasion demanded.

"But," said he, "we will not give up our anchor till the last moment."

This race at the tail of an elephant lasted nearly an hour and a half. The animal did not appear in any way fatigued. These enormous quadrupeds can keep up a trot for a considerable time, and day after day they accomplish immense distances, like the whales, whose size and speed they possess.

"I believe it is a whale we have harpooned," said Joe, "and we are only imitating the maneuvers of the whalers when fishing."

But a change in the nature of the ground obliged the doctor to modify his mode of progression.

A thick wood appeared towards the north of the prairie, about three miles distant; it then became absolutely necessary that the balloon should be separated from its conductor.

So Kennedy was assigned the duty of stopping the elephant. He shouldered his carbine, but his position was not favorable to strike the animal successfully. The first ball fired at the skull was flattened as if against an iron plate. The elephant did not appear the least inconvenienced. At the sound of the discharge he accelerated his


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 While Ts'ao Ts'ao was absent from the capital on his northern expedition, Liu P'ei went to Liu Piao and said to him, “Why do you not take this opportunity to march against the capital? An empire might follow from that.”

“I am well placed here," was the reply, “Why should I attempt other things?"

Yüan-tê said no more. Then the Prefect invited him into the private apartments to drink and while they were so engaged he suddenly began to sigh despondently.

“O brother, why do you sigh thus ?” asked Yüan-tê.

"I have a secret sorrow that is difficult to speak about," said Piao.

Yüan-tê was on the point of asking what it was when the Lady Ts'ai came and stood behind the screen, whereat Piao hung his head and became silent. Before long host and guest bade each other farewell and Liu P'ei went back to his own place.

That winter they heard that Ts'ao Ts'ao had returned from Liuch'êng and Liu P'ei sighed when he reflected that his friend had paid no heed to his advice.

Unexpectedly a messenger came from the principal city with a request that Liu P'ei would go thither to consult with the Prefect. So he started at oncewith the messenger. He was received very kindly, and when the salutations were over, the two men went into the private quarters at the rear to dine. Presently the host said, "Ts'ao has returned and he is stronger than ever. I am afraid he means to absorb this district. I am sorry I did not follow your advice for I have missed an opportunity.”

“In this period of disruption, with strife on every side, one cannot pretend that there will be no more opportunities. If you only take that what offers there will be nothing to regret."

“What you say, brother, is quite to the point,” replied Liu Piao.

They drank on for a time till presently Liu P'ei noticed that his host was weeping, and when he asked the cause of these tears, Piao replied, “It is that secret sorrow I spoke of to you before; I wished to tell you, but there was no opportunity that day."

“O brother, what difficulty have you, and can I assist you? I am entirely at your service."

“My wife, of the Ch'ên family, bore me a son Ch‘i, my eldest. He grew up virtuous but weakly and unfitted to succeed me in my office. Later I took a wife of the Ts'ai family, who bore me a son named Ts'ung, fairly intelligent. If I pass over the elder in favour of the younger there is the breach of the rule of primogeniture, and if I follow law and custom there are the intriguesof the mother's family and clan to be reckoned with. Further, the army is in the hollow of their hands. There will be trouble and I cannot decide what to do."


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ANÂTANA DHARMA means the Eternal Religion, the Ancient Law, and it is based on the Vedas, sacred books given to men many long ages ago. This Religion has also been called the Aryan Religion, because it is the Religion that was given to the first nation of the Aryan race; Ârya means noble, and the name was given to a great race, much finer in character and appearance than the races which went before it in the world's history. The first families of these people settled in the northern part of the land now called India, and that part in which they first settled was named Âryavarta, because these Aryans lived in it. "(The land) from the eastern ocean to the western ocean, between the two mountains (Himavân and Vindhya), the wise call Âryâvarta."


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 I got into the street and despatched a messenger to M. Henry. I went back again without loss of time, and my absence had not been of long duration. When I entered I was out of breath, and as red as a turkey cock. They asked me if I felt better!

"Yes, a great deal," I stammered out, and falling nearly under the table.

"Steady boys, steady," says Manigant.

"He sees double," observed Gaffré.

"He is done up," added Compère, "quite done up, but the air will revive him."

They gave me some sugar and water. "Go to " I cried out, "What! water for me, water for me!"

"Yes, it will do you good."

"Do you think so?"

I extended my hand, but instead of seizing the glass I upset and broke it. I then played a few silly drunken tricks which amused the party, and when I judged that M. Henry had received my despatch, and taken measures accordingly, I insensibly came to myself.

On going out, I saw with pleasure that our route was not changed. We went towards the market of St. Jean, and there saw a file of soldiers. When I saw them sitting at the door, I did not doubt but that they were there in consequence of my message, and the less so as I observed Ménager the inspector following us. When we passed they approached us, and, taking us politely by the arm, invited us to enter the guardhouse. Gaffré could not imagine what this meant, but supposed the soldiers were in error. He wished to argue the point. They desired him to obey, and he was compelled quietly to submit. They began with me, but found nothing; when it came to Gaffré's turn he was not at all easy. At length the fatal watch was produced from his fob: he was a little disconcerted, but at the moment of his examination, and particularly when he heard the commissary say, "Write: a watch set with brilliants," he turned pale and looked at me.


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Rh Hindu boys in the middle and upper sections of the High Schools of India, and is designed to give them a general but correct idea of their national religion, such as may be filled in by fuller study in College and in later life, but will not need to be changed in any essential respect.

It contains the fundamental ideas and doctrines which are generally received as orthodox, but does not enter into the details as to whichi sectarian divisions have arisen. It is believed that while a sectarian parent or teacher will probably make additions to it, he will not find in it anything which he will wish positively to repudiate.

While the book may be placed in the hands of the boys for their own study, it is intended to be simplified by the oral explanations of the teacher, and each chapter serves as an outline on which one or more lessons may be based.

The shlokas given at the end of the chapters should be committed to memory by the boys. They will thus acquire a useful store of sacred authorities on their religion.

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 Had he any suspicion of what had passed? I do not think so, for he was convinced that I did not know of the robbery of the watch; and, besides, he was sure that, if I had known it, as I had not left them, I could not have turned nose.

Gaffré, on being questioned, pretended that he had bought the watch; they were persuaded that this was a lie, but the person who was robbed not being present to claim his property, it was not possible to condemn it. He was, however, confined for a time in Bicêtre, and then sent under surveillance to Tours, whence at a later period he returned to Paris. This villain died there in 1822.

At this period, the police had so little confidence in their agents, that there was no kind of expedient to which they had not recourse to prove them. One day Goupil was let loose upon me, and came with a singular proposal.

"You know François, the publican," said he to me.

"Yes, and what of that?"

"If you will help me, we will draw a tooth or two from him."

"How?"

"Why he has very frequently addressed the prefecture, to obtain permission to keep open house during part of the night, which request has always been denied; and I have given him to understand that it only depends on you to procure what he is so anxious to have."

"You are wrong, for I can do nothing."

"You can do nothing! very true, certainly! Oh you can do nothing, but you can buoy him up with the hope that you can do it."

"That is true, but wherein would be the benefit to him?"

"Say the benefit to us. François, if well managed, would bleed well. He is already told that you are the man who is 'all in all' in the administration: he has a good opinion of you, and so no doubt he will tip freely on the first requisition."


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 "Do you think he will part with the blunt?"

"I am sure, my boy, he will shell out six hundred francs as easily as a penny; we shall handle the ready, that is the main thing, and we can afterwards leave him to his reflections."

"Well, but he will be enraged."

"Never mind, let him do his worst; but give yourself no trouble, I will provide for all. No black and white work (writing) mind; you know the proverb, 'Writings are men, words but women.

"True as gospel; no receipt for cash in hand, and yet we can safely pocket."

"Certainly, he who sows should reap; and no labour no profit. Meanwhile I will go and see how the land lies, and sound the old boy."

Goupil then took my hand, and, shaking it heartily, added, "I am now going straight to François, I will tell him you will call in the evening; I shall fix the hour for eight o'clock, but do not you come till eleven, because (as you must say) you will have been delayed; at midnight we shall be told to go out, you must appear to comply with this formality, and François will seize the opportunity of urging his request. You are a man of experience, and know how to play your cards. Farewell for the present."

"Adieu," I replied, and we separated. Scarcely, however, had we turned our backs on each other than Goupil returned.

"Oh!" said he, "you know that very frequently the feathers are more valuable than the bird; I want a pluck at the feathers, otherwise " and he assumed a peculiar attitude, opening his enormous mouth, holding his hands about six inches from the ground, as if he was about to scrape the pavement, and completing the menace by drawing back his body and advancing his legs, in which the mobility of his feet were not the least comical part of his attitude.

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 pace, and his speed was now that of a horse at full gallop.

"The devil!" exclaimed Kennedy.

"What a hard head he must have," said Joe.

"We must try a conical bullet in the shoulder," said Dick, loading his gun with great care. He fired. The elephant uttered a fearful scream, but still went on gallantly.

"Look here," said Joe, taking up one of the rifles, "I must help you, Mr. Dick, or we shall never get to the end of this."

And two bullets were quickly lodged in the flank of the animal. He stopped, raised his trunk high in the air, and then continued his rapid course towards the wood. He kept shaking his enormous head, and blood began to flow from his wounds.

"Let us keep firing, Mr. Dick," said Joe.

"Yes, and well-sustained fire, too," said the doctor; "we are only a few yards from the wood."

Ten shots were rapidly fired; the elephant made a terrific bound; the car and the balloon cracked as if they were coming to pieces. The shock caused the doctor to drop the ax to the ground.

Their situation was critical. The rope of the grapnel was fastened so tightly that it could not be detached, nor could it be cut by the knives the travelers possessed. The balloon was rapidly nearing the wood when the elephant received a bullet in the eye at the moment he raised his head. He stopped, appeared to hesitate for a moment, then his knees bent beneath him, and he exposed his flank to the assailants.

"Now for a bullet in his heart," cried Kennedy, as he discharged his carbine for the last time.

The elephant uttered a roar of agony and distress, half raised himself for an instant as he waved his trunk to and fro, and then fell with all his immense weight upon one of his tusks, which was broken short off. He was dead.

"His tusk is broken," cried Kennedy. "That ivory would fetch thirty-five guineas the hundredweight in England."

"So much for that," said Joe, as he lowered himself to the ground by the grapnel-rope.

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 "We are not ivory merchants, and we have not come here to make our fortunes, have we?"

Joe inspected the grapnel. It was still firmly fastened to the remaining tusk. Samuel and Dick got down on the ground while the half-inflated balloon hovered above the carcass of the elephant.

"What a splendid beast," cried Kennedy. "What an enormous mass he is. I have never, even in India, seen such a fine fellow."

"That is not so surprising, my dear Dick. The elephants of Central Africa are the biggest naturally. They have been hunted so much in the neighborhood of the Cape by the Andersons and the Cummings, that they have migrated towards the equator, where we shall frequently meet them in large numbers."

"In the meantime," said Joe, "I hope we shall have a taste of this fellow. I will pledge myself to provide you a savory meal at this gentleman's expense. Mr. Kennedy can go hunting for an hour or two; Mr. Samuel can inspect and overhaul the 'Victoria,' and I will play the cook."

"That is well arranged," replied the doctor. "So each to his occupation."

"Well, I shall take the two hours' liberty that Joe has been so kind as to give me," said Kennedy.

"By all means, my friend, but don't be rash. Do not go too far."

"You may be easy on that score," said Dick; and, armed with his rifle, he plunged into the wood.

Then Joe set about his avocations. First, he made a hole in the ground about two feet deep, which he filled with the dead branches of trees which strewed the ground in consequence of the passages forced through the woods by the elephants, traces of which were clearly seen. The hole filled up, he thrust in at the top a log about two feet long, and set fire to it.

He then turned to the elephant, which had fallen only about fifty yards from the wood, and dexterously cut off the trunk, which measured nearly two feet wide at the head. He chose the most delicate portions, and added one of the sponge-like feet. These are considered the tid-bits of the animal, as is the buffalo-hump, the paws of the bear, or the boar's head.


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 When the log was completely consumed inside and outside, the hole, emptied of the cinders and ashes, was very hot, so the pieces of the elephant's flesh, wrapped in aromatic leaves, were laid at the bottom of this improvised furnace, and covered with the hot embers. Then Joe placed a second log over all, and when the wood was burned out, the meat was done to a turn.

Then Joe took the dinner from the oven, placed it upon green leaves, and laid the repast in the center of a meadow-like space. He brought the biscuits, brandy, and coffee, and fetched some fresh and sparkling water from a neighboring stream.

The feast thus sent up was pleasant to behold, and Joe, without vanity, thought that it would be very good to eat.

"Here," he said to himself, "here is a journey without danger, meals when you choose, and sleep when you like: what can a man want more? And that good Mr. Kennedy did not want to come!"

Doctor Ferguson, for his part, was devoting himself to a thorough examination of his balloon. It did not appear to have suffered by the storm, the taffetas and gutta-percha had resisted wonderfully. Taking the actual distance from the ground, and calculating the ascensional force of the balloon, he perceived with satisfaction that the hydrogen was still in the same volume. The envelope up to this time had remained impermeable.

It was only five days since the travelers had quitted Zanzibar, the pemmican had not been cut, the store, of biscuit and preserved meat was sufficient for a long period, and they had only to renew their reserve of water. The tubes and the coil appeared to be in perfect order; thanks to their india-rubber joints, they yielded to all the oscillations of the balloon.

Having finished his inspection, the doctor put his notes in order. He made a most successful sketch of the surrounding country, with the immense prairie as far as the eye could reach, the forest, and the balloon standing motionless over the body of the enormous elephant.

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 lopes. Joe took upon himself to prepare this addition to the repast.

"Dinner is ready!" he soon cried, in his cheery voice. And the three travelers had only to seat themselves upon the verdant meadow. The feet and trunk of the elephant were pronounced exquisite. They drank to "Old England," as usual, and some delicious havanas perfumed the air of this beautiful region for the first time.

Kennedy ate, drank, and talked enough for four. He was intoxicated with the surroundings. He seriously proposed to the doctor to remain in that forest, and to construct a leafy cabin, and begin a sort of African Robinson Crusoe life. This proposition was not otherwise followed up, although Joe promised himself to take the part of "Friday."

The country appeared so quiet, so deserted, that the Doctor determined to pass the night on the ground. Joe made a circle of fire, an indispensable barricade against wild beasts. Hyenas, cougars, and jackals, attracted by the scent of the elephant's carcass, came prowling around. Kennedy occasionally sent a shot after the most pressing of these visitors, but the night passed without any unpleasant incident.

morning, at five o'clock, they prepared to depart. Joe, with the ax which he had fortunately recovered, cut off the elephant's tusks. The "Victoria," restored to liberty, carried our travelers to the northeast at a speed of eighteen miles an hour.

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 "On the word of a thief."

"Yes, make yourself easy."

Goupil immediately took the road to the. Courtille, where he very frequently went, and I that of the prefecture of police, when I informed M. Henry of the proposal made to me. "I hope," said he, "that you will not lend yourself to the plot." I protested that I was not at all inclined to do so, and he evinced his pleasure at my free communication. "Now," he added, "I will give you a proof of the interest that I take in you;" and he arose to reach from his chest a packet of papers, which he opened. "You see it is full, and they are all reports against you: they are in abundance, but yet I employ you, because I do not believe one word of what they say."

These reports were the production of the inspectors and peace officers, who, through a spirit of jealousy, continually accused me of robbery. That was the burden of their song, as well as that of the robbers whom I had detected in the very act: they denounced me as their accomplice, but when I was on every side exposed to unfavourable representations, I defied calumny, I braved its assaults, and its teeth were broken against the brazen buckler of truth, which, by the means of incontestable alibis, or impossibilities of another nature, became resplendent by the evidence of facts. Accused daily for sixteen years, I was never betrayed by it: once only I was interrogated by M. Vigny the judge. The complaint laid before him had some colouring of truth, but I had only to appear before him and the whole was proved false, and I was instantly freed from all suspicion.


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most extraordinary dream I ever had was one in which I fancied that, as I was going into a theatre, the cloak-room attendant stopped me in the lobby and insisted on my leaving my legs behind me.

I was not surprised; indeed, my acquaintanceship with theatre harpies would prevent my feeling any surprise at such a demand, even in my waking moments; but I was, I must honestly confess, considerably annoyed. It was not the payment of the cloak-room fee that I so much minded,—I offered to give that to the man then and there. It was the parting with my legs that I objected to.

I said I had never heard of a such rule being attempted to be put in force at any respectable theatre before, and that I considered it a most absurd and vexatious regulation. I also said I should write to The Times about it.

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It seemed to me that the management, in making this order, had clearly gone beyond their legal right; and, under ordinary circumstances I should have disputed it. Being present, however, more in the character of a guest than in that of a patron, I hardly liked to make a disturbance; and so I sat down and meekly prepared to comply with the demand.

I had never before known that the human leg did unscrew. I had always thought it was a fixture. But the man showed me how to undo them, and I found that they came off quite easily.

The discovery did not surprise me any more than the original request that I should take them off had done. Nothing does surprise one in a dream.

I dreamed once that I was going to be hanged; but I was not at all surprised about it. Nobody was. My relations came to see me off, I thought, and to wish me "Good-bye!" They all came, and were all very pleasant; but they were not in the least astonished-not one of them. Everybody appeared to regard the coming tragedy as one of the most-naturally-to-be-expected things in the world.

They bore the calamity, besides, with an amount of stoicism that would have done credit to a Spartan father. There was no fuss, no scene. On the contrary, an atmosphere of mild cheerfulness prevailed.

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 Knowledge and Experience, that teach us surprise. We are surprised and incredulous when, in novels and plays, we come across good men and women, because Knowledge and Experience have taught us how rare and problematical is the existence of such people. In waking life, my friends and relations would, of course, have been surprised at hearing that I had committed a murder, and was, in consequence, about to be hanged, because Knowledge and Experience would have taught them that, in a country where the law is powerful and the police alert, the Christian citizen is usually pretty successful in withstanding the voice of temptation, prompting him to commit crime of an illegal character.

But into Dreamland, Knowledge and Experience do not enter. They stay without, together with the dull, dead clay of which they form a part; while the freed brain, released from their narrowing tutelage, steals softly past the ebon gate, to wanton at its own sweet will among the mazy paths that wind through the garden of Persephone.

Nothing that it meets with in that eternal land astonishes it, because, unfettered by the dense conviction of our waking mind, that nought outside the ken of our own vision can in this universe be, all things to it are possible and even probable. In dreams, we fly and wonder not: except that we never flew before. We go naked, yet are not ashamed, though we mildly wonder what the police are about that they do not stop us. We converse with our dead, and think it was unkind that they did not come back to us before. In dreams, there happens that which human language cannot tell. In dreams, we see "the light that never was on sea or land," we hear the sounds that never yet were heard by waking ears.


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 It is only in sleep that true imagination ever stirs within us. Awake, we never imagine anything; we merely alter, vary, or transpose. We give another twist to the kaleidoscope of the things we see around us, and obtain another pattern; but not one of us has ever added one tiniest piece of new glass to the toy.

A Dean Swift sees one race of people smaller, and another race of people larger, than the race of people that live down his own street. And he also sees a land where the horses take the place of men, and men take the place of horses. A Bulwer Lytton lays the scene of one of his novels inside the earth instead of outside. A Rider Haggard introduces us to a lady whose age is a few years more than the average woman would care to confess to; and pictures crabs larger than the usual shilling or eighteen-penny size. The number of so-called imaginative writers who visit the moon is legion, and for all the novelty that they find, when they get there, they might just as well have gone to Putney. Others are continually drawing for us visions of the world one hundred or one thousand years hence. There is always a depressing absence of human nature about the place; so much so, that one feels great consolation in the thought, while reading, that we ourselves shall be comfortably dead and buried before the picture can be realised. In these prophesied Utopias everybody is painfully good and clean and happy, and all the work is done by electricity.

There is somewhat too much electricity, for my taste, in these worlds to come. One is reminded of those pictorial enamel-paint advertisements that one sees about so often now, in which all the members of an extensive household are represented as gathered together in one room, spreading enamel-paint over everything they can


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 lay their hands upon. The old man is on a step-ladder, daubing the walls and ceiling with "cuckoo's-egg green," while the parlourmaid and the cook are on their knees, painting the floor with "sealing-wax red." The old lady is doing the picture-frames in "terra cotta." The eldest daughter and her young man are making sly love in a corner over a pot of "high-art yellow," with which, so soon as they have finished wasting their time, they will, it is manifest, proceed to elevate the piano. Younger brothers and sisters are busy freshening up the chairs and tables with strawberry-jam pink" and "jubilee magenta." Every blessed thing in that room is being coated with enamel paint, from the sofa to the fireirons, from the sideboard to the eight-day clock. If there is any paint left over, it will be used up for the family bible and the canary.

It is claimed for this invention that a little child can make as much mess with it as can a grown-up person, and so all the children of the family are represented in the picture as hard at work, enamelling whatever few articles of furniture and household use the grasping selfishness of their elders has spared to them. One is painting the toasting fork a "skim-milk blue," while another is giving æsthetical value to the Dutch oven by means of a new shade of art green. The bootjack is being renovated in "old gold," and the baby is sitting on the floor, smothering its own cradle with "flush-upon-a-maiden's-cheek peach colour."

One feels that the thing is being overdone. That family, before another month is gone, will be among the strongest opponents of enamel paint that the century has produced. Enamel paint will be the ruin of that once happy home. Enamel paint has a cold, glassy, cynical appearance. Its presence everywhere about the place will


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 begin to irritate the old man in the course of a week or so. He will call it, "This damn'd sticky stuff!" and will tell the wife that he wonders she didn't paint herself and the children with it while she was about it. She will reply, in an exasperatingly quiet tone of voice, that she does like that! Perhaps he will say next, that she did not warn him against it, and tell him what an idiot he was making of himself, spoiling the whole house with his foolish fads. Each one will persist that it was the other one who first suggested the absurdity, and they will sit up in bed and quarrel about it every night for a month.

The children, having acquired a taste for smudging the concoction about, and there being nothing else left untouched in the house, will try to enamel the cat; and then there will be bloodshed, and broken windows, and spoiled infants, and sorrows and yells. The smell of the paint will make everybody ill; and the servants will give notice. Tradesmen's boys will lean up against places that are not dry and get their clothes enamelled, and claim compensation. And the baby will suck the paint off its cradle and have fits.

But the person that will suffer most will, of course, be the eldest daughter's young man. The eldest daughter's young man is always unfortunate. He means well, and he tries hard. His great ambition is to make the family love him. But Fate is ever against him, and he only succeeds in gaining their undisguised contempt. The fact of his being "gone" on their Emily is, of itself, naturally sufficient to stamp him as an imbecile in the eyes of Emily's brothers and sisters. The father finds him slow, and thinks the girl might have done better; while the best that his future mother-in-law (his sole supporter) can say for him is, that he seems steady.


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 There is only one thing that prompts the family to tolerate him, and that is the reflection that he is going to take Emily away from them.

On that understanding they put up with him.

The eldest daughter's young man, in this particular case, will, you may depend upon it, choose that exact moment when the baby's life is hovering in the balance, and the cook is waiting for her wages with her box in the hall, and a coal-heaver is at the front door with a policeman, making a row about the damage to his trousers, to come in, smiling, with a specimen pot of some new high art, squashed-tomato-shade enamel paint, and suggest that they should try it on the old man's pipe.

Then Emily will go off into hysterics, and Emily's male progenitor will firmly but quietly lead that ill-starred yet true-hearted young man to the public side of the garden-gate; and the engagement will be "off."

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 is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practise moderation in all matters. A little enamel paint would have been good. They might have enamelled the house inside and out, and have left the furniture alone. Or they might have coloured the furniture, and let the house be. But an entirely and completely enamelled home—a home, such as enamel-paint manufacturers love to picture on their advertisements, over which the yearning eye wanders in vain, seeking one single square inch of unenamelled matter—is, I am convinced, a mistake. It may be a home that, as the testimonials assure us, will easily wash. It may be an "artistic" home; but the average man is not yet educated up to the appreciation of it. The average man does not care for high art. At a certain point, the average man gets sick of high art.

So, in these coming Utopias, in which our unhappy grandchildren will have to drag out their colourless existence, there will be too much electricity. They will grow to loathe electricity.

Electricity is going to light them, warm them, carry them, doctor them, cook for them, execute them, if necessary. They are going to be weaned on electricity, rocked in their cradles by electricity, slapped by electricity, ruled and regulated and guided by electricity, buried by electricity. I may be wrong, but I rather think they are going to be hatched by electricity.

In the new world of our progressionist teachers, it is electricity that is the real motive-power. The men and women are only marionettes—worked by electricity.

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 of fiction. There is no originality in them whatever. Human thought is incapable of originality. No man ever yet imagined a new thing-only some variation or extension of an old thing.

The sailor, when he was asked what he would do with a fortune, promptly replied:

"Buy all the rum and 'baccy there is in the world."

"And what after that?" they asked him.

"Eh?"

"What would you buy after that—after you had bought up all the rum and tobacco there was in the world?—what would you buy then?"

"After that? Oh! 'um!" (a long pause). "Oh!"

(with inspiration) "why, more 'baccy!"

Rum and tobacco he knew something of, and could therefore imagine about. He did not know any other luxuries, therefore he could not conceive of any others.

So if you asked one of these Utopian-dreaming gentry what, after they had secured for their world all the electricity there was in the Universe, and after every mortal. thing in their ideal Paradise was done and said and thought by electricity, they could imagine as further necessary to human happiness, they would probably muse for a while, and then reply "More electricity."

They know electricity. They have seen the electric light, and heard of electric boats and omnibuses. They have possibly had an electric shock at a railway station for a penny.

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 the Mountains of the Moon. Now the old legend, which states that these hills are the cradle of the Nile, appears to be not far from the truth, inasmuch as they border upon Lake Ukéréoné, the supposed reservoir for the waters of the big river.

From Kafuero, the central market of the native merchants, he perceived at length on the horizon the long-sought lake which Captain Speke got a glimpse of on the 3rd of August, 1858.

Samuel Ferguson was moved. He had almost arrived at one of the principal points of his expedition, and, telescope in hand, he did not lose a corner of this mysterious country which his gaze thus drank in.

Beneath him the ground appeared generally exhausted; there was scarcely a hollow cultivated; the plain, dotted here and there with mounds of medium elevation, became level as it approached the lake; fields of barley took the place of rice. There was the plantain, from which the wine of the country is made, and the "mwani," a wild plant that yields coffee. A collection of fifty circular huts, covered with a flowery thatch, constituted the capital of Karagwah. They could easily distinguish the astonished faces of a race apparently good-looking and of a yellowish-brown color. Women of a most incredible corpulence were working in the fields, and the doctor astonished his companions by informing them that this stoutness, which is highly appreciated, is obtained by an obligatory diet of curdled milk.

At mid-day the "Victoria" was in 1° 45' South latitude; in an hour the wind carried it over the lake. Captain Speke called this Lake "Victoria" Nyanza. In this place it measures ninety miles wide. At its southern extremity the captain found a group of islands which he designated the Archipelago of Bengal. He pushed his researches as far as Muanza on the eastern side, where he was well received by the sultan. He made a triangulation of this part of the lake; but he could not procure a boat either to cross it or to visit the great island of Ukéréoné. This very populous island is governed by three sultans, and only forms a peninsula at low water.

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 note the lower bends. The banks bristled with thorny thickets and tangled brushwood, and were entirely hidden under a cloud of millions of mosquitoes of a clear brown color; the country then appeared to be uninhabitable and uninhabited. They could see troops of hippopotami wallowing amidst the reeds, whence they plunged beneath the pellucid water of the lake.

The lake, seen from above, extended to such a distance towards the west as almost to appear a sea. The distance between the opposite sides of the lake is too great for the establishment of communications; besides, the storms are frequent and fierce, for the winds rage terribly in that elevated and open basin.

The doctor had some difficulty to manage the balloon—he was afraid of being carried away towards the sea; but fortunately a current bore him directly to the north, and at 6 the "Victoria" pulled up at a small desolate island in 0° 30′ lat. and 32° 52' long., about twenty miles from the border of the lake.

The travelers were enabled to make the balloon fast to a tree, and the wind having dropped as evening came on, they remained quietly at anchor. They did not venture to get down on the ground, for here, as upon the banks of the Nyanza, legions of mosquitoes covered the earth in a thick cloud. Joe returned from the tree even covered with bites, but he did not trouble himself about them, as he fancied that such conduct was only "the nature of the animal."

Nevertheless, the doctor, somewhat less of an optimist, let out the rope to its furthest extent with the view to escape these pestilent insects, which were hovering about with a never-resting "trumpeting."

The doctor reckoned that the height of the lake above the level of the sea was as determined by Captain Speke; that is to say, 3,750 feet.

"So we are on an island!" cried Joe, scratching himself as if he would dislocate his wrists.

"We shall have quickly made the tour of it," replied the Scot, "and, except these blessed insects, I don't think there is a living thing on it."

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 extravagantly and dissolutely that he decided to remove his head-quarters to Kia-hing [Kashing]. Here he and one of his advisers both had an identical dream, to the effect that the foreigners had swarmed on board their ships, and had left in a panic; which fitted in exactly with a piece of intelligence, reported from Ningpo that very day, to the effect that the foreigners were getting their arms on board the ships. This filled them both with a desire to fight at once; and the whole party, suites included, proceeded to Hangchow, where the second adviser, T'ÊHISHUN, was placed in charge, whilst YIKKING, with his fellow dreamer WÊNWEI, went to Shao-hing city.

Now there had been a great deal of snow during the winter, followed by heavy rains, so that all the stock of fire-boats and the fuel collected was out of condition and useless. Notwithstanding the prayers of everyone that he would postpone the attack for at least a fortnight, YIKKING obstinately refused to wait, and fixed the 15th of March, 1842, as the date for the recovery of the occupied cities in full force, thus ignoring the previously agreed upon arrangement about guerilla fighting. The enemy, hearing of those preparations, naturally prepared themselves too: the foreign officers all went on board, leaving only a few hundred men in charge of the large guns on the city wall, to deal with any army advan-


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 merged hills, but we are fortunate in finding shelter here, for the shores of the lake are inhabited by ferocious tribes. So go to sleep in peace, as the sky gives assurance of a quiet night."

"Are you not going to do the same, Samuel?"

"No, I cannot close my eyes. My thoughts are such as to banish sleep. To-morrow, my friends, if the wind be favorable, we shall proceed due north, and perhaps discover the sources of the Nile—the impenetrable secret! So near to the sources of the Great River I cannot sleep."

Kennedy and Joe, whose scientific cogitations did not trouble them to so great an extent, did not hesitate to sleep soundly under the doctor's guardianship.

On Wednesday, April 23rd, the "Victoria" set out at four o'clock under a gray sky. The darkness seemed loath to leave the waters of the lake, which was enveloped in a thick mist. Soon, however, a strong breeze dispersed all this fog. The "Victoria" was for some minutes balanced, in more senses than one, and at last made up its mind and set off directly towards the north.

Doctor Ferguson clapped his hands joyously.

"We are now in the right track," he cried; "to-day or never we shall see the Nile. My friends, now we are crossing the equator—we are entering our own hemisphere."

"Oh!" cried Joe. "Do you think, sir, that the equator does pass by here?"

"At this very spot, my brave lad!"

"Well, 'saving your presence,' sir, it seems to me advisable to 'wet' it without further loss of time."

"Go and fetch the grog," said the doctor, laughing; "you have a way of understanding cosmography which is not to be despised."

And that was how they celebrated the "crossing of the line" in the "Victoria."

The balloon continued to glide rapidly along. In the west they could perceive the low and somewhat undulating coast; at the end, the more elevated plains of Uganda and Usoga. The wind now blew with great force.

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 or two large boats were descried during the rapid transit.

"This lake," said the doctor, "is evidently, from its elevated position, the natural reservoir of the rivers in the eastern parts of Africa. Heaven gives it again in rain what it absorbs in vapors from its effluents. It appears to me certain that the Nile ought to have its source here."

"We shall soon see," said Kennedy.

Towards nine o'clock the coast towards the west was neared: it appeared desert and wooded. The wind backed a little to the east, and they could get a glimpse of the other side of the lake. It trended so as to terminate in a very obtuse angle, about 2° 40' North latitude. High mountains stood up with arid peaks at this end of the Nyanza, but between them a deep and winding gorge gave vent to a rippling stream.

All the while he was regulating the balloon, Doctor Ferguson kept examining the country with an anxious gaze.

"There it is, my friends, there it is!" he cried; "the accounts of the Arabs were correct. They spoke of a river by which the Lake Ukéréoné discharged itself towards the north, and this river exists. We will descend with it, and it flows with a rapidity equal to ours. And this drop of water which passes under our feet is surely on its way to mingle with the Mediterranean waves. It is the Nile!"

"It is the Nile," replied Kennedy, who had yielded to the enthusiasm of Samuel Ferguson.

"Long live the Nile!" cried Joe, who cried long live anything when he was pleased.

The enormous rocks here and there hindered the course of this mysterious river. The water boiled up, forming rapids and cataracts, which confirmed the doctor in his suppositions. These surrounding mountains gave rise to numerous torrents foaming in their fall, which could be counted by hundreds. They could see little scattered jets of water springing from the earth, crossing each other, mingling together, and vying in speed, and all hastening to this newborn stream, which became a river after it had absorbed them all.

"That is really the Nile," replied the doctor, now convinced. The origin of the name has puzzled the learned as much as the source of its waters. They have declared it comes from the Greek, from the Coptic, from the Sanscrit.


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 cing by the west gate. At Chên-hai they proceeded to take possession of the Chao-pao Shan, so as to be able to bombard thence our men as they poured into that city. This was the interpretation of the dream! Our troops were strictly enjoined not to use fire or rockets, lest they should set fire to the town; the only thing to be done was to try and get the Chinese traitors to betray the foreigners, especially the chiefs, into our hands, when the recapture of the cities would be easy, and we could arrange our own terms with the hostages in our hands. YIKKING entrenched himself with 3,000 men in the east suburb of Shao-hing. WENWEI occupied the heights of CH'ANG-K'I, one mile from Ts'z-k'i city, with 4,000 men, half of whom were under Colonel CHU, and intended for an attack on Chên-hai. General TWAN YUNG-FUH lay concealed outside the walls of Ning- po with 4,000 men, destined for an attack upon that city; and a Colonel with 1,000 more men guarded the Ningpo and Chên-hai road at Camel Bridge, half way between the two cities. Boats were also sunk at Mei Hü; so as to prevent river communication; and a reserve force of volunteers was stationed at Shang-yü city. When the appointed time came, our mon marched towards the west gate, when, the guard having been killed by our friends in the city, who also spiked the guns on


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 the walls, the men advanced through the gate right up to the prefect's and magistrate's yamêns before the foreigners knew what was taking place. Then followed a street fight, and our troops found them- selves taken in the rear by a foreign force which had come to the rescue from the north gate. Finding it impossible to withstand the rockets and guns with which the foreigners peppered them from the house- tops, they retired, fighting as they went, with a loss of 250 men. General TWAN, coming up with reinforcements, turned round and bolted, not even attempting to rally the men, or oven to fall back upon and defend his camp at Ta-yin Shan. General Yü PU-YÜN, who was advancing with 2,000 men from Fung-hwa, as soon as he heard of the defeat, turned and fled all night long into the open country. So much for our arms at Ningpo. Of the force at Ts'z-k'i, a part, that is 500 men, succeeded in getting into Chên-hai in the same way as had been done at Ningpo; but our agents in the city were too few to secure the persons of the pirates, and it was daylight before our fire-arms could be sent for. The enemy then gave us a broadside from his position on Chao-pao Shan, which drove our men helter-skelter out of the city. Colonel CHU, with his reinforcements, lost his way in the wind and rain, and never came up to Chên-hai at all. So much for


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 our arms at Chên-hai. Then it was that the error of all these hasty arrangements was manifest: but no irreparable disaster had yet occurred, as our total losses did not exceed 300 men. The position at Ts'z-k'i was again re-occupied with 1,700 men, and the city itself was guarded by volunteers. YIKKING neglected alike to decapitate the cowardly generals, and to himself advance up to Shang-yü; and, as the commander of the local volunteers at Ts'z-k'i was sent for to consult on the situation, the volun- teers found themselves left without a head, and so dispersed. A week later, the enemy sent steam- launches to burn our fire-boats, and landed between 2,000 and 3,000 men to attack our position near Ts'z-k'i: as before, their boats were withdrawn to prevent the men from thinking of retreat. Colonel CHU met them with 400 of his men armed with gingalls. Over 400 foreign soldiers were killed, including their chief PA-MEH-TSUN [? Bramston], not one of our men being even wounded behind their shelter. If at this moment the foreigners could only have been taken in the rear, we might have gained a complete victory; or even if we had had a few hundred men to guard the rear of our position on the hill, we might at least have prevented a defeat. WÊNWEI's camp was only a few miles off; but he refused to send any re-inforce-


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 ments until the evening, when it was too late; for the foreigners had then taken us in the rear, and defeated us, Colonel CHU and his son both falling in the fight. The enemy was exceedingly unlikely to have gone on to Ch'ang-k'i that night: but the cowardly WÊNWEI deserted his position and bolted during the darkness, distributing lavish rewards to boatmen and chairmen as he went, so as to escape the pursuit of the English. As he had bolted, his troops naturally broke too, leaving all their stores and arms to take care of themselves. WÊNWEI then reported to the Emperor that his camp had been burnt by "disloyal Chinese;" whereas the English had not come up even on the evening of the following day! The idea which now suggested itself was to fix the head-quarters at Shang-yü, entice the foreign soldiers farther inland, and to try fight after fight in order to prevent their harrying Kiang Su province, and in order to discourage them from placing their demands too high. YIKKING and WÊNWEI, however, had now completely lost their heads. They represented to the Emperor that only seven of our men had escaped alive in one fight, in which, as a matter of fact, only seven had been even wounded; that over a thousand instead of just over a hundred had been killed at Ts'i-k'i; and that 17,000 English instead of between 2,000 and 3,000 had landed there. They then retired from


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 Shao-hing to Si-hing, whence YIKKING finally crossed to Hangchow. These were our efforts by land.

Our naval programme had been to collect a force of fishing boats at Cha-p'u, and endeavour to recapture Ting-hai: over 10,000 marines had been stationed in various places with this object in view; but YIKKING continued to listen to the craven counsels of his aide-de-camp JUNGCHAO and ordered them to disperse: he also withdrew the war-junks and fire-boats, in consequence of which the destitute fisherman marines now went over to the foreigners. These were our doings afloat. There was one officer, CHÊNG TING-CH'EN, notwithstanding, who had the courage to disobey orders, and YIKKING was half inclined to listen to JUNGCHAO's advice to have him executed, only refraining from this dastardly act owing to the indignant remonstrances of TSANG HÜ-CH'ING, the literatus who had originally recom- meuded guerilla warfare. YIKKING now ventured back across the river once more, and issued orders in all directions for all the soldiers to fight as they best could the result of this was that over 300 British and Sikh heads were brought in within a fortnight: also four English officers and over 50 soldiers, white and black, were sent prisoners to Ningpo, with two disloyal Chinese advisers. Meanwhile CHÊNG TING-CH'EN, with his fire-boats, managed to


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 burn or sink four large men-of-war and about a dozen boats, during which operations from 500 to 600 foreign sailors were drowned. The magistrate of Chên-hai also earned a laurel by a bold attack upon the fleet in the open, off Chên-hai, and YIKKING received a double peacock's feather in consequence; whilst the two heroes themselves received propor- tionate rewards. This created a tremendous com- motion at head-quarters. Those who had defended CHÊNG clamoured for their share of notice, whilst those who had attacked him vowed that the victory was imaginary. The Governor LIU YÜN-K'O became the mouthpiece of the second clique; but CHÊNG closed their mouths by sending four large boats full of charred and splintered foreign planks, as well as the heads and original clothes of his pirate victims. The Governor, however, had already asked that ILIPU might come to Ningpo to discuss terms of peace, and the Emperor had appointed the imperial clansman K'IYING as Imperial Commissioner, to be assisted by the Acting Tartar-General at Hangchow and by one TS'ISHÊN as associates. They were ordered not to advance, nor to take the heads of stray barbarians, the penalty for doing which was now declared capital. The


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 repairs to the Yellow River having now been com- pleted, LIN TSÊH-SÜ was again ordered to Kashgaria, and the Grand Secretary WANG TING, who had been associated with him, died of grief and mortification. Meanwhile the English made reconnoitring ex- peditions round Shanghai and up the Yangtsze; obtained at Ningpo maps of the Empire and charts of the Yangtsze and Yellow River; turned our dis- charged fisherman marines into pilots and guides; manufactured a number of small boats for use in the creeks; and exacted from the gentry of Ningpo, as the price of their retirement, an indemnity of $200,000, withdrawing on board their ships on the 7th of May. YIKKING and his party accordingly reported that he had "forced the British troops to retire," and had recovered Ningpo. The real facts were that a steamer had been sent to England to report the capture of Ningpo, and that six months later a reply had been received from the King ordering the ships to proceed again to Tientsin to ask for open ports and free trade, the retirement of the troops from Ningpo having nothing whatever to do with the movements of our armies. Towards the middle of May the foreign ships at Chên-hai also left the place for the north, leaving only four ships and 1,000 men in charge of Ting-hai. The two promontories at the mouth of the Hangchow River


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 unconnected with and different from anything yet known in nature, would be utterly impossible.

Human thought is not a firework, ever shooting off fresh forms and shapes as it burns: it is a tree, growing very slowly—you can watch it long and see no movement—very silently, unnoticed. It was planted in the world many thousand years ago, a tiny, sickly plant. And men guarded it and tended it, and gave up life and fame to aid its growth. In the hot days of their youth, they came to the gate of the garden and knocked, begging to be let in, and to be counted among the gardeners. And their young companions without called to them to come back, and play the man with bow and spear, and win sweet smiles from rosy lips, and take their part amid the feast, and dance, not stoop with wrinkled brows, at weaklings' work. And the passers-by mocked them and called shame, and others cried out to stone them. And still they stayed there labouring, that the tree might grow a little, and they died and were forgotten.

And the tree grew fair and strong. The storms of ignorance passed over it, and harmed it not. The fierce fires of superstition soared around it; but men leapt into the flames and beat them back, perishing, and the tree grew.

With the sweat of their brow have men nourished its green leaves. Their tears have moistened the earth about it. With their blood they have watered its roots.

The seasons have come and passed, and the tree has grown and flourished. And its branches have spread far and high, and ever fresh shoots are bursting forth, and ever new leaves unfolding to the light. But they are all part of the one tree—the tree that was planted on the first birthday of the human race. The stem that


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 you how beautiful they were. Unfortunately, however, I cannot now call to mind any of them.

I was very proud of this essay, and when I got back to town I called on a very superior friend of mine, a critic, and read it to him. I do not care for him to see any of my usual work, because he really is a very superior person indeed, and the perusal of it appears to give him pains inside. But this article, I thought, would do him good.

"What do you think of it?" I asked, when I had finished.

"Splendid," he replied, "excellently arranged. I never knew you were so well acquainted with the works of the old writers. Why, there is scarcely a classic of any note that you have not quoted from. But where—where," he added, musing, "did you get that last idea but two from? It's the only one I don't seem to remember. It isn't a bit of your own, is it?"


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has now existed nearly sixty years, and it is scarcely necessary to remind the Members that it was originally formed by twenty-three physicians and surgeons of this city,—not merely for the purpose of cultivating social intercourse and rational hilarity, hut also for the higher object of animating and guiding the efforts of those who are entering on the adventurous field of a professional life, by conferring honorary distinctions on such as have given proof of superior accuracy of observation and ingenuity of research,—and by recording the services of the eminent men, who have laid posterity under obligations, by the advancement of medical science, or the improvement of medical practice. The illustrious man, from whom our association derives its name, is peculiarly entitled to the


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 bring it down to the Case in hand. Virtue and Modesty were Things our Ancestors had to value themselves upon in a particular manner; and indeed they had a great Share of them, such as they might justly value themselves upon. Now we may boast, I hope, of Virtue and Honesty, in Quantity, as much as they, and, I believe, we do talk as loudly of it as ever they did; but whether our Virtue and our Honesty are of as fine a Standard or not, I dare not enter upon a nice enquiry into that Part, for sundry good Reasons, not so fit perhaps to mention, as we might wish they were.

I am afraid there is a baser Alloy among us, and that the Species is a little altered (in these Ages of Mirth and good Feeding); I won't venture to say it is not so. But even in the Particular before me, I have been told, our Forefathers were stricter in their adhering to the Laws of Nature than we think our selves obliged to be; that they abhorred the Pollutions that I complain of, and that they left us their Posterity, much a sounder and healthier Generation for that very thing, perhaps, than we may leave those that are to come after us.

is a very unhappy Case, that these Practices should affect Posterity so much as they say they do, because whether we consider it so much as we might do or not, I cannot doubt but our Children will be touch'd in their Health and Constitution a little, if it be but a little, by the corrupt Practices of this lewd Age. What we bring upon our selves is nothing but to our selves, and we might be apt to say, we alone should suffer for it, and it were well if it were no otherwise.


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 to forfeit for our Posterity, to entail Diseases upon the Blood of our Successors, to send them into the World with aching Heads, rheumatick Joints, entailed Diseases, inflamed Blood, and affected Nerves, and cause them, as we may say, to come  into the World, and go  out of it; this would give a considering Mind a Pang of Remorse, and make us anticipate our Children's Sorrows a little, by sighing for them sometimes before they are born.

at best brings Sorrows enough with it, and we need not seem to be concerned lest our Children should not have their share of them; they will bring Evils of that kind enough (and fast enough too) upon themselves; we have no need to send them into time with an Inheritance of crippled Joints, and aching Bones, and take care to give them cause to curse their Fathers and Mothers, as many do every Day.

I make no doubt but the Intemperance and Excesses I have spoken of in this Chapter, have sometimes descended from Line to Line to the third and fourth Generation; and that many of the Miseries of Life are owing to the infected Blood of those that went before them: And let such People reflect seriously upon the Number of Children born into the World in this luxurious, intemperate vitious Age, and in this City in particular, who die in the very Infancy of their Life, who coming into the World loaded with Distempers, the effect of their Parents Intemperance and unnatural Excesses, struggle a few Days with the unequal Burthen of Life, and expire under the Weight of it.


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 tide or time past, to this? Are we not here now, continued the corporal, (striking the end of his stick perpendicularly upon the floor, so as to give an idea of health and stability)—and are we not—(dropping his hat upon the ground) gone! in a moment!—'Twas infinitely striking! Susannah burst into a flood of tears.—We are not stocks and stones.—Jonathan, Obadiah, the cook-maid, all melted.—The foolish fat scullion herself, who was scouring a fish-kettle upon her knees, was rous'd with it.—The whole kitchen crouded about the corporal.

Now as I perceive plainly, that the preservation of our constitution in church and state,—and possibly the preservation of the whole world—or what is the same thing, the distribution and balance of its property and power, may in time to come depend greatly upon the right understanding of this stroke of the corpo-


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 ral's eloquence—I do demand your attention,—your worships and reverences, for any ten pages together, take them where you will in any other part of the work, shall sleep for it at your ease.

I said, "we were not stocks and stones"—'tis very well. I should have added, nor are we angels, I wish we were,—but men cloathed with bodies, and governed by our imaginations;—and what a junketting piece of work of it there is, betwixt these and our seven senses, especially some of them, for my own part, I own it, I am ashamed to confess. Let it suffice to affirm, that of all the senses, the eye, (for I absolutely deny the touch, though most of your Barbati, I know, are for it) has the quickest commerce with the soul,—gives a smarter stroke, and leaves something more inexpressible upon the fancy, than words can either convey—or sometimes get rid of.


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 —I've gone a little about—no matter, 'tis for health—let us only carry it back in our mind to the mortality of Trim's hat.—"Are we not here now,—and gone in a moment?"—There was nothing in the sentence—'twas one of your self-evident truths we have the advantage of hearing every day; and if Trim had not trusted more to his hat than his head—he had made nothing at all of it.

"Are we not here now;"—continued the corporal, "and are we not"—(dropping his hat plumb upon the ground—and pausing, before he pronounced the word)—"gone! in a moment?" The descent of the hat was as if a heavy lump of clay had been kneaded into the crown of it.—Nothing could have expressed the sentiment of mortality, of which it was the type and forerunner, like it,—his hand seemed to vanish from under it,—it fell dead,—the corporal's eye fix'd upon it, as upon a


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 corps,—and Susannah burst into a flood of tears.

Now—Ten thousand, and ten thousand times ten thousand (for matter and motion are infinite) are the ways by which a hat may be dropped upon the ground, without any effect.—Had he flung it, or thrown it, or cast it, or skimmed it, or squirted, or let it slip or fall in any possible direction under heaven,—or in the best direction that could be given to it,—had he dropped it like a goose—like a puppy—like an ass—or in doing it, or even after he had done, had he looked like a fool,—like a ninny—like a nicompoop—it had fail'd, and the effect upon the heart had been lost.

Ye who govern this mighty world and its mighty concerns with the engines of eloquence,—who heat it, and cool it, and melt it, and mollify it,—and then harden it again to your purpose


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 Ye who wind and turn the passions with this great windlass,—and, having done it, lead the owners of them, whither ye think meet—

Ye, lastly, who drive—and why not, Ye also who are driven, like turkeys to market, with a stick and a red clout—meditate—meditate, I beseech you, upon Trim's hat.

—I have a small account to settle with the reader, before Trim can go on with his harangue.—It shall be done in two minutes.

Amongst many other book-debts, all of which I shall discharge in due time,—I own myself a debtor to the world for two items,—a chapter upon chamber-maids and button-holes, which, in the former part of my work, I promised and


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 had lately silted up so much that the foreigners could not get up to Hangchow with ships; but on the 18th of May they bombarded Cha-p‘u, and landed a force. to attack the east gate. Here they were met by troops from Shen Si and Kan Suh armed with gingalls, receiving such rough treatment that they went round to the south gate. As the Manchu garrison had been in the habit of calling the Chinese "disloyalists," the Fu Kien braves sided with the enemy and set fire to the town. The foreigners then got over the wall and burut the Manchu quarter, the Assistant Tartar-General and the Acting Sub-Prefect losing their lives, and the taotai escaping to Kashing, which place, as also Hangchow, was now threatoned too. When ILIPU arrived at Cha-p‘u, the English demands were so extravagant that nothing definite could be arrived at; and, when the Governor requested the Emperor's sanction to the restoration of the score or two of white and black barbarian prisoners, the foreign ships had left Cha- p‘u. The prisoners were then sent to Chên-hai, and it was suggested that bygones should be bygones; but the English would not listen any more. The Emperor ordered the Tartar-General or one of the Associates to proceed to Kashing; and on this YIK-


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 KING crossed over north. No sooner had the Imperial Commissioner K‘IYING arrived at Kashing, than he received the Emperor's orders to go to Canton, and T‘ÊHISHUN was ordered to act as Tartar-General of Hangchow. This was because the Censor Su T‘ING- K‘WEI, had represented that the Nepaulese had attacked the English garrisons in India, and that the fleet had to go to the rescue: accordingly KIYING was ordered to see if he could not seize the opportunity to retake Hongkong. When matters became pressing at Nanking, he was equally suddenly ordered back, before he had reached Canton. At this time there were fourteen foreign ships at Hongkong: a score or two of sampans and small craft; about one thousand foreign soldiers; and a large sprinkling of disloyal Chinese. YIKSHAN having succeeded in drawing off over 3,000 of these last, the chief men of those remaining in Hongkong also for the most part shewed a wish to come back to their allegiance. These disloyalists proposed to put the Bogue Forts in order, take advantage of the winter neap tides, join with the Hongkong disloyalists, make a surprise attack on the fleet, and annihilate the whole foreign community at one blow: but YIKSHAN was afraid of exciting K‘IKUNG's anger, and would not allow it. The Emperor deprived TIKSHAN of his chief official titles for his incapacity, and ILIANG


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 was ordered to replace YEN PEH-T‘AO, also degraded for failing to destroy the fleet at Amoy. On the 18th of the 4th moon the foreign ships left Cha-p‘u, and a number of them arrived off Wusung on the 3rd of the 5th moon; and on the 5th NIU KIEN received instructions from YIKKING to temporize: but, as he delayed sending his orders to the foreign fleet for two days, it was already too late. The Magistrate of Pao-shan city, near Wusung, had proposed to lay an ambush and entice the foreigners ashore, leaving the forts to themselves; but the infatuated NIU KIEN did nothing but allow the remnants of the troops, who had fled so ignomi- niously at Ningpo, to plunder the natives, who thus felt their hearts fill with rancour.

On the 16th of June, the General commanding at the forts opened fire upon the foreign ships, sinking two, cutting in two the masts of two others, and causing the death by drowning of over 200 foreign soldiers. The foreigners attacked Siao Sha-pei in boats, routed with a ridiculously small force the cowardly contingent from Ningpo, landed a few men, killed the general with a cannon shot, and put to flight the several thousand soldiers who lined the bank.


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 NIU KIEN fled to Kia-ting city, and the castornmost fort was also abandoned; so that Pao-shan city, with a vast amount of war materiel, fell into the enemy's hands; to the great consternation of Shanghai, which place was at once abandoned by both the civil and military authorities, who fled to Sung-kiang. The Fu Kien marines thereupon became bandits, and took to burning and plundering. On the 19th eight or nine foreign ships came up to Shanghai, but that city was already deserted. Two days later, the foreigners took two steam-launches and four or five sampans up to a point near Sung-kiang, where they opposed by 2,000 Shen Si and Kan Suh soldiers, and retired after a protracted fusillade on both sides, repeating the operation with the same results the next day; so that Sung-kiang escaped. The pirates next made a reconnaissance towards Soochow; but their launches were piloted by our fishermen on to the shallows, and had to go back. On the 23rd the ships withdrew to Wusung, intend- ing to enter the Yangtsze. On the 18th of July they were off Kwa Chou; but, finding that city deserted, they turned to Chinkiang on the opposite side. HAILING, the Assistant Tartar-General over the Manchu garrison there, was an imbecile creature,


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 and NIU KIEN, after failing to close the Wusung river to attack, should have hastened to Chinkiang, concerted measures of defence with the Associate TS‘ISHEN and the General LIU YÜN-HIAO, and assumed supreme command over the Tartar HAILING: if this had been done, the foreign ships would not have gone straight on to Nanking, and we might have tried to burn them; or, anyhow, should have treated with them without being at their mercy. But NIU KIEN fled straight to Nanking, and HAILING told TS‘ISHÊN and LIU to leave him alone and defend the outer city. He would not allow any one to leave the city, and slaughtered a number of disloyal Chinese, thereby exciting a general panic of indignation.. He made no preparations, collec- ted no stores for defence, and made no attempt to organize a volunteer force. The thousand or so of Manchu garrison troops, and the 600 Chinese troops were scattored about anyhow. The troops outside the city kept off those pirates who had landed during a couple of days; after which the Eng- lish, whilst making a feint of an attack upon the north gate, secretly sent a body of men to scale the wall on the south-west side, and swarmed into the city, with a loss of only one or two men. The English first burnt the Manchu camp, HAILING


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 falling at the hands of his own men, and Chinkiang was then given over to plunder and massacre. Tho Ningpo barbarian chieftain POTTINGER wished to proceed thence to Tientsin at once; but MORRISON prevented him, saying:—"This is the key to China's rice-tribute supply, and as long as we keep our finger on it, we shall have our own way;" and he did not go. At this moment there were over eighty foreign ships thundering in the river, and reaching up as far as I-chêng, where all the salt- junks were set on fire, notwithstanding the offer of Tls. 500,000 on the part of the Yang-chow salt- merchants. On the 9th of August the ships had all reached Nanking, and the Emperor, anxious about the tribute-rice communications, gave K‘I-YING carte blanche to act as he should see fit. The enemy had already received the King's instructions not to insist upon a military indemnity or the value of the opium, if only trading privileges were extended to the other provinces; and no more opium would come to China. It was for this reason that the foreign army left Ningpo in May, and issued a "proclamation" at Cha-p‘u, saying that they were going to Tientsin to seek peace in accordance with the King's commands. ILIPU now sent CHANG HI and


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 others to the foreign ships. The foreign chieftains demanded (1) twenty million dollars, to be paid up over a period of three years; (2) Hongkong as a trading place; (3)permission to trade at Canton, Foochow, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai; (4) foreign officials to be on terms of equality with Chinese officials; and the rest as proposed last year. CHANG HI said that $6,000,000 had already been given at Canton last year towards the indemnity and the opium, and asked if the money demand now made was not excessive, and the number of ports named too great altogether. MORRISON said:—"This is the sum we require, and, of course, not the sum which China offers. Moreover, our leading idea now is open trade, and not to get money. If we only obtain one or two ports for trade, China may decide for herself about the indemnity and the opium:" but the high authorities, instead of giving a prompt answer, sent back CHANG HI with a message; and, whilst he was moving to and fro' during a period of two days, the enemy had learnt from disloyal Chinese that new troops were being ordered up, and said "that we were only trying to gain time, and that unless an agreement were come to that day hostilities would commence on the morrow;"—their desire being for a speedy peace, as they did not really expect to get all they asked. But all our leaders now lost courage, and sent a reply that night, submitting to


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 everything, and not alluding at all to the rule about opium being excluded from China. The English were overjoyed, and our leaders followed the example of those at Canton after the Square Fort had fallen, and reported to the Emperor that the enemy's guns were on Mount Chung, and that the whole of Nanking was at their merey. They also pleaded that in times gone by "the Emperor K‘IEN-LUNG, when un- successful in Burmah, had abandoned 5,000 li of territory beyond the frontier," thus maligning the acts of past sacred monarchs by trumping up false parallels; for, as a matter of fact, the slab over the T‘ung-pih Gate of Yün Nan declaring that "China's territory ends here" was put up by K‘ANG-HI, whose maps, still extant, could hardly accuse his successor of having "lost" 5,000 li beyond it! The enemy also said that the document treating of conditions must bear the seal of the Emperor of China, and that they would send it home by steamer to have the King's seal affixed, and that the ships would only retire to the sea-board; but that their troops at Chusan, Amoy, and Hongkong must remain three years, until the whole of the indemnities should have been paid up, when they would be withdrawn. The treaty was concluded on the 29th of August by K‘IYING, ILIPU, and NIU


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 KIEN, who went in person on board the enemy POTTINGER'S ship [the "Cornwallis"]. Two days later POTTINGER, MORRISON, etc., went into the city; and had an interview with our officials at the Chêng- kioh Temple. For days in succession drafts were made on the provincial treasuries of Kiang-ning, Soochow, and An Hwei, and on the salt treasury of Yangchow, and several millions of taels were thus presented to the foreigners. In the middle of October, as the foreign ships were about to leave, a banquet was given by our leaders at the Temple, and a few days later all the ships withdrew to Ting-hai. The Em- peror now ordered up the Viceroy NIU KIEN to be punished for not having guarded the mouth of the Yangtsze, and K‘IYING was appointed in his place. ILIPU was ordered from Chê Kiang to Canton as High Commissioner for the drawing up of trade regulations. YIKSHAN, YIKKING, WÊNWEI, and Yü PU-YUN were are all cast into the Board of Punish- ments; but the last-named only was executed,—during the following winter. Punishments according to their several deserts were also meted out to the various civil and military officials along the coast who had lost their towns, and the districts annexed to the captured places wore exempted from the payment of land-tax.


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280 saw any one fight more gamely. He ’s a fast man than you are, but you almost beat him. I co gratulate you—excuse the word, please—on yo guts.”

Somehow Hugh could n’t stand Henley’s enth siasm. Suddenly he blurted out the whole stor his drunkenness at the Prom, his split with Cynth —he did not mention the visit to Norry’s roomhis determination to redeem himself, his feelii that if he had won that race he would at lea have justified his existence at the college, an finally, his sense of failure.

Henley listened sympathetically, amused ar touched by the boy’s naive philosophy. He d not tell him that the race was relatively unimpc tant—he was sure that Hugh would find that o for himself—but he did bring him comfort.

“You did not fail, Hugh,” he said gently ; “y( succeeded magnificently. As for serving your c( lege, you can always serve it best by being you self, being true to yourself, I mean, and that mea being the very fine gentleman that you are.” P paused a minute, aware that he must be le personal; Hugh was red to the hair and gazing u happily at the floor.

“You must read Browning,” he went on, “ar learn about his success-in-failure philosophy. P maintains that it is better to strive for a million ar miss it than to strive for a hundred and get it.


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120 Hugh leaned forward eagerly. He was n’t of¬ fended, and for the first time that week he did n’t feel that he was being rushed.

“Well, you have a lot of sentimental notions about fraternities that are all bull; that s all. You think that the brothers are really brothers, that they stick by each other and all that sort of thing. You seem to think, too, that the fra¬ ternities are democratic. They are n’t, or there wouldn’t be any fraternities. You don’t seem to realize that fraternities are among other things po¬ litical organizations, fighting each other on the campus for dear life. You ’ve heard fraternities this week knocking each other. Well, about nine tenths of what’s been said is either lies or true of every fraternity on the campus. These fraterni¬ ties are n’t working together for the good of San¬ ford; they’re working like hell to ruin each other. You think that you are going to like every man in the fraternity you join. You won’t. You 11 hate some of them.” j

Hugh was aroused and indignant. “If you fee that way about it, why do you stay in a fraternity?’ Graham smiled gravely. “Don’t get angry] please. I stay because the fraternity has its vir tues as well as its faults. I hated the fraternity the first two years, and I’m afraid that you ’r going to, too. You see, I had the same sort' o notions you have—and it hurt like the devil whei


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 This winter there occurred the demand for the Formosa prisoners. The year before and the next year happened the breaking of faith on the part of the Nepaulese, French, and Americans, and the burning of the factory at Canton by volunteers. The For- mosa prisoner case arose out of two reconnoitring visits paid by foreign ships to Formosa in the autumn of 1841 and the spring of 1842. One was wrecked during a storm at Tamsui, and the other was led upon the shallows by native fishing-craft at Ta-an. In both cases the local volunteers surrounded and made prisoners of the crews; captured one large three-masted ship, two sampans, twenty-four white, and a hundred and sixty-five black barbarians, twenty guns, a number of small-arms, and a quantity of Government property taken by the said pirates at Ningpo and Chên-hai. The Brigadier TAHUNGA and the taotai YAO YING had sent several memorials to the Emperor on the subject, and in the spring of 1842 nineteen of the enemy's ships went to Formosa to take revenge. They were piloted in by native pirates; but, our troops having destroyed the pirate junks, the enemy fired a few


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252 The girls were beautiful in the soft glow of th lanterns, their arms and shoulders smooth an< white; the men were trim and neat in their Tuxedos the dark suits emphasizing the brilliant colors o the girls’ gowns.

It was soon apparent that some of the couples ha< got at least half “oiled” before the dance began and before an hour had passed many more couple gave evidence of imbibing more freely than wisely Occasionally a hysterical laugh burst shrilly abov the pounding of the drums and the moaning of th saxophones. A couple would stagger awkward! against another couple and then continue uneven! on an uncertain way.

The stags seemed to be the worst offenders Many of them were joyously drunk, dashing dizzi! across the floor to find a partner, and once having taken her from a friend, dragging her about, hap pily unconscious of anything but the girl and th insistent rhythm of the music.

The musicians played as if in a frenzy, the drum pound-pounding a terrible tom-tom, the saxophone moaning and wailing, the violins singing sensuously shrilly as if in pain, an exquisite searing pain.

Boom, boom, boom, boom. “Stumbling al around, stumbling all around, stumbling all arouni so funny—” Close-packed the couples move slowly about the gymnasium, body pressed tight t body, swaying in place—boom, boom, boom, boom


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 shots from a distance and decamped. The spies which they sent into T‘aiwan from time to time were all taken and decapitated; so that Formosa was preserved entire. The Brigadier and the taotai received distinguished rewards at the Emperor's hands; but, after the Nanking peace, prisoners on both sides were to be restored, and it was found that the Emperor had, during the summer, ordered the decapitation of the 165 black barbarians; so that the white ones only were restored. The enemy's eye, POTTINGER, then accused the Brigadier and the taotai of having wantonly massacred distressed British subjects. The peace party at Nanking were jealous of the success gained in Formosa, whilst the defeated authorities at Amoy felt particularly small. Rumours thus flew about; and K'IYING, acting upon private letters received from the Viceroy and the General at Foochow, accused the Brigadier and taotai of obtaining unfair credit. The new Viceroy was ordered to proceed to Formosa and report, when it appeared that the Brigadier and the taotai had simply quoted the statements sent in by their sub- ordinates. As it was impossible to convict on this, pressure was put upon the Brigadier and taotai to force them to own up, in order to appease the for-


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Rh their speech and their actions, beautiful dancers, tnd as offhand with men as they were with each >ther. Within a week Hugh got over his prejulice against women’s smoking. Nearly every roman he met, including Mrs. Parker, smoked, and very girl carried her cigarette-case. Most of the girls treated Norry as if he were very nice small boy, but they adopted a different ttitude toward Hugh. They flirted with him, perected his “petting” technique, occasionally treated iim to a drink, and made no pretense of hiding his ttraction for them. At first Hugh was startled and a little repelled, ut he soon grew to like the frankness, the petting, nd the liquor; and he was having a much too ex¬ iting time to pause often for criticism of himself r anybody else. It was during the last week of is visit that he fell in love. He and Norry were standing near the float watchlg a number of swimmers. Suddenly Hugh was ttracted by a girl he had never seen before. She ore a red one-piece bathing-suit that revealed every urve of her slender, boyish figure. She noticed Norry and threw up her arm in reeting. “Who is she?” Hugh demanded eagerly. “Cynthia Day. She’s just back from visiting dends in Maine. She’s an awfully good swimmer.
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