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 the same thing as here: that would be useless travelling to and fro. Besides, it is impossible for me to serve on probation, as though I had misconducted myself! And finally, I see that, in order to put a stop to all this intriguing, I must cease to be an official. As an official I find between myself and the Government too many persons who are interested in denying the misery of the population. There are, in addition, still further reasons that prevent me from going to Ngawi. The place was not vacant it has been purposely made vacant for me: look!”

And he showed in the Java Gazette, received by the same mail, the fact that in the one Government Order in Council the Administration of Ngawi was entrusted to him, and the Assistant-Resident of that province was transferred to another division that was vacant.

“Do you know why it is exactly Ngawi where they want me to go, and not the division that was vacant? I’ll tell you! The Resident of Madioon, to which Ngawi belongs, is the. I have mentioned that the Regent formerly had such bad examples ”

“Ah!” exclaimed Verbrugge and Duclari at the same time. They understood why Havelaar was particularly transferred to Ngawi on probation, to see whether he would improve!

“And there is still another reason why I cannot go there,” he said. “The present Governor-General will soon retire I know his successor, and I know that nothing may be expected of him. Therefore in order to do anything for these poor people in time, I must see the present Governor-General before his departure, and if now I were to go to Ngawi, that would be impossible. Tine, listen!”

“Dear Max?”

“You have plenty of courage, haven’t you?”

“Max, you know that I have courage when I am with you!”

“Very well!”

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162 to the Tossafists—did not blind him to its defects. “They try to force an elephant through the eye of a needle,” he sarcastically said of some of the French casuists. Nachmanides thus possessed some of the independence characteristic of the Spanish Jews. He also shared the poetic spirit of Spain, and his hymn for the Day of Atonement is one of the finest products of the new-Hebrew musc. The last stanzas run thus:

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 He rose and wrote the following request, in my opinion an example of eloquence:

“Rangkas-Betoong, 29th March, 1856. “To the Governor-General of Netherlands India.

“I have had the honour to receive Your Excellency’s Cabinet-missive of the 23rd instant, No. 54.

“I find myself compelled, in answer to that document, to ask your Excellency to give me my honourable discharge from the service of the State.

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Not so long a time was required at Buitenzorg to give the discharge applied for as appeared to have been necessary for the decision as to how one might divert Havelaar’s accusation.

“Thank God!” exclaimed Tine, “that at last you may be yourself!”

Havelaar received no instructions provisionally to hand over the administration of his division to Verbrugge, and thought therefore that he should await his successor. That officer was a long time in arriving, as he had to come from an entirely different part of Java. After waiting nearly three weeks, the ex-Assistant-Resident of Lebak, who, however, had all the time still functioned as though in office, wrote the following letter to Controller Verbrugge:

“No. 153. “Rangkas-Betoong, 15th April, 1856.

“To the Controller of Lebak.

“You are aware that by Government-decree of the 4th instant, No. 4, I have, at my own request, been honourably discharged from the service of the State.

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 “I did not, however, receive any instructions to surrender my charge, and, partly from a realization of the obligation not to leave my post without having been duly relieved, partly from causes of subordinate importance, I awaited the arrival of my successor, as I imagined that this officer would be here soon—at least during this month.

“I have just learnt from you that my substitute cannot be expected quite so soon—you heard this, I believe, at Serang—and also that the Resident is astonished that, in the very peculiar position in which I find myself, I have not yet asked to be allowed to place the administration in your hands.

“Nothing could please me more than this news. For I need not assure you that I, who have declared that I could not serve otherwise than as I did here I, who for this manner of serving have been punished with censure and a ruinous and dishonouring transfer  also with the command to betray the poor people who trusted in my loyalty—with the choice therefore between dishonour and destitution: that after all this I had to test with pains and care every case that presented itself, having constant regard to my duty, and that even the simplest matter was trying to, placed as I was between my conscience and the principles of the Government to which I owed loyalty as long as I was not relieved of my office.

“My difficulty became especially apparent whenever I had to give an answer to a.

“For at one time I had promised not to give up anyone to the rancour of his Chiefs!—At one time I had—with considerable imprudence!—pledged my word for the justice of the Government.

“The poor people could not know that this promise and this pledge had been disavowed, and that I stood alone, poor and powerless, with my desire for justice and humanity.

“And all the time the complaints continued!

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CURSE

HIM NOT.

young man impressed a tender kiss on the fair, pale forehead, upon which the moonbeams rested like a halo, giving a saintly glory to the face yet suffused with tears.

The years that followed that betrothal were years of quiet joy and peace.

If Agnes, sometimes in the midst of outward blessings, found her old waywardness returning, the steadfastness of her husband brought her back to serenity again, while she lit up with beauty the gravity of his nature, as the sunbeams do the strength and sternness of the hills.

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BY JENIY A. STONE. Yes, I know this world of beauty Is a weary world to me; Life has lost its early brightness, Only gloom mine eyes can see; Joy has tied our humble cot. He is false—yet curse him not.

Had I been of haughtier nature, I might still have kept his heart, For he said I was too wayward

I have worshiped him so wildly, Oh, I cannot waken now; Love and hope are still entwining Garlands for my 'wiidercd brow; Music notes are sounding free O’er the land and o'er the sea. I was but a child in feeling, And I gave him all my heart; Oh, I thought that I wﬁ dreaming When he told me we must part. Time has Mod—too “on I “'0' Dream. and mo “gather "0"

In his life to bear a part;

And I know while weeping wild That he always called me “child.”

Yes, I know that I am dying: Ere the Spring tide’s balmy breath Comes to bless the world with beauty, Cold will be my heart in death; Shadows hover o‘er my brow, What has earth to tempt me now? cum him not, for oh! ,6, but" That this form should pass away, That my memory should be blotted From the world so bright and gay; I have loved—my heart is broken, Fatal words those lips have spoken.

I was wont to bend above him Till my ringlets swept his brow, He was proud, and I was child-like, Oh, I cannot blame him now; More than human, half divine, How could love like his be mine? Once I dreamed he was an angel From the beware of light above, And I trembled as he told me Of his deep and changoless love. Ah! how strangely visions fade, Now in dust my hopes are laid.

That strong arm is round me thrown; Then I weep to think no more Love hall glad me as of yore

Lay me where the fragrant blossoms Will be scattered o'er my bed, Where the lilies and the roses Will be clustered round my head; 0h, ’twas there I used to meet him, Springing o'er the ﬂowers to greet him. Now my dream has surely faded, And a weight is in my breast, Lay me ’m-ath the mossy covering, For my weary heart must rest; Let him come to that sweet spot, Let him come, but curse him not.

Often in the early twilight, As I sit and muse alone, With fond memory's gentle magic,

“HOPE

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Ohl wherefore should earth‘s sorrows move,

Or why should shadows full, Since lieaven hangs so bright above, And God is utter all? Then let our hearts be light, mother, Let lfope our bosoms cheer, We'll all be glad to-night. mother, And wipe away the tear. We'll chant in gushing melodies The songs we used to love, And tune our harps to sing the praise Of Him who rules above.


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Rh it is wrong for me to allow you to remain with us longer. Consider, Charles, what the life is that you are now leading.'

'The life is all right,' said he moodily. 'I can pay my way. I have more brains than any of these clodhoppers round, and can always earn my livelihood.'

'Begin about it,' urged Honor.

'Time enough for that when the last copper is gone wherewith to stop a pipe and fill a can of ale.'

'O Charles! Charles!' exclaimed his sister, 'your own coppers are spent long ago. Now you are smoking the clothes off your little brothers' and sisters' backs, and drinking and squandering the little money I have for feeding them. For shame!' the blood rushed into her cheeks with sudden anger, as the injustice of his conduct presented itself before her vividly. 'Your father works that you may idle! It is a shame! It is a sin.'

'Hold your tongue!'

'I will not hold my tongue,' she answered hotly. 'You know how good, and gentle, and forbearing father is, how ready he is to give everything to his children, how unwilling to say to any one a harsh word, and you take advantage of his good nature; you, that should be building up the house, are tearing it down on the heads of all of us, father, Kate, Patience, Joe, Willy – down to little Temperance, all, all!'

'That is right, Honor, comb his head with a rake and the locks will lie smooth.'

Both Honor and Charles looked up. Hillary stood be fore them in the doorway. The girl had turned her face to her brother, and had not observed his approach. She was ill-pleased at his arrival. She wished no stranger to intermeddle with her family troubles.

'You here?' exclaimed Charles, starting to one knee. 'Mr. Larry Nanspian, I owe you something, and I shall repay it when the occasion comes. Not now, though I have a mind to it, because I have a headache. But I can order you off the premises. Get along, or I'll kick you.'


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 of 23rd March, to sit there as a supposed haven of refuge, and yet to be an impotent protector.

“It was heartrending to listen to the complaints about ill-treatment, extortion, poverty, starvation when now even I myself was going to face, with wife and child, both hunger and poverty.

“And yet even then I was not at liberty to betray the Government. I was not at liberty to say to those poor people: ‘Go and suffer still, for the Administration wishes you to be exploited!’ I was not at liberty to confess my impotence, linked as I was to the disgrace and unscrupulousness of the advisers of the Governor-General.

“This is what I answered:

“So I thought, ashamed of the breach of my pledge of assistance, that I might make my ideas harmonize with my duty towards the Administration,, and I should have continued this until the arrival of my successor, if an unusual occurrence to-day had not necessitated my putting a stop to this equivocal relation.

“Seven persons had complained. I gave them the above reply. They returned to their homes. On the way they met their village-chief. He must have forbidden them to leave their kampong again, and—as it has been reported to me—taken their clothes away from them to compel them to stay at home. One of them escaped, came to me, and declared

“I absolutely do not know what I am to say to man!

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MY MOTHER;

OR, EXTRACTS FROM A FASHIONABLE WOMAN’S DIARY.

BY MRS. M. A. DENlSON.

July 10th.

Henry handed me a letter. It is in my mother cramped, old-fashioned hand. She Mill be here the first of next week.

'Tis very foolish to think so, I know—rbut then those fashionable Hamiltons will be here. Mm. Hamilton dresses with such taste, and mother will wear that old, old silk. I almost wish she had decided to oome the week after— TU write and ask her if she can put it off as well as not.

My wretchedness is unspeakable—a world of misery has fallen upon me like a cloud. I am steeped in sorrow to the very lips.

Oh! my mother! my mother!

Life is alternately light and shade, they tell me. Alas! my life is all shadow, and I seem creeping slowly down its long vista, a reproach to myself and a trouble to those I lore.

My mother is dead. And I—oh! heartless! sent her 6uch a letter! Everything is black, blank around me. My heart sinks—oh! that I too could die!

The splendors by which I am surrounded mock me cruelly. The burden on my conscience tells me I hare neglected her—that I hare been ashamed of her dear, hard-working hands, her homeliness, her want of knowledge pertaining to this heartless world.

How carefully she brought me up, my widowed mother, with her slender means! How she de¬ nied herself comforts that she might minister to my little wants! How proud she was of what they called my beauty! It is faded now. And I—to think of her slender wardrobe, her close Quaker caps, her unpolished language, her old- fashioned ways! May God forgive me! ’Tis the only heartfelt prayer I have breathed since the days of my childhood.

AH is blank. The house seems like a vast tomb. Its splendor wearies me. Oh! could I bat fall on my mother’s bosom once more, and breathe ont my sorrow and my penitence there! Oh! that I could see her smile again—wind my arms abont her neck, feel her warm embrace.

Mother! word that I have abused, maternal heart that I have forsaken, wounded, now for¬ ever at rest in the grave.

On the llth.

I have seen my mother. Not soon shall I forget that meek, white face, and the lips, so mute!—the gentle lips, always ready to bless me. The eyes were dim that saw nought but perfection in me.

I have been to the little oottage where I was born. Doubly dear seemed every part of that old house. The floor in the wide kitchen was white and sanded jnst the same as when I was last there. But over opposite in the pleasant parlor she lies placidly.

Dreary sight! They wonder at my excess of grief. They would not, knew they my self-re¬ proaches, the crushing weight upon my spirit. As I stood by that coffin, I heard again the "God bless my daughter.” It was murmured through smiles and tears on the morning of my wedding day. I remember the Bad forebodings which sometimes sank in whispers in my heart when the rioh stranger sought the favorite child, my wayward self. How she implored me to be humble! to bear my exaltation meekly. Can it be that she will never speak to me again? So white that brow, so stony, so cold!

On the 18th.

They have laid her away. They have buried my living heart with her. It was in a storm. The rain dripped from the windows, the turf was soaked with water. The little, white church, where she has led me so often by the hand, looked grey through the mist. The very birds ohirped mournfully under their wet roof leaves. Black, and oh! so fearful, the grave yawned at my feet. Terrible! I thought she might not be dead, and I laid my hand again upon her fore¬ head. Cold! icy cold. I shrieked aloud—I could not restrain my feelings.

That dear, grey-haired minister! Servant of Jesus for nearly fourscore and ten years, he pitied me.

Touchingly he spoke of hlr sweet resignation, adding that as she died as she sang,

“Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are.”

He told, with unsteady voice, how tenderly she had spoken of her children—of me—far away, drowned in the pleasures of wealth.


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I sobbed aloud.

Nor could I look as they lowered the coffin. I shut my eyes, and for a moment felt as if I never oared to open them again.

When I looked up, ten thousand prismatic hues flashed upon my sight. The sun had burst from the thick clouds; and every round jewel of the rain caught a tint of beauty from his glowing rays.

“And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither the light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light; and they shall reign forever and ever.”

Thus said the grey-haired man. Every word sank into my soul, and I drank in their inspiration. My mother was then an angel in heaven, glorious! radiant!

Heaven never seemed so near to me before. It was but for a moment.

The earth rattled upon her grave. The clouds grew gloomy and drifted together. A quick, heavy shower set the leaves to trembling. The branches swung and sighed. My heart grew sick again.

Must we all come to this?

We walked slowly on through the graveled walks. Somebody had dropped flowers along, red and white, and sprayB of mignionette, and they lind faded there.

The old sexton stood at the gate with his hat off. As I passed him, I caught the words, spoken softly, “God bless her.”

The Return.

The rain had oeased again. A flood of red sunshine bathed the little cottage. The wet jes- samine loaded the air with its perftime. It seemed, for the moment, as if everything around n the house looked doubly beautiful. The dark back-ground of clouds, not yet broken, was the only thing in unison with the sadness of our spirits.

She was not there! We saw the top of the old chair in which she always sat at the west win¬ dow.

Within—oh! how desolate! There was the little, low, rocking-chair by the corner; a stand by its side, on which lay the family Bible; and {there too, lying sadly, as if conscious that their work was done, my mother's old spectaoles were folded on the green-baize cover. I bent over and lifted her little work-basket. Everything was in order—the work all arranged—her little book of “Daily Food” in its accustomed nook.

I took it from thence and laid it in my bosom. God helping me, I will rend it as she did.

We sat down to supper, but could not talk, At every turn our eyes met something that called up tears and sighs afresh. Here, her choiee j; flowers, her favorite geranium just bursting into blossom. There a little porcelain vase, in which she bad kept her pennies for the church colleo- tion.

Hard indeed it seemed to realize how far she slept beneath our feet.

Can I forget this sorrow ? Shall I plunge into the follies of fashion again?

God forbid!

TIME'S HOUR-GLASS.

By LILIAS MAY.

Roar youth, in morn‘s glad prime, Hears ajoyons, sweet-toned chime, As, through Time‘s clear, crystal glass, Golden graina, bright-gleaming, pass; Bands of gold mark all the hours,

Clouds of grey trail overhead; Working with o'er-wrariad brain. Struggling on life‘s battle-plain, Care-worn man doth scarce] y know

Lii’o’s dark sands unceasing ﬂow.

Tho‘ they fall, unheard, on ﬂowers;

Dark-blue violets sweetly bloom, Crimson roses shed perfume; Gorgeous winged the moments fly, Tints of gold bedeck life's sky; Dazzied youth, amid the glow Heeds not tho’ the life-sands flow. Man, amid noon's busy life, Hears the din of worldly strife As through Time's dim, half-blurred glass, Pebbles, mixed with iron, pass; Pebbles, sounding harsh and loud, Fall, unheard, amid noon‘s crowd;

Iron-shod the moments trend,

lloary age, at even-time, llcaieth memory‘s unvoiced rhyme Chanting o‘er the Past again As a sweet, remembered strain: Through Time‘s scarred and dark-stained glass Slowly now the iifeaands pass; Yet uuhcnld their measured fail On Death‘s waiting, velvet pail: Tear-dimmed eyes, 'mid dust and gloom, Scarce can see the open tomb:

Dreamy hours glide softly by, Twilight shadows veil the sky; Feeble age doth scarcely know Soon the last life-sands will ﬂow.


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 * Mary. I was a child, then,—would I were e'en now,

As then I was—my life, I fear will prove A wintry waste with no green spot to cheer it;
 * Alice. More visionary still.
 * Mary. Well, to my story:—

My father took me home, I think it was About the time you came into the village, Fell superstition now had spread around. Reports—I scarce know what they meant—arose Concerning Isabella; and my father Made gloomier by my mother's death, and yielding His strong mind to the doctrine of the times, Grew daily still more stern, until at length, At peril of his curse, he bade me never To hold communion with that family.
 * Alice. And you obeyed?
 * Mary. All that I could, I did.

But O the tales they tell—the horrid stones— Her very virtues they distort to crimes. And for poor Charles, his manliness and spirit, The gayety of youth and innocence. In him are vices. Could I help defending, Knowing them as I did:—all others hating. Could I help loving!— Alice. Loving, Mary? Mary. Ay; Most deeply, strongly loving Charles and his mother. Alice. But sure you have not seen this Charles? Mary. Not often.— Nay frown not friend, for how could I avoid it, When chance insisted on an interview ? Alice. Have ye met lately?

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 haps our Poets have no great Genius for Hunting. Yet I hope, my Brethren of the Couples, by encouraging this first, but imperfect, Essay, will hew the World they have at least some Taste for Poetry.

THE Ancients esteem'd Hunting, not only as a manly and warlike Exercise, but as highly conducive to Health. The famous Galen recommends it above all others, as not only exercising the Body, but giving Delight and Entertainment to the Mind. And be calls the Inventors of this Art wise Men, and well skill'd in human Nature. Lib. de parvæ pilæ Exercitio.

THE Gentlemen, who are fond of a Gingle at the Close of every Verse, and think no Poem truly musical but what is in Rhime, will here find themselves disappointed. If they will be pleased to read over the Short Preface before the Paradise Lost, Mr. Smith's Poem in Memory of his Friend Mr. John Philips, and the Archbishop of Cambray's Letter to Monsieur Fontenelle, they may probably be of another Opinion.


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 JENNY AND MR. CLEAVES.

BY THE AUTHOR OF “SUSY L-’S DIARY."

Rozbury, Dec. 2, 1857.

Cousin George came out this morning from Boston with his easy-going carriage, to take me in to see some of the beautiful streets and picture rooms and galleries. While we were yet fresh, having only driven awhile on the Common and along a principal street, I chanced to look up and saw the letters, “Saturday Morning Chronicle office.”

“Stop!” said I, dropping my hand on George's arm. “Here's Mr. Cleaves’ office; I want to see him just a minute. Do you know him?”

“Not from Adam. Who is he?”

“Editor and publisher of the ‘Saturday Morning Chronicle;’ a good man as ever lived, I am sure. I want to see him. You just stop and let me run up and find him. I can find his office, after the experience I had in New York, last fall”

So out I sprang: up the dusty, paper-littered stairs I went, guided by letterings along the way, up to the second landing: and there I again found Mr. Cleaves’ sign—this time on a ground-glass panel—'Saturday Morning Chronicle office.” I tapped, and immediately the door was opened by a bright-eyed little fellow with budgets of papers under his arms and on his arms. Upon my inquiries for Mr. Cleaves, he opened the door wide by setting his shoulder against it, and said in a pleasant voice, “Mr. Cleaves, a lady.”

Mr. Cleaves looked up from his writing, rose slowly, advanced slowly, tooking inquiringly into my face. We met in the middle of the room.

“Is it Mr. Cleaves?” I asked. For one of our neighbors, who used to see the “Chronicle” ten or fifteen years ago, had told me that Mr. Cleaves was then the publisher, and I expected, on this account, as well as on account of the ripe, elegant and manly conservatism which give smoothings and dignity to all his complaints of abuses, all his pleas for reform, to see a man away along in the years, a man with a pale face and many white hairs, whereas the man before me could not be more than twenty-eight or thirty. But he was old enough to be snugly married, I instantaneously reflected, and if a man is snugly married before I present myself to him, this is all I ask of him. “Mr. Cleaves,” he had answered, bowing slightly, waiting.

Now, when I was running upstairs, in fact, when I began to open my lips to speak again, I expected to say, “'Tis Miss Cabot, author of so and so, published in the ‘Chronicle,' as you remember.” Qn the contrary, a merry whim seizing me, I said, “And guess who I am. I'm a writer. I've written for you—within the last year—within the last month—guess." I was laughing at his puzzled looks. I saw that he could not bring himself to guessing clearly who I was, because there I was before him with my queer proceeding and my laughter. It was quite enough for him to get along with these. So I said, with demureness suddenly gathered, “ 'Tis Miss Cabot, of P—.”

"Ah? Miss Cabot? how do you do?” shaking my hand heartily, laughing. “Come and sit down;” and, on one side of the green-covered table he sat down in the arm-chair from which he had risen, on the other side I sat down in another arm-chair like it. We fell at once into easy conversation; the new book by Curtis lying on the table between us, helping to start us.

By-and-by his face brightening, he said, “I wonder I didn’t guess it was you; for you are exactly like your writings. I might have expected you to look just so, and appear just so, But I thought of Mrs. Fales, friend of yours, as she wrote me one time. She has written for my paper; I thought of her.”

“Oh, no,” replied I, gravely, “Mrs, Fales is handsome, She’s a very handsome women; we're not in the least alike in our persone or appearance.” I said it with the painful consciousness of ugliness, the painful longing for beauty I have felt now and then in wy life, but not often; I am generally content—content, that is, with the face God has given me, but filled with craving for a beautiful spirit within that shall beautify and sanctify, all my inward and outward life, making me even lovely to look upon,

“I must go,” said I, rising. “My cousin is at the door waiting.”

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Rh "," shouted I, "open the hatches and let the passengers come on deck."

"Ay, ay, sir," was the answer, and up the ladders poured the human stream. The full moon had just risen and was shedding a long yellow stream of light over the rippling waters. For a few moments they were silent. What might have been happening during all the crashing and banging of the last hour they knew not, but when they saw that we were floating safely with our consorts beside us, suddenly one of them shouted "We've beaten them! we've beaten them! Glory, Hallelujah!" and all at once with one impulse such a cheer rose from a thousand throats as I had not heard since my Harvard days when we won the great boat-race against the Oxford crew. And then all burst forth into the old war song:—

Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, As we go marching on."


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88 We lay in the river-mouth that night and the two following days, for much had to be done in the way of repairs. The America and the Roanoke had both lost their topmasts, and had to fix new spars, while the bows of the latter vessel and of the Hope were so seriously stove in that our carpenters and engineers had to fit temporary cutwaters of wood and iron to enable us to proceed with safety. But our foe made no attempt to molest us again; and when on the third day we weighed anchor once more it was with a new courage and hope to which our hearts had long been strangers. Some indeed of our party, especially those who had taken no part in the fight, were just a trifle inclined to bluster. I happened one day to overhear the following conversation, the interlocutors being our boatswain and a fussy self-important little person who from his airs and assumption was generally known as "the President."

The President—Well James, I reckon we did pretty well in that little affair of Friday; showed 'em the stuff Amurr'can citizens are made of, hey?"

Boatswain—Why, boss, I guess that's so. Us sailors ain't so bad at a set-to; it's our business o'


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Rh course; but for cool-headed courage against long odds give me the Amurr'can citizen of the Missouri Valley.

The P.—Right you are there James. How we just cavorted through that big fellow—turned his entrails wrong side out—eh James, eh?

B.—That we did, sir, sure-ly. You'll excuse me a-mentioning of it, sir, if so be it's a secret, but I know what they be a saying all about the ship.

The P.—What's that James, what's that?

B.—Why sir, they do say this-wise, 'The boss ain't no slouch, he's good enough for me on a fair weather voyage across a mill-pond, but when it's a case of a rough sea and a run through a blockade give me the President. Who planned the run? The President. Who fought the ship? The President.' That's what they say, sir; and so say I.

The P.—Why James, I'd no idea they had found this out. Who told 'em?

B.—Told 'em, sir? Couldn't they see out of their eyes? When the boss fainted as we was going to ram that big 'un—and small blame to him either, being a landsman, and not so young as he was—don't we all know who ran to the helm and kept her head straight


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90 till we come out t'other side? And that's why I say, and why we all says, the President's the man for our money.

The P.—Why really James, you must not give me too much credit. I only did what any other—a—brave man would have done under the circumstances.

B.—Well, sir, begging your pardon I must speak my mind. And I'll tell you what I heard the boss say when he thought he was alone with the two skippers—'I tell you what it is,' says he, 'if we three did what was right, we'd go straight to the President and beg him on our knees to take command of the squadron, and ask as a particular favour that we might sail with him as powder-monkeys.'

The P. (beaming)—Well James, as you've found me out it's no good being too modest. I am glad to have done what I did, and saved the ship, and perhaps the squadron, and I'd do it again, and shall do, maybe. But I seek no reward, except the applause of my conscience. And I wouldn't for the world turn out any of the captains. They are worthy sensible men, James, if they haven't got the pluck or the wits of some, and I shall always be happy to give them the


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Rh best of my advice and assistance. But I am a retiring man, James, and don't seek to stand in other men's shoes; on the contrary, if they can get any credit from my humble actions, let 'em, James, let 'em. I waive my claims.

The boatswain looked queerly at the President for two whole minutes, his expression contrasting admirably with the Pecksniffian radiance of the other. Then he burst out—

"Why, ye thundering little dressed-up hurdy-gurdy monkey, that's got neither pluck enough to fight a well-growed cock-robin, nor wit enough to hold your tongue when ye'd run away, d'ye think there's a man woman or child on board the ship, let alone James Barker, so simple as to believe that ye'd have crept out of your cabin during the fight for a million of dollars, unless ye'd been kicked out? Didn't I see ye lying on the cabin floor as white as a tallow candle, with your red tongue a-lollopin' out of your mouth, and a-stoppin' of your ears to try and keep out the sound of the guns? And wasn't the very women a-sassin of you, and saying 'Oh, Mr. President, do please get up and protect us?' and you to go and claim the


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 "He returns," said the Lord soothingly. "Perhaps I will him to return. What should we be without him?"

"Without me, time and space would freeze into crystalline perfection," said Satan, and at his smile the criminal statistics of a myriad planets displayed an upward wave. "It is I who trouble the waters. I trouble all things. I am the spirit of life."

"But the soul," said God.

Satan, sitting with one arm thrown over the back of his throne towards Michael, raised his eyebrows by way of answer. This talk about the soul he regarded as a divine weakness. He knew nothing of the soul.

"I made man in my own image," said God.

"And I made him a man of the world. If it had not been for me he would still be a needless gardener—pretending to cultivate a weedless garden that grew right because it couldn't grow wrong—in 'those endless summers the blessed ones see.' Think of it, ye Powers and Dominions! Perfect flowers! Perfect fruits! Never an autumn chill! Never a yellow leaf! Golden leopards, noble lions, carnivores unfulfilled, purring for his caresses amidst the aimless friskings of lambs that would never grow old! Good Lord! How bored he would have been! How bored! Instead of which, did I not launch him on the most marvellous adventures? It was I who gave him history. Up to the very limit of his possibilities. Up to the very limit And did not you, O Lord, by sending your angels with their flaming swords, approve of what I had done?"


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92 credit of fighting the ship and saving the squadron! The skipper's a landsman, more's the pity, but there's many a seaman I've known, and many an officer too, that wouldn't have carried her through the enemy's lines so straight and bold, and I'm proud to be one of his crew, I am. Git down to your berth, ye vain little jackdaw, and tuck your fool's head safe under the bed-clothes; for if I see ye again flaunting your peacock's feathers up and down the main-deck, I'll just bid half-a-dozen of the roustabouts give ye a good coat of tar and tie ye up to the cross-trees for a cock-shy, sure as my name's James Barker. Git."

Panic terror overcame the hero, and taking the boatswain's threat au pied de la lettre, he actually took to his berth and remained there for two days. When at last he crept up the hatches it was with the limp air of the anathematized Jackdaw of Rheims, the conceit all out of him—for the time being.

No adventures befell us on our voyage down the Gulf of Mexico, and nothing more serious than repeated stranding in the Darien Canal, which having now been for some months disused was already beginning to silt up. These little difficulties seemed to me a


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T has often been said to me that rural life is not a happily chosen subject for a story: that in the country uniformity prevails in life, in customs, in everything; and that the persons of the rural drama cannot interest us because there is no variety in them. If any of my readers hold such views, I must request them to suspend judgment until the end of my story. It is, indeed, possible that the narrative will take us along unfrequented paths where the form of life is not so stirring as in the town. But yet man in essence is an exact copy of the citizen, for man is always interesting in so far as he is human; and he appreciates his good fortune just as little in the country as in the town; at the same time I do not wish to constrain my reader’s judgment.

We were still “wee scraps” when our father took us to visit grandfather. Grandfather dwelt in a house about an hour’s journey from ours. It was, then, a great event when father told us we were going there. Very wisely, he used always to tell us the week before, and though, to be sure, we were restless enough at all times, and each day tore our clothes, we were sure to be good children for the whole week if he told us where we were going the week after.

So then it was that we were to go to spend St. Lawrence’s festival with grandfather. This festival occurs at the beginning of August, when cocks begin to crow soon after midnight, and the sun still rises very early. But still earlier than those cocks did we children awake, and before the first cock had cock-a-doodled, we were already dressed; and before the first ray of sunrise had shown itself, we were already seated, smart and tidy, before the manse, on the door-step, congratulating ourselves that we were going to spend the festival at grandfather’s.

Our parents slept in the room next to ours, and we had sneaked out so quietly that they had not the least idea of our secret preparations. How mother must have started when coming to wake us she found our beds empty and not a sign of us.


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 We heard entreaties and outcries—mother ran from room to room, then about the court-yard, looking for us everywhere, at last even in the well, while we all the time nestled against one another like chickens, and scarcely breathed with fright lest mother should find us, and we, early at is was, should be punished, for there was already a great disturbance about us. And now it occurs to mother to look for us on the village green, to see whether she should find some trace of us. Opening the door she found us cuddled close together on the door-step. Mother almost smothered us with delight when she caught sight of us, and we told her that we wanted to set off that instant to the feast at grandfather’s.

“But you cannot go without breakfast”, said she, leading us back again, and glowing with delight, because her dismal fears were so soon dispelled.

What did we understand about breakfast just then? We would have set off if need be at midnight, and of course grandmother would have given us breakfast as soon as we reached her house.

We helped mother to prepare breakfast-blew up the fire like young backsmiths, only that breakfast might be ready the sooner; burnt our tongues with hot coffee only that that we might the sooner have breakfasted; and in general conducted ourselves solely with a view to be off and away as soon as possible.

At last we are off.

Our father was a pedagogue. He never allowed our minds to flag, and kept relating things to us that we were just capable of understanding. He did not invade our questions in his answers as we so frequently see done; and if we had gone on asking questions till doomsday, he would have gone on answering till doomsday.

And thus he made up a story for us—how that grandmother was already on the look out for us—how that she was coming to meet us as we never saw her do before, with a plate of cakes in one hand and a plate of red cherries in the other—red cherries, which are so scarce. Yet further did we picture grandmother to ourselves. She must have something also in her pockets—a doll, sugar-plums, etc. And finally, how could it be grandmother unless she had brought something also in her lap? We certainly did not understand how she could carry it all; but if it was our grandmother she must be able to contrive everything.


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was nearly four years since our landing at Honolulu, or Jefferson as we more usually called it, thus lovingly preserving the memory of our former home. During this period our little world had prospered, some of our number had died, more had come to fill their places, boys had grown to young men, little maids to handsome young women, and our life in the old continent of the West seemed to have receded so far into the past as to be like one of those strange dreams wherein we seemed to be carried back to a previous yet recognisable state of existence. Of the more prominent members of our community Gell, though still under thirty, wore the grave aspect of a man of middle age. His strong faithful character had been deepened and softened by his sorrow, and his life was devoted to the service of his fellow creatures. To his proper function of teaching the young and of ministering to the religious needs of the community he added the self-imposed task of tending the sick, com-


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104 greyer than at the time of our landing, but otherwise I still enjoyed all the vigour and freshness of healthy manhood.

And in this uneventful but not unhappy existence, unbroken by the scramble of the market or fever of money-getting, in all the quiet and more than the quiet of some remote parish in old England before the age of steam, it seemed likely that we should pass the remainder of our lives.

What was it that whispered to me, contrary to all reasonable probabilities, that we were not yet at the end of our period of Sturm und Drang—that we were merely in an epoch of expectation and waiting, and that more dangers and surprises were in store for us yet? Was it the natural revulsion of an active spirit from the quiet and confinement to which it was now subjected? Perhaps. Yet, maybe from mere coincidence, the whispering voice proved to jump with the facts. Whatever the cause, the events came to pass as follows. Dana had been absent for some weeks on a cruise and was expected to return in the course of a few days, when I was rather surprised by the news, brought by one of the old sailors who formed what


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 Takada is the first place which is reached in Echigo; this extensive town is situated on the left bank of the Sekigawa, a little way down from the month of the Asakusa, which was crossed from its right to its left bank by a wooden bridge. This Aragawa is about 100 feet wide; there was a rapid stream running and the river was impracticable for navigation. Takada consists properly of one street, which bends itself repeatedly at right angles while between two bendings a straight part stretches as it were to the horizon. All the houses are equally low and built in the same manner, with a verandah or covered way supported by wooden columns, placed at nearly equal distances from each other. The upper story of the houses projects in many cases over the ground-floor till in a plane with the columns. These verandahs serve to keep a free passage during the winter, when the street is sometimes buried under 5 or 6 feet of snow. But they give a very monotonous appearance to the dull and silent town. They told me here the place contains 5,000 houses. The principal business of the people is cotton-weaving, and the town abounds with drapers’ shops.

Between Nagano and Takada no bamboo is to be seen; at Takada there is a very small kind, which seems to be the case throughout Echigo. On this part of the road, too, all pack-horses we saw were mares, which is certainly aa exception to the general rule; bulls were also much used for transport purposes.

At Takada the road passes to the right bank of the Sekigawa; the river was much swollen by the rainfall of the previous day; a right tributary of the Sekigawa is crossed at Kasugasinden, and about 1 ri downward the Sekigawa flows into the Japan Sea near Imamatshi. Kasugasinden was reached by jinrickshajinrikisha [sic], the road between Takada and Kasugasinden being tolerably good. To the left there are large paddy-fields; to the right the way is bordered by farms, separated from the road by high hedges and broad ditches,. [sic] From the latter the water is carried off at several places across the road, to irrigate the rice fields; and as only a plank or the trunk of a tree

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 is laid over these road crossings for pedestrians, the jinrickshasjinrikishas [sic] had to he carried across.

At Kasugasinden we parted with jinrickshasjinrikishas [sic], not to see them again till Shibukawa (3 ri from Takasaki( on our way home, excepting four or five broken ones at Niigata.

From Kasugasinden the road goes for some distance along the right bank of the Sehigawa to Kuroi, situated on the sea shore near the mouth of that river, opposite Tamamatshi. From Kuroi we followed the sea shore up to Teradomari; on those parts where there is a beach there is no road properly speaking, but the strand is used as such, and one has the difficult choice of either dragging ones-self through the thick dusty sand in the burning sun, or of having our limbs tortured in a kago. Fortunately there happened a circumstance which left me no choice at all, as not only all our luggage, but also the kago had to be carried by women and even young girls, the male population of the villages being almost without exception fishermen; and though it was not perhaps directly to their pecuniary advantage, I had to refuse in most cases the help of a kago and to walk my way. One kago was carried by three, and another by four women at once. At larger or smaller distances the beach is bordered to the right by hills, sometimes grown with shrubs and dark pine-trees and consisting of hard clay; at other places there were downs of sand, grown with grass. Sometimes the hills border the sea, leaving no beach between, so that the road passes over them. This is first the case between Kuroi and Kakisaki, where the hills are very low and for the greater part built, on both sides, with houses and farms. Between Kakisaki and Hatsusaki the beach forms the road, and it was at Kakisaki that for the first time luggage and kagos were born by women. The villages between Kuroi and Hatsusaki are all poor in appearance and dirty. Hatsusaki is situated at the foot of tolerably high hills and close to the sea; from here the road passes over the hills to Kujiranami; the hills are grown with shrubs sad flowers and cultivated, the higher parts with corn, the

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 For my own Part, I shall not be asham'd to follow the Example of Milton, Philips, Thomson, and all our best tragick Writers.

SOME few Terms of Art are dispers'd here and there; but such only as are absolutely requisite to explain my Subject. I hope in this the Criticks will excuse me; for I am humbly of Opinion, that the Affectation, and not the necessary Use, is the proper Object of their Censure.

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, k-kr′shn. s. 1em

, k-kr′tv. a. (158) 1em

, k-krtsh′. v. a. 1em

, k-kr′. v. n. (339) 1em

, k-k-b′shn. s. 1em

, k-kmb′. v. a. (347) 1em

, k-k′m-lte. v. a. 1em

, k-k-m-l′shn. s. 1em

, k-k′m-l-tv. a. 1em

, k-k′m-l-tr. s. 1em

, k′k-r-s. s. 1em

, k′k-rte. a. (91) 1em

, k′k-rte-l. ad. 1em

, k′k-rte-nss. s. 1em

, k-krse′. v. a. 1em

, k-kr′sd. part. a. (362) 1em

, k-k′z-bl. a. (405) 1em

, k-k-z′shn. s. 1em

, k-k′z-tv. a. 1em

, k-k′z-t-r. a. 1em

, k-kze′. v. a. 1em

, k-k′zr. s. (98) 1em

, k-ks′tm. v. a. 1em

, k-ks′tm-m-bl. a. 1em

, k-ks′tm--bl. ad. 1em

, k-ks′tm-mnse. s. 1em

, k-ks′tm-m-r-l. ad. 1em

, k-ks′tm-m-r. a. 1em

, k-ks′tm-d. a. 1em

, se. s. 1em

, -sr′b-t. s. (511) 1em

, -sr′vte. v. a. (91) 1em

, s-r-v′shn. s. (527) 1em

, -ss′snt. a. 1em


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 lower with rice, while the road itself is not much more than a footpath, winding with steep inclines through the hills. Every now and then a beautiful view is to be had ever the bine sea with the island of Sado about 18 ri distant.

Between Kujiranami and Kasiwasaki, a large town, the road lies at some distance from the sea and through a somewhat flat district. Tore we met with several nicely dressed persons and whole families, who were going to occupy the different tea-houses along the road, and in the villages we had passed, in order to wait upon the “squire of the village,” who had been on a travelling tour and was now expected back. What was meant by the “squire of the village,” I could not make out.

Kasiwasaki being a town, and, as it seems, a prosperous one, coolies could here be had to carry our luggage and Kagos. Between Kasiwasaki and Siija we followed the beach which is here very broad and bordered to the right by barren sandy hills; the sand of which the beach and hills consist is of a dark grey colour; the beach slopes in a steep incline to the sea; there is here under ordinary circumstances a difference of seven English inches between ebb and flood tide, according to daily observations which are made also at Niigata.

Siiga is situated very much like Hatsusaki, i.e. close to the sea and at the foot of a hill. I should not advise any one who is going to make this tour to spend a night at Siija, at least if he wants to sleep. It was perfectly impossible for me to shut my eyes for the barking and howling, during the whole night, of these ante-diluvian Japanese dogs, which seemed to be aware that a company of strange people had entered their village: at least this is how my host explained the terrible noise they made.

From Siija to Teradomari the road runs almost without exception over the beach, and through some well-to-do looking places of which Itsumosaki, the principal one, is 1 ri in length and is situated close to the sea. Teradomari is alse a long prosperous town with some very good hotels.

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 As I was with some Government officials we were waited upon at the entrance of every place by some of the local yakunins, who walked before us through the village, or led us to a tea-house, according to circumstances. It was interesting to note the different degrees of respect with which we were waited upon, in the various localities through which we travelled. In general the politeness and submission increased with the distance from Yedo, yet there was sometimes a marked difference between two succeeding places. Moreover it may be considered as a rule that in the large villages and towns much fess notice was taken of us than in the small villages: in some of the towns, in fact, there was nobody to receive us, though we were going to take our tiffin or to stop for the night (which was always notified the previous day), so that we had to look and ask ourselves for our hotel. But along the beach there was the same servile submission wherever we passed.

The most ridiculous reception we met with, was at Teradomari, at which place we were waited upon by six yakunins, each armed with a small sword, portable inkpot and pencil, and pipe and tobacco-pouch between his girdle and a small stick in his hand. One of them walked before us, the others following. The foremost, cleared, as it were, the street with his stick; children were taken up and put softly down into the neighbouring houses, the inhabitants standing in front of their houses were ordered to kneel down; by the incessant cry of “m’ma, m’ma,” “kassa, kassa,” horseleaders were ordered to take care of their horses, which were as quiet as possible, but frightened by the noise of the yakunins, began to kick and trample, and passers by were ordered to take off their hats, at the cry “O ashi, ashi.” As the village was very long, at last nobody was to be seen, and the street appeared as dull as if it had died out; but the most curious incident of the day was the furious look and the cursing “chiku-sho!” which the yakunin cast upon a cock, which dared to crow at the very moment we passed!

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 From Teradomari the road follows the beach to Niigata, but my way led inwards to the Shinanogawa through the cutting which the Japanese were in the act of making between the sea and that river. That the Japanese are not afraid of making large ground cuttings, the neighbourhood of Yokohama will show, but this Teradomari cut is the most remarkable one I have seen. It was originally undertaken to draw off part of the Shinanogawa water from Okodz (on the river) directly to the sea. The cutting has a length of more than five miles, of which about nearly two are in the hills; the highest hill to be cut through is 260 feet over the intruded water level. Generally the ground consisted of layers of scale clay, in the beginning very hard, but becoming soft after having been exposed for some time to the air. In many cases the layers of clay are separated by thin layers of sand. The works have since been stopped, as too much money would be necessary to complete them in such a manner that the canal would really prove useful to the river, which would only be the case at very high floods; in other eases it would do more harm than good to the river.

Okodz, the river-terminus of the canal, lies 15$1/undefined$ ri from the mouth of the river at Niigata; it is a small village but has lately somewhat improved by the building of the canal.

Between Okodz and Niigata the Shinanogawa is enclosed between good embankments, which, with the exception of two or three places, leave no space between them and the river. At Okodz a small river, called Nishikawa, separates from the Shinanogawa to re-unite with it at Hesima (about 2 ri above Niigata.) This river was dug in olden times for irrigation purposes for the lands W. of the Shinanogawa. At Dowkiu (2 ri below Okodz) another and much more considerable part of the water separates from the Shinanogawa; the here separating river is called Nakanokuchikawa, and re-unites with the Shinano at Ono (3 ri above Niigata.) I think at low water this river even draws a greater quantity of water from the Shinanogawa than remains

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6 the sunniest room in the house. I wish Chris wouldn't have it kept as a nursery when there's no chance—" She sat down, swept her hair over the back of the chair into the sunlight, and held out to me her tortoiseshell hair-brush. "Give it a brush now and then, like a good soul; but be careful. Tortoise snaps so!"

I took the brush and turned to the window, leaning my forehead against the glass and staring unobservantly at the view. You probably know the beauty of that view; for when Chris rebuilt Baldry Court after his marriage he handed it over to architects who had not so much the wild eye of the artist as the knowing wink of the manicurist, and between them they massaged the dear old place into matter for innumerable photographs in the illustrated papers. The house lies on the crest of Harrowweald, and from its windows the eye drops to miles of emerald pasture-land lying wet and brilliant under a west-


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 flowing through the latter, the Nakanokuchi being shorter than the Shinano between the points of separation and re-uniting, the water has a greater velocity in the former than in the latter, and the river being moreover deeper, most of the down-going boats go by the Nakanokuchi.

Formerly this river separated from the Shinanogawa at Osima, where the two rivers are now separated from each other only by an embankment; the Nakanokuchi was then only a small brook, even of less importance than the present Nishi-kawa; but about 150 years ago the part between Dowkiu and Osima was dug and the existing part widened to its present state, probably in consequence of inundations along the Shinanogawa, but I could not clear up this point. In those times, too, the Shinanogawa flowed through the now dry bed of the Furu-Shinano, as it is called at present, between Oosima and Idoba, over a length of about 9,000 feet; but by-and-by it changed its course by breaking in the right bank until it formed the sharp double-curve which is now to be found between those two places.

The minimum depth of the Shinanogawa may be stated to be 3 or 3$1⁄2$ feet at low water; but this minimum only exists in some places, while in general the depth is much greater, and I think that by the construction of well arranged works the river might be so fur improved as to allow ships of 6 feet draft to come up as far as Okodz, and perhaps to the extensive town of Nagaoka (6 ri above Okodz.)

Between Okodz and Niigata the course of the river is generally speaking parallel to the sea coast at about 5 or 6 ri distance from it. This comparatively narrow strip of land between the river and the hills along the sea coast, is irrigated by the Nishikawa and the Naka no kuchikawa, whereas at this side there are no feeders of the Shinanogawa. There are many of them at the right side of the river, all proceeding from the hills which are at some distance from the right bank. The principal of these confluents are:—1, The Imamatshikawa, also called Karyada-kawa, coming from Nagaska, length about 8 ri,

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MOONLIGHT.-—TIIE

ROSE

AND

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And now every day, when the mail comes, comes Frank and lays a letter inside our sitting-room door, looks up and says, “From Boston, Miss Jane.”

One, so brought, is here now. He is in the chair—so, au revoir, but, dearest reader, au revoir. Yes! my dearest and best reader must expect me to hurry with my au revoir as I do now, when—au revoir, best reader.

MOONLIGHT. BY

MARCILLA H.

HINNS. Who can gather up the brightness Of the moonlight, as it plays With such living, airy lightness, Like the dancing,' of the fays? Now, with witching grace, coquetting With the pure white clouds above, Till they, almost half regretting, Sweetly blush with timid love. Beautiful in midnight splendor, Bringing visions dreamy, tender, Is the moonlight on the clouds.

Soft its touch, full of caressing, On the leaves that tremble much— Tremble with excess of blessing At that gentle, thrilling touch. Is it strange that lovers listen With wild joy to ardent vows, When the softening lore-rays glistsl On the overhanging bought-I?

Rare lovo teacher, from time olden,

Teaching young hearts lessons golden, Is the moonlight ’mong the leaves.

Now upon the waters, glancing Where the swiftest ripples whirl, And the Naiads, lightly dancing, Wear their richest robes of pearl— Jeweled robes, whose varied sparkling, Shames earth’s high wrought diadems, While the eddies' shadowy darkling

Gentle fairies from their bowers

Slyly creep, cheered by its smile, Giving their protegee ﬂowers Purest gems of dew the while; Till the forest, upland, meadow, Show rich traces of their care,

E'en the leaves the trees o'ershadow

Add new lustre to the gems.

Gleam with jewels, quaint and rare.

Minstrel winds make soft, entrancing

While our souls such beauties gather,

Music. for the sweet nymphs dancing With the moonlight on the wares.

Bless the loving, watchful Father

For the moonlight pencilings.

THE

ROSE BY

AND THE

BEE.

EDWARD A. DARBY.

BESIDE the southern garden wall, Where shone the sun the whole day long, And where the birds of Spring were wont To sing their ﬁrst glad vernal song, A rose‘bud, op'ning modestly, Its damask petals half revealed. And coyly wooed the wanton breeze To taste the charms that were concealed.

More beautiful and yet more bold The rose grew in the sun's warm rays; The garden ﬂowers proclaimed her queen, And offered fealty and praise. Right regal was their chosen queen— A fairer you may ne'er behold, Though decked with cost]y disdem, And garnished o‘er with virgin gold.

A knightly bee on golden wing Disporting free from ﬂower to ﬂower— Now flaunting gayly in the sun, Now reveling in honeyed bower— Behold the queenly rose that grew Beside the wall in regal pride, And whispered, “She is fairer far Than aught for which bee erer sighed.

“Such royal grandeur in her mien! Such grace in every ﬂowing line! A gem that‘s worthy of a king—3 God help me, but she shall be mine.” With courtly ﬂattery and praise Her half reluctant ear he plied, And talked of happiness and love Until she closed her eyes and sighed.

So well his ready tongue portrayed Love's more than sublunary bliss, She yielded, half afraid, and gave The wanton bee Love‘s nectar kiss. Then with a mighty gush that threw Réserve and haughtiness aside She clasped him to her heart—but he, The ingrats! stung her till she died!


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 QUARRELSOME OTTERS.


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 best they can, straining every nerve to keep up the pace at which the hounds have started.

The otter, however, seems to be far from his hole, for he still holds down the stream, followed by his enemies, though, as mile after mile is passed, one or two of the less sturdy are fain to lag behind. But again the hounds stop and begin to search about; the otter has once more dived, and is out of sight. He is there, however, beyond doubt, for the dogs will not leave the place, and the hunters are urging them on to search. At last a yelp from the foremost dog, and a shout from one of the men, He's here! he's here!" shows that the otter has been compelled to take to the water again. But this time the poor otter has the worst of it.

If he would save his skin he must resort to all sorts of tricks, such as doubling back through his enemies. An otter usually makes for its hole from which it is a great job to get him out. The only way to do so is to dig him out. Just about the time you have reached the spot where you feel sure the otter must be out it jumps and the chances are ten to one that all the dogs tumble over each other but miss the otter in their hurry. The most exciting end to a hunt is when the dogs catch up with the otter in mid stream, this is after it has been driven so hard that it is almost too tired to dive again. The hounds make short work of the poor beast. The body is brought ashore and "broken up." The hunters take the paws as momentoes of the occasion and then every one goes home tired. The dog's tails hang down now the excitement is over and one can see by their eyes that all they are thinking about is supper and sleep.

There was an otter that lived near where a river entered into a lake. He was old and wise and cared not a rap for all the otter hounds in the world. He would travel several miles up stream in search of fish and if the hounds came upon him he would lead them a lively chase down stream which always ended in his taking to the lake where the dogs could not follow him.

The hunters even placed dogs at the mouth of the river but the otter always dived through his enemies. On one occasion he bit off a dogs foot underwater.

This otter lived for many years and became quite well known for his shrewdness and sagacity. A year or two after he had been last hunted he disappeared and as he was know to be fairly old it is supposed that he died a natural death. This is a fate that very rarely comes to an otter living on a river in the British Islands.


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by asking whether the law in question is … 'reasonably capable of being seen as necessary' to the purpose of processing and removal of an unlawful non-citizen". More specifically, if there is no real prospect of removal of some unlawful noncitizens becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future, it is not reasonably capable of being seen as necessary to detain them to ensure that they are available for removal when practicable.

Expressing the constitutional limitation

For the reasons already given, expressing the constitutionally permissible period of executive detention of an alien who has failed to obtain permission to remain in Australia as coming to an end when there is no real prospect of removal of the alien from Australia becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future follows directly from the principle in Lim. This is the appropriate expression of the applicable constitutional limitation under a statutory scheme where there is an enforceable duty to remove an alien from Australia as soon as reasonably practicable.

Nevertheless, there is a need to explain why variations of the expression of the applicable constitutional limitation proffered by the defendants and by certain amici must be rejected.

The defendants, as a fallback from their primary submission, submitted that the constitutionally permissible period of executive detention of an alien who has failed to obtain permission to remain in Australia should be simply expressed as coming to an end when there is no real prospect of the removal of the alien from Australia. The notions of practicability and of the reasonably foreseeable future were said to be unnecessary distractions. They are not. They are essential to anchoring the expression of the constitutional limitation in factual reality.

At the other extreme, the Human Rights Law Centre and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law submitted that the constitutionally permissible period of executive detention of an alien who has failed to obtain permission to remain in Australia should be expressed as coming to an end at any point when it can be determined to be more probable than not that the alien will not be removed from Australia in the foreseeable future. Quite apart from this leaving the constitutional limitation to have an unstable operation as probabilities of removal


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fluctuate, expression of the constitutional limitation in those terms would uncouple the limitation from its underlying constitutional justification. Demanding compliance with a limitation expressed in those terms would go beyond merely ensuring that the non-punitive purpose of detention remains a purpose capable of being achieved in fact. It would also go beyond merely ensuring that the detention is limited to what is reasonably capable of being seen as necessary for the purpose of removal.

Applying the constitutional limitation

If Al-Kateb was to be reopened and overruled, the defendants made a correct and important concession. The plaintiff having discharged an initial evidential burden of establishing that there was reason to suppose that his detention had ceased to be lawful by reason that it transgressed the applicable constitutional limitation on his detention, the defendants conceded that they bore the legal burden of proving that the constitutional limitation was not transgressed. The concession was correct having regard to the coincidence of two fundamental principles. The first, a principle of common law reflected in the traditional procedure for obtaining a writ of habeas corpus, is that where a person in the detention of another adduces sufficient evidence to put the lawfulness of that detention in issue, the legal burden of proof shifts to the other to establish the lawfulness of that detention. The second, a principle of constitutional law, is that "it is the duty of the Court in every constitutional case to be satisfied of every fact the existence of which is necessary in law to provide a constitutional basis for the legislation".

To establish that ss 189(1) and 196(1) of the Migration Act validly applied to authorise continuation of the plaintiff's detention, the defendants were accordingly required to prove that there existed a real prospect of his removal from Australia becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future. Whilst the proof was required to be to a standard sufficient to support the making of a finding


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of fact to the level of satisfaction appropriate in a civil proceeding where individual liberty is in issue, the prospective and probabilistic nature of the fact in issue (that is, the fact of a real prospect of the plaintiff's removal from Australia becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future) would have the potential to be confused were the standard of proof to be "on the balance of probabilities".

The notions of the practicability and the foreseeability of removal embedded in the expression of the constitutional limitation accommodate "the real world difficulties that attach to such removal". The real world context also entails that proof of a real prospect must involve more than demonstration of a mere un-foreclosed possibility.

The special case recorded the agreement of the parties as to the fact that the plaintiff had complied with requests for information made by officers of the Department and had otherwise assisted the Department with its inquiries. This was not a case of a person in immigration detention having contributed to the frustration of the pursuit of lines of inquiry by officers of the Department attempting to bring about the person's removal. Nor was it a case where officers of the Department remained in the process of pursuing lines of inquiry based on circumstances peculiar to the person in detention.

The special case further recorded the agreement of the parties as to two important facts as at 30 May 2023 (being the date when the original form of the special case was agreed). One was that the plaintiff could not then be removed from Australia. The other was that there was then no real prospect of the plaintiff being removed from Australia in the reasonably foreseeable future.


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 A COBRA CATCHING A GERBOA.


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The parties were in dispute about the significance of certain inquiries undertaken by officers of the Department after 30 May 2023. Those inquiries were in one respect ongoing at the time of the hearing of the special case. They were the subject of affidavit and documentary evidence tendered at the hearing.

The evidence showed that recent inquiries by officers of the Department had been triggered by an instruction which the Minister gave to the Department on 29 August 2023. The instruction then given was to inquire into the potential for the plaintiff to be removed to one of the "Five Eyes" countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada or New Zealand. In compliance with the instruction, inquiries were promptly made through diplomatic channels of officials in each of those "Five Eyes" countries. The responses of officials in the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand quickly made clear that none of those countries would accept the plaintiff.

However, an inquiry made through the Australian embassy in Washington of an official within the United States Department of State led to a response on 30 September 2023 that the Department of State would "consider" the plaintiff's case and "have a hard look" but would require detail about the plaintiff's criminal offending and would need to confer with the Department of Homeland Security and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. The official advised that, if the United States were to progress acceptance of the plaintiff's case, it would likely need to receive the case through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or the United States embassy in Canberra and would seek to interview the plaintiff through its embassy in Thailand or Malaysia. The requested details of the plaintiff's offending were provided on 6 October 2023. Despite frequent follow-up contact, the Department of State had provided no further substantive response by the time of the commencement of hearing of the special case on 7 November 2023 and still had provided no further substantive response by the time the hearing of the special case ended the following day.

By affidavit dated 26 October 2023, the First Assistant Secretary, International Division, within the Department of Home Affairs explained that she was aware of only two other cases in which an approach had been made to the United States for third country removal of a specific individual and that both of those other approaches had been quickly rejected. She opined that the response of 30 September 2023 that the Department of State would "consider" the plaintiff's case and "have a hard look" made the plaintiff's case unique. She opined that it was impossible for her to predict the prospects of the plaintiff being accepted for


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resettlement by the United States or to describe any set process or pathway that might be followed in respect of the plaintiff.

Evidence of law and practice in the United States adduced on behalf of the plaintiff indicated that acceptance of the plaintiff into the United States could not occur without the exercise of multiple statutory discretions by multiple agencies within the United States including some discretions involving waiver of statutory prohibitions. The evidence did not allow for the making of any meaningful assessment either of the likelihood of those discretions being exercised or of the timeframes within which those discretions might be exercised.

The position at the end of the hearing on 8 November 2023 was therefore that, although removal of the plaintiff to the United States remained a possibility, the evidence failed to establish that the prospect of removal to the United States occurring in the foreseeable future was realistic. Neither party submitted that the position at the end of the hearing was in any other respect different from that which had been agreed as at 30 May 2023.

The necessary conclusion of fact is that by the end of the hearing there was, and had been since 30 May 2023, no real prospect of the removal of the plaintiff from Australia becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future. It followed from that conclusion of fact that ss 189(1) and 196(1) of the Migration Act did not validly apply to authorise the continuation of the plaintiff's detention then and had not validly applied to authorise the plaintiff's detention since 30 May 2023.

Consequence of invalidity for the liberty of the plaintiff

The consequence of ss 189(1) and 196(1) of the Migration Act not validly applying to authorise the continuation of the plaintiff's detention at the end of the hearing on 8 November 2023 is that the sole statutory basis relied on by the defendants for the continuation of his detention fell away and the plaintiff was entitled to his common law liberty.

Release from unlawful detention is not to be equated with a grant of a right to remain in Australia. Unless the plaintiff is granted such a right under the Migration Act, the plaintiff remains vulnerable to removal under s 198. Issuing of


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 through our bodies and it does not take long for the poison to travel. Whiskey is a powerful stimulant and it causes the heart to beat or pump very quickly, so when you see a person who has been bitten becoming unconcious it is not always a bad sign, for if the heart can be kept pumping it will spread the poison out so that it does not collect in any one spot with sufficient strength to kill; then again the alcohol is needed to keep the heart going to over come the clogging of the valves.

The poison of the rattlesnake is contained in a little sac lying near the root. This tooth itself is very sharp, and about one eight of an inch from its point has a tiny hole which is connected with the poison sac. When the snake bites the poison comes down the little channel and enters the wound. Some writers


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 A MOONGUS ATTACKING A COBRA.


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a writ of habeas corpus would not prevent re-detention of the plaintiff under ss 189(1) and 196(1) of the Migration Act in the future if, and when, a state of facts comes to exist giving rise to a real prospect of the plaintiff's removal from Australia becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future. Nor would grant of that relief prevent detention of the plaintiff on some other applicable statutory basis, such as under a law providing for preventive detention of a child sex offender who presents an unacceptable risk of reoffending if released from custody.

For completeness, it should be recorded that there was no issue between the parties that the invalidity of ss 189(1) and 196(1) of the Migration Act in their application to authorise the plaintiff's detention in circumstances found to contravene the applicable constitutional limitation cannot affect the validity of those provisions in their application to authorise detention in other circumstances.

Formal answers to questions reserved

For these reasons, the order made at the conclusion of the hearing of the special case formally answered the questions reserved as follows:

Question 1: On their proper construction, did ss 189(1) and 196(1) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) authorise the detention of the plaintiff as at 30 May 2023?

Answer: Yes, subject to s 3A of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth).

Question 2: If so, are those provisions beyond the legislative power of the Commonwealth insofar as they applied to the plaintiff as at 30 May 2023?

Answer: Yes.

Question 3: On their proper construction, do ss 189(1) and 196(1) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) authorise the current detention of the plaintiff?

Answer: Yes, subject to s 3A of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth).


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Question 4: If so, are those provisions beyond the legislative power of the Commonwealth insofar as they currently apply to the plaintiff?

Answer: Yes.

Question 5: What, if any, relief should be granted to the plaintiff?

Answer: The following orders should be made:

1. It is declared that, by reason of there having been and continuing to be no real prospect of the removal of the plaintiff from Australia becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future:1. the plaintiff's detention was unlawful as at 30 May 2023; and

2. the plaintiff's continued detention is unlawful and has been since 30 May 2023.

2. A writ of habeas corpus issue requiring the defendants to release the plaintiff forthwith.

Question 6: Who should pay the costs of the further amended special case?

Answer: The defendants.


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 the torpedo ignited the powder, causing a terrific explosion, the destruction of the cruiser, and immense damage to the dockyard as well as the town. Such a scene is indescribable. The air was full of portions of wood and iron that had been impelled upwards and hurled in all directions. A calamity like this creates an awe which imposes silence and inaction on all for a brief period. Then the torpedo boats, having arrived at the head of the harbour, turned to make the best of their way out. It was a forlorn hope, for by this time their pursuers had arrived at the mouth of the harbour. The only chance was to keep a straight course and trust to luck. It was a case of each one for himself.

The tide had just begun to ebb, and the boats came down the stream at a tremendous pace. As they approached the entrance it seemed impossible to get clear of all the craft that had converged on this spot. The leading boat carried the commander of the expedition; he had taken the helm, as all depended on careful steering. There was a gap at Blockhouse Point, and for this he made. Seeing his intention, a launch steered across to intercept him. If she grappled he would soon be surrounded. There was no alternative; a slight touch of the helm, and the sharp stem of the torpedo boat cut clean through the quarter of the other, and she passed on without a check. The second torpedo boat had kept in his leader's wake, and also got through, but the remaining two, which made for the other side, were not so fortunate; one had its


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 "Evidently the body destined to save this country," eagerly continued Sir Vavasour. "Blending all sympathies: the crown of which they are the peculiar champions; the nobles of whom they are the popular branch; the people who recognize in them their natural leaders. But the picture is not complete. We should be accompanied by an equal number of gallant knights, our elder sons, who, the moment they come of age, have the right to claim knighthood of their sovereign, while their mothers and wives, no longer degraded to the nomenclature of a sheriff's lady, but resuming their legal or analogical dignities, and styled the 'honourable baronetess, with her coronet and robe, or the 'honourable knightess, with her golden collar of S.S., and chaplet or cap of dignity, may either accompany the procession, or ranged in galleries in a becoming situation, reign influence from above."

"I am all for their going in the procession," said Egremont.

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 been firm in defining our rightful claims in our petitions, as for 'honorary epithets, secondary titles, personal decorations, and augmented heraldic bearings,' I am not clear if the government evinced a disposition for a liberal settlement of the question, I would not urge a too stringent adherence to every point. For instance, I am prepared myself, great as would be the sacrifice, even to renounce the claim of secondary titles for our eldest sons, if for instance they would secure us our coronet."

"Fie, fie, Sir Vavasour," said Egremont very seriously, "remember principle: no expediency, no compromise."

"You are right," said the baronet, colouring a little; "and do you know, Mr. Egremont, you are the only individual I have yet met out of the Order, who has taken a sensible view of this great question, which, after all, is the question of the day."

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situation of the rural town of Marney was one of the most delightful easily to be imagined. In a spreading dale, contiguous to the margin of a clear and lively stream, surrounded by meadows and gardens, and backed by lofty hills, undulating and richly wooded, the traveller on the opposite heights of the dale would often stop to admire the merry prospect, that recalled to him the traditional epithet of his country.

Beautiful illusion! For behind that laughing landscape, penury and disease fed upon the vitals of a miserable population!

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 propeller damaged by floating wreckage, while the other had struck a buoy, which injured the stem and impeded its progress. They were grappled and taken. It only remains to say that the leader and his companion managed, after several hairbreadth escapes, to get away clear, and reached Cherbourg in the forenoon, where they were received with great enthusiasm.

Some hours later there arrived at intervals four boats of the Plymouth expedition. This had steered for the Start, and about five miles south of Prawl Point met the second division of the Channel squadron, which had left Plymouth late in the evening for Portland. The boats were discovered by a cruiser that had been placed two miles in advance of the main body. She at once fired guns, and promptly engaged the enemy. Such an eventuality had been provided for by the officer in command of the expedition. The boats were in two divisions, five in each line. Any scout or cruiser was to be attacked by the two guard boats, while the remainder, opening out, would endeavour to pass down on each side of the squadron. The ships consisted of the Empress of India, Resolution, Revenge, Narcissus, Bellona and Speedwell. The four battleships were in line ahead, while the Bellona was scouting in advance and the Speedwell on the starboard beam. The latter, seeing the firing, at once went full speed to the spot. This movement put the boats in some disorder, and gave


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 the line of ships time to have everything in readiness to meet the attack. At the first intimation of the presence of an enemy the admiral quickened his speed, and as the boats, now reduced to six, swept past, they were greeted with a tremendous fire from the machine and quick-firing guns. The leading boats suffered most, and were disabled before they had reached a position to discharge their torpedoes. Those following, swerving outwards to avoid their companions, did not come under such a heavy fire, but two of them had their torpedo tubes so injured by the hail of shot that their contents stuck fast. The last two boats, partly enveloped in smoke, each managed to get off a torpedo at the third ship. This was the Revenge.

There are two causes which, in firing torpedoes from the side of a torpedo boat against a ship in motion, may produce a miss. One is, that the torpedo is deflected on entering the water to an angle dependent on the speed of the boat; the other is, that the object, if moving rapidly, may have passed before the torpedo reaches it. An allowance for each has to be made. The speed of the boat being known, experiment easily demonstrates the necessary allowance in this case; but the speed may be altered at the last moment, when a readjustment of the torpedo is impossible. Similarly, the rate of the object has to be assumed, and may alter, or be estimated incorrectly. Partly owing to one cause and partly to the other, of


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