Western Reserve Chronicle and Weekly Transcript of the Times, 1855-01-24

room. They went to morning concerts of serious music, and patronised orato oratorios. - rios. oratorios. They thought it sinful to be in love, and called it making idols so they married their children comfortably among good families with money, and told them that es'eera was better than romance. Miss Tabathy Everett was once suspected of a tender partialiiy for a young Mr. Aldridge Park : but the fam'ly hushed It up as scandal, for un unconverted - converted unconverted Mr. Al Iridge kept a pack of hounds. Afterwar.ls they married her to the rector of Green Grove, the Hon Honorable - orable Honorable and Reverend Humdrummle Hib Hib-bert, - bert, Hib-bert, eldest son of the Dean, and heir to an un-apostolic fortune. The Ever Everetts - etts Everetts were exceedingly undemonstrative. Miss Taba'hy accepted her husband, and concealing her feelings made a very good wife. For marriage was not their forte. Not an Everett was ever known to stoop down to kiss a husband's fore forehead - head forehead as he sat before the fire reading ; not an Everett wts ever known to talk nonsense in the nursery neither to ride a cock-horse, nor to bewail the fate of Humpty Dumpty, neither to rock-a-by- baby upon a tree-top, nor to perform a monody in a minor, all about " Kiddlie, Coosie, Coosie, Coo" a song I once heard from a dear mother, and which I thought the most beautiful of songs. The Everetts were not given to any such follies ; excepting Jacob, who loved children as they would be loved, and who used to play at boo-peep with the cottager's children. Some years ago just at the time when pretty Anna Fay, the Sunday- School mistress so suddenly left Green Grove a strange alteration took place in Jacob Everett. His cheerfulness, which had been his strongest character characteristic, - istic, characteristic, was exchanged for the most pain painful - ful painful depression. He talked frequently of his sins, and gave more liberally than ever to missions and charities. His friends could not understand this de pression ; which at last became habitual. He gave them no clue to it ; but with scarcely a day's warning, he left home to travel in the South of Europe. He had been looking ill, and more than ever harassed of la:e ; and every one said it was the best thing he could do, great as would be everybody's loss. His sister Tabathy alone objected, on the score of the Jesuits. However, Jacob went, discharging all his servants and shutting up the beau beautiful - tiful beautiful old hall. To the infinite surprise of everybody, he openly and unblush unblush-ingly - ingly unblush-ingly took from the ne:ghboiing village a certain Betty Thome, a fine, hand handsome - some handsome looking woman, a farmer's sister, aged about forty. And Betty Thorne traveled with him in his own carriage. Five years passed away, and Jacob's letters became rarer and more rare. He wrote ever in the same depressed condition of mind ; spoke often of "good Betty Thorne, who had been such aj blessed comfort to him, " and hinted vaguely at some nnforgiven sin. Thin for two years more no letters came, even in answer to business inquiries ; and all trace of the traveler was lost. His very bankers did not know his address, and " Sardina " left wide margins. Mrs. ( Hibbert one day grew quite warm when she spoke of his neglect with Paul and Jessie, her two children ; almost agree agreeing - ing agreeing that Paul, poor child who, liythej way, was three and twenty, destined J for the church, but preferring the army, j and so making a compromise by studying the bar that Paul should go to Italy in search of his uncle Jacob. But the Jesuits and the Signoras fright- ned her. And as their deliberations went on, a letter came to Mrs. Hibbert sealed in black and written in ccpper-colored ink ; which letter was from Betty Thorne, telling her that her "honored master had gone to rest, the seventh of this last September past, and the letter would tell the gracious madame all about it, " The letter enclosed was from Jacob Everett himself, revealing the mystery of his life. " Oh Anna Fay ! with your nut nut-brown - brown nut-brown hair, and Quaker ejes, and dove dovelike - like dovelike ways, who would have believed that yon, so good and so demure, with Jacob, the best man of Green Grove, would have given such a hostage as that round, red, laughing, loving liitle being that flower plucked in a forbidden for forest - est forest ; that unauthorised, unsanctioned, unlawful little liege Estella, ' star of the morning ! " God forgive you both. You sinned, and you suffered ; you fell, and you repented ; perhaps your burn burning - ing burning tears and your prayers of penitence and grief n ay have effaced the dark record in the Great book above. You are both cold in your tombs, now Heaven's mercy rest upon you ! There are enough in this hard world to cast stones at you both ; for us, wo will but water the flowers on your graves, and pluck up the weed, and place a head headstone - stone headstone where you lie. " In this let'erto bi sister, Jacob made

" We have raised our own potatoea, corn, peas, beans, and all cher garden vegetables. Our eggs are always fresh, and in abundance from the nest ; and for more than two years we have not been without ripe fresh fruit." " Well, I declare, that is something I never thought of ; but it takes so much, limo and b rther to get these things started then it is an everlasting job tj take care ofthein!" - It needs no more time and money than you throw away on things that amount to nothing at all ; and an abundano of fruit will save the expense of a he ivy meat bill, which is not healthy in warm weather. No doctor has bee called to set foot into my door for over four years past. Fresh ripe fruits are ure remedies for all ailments, and they are not hard to take." Mr. Chapman put the " fifty" into his " waazI-skin," and left with a " flea ia his ear." .ew Eng'and Farmer. "Djes your son play Eucirtt" said a gentleman to Mrs. Partington, on see seeing - ing seeing Ikey enter with a pack of cards ia his hand. La sakes, " answered the old lady, looking over her spectacles, "Ikey don't play the Pianny, but I shouldn't won wonder - der wonder if he could whistle it. " " Ikey, put up those wicked cards and whistle Euchre for the gentleman. " " I can't said the young hopeful. " It is strange how that boy has regt regt-eratedlixiely, - eratedlixiely, regt-eratedlixiely, " and taking upher knitting knitting-work - work knitting-work she commenced to knit in a dejected manner. " Don't you feel well, mother 1" " No my son, I do not feel well ; I am digested with the immortality of the young folks now.a-days, " upon which Ike brought the camphor-bottle to tbe good old lady. Ah," saidshr?, "Ikey, you are 039 of Job's counter ftitei $. " Ait Excess of Happiness. An old lady, whilo indulging, a few evenings since, ia reminiscences of hjr girlhood, when she had lots of beaux, exctaimed, " why the truth is, that at one time I was so happy that I was fairly uncom uncomfortable - fortable uncomfortable ! ' . Ax Incident. A la ly entered a dry goods store in street, and expressed a desire to see some wool Da Laines. The polite clerk, wilh elegant address showed her a variety of pieces of fine texture and choice coloring. After toss ing and examining to her heart's content, she observed, " the goods are part cotton, sir. " " My dear madam, " returned the shopman, " these goods are as free from cotton as your breast is " (the lady stares) "free from guile," he added. The editor of the Memphis (Tenn.) Eagle has been shown a ring, which was purchased in St. Augustine, Florida, in the year 1733, now nearly one hun. dred years ago. In the meantime it has served as a pledge of love in four en engagements. - gagements. engagements. Ix Buffalo, a lady has hung out her "shingle " with the following announce announcement - ment announcement : " Notis I ar got sum nit arti. cles fur sail such as kr ackers, kandles, kuphy cups, sorces, and many other ar ar-tiecles - tiecles ar-tiecles to numerous to menshun awl cell celling - ing celling cheap. P. S Beens bort here by the kwort or boushel." Reason gives its suffrage to the truths which revelation has discovered. But it is our mistake to think, that because rea reason - son reason confirms them to us, that we had the first certain knowledge of them from thence, and iu that clear evidence where wherein - in wherein we now possess them. Mr. Ldkt. PaAisi.ia Goo sr Steam. The bel bellows - lows bellows of the great organ in Tremont Tem Temple, - ple, Temple, Boston, is worked by steam. So we Yankees are go ng to be relieved of the work of praising God. We have sot even to turn a crank to grind out oar praise, but invoke the aid of steam pow power. - er. power. What would Fulton say could he look into the Temple, and see that ths veritable steam wilh which he propelled his boat up the North River, it employed to drive an organ in praise ol God ? The time is not far distant when we shall have miniature organs attaehed to tea kettles, and boil tea to the tune of Yan Yankee - kee Yankee Doodl . Served him right, however.. There was great excitement in Wall street' to today, - day, today, in consequence of the reported ex expulsion - pulsion expulsion of a member of the board of bro brokers, - kers, brokers, this forenoon. We withhold tha gentleman's name, and are not prepared to say what effect his crimes may have upon the price of shares. It is reported that he proposed to the board the follow following - ing following conundrum : "Why are amateur fish fishermen - ermen fishermen visiting Long Island shore like the allied armies ? Answer. Because they want Sea-las to pull." (Sebastopol.) The offt-nder put the probity and other well-kro vn virtues of the board to a se, vcre test. If he was expelled, it served him right. JV. T. Commercial Advtrtiitr.

'folly' and 'nonsense, and was ready to .sneer at every one who stepped aside from the common track. It I nked sim simply - ply simply silly to him to see a man stay at home from " muster," or "training," or "shows," and spend his time in cultiva cultivating - ting cultivating a garden ; or instead of loitering away the evening at the store, smoking, and hearing or telling a deal of nothing or worse, to spend ths evening at home, reading such nonsense as the Farmer and SbrticullurUt afford. Years pass, and Mr. Briggs "one acre farm" shows that he and his boys have not read " the papers" in vain. They have learned how to set out a tree, and how to take care of it after it was set out. Everything showed it received the right kind of food and care, and straightway began to bring fdrth fruit meet for good cultivation. In a short time the wants of the the family were more than supp!iedt and the surplus found a ready market with the neighbors at good prices. Tnose early apples, so rich and tempt tempting, - ing, tempting, when all other apples were so green and hard! and. then such pears; they went as fast as the sun and house could ripen them, at three, four and five cents a piece. . Then such rich, ripe grapes too tempting for the coldest to pass with out a watering mouth. Mr. Chapman's family were almost the best customers for the tempting fruit first having learned their eX3ellence by the liberality of Mr. Briggs, who never failed to send a speci men of his best fruit to his neighbor. The fifth season came. It was a fruit fruitful - ful fruitful year. Apple, pear, peach, plum, and all other trees were loaded with fruit. Keeping in mini his conversation with Mr. Chapman, Mr. Briggs had directed his family to set down every cent's worth of frutt sold to Mr. Chapman or his fami ly. This year, as it happened, was a year of "extreme hard times." The boot business was at its worst ebb ; little work and low wages and yet the price of every ki id of prbvisions were up to the highest notch, and money extremely tight. But there was one family that did not seem to be in the least affected by the hard time3, low prices of labor, high prices of provisions, or the scarcity of money. Mr. Briggs and his two oldest sons, all had a little change to let on short time " with interest" to their needy neighbors. One day Mr. Chapman, who was short, applied to Mr. Briggs for a " half" for a "quarter," meaning fifty dollars for three months. "Yes," said Mr. Briggs, " I have a 'half or a 'whole,' just as you like." "What, a hundred dollars by you these times ? I don't see how it comes. You and your boys don't work any harder than I and my boys do, and we can hard hard-lv - lv hard-lv get along , we are as saving and pinch pinching - ing pinching as can be, too ; times are so dreadful hard, and everything a family has to buy is so dreadful high, and wages so low; potatoes, a dollar a bushel, beef fifteen cents a pound, pork, sixteen cents, eggs, twenty-five cents a dozen, and flour, ten or twelve dollars a barrel. How can a man live ?" " It wont be hardly fair for mo to ask you for that twenty-five dollars now, will ill" "Twenty-five dollars ? What do you mean ? I don't understand you ?" 4 Don't you recollect we had a bet be between - tween between us about the price of some fruit trees I bought five years ago next spring?" " Ah ! I do remember something about it. You were to give me twenty-five dol dollars - lars dollars if you didn't get your twenty-five dollars back from me for the products of these trees and things! It will come very handy just now." " Doa't be too fast, neighbor ? I am afraid it wont come very handy just now. That was what I was dunning you for, that twenty five dollars !" " What, yrtu don't pretend to say we have had twenty-five dollars worth of stuff from your garden." "More than that from that very twenty, five dollars' worth of trees and other thiii"s! Here is an account of every thing that you have bought and paid for. 0f courso it don't include what I have sent you gratis. " And you have certainly not been I stiii"y. Why the bill amounts to thirty thirty-seven - seven thirty-seven dollars ! is it possible !" " It is just so ; you have had over twenty bushels of apples, and three bush bushels - els bushels of pears, and these alone come to twenty-five u'o'lars." " I own up the ' corn ;' draw the note for seventy-five.' No, I guess we will let the twenty- five go ; I only mentioned it to show you there may be good sense in new things sometimes. Now I will bet the twenty- five dollars over again, that my store bill has not been half as large the pastseason as yours, though I have had one more in my family." " U I had not been so badly takeu in before, I would stan.d you ; hut I guess it wont be i-afe."

j a full conression; telling her that shocked and terrified at his crime, he had sent Anna Fay away, who had refused to' marry him as he wished, and how she had lived in Italy ever since he, Jacob, j feeling that an entire separation, though j they loved each other well, was the only reparation they could make to Heaven ; and how five years ago she had died, leaving their child without a friend or protector in the world. How he had then gone over with Betty Thorne, to whom he had confided his secret, to guard and educate his girl, which he had done carefully. He then ended by appointing Tabilha guardian and sole trustee of his daughter, now seventeen years of age. All his usual superscriptions, and a certain yearly allowance of which we shall have to speak presently, were to be continued until Estella would be of age, when she would consult her father's memory and her own feelings only. It took but little time for Mrs. Hibbert to reflect on her course of action. Paul and Jessie, impulsive as all young peo people - ple people arc, pleaded instant adoption of the child, and Betty Thorne, too ; but Tab- itha Hibbert, wounded in her family pride, in her religious conscience, and in her worldly ambition, turned coldly to her children saying, " The girl who has robbed you of your inheritance, who is a stain on an unspotted name, and who damages our religious character forever, shall never darken our threshold. I r.'fuse to act as guardun or trustee. Entreaty is useless Jessie ? I am a Christian woman and a mother, and I understand my duties. " So Betty Thorne was written to, and " all recognition of that unhappy girl " distinctly declined ; conpled with a se severe - vere severe warning sounding very much like a threat, to " sell the Haii when she came of age, and never dare to iutrude herself among the members of a family which disowned her as a disgrace. " After Mrs. Hibbert hadwri;ten this let letter, - ter, letter, she read, as was her daily wont, the lesson of the day. It chanced to be the history of the Magdelene, her sins, and her pardon. But she made no com comment - ment comment upon it, though Paul and Jessie looked at each other, the girl's pale eyes full of tears, and the youth's cheek crimson. Months and years rolled by; and Ja Jacob's - cob's Jacob's name was never mentioned, neither was his sin, neither were his good works. The beautiful old hall was still shut up, until Estella should be of age, and the donations and subscriptions were punctu punctually - ally punctually remitted ; Betty Thorne writing all the letters in the nameof Master Heiress. There was a certain yearly allow ance made by Jacob to a certain widow with five children, a Mrs. Malahide, relict of Captain Malahide of the Fourth En Engineers. - gineers. Engineers. She was an Everett Miss Grace Everett who had eloped one day with a scampish young officer, wi h nothing but his pay, and who had con consequently - sequently consequently been disinherited by her father. She was the youngest, and had been the darling ; but she had lost herself now, they said ; and so not wholly dead to, she was partially excommunicated by the family. Jacob, as head of the house since his father's death, had al always - ways always given Mrs. Malahide an allowance, with the consent of Mrs. Hibbert, and the archdeacon, to whom it was a mat matter - ter matter of pride rather than love that an Everett should not starve. But for them themselves - selves themselves Grace had married a poor man, and an unconverted o:ie, and what claim had she, therefore, on them ? So the archdeacon drove his prancing bays, and Mrs. Hibbert bought her Lyon vel velvets, - vets, velvets, and both said that Mrs. Malahide was only too fortunate in having such a devoted brother as Jacob, and that her sins had merited her sufferings. This was the allowance which Jacob had desired in his will should Le continued until Estella was of age, but which then she was free to discontinue or keep up, as she liked. Mrs. Hibbert had not remembered this clause when she refused to accept the trust confided to her. Perhaps if she had, she would have acted differ differently - ently differently from family interests. For the Everetts dared not for the sake of the world's opinion, wholly desert a sister of the house ; and if Jacob's five hun hundred - dred hundred a year were withdrawn, they must either support Grace themselves or suffer an additional disgrace in her poverty. Neither of which alternatives pleased them. However the matter was yet in abeyance, but soon to be settled ; for the year wanted only six orseven months of completion, which would sec Estella of age, mistress of the Hall, and of; her father's wealth. j And Mrs. Hibbert groaned, and the , archdeacon shook Lis stick, and some-! thing very much like an anathema flew j across the seas to rest on the bright head of the joung girl sitting in the balcony erkoking the Grand Canal at Venice,;

It is often a query in the minds of some, why their children do not like to attend school better, and why they ask to be dis dismissed - missed dismissed before the usual time for closing school has arrived. Perhaps those that are puzzled for an answer to these ques tions have never visited a school-room since the days of their youth, and have forgotten their school-day trials and vexa vexations. - tions. vexations. It is not so strange a thin ' to those accustomed to the sjhool-room, knowing as they do, the situation in which pupils are placed in too many instances ; it is more a wonder that wed) not firid more truants than we do at the present diy. Most of the pupils have pleasant homes ; not only pleasant but very delightful ; and to leave these and their healthy out outdoor - door outdoor exercise, for a dirty, hard-seated school-room is not so desirable as some other things would be. The children are told it is time to go to school ; well, if so, they think they must make the most of their time before the bell rings ; and away they run, not to a pleasant yarJ, but to one so narrow that they could not all turn round in it at o.ice without danger of accident. The next move they make is to run into the street to have a good play, to the great annoyauce of the passers by; and the way the dust or mud, as the case may be, is made to fly is really amusing to those not at all responsible for their ap appearance. - pearance. appearance. When the bell rings they are ready for a change, as they are fon I of variety. They are not entering their Ma's parlor now, or they would notice that shoes or boot need cleaning, or the dust needed to be shaken off. Oh no ! it is only the school-house ; the floor is dirty already; never saw it any other way more than once or twice in my life. So they think and act. No carpet is per permitted - mitted permitted to cover the schol rom flor, the walls have not been white washed in two or three years, and in the mean time a stove-pipe has been unjointed some six months or so, and permitted to smoke and blacken the ceiling and walls. Nothing in particular attracts their attention and admiration, so they are conjuring up something to attract others. If the teach teacher - er teacher notices them it is accompanied by a reprimand with word or look; and if at once they bee ome very studious, they find a word hard to pronounce, and hasten to the teacher for assistance, and are reminded that it is not proper to ask questions, as there is a large class reciting, and that they ought to wait until speaking recess. That causes them to think that there is net much chance for them to get assist assistance, - ance, assistance, and consequently they soon cease to study, and think they should like to go out or get a drink ; but are again remin reminded - ded reminded of speaking recess, at which time they well know they are not permitted to to out, and not until half of the three hours has expired. The li:ne nccessari-j ly passes heavily, unless the teacher has the faculty of amusing and instructing at; the same time ; which is seldom the case. The one that can amuse is generally more successful in securing the good will of both parents and children than those who exert themselves to the utmost of their ability to advance the scholars placed under their charge. We are often told that habits formed in our youth will influence our life-time ; if so, how careful ought wc to be of the children placed under our care ! A child should be taught to be neat and tidy in everything ; but in a dirty school-room, it will be of little use to preach and not practice, for it is not safe to wear any ar ar-tie'e - tie'e ar-tie'e of dress that washing will injure, as by the time sixty or seventy scholars are seated it is easy to perceive quite a dust; has been raised. If the parents and guardians of our children wonld condescend to visit us a little oftencr, they could not fail to notice some of the disadvantages that both te ich ich-ers - ers ich-ers and scholars necessarily labor under at the present time. But trusting that " a good time is com coming," - ing," coming," when our school. rooms shall be re refitted, - fitted, refitted, cleansed and made to look inviting, we will labor on, and endeavor to do our duties, as they are made known to us, knowing that in due time wc shall reap our rewards. B. Womes never appeared up n the s'age among the ancients. Their parts were represented by men until as Lie as 1 665, when Charles II. first encouraged the appearance of women before the public. Tub first balloon was constructed at Paris by M M. Mon'golfier, in 1783, when Roxier and the Marquis d' Arladiles ascended, after whL-h numerous ascents following, many of which proved fatal. Bowling is an old English jiame, and was very common as carlj as thn thir thirteenth - teenth thirteenth century. Charles I. played at it, and it was a da ly sport of Charles II. at Tunbri 'ge.

j j j 'How m'jeh. land have you got here in your lot, Mr. Briggs 1" " I have one acre." " One acra ! and here you are taking three agricultural papers ; and all because you have one acre of ground ! Flow many such papers would you have to take if you had a hundred acres ?" " I shouldn't probably need any more than I do now ; you know, Mr. Chap man, a man can 'go through all the mo lions' as wjll on one acre as on a hun hundred." - dred." hundred." " A man can throw away money with out any if he has a mind to. For all the good you get from those periodicals, you might as well, probably, throw the money they cost into the fire, they are nothing but humbugs." I pay in all only eight dollars." " Eight doll irs ! enough to buy a ' tip top' barrel of flour, and a leg of bacon ; then if you read these periodicals, there is twice the amoint of the money spent in time, reading them." " I do usually read or hear read almost every word there is in them ; my boys and I take turns in reading, and one reads aloud while the rest work." " Complete nonsense ! no wonder your shop don't turn out any more boots in a day than it does." " Perhaps wa don't do as great day's woiks, some days, as some of our neigh neigh-bors - bors neigh-bors ; but I guesi that in the course of the year, wc turn out as many according to the hands employed as most do." 'I suppose it is out of these publications you get your foolish notions about so many kinds of fruit trees. One of my boys came home a while ago and said Mr. Briggs had got lots of fruit trees and such things, that cost, I don't know how much, and want3d me to buy somo grape vines, pear trees, and soon. I told him it was all foolishness, and not to let me hear abiut spending money so foolishly. "You have, I dare say, laid out ten or fifteen dollars this spring." " Yes, nearly as much again ; I have laid out twenty-five dollars for trees and garden fruits." " Twenty five dollars ! I wonder you are not on the town, or in j ail at least, be before - fore before now." " I am not afraid of either. I'll bet you the twenty-five dollars, I'll sell you that amount of fruit from those things for which I paid the twenty-five dollars, in live years." "Done ! I'll stand you ; so your trees will cost you fifty dollars sure, in money, besides the time thrown away in setting them out and taking care of them." "As for the time spent in setting them out, or taking care of them, it is as good exercise as playing ball, wicket, or any anything - thing anything else. While we were siting them out, one of your boys came to get my boys to go over to Mr. Moody's, where he said there was to be a great ti ne playing ball; and I have no doubt your boys spend just as much time playing as mine do witli our trees and so forth ; and then something is done, but in playing, the strength is all laid out for nothing." " Well, it don't cost anything to play ball, but trees cost money." The foregoing conversation occurred in the shop between two neighbors, both boot-makers, in a town not more than twenty miles from Boston. Mr. Briggs, in whose shop the conver conversation - sation conversation took place, was a man of more than ordinary intelligence foronAJof his advantages and circumstances in life. He had been a poor boy, and by industry observation and economy, had worked his way on in life, and reared and well educated a family of children, who, like himself, were industrious and steady. For the few years past, he had become interested in horticulture, and both for ex exercise - ercise exercise and amusement, had turned his at attention - tention attention to cultivating his 'one acre farm.' His attention was first called to this, by a "back num!ier"of the Sew England , fanner, whicn was put round some things bought at the store. Mr. Briggs found this so interesting that he purchastd another at the periodical depot, and then he became a regular subscriber. His sons soon became interested in the same direction, and the interest of the father and sons increased to the pitch indicated in the foregoing conversation. In time, every inch of the acre of; ground was brought under the spado, and j a I most every 'best' variety of fruit had a place there, and the father and sons found pleasure and profit in the g.irden afier be being - ing being cooped up in the shop till the "stent'' was done, and the exercis; was far more j profitable than the spasmodic violent ex ercise taken in games. Mr. Chapman, the other neighbor, was a man of the "common stamp." He look looked - ed looked upon everything n w or uncommon as

thinking of the mother she had loved, an! of the father she had lost. This young girl leading the secluded life of a foreign damsel ; seeing no one but htr faithful English nurse, and the various mistresses of such accomplish accomplishments - ments accomplishments as her father had desired her to learn and her own artistic taste had di directed - rected directed her to; her full heart yearning for love and sympathy and companionship; her imagination filled with great visions of herm ither's horn t, of that large stro i England whose voice sounded throigh the whole world, and whose son held sway in every quarter of the globe ; this young girl stored up large treasures of poetry and affection, all the purer because of their depth, all the more en enduring - during enduring because of their music. Mrs. Malahide lived at Brighton in a pretty little house on the sea-shore, occu occupying - pying occupying herself with the education of her four daughters her only son was at Cambridge in quite a natural and un un-Everett - Everett un-Everett fashion. Not that she was wholly natural either; for inherited reserve and education were too strong to be set aside, even by the free life she had led since her marriage. Th?rj were still traces of Green Grove in the precise slow man ner in which she spoke, and in the stiff hand held out like a cleft bar of iron, wnich formed the chief characteristic of the Everett world. Hut she was a good creature at heart and had born softened, first by love, and then by sorrow, into more real amiability than her rigid man manners - ners manners would give one to believe. It was all to Mrs. Malahide, that all Estella's feelings turned. She knew the secret of her birth, poor child; and though too ignorant of the world to understand it in all its social bearing, yet she was aware that a stain of some kind rested on her, which made her grateful for any love as for an act of condescension. She knew that her family's family had disowned her, and that the very woman who had lived on her father's bounty ; and who now expected to live on hers, j had written in a letter to her lawyers thus: "No one can feel more strongly than I the sin and shame which the exist existence - ence existence of Miss Fay's daughter entails into our family ; for the sake of my children I trust she may continue the allowance, made to me by my brother in reparation of my father's injustice, and that in so doing, she will not feel that she is con conferring - ferring conferring a benefit, but simply doing her duty in repairing, so far as she can, the wrong which her birth has done to us all. " But although Estella knew that these were the proud and hostile feelings with which the whole Everett world regarded her, yet as she used to say to herself, whom else had she to love ? whom else to benefit. Her father left her his fortune and his name ; she must see the old Hali at Green Grove; she must some day go down there as mistress, sole and unac unaccountable - countable unaccountable of all the farms and lands around ! and, do what they would, they could not conceal from the world, that Jacob Everett had left his property and his name to the cliil 1 of his unmarried wife. She pitied them, she would have pitied them more : but she knew of noth nothing - ing nothing better to do than to win their love and conquer their esteem, nnl so make them forgive her unintentional wrong to towards - wards towards them. She therefore.determine 1 to go to Brigh Brighton, - ton, Brighton, where she knew Mrs. Malahide re resided - sided resided ; to find some means of introduc introduction - tion introduction to her ; and she said, looking on the waters of the Adriatic, force her aunt to respect, to love, and in the end to ac acknowledge - knowledge acknowledge her. The scheme was ro romantic - mantic romantic enough ; hut it did not promise badly. Estella and Betty Thorne left beautiful Italy, and went, in the dull au. tumn months to Brighton. It took but liitle time before she and her faithful nurse settled themselves, and then a little longer before she discovered Mrs. M.ilahide's address. Then she had to make her plans, and determine on her point of attack ; for a thing of such gravity she thought, was not to be done in a hurry. She felt frightened now that the time really came when she was to see and be seen by her father's family and she almost wished she had remained in Italy.

He was the saint of the family, and the model man of the neighborhood. There was not a charity he did not sub subscribe - scribe subscribe to, not a deputation that he did not entertain and there were hungry fellows generally, who knew the comforting vir virtues - tues virtues of his choice Maderia he founded Sunday-Schools and chapels-of ease, as other men would build barns, and he was the public purse of all the ten par parishes - ishes parishes around. The p'oor called him a real gentleman, and the ungodly a fine fellow ; while the elect looked solemn, and spoke " of that pious man, Jacob Everett," through their noses for most part. No one had an ill word for him ; excepting the landlord of the Grapes, who declared with a mighty oa'.h that he was the "pest of the place, and would ruin all Green Grove if he was left to do as he liked. " Notwithstanding this Bacchic judgment, Jacob Everett was a good man; weak, perhaps, but loveable in his very weakness ; sincere, gentle, generous, merciful ; puritanical in principle, but as his youngest brother the archdeacon, once said in full vestry, when Jacob opposed about the penance of Hannah Brown ' sadly latudinarian in practice." Jacob, however, went on his own way, opening a wide door to all sinners ; closing to a narrow chink the yawning gates of destruction which his brother swung back wide enough for all mankind, saving the small band of elect to which he and his belonged. The family was proud of Jacob. He was an old bachelor and rich ; and the Everetts albeit of the richest like wealth and honored pedigre s. They were grand people, who practiced hu humility - mility humility in coaches, anJ self-abasement in velvet ; who denounced the lusts of the flesh at state dinner parties, over cham champagne - pagne champagne and pine-apples ; but who believed that eternal punishment was the doom of all who entered a theatre or a ball