i ' 4 VOLUME II. The laid of a .lournoy. (P The llou^hton landau drew up at the station and Louise alighted with r> her friend, Sybil Travers. The 1 tit tei'young ladv, elad in a gray Mother llnbbard, and wearing a pretty poke bonnet piled 11 i?_r11 with ostrich feathers, was the very Picture of elegance. Louise was a little, insignificant tiling, and she appeared less attractive than over as she made her way to the waiting-rooms along- j side of ther distinguished-looking friend. "It is too absurd, Sybil," she said as they sat together in a remote corner,^ en joying a last confidential chat before Miss Tracers left for the ! W est. " The idea of your posting j off to San h'rancisco all alone, simply because a harmless vouth prom- 1 ises to come this way, and to net is your escort!" "It is only three weeks earlier than I meant to go, anyhow," said Sybil, stoutly. "Vail know why I prefer to go alone, Louise. V oil see I'nclo Jerrv has made up his mind that propinquity is the only thing necessary to make Mr, Vatican and myself fall madly in love with each other, lie fancies that a trip across the continent is ospeciclly well cal- I ciliated to bring about that much desired result. Put I don't see it that way. I know very well that I l II I . M V ' I I ' Miouiu naiu .mi\ \ iiiirau rroili lliOj outset. I should fool bound to do it just for contrariety. So, vou see, 1 prefer to ^o homo a few weeks earlior; and to rn alone; for if I did wait for Mr. Valleau, as I nolo .lorry wished me to, and if I failed to fall in love with him, you know very well that it would be impossible for me to explain the phenomenon satisfactory. As as it is, can smooth matters oxer easily." ' I low far-sighted you are, Sybil," Louise said, laughing. ".Mr. Valleau will be terribly disappointed though, I fear. 15ut there's your train, dear. (lood-by. Write to me * as soon as you arrive." Then follow consulerablo irirlish demonstration, which provoked a smile on the lips of a nonchalant younjr traveler who reclined at his case hoforo one of the windows of a ]>arlor car, and who had boon watching Louise and Sybil with interst. "A very bandsomo ir 1, by .lovo!" was bis mental connnent as Sybil took her seat just behind him, and tin; mirror at the end of the car enabled him to command a full view of face. "1 wonder how far she is m>i??r There was no means of ascertaining just then, but when tho conductor came through tho car, and the young man presented his ticket, to which was attached a long string of coupons running all the way from Now York to San Francisco, he noted with satisfuctism that Sybil had one liko it. "A through passenger," ho observed. "I wonder who"* she is? Traveling alone, but evidently a lady. She must be a California!), but she .. v.. i* '\jixo (i * 11; ?? l t u i\ t' i ^ nr. Tho young man's fancy ran riot, and alt tli3 while Im kept his eyes fixed on tho mirror in which was reflected Sybil's lovely face, with its rich warm coloring and its beautiful frame of rippling hair. Very ofVten their eyes mot, as was only natural; but Sybil had wondeful composure for so young a girl, and tho look of serenity she continued to wear rather chagrined the handsome stranger, who had entertained a hope innocent enough in its nature, that the long rido over the plains might bo enlivened with piquant flirtations. op,. II lie Atl innn " l?n uni/1 I ? ? ? ' A % v i a v> i v/, Ht? O(IKI) lU^IUV fully. "Beautiful, but susceptiblo of no passion that is not animated by reason." Such a conclusion might havo been rather hasty, but it appears that this aggressive young man in an ulster and traveling-cap made some pretense toward being a reader of; character. Meanwhile Sybil, constitutionally j opposed to "ogling," as all sensible, womanly girls are, formed a pretty severe opinion of the stranger who took such a mean advantage of the power of reflection. Hut sho seorn' *ed to change her seat. Her policy N * i - > was one of completo oblivion, and, vj-, , ",3E TIHTCTIE settling herself comfortably, she soon fortrot all about tlio Handsome pair of 1 | brown ovos si> deliberately fixed on the telltale mirror. The other passengers werj pretty well ucipiuinted by the time thev reached Chioairo, but Sybil, natural ly reserved, ami becoming more so through the protective instinct which prompted her to make few friends when traveling alone, had not joined the little coterie which soon es- i tublishes itself in every westwardbound train. llor neighbor had been baflled in severai attempts to make her acquaintance, but dilliculty only lired his determination. 4tShe\s something now in the feminine line, by Jove she is!" he remarked, w.V.en one of his deepestlaid schemes had been overthrown by Sybil's courteous but unupproachaj bio dignityr It appears that this handsome | stranger had been a 'lady's man for! many, a day.' lie was of a peculiar temperament. When he made | up his mind to anything he usually accomplished it, and in accomplishing it was quite willing to relinquish all subordinate interests, lie, too, held himself aloof from his fellow-passengers, and so it was that when they reached t'onneil I Hulls not a soul was on board the train I who could have told who the lady ' and gentleman were that traveled! alone and were so very exclusive. Any one who has made a trans.. :n ' j "'1' v ",l,; l"?-| desire to take a turn on terra (irnm that soizod Sybil's peculiar vis-a vis] when ho reached Council lllulVs. j Ho Wits it little, athletic fellow, and during the hour and a half that the train halted he made it podostrain tour into the surrounding country. Unfortunately, In* prolonged his I walk beyond a desirable limit, and ! when he reached the station again ! the tniin had ulread\ begun to move slowly. Many a time he had boarded the train when it was going much more rapidly, and, with at moment's hesitation he ran for the roar platform of his car, making a spring and catching at the iron railing. n n As often happens, lie had not cal-1 culated on tho full speed of the I train. IIo missed the step and fell backward, striking bis head on the platform, and only escaping a terri-J j bio fracture by tho presence of a j pile of empty mail-bags, which broke | ! his fall. The train stopped, and the injured j man was taken aboard. lie was wholly insensible, and the blood | gushed freely from the wound in his head. A skillful surgeon who happened to be among tho passengers was summoned at once, and, ha vine* seen the voun she replied, handing liiin a busincsscard. "I think that is his name, as his ba^a ?o?>Lr V ' L I "J mun, dm train was delayed I wo days by si landslide. During the inters seemed to appreciate it, for they bold aloof and were content with 1 K?in?_r merely spectators. She waited on him with perservrinjj do votion. it was Sybil's way to ?1?* that. She road to him, or, when ho i wished it, talked to him. The pre- j soneo of an invalid seemed to in-1 fuse a liotno foelino into the. life; aboard the train, and when the week's journey was protracted bv various obstacles to ten days no one com- j pained iSefore they reached San I'Yaneisco Mr. Vincent was "able t<> sit up. It would take some time h>r tic wound to heal, but he had recovi r< d pretty well from the shock. In the opinion 1 of some of the passenger , he was al ton-ether anxious for immediate convalescence, which was hardy to be wondered at; and reallv I think Sybil felt a twinge t on the same train after all. It is ouite like a romance, isn't it dear? lint I must close, as l!o\ is he?firiii?f me to j prt n hurry and finish. I will write you more aipiin. Your loving friend. Sy mi.." One K i ml of I tend tn^. And how few persons who can devote bill an hour or Imlf ?n hour day to reading and study, take due thought .-is to Itow thov ea1i inako j tin' most of their little leisure. They Paul in a desultory way whatever! comes to hand, and think that if they had more time for books they j would soon become much bi tter informed. But the half hour a day, if used in the wisest manner, would make a vast difference in one's mental growth as the years glide by. An incident occurs to me thai well illustrates this. A pretty maiden fern, eniwinc in a llower-pot, was | given to a younc *rirl, hopelessly ill with spinal disease. It proved a thing of beaut \ and of inexhaustible interest, as the delicate, graceful fronds came up, one by one, and slowly uncurled. There was a little pot beside the fern and under spreading fronds, in which grew an aloe. 1 t . i . . By-and-by the sick girl noticed in the little pot some tiny ferns, scarce an inch high, quite unlike the maidenhair. W hence came they? I ler interest was aroused. She was no botouist, but she wanted to learn something about ferns. She could use her eyes for reading but live inin uIoh at a timo, and not morn than twico a day. A hook on ferns cnmo to her, and another. Friends, knowinjr lie interest in ferns, hrou?rht them n n to her fresh and green from the wood, or sent her pressed specimens of rare varieties gathroed in distant landa. Sometimes a visitor would read to her from one of her precious hooks, hut only for four or live minutes. "I cannot remember more at a time," she would say, "and you have read enough for me to think ahout for a long time." It is now some years since the maiden-hair fern was given to her, and she has become nil authority as to tlio species and culture) of ferns, and is an enthusiast in regard to thorn. It is true that she has become educated in one direction only, and is not particularly well-informed in other respects. Hut is it not a great gain that she should tallc about her ferns and their wonderful method of reproduction, awakening her listeners' interost and teaching them many things worth remembering, rather than to dwell chiefly on her pains and privations? It is many yearssinco she was able to step out of doors, but when you are with her you do not think of her as an invalid, so interested and interesting is she. The growth of eryptogamous plants would not be a matter of absorbing interest to all persons, but the habit of reading thoughtfully and carefully what wo read, and of rotainino it in ! . ' o memory, is a great factor of mental j growth. /ioston t'levelniid's Southern Tour. Washington, .July 24.-?Tho dotails of the I 'resident's trip to Atlanta have been arranged. Tho special , train will leave this city on Sunday nifjht, October Id, and will reach Atn ' 7 t # lanta on Monday night. The I'rosi-: 111 11 ( will Vltll'llll TIIOHIIIIV 'mi noffday in Atlanta. I in will bo escorted through \ irginia hy Govornore 1.00 and his staff, J through North Carolina by Governor! Sqales and his staff, and through South Carolina by Govornor Kiehard- ; son and his staff, ail of whom will iro with him to Atlanta. At the n Georgia lino he will bo mot by i Governor Gordon and staff. At Aj lan'.v ho will bo met by theGov.OMfora ! and United States Senators pt various j Southern States. It i3 or poctod that hf? will spond Tuesday looking at the j Exposition, and on Wednesday will | hold a publio reception and make a short address. r? Subscribe to Tut: IIkkai.o f i ic ^.asriD TlToxji^ CCI (iUSI I, 1887. >1 an'-. Development. Mow diverse the influences of heredity must he run perhaps he learned from consideration of the vastness of the number of the channels through which they have reached the man who lives to-day. The different classes of people in existence produce from two and one half to three and t It roe- fourths generations per century. Assuming tliat there have been three generations to each 100 years and that there had been no intermarrying of blood relations, a person would have had two parents, four grand- I parents and eight great-grandpa rents, fourteen in all, in the lirst Id*' years. In the Two centuries the | number of ancestors would have been I'.Mi; in the live there would have been (15, Id I and in the ten centuries there would have lived !2,1 OS,(iSd,(i 111 human beings whose diverse traits of hod\ and character, whose impulsss, fee linos ami thoughts have minoled n n n to produce the man of to-day. \ et these fenerations d<> not oven n extend back to the boeinnin?r ?>f the ('hristhui era, ami before tluit lie (tentury on century before the dawn of written history is reached. And still beyond that stretch dimly genera te>ns innumerable along the path which led up from the ago of the brutes from whom man is descended. W hat wonder that man is a bundle <>| in -(insistencies; that he, staggering under this load of instincts j inherited from ancestors w h o were only yesterday savage robbers ami cutthroats, is forever struirolinoupward toward a himh ideal, onl^ often to slip and lose miitrli of the progress lie lias made. ( )f (lie multilndes of facts which iniedit have thrown strontr Ii?rl ' on the laws that jroveru the develop- 1 niont of man, onlv a very fow have l?een intelligent 1 \ observed and recorded, even bv the nations that consider themselves the most hiedily i civili/.ed. It is more than possible that ancient people may have noted such facts and derived from them rules for hastening the improvement. of their kind, or at least for maiutaininjr the supremaey of the initiated over the masses. The incestuous marriages of the j rulinjr classes of the oldest known civilizations seem to have been ill! obedience to well defined knowledge of the fact that by such means the instinct ;t1111 power ol tlio ruling would lie intensified and perpetuated, lie fore tlio time of I'lolemy I the Egyptians were divided into castes, the members of which married within their own classes. It seems to Ijo I certain that the wedding of brothers to sisters was by no means so uneominoii as to excite comment, for hint's j [and nobles customarily married their full sisters, nieces and cousins, that the veins of their descendants might not be delilod by ignoble blood. < )f j thirteen I'tolumios seven married their sisters, two wedded their nice-j es, two married full cousins and one his nioec-in-law. The custom of marrying near kin I was by no means confined to ICgvpt. The founders of the tribes of Israel [ obeved the laws of high brooding,1 " I i even incestuously. The patriarch Abraham took his half sister Sarah to wife; Nalior wedded his niece Miljeah; the case of Lot and his daughters needs only a reference; Jacob mated with his first cousins, Leah and Kachael; Lsau married his first cous! in, Mahalath, because his parents inI sisted so strongly on his strengthenI * # # r i ing the blood of the family, and to I this day the descendants of those i worthies are exceedinglyoxolusivo in , regard to marriage connections. The result is that the Hebrews are a people in whom peculiar characteristics have become so intensified and j strengthened that the\ are an almost j constant and irresistible factor in hu- | man affairs, "Wherever the Jewish I raco has hitherto heen studiod,"' says M. Bondin, "it lias shown itself governed hy statistical laws as to births, deaths, ano the proportion of sho sexes, entirely different froi*. those which govern the surrounding eoinmiu ti 08." But the lesson of hereditary influences were studied bv nations that were old before the Hebrews be.iran { to have a history, and those lessons' wore taught in widely separated parts of the pdobe. In india caste regulations have done much more than for- ; bid marriage between members of! different castes. In China the most J careful attention is paid to hereditary influences, (Jaltoii says: "There the system of examination is notoriously j strict and far reaching, and boys of promise are sure to be passed on fl'iil 11 sUi'ii tfi ttnii until tin... I...... i --- r "iivc reached tlio highest lovol of which they aro capable." It is said that in China parents and oven the grandparents of the offender against thodaws are punished jointly with dfio c riminal for his wrongdoing. So convinced are tho Afghans of the high value of puro blood that thoy show marked contempt for a man who cannot trace his pedigree clearly for at least seven generations, and in this their neighbors of Helooohistan resomhlo tho Afghans. Tno Win- j grelese of the Black sea, the gypsies I of Kgypt, and tho nobles and - royal j % rsTmHrEV* families of Polynesia follow tho fashion inbreeding, as did tho ancient ( crmuns, I )anes, Icelanders and Persians. lioforo the reis/n of tho lirst <>f tho Incas tho Peruvians, who, in many particulars if not in all peculiarities, customs and arts, very closely resembled tho I'loyptians, marrred their own mothers, sisters, and even danooters. (iarcillaso do la \ oj*a says that tho Peruvians taught that the sun married the moon, his sister, and that from this union tho incas descended. Therefore tin* sister of , each inca was ever afterward chosen for his chief wife, and her son was successor to tho throne. The avow- I ed purpose was to always keep pure the blood oF the Peruvian royal lino. No female of that line was over permitted towed a vassal. Is further evidence were reuuired to prove that in these and other affairs tho ancient Peruvians acted in accordance with laws derived from lone continued observation and careful study of hereditary influence, that evidence may be found in the fact that in Peru at that < i ......... hereditary; no one could leave his homo for another, ami members of each community were required to marry within that community; consequently the greater part of the martiao-es were between near kin. The result showed the wisdom of those who had studied the influences of | continued hreediuir in one line for j the development of peculiar faculties, and demonstrates the soundness of the laws they enacted; for the ancient l'cru\ians attained a skill in the arts and knowledge of philosophy and mortality probably equal to that of any civilization then in existence. ( llt't 'tll/O '/ 7///OS'. Indolence anil Industry. ('hauls of smoke belched from a era\el-heap on I'd ft h avenue, opposite I )olmonico s. A furious lire was It Ml I 111 LZ *1 f'ruiMi i 11 I It III n *> I under llie heap, uliicli it was hunting to a proper degree of calorie to lie of use to llie st ret si paving men. Around tint edowinir mound oathr> r> n eretl as squalid and miserable a group as ever camped by tint roadside over in Jersey* Swaddled in rags and shuddering in the cold wind they cracked their cold knuckles over the hot pile, and two or three gnawed fragments of food like hungry | wolves. W ith the smoke billowing up in i whirlintf clouds of dun ami black commingled, the piles of liolgian j blocks, tht! smoking pitch boilers, the carts and wagons of the contractors, and the bare park dripping in the November drizzle, the picture was one that no artist could have passed bv unnoticed. Ilut. it is not the tramps alone who find comfort in the contractors' fires. When the workmen knock olT for dinner they gatli cr about them in picturesque groups. I f you want to note, the contrast between absoluto and hopeless uselessness and patient industry you can do it witn a glance at the contrasted groups of the men who work and earn their bread and those who do not. The laborers view their squi ,;d neighbors with small favor. The sioht of these hulkine* idlers with O # # their hands in their pockets, looking sullenly at belter men earniiiLf their i honest living is not calculated to make the better men good-tempered. As one of thorn put it: "God knows, sir, it's no crime to he out of work in this town, lint to he willing to he out of work, like those vagabonds, is enough to make any decent man tired. That bio fellow there was of.ferod a job to handle dirt this morning. \\ hat do you think he told the I boss? That he was not a ditch-diif-i ger. Hut for three days he has hung about here and has not been tool proud to pick up the scraps wo throw away.'' L'of. A e/' )'ov/c AYcvc "Tlicrc'sNo Place Idkc llomo*'* A young man who wont to the West filled with enthusiasm and desire to grow up with the country ,surprised his fronds by returning home! after an absence of but three weeks. I lie said that while he was out landhunting in what ho thought was the! garden-spot of America he came across a boarded-up shanty. ()n the boards nailed across the door he found this inscription, which explained his departure for the Hast: fore mlies from a naybor Sixteen miles from a postofis Twenty-five miles from a raleroad A hundred and atey from timber 2f>() feet from water There's no place liko homo, j We've gono to spend the winter with my wife's folks. In advance of tin' sickly season rentier! yourself impregnable; a malarial atoms phere or sudden change of temperature is fraught with danger; use Dr. .1. II. Mc I .can's Strengthening Cordial. $1.00 per bottle. Tom Ochiltree has moved to Now York, and will run for congress in one of the city districts next year. Tom will determine which party ho will run with as soon as ho picks tint his district. M ii 11 i l|< < | \ \ " " \ \ * M .MIUCH About tin- Now I'rostolior. t4llow do von like Brother.Jonos?'\ This was what Solomon Smith uskod mo, I having accepted his invitation to if(? and hoar tho now preacher in Smithvillo. 1 replied ? I that I liked hint very much, for ho preacfied an earnest (iespol sermon. "lint did you see how awkward ho was? Why, ho knocked tho hymnbook off tho |>it 1 pit with one of his clumsy postures. And thon lie used any amount of had grammar. You did not like that, did you?" "()f course not. Hut in spite of these little infelicities of manner and style, he is a grand proaehor, and I will toll you why. First of all, lie doesn't preach himself, llo seems to forgot all ahout himself, llo talks and acts like an ambassador who has been sent on a mission, not who claims attention in his own name, nor by reason of any skill that ho has in presenting his message, but on account of the message itself, and the dignity and claims of the sender, There is nothing so trying to me a self-consciousness in the pulpit. I Jet tor any awkwardness than that. In 111?i second place, i iikc Mr. Jones 1> cause lie believos in (rod. You ea i see that ospeoially in his prayers, lie talks with (iod just as Abraham did when he stood before him pleading for Sodom, lie evidently realizes that the church is (iod . house, and that God Himself is there in special manner, to welcome Hi . people, and to hoar what they have to say to llini. Such prayers make me feel that I am at Ijethol, standing I?y Jacob as he wresths with the aimel O of the 1 .ord. It is a jrreat tiling, I tell vnu for a preacher to havo uidi faith in God's pres'-mo as Mr. Jones has, to ho ahlo to stand before a con tfre^ation so absented in communion with (iod that he foroets all oh" in the fervor of his devotion. ' I like Mr. Jones fn the ttiird place, because he believes that all men are sinners, and he is not afraid to toll them so. How plain and emphatic, and how tender and loving, was his statement that 'the whole head is sick, and the whole heart f:?? ?*!1 I tell you, Solomon, unless ;i preacher is thoroughly orthodox on depravit V, ho wouldn't do much good. You must mftko men realize that they am sick, beforo they will apply to a physician. You must convince them of their sin before you can got them to welcome a Saviour. "My fourth reason for liking Mr. Jones is that he. believes in the Bible, lie is constantly appealing to the law ami the testimony. Ilis sermon is bristled with quotations. They wore not from the theologians, or from the poets, but from the Word of Boil. When ho found a 'Thus saith the Lord' for anything, ho was satislied, and insisted that his hearers ought to be. I am sick of this modern rationalistic style of preaching. Wo don't want in the pulpit messages from men, mil messages iroin L?od. i tike to hoar a preacher who speaks with authority, because ho sneaks tho words of his Mustor and initio. How absurd for tho most learned man to try to prove that which (iod has proclaimed true in His lloly Hook! "My fifth reason for liking Mr. Jones as a Gospel preacher is that ho evidently believes in the assurance of faith, lie thinks that, if people are converted, they ought to know it, and be liappy in the knowledge. He has no patience with the moping, sighing sort of ('hristiaus who hope that thoy have a hope. I lo evidently knows in whom he has believed, and is persuaded that (iod is able to keep him, and lie thinks that all ought to have the same knowledge and persuasion. "I have many more reasons for liking liiin Mr. Jones, but I will give n 7 n you only one of them now. He is as indignant as I'aul was with tho (.'liristiaus who continue in sin that grace may abound. He behoves in our showing our faith by our works, lie believes that if wo love a holy God, we will want to bo like Him. He believes that we ought to be pressing towards the mark for the prize of our high calling; that we ought to work out our salvation with four ami trembling, to perfect holiness in tho fear of Crod. I tell yeu, Solomon, wo have too many philosophical preachers, too many poetic preachers, too many pictorial preachers; what wo nootl in this ago of abounding world* liness is plain, earnest, pungent (iospel preaching. Ami when I hear a man in the pulpit who speaks as if (iod had sent him to try to save a perishing world, I don't criticise his grammar, or his gestures 1 honor him as an ambassador of my Lord." The burning of Patterson Iron Works is attributed to tho Knglish sparrow Tho sparrows have been carrying straw and other inllammahlo stuff and building their nests ti.? ? > hiiuiij^ mo k.iuit?, mill u is inJUOVOd that tho snarks lodging in thoso nosts caused tho lire. Far I>ettor than the harsh treatment of medicines which horribly gripo the patient and destroy the coating of tho stomach Dr. J. II. .NrCLtans (.'hill and Fever cure, Hold at BO cents a Inittle, . *4