STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, JULY 8, .]#&&

THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION.

[By T. W. Leys.]

THE series of lectures recently delivered by Mr W. Denton has excited some little Interest in the science of geology, and more particularly in the associated science which is now known under the general title of Biology. We confeaa to a feeling of surprise that these lectures should have provoked the cod. troversy which appears to have arisen in our Southern cities, for there wa* veiy little in the eatire series either by way of argument or illustration, tbat is not tolerably familiar, not merely to the scientific student, but to the reader of tha ordiaary magazine literature of the day ; and the elementary facts which formed the staple of the geo logical lectures have beeu tanght in our schools for the last twenty years. It is hardly a subject of complaint, however, chat in ex plaining a scienua like geology Mr Dentoa baa been unable t> submit much that ia new to bis audiences, tor the details of the constant additions to our stock of know ledge of this science are of too techni cal and trivial n kind to interest a miscellaneous audience. And it must be said of Mr flenton that even to scientific listeners he made ample amends for the familiarity of his materials by the freshness which he imparted in their preparation for the public. Scientific study is too little engaged in by the people for us to under value in any way such >l course of lectures, and we heartily wish they had been better attended.

Whilesayingsimuch, however, we are not to be interpreted as implying that excep tion mightnot be taken tasomeof thceeologt calpositions which Mr Deuton has laid down In. the face of the serious demurrers that have been entered by high authorities against the theory of a wholly fluid in terior, Mr Deuton's definition of the earth's crust, as not exceeding 100 miles, was somowliat too positive, and there are 'even stronger o^ject'ons to tne stress Jie placed on the Whitney skull. It is worthy of remark that Professor Boyd Dawkins (whose right to speak with authority on such % subject Mr Denton will hardly gainsay) has discussed this very question in a l« cture during the enrrent term at Owen College, Man- Chester. His conclusions are ontirely op posed to the views of Profes-tnr Whitney.aad Professor Dawkins declared emphatically that "the evidence of pleioceno man fell to the ground equally in Kurope aud in the United states."

We ate not disposed to cavil, however, at the view which an enthusiastic geo logical stadeut—as Mr Deuttm undoubtedly is—may chtfose to take of questions that are still undetermined, an-l cm which diversity of opinion ia allowable, though iv such cases it isdesirable to avoid dogmatism. We have, however, a more serious charge to make against, bis exposition of the pre sent position of the doctrine of evolution iv its relation to the origin of niau, Few scientific believers in the Darwinian theory have ever claimed that the theory has reached the point of absolute demonstra tion. . One of its moat uncompromising champion?, writing very recently, candidly acknowledges that " there ac vast chasms to he filled up by future observation" and while speaking of the theory merely as " doing as much as any other ingenious theory has done," contends for it as the only plausible escape from an'admission of the miraculous. The sama writer roundly abuses -Professor Owen as " a trimmer," for admitting even a thought of God into the calculation, by his expressed belief in the existence of an innate "tendency" animating nature towards a certain form of future develop ment in accordance with the predestinated purpose of the Deity. Nor doet Darwin escape censure from him for a similar weak ness.*

We ate aware, however, that in out running Daiwin, Mr Denton is only a participator in the craze which ha1* iu fected a large ptoportion of the scientific world, carrying them away from the safe and truly scientific method that insists upon observation preceding theory, and launching them on a dangerous search for phenomena to support a precon ceived speculation. So extraordinary and widespread has this mania become, that we have recently, in this cqlony, seen a learned Professor of iJioUgy, who, in all likelihood, could scarcely outline the land marks of historical investigation, gravely informing his class of students that Hume, Freeman, and Froude were not com petent to pronounce aa opinion on his tory as a Bcieoco "because of their being practically unncquainted with biology and the principle of selection It The vigour and dogmatism employed in the assertion of a doctrine is very often in inverse ratio to the evidence that supports it—a truth that is marvellously illustrated in the tone of the evolutionists. We feel the greater confidence in pressing this assertion because of a conscious readiness to accept Darwinism or any other theory of the origin of life so soon as it presents itself in the garb of established (ruth. Mere assertion and re assertion in the absence of evidence and in defiance of phenomena everywhere around ns will, however, make few con verts among persons wlio think for them selves and have not suffered their judg ment to be warped by devotion to one study to the exclusion of others of equal weigbt. But there is a serious danger that ex parte statements of the case like Mr Dcnt-m's may mislead those who have paid little attention to the subject, and that most credulous of all classes—those possessed of " a little knowledge." It v bayoad the scpi and compass of a newspaper article to discuss a question so broad in its isaue3 as the doctrine of evoln tion—that is rather the province of the lecture or magazine essay. But in a com mn'tity dependent mainly upon the news paper press for its information on these subjects, it would b<j a shrink ng from a journalist's plain duty to avoid them. It must occur to everyone who has familiarised himself with anthropological literature, how utterly the advocates of Darwin's theory have failed in discovering a single instance of transmutation of species. The perfect barrenness of the

* " The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism,' by Oacar Schmidt, P.ofessor in Strasburg University. 1876. t 'Profes«or Hu ton's Address on Biology,' Canterbury College, March, 1882.

geological strata iv sues types miylit lie inferred from tha desperate persistence with which tbat unfortunate little four-toed animal, no larger than a fox but resem bling a horse, discovered ia the eocone strata of Wyoming, hus been ridden to death by every essayist, Lcturcr, aod enntro veisia'iat dealing with thit subject. If the Darwinian theory were true in tbo, wide seive which is claimed for it, not only should the geological strata abound with such symbols, but iv aa animated nature teeniiug with life in every form, from the lowest to the highest typo, wo should diicover innumerable in stances of half-developed forms. But what is the truth? Descending even to the very lowliest types, every animate thing is perfect, with organs marvellously adapted for its special mode of life, and producing, with a miraculous persistence, progeny identical with itself. To take a familiar illustration from Lyell: The fossil scallops of the Siciliau limestones, of whic'i the ancient Greek temples at Girgcnti (Agrigentura) were bum, are identical with, shell-fish inhabiting the Modi terranean; ami these temples, njjain, stand on a bill,- into the composition of which the same shells enter.:!: We am scarcely form a conception of the countless ages throughout which this reproduction, without variation, has gone on. To verify the Darwinian theory, however, not only must these lowly forms of life have had the power and tendency to variation, but that power has in myriads of. instances been ex ercised steadily forward in one direction for the production of a non-existent aud incon ceivable species—blindly evolving in their progress all the complicated mechanism of the human body, with the delicate and son si'ive organs of the eye and car. As Dr. BakowelT, in a very excellent paper on this subject, pithily says : " The. ngc of evolutionary miracle* has ceased for the last three or four thousand years apparently. But in the earlier stages of this world's his tory, before things had settled down into theirpreseDtquieSicent state, there must have been a constant succession of miracles. There were all these special organs, such as the eye and ear, to be ' evolved,'or ' deve loped,'fiom bits of protoplasm, either by ■mere chance, or by wonderful self-acting laws, which were possessed of the highest an;l brightest -intelligence ; there was the utter annihilation of all the wonderful ani mals that must have abounded at one time or another—all the one-eyed monsters, the animals that had a cornea, and nothing more, or an optic nerve hanging out loose with no sclerotic to protect it, or little limbs, trying feebly to become legs or wings, and fail ing ignominiously. Nature's failures, where are they ? Before one per f jet pair could have been produced by evolu tion, there must have been millions of im perfect animals. Where are they gone? What has become of them ? How is it that we only find animals perfect after their kind ? How is it that the lower we go down in the scale of life, the more beautiful, the more elaborate, the more exquisitely fitting we find the organisms to be? Why will not some animals improve by a process of natural selection? Why are the crustaceans satis fied with just the same sort of eyes that they had in the earliest geological periods? I might ask dozens of such questions, to which, so far as I have read, the evolutionists have no reply."

Associated with this persistence of species is the incompetence of one species to breed successfully with anothcr,andthis objection alone was early indicated by Mr Huxley as a fatal bar to the acceptance of Mr Darwin's hypothesis.il No one looking dispassionately at the experiments with domesticated ani mals and cultivated plants, upon which Darwin relies so largely for proof,can fail to perceive how fatally misleading these tests are. We have iv New Zealand seen the variations produced in the pig by centuries of selective breeding under domestic condi tions cast off in a few years of liberation in the forest, and the animal return to its primitive type. So also there may be seen, in deserted Maori cultivations, the potato lidding itself of the variations of atJeastthree centuries of development and returning to the wild form in which it existed in its native home in South America. The food cereals of the earth are all incapable of propagating themselves, and a generation of non-culti vation would probably see their extirpation from the globe, except in the form of their ancestral grasses. The recent Maori wheat fields of Kawhia, which twenty years ago were laden with golden grain, are now covered with dense forest; the paper mul berry, which Captain Cook saw everywhere under cultivation, is extinct. Instances innumerable might be adduced in proof that we must accept with great reserva tion the changes under domesticity and cultivation when offered as evidence of permanent alterations in type > by selective breeding under natural conditions. Variations within moderate limits are. of course, everyday phenomena, and likewise the power of a species to adapt itself to cli matic changes and altered conditions, but these qualities must not be confounded with that power of self-development and trans mutation which is nece sary to the demonstration of evolution as a solution of the origin of life. Daily experience tells us that where there is a marked deviation from t,yp o —for instancß,a two healed calf or four legged chicken—the Utxus nuturas rarely lives, to say nothing of re-producing. So also in the " testimony of tha rocks." It is not deniable that, in the preparation of the earth for the support of man and the higher mammalia, there is disclosed by the fasail remains of the geological strata, a succession of life that has been generally, though by no means invariably, from lower form* to hU'her form»,bat it is scarcely pre teuded by anyone that there is satisfactory proof of a traceable relationship between the types th*t have disappeared and those that succeeded them. The ex ceptions to this statement arc as rare as the readiness to seize and parade them is eager among the evolutionists.

If the geological record and the facts of na.ur.al history had told the Btory of evolu tion, its acceptance would not have been delayed until the publication of Darwin's speculations. But the observations of the chiefs of the scientific world were almost universally against it. Early in the century Lamarck and Geoffroy St. Hilaire had hazarded the theory, in conjunction with spontaneous generation, as a plausible ex planation of the origin of life; but Cuvier, the greatest naturalist the world has produced, confuted him. Lamarck, relying mainly upon the variations prodnced upon auima'ls in a state of domesticity, hoped for the discovery "of the remains of some of

} Lyell's "Manual of Elementary Geology," 0 Huxley's "Man's Place in Nature."

these creatures nearer tho time when thoy were taken from their native habitats. The proof came ; not merely iv remain?, but in prenerved bodies of dogs and cats found among the mummies ot Kfjypt. Gnvier demonstrated that 2000 or 3000 years of domesticity ia every variety of climate had made no perceptible chaDge in the anatomy of these animals as we know them. The labours of Cuvier, therefore, which closed with his death in 1832, tended only to confirm the observations of his great predecessor Liunaeu.", who even declared that genera like species are pri mordial creations, § The work was taken up by Ayassiz, one of the most careful observers of the century, who early de clared his conviction that '' the revelations of science unequivocally indicate thn direct intervention of creative power,"lf and who remained an inveterate opponent of the theory ol descent up to the tiaie of his death in 1573. Com. Ing to the observers in the deptrtment of geology, we pass over Hugh Miller's defence of the Mosaic account of the creation, only to find Sir Charles Lyell, so late as 1555, with the whole geological record laid bare before him, writing vigorously against the dootiine of transmutation of species. It is true thntsince the publication of the "Oriuin of frpacicV iv 185S, he hus embodied in his " Principles of Geology" and "Geological Kvideuces of the Antiquity of Man," Mr Dnrwin's theory as a supgestive and plausible one; but the evidences of transmuta tion ot species have remained in every material respect just as they were before D.trwin's book appeared, despite tho advetit ot the little hipnation aud the lizard-tailed bird, over which the Dar winians have shed tears of rapture. It is a aullicient indication of the general teuor of the teachings of geology, that a most in dustrious personal searca among tho rocks, excendiog over thirty years, during which ho hail completeJy systematized the whole science of geology, left hir Charles Lyell an active opponent of the doctrine of trans-mutation of species. Truly, if, as Mr Dantou uverred, it bo a token of ignorance to express a doubt about the doctrine of descent, we have the con solation of being ia gout company even among the Darwinians, to say nothing of the vast number of thinkers, scientific and philosophical, who still defend the theory of special creations, not excepting that American scientist who, in a certificate to Mr Deutou's status, made a spcciul reservation agaicat committing him self to that gontlcman's views on this sub ject.

In our next paper we shall touch upon the geological evidences of the antiquity of man, and the physiological arguments in favour of evolution.

S Lycll's " Principles of Geology." •J Aggasslz and Gould's " Comparative Physiology."

Mohammedan Sensualism.

THE MODERN TUItKS DEGENEKATE IN

BODY AND MIND.

No one of the Mohammedan races has carried out the license given to sensual pas sions by tho Koran and the adhering tradi tion to such an extent as have the Ottoman Turks, and no race has suffered so much from that license. The evil consequences are far-reaching and baleful in the extreme. It is to feed Turkish sensuality tbat the slave trade throughout the empire and in the iuterior of Africa is maintained. The beautifu', fur daughters who arc purchased from the Georgians and Circassians also find their way at last to the harems of Constantinople, Brusa, Smyrna, A drianople, Aleppo, Bagdad and other towns and cities of Asia Minor. One of the direct results of this sensuality is that the Turks have degenerated physically during the past 200 years. That tbe conquerers of Constanti nople were a hardy race of gi eat physical strength there can be no doubt ; that the great majority of modern Turks arc of an ell'eminate type is equally certain; very many of them are persons of line appear ance, but they are physically weak, with out elasticity, giving the impression of men who have lost their vitality, The same may bo said even more emphatically of Turkish women; they are small in stature, of a sickly complexion, easily fatigued by slight exertion, and become prematurely old. After . the age of 40 all feminine beauty is gone; the eyes have become sunken, the cheeks hollow, and the faces wrinkled ; and there remains no trace of the activity and physical strength often seen it, English women of 65 or evi-n 70 years of a°e. Another immediate result of the prevailing sensuality is the mental imbecility of multitudes of tbe Ottoman Turks; great numbers among them are intellectually stupid. Many even of the young -men have the vacant look which borders clnse on th&. idiotic state. Severe mental application is for tbem almost a physical impossibility. It is well-known that in all branches of business where con siderable mental activity U required the Turks employ Christians to work for them. This is owing, not so much to a lack cf edu cation or to a general want of energy, as in many cases to a mental incapacity which often amounts to real imbecility. Obvious illustrations of the special topic now dis cussed is furnished by the royal family itself. Sultan Abdul MVjid, Sultan Abdul Aziz and the deposed Sultan Murad were all men of deoraved minds, vicious habits, intemperate and sensual in the extreme, and were alike devoid ot moral character and mental capacity. Mental incapacity, however, from the causes alleged is not confined by any means to the wealthy and aristocratic classes, it is found in all grades of society.— British Quarterly Review.

A Rebuke.

The Lowell " Courier " says : -Mis* Frances Power Cobbe, who has identified herself with the cause of anti-vivisection, called on a distinguished man of science to emitavour to gain him over to her cause. She had an ostrich feather in her bonnet, a bird of paradise on or near her mutt; and an ivory handled umbrella. The man of science re plied as follows : "Madam, charity begins at horn?. When you have given up wear ing ostrich feathers, which are plucked from the living bird, causing the most ex quiaite pain, and birds of paradise, which, in order to enhance their beauty and lustre, aic skinned alive ; when you have abjured the twiks which are cut out of tbe dying elephant's jaw — then, and then only, enme and upbraid me with the" cruelty of my operations. The difference tetween us i?, madam, that I inflict pain iv the pursuit of knowledge and for the ultimate benefit of my fellow creature ; jou cause cruelty to be inflicted merely for your personal adornment.

ON SIBERIAN POST ROADS.

A GRAI'HIC DKSrffirtTON OF A WISTEKj JOUKSEY.

THE following letter from Lieutenant Schultze of the Jeannetto expedition was received by his family recently, and is very 'uteresting in the height of the agitation provoked recently on the Jeannetto and other North Pole expeditions. It is dated from a point in Siberia, and is as follows :

Hotel L'Eukoi'k, Tomsk (Siberia), March 15th.—As you will tee, we have ar rived in Tomsk, and the largest part of our preliminary journey is finished, From here to Irkutsk, through Krusnoinsnk, is 1577 vcrsts, which we expect to make in seven days. We have had very variable luck .since leaving Ekathennborg, from which place I wrote you last. From there to Tinmen the roads were very fine, then poor and very deep to Omsk, in which place we stopped four hours, called on the Governor and took dinner. Then the roads were splendid for twenty-four hours, and after that wretched until wo reached Tomsk. We tame in here yesterday evening and stopped uver night. At 10 a. M. to-day we continue our journey. The Governor ia not here, but the Vice- Govcmor has as usual been very kind. Wo called on the Governor's wife, As custo mary she gave us tea and cigarettes. They all speak about half a dozen languages, and Gonuuu always. She was very ainiablo.aiul expressed great regiet at tho absence of her husband.

Everything possible has bceu and is being done for us. A Government messenger pre cedes us to every station. A Cossack sol dier travels with via in the courier's sleigh, and more when the roads are deep. It is really very embarrassing, this profound res pect shown to us. When wo go into the villages where the poor stations ure all the inhabitants turn out. The men take oil' their caps and the women bow and bow. At the station about fiftyfor one hundred men are conuregatad, and in a blinding snow-storm, bare-headed, they fall to and harness ami unharness the horses in the twinkling o£ an eye. Tho chief of the town is always there, too, in his gala dress, ana scrapes and bows and mutters his welcome, giving us black bread and salt. Fiom the highest Governor in his palace in the city to tho lowest peasant, each does all in his power. Where they drive six horses we liave three to our sleigh, and a small light sleigh with three more is made fast to the shafts^! ours. Sometimes we have four to each. 'Jho snow is very deep in places, mid in some villages the houses wore abso lutely snowed up to the roof, and.some com pletely buried. The great duh is a kind of Tartar meat-ball, a piece of meat/:ookcd in dough ; what they call beef cutlet?, chopped beef, fried potatoes, tea and milk. "We carry a lot 01 provisions with us, an that we are never short. For a rouble, 50 cents, they will give you in the village more than three mon can eat. They have splendid milk, and tell itat 5 cents a gallon. Omsk, and e-pecially Tomsk, arc large places. Tho houses nro built of brick and the general appearance of the city is not far different from Moscow or »St. Petersburg, though of course on a much smaller scale. We have had no cold weather, and we fear that as we travel to the southwatd we may have to take to the wagons. It has been snowing hard for several days however. The general type of the country people is tho Tartar, and they are very cleanly about their persons. In Kainsk the rontmeister, or district chief, was a fuU-bloudcd Tartar. A Cossack, or, as he said : "Youcan see by my fnce tbat lam a true Siberian born." He was ugly enough, but proud as Lucifer of liis birth ! He had never been out of Siberia, but was as refined and polite a man as I ever met. The Governor-General at Oinsic had four or five governesses for his only child—a girl—and sbe could, though only 10 or 12 years of age, speak as many different languages. The governess rarely speaks English, but always French and German. We have expected to meet Danenhowcr in Sibalosck, but the Vice-Governor told us yc'tcrcUy that he had started from Incuton with the men two or three days ago. There is plenty of game in this country, and occasionally we get out of the sleigh and take a shot at black phea sants or snow-white partridges. In some of the village houses they have fish-skin in place of glass for windows.' It makes a fancy impression insi'le. They keep their houses infernally warm. The doors and windows are double and all heavily lined with felt. Since we ex changed our sleigh at Enathaniu bay we have been much more comfortable, but (till the ruts give us a terrible shaking at times. In some places they go up and down this -way : [Here the writer draws a terribly zig-zag lino.] Un less you keep a good lookout the driver will go over them at full speed, too. The driver is thrown off every once in a while. We were behind time the other morning, and stopped at a village house to get something to eat. Being Lent, they had no meat, so we brought in our own .and had it cooked. The daughter of the house, a girl of about IS, brought in the breakfast and one kriifc, two forks and two old soup-plates. I asked her if she did not have more and sbe said "No." The knives and forks had been stolen and the plates broken. She said that they had had a great many plates once. I asked how many and she said " Four " No. matter how few they may be, every village has its church, and whatever they do they never forget to cross themselves. I have not much time now,but shall write further from Iskubak. You will probably hear of our arrival there by telegraph. In a month and a half I should say you should have this letter. It takes the mail from here to Moscow in about twenty-two days on average, I tliink. It took us about seven teen days, less about, two hours, and we stopped over a day in this neighbour hood.

There is one text that I always thought a settler for roy_ teetotal friends until the other day —it is that in which St. Paul ad vises Timothy to take no looger water, but to take a little -wine for his stomach's sake. A learned prelate wa« much of my opinion as >on will see. "I cannot believe, Mr Spa," said the Bishop, "that under ftll circumstances it can be wrong for a Christian man to take wine, when the Apostle distinctly prescribed it to Timothy 1 for his stomach's sake' " But the man of water was upsides with the prelate " Hex- _ ternal application, my Lud 1" says he. "Hexternnl application'!" After hearing this the Bishop was speechless, grew pale, went home, drank jera'.ed waters, nibbed himself morning and evening with cham pagne and died,—"London Trntb."

POETRY.

FOlt LIFE AND DEATH,

" Naught to bo rlono"-.«h 1 It was th.it he pr.i<\ Tho Doctor, an you atoppud Mm ur, the door i Nay, never try to Biul'n and h-.ko thy hoad ; I could hik' told theo juHt tin wull afore. I haven't lived iheuu tnlrty your to want Parsons or woinon lolling what Is uti(h. When tho pulse labours Mid tho breath la scant, And all Krow dim boloru the giuzlnß eye.

I felt that BOtnothlns: gave hero, at rr.y hntrt In that last turnip, down thure on the Bear. Nay, uovor cry. fond lahhlh u» though nrt. Though Witt do tine without mo—Bettor far. Thou'at been a uoud und imtutnt vnifu tv me Sin' that spriog day last y. ar when wo were wed. I novor mount 80 cold nml strange to be. Como an1 I'll tell thee. Sit huro by my bed.

So, whoro tho sunshine roste upon thjr hair. It shows nlinoHt uh iimontii mid bright lie here, Tho Kin I wooed In Dnnkeuiup, uver mere— Flo. how tho thought (ha Bluckonlnß lite blood Htlrn! Oh. wild ulrck eyes, bo quick toiUsh and fill I Oli, rich rod lips, do ripo fur liiau and vow : Did not your euull work 1110 ouovv of ill. Thai jou must lmuut and vrx mo oven now ?

I svrore, us wo drove ont into the gale, And BtuKKeriiiK down 'tniiS channel wont Jlie boat, Navorut Jjuukoi 17110 pior to furl tiny 8<i!I, While lnud IUOOIII Lion kuptsiiiwt; Thu ulor whore uha nul hur .-'iuucti iovei: laughed At thu poor trubtinpr rtmi who fcuii his dee; Qulok though htb imua slow iv tut' ket>u muce'a hart, Tho itnitllEh Cat waa yet more- (;u:cS aud true,

Sho and her beaten Bweetheurt, cio Ther prato Yet of hor triumph 1 Lei ittcm, an mey tileaae. I shall know mwght about ii. Ijict,' e:rui<iit Up on tho hoai'innd. 'Death tie ci>U )ir treeu. I wuh lioould hn' beon content, my lac?, With ihoo and toy blu« hjbh ana f)u!et. way*; Thua hast thy bulrn. and us ihn calm yeuta jiasg Tnou wilt forKet thy stormy Apr!> caju.

Thou'rt youn« and bosulo still, my weaefc. Thou'Jt muk.o A happy wlteyet. Chooso uuine qaiet chap Who'll lovo tho litilo 'un fur ihy HWvet u.iko, Aud bunr thoo to boiuo Inland hunio. siMtilip. Wo'ro rough ana Bturu. we uu tho stft-boawt bred. And onn't forßot or smooth a rjtuklinp wountJ. Come olosa • thero'B jaat. oi.o tiling ieft to bo Bald, Boforo k'oi duuib, forover, uudoj ground.

Laat night they watched t'io life-boat diivea book, Tho rookot battling vcimy with the b.nst, Whllo tuo hoik b&rtt.umid tuts roar sno wrack, Ilrovo haudlutsK—Btruuk— nudiuj' :nc.To hard and f.iht. Thoy neither unw no? hcodnd ; us the /lash. O£cold blu-t tlr.i lit all, tibov«, b«Jow. Triu Fronoh iUn flyinu o'er Miv whirl t.lnd crash 11 JjOulbo Uunkurquu," the, iettiir« 'jn iiur prow. I saw, plunßod, fouKht, aid romched :he sinic liiK burl:. Tho old hot poinon Dercv in fcvory vein. Solzcd on two autlors, uhrtUAiuK "i tbu dark. Boro thorn to tbo lava, a.^a turced vu uwlni again. ClaspinK tborlgirtnpr yotonoman I fo'jnd : I caught him, elrußKlcd un, tho beuuh was tiuar. "I<onifO !" ho RBBped. and mid tho roar uronnd, I know tho voice l&Bt hoßrd on ituukerqUe pier.

Tho murdorer's lust surged to tho throbbing heart, Tho inurdorot's onnniDm loosed the Bavins band. Twae but to let him ko ; I'd dove rry part— Privisoa and uTOnßisa ! Why thus Vvrero woll , to laud. Bat Bho— So cloud on her brifjht lite should rest, An' I could ward It; lovo aud hato at strife. A moment then, snatched tram the oreftlwr'g Croat. I drawKud Mm, Btnnnod and bleediog, back to life. Somehow 1 hart myself, and to lie over. And hotter bo for all. Thou'lt rear the lad To make some Yorkshire tans tin huneut lover Nor tell nlin all the wro.n hla mother had And Bometin»o3—for tnou'rt kind—when Btara aro out Iv tho uroon oouutry, whtra no tempest blow, Thoa'lt say, "Thy lather Hud hm toulta, no doubt. But Btlll he died to savo his bitterest foe." All Ike Year Round.

BLIND.

(From the Sunday School Times.) Open my eyes, O Lord of light. Like him of old who e'ied lo Thee: " Lord, that I may receive my sight!" From darker dep hs 1 1 n^ouy I nek myself to a c.

Show me the sin that.makes ma blind, 'The clouds o£ wrong that hide my nun The pride that voils me fron my kind. The Sloth that leaves Thy work undone, The race I havo not run,

AWappsd in them'sts of self and sin, Groping along a devious way, Am I ioo late Thy wngo to win ? To leave the, dark and lint the day 2 Oh, drive my night uivuy !

Yet wero such wosto before me spread. How could my now born vision bear The blasting sight of woo and dread, Thcdesort's awful gloom «nd glare : ■ Nor curse my grunted prayer.'

Lord! that I may receive my fight, Not all my grievous siu to Bee, To pierce the terror of the i ight, And into outer darkness Jicc, But to look up to Thee I

Unveil Thy cross, Thy tender face, The lipß whose anguish cried, Forgive >~he glory of redeeming grace. The love lhat life and light can give. Lurd! bid me look and live, Rosk Terry (Jookk.

THE LOST CHILD.

[From Wide Awake.]

" I'm losted! Could you find mo, please J'1 Poor little frightened baby 1 The wind had tossed her golden fleece, The stones had scratched hoc diuipleO knees. I stopped, and lifted her with ease, And softly whispered, " Maybe.

"Tell me your name, my little maid, " I can't iind you without it." " My name is Shiny-eyns," Khe said. '■ Yes, but your lust?' She shook her head : " Up to my house ley never said A single fling about it."

" But, dear," I said, "what is your name I" •' why, di°nt you hear me told you 1 Dust Shiny-oyeg." A bright Iliought came : " Yes. when you're good ; but when they blame You, little one—is't j list tho same When mamma has to scold you V

" My mamma never scolds," she moans, .A little blush ensuing, " 'Cept when I'vb been a-fowing stones, And then sl:e cays (the culprit owns), MehitabelSapphira Jones, What has you been a-doing 2"

HE LOVES, BUT HE CENSURES.

[From the Boston Transcript.] In bangs I never can delight. My gentle Ph>llw dear; Why wll you hide from mortal s'ght That forehead white an a clear 2

I do detest that halo hat, Whoso \yide, umbrageous brim Encircles like a j,anc .ke flat, And hides your fuce from him

Who fain would gaze upon your fac?, Where beauty sits ensurined; I do not like tho eisy grace With wliich you .ree yonr mind

Of ,i«i'gon, prattle, fmall talk, slanc: These things do sadly mar- But tipitu of tnet<e, big hat and bane, 111 trkeyon as you are.