ONE WAY OF LOVE.

Sum whs a clerk in the Treasury nt Wash ington on a salary of cine hundred dollars a-yoar; bo was m the Post-oflieo enjoying the privileges affordod by an income of twelve liunili'i'd. Once in a while there was a holitl iy, when they would take a boat down to Mount Vernon, if it was warm.and spread their luncheon in the shade of its historic trees and patronise Nature as successfully as if they were nabobs. Some times they had tickets given them for a comedy or t: agedy, when they laughed or cried with tlio discernment of millionaires and tbe old families. On Sunday morning they sang in v choir and walked out to Long Bridge 1 tcr in ilia day, or strolled in the Capitol grounds and surprised tho first violet in its hiding place. Helcu's landlady told every new boarder that Mr Van Vlock " was going with " Miss Hildrith, but Miss Hcleu always protested that he was merely a. friend, that thoy were neighbours at homo and had gone to school together when they were ri thoir pinafores, and the land lady always sniffed when she temarked. "If he's nothing but a friend I should think there'll b« a .secession of his love mukiiig so»ner or later." One day when they were rambling about- Mount Veiuou together Helen fell iuto a ro mancing vein. " Suppose this is my seat," said aim, "and I havo furnished it in the Queen A,,no style,and I'm entertaining the n-rw i!c !<i crane, just as they do ia novels ! — "A sort of Lady Gcraldinc— and I am tho poor pod, eh '!' "All but thu poetry," mocked Hclcft. "Now, suppose this is my manor house," suggeatrd rhodurc, "fnrnis.lcd in the re naissance, let us say--I'm making groat de mands on your imagination •— and I'm entertaining all the swells. I've lured you here on tlio pretext of looking for a four leaved clover, but really to ask if you will share my in, guificeuce ; what should you say !" "I should put my 10-sons in gymuastics into use and jump at the chance." "And if I should ask instead, " I'omo shnr,- my cottage, gentle maid 1" " Don't ! " cried Helen. Ho looke I at- her a little blankly. " Yon don't mean that you caro so little for me ?" " I dont mean anything Dont let us talk about marrying mid giving in marriage; wo are happy enough as wo are." "But if I don't many you some other fellow will." " Nonsense ; penniless girls arc a drns; in the market. I've seen misery enough from marrying on a ►mall salary; I've seen people living in two rooms on ' water and a crust,'so to speak, doing their own work, with no pleasures and no .society, and no hope of amc.ilmcnt; people who thought love would lido them all over the quick sands—ami presently the hallucination Avore off, but the quicksands remained; reproaches set in, she grew bitter and un lovely, and l c morose and neglectful"— " Then you think love a hallucination?"

" I think marriage is a mistake on twelve hundrod a year. If I becamo dowdy and hadn't time to cultivate a tasto for esthetics or whatever was the fa-hiunablo craze, and grew jaded and spiritless with the uncon genial task of washing pots and kettles and stewing over a range, and if nobody turned to look after me as I passid, ono day you would find yourself disenchanted. Then, supposing the new adminstration should push you out of ollice, cr«n for a month, or you should fall ill ? No, wc arc happy enough just as wo aro ; don't let us discuss marriage; let us wait like Mr Micawbor, till something turns up." And so Van Vleck waited. Perhaps be was disappointed in Helen's views, but he refused to confess it even to himself: all women tell no, he supposed, cared more for shadow than substance, or mistook the one for the other. It was their poetic tempera ment which made poverty hateful to tliem. and splendour their natural atmosphcre.aud he applied himsel.moro diligently than ever to his idea, working far into the night at times.

"You were not at the President's last cvcninf,',1' one of his fellow clerks said to him later.

" I I N->; I should think not."

" But Miss Hildreth was there; she and Mr Stcrlini!, M C.wore hand ahd glove. I heard him ask her to go and hear Lohengrin •to morrow night." "Mr Sterling is in luck," was all Van Vleck ventured to say ; lie did not choose to carry his heart on his sleeve for every clerk to peck a*. If Mr Sterling was fasci nated by Helen, it surely was uo fault of hers; many a man had been bewitched by hor before ihis elderly Congressman, only Theodore forgot that they had ail been needy suitors—and as for Helen, he felt as sure of her as of sued time aud har vest.

But ou oue occasion ho left his work early and hastened to sco liar; a cloud of ugly rumours had assailed him and interfered with his tasks; she should brush all the cobwebs out of his heavqn. He met her coming down the staircase"in a white even ing dress, with flowers in her hand—costly exotics, such as wealthy lovers send their sweethearts, .such as he had never dared to buy.

"Where did they come from?"ho de manded,

" They grew, I Vpects—like Topsy," an swered Helen, laughing uneasily. " Where did you get them, Helen ?' "You are inquisitive, Mr Van Vleck. They were sent me."

"By Mr .sterling?"

You do credit to your nationality ; you're a capital Yankee. Yes, by Mr Ster ling, of course. "

" Helen," he cried beneath his breath— " Helen, you are going to marry Mi' Ster ling?" "I—lbslievel am," she said dropping her eyes. Theodore never knew exactly how lio found his way out of tho house ; he was vaguely aw*re of brushing against a stout gentleman ia a fur trimmed ulster, as he shot into the street; of a stately carriage and pair sanding at the door, and a dark browed lady leaning out to look after him. The next day he resigned his position in the Post-office, drew his savings from the bank and left VVa-hingtoii. It were well perhaps, if he could put deserts and seas and mountain ranges between Helen and himself. It seemed to him as if toe earth had reeled from its orbit, and it required time for him to readjust himself to the situation. His idea was all that was left to him ; he put into it all his earnings :he devoted his heart and soul to its develop ment, and he finally forgot himself and Helen Hildreth iv his work and its success It was even or eight years later that they met, oddly enough, on the Mount Vernon boat. Her vivacity was no longer the spon taneous efTervescene of youth and hope • sua was a trifle passec, perhape. ' "Wealth and splendour have not proved all her fancy painted them." he thought as their , fi ycs met. "Mr Van V\cc\e," sha cried, ' who would have dreamed of meet. ing you here!" Was the pleasure that brightened her eyes and deepened her somewhat exaggerated dimple-, a reminis cence of Ut power, or was Mrs Sterling a warned &rf, he wondered. "We have

heard of you often, to be sine," she puried. "The newspapers have not boi;ii silent coo coming you and your great .invention, j V 'C always felt an ownership in th t iiivo.nti'Ui, do you know? I frit as if 1 Were behind tbe scenes, let into the secret before the rest of tbe outride world, when i! was only a dream. I've rescntc-1 every infringement--" "lam flattered that you remember my small affairs," said Theodore, humbly. "Remember," she repeated, with a lingering accent, " I have nothing else to do'" • ~ , "Icome down hero sometimes, she pur sued, aftor a brief pause, " when we have a holiday, for tbe sake of auld lang syne, and try to boliove I am seven years youugeraud tho world before me where to choose. I like to come when the peacli trees are in bloom, as they were that day when wo built our castles in the air. Mine have crumbled into dust."

" Mrs Sterling, I am sorry to hear you

sprttk 80." She stared at him an instant, ulusho" and dropped her eyes in tbe old effective w»y. •'Haven't you heard," she said, "1 didn't marry Mr Sterling." Perhaps alio expected Theodore to beam with sadlcn happiness and rehears the old story she bad refused to hear once before. "Yon left noaddress, you know " defend ing herself from tlio reproaches she antici pated. "Mr Sterling died before 'be wel ding day was set. I thought, y■ v would see it iv the newspapers. I am v Treasury girl yet, Theodore. Do yon know that I sometimes wish that I hod never seen Mr Sterling?" Only tho Fates know what Van Vleck would have answered, but just at that mo ment a bit of crepe /iwc fl°atr>d into their neighbourhood, and a -voice like a summer brook cried, " Ob, my veil, Theodore I " Theodore put out a band, but it c'udod him ; Helen made a quick movement and caught it on the wing "Let me introduce you to Mrs Van Vleck, Miis Hildretb," he mid. "She would like to thank you."—Maky N. PkesCOTT, in " Our Contin, nt."

Religious Notes.

The wordy correspondence between the present and past favourite preachers of the Notre Dame Church, Paris— Fathers Mont sabre and Ilyacinthc—has come to an end, he former having bidden the ex-priest to talk in his own place to his heart's content.

There arc a numlior of French Protestant evangelists who labour specially among the atheists in different parts of France. I hose evangelists tell their assemblages that while in favour of separation of Clinrcli and Stale, they cannot join with those who advocate it on atheistic grounds. Tho Key. C. Lewis. L.L.1)., a Baptist mini'tcr of lvcntucky.dicd sudd* nly a short time ago of heart disease. On the table of his study was found a sermon on First Corinthians, xv. '-'6 : " The last enemy that shall be destroyed is deah," which be bad prepared to preach the morning he died.

The British aud Foreign Bible Society continues to be remarkably proHpetons. Since its organisation it has circulated 91,000,000 copies of the Scriptures in '21(1 languages and dialects. 'Ihe Karl oi Shaftesbury, who is in great demand as chairman in May anniversaries, fs president of the society. A bold Baptist missionary in St. Peters burgh roceutly baptised the cashier of a freat railway in a swimming bath of the mporial Bank, and in tno presence of the officials. He seems to have treat inlluencc with the Russian officials. He has made an appeal to General Ignatieff on behalf of exiled Baptists.

Artemus Ward.

Ward started in California with an announcement that he would lecture on "The Babes in the Wood." Ho said he preferred this title to that of " Sly Seven Grandmothers." Why, nobody knows, for there was, of course, to be as little iv the leoiuro about babe?, in or out of the wood, as about seven or any other number of grandmothers " The Babes in the Wood " was never written down ; a fow sentccco-i only have survived of a performance which was destined to revolutionise the comic lecturing of the age. The " Dalies " seem only to have been alluded to twice—first at the beginning, when the lecturer gravely announced ''The Babes" as his subject, and then, after a rambling string of iirelc vent witticisms, which lasted from an hour to an hour and a half, lie concluded with, "I now come to my subject—'The Babes in the Wood.'" Then taking out his watch, his countenance would suddenly change- Surprise followed by great perplexity 1 At last, recovering his former composure, and facing the difficulty a* best lie could, he continued: '• But I and I have exceeded my time, and will therefore merely remark that, so far as I know, they were very gocd babos—they were as good as ordinary babes." Then almost breaking down, and much more nervously, " I really have not time to go into their history : yon will find it a'l in the story hooks." Then getting quite dreamy, "They died in the woods, listening tc the wood-peekcr tapping the hollow beech tree," With sonic suppressed emotion, «' It was a sad fate for them, and I pity them; so I hope do you. Good night !" The success of this lecture throughout California was instantaneous and decisive. Thercportcs complained that they could not write for laughing, and split their pencils desperately in attempts to take down the jokes. Every hill and theatre was crowded to hear about th« " Babes ;" and the " Lyceum " lecturer of the period, " what crammed his»elf full of high-sounding phrase-1, and got trusted for a soot of black clothes," had nothing to do hut to go home and destroy himself.

Had a Good Thing.

A STRANGER who seemed to be from Connecticut was strolling through Battery Paik the other day, when he wus accosted by a match peddler, who asked him to inako a purchase, " No, thankee, I don't smoke.chew, play cards, or drink whisky, and I don't nctd them," was the reply. "I am very poor," pleaded the match man.

"Ah I then you put it ou the ground of charity, eh? Very well. Now,iiiy friend, how much do you make on a box of matches ?"

"Three cent«." " And how old are you 1" "Thirty Jive." "Just so. You have fifteen years of active life before you. In fifteen veorsthere arc 330 months, 1320 weeks, or !)210 days- Knock off the Sundays and we have 794 0 days on which you can sell matches. Yo «" ought to se'l fifteen boxes per day. That is an income of 45 cents; 7940 multiplied b^ 45 gives 357.520 cents, which is $3577 2n" and don't you forget it. No, sir, I can't buy on the grounds of.charity. You've got a good thing. All you've got to do is to preserve your money in an old stocking, and at 50 retire from business and invest iv soven per eeofc Becurifies.. Pass on, sir'"

LADIES' COLUMN.

MOIIN. NOOK, AND NIGHT,

A little ring with rosy rubies set, A maiden's linger pressing: A velvet check by ruddy lips love met In kissing and caressing.

A finger circled by a hand of gold To leave it but with life ; Two stalwart arms with tenderness cnlold A loving little wife.

A golden ring which plaits of raven hair And black onamolsmo'her : A fair young fii-e. dulled by a oload 01 enre A widow and a mother.

Patrons of Husbandry.—Mothers with marriageable daughters. A lady wants lo know whether a lover can be called a ' suitor " when lie don't suit her.

When a husband does not come home to dinner, bis »ife sometimes imagines it is one of the fast days.

Love L.'uglis at Lexicographers.—This a fact; by way of proof take the following brief epistle from n young lady to her lover : - "Deio Jon—comeatafpastatc."

A West-end man woke bis wife tbe other night, and in a startled tone of voice in formed her that be bad swallowed a dose of strychnine, " Well, you fool," said she, " lie still, or it may come up." The Cause.—A philosopher asserts that the icasoti why ladies' teeth decay sooner than gentlemen's is because of the (notion of the tongue and the sweetness of the lips. Nevada brides won't stand much foolish ness nt a wedding. Recently, one of them, while going up tho aisle of a church, stopped short and kicked all the skin ill' the shins of a groomsman who troi on her trail.

" Why don't you wear a 'bush,' ma?" asked a little by. "A ' bush I' what is that my dear» I never heard of such a thing,' " -Why, yes you have, ma. I u»kod aunt Maty, wlut made her back out so, and she said, ' llu-h,' my dear.

A lady correspondent describes the new society bow as executed among Washington belles. She says that to bend the h>-ad, except to acknowledge superiors, is out of fa-hion. The lady looks you coolly in the face, smiles as sweetly as she can, and gently inclines her head toward the right shoulder with a little backward movement nt the same time. A slight Frenchy shrug heightens the effect.

The Princess of Wales seems more charm ing (lian ever. From one who is no llatterer of the Court you may take it that she docs not look more than twenty-six years of ago She dresses .so neatly and so well that, while one hardly notices licr dress, it iieigbtons every charm. She U, aho, always so exceedingly cheerful that it is a pleasure to see beh Her Boyal Highuess's youth and beauty and happiness were the theme of universal conversation in the miscellaneous crowd at Islington Horse Show. The same was the ca.se, lam told, at the recent Court ball.

It is in accordance wiih facts, though contrary to the notion generally eotertained, that the marriage rate is ruled by the price of corn and the sate of trade generally. During the past three years theie has been a recovery in trade : marriage has been consequently more frequent. The registrar's tables show that the lowest marriage rate for several years was reached in ISSO, when 191,963 marriages were recorded in England, or about 0,000 lofis than in the prosperous years of 1871, 1872, and 1873, despite the increase of the popv lation since that time. It is also an established fact that we marry younger than did our ancestors. In 1841, out 01100 bridegrooms, less than five were under age, now there are twenty-one out of 100. Whilst 599 per cent, of widows remarried forty years ago, 0.49 now marry a second time. There were in one year 25,222 widowers who remarried—that is to say, out ot the total males married nearly ouc in eight was a widower—the widows remarried being slightly fewer in proportion, But another class is growing up amongst in—that of the divorced ; and 117 who had been divorced were remarried in the year referred, toinostly to spinsters or to bache lors, few to widows or widowers.

A most singular and romantic case of immature passion has been disclotedj at St. Paul. Minnesota, For several months Albeit Drake, a well-connected youth of sixteen years, has been in the .iconics of a first love with Mi?s Jennie Faulkner, fifteen years old, daughter of a well-to-do and highly respected family. The affair having assumed a more dasgeious form than a schoolmate attachment, the mother of the girl forbade the youth the house and further association with her child. She bad no further objection tliao their youth. Young Drake next a^ked tbe girl to elope with him, but she declared her intention to obey her mother. He then accused her of haviiig deserted him for a rival, and they separated in mutual distrust. Next day the girl was returning from school when she met the lad and spoke pleasantly to him. He, however,was white with passion, and made no answer, but drew a pistol and fired it pointblank at her face. Although they were only a few feet apart, his aim failed. The girl turned and ran down the street, the hoy running after her, firing as they raced, until a gentleman caught the girl up in his arms and fled into a house with hcrr Drake came up quickly upon the scene aud demanded admittance, bat was refused. In the meantime a party started in pursuit of him. In his flight he fired a shot at himself without effect. As the pursuers were caining, he suddenly stopped, held the pistol in both hands, and placing the muzzle against his forehead, fired, aud fell dead upon the street. Pain ful as the affair i*, it might have been worse.

Mil EDITOR : Sir,—lt is the opinion of some, thfct church going people would be benefitted by the preaching of such ministers as Mr Shirra of Kirkcaldy was. On 00c occa>ion, when preaching in a church in Aberdeen, he noticed a lady making an ostentatious display of a new dress. He paused, and said, "It is an awfu' thing that people come to the kirk to show their braw duds." The lady felt the rebuke, and wrapped her ' cloak about hor to conceal her gaudy apparel. On another occasion, when conducting public worship, the same clergyman saw a gay young man *tnuding in the front seat of the gallery. He pointed to bim, and said, " Sit doon, we have a' seen your braw brceks." Besides by the rebuke of such a minister, women might be brought to sec the necessity of a little more mo desty in their manner of dressing by the pious consideration of Isaiah chapter 3 from verse IS to verse 26. There tliey have a description of their extravagance as to dress, and the light in which this ii regar ded by God Himself. Nor would "the devout study of Peter, chapter 3, verses 'i 7 " lV c witl'out the most desirable re sults.— Yours, &c, Modesty.

A gentleman, while making a speech, in advertently stepping forward, fell oft- the platform In response to the pc-ls of lauehter that greeted liis unlucky fall, be claimed that any speaker hud "arghtto come down to the let-el of his audience "

An Artful Dodger.

THE other afternoon, a3 an elderly London philanthropist was .strolling homewards through Bayswiitcr,he came upon a weeping lad. Well dressed was the boy and innocent to look upon, as he stood there in the street, crying bitterly. "I wish I were dead, I wish 1 were in the tomb,-' was bis subdued exclamation as the philanthropist came up to him. What had happened? Somethiog very sad; the youugster, holding up an empty purse, explained, as well as his sobs would allow him, that, somehow or otber, be had lost all the money which his mother gave him before leaving home to pay for certain purchases. The philanthropic bcait was at once touched by the artless tale, but the philanthropic mind seems to havn subsequently entertained some doubts as to its truthfulness. For, after tbe lad had accompanied his pitying friend to ihe hitter's house, for the purpose of having tbe missing sum made good, such a severe cross-examination was instituted that the whole story fell to pieces. Some days after wards, a lady to whom the incident had been related was passing through the same neighbourhood, when there fell upon her ears the identical wishes tor death and tbe lomb which had " drawn " the philanthro pist. Bring a resolute sort of lady, she ex liicssid her mind pretty freely to the blub bering boy as tp bis moral delinquency. Whereupon ho shook off his gentility and tears, aud consigning her to a place un mentionable, let fly the Parthian arrow that "he guessed she aud the old bloke were carrying on spoons."

A very polite young man whhiog to ask a young lady if be might speak to her for a few moments, wanted to kuow " if he could roll the wheel of conversation round the axle-tree of her understanding for a mo ment, " The poor girl fainted.

P ll»t^r an n f Pn ebllßhe<lbr. theP PrVtor.Hl~.BV Brett, of Symonds-street, at his (SMieri* Printing Office, Wadham.r_reot.ta So Pro vmce of AucklandVNow Zealand. I Baxoubat, At/gust 5, 832,

Kfc__fc SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, AUGUST 5 ; 1882.



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if OTiKgIWS'M THE want of a reliable remedy forllheu mutism, Sciatica, Gout, Lumbago, &c, has long been felt as one of the greatest calamities of the age. While other means and medicines having been proving them selves vain and delu-ive. this remedy has been silently and sieadily unloosing the cruel fiogers of disease, and freeing captive men from iheir do»dly embrace. The people are now requested to give 81000 RESTORER a fair and impartial trial. And the Proprietor would nave it distinctly understood that the cures of Rheumatism, &c., arc due entirely to his Medicine's Wonderful Effect upon the Blood, by its Cleansing, Purifying, and Invigorating power. ,i Impurity and Inactivity of the Blood is tbe cause of most sickness and pain. After a course of this medicine, blood-vessels— which have become, as it were, choked up with unhealthy matter —become exhilarant with pure scailet life-blood, flowing na. turally along, and imp»iting in.its course vigour aud strength to the entire system."" HITCHENS' CELEBRATED BLOOD "OES TOREK The Renovator of the Human Blood. No more Physical Degeneration if the Laws of Health are observed, ordinary care exercised, and BLOOD RESTORER freely taken. TTITCHENS' pORDIALISED BLOOD jDESTORER (Price, £2 per case net), Is a healthy and palatable summer drink when mixed with Lemonade or similar beverages. Without the great remedial properties oi the MEDICINAL Blood Restorer, it is still of like character in its action on the human system, ami is specially manufactured for HOTEL USE. To be bad Wholesale of L. D. NATHAN & Co., Sole Agents. TTITCHENS' BLOOD RESTORER. We have received the following Testi monial anent this remedy, and publish it for general information. L. D. NATHAN & CO. "Anckland, January 12, ISS2, "'Messrs L. D. Nathau & Co., Auckland. " Sirs,—l am fulfilling an urgent request of Mrs Andrews, of Lord Howe's Island, in tho Pacific, in stating to you and to Mr Hitcbens tbe extraordinary cure made in her case by the use of Hitcbens' Medicinal Blood Restorer. Living on the Island, I am an eye-witness of tbe fact, and feci it a duty both to Mr Hitchens and to the general public to testify to the really won derful effect of that medicine. "Mrs Andrews was for four or five years a martyr to agonising pains in her hip ; medical men calling it sciatica. She bad been treated for it by the several doctors of the British men-o'-war visiting the Island from time to time, without the slighte»t relief to the intense pain. She was afterwards taken to Sydney, hoping for some relief, if not a petmauent crire, from treatment of tho medical men of that city. _ She was told she was suffering from the hip disease, and her case was incurable. Without a ray of hope to lighten her future life ; pain and despair her constant attendants, her case was really deplorable. Mr C. E. Ponder, the Manager of the Guano Company at Lord Howe's Island, one day recommended her to try Hitchenß' Blood Restorer, as the remedy was just becoming known at the Islands, through, the advertisement of Oppcrmane's cure, testified to. tho German Consul. Mrs Andrews readily yielded to the recomracn datioo, and sent for two bottles to Mr Hitcbens, Auckland. Within three weeks; after using it she was able to rise and. walk with tho use o£ the crutch, aud the pain in the hip was entirely gone. The, medicinal action was truly marvellous, and her gratitude to Mr Hitcbens is expressed daily in her prayers thanking God for her relief. "It is my firm belief that another'two or_ three bottles—unfortunately not ob tainable without long delay—would have; wrought such a complete cure as to make crutches unnecessary. On my return to Lord Howe's Island, I shall take a stock of this wonderful medicine, so that a supply will never he quite out; for no, words of mineewn adequately express my faith in its curative properties, after stcinp the result of it m Mis Andrews' case, j "I am, dear Sirs, " Yours faithfully, " Thos. Geo. Chas. Nichols, "Master Mariner." I certify to tho correctness of the above in every particular, Charles C. Pondeb. Declared before me this I3th day of January, ISB2. P. A. Phillips, J.P. AGENCIES. We are Solo Agents and Importers ot the undermentioned, viz.:— Head Bros. Dog's Head Ale and Stout Bisquit, Dubouche & Co.'s Brandies Wolfe's Schnapps Lounde's Key Rum Taylor's Irish Whisky Tattersall & Campbell's Scotch do» Robt. Burnett & Co.'s Vinegar Hudson's Extract of Soap Goodall's Yorkshire Relish Lanman & Kemp's Florida Water , Perry Davis & Son's Painkiller Jmstol's Pills and Sarsaparilla Hitchen's Blood Kestoier Allen's Lung Balsam The Kaipara(N.Z.) Canning Co. Mullet Ivirkpatrick & Co., Nelson (N.Z.) Jam» Stcediiian'sPrcservedPenclics, Thames The Swiss Milk and Pood Co.'s Goods L. 13. NATHAN & CO.