SELECTED POETRY.

[ORraiNAL.i

BYE-GONE DAYS.

'I'imc and again tho hours eomo back, Thn hapof dnys tlmt long havo flown. And joy uud. Kltuln da (ill again Tho heart that now has sadder grown. [ ponder o'or tho flowery plain That glowed at set lint; of tho sun— O'er many a dear familiar form That with the sunny hours hath gono Tho years.have stol'n them all from me ; For oven thono thnt to mo they left, Ho changed thoy are—'twere doubtless well If they had gone too with tho roBt; Kor absence, time will soften soon— Tho lapse oC years will fuolhu regret lint strange and cold, tho changed' oucs arc Too over-present to forgot. Tlio heart an over present pain— An itching sore, must ever bear— L'ntil Ihu great physician Time WMi patient hand, will sootho all caro. The fiorv heart must boar tho rod And ueaseleaa chafe beneath fate's sway, Butilnu gold iniißt h» purified, And earth's mill dross bo burnt away. Dijon, Auckland.

MARY.

Can I forcrot the happy nitrht, In that December weal hoi1, When Hlic and I, with footsteps light, \\ iilkfil home from church tOKOther! My licart was rent, 'twin joy and four, And aim wiih coy and chary, For that which maidens lovo to hear I'd whi.tpored in her tiny car. While walking home wit—Mary. Ah. that waa in Hio lonp ago, But somehow it scums nearer, And tlmsn dear flays we v h_ to know Seomahvayß, somehow, dearer. When Wary lingers by my aido, Annoy and sweetly diary As when, in that December lido, I wooed and won my little bride, Wliilo walking homo with Mary. Co 1 bless th»n. Mary, for tho peaoo That comrt.li with this seeming, And grant I ne'er shall know mirceaao From thii delightful dreamiiiK. For in mine age you aro to mo, Tnoufth nil tho world may vary, Tho same swuot girl you used to bo ; And to a land my fnith can sco, I'm walking homo with Mary. —Eiigent F ichl.

SOLITUDE.

Langh, and Urn world laughs with you ; Wcop, and you weep iilono. Kor the snil old earth must borrow its mirth, But h:i3 trouble eiinn;,'h of Its own. Sin^, and tho hills will answer; Sh;li. it is lost o» the air. The echoes bound to a.joyful sound, lint Bhrink from voicing cato. Heiniee, and ni»n will seek you; Grieve, and they turuandno. They want full measure of sill your pleasure, But they do not need ynnr woe. Bt> fflad. and your friends lire, many: Be Bad, and yonlosp them all. 'I'ljijiv aro none to (l.'clin" your neetarcd wine, But ulono you inns'. driiiK life's pill. tV:\st, nnd your liftlln are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. Succeed and irive, mid ir helps you live, But no man can help yi.u ilie. There is room in the rial Is of uleasuro Kor v largo rind lordly ',rain, Hn: one by one wo must all tile on Through ihe narrow niales of pain. - Ella Wheclti:

THE UNKNOWN GOD.

I scanned tho oyolos ci revolving time To know tlio k-uds »< ovi'i-y mrc and clime : Olymni >n Jove, vvhosemlfrhty thundering nod Shook iho far henvenn and our earthly nod, Knthroned above nil ro-Js of lessor dower, Wrns elemental forco—n name, of power. Minerva's croodnefs. like Minerva's pride. Wm knowledge masked and wiad.in deified ; Apollo's bounty, with bis Into and lyre, Was music's molody. the mu««\>fl»»i An.l llei»nmi ilio ("Jyiirimi gortdrss fair Were loveliness enthroned, and beauty rare. Hercules, Thesm", heroes on earth's sod, Wire strength or knowledge, gnd or domijjod- Deiiit-s abridged, epitomes divrno, FJfce Mars or Bacohua, full of strife or wine; Aiul go<\s were wrought by human brain and hand. As sculp'ors shape the ntone to statues fjrand. Mizraim, with sphinx and pyramidal pllo, Adored O-irK Ists, audtha Nile; Assyrians bowed before t.hcir ancient kings A3 iiu'.rli!,: linns stretrtimr eaglca* wings. St iiro paradox! frnm day and murblo clods, A.' <ioi mi'lo iiuvi lit tlrst, so man makes isods. Whit (rods were they.' Do'lre, and Hope, and Creations of man's minrl that must ereste, Km bo.tiii! thoueh's, aspirin* human souls (.'limhimc throu.rii ii.;<"- to the higher pcoals— Seisin!? li^'h tnn.lt ruth tioyond tho path he plods: One God made man, man luith iniido many gods. MnnV iliv:'.d of power bonds him nt Zous's feet. Hat.- briiijM its Xl-lii ses. K'ros lovers ttreet, Pluto is pimishmnn! and thus we 3..'c A'l those are BttrlhnteM. not deity; A3 evolution hi but law now found, (io.IV fluKer-tOUOh that makes the worM ko round. The man of Tarsus snid. " You hards nKree, Ye are the otfcprinj; of !h« D.sily. And ipior.int wo-ship in your dubiou-i ways The very God wh^in Hoavou's nn(?uln praise." Karth's iiuiy'ti plain but know tho God you ye sotu'bt: His smallest star would tike n life of thought.

Wisdom, power, love, thoso aro His attributes. The Christian's holy liod whoso troodnes* suits The majesty of Heaven. And climbing hills of love, Krom stari nnd puns, to rentrnl suns above. At last we/1! view His l'ncts with spirits freo, Like sunriso spreading o'or a boundless sea. Thf ro is His central throno enshrined in light, BllndlnK to moral Bazo: and in tho tllght Of cyelMii,' time across the void of space. Angels and hoh'n.s .seek the enrnato race, \V"ho6e words outspan an earth, whoso suns aro Ho far tiioy ?eom from heaven's heaven and God of gods. His- snnstind worlds nro countless as the stars Ills iewilled tingerprin'.s, through checkfrod liars Of lißnt and shade. All lifo is shadow Of His breath. An uttered thought; and law and change and death. Hi? an^re' mossenccrs: His spirit. Truth, I'reservoH tho universe in fadeless youth. The palpablo Tnfinito ! Who can ever know ? Mind, from a mustard seed a world must «row. The past the emblems of Hla power hath wrought Whoso thought created first creating thorjßht; And veiled in mi»ts nbovo tho Olympian throne, We know the unknown God Is God alone. Gkorge W. Wjkdbr.

THE SCIENCE OF KISSING.

Cream and peaches onco a woelr. Kiss your idrl on the right-hand cheek. Apples green and apples dried. Km boron tho other side. — Welcome Warbler

Thnt evinces wretched tnstc : Tako your j?irl about tho waist, Lift her on her pink toe-tips And print it squarely on her lips. —John I). Wikox.

Take your prill in warm cmbrnce, Heart to heart, and fnce to race. Eye to eye, nml iio.-;o to iioao. Klipplty-flop imrt away it goes !

-C. IK. Whiting,

Polzo the maiden in your aims, niushinic with her tempting charms; And it, would, I think, be snuKgor, Oft to kiss nnd tightly hus her. —l''ml. rtw'linn.

I find n way by fnr tho b"Bt To sot the, senses in a whirl- Just ffivo thy own dear (jirl n rest, And kiss another fellow's girl. — W. 11. Kinross,

What's the use of nil this rhyme ? Take yonr girl at any timo. Squeeze her till tlm blushes come, Shut your eyos and-yum-yum-yum. — Roscoc Qiltner

RETURN OF THE JEWS TO PALESTINE.

A. CORRKSPiiNDKNT contributes the fol

lowing paper on this interesting subject:— " In your issue of Tuesday evening you very kindly inserted the report of a lecture sont to you on th" above sabjret, You i>ro taced it by atatiug tliat tha "Jewish World" declined that it was a vast mistak« to sup pnao tUnt mo Jews had the slightest idea of a return to Palestine. Now, as this is not only a very interesting question but a most important one, both :o the Jews themselves and those who b-lievein the divine authen ticity of the Old Testament an<i the Chris tian Scriptures, I beg leave not ouly to dill'or, bui to prove, that the article you r« furred t> i< not strictly true. Firat, 1 would state that it requires but a very little iiii-ight into Jewish affair to perceive that the Jews, as "a religious people, are in precisely the mmc position as the profo«sinn Chnstim community. There are tha two sections—o-thodox and hctrro'ox. Tlig Jewish orthodox section comprises the great bulk of th>- race resi lient, in the Kastern countries of Europe, viz., Russia, l'olanii, Turkey, &c. 'lhe heierodox section is composed mostly of what we may term die moiern. civilized .lew, resident in the Western portion of Europe, viz , England, Germany, &c Now, Mr Laurence Olfphant, who. I am su-e you will allow, is possibly tha be*t Authority obtainable cuiiccruinK " Xho Jew ami the iastern Qui siinu," in an mtice publi-hed in the ','.Nineteenth Ontury " of August, ISS2, el'earh shows that the modern, or Western Jew, tuough living in countries wheic a growing scepticism threatens to sap the foundations of the Christianity by which he ia surrounded, is, unconsciously to himß»lf, infected by the materialistic! tendency which pervades the literature and taints the t-odety of which he torms a part. Uencc wo fee that with the raj>id spread and growth of intellectual scepticism, and the groat advantages which a fice country oifers with a bounteous baud, in the shape of amassing wealth, of reaching to the highest pinnacle of political iumf (like our own DisMeli), and gaining any other social or poli'ical position, the Western Jew is rapidly sliding into an absolute state of religions apostacy. Thearticle that nppeared in the "Jewish World" was undoubtedly written by one inspired with Jewish heterodoxy. For tho "Jewish World" ia the mouthpiece of a portion of the Western or heterodox section of the Je*l?h com munity. Hcnco ita assertions have no force in them whatever. For if we want to oh ti in the voice of the Jewish race relative to the return, wo must go to the East, to the orthodox Jews. Mr Laurence uliphant, in tho same article referred to above, page 246, states:—"ln Kunsia, Poland, and Uunmnnia, thero are five million Jews ;of the=e three-fourths are orthodox " Wow, concerning those, Mr Oliphant says, page 244 :—'• The orthodox Jew is sustained under all the adverse circumstances of his fate by the living hope that the real history of his race it still to come. He proceeds to i-tntc that the Eastern Jews believe, and are suppoited by their sacred books according to their idea, that the ruins of Christendom are do* tiucil to become the foundation uf their future greatness nnd triumph. Hence it is that they have manifested a strong opposl tiou to the Amenean emigration movement, nnd inaugurated a counter movement in fnvonr of a return to the East, which has produced quits a wave of enthusiss-m in f.vour of emigration to Palestine. 'lhe force and extent of which, Mr Oliphant states, only those who hava como in contact with it, as I have done, can appreciate." These few woid* completely aemoli-h the rash asser tions of the "Jewish World," and prove emphatically, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the Jews as a race believe that the return to Palestine is a great reality, and no vague dream or superstition of bygone days. Mr Oliphant, after showing that the fcaatern Jews believe that they are tho living witnesses for the One God, in opposi tion to the Trinitarian dogma, which they state will puccurub to the ever-incrcaaiog power of infidelity, states " that ia the

very land iv which Jehovah rerea'ed Himself to His chosen people, they believe that tney are destined again to worship llun unoe-r the roof tree of His restored Teu.pl« " Ko language can be plainer than thin. JNfo one can fail to see from theao words tbut the universal desire of the *.a>-teru Jews is for tho long-expected re turn to tbe Holy Lnnd. a couple more words fiom Mr ulipliant, and 1 have done with him. He states (Page 247) that a Jewish gentleman furnished him with a memoraudum ooDtaiaine; the Eastern Jews' reasons against emigrating to America. One reason was (No 9), " Because it is a violation of the moral and religious in stiucts of tbo ortnodox Jew, who feels that his home is Palestine, to force him to become merged iv the antipathetic life of me \Ye>t, and therefore an injury to his character.

And now a word from a Jewish Journal. The "Jewish' Chronicle" published In London, will be considered quite as good an authority aa the "Jewish world." lua leading article concerning the Eastern que-tion published on August 4(h, ISB2, it says : " The whole oi history would be a mcaninglefS coucomitauce of portentous events, if tiio history of the Jews is never to be consummated by the 'return.'" Then afier referring to the expected rtliximu revival among the Jew.-1, the writer say* :—"lt is ttie close coimictioii of ilio letuai with these gre:it subject* tnat lenos such a halo to the sli^lite-t prospect uf it." The editor of the suiue journal, in another number, thus wrot» concerning tho poor persecuted Eastern Jews: -"For them the return to tho Holy Lmui hus become something moro th.vi an aspiration ; it is now with them a Used intention, which they are bent on carryint; out." Notwithstanding all the attractions of Auiericau opportunities, tins persecuted Jews of the East of Europe prifcr to dwell in the Holy Land rather than prosper elsewhere." Ho also added, "That such a movement deserves our sympathy, none can doubt. The yearning for the Holy Land is only quenched in J=ws by the temptations of material prosperity. Palestine has been the ideal of Jewish hearts sinca Jews lost it. It is tcarcely too much to sny that the return is be^inding under our Very eye* in this c>loni.-iiag tendency of the KURsian refugees." These quotations are amply suilicient to show that this Jewish organ, at any rate, speaks with no uncermiu sound concerning the return t> Palestine. I have thug shown that the stutcments made in the " Jewi>h World " mu?t have either been written by one who was very ignorant of the real facts of the subject, or else he wished to mis lead his readers, for his assertion* are false and without nny foundation. Tho return of the Jews to their own land is a subject most interesting from many standpoint*. The philanthropist, the politician, and the historian are all interested in this question. But to those of the sapie precious faith as myself it is v moac vital qncs'ion, for the old Jewish hope is our hope, ihe Jewish Messiah is our great tuturo Kine and Life-Giver. Hence we are looking for Him to come to arouse the dead and iniraortalUo boththedead and the liviog saiuts, and give unto them poai tions in His great aud glorious kingdom, which lie will set up when He cornea. Hoping you will lind room iv your valuable columns for ttiis."—l am, &c , Christadslphian.

Smoking for Twelve Hours.

A Very Novel Contest with Tobacco

and Pipes.

"I'll bet my money I can do it," was the remark made by a brawny Scot a few days ago to a crowd of men repre senting nearly all nationalities. The men were standing in a saloon con versing on the recent pipe-smokirg match in St. Louis. The result of the talk was a match being made for $25 a side. The con testants are John Anderson and Philip Cunif, a native of the Emerald Isle. A room on Blue Island avenue was selected, and yesterday morning at 10 o'clock was the hour. The men were to smoke for twelve hourß, the one scoring the greatest number of refills when time was called to be de clared the winner. William Johnston was chosen referee, and promptly at the ap pointed hour the singular match began. Anderson selected a light-coloured cut-plug tobacco anil a French clay pipe. Cunif chose a medium dark long-cut leaf tubacco and a common clay pipe. Both pipes held about thirty-six grains. Anderson had his pipe tilled first, aud then taking a match from his pockc', drew it quickly across his hip ; the match ignited, ho applied it to the weed ami began puffing like a locomotive, sending out a small cloud of smoke. Cunif's first match broke, delaying him a second or two. He was more successful with bis second lucifer, and wus soon under way, and muoked nil the faster to make up lost time. la just twenty minutes by the watch Cunif finished his first pipeful and loaded up the second time. Anderson took pletity of timeinueiog up his pipeful, drawing his last wiiiiF a min ute after Cnuif had commenced bis second. Cunif started off too rash, Mnoking at the rate of a pipeful every twenty miuutes for the fi.at two hours. Between the sixth and seventh pipes be took a rest for eight minutes, and thirteen minutes at the end of the fifth hour. A lohger rest was taken at 6 o'clock to allow for supper, at which time tweaty-ono minutes were con sumed. Resuming after supper, Cnmf puffed with greater rapidity for a while,but soon bogan to call for water, with which he rinsed out bis mouth several times. His tongue was beginning to be sore, but he ut tered i.ot a word of complaint until he had finished his twentieth pipe, when he re marked that the tobacco was too strong. Ho continued, however, until the twenty-sixth pipe had been smoked out, and then threw up the sponge at 9 o'clock, 53 minutes and 84 seconds.

Cunif'a tongne and roof of his mouth were bli-tercd badly, and he acted as though he was aorry be ever attempted the feat. Anderson, on the other hand, smoked in an easy, contented manner, never for a moment showing any signs of nervousness or desire to drink, He averaged twenty -four minutes a pipe for the first two hour*, and, after filling his pipe us times, rested for five minutes, His next rest was at the end of the fifth hour, and was for five minutes,; contiuuinsr.he filled and refilled bis French clay—which had, at this time, turnsi several shades darker than at the start— umil, 6 o'clock when he stopped for supper, after which he joyously reseated himself at the beer tab'e and filled his dudeen, cram ming the tobacco down with all his might, and scratched another match across bis trouseis. This operation was continued every few minutes. Having smoked incessantly for three hours and f»rty minutes he took a rest for twelve minutes, lie-urn ing, Anderson continued to puff until it seemed as though he never would stop. No Complaints were made, nor was any water drunk only at the stops. The hands oi the referee's watch neared the hour of ten, but Anderson seemed totally obliyous of the time or anything else. The thirtieth pipe ful was being burned when Johnson called out that twelve hours were uiynui declared Anderson the winner, after which he handed over the stakes. This did not stop the Scotchman,however, who continued smok ing for twelve minutes after the time had been called, Mis tongue showed no blisters of any kind at the close of the match. Anderson said he could have smoked for another twelve hours without feeling any effect, and stands ready to compete with any man in the country in a similar contest. —"Chicago .News."

ODDS AND ENDS.

THE Arab horse i 9 not broken n»i-, fourth year. That's where they dffl&J* tea^ps. But tbe,, Arab hoLl !*">* washed by the average kitchen girl."' 6«t

An officer ln the regular army Wtoa 1 a timid woman because she was iuS the noise of a cannon when I tll** hred. He subsequently married thaH,^ 7T\™ d Bix month« aft«^drhe ta the hall when he^

In rmd-Pawfic the dismal news, cam,,, the passengers on boa. d a steam»UTrtl the ve«el had broken her crank-phTTk* was great grumoliugand griavhw' mubt of which a tiny little maid feit^J her pinafore and said, 'No rn^'

The Court (austerely): "Prisonm k did you have the audacity to bS jj this man s house and rob him ?" PriJ?" piteously): " But, your honour, W?? 1 was before you, you wanted to know!? I could have the audacity to rob aZ» the highway at high noon. When T,£ Want me to get in my work?" "JW

An Irish gentleman at Doicaster ofo. • in? in the list of horses one called Both* took such a fancy to-the name th«t? betted considerable odds in bis tlm? Towards the conclusion of the r&JT' favourite was in the rear; but, not «t,« put out, he vociferated, bo as to fa*!-' every other voice: "Botherem for SI See how lie drives them all before hiiap

The following is a remarkably neat i, stance of the retoit direct: A hSwj advertised that he, Thomas A ««S no longer be answerable for the delti if. carred by his wife. Thereupon the wife ?' plied: •' This is to notify that I, ElizabS A-—, am able to pay all my own debtaoo* that I nave got chut of Tommy." ■ ■

Dfscribing a new hotel in the Fifn Avenue, »ew York, it is said- "TV waiters are of ineffable elegance, aid if Si tallectual cast of conntenance. xher tel>' like fifradaatea at Harvard. They \S two clean sbirts and two white chofenii day, and change their aprons three (ma an hour, a spot on a bosom or a crewi? a tie involves iustant dismissal." ' ,:

Mr Holmes, hurrying along the. toad for catch a train, hails farmer Jones, who pase him in a gig, and ask» him to xivehimalifti Farmer Jones readily consents, and fort time all goes on well. But the hone1 is ■ frisky, and after shjing at several obiectßin the road, it at last sets off at a gfdlop,\fhlA looks rather like running away, Jjj Holmes is nervous and delicate, and d«i not care about horses under any circmn. stances. " 1 tay, Jones," he cays at list 5 " I'd give ten pounds to be out'of tilif" "Hold yer tongu-, man," replies Jomj '■ Yell ne out for no hina in less thka minute." A predictioo which provedtnift

Jnst the Same.—There was a crowd of carriages iv front of a Woodward a«ime church the other day when a hub aae along, discovered that something fas jjoiag on, and leaning against ahitching.pmt, he asked of a pedestrian : "W&B "it >ety sudden?" "I don't know." "Presnmeit was. Well, we've all got to go Jk{ w«y," : Do you know, sir, that—that j-"; Hew ' bis voice broke down and he reaehcdlothifl handkerchief. " What'a the matter!"«. quired the other. "Young woman's fintal iv there?1' "That's no faneral;tlptfit marriajre l" " Marriage ! Ah— jffl-iit riajje—l see, Well, it's all the s&metomfc Give me the you&g man's name udTil weep over him!"

In a small German town an innVceper, to get rid ot a book-pedlnr'a importuoitia, bought an almanac from him, and, put tian it into his pocket, left the inn, Ms wife just then coming in to take bis place, The woman was then persuaded to boyin almanac, not knowing that her huibami had one already. The hu«band, shortly re. turning, and discovering the trick, leithin. porter to the railway-Btation after the;; pedlar, with a message that he wished to see the latter on important business. "oh| yes," said the pedlar; "1, knotrl He ' wints one of my_ almanacs; bitlreally can't miss my train for that. Y& can girov me half a florin' arid take the iilminac to him." The porter paid the' money, and carried the third almanac to; the inn keeper.

A wag recently consigned to voluntary imprisonment a respectable eldefly gentle man of JCxmouth, wtio labours'under an asthmatic cemplaint. In the garden front ii.g the iovalld's house a flagstaff Is erected: with a vane on the top, a view of whichhhre r commands from his sitting-roofa vrindo*.' During the prevalency of easterly Winds he avoids going out. of doors as much as pos sible. Someone well acquainted with fiw habits, it appears, took an opportunity one aigbt to climb up the flag-taff, nudwilha hammer and nail fastened the vane due east. The con^qmnce was, the old gentle man referred to his vane every (morning, sj was his custom, to see why. quarter,™ wind was in, and not suspecting anything wron?, was kept indoora thirteen dIJJ after it had changed. A yonneman at a social party wU«l*; mently urged to sine a song. He iepit«d that he would first tell a story, ahd.to, if thty still persisted in their demuuL« would endeavour to execute a sdng. When a boy, be said he took lesson* in singing, and one Sunday morning he want "P% the garret to practise alone. Whe&'ia™ 1 cry, he was suddeuly sent for by GMw 1" ---gentleman. "This is pretty conduct! said the father, "pretty employment *»: the son ef pious parsnte, to b? mwioj boards in the garret on a Sunday mommsj, loud enough to be heard by aUthrnem;' hours. Sit down and take yonr boolP The young man was unanimously BtcnWl _ from singing the proposed song. ; *

A sfcock-jobbei\ welt known updn'Chinß sa a tn»n of nnexarapled pJt!lrt6nlji . although poa«e^sed of an immeDse fortnjV one day met n very ponr man, ona.of jfJj, own rclatioDP, "Come h[the r, Georeft^ said tbe mis t, "do you know I'haTS^^. now marie my will, »nd Tem»mbcrea w1 handsomely, ray boy?" " 3od Wessyon brother," said tbe grateful man, "y°a?|s; be rewarded foi po charitable an action, f»^ you could not have though. °'. ,* JJho'' distressed family." "Are yon very poor, George?" "Sk, n>y rjff*?']f starving," said the man almost OjW 41 Harkye then, George, if you ffiil »iy* me a good discount, I will pay yon im W' , diateJy." We nsed not add that theteff' were accepted of, while they parted eW_* pleased with the^ bargain] they h» <\ eluded, 7^

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, MAY, 19, JBB&.

Printed and Published by the Pf*Sfwl Hknkt Brett, of Symonds-streevjvY: General Printing Office, Wyndhannsnv 11 toe Province of Auckland, New Ze«lMf. 1 SMtTBMY, May 19,1883» '

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It is fluid that there are at present 37 actors in Melbourne out of engagement.



A rather amusing incident took place during a recent performance of "Trova tore," at Catano, in Italy. Mdme. Castig lioni, one of the hading vocalists, finding the music was falling ratber flat, advanced to the footlights, and in a loud tone uttered the gracoful sentiment, "AUczait diable." It was necessary to lead the lady forward immediately afterwards, to apologise to the audience, who. not unnaturally, took the remark as intruded for them. Mdme. Castiglioni explained that it was the or chestra to whom the uncomplimentary words were addressed, and the spectators were pacified.