cheerful as I could, so I said, "Well, Sister genitor was found first in the reign or Anne, if it were not for the child who is now asleep in the next room, I would be inclined to fancy our finding the advertisement, and then going up to London, had

been all a dream.'

George I., while ours claimed near relationship with the good Bishop Hooper, of martyr memory in the Reformation days. I have reason to think this grieved her very much; and then my husband always calls 'Madge," and she never liked that. For my part, I never knew how much I loved the words "dear Madge," until their sound became a part of my daily life.

"Not so to me, Sister Margery," she said.me "It has been wakening from a long dream, a very long dream, in which I dreamed that I was right and all the world was wrong. I cannot tell you what a deep, strong lesson it was mine to learn in London; to thank God fervently for preserving me from a dreadful lot in life, to see the hand that has led me all through, and broken my idol before my face. With loving-kindness have I drawn thee.' O yes, dear sister, it was 'something to my advantage,' do not doubt it; better than all the gold and silver our cousins Thornberry have got."

I had less reluctance in leaving Sister Anne now, as I saw that our little niece Fanny was giving fair promise of growing up to be a most dear and loving little companion; her mirthful, childish spirits far more than compensated for the loss of my society; and in pleasantly watching the unfolding of her young mind, each year of my dear sister's life yielded more happiness; and tranquilly looking forward to a genial old age-bers cared for by Fanny, and mine by my dear husband-instead of the desolate prospect we two lonely old maids once had, I now lay down my pen.

It was not very long after these events, when our old neighbor, Mr. Sternborough, came back from London to live at Westcott. I forgot to mention before, that, having heard accidentally of our being in London, One word more. With my husband's he had called to see us at the Golden Sheaf. characteristic thoughtfulness, I have since He had at one time, during our father's life- discovered that, though fully aware of all time, been very intimate with our family; the particulars of our London visit, he never, and it was not very long after his coming by the smallest word or hint, betrayed one back when he asked me the same question single circumstance connected with it to our he had done many years before, and I an- neighbors; and my sister was thus spared swered him, as I had once wished to do; for, since those days in London, when Anne had been so weak, and I, comparatively speaking, strong, I had gained courage to act decisively for myself, and as Sister Anne no longer noted the little things, I took upon myself the greater one, and before long I said Yes to good, kind Frank Sternborough. I do not think Anne ever liked it well she sighed, and said nothing for two hours after Mr. Sternborough told her. His family was not as old as ours; his pro

the gossip otherwise called forth; and our bringing Fanny back, and our new black dresses, had always afforded sufficient explanation of our journey. As to good, kind Mr. Burrows, Mr. Sternborough found an opportunity not long after of obliging him very effectually, for which Sister Anne and I felt very grateful; for it was no small burden on our hearts to think of the debt of kindness we owed him, which only in kindness could ever be repaid.

PERFUMES IN AN INDUSTRIAL SENSE.-About | for its cultivation of roses. Nor is this exten160,000 gallons of perfumed spirits are annu- sive use surprising, when we consider the quanally consumed by British India and Europe, in tity of flowers necessary to produce an essence; the manufacture of odoriferous compounds. a drachm of ottar of roses requires two thouOne French house alone annually uses eighty sand rose blooms. This, however, is nothing to thousand pounds of orange flowers, sixty thou-jasmin; the price of its essential oil is £9 the sand pounds of cassia flowers, fifty-three thou-fluid ounce. Of course there is a good deal of sand pounds of roses, forty-two thousand pounds "manufacture" going on with the more expenof jasmin blossoms, thirty-two thousand pounds sive perfumes. The rose-leaf geranium does of violets, twenty thousand pounds of tuberose, duty for the rose; the perfume of the magnolia sixteen thousand pounds of lilac, and other is superb, but practically it is of no use to the odorous plants in still greater proportions. manufacturer, from the scarcity of the plant Flower planters exist in the south of France, and other causes; the purchaser, however, gets Turkey in Europe, Turkey in Asia, and India. a combination of half-a-dozen articles instead, Nor is England without this branch of cultiva- and if he is satisfied with his "essence of magtion. At Mitcham, in Surrey, lavender is ex-nolia," who has any right to complain? The tensively grown, and produces a plant unri- perfume of the lily and the eglantine evaporate valled in the world-four times the price even to such an extent, under any known treatment, of French lavender; and the same spot is noted that they are never used.

From Household Words.

THE LOST ENGLISH SAILORS.

IT has been said, "There is an end to all things. We have paid our debt to Sir John Franklin and his missing crews." The truth is, that we have but just earned the means of paying it. Any question that may now arise as to the propriety of making final search for the survivors or remains of the lost expedition, all knowing at last distinctly where to seek, is simply the question whether, now that we are able to pay in full our debt of honor-and of more than honor, of the commonest humanity-we are to leave it undischarged upon some plea of a statute of limitations.

years, bring them back to their homes. What does it matter? That there can be any such men we do not believe, or, if there be, we care not for them, and we care not for what they could disclose. There is an end to all things. We have paid our debt to Sir John Franklin and his missing crews. The search is perilous, and we will have no more of it.

We hold this line of reasoning to be unsound in every particular. Let us begin with the peril that is to deter us from the sending out of that small band of volunteers whose labor for a single season would most probably suffice to bring our long search to a proper end. What is this peril, that it Sir John Franklin, one of a gallant com- should scare us? During the last year or pany of one hundred and thirty-eight men, two we have been accustomed to hear, withsailed for the polar seas in the spring of the out flinching, of as many men killed in a year eighteen hundred and forty-five. He day by battle and by blunder as have perwas heard of the next summer, and then ished in pursuit of knowledge or on missions never more. As one result of search, how-of humanity at either pole, for aught we ever, it was found that his ships had entered know, since the creation of the world. But Barrow's Strait, where there were distinct for the result of the Franklin expedition we traces of their having been laid up for winter should have had reason to consider Arctic in the neighborhood of Cape Riley and voyages not very dangerous to life, though Beechy Island. An active search for further no doubt sharp tests of human wit, and vestiges of the course these travellers had skill, and powers of endurance. Not a few taken, and for exact tidings of their fate, has ships have been lost; but, of the crews that since been carried on at sundry times by have gone out-except the one catastrophe twenty vessels and more than a thousand that closes and a lesser one that opened the men. The searches had already shown where long story of adventure at the Pole-more they are not, when from the borders of almost men have lived than might have lived had the sole remaining spot in which a search they remained at home; and they have lived was possible, came startling intelligence that and learnt what they could not have learnt there they are. Hereupon, there are some at home. Shut up in Arctic monasteries, people who profess that they are satisfied. with no monkish souls, men have learnt enNow, they say-now that we know where to ergetically to respect and help each other, find what we have been seeking, we still think to trust in each other, and have faith in God. the man a mere enthusiast who would require The entire series of books written by Arctic that we should take a step towards it. Let sailors, except only one or two, bears most it lie. Sir John Franklin and his companions emphatic witness to the fine spirit of manwere declared dead in the London Gazette hood nourished among those who bear in nearly three years ago. It is almost twelve company the rigors of the frozen sea. years since the men thus officially extin- all the brave men who have left our shores guished left our shores. They are all bound to seek the lost crews of the Erebus and to be dead. Why should we look for them? Terror, there have died no more than by disWe care not that posterity should be told ease or casualty would have died had they how they died. Dr. Rae tells that they been during the same length of time living died cannibals, and he says he repeats this quietly in London. There has been lost, by statement on the authority of Esquimaux accidental death, only a single officer, Lieuwho say they got it by report from other tenant Bellot. All England grieved for Esquimaux. Other searches have shown him; and by the common mourning for his reason to suspect that some of our missing death England and France were knit in friends were murdered. Others, again, closer brotherhood. We have lost several have reason for believing that a few of the lost voyagers may still be alive, as preferring to starvation, the companionship of the poor savage tribes. They may be living in their snow huts, eating seal and walrus; never losing the belief that England seeks, and will not seek in vain, to rescue them, and will, although it may be after many

Of

vessels, chiefly because we sent out five under a commander who has since proclaimed in a book that he was unable to apply himself to work in the true Arctic temper. But even for the lost wood and iron we have compensation. One of the deserted ships, the Resolute, drifted to sea, and, having become an American prize, gave to the

United States an opportunity of doing a had strayed from a party which, having right deed so thoroughly, and with so gallant landed at Port Warren, built a house there, a courtesy, that, at a time when vexed topics and went afterwards inland. The Esquimaux, were chafing the two brother nations who supplied Dr. Rae with information, against one another, the ship became the said, as we need hardly remind any one,means of showing both how truly they are that thirty white bodies had been found dead friends. The very accidents of Arctic enter- on the mainland at the mouth of Black prise have thus tended to promote peace on River, and five on Montreal Island; that earth as surely as its daily effort strengthens there were stores also; and that the men good-will among men. had fed upon each other before they died. We need say no more, then, of the dread" None of the Esquimaux with whom I conof peril. A thousand sailors have gone out versed," said Dr. Rae, "had seen the in search of Franklin, and have come home whites, nor had they ever been at the place again. But they had narrow escapes. where the bodies were found, but had their Truly, they had. They went out to face information from those who had been there, peril, and they faced it. Between narrow and who had seen the party when travelescape and no escape there is all the differ- ling." Dr. Rae's interpreter became anxence that there is between life and death. ious to join his brethren, and did afterwards Surely we are not to be scared, by escapes escape to them. Mr. Anderson, who was from danger. Probably, there is no man sent out to confirm Dr. Rae's report, found, forty years of age who has not, at least five on the ground indicated, so far as he or six times in his life, narrowly escaped be- searched it, during a too hurried visit, more ing killed. The instinct of self-preservation, evidence that men belonging to the lost with the help of his five wits, has brought crews had been there, but no bodies or him through them all. Take that instinct graves. He supposed the bodies to have away, and there is as much peril of death been covered by drifting sand, on which to the landsman from the omnibuses in Lieutenant Pim observes," How was it then Cheapside, as to the seaman from the floes in Barrow's Strait. Where the peril is more certain, the guard is the more constant, there is more presence of mind; and so it is that great risks often prove less dangerous than little risks. And all this while we talk of death as if it were extinction; as if Christian men might reasonably turn back through fear of being overtaken by it, while engaged in the performance of their duty!

the drifting sands did not enshroud such small articles as pieces of rope, bunting, a letter-clip, &c., &c., picked up by him?" And Mr. Pim remarks further, that when he crossed Melville Island in 1853, he found, at Point Nias, the bones of ptarmigan and other remnants of a meal left by Sir Edward Parry three-and-thirty years before. We put no faith in the drift of sand.

Thomas Mistigan, one of Dr. Rae's exploring party, came home with the impres sion that" perhaps one or two of Sir John's men may be still alive and among the Esquimaux. That Sir John Franklin himself lives, it is too much to hope. That all struggled to live on any thing rather than die by starvation or suicide, is certain.

The peril talked about is not, therefore, too great; and, were it greater, should not daunt us if it be a duty to complete-as we now can the search for Franklin. That this is a duty we, for our own parts, cannot hesitate to think. When Franklin and his companions had been five years from Eng- That some may be still living, we delibland, a body of about forty Europeans, who erately hold to be as likely as that all are must have been part of their little band-the dead. Sir John himself has said in words ships then lost-were seen by Esquimaux which Lieutenant Pim aptly takes as the near the north shore of King William's motto to An Earnest Appeal to the British Land, travelling south. They were then Public on behalf of the Missing Arctic Expemaking for the continent of America. That dition-" Where Esquimaux do live out a this or another party reached land near the fair period of life, it is but reasonable to mouth of Back (or the Great Fish) River, suppose that Europeans may subsist and relics brought home by Dr. Rae-if we re-survive for many years. ject Esquimaux testimony-are sufficient Dr. Kane, when, in his own day of Arctic evidence. Captain M'Clure gives some peril, hope of release seemed to be gone, was slight evidence of Esquimaux, leading us to actually on the point of doing what many of imagine that another party from the ships our countrymen may probably have done. landed, perhaps, on the mainland at Point "I well know," writes the brave American, Warren, farther west. He saw an old, flat "how glad I would have been, had my duties brass button hanging from the ear of a chief, to others permitted me to have taken refuge who said that it was taken from a white man among the Esquimaux of Smith's Straits and killed by one of his tribe. The white man | Etah Bay. Strange as it may seem to you,

we regarded the coarse life of these people with eyes of envy, and did not doubt that we could have lived in confort upon their resources. It required all my powers, moral and physical, to prevent my men deserting to the Walrus settlements; and it was my final intention to have taken to Esquimaux life, had Providence not carried us through in our hazardous escape.”

This last effort may be made by volunteers, who are already eager for permission to proceed upon their way. There are no unknown seas to penetrate, there is no wide stretch of unknown coast to explore, few men are needed for a simple and sufficient undertaking. Lieutenant Bedford Pim volunteers, on the one part, and Dr. King, who from the very first has been pointing in vain to the right course of search, and whose neglected counsels time has justificd, volunteers on the other part. One is prepared to go with a small screw-steamer, by sea, through Barrow's Strait and down Peel's Sound; the other, upon a land journey across North America with bark canoes, and down Back River; the two leaders acting in concert and agreed to meet in the immediate neighborhood of the space to be searched, at the magnetic pole. The proper time for starting upon the land journey would be towards the end of February; the sea expedition should start at the end of June. Each party will be small, and, as they act in concert, both the completeness of the search and the safety of each set of men will be to the utmost possible degree insured.

There are grounds not yet stated here, for believing that the Esquimaux for many miles round the mouth of Back River know more about the white men than they wish to tell us. Captain Penny, who has intimate knowledge of these people and their ways (and who, by the by, states that accusation of cannibalism is one of their common forms of reproach against persons with whom they are offended), Captain Penny was told by them that a large party of white men had been seen and visited some years previously, when they inhabited a large round tent (the Franklin expedition had been furnished with such a tent), and were living upon deer. Several months afterwards, the Esquimaux went to the tent again and found only two men in it. Made talkative with brandy, one of the tribe said afterwards that those white Of other searching parties it is to be men had been murdered; but next day re-regretted that they have gone out together, tracted in the presence of his sister. The but without being united by a common Esquimaux who carried this report to Cap- plan. The first search for Franklin was tain Penny were said afterwards to have by three expeditions. Two of them-one been taken away by eight sledges to a dis- descending the Mackenzie River, and the tance of five hundred miles, and the natives who had been for twenty-eight years on the friendliest terms with the captain, and had obtained great advantage from his trading, absented themselves in an unaccountable way

last season.

So the case stands, and so we cannot leave it. With the more than possibility that Bome of our lost seamen are yet living, with dark hints of murder against Esquimaux which may have no foundation, and with darker hints of cannibalism against some of the bravest sailors and the truest men that ever perished in the service of their country -hints which are in direct opposition to just analogy and experience, and which assuredly have no foundation-with such questions raised, and with a distinct knowledge of what must be done to set them all at rest, we cannot surely leave that one thing undone, and so blot as we turn over the best page of all our history.

A CHEAP SUBSTITUTE FOR A VAPOR BATH. Take a piece of quicklime, half the size of your fist, and wrap round it a wet cloth, sufficiently wrung to prevent water running from it. A dry cloth is to be several times wrapped round this. Place one of these packets on each side the patient when in bed. An abundant humid heat is soon developed by the combination of

other entering the Polar Seas by Barrow's Strait-were to have been united by sledge journeys. The distance between the Mackenzie and Barrow's Strait made this impracticable. Had the two parties met, the land party from the Coppermine would have been acquainted with the movement of both the eastern and the western ships. As it was, sledge parties from different expeditions passed unconsciously within forty or fifty miles of one another; and, at last, two of the expeditions came back safely, bringing no tidings whatever of the third, which for some time was almost given up for lost. In those days, also, the party of forty men seen travelling southward by the Esquimaux must have passed within a few miles of a sledge party from the sea expedition. Had the land party descended Back River instead of the Mackenzie, it would have fallen in with those men of whom now we ask to know the fate.

the lime with the water, which induces copious transpiration; the effect of the apparatus lasting two hours at least. When sweating is fully established, we may withdraw the lime, which is now reduced to a powder, and is easily removed. In this way, neither copious drinks, nor loading the bed with coverings, is required.-Dr. Serle.

THE SAD FORTUNES OF THE REVEREND | the tragedy and the comedy, lying in the

AMOS BARTON.

PART II.-CHAPTER V.

experience of the human soul that looks out through dull gray eyes, and that speaks in

THE Rev. Amos Barton, whose sad fortunes a voice of quite ordinary tones. In that I have undertaken to relate, was, you per- case, I should have no fear of your not carceive, in no respect an ideal or exceptional ing to know what farther befell the Rev. character, and perhaps I am doing a bold Amos Barton, or of your thinking the thing to bespeak your sympathy on behalf homely details I have to tell at all beneath of a man who was so very far from remark- your attention. As it is, you can, if you able, a man whose virtues were not heroic, please, decline to pursue my story farther; and who had no undetected crime within his and you will easily find reading more to breast; who had not the slightest mystery your taste, since I learn from the newspahanging about him, but was palpably and pers that many remarkable novels, full of unmistakably commonplace; who was not striking situations, thrilling incidents, and even in love, but had had that complaint eloquent writing, have appeared only within favorably many years ago. "An utterly the last season. uninteresting character!" I think I hear a lady reader exclaim-Mrs. Farthingale, for example, who prefers the ideal in fiction; to whom tragedy means ermine tippets, adultery, and murder; and comedy, the adventures of a personage who is "quite a character."

Meanwhile, readers who have begun to feel an interest in the Rev. Amos Barton and his wife, will be glad to learn that Mr. Oldinport lent the twenty pounds. But twenty pounds are soon exhausted when twelve are due as back payment to the butcher, and when the possession of eight But, my dear madam, it is so very large extra sovereigns in February weather is an a majority of your fellow-countrymen that irresistible temptation to order a new greatare of this insignificant stamp. At least coat. And though Mr. Bridmain so far eighty out of a hundred of your adult male departed from the necessary economy enfellow-Britons returned in the last census, tailed on him by the Countess' elegant toiare neither extraordinarily silly, nor extra- lette and expensive maid, as to choose a ordinarily wicked, nor extraordinarily wise; handsome black silk, stiff, as his experienced their eyes are neither deep and liquid with eye discerned, with the genuine strength of sentiment, nor sparkling with suppressed its own texture, and not with the factitious witticisms; they have probably had no strength of gum, and present it to Mrs. hair-breadth escapes or thrilling adventures; Barton, in retrieval of the accident that had their brains are certainly not pregnant with occurred at his table, yet, dear me—as every genius, and their passions have not mani-husband has heard-what is the present of fested themselves at all after the fashion of a gown, when you are deficiently furnished the volcano. They are simply men of com- with the et-ceteras of apparel, and when, plexions more or less muddy, whose conver-moreover, there are six children whose wear sation is more or less bald and disjointed. and tear of clothes is something incredible Yet these commonplace people-many of to the non-maternal mind. them-bear a conscience, and have felt the Indeed, the equation of income and expensublime prompting to do the painful right; diture was offering new and constantly accuthey have their unspoken sorrows, and their mulating difficulties to Mr. and Mrs. Barsacred joys; their hearts have perhaps gone ton; for, shortly after the birth of little out towards their first-born, and they have Walter, Milly's aunt, who had lived with mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, her ever since her marriage, had withdrawn is there not a pathos in their very insignifi- herself, her furniture, and her yearly incance,-in our comparison of their dim and narrow existence with the glorious possibilities of that human nature which they

share?

Depend upon it, my dear lady, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos,

come, to the household of another niece; prompted to that step, very probably, by a slight "tiff" with the Rev. Amos, which occurred while Milly was up stairs, and proved one too many for the elderly lady's patience and magnanimity. Mr. Barton's temper was a little warm, but, on the other