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THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE. He cannot walk, he cannot apeak. Nothing he knows of hooks and men. He is the weakest of the weak. And has not strength to hold a pen; He has no pocket, und no purse. Nor ever yet has owned a penny But hRS more riches than his nur* Because he wants not any. He rules his pnrents by his cry, And holds them captive by a smile, A despot, strong through infancy, A king, from lack of guile, QL He lies upon hie back and crows. Or looks with grave eves on his mother— Re What can he mean? Blit I suppos' They Understand each other, BE f t In doors or out, early or late. There is no limit to his sway, ■ For wrapt in baby rolies of state, B He governs night nud day. BF Kisses lie tukes as rightful due, And Turk-like, bus his slaves to dress M him, in- subjects bend before him, too, 1 in oue of them, tiod bless him! —John Dennis. JUoicilL CRIME. BY WII.KIK f’OI.MNS, Just prior to the American revolu tion, a Bristol trader arrived in the harbor of Boston, having one passen ^ ger on board. This person was a young English woman named Esther Calvert, daughter of a shop-keeper at Cheltenham und niece of the captain of the ship. Borne years before her departure from England Esther had suffered an affliction—associated with a deplor .c *bie public event—which had shaken her attachment to her native land. Free, at a later period, to choose for herself, she resolved on leaving En gland as soon as employment could , sms found for her in another country. ^K*er a weary interval ot expectation, The sea-captain hail obtained a situa tion for his niece as housekeeper in the family of Mrs. Anderkin, a widow lady living in Boston. Esther hud been well practiced in domestic duties during the long illness it her mother. Intelligent, modest, i;, Spd sweet-tempered, she soon became ativoritewith Mrs. Anderkin and the member* of tier young family. The child ren found but one fault with the Mw housekeeper—she dressed invari ably in dismal black, and it was im possible to prevail upon her to give tbe cause. It was known that she was an orphan, and she bad acknowledged that no relations of hers had recently died, and yet she persisted in wearing mourning. Some great grief had evi dently overshadowed the life of the spittle Kngli sh housekeeper. I In her intervals of leisure, she rood K,.became the chosen friend of Mrs. An derkin’s children; always ready to teach them new games, clever at dress ing the girls’ dolls anil at mending tiie boys’ toys. Esther was in one re Bjpect, only not in sympathy with her young friends—she never laughed. One day, they boldly put theqnestion m to her: “When we are all laughing,, ’ why don’t you laugh too?" Esther only replied in these words: “I shall think it kind ot you if you won’t ask me that question again." The young people deserved her confi dence in them; they never mentioned stbe subject, from that time forth. ■ AS But there was another member of le family, whose desire to know .jmetliing of the housekeeper's his jory was, from motives of delicacy, iConceuled from Esther herself. This tt-nm thu fim-pi-ncss—Mrs Anrterkin's |, well-loved friend, as well as the teacher I of her children. ‘ On the day before ho sailed on his homeward voyage, the sea-captain i' Called to take leave of his niece—and jp then asked if lie could also pay his if, respects to Mrs. Anderkin. He was informed that ttie lady of the house ■Pf had pone out, hut that the governess 0 would he happy to receive him. At gktthe interview which followed, they h talked of Esther, and agreed so well in their good opinion of her. that the • captain paid a tong visit. Thegovern ; ess had persuaded him to tell the ■,?- Story of his niece's wasted life. lint he insisted on one condition. ! “If we had been in England,” lie f p said, “I should have kept the matter secret, for the sake of the family. Here, in America, Esther is a stranger p —here she will stay—and no slur will be cast on the family name at home. But mind one thing: I trust to your honor to take no one into your conli dJRse—excepting only the mistress of the bouse.” This was Esther’s sad story: In the year 17012, a young man I named John Jennings, employed as • waiter at a Yorkshire inn. astonished | his master l>y announcing tlmt he was engaged to he married, and that he purposed retiring from service on next quarter day. Further inquiry showed that the young woman's name was Esther Cal vert, and that Jennings was greatly Hjjer inferior in social rank llt-r fa tier s consent in tii- marriage depended | on her lover's success in rising in the world. Friends with money were in clined to trust Jennings, and to help him to start a business o! his own, d hints Calvert's fattier would tin some th. ug for the young j ample on his sale, lie made no object too, ami t lie mar riage engagement was sanctioned ac cordingly. One evening. sn«n the last days of ■ Jennings’ service were drawing to an etui.a genii mran on horseback stopped f at the urn. In a state td great agita lie Informed the landlady that |jh*aa ns hts wav to llml.bui that he had hven so Itqklnwl as to make it Jnqsvssihle for him to continue his tourney. A highwayman hod rubbed j atm of a nurse uni anting twenty gonna* The 'hiefe hue ias usual , tu those days) woe eoaceqfsd ] by a mask, and there was but one rheme of bringing bon to justice. It was the Uavekrt • custom to place a , pmttt mark on every gedd prece that he rarried with him oil a journey, and the stolen guineas might possibly be traced in that way. The landlord (one Mr. Brunnell) at tended on his guest at supper. His wife had only that moment told him ol the robbery; and be had a circum stance to mention which might lead to the discovery of the thief. In the first place, however, lie wished to ask at what time the crime had been com mitted. The traveler answered that be had been robbed late in t he even ing, just as it was beginning to ge‘ dark. On hearing this Mr. Brunnell looked very much distressed. “I have got a waiter named Jen nings,” he said, “a mail superior to his station in life—good in inner* And fair education—in fact, a general favorite. But, for some time past, I have ob served that, be has Peen rather fn-e with his money in betting, and thut habits of drinking havegrown on him. J am afraid lie is not worthy of the good opinion entertained of him by myself and other persons. This even ing I sent him out to get some small silver for me, giving him a guinea to change, lie came hack intoxicated, telling me that change was not to be had. I ordered him to bed, and then happened to look at the guinea which he hail brought back, rnlortunately, 1 had not at that time heard of the robbery; and I paid the guinea away with some other money, in settlement of a tradesman s account. But this I am sure of. there was a mark on , the guinea which Jennings gave hack j to me. It is, of course, possible that liinim itiiirlif 111) I'D Ittnifl fl lMfll'lf /ulill'll ! escaped iny notice) on tlio guinea widen I took out of my purse w hen I sent for change.” "Or, the traveler suggested, "itmay have been one of my stolen guineas, given back by mistake, by this drunk en waiter of yours, instead of tlio guinea banded to him by yoursell. Do you think he is asleep?” "Hiiro to be asleep, sir—in his condi tion.” "l)o you object. Mr. Brimnell, after what you have told me, to set tingtliis matter at rest by searching the man’s clot lies?'' The landlord hesitated. "It seems hard on Jennings,” lie said, "if we prove to have been suspicious of him without a cause. Can you speak posi tively, sir, to the mark which you put on your money?” The traveler declared that he could swear to Ids mark. Mr. Brimnell yielded. The two went up together to the waiter’s room. Jennings was fast asleep. At the very outset of the search, they found the stolen bag of money in his pocket. The guineas—nineteen in number—hail a mark on each one of them, and that mark the traveler identified. After this discovery there was but one course to take. The waiter’s protesta tions of innocence, when they woke him and accused him of the robbery, were lint ly contradicted by facts, lie was charged before a magistrate with the theft of the money, and. a* a mat ter of course, was committ ed for trial. The circumstances were so st rongly against him tliftt his own friends rec ommended Jennings to plead guilty, and apt teal to the mercy of the court, lie refused to follow their advice, and he was bravely encouraged to persist in that, decision by the poor girl, who believed in his innocence with her whole heart. At that dreadful crisis she secured the best legal assistance, mid took from her little dowry the money that paid the expenses. At the next assizes the ease was tried. The proceeding before the judge was a repetition (at great length and with more solemnity) of the proceed ings before the magistrate. No skill in cross-examination could shake the direct statements of the witnesses The evidence was made absolutely complete, by the appearance of the tradesman? to whom Mr. Brimnell had paid tfie marked guinea. The coin (,-o marked) was a curiosity: the man had kept it, and he now produced it in court. The judge summed up. finding liter ally nothing that he could say, as an honest man, in favor of the prisoner. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, after a consultation which was a mere matter of torm. Clearer circumstan tial evidence of guilt had never been produced, in the opinion ot every person—but, one—who was pres ent at the trial. The sentence on Jennings for highway robbery was, by the law ot those days, death on | the scaffold. Ftiends were found to help Esther in the last effort that the faithful crea ture could now make—the attempt to obtain a commutation of the sen tenet*. Mie was admitted to an inter view with tl>e home secretary, ami tier petition w..s presented to the king. Here, again, the indisputable evidence iorhade the exercise of mercy. Km ther's betrothed husband was hanged at Hull. His last wools dccl ired his innocence—with the rope round his neck. Before a year had passed, the one txior consolation that she could hope lor, in this world, found Ksther in her misery. The proof that Jennings hud died a martyr to the fallibility of hu man justice, was made public by the confession of tin* guilty man. Another criminal trial took fit ace at the a-'i.’ -s. *| be landlord of wu mn was loimd guilty of having stolen the j pro|M*rty ol a |s*nmn staying in his house It wa« staled in exddvneethnt tills was not his first offense. He had iseii habitually a rubber on the high wav. am I his name was Urumie(l. 'I lie wretch confessed that he was ! the masked li.gliKay man who ha t stolen the bag «d guinea-*. Biding, by A nearer way than was known to the traveler. In* li id reached the inn llrst, 1 Th«*rw he found a |arson in trade wait ing by np|w>uit llK Ut tor tlweetlh luelit | ol a I* li. Not having enough mom/ , of hie own aiaiut him to pay tie* w lade amount. Ilrnnmtl had in cli* »w of one of live stolen guineas, att*l had only heard the traveler d >'*»* that j hl< mom y was marlo-d after the tradesman had left the house. To ask h r the return of the fatal guinea was more than he dared to at ( tempt Hut on* Iwr alterna* i live presented itself The merciless t ttlUiu injured l.tsowu safety by the m rit, r of an In ms eut man. After the tinie when the sea catitam I had paid his visit at Mrs. Anderkin'a house, Esther’s position became sub ject to certain chances. One little domestic privilege followed another so gradually and so modestly that the housekeeper found herself a loved and honored member of the family, with out being able to trace by what suc cession of events she had risen to the new place that she occupied. The secret confided to the two ladies had been strickly preserved; Esther never even ■-uspected that they kney the Je Elornble story of her lover’s death, ler life, after what, she had suffered, was not prolonged to a great age. She died—peacefully unconscious of the terrors of death. Her last words were spoken with a smile. She looked at the loving friends assembled round her hed, and said to them: "My dear one is waiting for me. Hood-bye.” A Goodly Old Kitchen. A correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune, who has been visiting in Canterbury, writes: "Just outside the gate and across t he way from the shop of tiie potato mid pork merchant’s there stands, ns it has stood for a couple of centuries, t he old Kalstaff Inn. We went in under the n through a low doorway, overgrown with ivy. At the end of the twill was a lovely old kitchen with a floor of cool tiles and a gorgeous dinner ser vice of purple, red, blue and gold dis played in wide racks against the wall, A bright fire was burning, the red coals glowing between the bars of the grate, and a vast, deal of cooking was going on. The kettle is boiling with a fussy effusion like that of a comfortable, home-keeping, good-hearted, mother ly woman, bustling about to get tilings ready for her good man and the chil dren! A leg of lamb was roasting be fore t.lie fire. A string or tliin iron chain, I believe it was, was fas tened from the mantle shelf, and from the other end hung the meat, dangling directly in front of tlie grate bars. A plate was set under Ili'/ll ll lU I tlibkl! INI. Ill i4 Iinu a bit of that lamb, with some mint nance, for my dinner, and I can attest that it was most excellent eating. I. wish I bad some of it at thin moment. A trim young woman, wearing the whitest of mob caps, tlie cleanest of white aprons, stood before the fire broiling a chop. She bail a long-hand led, double t in broiler or gridiron in her hands. The chop was shut up in this*, and she patiently held it before the fire as we would hold up a wet towel to dry, turning it round now and then; and what, with the tea-ket tle, the bursting of the skin of the leg of tiielamb, the siz/.ing of the savory chop, most comforting, if deafening, noises filled t lie cosy room. The girl turned a rosy face at us and smiled comfortably. The smile, the goodly old kitchen, the rows of delf on the wall, the nodding red hollyhocks out in the garden, the recollections of that swinging, jolly old FalstafT, of the charming windows and deep window seats warmed me to the heart with' enthusiasm. Open Your Windows, Friends. From Chambers’ Journal. Directly the sun begins to decline, let every maiden and housewife, and man and woman and child, with an eye for the picturesque, and ft feeling for health and beauty, throw up the Venetian or Parisian blinds. Open your rooms to the glories of the even ing; throw up and pull down the sashes; open wide ail your doors. Let cool breezes enter into corridor and cellar and garret and room; let the "caller” air circulate through every inch of the house hour after hour, while you are getting your evening meal, while you say your prayers, while you think of others after the toils of the day. If it be your price less lot to dwell apart from the city life, and have outside your cottage or villa or mansion, flowers, those lovely gifts of Dame Nature, let scents of rose and t hyme come in at every gap in the hedge, at every rift of the wall, at every cranny of the house—scents of rosemary and mignonette, and laven der and bergamot, and lily and elder berry. Welcome delicate perfume on us cooling, refreshing, healthy mis sion. It is llygcia’s gift—a superla tive boon for the dog days. Ts’ew Piece of Deception. A private representation has recent ly been given in London of a very re markable illusion, the inventor of which is M. Bautier do Kolta, who was tumble himself to appear, but was very nbly represented by Mr. Charles Bertram, a clever “conjurer,” already favorably known to Loudon and provincial audiences. Ot course, a* the true secret of art is to conceal the means hy which it is wrought out, the i i vent or of this latest illusion my sil lies the spectators so that it seems impossible to explain away oraccount in any way lor his very ingenious trick. Mr. Bertram ted on the stage a ytiling Indy of prepossessing npie-ar a nee, who tas seated in aeimir placed ti|Hiit an oiitspiead n* w»paper. through which it was impossible for her to pass down through the stage without leaving a rent in tiie p«i*-i‘. She lias no dose stirrotiudm.* in t lie way oi stage furniture, hy which to conceal her let rea? In any other dim* Unit. A thill tlU veil is thtonnover her, and when, in a few second*, it i» relumed, sht? has dissnppealed, While t he chair in w huh site sat is st ill at and lag on tiie ihis>|ut|wr. The lady is af terward led Oft to IttklVP |||* iTtlf4 V<4l uUtu>h* ul Hit.' lv‘Hn IV t of < : <♦ • * • > *;«» i «> 1***1 f*d « * * I * r t t ■ \ Wit, m in Hfn* % l( t»r I tilt W* » • Km n**o*t,«||« mi ih !i.« f • m * it »* U« Viilltiiki »|4 In* 4tin* (ftlt-ml 41 tit If lit* id«w!•■'»* tU lit* 1 I* 4 ||4dt 4«4l t»f *f tfetMfelUf >uf lit •«»•*♦* til 1 iM4,« * vht* wd *14 • tt*‘*«*iv nnw libt tr«i*C* ffi ' ** *! | f4l«»Mlli4MI. i>hl I • 44449H4 •«!. u»l *«U*&*4 »l|l» »I4»|>'« * .wits i* mi * *>«• iu* ntitf K wf v - *•« f*i Ktiiim JOHN RANDOLPH. ftnaafp About Him Inatanrat of HI* Ar rofaroa ami Intuitu—llomlntacoueos of Ilia Uoali. \V<t(thington Letter to Cleveland Lender. I have been much interested lately in the study of John Randolph of Roanoke,and nowhere do I find a bet ter description titan in the private memoirs of Ogle Tayloe, one of the rich old citizens of Washington, who published his recollections some time ago, exclusively for the use of his friends. These stories of Tayloe have never gotten into general circulation. He published only a very few of his books, ant! they never got into ttie stores. Reading them is like looking over some old manuscript diary of the past, and from their pages you can get more real truth as to the pri vats life of our great statesman than from history. The following letter I quote freely fromTayloe's hook about Randolph, and in many instances ver batim:— “John Randolph.” says Mr. Tayloe, “was unquestionably a man of genius, of rare eloquence, and high literary at tainments. llis penetrating and m«b lilliious voice was wonderful (though not equal to Clay's) its low notes reaching every part of t he largest hall. He and Clay were rivals in eloquence and debate. They represented op posing political parties and principles. The one a pat rician by t»irt li, I lie oth er sprung from thcpeople. Doth were born in Virginia. There were giants ill those days, Randolph started in life as the t ribtine of the people, a fob lunur in iii’iin nun, mil, u in 11 <v •» ii'i' * himself, lie changed some of his opin ions, and became aristocratic, proud, and overbearing, lie prided himself on the forte and style of an 1'nglish gentleman. He dressed well and ap propriately, importing In* dot lies from Kngland. When lie rode his blood horse—the wiiy lie usually moved—he wore leath"r breeehes and white tons. He drove his phaeton, his servant fol lowing on horseback, or was driven in bis ‘chariot and four,' the carnage and harness from Longaerc. London, lint, in some respects, Mr. Randolph was a lusiis Datum-. Tho Hon. Richard Rush, in a controversy, described him, not inaptly:— “ ‘A-florid, loan nnd lank. That moved uponuspindlo shank.' "Mr. Randolph was tall and thin, as straight as an Indian. He walked like oi.e, and prided himself on his descent from Pocahontas. He was quick at repartee, und unsparing ill satire.” ‘‘For meanness and pretension ho expressed the greatest scorn. A few examples will suflice. In one of his walks along Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington, he was overtaken by an obese gentleman, pulling from bis exer tion, with tint remark: ‘You walk very fast, Mr. Randolph.’ ‘lean walk a little faster,’ was the reply, striding away from him. A sycophant follow ed Inin to a coachmaker s repository and volunteered bis opinion on a close carriage. ‘Please examine the Interior, said Mr. Randolph, and then fastened him in and walked ofT. A iierson meaning to be very civil to Mr. tandolpli, on meeting him ut Rich mond, said to him, ‘I lately passed by your house.’ ‘1 hope, sir, you’ll al ways puss it by,’ was Mr. Randolph’s reply. On his being a prosecutor in the celebrated trial of Judge Chase, it was remarked to him, by a supple M. C., ofhis kinsman, tho nc complished gentleman, David Meade Randolph, whose testimony favored Judge Chase, that ,*it was not to be relied upon.’ ‘I would sooner believe Mr. Randolph’s word,’ was the reply ‘than yours, sir, upon your oath.' In repiy to a sophomorical sort of mem ber ot Congress, who had eulogized Mr. Randolph's greut talent, concluding with the remark, ‘but were he obliged to take bis heart, with his head, lie would prefer to remain as lie is,’ Mr. Randolph, with mock humility,depie CAted the praise, ‘although coming from one of high moral qualities of the honorable gentleman; but if I were iu nave litre nui'i, rv « II n un It ih noble heart, 1 too should prefer to remain us I am.’ In the war of 1H12, a pretentious politician, a militia general, at a dinner party, boasting of our American prowess, used the word 'we.' He was silenced liy Mr. Randolph's reply: ‘l»id you say we, Cieneral?’ To another general, in debate on the lloor of Congress, lie ha' ingbeen unfortnnat.oinanattenipt to invade Canada, and then making an onslaught on th« Secret ary of War, Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Randolph replied by quoting from Ills proclamation, with significant emphasis: 'The gentle man is at last carrying the war into the enemy’s country.’ One of the earliest speeches Mr. Calhoun made iti t ongress, was to assail Mr. Randolph for his ‘audacity in comparing himself to’lie great lairdChn>ham.’ Mr Ran dolph modestly disclaimed the preten sion, tail added 'In one thing we aril alike,’ |eimtiug his Auger to Mr Cal houn, 'every scot I lid tv! n‘-«ail* me ' An able, hut a lain IUem!*er of lim . ta ■», attacked Mr Randolph III de h.i'a. He merely replied, to theother* great holts nation 'Tray, IPanthe, aie Sweetheart all hark at me.' '* The distinguished Mr I'lcamint* r* >lved to avenge an m*olt, mid pi "it«*| hinisrlt in front of Mr Ran tl> ih, on the main * n et in Rich* uu.imI. xiying' * i don't get out of the s.iv lur * (|-—4 rascal.' 'lint I 4o,‘ w • Mr, l>andol(>h‘s prompt reply, st> ppuig a*sit. Mr I'lmiiiit Ikighel ah I tv kliowhslgeii him,•'(< Israleo lie <i t Mr, ltan*t<> i h wr « after wants on h teily terms VV i.so l.ool flioogltaui » < t>*nt on the halt*.! vote to l.u glsnk a s- heme of his OWH, he Utel M It.imloipi, it a fa*i Mialift, linnet pad) ill lewnhia hii<I imput'd of him t • ..hi hi* t ewilrv ataMit the ha,lot. Tine reply was: ‘Inmy state, \ » gotta,there hate be* it mau) Itwlhk t - •tires, hot w» net er had liters sti. ti a <>ka*»ae to propose Hie hattot The soi>|ect t|itipped \n I iqinli friend, n.' ,t,,c Mr. lUmto t».. in cm * v i the parks ofT-ondori asked him ‘his opinion of England.’ Just then a splendid equipage passed by, as a miserable pauper asked for alms. Mr. Randolph, with a significant gesture, replied: * It is a heaven for tiie rich, a purgatory for tho middle class, and a hell for the poor.' ” "Mr. Randolph's arrogance and in sults made him many enemies. Duels and challenges were the result. In one he wounded the distinguished General Taylor, of Norfolk. They were then young men. Mr. Randolph had the advantage of being considered a great shot. He was far from it, though he made a great show of his guns and dogs. When about to fight the dis tinguished M. C., Mr. Kppes, Gen eral Breckenbridge, of Virginia, was requested to prepare Mr. Ran dolph by a little practice for the conflict. He recommended to the dis tinguished Mr. Crawford, of Georgia, who was to be the second of Mr. Ran dolph on tho field, ‘by ail means to arrange tho matter, for Mr. Randolph can not hit a barn door!’ An accom modation took place. On making up with Mr. Clay, aftcy his bullet had rent Mr. Randolph's flannel dressing gown, that lie wore osi the occasion of their duel, he said: 'Mr. Clay, you owe me agown.’ Clay promptly replied: ‘I nm glad I uni not deeper in yourdebt.’ Thera was a correspondence that Inis never been revealed to but a few, bo tween the Hon. Daniel Webster and Mr. Randolph, in which there was an invitation to thu field, hut the moot ing was prevented by the interposition of friends, in which Colonel Renton took an active part.” "Some curious anecdotes are t ola of him of a different character from those narrated. He was a great whist play er, and would devote whole nights to t he game it he found congenial spirits. Here is a ease in point: Governor Ed ward Lloyd, then Henator from Mary land. during a session of Congress at Washington, about the 1820, had a whist party at his lodgings, the pres ent Hillard's Hotel, then kept by Ht rot her. This party consisted of Mr. Randolph. Mr. Clay, and General Gibbs, of Rhode Island, besides thu host, Governor Lloyd. Mr. Randolph and Mr. (lay were partners the whole evening. They were winners. Yet months afterwards Mr. Randolph fancied he had won $20 from Mr. Clay on that occasion, and reminded him of it. Mr. Clay blandly replied, ‘if I had remembered the debt f should certainly have paid it.' ‘You surely owe it/ said Mr. Randolph. Without a word more, believing in hie thorough conviction, Mr. Clay forth with paid thu money, though sure lie had not lost it. ‘In these matters,’ on Mr. Clay’s telling me. t he anecdote, he said, ‘1 feci 1 am beyond re proucli.’ ” i “Mr. Randolph treasured up wise saws, and was happy in their applica lion. lie was well versed in Roche foucnult. His landlord* Dawson, be came needy. Mr. Randolph Hsked for his b II and payed it. Dawson in alarm, inquired if he had taken offense and meant to quit the house. Mr. Randolph replied: ‘1 intend to leave; as we shall part friends, and as I enter tain respect and regard for you, I fear from my knowledge of mankind that in your altered circumstances something might arise to change my opinion of you, so we had best part; and Mr. Randolph removed to other quarters. He gave currency to a Spanish proverb, ‘Save mu from my friends, I can guard against my enemies.’ Hu felt deeply wounded by the imputation put upon his chivalry, and suid: ‘I shall never again take I refuge under the communion table.’ j The evening preceding his duel with | Mr. (.'lay, his seconds, Messrs. Tatnall 1 and Hamilton, called upon him to , make the last arrangements. They found him reading Milton; and he j entered upon an essay on its beauties, j from which he could not he diverted j until the hour was so late that very 1 few words were said about the duel or j anything else. He was adroit in extricating himself from difficulty. Ho had one with thOcelehrated Mc | Duffee that threatened serious conse quences. The South Carolina orator I returned more than a Roland for Mr. ; Randolph's Oliver. On the next day, : premnt unity announcing the death ol ; the dying Pinkney, Mr. Randolph elo i quontly referred to his hallowed grave around which no resentments could ' he maintained, that he tell none, and made such an appcul to Mr. McDuflev i that lie responded in the same spirit, producing an immediate reconcilia i lion. Mr. Ran lolpli was one of the committee to count the votes of the house that exactly elected Mr. Adams to tiiu presidency; not oi.a too runny or one too lew. Mr. Randolph at once exclaimed, so as to he heard over the whole legislative hall, amt that was as silent as a church: ‘The cards are stocked” in this way was anticipated the proclamation of the count. After Clay and Webster had retired from i congress, a distinguished member Iron Vermont said to me: 'Randolph 1 is head and snouldvrs above any mail iu the house."' Tho I’mtrtcoH (trout ML tube*. Somebody has condensed the mis takes (if tile, and arrived at Ihs con clusion that there arc four! ecu of t hem. | Most people would say, if they told ■ the truth, that there was no Iwuit to | the mistakes of hie; that they Were { like drops hi l!m mean or the sands' j tiie shore in nunttw<r, hut it is wed to hem urate. Here, then, are four* I ' teen great mistake* It is a ircal mistake to »el up our owo standard ol right and wrong, ami judge js oplu ' accordingly; to measure tiie vtijuy inctit of otiier* by our own; to evjset uniformity of opinion in tins world, to look lor jmkitnent ami ri.s-iunite in \ nut h to endeavor to mold all d*» ; im-nton. alike, to yield lotitonaiertai ; tritks, to look for iwifnium m onrj | own art hot*, to worry egn»lvM ami I o - iters with what isi: not I**- rent *k* I, j not to alter miv all that molt adev la 1 (ion a* far as less in our i-issi, not j Vo make allow nice* for tire in a mil t tv i of niiwr*. to rounder everything tin ts s-itde that we uni not pet form, to (rebele only what our finite mindsraw prep to evp-t t to tie ah'v to urn Ur .-l«n l sissg inmj,—New kutk *n»». THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON III. JULY 19—THE ARK COES TO JERUSALEM. Golden Testi "Oh Lord or Host! lllHird la the Men Who Troateth In Thee* — 1 Hainoel 61*18 — Developing He* llglon. _ ODAY we study another epoch In the unfolding of Cod'* Kingdom In th* kingdom of Israel, lie llglon and Its Institution* had been greatly neg lected during Haul's later days. Now, under Ilavld. Is Inaugurated a deep and U all-pervasive revival of religion. In tills lesson we may study the causes which lead to a decline of the religious life, the means by which It may lie restored: the way* In which the religious Ilfs Is cherished snd strengthened end the blessings which follow. The section Includes simply the lo . Idrnt of Hie text, together with what David did for the development of the religious sei vices of the nation. Historical Selling.—"Time." It. C. 10*2. tlx or seven years after David became king over nil Israel. I. "Again " after the great assembly f >r his coronation. “David gathered together " after consultation with the leaders ll Chron. id: 1 41. "Thirty thousand," representa tive* it tin whole people. According t> Chronicles, they came us far as from Hhl hor, llfly miles south of (lava, and from ID multi in Lebanon, 3!i0 miles north of Jerusalem. 3. "And Dnvld arose, and wont * • * from Dnale of Judah." The assembling »t liHule Is omitted, and the account begins with l|n great procession as It started on ll* wuy with the ark. Iiaalo Is an ancient linin' for Klrjttth-Jnuriin (forest eltyt (1 Chron. 13: til. See Place, "Whose name .It railed." Heller, as In It. V., which Is called by the name. "Tho Lord." Wherever In our vtTflon Lord Is written In capitals It Is the translation of Jehovah. "Lord of hosts," The laird of all the forces In the universe, organized to do hts will- the host* of lieuvcii and the hosts of earth, nil the forces and power* of nature. "That dwell eth between the cherubim," I. c,, Ibe alild log manifestation of whose presence wo* from betwiru the cherubim (the symbolic figures) on the mercy-seat over the ark. II. "And they set the ark of God upon a new uirt." probably from a resemblance of the way It was brought from the Philistines to Klrjathjearlm (I Ham. 4: 7); but that woe by thi Phlllstlnoa, who could have no knowltdgc of the law. "Drought It out of the louse of Ahluadab:” In whoso son's (are the ark hud been placed (I Ham. 7: 11. seventy years before. "That was In Glbeah;” rather on the hill (1 Ham. 7: I) f>. "And David und all tho house of Israel ployed." 'lh< Hebrew verb means to dsme to music vocal and Instrumental. (Hee Judy, lo: 3f>, and Jcr. 30: 19: I Chron, 13: K).—Cook, "On all manner of Instru ment* made of fir wood." The expression Is a strange one. Probably we should adopt the reading of tho parallel passage In I Chronicles, with all their might and with ringing. The Hebrew words are very simi lar, and the I.XX. text supports the change. Cambridge Dlhle. "Harps:" David’s fa vi/rlts instrument, probably closely resem bling the modern liurp. "Psalteries:" lyres or lull.*, formed of strings eight nr ten. strained over a parchment, and probubly resembling a guitar. "Timbrels” seem to have denoted primarily the tambourine, and generally all Instruments of the drum kind which were In use among the Israelites. "Cornets:" a loud-sounding Instrument made of a horn of a rain. "Cymbals:" brass Instruimnts of percussion. (I. "And when they came to Nuchon's threshing floor." Nachon means smiling and tho Ihrcnhlng floor was thus nam'd after tbln event, beeause here was the smiting of Uzxab. In 1 Chronicles 13: 9 it is called the threshing floor of Chldon. the dart, the stroke with which Uzxah was smitten. Tho place Is unknown, bm prob ably It was not far from Jerusalem. "Cantab . put forth Ills hand to the ark of God:" to steady the ark and knep It from falling. "Tor the oxen shook It;" by stumbling In the rough road (1 Chron. 13: 9). 7. "And the anger of the laird was kin died:" not passion, but rather Indignation. "And Gcd smote him there:" on the spot, as with a flash of lightning. Hee the 39th Psalm, which Is connected In the Heptuaglnt. by Its title, with the removal of the ark. "Kor his error," an error which to hltn was u crime. “And there he died.” The rea sons lor this severity wero: (1) That It grew out of u procedure which was In direct vio lation of an express statute (Num. 4: 13: 7: 9), which required that the ark should he carilcrl by Levttes. David and those In care of the ark should have known this law. S. "And David waa displeased." With God? It does not say so. With the break ing up of hla pirns for which he had taken so muih pains; with the failure of hlj hopes; with the public rebuke of his con duct, 9. "And David was afraid of the Lord." He had rejoiced greatly In his zeal, but had not been reverent enough. It wu.t well for him to te afraid for a time. 10. "Ho David would not remove the ark." He feared lest he might make some other mistake, and that It would be best flrst to learn ill u bout duty, "Carried ll aside Into the house of Obed-edoiu." A Levlte belong trig to the family of Kohalh (1 Chron. 34 I, 4-s, with Num. 14. 1). who was aprolnt ed to have charge of the tabernacle and ark (Num, t 4D. It was not more than shre > or four miles Irotn Jerusalem. "The till tile:" I. *.. Gatblte, so culled beesusa h - was a native of the Levltlcal city tlath-r m ire u. 11. "Centlnued • • • three month-." la'Ug enough for the leraelltes to learn their le-etou. "And the Lord blessed Obed-edom. and Ul Ilia household." This would shew t* all Ivraet that the ark Itself brought bleis Itrg not death. Th* death earn* from dis obedience not from the ark. Another te* •on was also taught. The ark of the Lord bad been In the house of Ablnadab seventy teats and »* do not read erf any particular Oraodlithr. tailing upou that house. 13 A d it was t'.ld King Dae Id " ate. The fact that Uad blessed the place tiers the- ark was loti reseed ilavld with the trtitlt that, while 1. was danger >us to disobey Orel, yet II wee the greatest bit-eel,.a poseehie t' have near bit* the ark of Gen) and his ttits, licit precee.ee. go Ilavld went and brought up tie ark ed God," aeecteebllhg the tribe* tehee lew ra the meet eminent vrisste. the tit,w*r ed the army, the princes amt digit* lartss- lute the -He el tuist with gL4 teer.1' A fitter let,, lip*: >t el tfltl* hell'll pit... vies Is given In I I'krtwkles choir tera te and 14- It err th* a realist day of Ita,id • ItK Its elgt* (*•»«*» tu hla career te euai ked tv h e own pro wastoent poteiteew— vebuuarar poet mtest*tan priest in 'tag. I twits tel l ktnnssllt. A t ‘h In Judgeel by hi# norhs," inti tbu Christian trllihMi by tig Irttlla. hi ’h uptight men and nubias stamen, ky the Heart; ru gktl saint* ll yiutlr: tp, uttil lastly, 11 |g Judgwl byr tin »«d«f tb4 p tavrg <il»v 9 nlher Kviahnn I elllHlel i r iMtti MU «r tftoi •« asft Mid*