The Sketcher.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 233, 26 February 1876, Page 5

The Sketcher.

LAYING THE CABLE. An account of the laying of the cable between Australia and New Zealand has been furnished to the Nelson Daily Times by Mr. Moody, navigation officer of the Hibernia: The steamers Hibernia and Duke of Edinburgh, after arriving at Sydney, were coaled with the product of the Bulli Bulli mines with despatch, and on Tuesday, February Ist,. Captain Cato went l'ound to Botany Bay in the Government steam tug, to examine the landing place, and place a buoy for the guidance of the vessels. On Eebruary 4th, in the afternoon, the cable ships weighed anchoi*, accompanied by Captain Hixon, President of the Marine Board. The Hibernia was then drawing 27 feet of water, and at about o p.m. the anchor was dropped opposite to the cable house, at the place previously marked by the buoy. The next morning (February sfch) everybody was up and doing ; by 4 o’clock the anchor was lifted, and the vessels took up a favorable position for landing the* shore end of the cable. To effect this the Edinburgh sent her boats, well manned, and a good Manilla rope having been previously run out to the shore, a sufficient quantity of the cable was payed into the first boat, which, by means of the rope, was hauled to the land, seven or eight boats supporting the cable (as they did at the landing already described). During this time, on account of the wind, the steamer Mystery was fast to the stern of the Hibernia, keeping her in position in line with the cable house. At 8 o’clock the shore end was successfully landed, and the Hibernia proceeded carefully and slowly out of Botany Bay, keeping well toward the south head to avoid the Bum--bora, Rock, the monuments erected to Captain Cook and La Perouse serving as first-class land-marks to shape the course by. By 10 o’clock the five miles of heavy shore end (14 tons to the mile) was paid out. The first intermediate cable was then commenced, the weight of this is 4 tons to the mile, and the twelve miles of this being laid the second intermediate, of less weight, was commenced at noon. Observation proved the vessels’ position to be 34T6T7 south lat., 151'24'25 east long. All the time this was being paid out the Edinburgh was keeping the position assigned to her on the starboard quarter of the Hibernia, and the latter vessel experienced strong southerly currents, for which due allowance was made. The second intermediate cable being exhausted, the deep-sea cable was started (this weighs 35cwt. to the mile), and the Edinburgh was signalled at 3 o’clock to go ahead and take soundings; an hour' later she reported 774 fathoms, but a few hours afterwards the bottom suddenly deepened to 2600 fathoms, the greatest depth sounded during the voyage. (A greater depth was obtained once on the passage, but as there is some doubt about this, it will be verified on the return to Sydney). This sudden deepening caused some apprehensions as to the sufficiency of the cable, but everything went smoothly, and the cable payed out like an ordinary rope. The course laid down in the chart was kept, and solar and stellar observations were assiduously taken. The wind increased to a brisk breeze, the two vessels keeping well in company. The utmost care was displayed in taking meridians to ascertain the strength of the currents, and at noon on the 6th it was happily found that a direct course had been run, the position being 34*45 south lat., 153'49 east long. The vessels’ run from midday of the sth, being 126 nautical miles, the quantity of cable paid out being 156 2 allowing slack for covering in case of accident. On the 7th experienced cloudy weather with strong wind, the Edinburgh still maintaining her position on the starboard quarter. At 7 a.m. arrived one of the critical times in cable-laying—when it is necessary to shift from one tank to anot her ; on this occasion the deep-sea cable in the aft tank was exhausted, and the change was made to the tank forward. The change was made quietly and quickly, and proved the men engaged experts at the business. The vessel was stopped during the time the alteration was made, and then she steemed ahead. At noon, lat. 35*30, long. 156’20 was reached, the vessel having kept the exact course laid down in the chart, the 24 hours’ run being 131*5 nautical miles, and the quantity of cable payed out 148*6. The current was tested during the day by the surface water, and a variation in temperature of six degrees in five minutes was discovered. In the evening the Edinburgh parted company to sound. On the Bth nothing noteworthy occurred ; the steamers passed a British whaling barque steering east, and at noon observations defined the vessel’s position as lat. 36*19, long. 158*58, the distance run in the 24 hours being 137 miles the length of cable payed out being 155*4., Some anxiety was felt at the non-appearance of the Edinburgh, but this was allayed when that vessel was sighted astern in the course of the afternoon, and she gradually drew up. The Hibernia was then paying out at the rate of six miles an hour. In the evening the Edinburgh again went ahead to sound. On the 9th the vessels experienced a light breeze with cloudy weather; at seven o’clock passed close to the Edinburgh, from which vessel the Hibernia received soundings—23oo fathoms. The observations at noon were, lat. 37*4*26, long. 161*41. The vessel had made a 72 degree course, run 138 miles, and payed out in . the twenty-four hours 152*2 miles of cable. At 8.30 the vessel was stopped through the cable in the fore tank becoming exhausted. A shift was then necessary to the main tank, and this was managed as expeditiously and well as on the former occasion. On the 10th, at six o’clock p.m., the Edinburgh was again sent ahead to sound, the weather being pleasant and fine; at noon the position was determined to be lat. 37*32*41, long. 164*40, a 70 degree course having been kept, the run being 150 miles, and the cable cable payed .out

being 156*3 miles. This was the fastest twentyfour.hours’ run made during the passage. . At 5.45 p.m. the Edinburgh signalled soundings 700 fathoms, and the tidings were received with much satisfaction as a proof that the deep water was successfully passed. At this time, however, the weather was threatening; the wind increased until it blew a fresh gale with a heavy southerly swell. On the 11th the weather continued rough and thick with a high sea ; it moderated towards noon. Latitude 38*36, longitude 167*35, by order of the superintendent on board, on behalf of the Cable Company, the course was altered slightly to the northward to get into well-defined soundings. About noon the wind shifted in a heavy squall to the south-west. At 5 p.m. vessel stopped to splice on to the second intermediate sized cable in the aft tank. While this was being effected the Edinburgh took soundings in 267 fathoms. This time the splice was made in the unprecedently short period of one hour and ten minutes, and in less than one hour and a half from the time the vessel stopped she was again steaming ahead. On the 12th the Edinburgh was again sent ahead to sound, and at noon the observations showed the vessel’s position in 39*21*41 lat., 170*43 long*., with a 72 £ course. The distance run being 148 miles, the length of cable payed out being 157*4. At two in the afternoon the Edinburgh signalled 200 fathoms, with a strong breeze and fine clear weather. At 4.30 rounded to and at 4.50 stopped ; at 5.5 buoyed the end of the cable in lat. 39*1, long. 171*19. A marked buoy was placed about half-a-mile to the northward, and the vessels stood off for the night. A 1.40 a.m. stood back to the buoy, and waited for daylight, when it was found that the sea was too high to work the boats, the vessels steamed into Golden Bay, and there, in comparatively smooth water, the transhipment of the staff of electricians to the Edinburgh was effected on the morning of the 14th. On the evening of the 14th the vessels changed positions, and the Edinburgh, attended by the Hibernia, steamed out of Golden Bay to the place where the cable was left buoyed. On the 15th, at 8.40, the Edinburgh picked up and spliced the cable, and then took up the work, hitherto performed by the Hibernia, of paying out. The Hibernia went ahead to the place marked in the chart as the probable termination of the deep sea line, in lat. 40*16, long. 173.18 ; and here, in 140 fathoms, waited the arrival of the Edinburgh. The latter vessel came up, and the two vessels proceeded together, the Hibernia taking soundings until 7.55, when in forty fathoms the end was buoyed, and the vessels came on to Nelson. The steamer Hibernia is a magnificent vessel, specially adapted for cable laying ; her length is 380 ft. with a breadth of 42ft. At starting she carried 1800 tons of dry cable ; but it has to be kept continually under water*, to maintain its temperature, and prevent the lower coils being crushed by the top weight. The tonnage of the vessel is 3500. The Hibernia will leave shortly for England. The Edinburgh will stay in the colonies (most likely in Sydney) for three years, to be in readiness to repair any break that may occur in this or in the Queensland cable, both the property of the same company. A large amount of spare cable remains still on board. CANDID FRIENDS. (From the Globe.) Mr. Pope, on an occasion when he had been speaking of Bolingbroke as “ something superior to anything I have seen in human nature,” and of Lord Bacon as “ the greatest genius that England (or perhaps any country) ever produced,” fell into two striking reflections upon the isolation of remarkable men. “ One misfortune of extraordinary geniuses,” he said, “is that their very friends are more apt to admire than love them and he added, “ When a man is much above the rank of men, who can he have to converse with ?” The world has been invited frequently since Mr. Pope’s time to dwell upon “ the inconveniences of greatness,” and has recognised many more than these ; but Mr. Pope himself, if he could have known how diligently his good friend, Mr. Joseph Spence, was entering in his notebook all the smart things he could gather from Mr. Pope’s lips, and that some day all his own most candid criticisms upon his personal friends would see the light, might well have added one to the number. Mannick is the authority for the statement that “Wycherley was Mr. Pope’s first poet friend ;” and bearing the fact in mind, it is impossible to deny that Pope was a very candid friend indeed when he told, in Spence’s hearing, his well-known story about the Duchess of Cleveland. “Wycherley,” he said, “was a very handsome man. His acquaintance with the famous Duchess of Cleveland commenced oddly enough. One day as he passed that duchess’s coach in the Ring, she leaned out of the window and cried out, loud enough to be heard distinctly by'Tiim, * Sir, you’re a rascal; you’re a villain !’ Wycherley from that moment entertained hopes. He did not fail to wait on her the next morning, and with a very melancholy tone begged to know how it was possible for him to have so much disobliged her Grace. They were very good friends from that time ; yet, after all, what did he get by her ? He was to have travelled with the young Duke of Richmond ; King Charles gave him now and then a hundred pounds, not often.” Nor was the author of the “Dunciad” less reticent in his account of the manner in which Cowley came by his death. “It was occasioned,” he said, “.by a mean accident, whilst his great friend, Dean Sprat, was with him on a vist there (at Chertsey). They had been together to see a neighbor of Cowley’s, who (according to the fashion of those times) made them too welcome. They did not set out for their walk home till it was too late, and had drunk so deep that they lay out in the fields all night. This gave Cowley the fever that carried him off. The parish still talk of the drunken Dean.” Of Prior, Pope expressed the opinion that he “ was not a right

good man,” and fortified it by a strong story ; and he was free to say that “ Sir John Suckling was an immoral man as well as debauched.” “ The Btory of the French cards ” —the story, that is, of Sir John’s getting the makers in France to put certain private marks upon the cards sent over here to be used in high-circle play—“ was told me,” added Pope, “ by the late Duke of Buckingham ; and he had it from old Lady Dorset herself.” His opinion of one of these authorities was expressed pretty plainly at another time, when he said, “ The witty Duke of Buckingham was an extreme bad man,” and gave that account of the Duke’s duel with Lord Shaftesbury and his amour with his Lordship’s wife, which, if true, showed that this estimate did not err on the side of severity. If, however, Spence, who played Boswell to Pope’s Johnson, has handed down to us some opinions that are remarkable for their acridity, he has, in compensation, •given us some that illustrate the kindly humor which was more natural to the author of “ The Rape of the Lock.” Pope appears in a pleasant aspect, for instance, in all his humorous reminiscences of Sir Godfrey Kneller. There is nothing vicious in the anecdote of his daring attempt to over-flatter Sir Godfrey. “ I can’t do so well as I should do unless you flatter me a little—pray flatter me, Mr. Pope ! you know I love to be flattered,” says the painter ; and the poet, not unwilling to oblige, says in French, “ We read in Holy Scriptures that the good God made man in His own image ; but I believe that if He had to make another one now He would make him after that image ” —pointing to the canvas upon which Sir Godfrey was engaged ; whereupon the delighted painter exclaims, “ "Vous avez raison, M. Pope ; pas Dieu, je le crois aussi.” That the picture is not overdrawn appears evident from the account given by the younger Richardson of Pope’s visit to Kneller’s deathbed, when Sir Godfrey being uneasy at the approach of dissolution, Pope told him that as he had been a very good man no doubt he would go to a better place, and Sir Godfrey rejoined, “Ah, my good friend, Mi*. Pope, I wish God would let me stay at Whitton ;” and not less from Sir Godfrey Kneller’s own story, told by him to Pope, who repeated it to Spence, of the dream he had of being dead and going to the gate of heaven, where St. Luke detained him with compliments and embraces in his delight at the arrival of “ the famous Sir Godfrey Kneller, from England,” until he seemed almost to have forgotten the business he had come upon, and so nearly missed his seat in Paradise. The candid friend was in great force in those days, and the author of “ The Essay on Man” did not more freely criticise his friends than they criticised him and each other. Wycherley, for example, said of Shadwell, that in his writings “ he knew how to start a fool very well, but he was never able to run him down;” and Congreve, in reference to Gay’s gormandising powers, wrote to Pope, “ as the French philosopher used to prove his existence by cogito ergo sum, the greatest proof of Gay’s existence is ecli ergo est. ,K Old Jacob Tonson said, “Dryden was very suspicious of rivals. He would compliment Crown when a play of his failed, but was cold to him if he met with success;” and Dennis said that though “Dryden was generally an extreme sober man,” yet “for the last ten years of his life he was much acquainted with Addison, and drank with him more than he ever used to do; probably so far as to hasten his end.” Tonson’s opinion of Addison was only too well supported—- “ Addison was so eager to be the first name that he and his friend Sir Richard Steele used to run down even Dryden’s character as far as they could ;” and Dr. Leigh, who is one of a crowd of witnesses, gives proofs in support of his judgment that “ Mr. Addison was not a good-natured man, and very jealous of rivals.” To complete the circle, Pope said, “ Old Jacob Tonson did not like Mr. Addison. He had a quarrel with him ; and after his quitting the secretaryship used frequently to say of him, ‘One day or other you’ll see that man a bishop ! I’m sure he looks that way ; and, indeed, I ever thought him a priest in his heart.’ ” There was not a man of the whole group who would not have had a reason to say, if he could have lived to see the Rev. Joseph Spence’s note-book in print, “ Save me from my friends !” But the prudence of other and less candid friends kept the note-book out of print nearly a hundred years, and while the delay was no drawback to its usefulness as a guide to the study of the social aspects of the time in which it was compiled, we may take refuge for ourselves in the hope that the “friendly” judgments of our contemporaries upon us may lie perdu even longer than those which Spence recorded. THE TWO NEWMANS. (From the Canadhtn Monthly.) The students of Thackeray will doubtless remember the following passage in “ Pendennis” (chap. 61) : —“ ‘ The truth, friend,’ Arthur said, imperturbably, ‘ where is the truth ? Show it to me. That is the question between us. I see it on both sides. I see it on both sides of the House. I see it on the Conservative side of the House, and amongst the Radicals, and even on the Ministerial benches. I see it in this man who worships by Act of Parliament, and is rewarded by a silk apron and five thousand a year ; in that man who driven fatally by the remorseless logic of his creed, gives up everthing—friends, fame, dearest ties, closest vanities, the respect of an army of churchmen, the recognised position of a leader, and passes over, truthimpelled, to the enemy, in whose ranks he is ready to serve henceforth as a nameless private soldier ; I see the truth in that man as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavors to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares with tearful eyes, and hands up to heaven, his revolt and recantation.’” There is little doubt that this passage referred to the two Newmans—John Henry, the Anglican convert and Catholic

priest ; and Francis W., the professor and fx’ee-thinker. At the time, or some time before, Mx*. Thackei*ay put these words into the mouth of Mr. Arthur Pendennis, Dr. John H. Newman had delivered his famous lectures upon Anglican difficulties, and they had been attended by Thackeray and Miss Brontd, and all the literary and religious celebrities of the day. About the same time, too, Francis W. Newman had published his work on “ The Soul” and his “ Phases of Faith.” The Fellow of Oriel had become a Catholic priest, and the doughtiest of the English champions of his newly-adopted Church. The Fellow of Baliol had become a species of Rationalist. Both had come from the same parents. They had been carefully trained and highly educated. They had great talent. Both were men of grave and earnest minds. Both were devoted to the same absorbing studies. Both had access to the same sources of information. Both, in their early career, had years of doubt and months of darkness —seeking rest and finding none, seeking truth and not finding it ; and in mature years, when the laws of life and mind compelled them into definite beliefs, one took the path to the cloister, the other to the groves of Academe ; and the elder might sadly say to the younger, as the distance between them increased, “My paths are in the fields I know, And thine—in undiscovered lands.” Looking at the grave Greek face of the elder, John Henry Newman, not less than reading his wonderfully calm, clear, cold, logical disquisitions, no one can doubt that he has fixed his faith and has found rest for his whatever may be thought of that faith and that rest. Reading the essays of the other, one finds him still wandering and wondering, hoping, doubting, humanely and kindly dreaming of better times to come for the human race in its development of religious ideas, and for himself some future state, unknown, unforeshadowed, possibly with God in spite of doubt, and an epitaph which shall embody the verse of the Laureate— Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out, There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Those two men illustrate in their lives, each now near its close, and in their work, now nearly over, the two great religious tendencies of the time, that towards submission to authority, and that towards freedom of individual judgment. LOVERS BY PROXY. 1 (Liberal Revicio.) If one cannot be a lover oneself the next best thing is to make love on somebody else’s account. At least, so seem to think a large number of persons who are never so happy as when they are up to their necks in matters matrimonial and things pertaining thereto. These sympathetic souls are firmly convinced that they have been bom into the world for promoting marriages and love-making, and they are, consequently, continually laying traps for the unwary. If you are a gentleman who has not succumbed to the fascination of some charming young lady to the extent of putting your head through the noose of wedlock, yon may soon learn how very kind these benificent beings can be, and how energetically they can work on your behalf. Of course, it is assumed that you ought to get married, and that you would do so if you could only get the chance. This much being taken for granted, it is considered that it will only be an act of kindness to hurry you on to bliss somewhat quicker, indeed, than you seem inclined to go. You are told that you ought to do as your dear charitable friends desire, and it is not very long before a host of excellentand fascinating youngladies are picked out for you to choose from. It is no strange thing for you not to know your own mind in reference to the sweet creatures ; perhaps, indeed, you are in such a helpless state that you signally fail to dream or think of any one in particular. Your good angels have, therefore, no option but to make a choice for you. Having resolved to do so it is not very long before they mark out a definite course for themselves to pursue. They have seen you speak to Miss Brown and look absent-minded as you shook her hand, and this is regarded as proof conclusive that you are in love, though, as a matter of fact, you look absent-minded because you had suddenly remembered that your tailor had sent you an impertinent letter, in re a certain account, and that you had forgotten to answer it as you had intended to do. However, it having been settled that you have lost your heart to Miss Brown, and it also having been settled that the dear girl only needs to be asked to tell you that she is yours for ever, and it having further been decided that the pair of you are eminently suited for each other, a series of clever strategic manoeuvres axe executed. You and Miss Brown, in the first place are taken under the wing of those who are constituting themselves the presiding spirits of your destiny. These spirits are generally feminine ones?, and often have houses of their own and husbands, the latter of whom they succeed in making unwilling parties to their plots. One day you receive an invitation to visit Mrs. Matrimony at her house, and,there, to your astonishment, you discover Miss Brown. This is but the beginning, however. In due course, you find yourself sitting by the beguiler —quite by accident yon innocently imagine—and by-and-bye to yon falls the delightful task of pioneering her to supper, or of turning over her music as she sings some love song. Meanwhile, your movements are scrutinised with the keenest interest, and your conduct excites no small amount of criticism ; you would, no doubt, be astonished to learn how guilty and lovestricken you look. After a few moves of this sort the affair is regarded as settled. When Mrs. Matrimony takes leave of you she smiles and smirks in an awfully profound manner, making believe that she knows everything, and could tell a great deal if she only chose to do so. Then she makes insinuations in the presence of you and Miss Brown which cause the pair of you to blush and look

uncommonly stupid, at which her delight reaches a crowning pitch. No doubt she will call you a sly dog, and Miss Brown a deep one—at any rate, by implication-and thtire is no doubt, also, that she will more than onoe "o to the trouble of confidentially informing you whzvfc & dear, good, virtuous, amiable, lady-like girl Miss Brown is, and what a nice little fortune she will have. Besides all this, she spreads reports abroad to the effect that it is only a question of time as to when you will finally bring the matter to a head, and she does her best to hasten your movements by lying in wait for you at churches, at theatres, at parties, at bazaars, at soirees, on promenades, and in the streets, with Miss Brown at her heels. She would be very angry with you if she imagined that you would have the audacity to choose a wife for yourself in spite of her selection. Of course, you often fall a victim to her wiles, but when you do so you do not choose to think that your wife has been chosen for you, and that she has, practically, been courted by proxy—that, in a word, the match has been brought about by clover schemers, in whose hands you have been as plastic as putty. Often, however, you do not marry Miss Brown, but carry into effect your preference for Miss Green. Then there is a storm, in which you suffer. You have acted very badly, cries one, they never thought that you could be guilty of such conduct, say others, and so it comes about that you are considered a black sheep whom it is dangerous for unsuspecting and Innocent maidens to approach. Perhaps, in some instances, Miss Brown herself thinks that she has been scandalously ill-used, and that it is a shame that the retributive hand of justice does not overtake you. You learn, in a roundabout way, that “young men should not do such things, if they do not mean something.” It may be that so skilfully have you been manipulated that you yourself feel more or less guilty and ashamed of what you have done, though you may angrily bewail that it is very hard that a fellow cannot say a few civil things to a girl or look at her without every one jumping to the conclusion that if he is not engaged to her he ought to he. It is strange, indeed, if you realise the true cause of your troubles, sore though you may be against the lady who has courted you by proxy, and who is the loudest of all concerned in denunciations of your conduct. Perhaps, you learn prudence, and avoid young women or treat them coldly ; perhaps, _ indeed, you come to the conclusion that it is impossible for there to be real and safe friendship between young men and women, and act accordingly. Under these circumstances, if lovers by proxy were not for the most part a very self-satisfied and enthusiastic lot of persons, they might clearly perceive that they do more harm than good ; but, as it is, it is to be feaiedthat they will continue to meddle with and muddle the fortunes of such marriageable young people as are thrown across their paths. THE HIGH AND MIGHTY. (Liberal Review.) Servants as a rule, it is to be feared, da not love their masters. Many of them appear to be under the impression, indeed, that those whom they serve are, above all others, their deadly enemies, who should he consequently hoodwinked and sacrificed at all times. There is apparently a very widespread inability to appreciate the fact that masters and servants stand in the relation of buyers and sellers to each other, and that there is no degradation on the one side or superiority on the other involved in the transactions which they have together. Perhaps masters are as much to blame as servants for this unsatisfactory state c£ things, seeing that many of them frequently fall into the error of imagining that their underlings are creatures who ought to he very bumble and subservient, to receive their pay as if they were receiving so much charity, and generally to act as if they were quite aware bow very far they are removed from those who are kind enough to employ them. Masters who think thus will be found treating their servants in a very summary and haughty fashion, and aggravating them until they bear aggravation no longer. One need not cite the “ nagging ” mistress, who imagines that servants ought quietly to bear such spleen as may be vented upon them, and who thinks that the country is going to wrack and ruin because it is now difficult to find girls with so little spirit as to be willing to be practically imprisoned within a gloomy kitchen for thirteen and a-half days cart of the fourteen, and treated as if they were inferior beings, who have been made simply in order to save their betters the necessity of doing dirty and disagreeable work, to prove the estimation in which a large number of womankind hold their menials, and on account c-£ which they are cordially hated and rebelled against. Nor is it perhaps necessary to remark that men, though pei-haps less spiteful than woraen towards their servants, are fully Impressed with their superiority, and feel that they owe it to themselves to keep down those whom they pay to do certain work which they cannot very well do for themselves. At the same time, though it is undoubtedly true that employers frequently act in the objectionable manner indicated, and that servants as a whole are made to feel that they are servants and not mere sellers of so much labor, it must be admitted that a large number of servants act in a manner which is far from being what it should be. This unfortunately is not only the case with servants who occupy lowly positions In the social scale, but also with those who occupy fair positions and have the advantage of being well educated. On the whole the resentment of the well-educated employe worse than the vulgar Insolence of those who ignorantly imagine that their dignity may be upheld by impertinence. Of course, the latter will, continue to act as they do until they cease to be steeped in ignorance, but the former may, perhaps, in time condescend to learn the impolicy of the course which they pursue. Indeed thejr leam it now, but, unfortunately, they only do so when a great deal of harm has

been done. Many a young man, for instance, blights his prospects by his inordinate vanity. Say that he enters an office, after he has finished his scholastic career. Well, he does so, feeling that he knows a great deal more than the man from whom he is going to pretend to learn a business. He fancies, moreover, that it would be derogatory for him to work too hard, and that _he is worth a great deal more than he is being paid. . In a word, he imagines that he is wasting his sweetness upon the desert air. Thinking thus, it is not surprising that he resents rebukes when they are administered to him, that his soul is disturbed when he is told to do his duty, and that he is daily touched to the quick because people show a strange obliviousness as to his greatness. Time goes on and he becomes so exceedingly high-and-mighty, and so indifferent to his duties, that his employer, instead of raising his salary or making him a partner outright, very quietly sends him about his business. Or perhaps the dissatisfied servant, instead .of waiting to be dismissed, takes it upon himself to cut the cord which binds him to his employer, which task he invariably performs in a peculiarly offensive and disagreeable fashion. The high-and-mighty one not having any capital worth mentioning—he has ever made a point of keeping up his position by spending more than his income—and other people not seeing his great merits as he sees them, after hanging about’and doing nothing and being a burden to his friends for some time, at last sees that, on the principle that beggars cannot be choosers, he must consent to take a subordinate position once more. He does so, bitterly incensed against the person whom he is condescending enough to work for. .For a while he goes on pretty fairly—his time of adversity having taught him a lesson —notwithstanding that he gets the better of his employer in many ways. Then once more dawns upon him the fact—strange to say it seldom dawns on other people—that he is throwing himself away, and that as he ought to be earning thirty times as much as he is earning, he must do something. So he ‘does something, with the result that he shortly finds himself once more upon his beamends. This sort of proceeding is repeated over and over again until the high-and-mighty one, having grown old, recognises the fact that he has-been a fool who has wasted his opportunities. If he fails to do this, he becomes either a cynic or a reckless ne’er-do-well. Now, the lesson which high-and-mighty servants ought to learn is a very simple one. They ought under all circumstances to be willing to do their duty. If they do not intend to do a certain thing they should not engage to do it. Nor when they have agreed to labor for so much ought they to grumble because they are badly paid. Let them remember that it is open for them to do better if they can. They will best serve their own interest, and they will best sustain their dignity by honestly fulfilling their engagements. It is those who do this who become valued servants, who rise first into positions of trust themselves and then become employers. Sensible people can have no sympathy with men and women who are continually railing, against those who buy their labor, seeing that it is impossible that every man can be his own master. Of course, employers should be taught that it is their duty to treat their employes with consideration and respect.