Jacob passed on, leaving Grater to digest and tempestuous night, Jacob, with three this reply as he might. A short time after this Jacob entered a large vessel, which was bound on a trading expedition to the north-west coast of America. In two days she sailed; and, greatly to Jacob's surprise, he soon discovered that Grater was among the sailors. He, however, did not speak to him, nor did Grater seem to recognize him. They treated each other as strangers, and not a word of recognition passed between them. Jacob could sometimes see a dark, lowering look bent upon him from beneath the glazed hat of the sailor, and he felt as sured that he entertained for him a deadly hatred. He was, therefore, upon his guard, and sought as much as possible to avoid being in his vicinity. other sailors, was ordered up to reef the maintopsail. The sea was running high, and the vessel was pitching in the most violent manner. The snow was falling, and the ropes and spars were slippery with the ice that clung to them. The sailors, however, entered upon their duty with alacrity, and although the sheet flapped fiercely in the wind, they had already nearly performed their task. Jacob had his feet upon a line, with his body bent over a spar, and was busy at his work. Next to him was Grater, also occupied in securing the sail. But, suddenly bending toward Karl, he struck the feet of the latter from the line, and he fell. He caught the line with one hand, and with the energy of presence of mind belonging to his profession, strove to recover his position. But the violent motion of the vessel swung him hither and thither, and, after holding on for a few seconds, his grasp yielded, and he was precipitated into the waves below. Amid the roar of the wind and the darkness of the night, his fall was no more noticed than if a pebble had been cast into the sea. With the crew, generally, Grater passed as a reckless, jovial fellow, and was rather a favorite with them. He sung a good song, told a good story, and boasted of his adventures on ship and shore. He had prodigious strength, and was usually the first in reefing a topsail, or handling a spar. His courage seemed the desperation of one who was indifferent to life, or who sought rather to expose it to needless peril. Jacob thought he could see in all this the restlessness of a man conscious of some fearful crime, or deadly purpose; and connecting this with the evident malignity he entertained toward himself, a kind of awe crept over him, as if he had been haunted by some being of supernat-doubted that he had perished forever. ural powers. Thus several weeks passed on, and the ship, at last, approached the region of Cape Horn. As she was doubling this promontory, she was beset by gales, and driven near the rocky shore. One dark When the reef was completed, Grater descended to the deck, saying nothing of Jacob's fate; and it was not till the next day that his absence was discovered. As no one pretended to know what had become of him, it was then concluded that he had fallen overboard; and no one [TO BE CONTINUED.] THE way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. T Belisarius. HIS great man was born in the country bordering on ancient Thrace, about five hundred years after the birth of Christ. When a young man, he became a soldier in the personal guard of Justinian, emperor of the Greek empire. This empire then embraced nearly the same territory that the Turkish or Otto'man empire does now, Constantinople being the capital. It was at this period in a declining state, the people being effeminate and corrupt, and the army small in numbers, ill-disciplined, and destitute of patriotic union or spirit. Though the emperor held a throne which was considered as that of the Cæsars, it was still tottering, and in danger of falling into utter ruin. Belisarius rose, by degrees, to high command in the army, and at length was deemed the ablest general of his time. He defeated the king of Persia in sev eral campaigns, and then delivered his country from the assaults of its most formidable enemy. He next arrested a formidable insurrection in Constantinople, which cost the lives of thirty thousand persons. After this, he turned his arms against Gelimer, king of the Vandals, who had taken possession of Carthage and the adjacent country, in Africa. The Roman and Vandal armies met, and the contest was long and bloody. But the former prevailed, and the Vandal king sought safety in flight. He collected another army, but this also was 60 BELISARIUS - GREAT RESULTS FROM SMALL CAUSES. defeated. He again fled, and, attended | were the chief glory of the reign of the by a small body of faithful Moors, in- emperor Justinian. trenched himself in a village, on the top of a rocky cliff. I T is a curious and interesting fact, that many celebrated men have, in early life, had their minds so roused, by what seemed trivial circumstances, as to give a direction to their whole career. Here he was besieged by an officer Great Results from small Causes. sent by Belisarius for the purpose; and though he could not be reached by the Roman soldiers, he was soon reduced to the utmost distress, for want of food and water. But he bore his sorrows with fortitude, and would not have yielded, had not his heart been touched by the sufferings of those around him. One day he saw two children fighting for a piece of unbaked dough, and such was their starving condition that each strove for it, as if it were a case of life and death. The king was softened by this scene; he gave up his pride, and surrendered. He became a captive, but he was kindly treated by the conqueror. After this Belisarius made war on Italy, and at last entered Rome in triumph. The emperor Justinian, who had a little soul, now became jealous of him, and recalled him to Constantinople. He was, however, restored to his command, and performed great achievements, in Asia, against the Persian armies. But he was traduced at court, and brought back to the capital in disgrace. Again he was restored, and again he was permitted to languish in neglect. In his old age, he saved Constantinople from pillage by a host of northern barbarians, which came against it like an avalanche; but, if history tells the truth, he was permitted to drag out his last days in poverty; and, being reduced to blindness, went about the streets begging his daily bread. Such is the story of a man whose achievements James Ferguson had his mind turned to mechanical contrivances in consequence of the roof of his father's cottage falling in, while he was a boy. The eminent engineer John Rennie used to trace his first notions in regard to the powers of machinery to his having been obliged, when a boy, in consequence of the breaking down of a bridge, to go one winter every morning to school by a circuitous road, which carried him past a place where a threshing-machine was generally at work. The great Linnæus was probably made a botanist by the circumstance of his father having a few rather uncommon plants in his garden. Harrison is said to have been originally inspired with the idea of devoting himself to the constructing of marine timepieces, by his residence in view of the sea. James Tassie, the celebrated modeller and maker of paste gems, commenced life as a stone-mason, in Glasgow; and was first prompted to aspire to something beyond his humble occupation by having gone on a holiday to see the paintings in an academy for instruction in the fine arts. George Edwards, the naturalist, and author of the splendid book entitled the "History of Birds," was, in the first instance, apprenticed to a London merchant; but the accident of a bed-room being assigned to him, which contained a collection of books on natural history, left by a former lodger of his master, formed in him so strong an attachment to this study, that he resolved to give up commerce, and devote his life to science. The celebrated Bernard Palissy, to whom France was indebted, in the sixteenth century, for the introduction of the manufacture of enamelled pottery, had his attention first attracted to the art by having one day seen by chance a beautiful enamelled cup which had been brought from Italy. He labored sixteen years at the attempt to discover the secret of making these cups, and arrived at the discovery after undergoing incredible toil, and submitting to incredible privations. But Palissy was, in all respects, an extraordinary man. In his moral character he displayed a high-mindedness not inferior to the vigor of his understanding. Although a Protestant, he had escaped, through the royal favor, from the massacre of St. Bartholomew; but having been, soon after, shut up in the Bastile, he was visited in his prison by the king, who told him, that if he did not comply with the established religion, he should be forced, however unwillingly, to leave him in the hands of his enemies. "Forced!" replied Palissy; "this is not to speak like a king. But they who force you cannot force me, I can die!" He never regained his liberty, but ended his life in the Bastile in the ninetieth year of his age. ARCUS TULLIUS CICERO was born at the city of Apulia, in the territory of what is now the kingdom of Naples, on the 3d of January, 107 B. C. His father was a man of wealth, and he gave his son the best education in his power. trates. He was attended by his friends on this great occasion, and divine services were performed, in his behalf, in the capitol. He was now placed under the care of a famous lawyer, and here he pursued the study of the law with great industry. He The latter early displayed proofs of became desirous of being an orator, and genius, and profited by all the advantages deeming that, as such, every species of he enjoyed. At the age of sixteen, ac- knowledge would be useful to him, he excording to the custom of Rome, where tended his study and observation to every his parents resided, he was solemnly intro- branch of science and art. According to duced into the Forum, or great square of the custom of his time, he served in the the city, where the people assembled, and army, taking care to investigate and unwhere they were addressed by the magis-derstand every thing he saw. He kept |