meni MERK AKD THERE We worship in our youth In wild and passionate dreams, some vague Ideal, Till fancy yields to truth, And we transfer our worship to the Real, I cannot choose but think That Heaven mates hearts that death alone oan sever Their meeting is the link In the flr chain that bindeth them for aver, Else, wherefore, when I gazed For the first time at thee, why did it seem As it the veil were raised “hat hid the idol of my life's bright dream? I would that thon couldst know How mueh I love thes; but it may not be; Words my deep feelings show Only as shells recall the murmuring « But if in some bright sphere Qur parted spirits meet and reunite, The love I bear thee here, Relumined there, will burn with quench- less light RRR, COYPERFIELD COURT. It would be diflicult to point out the Little Britain, once stood. say that the metropolis has been robbed of its existence years ago. thoroughfare, being only a sort 1 six houses, two on each the e street. It held side and two across was a placard bearing ti peddlers permitte Number one conti and his wife years old, and rhe sheltered th of a certain library in the consumptive young three held—how, they schoolmaster’s widow an ters. Number four who had a so ‘ r on a vessel in the wus always being expected branches of coral, Chinese and boxes of foreign jellies serves attested to the fact return occasionally, but were that in mid any given date 1@ words, il to ent 3, but they were each seventy umat e deformed Wis . 1 lady snd con. the he would be ean at Number . and a 8X single lady of eight and fort very old poodle. And numl ing haunted, wi ft to Probably want than the placard dlers. The er as le its of pat awe rather banished the ped- reason why the ( against pedlers was that they genteel, And the people of Copperfield Court were genteel Its occupants all lived on limited incomes and not of had earned a penny in all her life. Flack had a pension ment. The librarian with a wonderfully genteel society, A naval officer’s mother is a person of po- gition. So is sometimes, perfield was the poor relation of the magnificent Copperfield who owned the court, was said to be worth a mil- lion, and who or nothing. he ladies ever Mr one under was to his cousin, her mothe late ‘ma.’ A ghost is seldom vulgar bankrupt banker who had shot him- self. Occasionally a carriage, with several men in livery perched upon it, paused at the entrance to the court, and a fat lady, in fine clothes, and a thin gen- tleman, with a great diamond on his bosom, entered Miss Cornelia Copper- field's door. If was then whispered through the court that the lady's fam- «ly had called upon her. Thus all might have continued for many years but that Mrs, came into her grandfather’s property, sfier having given up the idea of his decease, for be lived to be a hundred and two years of age, minus a few monilis, the exact number of which may easily be obtained by a reference to the registrar's book at Somerset House; and feeling herself entitled to be a landed proprietor, employed an agent to buy her a bit of a house, The agent then looked about him, proposed No. 6 Copperfield Court. Mr, Copperfield, weary of a tenant who paid no rent--we allude to the banker’s ghost—agreed to the price offered, and one morning the house-keepers of the court peeped through their green blinds upon the arrival of Mrs. Rooney's tiousehold goods; and two boarders came with Mrs. Rooney. One was a young man whe habitually wore a red shirt. The other was a foreigner in shabby black. He looked genteel, but alas] appearances are deceitful. On the morning after his arrival he was seen to leave the court bearing a small tray, on which were ranged in rows pipes of all sorts, except very costly ones. There were china pipés, with painted flowers upon them, the bumble clay dudeen, and others more or less aristooratic. on Peddlers were not admitted to the oh but one had come there to re (That 1 sud alive to-day,” said the 's widow, “is a proof that live through anything.” Miss Copperfield, she shut » in her flowery chintz bower, and seemed inclined to remain there forever, A week passed. One night Miss Copperfield was awakened by awful groans. She star- ted up in bed and listened, The groan. ing was at her window; she also heard raps. She went to the window, Within a foot of it she saw a face-——her next door neighboz’s, the pedier of pipes. “What do you want?" she asked, sharply. “Pardon, madame,” replied with a strong French “pardon, but I have some colies. repeated Miss Copper- 1 a weak aceent, " voice, on “Colica? fleld. “Vera bad.” responded the neighbor, “1 expire of pam, and Madame Rooney goes off her cousin's child to the fu. eral, and in house is no one, Perhaps you vill ‘ave a leetle cau de brandee, Eh! you 1.3 8 rig— madame?’ “Yes, ves,” sald Miss Copperfield, to whom returned a memory of genteel lessons in French, taken in her earlier days, “We. Monshure; jer “but the elegant memory was but a added, **I don't perhaps I have a i cormpprany--jer and she brandy . J will see” faint one, abont ttle 3 8 “My ydame is an angel,” responded opperfield brought the brandy it half a gill in a cologne bottle 1 1t on a small i thanking 1 ary i ard abo aud p fire-shovel. French, compliment was bh ly than before, itchen, and again wilh window plaster between two soup dishes, wg them on she waved wefore her neighbor's window “The pi The pl $ aster.” she said. aster was Laken Shortly the ns ceased, Was he de f pain, this ad called her as nel? She lieved man who b alled sof “Ah, piastaire is Miss C axt ¥ nexs nu voice, madame, tired. Early the her 4 ‘eaven 5 pperfield re runing a tap came on neighbor and her bottle ref gd Come 0 “He declared th 1 but for he her mu ended by a narra low with grati- have amiable con- stard- plaster, tive of his own how he al he should most delightfu fortunes, and pipes. . 3 » : * came Lo peddle } ‘ey no one Knows madame, I WwW to myself, w me?” he said. a gentleman; ‘ave you know.” mt 1 “in “I am sure of it fleld. Her fleld sat ,"! said Miss Copper- guest departed. Miss Copper | thinking. What handsome What a nice nose! How to fall from the aristocracy too aristocratic for every suitor of her youth found herself blushing. That evening her neighbor called again. He brought with hire an offer. ing, an ivory nut thimble, in a case shaped like an acorn, Shortly, a sort of scandal spread through the neighborhood, The ped- | ler, the vuigar pedler, callea on Miss | Cooperfield! He took tea with her on Ceuld such things The family heard of it. It called m its coach, with its red cocked footmen; it ascended the steps. It seated itself in her parlor. It was largely represen. ted, Two stout ladies, two thin gen. tiemen, and a very old lady, with a face like crumpled parchment, They filled Miss Copperfield’s chintz- covered rom to overflowing, They occupied all the chairs, while she perched on the small round stool before the Upright piano, and they addressed her. “Cornelia,” sald the old lady. “we hear frightful news of you; that you are visited by a cigar pedlerl” ‘He isn’t a cigar peddler,” replied Cornelia, “He's Monsieur Blane, He sells pipes, aunty.” “This is flippant,” said the old lady, “A peddler! We call to remonstrate,” “We hear you are engaged to him,” said stout lady number one. “And we call to warn you,” sald stout lady number two, “Dismiss him at once,” sald the thinness ‘Buatieman, “or we discard you.” “And disown yo said the other thin gentleman, “since you Lave Jfor- gotten you are a Copperfield.” “I was lonely,” she sobbed. ‘You never even invite me to tea, and he's a —f gentleman, “We say no more,” replied the oid lady, “Yes or no, Will you diame him?" And she looked an anathema maranatha, Miss Cornelis could not endure the ex-communication, She sald “Yes” The family then arose and departed, For an hour sme her poodle’s head with her tears, Then she heard a knock at the door, and arose to open it. Monsieur Blanc appeared. “Again I arrive myself, my angel!” he remarked. “Oh, you must go! come again!” sighed poor Cornelia. “I have promised my family,” “Ah, ze fawlly cried Monsieur | Blane. “Aristocrats, | mind, mademoise!le, “Oh!” sighed Mi “Let us fly!” suid monsieur. “Let us go live--somevere—avay., Ve be happy. Ah, bah! zat family! Ze people .of ze court so Come, ve vill fly. He kissed her, She was left alone. bathed I adore you, ss Copperfield. Marry me to-day. Neither of them love on the spot. *I don’t care for one of them,” she sald, “I will marry you.” Early cense in his pocket next morning (he of the were those Miss figures stole out They and wed. court | arm, Blanc were Copperllield, They Shortly after the elopement the first excitement of bad ceased to thrill the duly & ne of court, Person away tha furnit No. b, no one of Miss the house, and the occupants ever saw | again, family the YT Thi her, and disowned t ar that « nt was very partisn ame should never hearing. not world. be mentions sed Cornel face Lhe oulraged being small Were sold, " WAS house over a BOTTLE Park of st cheap seats where ti they ippers at ten or eleven died happily o Mrs Ro her we iwpa §y {38 f realli IVES 31 SOE 0 rivaili ag , by seeing i and secon thday, 3 we do { her Copperlield A Wonderfnl Cane, Bobert Yale, of orwich, arrived town with his} and beautiful lv admis w eh was gr Was shown toa ep Tier FRA UR) pli £5055 9 ay requireq years Ww bistorical relics are too numerous | enumerate, but cipal The oid represen. head 1s tree f ha 11 *§ »- Whi OHOWIDnZE. tations are wood Crown Pk to be ¥ of rom the in ¢ Puts burned a at LAI Was the cane is of o okt est house in J Maus, ock.a relic fre { dwelling at Dedbam, tha old ! Plymouth R the from becea Bates, one of drove the British | bor, | lutionary war; a piece of oak from the charter oak at Hartford, C of wood from J sisters who Scituate Har senting the house where witcheraft ori- ginated, at Salem, Mass, a piece of { wood from the court-room where the | unfortunate inmates were tried, relics from Commodore Perry’s old flagship of the war of 1812, a pisce of Johy | Brown's scaffold, three pictures of |W ashington, Lineol in and Garfield, and a picture of the maker of the cane Mr, Yale. Each relies is u fac-simile of the object from which it was taken, Many of the inlaid pieces represent birds, rep. tiles, trees, ete. ———————— snot A Wonderful Tree. A curious botanical specimen is grow ing 1m a park at Sondershausen, Ger many, in the shape of a fir tree which bears on one of its main branches wha appears to be a second tree—cone- shaped and not less than twenty-five feet in height and about three feet In diameter, The mam tree Is over a hundred feet high, with a trunk somo ten feet in circumfersnce, It is sup posed that a wound made in the branch by a squirrel or an insect has caused a bud to develop which has produced the secondary tree, Win The Benetite of Fasting. A sanitary practices intimately connec ted with religious tenets is that of “tasting.” Those were clear-headed, observant men, who Jntivatod a fish dinner on Friday, The y use of meat has it disadvantages, and sets up evils of a serious kind connec. ted with gluttony, which the fathers of the Homan Ustholle Church turned to god seeount when they made abstinence from nived 00 Friday s part ot their relly the brain to becomes clearer for iid work by giving time to the bl purified from excess of nitrog a ih] Next to palms, ivy is the FOOD FOR THOUGHT, Think twice before you accuse once, Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. Reason should not regulate but sup. man does not hold Aney hold him, An obstinate opinions The world forgives with difficulty the fact that one can be happy without | it. nor a velvet slipper the Eternity is long enough to make up for the ills of our brief troubled life hors He who betrays the confidence of is not worthy of the confidence of | The attainment of our greatest de sires 18 often the source of our BUTTOWS, Our years, ene. and Our Aare nu debts, ire our we imagine, Do you wish a portrait Ask a woman to rival, st and mo education that is make of her The a ma that which he 200] taste relaets exon as jittia 114 3 \ Ff little things is not hurt by thu A man Can § NANG sometimes like somet Wit is 1 COnCe ras CIS B88 § He which { an ignorant man “whateve r may know besides, The training of the conscience, or delicate and devolved the most i . v 5 important of a i the the teachers of youth. is duties upon it isa the slowly, but strength, that many steadily, make wen, growing n thought and the advent of WAESeT i If girls would have roses for their cheeks, they must do as the roses do-— go to sleep with the lilies and gel up with the moming-glories, When applied to for assistance some men are very loth to give substantial ald; they are miserly as to their money, but prodigal as to their advice. There ia no loss so pitiable, no be- reavement so deplorable as the loss of reason; it is a living death, the bitter. est blow for misfortune to deal, We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weav- ing when the sun went down is weav- ing when it comes up LO-mMOrTrow. In every relation of life we must bear and forbear, we must not expect perfection, and each party should carry the cloak of charity for the other. Not every woman ean dress well with the most reckless expenditure; but a clever woman can dress well with mtelligent economy and an artistic fasle, With every wember of a household anxious to promots the welfare and happiness of each other by Kind words and deeds, how cheerful the famly circle can be made. We can all cherish a conception of a pure, virtuous and beautiful character, of just, generous and noble conduct, and strive to conform our daily life to our highest ideal, Even in the flercest uproar of our Falsehood sina ina nny ft Hn bow bé at any moment rene is Julgment Tin io che cometh out of NEWS OF THE WEEK ~The Indianapolis cotton factory, in Indianapolis, was destroyed by fire on the 27th, The lose is estimated at over —'T, W. Jones was killed near Oak. Mississippi, on the 20th, by his Clint, The latter, crazed by emorse, committed suicide next day, —A telegram from Portland says that the number of ships built in Maine | during 1884 has been 97, arainst 170 Of the vessels built this year over 2000 tons register and were under tons. to freights the has be sen & bad one for ship builders, and it "loses with very few contracts on hand, five were 1/24 OW -—A passenger train on | Mi dian p Rallroad was freight train at Bealton Stati 27th, Two train hands were injured, Joseph Stump, aged 05D years, was killed on the 20th, while operating a portable sawmill ona farm in T Penna gine burst fragment the Virgima run nto by a , On the BEVOre iy The balance wheel of the & pieces, and an weighing three pounds was h his left ~Senator Sabin, of Minne an interviewer that he did not any imp present Congress, Hon Uris side death, fs Causing instant ota, sal in { eago on the think there was 4 vant vl be JE Lali L The Diake He jriee Opera Ha re early 1 the 1 H.V cluded of W. Wood > Exehange about caped Mr, and Mrs the Lp ra dent road, Liotise #l locked Pascoas 26th, and | revolver. us burglar, fice the Rochester, New after his arrest at Brock. a notorio in the o George Clark, committed suicide Chief of Police in Y ork, on the 20th, just on the charge of safe breaking port. ¥ Of -A State Conterence of the Prohi- bitionists of Illinois met on the 20th, at After a two hours’ address by ex-Governor St, John, a committee of five was appointed to prepare an ad- dress to the people of the State on the Prohibitory amendment. The forthcoming report of the De- partment of Agriculture of Illinois shows that the area of the growing crop of winter wheat in that State is 2 317.. 000 acres, 405,000 acres less than last year. The condition of the growing crop is fair. The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway this year were about $17,000,- 000, a decrease of about $3,000,000 from those of ast vear. ~Nelson T. Stephens, Judge of the Fourth Judicial District of Kansas, died in Lawrence on the 20th ult. m the 65th year of his age. «There were two collisions on the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad in New York on the 30th ult, trains un- loading al stations being run into by the following trains during the fog. Three persons, one an engineer, the others passengers were slightly injured, «A man supposed tw be James Greenwood, Chippews, while crossing the Niagra river from Chippewa to Port Day. about a mile above the Falls, on the 20th ult, was drawn into the rapids and swept over the Falis, «A fire in Pierre, Dakota, on the 0th uit, destroyed seven stores and the Stebbins House, The loss is estimated at $75, 4000; insagahee 000. a was J. reat ulty in flames, as a fierce wind was blowing, the tem Te Smpertare was 256 degree below 11 the pumps were frozen. Tat of the business portion o Kantiand; in Newton Do Indiana, the. 20th ut. “Te. loss wp pen em is estimated ~The heavy rains at Little Rock, Ar continued on Jus 80th uit, he been In progress ut since the 98th ult, preventing the building of the ice palace and other carnival atiracs tions, —A man named Williams, who pro- fesses to rely on the efficiency of prayer alone in curing diseases, keeps a private foundling asylum in Denver, Colorado, One of the foundlings died on Christ mas day without having the services of a physician. A second little unfortun- ate suffering from a similar lack of medical treatment, died suddenly the asylum on the 20th uit. The chil dren will be re hy to a public insti. tution. ~Near { Wh yoming Terri. tory, on thi , William Pearson, “a well-to- de » farme x, ‘who is a strong be- lever in Bpiritualis sm, ”? killed his fant child with a hammer, fn ole to what he imagined was a: a higher power. He infant to his wife, “al and said that throat he would « were found on the 29 throats cut, but . gon revived suffic ently to tell 4 story. The who IT 1 ing November ft Was 393 during November, 15 total number of im nigran ts rived in the United months which 440 561. Siar okt th 1 100 number of the Un y total ved ited State 26.087 AAS agains Ous year —1he nt imber of §eagr risk eg 1 cards,’ Evansville, destroved Mil ore ar d the a1 music y.. hardware LL Ten: 23" hat $236,000, Of dealer store ihe SHR $192 000 iller aggreg: is on the Brothers —- Ruth Jahn Gill, prominent develand, Ohio, was shot sist, uit. by a five-year-old Walter Grossbar. They to play with a revolver, — Representative Laird, of Nebraska, bad his leg broken on the 3ist by being thrown from his horse in Wash. ington —A train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad struck a large boulder DEAT West Alexander on the 3isi ult, and was thrown from the tracks. The Pie gine and several cars were smashed, and travel on the road was delayed for several hours. — Many sheep and cattie perished in South-western Texas during the recent cold weather, -The ice gorge in the Susqnehanna river, near Nanticoke broke ap on the ist. Communication was suspended between Wilkesbarre, Kingston and other points on the Delaware, [.acka- wanna and Wastern Railroad. ~The President's New Yaar recep. tion on the 1st was atlended by the usual throng of official, civil and mili- tary veterans, of the late war and citi- zens. The Secretary of State and Mrs, Frelinghuysen entertained the members of the diplomatic corps at breakfast, and the wives of the Cabinet officers received in the afternoon. «AS Thomas Gould was walking on the tracks of the West Shore Railroad, near Milton, New Yerk, on the 1st, a rock weighing several tons fell upon the track a short distance in front of hu, He ran back about a mile and notified a flagman, who succeeded in stopping a passenger train from Albany a short distance frown the obstruction. The passengers made up a purse for Gould and commended him for his presence of m stock and bu Gill, the little named adiowed BOY, wes
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