FOMPEIL ‘We roam through the streets of the buried Buried alive in the years agono— And the desolate past seems to ory for pity From the very stones that we tread upon. Over cornice and stately column Blithely the yellow sunshine falls; Yet never a city so sad and solemn Lifted to heaven its broken walls. The agile lizards are deftly darting, outstarting, Maiden-hair ferns and grasses grow, Vanished the tokens of life and trading — The musical laugh of the young at play; Yet a fugitive presence, all pervading, Wanders amid these ruins gray, Fain would we ponder and seek and ques- tion, But scanty the story the past reveals; Yet there is a threshold’s worn suggestion, And here are the ruts of the chariot wheels, And yonder, see, like a flend forbearing To work unstinted his wicked whim— The perfect blue of the morn impairing — Rises Vesuvius, sullen and grim, I A —— MISS MAYBRIUK'S PARLOR. An orchard, the branches heavy with golden apples, here and there a ruddy grass, and at the foot of one of the most richly-laden trees a young girl, carelessly down, and indolent arms thrown above her pretty dark head. “Jessial” rupted in the middle of her siesta. “Jessie, I say!” her book. about eighteen years of age, with a rather pale face and gray eyes, fringed with long black lashes, These eyes were her greatest charm. A litt gate divided the orchard from the garden, and Jessie passed through it wilh exasperating slowness, “Was there ever such ie wih te » a girll’ years at least—the daughter father’s first wife, Caroline had loved her young step- mother, and when she died she had tried to take her mother’s plage to the tiny, dark eyed baby she had left be- hind; but Jessie had proved a very troublesome charge. “Well,” said Jessie, interrogatively, looking at Caroline standing in the and her stout arms covered with flour. “What is it, Caroline?” “Come and move your rubbish out of the room.” guised astonishment, Young fellow from London, Jessie looked indignant. with the piano in it, to be let to some horrible man, and all her pretty belong- ings to be banished to her little bed- room, Oh! it was too bad, “Carrie,’” she said ‘‘how could you never thought we should have to take “Where to?” asked the rather, mat- ter-of fact Caroline, Jessie bit her lips and went indoors to remove her books and needlework from the little parlor that had been re- since she had entered her teens. never occurred to Miss Jessie bring grist to the mill make her uncomfortable, of the household, stairs; but that was impossible, It was the chief ornament of the room, and her to take it away, she told herself, thinking of the lod- ger, And for the first two or three days she kept carefully out of his way, and Mr. Leith remained unconscious of the fact that he was under the same roof with a pretty girl. Bat he made the discovery one afternoon. When wan dering through the orchard, with his hands behind his back, he came sud- denly upon a slight, girlish figure in brown holland, a wide hat shading her eyes from the sun. Wonderful eyes they were—s0 large and dark, and ut- terly betwitching. She was gone like a flash; but her image lingered in Mr, Leith’s memory. He was not a talka- tive man; but he began to cultivate Caroline Maybrick’s acquaintance, and goon found that the girl in the brown holland dress was her sister, He grew 80 friendly that Caroline ventured to ask him to take tea with them in the kitchen one afternoon. The farmer was quite willing, but Jessie objected most strongly, and threatened. not to come in to tea at all, “Beside,” she said, “whut does a gentleman want in a farmhouse kiteh- en?” However, Mr. Leith seemed very much at home there, and delighted Caroline and her father by his bright flashes of wit. He did his best to please that afternoon; but was it only for the benefit of the farmer and his elder daughter, or did his eyes wander in the direction of Jessie's slim figure? He could vot understand why it was that the girl always avoided him. If she had wished to arouse his interest she could not have devised a better way. Her reserve piqued his curiosity, and he found her pretty face coming between him and the fusty old pages of his | books, Once he went for a long walk, and, returning home in the twilight, heard her at the piano, and paused to listen; but she caught sight of his figure out. side the window, and the music ceased in an Instant, When he entered the { room he found it empty; but a little bow of ribbon lay on the carpet. Mr, Leith whistled, walked to the door, closed it bon bow with a shame faced look, and actually kissed it. Then, with fingers way. he placed it in his pocket book. | Caroline, later on. “It isn’t that,” responded Caroline, | being turned out ot her room. { hers, you know, before vou came, and { she hated the idea of | lodger.” i enlightened, and next evening, as Jes- could beat a retreat, *‘Miss Jessie,” {not run away. I { you.” want to speak throwing her apple over the hedge. i § iv. “I want to apologize for having un- consciously taken possession of your lit- lor. It makes me feel like an was my parlor?” to her heart think Isome man he and tawny beard, “Never mind who told { George Leith, with a smile. all the same frye ing me. said “I know { 1 have unconsciously deprived you of your piano ever since I have been here, and I want you to forgive me,” : “It is 1 who ought to ask your for- giveness,” returned Jessie, *I often stolen in to have an hour with She smiled and colored as she spoke, of his voice and manner. They stood watching the moon ibove until Caroline came to the door. and called “Where on earth have you been, “Talking te Mr, Leith,” returned he saw Jessie and the stranger out h the garden again, and after his own dinner had been served, he heard Mis Caroline calling them in to tea, and found that the young man’s name wa Bob—detestable name! Mr, Leith had never felt more miserable than he did that evening, and his life had not beer devoid of trouble, Mr. Leith was sitting in the dark, and presently heard voices outside the door, “I am sure he is out, my child,” said Caroline, *“T'he lamp 18 not lit- You can go in and play for a while, and Mr, Leith will never be a bit wiser,” He did not hear Jessie answer—her voice was not so loud, but the door opened, and she came into the room, ‘going straight over to the piano. Mr, Leith held his breath, lying back in the arm chair, while Jessie played | softly in the darkness, He could see the dim outline of her { form, as she sat at the piano for what little light there was fell upon her. He | was angry, but he could not lose the ! chance of speaking to her alone, { “Miss Jessie,” he said quietty, Jessie gave a faint scream. He had | frightened her so much that she trem- bled like a leaf, She was going to run {out of the room, when his voice arres- ted her movement. “*1 shall be sorry that I revealed my- self if you are going to run away,” he went on, ‘‘It is not often I have the room. 's will never cease, Caroline. ‘I thought you it the I think he would it there, over with that pleasant “Wonders claimed hated him: In talk anyone voice of his.” Jessie thought so too: but she did not give vent to her opinion in words. She lovely. There was a change in her to- night; and her sister was vaguely con- scious of it, as the girl stood looking Jessie,” Jessie sat down at the piano but she Her little brown hands were trembling too much. Mr. rose, and stood by her side. “I shall be going back to soon,’ he said, to think of few moments s with you at the plano.” London Liese wit away soon,” faltered something in ber volce i's heart beat always hke eyes beginn sparkle, and a her sweet | ! not see these si **I hope you always will be,” he said. “May 1 wish you every happiness?” “You may if you like,” with an odd little break in her voice, for sne was trying hard to smother her langhter, “When asked Mr, Leith, trying to speak lightly, but not is it to be?v ““Whea is what to be?” asked Jessie with a :ittle gasp. “Your marriage of course,’ Mr. Leith, rather coldly, for he kpew now that she was laughing at him. “I think you are putting the cart be returned murely, **What do you mean?” patiently, “I mean, 5 i 1 w ne asked im said Jessie denly dignified, “that I have 1 growing 10 lover, 80 it “Our Jessie is growing “Handsome is as handsome does,” him no end of money, while the more homely Caroline had put pounds in his “Then that young man?" Leith, “Is began Mr, of these the piano to find the arms of afianced husband Az she tered words Jessie ross fre the s § AW 3 herself clasped in father’s lodger, And to think,” said Miss Maybrick that fuss about Mr. Leith coming, and marry him after all! I was neve: “It is the best thing that could have never would have been worth anything as a farmer's wife:' and in- deed this is true, but Jessie never wan- who could get very Next morning, as Mr. Leith sat at throb. interested In? He could not be her | an awkward cub, Mr. Leith tried to read his news. paper, and forget the happy looking couple in the garden, but it was of no use. There they were, parading up and down in full view of his window, and now and then their voices were wafted to him on the breeze, He felt he could stand it no longer, and slammed down the window ina rage. What was the use of coming to the country for quiet, if people would persist in making such a racket? He took his hat and went for a walk, and when be returned home, had the pleasure of seeing that rustic through the kitchen window, dining with the | family, Mr, Leith closed the door of his room; but he could not shut out the sound of that fellows noisy laughter, “If he is a frequent guest, my stay here will not be of very longduration,” he thonght, Presently, to his intense annoyance, : : | her Mrs. George Leith, i —— Horse Phystiogoomy. The noted horseman, Colonel M. C. Weld, tells us that a horse's head in- dicates his character very much as a man’s does. Vice is shown in the eye The size of the eye, the thin. ness of the skin, making the face bony, the large, open, thin-edged nostril, the fine ear and the thin, fine mane and foretop are Indications of high breeding, and accompanying a high-strung, ner- yous organization, which with good limbs and muscular power, insures a considerable degree of speed in the animal. The stupidly lazy horse, that drivers call a “‘lunk-head,” has a dull eye usoally, u narrow forehead and a contracted poil. He is not represented in this group, but occurs not unfre- quently, is always a blunderer, forgets himself, and stumbles on smoot ground, gets himself and his owner into diffi- culties, calks himself, is sometimes positively lazy, but often a hard goer, He needs constant care and watchful. ness on the driver's part. A buyer of equine flesh should be able to detect the good and bad qualities of the animal he contemplates purchasirly. This valua- ble knowledge 1s only acquired by a careful study of the various parts of the horse physiognomy. at—— cant Mistake, error, is the discipline through, which we advance. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Pride is consciousness of wh at one 18 Wilhoui contempt for others, Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. Animals feed, men eat; but only men of intelligence know how to eat. Poverty destroys pride. It is difficult for an empty bag to stand upright. No entertainment is so cheap ag reading nor is any pleasure so lasting, It 18 more honorable to acknowledge our faults than ©o boast of our merits. The weakest spot of any where he thinks himself the st rongest, All other knowledge is hurtful to one who has not the science of honesty and good nature. Discontent with one’s gifts destroys the power of those that one has and brings no others, Charity, or love is the connecting link which unites earth to heaven, and man to man, All the whetting in the world can has no steel in it, Want of piety is ever the first, the capital erime, and our other faults are all derived from it, Obedience is a sure ground of hope; 10 expect salvation without it is not hope but presumption. erty of its sharpest sting. can, In every place you can, cess, and it cannot be purchased with any other kind of currency, As daylight can be seen sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit sims the praise they give. To be man’s tender mate was woman t $ t A1i¢ weving 1 ; 3 “ality Oey ig NaLure slid the purposes of Heaven, » true grandeur of humanity isin elevation, sustained, enlightened orated by the intellect of man. stice He who delencele refuses to do ju 5 will always be found making hile Alda. The best comforters in affliction, those like Job's friends who sat three days and ‘spake ti with never What blockheads are those wise per- sons who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything that it reads, iad habits are and every indulg: will thisties of the heart, spring a new crop of weeds, A man should never be ashamed to Xz ree A Yr NEWS OFTHE WEEK ~The public debt statement for Feb ruary, issued on the 2d, shows a reduc. tion of $3,204,975, ~The municipal elections in Bath and. Auburn, Maine, held on the 2, were carried by the Republicans, The Democrats earned Lewiston, Their candidate for Mayor in Portland had a plurality, but a majority being neces- sary, there will be another election, ~—{reorge Hughes, aged 18 years, from Cleveland, Ohio, while tramping through the Indian Territory, stopped on the 28th nit, at Camp Creek, nine miles west of Fort Smith, He was given a room with a man named Pugl,. { During the night Huges got, up, knock. ed his bedfellow in the head with a | billet of wood, robbed him of $85, and returned to Fort Smith. Pugh died of his wounds on Sunday, March, 1st, ~— William R. Morrison received the customary vote of Speaker Haines for U. 8. Senator, in joint eonvention the Illinois Legislature on the 24. & Oi ~The Supreme Court of the United lates reassembled on 2d, ustice Waite presiding. > the Chief {J Grant was much better Notwithstanding his sicial weakness i book. ¢ 3 itl 5 | —General { on the 24, phy- he is still at work on his The General's physicians ropor- midnight that their patient Jdssed i : lon iit day, “had having been {1 ! Ho0d 81 i of nouris! Vice President-elect | visited the Ser tepresenta xl, and {as well as s aud taken his usual ; eri Hen. Hendricks ile Chamber and Hall of i Washington on the was welcomed by Republica Democratic members. H. on on the 1st in the He - Rear { retired, died { Goth YeLr t Of the \ Was the them ¢ Admiral George Bos 1 i% age, Corn i H101 of MY ’i WAS ry. 4 roance with thu memiers of for Unit | Haines cast | Morrison. {reneral ( mit i 15 but saying that he is wiser to-day than yi sterday. A heart smile may be bright while the is sad. ‘I'he rainbow is beautiful t the air, while beneath f “a, ould be eareful reputation by doing well: and L care 1s once taken, not to be cious about the success, both to deserve a Fool It is wicked and unscriptuml harvest Some sovereign purpose of power from on high watch over propen- 15 never safe unless he [ collaring his nature as orcing 1 mto submission, Our lwiraction in conversation: very easy 104 10 be drunk, but hard to be sober, When oné has learned to seek the honor tht cometh from God only, he witl Lake the withholding of the honor hal comes from man very quietly in- deed, The power of the mind over the body is immense. Let that power be called and vigor both of mind and body will be the result, A heated church or prayer-room, crowded with buman beings, and tightly closed, is not a fit place to wor- ship God mm. It is a violation of his law to stay in such a place, ““Unprayed for," says a minister, “I feel very much like a diver sent down to the bottom of the sea without air to breathe; or as a fireman, sent up a blaz- ing building with an empty hose. Those who are neither blinded by the mists of passion nor constrained by the close-woven ret of prepossession see more clearly, as well as more deeply, than those who are given over to thelr own fantasies, It is a Christian duty not only to at. tend public worship, to eontribute to the maintenance of such worship, but 10 use a considerable portion of one’s time and property in helping those who are less fortunate, Whatever the anrest and the com. motion, to the anchored soul, there is assurance in the faith which Garfield had when in the midst of riot and mur derous hate he exclaimed: “God reigns, aud the republic still lives.” The value of life for me is what 1 find in it. If it yields to my conscious- ness a preponderance of , I am jus. tified mm my optimism, ¢ may be de- ceived as to the grounds of our joy in life, but the joy itself is no delusion. Blessed be the band that prepares a pleasure for a child; for there is no saving when and where it may again bloom forth, Does not almost every. body remember some kind-hearted man who showed him a kindpess In the quiet days of his childhood. pi When life has been well spent, a loss of what it can well spare. Jie conten} wisdom, which was old in in A young in IH00Te a ing off obstructions, Beg happy su the mind purified and wise, jamin Jutterworth, sioner of Commis. | resignation to Secretary Teller, who ace cepted it, A 1 wdered to : ity 11th instant for | General Hazen, on Prejudicial t discipline.» Hancock will The chaz Res , #3 good Order Major Genera) be President of the Court grow out of Hazen’s retary of War I0IEms © preme Court of Calif i led yi 4 we wat decid q ad vy aan —1n the Si nia, n ihe 54, it nese children must be wiblie sel & MOIS, new State was ald Ty Janis HIS, one of Lae « in Austin, 1 Masonic ire and a num- cerem ¥ and civic organizations | were 1 The new building will be ructed of limestone, in Co hian f its length will feet, and its width 288 feat, floor 10 the The const order « hitecture, {4 Le 5006 { height from the basement { top of the dome will be 250 fect, wae | estimated cost is nea $5,000,000, —As the train carrying the New York County Democracy emerged from the Union Tunnel in Baltimore on the 3d, a shot was fired at 1t from the wall of Greenmount Cemetery. The ball passed through the hat of one of the passengers. The assailant escaped. —At Alliance, Ohio, on the 1st, drunken rowdies took charge of the Salvation Army meeting, “They pulled the whiskers off the soldiers and beat them,” and a general fight ensued, —{réneral Grant's condition on the 4th was munch better than on Tuesday, Colonel Fred. Grant said, in response to an inquiry as to the feelings of the General about the action of Congress in passing the bill placing him on the retired list. “*He is very much pleased with the action of the Te: nothing in weeks bas chevred him up so much, He feels that his services have beeu at Inst recognized and that justice has been done him,» ~The Cincinnati Price Curvent pub. lishes the result of the special investi. gations concerning stocks of wheat in the country. It is estimated that the entire wheat stocks of the country. «m. bracing visible supply, aggregate 2005, - 000,000 bushels, compared with 150, 000,000 bushels a year ago, > ~The St. Paul Plow Works, three miles from the City of St. Paul, were burned on the 3d. The loss is estimated at $100,000. The insurance amounts to $60,000. The fire originated from a lamp explosion. The old pipe line a few wiles south of Lebanon, Penna, sprung a leak on the 34, Some mal. iclous parson set fire to the escaping oil, causing a large con The oil still leaked and bu the 4th, but the fire was confined $0.4 pov, No damage was done to surrounding prop erty. ~ fx « Congressman Hiram MeCul- lough died at his residence on the 4th Dr ly i othe Tot ear of | © wa : Ey the Democrats of his on EL bo i ~The funeral of Mrs, Eliza 8 Walker, sister of James G. Blaine, took place in Baltimore on the The services were held in the C and the body was taken to Brownay Pa., for interment, “ine le ~In folnt session of the Illinois Leg- islature on the 4th, ballot for a United States Senator, Speaker Haines changed from Mr. Morrison and voted for Richard Bishop, etating that he felt that he had done his duty by Morrison and could no longer vote for him. to ~Lrovernor Wilson, of West Virginia, was inaugurated in Wheeling on the 4th, ~ President Cleveland was inasugurat in Washington on the 4th, The ceremonies took place on a patform at the central portico the Capitol, and were wilnessed by the retiring President, ed members of Congress, the Judiciary, the Diplomatic Corps, military and naval officers and a vast assemblage of citizens. The oath of office was administered by Chief Jus- Waite. President Cleveland’s 1n- augural was delivered without manu- script, although he occasionally consult ed a small plece of paper bearing notes of the heads of his address, The inau gural procession, which reviewed by the President, mnciuded the most imposing milifary display witnessed in Washington since the war, The civic and military organizations in line em. braced 25,000 men, and ti procession occupled three hours in passing the re viewing stand, was 6“ ~— No Cabinet nommations were made on the 4th, on account adjourn- ment of the extra ses f the Senate to attend the inaugur: Secretary Teller being one of ym CO af I Ceremonies, the new lorado, Arthur accepted his resig Secretary of President Aas bers of the old Cat dent eve i rabinet Wore land for h "em SECOND BESS] bling A « ive Appropriatic an exe anterence cont $ g i 4 thor vil, ROG Anolleg * Was still | morning ug appropriation "he Senate and House ) session with occasional recesses Wd disposing of the appropriation * condition of the appropriation bill idnight on the 3d was reporter ows: The Legislative agresd Lo exocs 0 Senators, } + {Lhe proves he Sundry Civi provisions for pu The Post-office bill has ed to the House with non« in respect to tl The confer: e Naval bill T buildings, been report currence i sidy clause pon ti HOUSE ence Commitive was appo lenis to the Na Mr. Mills, of Texas, Lo suspend the rales { adopt a resolution declaring “Th xsi On Lhe Senate prom moved Amen lation bill, a arrange tl augural ceremonies having declined to give to the Representatives in Congress their proper places, we will decline to take any part in the said ceremonies at the Capitol.” Mr. Hammond, of Geot- gia, demanded a second, and the resolu. tion was seconded—138 (0 x After debate, however, the res dution was de. feated—yeas, 55, nays, 184. The eon- tested election case of Frederick A. Wilson, from Iowa, was taken op, Mr. Adams, of New York, giving notice that at the conclusion of the cousiders. tion of the election case that lies would move to suspend the rules and pass the Bankruptoy bill. The House, at this point, took a recess until evening On reassembling, the contested election case was resumed, and a number of dilatory motions were indulged 10. The House remained in session early this morning, awaltiag action on ape propriation bills, Adjourned. The forty-eighth Congress adjourned sine dieat noon on the 4th, All the appropriation bills were passed and signed by President Arthur before noon. Shortly before the adjournment of the House, Mr, Randall, of Penn. sylvania, moved to sispend the rules and pass the Senate bill for the retires ment of General Grant. The motion Was carried-—yeas 198, nays 78, and the bill was passed, The passage of the bill evoked great enthusiasm, ree cheers being given, followed by long continued applause. On motion of Mr, Skinner, of New York, the Speaker was authorized to send a telegram to Gene eral Grant, informing him of the action of the Mouse. The bill was signed in due form by the presiding officers of the Senate and House, and sent to the President; the latter aflixed lis signa- ture to the bill, and sent a message to the Senate nominating Geperal Grant for the position of General on the re. tired list of the army. The noming- tion was immediately in open session by the Senate by a unanimous vote, Immediately after the ment of ress Lhe Senate reconvened in extra . Vice President Hen. WO - appointed to Ta
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