Waconia RAFES MID-wAY, Pondering on the years that are not, Thinking of the years to be, Standing now betwixt the limits Of life's sa, tempestuous sea; ‘With the half of life behind me, With its purest and its bess, Is it strange that this should blind me To the cumming years—and resi? Is 18 strange that, with a longing And a ory of hungry palin, I should turn from unknown future To the joyous past again? Is it strange that, looking backward, All my sorrows I forget, All of happiness reinember Naught of sadness and regret? Only that to me they'll come not; Ne'er again am I to see Those bright days of happy springtime WW hat the summer held for me. Faded —faded are the daisies; Dead the roses of my June; Dying are the flowers of August— Autuma days will reach me soon. ESTO LAUREL VALES LOVER. There were only a few people at the 1D ‘tohin House—It was late in the sea- son. The maple woods made alow line of deep red against the autumn sky; the ladles, too, muffled scarlet shawls over their white dresses as they sat on the piazza of the hotel overlooking thesurf, fistening to the band which still played jubilantly in the sunny afternoon. The heiress, Miss Vale, who had come late, remained later. She liked the cold breath which crisped the surf, turned the maples red, and made her horses dance over the smooth floor of yellow sand which stretched for miles along the bay. Her faultlessly beautiful face, and her sleek bays champed their silver bits down the shore road. more often seen abroad in her carriage, but, being an old traveler, she was a good walker, and often came Into tea he ino closely about her temple. been om foot to Grape IPeint or the Shoals—favorite retreats— accompanied Miss Vale was a little peculiar, people said. Certainly, she did as she pleased, with an unobtrustive independence which hardly need to have troubled any one. She kad gone out that day after the storm to see the sea dash and roll in its strength. The sun shone brilliantly on $= dancing white caps as they settled gradually into a calm. her great dog at her feet. waited down the beach with her car- riage, and her cushions and read, There was no one but Peri to see how against the ragged black rocks, her slight feet, hier graceful shoulders and arms huddled in a soft crimsoa shawl. The sunshine struck her perfect pro- file under a black soft-plumed hat, warming her cheek, and bringing into relief her firm dimpled chin, and those who had called her cold would not have of her lwown eyes. She loved the sea—thrived upon its bours went, though Aunt Pardon turned her hundredth page, and yawned among the purple cushions, “Come here, Sinbad!” A mellow, masculine voice came from among the rocks—too pleasant and manly a voice to whiten Miss Vale's cheek with fear, certainly; but with ene swift, silent motion she rose to her feet, pale as if she had seen a She glanced around. A little behind and just below her stood a gentieman— # blue-eyed man with a fair beard, a great tawny dog fawning at his feet. He mel her startled gaze with one equally startled—then instinctively lif. ted his hat. After an instant he came slowly up the rocks, almost reluctantly it seemed. He, too, was pale now. “Laurel,” he said gently. You might have understood then why people called Miss Vale cold. Her far, mobile countenance seemed to harden over her spirit like a mask. She had but one thought-—that after five years’ suffering she had come to be happy, when here, before her again, stood the destroyer of her peace, She made a swift, involuntary gest ure, as if to keep him off. A quick pathetic sadness swept across his face as he saw it. “And so you hate me?” he said, slowly. She eaught her breath, “1 don’t know,’’ she gasped. The great tawny dog snuffed at the hem of her steel-gray dress, and then looked up in her face, wagging his tail. His master motioned him away. “No,” she cried, bending over the handsome creature. ‘‘He used to love ” Baron Alverton looked at ker with bis blue eyes and groaned. “Laurel,” said he, with a fine ap. pealing gesture, “I used to love you, yet today you would not touch me with your beautiful hand as you touch that brute! And i deserve itl” She seemed to look at him then for 3 the first time, though only for an in. stant. If she saw how his face had changed in five years, and was stirred to pity, she gave uo sign. She turned her head aside and seemed to watch the two dogd frolkeing down the beach, “No excuse could be invented for me,’’ he went on. “You were one of the sweetest, truest women that ever breathed, and my promised wile. Not a shadow stood between us when I met Nellie Dimpleton, But I knew less of women than I do now. I could not measure you, appreciate you as I have done since, I was a fool to be won from you by a pretty face, though that face had set the artists crazy. Ah, well, you do not even care to listen to mel’ She had gathered up her gloves and parasol to depart, but paused. “Laurel,” he continued, *‘in The oM days you were never revengeful or vin- dictive. If you were both now, you might gloat over the misery of my mar- ried life. I am utterly wretched. Let this just decree repay you for my base desertion.” “Baron! where are you?" called a querulous voice. A dumpy figure in blue had paused at the foot of the rocks, and a pair of lackluster blue eyes new looked up at them, the owner apparently not caring to ascend, It was a blonde, faded sickly face, fretful and careworn, once been very pretty. {and joined her. followedy which Laurel overheard. strange surprise | Vale's nome, at Nutwood, Miss Her aunt, Mrs, Pardon | greeable persons, chose to engage her- the sourest of bachelors and Baron Alverton’s uncle, less with surprise, “Why do you marry him, Aunt Par- | don?" she asked at last, **Are you not | happy here?” “*Because he 13 rich,” answered Mrs, | Pardon, “and I want a home of my own. I've no doubt you mean well, Laurel, but I don’t always approve of your ways.” | rations for the wedding commenced. If Aunt Pardon did not approve of manding her attention, her carriage, her servants, for this momentous ooca- | sion. { lowed herself to be set on one side in for her aunt's marriage went on, | solutely refuses to come out here and | make my diesses, bul says she will un- | dertake them if I will come to town for {a few days. I suppose I must do it; private boarding-house, quite exclusive, in fact,” She stopped, Leaming; dut Laurel who felt really too tired for any new exertion, hesitated to respond. * Wouldn't some one else do?’ she asked at last, “Some less important person than Miss Trimmings might be found to come bere,” “No, indeed! There's nobody so sty- lish and high priced. We must go, certainly we must, Laurell But, by the way, Mr. Crabiree says his nephew, your old beau, Baron Alverton, and his wife are staying there now.” “Where? asked Laurel, bewildered, “At his boarding-house, People say his marriage didn't turn out well,” Mrs, Pardon rattled on, not heeding her niece's silence, ‘‘for his wife acted like a crazy woman when he lost some of his money last year—rated him so, it was really quite scandalous! Did you see her on the beach last fall? Such a white faced thing! They say she takes arsenic for her complexion. I don’t call her pretty, though she was all the rage five or six years ago. I believe she’s lost her health—too much dissipa- tion. I've heard that she's awfully jealous of her husband though he don’t give her the least cause and bears it hike a lamb.” Laurel and her aunt were at Mr, Crabiree’s boarding house-certainly a quiet and luxurious retreat enough. Laurel bad been loth enough to come; but here she was, and Mrs, Par- don, at least, was satisfied, for the mornings were endless rounds of shop- ping and the afternoons momentous periods of trying on the new dresses, As for her niece, her greatest appre. hension was that she should encounter Baron Alverton; but a little dissimilar. ity in meal hours warded off this event until the very last night of her stay in town, She had been restless and could not certain book, which might divert her mind and quiet her nerves. As she vet-shod feet a door was flung open and a wild-eyed maid rushed out, “Oh,” she cried, at sight of Laurel, “won't you come mn a minute? I'm afrad she Is dylog!”’ Amazed, Laurel stepped within the | door. A little Bgure in blue writhed a ——————— ST AAAS upon the floor, yet evidently verton was partially unconscious. “Call her husband--a dogtor—quick!” exclaimed Laurel. the helpless weman in her arms laid her upon the bed, In the next moment saw that Mrs, Alverton breathe, As she turned to hasten from the sounds of coming feet which she heard the encountered Baron Alverton, of horror she had ceased to pallid face upon the pillows “Jt has come as | feared.’’ ha cried, clinching his hand upon hs harassea brow. of arsenic.” was startled by the sad truth, The 1st of March Mrs. Paraom Ard- ley became Mrs, Abel Crabtree. It was a strange mockery of flower symbols and lover's vows to Laurel Vale. Indeed, so strange a shadow would clasp her bands over her eyes mare that must break soon or she would lose consciousness forever, Ever since that autumn day by the serted her. calm, but inward unrest now searched her brain and bummed away her strength, All summer she aropped alone at Nutwood, cian declared that she must go down by the sea. a few Stone said. weeks with my family,” Dr “Victor will be there and admired Miss Vile, But she went only with her maid and Juba, thou:h she found the doctor's The sea received her kindly. It blew her beautiful quickened her eves to beat more slowly and evenly. But there was a secret want, “Oh, for some one to love me-—Some * she cried one day, dropping her face in her arms upon the ragged rocks. “I love you, Laurel, but it is too late for you to love me,’' syllabled a voice She lifted her head. She and and Ba- ron Alverton looked into each other's eves, His sad gaze read all her strug- gle, “Oh, tell me the truth!” he prayed. Perhaps the sea, sounding its grand thunder iu her ears, helped her to raise above all pettiness, “1 love you Baron,” she said, simply; and both were happy. mi AAI AAI The Canse of War. The technical question at between Russia and Great Britain is a disputed The frontier issue boundary. Harirud a little south of Sarakhs to the Oxus. The fertile section between the Herat. The boundary now claimed by M. Lessar pusaes through Akrabat and Bala Murghab, Within thus dispuled belt ths Russians have occupied import- ant points sixty miles south of the old frontier. Pul-i-Khatam and Sari Yazi have been garrisoned and advance guards have been stationed at Zulficar Pass, Akrabat and Pul-i-Khisti,. Some commander has been responsible for the two rivers. The chief stronghold held by the Afghans in this contested Ameer’s troops about & year ago upon his receiving assurances from the Brit- ish Government that his dominions ex- tended as far north as the Sarakhs line. Bala Murghab, Garlin, Robat Pass and other points south of the frontier now claimed by Russia are also garrisoned by his soldiers, Dynamite. The Rhenish dynamite company which has factories in Cologne and other German cities, produces over 2500 tons of dynamite annually. In Great Britain and Ireland three fastor- les turn out about 2000 tons of the ex. Silence is the severest criticism, | deceiver, | reveated defeat, lects his business, partiality of death, | can never be bought. ; | Better bend the neck promptly than | to bruise the forehead, i He who proposes to be an author | should first be a student. we determine our deeds, Manners require time, as nothing is | mowe vulgar than haste, { woven children of hight, | ance; it is infirmity of will, | er’s faults and hisdeformity. | When credulity comes from the heart | it does no harm to the intellect, | if they do not stain, a character, but can never be made legitimate, but sad be Heaven's distant lamps, { if you would succeed in life, rise early and be an economist of time, I always think the flowers can ses us | What seems to us | tapers, may 1 The qualities we possess never make | have, | hight, cheat one’s self, that. If the power to do hard work 1s not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. Wuh patience sour sweelmeals, to satin, One who is never busy can never rest, for rest implies relief from pre- vious labor, become leaves tum grapes and mulberry Little do we cary for the speech of people if conscience will not whisper approval, Seeing much and suffering much and studyi much are the three pillars of learning. What we charitably forgive recomposed as well as what w tably give, will be @ chari- Make friends with your creditors if you can, but never make a creditor of your friend. The worship of the Lord from charity ean never didfer, however externals may be changed. To educate the mind and let manners and heart run wild, curses humanity with a mildew, As any man may be compelied to eat his words, he shiould never indulge hs bitter speeches, Do not oy 3 + § hear, buat believe one-half that vou make sure that you believe all thal you w= it would easier to endow a fool with intellect {han to persuade Lim that he had none, He who labors with the mind governs others: he who labors wilh the body governed by others True goodness is like the glow worm, it shines most when no eyes save Lhose of heaven are upon it, There is no strength in exaggeration, even the truth is weakened by being expressed too strong Envy is a vic: whic dav, but is alwavs mn working Its own disquiet, AY. baer hi keeps no |} wheal, and the fits he confers beneath his feet, those he receives nearest his heart A good many have tried to be great men and failed, but no one ever tried to be a good man and failed, Every day a little helpfulness, We live for the goad of others, if our living be in any sense true living. We do love beauty at first sight; and. we do cease to love it if it is not accom | panied by amiable qualities, Lire toa vy ung man is hke a new ac- ted as he advances in years, sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love, Give not reins tojyour inflamed pas- mons; take time and a little delay; im- petuosity manages all things badly. In life it is difficult to sav who do you most mischief—enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best, He who comes up to his own idea of tness must always have have had a very low standard of it in his mind. There are lying looks as well as lying words, dissembling smiles, deceiv- ing signs, and even a lying silence. A narrow-minded man ean never pos. sess real and true generosity; he can never go beyond mere benevolence, If you wish to appear agreeable in you maet consent to be taught many things which you know already. be false; ir it is it i3 2% HEH 3 i i7 a TEE i ~The state of affairs on the Isthmus Whitney has decided to send an addi- — 1 1ie Legislature of New Jersey After the adjournment a Constitutional Con- or's hands, It provides for a4 commis- gion to revise the State Constitution and suggest amendments to the lLegis- October, - The "elevated railroads of York city carried during the first six The passengers carried total number of from the opening ~During a wind gust in Pittsburg on Miss Bella Consley, who on the head by the sign and injured and an old man named McCar- improvement In seeined to be free from pain iter portion of the time. during Sweet, Pension Agent at Chicago, -C, D, Walker, First Depuly Com- resignation to take effect on inst, —The President on the 6th the commissions of John G. Searey, to be Internal Hevenue Collector for Third District of Texas, and Nathan Gregg to be Internal Revenue Col for the Second District 11 dig ie eLor of Ter nesses, 1 ¥% 4 al taint & +3 I i » usual joint session of the Jil. was held on the were present or 1 w { Wi { ¢ of the eleclions ate the choice of Mavor, A Hei MICE riy 400, 4 ican ticket re WW. Hanson, Democrat, was he f elected Mavor of Calais, ine, by 20 majority. He is the first Democrat elected Mayor sine 1 4 The city election on the Tth, ansville, In- n the elee- { the Democratic ticket by largely increased majorities, The New York Dafly Comme {nates the losaes by 7 ai nre in States and Canada d £89 O06 000. whiel aurnng wetory of O. C, dn fac W BCOnSInN, h. Loss, $35,000; Maryville, * 3 STOvVeq fire al Ing Gif TN pn Is, Causing Harris » Mayor of Ch Later in the Smith, Republican, BH) we it was stated that had probably been 3 it was at great frauds were come some wards, dav elected plurality, X barged mitted in Returns of the municipal election Louis, held on the Tih, give about 200 plurality for Francis, the Demo- in Nt incumbent and Republican candidate. The vote for Filley tie bolting Republican candi- date for Mayor, 1s about equal to the plurality for Francis I.. Ewing the present — Captain Joseph Atkins, Democrat, was elected Mavor of Galveston, Texas, by a plumlity of 86, 3y a recent of the city charter the Board Aldermen were elected at large This W. Caney and J. H. ¢ (8 0 N. ~(eneral Grant was much better on the 8th, and the improvement continued throughout the day. Shortly before midnight Dr. Shrady said he would not send out any more bulletins during the night unless something unexpected should occur, He thought the General would have a quiet night, ~Twenty-five Senators and eighty- one Representatives answered roll call in joint convention of the Illinois Leg- islature on the 8th, One vote was cast for U, 8, Senator. ~The Iroquois Club, of Chicago, passed a resolution on the 7th calling on all the Democratic members of the I1li- nois Legistature to vote for Morrison for U. 8 Senator, 8, Cormmmng Judd, a member of the Democratic National Committee, said that **be knew that President Cleveland earnestly desired Colonel Morrison's election.” «The Commercial Block at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, containing the Commer- cial Bank and eeveral stores, was burned early on the 8th. The losses SRI. $43,000, the insurances about $22, «Postmaster General Vilas on the 7th completed his first month in office. During that period he commissioned 450 postmasiers and prepared more than 100 presidential commissions for approval His First Assistant, Mal- Hay. has been ill ever since his appointment, «On the evening of the 6th, in relation to Genera: Grant Dr. Douglas sad that end A bulletin issued A AST 85 — large vole, and that 113 out of 194 | voting precinets heard from give Ha - i rison, Democrat, for Mayor, 24.455, | and Bmith, Republican, 24 743. Smith's | majority, 288, Both parties claiined the | election, | — Full returns of the muanicipn! «lec. | tion held in Cincinnati on the $i, give | Smith, Republican, 3803 majority for | Major. The oniy Democratic candi. i date elected were J. M. Fi zeerald for {| Police Judge bv 1285 majority, and | Vincent Schwab for Magisirate by a | majority of 1428, | ~Josiah W, Wnght, Democrat, wae | on the Tth elected Mayor of Primeeton, New Jersey, by 26 majority ‘The rest of the officers elected are Republican, —Commander Kane, of the U. 5, steamer Galena, telegraphs Secretary Whitney under date of the 6th from Colon : ** There 8 nothing new to report. The Panama Railroad Com. | pany is getting the road in order. The | Government troops are anxions about their prisoners, The Raiircad Com- pany and the Galena are feeding the troops, All are In need, There is | great anxiety among the foreigoers al { Panama.” inst, ~The session of the Legistature of New Jersey, lasted twelve weeks, Al | together 688 bills were introduced | 469 in the House and 219 1 the Sen- ate. About 225 bills passed both Houses and went to the Governor ~The Governor of New Jersey, ou | the Tth issued a proclamation designe. {ting "iiday the 24th inst., as Arbor Day in that State, 4 ~In the joitt convention of the [li i nois Legislature on the Tih, Morrison | received 23 votes, Logan 4 and 4 were | scattered, —The president on the Tih signed the commissions of Alexander MeCue to be Solicitor the Treasary, and David Settle to be United Bates Mar- shal for Western North Carolina, — 11% 18 said President probably appoint Andrew Lrross | United States 1 1 vanes . Mr. Gross by the Att of that the wil Jackson Marshal for is recommends ral. ] wiport, Kentucky, on he 7th, a man named MeMillen Car in whieh Jobo 1. ab Lorney (zene Wu boarded astreet ummins, a clerk Bank of Cincin- r, and, saying *'] balls into eath,. McMil- ap. It the be wi ve you i Wily. ve lan immed is said he acle wh 1a sedi trayal of his daug Pennsylvania Leoemisisture The Senate met at 9 a. m. « he Of The session was conf wo frst reading of 1 BRAge from the Governor announce! his ap proval of the bill relating 1 tudy of physiolgy and hygiene in (he public A message from nor announced the Charles Porter, of Ex ery Commissions £308 pags Mileen x SC O0IR, LOVETT attend apn th a large pun ried with fav The Hone il he hunt a fow nm Lhe bills wer in the Senate ber Ya # . 8 BLInI ® hefont nd w ssevd finally journed., the Senate on the Tih L n final passage was comaderes meas he caienda action. several being amended in lmmater details, Mr. Harlan, of 4 moved an executive sess on nominations BOWED Mr. Humes, of Crawford, amend by requiring action on ali pends ing nominations. Mr. Cooper, of Del- aware asked Mr. Humes to withdmw his amendment, as he was apprebonsive that the requisite two-thirds vole might be obtained in consequence of ibe number of absentees., He did not wisi to endanger the confirmation of Di. Higbee for Superintendent of Public instruction by a lack of aflnualive votes, Hr. Humes insisted on his | amendment, stating that he intended U object to the nominee just mentioned. \ The amendment was then voted down and Mr. Harlan’s motion adopted | Adjourred. without decisive ures f Of Rov: HOUSE, In the House, a resolution was adoit- ed making the bill dividing cities of ! the State into three classes a speoial or- {der for third reading on the Bth, The following bill was read for the gecond time: Providing that the com. pensation allowed to pilots for esmduct- ing vessels from the capes of the Dels. ware to Philadelphia shall bw, for every one-half foot of water which any vessel shall draw up to 12 feet the sam of $1.87 ; over 12 and up to 15 feet, $2 08; over 15 and up to 18 feet, 2.25; over 15 feet and up to 20 feet, 2.50 ; over 0 feet. $2.75. After the first reading of a number of bills the House adjourned. In the House on the Tth, the consid- eration of the Senatorial and Represen- tative Apportionment bills being post- poned for the present, the House pro- ceeded to the consideration om second reading of the Congressional Appor tionment bill. The pending amend ment, making the Fifteenth district out of Bradford, Tioga and L ing counties, was agreed to--yeas T7, nays 50. The Senate Senatorial
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