SILENCE ¢8, SUANDAL. There's wisdom in the tongue that holds A due degree of caution, That coolly weighs eich sentence, ere It sets itself in motion; For oft there's something in a spéoch "were better never spoken, There's wisdom in the silence, that's For scandal seldom broken, A thousand times the grief and pain By words have buen engendered, As silence in their stead to man Could peace and plaasure rendered. And yet there's something more than this, Still something wore enduring; ‘Who speaks by well matured thought Words sparkling bright and cheering. New lustre and new treasures add To learning’s highest college, Brings new ideas into the world, And gilds bis name with knowledge. But idle brains have busy tongues, With cunning, sense, nor reason; To them conviction is a fault, And silence naught but treason, But thinking men will all agree There's much 'twers best unspoken; «'s wisdom in the silence that’s I ui scandal seldom broken, Ti THE SECRET CHAMBER, It stood ina wretched side court, lead- ing out of the ** Five Points,” in New York. For three years this old frame house, with itsrotten outside, had been untenanted—or, at least it was thought 80. Gloomy and dark and grim and scowling it stood, separated on all sides ways reminding people of its fixed de- | who passed beneath its shadow, for it was crooked, crazy and seemingly fall- ing apart. There wasi deep mystery about this old house, and we proceed to unravel it e church clocks of the city had to «J ont eleven one dark, starless 1 n November, as a man, dressed in deep black, ascended with noisless house, and applying a key to the doar, | entered and closed it behind him. Not a living soul had observed him, | The quiet court was deserted and part- ly wrapped in deep slumber, Gaining the dark and dusty hallway the man proceeded onward, going up a flight of stairsand then into a musty smelling passage, narrow and dark as Hades, Here he produced a large lamtern from some corner, and striking a match he lighted a candle and unlocked a strongly barred door of a room situa- ted, it appeared, in the very heart of the old house, and rooms on all sides, ently secret room tered. By the rays of the candle in the lantern we see a round, wood-panneled room, cold and chilly, a stool, an old fireless hearth, and a straw tick laid on the dirty dust-covered floor, and on this tick reclines a pale ema- ciated man of perhaps five and twenty, tied with a iron ban around his ankles ; attached to the band was a chain four feet in length. The other end of the chain was fastened toa heavy ring in the wall This man is a prisoner. ger is his jailor, “So Robert Grantly |” says stranger, laying nis lantern down, and then resting himself on the three-leg- ged stool, ** I've come back again, you see! Come, you ain’t sleeping 1” “(Go away from my sighs, you demon ’ the stranger en- The stran- ne er, Curse you what has brought you here again? Let me starve to death but do not torture me with your flendish pres- ence I” st Come now, Grantly, you know why I came here again. [ want you to an- swer, yes or—no.”’ “No, you plotting, incarnate scoun- drell No, to your teeth, and for the last time.” gneered the stranger. *‘ You'll never leave this place ; it shall tomb.” * Perhaps,” replied the prisoner ; “hut I'll not give up life without a struggle, I can tell you. treacherous Judas.” “ Judes''—and the stranger laughed, or at least grinned, as the ** tradition. al”? demon does in satanie plays. “ Yes; that is rightly your name. Who else but an assassin and a Judas would have played the vile and double part that you have enacted ? Why am I here, a weak and starving man? ‘Why have I been imprisoned here for twelve months? You are a penniless man. | was paying my addresses to Marian Mandrake, a loving girl, whom you discovered had boundless wealth. You wished to gain her for your bride «God help her should that be her fate, 1 stood in your way. You played the part of a friend to me, and late one night, after drugging me you enticed me into this grim and lonely place, consigned me to this dreary and dark room, and for ond year I have not seen the light of day.” “You can purchase your freedom ” “By signing a paper drawn up by you, Ralph Langly, renouncing all claim to Marian Mandrake’s hand and leaving her for you lo Win, UY ooment ing~by swearing to leave New York untfl after you bave married her, and never tomention—never to breathe tol | living soul my imprisonment here.” { ‘Exactly my dear Robert, these are | the conditions whereon you gain youl | life and liberty, my fine fellow.” “1 scorn your offers, | { firmly refuse them, and threats, Ralph Langly.”! | do you hear me?’ In a rage, | tomb, I say-—your tomb I" use in repeating it. { me." “1 shall return again—-{o-morrow you shall be left here to die. And I shall win wife—her gold, her fortune shall be 21) mine—mine! laugh, Ralph Langly passed out of the house. * ® * #* * * - o'clock. The November cold and windy, with a starless sky, and streets partly deserted. In the old straw tick was the prisoner whom we saw the night bef re- a treacherous man. “1 must make au effort to escape,’ he groaned to himself, **Oh, were 1 but free from these terrible irons, then there might be a chance, Oh, Marian, | Marian, what must you think of my long absence from you ?'’ To the outside of the door came familiar footsteps, The key grated in the lock, and the jailor’s lantern threw | its flickering candle light into the room, and on the prisoner’s form, lying on his straw Lick, “* You he entered, ** 1 have see,” said Ralph Langly, as come, as I prom- ised, for your last and decisive answer {0 my proj ** You have received it often enough ~I0¥ refusal. That’s enoug! Now go away from me.” * Do you know that you will starve to death here 7" “Whi I “ Yes, you wil" sition”? usual or Bite 1 Langly’s passion “These walls are thick, this room lies | in the very heart of the house, your | loudest: cry cannot penetrate scarcely beyond this room. People think this | house uninhabited-—quite right that they should think thus-—nothing could suit me better.” *¢ Go from wy sight, yon murderer, coward] It is my chained condition | | that emboldens you to speak thus, Oh, for a moment's liberty! I should avenge all the months of suffering I have experienced at your hands.” “ Indeed [" his prisoner. “Dat it is not likely dom ; no, my dear fellow.” out his now. ‘After eleven, getting late, Well I suppose 1 have | received my final answer. You must give up Marian Mandrake. You won't leave New York until after the wedding, will you ?"’ * No, a thousand times no; neither will Marian Mandrake your wife,” * You'd rather stay here and starve and die, eh 7’ The villain’ manner would have Aggravated an angel to an- ger and rage as it did the prisoner. “And still, for all that, Miss Mandrake shall become my wife, *’ Maddened, aggravated, almost fren- watch to his feet, and forgetting for the mwo- ling him on the spot. As he got out as far as his chain would allow him, there camela strange | sound from the wall, near the bed tick, | followed by a glad ery from the prison- | er, Robert Grantly. By the lantern’s light, Ralph Langly, | behind the prisoner, saw bim rush to- ward hum, go the length of hus chain, | and then come to a sudden pause, then wall which held the chain give way, | and tlie heavy chain dropping to the | floor told him that his prisoner was | free, | With a sudden cry of fear the vil- Pat Robert Grantly was upon him in | an instant, ond bore him down on his | back on the floor, then, with one knee | on his breast and one hand grasping | the throat, he exclaimed : Now, you coward, who is mas. ter 7" The wretch on the floor made an ef- fort to rise, but the late prisoner’s grip was one of iron. . “Give me the keys to unlock the shackles on my ankles-—quick I say 1” was Robert's command, “ It's in my pocket,’ hissed the fear- stricken coward. Searching with one hand in the wretch’s pocket, Robert Grantly brought forth the keys to the shackles, of the secret room, and also of the front door, which he dropped into his “ Now then I've got to lock you in bere till 1 retarn with a couple of of ficers, You shall pay for all the mis. ery I have suffered, or I'm mistaken.” Saying #0 his feet and hurled him against the wall of the room, where he fell, partly uneoncious, Casting a look of hate and triumph at his fallen enemy, Robert Grantly passed out of the chamber, and unlock- the open street and breathed the fresh air for the first time in a year, Ralph Langly, gaining consciousness, looked around for some opening of es cape ere his lute victim returned with gain it by standing the stiff tick against he might reach the air opening. He had got to the top of the tick and had grasped the edge of the opening above, when the straw tick fell over on i secret room with a curse, His first act was to drag the straw but he was too the room, and tongues of flame began to issue from the bed tick, “ My God, the house will be on fire, How can I escape ; how, how 7” He tried to beat out the fire, but to no use : the flames of the burning tick the room was one cell of flame and Yells of agony, curses on curses and maledictions came from the suffocating battered terror at the i ¥ Dat ait ll wretch, as he at hopeless despair an ful fate which thr ed him, Denser became the smoke, the ff 0 flames, a fortunate 1 fiercer hrieked the un- talph. The room was now to communicate wilh of the old bh ry of agony, a shriek d Langly fell £1 he other apart- A terrible and backward with his QuiSe, ¢ of a1 ESAs pain, and Ralph dark soul heavy with sin, For three hours afterward inued, unabated, nor did of timber the fire it the old f is HL CPAs till every piece ol ashes, and t oh is ad once stood. Four days after the charred bones of found amid the ruins, All we have to add is, that Marian turn was unbounded, as was also her And so they were w—— I Marriage Promises in Eagiand. Courtships in England are short and engagements are long. No sooner is it understood that a young man and wom- The American cus. saving young men and women free to associate together and Keep company with each other for indefinite length of U without claring their attention almost known to any country of Europe, ig not long after a young man begins daughter father gives intimation he wishes to know what it and either the youth declares his intentions or is notified to “eut sticks.” What of the English i, if an *y ne is befor that means, the attentions € FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Men fear old age of reaching It. Some men have the key of knowl edge, and never enter it, Discontent is the want of self-reli- ance; it 18 inflomity of will. Prosperity 18 no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. Truth is as unposaible to be solled by any outward touch as the sunbeam, the harvest recollections, without being sure There is something in apple which calls up old Our greatest glory 18 not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. : How many people live on the reputa~ tion of Lhe reputation they might have made, : has been borrowed; nature never pre- tends, Ingre use to you than to be able to read atin, have, will im- least expensive The company in which you prove moss will be the to you. Where there is much that is that it leads to engagemeuts it makes of the engagement the courl ing time rather than as a mere prepa. ration for marriage. When gaged the young people are thrown to- gether in the freest fashion, and may be lefl to themselves at all times and in all places almost as though they were man and wife, of Amgrican marriage is deemed the i i English society the engagement is looked upon as the most important, and really is a sort of first stage in matrimony, or the personal uniting of mony. I HO 35. SNS The Place for Hats, A tall young man stepped up to John Stetson in the vestibule of the Fifth avenue theatre, New York, be- tween two acts of “ Princess Ida” and sald: “I've busted my hat under one of your seats.’ “Suppose you have,” Mr, Stetson said, “what have I to do with it?” “The orchestra chair in which I was sitting broke down, and the hat, which was on the floor underneath, was crushed,” said the young man, “You ought to have sttong furniture.” “Under your seat 18 not the place to A man’s own good best security against ot! IMANNers, cine given scalding hot; the cannot take it, Talking and eloquence are same; to speak, and to speak well, are two things. Dost thou love life? squander time; for that is made of, not Then do is the stuff life I'n character, in manners, in 8 the preme excellence is Ril sil frier 1% ge ng poor; BOOT Books serve Ww which is told us by far more potent, lot us not Of all bad things Ly are curst, Their own surely the worst Zeal without humility is a rudder, lable to at any moment, Nothing will whi mankind bad te without be stranded 80 iDCTrease and experience in them. We are all within the circle of greal order, in which, before God, a thou sand years is as one day. ry man who lives in the habitual prac self off from Christianity. nos i but by his ordinary doing. fi sone §t 10 Wines 18 ther, skirts made in 's ten 1 i if they bang long y u 5 with nature and innocence, somethin eye, link | - and are r {0 love. a ruinous mis} temptible 0 b ed u on, that end of pow : try is publica As to luck and lazines knocks at } kt vid man inside t the door, 8 . , Yor oo 14 fa oo lazy to lift the iatch. and litt from being the object of resentment. us, as a parent a child whom he loves? The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. Call a young girl a witch and she is pleased ; call an elderly woman a witch and her indignation knows no bounds. the practice of what is good are the phy Music and flowers are evangels of purity and faith, redolent of God, if istry. It may be that you will not meet again in life. A history which takes no account of what was said by the press in memora- ble emergencies befits an earlier age than ours. golden wedding, but it is an eighteen carat argument in favor of early mar riages. A man ought to keep his {riendship in constant repair. I look upon a day as lost in which I do not make a new acauaintance, Despair, which is the mind’s decla~ ration that there is no hope, is not so much a sickness of the understanding as a sin of the soul, Jones says that he used to be profi- cient 1n half a dozen but that since he is not even master of his own tongue, No one ever saw a street car so jammed full of men that a good-look- ing woman would not wait five min- utes for that particular vehicle. On the resolutions being put I heard has com I NEWS OFTHE WEEK | The President on the 13th, appoin- ted Henry Vignaud, of Lousiana, to be | Secretary of Legation, and Augustus | Jay, of New York, Becond Secretary of Legation, at Paris; also the following | Consuls: Charles T. Russell, of Con- | | | t ~f{iovernor Pattison, Pa., denles the | report that he intends to resign in order to accept the Comptrollersiip of (he Currency at Washington, | evated Railroad, in New York, eol- | lided, on the 13th, the engine of one | other. Charies McCarthy, fireman, had both legs broken and was njured in- ternally. It was feared that he would not recover, — Eight five-story tenement houses on West Sixty-second street, between | Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, York, which had recently been put un- der roof, tumbled down, on the 13th, some time. As evidence of strength, it may be ment stood at the some Lime look T e Secretary o 15th received from Acmiral Jouett: Isthmus on the 14th, Good tinues, Our men are all fortable.”’ 1 HOW ilo the # wi ¢ Lhe thie following Ln A despatch from Battleford toba, says Lhe buildings in the that place were burs “for miles by Indians traveling westward,’ All the farms on il £31 both ies and cattle driven away. seen all around. SR The to dog except hold themselves them up so that the tions might be secured. Three masked house of John BR. Royer, ir, Neat 4 toll-gate Kes Ephrata, Penna. , p- and, holding i int { tiie house. They secured ped. Royer the masks lars and es { off one of i beaten tried to , and was {ear badly the Pe Whitn On ~ Admiral Jonett on graphed to Secretary Colon © tion « Lele from Isth- mus | without moles t at the Navy Dep i #1 18 Und | rines who recs the Isthn Lome wit Governor Pattison, of proper legis} and safety o uti provide 1 10 secure Lhe employed in coal mines of Pennsvi- on the th in Pittsburg. Ross, of county was lin Nutt, of the Com- Representatives were present | from all parts of the State. The Com- composed of five members of the House, three of the State Seuate, operators and six miners. A iil be drawn up and presented to Legislature **which, it ill ensure future safely li he frees th, & &s heailh the bit vania,’ Senator us met ERIC sisi. is thought, s {0 miners, ev} 3 igh the iva ng poins t % Wo fell mperatu n Delaware on the h from Wilt usual Dac re 0 notoan ave nington say kward- gason, no arsit AERA vier f OW i Ot ng oO § f the peas 3] harm to them is apprehended. 4th tele. of Navy f will hereafter Isth inwall Are 3 a} al Jouetl on lhe . rrr boa ry Secretary $ ad TAINS Te. 3 AcToss Lie 8; “AS railroad 3 i is and 1! vue # Weill Prowse Heywood and with is i SIXLY Ine Wiidl JOU Panama . for ymissioners in Al t K lad mn i} Mi 3 i election v}id Hs ou ¥ . r question 0 Ix ii iajorities, wane, Democrat, for Supervisor, had 1488 majority, and Sheehan, Democrat, for Town Clerk, 1810. About a doven women in differ- ent wards voted for school Commis- sioners, ~The Republicans have decided to mupicipal election in St. Louis on the grounds of “fraud and il- legal voting. Jacob D. Cox has been elected President of the University of Cinein- nati. It is understood he will accept, ~The O:der of the Loyal Legion be- gan its sessions in Chicago on the 14th, —John F. Bune:’s plano factory in West Forty-second street, New York, was damaged by fire on the 14th to the extent of §25,000. Nine firemen were injured, two or three severely, by the falling of the second story floor. The President on the 15th, appoin ted Andrew J. Gross to be U, 5, Marshall for Kentucky, The Presi. dent signed the commissions of 2 postmasters confirmed during the spec- fal session of the Senate. Among them was the commission of Henry G. Pear- son as Postmaster at New York, ~The Postmaster General has termined to require applicants for posi. tions as post-office inspectors Lo pass a rigid physical and mental examination, to show their fitness before appointing them,” ~ An evening newspaper in Uhjenjo, on the 156th, professing to speak Mayor Harrison, declares that he ex. pects it to beshown on counting the bal. Jots that he was elected Mayor, and that after the announcement is made he will the office. The veason re he does not care to be sul to the expensive litigation of a contest, win the Illinois Senate on the 15th, a bill to redude railroad fares to 24 cents a mile was defeated, : «There was no change in ex-Secre- jut} Freiiughuyssn's condition on the “elo it i8 that i announced from although Washington information H os. tence of chol- no official the exi author- or ities are takin prevent its intros try. The sanitary in to the foreign con niats reappointed by the Se The quarant| stati 1 every precaulion netting $ SUCLION ID Kr uert rels ns al 4 Ss atsale ei " ir CAPER DOU are mirc | i i | | erat ion by the 1st ~— At Diffendorf Hill, the West Bhore Ha a freight trainra train. The pas into the canal, ¢ Eng Arn njured, and Superinte Elmira, 1. had his ' Toul 20 feet. ineer Corning LR i — Pennsylvania Legis: eXaminalio Capitol and Harrisburg. « improving 1 nished to L referred 10 a ¢ session was {ixed sider the second hibit islation rejected — portionment concurrence The change transfer adelph for Anthr alo ai eh ative The Iemocrali on Lis of tw $x un ade by the Republican members n any of the remals UN MISE Were AER and i On S&OOnG onigomnery, stiretoent {vy years’ un-expireq el BETVICH Longenecker, Grady a were constituted the Senats on the d:fferences wi atorial Apportionine i The Senate Judi Com- o-day amended UU Antidis- crimination bill by striking out enth section, which authorized indict ment and trial of railroad officia any county through which the runs. The committee then voled 4. to report the bill affirmatively journed, 1 ¢ the 0 Ad- ire sf he sev. HOUSE. The House passed on the 140 vote of 119 to 36, the bill autiorizing Philadelphia to borrow §3,000.000 for the improvement of its waler supply. The Representative Apportionment bil was finally passed-—yeas 111: oays 50. The Senate bill for the organization of Congressional districts was nally passed yeas 116; nays 53 The bill to regulate the practice of pharmacy and gale of poisons, failed of final passage, the vote standing veas 93. nays 77, not the constitutional majorly voting i the affirmative. A bill was faally passed for the relief of Lieut. Dallier. The Port Wardens' hill passed third reading after the adoption of an amend- ment exempting coast wise vessels from compulsory pilotage. Adjourned. In the House, on the 15th the cow- mittee reserved the consideration of the Anti-diserimination bill, the pending question being on Mr, Huling's motion to substitute the fourth section of the Lee-Wallace, bill which is thesection re- uiring the posting of schedules for the ourth section of the house bill, The motion was Jost —Jons 57, nays 110. Mr. McGowen of Philadelphia, offered an amendment to the amendment pro- viding that any person using, soliciti asking, or receiving any free pass 1 be of a misdemeanor, and sub- ject to imprisonment not exceeding three days or tine not oxoesding three cents, or both, at the option of the of. fender, Mr, * of Forest, offer od an amendment providing that hereafter no railroad lobbyist shall be allowed on the floor of the house. All these am endments were ruled out on a point of order. The bill was then ordered trans eribed for third reading. The vote which the House refused Lo pass the Pharmacy bill was reconsiderad, G0 Dari Uetion Was Witte. tious: oY A a
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