THE VIOLETS sHK SENT.
$V hst came you from her bow’r to bring,
¥ou blue-eyed messengers of spring?
Did you not come my soul to greet
With breathings of her spirit sweet?
¥ou bloemed, I trow, upon her breast,
To typify her charms confessed,
And caught when in that fair, pure goal,
The tragrant incense of her soul.
Your modest faces can but tell;
They touch me with the subtle spell
Born of her presence—for there lies
Her nature in your tender eyes.
I know, teo, on her yielding lips
Bweet touches of her finger tips;
And in each touch, most deftly blent,
The message of a kiss is sent!
Then welcoma, guests, from fairest shrine!
You fill my heart with glad sunshine,
And shed in this drear room the grace
Of her who wears the flow 'ret’s face.
BRAVE LITTLE TRUDE.
Gertrude May is my sistor in-law, a
bright little fairy of 19, with a pair of
ment.
When Annie and I were married we
took Gertrude to live with us; I could
I answered her that I was perfectly
comfortable and urged her going.
As they went down the garden path I
crept to the window and looked after
them,
Through the scalding tears that gath-
ered before my eyes like film I saw
Trude with a large basket upon each
her with the baby in her arms,
God only knows what I suffered those
two hours.
I had fallen into a light sleep from
sheer misery and exhaustion when I
wasawakened by theentrance of Annie.
She put the baby down beside me and
kissed me as though she had not seen
me for ten years,
8,000 Oremationtsts,
There is not much ot Kate Field,
physically. She is short and slender.
A more mentally versatile woman
never lived; and it is not more than
fair to truth, to qnalify that compli-
ment by adding that, by dividing her
al none. She is something of a writer,
something of a singer, something of an
actress, something of a lecturer, and
something of a fashion expert, Her
face 1s not beautiful, though pleasing
in that feminine delicacy which we un-
Kate 1s rather captivating
to her own sex, and when she
back from England, a few years ago,
with ® schemes for a co-operative dry
came
“Oh, what do you think!” she cried.
“Who do you suppose 18 in the parlor
I made a very shrewd guess,
“Gerald Dayton,” I said.
“Yes!” exclaimed Annie, “Truae
going to meet the world in some men-
to have her sister with her,
you.
i
took the entire management of the
housshold upon her young shoulders,
a care in the world.
little or nothing of our privations,
Alas, I never dreamed that the first
reverse would come to us through me
“Yet was I to be blamed?”
Ever a hard worker, one particularly
hot summer I had double duty to per-
my ability,
I remember falling with a dull crash
weeks ere I was conscious that I lay at
home In my own bed, carefully tended
by Annie and Trude.
I had been stricken down with brain
fever, and the doctor said the struggle
back to health and strength would be
long and serious, for my system was
wholly debilitated by overwork.
After about six weeks, and I had
been declared out of danger, I awoke
one evening. alter taking a long nap to
find the room deep in twilight and very
silent.
I lay some time in a drowsy state,
when suddenly I was aroused by the
unmistakable sound of a sob close by
of Trude.
soothingly, “you’ll wake him.”
“Oh, but, Trade, what are we to do?"
faltered my wife.
“We shall pall through all right,
dear, never fear!” was the brave reply.
“Bat every cent of the moncy is
gonel There's a month's rent due and
nwo end of little outstanding bills. Be.
sides the doctor won’t be coming much
Jonger, and then, of course there'll be
kis bull”?
Heaven help me! her words almost
killed mel
But even then little Trude was equal
to the ocoasion,
“We must make some money Annte,’’
she said firmly.
“How?” in despalr,
season, and the fruit is unusually fine,
I #hall go out at 5 o'clock to-morrow
noon. 1 shall do the same as long as
the berries last; you will then ses
whether we can make a little money or
not”
I could have arisen and fallen at her
feet in worship of her heroism; but
poor Annie took life more seriously,
she seemed proof against Trude’s hope-
fulness,
“Well, I'm going to try, anyway!”
was the undaunted rejoinder,
After a short pause Annie said, sud-
denly:
“Trude. we are in a desperate strait;
why couldn’t you write to Gerald Day-
ton and ask him to lend us some
money?”
“Annie!”
“Well, he was in love with you
before mother died; he is very rich, and
I’m positive you would have been his
wife to day if you had let him ask you;
80 why —?
“Oh, hush! hush!” Gertie oried.
“Not a word more of that! Let me
have my own way, Believe me, I shall
succeed.”
About 10 o'clock on the following
morning Annie came to me, all dressed
up in ber best, and, in a nervous way,
asked me if 1 could spare her for 8 cen.
ple of hours to go into the village with
Trude.
I knew in an instant the blackberries
had been picked and that the dear girls
were going together to try their fortune,
Rather than distress Annie by letting
her know that I had overheard their
sation of the préceding evening,
went to town to sell some blackberries, |
and at the very first hotel we came to, |
who should see her but Mr. Dayton. |
He took her to task then and there for |
not letting him know where she had |
before he leaves this house he'll ask her |
to marry him!”
Scarcely were the words out of her |
the room, looking hike a blush rose in
full bloom, and followed by Mr, Gerald
Dayton, |
I had seen the young gentleman two |
i
1
years before, when 1 was courting my |
Annie, and, though I knew him tobe a |
After the first salutations were over |
Trude said to me:
Mr, Dayton doubts my assertion that
I sent him my address when we moved |
out here. Don’t you remember that |
winter morning that I gave you a note
for him?”
I was obliged to confess that I did |
not remember the occurrence,
“Ah! you httle traitor!”
Gerald Dayton.
In the meantime my wife had gone |
laughed
overcoat, and produced from one of its
pockets a yellow, crumbled note ad-
dressed to Mr, G. Dayton. Oh, bow
they laughed at me then, and Gerald
said:
“Now you must atone for your
sister-in-law as my wife. And, as ex-
change is no robbery, I will give you
this house and land, being both mine,
together with all the rents you have
pad for it in two years yon have been
here, Come, what do vou say?"
“It is for Trude to say,” I answered,
taking her little berry-stained hands in
mine.
She laughed just as a bird trills, and |
sald with a sly blush:
“I'm sure I'm agreeable, and should
have been two years ago, if you had
had asked mel”
In a fortnight I was a well man and
back at the bank.
S———— ID A —————
Booths Readiag of the Lord's Prayer.
Regarding the story of the elder
Jooth reciting the Lord’ Prayerina
manner that threw a company of cler- |
gymen into hysterics, the Congregation |
alist, 1n lately republishing it “by re
quest,” remarked that it was authentic,
Henry Irving was shown the clipping
and asked if he believed that any actor |
ever lived capable of exciting, by a sim- |
ple recital of the Lord's Prayer, such |
emotion as was deseribed. “I am |
bound to say that I don’t,’’ he replied.
quite incredible. There isn’t
ing or impressibility in an audience,
Besides, the matier recited was ex- |
|
ring them with it all the more difficult. |
it must present a picture of wos or tell |
a moving story. The Lord's Prayer,
and I should be inclined to think that
a sense of sacrilege might easily be the
feeling that it would excite in pious
minds, Af all events, were I the great-
Sd»
London—Paris.
The pneumatic tubs for the transmis.
sion of mails between London and Paris
is, if laid, to be put down alongside the
allway tracks. The distance is: Paris
to Calais 184.5 miles; Calais to Dover
by water 24.2 mi’es, and Dover to Lon-
don 86.3 miles,a total of 206 miles, The
pneumatic subway would be constructed
of cast-iron pipes of 15.3 inches in diame.
ter and 13-foot lengths, connected by
means of India rubber joints. The ear-
riage suggested is composed of a wire
frame covered by a sheet of asbestos
cloth with a metallic warp. This cov-
ering would haves kind of metallic
brush coating, to enable the compressed
alr to dilate to a certain extent around
the truck and ¢ool the latter, thus coun-
teracting the heat produced by the frie
tion, The truck would travel the dis.
tance between the two capitals in one
hour, and a truck could be dispatched
every ten minutes, An engine of from
20 to 30 horse-power would be sufficient
to produce the required vacuum,
3
goods store, she only had to make a
assessed upon the stockholders,
“Where is Miss Field now?” I asked
*On a Western tour, I belive,” was
the reply; ‘when I last saw her she was
“Is that something new to wear?"
“It is something to put yourself into
after you are dome living, to hold your
Kate is an advocate of incineration in
place of interment. She
$s
namentally.
ured for it. Do you mean that she
“Oh, no; she wanted to get an urn
no larger than would be necessary.
With my mind thus awakened to in-
society, for
him, He 1s portly and solid. He is
hinder him as practical manager of a
manufacturing company.
hobbies. One is the burial of grass and
other food for farm stock, on the en-
state, and the other is the non-bural of
human bodies, He is eager to talk
about both, and I found it dificult to
I asked
have their bodies burned,
“About five thousand,’’ he replied,
the country—the one at Washington,
Pa; but we have a plan
are raising the money to build it. Fif-
teen thousand dollars have beea sub-
scribed, and we will begin as soon as
we pet ten thousand more,
ing will, besides the furnace, contain a
room for the resusitation of persons who
would otherwise be burned or buried
by refrigerators, until the arrival
take part in funeral ceremonies, and a
be held.”
Mr. Brown also told me that the
movable, was by Christians, and that
belief in the doctrine, of resurrection.
immortality, in its
be insepar-
able from the idea of the restoration
Caution to Fat Men,
Fat men resolutely bent on bringing
down their weight should read the re.
the digestive disturbance, which was
the origin of the malady to which the
Comte de Chambord succumbed. The
Count, it must bs remembered, was in
his early days thrown from a horse,
with the twofold result of laming him
and destroying his nerve. He was unable
in consequence either to walk or to ride,
and having exhibled a taste and even a
passion for hunting, he caused rides to
ba cut in the forest of Frohsdorf, along
the only form in which he took exercise,
and as a natural consequence he bacame
inordinately stout. Ile bad recourse to
Bantingism, and the dietary system he
adopted had the effect—as he first and
Dr. Valpian afterward believed -—of
bringing about the condition of stomach
which st last killed him. “Some four
or five years ago,” says Dr. Vulplan’s
report, “the Count, urged by a desire
to diminish his stoutness submitted nim-
self to the Banting system in all its rig-
or, and In a few months had lost nearly
fifty pounds of his weight. This rapid
emaciation had prodoced weakness, and
at the same time, perhaps digestive
troubles, and several people have told
me that that was the case, and have
even traced to the same date the first
attacks of the malady.” The imme
diate effects of severe
to have passed off but later on the Coun
was twics attacked by scutes ind ;
and was obliged to subject himself
severe treatment en each occasion.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
All that thou givest thou wilt carry
away with thee,
One pound of learning requires ten
pounds of common sense to apply it.
The world forgives with difficulty
the fact that one ¢an be happy without
it.
The virtue of prosperity is temper-
ance, the virtue of adversity Is forti
tude,
Clothes and company do oftentimes
tell tales in a mute bul signiflcent lang-
uage. ’
He who says what he likes, must ex.
pect sometimes WwW hear unpleasant
things,
1 find the doing of the will of God
leaves me no time for disputing about
his plans,
Money you earn yourself is
brighter than any yoa get out of dead
men's bags.
The beggar is the only man in the
universe who 18 not obliged to study
appearance,
Genius follows its own path and
reaches 1ts destination, scarcely need-
IZ & compass,
Take care to be an economist in pros.
one in adversity.
good 2s his word,” since his word
good for nothing. ‘
A man can frequently polish
polish his manner.
There is only one gate through which
and
that 18 ‘the gate ajar.”
The power of a man's virtue should
Lis ordinary doing.
Lite toa young like a new ac-
quaintance, of whom he grows disgus-
ted as he advances in years,
children habits
Nan is
A man who gives his
betier
contract out to somebody else,
A good deed is pever lost; he who
who plants Kindness gathers love,
The conversalion of most scholars
NEWS O¥ THE WEEK
~T'here was little change in the con-
dition of ex-SBecretary Frelinghuysen
on the 24th, His pulse isgrowing slow-
er, and hus general condition weaker,
— Andrew Wylie, Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Columbia, on the 25th,
sent his resignation to the President.
to take effect on the appointment and
gualification of his suceessor, Ex-Gov-
ernor Bloxham, of Florida, *‘after ma-
ture ideratim,” Las declined the
cons
~Isaac W. England, publisher of the
New York Sun, died on the 25Lh, at
of dropsy of the heart. Ile was
03 years of age.
~In the joint convention of the llli-
nois legislature on
votes were scattering and of a compli-
mentary character.”
—QGeneral Grant was better on the
25th and quite cheerful in spirits. The
weather prevented his usual drive,
—All the American troops were
the 25th,
Trouble was expected on the arrival of
the Columbian troops, the insurgents
being determined to act on the de.ense.
~A despatch from Clarke's Crossing
ported that there bad been no further
between Miuddleton'’s forces
ont
geveral hundred feet on the
will be several days before
treal,
General Henry J. Hunt, retired,
the 26Lh appointed Gove nor of
Soldiers’ Home at Washington,
Seventh Cavalry: and Capt
mutual private, poiile examination,
In company, wit creates, by dazzling,
a gap and a darkness, while humor
There are some people so eaten up
would turn a
It is a sinecure which most
afler—i, e., a place in which there is
it
heart, a gem in treasury within,
3 11 § sare ¥
reflected on all outward
if this
»
dure any of the lroubles
ee
into it.
~—A. U. Wyman, Treasurer of the
United States, has resigued, his resig-
tutions, CC. N.
Yakima, Washington Territory
It
buildings from the old to the new
~zOVvernor
tion he wi'l take in the matter
ing an extra session of the Legislature
to consider the recent decision of
is naturally kind, pa-
tient, cheerful, hopeful, and who has a
flavor of wit and fun his composition.
Our great want in social life is a dee
and wide sympathy, This is it whi
us tosee with another's vis-
and to another's in-
slincls,
appreciate
od
True g
deserves to be wrillen,
lory consists in doing
in writing what
in 80 living as
by our living,
Good-breeding
the
is art of showing
gard we bave for them.
improved
with good company.
A charitable untruth, an uncharita-
ble truth, and an unwise management
of truth or love are all
by
right foot in the narrow way,
our failures, In the assurauce of
strength there Is strengih, and they are
the weakest, however sirong, who have
no faith in themselves or their powers,
Life is a book of which we have but
one edition. Let each day’s actions,
as they add their pages to the indes.
tructible volume, be such as we shall be
willing to have the assembled world
read.
The truly great man is he who does
not lose his cluld-heart, He does not
think beforeband that his words shall
be sincere, nor that Lis action shall be
resolute; he simply always abides in the
right,
God 18 attracting our regard in and
through all things. Every flower isa
hint of His beauty, every grain of
wheat is a token of His beanificence:
every atom of dust is a revelation of
His power.
There 18 no joy like that which
springs from a Kind act or pleasant
deed, and you may feel it at night
when you vest, and at morning when
you rise, and through all the day when
about your business,
Things are saturated with the moral
law. There 18 no escape fromyit. Vio-
lets and grass preach it; rain and snow,
wind and tides every change, every
cause in nature 1s nothing but a dis
gulsed missionary.
No man or woman of the humblest
sort can really be strong, Boatlo,
and good, without the wor being}
ter for it, without somebody being
helped and comforted hy the very ex-
istence of that goodness,
A narrow-minded man ean never pos-
sess real and true generosity; he can
awver go bevond mere benevolence, If
you wish to appear agresable in soclety,
0 must consent to be { many
d Bh oat Ye pag
question of
take po
He will
rocure and
the State debt
y 3 N £1 wr,
action until he can p
ourt
§
!
I Ai
ve,
2ith, and
and his stroll
being the General's b
tinued @ he took his
day,
North and
Among
eral was one from the Logisla
Illinois, signed by Speaker
congratulating
rd birthday and expressing the
feit by the people of 1ili-
improved condition of 1
Meetings in compliment
inure
(ieneral
the 27th
Cinci
The
in Washipgton, Indianapolis,
npati, Chicago, and other cities
Washington
ian Church
Manderson presided and speeches were
made by General Halbert E. Payne,
Burdette and
A letter from James G. Blaine
received couched mn flattering
lerms,
~The large railway hospital of the
Gould systeta at Fort Worth, Texas,
was burned on the 26th. The patients,
32 in number, were removed safely.
Loss, $35,000; insurance, §25,000,
« Forest fires are raging in the Dis.
mal Swamp and along the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, in Virginia,
—3eneral Grant, on the 27th, fur.
nished the following for publication:
“To the various Army Posts, Societies,
Cities, Public Schools, States, Corpora-
tions and Individuals, North and South,
who have been so kind as to send me
congratulations on my 63d birthday: 1
wish to offer my grateful acknowledg-
ments, The despatches have been so
numerous and so touching in tone,that
it would have been impossible to ans
wer them if I had been in perfect
health. U. 8. GRANT.”
~The President has signified his in-
tention of selecting the successor of
John Russell Young, as Minister to
China, from California.
George H. Parker, a well-known
lawyer of Iowa, has been appointed a
special agent of the Treasury Depart.
ment.
-It is understood in Washington
that thers is a difference of opinion be-
tween Li cutenant General Sheridan and
the Secret of War in regard to the
authority of the former, and that the
conflict is to be settled by an order
from the President defining the limit
of the authority of the Lieutenant
General of the Army. Ii 1» thought
the order will be issued this week.
~~An election beld in Princeton,
New Jersey, on the 27th, to get the
sense of the voters on the license ques.
tion, resulted in the triumph of the
license party, ol
~(jeneral Grant was repo strong
er on the 28th, notwithstanding the
excitement the celebration
of his birthday on Monday. He took
his usual drive at noon,
a ch So ods
' on m Indisnapo
lis, aged 08 years,
—An East bound freight train on
the Pennsylvania Railroad was standing
on a siding near Kinzer's on the 20th
ult. Fireman Brown and brakeman
Fisher alighted and stood on the west
track. On account of the high wind
they failed to an approaching
train. and were struck and in-
stantly killed, men weie from
Columbia,
~The ice gorge opposite Quebec hing
been broken, and all the floating ice
has passed down. No damage Was
done, and the ferry stealpers were run:
ning on the 20th nit, A despateh
from Montreal says the river there is
subsiding rapidly. it estimated
by the food
Dear
both
Both
is
$100,000,
—The President
made the following
Charles 1. Scott, of Alabama, LW De
Minister to Venezuela: Warren Green,
of Kentucky, Consul-General at han
mouth
Carolina, Charge d’Afaires to Para
guay and Uruguay. To be Consuls
Berthold Greensbaum, of California, at
Apaa; Albert Leoning, of New York,
at Bremen; Joseph B. Hughes, of Ohio,
at Birmingham, Eaogland; John H.
Putpnam, of Ohio. a* Honolulu; Victor
A. Bartorl, of Pennsylvania, at leg
horn; Robert E. Withers, of Virginia
at Hong Kong; John 8, Williams, of
Indiana, to be Thnd Auditor of the
20Lh, nil
the
appo pilin
On
rit x
#447
f
acon oi
Senator
at Hong
He succeeds Colonel John 5
Mosby, who was appoiuied by President
Grant and has beep retained since,
~The President
view of their distinguished ¢
follow ng U. Jonsuls be re
tained: W, F. Grinnell, al Bradford
Evgland; Lyell T. Adams, at Geneva
samuel W, Dabuey, at Fayal
has decided that Ir
ervices Lhe
No (
new building
de of ( 4
cost of $£2.000000 was dedicated ox
20th ult. An audierce of
6000 persons was present,
the
—The splendid
abou!
ng del
Excha ges in the
Log and
oud
ncaa
with prayer by Rev. Cl nton Licks
—Rev, Joseph Graf, director of the
musical department of the Cathedral al
Baltimore, will sail for Rome on Ma»
14h, to confer with the Church author
ities there regarding the condition o
will take with him two copies of the
amous Mass of Pope Marcellus, whici
in mod rn form and whicl
was produced at the Cathedral during
the Plenary Council.
1
—A telegram from Panama dated oz
the 20th ult. says: “Everything is quie
The negotiations going on will
iment of
General Aizpuree’s forces, ie Colom.
bian troops are still aboard the vessels,’
~ In regard to the $20 gold piece sai
to have been recently tested at the New
540 grains, making its value nearly
$21.50, the Director of the Mint has as
certained that the .coin was weighex
upon a pair of scales in a drug store
reports that it was found to be slightls
underweight, but within U limats «
tolerance,
ie
Am,
Pennsylvania Legistature
SENATE
In the Senate on the 24th the bill t«
prevent the traffic of Impure and un
cities of the second
and third classes was passed, Measures
billie libraries
wring cen
cities of
tain schools tos
mechanic aris an«
Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 23th, the Bul
itt bill, amended to take effect the first
Monday of April, 1857, passed Chir
reading. It was reached al noon, and
Senator Adams, In committee of the
whale, with King, of Schuylkill, to the
chair, proposed the amendment. The
discussion lasted until ons o'clock, the
hour of adjournment, and was resumed
at a special session beginning at three
and lasting until five.
In the Senate on the 20th wult., the
Bullitt bill was passed, yeas 40, nays 8.
Among the bills which passed second
reading was the one taking from the
Judges of the Courts of Philadelphia
the power to revoke liquor hoenses and
requiring jury trials to determine wheth
er licenses shall be revoked. On motion
of Mr, Osbourn, of Philadelphia, the
consideration of this bill on third read.
ing was made the special order for next
Tuesday. Adjourned,
HOUSE,
per, painting, ete. in
or museums, and one aut
tral boards of edocati
the second class to man
pu
in
i
In the House on the 24th was repor
ted a bill appropriating $25,000 for the
protection and propagation of fish was
read a second time, The next bill was
one appropriating $193,500 for the Nor
ristown Hospital. On a motion
amend no quorum voted, and a call of
the House was ordered. After half an
hour spent in a vain effort to secure
the attendance of absentees the House
adjourned, '
In the House on the 25th the General
Appropriation bill coming up on second
reading, was y sections for
amendments, Mr, Crawford, of Phil.
adelphia, offered an amendment
Prati $12,000 for the salaries the
ty Harbor Mantes md oe office
rent iladelph The
bill was ordered AAT] 10 a third
reading and the House adjourned,
In the House on the 20th ult. the bill
EE a: Shae horiad
ve u h
Burns, oo Erie, to make io nent
in defence of those