THE BTAR OF PEACE, Gay hearts everywhere, No cares for the morrow, No trouble, no sorrow, Thus gently onward flows life's streams The past a myth to-day a dream. But turn the tide at certain hours, And hlight will fall upon the flowers: Bo sorrow forges chains for each, And cares and troubles e'er will reach The gay hearts every where, Sad hearts everywhere, A burden for each hour, A thorn for every flower, Thus drags the lengthened hours away, The sleepless night, the careworn day. But shines atar the Star of Peace, ‘Which speaks a home where Sorrows cease; Where all may lay their burdens down, ‘Who bear the cross, the promised crown For sad hearts everywhere, A —— AVENGED. The “old clock In the wall rang out five melodious chimes, as Cora Smith softly closed the kitchen door, and ran into the little bedroom for her blue scarf, “Five o’clock,’’ she said, as the last stroke died away, ‘‘he is wondering why I don’t come, and I must make haste, Madge, little Madge, are you going with me to-night? I am all ready.” ter, came flying through the ball. the potatoes for breakfast, and must prepare them before you go. Never mind if he does have to wait a littlo for you; you've many a time. Come quickly, and I will help you.” forgotten task as merrily as her little | sister, albeit her heart beat like an im- prisoued bird’s at the delay. The west was all aflame wnh the autumn sunset ere the sisters closed | the door behind them, and ran down the garden path toward the stile, where he was waiting-—in other words, where bazel-eyed, sweet-faced Cora Smith's city lover was waiting for his lady-love, as she had many a night waited for | him. Almost every evening they met there at the stile—their ““trysting Placay he said, just half-way between her home and his boarding-house, He bad | proposed it, and she was nothing loth | to accede—it was so pretty and roman- tic. Then, Auntie Smith was not at all pleased with this dark-eyed young | stranger, and, though she had not for- bidden him the house, bolh lovers knew ghe preferred “his room to his com- pany.” And so, always with dear lit tle Madge at her side, she daily tripped down the path through the leafy woods | to her half-way trysting place, where she met her handsome, dark-eyed lover, Neil Bowan. How her heart fluttered to-night as she thought of him! and the warm love-light deepened and darkened the soft, brown eyes! “Nell, Neil,” she said, almost uncon- sciously, aloud; and little Madge | clasped her sister's hand closer, and | looked up in her face. **Do you love him so very much, sis- | ter Cora?” A swift, bot color came into the girl's cheeks, and then she pauses, suddenfy | holding the hands of little Madge in al fervent grasp. “Love him! love him, Madge! better | than all the world—better than my | youth, my life—ay, sometimes I fear | better than my hope of heaven! And I! am to be his wife, little Madge, this | good man’s wife, when the beautiful | spring comes. I shall leave you, and | auntie, and uncle, to be all his. But | this 1s our secret, little sister, and only | you can share it.” Then her hands relaxed their hold, and drawing the light scarf over her shoulders she tripped silently on. They were almost there—nearing the edge of the wood, and the stile was but a step away. Another step forward, and then Madge held her sister back, “Wait!” she whispered; “I can see two men on the seat, Cora. Wedo not want to meet straogers there,” “No,” she said, drawing back in the shadow of the wood; “It is Neil's friend, Willis Dean. We will wait until he goes, for I do not like to meet him.” Even as she spoke the figure arose, and the sound of his voice came on the twilight alr, distinct and clear, “And what of this love affair, friend Neil? When is it to end, and how? Are you really in earnest, and do you mean to marry the girl?” Cora Smith's hand closed upon the arm of Madge till she shrank in pain while they waited for the answer, Neil Rowan laughed softly, “Marry her!” he repeated. “She is just the subject for a grand flirtation, and I assure you I have done the thing well. Bat for anything further—bah! [ am going back to town to-morrow, and this is our last meeting; so be off, old fellow, for I expect her every moment,” Just for one moment Madge Smith's heart stood still in awful fear, for she thought Cora was dying. That white, ghastly face there in the twilight, that motionless figure, those tightly locked hands, it surely was not the fair, sweet maiden of a moment before. But the spasm passed, and, without a word, she “arose and id ited nubvolorly aweay, unt had all died out of the west, and the dew lay like summer rain on the grass at his feet, His cigar was smoked down to ashes, and his lazy revery was will, **She isn 't coming to-night,” he said mentally; *‘that is certain, scheming auntie up yonder managed to | prevent it this time, - Oh, well, it saved | a scene! I will drop a loving, Jarewell note, and so it ends—a amusement, Ha, hum!’ and Rowan strolled homeward, singing, half unconsciously, “I won't have her, I know-—I won't have her, I know-—I don’t care a straw who has her, I know.” The farewell note came to Cora Smith the following night, but the fever- page, for, ere the insane light gave place to reason again, death sealed the white eyelids, To such natures as this girl's, love is life, and the rude blow that woke ber from the one bright dream of her youth, snapped the slender cord that bound her frail spirit to earth, and out of the depths of her awful grief, the kindly hand of death led her to the mountain-top, where 18 builded the city Se ara ad of the New Jerusalem, month, so sped the time until eight Eighs times the grass had grown over the little grave in the lonely, country graveyard, again the October Wonderful changes had the eight vears brought. Side by side with the ores bore the names of good aunt and Smith. They had rested there six years; and every summer, beautiful Madge Smith eame down from ber city | uncle a we ok, trimming the grasses and plant- ir bright flowers on the mounds, Bri right, beautiful Madge Smith, the all Uncle Smith's hidden heiress of Inring ¥ riy LIU that toil-worn, weary life, Three years before, Madge Smith left to reign queen Beautiful, strangely that cold, white, wide fathe a figure cH 3) . beantiful, with high-bred face, those mless, glittering amber eyes, heire: Smith's shrine, Strange wonder, Id said, that all were scorred—not itly and with words of pity and apol- t spurned from her very feet with scornful lips and blazing eyes Ay, Mad ystery worl ge Smith was an enigma and knew her. «11 . m to all who did those of ber own sex seek for. those wonderful eyes to ny lover's; id than she to all men. Nay, soften, SpORRG to more did I say ? All, Dame Rumor had Only a few | scene of action. Neil Rowan, mer- { chant and millionaire, entered the list of Madge Smith’s adorers—not for her | money, surely, Madame Grundy ac- knowledged, graciously, He had} enough of his own, It wasa genuine | { love that this blaze man of society felt | for beautiful Madge. And a wonderful | change had come over the fair lady since his appearance. Bright before, she was brilliant now-—sparkiing, witty, bewildering; and the world looked on lin amaze to see the flush stain her | white cheeks, and the bright smile that lighted her eyes at his approach, And did he not recognize her, you are wondering? Nay, how should he? Sweet Cora Smith, and the summer in the country, were forgotten things with this man, He had broken half a dozen silly hearts since then, and left them witl* Time. the great healer. He had flirted with society’s queens and village maidens innumerable, and left the past all behind him. And now he came and jaid the first pure, real love of his life- time at this woman's feet. So he told her, one autumn night, in the grand parlor of her stately home, How her hands trembled and her eyes shone as she listened! “Wait,” she said; ‘I will give you my answer to-morrow night; it is my birthnight, and I shall give an enter. tainment. You will come; I will an. swer you then. Be in the library at ten, and you shall hear my answer,” And the night came, and he was there waiting. He paced the room 1m. patiently. Would she ever come, this girl that was dearer than his life? Ay? she was life to him. The world had seemed old, stale, flavorless, until he met her, the woman who, alone in her sex, had ever stirred the slumbering passions of his heart, How bright the future seemed! He was 80 sure of her answer; had not she given it all but in words? “My beautiful, my queeni he sald, softly. And just then he heard the light ripple of a woman's laugh in the adjoining room. Her laugh: he knew it among a thousand; and her voice: she was speaking loud and clear, “There, Guardie; you must let me go now, Mr, Rowan is waiting for me in the library. You know I am to give him hus answer to-night.” And the ’s voice, speaking this man, and leave us all.” She laughed softly. “Marry lim? No, indeed sir! | well: But he is expecting me, so by-by till I through the half-open door, | amazed guardian could utter a syllable, A white, ghastly, shivenng stood by the library window, | me you were jesting!’”’ he cried, as bril- liantly, glowingly beautiful, she mto the room, “Not so, my friend,” she answered, lightly; “I spoke the truth, If you them. It is my answer," Madge Smith, and for my sake, God’s sake do not wreck my lifel” She was very pale now, were black and glistening. “*Neil Rowan,” she said, slowly, have { did I think my prayer would be so fully { answered, When I saw the hue eight years ago to-night, I vowed to avenge her, God being my | earth upon her coffin, I vowed that vow, | God has brought it about even sooner, | more complete, than 1 had thought, I have given you one { agony as she suffered, I am content. If you could live und suffer it for count. Grood-night?” { Two hours afterward, the ness through the crowded drawing. | room. All sprang to their feet, save | Madge Smith, | & little—I cannot tell—but the light of | her eye never changed, her smiling hips { never relaxed, as she gazed upon the { blood-stained corpse in the library. | Neil Rowan had taken his own life, and Cora Smith was avenged, ——————— Servants In France, i A good French servant is an extreme. { ly good specimen of her class, She is very conscientios about her work, tak- ing a pride in doing it well, and feeling | tance be offered to her except upon an occasion of unusual magnitude, We once knew a friend who had secured the services of a very adroit and ac complished waitress, The first time that she gave a dinner party, and hired | & man to wait, Catherine wept bitterly; i “she feared that madame had lost con- | idence in her,” she sald. Its no un- common thing for a young cook to per | taurants or clubs of Paris, not only | tously, but paying $20 for her month's | lessons, i lived 1n a family that was in the habit reproducing those delicacies, deeming the affront to her skill involved in hav ing them made out of the house by no means counterbalanced by the saving to her of extra work, Bank Notes, An entirely new kind of bank note, printed in colors instead of the black and white of the Bank of England notes, is being prepared for issue by the Bank of Scotland. The promise to pay in the body of the note is surrounded on two sides by a broad ornamental band, and on the other two sides by a berder in which the value of the note is printed a great number of times, On one border the seal and counter seal of King William LI of Scotland are printed in brown on a yellow ground, and be. tween them are the royal arms on a blue ground. On the upper border are the arms of the bank in brown on a yel- low ground, with the date of the estab. lishment of the bank, 1605. The chief novelty of the new note is in its colors, which will, of course, make reproduc tion by photography impossible, and it is believed will prevent forgery. The paper on which the new note is printed is made by the same firm as produces the Bank of England note paper. Government Employes, The German Government has dis- charged all women who were employed in its postal, telegraph and railway ser. vice as clerks and in other capacities, As during the last twenty years they FOOD FOR THOUGHT ————— NS Deeds are fruits; words but leaves, Calamity is man’s true touch-stone, Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise, Silence does not always mark ‘wis. He that sips of many arts drinks of none, Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to | Literature speech, Whose is the immortality of ever elevates himself isolates A man must become wise at his own We owe apart of our happinessto | One's home 18 the best home, though Whoever has learned to love, has | | goes for proof | Blustering assertion i It is easy to add to things which have Invented. In the world there are and so many echoes, Great truths are 80 few voices | generally bought, Insanity is often the curate mind overtaxed, Hé conquers a second time who con- | logic of an ac- He who leaves notlung to lo riches himself the most, £, eh virtue, as virtue herself Moderation is the silken h all virtues, ‘I'he purest treasure mort ford 1s Spotieas reputation. at ri131 string ing rui- af- | al times Every man has just as much vanity | understandis ig. mfort | There is nothing so fatal to « as well as decorum, as fus Sooner or later a man’s tho come into frultage No smoke In become flame and } ard i Ighls will : 8 r in GeelE, Call | any but radiance, Sense, He who is oldest in years has not ways had the best experience Circumstances half so often as a clean shirt, Eminent stations make great more great and little ones less, In these days we fight for ideas, NOWS Lg are our Sortresaes, d merit in those admis Hi. © do not make a men | and | who k at ith Peoples who converse at i thelr voices are not high tone sok h top of | A d. 4 rout ers. Too many go out on the fly. When is a man obli ged to keep his ord? When no one wil ake It. Avold lan derer : as you would There | is poison in his tale The actors of o youth I of those of our muddle the a Wasp, are ahea To write of heroic sacrifices, make them, are two different thing Hold on to what you have than reach for what you cannot . To select well among old things is almost equal to ones, Strychnine will cure longevity, the remedy is worse than the di Whatever you are undertaking to do | cannot be done in your own srength, in order to look spruce it is not neces. rad inVenung new but ARSE, It is really of iittie consequence who we are-—it matlers more what we are. Always there is a black spot In our | shadow of ourselves, | The prolonged study of any great in The end of man is an action and not For manners are not idle, but the The only reward of virtue is virtue, The only way to have a friend is to be one, There is no malady or sickness more severe than not to be content with one’s lot. All misery is faculty misdirected, strength that has not yet found its WAY. There is no malady or sickness more severe than not to be content with one’s lot. 111 habits gather by unseen degrees, as brooks maké rivers, and rivers run to sea, And though thou’rt of a different church, 1 will not leave thee in the larch. No man is 50 devoid of friends that | he can not find ome to tell him of his faults, Acts, looks, words, steps form the alphabet by which you may spell char- acter. Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faitnfully as a distinguished success, Carlyle says the first quality of ge- nius is an immense capacity for taking trouble. Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are, If you are a stone, be a magnet, if you are a faut, be sensitive; if you are a man, be Some one hoa said of a fine and hon orable old that it was the childhood of im ity. To full the ho Prendnt duty well, is the surest what God wills us to do in the tn It 2 2 Joins of principle with many peop nonsense which t do not understand. hey Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always re- pulsed by the anvil, Flowers sweeten the air, rejoice the link us with nature and innocence, g are ing o love. t isa ruinous misgjndgment, too con. temptible to be acted upon, that the end of postry 18 publication,” NEWSO¥ 'HE WEEK| cuffs in the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Baltimore on the 7th. Each ~The building ou Lower Broadway, | New York, occupied by the Baltimore | and Ohlo telegraph offices, was burned | out on the 4th, The building was a | five-story brownstone structure, owned | by P. Hanney’s Nephews, and it is said | they had a large stock of vanilla beans | on the premises, The total loss is esty- i mated at $100,000, The Burkhardt | ice-houses at Sharon, Mass., were by lightning on the 3d, and destroyed. | also | $7 0, burned, The total loss is about ~A letter from President Cleveland | was read at the Tammany celebration | of the Fourth, the President says: vt) in the course of which | In order that the | every member of the power should yield a cordial party in support to i tration to restore a pure, free and just | government.” 8 Another heavy rain feil Missouri. It is esti- in stacks have been besides that damaged in Corn is probably little injured, ward, bushels of wheat compared with the latest season co's, in New York, ou the , Hi amilton Fis! sander Hamilton; Treasurer, Asnsist Presider Als Schuyler: es CO linton: ward Wm, Tapp; H. Hutton; Delegates tu | Society, Hamilton Fish, ane, John Schuyler, ton Alexander James C Alex- Jin wer, Ed 1 5 Cochira inton. Senor Jorge Holzals Bini ster Colombia, who is charged with a mission, has presented his creder the resident. Senor Holguin, to the Pres said ti prin eip wl object of hi convey to this Gover cial thanks of Col and ke Ling reniies tries.” '] “the go pasae Col speech ident, 8 HILSON mes yg mbia fo sr Lhe pretation between the two co President in reply expressed countrys had alw and it had had 1 practical form dur 1 Ce on Lhe isl rad wad Wad inler Us mba, roan %. Slevenson on the 6! Assistant sri bored vit atitered ug e President « r M, Dick Po it in “irst WO i Jane Lee, 1 into by an unknow: sunk: also that King, of the Tecan! Oost dork SYED en ine, ost und other vessels nd deck (ilu near Woodl - A dwelling burned early Dail ginia, was The infant of Mi; y to death, Joseph Harrison his children were s0 badly they 1} wha » s nd two of injured by ave since and Mrs, Harrison's recovery is ul. doubt f uf me 50 & Mason, the i. Consul Marseilles, has informed {he partment that the cholera has Teap- peared in that city and Toulon, and a Marseilles has be- gun. “The apparent death rate is be- low the average.” —Y fOr fu Washingtoa « =~ te De. ~ President Hendricks arrived n the Gih. Secretary Lamar ha to bis house for several days with 2 severe cold, Lieutenant Commander Gorringe, formerly of the United States Navy, died on the 6th in New York. been sick for a long time and his death was not unexpected. ~The floods mn the Parsons, Kansas, have structive to the crops country around proved very de- and cattle, and of human lives, been found and several others are mis. sing. ~in the United States Circuit Court at Baltimore on the 7th Judge Bond affirmed the decree of the District Court awarding three colored women | damages of $100 each for having been excinded from first-class sleeping apart- ments on the steamer Sue, after they had purchased first-class tickets, This settles the question so far as taveling on steamboats on Chesapeake Bay is concerned, ~The Postmaster General bas cur tailed the mail service upon the Star Route from Kelton, Utah, to Weriner, Garo effecting an annual saving ol 00. ~The Trenton, New Jersey, State Capitol Re-building Commission on the 7th decided to re-advertise for plans to be submittyd by July 28th, ~The President on the 7th appointed Frederick Gerker to be Collector of Ine ternal Revenue for the First Pennsyl- vania Distriet, in place of Wm. J, Pol. lock, suspe ded. —~An extensive cave-in occurred on the 7th at one of the Baltimore mines of Delaware Hudson Company, about one mile from Wilkesbarre, The earth has only settled avout three wches, but the eracking is extending. The cave-in covers at least ten acres of i orad Wilkes Dard Goal Comme: Lehig ree npany, and Delaware and Hodson Company | w extend, It is impossible Wim any trmins at present. «A violent bail storm pasted ove, part of Sussex county, New Juftny, Sh Poe Suh, In a section ten miles Ba te in Jeng, Fr Hi CAUSE WAS 4 remark by Bonaparte 1isunder- separated. The Rhodes which According to rumors in Cathol Church circles in Baltimore before the end of the year Arcibiiop Sivbons will receive a Cardinal's hat; John 8, Foley, of St. Martin's C harch, earlier be made a Dl ard assis emporarily to the See of Bava After the reception of the by the Archbishop Father Foley will be re. made coad- X dward the dle hop hat . Re OC ardinal, McColgan, of | will ng a - Lieutenant W. I. Schultze, Unite started for Siberia on the #th, bearing presents from the United tates Government to the Russians who sarch for the crew of the steamer Jeannette, aided in the s¢ ~The national Convention of Agni culturists met on the 8th in Washing- ton. About 60 delegates were present from the leading agricultural colleges Commissioner Colman was ted States. of welcor Ho tel in Ix he Tt Le, ~The Globe was bul 50 guests, wd ont . . { Ma y of them } aj en ground we, We 1. OO. Foohe. M Landis and J. 5S. Geisl. a A CAVE Of I the making of avnors division Mal ain:y Ralir becker, Y Ot and four 1 1 on the 9h dur An excavation on the Poltsvilie and in Pottsville. Jos, f the gang, were buried ‘ . Decker and we Ilalian were iustant iy Killed another Italian had a leg oken and the re- maining two were badly cul and Bruised. AY DOSS O nde is ~The Secretary of War has ordered Loeatenant-General Sheridan to concen- trale troops for service in case of Indian the West. General ! Schofield has telegraphed to the War ! Department: ‘‘Latest report indicates | that no Indians have been in Kansas | yet and no citizens killed, buf a number, | perhaps one hundred young Cheyennes, ! have left the Agency, it is believed, to conceal their arms on account of recent untimely threats to disarm them. The present disposition of troops will, I hope, prevent serious trouble if the Indians are let alone, —The President on the a appointed Willlam K. Meade to be U, 8 Marshal for Anzona, and Joseph L. Morgan of South Carolina, to be Secretary of Le- gation in Mexico. ap- —Judge Lambert Tree recently pointed Minister to Belgium, qualified at the Department of State in Wash- ‘ngton on the fith, ~Mrs Bayard, wife of the Secretary of State, is dangerously ill at her home in Wilmington, Delaware. ~Adjutant General Drum has been informed of the death of Nathantel Prime, retired, at New York city. Captain Prime fought through the entire rebellion. ~ Ezra Miller a member of the Sen- ate of New Jersey, and inventor of a well-known car buffer and coupler, died on the Oth at his howe near Hoek. eusack., He was 73 years of age. — despateh trom Columbus, Ohio, says the Garfield Statue Commission on the 9th accepted the report of the com- mittee which examin the statue at oy asin ton, and accepled the same. Governor Hoadly will nresent the statue to Congress by letter, and it will be unveiled mmedintely without for. mality. Violent and Heruciive storms ot
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