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