A SR Yr PEA IT PO I
NEWS OF THE WEEn.
—1t was sald at the White House on
he 16th that the vacancy in the office
sf Assistant Treasurer of New York
would be filled in a few days.
— Rear Admiral Franklin, command-
ng the European Squadron, reports to
‘he Navy Department that the Pensaco-
a, the Quinnebaug and the Kearsarge
are under orders to proceed to Naples.
He savs that ‘a large number of res.
ident and traveling Americans visited
the ships at Villefranche, and seemed
to be very much gratified at seeing the
American flag in foreign waters, which
is a rather unusual sight in the present
low state of the American merchant
marine. ”’
—The steam tug Modoc burst her
boiler at Pittsburg on the 18th killing
Joseph Davis, the pilot, and dangerous.
ly injuring Matthew Higgids, the fire-
man, and Jeff” Evans, the captain.
— Pater Roth and his nephew, Abra-
aam Roth, were struck by an engine
while driving across the railroad at
Sellersville, Penna,, on the 18th}and
the young man was killed. His un-
sle was dangerously injured. Abraham
was married on the 16uh.,
—The fourth game of chess in the
championship contest betweeu Messrs,
Zukertort and Steinitz was played in
New York onthe 18th. It was won
9y Zukertort, who has now three
ames, Steinitz having won cne
—The Secretary of the Navy has di-
rected that a vessel of the Pacific Sta-
tion be sent to the Samoan Islands,
The safe in the office of the Trea-
smrer of Lawrence county, Penna... at
Newcastle, was blown open on the |
18th, and robbed of $200 in money,
$10,000 in notes and $4500 in county |
warrants, The notes were the per- |
sonal property of Deputy Treasurer
shaffer. payable to his order, and are
yf no value to anybody else. The war-
rants were signed, but, as they had all |
been recorded, they also are worthless,
— The Navy Department was on the |
18th informed that Commander Hay-
ward died at Alexandria, Egypt on!
the 10th.
—The New York Assembly on the |
15th adopted resolutions in rayor of the
passage by Congress of *‘the act grant- |
ing a moderate pension to every hon
yrably discharged solder and sailor en-
gaged in the late war.”” The Assembly
resolved itself into Committee of the
Whole, and, after some eulogies had
been pronounced, adopted appropnate |
resolutions on 1eath of General
Grrant.
tha
—The Legisiature of Kansas met on
the 10th, in extra session, but many
members were absent owinz to the
mow blockade on the railroads. In
the Senate. Miss Ells Miller, of Leav-
snworth, was alected Journal Clerk,
—The Maryland Legislature on the
10th, re-elected A. P. Gorman, Demo-
rat, to be U. 8. Senator. In the Sen- |
ate he received 21 votes to4 for Mec-
Comas, Republican; in the House 79
votes to 10 for McComas.
~The members of the Dakota de-|
iegation called upon the President on |
the 10th, and presenied (he claims of
their Territory to admission into the
Union of States The resident said
“the question should be impartially
gonsidered from a judicial rftand-point |
of night and Justice, without regar-
solely to ita partisan aspects. He would |
give the matter careful consideration |
and would do what ha thought right in |
the premises.”
—Despite the bad weather and the |
family’s expressed wish that the serv- |
ices should be conducted as privately as |
possible, Old Swedes’ Church, Wilming-
wn, Del., was thronged on the 19th, on
the occasion of the funeral of Miss |
Katherine Lee Bayard. The funeral |
Pw entersd the church a few minutes
fore 2 o'clock. Secretary Bayard |
passed up the aisia with his eldest |
Baughter, Mrs, Mabel Warren, of Bos- |
ton ; Miss Bayard entered with Mr, |
Warren and Philip T. and Thomas F. |
Bayard, Jr.,, with the family of Dr. |
Kane, the becretary’s brother-in-law, |
A silver plats on the casket lid bore the |
inscription °
Kararrine Lee BAYARD,
Born August 13, 1857,
Dind January 16, 1886,
~The Supreme Court of Illinois on
the 10th, affirmed the constitutiouality |
of the Election law of that State,
~The Board of Pardons at Harris-
yurg, on the 19th, refused the applica. |
tion of Edward Roberta Jr,, of Phila- |
felphia, convicted of larceny. The |
sase of Ellis Phipps, of Philadelphia, |
was continuad under advisement, owing |
0 the absence, from illness; of Attor- |
ney Gendral Cassidy. !
~The commission toJeanvas the vote
for State Treasnrer met on the 19th, |
in the Senate Chamber at Harrisbhrg, |
Pa. Governor Pattison presiding. The |
vote was found to be the same as ane |
nounced last fall, namely: Quay, 324.-
304; Day, 1,178; Spangler, 15,047, |
Whitney, 2785. i
~The President on the 19th signed |
the bill providing for the performance |
of the duties of tha Presidental office |
in case of tha removal, death or inabils |
ity of the President and Vice President.
~The committees appointed Ly the
Ohio Housa of representatives to in- |
vestigate charges against members of |
the House that they had accepted |
bribes to vote for Senator Payne, held
their first meeting on the 19th, and de-
cided **40 make a thorough inquiry,and,
if necessary to extend the scope of the
investigation, to ask for further author-
ity from the House."’
The Senate in executive session on
the 20th, confirmed Daniel M. Fox to
be Superintendent of the Philadelphia
Mint: also the following Postmasters
for Vennsylvawa: A. J, Greenfield, Oil
City; W. P. Dawson, Tideout; 8, H,
Smith, Oxford; Geoage Schall, Norns.
town; J. G. Randall, Doylestown; M.
8. Longaker, Pottstown; John Habi.
land; Phoenixville; P. A. Reed,
Tyrone; J. B. Larkin, Pittsburg; C. F.
Cross, Allentown, Ezra Evans, West
Chester; D. W. Connolly, Scranton; J.
K. Coffroth, Somerset, Charles Jan-
uey was confirmed as Postmaster for
Uamden, New Jersey. The Senate also
‘sonfirmed a large number of Consular,
Judicial and Department nominees,
€ i
-
The President on the 20th nomina-
ted Charles B. Canda to be Assistant
Treasurer at New York,
—~Governor Pattison, Pa on the 20th
ties in place of Mr, Horner, resigned.
~The State Agricultural Soclety in
ression at Harrisburg on the 20th elec-
ted the following officers; President A.
Wilhelm; Vice President, William M.
Singerly; Secretaries, D. W, Searlesand
Elbridge McConkey; Treasurer, J.
B. Rutherford.
— Despatches from Aspen, Colorado,
report a three days’ snow storm, with
snow three feet deep. On the 19th three
men were killed by snow slides on
Aspen and Washington Mountains,
Seven men who left Aspen in the morn-
ing for Maroon Pass , to return at noon
have not been heard of, and are supposed
Pass,
—The Democratic State
Committee of Pennsylvania met on the
20th, in Harrisburg, W. U.
was re-elected Chairman,
Luzerne; Richard Coulter, of
umberland; R. E. Wnght of Lehigh;
Dallas Senders, of Philadelphia, and
S. T. Neill, of Warren, were elected as
the Executive Commitiee,
tion in Harrisburg on August 18th,
Henry Lloyd to be Governor for the
elected by the people, and also con-
as United States Senator,
—At the annual meeting of the Am-
erican Yacht Club, in New York,
on
A. E. Bateman,
H. Osgood,
Rear Commodore, and Henry A. Tay-
It was said that two
English steam yachts would compete in
the spring regattas,
—The fifth game of the chess chani-
pionship between Messrs, Steinitz and
Zukertert, in New York, was won on
The latter has
won four games and hisantagonist one.
The next three games will
St, Louis, beginning on the 29th
— Another eruption of the volcano
of Colima occurred on the morning of
the 15th inst, It was preceded by loud
detouations, Enormous stonzs were
thrown to a great and were
plainly visible from the city of Colima,
last
Commodores;
aC»
counts a vast white cloud overhung the
crater, bea tin
below,
i —
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
SENATE,
In the Senate on the 19th, Mr. Frye's
resolution regarding the President's
recommendation for Fishery Com-
3
1
a
on Foreign Relations, Mr. Ingalls of-
directing the Secretary of the Treasury
to inform the Senate what amount of
silver bullion had been purchased for
coinage mn each year since July 1, 1884,
chased in each case, and {rom
instance all bids had been rejected and,
if so, for what reason, and in what
money or currency the payment for
Presidential Count bill came up, but
In the Senate on the 20th Mr. Hale
offered a resolution, which was agreed
to, making inquiry of the Secretary of
the Treasury in regard to charges that
convict labor was employed by the con-
tractors for putting an additional story
on the post office at Peoria, lilinois,
last year. A resolution was offered by
Mr, Mitchell, of Oregon, and referred
fo the Committee on Foreign Rela
promulgation of our treaty with China,
and McPherson on the same subject,
the Senate went into Executive session,
and, when the doors were reopened, ad-
jouined!
HOUSE
In the House, on the 19th, the Senate
Exchange Building in New York city,
for srmy purposes was reported, and re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole,
A bill for the relief of Fitz-Jon Porter
was also reported and placed on the
calendar. Mr. Matson, from the Com.
mittee on Invalid Pensions, reported
back the bill to increase the pensions of
widows from $8 to $12 per month. Re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole,
The Senate resolution accepting the
statue of President Garfield, presented
by the State of Ohio, was taken up,
and, after several eulogies of the de
ceased statesman, agreed to. Ad-
journed,
~In the House on the 20th, a bill
was reported authorizing the voluntary
| retirement of navy officers who have
| rendered conspicuous serviee in battle
| or have had thirty years’ service. Mr,
| Matson, of Indiana, called up the bill
| Increasing the pension of widows and
| dependent relatives of soldiers to $12
| per month, Pending discussion the
| morning hour expired and the bill went
| over, © House went into Committee
of the Whole, the real pur; being to
continue debate on the enh $i,
The first bill on the calendar, however,
was the Senate bill for the purchase of
the old Produce Exchange building, in
New York City. Mr, of Colo.
ado, being recognized chalr,
said “that was the precise bill he wished
to talk about,” and he immediately
proceeded to deliver a long speech in
tion to the of gllver
coinage. When he had finished the
bill In hand was considered, and final
reported to the House and passed, wi
an amendment which sent il back to
the Senate, The House thon adjourned,
It is not Always Night.
The weary soul in volceless prayer
Breaks from the verge of dark despair
There sees no ray of welcome light;
But Faith cries out with sturdy voice,
That makes the waiting heart rejoice,
“Tt is not—is not—always night!”
With tired feet and longing eyes,
We guze athwart the leaden skies,
And at the distant mountain height;
Then hope shines o'er the dreary way-—
We see the gleam of dawn and say,
“It 18 not—is not—always night!”
Be strong, O soul! Be brave, faint heart!
Bid ev'ry doubt and fear depart,
For God will make it all end right;
The promise is for me and you-—
The shining shore comes into view—
It is not—is not—always right!”
NPE Se
SIR ALGERNON’S INTENTIONS,
Sir Algernon Tudor was eminently
aristocratic and exeeedingly good look-
ing, but not altogether so wise as a
baronet with a rent roll of £10,000 a
| year ought to be,
| was, as everybody knew, the prettiest
| mateh even for Sir Algernon.
of the tender feeling she had inspired,
| and was even prepared to reciprocate it
| as soon as the gentleman gave her chance
of doing so, without oversteppiug the
| bounds of maiden modesty and reserve,
for Dolly was a very d young
discreet
Jady, and knew better than to make
readily, or doing any of the love-make
found this sweet, unvarying friendli-
ness very trying, for he was dreadfully
in love, and anxious above all things
to propose and get that difficult ques-
tion off hus mind, and yet he never
seemed able to arrive at the desired
goal.
But one morning he screwed his
Fortur
had been n-
couarge to a very high point. 10
he
house where Dol-
to remain
favored him, for
the
had
vited to lunch at
and he was
for a su lance which was to follow
on the same evening, so thal
pass many consecutive hours in the m-
| mediate neighbortiood of his idol, and
that the day
it was all but
could pass without giving Lis
1 pOSEL
n the de-
sired opportunity.
“1H
{ all to-day,” said
propose
self with the most scrupulous
go over early w
ised to try with me.
ith those daetls she prom-
That will give us
| ourselves, and when the
| out with her. 1 believe she cares for
me, and 1'll make her give ma my an-
swer. Ican't live a day longer in this
suspense, *’
Fortune favors the brave, and Sir
Algernon, who tried to persuade him-
self that his courage was unbounded,
soon found himself alone with Dolly
and his duets in a delightful Little bou-
doir, where it was most likely they
would remain undisturbed all the morn-
ing.
Dolly, in the most charming of morn.
ing wrappers, looked more like an augel
than a young lady. and the tender way
in which that fascinating pair sang sen-
timental duets was truly romantic and
deserved a more appreciative audience
ple who were enjoying the music just
| outside the door,
Now, it must be explained that Dol-
ly Castleton had a very mischievous
brother, who had reached the merciless
age of 19, Of this fact Sir Algernon
was aware, and always took care to do
his love-making beyond the reach of
that young man’s sharp eyes. But be
was not aware of the existence of an
| equally mischievous younger sister, be-
cause she had only just appeared upon
the scone, and very much astonished
and disgusted was he when, just as he
had summoned up his resolution, and
was about to pour into Dolly's ears the
story of his hopes and fears, the door
was flung open and these two audacl-
ous individuals rushed noisily in, fol
lowed by & mastiff dog of so flerce an
aspect that Sir Algernon fled precipita~
tely into a corner and barricaded him.
self with a table and two chairs,
Dolly pouted and looked daggers at
her brother and sister, but her voice
was sweet and placid as ever,
“Sir Algernon, I must present you
to my sister Freda. (Freddie, do send
that horrid dog away). People think
we are very much alike-—sometimes we
are mistaken for one another.”
Dolly and Freda were alike in featl-
ure and in voice, but the likeness was
not easy to detect, for Dolly's face was
pensive and demure and her voice low-
toned and gentle; whereas Freda was
always laughing, and her mischievous,
saucy looks and ways were singularly
unlike her sister's.
“Alike!” echoed Sir Algernon, as he
slowly advanced with his eye om the
dog. “I cannot see the smallest re-
semblance. Why, nobody in his senses
could mistake you for a moment—im-
posmble, Still, { am delighted to make
Lady Freda's acquaintance, 1 really
did not know."
“Did not know of my existence!”
heard oceans and oceans of stories
about you. Indeed, I am quite tired"
“I ush, Freda!” interposed Dolly's
gentle yet commanding tones, and |
Charley stopped any further talk by |
bursting into a roar of laughter. He |
was standing by the piano looking ab |
the music, which stood open.
“Just Listen to the words, Freda; did |
Here fol- |
i
lowed some extracts, In which senti-
ment certainly preponderated over |
sense, aud which produced such an
outbreak of mirth from the irrepressi- |
ble brother and sister, that Dolly look- |
od vexed and Sir Algernon discomfited;
both made excoses to slip away from |
the room, though not together,
“Isn’t he a muff?” laughed Charley.
“*Well; rather; but I dare say he'd
He isn’t bad looking,
and I think they like one another,”’
“Oh, 1 don’t want to hinder thei
love-making! 1'd give any thing to
hear what he says to her when
they're alone. Oh, Fred!” with a sud-
den gleam of inspiration, ‘‘you
make yourself just like Dolly
Couldnt you contrive
could
if you
10 come
across him in the dusk and give him a |
It would just serve him right for
Freda’s face dimpled into laughter,
with her head on one side,
“We are going to ride this afernoon,
she does not care to seem to
habits; and I ean contrive that he shall
not see me before we start, If you'll |
get him alone in this room at dusk, I'll |
Then 1 come in
y, @nd surprise him in
¥
listening
gallop home. can
quite innecentl
any to know that and |
how he says it."
more he says,
“First rate!” cried Charley, ecstatic
-s
“Won't he be wild when he finds |
You're a brick, Fred, and we'll |
out!
“If only she would come again! If
could see her now!" quoth Sir |
ie boudoir at dusk. “If only I could
her again alone, I would not let the
had got
point, if only that dreadful brother and |
not, Oh, If 1 could
hh ansthe hota rans 6 ova vs 119
i anolher caance again.
hance slip. 1 g0 near ihe |
sister had come
only gel suc
The d
fori at £303
Lure stood
por opened quietly and a dark
in the doorway, A soft
voleoe asked:
“Are you there, Freda?" and as the
sprang eagerly forward the |
girlish figure started violently.
Algernon! You bere!
seen anything of Freda?
out riding. She isso
Hour Have
We lost
her reckless 1 |
end one of these days.”
“I have not seen your sister, but,
Lady Dolly, please come in. 1 have s0 |
wished to speak to you-—to see you |
alone again. Take this chair. Give |
me the chance to finish what I had only |
begun to say this morning.” |
The graceful, girlish figure in the |
riding habit advanced readily, and |
seated itself against the dim light. The |
veil tied tightly across the face could |
not conceal the wellknown contour of |
so betwitched him.
“Lady Dolly—dear Dolly!” he ex- |
claimed, rapturously, ‘ ‘you are the love-
best woman in the world"
Had he not been so precccupied by |
his own emotions, he might have heard
a faint giggle from the object of his |
adoration as he made this admission. |
“Yes, the loveliest—the most adora-
ble. My heart has been on fire ever |
since I first saw your face.” |
“I'm afraid you must bave been |
awfully uncomfortable,’ said the soft
voice, that seemed to quiver a little. |
“I have been living ever since that |
time in a strange, sweel dream, in
which I have been hauuted by your
fair face as—as—as one is haunted by
a vision in-—in—ig———?
“In a nightmare,” concluded the
soft voice, still tremulous, *‘I sm very
sorry.”
“Sorry! Why should you be sorry?
It has been the joy, the delight of my
whole life, Dolly, dearest Dolly!” In
a moment Sir Algernon had flung him.
self upon his knees at her feet, and had
seized her hand and covered it with
kisses, ‘you know that I am yours,
that I love you with my life and soul.
Say that you can love me, too, a little,
Dolly, bid me hope-—say you will be
mine, and I shall be of all men the
most happy.”
But the usually self possessed and
gentle Dolly seemed quite taken aback
and frightened by this sudden declara-
tion and tried to draw her hand away
and escape.
“Oh, I don't know! How can I
tell! Oh, dolet me go. I think I hear
somebody coming.”
“Say that you love me! Say you
will be mine I’ pleaded the young lover,
with ever-increasing fervor. “Oh, my
love, my darling, say that you will
marry me!”
“Oh, yes, yes—anything you like;
please let me go, Oh, yes, I'll do any-
thing—only I'm sure somebody is com-
ing. Do, do go away—l know it's
Charley.”
The dreaded name acted like a spell,
vanished like a dream,
:
a victory more easily gained then he
anticipated,
Charley entered, shaking with laugh.
ter,
“Well, you've been and gone and
done it now, Freddie, I never enjoyed
a thing more in my hfe, It was as
good as ten plays.”’
“Oh, Charley, who could have
thought he'd propose? It was horrid
when he began that, What did he
say?"
“You accepted him, my dear, and
very wisely, too. It would have been
Y ou acted wisely and well.”
“But he’ll think he's engaged to
some horrid al the dance to-
night. I ought to tell Dolly, but 1
don’t like to. She'll be so wild,”
Boene
advised Lhe
eve
“Don’t you say a word,’
wily Charley. 1'll keep an on
summon you, and we can explain, 1
think they'll soon make it up belween
them afterward.”
Sir Algernon was in a state of ecsta-
he dressed himself for
He had done the
deed last,
al
bold as a lion.
“Poor little love, how frightened she
self-possessed and calm. Perhaps she
was not as much prepared for it as I
Well, I will finish all I
had to say to-night. We will make up
for that second interruption. That
dreadful brother shall not disturb us a
Now that she bas promis-
ed to be my wife I can face the whole
world, My tenderness shall drive all
her fears away, sweet darling!"
Sir Algernon descended to the danc-
ing-room, where a wallz was going on.
Dolly was dancing, and she was en-
gaged seven or eight deep already; but
of his position.
At last he had her in his arms and
over the smooth
first in the
with a growing desire to hear her voice
again.
“Dolly, my
Aariing I!
darling!
She drew her self slightly away, and
a way he did not un
derstand.
“My sweet love—my Dolly,
Do not be afraid.
Lo one
Sir Algernon, you forget yourself
sald Lady Dolly,
up her head in her most stately way,
Sadly dismayed at such a rebuff, Sir
strangly!’] rawing
“My dearest—my own
us in the boudoir to-day.
had said e’’
“I said nothing which could war-
employed. Iam much surprised and
displeased,” said Dolly, in her haugh-
tiest tone.
“But. Dolly, dear Dolly.”
YCall me Lady Dolly, if you please.”
“But, indeed, you did promise’
“] have promised you nothing, and
you know it.”
“But oh,
FOU?
The door burst open once again-—in-
terruptions that day seemed inevitable.
Freda and Charley appeared, flushed
and laughing.
saucy girl, ‘‘don’t quarrel and be angry
with one another. It's all my fault,
in the dusk, Sir Algernon, to pay you
us, Ie proposed to me, Dolly, andl
was 80 frightened I bad to accept him,
because I thought that is what you
would have done in my place. I'm
awfully sorry, and, indeed, I'd no idea
he would do anything more than say
a few pretty things. I never was so
found out what 1'd let myself in for.
Please don’t quarrel, because it was all
my fault! I think that’s all. Come,
Charley, we shall lose our waltz if we
stay longer.”
Brother and sister vanished as quick-
ly as they had appeared.
“Oh, Charley, said Freda, with a
long gasp, “I'm glad 1've got it off my
mind, Ido hope I haven't dome any
parm. I didn’t mean tn make mise
chief.”
“Never you fear, said Charley reas.
suringly; “they'll make it up fast
enough, now they're left alone to-
gether,’
The irrepressible Freda enjoyed ber
dances very much after that.
“It's all right,” sald Charley, com-
mg up and whispering to her some
three quarters of an hour later, *‘I
peeped in through the keyhole and
they're still there. sitting together on
the sofa; and he's got his arm round
her waist, and she’s put her head on
his shoulder!”
“Oh, I am glad!” ened Freda; and,
then, bursting into a merry laugh, she
added, “sooner she than 1, Charley, all
the same!"
A —
Woman's sphere-—that she won't
wie Husband get
Siete 18, yor dons 9148 4
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
———————
One to-day is worth two to-morrows,
In talking or writing, let your words
be few but well chosen,
Nothing has so many ties binding if
to the earth as a railroad,
No man was ever as bad as his rivals
and enemies thought him, ,
Experience does take dreadfully high
school-wages, but he teaches like nc
{ other.
Never be idle, but keep your hand:
or mind usefully employed except when
| sleeping,
{ In the opinion of the world marriage
ends all. The truth is precisely the re
verse: it begins all.
Never does a man portray his charac
ter more vividly than in his manner of
portraving another’s,
| What is necessary to make one for
bearing? A great deal of good sense
{ Joined to a little piety,
Evil ministers of good things are a
| torches light to others, a waste t«
pone but themselves only.
It is better to sow a good heart with
kindness than a field with corn, for the
heart's harvest is perpetual.
Compliments of congratulation are
always kindly taken and cost one noth-
ing but pens, ink and paper.
The discovery of what is true and the
{ practice of what 1s good, are the tw
| most important objects of life,
{| As the bee collects honey and depart:
! without injuring the flower, so let hin
who is wise dwell on the earth.
The universe is but one great city
| full of beloved ones, divine and human
| by nature endeared to each other.
Beauty isa cliff on which and
another man seeks to shipwreck himself,
because it lies full of pearls and oysters
one
tis not uutil we have passed through
the furnace, that we are made to know
how much dross is in our composition.
who oblain
infaithfully and
That family is t
! not unjustly, keep not
spend in a way that pro
tance,
¢
+ Dest
yduees no reg
ye
The fickle multitude, like the light
straw that floats along the stream glids
with the current still and follow for
tune,
No man does his best excepl when be
is cheerful, A light beart maketh
nimble bands and keeps the mind free
and alert, :
Certain thoughts prayers. There
are moments when, whatever be the at-
titude of the bo is on its
knees,
It is 1
| maintain;
believe, an:
{ belleve it
are
ne soul
believe what
nian what
Fyoar
you
you
ause you
If we would begin by tl
for all the joys we owe IIim, we should
have little time left to complain of our
vexations,
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do not take too much
ather depend on yourself,
Without a belief
Be self reliant;
i advice, but r
in personal immor-
. hke an arch
| resting on one pillar, like a bridge end-
| ing in an abyss.
A woman's heart is the true place
for a man’s likeness, An instant give:
| the impression, and an age of sorrow
| and change cannot efface it.
It is an oriental idea that the spider
| draws its venom from the rose; and
thus it is that too often from the sweetl-
| est sources comes the blight of happi-
| ness and human affections.
| You turn exactly around. Food is
meant to serve lite, but life, forsooth,
| serves food. Clothes are to serve the
body, but the body, forsooth must serve
clothing, and so blind is the world that
it does not see this.
The rainbow is beautiful, but without
| a storm, without a passing cloud, with-
out decending rain-drops, it does mot
appear. It comes after darkness and
| gloom, and the contrast makes its light
the more charming and effective.
Oh, there is nothing holier in this
fife of ours than the first consciounes:
of love, the first fluttering of its silken
wings, the first rising sound and breath
of that wind which is so soon to sweep
through the soul, to purify er destroy.
When weare young we waste a great
| deal of time in imagining what we will
| do when we grow older, and when we
| are old we waste an equal amount of
| time in wondering why we waited so
| Jong before we began to do anything
| Meek young men grow up in libraries,
the
| views which Cicero, which Locke,
| which Bacon have given, forgetful that
i Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only
| young men 1n libranes when they wrote
| these books.
| No enjoyment, however inconsider-
| ble, is confined to the present moment.
| A man is the happier for life from
| having made once an agreeable tour,
| or lived for any length of time with
| pleasant people, or enjoyed any consid.
erable interval of innocent pleasure.
| We feel a kind of reverence for the
| first books of young authors. There is
| 80 much aspiration in them, s0 much
| audacious hope and trembling fear, so
| much of the heart's history, that all
| errors and shortcomings are for a while
lost sight of in the amiable self-asser-
tions of the youth
The ordinary life of a locomotive en-
gine is stated at thirty years. Some of
the small parts require renewal every
six months, The boiler tube lasts five
and the crank-axles six years;
tires, boilers, and fire-boxes, seven to
ten years; the mde frames, axles and
other paris, thirty years,
Good manners is the only thing which
keeps in fashion all the year round. It
is always in good taste to sqy something
kindly, ‘or do a generous dead. The
gurely