a i i i : i ad a ioomior ate the wide of the roa’, She fot apa i Od ard Young, colat had vo ooowars are ving RG » 28 ap within thy dormant will ! " ty AOL Fadl CE Hy Tost they dying, Fado nwt forever stil 7 Oh, whut harmnoning are sleeping | Qn, the songs that might be sung Posy could sve thee weeping, Yue ne'er brew hes through pen or tongue. Sweep the chords | and let their thrilling Viuraie throes o why inmost soul, Music wil buy fuure filing; Tanefu! aid. 1 resch the goal. Paintings far porteayed in dreaming Of wn wovely inond (deal; Foes ungel-like are gleaming On thy canves—inske them real | Comes by sorrow the awaking Do not dread auch sorrow’s call; Or, if joy the band is taking, Foir w Liew, tu sweetest thrall, Kindnoes wos if he'er wertaken Puss bewvond thy power to do; Loving words of thine might walken Nouive Gut isd olhars Wo Every talent bus been given By wy God tor his employ; They who serving him have striven, They slone enn know trae joy. PRU DIE S murat] Pradie Warren, so. the village schiool teacher, was entectaining & ealler this gray © Decembec morping, it being holiday time sad although Peugie had heard from gossiping Mrs. Tay- Jor that Hattie Belden theught “Prudence Wacrea should bave been dropped long go,” she was as gra- cious to her #s though said bit of gos- sip had never reached her ears. Mrs. Bryaot's annual New Year's party had beeu talked over, and Hattie Belden was certain thet her hostess had an invitation wher she broached another subject. Mrs. Tayler was telling me that that moment her bad angel must have been passin, tor she glaveed furtive= ly around her, and aeeing uo ove thrust iv into the breast of her jacket, and walked on with hasty steps, As | she neared home she met Mrs, Taylor, | who exclaimed ! Laws, child, how white you are! Have you heard the news ? Old Mr. Bryant has lost his pocket-book with over five hundred pounds iv it. He's been pustin’ up. & reward for it— twenty pouoda There's one of them —pointing to a bill at the corner. Prudie read it hastily, and excusimg herself, passed into her father's yard: On entering the house she found wot a waiting father, but a note lying up- on the table. Tt was fust the hoer of twilight, aed she lighted the ditde roading lamp wud reed : Prudie:—Yourr umele is vory 7 at Manchester and I am obliged to leave by the 4.58 train. Will be home to- Morrow. | Fawter. Ehus deft gto hergell she ,clgeed edory blind and drew every, ful Lain in the Nttle cottage. * lauding’ stéalth- | ily aroand into every corner of the darkemed apartmen(, dhe drew the heavy pocket- book from ber breast and, openssl Jit, Yes thers it was moremiondy than she bad ever seen’ together in her life, Neel] say that" she was tempted? The poverty of hereveryday life rose before’ her-— the bright leve dream of her life, witich lay Te “ashes al her feet, passed before her'enental visien:—No one saw her pick the pocket-book up, She could destroy it, aed even her owo father would never know. Mr. Bryant wes the owner of half-willion; be would aever feel the loss, while you were making your blue silk; I am dving to see it! Miserable old newsmonger ! thought Prudie, as she brought out the dress. Why, Prudence it really looks well. No one would ever know that it was an old ove, ouly of coarse, those whe have always seen it; and you wore it last year didn’t you ? Yes, admitted Prodie, who knew in her own mind all the malice aod gpite of her visitor's jealous heart I have a new velvet, weat on Mies Belden. Bat I suppose we shall be eclipsed by Miss Eaten, who is viek~ ing Mrs. Bryant. Lee's betrothed, you know, Unexpected as wae the blow, net a sign did Pradie Warren give that the news was aught to ber as she went on folding the silk, prepacotory to layiag it away. Indeed I do not know, she return- el, quite pleasantly! No, it is not known generally, con” tinued Miss Belden, keeping ber sharp eye upon Prudie Bat that young lady held her own bravely until her mischievous friend departed, and was safely down the step’. These village gossips, how odious they are! she said to herselt with a sigh of relief. Then she went into Rory: own little dressing room, where lay the despised blue silk, and her eyes grew heavy with a burden of tears. Ob, how I wish I was rich! she cried, I will pot—I Dever can—go there now. But everything seemed to Prudie ina distorted and poverty-stricken light this morning. Hew she did wish she could have a bright pew dress. Everyone would have & new dress but herself Bat go she must, and be as bright aod gay as the others, or everyone would suspect her secret; for Lee Bryaot had been dove-eyed Prudie's greatest friend and devoted cavalier from childbood, snd now they said he was engaged to Eva Eaton, the blue eyed fairy visiting at his mother’s = g's : 8 £, Poor Prudie! She was ouly a workingman’s daughter, snd the vil- lage tongues thought that Mrs. Bry- the rich man’s wife of W. 1A At last, wiplog away her tears, sbe “stood up, snd putting het things on, went out fur a walk. Far ahead f bee the dead leaves were whirling in |’ little eddies, and heap themselves a: unloved because she was poor. Instinctively her hand took up the pocke-book and the few papers it contained, and placed them in the open grate. Then she went for wood and a match. She struck the match. It burned with a feeble ray but that one ray cast all its ligh apon ome line of an anoient illuminat- ed Ten Commandments which hung upon the wall, and that line shone out like a text of fire, Thou shalt wot steal. The matchfoll from the out- stretched hand. The articles were soatched from the grate, and she re- placed everything as ske first found them. Then the white lips whispered, Am I a thief? Conscience answered: Almost—not quite. M)raing came cold and gray, the morning ofthe last day of the year, the morning before Mrs. Bryant's party. Before nioe o'clock Piudie Warren was againdressed in her gray walkiog-suit and in the street—this time bound for the great house upon the hill. It was a timid little pull that Prodie gave the bell, but it was answered by Mrs. Bryant herself, who kissed Prudie affectionately as she en- tered. My dear, why have you not called on us before?! I have been telling Eva all about you, and have looked for you every clear day. We have been ‘very lonely since Lee has been to London, but he returas to-day.—~ Come in and see Eva, and she hurried embarrassed Prudie into the break- fast room, My niece, Eva Eaton, Miss War, ren, she continued] Why, Prudie, how dazed you look! Well I may, said Prudie, recover. ing herself I found Mr. Bryant's pocket-book, Is that so? Cried Mr. Brysot from the other side of the room. —W here on earih was it? Pruadie explained as well as she was able, while amidst all the exclamations sud questions that followed, golden- haired Eva Eaton had slipped into the seat by the side of Prudie, and had managed to whisper, Lee told me all about you, desr. she mustyioil, the one I waat for a daughter-in-law Charles! said Mrs, Bryant, re proachfully, while Prudie’s blushes deepened. Never mind the joke, Pradie; here is the reward, And Mr. Brysat held og uot Jovan pound note, but one add Jk ol oh She marie tower he home & muca Well, Prudie, said Mr, Brysat, you fo are a very honest little girl; just |p, © reached home 80 ene was waiting | for her. I. was Le), I coud not yo home before 1 raw you, Prud'e, he said. See what I have bough tor you in Loudon. she was obliged to answer a question which made two young hearts the keppiest in all Wilmington, Now,adarling, this is; your engage ment ring, aud this {s your New Year's present, : And he drew a jewel case from his abd brifliancy. ‘ b And I waat you to wear theib to-night. 3 Miss Belden and her set: pia thought of dropping Prudedoe Ww Whe they saw her enter “Mrs, aot'’y drawiog-room that upos the arm of her betroy 3 baad, gud saw how aflecti + oy by her host Aud p beight, piquaut face diar gy the gli erin jewdls and the despised bl lovely Eva Eaton was by bi : friead whose friendship’ was ever hoe Long atterwapd she told her: husband the story of her temptatiol. - mt # A— ti 3 Admonishing Bfaine Cascaco, December, §.—The commenting editorially Mr. | Blaine's reply. wo Mr, message, says: Mr. Blaine, as might have been ex- on tection from a partisan point of view, #8 an opposition issue to the Presi | deat’s wiews on tariff reduction. We! bave a long and apparently very | pleasant winter before us in which to discuss this question, and it is a considerations. So fer, therciore, as! Mr. Blaine seeks to make it appear as a party issue he will fall. Blaine's interview that he 1s a P.on- sylvanian, sot at the feet of the high Gamallels of that Btete ani their doctrines. Like all vaniang, Republicans or Democrats, he believes In enormous duties tariff the mill bosses and protecting the so- ag) came of age and ought to be able believes that the protective system promotes his interests and that in promoting his interests it enhances the general good of the Republic. It is almost needless to say that Mr, Blaine, as well 28 other Pennsylvania Republicans, in taking this position makes no account of the pr.cedents of 1837, of 1882-83 or of the platform of 1884, which explicitly declares; The Republican party pledges itselt 10 correct the irregularities of the tari! and to reduce the surplus. They even fought the small reductions of 1883. The Blaine interview ‘will have to stand upon its own merits, and it will be indorsed or con. demned in accordance with the value of the arguments set forth, and the public jadgement will not be influenced by the distinguished name behind them. It is the weakest ground Mr. Blaine has ever yet occapied and no national party can expect to go into a Prei- dential campaign on that issue, no matter who may be its leader, and win. It is in a position of direct hostility to the report of the Tariff Conmis- sion and to the Republican platform of vr Upon this question, there: we beg leave to differ from Mr. pocket containing an entive set of rubies to match the ring in Lyeliug aoe, of the bright spots of der exist. upon a portion of the scenery. Tribune { Repoblican ), this morning | Cleveland's | | pected, has presented high tarifl pro. | question which must be settled upon | its merits and not upon politieal It is a sufficient explanation of Mr, | He was brought up in au- | atmosphere of ultraprotection. He has imbibed | Pennsyl- | on | imports for the parpose of coddling | to go alone. Every Peonsylvanian | Mo~| Ido. . ha THEY 1 SHED, There are t'n 3 when even the lnuo- ¢:nt lsogther of merry girlhos od | | grates harshly on our cars; when the | artless prattle that ripples from care- guileless merry maker consumes us, | I sat the other absorbed in contemplation Manfield’s art-—that is, I tried to absorbed. But just back of me sat a Hooley's, of Mr, | be ! evening at girls were esidently under the im- sort of Jack inen-box; that when you shut down (he lid on Jekyll, up jump ps Hyde, and vice versa. “sy to them, and giggled end made 6 remarks upon ‘ik, 1 theught setlously of abandon. | ing my otherwise desirable seat, I was spared the hecessity. A gentle- man who sat ext to me and suffered | equally with me pat a period to the It was fun- once discreet and effective. In street scene where Mr. Hyde comes sneaking upon the stage, | fearfully in all diréoucns, hing that appears is his hand glancing the first laid bo Oh! There he comes, gigled one of the Mair caskets of insanitg, I see his hand | te he! | Wherd I dont t seeft. bE WW hy there! Oh my! | He-hehe! Au this stage the gentlemen behind how awful! (me turned squarely around and said to the young ‘ladies with undeniable | emphasis, but without the suspicion lof a growl: Will you hash? The silence that fell upon that erst. while merry party was not broken | all the rest of the evening by any- i And he held up a brilliant, sparks | free hearts becomes iatolerable, and liberal pocket book, 1 ling ring, set in the finest gold, Then | when w fiendish desire to destroy the | to livein Americe to avy other theatre party of four, and the two. [of any seat ut all. But | frivelous jabbering in & manner at | the | | AMERICAN (OU RTSHIP Al AND Al E.! If | were a vo INE MAD, EEPECIn ly if § were bandsome and had 8 gener- ous “old wan” wt my nck wih a should prefer place take good But 1 should gel oid for this Is" ton earth. Cure not 1o coun jury where old men and women invar- jab ly tuke a8 buck seat, Bometimes | i they are not eveu allowed the comfort | It is only he re {that I find o'd men and women pression that they were looking =t a ‘servants of the healthful youth o° It seems to be a common £ | either sex. law among the people here to ras {and support children as sumpruously 3 Lsnickered and | 8% their means permit and continue to | support them even long alter they sre | {able to earu their owo living. , Bat | when it comes to the old people's turp sentiment seems to dwinale down | | alo wh Lo ro. are the center of attraction. | thing more disturbing than a subdued | | whisper. The effect upon the thought. | enhanced | shook hands with the gentlmen that rebuked ‘them | less damsels was somewh it when I turned and warmly | great brutes. - | A Water Tower Falla, Tuosasvirie, Ga, December 7. A | falling water tower in this 10 city at | o'clock yesterday moruing cost four men their lives and three others bodily injuries of a serious and possibly | character, In the erection of the tower the scaffolding bad been built s0 a8 10 serve as a brace between the center per and outer walls, The pier was The hoisting of brick to the pier | out of plumb and caused its co lapse, It erashed through the outer walls as it fell and carried the scaffolding and in diameter, | the top of the tower swayed the seven men on it to the ground, The street in the vicinity was full of people, that none of them were caught benewth the falling structure is little short of mirac ulous, Four men had been left clinging like human flies Sto the ragged sides of a portion of the tower which was left standing, They were near theextreme top of the masonry, with nothing to cling to save a faw protrudiog bricks’ some of which #0 afforded precarious resting places Tor their feet. Their cries for assistance were pitiful in the extreme. As the ladders of the fire- men who came to the rescue lacked thirty feet of being long enough to reach them, it seemed impossible to save them from being deshed to death in the ruins below. Fioally a brick was fastened to a rope and hurled over the top of the tower. Willing hands soon pulled the rope to one of the imperilled men, made it fast, and he descended hand-over-hand to a ladder belox him, When at last he reached the ground the cheer that wont up from the crowd could have been heard for a mile, The rope moved from man to man until the remaining seventy feat below, ard — se — A Texas gentleman traveling in a Pullman palace car iu ~ Pennsylvania | happened to say shat he viniiom, the Lone Star State, . Do you live in the western portion of the State ? msked & man oppose, In Tom Green county ? Thats Live di pods ERI ved upon | I dure say they vioed us two | fatal | called infant industries which long | #olid piece of brick masonry six feet | | Yes. ar; In society the young | They fresn Polygiam to the time a dog of found his way deputies just as a prefix member 9% boring the house with a hat Fb ne, The tediousuees of the speech was soon appreciated by Carlo, who gave And on ographer's report A Blory Cons effect that once upvill 8 the chamber ine vent to his folings io barke, | the marYow the sleep of the speech had at various [the interpolation (Barking on back seats ) Boston Transcript. points the Osanna Max. —Mintana wants to come into the Union eh ? Moxtaxs MA¥.—That’s just what s're after, and we'll make it, too, 1 did not suppose Moniaos had . enough population, Great Reott ! We've got 1,400,800 100,000 hirses, 2,000,000 sheep - Omaha World. cattle, and no end of b gs - » MWiarvelous Horsemanship. 1 \ - ook pop] ve 341 1yer are the blooming flowers. The old \.5t. Petersburg correspondent, writing of . Lo the London Mandard says: people are shut up io the kitchen be- | wprio rnine § witnessed a wonderin hind the doors, | display of horsemanship. It took. place ; hi i A ET Poetrofisky Park, Here, in the | What a muss the people of thie. prosence of the Grand Duke Nicholas, he b country wake of their love business | and most of the foreign officers and | 20 th p gnosis, the regiment of Cossack ioands pra Are the understandings of the Ameri- rough an extra dinar’ series of pa | y Wk yanentle X +] which threw the most danny © can vonth obtuse ¥ It fr quently i ih h ni | tions } " ¢ . 4 i of refs ie s the stinde The en. and 8 takes vears of their valuable time to roo TIBOR Tai A at full oslon : . : wnt pa i fac BE LE) f flown ' Y. a p 4 { er, with many of the men etand whisper ardent love to each other, : : x a J 4 t in their saddles, others anon Land frequently, at the very last mo. with legs in the sir; ma aon, : . ® r each ment, they suddenly find out that! n Lh gronnd anid’ shen adder { a ’ {i 1 : Ran ab Jul speed, Some + {they did not love each other at or their horse's. heads, and fo o ail. They were simply trving to find | I" tones m. the ground, and wonlk : Ls ad f vit 1 ving Agar al. While per cation out each other's peculiarities, Oc- e {oats all were brandishing being | casionally these coartings actually | : nd firing pistols, throwin Sapp Sl r ) IO the air and eatching ® terminate in marriage, but as a role, i 3, and yelling Lk 5. Firy. ‘the lovemaking business is thew went. past. in, pais, R op a 4 : y on each others bh { tover. Therefore the only next inter a IT guothe ad 2a oul 5 « : " ' he esting thing between them is a quar- A | The « of th “ y sb rei and a divorce. 4 - ing - reg “ . Th TW AI——— i : | being i rig ? ans FTE STING REMOVED do i me made of and t a plete ] 1 and made # 1 " like He put on his hat, started slowly | 1 the ground Ix w have ar H } € ne mny 3 | for the door, hesitated, came back, | stitionof the tesimnont them and | i . " " 1 | sighed deeply, snd took the lily | Wh, and ir &n anstant ever Fhe 1} vas on his fee! every rider in his site ¥ ( 33 : : white band in his own and pressed it | =a dle, and with a wide yell they rod at dor a to his lips. { Lwin Oppo i ene #1 | ’ s | Wa 1 wi { Katie, he murmured, | have waited | rel Ad der § | | singing, and une er, 11 long —ob, how long! —for this oppor- | a ary chorus t i = 8 won hi tunity: y 4 ph il - ‘ y be tunity; wili you, Kate, will you dar rand onl on By kisi gL. . Ey 4 | ling, be mine! { Do admire the docifinty and tlie of the | | ol .s or the skill and econrnge of the ahs | Heory, she replied. with a look | All-the foreign officers and oof | ball of sorrowand half determination, | guests wore no less astonished than de | it can never be. | { Never be! Ob, why have yoa per | mitted me to hope? Why have you | | encouraged me, only to stamp upon | my bleeding beart at last? [ am sorry Heory, but I can never | * { be yours; I have « Other objects! Henry; 1 cannot consent to [belong 0 soy man; l intend that { | yous hall be mine. ———— - NOT AN ENCOURAGING PROS. PECT. lthree bad been rescued in like manner, Jom up the franchise for Doubtful Party (to genileman)— Can you sesist me, sir, 10 a trifle ? I'm a stranger in a strange land 10, 000 miles from home. Gentleman—My conscience ? where is your home ? Doubifol party—Australia. Geptleman (banding him a cent) How do you ever expect to get back there ? Doubtful party (balancing the penny )—Well, if IT aon’t do better than this sir, [#'pose I'/l have to wals. ~ Drake's Traveler's Magazine. I — WAI———— “SPECIAL” NO HAD BEEN ENGAGED. Mary, said the old gentlemen severely, 1 think I saw you embracing young Blinkersly this evening. Perhaps you did, paps. bis arm around your waist, Well, papa? And the night before that it was Brown whose arm encircled you, What of it, papal Nothing, only think it's about time is associaed proms arrangement. MAKING 1 A NAME. 80 you are married ? id rave ing man (0 a friend. Oh, yer. Married overs Soar ago. Yes bel 4 Well, Ere done ; Indeed t . ther objects in view | And yesterday evening Saifkins had | Giver pall gout Hes souls | and glory, and that sort of thing ? | No,sir. Iniways wid 1 would jranke ame iu the wold, : PA. Raa A Vortune In Mapute, amply ders vy and several of whom re ceived] a fib Co.onel Reynolds, of Seuth Carolina wi ' ty died, was deemed one of richest farmovrs dn that stats His | oslate 1s estimated 10° amount to ab i M000. Some fifty vears ago Iv oi tad I respect to % ticipated warriage, and being also a slavi | holder, he took one of his female ave | ac a concubine, and practically paade 3 i his wife, without any mgr age cores | and Ji with her assuch ap to to the 8 f |} = death By hetha had a large ; family of mulatto children, for whom he | ral education A few hours prior to his death « Reyno Ids made bis will, and drew the will with lis own hand, thereby giving almost his entire estate to the Negre woman with whom be had lived as a wife and the minlatio children bora to him bs her. He had sisters and other rolations wha intend to disnate the validity of the will. Eminent lan wvors who have exam. ined the instrument, have expressed the opinion that t i= legally constructed ix every respect. ‘We suppose that there is no doulst as to the question whether under the laws of Sonth Caroling, he hax the legal right thus to dispos: of bis prop erty. And we add that we have no donald ge to whether, in the circumstances as exist ing, he did the right and honorable thing by this woman and ber children. She hid been practically his wife for nearly half a century, and, under the rules of the common faw, wae his wife ; and her children were his children. To Rave treated them otherwise would have been mean and contemptible to the last de- gree. ' The Jews of Rusein., There are three millions of Jew: n the in vi ninety- two per cent, of the population. or lease large areas of ow . oh they do not enltivate Risen eo put sablet the in small lot Their profits as middie- men have hitherto been oY In they have obtained long lenses of sgricalt land © “iiuanis. of the Ts Jews at long terms. wil alter five or ten within the last decade {= hiny Yow Lott ie ave’er, inf al ol iid i ° SLY et he “*g FiEga§358% 2 EY 5 3 a FL itp
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