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O, How for the Qoro a trumpet, Lot bim lift up his head in the morn ; A glory of glorios is battle, It ii well for the world he was born. Let him Joy in the sound of the trumpet, And sun in the world's proud smile j But what had beooine of the Hero, Except for the " rank and file ?" O, grand is the Earth in her progress, In her genius and art and affairs ; The glory of glories is progress, Let the great find a joy in thoir cares. Let the kings and the artists and statesmen Look round them and proudly smile ; Cut what would become of the nation, Except for the " rank and file ?" And when the brief days of this planet Are all ended and numbered and told, And the Lord shall appear in His glory, And shall summon the young and the old, For the Horo shall sound forth no trumpet, For the great no welcoming smile ; Before the good Lord in His glory We are all the " rank and the file." THE PROPHECY. " Give me a man who has courage! In my eyes it hides a multitude of sins." " You are such an enthusiast on that subject, Louise," said Blanche Under wood, as she stood before the mirror in their private parlor and adjusted their ruffles, "in looking for that quality, you'll overlook the want of some other, and find you have made a grievous blun der." ' Can't help it if I do. It's my na ture to worship that quality in a man especially though I admire it iu any one. He may be plnin looking, but he is glorified forever in my eyes if he dis plays true courage," and Louise Band assed her white fingers lightly over ler wnvy black, hair, and resumed her reclining position on the lounge. "Ant you don't think Redmond Clarke has courage?" Blanche said in terrogatively, turning to look at the fair, flushed face of her companion. "No, of course I don't," said the other with renewed animation. " J never saw auy of these blonde men show courage don't believe it's consis tent with their natures. If Redmond C.arke ever gains mj love he will have to prove himself a man by some unques tionable daring. " There is moral as well as physical . heroism," quietly suggested Blanche. " I don't think ray cousin is defioient iu the former." " I want to see them combined," said the imperious beauty. " Physical dar ing is the outgrowth and seal of moral o mragp. But we shall have to drop our discussion. Here comes the gentleman himself." They heard a tread on the stairs, then the door swung open and RedmondClarke entered. A careless, free-and-easy exterior, a gentlemanly bearing. Undeniably handsome, if one admired the style Louise professed to despise blonde moustache, indolent-looking eyes, and very brown hair. "Have you heard the news, ladies?" he asked, as he threw himself, with easy grace into the depths of a comfortable chair, and pushed back his heavy hair frm a broiul white forehead. "No. I didn't guess they dealt in such a commodity in this quiet place," said Blanche. "Perhaps it isn't, local news," sug gested Louise, idly winding some bright worsteds, while Redmond Clarke noticed the contrast between the glowing colors and her suowy fingers. "Yes, it is local news with a ven geance. A prophecy uttered by a seer sixty years ago regarding this town is on the eve of fulfilment." " Please explain," said both, with growing interest. " To-morrow night this hotel, known as the Oocassett House, and a space of two miles from it, in all directions in cluded, is to sink, and instead of the in habited village, the morning sun is to rise over a broad expanse of water, which has covered the doomed inhabit ants." " Pshaw !" said Louise, impatiently. "We were unfortunate in our selec tion of a spot to rusticate," pursued Redmond, watching Louise closely, without Beeming to do so. "We came here to escape being bored by fashion able society. If we are swallowed up by the minature flood aforesaid, society will be rid of us, which would be a loss on both sides." "Perhaps we had better pack our trunks and leave on the strength of this threatened danger," said Louise, with quiet sarcasm. "Suppose we make a short visit to Ashdale and return if the place still stands- -when the dangerous period has passed," laughed Blanche. "There's the dinner bell," and the conversation ended somewhat abruptly. The trio descended to the quiet, cool dining-room, and took their seats at the table. "It is said that the first part of the prophecy has been literally fulfilled," a gentleman was saying, as they entered. "We may reasonably expect the rest to be true also." "What are the circumstances?" in quired a middle-aged lady. "I have heard only the last part of the story." "I will tell you. Sixty years ago a traveler stopped here at a hotel, where this one now stands, and engaged board and lodging for a fortnight. But the first morning he made his appearance with a face white with horror, and in formed the landlord that he could not stay as he first intended. He narrated jJ4-.Mk- , that during the night it had been un folded to him that a horrid murder had been perpetrated within the walls of the building a short time past, and that, as a curse, all the children afterwards born here should die in infancy. Further.that new hotel should be erected on the site of the one then standing, in fifty years, and in sixty years the hotel and part of the town should be engulfed, as a furth er lenthening out of the curse." The middle-aged lady looked much impressed. "All this happened whore we now are." " Yes, the C icassett House now stands on the spot where the dire prophecy was uttered, and we now wait anxiously for the final consummation." "Have they made allowance in their reckoning for leap year ?" flippantly in quired a youth who sat opposite the serious gentleman. " You should not jest under the shadow of a great calamity," said the first im pressively, regarding the youthful unbe liever severely through his glasses; then to the lady " the traveler was observed to have jet black hair the night before, in the morning it was snowy white." Part of the people at the table looked serious; part were amused. Among the latter was Redmond. His eyes twinkled with suppressed amusement, but he concealed it. Blanche and Louise had been interested listeners to the narrative, growing somewhat dignified by the dis cussion at the dinner-table. " You see how much foundation lies beneath this apparently idle gossip. I believe discretion is the better part of valor on our part." .Louise, from under her long lashes. shot a withering glance at the man who loved her, but did not deign an answer. She could not make out this man. She believed that sometimes she half des pised him. " I believe I shall take the stage for Ashdale," announced Redmond the next afternoon, looking at his watch. " Have a little business there to which I wish to attend." Louise flashed a quick glance from her large dark eyes. " What 1 going to leave us to take care of ourselves?" said Blanche. "We want you to help buoy us up when the water rises." "Oil shall return to-night I have no idea of being absent from such an interesting adventure," he replied. " That is, if I can positively see the gentleman I am seeking just five min utes. Good-afternoon, ladies," and he bowed himself out of the room grace fully. "There! Iam not surprised at this action on the part of Redmond Clarke," said Louise. "He will not come back here to-night. I say, as I have said be fore, he is a coward." " Why, Louise, this move of his has nothing to do with the superstitious tale we have just heard." " I believe it has." The secret desire to think and believe high and lofty things of his name, drove her to sudden anger at any suspicion of the opposite. Whoever knew one of these blue-eyed, blonde-mustached meu wbo had a spark of true courage," and she looked anything but a feeble character Lereelf as she paoed the floor rapidly, her eyei flash ing indignantly with the intensity of passion to which ehehad. wrought her self. " Take care," said Blanche, warningly, in a low voice. " You remember Hamil ton Belmont saved my life at the risk of Paris Exposition PAUCS OF TBS TR0CADER0 his own. He was none of your heroic looking men." "You will find that Redmond Clarke is not a second Hamilton Belmont. If I could know for a certaintv that he ran away from any danger, threatened or real, i should never again allow him to touch even my finger tips. I should feel so humiliated that such a man had ever dared to ask for my love." Don t judge too harshly too hastily," said her friend, gently. You knew that Redmond Clarke and Louise Rand were fitted to make each other happy could the latter have the mists of doubt cleared from her wilful eyes. Clarke had really intended to return to the Cocassett House as he promised. but the gentleman whom he sought was aosent, ana the last stage left before his return. Ashdale was a primitive, unambitious town. Its only connection with the great world was the regular stage. Its hills and valleys had never yet echoed with the shrill whistle of the locomotive. He paced backward and forward on the piazza of the quiet little hotel where he was to pass the night, under the poetio skies of a fine evening, think ing of Louise Rand. Her haughty im periousness had a charm for him. He smiled to himself as he thought, " She will thoroughly believe now what rhe suspected when I left her, that I should not return to-night." He was prouder than she. There was a depth beneath that indolent exterior she had not sound ed ; and because she had doubted him she whom he loved he would not deign to inconvenience himself to gain her ap- Eroval. A man with less inherent aughtiness would have acted differ ently. He retired early and was Boon in a deep slumber. It did not prove refresh ing. A feverish, restless dream wreath ed in and out of his brain. He saw Louise suspended over a waste of waters clinging to something that threatened every moment to snap with her weight, and she be engulfed forever. Then the scene shifted, and he saw as plainly as if it were reality the building where he had left her enveloped in flame, and amid the cries of frantio men and women, Louise in her white night robe at a win dow where the flames were rapidly closing round her, reaching out to him with wild shrieks for help. He woke with the agjmy of the scene. Perspira tion was starting from every pore. He sprang out of the bed and threw up a window. The night was sweet and fair as when he retired, with the added glory of the full moon, in the fuller light of which the stars were paling their mod est brightness. Over the fair landscape were flung lengthening, sleeping shad ows of tall trees, shrubbery, and home liko cottages in their inclosure. The scene calmed, sobered him, but did not dissolve the hurried impression of danger. Was his dream a warning ? He tried to smile and put it away as the offspring of a diseased imagination. But the vivid horror of the scene stood before his vision with too much of reali ty, and he turned to dress with quick, nervous haste. The moon shone di rectly into his room and its light was all suffioient. ne was only four miles from Woodville. He could walk that distance. He could not rest with this horrible im pression upon him something might be even now happening. He let himself out noiselessly at the front door, and commenced a rapid walk. The church clock tolled the heur twelve. ne would reach there in lees than an hour. NS Buildings, 1878. RIGHT SIDB OF TBS SEINS. What if he should find his dream real ized ? He was a good walker, and the distance between him and Woodville rapidly lessened. As he drew near he began to feel a reaction indeed, almost inclined to turn back. He came sud denly upon the village, lying serene and lovely under the moonlight. The Co cassett House, to which his gaze was directed, loomed up large and tall among the quiet cottages around, and some stately elms threw their protecting shadows over its white walls. Ah I what is that ? The horror of the dream is repeated? a broad, angry sheet of flame suddenly bursts from the windows of the east side of the building 1 It is not far from the room occupied by the two girls. " Merciful heaven I" burst from his lips. " The fire must have made terri ble headway inside I" He rushed up the steps and rang the bell violently, while his voice sounded on the stillness with the most horribly ominous words one can hear in the dead of night, "Fire! Fire!" The house was aroused in a moment. Partly dressed persons of both sexes rushed wildly along through the halls. which were tilled with suffocating smoke. The fire had the upper hand. There was little time to save aught but precious lives. Redmond, who had at once opened the door with his latch key, rushed up stairs to the room which his friends oc cupied, but wa9 horrified to find the passage in flames. "Good God," he groaned, " how shall I rescue them ?" He rushed out again and joined the crowd who had collected under Louise's window. No sound issued from the room. Perhaps they were already suf focated. Redmond shouted; no answer. Two men went hastily for a ladder; it would be an eternity before they re turned. Meanwhile they were in the very jaws of death ! A tall tree rose firm and grand near the window. Red mond flung his coat on the dewy grass and ascended it quickly. How, he could not tell, but he gained a projecting branch, threw up the windows and vaulted into the room. He was a clever gymnast, but in his hours of amusement he never dreamed of this terrible need. The room was full of thick smoke that almost stopped his breath. The girls lay unconscious in a sleep that in a few moments more would be eternal. He caught the first one, and supporting her light form in one arm, with the other he aided his downward descent, and plaoed the unconscious form in the hands out stretched below. The lurid light Bhowed the still face of Louise. Till then he had not known which one he had res cued, for he had purposed to save both, or die in the attempt. This had been the work of a moment. It was only that of another to reascend, perform again the brave deed, and give to trembling arms the other unconscious form. Redmond Clarke had a large reserve power in his organization; but his real strength, physically, was far from enor mouB. The need for the exercise of his tremendous will being over, he tottered and fell insensible a few rods from the spot where the two girls lay on some bedding that had been thrown out from the burning house. Kind neighbors were making prepara tions for the removal and accommoda tion of the sufferers. Louise, under the reviving influence of the night air, gasped once or twice, and theu slowly unclosed her eyes. She looked around on the burning building and. the dis- j r i 4 ordered scene with a strange, unreal sensation. She rose slowly to a sitting position, and saw Redmond lying still as death on the dewy greensward. The flames leaped and roared, and the harm less silvery moonlight paled before their lurid, wrathful gleam. " How did 1 come here ?" asked Louise, in a dazed, bewildered manner. You have been carried out of this burning building, unconscious," said a gentleman standing near. " That per son, "pointing to Redmond; "saved you both. He has not spoken since." "Redmond Clarke 1" she said, half dreamily. He was not here last night. He went to Ashland to escape the flood," and again sank back unoonsoious. The three were carried to the same house, and in a few days the girls re covered their usual health. Redmond's recovery was slower. He had not robust health, and the anxiety and extra exertion of that terrible night, coupled with a cold taken while lying on the damp grass threw him into a fever, from which he recovered slowly. The two girls attended him with thankfulness for the privilege to Bhuw their gratitude for the service he had rendered. Blanche matrnanimouslv refrained from reminding Louise of the thoughts to which she had given expression on that memorable day. There was no need. Louise remembered with sharp regret for the injustice. In Redmond's eye she seemed to have developed into a new character; she was so gentle, so womanlv. The elixir of life feemed to emanatff rom her presence . The under current of her thoughts ran thus: "Can I ever admire enough his noble cour age?" She wondered how he came there on that night. . He had not returned when she retired at a late hour, but the matter had not been mentioned between them. In his weak state the physician forbade the least excitement. One day 6he stood looking at him as he seemed to slnmber on a low lounge, to which he had been removed from his bed. "I never thought he would prove such a hero' she said, half aloud." "I see now how utterly false are appear ances." She touched his forehead light ly with her soft palm, and then was turn ing to go, but a clasp of his large white hand detained her. "I have heard your words," he said, looking into her flushed faca and un steady eyes calmly, steadily. " "Will you sit a moment beside me?" She obeyed the request. The inher ent power of his nature was rising the surface, and a stronger indi vicing than her own was making itsel above mere physical weakness. "Will you say that you love me, Louise?" The question was low, steady and firm. The answer came lower, and with a slight quiver in the tone "I love you." "I am not exacting a debt of grati tude. Do you love me of your own sweet will ?" She looked at him. A new atmosphere seemed to surround him. ne was not to her the Redmond Clarke of old. She reached her other hand for him to clasp. "I don't love you through grati tude. If you had saved the life of my greatest enemy 1 should have admired and loved you as well." She was noble in her surrender, as she had been conscious in her doubts. "At last, at last," he said, and with her hand iu his he glided into a geutle slumber. Afterwards he told her of his dream and midnight walk. She was puzzled. "Ah, Redmond, we can truly say with Hamlet, that " 'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' " "Well, we had a fire instead of a flood," said Blanche, who had been gladdened by the turn of affairs. "I suppose we shall have to call that the fulfilment. What did the story mean, anyhow ?" "Half fiction, half truth, like hun dreds of other things," said Redmond. "I shall never regret the weeks spent at Woodville they brought me the hap piness of my life." And his eyes met those of Louisa in a tender, happy smile. PALACE OP THE TR0CADER0. A View and Description of This Imposing Building at the Pari Exposition. Through the courtesy of Demorcst't Magazine we are enabled to furnish a handsome engraving of the great Trocadeio Palace, which is to remain a permanent memorial of the Paris Expo sition. The following description of this magnificent structure is given by a correspondent: It is circular in form, and it has two stages of covered arcaded galleries on the outside. Its towers are 230 feet high, and as they stand on about the highest hill in Paris, this gives their summits a very great elevation. They burn electric lights during the Exposi-. tion, and the north star will have to look to its laurels within all that part of the valley of the Seine. Niagara may feel less apprehension in regard to the Trocadero cascade, though this is very fine. The water raised from the Seine falls first into a great basin at the foot of the building, and on the summit of the hill. Thence it tumbles down the slope, afirstin one bound of twenty feet, and afterward by shorter leaps from step to step down a broad staircase of stone ' built on the model of the cascade at St. Cloud. Finally it makes its way into a lower basin of Jura marble, measur ing 164 feet by 230, where it finds com parative repose. Some 50,000 cubio yards of water a day are raised for this fountain alone. So much for the out side of the building. Within, it seats 8,000 people in its concert hall, which is said to be the greatest circular struc ture in the world. It has a diameter of 1G4 feet, a circumference of about 500, and a height of 105. The orchestra holds 400 musicians, but it may be en larged so as to seat 1,200. The organ, forty feet high, is supplied with air by steam machinery. The hall is divided, much as au ordinary theatre, into pit, boxes and amphitheatre, and its amphitheatre alone will Beat 4,000 per sons. The semicircular galleries branch ing out from this central hall are at C resent devoted to a retrospective exhi ition of the wonders of every epoch and country, from prehistoric times to the date of the French Revolution. The Trocadero grounds are by far the finest in the whole Exhibition. They slope down to the river from tba summit of the hill, are beautifully laid out and planted, and are ornamented with buildings further illustrative of the national styles. The main walks cut them into four great parts, two lying on the river-bank, two above, immediately to the right and left of the Trocadero fountain. In one of the former parti are the outlying buildings of China, Persia, Tunis, Norway, Sweden, Morroco and Japan. In another section of the garden on the river-bank are the departments of civil engineering, and the administra tion of waters, forests and meteorology. Here also is the building of Algeria, In the remaining sections of the grounds t the right and left of the cascades arf restaurants and an aquarium, the la another of the curiosities of the Exhibi tion. It is built on a colossal soale in vock work, and has a super flees of about 30,- 0C0 square feet. Its two entrances lea to a hall of stalactites, having the cry - tal tanks for the fish at the sides, an this hall in its turn communicates wit two galleries Bimilarily fitted up. Ti -entire structure oontains about 130 tank -The aquarium is subterranean, and h a crarden on its rockt roof. The proach to the Trocadero budding is t. way ol the I'ont de Jena, wuicu lm been covered by a broad level viaduct some three times the width of the origi nal bridge. Along this bridge railway lines have been constructed, so that visi tors are oonveyed from the Champ Mars to the summit of the Trocadero by the horse-cars. Continuing the Show. Fvervhrxlv linn beard the old storv o.' ie silent man who, riding over a bridge, sked his servant if he liked eggs, t which the servant answered yes. Noth ing more passed t'U the next year when, riding over the same bridge, he turned to his servant and said: "How?" " Poached, sir," was the immediate an swer. This Btory has just been thrown into the shade in Italy. When Pompei. was destroyed by an ernptiwu of Moun! Vesuvius, A. D. 79, a theatrical repre sentation, as everybody knows, wa going on in the Amphitheater. A cer tain Laugiui having got permission U open a theater on the ruins of the an cient city announced the opening nigh I iu the following advertisement : " After a lapse of more than eight hundred years the theater of this t will be reopened with La Figlia Reggimeuto." I solicit a contiuu of the favor bet towed on my predee. Marcus QuintuB Martius, and ' assure the publio that I shall i effort to equal the rare ui! played during his maus-1'"
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