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But scarcely had she placed The last soft feather on its ample floor, When wicked hand or chance again laid waste, And wrought the ruin o'er. But still her heart she kept, And toiled again; "and last night, hearing calls, I looked, and lo! three little sWallowe slept I%ithirr the earth-made walls. What truth is here, oh, man! Hath Hope been smitten in its early dawn? Hath cloud o'creastlEty purpose, trust, or plan? Have FAITIT, and strugg!e. or 1 HEART-DEATHS. BY EDNA DEAN PROCTOR 'if eerie oft-die bitter deaths before T 4.0 breath is breathed nway, And number wear z twilights o'er, Ere the last e i ying gray. I've sometimes looked on closed eyes, And rola od hands of snow, And said, "It was no sacrifice; The heart went long ago." blessed Death, that makes our bed Beneath the daisies deep! nuicking Lice, when hearts have fled, And eyes must watch and weep! Ita X el4O-e3C.111-MALI_NT-Nr. From the St. Louis Prem. OUTWITTING . HERSELF TIIE "COURSE OF LOVE:" IN MISSOURI • Out in the old Lehomme road, not a hun dred miles from this city, lives Mrs. Over plus Ilempbale, a very worthy and very wealthy lady. made a widow by the careless shooting of some Federal soldier, who drop ped the worthy Overplus Noronhale while he was manfully striving, for his rights in company with old Pap Price. Mrs Hempbale has a daughter Laura, a fair young girl of some 19 summers, and pas sessed of a wartu,susceptible, but true heart, and who. much to her aristocratic mother's disgust, lately conceived a violent passion f..r a young house carpenter in this city, la• militirly known as Jack Plaine Now Jack is a gay, dashing young fellow, working like a steam engine when he does work, and sprecing equally as hearty when he is "on it," very likely to catch the fancy of a warm hearted, and blooming young girl like Lau ra, but not calculated to suit an old lady's idea for a hu'band. So Jack, after the first visit was peremptorily forbid the house The aspect of "our domestic relation" did not meet with approval from 'either of the two young folks, and a rebellion, to be pros ecuted covertly, was agreed upon instanter Sundry clandestine meetings had been ar mnged at a "friend's" house in this c ity, Which seemed to work pretty well, but at last the old lady got wind'of the matter, and utterly forbid Miss Latin from leaving the house. A month or - two slipped by, ~ --tend mother supposing the foolish attachment had . worn off, relaxed her vigilence, or seei.- ed to, yet all the while keeping a prcty t i.. sharp eye on Laura. After a while she d tested certain movements and praccedin that led her to suspect that Laura was in, communication with Jack, and she resolved to resort. to a ruse of some kind to ascertain what shape things were taking,.; but before she had quite determined what manner of/ proceedings to adopt, she was informed by a neighbor 'that Jack and Laura had arran,g, ed a plan of elopement. Her mind was quickly Marie up. She annnuneed to Laura_ the next morning that. she Was going to Bell vile on a visit, to be gone three days, and that she most be a good girl and not tear the house down while Are was gone. That night Jack knew 'of it,and as he read the nioe,little note that had bade him •icome over early and stay until mother coineS hack, and what a splendid time we will have," he smiled, kneeked the ashes off from his cigar, and resolved "of course be would " Jack went over, but there, is no earthly use in our attempting to describe the delec table things he eujoyed; it was sugar season on that plantatina aura. Just before dark, while Jack was running - over full of the glo ry of the occasion, in rushes Miss Laura's black waiting woman with— ... Loy bress my brak soul, chirp of thar aint ole missus at the gate, sure !" "My lord ! Dinah, what shall we do with Jack ?" 'fop ,'em in dat ar closet der, Miss Lau re !' And Jack was popped into the closet is a .twinlaing." ~ .., ~ _ In stalked the oldiady,-an&afte r sharply s'a l tiOulaisi,Pie diticoiserted . and bluebilg counteaasoe.of. Lauri, felt Sur's, that Jack bed,been there._ . • .. . , . . ""Mime here, Laura. Now you can't de- ceive ape. net abominOle Plaine"has beel here :nd , bu and he have flied up a .runi:‘ way Mato to come • e•p"g'it .'Oh—go , bad thing you, _alter your bringing up, to:1 treat me so. But soil 'will find that your mother is no foTtI — IWII-frodr-she's-too-shttrip for you, my lady,, Sooner than you 'should marry that Jack Plume I'd 'see you "did in your grave. He's not going to sgnander my, money, I can assure you." •t The old lady rose, and, going to a_clothed press returned with several co'mforte'rs and a pillow, and walking.up to the , closet where Jack was concealed, threw them in, with a flirt, and turning to the trembling Lauri, said : "Now march in here, miss; step along, I'll see that you don't , get nnwherds near. 'that low flung mechanic this night 1" Laura whimpered and protested, that she did not want to go, declaring that h©r moth._ er-would - bd - sorry - fer - thzft - Some time. But without paying any attention to het i protestations, her mother gave her a push' shut the door, locked ,it, and triumphantly put the key inVer pon'e,f; and in duo tie went to bed. Pretty curly in the mornic. i g the old lady rose, and without waiting /to dress, fished the key out of her, pocket, and opening the closet door to bid Laura to come forth, gazed wildly for an instant, and then uttered a piercing scream Recovering her self speedily„ she staggered away from the door, and called faintly, "Laura, Laura dear! Go into the kitchen and see about the b fist !" Then preasautly; "Jack, 1s ay Jack !" Jack came forth with a very "son ic-law lookish" air, and answered, "Well, madam, what is it ?" "Jack, do you know anything abeut . a farm ?" "Not to speak of, marm." "You can read and write and cypher, I suppose ?" • , \ "Nothing to brag of., marm." "Well, at any rate, Jack, I think that af• ter breakfast you and Laura may as well go down co the city and get married, for \ I'm tited of watching you, that's a fact." The Railroad Engineer One of our raiiro4d enkinoers, sonic years since, was running ao express train of ten well filled ears. It was in the night and a very dark night too. His train was behind time, and he wasipltLil,gttLee_tagin.c---1 , • u most, Epee o which it was capable, in or der to reach a certain point at the proper hour. He was running on a straight and level track, and at this unusual velocity, when a conviction struck him that he must stop. 'A something seemed to tell me, said he, 'that to go ahead was dangerous, and that I must stop if Iwould save life. • 1 looked beck at my train and it was all right. I strained my eyes and peered into the darkness, and could see no signal of dan• ger, nor anything betoken danger, and there in the d.iytimc I could have seen five miles. I listened in the working of my engine, tried the water, looked at the scales, 'and. all was right I tried to laugh myself 'out of what I then 'considered, a foolish fear; but like Banquo's ghost, it would not go down at any bidding, but grew stronger in its hold upon me, I thought of the ridicule I would have heaped upon me if I did stop; but it was all of no avail. The conviction—for by this time it had ri pened into a conviction—that I must stop grew stronger, and 1 resolved to stop. I shut off, hiew the whistle for brakes accordingly, I come to a dead halt, got off and went a head a little without saying anything to any body v hat was the matter. I had a lamp in my hand, and had gone about sixty feet, when I saw what convinced me that premonitions are sometimes possible I dropped the lan tern from my terveless grasp, and satdown on the track utterly'unatile to stand.' Ile goes on to tell us thrt there he fund th:.t. Some one had drawn a spike which had 'mg /fastened a switch liil r and opened a , •witch which had always been kept locked, ), which led on to a track—only abou'l one hun dred and fifty feet long—Lwhich terminated itt a rt•ne quarry ! Alere it was wide open, and had-I-not obeyed-my premonitory warning—call it what, you will—l should .r , have, run into it, and ail the end of the track, only•about ten rods lonlg, my heavy engine and train, moving at ilre rate of fr' , rty-five i, ti,es-ttn_hour, would have come in o colli sioi/with a so lid-wall of -tetek - eightetn feet h'oo The eonserinences, had I done so, can nci titer be imagined or dscribea, but they could by no possibility have Leen otherwise than :lolly horrible'. No one can here doubt of a special interposition of God by which from calamity most terrific, hundreds o f lives were wonderfully spat - ed.—flume Month's. ...._. We understand that a well known busi ness man of 'his city who has ,a wife and family, has given rise to a good "deal of talk hy his attentions to a fair and frail damsel. Ti