Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1878 — Page 1

. .'II . i" ' VOL. XXm NO 37. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MOKNINGr, MAY I, 1878. WHOLE NO. 228.

THE SII.EXT TRYST.

BY f AEOARET W. PRESTOX. Now that you are In Florence, go To San IxrenM. The church, j ou know, Holds .Michael's miracle carved la stone Te brooding figure that, under the shade Of its monk-like cowl, severe and lone, Watches yon till you i?row afraid It may tep from Its niene and ask you why You dare intrude with a carious eye Thus on its dusk domain of thought. Study the nivatery there inwrought, For the realm of art, I think, will full To show you a greater. Gaze your fill, Search lor the secret, if you will, Until you have gotten behind the veil Of the palpable marble. Nonetheless The cvaning t scales; and you'll confess That what is the wizardry of the sp-ll, Angel 's self alone could tell. But ether than this Is the reason why I point you to San Irenzo. Nigh To tts moss-grown court is a cloister wall. Fnter, and climb it- stony stair, Ar d the guide will show, for a single paul, The great Laurentiun treasures. There, (Mid luminous mtsils, musk-enrolled. And antique Psalters that gleam with gold, And manuscripts crusted with such gems As smother in Indian diadems), In a vellum teme, shut fae to face. Is a pair of portraits, I pray you seek: Laura, the luva.re oa her cheek Lake a Provence rose in its fadeless grace, And Petrarch, frcUi as he walked the street That morn In Avignon, there to meet His fte in ttoe thrall of that random glance That held Uim a captive evermore. What matter the lady looked askance In the far forgotten days of yore. While here, though the ages, brow to brow And lip U lip, as you see them now. These lovers in dreaming trance have lain ? If not in the flesh one clear blue vein Had throbbed to his touch, if he did hot dare Finger a strand of her flossy hair. How Time has avenged him ! Here to lie, While over the world's unquiet life Swept endless trouble and change and strife To lie in such calm, his cheek close pressed . To tewsj-les whose flush can never die, Her loosened tresses across his breast. That bbail not bleach as the years go by ! I wonder, when marvelous Tujean nights Are tnrill with a thousand toned delights When the sensitive siience feels the bliss. As the fky stoops over the earth with a kiss I xr.der if such a witchery shed Dee,paiis on Laura's cheek the red? I woodfrif then a-whisper stirs Those-Ce:itury mutlled lips of hers? r if, a." -ju turn to the pictured face, WnetheP start would show its trace, As it willVJone unaware intrude On the tryst of a lover's solitude? . Well, this ire know: she has need no more To ask the (uestion she asked of yore Arttuou li.-ed of loving, Petrarch?" Nay, For here they are wedded in faith so true J imt for centuries yet, as for centuries through Not even its sliauow shall piss away. Harper's Magazine for May. A HUSBAND'S JEALOUSY. fshe was only 18 wben Gilbert Amydon married her a bright-eyed little tbin, with hair like gold, and a complexion like the .pink and white of a conch sbelL "Gil, you're a fool!" aid his plainspoken uncle, who had money to leave, and comported himself in a proportionately uncivil manner. "You're like all the rest of the vorld infatuated by a pretty face." "I confess, dear Gilbert, I am surprised at your choice," said his elderly maiden sister, "after having told you that Sylvia Sinimerton was inclined to look favorably upon ;your attentions Sylvia, who has three hundred a year of her own!" "I'm really afraid, Oilbert," said his mother, "that Florence is rather young and mex;perienced." "She'll grow older, mother," said the bridegroom, cheerily; "and there's plenty of experience to be bad in this world, if one only lives long eaoagh." And Gilbert Asa yd on and his pretty little wife were as happy as the day is long. Florence cried a little when her baa band was obliged to go Jtussia on important 'business connected with the firm in which he was partner. They had been niarrid only -a few months. "I wish I were eting with you, Gilbert," said she; and Gilbert Amydon laughed and patted her rose leaf cheek. "Why, what ehocld I do with a little zephyr of a creature like you?" said he. "How would yoaendare traveling all night and running atoout all day? No, no, you must stay at hame and keep house until I -come back." So Gilbert Amydon went away. He had not been gone many weeks before -a lone and acrid letter from his maiden sis ter, Drusilla, infsised a bitter element into the current of hia reflections "Florence is very well," wrote Miss Dru silla who, although b7 no means either fat or fair, was forty at least, "and apparently very happy. Sae bad friends to tea last

p night. Of course I was oat invited, although

most inonnortcaalv I. called in. about the Dorcas sewing club, just as they were bitting down to tea. 1 ue JUisses juyrtle were there with their conBias Major Darrock. Major, .Darrock is very handsome these words un derscored with two vicious dashes of the pen 'and judging from tteir conversation Florence and he were-old (friends before she met. you. I dare say it is all right indeed JlorenceHold me that whea she invited the three Myrtle girls she -didn't know that .Major, Darrock had just arrived on a visit to them. Jiat nevertheless J (hardly believe it is well to reignite tie .ashes of an old flirta tion on the altar of an absent husband's hearthstone! Howew. as I said before: -Florence .u very youcg, and can hardly be expected to comprehend theee things." Gilbert Amydon felt a sharp sting of latent jealousy go through hce heart as he read his sister's worcs, but presently he broke into a rail's and tore up Mies Drnsilia's letter un ceremoniously into cigar lighters. "They would shut Ler -up in.fi nunnery if they had their way. said he to himself. "Poor, dear little girL, the mast have some amusement." But :Uncle Crawley's nesrt letter was more vaguely annoying stilL ' I suppose yoa have beard from jour wife About tne fancy .masquerade ball,4' said he. "The young foikfl are all wild about it. Your wife i to jro as Jlowena to .Major Darrock's Jvanhoe. The costumes are to cost no end oi money, l am tola. When A was a young xoan people didn't squander thetr ineainesin that sort of way. tiut I suppose if y ou are willing, it a not my business to object.' Gilbert Amydon knit his brows and bit kis lip, as he read the wcrds his uncle Oawley had penned with such malicious pleasure. This was quite a diffienent affair from the test party to which DrasiVa Amy don had taken eiceotloa. And for the first

time in his life Gilbert felt in his heart a . strong, surging tide of anger toward the beautiful young wile whoai he had promised Jlat thm altar to love and cherish. lf ahe Is reaiij going to tbis baU," he sais! ( to himself, "I don't know what the con.seI quenees will be. She knows I hate Lais I xuasqaes, and she knows, too, tat she has ( no business to go with that major fellow . wben I am away. Drutilla was right she I is too young for a wife. . I should have

thought twice before Igaveap into her .hands such unbounded power to sting and torture me. At all events, I won't stay here to be made a fool of. I'll go back home and lodge for myself whether she is losing all her common sense and discretion!" WT- . A. I . Jie sianceu at nis watcn. "If I start at once," he thought, "I can be at Dedlington on the evening of the ball. And I'll do it!" What a long, dreary ride that was midsight joltings through . endless stretches of

woods and meadow land and , tunnels of

echoing rock days when sleeping and wak ing seemed oddly jumbiea togetaer: aju the one pervading idea that filled his brain was r lorence, roDea in paie diub bui, wnu her golden hair dressed as in an old picture he had once seen of the beautiful Saion princess, Ilowena. And all the time his heart was js heavy as lead within him. Florence, whom he had bo loved and trusted; Florence, who had grown into his heart as the clinging ivy makes its way into the crevices of the eramte rock; Florence, whose pure innocence and singleness of nature he had worshiped. What would life be worth to him if she should prove untrue? Not that he feared any such misery; no, he knew Florence too well for that; but a plum with the bloom brushed oif was no plum for him, he told himself, with a hot, fevered anger throbbing through his brain; of what value were the smiles whose sweetness was lavished liberally on all alike? And, as he rode along with folded arms and traveling cap drawn sullenly over his eyes, Gilbert Amydon felt like one nho was already bereaved. The house was iark as he ascended the steps and opened the door with his latch key. "Gone!" he said to himself with a bitter smile. "Gone! Well, I knew it. What else could I have expected? She is no longer my sweet, home loving Florence, but Rowena, the Saxon princess!" With these thoughts in his mind he strode up the passage and opened the drawing room door. To his surprise it was neither dark nor deserted. A cheerful fire burned in the grate the shaded lamp threw its circle of light on the red-covered center table and there, all alone, sat Florence, her cheek resting on her hand, her soft eyes fixed intently on something in her lap his photograph! It was the prettiest little tableau in the world. Amydon stood for a second, scarcely willing to disturb it "Florence!" "Oh. Gilbert, Gilbert!" And with a low, sobbing cry for joy she sprang to his breast. "So you have'nt gone to (he fancy ball, after all." said he, as be sat down beside ber, Eassing his hand fondly over t her golden air. "To the fancy ball? I never thought of going, Gilbert. I knew you didn't like balls; and, besides, where would be the pleasure of going, wi;h you away?" "They wrote to me that you were going as Kowena, the Saxon princess," said Amydon, half ashamed for the words he uttered. "Oh, I know!" said Florence, laughing. "Fanny Myrtle did wantme to go. She was to be Ilebecca, the Jewess, yu know, and Major Darrock, her cousin, was to be Ivanhoe; and she thought it would be a nice party. She even ordered a costume for me, but I told her all along I shouldn't go; so Clara Myrtle is wearing it to-night" "While you are sitting here all alone, and studying my photograph?" he interrogated, fondly. "I I'm afraid I was crying a little," confessed Florence, "for I was so lonely, and I wanted to see you so much." "My own darling little wife!" That was the last of Gilbert Amydon's brief madness of jealousy. Drusilla's spite and Uncle Crawley's quiet malice had all fallen short of their mark. And Florence reigns undisputed queen at last over her husband's heart Yontb a Preparation for Manbsod. A vigorous plant in spring gives sure promise of the best results in autumn. With equal certainty it may be foreseen what boys and girls will make the strongest marks upon the acre and command the highest respect and esteem of the community. Ey their mental and moral tastes. they foreshadow their approaching character and positions. V hen young people despise parental restraint, hate school rooms, scorn a good book or paper, and are seldom seen pursuing any useful and serious studies calculated to subserve the pur poses of a manly life, but instead are seen wasting precious hours in the haunts of idleness, folly and dissipation, it requires no prophet to predict that these are the ones fro oi whose ranks the paupers, beggars and tenants of our prisons are to come, and this, too, at no distant day. The fact is as inevi table as any- law of nature. Stones were not made to swim in the water. Ignorance and vicious habits are millstones to anybody's neck. On the contrary, when you see a sober minded, steady lad or lass, who respects the authority of father and mother, whose seat in the school room is regularly occupied, who loves a good book or paper, and prefers to spend time in the company of those from whom something useful is to be learned. rather than ia the society of the idle and Kiddy, who "remember the babbath day to keep it holy,'" and is habitually attendant on the means of the moral and religious, as weu as tne intellectual culture, we may know, as well as anything can be known, that they are the ones who, whether they occupy public positions or private stations only, will be esteemed as the wise and hon orable of their generation. We beg of our .young readers oi the sentinel to "think on these things." NonalMClB; Ilia Wife. Enoch Emery is editor of the Peoria (111.) uranscrtpt. A lew months ago he married a M.S3 Mary Whitestead, who at the time was superintendent of the schools in that county, In the course of time the election season called around, and the lady aspired for a renomination before the republican county conven ion. Her nusoand was a delegate, and the following account of how he presented her to the convention is given in an Illinois paper: hen Enoch Emery arose m the Peoria county convention to nominate the candidate for county superintendent of schools, there came a sudden lull in the proceeding Every one become interested, and the delegates leaned forward in breathless attention. One could have heard a horse cough In that awful stillness. The emotion -extended to the good Enoch himself. He arose, diffidently toying with his spec tacles, Jirst cleaning them with a new casabric handkerchief, and placing oem on ms loreneau, said: "I put in nomination for the office of county superintendent of schools, Mrs. Mary Wbitestead fa lone pause 1 Emerv. f Flutter ing among the delegates. J I n-jminated her lour years ago sensation, and as I was in some sense responsible for her as an official. I got to watching her. Cheers. I watched her close and taw her real worth. Encouraging cheers. I was drawn nearer and nearer to her cries of "Good! goon!", and the closer l got to her the better I lited her." Storms of ebeers and yells, and cries of "Whoope!" She was nominated wUhout a dissenting vote. IlangrtHs; Demanded. Boston PostJ The pious state of Maine where the law even prohibits the sale of a glass of cider, iet alone beer or wine has been startled from its complacency by a series of horrible murders. The people are art tatfng the revival of capital punishment Maine has also one divorce for every 12 marriaget. and the number is rapidly Increasing. Evidently there are weak spot in humanity asit!e from tippling and inebriety.

WHAT HE SAID.

"It wm this, he Kala, and coming near, He smiled, ana stooping aown, Kissed her cheek; " 'twas tills that you were tne nest And sweetest wife In town." The farmer went back to the field, and the wife, In a smiling and absent way. Sang snatches o tender little song Mhe'd not sung lor many a aay. Exchange. HOW GREAT MEN WORK. Cassell's Magazine. The methods of authors in the course of composition have been singular, and though m .a . 1 3 1 1 A. 1 no two 01 tnem nave worea aiiae, tney have, most of them, illustrated the old proverb that genius is labor, and that few great works have been produced which have not been the result of unwearied perseverance as well as of brilliant natural powers. Some men have undoubtedly possessed astonishing facility and readiness both of conception and expression, as we shall presently see; but as a rule, the writings of such men, except in the case of Shakespeare, are not so valuable as they might have been, and are marred bv crudities which might otherwise have been Gnished beauties, by detormities which should have been graces. First among the sons of literary toil stands Virgil, lie used, we are told, to pour out a large number of verses in the morning, and to spend the rest of the day in pruning them down; he has humorously compared himself to a she bear, who licks her cubs into shape. It took him three years to compose his 10 short Eclogues; seven years to elaborate his Georgics, which comprise little more than 2,000 verses; and he employed more than twelve years in polishing his ".Eneid," being even then so dissatisfied with it that he wished before his death to commit it to the flames. Horace was equally indefatigable, and there are single odes in his works which must have cost 'him months ot labor. Lucretius' one poem represents the toil of a whole life; and so careful was Plato in the niceties of verbal collocation, that the first sentence in his "Republic" was turned in nine different ways. It must have taken Thucydldes upwards of twenty years to write his history, which is comprised in one octavo volume. Gibbon wrote the first chapter of his work three times before he could please himself; and John Foster, the essayist, would sometimes spena a week over one entence. Addi3on was so particular that he would stop the press to insert an epithet," or even a comma; and Montesquieu, alluding in a letter to one of his works, says to a correspondent, "You will read it in a few hours, but the labor' expended on it has whitened my hair." The great French critic, St Beuve, expended incredible pains on every word, and two or three octavo pages often represented a whole week's incessant effort Gray would, spend months over a short copy of verses; and there is a poem of ten lines in Waller's works which, he has himself informed us, took him a whole summer to formulate. Miss Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Hume and Fox have all recorded the trouble they took. Tasso was unwearied in correcting; so were Pope and lioileau. Even Macaulay, with all his fluency, did not disdain the application of the file; and there are certain passages in the first chapter of hisa history which represent months of patient revision. There is a good tale told of Malherbe, the French poet, which illustrates very amusingly the elaborate care he took with his poems. A certain nobleman of his acquaintance had lost his wife, and was anxious that Malherbe should dedicate an ode to her memory, and condole with him on the loss he had sustained. Malherbe complied, but was so fastidious in his composition that it was three years before the elegy was completed. Just before he sent it in, he was intensely chagrined to find that his noble friend bad solaced himself with a new bride; and was, consequently, in no humor to be pestered with an elegy on his old one. The unfortunate poet, therefore, lost both his pains and his fee. So morbidly anxious was Cardinal Bembo about verbal correctness that every poem he composed is said to have pased successively through forty portfolios, which represented the various stages toward completeness. The great Pascal affords another instance of similar literary conscientiousness. What he especially aimed at was brevity. He once apologized to a friend for writing him along letter on the ground that he had had no time to make it shorter and the result is that his "Provincial Letters" scarcely yield to Tacitus or to the "Letters of Junius" in concise ep' grammatical brilliancy. Some authors have rapidly sketched the plan of their intended work first, and have reserved their pains for filling out the details. The great French novelist. Balzac, followed this method. He sent off to the printer the skeleton of the intended romance, leaving pages of blank paper between tor conversations, descriptions, etc As soon as that was struck off he shut himself up in his study, eat and drank nothing but bread and water till he had filled up the blank spaces, and in this way laboriously completed his book. Goodwin wrote his ''Caleb Williams" backward beginning, that is to say, with the last chapter, and working on to the first. Richardson produced his ponderous novels by painfully elaborating different portions at different times.' Burton, the author of the "Anatomy of Melancholy," the great scholars Barthius and Turnebus; Butler, the author of "Hudibras;" Locke; Fuller, the "witty" divine; Bishop Home, Warburton, Hurd and many others kept commonplace books, which may account for the copious and apposite illustrations which enrich their volumes. Sheridan and Hook were always on the alert for bits of brilliant conversation and stray jokes, which they took good care to jot down in their pocket books for future use. The great Bentley always bought editions of classical authors with very broad margins, and put down the observations which might occur to him in the course of his reading which is the secret of his lavish erudition. Pope scribbled down stray thoughts for future use whenever they struck him at a dinner table, in an open carriage, at his toilet and in bed. Hogarth would sketch any faco that struck him on his finger nail, hence the marvellous diversity of feature in his infinite galleries of portraits. Swift would lie in bed in the morning "thinking of wit for the day;" and Theodore Hook generally "made up his imFrotnptus The night before." Washington rving was fond of taking his portfolio out into the fields and laboriously manipulating his graceful periods while swinging on a stile. Wordsworth and De Quincey did the same. It would be easy to multiply instances of the pain and labor expended on compositions which to all appearance bear no traces of such effort But it is now time to reverse the picture, and to mention meritorious pieces produced against time and with extraordinary facility. Lucilius, the Roman satirist, wrote with such ease that he used to boast that he could turn off 200 verses while standing on one leg. Ennius was quite as fluent Of Shake speare we are told, "His mind and hand went together, and what he thought fc uttered with that easiness that we (the editors of the First Folio) have scarce received from hio? a blot in his papers." When the fits of inspiration were on Milton his amanuensis could scarcely keep pace with the last flow

ing verses; but we must remember that tie poet bad been brooding over'his immortal work for years before a line was committed to paper. The most marvellous illustrations of this facility in writing are to be foutd in the two Spanish poets, Calderon and Lope de Vega. The latter could write a ply in three or four hours; he supplied the Spanish stoge with upwards of 2,000 original dramas, and Hallam calculates that during the course of his life he "reeled ofT' upwards of 21,000,000 lines! Of English writers, perhaps the most fluent and easy have been Dryden and Sir Walter Scott In one ehort year Dryden produced 'four of his greatest works, namely, the first part of "Absalom and Achitophel," "The Medal," "Mac Flecknoe," bis share in the second part of "Absalom and Achitophel" and the "Keligio Lalci." He was less than three years in translating the whole of Virgil. He composed - hi elaborate parallel between poetry and painting in twelve morniDfrs. 'Alexander's Feast" was struck out at a single Bitting. Everybody knows the extraordinary facility of Sir Walter Scott how his amanuensis, when he employed one, could not keep pace with the breathless speed with which be dictated his marvelous romances. If we can judge from the many original manuscripts of his novels and poems which have been preserved to us, it would seem that he scarcely ever recast a sentenca or altered a word when it was committed to paper. The effect of this is that both Dryden and Scott have left a mass of writings valuable for the genius with which they are instinct, but defaced with errors, with grammatical blunders and with many pleonaems and tautologies, the consequence of their authors not practicing what Pope calls The first and greatest art, the art to blot Dr. Johnson's "Rasselas" was written in a week, to defray the expenses of his mother's funeral. Horace Walpole wrote nearly all the "Castle of Outran to" at a sitting, which terminated not by mental fatigue, but by the fiogers becoming too weary to close on the pen. Beckford's celebrated "Vathek" was composed by the uninterrupted exertion of three whole days and two whole nights, during which time the ecstatic author supported himself by copious draughts of wine. What makes the feat more wonderful is that it was written in French, an acquired languase, for Backford was, of course, an Englishman. When we learn that Ben' Jonson completed ' his highly wrought comedy of the "Alchymist" insixweeks, and that Dr. Johnson cottld tnrow off forty-eight octavo pa&es of such a finished composition as hi3 "L'ie of SavBge'' at a sitting, one is indeed lost m bewildering admiration, and perhaps half inclined to doubt the author's word.

RELIGIOUS INTF.I.LICiEXCE. All the popes have been Italians since the election of Adrian VI., of Vtrecht, in 1522. i .... Henfler's large circus in Liverpool, holding 4.000 people, is crowded at the religious meetings held there every Sabbath evening. Half of the required 1,000 has been raised towards the erection of a martyrs' memorial at Stratford, where 18 martyrs suffered death in the years 1555 and 155;. It is stated on the highest authority that more bishops are to be created in England. They are considered very expensive articles, costing about 5,000 per annum. At Brighton, England, a number of lay men hisVe followed the clergymen who lately went over to name. At uxiora seven members of the university have doe likewise. . The liew church of the Advent in Boston will seat when finished, about 1,000 persons, and will cost $30,000. Work has been begun, bat a larre part of the money is yet to be raised. ' The Methodist Episcopal church has built in the last 10 years 4,!7S church edifices at a cost of $30,000,000. The value of its entire church property is $70,000,000, on which is an aggregate debt of about $5,000,000. Owing to the refusal of the dean and chap ter to allow tne erection oi a Bcaiioidine in St Paul's cathedral, the annual gathering of charity children, which has been almost uninterrupted since 17.H2, will not take place this year. According to their year book for 1978, the Univertahsts are now 3o,39j strong, against 32,947 in 1870. They have G91 church organ izations, church edihces end 22 ministers. Their parish property is estimated to be wortti so.y.s.us. i A nw church in Rome Is about to be erected! the cardinal vicar, Monaco La Valetta, having issued an appeal to the Catholic faithful of all nations for lands to erect a church to the Sacred Heart on the Esquiline mil at Kome, as a memorial to the late ven erated pontiff. A fraternity of societies, to be known as the "Independent Brotherhood of Christian Believers." has been organized in New Eng land. Its professed object is "to promote the reign oi the Holy Hpint in human minds. and thus extend the jeiga of the GosneL' The articles of faith are such as are held by orthoddx churches, but the proceeding) of the brotherhood are to be secret provides religious services for more than 300 deaf mutes in this city, is in need of money to carry on its operations, and donations may. be made through the Rev. Dr. Gallaudet, Isaac H. Holmes, treasurer, No. 105 Maiden Line, or James Lewis, collector, No. 205 West Eighteenth street An unusual and yet very sensible gift, or rather endowment, was presented to the Free Church Presbytery of Lome, Scotland, at its last session about a fortnight ago, by Mr. Robert McFie, of Airds, who gave a bond of 1,000 on real estate, bearing VA per cent, interest, payable on Whitsunday, on the condition that the interest should be given each year to a minister of the Presbytery to enable him to take a holiday. A case has recently occurred in England that brings into strong relief the working of the system of buying and selling the "livings of the church. The Rev. J. Marriner bought a parish and was therefore to be instituted in its charge. But the bishop refused to induct him on account of his intemperance. Mr. Marriner is thus the owner of the "living," and so long as he remains so no one can be set over it without his appointment He wishes to be the rector, of the parish, but being a drunkard, the bishop very justly refuses, to put him into theodce. It is a mistake to suppose that troubles among the organists and the singers of the churches are novelties peculiar to the churches of the present generation. As long ago as 1729 Hendrick Kock, who played the first organ in this countiy, had trouble. Kock was appointed orzanist of the Reformed Protestant Dutch church, on recommendation of the governor. He was, in addition to his other duties, to train the bellows blower to play the organ, so as to officiate in ca?e of his absence. Whether from Jealousy of the bellows blower or from some other causes which history omis to mention, Mr. Kock made scornful reflections upon the officials of the church and stirred up strife. Musical matters became mixed, and Kock had to leave. The same transactions hare been repeated in hundreds of churches from that time to this.

VOYAGEBft

"SV are floating ou the river f time, - oyaeers toitetner we noiselessly giiae, Drlftlnz away to that beautilal clime Kye hath not seen on the oi Iter side. Yesterday saw us step down from the shore into our Darks at tne aawn or tne oay Others tc-mrrrow will follow os o'er FVtr none the glad light of the morning will 'stay. . , We are midway out on the river of time, And drift with the tide thai we can not resist: It 1h sweeping ns on to an ult imate clime That is hid lrom our vis:on in iar-ioiaed . mist; Manhood has stamped its stern seal on our brow. Life-like a swift panorama moves by. Sunshine and fhndowx are over us now; is it me, or pnjeueatn,in mat westering say? We have almost crossed o'er the river of time; The wind and the billows have left us a wreck; What steals from yon mist like some angelwrought chime; May we still look with courage and hope from the deck? Aeed and silent and gray we nave grown. Battered our barks, our sails they are riven. Yet we feei we are coming to friends we have known When we entered the gateway of death and of heaven. Hartford Times. FASHION FREAKS. For the coiffure are real butterflies, with all their varied tints preserved, and mounted on silver filigree or gilt Ends of fine round point lace complete scarfs of sheer linen cambrio that are to be knotted in the large sailor tie that is now worn at the throat White tulle veils, dotted with chenille or with pearls, are the novelty for summer. They are in mask shape, with a hem or else pearl fringe on the edges. New combs for the back hair are no longer high and towering, but show merely a single row of jet, silver or pearl beads that litclosely around the front of the coil or the finger puffi that are now worn far forward on the hair. New large collars and deep cuffs are made of very fine linen cambric gathered by eight or ten close rows of shirring, and are edged with finely-crimped Valenciennes lace In new designs, or else with Malines or fine torchon. Black silk dresses for the house are sent out by Worth with basques anddemi-trained flowing skirts, with parts made of the new spotted silk, and, by way of brightening up the dress, the gay wide brocaded belts which he adds to the plainest toilet . . New chatelaine fans have bird handles, a small red tanager or an oriole being mounted on the hollow stem, in which is concealed a painted sik fan. A tassel at one end draws out the fan, while to the other end a chatelaine book is fastened to attach the fan to a belt The newest breakfast saoues to wear with silk skirts are of thin white muslin, made with yokes, and pleated from the yoke down in hack and front. Very few are imported in the regular sacque shapes. Everywhere is shown the preference for fully pleated waists and yokes. White morning wrapperj of lawn and embroidery are now made with a deep square yoke entirely of open-fitmred needle-work laid ft j bine or ptnfc"' lo&lofdj ' bibmIsf wide emoroidery makes the front of the dress; the back- has a Watteau fold; the sleeves and flounce are also embroidered . To wear around the neck outside the street wrap modistes have imported black net kerchiefs or fichus with their edges embroidered and finished with "fly fringe" of tied tassels of gray colors, such as pale blue with red and green, or else beige with crimson. F&ris muslin and the tinted blue or pink silk muslin neckerchiefs are wrought to show rosebuds of natural colors. For the seaside, where woolen dresses are required in the morning, there are demitrained skirts of white fleecy camel's hair, trimmed with knife plea tings of pink eilk or of blue edged with tercnon lace, and a eacque either pleated or plain of the camel's hair, with a vest of pink or blue silk held in horizontal pleat ings. Pale tinted foulard sacques for morning have shirred muslin collars and cuffs. White muslin dresses stmt out by Worth are so unique and pretty that they will surely restore this beautiful fabric to the favor it has lost for the past few seasons. TH sheerest Swiss muslin or organdies are made up breadth for breadth over pink or blue silk, and are trimmed . with insertions and flounces of needle work, and finished off with either Malines or the new patterns of Valenciennes lace. Costumes of white muslin for afternoon wear are made with long princesae polonaises, with Swiss insertion richly embroidered down every seam. Beige-colored satin ribbons, shaaed thro agh several tones, are used in these day toilettes; others have pink and cardinal together, or else cardinal and green, or some other oJd combination of colors. Wide brocaded belts of many colors, with brocaded ribbjns to correspond, are used on other white costumes. To combine with plain gros grain, Worth csea the spotted silks and those with stripes already described. The spotted silks are all of one shade, . with smi Jl oblong figures brocaded id them ; these are new for black silks costumes, for evening silks of pale tints, and for wedding dresses. It is not probable that they will be generally worn, as they are not sufficiently striking, but they will please fastidious tastes, and will rival the striped silks introduced in the fall. SPICERIES. George Alfred Towmend has hardly squeaked In public since he lied about Jim Blaine and had to swallow it A man who would lie about Blaine when there Is so much truth to tell ought to forever after hold his peace. , The phonograph may bottle up the voice and pass it down to future ages, but the smile that twists up the lace of a man as he seeks solitude and gas.es upon his name m print for the first time will always have to be guessed at Cincinnati Breakfast Table. , An exchange says: "No living thing can go so slow as a boy going on an errand." This ii true if we except the youth who has been "bagging it" from school and knows that his daddy is waiting r'or him at home in order to interview him on the subject Saturday Evening Tost .... "Just to think of it my dear," said a wife to her husband as he was taking his morning dram. "What a waite of money for liquor! This paper says thst the United States consumes ninety millions of dollars worth of spirits every year!" "Ah, responded the husband, "he w I wish I was the United States." A lady who once in girlhood sat on Dr. Johnson's knee, has died in England, aged 97 years. If the mere" fact of sitting on a gentleman's knee is conducive to female longevity, and our young girls wish to prolong their lives, we know lots of young men who are willing to assist in the hygienic

work by devoting their knees to that purKse two or three nights a week. Norristown -irald.. . ... A VOUEC ladrrebnfeinfrlvstV tie- "Wiiirh

Is worse to lace tight or to get tight 7" We give it up; we never laced. Eimira Gazette. We eaw a young man with two heads on his shoulders the other day, but didn't consider it much of a curiosity. One belonged to his girl. Berkshire Courier. A new song is called "Always Keep a Smile for Mother." Some young men will drink every drop that is in the bottle without giving a thought to their parents. The express companies will soon' run iron express cars, made bullet proof. They will preserve a messenger cool and dry in case the train goes through a bridge. Detroit Free Press. When we read the numerous clerical scandals which grice the newspapers and disgrace the community, we are Inclined to believe that a large number of the soldiers of the cross are off on a f urloogh. ' George has had a great many pull-backs in life," said the young wife to her kdy friend. And when the friend said, "Yes, I saw him with one yesterday," the young wife didn't know what she meant by it The woman who uses face powders and paints foolishly believes that she is only in the secret So with the habitual liar, he imagines everybody believes his stones, wben, in fact, the truth is not believed when he utters it Turner's Falls Reporter. A Yankee contemporary asks: "What are the street lamps for?" The man who doesn't know what a street lamp is for is hardly fit to sit In an editorial chair and mould public opinion. Street lamps are for weary young men to recline against at midnight, when they forget the way home. A man brought before a justice of the peace in Vermont, charged wi:h some offense, pleaded in extenuation a natural inferiority. "I should have made a considerable figure in the world, Judge," said ht, "if I hadn't been a fool; it's a dreadful drawback to a man to be in that condition!" "Weil, and how did you enjoy your dinner?" asked one passenger of another on a European steamer, the first day out. "Don't mention it," said the other feelingly: "doa't mention it It's a good deal like any important question In congress." "How's that?" "Why it's apt to come up at any moment." STATE SEWS. Mitchel Times : Farmers never looked more cheerful, and their prospects for good crops of all kinds never looked more hopeful in April, so sayeth the oldest inhabitant. Wheat looks ven -rice; it makes one's heart rejoice to ride over tne beautiful vaileys and see things so cheerful and green: it looks like God was pouring out His blessing upon the people. Crawford County Democrat: We have a candidate in our county who is a somnambulist. He wakens his wife up each hour every night to shake hands with her, until she Las concluded that iife has become a burden. Princeton Clarion: On the 17th instant we were shown by Mr. William And json some heads of wheat which be bed gathered from -a small patch in his field near town. Wheat fully headed out is an unusual spectacle for the middle of April in this climate. Daviess County Democrat: All the growing crops continue most promising. The winter wheat stands rank upon the ground and more mature than ever before known at this season of the year, and a greater breadth of land has been sown with wheat than in any previous year. Spiceland Reporter: A young man by the name of David Pike, living on the Bartlet t farm, in Franklin township, about two and three-quarter miles southeast of this place, was struck by lightning and instantly killed on last Monday afternoon. He and his brother were in a shed shelling corn at the time. The brother was stunned, but not seriously hurt ' . The farmers have been very busy for some time getting our land in shape for a good crop, as Proviaence has surely smiled upon us this spring, and at present our prospects for a good crop of fruit and wheat are the most flattering that we have seen for many years, giving a new life and impetus to business, and inviting the most Indolent and credulous to put their best foot foremost Crawford County Democrat: We are informed by Dr. Thacker, the attending physician, that a child of John Thomas, a farmer residing near Cedar Branch, Kentucky, died Saturday night last from poison administered by its father. Dr. Thacker says the father had given the child over twenty different ingredients, among which were poison. Thechild was taken with convulsions and died, after four hours of successive spasms. Laurenceburgh Register: A recent visit to the I., C. and L. railroad cut-off disclosed the fact that considerable progress was being made toward the completion ot a route that will hereafter separate this city from being a station on the main line of raid road. It is anticipated that regular trains will be passing through the cut-olf by the middle of next month, although the necessary work of grading, etc, will not be fully completed before the 1st of July. ILLINOIS SEiVS. . In the first two weeks in April, 1S37, 20 steamboats visited Mt Carmel. At Monce, Will county, a lot of rowdies broke up a temperance meeting and pelted the speakers with bad eggs. Mt Carmel, 111., Register: Should everything prove favorable the wheat yield of this county for 1878 will be over 000,000 bushels. Mr. G. E. Hessel, a well known harness manufacturer of Champaign, has been visited in his family with the scourge of scarlet lever. Three children, one an interesting daughter, 14 or 15 years old, one a son and one a younger daughter, all lay . dead in has house on the 24 th. . In the last 10 days a major part of the corn of Jersey county has been planted, and the prospects of a large wheat Crop are flattering; and if the rainy weather abates and turns dry and warm, the cereal crop will be greater and better than ever known in the history cf the county. The mechanics employed by the government at Rook Island arsenal bave received notice that after the close of this month their wages will be from 2.5 to 50 cent3 per day less than they now receive. No redaction less than 2.3 cents is proposed. The wages of the low priced workmen will not be interfered with. Carmi, III., Times: Some of the farmers complain of the blue bugs in wheat, asserting that their crop will be almost an utter failure, but by far the largest majority report an excellent prospect for an extraordinarily large crop. Some wheat is already heading out, and it is thought considerable will be harvested the latter part of next-month