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Or pi.rclag through la opening .loader. Fall! through tha laavea with fitful glum— Thia light my aklll can catch aad ran Jar. But. aweet, your ayu giro out a light That, though I Itrlr. from mors till in I ..rer cna reflect aright— -1 paiat th. aarth, and not high neavea.“ —Temple gar. at,. i- 1 ii- i Vi Can Maks Hosma Happy*. Itnit wi aaay let ahamga tha aatSagS Per Bondoni tall aad grand. Of .icbiag• Urn IttUi gnu apat Fw a bouadlaaa atratah if Inad— Tit there'* lom.thlag Vrightar, dura. Than the wealth we‘4 thee aana^ Though we here ai neua ta *aeWl Calif plcturee rich and rue— Though we here a. elites hangings For the Welle eo cold aad Vara. Wi m hang there e'er with gariaafli For (.were bloom er err where. W* con Bhk* horn* wy ehxfH If th* right court* w* WgUt; W* **s rook* It* lnm*tc fcopyy Aad thalr trc—t U***tag* vim; It will art ok* * ana *ll room brighUt If v* l*t th* luitlM law W* **o (*thr *toad th* Mil Wk** th* *T*nlmf heart ar* lifaa W* MB M—d tv hi—t* MU Y*t— >l * happy I*ol*l M*c; W* mb gatd* • erring WtdtMt L—4 him th* path mt vrt^ W* fill mi fco—oa vfth —Mi* Aad with *iUB*hUM Wit—tag V again*! all dark iotrod—■ W* will firmly *l—* th* do— j * Y*t ah*ld th* *yll shadow —U*. f W* milt Ur* Moh *th— —or*. Th*r* ar* tta—— far th* lowly Which th* grand—t fall to find, Vhor*'* * chain of aw—t affootloa Bringing friend* of hindrad mlnd| V* may reap th* chole—t bl—*lny* From th* pooc—t lot tigntd. Mary’s Love Letter. “So you won't marry Hawkins Jes sup?” said Squire Bergamont, knitting his black eyebrows together until they formed an ominous black bar across his forehead, and nearly frightened his bright-eyed daughter out of her senses. But Mary Bergamont stood bravely to the guns of her little citadel. “No, father,"said she. “O, how can you ask me, father, when you know I don't love him, and never can?" “Never is along while,” said the squire. “Yes, papa, I know that," said Mary. “But, indeed, I mean it." “You mean it, do you?" said the squire, in low and measured tones. “Now let me tell you what I It isn’t that you don't like Hawkins Jessnp, but that you have been goose enough to go and fall in love with that young idiot, George Lake!” Mary turned rery red. “Papal” “There's no use mincing matters,” said the irate squire. “An artist, indeed! Why don’t he go into white-washing and painting, and get a decant living?” “But, papa—" “Needn’t attempt to argue with me, miss!” said Squire Rergamont, sternly. “I’ll have none of it, and so I tell you if George Lake comes into my house, he’ll b<: put out very quick! And so you may tell him ” So saying, the squire strode out of the room. Mary looked after him with soft, sorrowful eyes. She was a delicate, oval faced girl, with sunny brown hair and straight features, as unlike the rotund and positive squire's as light to darkness. But as she put down the iron with which she was “doing up” her father's shirts — Squire Bergamant would have thought it a crying sio to employ a laundress while his daughter enjoyed her ordinary health —she leaned up against the window where the arrowy sunbeams came in through the tremulous veil of heart-shaped morning glory leaves and drew from her pocket a note written in a strong masculine hand: Dearest Mary —l love you. Will you promise to be my own wife, spite of! all opposition? Will you tell me so witn your own lips? “Ever yours, faithful to death, “Geokue.” | liov her eyes glittered as she read and j mssmsbi re-read the short and simple lines, press ing them finally to her lips. “I do lore him! I will he his wife!” she murmured. “Aud I will tel! him so the very first opportunity I get. Only papal’* A momentary cloud stole over her j serene brow at this, but it was transient. | “I don’t believe in elopements," said Mary Bergamont, still rivetiug her eyes on the sheet of paper in her hands. “I never did. But if papa still persists iu opposing our marriage, I will leave my home aud go out into the world hand-in hand with George.” Just as the revolutionary thought passed through her mind the deer creaked on its hinges. A heavy, well-known footstep sounded on the threshhold. “It’s papa!” cried Mary. In her consternation our poor little heroine could not Had tho entrance to her pocket in the multitudinous folds of her dress. For a second she was in imminent danger of detection; then she hurriedly thrust tho incendiary document into the yawning mouth of a paper bag of choice seed-corn, which hung by the kitchen window. And the next instant Squire Bergamont was in the room. “Mary," said he, "go up stairs to the left band corner of my middle bureau drawer and get me a clean pocket-hand kerchief.” And Mary went out with a dubious glance at the nail on which the bag of ‘Early Sugar Corn’ hung." When she returned the room was empty, and Squire Bergamont was just climbing up into his lumber box wagon, in front of the picket fence. “Bring it out here,” said the aquire. “I’m goiug over to Miss Polly Pepper’s to get my empty cider cask. She might have had the sense to return it herself!" He stowed the pocket-handkerchief away iu his pocket, and was just taking up the reins when Mary rushed out again, crimson to the roots of her hair. ‘‘Father, that bag of seed corn?” “O, it’s all right—it’s all right,” said the squire, placidly. “I promised a little to Miss Polly Pepper, and this is already shelled." “But, father,” gasped poor Mary, "let uie tie it up first.” “Nonsense,” said the squiie; "1 just folded over the top, and it’ll go as snug as a tLiefin a mill, right atop of my Bags of meal.” Away he rattled over the stony road as he spoke, and poor Mary ran back into tho kitchen to cry herself into a second Niobe. “O, my letterl” sobbed she; "why was I such an idiot as to put it there?” Miss Polly Pepper, a gaunt spinster of a very uncertain age and a very certain infirmity ot a temper, opened the bag of seed corn as the squire drovo off. “Might brought it before,” said she. “Promised it to us last fall- Ido despise these folks that are always putting off t ings. Mercy upon usl what’s this?" as she drew out the note; “some receipt that that shiftless Mary’s tucked away here to get out of the wayl No, it ain’t. It’s a love-letter!—and to me—‘My dearest Mary’—and signed at the foot George Washington Bergamont; and that’s his naino. Well, I do declare! Ain’t he far gone? ‘AH opposition.’ I s’pose be means Mary and my two brothers-in-law, that think a woman over forty hasn’t no business to marry! But I’ll see ’om furder afore I’ll let ’em over turn my matrimonial prospects —see if I don’t ‘Teil him with my own lips.’ Of course I will! I’ll go right over there at once. Delay is dangerous! And see if he really is in such a hurry." Miss Polly’s fingers trembled as she took her little cork screw curl out of their papers, and pinned on a fresh collar tied by a blue ribbon. “Blue’s the color of love,” said she to herselfi with a sin per, “and it was so rouiantio of my dear George to think of proposing iu a bag of seed-corn!” The squire was at his supper when Miss Pepper walked iu, flushed with her long expedition on foot. “Sit down and have a bit, won’t you?” said the squire. “Mary, fetch a clean plate.” Miss Pepper took advantage of the momentary absence of her stepdaughter elect to proceed directly to business. “George,” cried she, almost hysteric ally, “I am yours!” “Eh?” said the squiie. “Forever-and ever!” said Miss Pepper, flinging herself upon the collar of his ! oat. “Are you era/,; '' ' said the squire, jumping rip. “You asaed me to be your wife,” said Miss Polly, meltingiy. “I didn’t,l” said the squire, k "Then what docs this letter mean, eh?" demanded Miss Polly. “It’s as olsar a declaration of love ss ever was writ. Aud good ground to sue on." Thi squire stared at the sluiot of paper ns Miss Pepper waved it triumphs.>’!y over his head “But I didn’t write it," gasped be. “Then who did?" demanded Miss Pepper. Just at this moment Mary, entering with fresh ton aud a clean plate, caught sight of the letter. “It’s mine,” she cried, with a sudden dyeing of the cheek and a glitter of the' eyes. "My letterl How dare you read it, Miss Pepper?” "I got it out of the bag of seed corn," protested the spinster. “And I put it there fer safe-keeping,’ blushingly acknowledged Mary Berga mont. And Mary confessed. “George Lake, papa.” Miss Pepper went home, erying very heartily, with mortified pride and disap pointed expeetations. And the squire came to the conclusion that true love would have its way in spite of all dissent ing of the'parents. “Papa," said Mary, "please may I have George?” “I don’t care,” said the squire. And that in his case passed for an affirmation. But the squire remains a widower still, and Miss Pepper’s chances grow “small by degrees and beautifully less." RAVES WISE FOR UNO*. Men will always be found who are mean, spirited euough ts cringe to place and power, no matter by what base means the place and powor were won. They do not loathe but oovet the thrift that fol lows fawning- Even Hayes has toadies. Out of the two Houses of Congress three or four, possibly five or six. members ran to the White House to condole with the man who stands where the President should be, over the attack uiude upon hiui by the brave and true Seuat. r Howe. It is almost superfluous to udd that Cameron and Hoar are found in the very short lint of names. Tho put pose of the visit was to offer to Mr Hajc: have torn* one —who it does not apprir —defend him against the charges pre ferred by Mr. Howe for fear that other wise they would be taken as true. True? Mr. Hayes knows, as these Visiting Statesmen know, that the charges are truo as Gospel. For once Mr. Hayes was wise. At all eveuts he was discreet. He counselled absolute silence on the part of his hand fill of adherents. He was well aware that no answer could be mads, and he was opposed to an effort at reply which most be at once unsuccessful and ridicu lous. So here we have the spectacle of an Acting President of the United States who, when arraigned in the upper House of the national Legislature by a diatinguisbed and honored Senator on charges sf a most injurious character, re fuses to plead, but stands mute! Yet this was the bost Mr. Hayes could do. Ilis case admits of no successful de fence. He stands condemned by the men and press of both parties. He has fortunately for himselfjust enough to elieck tha ill-advised proffer of aid from the few subservient spirits around him, for he knows it will do him more hurt than good.— N. Y. Sun. THR DESPISED ADMINISTKATIOJf. When John Tyler betrayed the Whig party and set up to elect himself Presi dent by organizing the officeholders inte a personal faction, he was cast out by Mr. Clay and the great leaders of that day, who defeat to dishonor. Though selfish and vain, and false to his pledges, Tyler was not wanting in ability or experience in publie affairs, aqd with all his faults he had a following in Con gress of conspicuous champions like Caleb Cushing and Henry A. Wise, familiarly known as the Corporal’* Guard. They dofeuded his acts and his motives warmly, and it is due to the truth of history to say they were well rewarded for the service. When Andrew Johnson qua. relied with the Republican party, and pre ’aimed a policy of his own to be enforced at all hazards, he was discarded and denounced for the treachery, and the party triumph ed soon after as the result of that li'Toi*. treatment. Johnson had indiviiiu (<• and force of character to irunross nil mark or. ihe times, and he had In .1 is in me .Senate and the [1..U.-3 of iiep.esetiih fives ever ready to confront bisopp. ■ and to espouse his cause. Nor did i.-- himself shrink from conflict. A com bativo nature carried him forward, aqd if- NUMBER 16. ho was often rash, he certainly was never craven. For tl.e first time in the history of the | country hu- the actual incumbent of 'the ’VI ii *;. ib - been availed, held up as bMtb'us- to '.is own professions, ridi c.iLr.l c.s haul, an-l branded as a de -ev(. , without a single friend in either ; b’i'.uoh ot Congress to rise iu his defense, ; or to utter a word of extenuation in his behalf. Wielding the vast patronage of j the Government, ami using it unscrupu lously to pay off personal obligations, or to reward the managers of the Great Fraud, lie could not command oae voice iu the Senato to plead for him an excuse or an apology when Mr- Howe held him up to the public scorn and resentment. A shallow pretender and canting dema gogue, without any principle to guide hie action, or any intellectual capacity or grasp to shape a policy, he assumed to dictate conditions to the men to whom the Re publican party ha* been accustomed to turn for counsel and direetien and whom the party recognizes as its accepted leaders. He was hardly installed in office before pointed indignities were offered to to these foremost minds, and they were made to feel that neither their advice nor their aid was desired. In foot, there was a deliberate purpose from the beginning to make a personal Administration, independent of the party which oreatod it, and to cast aside all the influences by which an Administration, to be effective, must be supported. Mr. Schurs, Mr. Everts, and Mr. Shermaa, had laid down a programme of their own; and Mr. Hayes, as the creature of their impruoticable theories, insisted that it should he carried to the bitter end, with out regard to cost or consequences. Notwithstanding the radical difference* that were developed in the formation of the Cabinet, aad subsequently in the most important appointments to office nt home and abroad, the Republican leader* still clung to a possible hope that an ab solute rupture might be avoided. And although some of them refused to hold intercourse with Ilayes, others, like Mr. Edmunds, cherished the delusion that he might be brought to sec the danger of hi* obstinate course. They tried all persona! persuasion, aud then were forced tocon j o' do t hat it was in vain. Thus experience j has demonstrated to them that Hayes is ! niKonly intensely dogmatical, like most ! weak men, but he i. trioky, untruthful, and full of deocit under the most plaasiblc and smooth professions. This is not their judgment alons, but, outside of the nar row cirole which clusters aronnd present power, it is the conviction of men of all political opinions who have had occasion to apply the tests of character in their personal relations with him. The speech of Mr. Howe was a frank expression of the general foelings in the ltepnblican party. Ho is not an attract ive speaker, and is not accustomed, like his former colleague, Matt Carpenter, to draw great audionces. But tho Senate was packed to hear his indignant utter ances that day, and every Senator was in i his place, because he gavo voice to pent up indignation; and the popular sympa thy broke out in applause and approba tion, not in compliment to the oratory, but to the strong sentiment whioh Mr. Howe uttered. Tylor aad Johnson had about them public men who commanded respect for their abilities, add who may be said, in some degree at least, to have redeemed their Administrations. Not so Hayes. There is not a man connected with it whe to day could be elected t town constable, or who has any more influence on the publio mind than the elerk* who do the copying in the departments. Th* whole concern is regarded with contempt, and it will go into the dull chronology of history ae a thing utterly despised. The prospects of the Republican party in 1880 are not brilliant at beet. But if it intends to contest the Presidential election seriously, the first and meet in dispensable duty is to disown any respon sibility for this Fraudulent Administra tion, and to rejeot it as the Republicans rejected Johnson in 1868, and as tha Whigs discarded Tyler in 1842. That done promptly and vigorously, they may have a chance. Without it, they might as well disband. — N. Y. Sun. A dispatch to the Dallas (Tex.) Newt, of the 6th :nst., says: The through ex yre.-s train on the Texas Pucifioroad was ! ‘nd robbed, last night, at Eagle . .“i *!•. 01. The txpiv. mnsseugor .iiid . -til agents surrou lerec. without re , 'J he passengers were not no, l> • ! : amount ;>ieu is oof known, 'fiie roobtiig is supposed to have been comuiittod by t.h< same party that recent ly rolt, 0 train at Hutchinson’s and Allen stutiyu, on the Central road. Zi .. -■tj'