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Silent Music. Thou canst not know that in my heart,which waits the touch of word. The music in life’s silences thv soul’s hand leaves unstirred. *Tis there I feel it oftentimes,when not a soul iu nigh, Thrilling along life’s hidden chords, unseen by dust-dimmed eve. The silent music of each life doth wait the artist's hand; A whole life full waits to respond to all who understand! As if an untouched instrument the world of music lives, Or played upon by countless hands, retains more than it gives. So, hidden in the silences of every human soul, 2W much is given out in word, doth still abide the whole; And only he who has the ppw’r to read be tween the lines— Those spaces ’twixt the motive and the out¬ ward given signs— Can hear the music of that, life akin nnto liis own; Tho’ it to others mu filed be’ he hears the undertone. The silent side—the waiting side—each fears to give it voice For tear the other cannot hear for earth's distracting noise. •hit, oh, there is a hand, by both ’tis now’ unseen. Which lovingly doth them unite, tho’ mist may hang between; Th< y feel together, and the heart doth clear translate the word Which others do not. understand. Love has the moaning heard. —Philadelphia Ledger. A DISAPPOINTMENT. BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. “Debt,—debt—nolliing but debt,” grumbled Major Monthill, us he tore open one after another, the numerous letters which lay upon his eleven o’clock break fast-1 able. “If I was Midas, himself, 1 couldn’t pay ’em all—and I wouldn't either. There’s only one alternative left open to mo that I know of—and that is marrying an heiress.” The major eyed himself critically in the-opposite mirror. He was a tall, handsome Apollo of a military gentle¬ man, with well-preserved teeth, hair, and whiskers, bright hazel eyes, and a general air of stylishness. “Yes!” quoth the major, “I must marry rich—and Letty I’rice is the woman. Blie's as ugly as a Gorgon— what very unpleasant-looking females those Gorgons must have been, by the way, to get themselves such a reputa¬ tion for homeliness; but a man must overlook all minor defects when his settlement in life is at stake. I’ve been a gay young bachelor long enough; 1 must really turn my alLeu tion seriously to Letty Price, But there are several preliminaries to be considered, and one is that she has a lover for every day in (lie week, and every lover 1 believe a more genuine fortune-hunter than myself. It takes policy to outgeneral so many suitors, and I’ve got to look sharp if I expect to win the prize.” Miss Letty Price was rather after the Gorgon stylo of womankind. Major Monthill was right in his criti¬ cism of her style. She was fat and stout, and ungraceful, with a dumpy figure, a short neck, greenish-gray eyes, reddish-brown hair, a turned-up nose, and teeth broken and decayed. Her complexion was muddy, and her chift retreated, and altogether she was si picture that sorely needed the glitter of a golden frame to set it olT. But then FMiss Lotty’s grandfather was worth $200,000, and she was conse quentlv what tho newspapers call a “society favorite.” People listened when she spoke, and laughed obse¬ quiously at her jokes, and admired her taste in dress; and Miss Letty, nat¬ urally of a confiding and credulous disposition, be ieved it all. With Major Monthill to will was to do, and no sooner did lie make up his mind that ho must marry an heiress, ami that heiress Miss Lctitia Price, than he set vigorously about consum¬ mating the affair. Bouquets, drives in the Central Park, books and photo¬ graphs, soft glances and poetically fla¬ vored quotations were all alike the en¬ gines of his warfare; and when at length the time had arrived, in his es¬ timation, to strike the final blow, he drested himself in the guise of a nine¬ teenth century exquisite, and wont to ealltm Miss Price. “It seems to me,” said tho heiress, Who had contrived to make her blowsy checks a shade blowsier than ever by hideous ruby-silk dress, with a •CAslmicrc scarf looped over it, “that you are unusually dull this evening Major Monthill.” The major affected to start from a deep and absorbing reverie. “All, Miss Price, you of all others should not reproach me with my lack of spirits,” lie said, sentimentally. “And why not?” demanded Miss Letty, with elephantine playfulness. “Need you ask me, when you know so well that my heart is racked by con¬ tending emotions.” “Pm sure,” quoth the heiress, look¬ ing down at the points of her Marie Antoinette slippers, “I don’t know why it should lie racked.” “Because I Jove you, and I dare not speak of my love!” Miss Price colored and essayed a faint little giggle. “I'm sure, major, I don’t see any necessity for such timorousness.” “Because.” itn; ressive y went on the major, looking 'unutterable tilings into the greenish gray orbs—bis own eyes were an exquisite white-brown, and well he was aware of the advan¬ tages in this respect—“because you are rich and I am poor, and I have registered a solemn vow upon the tab¬ lets of my own soul, never to wed an heiress!” “La!” said Miss Price. “Of all men,” said Major Monthill,” i * I am the least mercenary. A roof to shelter mo from the driving storm, a crust, a glass of clear cold water from the spring—that’s all I want. Money I spurn, gold is my bugbear. And yet, Dear Lctitia—nay, let me call you thus for once—fate has decreed that I should hopelessly lose my heart to one who is unfortunately rich.” Miss Price burst into tears and im¬ pulsively put her fat hand into the major’s i eudor palm. “Don’t talk that way, Marmaduke,” she sobbed, “and don’t look at me wiUi those mournful eyes, or you’ll break my heart.” “Lctitia, do you then love me?” “Yes, yes, V do,” wailed the heiress. “I love you with all my soul.” “Alis!” groned the major, “that two such hearts as ours should l>e parted by a wall of gold.” “But they shan’t he,” asserted Lot ty, her nose growing red and her eyes twinkling in the enthusiasm of the moment. “No, Marmaduke, not Not if grandpapa was ten times as ob¬ stinate and pig-headed as he is.” “My Lctitia!” sighed the major, in a voice honey siveet and low as sum¬ mer winds breathing o’er the twilight sea. And when he left the Price mansion lie had the satisfaction of knowing that lie was Miss Lctty’s accepted lover. # II; plunged ruthlessly into more debt the very next morning, to (lie amount of two hundred dollars, to bit y a solitaire diamond ring to deck the fat forefinger of his affianced. It will he a mere drop in the buck¬ et, he said to himself, “when I come to handle her cash. I hope the old gentleman means to place it entirely at her disposal, and I’ll see to the lest.” And Major Monthill contracted for a pair of cream colored horses, a yacht and a cottage at Newport for the summer season on tho strength of his known to old Zadoc Price’s granddaughter. Just at this time—life, wo all know, is proverbially uncertain—Mr. Zadac Price took it into his venerable head (o have a stroke of apoplexy and de¬ part this existence without tho cere¬ monial of more than two days’ illness. “Tho most sensible thing the old fudge could possibly have done,” thought his dutiful grand-son-in-law elect. “Lefty’ll come into her fortune now without any difficulty, and 1 shall be a made individual!” lie stopped at a hat store to get his l.at draped in a suitable mourning weed, and thought it very becoming^ Tho third day after tho funeral lie called on Lctitia. Miss Price received him in her new black suit, her nose swelled with much weeping, and her eyelids as pink as if they had been painted all round with a red lead-pencil. “Dear Letty,” murmured the ma¬ jor, his voice attuned to the tenderest sympathy, “do not mourn too deeply! We must all die—and our departed friend had lived out the three-score and-ten-years allotted to mau’s life hero below.” “I know it!” sniffed Letty, taking out her black-bordercd pocket-hand¬ kerchief. “You are not bearing your grief ail alone?” he asked. “No; Cousin Bethnah Jenkins and her husband have been here for a week,” Letty lugubriously answered. Major Monthill pricked up Ins ears. Cousin Bethuah Jenkins! He had not heretofore b.en aware that his Le itia had any relatives save her grandsire. However, the two hundred thousand dollars would well bear a few rever¬ sionary legacies, and this cousin Be¬ thnah was doubtless an attached lela tivo whom it would be scarcely credit¬ able for the old gentleman to omit en¬ tirely from his will. “The only lhing that I regret in this sudden and unlooked-for dispensation of Providence, dearest Letty,” went on our smooth-tongued Major, “is that it makes an heiress of you—and I be¬ lieve that I have before expressed to you iny horror of the imputation of wedd ng a rich wife.” ‘‘Don’t let that trouble you, Manny, dear!” cried Letty, hysterically. I— 1 meant, to have told you all about it before, hut somehow there never was a real good opportunity.” “Told me all about what, Letitia?” asked the major, in somo surprise. “About mv quarrel with grandpapa last month. He said you were a for lune-hunting miscreant — you, dear Marmaduxe!—and I never should have a cint from him if I married you. And then I repeated to him the noble words you had spoken, and he said— grandpa always had an inelegant way of expressing himself—‘that he’d settle your hash for you.” And he called me a fool, and we had an awful quar¬ rel, and he made a new will,, and left all his money to Cousin Bethuah Jen¬ kins; hut I don’t care, Manny, darling, for I knew,” cried the disinherited damsel, with a fresh burst of tears, “that you loved me for myself alone, and not for mere filthy lucre!” And so speaking, Letty Price flung her hundred and sixtv-seven solid pounds of dumpy humanity fondly into the major’s arms. Marmaduke Monthill felt like the man in the old tale who has sold his soul for forty pieces of gold, and finds ihe treasuie changed into dead leave-, lie had got Letty Price, but not Letty Price’s fortune. He went home, promising to call early tho next • morning. The next morning came, hut not Major Mont¬ hill. Miss Lottie Price is living, a disap¬ pointed'damsel, with her cousin Beth¬ uah, who is a good-natured soul, and does not grudge (he “bite and sup” to the poor girl whom she really thinks has been used very ill both by her grandfather and the major. As for the gallant Marmaduke, nobody knows what has become of him, not even his creditors, wno would certainly be the ones to find out, if anyone could. The diamond solitaire is not yet paid for, and someby else is living iu the cottage at Newport this season. But, after all, it is only one more illustration of the daily lesson we all read—the mutability of human af* fairs.—[The Weekly. Why Chinese Cobblers Wear Spectacles. “Do you know why all Chinese cobblers wear spectacles?” said a San Francisco friend to me as we were walking through Mott street together recently taking iu the sights. “No? Then I will tell you. It is recorded iu Chinese history that once upon a time a cross-eyed cobbler, who mended tho noble shoes of Confucius, had red pepper thrown in his eyes by his liot tempered spouse, and would have been unable to see straight for a month after but that his learned patron loaned him a pair of spectacles which not only made him see perfectly at once, but also took the squint out of his eyes. The sequel of the happy cure was that the cobbler's wife, deceived by the miracle in his eyes, refused to believe that he was her husband aud permitted him to pass the remainder of his life in single blessedness, Since then every Chinese cobbler from New York to Shanghai wears spectacles to protect him from red pepper, strabismus and bad wives.” What They Left. Him. Bloomer (to ragged ir chin)—Y’our parents left you something when they died, did they not? Urchin—Oh, yes, sir. Bloomer—And what did they leave yen, my little man? Urchin—An orphan, sir.—[Epoch. Oldest Dwelling in The U. S. 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