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They know the tHna toge' 8 The fairy letl' star.ke their anudtble hour a In tield and wesiland. sad each punctual fower Bows at the qsie1 as obellient Ied I A ad haste to ted. The pae emoneo a (;lide o her way with asartly a gocd niht:: The v:oleta tie theftr purple nich capetiatt; t Hari an bond. the itd nct columbis i In blitnesome lines. Drop their last courtesies. I it from the srene. and couch thee for their rest; I The ueoadow lily fold her arrlet ve' Ar.J h dee It 'neat the gracme' lenthenang re en. 1 Fair and serene. Her sasterlily lests 4,D te .o ae pond and raiaes o ldea ees T., mn.rt the golde pleder of the ies. a The ý .dlen agnal omes, and down she; . l To And renos lI the cooi depths below. t A tt: la Iter, and the stets blue Depart in crowd,. a brave sad cheery crew; While golden rcd atill wide away and say, 1urns him away, Furls hi It ight parasnls, And. :!ka tittle kero. meets i hfate. ' e .."ntisna, very prol to it up'ate.f Next ,elow. Every frn is tuked and a et 'Meath co.rltt. nornv and soft and warm. No little ,eedin nt(ke is bretad to grievw 4'r make e.mplalnts the folding wood heaeath ; No :inueirng dares toatay, for we.l they know The time.tono. Teach us your Iltkeace, brave. Iea.+ torwer,, till we shall dare to part like you, Witia1r ed' will, sure that 8s lok stribes true I Ihalt Hisweet day augura sweterw moanw, With .miles. oet soro. A TERRIBLE CONFESSION. , For many a long year I have carried it I cloose locked within my heart, till it has neared both heart and brain. After beg ging and praying or a week they have at lst allowed me pen and ink; bere on' this untouched white paper I can tell it all. Alice Walton was my first and only intimate friend. We were fast frienri from the beginning, for sbe was of a sweet, guileless and clinging nature. I was naturally secretive, strong, self reliant, and somewhat disposed to domi nate those with whom I was brought in contact. 31y friendship for Aliee surprised my self qui: as much as sany one else, ad II was quite an much at a lows to under stand it. Alice Walton was like a lily-fair, slender sad lovely, with dovelike eyes, and hair like corn sllk. I was as dark as a Spanish girl, with hair like midnight, and lustrous black eyes; and many an I admirer has told me in the days of my prime that no Spanish girl could com pete with my beauty or with my pace. But :thy were not beyond the competi tion of .Me fair girl and dbe won, right I under my fue eyes sad in the fhe of my rich athem beauty, the only man whose love I craved-them os heart hor which I would so gladly have exebanged my own. When we finally said "good-byi" to 4 school I made an express stpulation that Alice should come sadstay a month with mer ter die had Lat returned home and remaind a week with her own ends. I counted th days till be ame, for I realy loved the girl, ad loged to share with her, a finda I new sad delicious joy which she had sever known. A fhd cosain of my Aoths fr as tro be sselation ats all I -had come i my alumme to speandth I eummer with us. Of essmue I lhad heard thim ia my lemttes fm bh , ad was I somewhas dia.pp.ltes at the perpect I of having him these deelg Alles's say, far hearing him aw selesnd to as 1 metelr's esius't eoure, I heeled him old md gamy bhaed. My sastiseti equalmed my irrim when, n meeting Arthur Gd y, I I ohad him to be a yeung ma eftwemay Ove, handmre, a emph id, pp, ged bhumored--i heort, my Mi ofd a elb at, wellhnd b dsa m g lem . I eousi; sua 1I leumssd o hnoerhim better, more tihan plmaed a smem e that ho ws ouly a cauin by Ouihtes Ia oved Arthr GOdley. I bedewd I led him frem the Seat, sitheugh I did aot then understad my ow tellgp; and I had but little doebt at what he respondd to the tea.n He was mr e thankidad g aI his mannawer. Beetisde as M* ae grdfor me, I theught I dueeteod i his manner a eatain dek e which to my mind, indleutud the tender duvotleuda lover. I hknew he had never ased fr uay woma bere he met me,4 ad I haew that I was beau h a weu i. uncoseeluua her own charmsu? Ad so I elt jrstis iu elev hat Arthur card fr ar nth u weeded love had et amed betwees as. I od Alsl .uthingL dth L I mI - served my Inuelit trul ph to hugive In coadedm dringear m am eveig together; and, thuah I usM hmper firred to peeseut A lthur amy amud_ Jewer, whck I almos supedd him as bdlag, I quite laadud to emlum to hur" Iankly the love r him wMhi I had seaeely e Imd a omyel. Alimwasa week latrthmd had prr ad me mesatly en ahe did eae, arriving the day befol that on which she had told us she was coming. There was no one to meet her at the station; but she had been such a favorite on her previous visits that she was known to all the neighborhood, and a neighbor, who had by chanace been at the station when she arrived, brought her over to us. The first I knew of her arrival was when she ran up to me where I sat with Arthur, listening whilehe read Tennyson in that fine, rich voice that had become the sweetest music of my life. She lung her arms about my neck and embraced and kised me with child like enthusiasm. I then turned to in troduce her to Arthur. He had risen and stood gazing on her with a face illuminated with admiration -such an expression as he had never turned on me in what I thought his most fervent moments of devotion. I turned cold all over, and I felt that the color had left my face; but I struggled to re tain my composure and presented them to each other. Then I turned to look again more closely at Alice. Her gaze met his with a sweet frank ness that half reflected his admiration, and the pink in her cheeks deepened to a blush. They would love each other -they did already. I saw it and felt it then, as well as when I finally knew it by strong, passionate and ardent words; and al ready the dark ires of jealousy consumed my soul. I helped Alice unpack her trunk and sort her things and fold them away in the bureau drawers, or hang them up in the closet, as required; but I spoke no word of the tender confession of my love for Arthur, which I had been so longing to tell her of-neither then norany time. I never spoke of it. The days glided by fast enough, though to misery they often drag. But my heart and brain were on fire, my thoughts flew wildly in every direction, sad were so constant that I seemed al ways busy. One evening in the twilight, before the lights were brought is, I sat sad and wretched in our great long parlor, in a deep armchair in a cornerof the room beside being concealed in the gloom, when Arthurand Alice entered from he garden, where they had been walking among the reses for the past hour. I was too listless and mimerable-belde being horribly jealous-to care whether I played the eavesdropper or not; so I kept quite still, although I knew that I would be the listener to a lover's teIa "But, Arthur," said Alice, apparently continuing a coavelsaton, "I thought when I saw ou two together, that first day when I case, that you and Evelyn were lovers." "We have never been so, my darling. You sn my first and only love." I think he drew her toward him then, and kised her. Of course hedid, though I could nt se tem, for mychair was turmed roem them and I dared not move. Presently Ae spoke againa: "Of couae it is fortunate for me, Ar thur, dear, that you should prefer my poor beauty to Evelyn's, but yeou know I can scarcely nuderstand any man hknowing her well and seeing her con stly without falling in love with her." "Well, swestheart, if I had everknown her well enough ot to feel raid of her, and gl w a..omeod to her style of beauty, psehaps it is just posible I might have kilo. I love with her ill had never e yeo, my darlig." The oeed seemed to rusha betk my heartand the srge up intomy bhs.; therowas a aigingmy ars, d I head more. Wha m uaturned to omeoinelo essof Swhat was goi&mon albot m, they wee gO.e; bat I bad heard emnugh-too _ maek! TIl these lst wmla of Arthr's, I Ihad triedto a hear l msery vely in dumb despair. I bod pesded mysel st mly thatL p had not loved me bat never eid have loved me; that Alie was the onlyn he ever esld have Ioveda allt smdsol mnsttry tobear my anguh s.d my dbisapptltment as bust I gosM-but pw.! These weeds fis ahilet loose a fury me! Had he evo r sae hbar h i have loved m-b own lips id said it. Heaven Iknws what wad mdmoua theusgh. I pssud e ph other theugh my hoasled rbrai tbsh I had s hated her till Inow, but I hatd herlom that moment -wled he dea ld, ad wold bave laughed ~ sdeojed tomher die! a e l a bhad risms ad was loding Sall the i we e td dia dnilvey ight, whom Ales s lute thems, ad ~p "Do ema 'down tothe lahb. We Smight have a lvely smaw by m light, SrI premised mot togoto bud till Ar thLur em back- so I Mlday gpod ii ight again," she added, bl hnigLght ly. "e has mne to te town with year Sbrother. TIhy must be bk soon, be we might have time for a row on the lake before they arrive--do come." I I rose without a word, wound the I scarlet scarf on the back of my chair C about my head and neck, and prepared to accompany her. I The lake was lees than ten minutes' walk from the house and all the way there Alice kept up such a run of care less talk that, in the exuberance of her spirits, she didn't notice that I had scarcely spoken at all. When we had launched the little boat and ju mped in- t to her, of course I did all the rowing, * for the delicate snowflakes of hands that b held Alice's oars merely toyed with their o work. But I bent to mine with a will. o and beingstrong and muscular, although a only a slight girl. we were oon far out a on the water. We were nearly half way a across when Alice said, suddenly, alfter omne minutes' silence : "Evelyn, do you know the ueople a about here say this lake is bottomless p just halfway across? Isn't it absurd-a a little lake like this ?" "Yes. but it's terriblydeep. and we are b directly over the spot now which the ii country folks declare goes right through I to the other side of the world." a "How perfectly ridiculous-just as if a that was possible. But don't lean over O in that way, Evelyn. It you upset the I boat the lake is deep enough to drown i us. even if it doesn't go quite to the other side of the world." b "What nonsense. Alice. When I bathe I here I often swim as far out as this and : back again just for exercise." "Very likely, my fair Amazun; but as I can't swim, I prefer not to take my o bath so far away from shore-ah!" a A loud shriek from Alice as I beat a still further over, and in the next mo ment we were struggling in the water, and the boat floated from us. bottom up- t ward. I thought for one moment I saw t the white face of Alice above the water, but in the next instant it was gone, and though I think I regretted ay act as I soon as it was accomplished, I could do s nothing to save her. But I shrieked for t Iy brother and Arthur, who had just arrived at the edge of the lake, plunged s in and swam to our assistance. Wifh s some difficulty-I presently lost my con- t sciousness-I was brought to land. But a from that hour no mortal eye has looked I upon her. t ras ArProrAWrOlra. Ten of the regular appropriation bills t were paed by comngress, and show an s excess over the total of the same bills at a the last session of $2,398,398.94. The army bill and the river and harbor bill I failed. The following summary gives s the history in brief of the bills of the a present semion: THE PESION BILL. t Reprted o the house.........3... 00 1 Pased the ho ........................ 28,43. )O t Prased the seate .................... 28,383,5 0 00 As it beesmes a law................. 2'4,33,3000 f I law of last year..................... 2i, 538,.iiw 00 Reduction............................. 1,1 , 00 THE POSTOFFICE BILL. Reported to the bhoe..... ...... 82.9.4, 23 00 Passed the home .................. 3S,221$ 00 Passed the seate ................. .3,95,510 00 1 As it beesame a law........... ..... 33,67,.9 00 law of less year................ .... 1,53,7,100 Reduetioa................. ............ 1I,.31 ,311 I I THE lOWrtIICATION BILL. I Reported to the house..............2.... 0,r, 00 1 Passed the bhoes........................ 0,(l, Passed the seaste.................. 310,000 00 As it beeae law ...................... 300,000 00 Law of last year...... ........... 315.0000 Redetis .............................,000 00 T toa com(suLan AiD MlaoMtIc mUa. Repeesdeto the hase..............,l Ss hPassed the heae ....h.............. 1,1mPa 00 Phased the sense..................... 1,13o, O0 ro it keeealaw................ 1,13,84 50 f-w of less ysmr ....... ................ 1,187,197i 50 rednens..........................-...... 5so,500 1 J LEGISLATIV, nEnxcrTIV AND JUn- I DICIAL BILL. Bepmad to te ateke...........40.s,650 50 Passeds the hore ...... .......... 14,5, a pissed the seate................. l t1,906 o As it beesme a law........... 1,314, 30 1 I-d.et-i-.. .. 5,,99 70 TEE ]UrTAIY ACADEMY aILL. Repense to the bhse.m...............256,t161 I Ptsd the herse........................ 6S,16t 00 smsed the ss .................. ,50s 00 A it bosame a law............6....... S6,4 00 law . lss yee ........................ , Reducti o ...................... 3,461 00 Repeted to th house.............$4,448,40 t1 paed tke hem....................... 4,43,1 51 Passed the se•................, rs14,osa As it bseam a law................. 4,751,411912 liessse............................... 178,733 1 TE3 WCWT BiL. Repertod to th huse...........1s,427,197 48 hstd tde heme .................. 1,-46377" 6 Passed the semaste. .................. 3318,054 42 A hecemo a law....... ...... .... ,1,910 53 Lawf dlast yse ...................... 2,90,177 rodeslo. ........................... 21 4 T~E NAVAL LL Reported the house...........1,4R1,196 2 Passedt be .....h.............. 1td,7, 4 ssd the seut·s..... 17,049,90R2 Asit bhep law.....e ............ 35 law of last yer...................... S743,156 40 Insese................................ S,, 00 TEE 8tlR3Y CITVIL DIL. Re psrted t as thehse............*14,948,55 pamed the sesM ................... 18,9,947 77 As it heeam a law............... 17,0,m2 3 law of last year..................... 1,331,474 58 SUMMARY OF BILLS FOR 1877-8. Pen-ion bill........................... $2.:1: ,. ) A I P'osteafic e bill......................... 33,276,) r t Fo- tiication bill ..................... 3.. I Consular and Diplomatie bill... 1,136$,47 i3 1 Leislative and executive bill.. 1314,:96.* gO Military academy bill............ 2$86,*'A4 EI Indian bill ...................... 4,751.499 12 a Deficiency Ill ........................ 2,:9 s,9: 5:1 SNavl bill......................... 13.44,95d P2 4 Sundry civil bill.................. 19,59),22 3t f.tal of ten bills ..............$119,1_29,93. 7 $ Total of same bills la.t year. 1!;,7L35,42 :93 There were passed IN ADDITION TO THTHE. e two small bills, the house deficiency bill, I a $139,254,98, and the printing defciency o bill of $350,000. The house committee t on appropriations attempted a reduction e of about $300,000 in the naval appropri- I ation, but failed in the effort. The bill a as passed appropriates about $700,000 f more than last year's bill, but this is . $2,500,000 less than Robeson and the c senate wonld have had it. The senate o attempted to raise the amount of the I pay of the navy over a million dollars t above THE HOI'$E FIGErlE-, but they split the dlference, and fixed it at $6,600,000. The house sought to i fix the item for the bureau of equipment e and recruiting at $700,000, but finally Ii allowed $970,000. Of this amount $10, 000 is immediately available for provis- i ions and clothing. The item for the a bureau of construction and repair is , $1,750,000, which is almost exactly one- b half less than the senate demanded. * The item for the bureau of engraving is t $942,000, for which the senate demanded !, $2,000,000. THE MAIN POINT on which the senate yielded was its de- a mand that $1,500,000 for construction e and repair and $750,000 for engineering I should be immediately available. This , would have helped out Mr. Robeson and the new administration beautifully, but a they yielded to prevent an extra session. I The bill is in all its minor details the o same as the bill last year. The house a yielded the scheme for a mixed commis- - sioa on the navy, which was Whit- b thorne's pet hobby, and which was at- I tached to this bill. THE I;REATIST VIHTORY OF THE HOI'E h was on the post-ofie bill, which they r succeeded in reducing a million below c the appropriation of last year, in spite , of the growing demands of the depart- f meat. The senate undertook to pm in a this bill subeidies of half a million for the Pacific mail steamship company's Asiatic line, and the same amount for li the mail service between New Orleans and Rio Janeiro. The schemes were two A of the greatest jobs that appeared in j congress, and their defeat was a mrat good fortune for the country. The , second one was merely a cover for a sale c of one or more iron steamships by John e Roach, of Philadelphia, the prisi dd being that theship shbld be " scepted" by some naval oecer to be appointed by the secretary of the navy. The follow ing are TE PIIICIPLE ITEMS of this bil: Compensatie of postmasse ters, $7,250,000; payment of ltter ries, $1,825,000; rent, light and uael, $400,000; clerks in post-oces, 8~140, 000; advertising, 0,00W; stationary, @$5,000; pIscmlaneon Icidenal Items, $80,000; inland mail teansportads , $9,250,000. Of this asment the bill says $15,000 may be msed r TIa FAST MAUA. The department deanaed $250,000. Other item are as fbllows: Compuea' tien to railwy pou ea elebs, $1S, , o0; nts agents, *1,0,0W le miil route massages., $150,0; elagents, t $110,000; marll maeames, *670,0 ; ml-begs nd beg atehe, e o,0O; ' manuetmdse of stamps 150,747; a- I ubeturae of stamped velnesmnd sawn paper wm ppme, 000W; maultmetus I of po-l crds, 00,0; tra rta tim of fweiragn mais, P60,0W. 'TIE AM~IIT ACTIPALLY AMIPORIATBD and available under this bill In excess dof the revessm ao the departmunt lso,. 9t,72. The meut oa 0*,O is appsraepaed to sntine the pestacs ' a-...s..n aeelsd. sand tbe bil in Imietr the p.-stma-erg ._ to eamn e a massl Ja tbe maieht latheas- ' SnaaisIto dhb Inmltea with a to mas- aqte ensdu !t lso~trrniesle dst, and to edeemi thenmber of thm and t lhe mmber I ments at the pubie asrulee. The eart to edue the r of the carries in this hm hLUed -a. k Ism Lsview mysthatin la bliq mslety the peramil rass me every thlg and the memonaglalitenseth-i leg; that wealthy tmlsapasple a-e al 1 asao i hedi g DnL M, hat masteraly emid by the "prLemelasy," that n semest.s wehd e hbad as the wives otret DubIn trdmtryFing to fght their way ainte the charmedl rint of awynessd doetor rsaxosqrsaas orr rraales. The following is from an article by Dr. Holland, in ecribner for March : True amusement is of two kinds, viz., active and pessive. The active and weary man and woman-those who exhaust every day their vital energies in work-take naturally to passive amuse ment. A lady of our acquaintance, engageddaily in severe intellectual takuL, says that nothing rests her like seeing other people work. For this she goes :to the theater, and the play upon her emotions there rests, and recreates her. Indeed, it is the emotional side of the nature, and not the active, which furnishes play to those who are weary with the use of their faculties. This fact covers the secret of the popular succe. of what is called emotional preaching. People who have been engaged all the week in exhansting labor of any kind d&, not take kindly to a high intellectual feast on Sunday. They want to b moved and played upon. This rests an'! interests them, while the profound di. cussion of great problems in ll'e and re ligion wearies and bores them. They art not up to it. They are weary and jaded in that part of their nature which such a discussion engages. The emotic::s which have been blunted and suppres.ed by their pursuits are hungry. rSo every form of amusement that truly meets their wants must be emotive, and must leave them free to rest in those facultie. which are weary. On the other hand, the young. who . are brimming with animal life, and wh,, fail to exhaust it in study. call for active amusements, and they must have them. And here the parent is in danger of mak inga great mistake. Unles a boy is a milk-sop. he must do something or die. If he cannot do something in his home. or in the homes of his companions, he will do something elsewhere. It is only within a few years that parents have begun to be sensible upon this matter. The billiard-table, which a few years ag e was only associated with dissipation, now has an honored place and the largest room in every rich an's house. The card-table, that once was a synonym of wickedness, is a part of the rich man's furniture, which his children may use at will, in the pursuit of a harmless game. A good many manfactured sins have been dethroned from their fictitious life and eminence, and put to benecent family service on behalf of the young. Athletic iports, such as skating, boating, shooting, ball paying, running and leap ing, have sprung into great promineace within the past few years-amsements of just the character for working o the exceldve vitality of young men, and developing their physical power. This is all well-a reform in the right direction. Much of this is done before the public eye, and in the presence of young women, which helps to restrain all tendencies to excesses and disipation. The activities of young women take another direction, and nothing seems to as more hopeful tha the pursuits in which they eugag. The rich young woman in them days, who doe not mar ry, busies herelt in tasteful and Intel eetual paraits. The rsadlag-club, the Sbakepese club, the drawing claw, ni knldred associatons employ her spartime; andew these is hardly a mee busy person living than the rich woman who is through with her board aigesbhool The poor, who suppoe that the ridch youg women leads an idle life, arevery a h metake. Th, habits of voelatatl Idustry now adapted and pcrtled by the yJsng wome of Amer ls, in d dreumstamues, e most grateflly urprita g. One of therm who is not o busy during the wsetr that dse iay ned a recsperating sumrmer, bis an exception. Our old das of the lasy, fehaoubie girl must he set aside. They ae asll ast work at smething. It may not bring them moey, bat it beinags wha is much better to thm--the co tent that come of a earnest and fruit fl pursuit. It may take the form of amsement, but it results In a traninig r self-helpfulweas nd indstry. e, while sotmuchesa be done for the adult in this matter e musemet, much is done for them young, and uch that will help to give u gensati of elder men and wome, who will not be cotent with the peor buine of killing time. or it muost be membered tbhat whpe the tp g womes "ut" at the athletic gsame of the young men, the yug umse lndispesable tp the in tdaldtal eseOla*le . of theyong wo men. They meet togeqther, ad stimu lte aud help each other; and dit does not seem pomibble that either party should ever subside Into those time killers who haunt the clubs establisbed forme, or those jaded women who drag themselves roud to dimenrs and lunches and thrond aemmblies.