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Of all the stars that gem the sky, Most beautiful thou art? The brightest one that greets the eye, The dearest to the h-.art. By thee how many lovers pli;ht Thi ir warm an t constant k?vc, Whiie, through the silent i>Uuu?s oT night, Thou smiiest from above! How many heart?, in holy dreams, To thee are turned at < ven, And fyel rsu' thy glowing beams Lit up tlit-ir path to Heaven! When shining o'er the rtormy ?5ar Where angry billow* roar, IIow many put their faith iu tfcf8, And safely reach the shore ! Then beam, ch gentle Star on me, When dangers round me riss, And guide my spirit up to thee, * To dwell iu blissful skies! F. McN. Washington, December, 1S52. .4, THE FIRST CSOiS WOSD. " You seem happy, Annette, always. I have never been in a familv where the iius band and wife seemed more so." " Well done, Kate," said Mrs. Huntington, laughing, "you have used the word stem only twice in that short sentence. And now vou V have a begging way about you, as if you were really in earnest to hear something about married life before taking the fatal step. It is well Henry is not here to see the look of sadness in the eye of his bride elect. lie might fancy her heart was fuil of misgivings instead of wedding finery." "Don't laugh at me, Annette; ta^k with me as you used to do. I love llenrv, vou ? f " V koow, and yet 1 have many misgivings about married life. I see so few who Hie really happy in this relation?I mean happy as 1 should wish to be. You seem to come nearer to it than any one else. Don't you ever? " " Quarrel? no, not often, now. We had our breaking in. I beliove it must come to all, sooner or later." 44 Do tell me about it, will you, Annette?" " Yes, if you are very desirous of it. You may learn something from it. I was a ro mantic girl, as jou well know, Kate. S nne tew friends I had, whom 1 loved dearlv ; hut these friendships did not quite satiny mv Jbeartj $\miethijjg. more it craved, 1 fiariuy knew what, uutil i. loved my husbaud. When we were first married, 1 used to ask myself-? now, do I tiHd in this liie all which 1 expect ed to find ? Am I as happy as I thougut I should be ? My heart always responded, yes, and more so. With us, the romance of mar ried life, if I may call it so, held on a long time. For my part, I was conscious of a pleasurable excitement of feeling when we were together. I enjoyed riding and walking alone with him. The brightest htmrs of the day were those in which we sat down alone together, to talk or read. For a long time 1 feit a gentle restraint in Lis presence. 1 liked to be becomingly dressed, and to feel in tune. When dull, I made an etiort to be social and cheerful if he was present. I had a great fear of getting into the way of sitting down stupid ly with my husband, or of having notiiing to talk about but the children and the butch er's bill. 1 made a business of remembering every pleasant thing which 1 read or heard or thought, to tell him, and when all the.-e sub jects were exhausted, we had each ol' us a nobby we could ride, so that we were uever silent fur want of something to say. Thus we lived for a year or two. 1 was very happy. 1 think peoj*e were ofteu surprise*! to see us continue to enjoy each other s society with so much zest. "But there was this about it. As yet I had' nothing to try me. We were boarding ; 1 had no care, and his tenderness and interest was a sovereign panacta for the little ills and roughnesses which must fall to us in our best estate. This could not last forever. lie be came more and more occupied in his business, and I at length had a liouseand a baby to look after. Then, for the first time, our mutual forbearance was put to the test. Hitherto, we had been.deyoied to each other; now the real cares of life pressed upoir us so as often really to absorb our energies. I was the first to feel the cbauge. it seemed to me a* ;f something was overshadowing us. Sometimes I would get sentimental, and think he uid not love me as he once did. As I look back now, I am convinced that here was my first wrong step. Indulgence in these moods weakened my resolution. It was an injustice to him of which I ought not to have been guilty. It left me, too, with a weunded feeling, as if I had been wronged, which began to aixect my spirits. "I had for some time carried about this little sore spot in my heart. I kept the matter all to myself, for X was in part ashamed and in part too proud to speak of it. Here was another w*rong step. There is no security of happiness in married life, but ju the most per fect confidence. 44 There came a season of damp, chilly weather. One morning I got up very irrita ble. I had taken cold; my head ached, and my baby had been worrisome during the night. Iu my kitchen I had a cross, ignorant servant girl; and on this particular morning she had done her very worst for breakfast. The beef steak was burned to a cinder, the eggs were like bullets, the bread was half baked, and the coffee, which was our main stay, was ex ecrable. My husband was very patient with all this, until he came to the coffe, and said in a half vexed tone? " *1 do wish, we could ever have any good coffee, Annette. Why cannot you make it as mother does?' " This was a drop to much for me, and I boiled over. " ' \ ou never think anything on our table fit to be eaten,' said I, and I almost started at the sound of my own voice, 'you had better live at home if you are not satisfied, or else provide me with decent servants. I cannot e ei \ thinQ take care of my baby all night, and g?t the breakfast too.' ' I did not know before that I was so very unreasonable,' said he, in a tone of injured feeling. ~ 44 He sat a few moments, then rose, left his untasted breakfast, put on his hat and went off. When I heard door shut behind 1dm, all my temper leit me. I went into my room, ]ock'?d myself in, sat down and cried like a child. This was the fist cross u-ord I had ever spoken to my husband. It seemed to me as if iomo sudden calamity had befallen us. I worked myself up to such a pitch of feeling, t?:at I walked about the room wriujnucr hands. ? J " 4 0, it is all over vith us,' thought I; 'we shall never be happy together again in' thi3 world.' ^ This thought Made me unspeakably miserable. 1 felt as if a black pall had fallen aiound me, and in the iuture there was only darkness. In my misery I sought to comfort my^ell by blaming him. 'lie need not have spoken so to me, at m?y rate,' said I, out loud; ' he might have see:i how I felt; it was too much lor any one tw. bear. It really was uot a bit kind in him. It is plain enough he does not care for my comfort as he once did. Then to be always telling mo what nice things his mother cooks, when he knows I am trying to do my very best to learn to please iiim it is really to bad.' *? ' Don't look so dreadfully sober, Kate ' My baby cried just here, aud I had to run be tore I was through with my catalogue of grievances; yet I had gone far enough to get w^il on the wrong.track again. I began to culm myself with Ihe reflection that, if there had been a great Wrong done, I was not the only one to blame for it. I was dreadfully sorry that I had spoken cross to him, but I thought he ougkt to be sorry, too. Before my baby had finished crying, I came to the conclusion that 1 would exhibit no signs of penitence until I saw some in him. "So I bat lied my face, that no traces of tears might remaiu, dressed myself with un usual c ?re, and went down to Old Budget to give some very particular directions about the <i inner. I aid this with a martyr-like spirit J meant to try my best to make him sorry for his ii justice. 1 FesolveU to reproach him with a firsi-rate dinner, good as his mother could cook To whet the edge of my delicate re proach, I raude, with my own hands, a most excellent cup oi cohce. ?? One o'clock came at last, though I tli ui^lit it nevt-r would : the door opened, and I heard a s quick step in the ha 1. Of all things in this world, he was whistling! He came to the fabie with a bright face, from which every trace of the morning's cloud had disappeared and as he sat down he looked around with a pleased expression. " 4 *v hy, Annette,' said he, ' what a nice dinner. I am glad you are pleased,' said I, in a subdued tone. , V 'Capita1,' said he, 'the best roast we have nad this season.' " He was so much taken up with my deli cate reproofs as not to notice that I was out of spirits. 1 was halt pleased and half provoked ? but 1 kept rather still, making little conversa tion excepting in reply to him. After dessert 1 handed him his cup of coffee. He was astonished. 'Why, Annette/ said he, ' I do believe you weut to work to day to see what you could do.' " lie had hit the truth, though without the least suspicion of the cause. My first impulse was to be honest and cut with it by replying ' is it as good as your mother makes ?' This would have given him the key to the whole story-?he would have ferreted it all out and we should have fcettled it there; but I felt ashamed to. I sipped my coffee in silence. i'ie golden moments passed, and my good angel took iis flight?pride had the day I even began to be vexed at his enjoying a ~ood dinner so much, and so easily forgetting what had caused me so much suffering. He was very busy on that day, and did not stay with me as long as usual to chat, but went off whistling even more cheerily than whea h? came. "I went up into tVe nursery and sat down to think it over. Baby was asleep ; the rain was pattering against the windows, the wind was rising, and to me the world looked drearv enough. I had tired myself all out getting up such a dinner, and now the excitement was over, and 1 felt the re-action, 1 began to ask myself what I had. got fer k. Just no thing at all. My husband eilker did not or would not see that there was anything to be reconciled about. 1 blamed him for his in-1 sensibility. ' Once,' thought I, ?he would ! have noticed any change in my voice, or any I shadow which came over my spirits: now i' can really be cross to him and he does not i mind it at all." " I had a doleful afternoon of it. \ was restless enough ; trying first one employment and then another, but fiuding nothing which would suit. 1 went down to tea, farther if anything, from the right point than I had been at noon. I sat dejected ^nd silent. My husband tried once or twice to engage me in conversation, without success." " 'Annette,' said he at length, in a kind tone, 'do you not feel well to day ?'" " 'Not very,' said I, with a sigh." "What is the matter V' "My lioal aches; the baby kept me awake almost all night." "This was the truth, but only in part and I felt guilty as I said it. Then* be begged me to go and lie down on the sofa in the parlor; and said he would read to me anvthin<r which I would like to hear/' " I felt that this was kind in him. It was like old times: the new times, you see, had been but a day, but to me it seemed very long; yet it was not what I wanted. I wished to have the trouble cleared away, not bridged over; and I determined to hold out until it should come to this, and he should see and feel that I could not be made happy after a cross word, without a scene of mutual con trition and forgiveness ; so I would not stay and be read to, but told him I must go to bed. I left him in his easy chair, with his study lamp, and bopk, an^ bright fire, inrcg ular bachelor style, and went off into" the' nursery, and then to bed, and cried myself to sleep. You laugh, Kate, as if you thought I was a fool. I think so myself, now." "How did it all end, Annette ?" " I held out a week, becoming every day more sad and sulky, I may as well call it. When 1 was left alone, I used to take my ba by up and cry over hira, as if my husband was dead, and the child was all I had left in the world. Dear me ! how unhappy I was, aud every day added to it. I would find something in his conduct to pain me everv time we met. Either he was too attentive, or not attentive enough ; talked too much or too little." " He bore with my ill humor most patient ly, thinking I was ill. One day he came home, and told me he had obtained a week's lea\e ol abseuce, aud had engnged a convey ance, and I must fix up myself and baby, and be ready to start off in an hour. He was go ing to take me to my mother's. ' We may as i well have a journey as pay doctor's bills, An nette,' said lie, 'and as to having you droop ing about in this style any longer, I am not going to. We will send off old Bridget, lock up our house, run away fiom all care, and have some fun.' " " He loooked up so kindly, I could have fallen upon his neck and wept my heart out, to think how ugly I had been; but there was no time then to talk it over. I hurried away to pack, but before I was half through with the packing, I resolved that I would tell him the whole story, from beginning to end. The moment I came to this determination, the load was gone : my heart seemed as light as ; a feather ; the expression of my countenance i changed, and tue tones of my voice were lignt and cheerful. I was conscious of it, uud he noticed it as soon as I joined him at the appointed hour." " 4 Why, Annette,' said lie, 'getting ready has cured you. We may as well stay at home now.' " '? That will do, Kate. The rest of the sto ry will sound sentimental to a third party." " No, no, Annette, that would be leaving out the very cream of it. Tell rae how you settled it." "Weil, we rode on enjoying the change until towards dark. Baby 'then fell' asleep. It was a very quiet hour?everything about it was beautiful and peaceful. Tears of real penitence came into ray eyes, aud before I knew it, they were dropping down upon the baby. My husband turned and saw them." " ' Why. Annette,' said he, with the ut most surprise, ' what is the matter ?' " " ' 0, I am so sorry,' said I." " ' Sorry for what, love,' said he, 4 are you not happy ? Does anything trouble you?' " " ' 1 am so sorry,' said I, 'that I have been so ugly this week.' " " ' What do you mean ?' said he, looking more and mor? puzzled." " 'How can you help knowingV said I. ihen I began at the beginning, and told the whole story. How 1 rose feeling irritable, and was provoked to speak the first cross word; how he told me my things were not as nice as his mother's, and went off vexed; then how he got over it, and forgot all about it, and wouid not help me to ieel good na tured by saying he was sorry. How I had brooded over it all the week?how it had fes tered away in my heart and poisoned all my enjoyments. What torrents of tears I had shed when alone, as I thought it was all over with us, and we never should love again as we had once loved." " He heard me through without making a single remark, and then burst into a loud laugh. ' I want to know Annette,' said he, ' if this is what ailed you all this week V " " ' \es,' said I. Upon this he checked our Dobbin and b^an to turn around." " 'What are you going to do V said I." " 'Going back,' said he, 'if this is all which is the matter with you.' " '?I laughed heartily as he did, for now my sin was confessed, I felt happy ; but 1 pulled the other refh, and drew the whip lash over Dobbin s ears, and away he went like a bird towards my mother s home." " But we made a resolution then, Kate, that if either had aught against the other, it should be settled before the sun went down ; that we might go to sleep, if rot 'at peace with all the world,' at least with each other iorgiving and forgiven. This resolution we have faithfully kept, and I have never seen another week of such misery as 1 have been telling you about, and! trust 1 never shall. 1 hope you will find in your new relations, Kate, all the enjoyment we now do. This is the best wish I can offer you?and that your first cross word may be your last." ? S. It js a musical fact, that every orchestra contains at least two musicians with musta ches, one in spectacles, three with bald heads, and one very modest man in a white cravat, who, from force of circumstances, you will observe, p'ays on a brass instrument. SCISSORS ACT PASTE. jm't pair t but I can draw" as the; jfly said to Ae artist. il cl;'.;Jrcn in Boston have been barf r water brought from tlie river JordaiC ian cultivates Irisiirtellectual faculties, fjns to niistrust his instincts. r<It lias been discovered that where a let of boarders are fed upon sausages for some time, they begin to growl. " One of the rarities of life/' says Eliza Cook, 44 is a woman thoroughly satisfied with her daughter-in-law." " Cornelius, how do you define a corn ?'* " A corn?why, it is something which troubles a man who gets tight in bis boots. There is a club in New York called the "Unknown Club," whose being, end, and aim is to have a good time of it. Why is a man ascending Vesuvius like an Irishman trying to kiss a pretty girl ? Because he wants to get at the crater's mouth. If you wish to know how quick you can run a mile, tell a read-headed woman that her baby squints. Youth may sometimes afford a lesson to maturity. Ail horse pistols have been super seded by the revolvers of a Colt. A grave friend cf ours tells us that he and his wife always go to bed quarreling. "And yet," said he, "with ail our uiilerence, we never lull out." Affection, 11 ke spring flowers, breaks through the most frozen ground at last: and the heart that seeks but for another heart to make it happy, v.-ill not seek in vain. Definition: Snow, Winter's diessing gown. Ice, the sheet of the rivers bed. Icicles, Na ture's pendants, manufactured from the geius of the purest water. A Southern editor in giving an account of some rascals who stole two horses belonging to preachers at a camp meeting, says it should teach clergymen to " watch as well as pray." The popularity in politics is to see your name in huge type posted to a fence. Some body will inquire who you are, and when the first lain comes you will disappear. An Israelite in Boston was arrested for working at his trade on Sunday. His defence was that he observed the seventh day, and it was deemed sulnoient. /. member of the lazy society was complain ed of last week, by another, for running. His defence was, that he was going down hill, and that it was more labor to walk than run. They "let him slide." The Toledo Blade tells the story of a chap on their road, who, apprehending a collision of the cars, put his life preserver on, and leaning back against the side of the car, re signed himself to his fate. A person meeting an old man with silver hairs, and a very black, bushy beard, asked him " how it happened that his beard was not so gray as the hair of his head?" "Because," said the old gentleman, " it is tu cnty years younger'!" "Gentlemen and ladies," said the show man, " here you have a magnificent picture cf Daniel in the lion's den. Daniel csn easily be distinguished from the lions by the grecu cotton umbrella under Lis left arm." "Are you in fun cr in earnest?" said a fellow to one who w;.s giving him some smart cuts wiih a cow-skin. 44 I'm in earnest," replied the other, laying it on some what harder. " I'm glad of it," said the first one, "for I don't like such fun." A lady paying a visit to her daughter, who was a young widow, asked why she wore the widow's garb ho long. "Dear mamma, don't you see,'* replied the daughter: 44 it saves me the expense of advertising for a husband, as every one can see I ant for sale by private ct;ntr?nct." A dandy lawyer remarked, one summer day, that the weather was so extensively hot that when he put his head in a basin it fairly boil ed. 44 Then, sir," w as the reply, 44 you have calf's head soup at very little expense." A book was printed during the time of Cromwell, with the following title : 44 Eggs and Charity, laid by the Chickens of the Cov enant, and boiled with the Water of Divine Love?Take ve and eat." ?? AYhen the venerable Pebbles Worthy was in New York, he asked a pipe-smoking old Dutchman the origin of the name of Tamma ny Hall. 44 Vy, you see," said Hans, "ven the heebies has a meeting in the liall, it holds tam many I" A prudent man advised hi? drunken servant to put by his money for a rainy day. In a few weeks the master inquired how much of his wages he had saved. 44 Faith, none at all,'' said, 44 it rained yesterday, and it all went." The young man whose ambition towered so high that he would not follow his father's profession upon any consideration, finally ob tained a situation commensurate with his tal ent?that of grinding a street organ for a dancing monkey. Genius will triumph. A certain Judge, rather elevated with the juice of the grape, entered a barber's shop to get shaved: After the business was aecotn plish^d he tendered the barbt-r a sixpence for his labor, who took it and returned three cents change. 44 How is this ?" exclaimed his honor, "you have always charged me sixpence for shaving and here you have taken out but three centa. ' 44 True," replied the barber, 44 but this timi you were half shaved when you came in." Rewaud of Merit.?44 Sam," said one little urchin to another, 44 does your achool mat ter ever give you any reward of merit V* 44 I t'pose he does," was the rejoinder ; 44 he gives mca lickin' regularly every day, and snvs I merit two !" ??