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W«M. -T ^ -" HKLUE. [From the Portland, Oregon, Bulletin ] Nellie lies dead in the house! The shutters are closed; the curtains arc closelv£ drawn; crape hongs from toe door-äbb; footsteps are muffled; voices are hashed; a great shadow hovers m every roomUbroods in every heart Dear Nelly! the wmnaaliest wo^ ---- - xt '~ truest ot woman wife— the truest of ThTjtory of ber life was in her heart, One yeara wife-the mother^.^an hour, and now —the wifeliest friends. of the Lord— one of the white-robed Bejond tbe coming and tbe gomg. Ua-unod tbe ebbing and tbe flowing, ind tbe ever And tbe never. lieft the white canopy; the ftoe is beautiful in death; I stoop and kiss the white forehead— but the icy touch chills 'toe. Death has love light from the eye, the carnation _ _ « « ,1 t. — A» f us.-v rv\ t I t iA snatched the love light from the eye, the carnation j from t^e cheek, the ruby tint from the Hp, and left the face very white and still, the lips forever mute. I turn to a life-size portrait over the mantle. Here is Nelje with all her rich, warm nature in herfece; brownest eyes, with brown, curling lashes, in which all intense lov ino-ness of her heart lies mirrored; red lips foÄver curved in smiles that seem : lost ready to speak and welcome me in the old/loving wav; a bright, warm, | womanly, whining face. 0, Nellie! we shall miss vou throuorii all the vears that come and o-û we C shall miss * vou; in all the changes that the vears laust brin" to uf"la!l miss you: but ai,! he most of all—vour faithful, wifely votion. the constant ministrations of ...... your "loving hands and willing feet made his home a hallowed place, life tin ecstasy of bliss. Your glorified his present, brightened all his future, and now lonely and desolate and camfortless he sits by his desolate j hearth. It is terrible to see a stronsrfof hearth. It is terrible to see a strong!of man, in the prime of manhood, standing I reer with undisputed talent on the on( a hand, sure, speedy success on the oilier: a man to whom life is dear only as it blesses those who are dearer to him than life, to whom life is precious only as its beauty and glory crown them— terrible to see such a man with all the purposes of his life suddenly struck j from him—with all his nature rent and torn by such agony as conies to a hu man soul but once in a life-time, l e tha t life-time long or short; terrible to see' the current of his life wrenched from its channel, as by some volcanic sh the bed of a river is upheaved and waters forced to hew out for thems< a new passage; terrible to see all .... chords of his being swept so rudely t r that ever after they will only attune themselves in the minor key. , I - Ives flw. •ver after tliev will only attune lives in the minor key. Nellie where den you faithful comfort him? to hush the little wail ing voice that vaguelv misses the' ' l vriii ,r,v Jet Nellie! In tbat*f..r-oir la.,-1 you walk in white does it u to see this? Does vour hearty 1 still to its earth-love veirn to t him? to hush the little' mothers bosom? The child will wax and grow; so<jn tongue, and hands, and feet will learn the lessons of life ; the baby's crowings will develop into childish, lisping prattle; the little hands will be swift to do mischief; the wavering little feet will grow steady and*assured; then, perchance, be quick to enter forbidden paths. There will be no mother's exhaustless tenderness to sympathize with his little griefs and joys; no mothers loving hands to check and guide his wayward steps. Doubly orohaned. because no memnrv nf »! orphaned, because no memory of a dead mother's love goes with him, with its hallowed influence, to shape his fu ture. Tlie sorrowful earth-valleys will open their bright but false vistas; paths bordered with roses will beckon him on; but the paths are paved with sharp stones; the roses are full of thorns; the eager little hands will be rudely torn; the darling little feet bruised and cut? Other children will pass by, tenderly lifted over the sharp stones; the roses will be plucked for them by careful hands and the stems freed from thorns; be will perceive this, yet dimly understand. Here he will learn his first lesson of sorrow. With his little heart full of unutterable longing—his great, browu. questioning eyes full of tears—his little mouth tremulous with expectancy, he will send a £een, sharp knife to the father's heart—"Papa, papa, Where's my mam ma?" Will the portrait over the man tle satisfy? Will a toy placed in the hand of a starving child bring a smile to the famished lips? He will turn away hungry and disappointed; you can*t throw Shams in the face of child with impunity; neither *he will trust everything or Bolbifcg. The por trait over the mantle will not satisfv. Theca must,^e the dear, familiar faie ever beside the nursery door; the dai ly nestling to the mother's heart ; the every-day caress; the silent,. down And reoonmled dropping touch of loving hands; the 3 tinier, loving voice, paücnt and forgiving always; the visible, tang presence cf its mother. Stringing protty Fic«v»g full sense mto empty rU Poor little unmothered babe! The want of all this will come to yon. Time wUl not fail to set in your young mouth this heart-cry of Aurora Leigh • If bar kiss the ! • j I feel a mother-want »boat tbe world, j £ Ä *-*• Gro ' rn lhoo ^ 1 MhMt It knows not. Nellie! Nellie! Docs the knowl edge of all this trouble you/ Does a . b . . <• -I a.:__l.*1V* ; a stoTmy omO. '"^^ ' Lll stirTfe Ltkerbood | to heaven or hell, stir t I'"heart! Shall the cage oi an imo ;--- * ~ , . f thought of the troy life. adn« ._____»AAon wini'lt a little wrong ; in you? 0, questioning heart! bast • j , ^^^"2 ~Utsr Why bast! cia> t y 1 voice from the **'™f*™% still Äow «L hea\en& cne , * —- — — - - .earth is fresh heaped, lhe ho : a vacant emptiness about i ; ev «rv where it breathes of terrible loss. In her room all that could remind or give pain has been carefully folded and packed away. One little slipper, l>tar-.-----^ jing the print of the dear fot, some Iww, has been overlooked: thehupbund 'picks it up «euderly, as if the touch I de-iimght tarnish it, passionately and n \ erently kisses it, then locks it away " 1 - . j ear forget-me I am God." j The snow is very deep, and while and cool Nellie lies a fathom beneath, There is no snow upon the grave; the The house ha evurv-libc from human sight as a i hisjuotot a lost hojie love/library and takes up a Unjk book she was lea! turned down at the corner ---- sl>e Jett off; she always had a la?hi**ij turning down the leaves <»: her lie turns into the -the very reading last, with the where n turning book, like a school girl, and marking ! he most. 11 the and volcano before the mantle. Oil! the imjKftUi-u> nature! is as in dîam- -nd A iiutur strides from t! as if compelle impulse, enter the shutters dinary man a genuine with paste, m, across the hull. - joint* u ihn »ntr« Hal ! [»arl*-r, tlings «»;»< :t ; lands a repres-'-d portrait over th< igonv of a strong, , ' The grit f of aii « »r- r •ornparaldt* t » it a l is î ucoiia araf .<* j Large-!\.un tiiit ^ » .. t r ' ! >s ' . ~ . . « . 11 !- 1 ®^^ ri . e *» ia i,- ^ ' arn 1 * > 1 " n | i°l submission. There must come toiti must necosar I of a world's anguish. .. .. wao c -ines PtUi truin anil ih<* >\ irlui at o! r am ,1 ». lurnace wita a s urn ith in G«h 1 untaruir and stands u <i. ^ len, with hoj>e arching hi Ujth worlds; for they who a:» iîa . , u ■ ' -i ..... r • ' • [boto world^ fo r they w ho are ' i "* tI * ,î ^ucbl.-. br-.*v.up- U« wto:.- bit.; «4-1*®" ff P Brert ' «? ; I moa J »'O*. capa. .t.i.*.. to op j rnost there. But the desollfe h art, Ji^an-lit* sil..,., in the gnadar of 1 j 11 ^ ht ^before it can sec jdawmng, t:,*.* agony o l * ore lL can î} "* : i — jq° out tlie parlor—/ I ? I1( * t * own tlie st r ' " " 1 ' the blackness of a startless, moonh night before it can see the glory of the of Gethsemane Ik* fore it can feel the after-quiet which shall he eternal. The sad, slow sfi ps >ut of the front street. The sor rowful, defiant heart fit*** the thick strewu memories of the lonely house; they are too newly gathered to give - 1 °?» thcir fragrance is full of subtle j P a ' n * closeth himself with the mu sty books of his down-toum office j Does he find nepenthe? An invisible '■ hand with invisible agencies pictures the dead face on every page. There is ! a (juick whirring of wings—Nellie stands by his side—her arms are about i his neck in the old loving manner; her j breath floats on his cheek, her lips touch i his, her voice falls on her ftQf sweet ' and clear as silver bells. Oh, the ee stacy! After all it was but a frightful dream. He opens his arms and clasps blank vacuity. God! it is frightful. He bows his head with the look of a man who has lost hopes of either world. Yet, oh despairing heart, be strong, be brave, be patient. Time will soften every grief. The years will come and go, and the face that haunts >ou now will be faint and dim as a long-remembered dream. You will cherish it fondly still, but it will no, longer give you pain. The bitter mem ories that sting you so will become hal lowed into a sacred joy. You will even dare to play with them, to toss them about, handle them freely. Now you cannot do it; they prick you too sorely. And then—and then, per chance, " d — ^•UUwiüi silent danger brain aa# kamt, TranaSgoring you to music. Thus, ere Apia you'll ulke your ncramental «HI With eucharistie meanings. Once again love, whi'ch you thougfit dead and buried for all time, will sud ( • ! denly flame your ^ • The subtle, rythmic grace " «"» face will give you Z noace till it sets beside your Doara «n* *■ 1 I», ai this. She'll times ana Kneet „jßhe votee to some sweet paUid high above him, and like th tiOTre of that old Homan Pontiff stand ing the public square of 1 crugia, »*«; wHi stretch out her approving hands in silent benedictions. It will be better so. There would be such narrowing down of life, and heart, and brain, to finite limits, which should ever grow outward, and still outward to God's infinite. Because of this, God's license will lie about the act and times and kneel as reverv peace ------ - blooms within your home. Nellie will not gneve aw--. often-1 God s license win ne auuu*. ^ — : :— cast UaI | 0W jt with love . s deep, rich fruiuon. \1 qi 1)i vtov, Chicken ok the Beaik. —Near Erie there lives a colored person by the • name of James Stewart, whom name of James Stewart, whom the ioommuuitv by common consent have dutbed CW,„Adore Stewart He is a {minted but eccentric individu»!, and l>tar-.-----^ , ,. , ".Nuflin at.ail. I.was i :..y liosm "I j 'em. day look* an moa I This answer r, b th « and coueaisixe. and \\*.-txia n.nt t satislaclory had it not Urn for Jxtu* hat. inis was a rather w »rn soli tell, a g«x>d deal to ) large for its wearer* head: and it seemed to have a mot ion j entirely unusual iu hats, and muudo'.ly j ne remarkable cause. ft j talented but eccentric i has a weakness for ch occasion, being found yard under suspicious ^ n, I nrw» c ne*, w. . ,d ucar us circumstances, r-« • r.ir hv he w'as interrogated rather sharply by j owucr of the premise* a* fol| 0 «-*t Well. Jim, whai are vou doing here. , ' ' * - -r 0 , nuflin, nuffinl jess walkin' rouii, j What do you want with my cliiek*| dut sec im move Jim's to 4 ut met f. and and c a use expand and o tl) any next V. w "What is : ! I % , natter v. *1 Mv i.at? Î »at s au ' : la: IV ; uial «V iat b at " • v, ; e it Off and 1« I t's k at it." "Take * il , !is )n ;t? No, : I'd k* 'o'ii , ' ' 1 R} â 11 V a , 1 » sartan. % r ny hat »»a \v .»! i) . Hoi out 1 * T* i Aik! with : I.Klt Jim aw » • ah- ut h* .i j ug ; * : * *-';•* :«:r ::t, wi' * , at his first! Ji .i l \v i< rt-m >ve h own tititk a wav. wills w w as a aw , ..... - ■ ; .. ' , ; . . I toL!^ ebber did se*e. Whv, must have clmn up d** boons. " lat <lar chicken i leg of mv panta-f *♦* . ----- v years war, 1613-1648, between Germt* n y and franco, was a contest between ^ <>rnan Catholicism and Protestantism, i^ ,c Greek and Latin monks of Jerusa ^* ni diluted ab ut who should keep Holy Sepulchre. Where L usai a susj>ended diplomatic rela* Kven the white mantle of religi >n is to«» frccjucntly dragged threw thebhnidv I pool of war. Spain wag« *1 war Kngland in tlie » ventecti* Century bo cau>e the latter found« <1 c l :n«*s i» f America. The former in Uhalf of tliei Pope of Koomy claimed that all heathen j c- untries lielong to him as the Yiccge rent of Gen upon earth. The thirty * U)I1H with turkey and war subsequen ensued. Hence Edward Everett re marked witli a amln iL»« u.. j marked with a smile that Knssia'Vnd Turkey went to war, spent millions uf^di i urKov went to war, spent millions of treasure and destroyed thousands lives to decide trim should hrp the key ( f the tomb of the Prince cf Peace. \\ ester.v CinuzATioK.—It is said that visitors who penetrate to the editorial offices of Western newspapers are as tonished at the decorations which are appended to the walls. Diagrams of enormous feet, labelled "Foot of Cin cinnati lady, 18 by 6 inches," or "Foot of Chicago lady, 17$ by 8 inches," are drawn in colored chalk upon the white washed walls; while over the editors desk are displayed in large letters the memoranda: '-Sn^u B. Author,,, born B. C —— (we suppresa tbe act ual date) ; and scattered over the ta bles are plaster modela vary ing beOed Ears of the editor oP—whatev er newspapers are regarded by the oi cupant of the room as rivals to his own. rtgaro. Bund justice—A judge asleep. » ^s»*»Kr»^SS 2 The average wom*^ . with an intensity almost oi bate«. jH§Mta one of lessness of a beno. ■»* r ^ of """"iÄtS®» a flea is about. And utW the woman batea, ite nature. She will puiMe these little lessnessof pect to see j .„owns the won . _ A beautiini exenipm»*— .. womanly she knows portion* as *------; - .. . » j mure lirmly on one side, an tbmiv ■ *° « the »gKK*» T, *•«« «'*.«• neut moUK-ut she few!, him seau, per.,,,; ■* "-c*:i .jmckly to catch and t!a* rail, 1 nt «til! there, j j mav run tip ns fellow seems to love, .»d ™ static bliss unless favored wr«i ner society. HC LIKES TO SEEK HEB COUCH m the itillv hour* of the her from slumber; and from a sheltereu nook witness her feverish exertions to escape his caresses; butperhapiib does not reach the acme of enjoym«»t until he cau slyly accompany her to church, and not ^nake his presence known until be has satisfacturny set tled her furbelows and flounces on tbe ooshioued set, *11 ready to lie admired and take note of how' others look. And then the tk*a begins His makipclatioks, knowing full well that lie has his vic tim at a disadvantage. Here there can be no hasty flinging of skirts; no un t OC no nasiv uuiguig UI ~ becoming postures, while making fran tic "rub* at iIh 1 mi.clii.-vou* and inm> uc e-*" |r , cessible. monster. If } ou note the j . |i.Jm*. which she would f«m you will sw a compres , - , , r „ conceal and not reveal, for j c are kot mast rpos bee. One m ment ahe sellîu» herself a littl« side, as thoUgli I Hettl*-* backward! mn between lier l ark 11 In vain, h:s fia stw r is aintv camit may !**• »1 drnjH ry, ai. l r. vei tue « >■* with t IC Iti-i'i as far disarranging a quad, ye t 1 hand ui \ ice us eoitch t l a jt w der the nretense < farraiig-, 0 * *1 ■ y, ! .1 all in vsifv j A <1 tl-. f. .. 1. w ! • d »S ; y it ' tff a * i**> rimm* luiiicr an ! In.tiH r oi Lik mi l j He. wdl. reel tin« :»! n ,r tor tio* U»t , t wr.;*'; W *. i: * v ma!:« - în*« v, In*» # e . . r f -, u he i »lavs s!i;vi r 1 - ii l U * 4 «S 1 - JT M t 1 1 ^ ALdptKHap, tncj Jea na** <* n Hi t * « . and then the aw v t..a oi fin 1 ti ' ^ 1 : • -*• • *•*: ri. f m.rtyH bow tl »r:,::: f :..... mihoo An 1 dn . ... .. f . . r . v . I . ... . t ..... 1 . B °* **t la*t the hot v ended at j*^ty as lier u rAU: g form will permit. she siâi!a home witiu ui loitering \ u niay 4 «• -stir«* Tin* h**us.* r« arî Î, with °nc b mid s* • is willen th«* rnvâev <»t wltfcjberowa chasjd»cr, and there all rvs tmint in c ut aside With JightiJn^ hasfe, ««ft o»m«*s fi^e barricade» l«chimi whirl) th fi-d^ intrcnchment, am * Hi lust sîk* Uu U like a gladiat strippe d t u r ti«* fight, and then t Tin: fate or the Etta ts sealed. He is pursikKi with remorseless fury, air! tin* battle d<»e?i not end until the victor shakes aloft the scalp of tbt foe, ami vows that so perish alwavs the flea who dares to invade the sa errd territory of her. person .—Sioux Lify Journal. * 1 « - WbÏÏÂT !W»*nt. - * * aa<1 - sol* diet was alwnt in . p - ofLm «4 i ^ x ,ftv sd< Kussia, a per L: - - ° efH ^ eav< ' rr ^ to dissuade him from his purpose, finding he could not prevail, quoted to him the proverb. Ma*i proposes but God disposes," to which he replied indignantly, "I di* pose as well as propose." A Christian woman, on hearing the impious boast remarked, "I set that down as tbe toro gS| fortunes. God will not suffer a creature with im* punity tlius to usurp his prerogative." Boo«p»rtejuat a* was "'»"ioo af Kuasia was «to Commencement of |>m downfall. : * — — * t r ■ **** : "}Uxn With loath " po ^ 1 * c»pnmtn>a «f ^ Wuriaufe^hl Tfrtne - H hu an ftS ill «•SSSt >« oolüäTlkepdudc. mi i* U t a Xffla tnn^n<!!S£l "►"! »*»iw £SJ 2 . If *ny subscriber 1 order, tfo ~<é -i—:■-----• - .. . 3. If MWeribers aegfect or mfa Vy J their newa^per. trST^ £?* they are direetH. the l«w MfTSLk 4. If ■ibtcribert reotoye to o(W without loforimnf th« jwbli*her.i3L> , 5. 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