The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 10, 1884, Page 6

| We live a lifeof hope and longing, j We sigh for what's beyond our reach, We scan the host who are daily thronging, Nor do their actions warnings teach. | We geze not as one of their number, { Fe Poot their woe, nor heed their pain, A motley sight who only cumber One moment's time our busy brain. We To de Yet careless think not of the powers Which lend euch beauty to the day. We for a moment stop and ponder O'er pages fraught with love and fame, But e’en while gez urts will wander Back to pleasure s bright flame. cep our sorrows, mourn our losses, ier lot, stud our crosses enderest spot. We Envy our neighbor's bu And think the thorns w Pierce far the deepest, We cling to earth in happy hours, ‘Think not of death’s cold, grim decay, But when misfortune’s dismal showers ; Biot out pleasure’s peeriess ray j We jong and pant for, seek his bowers, | Nor care bow soon life ebbs away. We will not feel that in this warfare We're brothers, sisters in the strife, But rush along, nor heartless care How oft we wound a lonely life. Why think not that the great Eternal Will bring us face to face once more, That then and there each thought’s faint | kernel ‘ Will meet the light of heaven's shore. ton, Chicago. I CANNOT TELL YOU. “Will you marry me, Violet, as your father wished?”’ The girl turned and Iaid her hand in {| the questioner’s with the simple an- swer, confidingly uttered: °2 will.” And then Violet Allyn was betrothed to Carrol Danton, just one day after the cruel stroke that had left her fa- | therless. + She was but sixteen, and love, as she was to know itin after years, was a | sealed page as yet; but her whole re- | spectand esteem had been won long | ago by the noble man whom her father had loved during the last years of his life as a son. | rrol Danton was twice her ag had seen much of the world, but s urely | never in any clime could his eyes have rested upon a loveliness more perfect than that of his betrothed. | In her deep mourning garb, her sweet face surrounded by its aureole | of pale gold, seemed to him as fair as | They were married and 2 brief happy year flitted by. Though outwardly the was a child no longer. With her new life and thoughts and capabilitie: into immediate being, overmustering and absorbing, had ta, possession of her heart 5 love for L husband in tensity almost frightened herself, and served to make her shy of expressing herself through actions or words, lest she should « r ridiculous; and thus, though he recogni alfection that Was so thought for his every com- fort, Carrol jitue dreamed of real tenderness that filled his young wife’s heart for him. Aithough it oveupied a larg tite to attend to the had bro >is own business ad retained, notwiti ithy marr: » compell is a= 1 1 from hon rh times, at his de » his cou- tia Danton, about his own age, ‘ore much older than Violet, iled herself Hall as com- pznion to hi Could Carrot have looked intothe fu- would as soon placed a viper amid th ch w us to ha home one ntion fully if it came within her power, not goo but deadliest harm. All her life, despite an ent lack of encouragement, Maria Danton d loved her cousin. Ske was very »! and keenly sensitive to the » ad from the first Violet’s beauty had j aroused ademon of jealous hatred with- | in her byeast. But she had managed to conceal so weil her real feelings un- der a garb of cousinly affection and in- j terest, that Violet, as well as Carrol, had beeg deceived. She had been at the Hall three weeks during which time Carrol had been away from home. His return was ex- pected at the expiration of another week, but, unexpectedly, he came sey- eral days sooner. Late one evening, full of eagerness to see once more the dear little wife from whom he had been separated so much longer than ever before, and to enjoy her surprise, he entered the drawing room unannounced, to find Maria there alone. An hour passed. Satan had at last pees the coveted Opportunity within aria Danton’s reach, and she used it so skillfully, veiling her malice under an aspect of grave and sorrowful con- cern, that when Violet entered the room, her fair hair clinging, wet with dew, and a shawl enveloping her slen- der form, it was to shrink back in star- tled surprise at the expression upon the two faces that met her eyes. Her train laid, with an evil smile Ma- Tia left the room. Time passed and no sound of alter- | cation penetrated the closed doors, but | the traitor without sm evilly as, half an hour | he } door close w nz, and a few mi footfall go falteri es, up stairs. To her husband's natu where she had been thus a late hour, was © to give same, Violet duties, new had sprung d an emotion, n ope portion extensive to him, 3, Which more j{ he heard esounding > 2 light | cried. | had parted, anal ; Mar | place two gentlemen a | humored face; the ot | sire to once more | soil; but I find now that I indignant light flamed into Violet’s face. “I see now who it is at has poi- soned your mind against me,’’ she No one but Maria could have known so much concerning my move- ments. Carrol, if you choose to be- lieve and trust her before your wife, I have nothing further to say or plead.’’ “Then you refuse to tell me what I ask? Violet, [ have given you a hus- band’s affection; it surely calls for something better nm reserve and du- plicity. For the sake of your own hap- piness and mine, I implore you to be frank. Innocence has no fear; it is only guilt that cowers and trembles.’? But though tears drenched ks, ‘‘I cannot teil you what you ” was all the answer Vio sband’s moving appeal More words passed, angry and bitter upon one side, passively heard on the other; and then the hus i and Violet had been alone in her girlhood’s hor years, with more than a woman's tage of suffering. The next morning, without waiting to bid farewell to the hostess whose happ: s her secret spite had blasted, Danton left the Hall. * . ’ * run their course morning, and quiet watering- strolling to- witha tall, dark and years ha since the above t is upon the sands of a One, good- gether. ndsome, “Tam so glad I feil in with you, old fellow,” th “Where h ‘: we last met in Ps “‘Abroad,”’ i returned last week, impelled t set foot on m3 ve node ons revive the ol I shall take the next if nothing happens to change my deter- mination.”” k Blair 1 pain too keen! lup into the dark de usly; but he | not known him Jong enough to possess the clue to its gloom. With ready tact he turned the con- ou are hi ve al al say you to making a¢ rht? Ik joymen out of rep I will accomp And so terraces down to tie sands, As they near the hous their steps, for through t dow sweet sounds ste: n win- Pau | Msten. The song & Voice whose trates one r so strong as to and his limbs to tre He laid his hand on Mark’s 2n urgent pressure. “Do not j and see if s $ sung pene- to go tuntil you once se i, atread of drapery above prised them that t songstress, accompanied by a had emerged from the room baleony. Another moment, before the two men had time to make their presence known, they became unintentional listeners to an ardent love-declaration. “I have looked in vain this whole week for an opportunity to speak with you alone. Oh, Violet, thank you, thank you for granting it to me at last. Surely you know what I am going to tell you—how madly, desperately, I love you. Violet, your manner to me has never given me encouragement, but I cannot believe that I am wholly indifferent to you. Such devotion es mine must win some return.”’ A soft voice interrupts him. “Do not thank me, cousin Ralph,”’ itsays. ‘I indeed did understand your desire for an interview, but I only granted it to show you the hopelessness of your attachment.” “Why ‘hopelessness’? There is ut- ter despair in that word. You are your own mistress, young and beautiful, ca- able of loving and inspiring love. hy say thopelessness?"” “Because,” comes the sad reply, “it is the right word for me to use. Cousin Ralph, I have loved, but he who alone ever possessed my heart is cold in his rave, and all my hope is buried with im. Ralph, Iam now going to tell you something which will cause you | pain, and what, had it not been for this avowal, you would never have know “One day, you remember, s: my _ house, in nd, to ber assistance and of passi you an and concea, dec | promise to you bound me | have never seen him since, nor hi | from him, until a year ago a friend | was. | say it, | I wounded ree | my hand is fre | stood before the w: pu might | | hem of soft j lay between life and death; but, at im- minent risk to myself, I concealed you in an empty tool-house within my own park, and ministered myself to your wants. By my action in thus befriend- ing youI ruined my whole life. “My husband returned two days be- fore you effected your escape. A treacherous member of my _ household aroused his suspicions. y solemn n iron fet- ters, and when he q i implored me, if it were to explain my mysterious sences from my home, | was obliged to remain silent. “All that sustained me through that dreadful interview was the hope tl in a brief while you would be f: and safe from the disgraceful quences of your ra: I could tell my husband a hope was not io be re . “He left me in bitter anger, and I heard abroad sent me papers containing an account of the loss of a French steamer one of whose ill-fated passengers God willed it otherwise. “Cousin Ralph, surely now you will never approach me again upon a subject which can only add one more pang to the sorrow that through you—I must ough it wound you—must for- ever bar the entrance of happiness intu my heart.” There was 2 moment's pause, then a man’s troubled voice breaks it. y hand that wrought Though he whom ered from his hurt,and blood of a fe Cousin ean ‘*And it w you this suff | never forgive n There wa steps, and of able to contr up the rol Dantor ad lost but e, despite the tor- ttered the supports of the ba zased to lov loubts that pardon +d you for to ion in a town ut it must have the services of 2 1 to tell them how it could potency | F fter g is to t the building 5 con- The first stock and ‘all Street News. —— +. —___ -Eesthetic Garters, In the balmy days of our “others a simple band of blue or red cotton elastic, void of all decoration, except- ing the neat hand-sewed seam that completed the circle which embraced the leg, was thought suflicient for the | most exacting, but since the gxsthetic wave has swept over the land, causing poppies and lilies to blossom on cop- per kettles and tin caddies and panels of sunflowers and hollyhocks to spring up before washstands, defunct ward- robes and all the eye-sores usually | relegated to cellars and garrets, the | rubber garter has also been touched up | with the pencil of beauty and grace and to-day will stand comparison with many of the novelties designed for love tokens. Their use is permissible to either sex, and the daintiest garters that design can create and skill fancy are found alike in dry goods store, jewelry house, and with firms carrying gents’ first-class furnishing goods. Cotton elastic isa thing of the past, | and the cheapest garter that refined | taste will permit is composed of silk rubber neatly fastened with a silk crow-foot or s couple of feather stitches. This rubber can be hadin all the high colors, and besides being pret- | ty and trim has the added charm of & good silk garter out in a year. f, however, the cotton is most con- Venient, the covered with a ered very full and rge bow or roses of the q little garter can | comes he | I thought then I should die, but | | looked upon its u | the left } | convers = niscences: ‘Henry (¢ ed insolvent by his Kentucky ' osition excited ; erer of an | and combustible a Be es : } on hand at durability, for it is impossible te wear j ' the South ; useful tree. The Significance of Rings. It is understood th & gentleman who desires to marry wears a pl chased gold r of the left or engaced ing passes the second finger. After marriage it passes to the third finger. If, however, the gentleman desires his 1: i to clearly under: the market,’? and d marry at al], he wears the his little finger. This will ladies that he is beyond reach. the ladies a plain or chased on the little finger of the lef: eates *‘not engaged,” or ready offer. When eng 1 to the third finger of th When married the third fin left hand receives the young lady desires to she places rings— to nd indi- for an ne on the hough the a looked upon age ceremo- iispensable, and civil marriages may be celebrated with out it. The Pu abolished t ring, or, rather, t do so; they titious and Quakers gener- ring on account of its heathen orig’ the ladies of that persuasion shown a decided pre- ference for its continuance on sccount of the invidious position in whi married lady might be placed for want of it. Wedding tings are p nd to typify obedience. is probably the reason band placed on the ad finger of a fianee, who 5 sses a large amount of fre dom, and frequ xercises her pow- er in an arbitrary n r.”’—Brooklyn Union. of heathen ally object ged Walton & Co NEW HOME & DOMESTIC SEWING ACHINES., ee Henry Clay's Fortune, Ben: Perley Poore says in his remi- Y was pronounc- yonents mort- g $s evidences his inab debts. ter toa Clay from debt. never would, mt $100,000. it is gratifying to the product of my ow part of it being here slave who would ol it or, no except one 2me very mue freedom. It th know is a above want if I should 2d from them. 280lation to me to this wanton exposure of my fairs can do me no pecun My few creditors will not confidence in me te be sha ; has, inde yas at the ure and of y on me, at tne informed hensive tk e@ } 2d these upon my mind, h thei embar! embarrassinents to pri He came therefore w to tell me t! 53 want to relieve sucha prop- eonec gh. tions whicl can b honorable men. be able to cline their be Fame a it the nethod of con- suming coal that none of its constituent so inte the atmos xe cities, with the two-fold r y com; e loses € oh te NEVER iat: OUT OF ORDER. S No EQUAY ay e : WES THER eee rr as FINE SUIT . to; tis a matter | know that discov- | every | the injury done to the publie h the breath- ing of a polluted atmosphere. ee The Champion Unlucky Boy. Fred Sineh, of Goshen, N. Y., is ten years old. The other day he fell out of 2 second story window. He struck onthe pavement and rolled down a flight of eight stone steps to a base- ment. 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