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Give it* a aalt: "'fail tatrim * " Let ui lie patient, God has tak?n from IM file earthly treasures upon which we leaned) That from the fleeting things which lie aroilhd ns, thir clinging hearts should be forever weaned. thev have parsed from ua?all our broad rn?s eeMtiuna: Ships, whose white tails flung wide passed dis Uut shares; Land? who-e rieb harvests nailed in the glad sunshine; Silver and gold, and all our hoarded atone. 1 And, dearer far the pleasant hetue where gath ered Our loved and loving round the biasing hearth, j Where In mo red age on the ?oft cushions rented, Atid ehildhood played about in frolic mirth. i ?' v i? ' ? ? Let us he cheerful S The same sky o'er arches? huff ruin lall? on the eril and the good; On narrow wall?, and threugh our humbler dwelling < o/ la glorious sunshine pour* aa ru h a tlaod. I Our Ufr Is not In all t hew? brief possessions; 10ur home is not in any pleasant spait t ViIgriufe **pl*e wigere we bi t* journey ui.w.rd, i.untenud with ibr portion of our Im,. "t b mgid t '??*," Ac. HARRY ASHHELDS RIVAL. BY FIUXCl? KKMlllAW hahrs. "Congratulate me, Tom. I'm the happiest follow on earth!" etrlaiined J lurry Aehfield, bin taee radiant with iMuiles, um be accn>tcd bin friend Tom llenly. "I'm delighted to see you so happy, old fellow ! Hut. tell me ; what bus made you so ?" said Tom. "Why, there in but one thing that can make fl maa mi happy?a woman's love! I've won the heart, the first pure love of the sweetest girl in the world. Lilly liny wood ho? promised to be mine." "Well, you arc blessed, if that i.? ho. For Miss Hay wood ia very lovely, and . I'm von (id cut you will be very happy with her. Hut I don't know about your ! being the first one who has ever made an impression on her heart," aaid Tom. j "I do. Why, man, the just from school. This is her first Heason in society, and I've been near her all ?hc time. Oh, I tdiould not be so happy otherwise. I I could not be satisfied?in feet, I would not want to win a heart in which love for another had ever lived." "Oh, that in all nonsense. I'm not po exacting. Because a girl hat loved once, that's no reason she should not get over it, und love all the more another. But did you never hear Miss Haywoad speak of her very dear friend Will. Fulton?" paid Tom. "No, never. Why, what about him ? Hurry asked, a frown gathering on his fine face. "Oh, nothing." Tom said, a comical smile playing about his lips. "I know there is something. And, Tom, I'd like to know what it is V "Tush, man! Now you're Jealous and uneasy without good cause. But I'll tell \ you, for fear you may imagine something really of account. Will. Fulton was a friend, und n Very dear1 ?H?; of Miss Hay wood, when alle was Iii HchBul: t know they cufrcspohdeit f?r a long while { in Utoed, I was under the impression they still did. I remember hearing Mist Hay wood tell a young lady friend that she did not believe it would be possible for her to love any one more than she did Willie Fulton." "You heard her say that? How strange auy youug lady should make Unit declaration so openly !" said Harry: "WeiI, perhaps she did not know I was Id bearing distance. I certainly heard her lay it. But I feel quite sure, Harry, if she has promised to be yours, she knows now that it is possible lor her to love some one more ; and you may rest easy ; she loves yott truly. But, dear me, it is nine o'clocki I'm due at the office now. tiood-niornlng," The smile* were all gone from Harry's face then, and his steps not mar so light Us fifteen minutes before. Somehow the sky did not seem so blue, or the sou to shine so brightly, as before he met Tom. "She should have told ine uf this,'' he thought. Then he would try to console hiiuulf by saying, "But she did n?u know me then. Why should I worry?" Still he could m it feel ho very huppy a* he did. But he tried hard to seem so, when he met Lilly thut evening. Ouly the night before he had won her promise to be his; und really he felt ashamed to let auv jealous thoughts, or doubts, steal in and cloud the first days of their en* *ag<-iiiciit. A few day* ulcer the above cuiiV4*rS*?' ihm, Lilly was making a call on her friend Kate l(abto:i. Lilly hud confi ded tri Kate her secret. Aller the Usual ??ouurntiilutioiis, kisses and tears, Kate -ad. "Hut oh, Lilly dear, you'll have to be 0 careful. Ilarty is awfully jealous. He'll not let voll Im even polite to any other man, or love anybody but himself. Perhaps your mother and father a little bit. Now my lover is .?o diili-renf. Tom Henly has such perfiet confidence in me, 1 could not make him jealous if I tried. Hut that is not it. Confidence has noth ing to do with it ; it is nature. I don't siip)Mise Harry ein help it." "If it is Hurry's nature, bo must try -ttul change it, and have iicrfect confidence in me. I should he miserable, if I felt 1 was Wing watched nil the time by a jealous eye. I'll cure him. I guess." The next evening Harry sat l?e*>idc Lilly, holding her hand in bis, when his eye fell on a very lienutinil little ring. "Who gave you that, Lilly?" *.e asked. "A friend," she answered, with a pro voking smile. Quickly he drew it off, and glancing inside, r?id the the itiseriptbin, "With the love of W. P." Oh, how his heart was rent with jealous pangs then! I There was no longer a doubt of the truth of Tom Henly's wird?. "I wish you would send this ring back to tho donor, TA!1y. 1 dont think you should want to keep it now." "Indeed I shall not, Harry. How very unreasonable fer you to ask such a thing!" Lilly said. Taking the ring from him, she returned it to her finger. ??Who is W. F. Lilly V* Parry mdtod, with a very decided expression of anger on his face. ??An old and dear friend, Harry." "A first love, I suppose, and one who probab'y shares your heart with me oven now," Harry ainwered, getting up and striding up and down the. floor. "Harry when you asked mc to be yours, told mc you loved mc, and received my assurance of a returned love, you should have feit sur? that t was not deeming you. If another possessed my heart, t coillo1 dot have told you it was your*/' Lilly said gravely. "Then why do yottiwlah to wear Will Fultttu's ringT* H&y said angrily. A look of equal surprise and inquiry Jiiily beet Oil her ldyer; and then asked: "Are you so jealous that you would ntlt have me bear any regard?" "You may call it what you chooee, Lilly: I think .it is your duty to acqui esce In my wishes; at least, in not con tinuing to wear the ring of a former lover!" Lilly's ,ey?s changed their look of anxiety to one of real merriment then, and she said, after a ftiw moments: "Well, Harry, I'll promise this much ?act to wear Willie's ring until you give me permission; but I cannot send it back. In return, you nlmll premise tu have no more fits of jealousy. You must have perfect confidence in me, or we can never lie happy. You must feel sure that I love you, or else we had better part now, than in after daVs." Harry begged for forgiveness, and promised alt Lilly wished; aud so, for the time, all clouds were chased away. Weckt passed on, nothing taking place to mar the happiness of Harry until, one evening, Lilly's fu the name hi, and hand ing her a letter, said: "Here, Lilly, *h!a is frojfc your old friend Willie, 1 think, Itaelt from Europe, I suppose." A glad smile broke cV?.\r Lilly's face, a darb ifowtt over ll'arry^' Closely he watched her unmistakable look of pleasure as she read the closely written pages. At length she had finish ed, aud turning to Harry, was about to ?ay somethiug, when his angry face caused her to stop suddenly, and with a look of real anxiety, to ask : "What is the matter, Harry ?" Up lie started, an once before, and paced with angry strides the floor. At length, stopping before her, he said : "Will you allow roc to read your friend's letter?" "No, Harry, I cannot. I would not ask such a thing from you. I will read you much of it, however." "Thank you, Miss Hay wood. I saw the concluding line, which, no doubt, b the. tenor of the whole. Aud the woman who can receive with pleasure a letter ending, 'Ever your own,' from any other than the one to whom she is betrothed, is un worthy the love and confidence of any man. I wish you much happiness, and at the same time give you my full per mission to return to your finger the ring belonging to the writer of that letter. The reminder of my own folly you can just east into the fire." And before Lilly could recover from her surprise, the hall door closed on his retiring steps. Well, if he is not the most jealous per son I ever did see! What shall I do? Write and explain, and try to make htm Ichs miserable ? No; I'll let him take hit own course. I fear I should never he happy if we should be united," Lilly said, wiping the tears from her eyes. The next day he came not, as she hoped. And after several days had passed, she heard that he had left town?gone with out a word of parting. The establishment in which Harry was a clerk wanted some one to travel on business connected with the firm. 80 Harry was asked if he would like to go. And willingly he agreed. "I'll banish her from my heart," he said. "And this change will help me." Tom Henlylearned through Kate Rai* ?ton of the trouble between Lilly and her lover, and feeling a little uneasy about the part bo bad bad in tue mutter, having im told Hurry about Willie Fulton, he went to aas Lilly, and explain ed to her the fint cause of Harry's jealousy. "It all comes of my miserable habit of getting up a joke, never thinking of the connequcnceV said Tom dolefully. "Never mind. He deserves to suffer for his want of confidence. Do not move a step in the matter. Wait until bit re turn to his senses," said Lilly. Harry, miserable enough, went travel ling from city to city until he reached P-, where he met one of hie own schoolmates, who immediately fastened upon him, and regardless of all excuses, carried him to his own home. That night a party of merry girls were in the parlors, and Harry, in an adjoin ittg room, just finishing bis toilet, heard the hated name, "Willie Fultoo." When his friend came to accompany and intro duce him to the young ladies, much to his surprise, Harry asked tU he excused. Amazed, the young man insisted oa knowing the reason of the strange coo* duct, when Harry answered: "There is a person in tbsre thai I de test, and do not wish to meet." "Who?" inquired his friend, In cur prise. "That fellow Fulton!" replied Harry. "Why, George Fulton is one of the best fellows I know." " Tis not him, but the other, Willie Fulton. Look here, Charley, I'll tell you just the whole story in a few words; and then, if vou ?ay go meet my rival, air right?I'll do it." ?So poor Harry told his story, not feel ing well pleased that, during the narra tion of which, his friend Charley seemed a deal m*re amused .than sympathising. At the conclusion Hurry asked : "Now do you want me to go in?" "Indeed I do, and claim the fulfillment of your promise to do. Come! I insist; or I'll go bring Will aud the girls in here," said Charley. Harry suffered himself to be drawn into the parlor, where ho was presented to half a dozen beautiful girls, CJoorgc Fulton, and two other young gentlemen. From the piano came sounds of soft music, m-companicd by one of the sweetest voices Harry had ever heard, t>oou after his entrance the song was ended, and the singer turned, when Charley introduced Mr. Ashfield to Miss Willie Fulton. I think Harry would have fallen to the floor, so completely was he bewilder ed, had not the strong arm of Charley supported him. Willie knew the story of Harry's jealousy, having only the day before re ceived a long tetter from Lilly, telling of the way Willie's name had deceived him and made him so miserable. Almost ai much surprised as Harry was Willie, to meet the lover of her dearest friend. However, quickly recovering herself, she soon placed Harry very much at ease, and in half an hour they were talking of Lilly; and before the evening was over, Harry had confided to Willie his trouble, and begged her intercession to win for kirn Lilly's forgiveness. Lilly sat, a few evenings after, feeling very sad, wondering and wavering. Would Harry come hack ? Or should ?he write and tell him the truth ? Just then, in the dim twilight, she beheld, standing in the door, the object of her thoughts. He started toward her, end then hesi tating, asked: "Dare I en mo, Lilly T May I come? Oh, I have had a severe lesson, and suf fered enough. De forgive, end take me back!" "Harry, my heart pleads frith yott, yet I fear tu listen tu either," Lilly said, put tiug up her band*, as if to keep him baek. "Lilly, darling I shall ajaver doubt again," he said. "What baa banished yottf doubt?, Harry?" Lillyask'ed. "An acquaintance with my suppoird rival." "Yea, Lilly, bare I am, to plead with and for him," Willie said, coming forward, and stopping any further remonstrance or chfdings from Lilly by almost smoth ering her with kisses, and theo going on tossy: "After nil, Lilly, you cannot wonder so much at Harry's misgiving. What with any name, so vary misguiding, and other circumstances, I think 1 might have felt jnst as bo did." "Particularly if one wbom you thought your friend applied the match in fuel ?I? reedy for the burning," amid Tom Henly, entering the room just then, and hearing Willie's plea for poor Henry, concluded it with his own, "Am I forgiven, Lilly T" "Yes, Harry, and fnlly e*ejefcfted< In the future we shall have neitherconceal - menu nor doubts," Lilly answered, smil ing, and happy again, to "Or iovee with deceiving names," Willie added, with a man? glanceto ward Harry, who was too happy then not to join a laugh even at bis own ex pense. .?I? I mm -~ Dxmcchatio Policy.?Mr. BelmmV, Chairman of the Natiorml J>errwcrau. Committee, went to Washington last week end held a consultation with the Deaio- . cratic members of Congress upon the pol icy of the party with regard to the presi dential election. Upon a comparison of views it was the unanimous opinion that the Democracy should under all circum stances preserve their party organisation intact; that they should hold aloof from the Cincinnati Convention of Conserva tive Republicans; and that it would bo best to defer ell action with regard to e National Convention until the Conserva tive Republicans shell have taken their position and shown their hand. This ap pears to us to be the proper courts under existing circumstances.?Savannah Re publican. A gentleman was describing to Doug las Jcrrold the story of hia courtship and marriage?how his wife had bean brought up in a convent and was on the pnint of taking the veil when hia presence burst upon her enraptured sight and she ac cepted him as her husband. Jerrold lis tened to tho end of the story, and then quietly remarked. "She simply thought you better than nun.** I know of no greater compliment that can be paid to a man or a woman than to say they are pleasant to have in the house. There are many very clever, good people who stay in our houses, and still we hear the door* close up on them, and their footsteps die away, without one particle of sadness or regret. They are not disagreeable people?very far from it; but they radiate no sunshine, , no life. A little girl in New York recently celebrated bar fourth birthday by attend ing Sabbath-School. When the recita tion* of the clam were finished, the teach er asked her if she could repeat some little verse the had learned. She promptly re plied that the could, and astonished the dam by the following: "Mary had a little lamb She laid it on the chel f; Every time it wagged its toil, You knew ho*? '?s yourself.