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C. _POETRY. HEB ?HUDEN. Day after day aho bore it, not repining? Day after day hIic sought the narrow way, From morn till night, fro n night till morning shining, She loitered not, nor went from it astray, Bat once, at last, her heart within her burning, Thus made the moan unto the silent stars?1 My fctcers bind me?is the no returning, And shall 1 never break my prison bars? Snd heart, be patient for a little longer; Who knows what may not be in store for you? Brave heart 1 beat for a time a little stronger? ' Still hope?still wait?still steadfast be and true. There came a Urne, before the sweet. whiUs drawing, : *.J *? Ere yet the starry night let fall her crown, When in that hour betwixt the nightnnd morn ing, She, being weary, laid her burden down. NOTHING BUT CLARET. MUS. NELLIE AMIS. "It never hurt me!" There was defiance and decision in the tone of "Walter Uxbridgc, Esq., as he looked in'o the handsome, motherly face on the opposite side of the dining table. "No, Walter, I don't think it ever did; in fact, I am.positive it never did; but then, my dear, there are very lew of us in this world who can do exactly as \vc please. Don't, you know what St. Paul says about putting stumbling blocks in our brother's way V "Don't quote St. Paul, for goodness sake. What don't he say. A sensible conservative one minute, reevnt in ending u little wine for the stomach's sake, and the next an out and out teetotaler for bidding meat und fish as well us strum; drink.'' ''.But you know, well enough, what he means, whatever he bus said. You i?rc only talking that way to 'ease inc. St. Paul thought it. proper for a man who was master of bis own sprint, to take a little wine if lie needed it: but not to do this in a place where ho could influence others wenkers than he, or where it would be hkely to hurt another* feelings." 'That i-. be approved of drinking be hind the di.or; something I shall never be guilty of alary, all the world is welcome to know what I do, and comment on my (.oings if it sees lit. This claret is cvccl I i'ii i. I never heard of any body getting drunk on claret, did you?!' "1 have no fear of Prank, that I know of," said Mr. Uxbridgcthoughtfull, "Perhaps it is Mildred, then," inter rupted her husband. "Ko, nor Mildred"? "Strange that you should have no fears of your daughter becoming a drunkard," interrupted Mr. Uxbrid^c again. The irony of this remark had not tiic effect intended ; for the lady went on thoughtfully, almost an if she had not heard. "No, nor Mildred, although intemper ance is not unknown among women"? "Well, then, who in the world are you worrying about?" broke in the gentle man again. "You feel confident that Frank is beyond temptation, ami there isn't any one else as 1 can sec. Perhaps you are afraid that I shall lose my cquil ib'rim some time!" and Mr. Uxbridgc dropped another piece of ice in his glass, and surveyed the ruby liquid with the expression of an amateur. "It is no especial credit to you that you are not a drunkard," continued tho wife in a firmer tone. "Strong drink docs not tempt you in every wiy, save in an epi curean sort of a fashion, that leads you to desire all good things, wine, no more than others. You do not drink to excess for the best of reasons, your appetite does not lead you so far, if it did, you would be liko other drunkards. The question seems to bo now, have we no duties out side of our own especial family? Oughtn't wo to be as particular iu regard to our neighbor's children as our own. To love our neighbor as oursolf, requires great watchfulness, because it isn't so easy. I don't believe, Walter, that it is right to have w ine on our dinner table, or to offer it to our friends, unless we are morrally sure it can do no harm. I am very much stirred up on this subject," "I should think so," laughed Mr. Ux bridgc, with niobl ininerlurablc good ?m ?.? humor. "You women nro strange crea tures. After going along easy for a num ber of years, all of a sudden you ily ofi'on a tangent, get your backs up, quarrel with your bread and butter, abuse the bridge that has carried you safe ovcr.nnd stiv up things generally. You'd make jolly rulers, you would ! Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; that'-", just it ex actly?*' 'Oh, mamma,' interrupted a sweet voiee just at this moment; and a -young lady entered, followed by agontlcmau evident ly very much at homo. "Oh, mamma, Harry and I havG had stich a delightful ride. The Horses acted splendidly, and do you believe, Harry couldn't keep up with me to save his life;" and Miss Mil dred, the skirt'of her long riding habit gracefully disposed on lmrarin,tier bright face flushed with excitement, hurried to her room to prepare for dinner. ?'Don't wait for Mildred, Harry." said Mrs. Oxbridge, "it will take her some minutes to change her dress. You must be huugry after your ride. 'As a shark,' laughingly responded the visitor, as he took bis seat at the host's right hand. "Here's sonic excellent claret," said Mr Uxbridge, passing the bottle. The light faded irom his wife's face as she waited to see what reply their visitDr would make. Very deliberately the young man transferred some pieces of ice to his glass; then, as if he had weighed the matter thoroughly, and decided not to touch it, said: " No, I guess not. If Mrs. Uxbridge will give me a cup ot coffee, I think J sbuld like it better. I am sufficiently warm now without any more heating." "But man alive, claret is ; cooling.. There's nothing in the world that will cool a man off so quick." J Mrs. Uxbridge passed the coffee, and* tried to change the subject, No use. Mine host was in the minority, and that would never do. His wife was against him, hi* protective son in law disagreed with him, and Walter Uxbridge, E>q. felt himself quite insulted. Just thon Ali Id red entered, and seated herself oppo site her lover. "Have a little claret, Mildred?'* in quired papa, bottle in hand, ready to fill her glass'. "Just a little bit," she replied. "Claret makes one feel so comfortably cool. Aren't you taking any, HarryV Help him, papa, I have a toast to offer." Mr. Uxbridge obeyed with alaceity. Mildred raised her g.'ass gracefully, and said, as her lover followed her example. "Here's to the health of Harry Carle ton, Esq. May he never mount a worse horse than the one ho rode to-day, and may he at last conquer all fear of the noble animal, and learn to keep pace with his companion." "A hearty laugh followed; in whth till ! joined but Mrs. Uxbridge. She hid her face behind the cofleo urn, and did her best to keep from breaking down. Why should she feel so sick at heart uhout so trifling a matteras the drinking of a little claret? she asked herself. Why did she shudder and grow cold as she lifted her eyes to the radiant face of her daughter? The visitor drained his glass, and his host promptly refilled it. Mildred sipped a littlo of hers. Wino evidently had no charm for this light-hearted, brilliant young lady. Tito next day Mrs. Ux bridge tried to make her daughter un derstand how keenly she felt on this subject of ivine, the drinking, and how miserable occurrences of the previous evening had made her. ? "I thought something was the matter, mother," Mildred replied, "but you need have iuo fears about Hary. He never touched liquor of any kind, lie told me so himself. Claret is so simple, you know; scarcely more then lemonade. If it had been anything else, I should not have thought of oiler iug it, of course." That evening Mildred waited in vain for her lover 'Where do you you think ho is motlver?' she asked, returning from the widow for the dozenth time. "He never disappointed me before. YYc shall be too late far the first act, even if he should conic this minute;"and Mildred removed her gloves and her tasteful opera hat, and pictured to spend the remainder of the evening at home. The next day passed, and the ncxt,r?nd still no tiding, from the absent lovery M v. Uxbridge ca;cd nt his ]IOmc and {liscovercd that bo liaduot been soen by any of his relatives since ?ne day be wsnjj^horseback riding with Mi'thcd. It lacked one dry of a.week when \\xq young ladyj receiver! the following note: V. "Di:au id im? he'd:'- I 'Was takenWy ill fiTio night I left your house. BtopWsd ?Vt'we 5th Ave. Hotel,' and have bee* here ever since, most of the time uncori^ schflrsi ? Ahtf very rii'dch better, and shall' see'you to-morr?"*?*."* * " He came looking very ill, and Mrs. I xbridge took;hihi"~Tigb.t into her heart, and nursed him like one of her children. 1 )ur'mgutiietnnB'thnt"intervened between this aqd^the^tnajrriagq, only a little more than three montjis, Mildred had several limes been called upon to wonder at the strange absences of Her lover. His excuse was illness on each occasion, and his hag gard face and wbe-begone appearance generally, testified to its worth. Mr. Ux bridge feared the young man would bc eoihe a confirmed invalid; Mrs.TJxbridgc was filled with gloomy forebodings, and Mildred, bereft of her usual light-heart ncss, prepared for the wedding. ''Sometimes I think Walter," said the anxious mbther one evening just before the wedding, "or rather fear that Harry dissi pates at these times he is away. He will not consent to sec our physician; declares there is nothing especially tho matter, and still I can't sec that he improves iii the 'cast. I am free to confess that my confidence is shaken, and 1 desire very much that this marriage shall be p09trf poncd until I come to a more thorough undcrstuding of the case." "If all the women were like you wife, this world would be a purgatory," responded Mr. Uxbridge, with bis usual coarse, goodna Ktu'rcd laugh. "You torment yourself," he continued, "and you fry to torment me. If you had your way, Mildred would be a i old maid, I should live on bread and butter, and weak tea, and when my friends came to sec me, they would be treated to a glass of water and a temperance lecture. Now you've mounted a new Pegasus, and I suppose you'll ride him till he is played out, and then bunt up something else. Lot the young folks alone, and don't bother your head any more." Thus repulsed, Mrs. Uxbridge knew not what to do. She dared not whisper a word of her dreadful suspicion to her daughter,and there was noway of posses sing herself of the information she stood so much in need of. With a heart al most paralyzed, she watched the progscss of events. Inexorable old Time brought the wedding day tit last, and with grief pnutterable, the fond mother parted with her daughter for her wedding trip. Mr. Uxbridge superintended the witu depart ment, and champagne had sparkled in fair hands, and far lips had pledged the newly-weded pair in numberless toasts. Harry Carleton touched not, tasted not. "Now, my son," said Mr. Uxbridge with great impressment, passing him a gla.-.-s of wine with his own hands,'Hero's to you and yours, yours and mine! drink, man," as the young gentleman made no motion to touch bis lips to the sciantillut ing beverage. "You will please excuse me," stani tnerred the ncw-madc husband with a painful blush. "You know I am not very well, and champagne does not agree with mo." "All right," replied Mr. Uxbridge. "You and niy wife will do to go to gether; but I'm not sure but two temper ance advocates in one family will bo too much for me." The wedding journey came to attend, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Catleton wont to house-keeping in their own pleasant .home, and for awhileoycrything went on smoothly, and the heart of the mother grew light. Six months of delightful companionship, prompt attendance to bu siness, and then tho cloud descended. The young husband remained away from homo for nays nt a time, without giving the least excuse. To his wile's tearful entreaties to know the cause of his absen ces, he turned a deaf car. "It wouldn't do you any good to know j where 1 have been," be replied, almost brutally on one occasion, after had im plored for his confidence. "Jiut, Harry, I can't endure it," fob bed the poor little wife*. "I am wj^nied almost to death when you stay n/frny so," "And ? you think you '"wouhd like it better if I should come hfdmc at theso times?" "Ob, Hurry, how c?An yon ask such a question? of courc^1 sh?ul?/; - "Very well, tl^cn; I promise' never td remain 0-way algnin," and he wns"eS good as bis word. f ' '' "A m(Uitw after that; a bleared, disfigj Kurcd man Weled into the handsome home of tho Cavietous; ' i>r v "Oh, &rrry, what is the matter?" gi,ooiied>poor Mildred, as her husband stagge^d to a scat. "P^Tnk,'' he answered, with a 'demoni ae lacjg'h. "You needn't be nfrald of me. I shad't hurt you," as i!therr poor child drew away, "and before I get so, bad I can't talk, I have something to say to you. I never could drink liquor; never could touch it without just such consequences as these. It is a hereditary curse. 'T had not touched a drop of anything for five years iiiitil'that night a* your father's house, when you pledged me in - claret, arid! didn't know how to refuse. I have never been myself since." And be was never himself agahiJ A few months more, and the'nnhnppy soul was released from the curse of inheritance, and Mildred Carleton wns a drunkard's widow. _ _? i u - How the Indians Disposed of One of Their Unfortunate Women. It is a matter of history, every one is ittwarc, that the peual laWs of some of the Indian tribes surpass in rigor and severity those of civilized nations, and tha ponaltics inflicted by the breaking of these edicts, which have been handed down for centuries, arc of[ a 'singularly cruel and fearful nature. One of tho most stringent of these decrees is in ref erence to the chastity of their feirial:s, death being the punishment if at any time one is known to have broken the law. Job Vaturcs, an old mountaineer und trapper, gives a Nevada paper the following particulars of one of these fien dish nets of cruelty lately perpetrated by a band of Indians near Fish Spring Valley: For two weeks prior to the occurrence of the events about to be narrated, the Indians had been building signal fires on the elevated portions of tho mountains for miles around the surrounding coun try. As it was their regular hunting season, much surprise was manifested as the lights appeared night after night, cal ling the absent portions' of the tribe to the general rendezvous. On questioning s..mc of their number, they were, contra ry to their usual manner, rccticeut on the subject, and only replied to questions put to them concerning tho unusual oc currence that "white man no sabe." Vaturcs, however, who speaks the language like a native, heard enough to satisfy himself that a rite was about to be performed which was of raro occur rence, and on questioning a half-bred who frequently accompanied him on his hunting excursions, he learned that a young woman, a member of one of the trides in that country, who had abandon ed her people a year or so since to live with a white man, had returned, bring ing with her a babe about three mouths old. Here was the same old, old story, so common with us now-a-days. After a short spell of happiness and pleasure, he who had brought her to her ruin became tired of his victim and abandoned her to her fate. She like thousands of others placed in the same circumstances, sought refuge at her home and among her peo ple, hoping to find a shelter for herself und child; but with the trrible penalty of the law she had broken before her, and with the indisputable evidence of her guilt in hern.tms, wc wonder at her hardihood in placing herself in the power of those wbomc she must have known would show her no mercy. Nothing that sho could offer in palla tion of her offense would bo received by those who only knew that their sacred law had been broken. Having heard that the terrible decree would be carried out on a certain night, the trapper secre ted himself in a position where he could obtain an unobstructed view of all they would do, and ho arrived none too soon, for already the preliminaries had been arranged, and around a .slake driven iir the ground the warrior braves wcro mnr elung in a circle to the solemn, mournful music being played upon tho native in* struments of the band. Prominent among them was the ehcif, who bad not' 1 ns yet taken nn active part in the pro ceedings; and as the solemn circlr passed him', each of the brakes would let fly kuV ^ arrow from his bow at' some imitgiu'aryt - enemy. After the dance of death ,was finished, the cheif,,by a gesture, gave sonio ordcij to a braveMn waiting, and from n circu lar tent emerged the woman of the tribe, surrounding the victim who was to be sacrificed to offe?ded justice. With the . ' exception of a light' covering around her waist, she was utterly, devoid of clothing, and seemed uneoiicious as to the teriibjo ' death awaiting her. Her babe, wnTeli was carried by one. of the women, uttered the most piteous criesy trying; to attract the attention of it.-: mother; but she-was not allowed to touch her infant, and wj.Jlr a look such as only a fond mother can bestow she gnve'ouc earnest, passionate * glance nt bei1 offsprings and walked bravely on to meet her death. No time was lost;'the "mediciuo man" quickly bound her to the stake; brush and faggots were placed around her/sp thick as to render her invisible to the fiends, who were now reridring the air with shouts and cries. The pyre was lighted, and the flames seemed possessed of hellish-joy as they enwrapt \ho form of tho woman. Thickly the.smoke ? curl ed spitefully around her, yet not a mur mur, not a groan escaped her lips. She appeared a statue, meeting her fate wiili that wonderful stoicism and bravery which characterize her race. The fire, which at first thrust ont its firery darts at infivals, was now a sheet of flhme, soon burned down, leaving no thing but the. charred bones of her who, but a few moments since, was a living human being; and her exectioncrs, who had, in their untutored miuds, satisfied the wrath of the Great Spirit, and vc moved the stigma on the tribe, silently departed from the scene of their horrible act, and scpcrutcJ to again seek their homes, leaving our watcher alone with the dead victim, who, as soon as he was assured of his safety; departed from tho place; such was the impression left on bis mind that lie bid farewell to that portion of the country forever. Some young men in Green Bay pre sented a preacher with a -horse and re ceived his heartfelt thanks. Two days nftev the presentation the hoise was ta ken away by the farmer from whom it had been stolen. A gentleman going up Sixth avenue, Xcw York, met a laborer, to whom ho said, "Will you tell me if I am half way to Central Park?" "Faith, an' I will," was the reply, "if you tell me where you started from." A Savannah paper says a negro was duried alive in a well' recently. His friends du? down to him in about (four hours, and found him alive and well. Ho said that he never wanted to sneeze so oaU in his life, but was afraid ho would jar down some more dirt. An epicure in Vermont writes to his local newspaper, that having indulged' freely in tho eating of frogs, his bands aro now covered with what bis doctor calls "tumorous enlargements os the vascular papilltc and indurations of the surroun ding epidermis"?that is, warts. A guardian of the pence in New York made his first essay, ns a "mounted po liceman," cue day recently, by grasping the horse's tail and attempting to climb up that way. The surgeon subsequently remarked that no horso ever bad a finer opportunity, or took advantage, of it with such infinite scorn of tho consequences. A housekeeper, writing of poor ser vants, says that if women would study housekeeping as their husbands study pw, mcdieiiic, and book-keeping, thoro would be much less complaint of bad servants. A. Schontnan, of Milwaukee, worked hard for four yeais, did well, and then sent over the seas for his Katrinu. When she arrived she died from excessive joy.