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Patered according to Act of Congress, in the year 18, by NORMAN L. MUNRO, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
Vol. VIII.
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{Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second Clase Matter.)
FEBRUARY 21,
1881.
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No. 888
A Winter Violet.
Hirne's a flow’r that dared to blow
Under the flereest winter's bay
‘Twill wake sweeter thoughts, T
‘Than the best-wrought poem
Thonghts of breezes blowing soft
Over the many-dimpled lake,
‘Thrushes singing in the croft,
Woodbine-fendrils in the brake;
Til
ate
Glimpses brighter, rarer still,
Buvrald fringes on the larch,
Hyacinth a oa
ag fo tne call of March,
Wild anemone comes out.
With her host of tiny bells—
Oh, to-see them strewn about,
Faintly pink a3 ocean shells!
Buttercups and daisies’ sheen
Light the meadows far and wide;
nm silver-green,
clothed the ‘mountain-
Birds in days so bright and tong
‘Think no more of winter's dearth,
And the very son of song
‘Breathes o'erall the glatdened earth.
| on,
|
fanless sky, and icy eaves?
Summer, far-off wandering,
‘Thus we dream and picture thee,
Can thy presence ever bring.
‘Such delights as now we see?
"Tis the old sigh o'er again—
"renin it alles Want
Summ fair as when
‘Dreamed of inter nights"
Other Days.
On, never pipe the winds so sweet,
on mnennce tio were
never ¢
OR ue songs were sung:
Wind fate tre. bird‘ow the te,
Y Boe singing for you and me.
true,
and you,
Nolet bine: and ia wkspue
Growing, blowing
* But stil ane Some cre-winas eae pipe,
‘Aud sll frou dappled bird
‘Come sanga as sect upon the Jea
‘Ase
Itignot they, alas! to-day.
tis we-tis we, have pasved away!
For till the poses bud and blow,
en are there:
rears ‘pink and lavender
Sinell sweet upon the a
And time brings gain, but time brings
omes never back again,
‘pain,
For youth
Beatrice, the Orphan:
y
But Beatrice fell on her knees before him, and clung to him, in a:
‘Walter! Walter! be merciful, and strike me dead as I kneel here beforeyou But do not send me from you unforgiven. Dear God! let
his dangblor bed been fair, and golden-baired,
le, Unconscious face of
was
bhim the same that be had cartied in bis memory |apicter with lots of Aully yellar hair,
ese Yeu
THE SHOP- GIRUS FATAL DREAM,
DAH
BY
Author of “The Child Wife;” “ Waifs of the Street,
From Home,” Et
CHAPTER vi.
i ORPHAN ase
vot the
es ers Con:
by suicide
In some
of the young wite of
these items the deed
morse for the share she
Me
had taken in se1
and in others to sh
Brought upou be
ich she had thrown
M. HOWARD
“Only @ Working Girl; “ Driven
Hattie Sunehine;
young Mrs. Bentley's baby.
I could tell the genth
ing and Patrick were walking away si
file the
wh
monionrly dismis
ae
eT
tT ip
man who had been making inquiries about poor
find vie coun ‘ins ead Patsiek riyateriously as
claimed Paty friend aloud, and in'a moment Inv.
Intter’s friend found Tumwole Sneere:
mh, af
eu Ae
= ie
strange, bright eyes gleaming like
ing con
Is it the result of some balf-
forgotten dream, it
ing me on. to. my fatet
this mysterious 0
bids me. go to.a low tavern down
by the East River, a den frequent-
by ‘longshoremen and rough
sailors”
Whatever might have been the
gnawer to these singular questions,
Horace Irving, resolved to obey
the mysterious. impulse whic
urged him to go to the place men-
tiched.
must goat night,” he con-
tinea to mutter, “forthe place,
as saw ivin ny dream or vision,
was lighted by smoky kerosene
Japs.”
Ie, seemed to him that night
woutd never come, the first
approach of darkn eas, ho attired
Wine we the plainest, wuit of
forth on hie singular’ mission.
assuming the airs and accent of
re yan, called for a glassot
randy-and-w
= ‘A group of three or four rough-
oh ai ‘i hy looking. men were seated at a
round table near the -entrance,
ny hh
Ny ii
¥, when “one of them whispered that
the “dandy” had chosen rather &
queer hotel ia which to. pure
res ents. Whatev: the
andy) jimsel€ thought oa te
subject he made binwelf 9 uite
home there, seated at S
tn nent wth he bra
re him, and, “Jean ‘ing on his
citow, watched the progress of the
fame
Ee ay
ngera remmnnedl the comer:
thaw at
when meee entel tered.
“T bors, sudden lenly ex
claimed She o! These men, “does
any of yer Imow wot's come of old
Raphi lately? te It's some time
‘five seen his bast on the
I reckon the old feller’s
Kicked th bucket.”
sce.
cold heart of Horace Irving, and. he answered
wi
“You mat
my good feliow, baby Bessie's future shall be well
Provided for.”
this answor Patrick Rogers went
his way, hile "ving turning off in the oppos
Sed himself on his own, suc:
provide for her,
CHAPTER VII.
OLD RAPHAEL.
Ox tho night when Bentrice in her despair ung
herself wildly into the dark waters of tiie river, &
singular-looking old ma wa rowing slowly down
Ward the pier upon which the unhappy. woman
knelt while offering to Heaven ‘nt ‘Driet prayer
for the loved ones from was separating
bapa for rai eternity.
old in the row- boat was thin to emacia-
his eyes contradicted this
age.
They were large, black as coal
brillinnty Riving a wtrange, weird
ay appearance of ‘extrone
ide,
and singularly
ig ht to the: thin
like Beatrice, and the
the girl he had. reseu
ed fro
strange ‘oe
auloweal to p
his
‘The
son of Bene Bi
the
the waves
his friend was leaving him a “bit of the ‘ | | Irving, who proceed
Ue sa’ word a carly ie it te tam oar ile Ae orem ke et ae Saehata a te
«| whven'they came face to face with Horace Irving, ite aw, an hang thin, stragghng | lsh e hoped to Gnd aby Des
as if fal rected their foots! most to his'shoulders,” His forin was bent He hi
“This is the very, gentleman, “imselt,” ex] eck alms to Fete. cdo gents ad yot | ules of the institution,
agony so intense that a heart of stone might have melted Niet Pity, for her. “Oh,
y there was no other, witness
to| Beatrice s act of desperation, and old Raphael» wis
© to the
Raphael, we will follow t ‘ihemovemente of Horace
diay following, bis
aint himself with i
and knew ine <inaren
were frequently given ‘from it for a to
persons of proven respectability.
He. tilgated zo frouble ta obtaining posses:
ent
e interior of ‘Raphael's hut was scrupulously |
“Not be, indeed, "anid one of the
why, didn’t yer
t me die!” Bear ie story about old Raphael's
He thinks be has found
her, I guess, at any y rate he's got a little beauty ot
a gal livin’ with him in that shanty o! his'n.
soon hor myself theother day, she's got a face "ike
Who ts this fellow you're a’ talkin”
isked © one
of the party, evidently a stranger to
Trot town, and Irving could have blessed
him Fort the question,
‘The first speaker then told the story of old Ra-
peat and bis strange delusion, and ended by say-
hat for six weeks, past just. the time oat
pearane
neat and clean, despiteits many & .
ort and Beatrice, cold and white and rd motions had el elapsed since 1ce Beatrice’ s cisap'
to all appearance dead, was soon lying upon | old Frenchman’s boat seen
the floor of the due, while the old mat procured upon the river, while in “hia rude home ‘on n the
blankets Boutemploying the usual means | Loug Island shore, w beautiful golden-baired girl
4 is strange and solita
tobeuseiate's person drow Tad like to taken pee at The sid fetlar an* his
Ba ae % Pte ha that shanty 0} bis'n
- wast” “Irving bent his head lower to cateh the
CHAPTER VIII while eyes sparkled with
“1 HAVE FOUND HER.” talumph, ‘and afew minutes later he ett the
Leavina Beatrice for ¢ ota | Place, murmuring as he burried away from tha
ngenial atmosp!
wy have found her:
wo will meet face to f
was bound to yours, indissolubly, and you
shall yet acknowledge that I was right.
CHAPTER 1 x
ig!
watchman on the dock, od romised the mana ten-dollar note for | old face. ‘as. known by the namie of, widowed pee consented to
cloak, ahandkerchief upon which ties gnbroid | a, any information be might hg able to give of Bea- | Raphael? and ere tome who ieved ne guar of tbe babe, believing Horace’ cue story ae Urox the following das send “shortly after the
tho owner's name in, full, Bestriee reuneea | tice or her ehildy and Patrick proceede mad; but such was not the case. he orphan ‘of a college friend whom he frugal noon-tide meal ‘been shared
Rodoubs was entertained that the bareeaet ye u see, sir, 1 was workin’ fina bute afew| Ten yea arn previous to, tho opening of our story Ueving)| had regarded with feelings o! c- [rice and her aged protector eld Raptney aco,
young wife had been drowned, and ety a elow tho Orphan Asylum on Lexington | the ol Bren 0 eat sorrow. [ton Shook hinselt Tike & great dog. end fling a sord
Gay passed without the body being Weert nappy (geenue the day that poor 3trs. Bentley drownded ) Mignon, hi my cl ‘tele creature | therefore without any foreboding of the |of knapsack with the toys, the manufacture
There were many mourned her wn henhy | herself, and ai ter quit. work I stood 1 aizteen years old, had been drowned in the East aisappomtinent in store for him that Tovece ev. which occupied his ime ood kept the grim eslt
Inte sinooraly, man: Thumbie friends to whom ne | corner a fo nates fallin’ with a id, ue River, e body was never recove: ing ascended the broad steps. o respectful distance from his door, he bade
welt by her gery rg tos in | Was almost dan 1 F houne, an? the| ‘The’ chock of he bereaverne nt had thrown the] where Patrick Hogers bad. witnessed. that, poor gil farewell and started upon bis weary
her beech Beatrice’s shop-m th sad |Jamp in front ot the asylum was sighted ed. I heard | father into a violent brain fever, his re- | broken parti tween the young motber mand tramp to the city in search of a purebaser for bis
went about their duties Mitt sac | somethin’ like a woman's sob as I pas P| covery he imagined he must. begin his search for | her-ehila,
days, while Mr. M-——y,_ himed!fy ig | an’ I looked to see what was the matter. Mignon’s bodyras it was ordained that none save Trving was asly “For a long lapse of tine that may have een
and rel roached Pimpeel | Sure enous h there was & woman there, God | himself should find it. It was a harmless halluci- the ak of the Stablishiment minutes—hours ‘ice stood
ten
waa in some
way to
Te there was one who read the news of Beatrice's
sad fate with vastly different emotions,
Ir
to br
a baby tight upogin’ her bosom. She
pie the steps as I looked w
reak her heart, an’ hug-
he started
at her, a
Toawin that the couldwedo ityan'I didn’ vt wank
1 wi
nation, and had lived in his brain all these yea
Old Rap
ignon!
phael lived ina miserable shanty on the | dashin
all
received by
ro who Lorn
fore
he ground by gravely asst Tooke ‘dreamily, ¥
Inte.
ithe
Shock her | exes that told. the sad story
the only window ‘at ne hal hint boasted ad
tly, out of the cracked
mes upon the areary, ry tendoca
dazed blur in her nut brown
to
hile glancing over the 10 tebin’ her, #9 1 ta 19 river, in that pitiful and hopeless search. , adding as the lady ‘of impaired reason,
1 papers relative ae tick aa went om, towards He was not a dozen yards away from the pier n allow me toremind you, iy dear |of the utter lack of that bright nt good sense and
vither agrprsn nor #04 comer a kala get, tho woman, ‘ow ‘of my|on which Beatrice knelt on the hight of which | madam, thera is no circumstance tat ean | wit which bad ever tent charm,
nurled i sarcastic; half | tind, cryin’ 80 pitifully on the ot the | we now write, Lt hiseyes were carefully scanning i et from me." wie hor thin white be Hand clasped lasped ately
nt are nok lead, my sha Tony walked a few blocks the surface of the water, and he did not see “ pardon, sin, but T see er, her pallid forehead st the
ie wing | SrtA fot iy he wan sie hsb ate ove rae RLS aly wi il langue oer ef
that I was ose sige of | Comin’ away Place, with her Suddenly. ther came to him Mey sn of a ie iol adopted, and salts declared er wan cheeks, she was, e picture ie
ind you. | It. rs re pty, bi ad rent down, ‘an’ she a st ggerin’ | plunge, and a faint, vant ery, and on the in- bot red eran | ject woe ai : 3
yon de Teil me, I shal begin my. earch today, as itche'd been drinkin’ |Manvold Raphael forget hisown'wild fancy, re-| t© reclaim her for yo are not ert at me trice Bentley wei nerer fal to rent
And never abandon it until I meet you face to “eam wasn on hor facean’ Isaw | alizing that someone needed his hel oe £0 dleclosn the name. ee the people who have in death she must be Ma pode Tay to ola
* : "God forgive me that L| * Av the sane moment the merged from You that she is | 5.5 fe
em Tosie a a su wore eae tide flow hey for Yr ightthureaaved her an | behind a cloud, tnd it up he Matary around wim | we wih Cheitian iy, eho. ero blessed “with | Raphael a woe pers = Sawn iho Foed, the
‘whom he still kept, - home qhen ne A low, strange c ‘rom the old man’s lips, is ho will treat ys
bance of devotion, Tending the poor ‘io believe | she was tke ome 1 in ny Por wethin’ in ber jand berowed ethene seat forward, for there their atopted digi n in.gvery respect as if’ she Bin tn hho was out of 3 ie and ste could ald see
he would some ‘hed his ‘wite—Trviog face that night that miede me ashamed to, go just ahend Gti, Pising abo | were their Sry ig kindly face and, waving bend no lo
loarned thae ite MP in uinoero fo ea face a liar, nibtas she. passed by me without fever | woman's vend with t mea Of piel wate snot patente Sa tterly disappoint 2s but as the acro or ely he ae ear @ tranitory
fortunate Beatrice, was ent he inten- Pais her ‘head I heard = Patterin’ some! B a be mat he inevitatle add tease te of om sy eee
the ot provid of inthe Bessie, “fan ‘orphaned Hint sounded ike a prayer, an nd_-sobbin' so that ne rol overturning i Raphael ieempid to ras rasD | ed time for future developments. chance hat fa thie! sho breathed ip a balf-startled
ion of providing » nonheme , heart acherl for her. wy way tomy home, an’ disappeared, He ras till positive in his belief that or rain
yal mun have that, eh ite sh, po ah ent ber death Vptnrzoon mor thao Pancha would mare hd, aca ang ae caging ay ove
Irving, hand When it afover the mo ners hi "ew felt ero ae hea murderer, tT Og 20 into the wa her, ut. ence og reuld Gnd her,” That she had thro cit
lace, and acquaint her with the fact a about my |She arose to the surace, and this time he suc: | into the river in the madness of despair he did hot
iy isin my power, 1 will find it no diheult ta ikea i wo bl ‘on cave to Heer abo "Theo ede in drawing hr into the boat fora miement doubt, but in some strange, eu
to mould her to my will.” ee) sin that asylum, 1) aces vane scan that now went. ont over |nanner he kuew as well as if he ha ree | adits
Teving proceeded to act on this determination | hohe ao mon 0 isn money. 1 wort, thewaterst the fand of that "eld Tan's Tow, tel ened from the waves that she, bad ha
Immediately, by dint of cautions take it, 1 Tet ihe andther oto her dent, on! 1) [aman Tau} ately, Doing catitied tht Se uke be ued a
inquiries in
satrice
wan able
ig
2 pepo et that occupied by
lived be tho rear hous
aod ma itferent art of
fhe ity, Chane va visit ‘ono of is form
Reighbors, Patrick Rogers Hear ‘about the getlee
ndin’'a friend to
1a ako pay for, sem
Sia from’ Svided by cha
child from the cold
é her a home? Oh, tel
e happier than any
here was & eloquer
pathos in the man's appeal
ty. | "| fount See,
had formerly |for you are Site Bessie’ friond, you do intend
I thank thee,
‘enon! at last the old father has
a filing is! yr
Yo | the old stran; “rey
rr! phinel removes his ov
Fe about the dripin
mple | whispering over aud
Tormi"of Bea
over again the nt
that touched’ oven n the | lost ering, “ Mignon! ma Mignon!”
‘appeal
ice Bentley, [Jom
ne of i | Iarly” Fests. an
{bia fo
{ Bessi
Horace Irvin,
uneasy.
rose looking haggard and fevs
In
make any further attempts to
‘On tho night subsequent to his visit to the ary. foete
slept but little and wi
the mornin
rerish, and iis | mnombers "Te
about?” |~
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