The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-21

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And so L stepped, in idle mood,
Aboard the bark-whsn suddenly
A breeze sprang up, and while stood
Uncertain, thinking was free
make retreat, the vessel bore me>Out to sea-
Silent and swift away from land
1t cut the waves, no pilot steered,
No voice of captain gave command;
Yet to and fro 1t tackled and veered
All day il flew. At eve a distant land appeared
An island in the restless seas,
With rosy cliffs, and gold and green
OF dappled fields, and tropic trees
Across the purple waves through amber skies
was seen,
And music floating from afar
heard, of voice and instrument.
As the sun sank, and star by star
Throbbed in the living armament;
And all kind fates seemed pledged to cheer
me as went.
The little argosy, self-furled,
Self-anonored, in the silence lay,
And landed me upon a world
By other stars and moons endiamoned, i'm
pea led,
A region to my students hooks
Unknown. where 1 first learned to see
That love is never conned from books,
Nor passion laugh by fantasy,
But In the living, loving heart alone can be.
For on that shore maiden stood,
Who smiled with coy and bashful glance;
And when pressed her hand and woOed,
Turned not her truthful eyes ashIance,
And proved my voyage was no idle sport of
chance.
All, from this island if veer
Into the seas of worldly strife,
Give me the boat that brought me here,
where now the tired and faithful wife
Year after year renews the lovers lease of lifei
The Rev. DR.. Wills of Washington. says of
fhe dying Alex Stephens: "He is entirely
willing to live to die, Just as God may de-
termine He trusts he may be spared to see
the country relieved from its present trou-
bles, and the reign of peace and prosperity
re-established, and then he would gladly go
home to his eternal rest. He has no fear of
death, and speaks in glowing language of the
life to come. He is firm believer in the
doctrines of Christianity, and consistent
member of the Presbyterian church"
On one occasion when Henri Monnier was
acting in the provinces a terrible storm
came up just before the hour announced for
the performance to begin. and when the
curtain rose he found the audience TO con-
sist of one solitary man. NOwise discon-
eerted, Monnier advanced to the footlights
and addressed the public: Excuse me, sir,
bat would you mind coming up here and
sitting on the stage? 1t will fatigue my
you can see just as well. Or what do you
say to our closing the theater and going to
the cafe next door to play dominOes?
The Leigh Chronicle, an English pepper,
publishes the following letter from Mr..
Gladstone, on the question of keeping clubs
open on Sunday: HSIR-It is difficult to an
swer you without any knowledge of special
particulars, nor should / like to appear in
print as an adviser. l think however, that
it is good on the whole to keep the club
house closed, provided the desire to do so is
very general indeed; but would not coerce
large minority, or even a small one. if it
were a number of persons who in good faith,
not having homes wished to make use of
the club in lieu of them.-Yours ithfully
and obediently, w. e. GLADSTONE, pan. H."
No women, it would seem, have better
chances of marriage than successful ac-
tresses; no women, a rule, are more I'M
fortunate in their matrimonial alliances.
Miss Amy Fawsitt who died recently in
New York. though never in any sense
great actress. achieved a popularity at the
Vaudeville which, accompanied with good
and wOmanly conduct brought her several
offers of marriage of which any respectable
girl might have been proud. She made the
usual mistake of her class, and having made
that mistake committed the error of too
many who achieve sudden success. She re-
which has now been running some six or
seven.hundred nights. Then came disappoint
nent upon disappointment, and matriInoni-
al misery. One night she arrived az the
Court theater bruised and excited. She said
she had allen down, but presently she
vowed she dared not go upon the stage
because her husband had sworn he
would shoot her from the pit. and she de-
tected him sitting there in the very spot
(which be had warned her he would select,
and she-knew he carried a weapon. Was it
Burprising that eventually she had to re-
inquish her engagement at the Court on ac-
tount of severe nervous attacks? 1t is sur
brising that she found it impossible to re-
hew the vigor and charm of her youth in
New York and that she died sad and
lonely woman? Miss Nellie Power, of the
Vaudeville theater, is another young lady
who, at the height of her somewhat fictitious
success, married what is called swell, -
and retired magnificently from the stage, to
return to IL for livelihood, bearing the
tainted name Of a schemer and an adven-
turer. l could give you half a dbzen other
examples and in each case the lady who his
won her position in the profession has
turned her back upon it TO marry into what
she considered higher social grade, but
emily TO discover that in the end she has not
emily TO keep her 'swell," but TO submit to
ALI kinds OF miseries and degradation ~
Do not be too anxious to give away. your
self, to wear your heart upon your sleeve. 1t
n otonly unwise, Ii is wrong to make your
scret soul common property. For you bring