The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-03


Down the dim, voiceless valley alone,
And hear not the sound of fOotstep
Around me but Gods and my own;
And the hush of my heart is as holy
AS hovers where angels have flown.
Long ago was / weary of voices
Whose music my soul could not win,
Long ago was / weary of noises
That fretted my soul with their d1n,.
Long ago was / weary OF places
Where 1 met but the human and sin.
walked in the world with the worldly,
Yet / craved what the world never gave;
And 1 said, in the world each ideal
That shines like a star on Lies wave
Is toned on the shores of the real,
And sleeps like a dream in the grave.
And still did pine for the perfect,
And still found the false with the true
i sought mid the Human of Heaven,
Aud caught q mere glimpse OF its blue;
And 1 sighed when the clouds of the Mortal
Yelled even that glimpse from my view.
And toilad on, heart tired of the human,
And groaned mid the masses of men,;
Till knelt long ago at an altar,
And heard a voice cali me. Since then
1 walked down the Valley of Silence
That hes far beyond human ken.
Do you ask what 1 found in the Valley?
IT'S my trysting place with the Divine,
And fell at the feet of the Holy
And around me voice said: "Be miner
And then rose from the depths of my soul
An echo, my heart shall be thine"
Do You ask how live in the Valley
weep, and dream, and pray,
But my tears are as sweet as the dew drops
That fall on the roses In May;
And my prayer, like perfume from censor,
Ascendeth to God, night and day.
In the hush of the Valley of silence
/ hear all the songs that sing;
And the music floats down the dim Valley
Till each finds a word for wing:
That 10 men like the doves of the deluge
The message of peace they may bring.
But far on the deep there are pillows
That never shall break on the beach,
And have heard songs in the silence
That never shall float into speech,
And have had dreams in the Valley
Too lofty for language TO reach,
All, me. How why spirit was stirred!
They wear holy wells on their faces,
Their footsteps can scarcely be heard;
They pass down the Valley like virgins,
Too pure for The touch of a word.
Do you ask me the place of this Valley,
To hearts that are narrowed by care?
1t lieth afar between mountains.
And God and His angels are there;
And one is the dark mount of sorrow,
And one the bright mountain OF prayer.
The next volume of the mo Name Series"
will be "Gemini," story OF twins.
Kimball is said to have raised three quar-
ters of a million dollars for paying church
debts.
A favorite material for trimming satin
evening dresses is Grape of the same shade as
the dress.
Bunches of small ostrich tips will be more
fashionable than long sweeping plumes
lately used.
pearl beads, will be much in favor the
coming season.
Halt flowing sleeves, with old fashioned
lace undersleeves, are seen on some of the
newest costumes.
By use of double mouthpiece, duets are
sung into the phonograph and reproduced as
perfectly as solos.
Baroness Burdett- Coutts has become gov
ernor of Christs hospital, being the first lady
governor in 400 years.
Three persons in the parish of Assumption,
in Louisiana, killed 1900 alligators, and sold
their hides for rs cents apiece.
A Chicago man thinks he can finish ED
win brood" Rash mani Why, it was ed
win brood" that finished Dickens.
A wag, whose father was hung, always
conveys the idea, when he alludes to HIM,
that he failed in business and sunk under it.
suspension" is the way he puts it.
Horatio Seymour has in his library Daniel
Webster's old Office chair; also chair which
belonged to Bishop White, and was used
in the first continental congress; also an old
deed signed by Peter Stuyvesant, and the
sword of George Clinton, first governor of
New York state.
A resident of Yonkers, n. Y, the other
dau nh of Enff lu
composed of aconite. supposing it was whis-
ky, and died, "a and the papers speak of it as
"a Temperance Lecture" and "An Awful
Warning" We can't see it at all. If it had
been the whisky he wanted he Wouldn't
have been killed.
A London hostess apologized to Count
Schouvaloff at a political party the other
night for the stupidity of a servant who had
announced him as Count Shuffleoff; but as
the Austrian and German representatives
were announced Immediately after under
the names of Beast and Monster, the Russian
diplomat passed on smiling.
The shah of Persia is again to visit Europe.
When there before he made many blunders.
On his visit to the tower of London he shook
hands with a lacquey, termed beef eater,
instead of with the constable, ard when a
million sterling was placed into his hand by
the governor of the bank of England, he put
the notes in his pocket, imagining they were
gift.
The promised army novel, by Captain
Frederick Whitaker, the biographer OF
Custer, will shortly appear from the press of
Sheldon & Co., under the title of 1.-THE
Cadet Button" The incidents, whose scenes
shift from the Irritation walks at West Point
to typical forts among the Indians on the
frontier, are said, as well as many of the
characters, to adhere closely to actual facts
and examples.
Look out for thirteen at tablet A young
lady visited summer house called Hills
dale IN New York state, ate with twelve
other guests and died within the year. The
day before she died her physician also dIned
at the same house with twelve other persons
and presently died at Elmira. A day OF
two afterwards brother of the hostess, not
withstanding the warnings which were giveI
him, dined with the dangerous twelve at the
same table, and within five weeks he, too, fell
! i'll and died.
Russia has a wonderful Swedish gun ready
/ for use in its feet 1t is worked after the
manner of piano-fsrte playing, moves to an6
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