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A Captnln! Mjr Captain.
(Abmliurii'l,lii, ohi diwl April W lwtl.i
O, Captiii! my CupUtin! our fearful trip Is
done:
The ship has wfHtlirtl evt-ry ro k, the prize
we aoufrht Is won:
The port Ih near, tlio U-lls 1 ln ur, tlio p-oiie
all exulting.
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel
Krim and lim ing';
Hut O heart 1 hejirt: heart !
the Meeilinir !ropw of red.
Whin on tiie (leek my t'ii.t.iin lies.
Fallen eold and il.'ad:
O Captain! my Captain: rise up and hear the
iM-lls:
ltise up -for you the lla-r i? thmy, for you the
lnijrle trills:
For yu iHiuijueu and i i!li(.n- l wreaths, for
you the Khored M-crowi i i ;i :
For you they eull, the nwa.inif lii!is, their
eajfer faei-H lui niu-';
1 1 ere ( a lain '. (I ti r fittlier !
This a it 1 1 in neat .i our ii -ml -It
is so:ne ilie.m, t:'.;i' mm t!:e 1 -ck
Vou've tuileli nil ici-i cum 1.
1 'tv Cnnttiln n.,t ..... ........ I . t. I i ..
nti'1 wtili : 1 '
My fut.i'T (iiM-s iw.t fi -I i:;v urai. In lias mi
ruiKc inn- u ;!l;
llie Bhi is HM 'h'ir.' I and s-imid. it- vuy-
llc is i'li. ii-il lin-i i,iii.-;
I'lutu liniful t.ip tli'- vi t.ir fcl.iii ci.mcs iu
with ljTt wmi;
Kxult, o Kiinffs, uivi i-inu'. Ih IK
Hut I. witli ino.inii'i tri'ail.
Wjilk t ) di-i-k w in n' my ( 'aptitin li'8
I'alU n - j1 i mi I (ii'uil.
Walt Wh.'t nan's M(t I'.itmliir I'oern.
SAXTWOOI).
"Ves. T liav ' iiletl to remain away
two years. T!: will be nunc too
Jon; in wltieli to lo-t tliis wretehed
nffair and :ieeulo:ii m v.cjII to muikj of
(lie slci ii re: li'ii'.s of I'ife. I find that
fat.- has not di-eree.i i:iy jiath to he one
of roses.'
The speaker was reelininj carelessly
upon a luxurious sofa, amid such ele
gant suiTonndinifs thai one mi.ht nat
urally wonder what there could he in
his cxperh-'icc to tine thouIit.s of tlje
future with so mtteh jjl-iom.
A line-lookinrr man of middle ae,
seated near l.ini, was the person with
wliKin he was o.--te:tsiMy eonver-in,
'ih''tih a :rl, sillini; at the piano, a
little' farther off. Is - it that the vein of
l-i; tenters u ndeid in r tin? words was
meant especially for her.
iler hands were wanderi:)"; half idly
over t!:e keys, pktyinir 5n sofiet.sueet-
est t.isnioii i hat rnvi hmieal. halt
mournful air, '"Upon the Dajnihe River."
Deep, cieh hass chords dropped now
an ' taen into the low-d ripping silver
melody ami the player liummed, as if
to her own thoughts, m low, sympa
iiieiic lone, the refrain:
I'll ne'i-r fervt tliat niulit in June
Upon tlie laaube rivir.
She. at least, did not wonder whv
the speaker looked upon the dark
side of life just then, for she knew
She knew what all the world did, that
the proud name of Sautwood had been
drairred in the dust by a brother's
crime. Forgery and suicide had again
furnished the m-city press with sen
satioiial columns and blazing head
lines, whose every letter cut into Phil
ips sensitive heart like a two-edged
sword.
But the girl at the piano knew that
a sharper pain than even that tlietated
the hopeless words. She remembered
a scene in the library only a few hours
before, where he had told her of his re
solve to leave his native land, and, in
the weakness of the moment, he had
broken down and confessed the love
which he had meant, now that dis
grace had overtaken him, to keep se
cret to the end.
"For what right have I to offer mv
6tained name for any woman's accept
ance ." he bitterly asked.
But if it is true that "murder will
out," so will love when it is thrilling
in every nerve, when every hope and
interest in life is identilied with the
dear object.
"Yet I am not sorry that vott know
t. after all." he had said "Little
worthy as 1 now am to offer my love
to one so pure and proud as you, it
vcu:d have Ijk k a hard to bear this
!io;;ele.-; love in silence. A week ago
T could ve told you this without a
hri'i t s';:tm". Bet th-Mi, not dream
of - r !Tv;ille, I was content
. : . u: ;i! had seen the world
and knew your own heart. What yoar
answer might have been then I do not
know, but at least I should have felt
myself the peer of any one who might
sue for yJur hand, while now "
He broke off suddenly with a sharp
drawn breath, and paced the floor
with the air of some caged animal
dialing bitterly against the bars that
held him.
Suddenly he paused beside her as
she stood, wdiite and silent, leaning
against the mantel for support, and
taking her hand in both his own, said,
with passionate pleading:
"But, after all, it is not my sin, Mar
guerite. You are proud, I know, but
will you turn from me for my broth
er's fault? If you love me ever so lit
tle, will you not tell me so, and let it
comfort me in my long exile? I will
wait until this trouble has been for
gotten until I can do something to
redeem "
"Do not ask me," she interrupted,
shudderingly, and then 6he turned,
and, looking straight into his dark,
anguished eyes, in a voice that sound
ed cold and harsh in her efforts to re
press all feeling, continued: "Philip
Santwood, you spoke truly just now.
I am proud too proud, perhaps but
a stainless name is everything to me.
I am poor, but my name is without
blemish, and, while I am very sorry
for you. I I cannot "
Her voice died awav in silence. To
save her life she could not have finish
ed the sentence as she had intended to
do, with those sternly compressed lips
and those dry, yearning eyes before
her.
"At least tell me could you have
loved me had it not been for this?" he
pleaded, huskily.
"I cannot tell what might have
been," she answered, turning wearily
away. "I only know what is. This is
a painful subject, Mr. Santwood. Let
it end, please."
She meant to be gentle in manner
and speech, but the great struggle it
cost her to speak calmly seemed to
crystallize both into the hardness of
marble, and when she torned away
Philip read only pride nothing but
pride and coldness in her voice and
in the pale, set features. He saw
nothing of the aching heart behind
that mask.
. So, as she sat there with tho low, i
sweet music drouDintr from the keys.
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not a worn or sign or rniup s escaped
her; not a word or sight or sound of
tiiat unhappy evening but impressed
itself upon her memory, and months
afterward came back to her, mingled
always with the tad, sweet measures
of the song.
T ic next day he was gone. Mar
guerite was const ions of a bitter lone
liness and loss, when the line, manly
figure had disappeared entirely from
her view, when tin fair, proud head
j and the handsome face hail gone for-
ever from her home. She might have
' brought back the brightness to it with
the one word hope, but she would not
, spenk it. She was too proud of her
oid family name, on which no tdiade
t f disgrace was ever cast.
As the months wore on Marguerite
realized to the full the bitterness of a
hopeless love. They heard ft om Philip
- at least her guardian did and lie
was accustomed to repeat the con
tents of those letters to her. She
i. -ver -kc 1 t i M.'tl,i ;n her.-e'f.thon-'i
her heart often ached for a sight of the
words his hand traced.
After a time the letters began to
breathe a spirit of content; then a wo-
! mail's name crept into them, and then
i it was not long ere (.'ol. Tracy inform
ed his ward that 1 hilip Santwood was
married.
It was a terrible blow to Marguerite,
whose Jove for the bright, handsome
fellow was only less strong and intense
tiu'.ri her indomitable pride. She could
have recalled him. Imt she would not,
though her heart longed i ontinttally
for his presence. Now he had found
some one who loved him --a truer
woman than herself, it must, be who
scorned to saeri!iee her happiness and
hi.-- for a broth, r crime.
IJul it was 1 o late now to think of
what might have been, po she kept on
iu her round of social gayeties, trying
to hide her remorse under a prouder
braving and a more smiling face than
of old.
And now she learned something she
had never h'-fore s-n.-peeted. Colonel
TraiV loved lu-r, and laid his heart
and f irtune at ie-r f.-el. with the p t--siontte
ardor of a voting man. The
di'l was surprised. She had no love
for him, and so refused him as gently
as she could.
But the love of the man of the world
was not to be dismissed as easily as
the youth's whose pride forbade him
to ask t wice.
She did not love him, but she had a
respectful affection for him, added to
which was the Mattering thought that
a handsome, cultured man of society
had chosen her out of a world of fair
women.
"Dear guardy," she said to him at
length, with simple frankness, "if you
are willing to take me. knowing how I
have loved Philip, knowing that if it
were not a sin now I should always
love him, you may do so, and I will
try to the utmost to be a true wife."
!So Marguerite found herself Mrs.
Tracy, a leader of fashion, the owner
of a naughty name, and the idol of her
husband's heart. Yet now, when it
was too late, she knew that could she
but share Philip's young, clouded life
and wear his stained and rejected
name, she would be a far happier wo
man. It was the second year of her mar
rige that she and her husband went to
Europe. They had visited many of
the principal cities; Mrs. Tracy had
been presented at court and was as
much admired aa her proud husband
could possibly wish, and now they
were sailing down the blue Danube.
They had passed many pretty vil
lages and old ruins on the shores of
that storied river, and were nearing
Linz.celebrated for the loveliness of its
situation and the beauty of its women,
when Marguerite sat on the deck of
the steamer apart from all others,
thinking sadly of the evening in her
life when she had decided her fate
against her happiness. How vividly
the words of the song came back to
her, as she leaned over the railing and
looked into the water:
I'll ne'er forget that niKhtlnJnne
Upon the Danube Hiver.
How strange that this should be a
moonlit night in June, and that she
herself should be "upon the Danube
river."
While her whole heart and mind
were upon that memorable night a
dark shadow came between her and
moonlight. She glanced up and her
heart almost ceased its throbbing. Be
fore her stood the hero of her dream
Philip Santwood gazing down upon
her. One thing she had time to no
tice as he came toward her his
proud, fair face almost stern in the
moonlight the old time love was in
his eyes.
One instant her heart thrilled wild
ly, as she saw it; then, as he came
nearer, there was a terrible noise, an
awful shock, the flames were issuing
from the steamer, and men, women
and children were struggling for their
lives in the river.
When Mrs. Tracy opened her eyea
after the first stunning jar of the ex
plosion, she found herself clasped in
the arms of Philip, who wa making
heroic efforts to save her.
"Oh, Philip," she cried, with her
first breath, "where is my husband?
And vour wife, too? We must not for
get them!"
"My wife!" she saw the astonishment
in his face, even in that dreadful mo
ment. "I never had a wife, Mar
guerite. Did he tell you so?"
"Yes."
And then, as the treachery of her
husband's scheme to win her love from
Philip flashed like lightning into her
mind, si-.e regretted with all the loy
alty of a true if not a loving wife that
s'.ie h:td ieu';;ye ! it to his rival.
'v"!.-p up y our courage. Marguerite,"
Yv.. ; lie yiing man.
h';a -ofj.save him tirst Philip,"
"You are a woman the woman I
love," he replied, a new joy thrilling
his tones. "It is my duty and my
pleasure to aid you. He is a man and
my enemy. I am under no obliga
tion to him. Let him take care of
himself."
For an in9tant Marguerite lay with
closed eyes on Philip's arm, thinking
almost that she was in heaven. He
had never married another; he loved
her madly yet and 6he ah, heaven,
how she loved him! This was a night
of danger. If anything should hau-
ou trim wuiitu hct u;r me
She checked herself then. What a
wicked thought! Just then her Iiub
band floated past them, clinging, with
a white, despairing face, to a portion
of the wreck. He seemed almost ex
hausted. "Oh, save him!" she cried again, in'
agony at her own wickedness.
Philip's face appalled her. ITpoii it
was pict tired the fearful struggle go
ing on in his soul -love, hat.' inde-cii-i'
in.
"J cannot sate you both." he said.
"Then him (ir-'t." ai 1 Marguerite,
with desperate p i--' ..i i-i ': -r 'd.-e.
"Oh. Philip, it I'm lo-t it .vill it it be
yotirfaiiit. but if you on ;. -!y leave
It : 1 1 1 to die luiaid'-d ii v. ill I e murder."
Plil.ip S l.tec !: .lie.! to
whiter as -die si io! . e the vv o
"I see - 1 .sill do v. iiat
said, ijuietlv.
",!'OiV
even
i can,
ho
J erltap-- lie might
1 t'l ( (e-'s C ! i; , ,
which Mil red Iks s .
no'.
11'
d I
t me for his
thought
depths.
1!
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Margii 'iii e, ciiiie'iug I the liny raft
where Phiiip ha I h it. her - il was
scarcely lar:e enough lo hold two persons-saw.
wii 1 1 I hallklllllleSS 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 lef-
able, le-r hu-l'.-ind .-uatehed front the
jaws of death by the man whom they
had both wronged. She fclL a horror
now at the thought of hovv she and
Philip inilit have prolited by her hus
band's death.
it was fortunate that the accident
oeeiTVred so near the town, for jus!,
then; the river ran sAiflly, ami few
could have been saved without the aid
that, came from Lin..
"I have saved ' him for your sake.
Marguerite," whispered Philip, as they
met at the side of lu r almost lifeless
iiit-iiand.
"(Jod bless you!'' she Said
his hand a- she knelt be.-ide
, pressing
the pro.S-
trate torm.
But (,'oI. Tracy's davs were number
ed. All was done for him that, medi
cal skill could do in tiiai ouaitil old
( rerman city,
y ouiig. and hi
Ceived a shoe
not recover.
But he was no longer
lief, ons -y.-letii ha 1 re
Ifom which he. could
i; .lied, and there, on
I he short; of t he " ivaii
libe," lie was buried.
:i
Hie
D.tn-
Tw
o years
parsed (jiiietly away.
Mrs. I racy bird spent
th mi iu travel
and had but latch returned to her na
tive land. She and Philip had parted
at imz without a word or a pledge, for
the future, ami they had never met
si nei. Yet she was not surprised
when he suddenly appeared in her
drawing-room one night and spoke
once more of his loy al love.
"I have never loved any other. Mar
guerite," Le said. "If I may dare to
again offer you the name that "
She lifted her white, jeweled hand
with a smile that softened tins dark
beauty of her face, saying:
"Hush! Your noble conduct at Linz
has redeemed your name from all dis
honor in my eyes. And, even were it
otherwise, how dare I, in my sinful
pride, condemn you for another's sin?"
Waverley Magazine. s
Japanese Voting ,:- ..' '
Voting day in Japan presents some
curious sights. The voters have to'
don their best garments and proceed,
to the voting counter, there to ballot
without jmrleying, as soon after H
o'clock as possible. After casting
their ballot they make a bow to the
assemblage present, in which their
head nearly strikes the lloor, and re
tire as silent as they came.
Why Rube .Stayed. "X.V
As I came along to where the high
way forked, I saw a colored man about
fifty years of age tied to a tree beside
the road. The rope was around his
waist, while his hands were free to
reach the knot and release himself.
"Well, what are you doing there?"
I asked, as I came to a halt.
"Dun waitin' fur Mars Chapin to cum
back," he replied.
"And who's Mars Chapin?"
"He's de Sheriff, sah."
"Did he tie you to that tree?"
"Yes, sah."
"What for?"
"Kase he 'rested me an' Moses White
'bout a hog case, sah. Moses he dun
wouldn't stand to bo "rested, but cut
an run. De Sheriff he tied me upheah
while he went to look fur Moses."
"Seems to me it would be a very easy
matter for you to untie yourself and
walk away."
"Yes. sah, it would, but I reckon I
won't do it."
"You are an innocent man, then?"
"No, sah. I helped Moses steal dat
hog fur sho, an' I reckon I'll git about
six months in de coal mines."
"Well, you are about the queirest
darkey I ever saw."
"Mebbe I was, sxih. but yo' see I has
got to figger a leetle. Alter I has
surved out my time an' cum home,
mebbe I shall want to go up to Mars
Chapin's jail some day an' ax him to
took me in fur a month or two. If I
was to ontie myself an' run away he'd
'member it of me, an' he'd dun look
me all ober an' say:
"'Keuben, dat day I tied yo' to a
tree yo' dun promised to stay right
dar! When I got back wid Moses yo'
war gone. Yo1 dun busted yo'r word,
an' I can't trust yo' no mo'. My jail
am a nice, dry place, wid plenty to eat,
an' I'd like to take yo1 in an' make yo'
comfortable, but I can't do it. When
a nigger busts his word wid me dat
settles it. Yo' go right away an" starve
to death or I'll sick de dawg onto yo!"
I tossed him a quarter for his com
mon sense philosophy, and he was still
waiting for Mars Chapin as I rode
away.
Until recently it was supjiosed that
the small star" near the north pole
known as No. 1830 Goombridge, which
travels at the rate of SJ32 miles a sec
ond, had the greatest velocity of any
in the heavene; but it is now known
that Mu in Cassiopeia has a velocity of
305 miles a second, while if the obser
vations of Dr. Klkins are accepted, Arc
turus is traveling at a speed of 37i
miles a second.
A deep black stripe across the cor
ner of an envelope is a badge of mourn
ing, and calls for the most fashionable
and approved sympathy. VhiladelphUu
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