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Show The Slory ofa Sew Vort Hoap. There is In Xew York, upon one of the mot fashionable thoroughfares-, a most msgnificeut house yea, It in a veritable palace which can never lv looked at by tho sentimental senti-mental woman without a tear coming com-ing toiler eye, because of the story attached lo it. It wai designed and built by one of the richest men in New lork the hcau of an old Dutch ftmily fur the woman he l.ned. Throughout Through-out tho u hole house, which might have been called "The lloue J!ui-tlful," J!ui-tlful," were the colons furnishing, ornament.- and dainty touches that were tlie young bride's la-te. The ball-room, in which she cxico led b tilnso many merry measure-, was wahVdathi ceiled 5u nuuy-coloreil marblet; but the- kiver himself, directed di-rected the lniildlng of the lmte t-o-chere under which tier carriage was to roll, so thjt, ste-pping out, slit-would slit-would not be touched by a drop of rain or a llako of snour. Everything Every-thing wai ready; the h.rsea were owing in thestablu waiting for the day to co.ae t hen they would carry their new mWre-ss out; the coacii-111.1:1 coacii-111.1:1 and the footman ha J tiicir big, white rosettes at hand to wear on the wedding-day; the Imw wax full of fragrance, for be-autlful tlower.-were tlower.-were Eia.-ed to please the e-omilig mistreM, and everyliiing s-eiued to Iw in harmony with all this thoughtful, thought-ful, loving can-; fur the sun shone bright, and It was somebody's wedding wed-ding day. Yts; but it wasn't an eattlily wedding, for when with quick fotte her m.thcr went to wake the exjiclant bride, she feuiid her dead. The last kiss she bad given hid ticeu to her lover the night In fore. The last kirf he ever gave any human U-ing he gave to her as she re-ttil 111 her coffin. Hut he lives on in the beautiful house-ami house-ami doc. Willi his great fortune, a deal of good, all iu the lunie of the woman he loved. The shutters are never opened in that wonderful house, the carriage has never been used, no feet have dauce-et iu the loll-room; but It ami the solitary man are there as evidences! id the fact that a love can so completely fill the heart that all life is nothing without ll. Uiak-t'JIotne Journal. |