Cara Imago.

Yet even now on this hazy scene , Thy bright face seems to shine , And on the trust which once has been , Thy glad smile beams benign ! So that neither desolate nor forlorn ,

When hope is fled and vain , I still look on to a radiant morn , When I shall see thee again . No longer only a vision In shadoAvy form supreme ,

No more in sad transition Thou art only a fading dream ; But full of thy fond affection Which lightened each hope of dust , Beyond fear and dark dejection , Thou livest for love and trust ! NEMO .

Harry Watson;

HARRY WATSON ;

OR , THE SECRETS OP FREEMASONRY . BY H . A , M . HENDERSON . From the " Kentucky Freemason . " "AND are you going to join the Masons and

have secrets you cannot tell your Avife 1 " said Mrs . Watson to her young husband , as he got up from the tea-table and informed her of his purpose to unite with the Lodge that night . The question was put in a pouting Avay , and loaded with

that tone of remonstrance which women knoAV so well how to use , and which is more poAverful than the words employed . Let a Avoman put her heart into her speech , and words seem to take on fresh forms as they fall from her ruby lips , and

even common ideas are transformed into poetic fancies as they pass through the alembic of her mind . Mr . and Mrs . "Watson had been married but a year , and during this time he had told his Avife all his troubles and plans , and

entrusted to her keeping everything he knew , or felt , or learned . She , therefore , could not well bear the thought of his coming into possession of facts or principles that he could not disclose to her . Then he had never left her sight after

nightfall , but had lingered to listen to her voice translate to his enchanted ear the grand conceptions of the old bards sublime , or to hear her own tuneful measures in song thrill his soul with the sweetest accents . Should he join the Lodge , he

would go to its meetings and she would be deprived of her audience , and the lonely hours would hang heavy on her hands . Then , too , her pastor was violently opposed to ail secret societies , and she feared his saintly frown when it was

known that Mr . Watson had plighted faith and entered into covenant with a society deemed by his reverence as sacriligious . All these things were gently gone over in a trembling tone that seemed to be pathos itself , ancl each sentence Avas punctuated

with a bright , sparkling tear , while the liquid eyes gazed pleadingly into those of the husband . Harry Watson felt sorry that he had applied for admission , and could he have Avithdrawn his petition that moment he would doubtless have done so , but he had been balloted for and elected , and the

Craft had congratulated him on the clear ballot he had received , and a special meeting had been appointed for his initiation , and an expert in conducting the ritual exercises had been invited from abroad , and to parley then with hesitation seemed to him unworthy of a resolute manand

, treachery to those who had honoured him with their votes and provided the very best conditions for his introduction to the venerable Order . So mustering up courage , he engaged in the first argument with his wifeand said : " Darling , my

, father was a Mason , and for many years engaged in the benevolent labours of this ancient Craft , haA'ing a most exalted opinion of the nature , design and Avorks of the institution . Many times have I heard him detail it labours of mercy . When he died

he requested that I should take his place in the Lodge . He was borne to burial by his brethren , and from the hour I turned from his grave , I have had a purpose to unite Avith the Order he loved so Avell in life , and that had laid him in Ms grave with such tender fraternal hands when dead .

"It is selfish for a man to live for himself , and exhaust his heart upon his family , It is true that' Charity begins at home , ' but it should not end there . All vital