Cons
SOME DAY.
Farewell, bright dawns and perfume-laden
_ airs,
Faint with the breath of roses newly
oo blown
Warm slumbrous noons, when sleep cur
haunting cares,
Long summer duy sand mights too swiftly
flown,
With sighs and sad regrets we saw you go:
Why did you leave us, who had loved you
go?
Neath sapphire skies, and starry;hedgerows
sweet
Laced with gold thread of gossamer, we
went,
Wild summer blooms beneath our wander
ing feet,
And summer in our hearts; our love
tent.
I will return
blow,
That time we said
in
}
i said, “whey roses
¥ ou
ALO
good-bye” a year
But I alone have seen them bloom and di
While you have passed beyond
shadows here
into the light. I'll follow bye-and-bye
Meantime I wait, and hold the roses dear
And summer sacred, for the love I bear
Until we meet again, some day, somewhere,
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Budell's Proposal.
This time two years ago our Square
Club was flourishing;
member. Budell, Marby, Smithers and
myself had formed
private bachelors club for the purposes
of whist and other
pations, and a very good time we
trived to together. We
many by-laws for our club.
now [ am sole
ourselves into a
intellectual occu-
con.
have hadn't
rules and
We were sworn bachelors, and each of
he did
us had to allege a reason why
not intend to wed; but we had so far
a change
recognized the possibility of
in our sentiments as to bind
yurselves to inform the club at
if we should ever meditate
our pleasures and doubl
he
POOL
$68." Smithers said
to marry; I was too
who - was regarded as
member, gave us
Sihlio
AAR ELL
¢)
stand that
between him and the
Budell at first
assigning a reason :
allege as his that
Budell vet. That
jected by the rest of
upon he insisted upo
that
were
an alternative
We
point in favor of Budell,
of ble
bachelor supper, and so we received th
ladies,
THs
the jolliest 1
second reason, For the rest, wi
resolved not to fiv, but t
temptation : our maxim was that
lady is charming so long
married to her ; and we were al
go into society, and even sustain
putation of being
used to relate to each
celibate pipes, wonderful stories of nar-
row escapes from guileful women every
season : but if these were all as depend
ent upon the narrator's fancy fortheir
important detail my
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somewhat more than hairbreadth. Bu-
TH os sus Vie,
dell was especially a
one of those
He was
: or } yy with Sis Tir
young barristers with some pra
he had. besides,
allowance from hi
a joke his
of ladies ;
there
was some
that
was in large company
long as Budell
LiKe thal
n & ball-room or any place an
he was quite at his ease, and as bold as
ap-
a temporary captive to a
a lion ; but if, by any chance, he Ii
pened to fall
solitary damsel’s bow and spear, he was
almost overwhelmed with nervousness,
and his usual powers of conversation
completely deserted him. I once met
him at the Royal Academy, escorting a
very pretty young lady, and looking as
uneasy as if he had had a worse con-
science than’ King Herod ; and 1 have
seen him tremble at a mere passing men-
tion of the conservatory by his partner
at a dance. However, in the Square
Club he was our most enthusiastic mem-
indignation filled
realized the direful
ber : and horror and
yur souls when we
fact that Budell was in
his best to be married
Had we been women we might prob-
love, and doing
ably have seen the symptoms of the ad-
$
malady: ‘but we were
Now, as I look
It call inci-
vancing
and short-sighted men.
back over these raonths, I
might | been
{ents that have
ty at the club, and the gradual increase
1v indeed have been portents, for Budell
always did go more into society than
The first that
the rest of us, allusion
dick was at a concert—or
cloak room, after a concert,
what I call a pretty girl,’ he whispered
to me: “there, that dark-eyed girl over
there in the warm, fleecy, brown shawl
—mnone of your flimsy white opera
cloaks.!’ The girl was pretty, in a fresh
and piquant sort of way; and even a
sworn bachelor might have been excused
for being pleased at receiving such a
frank smile as she greeted Budell with,
od to me, apropos dex bottes—**Met
rather an interesting girl last night;
- quite agrees with me on the subject of
James.” 1 may be excused for neglect-
~
tag this hint ; Budell, I think, would
there was nothing more objectionable
than to have one’s name murdered. He
was nervously
should be pronounced with the accent
an the second syllable, and I afterwards
“Just as though 1
rhymed to noodle’—as he indignantly
expressed it, But the most important
hint the night Mrs,
Burton’s Ball, at which we haa all been
present,
was given alter
rooms, and Smithers was giving us a
highly colored and graphic illustration
of
the frivolity that passes for conver-
sation between and maid-
ens. ‘That's
Budell ;
Why,
and
young men
all
's your
nonsense,’ broke in
fault
had
convel
“it own al
last night 1
interesting
any
rate. quite a
serious sation
about woman's education with a ‘maid-
I even to
quoted Seripture
ner.
hat
irreverent
‘Bet you a you misquoted,”
said the Smithers, who
thought every one was as ignorant as
himself,
“No; I'm not joking 3 it’s a fact and
I gotan idea or t me tell
Had he that he
tured
two. le you."
¢ Iv tld
OnIIY Loa us
had ven-
ervatory in order to
carry on |
ruption, I am convinced
tld have su
Judell paled
cold-blooded
app
two
ured he
OCCasions,
of a brother had importunely ap-
“I never knew a nice gir! that
brute
peared
iH a broths rr." fx
hastily
sion he had even
hadn't a
claimed Budell, generalizing .
and on the secon
got the lengt informing the object
of his affections {to adopt a phrase that
that he had
when her mother
used to madden Budell
something to tell her,
and he had hastily to devise
fact
evident that his nerve was
atts mp, I sug-
but it
voung lady, In talki
had
resorting to 80 cow-
entered,
some idiotic about a flower-show,
It was quite
third
y
not equal to a
gested that he should write;
I
seemed that tl
) val Yaa tos ¥ d4s2
certain novel, laughed the
1
{oo scorn on
ardly a plan as writing his proposal,
you her life in some
AVE
het asked the
Marby,
lr
feed dd
vou get overtaken
can’t
shower, and then you could neatly ask
to share your lot as well as your
umbrella ?*' suggested Smithers
Budell smiled faintly. ** It's all very
well for you fellows to make fun of it
haven't to do it yourselves;
when you
I wish to do it in a neat and
"
do well,
direct manner, without any bumbug.
“It's my opinion,” Smithers, that
in some altogether extraordinary and
absurd manner.”’
“Very well, sir," said Budell, with
dignity, + we shall see.”
tied before a dainty little damsel, who
couldn't even sit on a jury, came upon
us again with redoubled foree, and We
with renewed shouts of laughter.
Poor Budell could find no opportunity
He revolved drear-
ally interfered with my work by con-
putting skillfully
questions to me, devised to extract my
elaborated
opinion is
revealing her name, [I rose and fell in
desired
10
or not; and I
an imiense
lo
blonds and
mouths and small ears,
myself number of
the
brunette large
ete, “Whether
do you prefer,Greek or Saxon names for
opinions as
ladies 7’ he once asked me,
at that 1 liked them both
** No, but really,” he pe
randotn
ed, **1 mean modern
names
i 1
fromm those languages
Well”?
replied at a venture,
names. “*Dao
i do 1.
You
Fdith
cried, ‘‘her name is
judell blushed,
}
and I dare say bh
you?"
‘why, For example,
think
than
could find a prettier
anywhere,”
but cou
¢ oul
her surname also had
August
Will Carly
brought me ar
from im to spend a fortnight
in Seotland
Have
M roy,
11 ried
HEN
that
matrimony
re and ven bl
be got over, I at least had
would preserve me from
Budell burried into my room
0k here." he said
dees of 2 box! Smithers
propose to Miss Maxwell ;
hats Edith!”
“What |
Maxwell #"'
Yes,
Smithers,
ofl and 1°
you're both in |
Fiat
and Lid forward
will be sure to propos
5
and aller dinner
thom bile wal tableaux
goodness knows what Smithers will do
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I'm looking after the wire chexd
And
promised { arlvon to
while
«MTOW }
the East
then,
ve
1
ored to comfort him by
that Miss Muswell
refuse Smithers: Bude!
at the being
forestalled, He was palpably
and he looked nervout all dinnertime,
The company generally attributed it to
theatrical responsibility, but they were
I endeay SU
possibly
but
shuddered possibility of
upset
wrong :
as
tableaux vivants, Smithers, on the
other hand, had secured a seat beside
Miss Maxwell, and seemed to be making
himself vastly agreeable,
dinner, and they were a great success,
Budell had skillfully arranged them,
without attempting to make them into
propriate, or to have some reference to
|
tain was up. Curiously enough, in the
last tableau,
Smithers and Budell were to appear by
second
themselves |
the subject of it was * The Rivals."
Where Budell had got it 1 don’t know ;
probably It
upposed tobe a woodland scene in
A young
lady was discovered seated on a bank.
in his inner consciousness,
Wis 8
paint-and poy der day ",
with a lover kneeling at
has
her feet,
At al
and
he ls,
, Was a rival gla from among
at the unsuspecting pair. The
Miss Max
11 looked ver arwing in her cos-
and
baad all?
Budell 8 1L WAS
Wi
tume, Smither
glared splendidly,
SERRE yi ble
for his bac
i turned to the audience,
Up till now had all man
Put
had
seemed
the performers
rigid as statues :
8 Maxwell, who
Limes,
The
up a minute when she start
i Budell, id a
curtain had not
ivran off t
i Lie A
CEU Went on
capo
Sanitary.
checked,
)
as one vioiat
Good nutritive vi
{ {ri
good health.
nsuit God by abusis
of
Hundreds of
want of change
Sickness
waolnen
Th
the
habitual use tobacco
IMOTAI Seis,
or change of scens
§
and death ary wn of human si
brightest and
The
and action of our voung men
1
nabits of
gree unfriendly to life,
£ iy
pid consumption of the vital forces
means early decay and premature death,
Wheat, made into bread, puddings, ete.
Wiki mage nu twice over,
meat of any
A Mistake Easily Rectified
the
y both rise early and take
mistake, says London
inte
he rising early is good as a habit
if it not
does mean
chausted strength of brain and body
prolonging sleep when that neces-
There
to be some need of re-
sary luxury is at length enjoyed,
Appes
The fashion
rising and the
manly “tub,” but those who rise early
have, for the most part, sat up pro-
late, and the tub is chiedy
appreciated because it rouses the system,
and makes it feel—and feelings are very
This
i4 burning the candle at both ends, If
we must sit up half the night, it would
rise betimes and go in for arduous labor
after insufficient rest. Early rising
harmful without early resting.
Ss
A Palace of the Devil,
Another Effort for the
Of Monte Carlo~~Ceorge Sand’'s
Dascription,
The
Nice, Genoa and especially
injury sustained by Marseilles,
Mentone,
from the neighborhood of Monte Carlo
of
Planchet
the Revue deg
. hit
rid
tii
and its garning tables are the
g subject
an earnest article by Edmond
in the current number of
Monde .
Conse
dew These cities
% sxrill
SAYS, Wi
not their protests Yrane
for the sake of moral cleanling
Italy
the last
for reputations sake, e
public gambling establi
in Europe Ix
abolished
signed by a great nu
nt to the French
De Freyeinet
Lied
April,
{ Li
tain subject and
on the table,
TT j
Isler 's opposit the
inier ) Posi {is
the month
petitions a
realion
we hot seen to have a profou
When
1
AGIY served
Vi 36
Odie
f these o 1% of being)
walter answers by shruggin
shoulders and saving =O 1 wot
iif 9°
ul
Wark {to-nig
as best we can in a room
full of little tables the people *y
'
for, deafer
venturesses on the
ramble
§ i
the chattering of ad-
if «! by
lookout for a
We
meth
dinner
and a friend to pay for it. return to
the rooms to watch for s dra-
The
We
Town,
Hing
villainous smell drives
thi
1
situated on a little headland
matic, ne
away, rush to beach and
1 v 3 1s ¥
deliciously car
i ved amid the water
poor little place seems
did from the bad air
refuge
beautiful trees that sarmound it
“We elitnh the
forbidding
tragic int moonlight, The palace of
Prince is charming. It
me of the fanciful home of the
nor at Majarca. At nine in the éven-
ing the town is silent and deserted. We
House, and to sewk
the rock {o gloomy
old castle, It looks
he
reminds
(rover.
plash of the waves breaks the silence,
The moon has sunk below the horizon.
of the great rock and throw greenish
streaks across the white marble balus-
ters. The roulette is still going, the
nightingale sings, a child is weeping,
Queer Stories,
ATEN WITH ADVANCED IDEAS,
J. L. Beasly has a hen with a very
progressive turn of mind, She has
saratehed around and laid for her mas
ter a pair of eggs of entirely new design.
One egg contains the velk, the other the
a
| white. Both are joined together by a
| ligamentous membrane, something after
the style of the Siamese twins, — Sanie
Rosa Itepubli ivi,
EDUCATED CHICK ENS WHICH FISH,
of
{ some educated ehicke
Aaron Lowe, has
their
Hawkinsville,
ns, Among
numerous accomplishments is the saga-
hing jack worms,
been taught to take pine
run the
then
ithe jacks move the
them in
worms live. and
chickens,
the straws
T1164 of
Tom Jordon
1 ont
we them fishing
it]
eT ivifer € mie
MOUSE
-known
Fauquier
porses
of
has the
k ind,
conformation.
shape
chirps and
the bird
and
mocking
i
bird,
4
I EQUAL SWeelness 10
I A IULE
part Of
wl very
is very
Saks
will
WITH ESTHETIC TASTES
as handsome
dog,
| belonging generally {othe United States
| steamer John F,
North Beach ; but of late he
to
the legs of such individuals as
formerly a
| and good-natured Newfoundiand
Hartley, stationed at
has shown
insert his incisors in the
| a disposition
calves of
| came into his presence without a suit
| of broadeloth on to bespeak them as
| gentlemen, This particular abhorrence
| of persons illv-dressed gained so strong a
{ hold upon him as to induce him vester-
dry to takea clunk of of
leg of one of the attaches of the Hartley,
of that
On garments
the
flesh out ii
On aetount
individual
{| happening to have that
were eansiderably soiled in consequence
{ of having been at work cleaning ma-
chiery. The two bad, up to that time,
bean the best of frie the bonds
of affection were suddenly sundercd and,
after
ids, but
having his tied together,
Carlo was pitched into the bay, and in
the course of ten minutes he
for the lshes, -
1
Tegra
wis food
Sint Pranciseo Call
The strife of politics tends to unsettle
the calmest understanding and nlcerate
the most benevolent heart. There are
no bigotries or absurdities too gross for
parties to create or adopt under the
stimulus of political passions, Wiig
ple
———
M. de Lesseps is at present engaged in
stodying the plans of the projected canal
across the Isthmos Malacea, a work
which, when carried out. will abridge
by four days the voyage of vessels ply-
ing between Europe and the far East via
the Suer Canal,