a s—— SOLITUDE. om Laugh, and the world laughs with yeu ; evp, and you weep ulone, Yor the :ad old world must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Bing, and the hills will answer; Sigh it is lost on the air, The echoes hound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; rieve, and they turn and go They want tull measure of all your pleasure, But they du not need your woe Bo giad, and your friends are many ; Ba sad, and you lose them all. There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall. Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by Bucceed and give, and it haips you live, But no man can help you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a Inrge und lordly train But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. —ErLrLa WHERLER, -—- A Fair Exchange. “Diana ! my own darling Diana!” With a low cry of utter gladness the young man hurried forward and clasped the girl to his breast——clasped her and kissed her, and looked down joyfully into the startled violet-blue eyes, but she, laughing and blushing in love em- barrassment, tore herself out of his arms and stood shyly before him. “I’m not Diana—I'm. only Dolly,” she said. ‘“‘And you must be Roy Doug- lass, though I did not know Diana was expecting you home so soon.” ‘‘She was not expecting me, 1 planned to take her by surprise. Is it possible this is little Dolly ? You were in short frocks when I went away, my dear. You are the living image of your sis- ter,” he said, regarding her with a min- gled look of surprise, confusion and ad- miration. “Oh, indeed !"” answered Miss Dolly, no. particularly flattered. “But she is a great deal older than T am.” “Of course,” murmured the voung man, more aud mere confounded ; “you are the picture of what she was five years ago when I saw her last.” is a “I am eighteen and sister twenty-three,” remarked Delly, wi little air of superiority, looking straight up into the eyes of this tall fine-looking fellow whom she thought most “taking’’ gentleman she had ever met, and who, she knew, had made a my th y guite ihe clear twenty-five thousand by his five years’ labor, ‘But Diana is just as prettyas ever,” she added patronizingly, “and will awfully glad to have you back, 1 pose, she doesn’ have mueh fun, you see, for the fellows all understand she’s engaged ; I'm glad you've come {or her, | be sup- at last, before she gets to be a downright old maid. Shall I run to the house and tell her ?*° “I have been to the house and spoken to your mother ; Diana was out here in the garden, she said, and that was one reason I made the mistake, I suppose.” he said dreamily, his eyes still lingering on the beautiful fresh, so piquant, so perfect, Dolly was a born coquette, and selfish to the core of her vain little heart, She was fully aware of the impression she | was making; even now she was thinking “would it be possible to cut Diana out, and catch this handsome and*generous feiiow for herself ?¥ For the Davenports were poor, and Dolly longed for costlier dresses and jewels to set off her beauty, she envied her older sister her good luck; beaux Dolly had in superabundance, but among them none such as this— rich and fascinating. She glanced up at him from under her long curling lashes. “It's too bad I got the first kiss,'’ she laughed, the soft color flying to her wild-rose face. “Diana will be furious.” “Don’t tell her then,” murmured Roy, laughing a little, too, and unable to withdraw his admiring gaze from the lovely young girl. “Five years,” 1 never thought about their changing Diana ; yet of course 1 am older as well as she.” “Oh, but a mana man ought to be eight or ten years the older.” “You think that do you, Miss Dolly?" he asked. “Why, of course, My lover must be all of that.”’ “Have you any one in p# vticular in your mind’s eye, Dolly?” asked, laughing because she laughed, “Not yet,” with a little affected gigh. ‘*‘Somehow the youths of our rural neighborhood hardly come up to my ideal. But really I must look about for my sister. You must be dying to see her, 1 know, after all these years, Why, five years to me seem like half a lifetime ! I wonder you've had the pa- tience to stand here listening to my nonsense : T wont tell Diana how you took me for her, Roy Douglass himself wondered why he had remained by Dolly and let her talk without demanding to see his sweet heart. - He had come into that sweet June garden, eyes and heart aglow, his whole soul rushing in advance of his} footsteps, far now, at last, aftr “long toll and endeavor,” the supreme hour so intensely longed for waa here, whe. flower-like face 80 leve round him once again.” arbor, dressed in white, and he had all it bad not been his Diana, but that He was conscious of a slight shrinking from the idea of the first meeting now with the Diana. Meantime, not six feet showers of rose-petals drooping now white as death, her hand her did not learn that she had over- heard their little chat, “Dolly was always entirely selfish,” and now she will try to win him.” into the house, “My dear, has come.” Roy slipping up to her room. “Yes, mamma, ‘I must smooth my hair.” Once safe in her room, she looked herself long and sadly in the mirror, at “If I am pale and grave and thought- ful,” she murmured, I have become so if } waiting and watching for him. pined away my roses, Yes, Dolly lovely-—soft aud tender and lovely as as the roses out there—and and she will break my heart.” It was half-an-hour and over before Dolly brought for Diana, Roy to the house in the search who was waiting in the cool, din, jasmine-scented parlor, pale and * - ¥ 1 quiet and os i - » of red Oclober was The fiery trail land, There were coral he (reat ch over all the seed-cups on the vines over t trellis, 1 3 x ionger. imps of but roses no chrysanthemums flamed in the garden, but the he liotrope amd mignonette were no more. A perfect glory of moonli flood WOME Ye 3 \ bind 1 the long poreh which gay to the roomy plain widowed mother lovely daughter morrow she wa hom There ware a el Lert ¥i Td Ug the bridesmaids as well a 1ht white glay of and best men, 4 two % $30 £ } rive L : + * Ix BY, CINDER 1HEHDLLY LO Ls of lovers strong arm of R side by had promised to had fallen in love with Dolly first, oy Douglass, and Diana ti Side with the man ary -—a suitor but on being re had turned to the older sister, ap- parently as well salislied—a widower Y, out u a wealthy health : merchant with ten times that sum; fifty years of habits, “He was not a bad match for Diana," her friends said. “She was so quiet, the great differ- ence in their age would not be so ob- servable ; and really, after the way Doug- lass jilted her for her sister, it must be quite a triumph for her to make such a match before his very eyes.” Oh yes, it must be a great triumph ! Doubtless Diana felt it so, as she walked proudly and calmly by Mr, Burleigh’s side, her fair face fairer still in the brooding whiteness of the moon, her beautiful eyes lifted to the shining heaven with a strange look in them, To many she seemed lovelier than her more blooming sister, a lily purer and more gracious than any rose. As they ‘passed and repassed each other in the moonlit promenade, Roy's eyes were always lifted from the piquant face of his own partner and fixed with troubled scrutiny on that other quieter face, but his anxious look was never returned, “I declare, Roy,” pouted his bride elect, ‘‘you seem to be waik ing in your sleep, “If you are going to be silent and stupid, 1'll steal Diana's fellow and let her have you. Come, Mr. Bur- leigh, let us run away and hide, like poor Ginevra, It's a glorious night for a walk.” Dropping Roy's arm she ran up to the other couple, with that pretty, spark ling, half-defiant ways of bers, J “You have got to fend him to'me for a while, Di. I'll give you Roy to keep for a few minutes, as a little girl lends her dolls, Be sure you are careful of him, and ‘don’t let lim get broke,’ “I'm afraid he's sullen to-night-—or sorry, who knows?-and I'd rather have Mr, Burleigh.” Dally could say all sorts of things with safety. People only smiled at her folly ns at that of a pretty child, But ‘Roy's face flushed dark as she dragged the elderly fiancée away from his be » arm? 1 She would not refuse it, though he observed her hesitate, In a minute they were walking along the graveled drive, on into the frost-kissed garden, along the winding path shining in the moonlight. Finally in the very arbor where he had met and kissed Dolly, Roy suddenly stopped and threw at his com- panion a look that turned her pale cheeks even paler, | trollable, burst from him in a few des- perate words— ** Diana, why have you treated me 80, since I came back ? I came to you, after five years’ toil for us both, faith- ful, loving, ardent, and you froze me ! with a look ! What I have suffered under none but myself will was dead. the blow | know. but I must ask why you treated me so very cruelly 2%’ “It is late, as you say ; and you seem to have comforted yourself, Roy," | ‘*Abh, now you are bitter, Would vou | like it better if you had crushed all life | and hope out of me? You tried hard Little Dolly was kinder | liked me and was sorry for me, | [ shall try to make her enough! she wus grateful to her happy ; fer me in this world,” toy IV? The passionate ring of {| voice thrilled him with wonder. pain in her “ Diana!" ‘It | for you to Sy this to me now! is wicked Roy, IT was within hearing of vour every word, when vou came back that day, met my sister on this very spot, me, kissed her for me her for once I Was, herself. She Oh, Was to you w she was fair and gay, and the pink of her checks wis more to vou than the white of mine, worn white and thin for love and longing for him who came he to ind me faded and ne 1 " $ . in love wit ’ sad —and to fall hh my sister, *As heaven is over us, Diana, you do me | mistake strange injustice, I did Dolly for you, and I be In my heart 1 and con- Bees 1 v ALISA TR her cause she wa y 3 ‘ i VYAaniLy, WSL In Ove minutes not HN Very the sight of the girl 1 ; You know how you in speechless love at Ls grave, noble, beautiful whom thought my ow: you chilled And, to be received me, Diana—how how you shrank from me. asked ir, | me Diana, the very day you free of your engagement, po foolish fond le Dolly threw herself | arms and asked me to take her instead. [1 never ean her: bit | good to her for your sake, Diana, | seems 80 strange to me that you, of all Ties ind into my love women, should be cold and worldly— for it is the money alone for which you must be marrying this other man.” He stood aud looked at her as if try- ing to understand and read the beauti- ful woman who baffled him. He looked haggard in the moonlight—unutterably sad and hopeless. Her dark blue eyes his for a moment, then her white face was buried in ber hands, searched “It is all a mistake on both sides,’ she said. ‘1 was too proud--too sensitive— and Dolly was too artful, She has hurt me, Roy, to the d ath. I thought that you liked her best—that I was forgetten ~that you would be glad to be free, And so I spoke; but it broke my heart. Oh, Roy, why do [ tell you this now ? It is too late.” “Oh, Dolly, cruel Dolly I" mocked a voice, but it was not Roy's, Oh, wicked Dolly !** went on the merry, mocking voice. And then Diana raised her startled facé from her hands atid looked won- deringly about. There, close beside her, stood her naughty sister. “It’s the very strangest thing,’ she went on, unbluslingly,; ‘of all coinci- dences it is the luckiest—that Mr. Bur- leigh should just have been telling me that it was me he first and last and only wanted, though my sister was awfully nice and all that; and I liked his money, and now I have come to ask, please, may I have him, Diana ?-~' ‘a fair exchange is no robbery,’ they say, and it will be such fun to surprise everybody.” a —- The Supreme Court at Montgomery, Alabgma, holds the revenue law passed by the late Legislature void, because of the omission from the bill as enrolled antl signed of certain words in the bill when passed, The new law reduced the tax to five and a half mills, a W. A. Levan and Augustus Ever hard, representing the Reno Roek Com wall, Penna., while making s oF thie rend rock ping blast Gry A Race for a Kiss, How a Nevada Woman Cured Her Husband of Tippling. A butter-peddler from Honey Lake relates, with great glee, how a neighbor of his was cured of too frequent tipping the gin bottle. This neighbor married a young, handsome and spirited lady, in the house and about the farm ; then the husband fell back into his old tricks. | The wife remonstra ed, and, Jor a time, | the husband reformed. Presently, how- | ever, she became satisfied that the “bottle tipping” was again going on. | When she spoke to her husband about the matter he swore that the “‘aroma’’ | she detected was that of a colic medi- j cine he was taking, he having devel- { oped a most intractable colic, for tle | relief of which he had brought home | and paraded a bottle of medicine, The wife was confident that there was kept somewhere about the premises a | eonsiderable store of a very different kind of medicine, She kept her own i counsel, and, at the same time strict watch. In a day or two she disgovered i under a manger in the barn the seeret | hoard. Bhe said nothing of the discov- | ery to her husband. | Soon after the husband had business ata neighbor's some two miles away. | On his return he was somewhat sur- | prised at seeing a note pinned upon his front door. He hastily advanced and | read as follows : | Bex: You will find the key of the i house where you keep your colic medi- i cine. I have taken Kitty and gone home | tomy mother. Father and brother Bob { will come to-morrow for the trunk in { which I have packed my things, } NELLIE, The husband rushed to the barn, At a glance he saw that Kitty, his wife's | mare and the side saddle were gone, Dartin his corpul he hauled out of g g to the manger ent demijohr in, and sus pended from its nec +} wie Securing the key, he sent the demi- HOUSE, Bounding forth, he post of the barn, the horse he ran to and mounted left standing in front of his house, Away he dashed. It to the house of his father-in-law, wis len miles and his wife he was determin 10 overtake before she could reach it or kill a horse in the attempt, Said the butter oan : Ben's wife come over the mile south of my Kitty, and begin to After the hill she paced up and down the r ikis 1 he i LE house. « HAT werform r abolutions she'd got 3 for a time; then she rid up and looked i After look- rid uj aA : 3 t ¥ { over the ridge for a while, in’ & bit she turned about and and down the road a few times ; kill again, f went up to the brow o' the | Bo she kept doin’, an onee or twice she { the hill. *‘1 was puzzled as to whether she wus | waitin’ for somebody or had lost some. { thing while her on way to her father’s | place some four miles beyond my house. I was just about to walk out that way when | T seed hor wheel Kitty round from the | brow o' the hill and begin to ply her | whip. “In balf a minute she was flyin’ past my place likea wild woman. 1 stood at roy front gate by the roadside, ready to hollor out at her to know what was up, but, bless you, she never looked to’ards me. Her eves seamed sot in her head, her face was pale and at every jump she let into Kitty with a whip. 1 swar’ her ridin*-skirl fairly eracked as she bounded past, ““Jiet then 1 heerd a tremendjus clat- ter behind me. Tumin®' about, I seed Ben acomin’ over the pitch of the hill on his big black hoss, like a wild Coman- che, He was ridin’ with loose reins, leanin’ away for'ard and diggin’ lus big spurs into his horse like he'd rip his insides out. ““He passed by, with hairand coattails sailin’ back in the wind, and never turn- ing his head to right nor left. I thought I seed murder in hiseye. 1 tell vou, a million thoughts went through my brain ina second, All the stories I'd ever heard about jealous husbanis and in sane husbands went through my head in a lump, and I do believe if I'd my gun in my hand I'd have taken a wing- shot at him on suspicion. “I seed Nell look back once and then ay the whip on Kitty hotter'n ever, Bén was goin’ like the wind. I knowed Nell was headed for her father’s, and I seed plain as day that Ben would get her ' fore ghe was safe landed, “At last he was upon her, It was neck and neck for a time, with Ben reaching out for Kitty's bridle. At Inst he got it, and the two horses grad ually slowed up till they finally stopped I meunted my gate-post all of a trem. ble, expectin’ to see somethin’ dreadfu bappen. ; ; “They stopped in the road talkin' nigh onto half an hour; then I seed Ben lean over and Nell lean over till thar two heads come together, “ ‘What the mischief I! says I, ‘kissin’ instead of killin’. Well, that sort 0’ ad in’ the pair turned about and came slow- ly joggin® along back, “As they passed me I called out to out to me: ‘Only a race for a kiss!’ and givin’ Kitty a cut that made her bound ten feet, she called out to Ben : went, “That was five year ago, and 1 never scarum ride till ‘bout three ago, when the story bout the ‘colic medicine’ leaked aut among the wimmin® folks, For a good while after the ride. howsumever, I remember of the neigh- bor men wonderin’ what had come over gin all of a sudden, and wouldn't 80 much as take a glass o’ Oregon cider, *“To this day no doubt Ben thinks Le had a desperate chase after Nell and a narrow escape of her gettin'® into tle home den’ long jwith her big brother, I've never maid the hill.” ont Ac: For the Fair Sex. How 10 MARE Spring SILKS. —A simple plan is varied in divers ways, and illustrates many of the new feat- ures, for trimmings. | velvet or of embroidery, or else velvet of the The sides are short cn the hips to the waist line on most YE Ee 19 18, and have one, two or t or else they are turned upward | faced 5 em ACTORS, O1 roriery { luce placed along the edges to { ward and hang with points down. { back middle forms of { Ale 3 i | preased very carelessly box-pleated, a Yai ly ‘ Yrs i nally, al inany have t Less | forms shaped plainly, and edged with | two or three rows of embroidered *§ 3 as $. 2 | The sleeves are rounded out very i Tull at the top, and i Any mserted that sie pes 10 a point } 4 4 + t+} 1 i i 3 between the shoulder and elbow, is oinamented there odd Some of with al { little bow of velvet rib Don. 4 a} . TR w 3 ’ {vy i “ | the sKirts have very low ront drapery, or ng foot, while others are quite flat in front uy § i " 4 * vi in folds or pointed almost to the I With rows of wide velvet ribbon a 0 « | Ince placed there When higher drapery is pre- the § Apron. is around skirt, or or peibaps one ferred, a soft puff put hips above a box-pleated a squarely draped apron, side of the apron iscaugsht up high i Greek fashion. checks of the smallest A dress of stem green size. Har- per’s Bazar, has strawberry red sprays SaVE brocaded upon that part used for the This short basque, pointed in back and front, has a Direc- toire collar of darker stem green velvet : this is netched, and is pointed down to ciose around the neck is a standing collar of velvet fast- ened by agreen velvet of many loops of narrow ribbon, and a similar L Lhickly clustered bow is on the back of the basque instead of Dbox-pleats, The small flat buttons are wooden moulds covered with any scrap of the silk, some of the buttons show. ing the red brocaded figure, and others merely checked. The lower skirt, checked without being brocaded, forms five wide double box-pleats down the front and side breadths, separated by panels of velvet that fill all the spaces basque and drapery the waist line, while bow between the pleats. Five rows of inch- wide velvet ribbon cross the pleats near the foot. The brocaded checked silk drapes the upper part of the front diago- nally, and four breadths of it are bunched up in he back and fall to the foot, Brack Six Wraps. —In Ottoman silk these are short round visites with high shoulder effects and very bouffant behind, or else théy are mantillas with cape-like back and half-long fronts cul in points that slope away from the waist, or with square corners, or else gathered to a tassel of chenille fringe. On the visites there is fullness on the lower part of the sleeves that makes the sides bouf- fant, and this forms the bishop sleeves; or else the high-shouldered dolman effect iS merely rounded on the arm, it may be folded under in square sleeves |, all such arrangements and the two or three rows of trimmings across the sides are features of the visites, and these, as well as the bouffant back forms, are brought out more conspicuously by having strings underneath that tie around the waist, and make the back sit very closely to the figure. The new passementeries of satin cords in large figures that may be cut apart and set about as single ormn- —e . rows that extend down the two seams of the back, joining the middle forms to in the same way, Black laces and the sleek chenille fringes are put on very full on the edges of these gar- ce down the fronts, meeting and eon- cealing the small buttons that fasten the visite, Ou the edges of the garment cords of guipure meshes ; there are also newer laces with Spanish signs on the fine round meshes of thread lace ; these, with real griipuire the well-known French imitations of thread lace, are the accepted trim: Around the neck full fr de RCE Ane Lng I's of sometimes there are two standing are very to make this frill. Instead of iuhats of lace down the front there mav be very full gathered frills. one of it set directly on the edge, omy which the while For elderly ladies these mantles are cut much longer, but Bramep Costumes, —Brading has gained such great favor that it will be It has escaped of soutache and eord and the beautiful effects of relief which {| had been unknown so d whi far, ai { which shows in raised work over the Wheels of cond ’ wT: 2 IT, ! 4 pringing link of extreme ly fashionable trimmings, The link { comes from Feng (ert re unger Lie circu Matched =) OF a deeper shade, are more fashion. and dis Pars of id, : 7. ab aries of the LILAL rit & Seas 7m COUATASLInYE Colors Culina: y Conceits. Take ex nd season ASHIRE 'IE a beef or as { mashed pota- table, put ina a layer of meat, toes, and so on, till MLAs I Blsre place | brown. URANGE CARE. —Twelve eggs 5 HOE AlN half k« Sponge Cake, one orange, and “ anc jelly-cake pans, Take the yalf grated kr Pad 4 an & / 3 wiles of two eggs, | a pound of juice and peel of one orange and half a lemon. Beat it ane Bread it beet wes Inihe Try this AVES Of Lhe cakes 8 a favorite, Take f pork, cake, It Conrx AxXD BraN Sovp pounds of beef, a pound of } pint of black soaked over night), a large onion, a small car rot, a head of celery. Put the nzredients the with a gallon of eold water, and let simmer gently for five or six hours. Take off and let get cold ; remove the grease and place on the stove to boil again About an hour before dinner add a quart of canned corn. Stra'n the soup, season with Cayenne pepper and salt. and serve it with or without the addition of boil- ing cream. iw a or pavy beans ahove mito soup pot CHICKEN Pie with OysTERS, Bail the chicken—a year old is best—until tender, drain off liquor from a quart of oysters, boil, skim, line the sides of dish with a rich crust, put in a layer of chick- en, then a layer of raw oysters, and re- peat until dish is filled, seasoning each layer with bits of butter, pepper, salt, and adding the oyster liquor and a part of the chicken liguor until the liquid is even with the top layer; now cover loosely with a crust having an opening in the centre to allow steam to escape. If the liquor cooks away, add chicken gravy or hot water, Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven. Make gravy by adding to chicken liquor left in pot (one quart or more} two tablespooniuls of flour, rubbed smooth with two table spoonfuls of butter, and seasoned high- ly with pepper; let cook until there is noraw taste of flour, and serve, CABBAGE SBALAD.—Put a cup of vinegar and a cup of milk on to heat in separate sance-pans . when the vinegar boils add butter, sugar, salt and pepper, and stir in about two quarts of finely ‘hopped cabbage ; cover, and let seald and steam-—pot hoil—for a moment ; meanwhile remove milk from stove, cool a little and stir in the well-heaten and strained yolks of four eggs ; return to stove and boil a moment. Dish the cabbage and pour custard over it; stir rapidly with a silver spoon until well mixed and set at once in a cool place. Serve when ice cold. This is a deli ments are used on these in separate pieces pA
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