ARISH LOVE SONG: oon von Ah! swan of slenderness, dove of tender as ness, Jewel of joys arise! a The little rod lary Nike a rosy spark Of song to his sunburdt flies; But till you are risen, earth is a prison, Full of my captivesighs, | ; : Then awake, and discover to your fond lover The morn of your matchless eyes. The dawn isdark to me; hirk, oh! hark to me, Pulse of my heart, I pray, And gently x'iding out.of thy hiding, Dazzle me with thy day! : And off} 111 fly to thee singing and sigh to thee, Passion so sweet and gay. . The dark shall listen and dew-drops glisten, } Laughing on every spray. i mn A Boi Chosen. Geraldine Spencer was the only daughter of the well-known Colonel Hubert Spencer, one of the wealthiest planters of Mississippi. The colonel was a flery-blooded gentleman of the old school in those days * before the war,” of which we are speaking. His ed friend of Washington. Fiis father. was a brigadier general in the last waf with Great Britain, and’ the colonel himself was a graduate of West Point, and one of the most dashing and daring officers under old Rough-and-Ready,” | “1am glad to have you, daughter ; but it does seem to me that you treat some of your callers with rodeness,”’ Then, if 1 were they,” said the proud_girl, touching the magnolia to her nose, “I wouldn't make callers of mgself.” “1 should think not,” commented the colonel, with a little sniff at the curious expression she flung at him, “I have & ‘very high regard for Sydney, Geral- dine.” + Have you #' she asked with indif- ference, which, in reality, was assumed, though her father did not: perceive it. “What is there about him for you to admire." . “Well, he is the only surviving son of my. intimate, deceased friend, Capt. Williams, of the army. The captain was one of the bravest and noblest men who ever trod this feot-stool, and Syd- ney’s looks ard manner make me feel ‘sure he is simply another edition of his father. He bas a fine education, is manly-looking, and is going to make his mark in the world. He has prac- tied law only two years, and has a reputation as high as any who are double fig years. I like Sydney very much.” 3 ‘More than ny ore who comes here 7’? asked the daughter, holding th ‘magnolia again to her nose, while she in the pienic of a war whieh we had with Mexico a generation ago. : Colonel Spencer was the leader 8 some of the most da ri exploits south. of the Rio Grande, He was compli mented more than once in the official | dispatches, and a brilliant military ca- | reer—that is, as the state of the country | permitted—was before him, had ‘he | chosen to adopt the military profession ; | but though the colonel would-have pre- | ferred fighting to eating, he resigned | his commission in the army, and went home to his plantation in Mississippi. He knew what a horde of hungry young officers were clambering and | clattes-¢lawing for positions in the | army, and he preferred they should | have them, especially as he saw a pros- | pect of a lengthy peace before the coun- | try ; a period of idleness for the army, | his to death. He perceived all this, we say, and | went back to his plantation on ihe Mississippi, and devoted: himself to. lis | family. The latter consisted of his only Bon and daughter. Hubert, named, of course, after himself was in his second year at West Point ; the wife was dead long ago ; and Geraldine presided over his household. One reason “why, perhaps, there was such a strong affection between father and daughter was because they were £0 much alike. She was high-spirited, as independent and as proud #s he, “She was as beautiful as an houri, with her | wealth of jet black, waving hair, her brilliant complexion, her marvelous eyes, her matchless figure, her patrician features and her wonderful grace of voiee and manner, . Geraldine ‘had fimmberless admirers and devotees. - Many from the Narth, where she had spent a couple of years, | and her own sunpy South produced | niyriads, but she seemed to care for | none of them. The colonel used to chide Ber at times for her repeated snubbings she | gave her callers, without regard to their social position and standing. She would leave. them. at. any. time, and go with | her father on a tramp through the woods or fishing in the river. : After all, there is nothing so captivat- ing in a pretty woman-—or any woman, | for that matter—as an absolute inde- | pendence of character, an independence which preserves one’s self-respect at all times, and humbles the pride of the proudest of ‘the lords" Li just. that. sort. of woman that all are most anxious to secure for a prize One summer afternoon Geraldine and her father were sitting inthe shade of the long, low porch which extended in gront of their house, . The colonel was smoking his cigar, and the daughter, who was richly dressed, was gently rocking back and forth, and looking oR at the yellow Mississippi, along which #1 - high-decked » was laboriously glanced furtively at her unsuspicious 8 “Well, yes,” he returned, “I can say Ido. But why Isn't he here ?"' he added, looking sharply around. “He is waiting for me.” “Didn't I see him dressed up in some sutragéons "sutt Something of a nature make up ?"’ asked the father, with an gmused but puzgled expression. “If you saw him at all during the last hour, you did.” “What is the meaning of it ¥"’ “He is to play the part of agentleman of the old school in a little comedy which he has gotten up, and which is to be given at the privatetheatricals of Mme. Choteau’s, next week, for the benefit of “And youand he have been rehears- He wanted Our two characters are the most important ones in the piece, and Sydney is anxious that we shall ful- ly sustain them. We rehearsed alone. jut, father, such an extraordinary thing took place while we were doing 80, tell you.” “You don't seem to have been ina hurry,’ said he, looking wondering at her, ‘for you have been here ua half hour.” The lovely daughter hesitated a mo- ment before replying. A very singular thing for her to do. “He wished me to leave him for a short time.” “Ah. that's it! Very well. I'm satis- fied to have you here.as long as you will And the colonel looked with pride upon his beautiful daughter, who re- called so vividly her mother when she before. It was just like the proud, young woman, who, without any appearance of excitement or agitation of manner, came to the momentous subject which was really the cause of her being there, “You say, father, that you ad- very much ?” “That is substantially what I said.’’ “As much as any young gentleman of your acquaintance ?* “Really more.” “How would you like bim for a son- in-law 7’ The colonel turned, as if struck by a pistol shot, and looked keenly at his daughter, without speaking for a full minute. Geraldine herself seemed to be ‘pleking the sprig. of magnolia, while she looked unconsciously down at it; but; for all her forced composure the : grept up under the rich much as she uo the fact from her father that ber was throbhing a Suddeniyhe exola on Safe “What 1" i olaimed:ay ¥ SF think you heard. me, father,” said Geraldine, ir a low voice, without trust Tog herself as yet to look up. © © “Are you in earnest, my daughter? Bn “Have you him would scarcely ask me to marry him, unless he thought pretty well of me,”’ “Of course—of course ; but do you love him ¥”’ “With my whole heart and soul !" There was a fervency, a depth of feel- ing in this exclamation, accompanied by the flushed cheeks, the sparkling eye and tremulous hand that rested in the palm of her father, which spoke her soulful earnestness, “Well, if that's the case,” said Col, Spencer, throwing away his cigar, ‘‘all I've got to say is you are both con- founded simpletons if you don’t get married—there !"’ This was a consent with considerable emphasis. Poor Geraldine ! the proud, brave girl broke down at last, She knew it would be a terrible sacrifice for her father to yield her to another, and she held the {gravest doubts of ever receiving his willingly, that she could only throw her arms about his neck and murmur between her sobs— {ived, and I hate to leave you.” ‘Never mind about that,’ he replied, soothingly. “I know it will be your happiness to do so. I could never for- give myself if I stood in your way. I fifths of the time. put you both out of the house.” The happy Geraldine gave her father another hug, and seemed loth to leave hint; but he said © is waiting for your answer. tell him. 1 hope he will feel better.” “I know he will,” was the laughing utterance of Geraldine, as she tripped Away. Sydney Williams was but a short dis tance off. As the father turmed his head to follow his daughter, he saw the man's head, covered with its huge, curly wig, resting upon his arms, as though he were asleep—though that was hardly possible under the circum- stances, As Geraldine passed beyond she caught sight of her lover, and turned that he did not hear her, suit of a former generation, Geraldine stoed moment, throbbing heart, looking down and admiring him ; then, seized by a with #till held. Sydney moved as though it were a fly, and then she laughed in a low, soft, his head and look longingly up into the beautiful face. **Oh, speak !’' be gasped, has he con- sented The poor fellow’s whole soul was the question, and she saw how cruel it was to keep him in suspense, pletons if we don’t marry each other.” Sydney caught her in his arms, aud it may be said that the contract was sealed then and there. The young man was always partial to the sweet perfume of the magnolias, but now since it is associated so inti mately with his winning the love of his heart, there is nothing in the world of a vegetable nature to which he is #0 partial as a sprig of magnolia. An Old Story, but Still True. Timothy Ruggles was six feet six inches in height and had a fine and stately bearing, and was a man of “in- finite jest.” It is related through tra- ditional sources that the coming in of the SupremeCourt of Judicature at Barnsta- ble, about the year 1742, headed by Chief Justice Lyne, an old woman came into the Court House as a witness, and not seeing a seat at hand she was directed by Ruggles to take the Chief Justice's seat, and so she innocently took it. Soon the Court, in all the provincial pomp and circumstance, entered with The Court;’ whereupon the Chief Justice, with no small degree of indig- pation, inquired of the.old lady ‘why she was there.” She immediately man. told me to take this seat.” The Chief Justice ordered her to leave his ‘bes , and aftér the Judge had taken it, 1 turning to Ruggles with a proper degree of indignation and firmness, said : “*Mr. Ruggles, why did you give this woman my seat ?*' Ruggles replied : “I thought it a good place for old women.” Xo nw DI nmin ss MAI bm. A certificate of incorporation of the th ge Telegraph Company was fled New York. ‘The line is to run from all intermediate points desired, The fixed at $2,000,000 in Personally, Captain Gronow was a remarkably handsome man, always faultlessiy dressed, and generally popu- lar in society, But, as we have already remarked, he says little about himself in his ‘‘Reminiscences,” and, beyond the fact of a casual allusion to his marvelous skill us a pistol-shot, we learn nothing of his accomplishments from his books, He and Captain Ross were, by the way, unquestionably the two best pistol shots in the world, Captain Ross was in- timutely acquainted with Gronow, and has given the following authentic ac- count of a celebrated duel, in the Bois de Boulogne, in which the latter was engaged, Gronow’s antagonist was a notorious French bully, famed for his deadly skill with the pistol, “*Gronow,!’ gays Captain Ross, ‘told us the story, | He said that the Frenchman stuck his | glove on & tree, and, in a swaggering | tone asked Gronow which finger he | should hit ; and, after hitting the glove, | he said to Gronow: ‘I will serve you {in way.’ Captain Tiesse (Gronow’s second, afterward killed ina | duel) said to him : “You must do some- { thing to try and shake that fellow’s | nerve : so Le threw up his hat in the | air, and Gronow put his bullet through it, and then, bowing to the Frenchman, ' Monsieur, A few minutes and the destiny was ful. filled. Gronow was anything but a At- tempts were made several times to get up a mateh between him and myself, but he would not go imto it. He told me that since his duels in Paris (he fought two) he could not bear the sight of a pistol. It would have been a rare match. as neither of us had ever been beaten ; and, as we never tried our skill together, it is impossible to say who would have won, At very long ranges (from fifty to a hundred yards) I proba- i bly would have had the best of it, as] practiced a good deal at those L Gronow’s later the same said ; voila votre destine | | quarrelsome or bullying person. anges.” i i aptain YEArs were | passed in Paris, where he diea on the i > 4 ow 4 - | 20th of November, 1865, in the 72d year 3 | § | i { of his age. —_—- ———— Fashion. matin cords, braided into rather | intricate designs, are used as the head- other tr ng for trimmings on rich cos ume Pansies of all colors and sizes on | gro! nds of various colors appear in | chene effects on some sash ribbons and scarfs, Large shawls of white mull embroi- dered on the edges and in the corners will much worn with toilets, . bee midsummer Colored silk mitts are embroidered in wlors across the hand, the wrist % + thé top which reaches to the self and on albow, | Violet, lilac, pansy, heliotrope, | dahlia and many other red tints of pur- ple are fashionable for silk and wool ! COStuInes, | Polka dots are now no longer of one | color, but are variegated or iridescent, | or if self-colored are placed alternately in contrasting tones, or in triplets, as : black, erimson, white, eto, Scotch plaid glace silk of very dark colors are used in combination with surah and cashmere for semi-dress costumes, Sun umbrellas are to match the color of the dress, and are mounted on thick oaken sticks, with handles studded with gold. The high novelty in walking suits in Paris is a combination of fine black cashmere and white moire on white Ottoman silk. For children combination dresses will be unusually worn. Plaids of every pattern are imported with plain ma- terials to correspond in color. In the matter of fancy jewelry the palm may be awarded to spiders. Jet, eut silver and jeweled spiders are seen in masses of lace, in bonnei strings and in bows, The leading stores have on hand silk of the same dominant color by one maker— figured, changeable or plaid for skirts, plain to correspond for waists, sacques, e.c. For rich silks the palm-leaf design is most popular, and is inwrought to imi- tate cashmere designs, Favorite shades are electric blue, garnet, crushed strawberry and raspberry. Dark brown, green, black or blue velvet is the most elegant trimming for light-colored cashmere dresses, Ribbons grow more and more gor- geous, and no color seems too brilliant to be used by itself or in combination with several others as a trimming for bonnet or dress. It is a mistake to suppose that the crumbling of brick is due solely to great variations of temperature, M. Parive traces the disintegration to a micro. scopic organism. Atmospheric action will, of course, readily second the de- structive effects of that pioneer pene: trator of all but the most compact and well-burned bricks, : “Opal-tinted shot silks and the aurora colors of pink with gray, or pink with orange, are among the novelties, Wit and Humor. A compositor who was puzzling over one of Horace Greeley’s manuscripts, sagely and savagely observed : “If Bel- shazzar had seen this hand-writing on the wall, he would have been more ter- rified than he was.” A New York State man who tried a flying machine of his own invention last week had no advice to give to those who crowded around, All he said was : “Work in ‘durned fool’ somewhere on my tombstone 77’ What is the best thing to hold when you get out of temper ? Your tongue. What kind of essence does a young man like when he pops the question ? Acquiescence. Mark Twain remarks that all we need to possess the finest navy in the world is ships—for we have plenty of water. A Western editor alludes to a rival as a person entirely devoid of bigotry in medical affairs, having allopathic feet and’ a homeopathic head. The need of the age is not only a stronger nail, but also a nail that can be driven by a woman. One with head about the size of a trade dollar. a A great many men remain awake during the sermon nntil the minister straightens up and says, ‘But one word more and I am done,” Then they start in for a long nap. “You just take a bottle of my medi- cine.” sald a quack doctor to a con- sumptive, “and you'll never cough again.’’ *‘Is it so fatal asthat ?°’ gasped the consumptive, “What brought you to prison my colored friend #"’ saida Yankee to a darkey. ““T'wo constables, sah.” “Yes; but I mean had intemperance anything to do with it #7 “Yes, sah ; dey was bof of em drunk.” “Pa.” said a little four-year-old boy, after runing in the house the other evening. “‘are you an old dude ?”* *No, indeed, I am not. Why did you ask ¥”’ “i0nusea feller just now come along the pavement and said I was a “young dude.’ An old Irish soldier, who prided him- self upon hisbravery, said he had feught in the battle of Bull Run. When asked if he had retreated and made good his escape, as others did on that famous oc casion, he replied : “Those that didn’t run are there yit 1” A Parisian lady, who is soon to be remarried, hasa little daughter eight or nine years old. One of the little girl's friends invited her to dinner for the following Tuesday. “Oh, I can’t on Tuesday,” replied the child, with a most important air ; **[ marry mamma on that day !” The most gauzy story ever presented to the credulity of the American public, says the San Francisco Post, is that inja recent stage robbery in Montana an editor who wasn passenger was robbed of §1.50 and liad $600 that wainot taken. The inside facts are that he had the $1.50 in the toe of his sock and the $600 in his mind. A married woman, who has had some trouble with her female help, sends this recipe to the press: “Put all your old love-letters in a paste-board box in the servant-girl’s room. A supply of oid love letters has been known to keep a girl contented in one place for three months at a time,” Parp 1x His Owx Corn, —The presi- dent of a defunct savings bank of Chi- cago got into a back and rode to the central depot. Upon arrival at his des- tination, the driver said : “*Fare, please one dollar.” Asthe regular charge is only fifty cents, the indignant passenger at once demanded of the ‘‘Jehun.” “What do you take me for?" “Fifty centson the dollar, sir; I was afraid tosay only fifty cents for the ride, for fear you would want to settle with me for only twenty-five cents, that being fifty per cent., and the rate at which you settled with your other creditors.” The hack- man got his dollar, and the ex-banker got something he had not thought of before. A French lady, on her arrival in this country, was careful to eat only such dishes as she was acquainted with, and being on one occasion pressed to partake of a dish new to her, she po- litely replied, thinking she Was express- ing herself in admirable English: “No, f thank you. I eat only my scqualnt- ances." Western humor will siss and bubble under any and all circumstances, Now, who but a westerner would ‘think of the track of the awful cyclone does: it, sud very cleverly, too. Here ‘are some of the things which a corres. the bung-hole ; | week in Wisconsin ; snatching twelve — shirts out of Henry Clay Dean’s trunk at Rebel Cove; killing an honest i. the tail of a mule in Texas; lifting David Davis off the political fence in Hlinois ; murdering a man conirary to lsw in Kentucky; blowing the crack out of a fence in Dakota, and all the schism out of a church choir In. Minnesota, I AI Household Economies. Ecos AND BeerRoor, — Take some slices of dressed beet-root ; toms them in fresh olive oil made perfestis hot ; arrange them in a dish, place soma poached and trimmed eggs in » eirels round the beet-root:; add pepper squeeze lemon juice over, and serve directly. RAsPBERRY Jam. —To every apt of ripe raspberries allow a pound of best loaf sugar ; put sugar and berries inte a pan and let them stand two or Ghress hours ; then boil them in a porcelain kettle, taking off the scum carefully ; when no more scum rises mash them and boil them to a smooth marmalade when cold put in tumblers. Blackberrs and strawberry jam can be made in the same way, SMALL New POTATOES require care in cooking and sometimes special methods, Scrape them to remove the skin— it comes off very easily —and have hot dripping unsalted in the kettle in which you fry cakes. Wash the pota- toes, wipe them dry, then drop them into the hot lard, They will require from twenty to twenty-five minutes to cook, and should be of a delicate brown. Turn them often. “Love Kxors.”--Little cakes called “love knots’’ are nice for tea: Five cups of flour, two of sugar, one of but- ter, a piece of lard the size of an egg, two eggs, three tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, half a teaspoonful of soda; rub the butter, sugar and flour togethes fine, add the other ingredients, rel thin,cut in strips one inch wide and five inches long, lap aeross in true-love knots, and bake in a quick oven. PickerLeD Beer Roor.— Wash the beet perfectly, not cutting any of the fibrous roots, lest the juice escape : pak in sufficient water to boil it, and when the skin will come off easily it is suffi. ciently cooked, and may be {aken ami and laid upon a cloth to cool. Having rubbed off the peel, cut the beet inte thick slices, pour over it cold vinegaa prepared as follows: Boil a quart of vinegar with an ounce of whole black pepper, and an equal weight of dry ginger, and let it stand until quite cold Keep closely corked. Berry TONGUE SALAD. -- Boil one smoked beef tongue until thoroughly done, when cold grate it very Smne Then take the velks of four hard-boiled eggs, mashed fine, and two tablespoon fuls of fine olive ofl to the eggs, best = well ; then a desertspoonful of fine mags mustard mixed, half a teaspoonful of salt, pepper to taste, and about a onarte: : of apint of good vinegar ; beat tLedres ing well ; when the salad is wanted mix the dressing with the beef tongase This makes a nice sandwich. Chiclen salad and oyster salad may be made the same way, adding celery to the former BoiLep FLOUR GRUEL. — Boiled flour gruel is very good in cases of siek- ness in which the strength is mueh re- duced. To prepare the flour, put into a basin as much as it will hold, pressed tightly down. Then tie a cloth over # and allow it boil hard forsix hours. Then take off the cloth, and let the flour stand in the basin till the next day, when re move the ernst which will have formed, and put the remainder away is a eov ered jar. For use, mix four tahlaspeon fuls of the flour smoothly into & pasts, then pour on it half a pint of eile milk or water, and boil for ten misutee. constantly stirring to aveid ‘hos Brandy, sherry, lemon juice ardam may be added, according taste Gruel may also be made from Baked flour, but it is not so easy of digestion. Biscvrr GLACE. Make a quart of rich boiled custard, flavor it with va- nilla, and let it cool. Then nix with it a quart of grated pineapple or mashed: peaches. Stir them well together, amd § add enough sugar to allow for the. Des in freezing. Freeze in the usual way, stirring in a pint of cream. wiipsd® when it is beginning to set in tho dreen er. Partly fill little paper esses. with, the mixture and smooth the tops alos Place them carefully in the elenmed tnd? dried freezer and let thems remaineim. bedded in ice for several hours. Soase times the cases are filled with pissmeiio - te blanched almonds are laid over the top filled with frozen whipped eremm, and’ served with a spoonful of some bright sherbet. upon the top of each. ver went out of hie. native town, has just started on his.
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