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.”
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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
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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,
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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.