“TONIGHT; A DAY DREAM. For thee love's stars shall shine to-night, And ound thy pillowed head God'sange's in their homeward flight Shall resurrect thy dead. To-night the flowers of youth that grew Along the shaded ways Aud smote thine eyes with light that flew Through all the later days. To-night those flowers shall bloom once more And all thelr little gleams Of beauty hud of fragance form Into thy vexing dreams, To-uight the songs of morning sung * By childhoods lips aglow, Shall sing themsclves in strains that As shadows come and go. come To-night the songs as yet unsung; + AS yet but feit in beams Of soul-fire from life's mists upsprang, Shall sing themselves in dreams, To-night God's radiant afterglow «8 hall linger in the air Till stars of midnight lash and flow Into the dawn of prayer, A RAY OF SUNLIGHT. “Quiet, Bess! steady Fan!” Jack Trevor gathered the reins more tightly in his grasp, and touched the horses with the long circling lash of his whip. “Five minutes more will accomplish the distance if we can maintain this present rate of speed,” he remarked to his companion whe had taken out his watch and was anxiously consulting its crystal face, “And will the place afford shelter for our party?” “Sheltez!”’ Jack gave a low whistle, “Why, you could quarter an army in the old barracks and have room to 8 3, 1? “ve minutes seems but a short. pe- riod,” said Laura Decker, glancing ruefully at her crisp muslin gown with its dainty garnishing of creamy lace and blue ribbons; “but the floods willl be upon us in earnest before the expira- tion of that time.” “Farewell, my love,” murmured her cousin Rettie pathetically, furling her sunshade under whose tim of soft pink silk her bright brown eyes were wont to peer out beseechingly. ‘‘You cost me a pretty sum at Schaffer’s, but the ele- ments will have mercy upon yon, my beauty.” “And my mauve sateen,” wailed stately Miss Johnson, surveying the said miraculously fashioned garment with actual tears, that she did not dare let fall on her delicately tinted cheeks, for a cogent reason that she fondly im- agined was known only to herself. ** Are you afraid, Miss Beckwith?'’ Lawyer Hunter leaned over and was looking into the girl’s face, thinking what a strong one it was, with its deci- ded mouth and darkly-fringed grey eves. “Afraid? No. Why should I be?” She spoke a little impatiently, and let her gaze wonder back to the great mas- ses of black clouds that lay piled above the horizon-like ebon mountains, the lurid lightning flashing fitfully above their ragged peaks. A sudden peal of thunder startled the horses into a mad gallop, and brought an hysterical scream to the lips of Miss Johnson, “Oh!” cried little Rettie Trevor, un- der her breath, her face growing very ping unheeded to the yellow straw that had earpeted the bottom of the roomy old vehicle. “‘Don’t shiver so, child.” It was Margaret Beckwith who spoke, and she turned to the little limp figure, she quickly divested herself of her long wrap, and hid crisp muslin, dainty rib- folds. “But you will take cold yourself,” remonstrated Lawyer Hunter. “J am not a tender plant,” she re- sponded laughingly touching with one slim band the dark blue of her cloth dress. **I do not attend picnics clad in gossamer attire when——"" “Eureka! at last!” It was Jack Trevor's big hearty voice that rang out, and a moment after he drew up the foaming horses with a tri. umphant flourish of whip and reins. “Now ladies!” Ned Johnson seized Rettie Trevor in his arms, and sprung up the crumbling steps of the porch. His stately sister ascended with more haste than . and just as Lawyer Hunter handed Miss Beckwith up and followed himself laden with’ books and shawls, the patter of great drops sonnded cn the roof, and in a moment the outside world was a mist of driving rain and rushing wind, be- fore which the great trees bent like sap- lings, and the flowers laid their broken heads on the drenched earth, and looked up with pitiful tear-wet faces to the angry sky that an hour before had been blue and smiling as an infants eyes, “0 ye inhospitablo doors,” uted the irrepressible Jack, strikibg e panels with such force that the cra- zy latch gave way and the entice party sur x into the wy Ao Ball, from whic gpenel a parlor sparsely furnished with dingy curtains and a Sfew moth-eaten couches and chairs, “Ugh! it’s damp and musty,” cried little Rettie Trevor, tip-tilting her dainty nose in disgust. “And haunted,” concluded her bro- ther Jack, looking at her with solemn would have city. All went merry as a marriage bell, till the poor young mother discov- ered that her lege lord was given over to an insatiable love for strong stimu- lJants, Unfortunately, the shock bsoke her heart, and one fine day she died.” “And what became of the others?” ““That is as far as my information, derived piecemeal from the aged father of our landlord, extends,” concluded Jack. “I only know that the father finished his days in disgrace, and died alone and solitary in this old house, which is haunted. the superstitious neighbors aver, by his restless ghost,” Ned Johnson had managed to entice that overlooked the tangled neglected garden. The others were conversing in pairs, and Mark Hunter stood alone and unheeded in {the doorway, a heavy shadow on his face. Meg Beckwith, looking up from the book whose con- tents she was carelessly scanning, saw the shadows, and a sudden look of piti- ful intelligence crossed her own. “Mr. Hunter—Mark,”’ she whisper- ed, crossing the room unnoticed, and laying one hand on his arm, “I see it all now. OL, why did you come here?” “How could I forsee this visit?” he responded, his iow tone penetrating no farther than her attentive ear. ‘‘Re- member that when we left our pretty picnic-ground in Horman’s Glade, we expected to return immediately to the hotel, and not to this abode of dismal memories, whither the storm has driven us,’ “Ladies,” said Mark suddenly, in his usual everyday voice, *‘there must be same quaint old chambers above, tO which you long dusky staircase leads. Who feels in a mood for exploration?” “Not I,” anwered Rettie, happy in the company of her cavalier. “Nor I,” repeated Miss Johnson, thinking of dust, spiders, and her mauve sateen, all in one. The others were engrossed in Jack Trevor's nonsense, and Meg, gathering her blue skirts closely about her, swept them a half-mocking, half disdainful courtesy from the doorway. “I am going to lay the ghost,” she announced, and a moment after stood breathless on the broad landing above, her arm closely clasped around Mark’s as she looked beyond half affrighted at place, Hastening her footsteps a little, he led her into a lerge low-ceiled room, barely furnished, like the parlor below, and opening a heavy wooden shutter let in the dull grey of the afternoon’s wa- ning light. Meg's face was in shadow, but the few rays that struggled through the dusty panes fell full upon his coun- tenance, and a faint flush colored her cheeks as she noted the eager express. ion that rested on it. Without speaking, he drew a letter from his pocket, and held it toward her, She glanced at the address, ejaculated the one word, “Philip,” and without opening it put the missive aside with a firm hand, “Nay,” he said, and his strong lip quivered under its covering of dark hair. “Now that you know all, be merciful. darkened with the dreary shadow of sin, me plead for him. “Was it so much his fault that he ed from his wretched parent? Hemem- ber, he had no young footsteps and turn him from sin. “Once he shocked your pure woman- deed in sackcloth, and as tar as lies in the strength of weak man hehasstriven to overcome his depraved habit, changed lad. Your influence, he avers, could wean him still farther from de- struction, aud—you love each other.” It was well that he did nol sce the blaze of indignation in Meg's eyes, or he wonld never nave finished his vehe- ment speech. “Mark Hunter,’ she answered, calm- ly and coldly, for she would have died shook her frame, *‘you cannot deceive me, how yon stood by your cousin, day after day, warning, advising, counsei- ing, never impatient, very weary, till you won him back to virtue? He does not live in his own strength, he exists in ours. As far as the world goes, you ave achieved a noble action, If you did for my sake—I cannot thank you." Mark drew his hands across his brow. “Your words sound strangely,” he said, with a dreary pathos in bis voice, “1 did not expet thanks, but’—with a second quiver of the moustache lip, that manlike be strove desperately to hide— “hut -—r At the sight all the passion in Meg's stiong nature was roused, “Because a woman was kind to a weak lad, whose unstable nature ap- pealed so irresistably to her stronger one, was it necessary that the purest eraotions of her heart must go out to him also; Why should he have all— wealth, position, friends, and-—mercy?”’ Mark's rugged features grew sudden ly stern. “Stapl” he commanded. ‘*Tell me one thing. you love Philip?” Meg gave a little gasp at the abrupt- ness of the question; then her lips took on the old decided curve. - “I could love no une who proved him- self less than a man,” she responded, and there was honesty at least, in her voice, Ss wl 5 halt n a hal awed look on Ne Taco my childhood was a hard, unlovely one, for I was not to wealth, as was my cousin Phil- ip. 1 have edtucatea myself by my own and have won s n the th 5 i : ji k i i dripping boughs apd rain-laden grasses were sparkling diamond-like in its glo- rieus radiance. “Mr, Hunter! Meg!” It was Rettie who called from the regions below, and the truauts came down the dusky old staircase much more slowly than they had ascended, A second ray from the tiny window fell athwart them like a blessed omen of asproaching weal, “Poor Philip” Mark said, struggling between a sense of his own happiness and compassion for his cousin’s disap- pointment, “But not poor Mark; echoed Meg softly, thinking how noble his plain facetlooked in the golden glow, ““Where have you been?” questioned curious Jack, as he stood at the horses’ heads, while the party surged out to tako their places with laugh and jest, “What have youdtwo been doing ali this time?" “We have laid the ghost,” answered Mark gravely—*‘the ghost of doubt and misunderstanding that has cast its shadow over so many lives, Pray lea- ven it may never walk again!” “Eh!” said uncomprehending Jack, wondering at the strangeness of the reply. But even after he and Megiwere happy man fand wife, Mark never ex- plained how his lifo, hitherto so dark, had at last been {llumined by a ray of sunlight. PRCT RS. Nervous Trouble. “When I reflect on the immunity of hard-working people from the effects of wropg and over-feeding,” says Dr. Boerhaave, *‘1 cannot help thinking that most of our fashionable diseases might be cured mechanically instead of chemically, by climbing a bitterwood tree, or chopping it down, if you like, ather than swallowing a decoction of its disgusting leaves.” For male pa- tients, gardening, in all its branches, is about as fashionable as the said dis- eases, and no liberal man would shrink from the expense of a board fence, if it would induce his drug-poisoned wife to ry her hand at turf-spading, or, as at last resort, at hoeing, or even a bit of wheelbarrow work. Lawn tennis will not answer the occasion. There is no need of going to extremes and exhaust. ing the little remaining strength of the patient, but withouta certain amount of fatigue, the specific fails to operate, and experience will show that labor with practical purpose—gardening, boat- | rowing or amateur carpentering-—en- | ables people to beguile themselves into | a far greater amount of hard work than | the drillmaster of a gymuasium could | gel them to undergo. Besides the po- | tential energy that turns hardships into | play-work, athletes have the farther ad- | vantage of a greater disease-resisting | capacity. Their constitution does not { yield to every trifling accident; their | nerves can stand the wear and tear of | ordinary excitements; a little change in | the weather does not disturb their sleep; they can digest more than other people, Any kind of exercise that tends to strengthen—not a special set of muscles, ! but the muscular system in general— {has a proportionate influence on the i general vigor of the nervous organism, i i | and thereby on its pathological power of | resistance. | For pervous children my first prescrip- i tion would be—the open woods and a | merry playmate; for the chlorotie affec- | tions of their elder comrades—some di- verting, but withal fatiguing, form of imannal labor. In the minds of too i many parents there is a vague notion {that rough work brutalizes the charac- { ter. The truth is that it regulates its defects: it calms the temper, it affords | an outlet to things that would otherwise | vent themselves in fretfulpess and ugly passions, Most school-teachers know that city children are more fidgety, more | irnitable and mischievous than their { village comrades; and the most placid | females of the genus homo are found among the well-fed but hard-working housewives of German Pennsylvania. oH — Female Backet Shops. A correspondent writes of the bucket. shops which are run by women for the benefit of their own sex: These women managers are in certain instances only tools in the service of some downtown broker, who really runs the shop and pays them a salary. The broker knows that ladies of refinement desire to avoid notice, and hence they hire a handsonie brown-stone front where ladies may come avd go without suspicion. There are several of those on Twenty-fourth street, where the tickers may be heard all through business hours, and in eacha seore of ladies may be seen jotting down quotations, which they contrive to see through the veils which conceal their identity. There is a very extensive bucket-shop on Thirty-seventh street which is counected with the stock ex- change by a half-dozen wires, a fact which suggests the extent 6f thelbusiness transacted within its walls. This esta- blishment is conducted by a woman of great financial ability who has made the system very profitable, but at the ex- peae of a number of wictims, has been in the business a dozen years, Her rule is to demand a margin of 10 per cent.'on all purchases, and she charges the usual brokerage, which is Bi cents on $100 for either buyi or selling. As soon as an order is p Soe her she phs down to her broker, by whom i L Among this woman's patrons are some of the richest ladies In the city, who find stock speculation a relief from ennui, Other operators are found in indies Yho gy ohamize on their pin money for purpose. Some . making milliners and modistes dabble in stocks, and then there are those liv- ing on fixed incomes out of which squeeze enough to buy an occasiona . "or “eall.,” Taking sll these ¢ together, a large aggregate is formed, and in this manner female speculation is an acknowledged feature in Wall street New York, i s——— a I WP Lorrie Nuun “What is oatmeal me wis i, Mamma mado of oats, my Little Nell — “Oats! Why, that's hones.” High Buildings. The question of theeffect of extremely lofty building upon the health of the city is one that ought not to be overlook- ed. We are accustomed to hear of the benefits of the sunshine, the general {importance of a free circulation of ex- ternal air, and go on; but I cannot help thinking there is a consideration much more commonplace which is not sufli- It is not always clearly understood that the one mosphere of our globe is to cleanse; in plain words, to keep all nature clean and wholesome, Wherever the air ean find entrance it forces its way in and laps up any uncleanliness; wherever it can find exit it forces its way out and carries off the pollution—the gases of decomposi- tion—to be dispersed innocuously among the clouds. Now, let me use a coarse expression for the occasion and speak of the sweat of the city of New York. Fverybody can see at a glance what this is. From every bit of road surface, yard surface, wall surface, floor surface, drain surface, skin surface, water surface; from every chimney and ventilator; from every manufactory, workshop, warchonse and shop; from every little heap of refuse or of dust; from every sink and gully, and from every pair of lips or nostrils, foul or fair, there is, hour by hour, day and night, without a moment's intermission, forever rising up—borne upon the white wings of the all-cleansing, busy air—a perpetual sweat, seeking to escape and be harmless, but, if repressed and pre- vented from such escape, capable of producing no one Knows what amount of mischief and misery, disease and death, by reason of iis poisonousness, as we all 50 well know. Suppose, then, the city in some parts—not likely to be the most healthy parts in themselves—to be covered over to a depth of 150 feet in- stead of 50 feet, with that hive of bu- man industry and polluted air which we call houses, what will be the effect upon the sweat of the town? It is enough to say that the amount of noxious mat- ter overclouding the ground, and *‘sus- pended” (as chemists gay) in the air which the citizen's have to breathe, will be just so much the greater for every apathetic enough to tolerate such i thing, and the exigénces of money- making are sufficiently urgent to make not more, of the city of New York may in a short time be built over to such a height as to render it, in spite of all its a very nasty oity in which to transact business. Logt Cities of the Wea. Survey, has reported as one of the re- sults of his last season's field operations the discovery of several more ruined ined. The most remarkable was a vil- lage of thirty-five underground dwel- lings situated near the summit of one of Arizona, for the entire community. lings were excavated after a common pattern, and a common pattern and a whole, They bad no intercomimunica- {ion beneath the surface, and were only leading from the suiface by a vertical shaft to the floor of the main room of the dwelling. Holes cut at convenient distances along the sides of the shaft served the purposes of a stairway. De- scending the shaft; the explorers found themselves at the side of an oval-shaped arch-roofed room, about twenty feet in its smallest diameter. At the ends and on the side opposite the entrance, low doorways connected the main room with smaller rooms, the whole suite consisting of four gpartments A groove eighteen inches deep by fifteen in width, extending from the floor of the main room up one side of the shaft to the surface of the hill, its boltom filled with ashes and its sides blackened with smoke, formed the fire- place and chimney of the establishment. Around the mouth of the shaft a stone wall enclosed a kind of door yard. The wall seems to have served the double purpese of guarding against snow slides and preventing the accidental falling of an inhabitant into his own or a peigh- bor’s dwelling. Considerable debris was found in these ancient dwellings, an examination of which led to the discovery of many Curiosities, illustrating some of the so- cial and domestic customs of the ex- tinct race. Stone mauls and axes, the jnplements used in excavating the dwellings, pottery, bearing a great va- riety of ornamentation, bone awls and needles of delicate workmanship, the family grinding stone for gran, its well worn surface indicating long use, shell and obsidian ornaments and im- plements of wood, the uses of which were undiscoverable, were among the trophies of the exploration, Search made for water course or ters of a mile in length and consisted of a single row of houses, the common rear wall being the lining rock, while the sides and fronts were made of large sauared stones, laid in clay. A narrow street or pathway extended along the estire font, Other and similar villages could be seen along the canon for a dis- tance of five miles. Among the relics found here was a wooden spindle whirl similar to those in use by the Pueblos in the apparent manner of its manufac. ture, tools of any description was discovered. The surface of the wood of which the whirl was formed had apparently been charred and then ground down to the required size and shape by rubbing it upon sandstone. A shaft of reed simi. lar to bamboo, a species eulively un- known in that region at this time, still remained in the whirl. It had been piece of fine twine, twine being examined microscop, discloged the under the fact hadr. perfect grains of corn, walnuts, bones of the elk, antelope and wolf, portions | of wearing apparel of a fabric resem- bling the mummy cloth of Egypt, and other articles were found in dance buried in the piles which partially filled these deserted homes, There were no weapons of war or works of defence, no temples or idols and no hieroglyphics or pictures, ro. A” ——— European styles in SMationery, Engraved cards are the rule. which are of a generons size, and cut nearly square, Cards for married la pane on her mother’s card until she 18 twenty years of age, at which time she can use a visiting card of her own, wife are necessarily large. This fashion calls and during the first year of mar- riage; at all other time the husband and | wife use separate visiting cards. Cards for gentiemen are narrow and rather { short; the script is round, and has a | much heavier look than the hair line | letters on ladies cards, All kinds of on clear white paper, except silver and golden wedding cards. The former has the script in silver, and blue tinted cards; the latter has the cards of a pinkish white with golden letters, little variely. out by the parents of the bride; the note sheet with lettering is in shaded script. Square cards are used when the couple issue the invitations. If preferred, a separate card, with the lady’s name on can be used, corner, and on the right lower corner are stated the reception days, Afternoon reception cards, or note sheets, are also handsomely engraved {in script. When cards are used they and address, The reception days are | written in the left hand corner, and { either above or below -this the hour is noted, for example: “Tea at 5 o'clock.” ! seript, neatly engraved; the guest's | name is written by the hostess, a pretty tone to the invitation, — A ese Changing a Gold Pleen. “] recollect another instance,” and the conductor's face lost its look of in- dignstion and a smile crept over it, “in which I completely cured a fat, fussy vid woman of her efforts to beat her way, She would invariably tender me either a twenty-dollar gold piece or a bill for the same amount, We don't generally carry enough change for such denominations, and it so bap- pened that I was caught that way half a dozen times, and I guess she began to think she had a soft summer snap, and became a regular patron of my car, One day I fixed mysell. I hierally loaded myself down for the occasion, and langhed about it to myselt so often my driver wanted to know if I thought [ had mashed the pretty gurl who sat in the corner ona trip. Well, at the corner stood my small mountain of waiting my coming, 1 stopped the car with cheer- ful alacrity, sud assisted the woman on board with such a beaming countenance that I really feared that 1 magt give myself sway. After she had fairly set- ed herself I started up Hi ; : 5 EE i Love Among the Arabs, ~The girls have little to do with select- ing their husbands, The men nearly al- ways fix that up among themselves, A bold warrior sees a girl whom he Jovesin | another tribe, Herides up at night, finds out where she is sleeping, dashes up to her tent, snatches her up in his arms, | puts her before lnm on the horse and | sweeps away like the wind, If he hap- | pens to be eaught he is If be is { not, the tribe from whi ‘hh he as stolen i the girl pays him a visit in a few days, | The dervish, a priest of {he tnbe, joins #110L%, {the hands of the youug man and the girl, and both tribes join in the merri- ment, All the bravest oca steal their wives, but there ars some who do not. Their method is a little different. Of a calm, momlight pight-——and a G11 ght in the tropics is fa 1an here —yon may see an Aral ¢iore the tent of his inamorata a stringed instrament sunetiin | our banjo and singing a sonz ol 118 03 This is his courtshi They ae the most musical people intl | world, They talk in poetry, and | teweporization is us easy with them as it | was with the Scaldsof old. The court. ip only lasts a week or two. If the 1 is obstinate he goes elsewhere and | seeks to win anotier girl by i songs {and music. Sometimes the fathers i make up the mateh, but always the girl {18 the obedient slave. Her religion, her | people, her national instincts, the tra- | ditions of her ancestors, all teach her to {be the slave of her husband. The | power of life and death is in his hands, { and she bows before lis opinions with the most implicit obedience. It is only Ho composition, | his glib talk of woman's highest duties { and grander sphere, with his winning | manner, with his marked respect, so attering to a woman's soul, that she leaves her husband, forsakes the teach. | ings of her childhood, gives up home pose in his arms. They are as fine riders as the men, and as fearless, They ride straddle and can go almost any dis- They are fine know wial personal The women of these people are mod- Indeed, it is the world to hear of The women mature at 11 and 12, and are old at 35 When | voung they are very beautiful. They have soft, dark skin, black, flowing hair soft, languishing. eves. They are | passionate in their loves, but after mar- riage all their affection is centered in | their husbands. If a woman is found to be untrue to her husband she is in- | stantly killed, together wilh her lover, | But this seldom happens, civilized life. n the men of i — Home Amusernonis. In Magic Music one of the players is sent out ot the room and a handker- chief, a pair of gloves, a brooch or other small article, is hidden in some | cunning nook. The signal is then | given for the banished one to return, and a. lady or gentleman acquainted with music takes up a position at the | piano. It is for the musician to indi. ' cate, by the strains of the piano, when | the seeker is approaching the hidden object. As he recedes from il the | music falls to a low tone, and a moarn- | ful cadence; as he approaches it, hg ! notes swell out loud and clear, and burst into triumphal strains as he lays | his hand on the prize, If properly | managed the magic music may be made to have almost magnetic power in | drawing the secker toward the proper | spot. An improved way of playing the game | is to set the seeker some task to per- | form instead of finding the handker- chief. Say, for itstance, he is to take a book from the bookcase and present it to a lady. Ashe walks around the room the music increases in sound as he ap- proaches the bookcase but fails as he sses it, This tells him what locality iis task is. He takes a book and the music sounds loudly and joyously. He begins to read. No; the music falls at once; he is faltering in his task. He carries the book around the room. As he approaches the lady the notes burst forth loudly again, concluding with a triumphal flourish as Le presents the volume to her with a gallant bow. In case of failure a forfeit is exacted; and each player must have a task set him or her in turn. a Gay Head Indians. A subscription has been started in Boston in sad of the half breed indians at Uay lives of twenty-two men from the Those who reached the ith a5eiie Ei lh I i is : : ‘ it of 1.1 : : § i E g Eg il ; i i ! 0 e : : Hi { . 2 i