£ ise Here, however, was where Miss Daisy { miscaloulated the relative strength of a { man’s pride and a man’slove | Herbert waited for her tu send for him—she AR AUTUMNAL MARR Hi, : No mare : ! Pha light nad fragrant zephyr whiton roves, | When night descends i y a neh the leafy § ; | i Along ihe tales of he ieuly giv; i these events transpired, ODer Demis 5 i . The bashing rose iis fair und mol 5 a month be wrote her a brief, cold note The mephy t's kiss to pr Alas t the wephiyr and the rose @r Thus perish all things eainment. “But I won't send the litle gold dol- No more Amoug the riohly-tinted autumn The night breeze sighs; It chawts a mournful dicge: grieves : That summer diss The night grows longer sua tin Breath Begins to chili the Eeluctant nature yields a the lowers thar pang at her heart, think of that!” “He will never th All arn HOGI hearts would grow toward one another! 4 Ten years afterward, and Daisy Wal. ace, far away from her tree-bowered No more Doth Gorydon bis Phillis fair aw Beneath the moon, Or swing with her upon the ; and sweetly spe : For when the forest leaves begin Apart from all 1urm They sit within the pacior si The eld man’s coal SRN { meager fire of carefully-husbanded couls, | her, after the old, glaish fashion she had not yet { ‘I don't like he said, sad! argotien, to part with it, molher, ‘HE was papa’s present u the old days ”’ “We can remember papa without any DAISY'S LOVE. such relies Wallace an- 1 “There I" said Herbert Wi He was sitting on the su doorstep of the creat, I scented barn, where the sun laced each other slend threads of gold, aud the tous old batton-ball tree moved softly summer breeze, He was ua bright-eved. brig young fellow, dressed in a covl, linen emt, with the glitter of a dia stud ab his throat, and s hands—and be Wallace sat with the p ad on her lap. She was a daisy by nature as well as by name-—a fresh-faced, sunny-haired little erealwre, big brow were shaded by long, dark lashes, and whose nose turned up at the end the jeast Bit in the world, giving a roguish espicglerds to the whole expression often countenance. “How did you do it?” said with her scarlet lips apart TOWR eyes Limpid with 1pterest “Ob, I managed,” sald Her! He had split a tiny gold dolla and wrought a hole in each, which he had passed slende: bons, “Pn you like them, Daisy?” “Yery much.” “Then vou shill wea sthar ns pledges of our enga Daisy blushed and laughed 88 Here |! iH bert suspended thegolden trinket round her neck, and then glanced down at the broad engagement ring that circled the forefigger of ler left hand, Herbert's eves fellowing her look, “You do not regret it, Daisy?’ ‘Regret it? No, Herbert!” ‘Beoanse, Dagy, you are so young! ‘1 am not too young to know my ow 1d, Herbert,” 1, with ar sumption of d pretiy to | week’ Sixteen | Daisy Wallace fell all dignity of her mature years. Sixteen years oid and engaged! And they sat there, under thesha of the button-ball tree, with grance of the new hay coming ever anon to their senses, talking of the ho which was one day to be theirs even deciding. in boy and gi 1 what was to be the color of the pets, and the special flowers to be pl ed in the garden, and even the patte of the antique furnitu: decorate Herbert's Hin “How ri 3 47 aE 3 bi ie 1:1 ilke . i : v Fvinne ClO8e Vin l Lrities on did not ss would 1 “A dollar!” “And th mn worth,” the sly Je What was Daisy poor, forlorn woman knaves and cheats in | against her? Only i Daisy left the ne Whose HYVER al's re than it’s really Ww answered, + to do? do when all the the wor submit —and and went slowly one-dollar i 5 ay ¥ $ ; he cloek he dirty Fail § y hier portemonnale, Dome ut the clock inhis window, iimslf over his excellent bl $0, and it was not long Hen H tire i rived. re api ue ai * f Oh ad cheap xy ies ten d HIE. w ide of § > 431 &110 BAH i wey 34 iy er} IENILY Wich Was ik upon. “1 was 10 las wit dow the f-a- id i & which w iaregard] fy atish haw ley is il ivy leave blushing in the same i Yet, engaged weve, Paisy had a w little mstinct they wronght iro hears. ad e Jew turns to his v deliberation which ’ Ww i 3 w Frey ages wating che know the name," be answer live, ike it 1 Know Np, -=, Raymer streei--—a jady, with brown eyes and cheeks!” How Herberl’s heart throbbed as be ascended the narrow, uncarpeted stair way of the tenement house, its ledges wom into little hollows by the tread of uy feet, and knocked at the dour which had been pointed out him as the entrance to Mra, Wallace's room. How the old times came back to him hope you are not going to turna jealous | 4s be entered and saw Daisy sitting all lover.” | alone at the window, sewing wearily “1 am not jealous, Daisy” he answer | AWAY al some cowse work. ed a little coldly; “but I do not like to | She rose up, wilh a little shriek, gee the woman who is to be my wife re. | “Herbert!” geiving attentions from a man whose “Yes, Daisy, itis I! character is, tosay the best of it, uncer | to s=e me?” tain.” “Oh, no, nol" the sobbed. *‘I am 80 Dalsy pouted and tore the petals off glad, 1 thought everybody had forgot- the bunch of roses she wore at ber beit, | ten me!” “You will not encou him any “Did you suppas I could ever forget more, Daisy?" pleaded Herbert after «| you, Daisy?” moment of silence, He listened to the story of reverse and “I have not encouraged hun, He bert.” “AL “i Huong, Harvest o Wintie he touch of a friendly hand. auswered, ‘you know how I feel upon: Md + : Daisy? the subject now, and 1 trust you will pe a oO An, y: respect niy opinions.” “i thought you did not care for me He went away, for the first timedur- | guy more, Herbert!” ing their engagement, without a kiss, “Look in my eyes Daisy, and tell me and Day, standing there on the piazza, wnat you think now!” thought how very unreasonable Herbert spe glanced shyly up—then her look Winfield was growing, felil ut a pretiy girl of sixteen cannot al- | “What do they Daisy? Do ways regulate ber freaks and fancies as | they ewes the oy sai} or” heart, and if she were staid matron of six-and-| gy that I Jove yon still as dearly as foriy—snd the very next day Miss Daisy | gy Dai me back 1 allowed herseil ta be coaxed to a picnic res yo will joa gh. 19 party, where Mr, Revere Sykesleigh was | Ha drew out the gold coin, banging one of the Juiugipal actors, and, of ifs faded Hho rad extended it course, Mr. Sykesleigh, being to a cer .., | ngy toward her. tain 9% ree responsible for her ge, | hy, Herbert] I have missed it and was o ged, not ab all unwillingly, $0 | wept over it so often! Where did you Soe hk Mitre, de a | find IB7Y And, as ill luck wou ve it, she | [le tad her, : “It is was just driving up to the door, sitting f tis - a {adiing _ Bd iden Mr. Sykesleigh’s, when Herbert | sskher a Itieignide which has led infield entersd the gate. He turned | 0 backic you® side, after all these years of pelram ti" instantly away, When Mra. Wallace returned from 1 & t said shaully. “That's beditise you ate 20 oud-f foned In your ideas,” said Daisey vr ing her slight figure, to look as fied as possible. **All the girls are lighted with Mr. Sykesleigh.” “All the girls are not engaged {to ve marred!’ retorted Herbert bitterly, “Does it foliow that because 1am: gaged I am to be a prisoner?” “Daisy. vou know better than that.’ “You are too exacting, Herbert, : “hit vhers they } * wir y ] i ik Are you sorry “Herbert,” she called, leaning over | the side of the carriage, * Herbert!" her brieflab she found But he did not hear her or would not | mere thd heed, yd Daisy was too proud to re- ‘the call, “Let him go,’ she thought to sell, with provoked ay “He w come hack soon ¢ » A EBSA pre gveary while—the tiny gold dollar on fis ribbon of blue! if The “course of true love” had igun smoothly, but it was trae love, and y it came right at last! . —————— The Core Doctor. “That's what I am,” said the dark- yed man, when a reporter opened his hor and asked If he was the person amed in the sign. **I am a corn doe. yr, he cwtinued, “*and the friend of 1 human race. I can’t do anything fir vou? Well, I am heartily glad of ut. Few people come m here that n't have a sad story to show in their worl " SIL sess wu simple thing, mister, to jure a corn, Well, if you'd seen one of ie ‘old residents’ 1 have tackled you'd yink different A corn may begin on four tos, but often as not it ends on ip of your head. That seems a strange hin z to say, but 1t’s true, I have had y the past year an average of ten pa- nts a4 week. Among that SU0 peo- stiff legs. rheumatism, neuralgia, onic headaches, and now anl then { case of pulmi trouble. very ne them caused by coms | gence of Poo ! the T @ pores blood 5% Al y of Was £24 4 foot iN in a generally mend the bad ask} the ‘Does LOR “Just that, Tight wperly, do not harm. Butfew shoes The first fact to learn 3 that you can’t reduce nature’s meas. There is just so much quantity every human body, and it will grow i to it if nothing prevents, “Now, the foot is bound to be ju aot | large; you can't check it, and g { comfort out of the operation. ii % catlier. shoes, if they fil > i Pp do fit, however. i ure ii $ 18% BO any # OER # i foot together, keep the big toe straight and aud In walking, to keep the Iool 1 moderately tid be al 4 ¥ if wel to toe SLralgnl To % 5 There shot no rabbin a than have them on your i can endure 3 t them,” The dark-eved & ¥s pies these sp was labels ann opened it and merican Une was in diameter ar ug ike Lhe I 4 xi from the m oh ind boty growth. ¥ew corn-doctors sii remove corns in thi how such specimens. One or two of hose were under the toe-nail. Culling | could not have reached them. Even that little one thers is a thing to be | proud of. I took it out from under the | toe=naii of as prettily a girl as you ever { saw. Dut wasn't she happy when that thing came out! hear what people say when I get their feet in shape. ‘They are happy, if peo- are, Its a wonderful business, and weds je religions duty when be’s at work mn it.” isms AA The Value of Cashiers, An Onlo merchant who kept three clerks, each one of whom made hisown change and had free access to the money - drawers, was the other day csked by a commercial traveler why he did not keep a cashier to receive all maneys, “Cost Loo much,” was the reply. “But wre your clerks honest?’’ sPorfectly honest.” & Have youany objection to my try- ng the?" “Certainly aot; go ahead in any way you wish.” The traveler went away, but in about threes hours he returned and said in a loud voice so that all might hear: “When I was here this forenoon I paid you a bogus quarter by mistake, in ease you find it in counting up to- night, lay it asde and Pll redeem it." ben the traveler, accompanied by the merchant, book a position where the back door asd the alley could be kept in view, hnd in less than ten minutes out carde the head clerk and emptied a handiil of silver on the head of a burrel and] pawed it over. The bogus quarter | was not there. He returned to thestore and out came the second clerk andvent through the same me. Hd was followed the frd, and after he dh the BA Cn 13 for wi \ y nn ng years trade to pick up.and I rather think I'l try the cashier syitem | The Last of his Line, Wilhelm I Duke of Brunswick, died | at Berlin Oct. 18, 18384, { Louis William Maximilian Frederick, commonly known as Wilham I, Duke | of Brunswick, was born on April 25, | 1806, and hed therefore reached the ma- | ture age of seventy-eight. He was the | second son of the Duke Frederick Wil- liam and of the Princess Marie of Ba- den. He undertook the Provisional 12, 1830, in consequence of the insur- restion of September 7 and subsequent | fligat of his brother, the late Duke Charles. but did not formally ascend the throne until April 25, 1851, when he had been requested to do so, Duke Charles, who had reigned over the prin- | cipality from 1823, forfeited bis throne | by his own folly, but survived until | August, 1873 when he died at Geneva, | leaving an immense fortune, a large | part of which was devoted by his will is now one of the sights of the Bwiss | city, Duke Charles was eccentric to the verge of grolesqueness, and was about as bad a ruler as a country, large or small, could well have. Duke Wil. am was a decided improvement upon il dominion in the year 1848 by timely con- cessions to the popular call for reform, and by rare discretion averted the ab- sorption of his dominions by Prussia in ti vil e fatal vear 1560, Duke William, like bis elder brother, 1. and now that he is dead } ut a ruler. The Du- suse of Brunswick was long one of most ancient and illustrious of the Germanic Confederation. Itsancestor, Henry the Lion, possessed, inthe t welfth tha nuited duchies of Bavaria Naxony, other territo never marrie with 168 In Lig fis Barbarossa in his wars with the Pope, | he was, by a decree of the Diet, depri- | ved of the whole of his territories with the sole exception of his allod al do- mains, the principalities of Brunswick | and Luneburg. Thelr possession were, on the death of Ernest the Confessor, divided between the two sons of the latter, who became the founders of the of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel and Brunswick-Luneburg, the founder w hie was represented in the Ducal lio Brunswick, while the latter is in the royal famiy {x reat tain, The fort ’ eh had culminated the thirteenth centu Henry the Laon, ind of obscurity nes $ a ¥ rv 158 Of merged @ B ' ounger branch of s abides art k the Great, al rit 1 Conuing His sn army wi and he mig Par in if i been ulated inac- tion by Danton aod Dumouriez, who flattered him with the empty hope of ending the throne of France, His con- siderable military reputation was com- prosaised when he fell at the Auerstadt; hi i { eased sharater of his i on the fleld of neg Hew { bably have oc he had deluded inl battle of and 3 £4 1 iheo Duke, 8 800, ci : person, Upon the arn of Napoleon from Elba he again took the field, and was Xilled in the bal- Quatre Bras, he 16th in the year 1815, leaving his two nd to the guardianship of their uncle, rae the 1V, King of England. Lord a has immortalized the name and ane of the soldier, in his description the French alarm which broke up the ball festivities at Brussels and hur. | pied the allied troops to Waterloo, Of the Duke he said:—*He rushed into | the field, and foremost fighting, fedl, | The eldest son of this heroic personage, | as already intimated, grew up so imbe- | pile tyrant; and the German Diet con- | firmed the sentence of deposition which | had already been anticipated by a popu. | lar revolution in 1830. { The legitimate heir to the Duchy 1s | the present Duke of Cumberland, the {son of the late ex-King George V.of | Hanover, second cousin of Queen Vio- toria and husband of the Princess Thy- | ta, of Denmark. But he will not be | permitted to succeed to the title, pow- | ers, and estates because he has so far | persistently refused to recognize the act | of Prussia in deposing his father and annexing Hanover in 1866, Failing the | succession of the Duke of Cumberland, | there has long been a party which has | advocated the annexation of Brunswick | to Prussia immediately on the death of | Duke William, while still another fac. | tion Is not averse to its incorporation with the dominion of the Hohenzollerns, but would prefer this result being at- tained by a transition process, Bruns wick first becoming a kind of autono- mous Reichsland, like Alsece Lormune as at present constituted. This last party 18, of course, favorable to Prassia, and is believed to base its policy on a desire to shield that Power from a charge of indecorous haste in appropria- ting fresh territory. Meanwhile the little principality-- which embraces an area of 1,626 Janare miles and a population of 340! in. habitants—will not drift into anarchy. A law of succession to the throne of Brunswick, sanctioned by the Diet, was promulgated in March, 1873, vides, under guarantee of the Emperor, that at the demise of the reigning Duke, the Grand Dake of Ok denburg shall assume the y. If, p rn the of 5 On fi€ of 4 ia \ of 1 i regency appointed after the vacation of the throne should from any cause what- | ever become inoperative, | The dead Duke was one of the | wealthiest of German sovereigns, being in possession of vast private estates, i including the principality of Oels, in Silesia, and large domains in the district of (late, In Prussia, The principality of Oels embraces an area of about thir- | ty-two square miles and maintaining | about 130,000 inhabitants, This estate, | it was reported a few years ago, had | been awarded by the Prussian Govern- | ment, after the Duke’s 'death, to the { Crown Prinve of Germauy and Prussia { for the time being, It has also been { reported that the late Duke has made a | will in which he bequeathed the whole | of his private estates to the Emperor of ! | | { Austria, There is likely, therefore, to | be a struggle over the private fortune, | as well fas the public prerogatives, of | the last member, of the 'llusirious house { of Brunswick. » - > An Armiess Falnter. 1 | While on the subject of pictures, there | are, of course, dozens of copyists in all the wuseums and large galleries, most of whom earn a very meagre living by may be, In » mechan- the case ' a man bora but who uses such dexteri- Or arms, with every-day yout no way distinguished, gets through | two of the same size. Needless Lo say, Felix finds customers while pie. th remain wer 1s Lures all 0d Prices, There are too many especially of the tourist order, who infinitely prefer a poor copy of the * Descent of the Cross,” regarding which they can say: “You Painted by who do > i | see that picture? great gun of a painter; well, sir, this copy was painted by a man named Fe- lix--a fellow without any arms-—he { done it, every inch of it, sir, with his { feet. 1 seen him to work oun it myself ! {in one ot them everfasting galleries, | don’t alike to me. 1 don’t take much stock in paintings, you know, but by Geo do as “ ti Lait 4 » » rge! g 4 good se Dig haia that fellow can eel as make suf and, a wl iH “as % afffiction made eno the house bh and could I i his Income, live upon the average respect to legs er the shadows of the ba : yi brother In starves r cred Trage an AA Order of the Garter. § «4 § ¥ yf institution of is order is refer. ard 111 and the ywder itself 1s con- the world. The and ils ude sev: The h 1348, and i the highest reign is its head, bul always ral » garter is worn belo ue velvet WV Shen lal Wit MEAS edge Knes, J buckle i mantle of garter lined with taffeta; the surcoal crimson velvet. lined with white taffeta, { is 18 velvet, 18 bears on the left ¥ tar embry ¢ i and, like the mantie, side an eight-pointad 8 in silver. In the centre © § 83 it) oidered id ‘ s | ed with a small garter in blue velvet, broidered in gold. | with taffeta. The hat is of black wel. vet, with a plume of white ostrich | feathers and a tuft of black heron feath- | ora, fastened to the bat by a baud of { dinmonds, | weighs 32 ounces, | white and red. The George is a figure | of St. George on horseback, and is at- | tached to the collar; the lesser George | is hung to a broad blue nbbon wom | over the left shoulder, | Bishop of Winchester; 2, Chancellor, the | Bishop of Oxford; 3, Hegistrar, the | Dean of Windsor; 4, Garter Principal | King of Arms; 5, Usher of the Black 1 the initials K. G. after his name or title. ASAI Anecdotes of Brigveti — “Prignoli was the vainest man [ ever knew.” sald a veteran stage maager, who has known all the brightest stars of the operatic firmament for & quarter of a century. “His last appearance in this city pecurred, | believe, in 1880, at the Academy of Masie in Philadelphia, and he then sang only once-Edgardo te the Loris of Mlle. Valleria He was at the height of his glory when the Aca. demy opened, in 1856, and he received aot than $1,000 a month for his services, whieh were highly by the because Brignoli wasthe idol of society, Young gies adored him, and even matrons ooked upon him with soft eyed won. der, and t it no weakness to send He was, howev: wen, and never Big Hotels afloat, “The cost of a voyage differs accord ing to the speed of the vessel,” said a representative of one of the {ransatian~ tic lines. “the f-<ter vessels being more expensive than the slower ones,” “hat seems rather illogical,” replied the reporter. “One would naturally {imagine that the shorter voyage would cost the less money.” “The explanation is in the consump- tion of coal. The faster steamers use from 125 to 130 tous of coal per day, while the slower steamers use only about 60 or 70 tons per day. The distance to Southampton is about 3,100 miles, and our faster steamers make the trip across | in from seven to eight days, and the slower steamers make it in the neigh- borhood of ten days.” “How many in a crew do your largest vessels carry?’ “ About 160 men, including officers, The salaries of captains are never less than $1. 800 a year, and sometimes reach $4,000, according to their percentage on gross earnings. The wages of the sea | men and petty officers average §1 per | day each, and the daily cosl of feeding | is 50 cents per casita.’ “How much does each vovage eat in ihe day?” | “Oh, I could hardly tell that, bul we | calculate on allowing a pound and a | half of meat for each person.” “Can you give fresh meats and vege- tables on every day of the voyage?” he chief steward of a large person on a $ i WAR asked Lae § boat, “0 biz trips { and pounds {res | it daily, not only lo th | cabin passengers and : any accident . i Nas v Blip a he reply. “On our out fourteen thous~ hh meat, and we Serve first and second steerage with ; we could give the first and ond-cabin passen- | gers fresh meats and all the luxunes of | the season for several weeks by putting | the crew and steerage passengers on re | gular sea fare of salt meats, We have three ice-cellars-—one for fresh fish, one | for poultry, and one for meats—and in | these everything is preserved.” ‘How mueh ice is required fora vey- age?” “Phe amount varies, according tothe { season, from ten totwenty tons,’ “How about fresh eggs; do you have board? YER, RE b Wi ol PA the we meet Lau liak ¥ i . not exactly. s at the beginning of py are kept fresh by a , of lime and some Ho 1 Wines ly consumed, | and beers are not | we Keep the price to keep dow Una learned re teamer, it was the bedelothes, towels, table coverings for all the furnie ized everyday. On a ves- susand tons two thousand napkins are used on every trip in the | firs. cabin and about one thousand nape | kins are used in the second cabin, while | the sheets number about two thousand | and the towels three thousand. Differ- | ent colors are used on the upholstery | and furniture every day, because of the relief a change of scene affords to per- who become seasick, and also owing to the additional freshness of the | atmosphere of the cabins thusobtained. | The steamer is pewly painted on the witside from stem to slern every voy- age, and todo this work, together with the repairing and cleaning of uphol wi two hundred to four hundred re employed. The washing is all at the end of each voyage. How much erockery do you use in 77" was asked of the steward, re in the neighborhood ir thousand pieces in the first second cabins, separately, and thousand pieces of glasswar+ silver of the first cabin sand pieces valued 1 the same qua n is worth just course, you know, alihougi st as servicesble, and clean in the 4 we well i, Dens, 4G | ture are ch i ge] of five U1 s80ns | men 8 i done i of and about The one 40, 000, nd Of ing RAE We is $ ¥ t daly pParvil second cabin, nothing is as elegan Although the principal rejenoe on the big steamers is from passengers, they ail carry tons and tons of merchan- which is generally of a raw nature, r every transatlantic steamer ob- wines, canned goods and deli- « abroad, but the breadstulls i much of the spoked meats that ey obtain on the other side it fre- juenily occurs that the steamer has | carried it from New York as merchan- | ds freight. The captainssay they can | carry such articles to the markets | abroad and buy them there as cheaply | us at the home market. To load a vessel requires the greatest gkill, too; and this is another of the big expenses, that are included in the enor- mous cost of an ocean voyage. And | sometimes, on a rush, a cargo of two | thousand tons of merchandise has been loaded on board a steamer withic 94 hours, A feature of the transatlantic freight trade is that the cargoes exported largely exceed those imported in bulk of Everything is ran on military, or rath- er naval, discipline, and not a profane word is ever permitted either from officer or sailor. mss AH AIA SDA. Mapaxe MH, (to her servaut)--'‘Jos- oph, there is dust in that corner.” Josepts (raising his hands in despair) «Oh, these mistresses! must look oe. If we did the same, there be no end to our work!”
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