BETWEEN OURSELVES,
Because hemoyes to me and you
The brightest are and biuest,
Shall storms arise between us two,
The oldest friends and truest?
She smiles on me, my heart is light,
And yours is steeped in sorrow,
And vet the flowers I gave to-night
She'll throw to you to-morrow-—
Coquette is she, 50 say with me,
#1.et him who wins her wear her;
And falr--however fair she be,
There's many a lassie fairer,”
But if it hap, and well it may,
That each in vain has pleaded,
If all my songs are thrown away,
And all your sighs unheeded,
We'll vow ourselves no hermit’s vows,
We'll cross no foaming billow,
‘We'll bind about our dismal brows
No wreath of mournful willow.
But show, in spite of her disdain,
We yet can live withont Ler,
And joining hands we'll laugh again,
And think no more about her!
THE FRUIT FAIR.
It was old Mrs. Knapp’s opinion that
her Adam had condescended a great
deal in engaging himself to Jane Hea-
ley’s girl, Melinda. And, indeed, Mel-
have
were hardest Mrs. Hedley had taken in
anything but farmers, and a “very good
gure, the farm was small, and there was
ed hard, as did his mother.
think of being mistress of such a place,
having a best parlor of the grandeur of
the Knapps’ front room, a spare reom
for company, and, no doubt, black silk
for church, was a great dream for Milly
Hedley, who had carried home baskets
of linen to the hotel in her time. She
never owned it, but she was proud of
her elevation, beside being fond of
\ fam.
Ile nmght have been a little fonder of
dauci g and less fond of reading, she
thouglit; but it was “genteel,” too, to
be serious and given to books, and it
teel ways.”
while, and she knew he would ask her
to set theday soon, and had even thought
ding day.
ficial flowers in the milliner’s show-case
salesman. He was dressed splendidly.
toilet, and the gay bonnet pins, of
gorgeous to Milly’s eyes,
gentleman, thought Mily, and she star-
ed at him without intending to do so.
miring glances, .
“Perhaps the young
fo see these pins.
thing out,” said the drummer. *‘*No
charge for looking. What we strive for
to please the ladies.”” And be spread
his wares before her eyes.
The milliner was very polite. She
always falfilled her social obligations,
and it struck her to be her duty to in-
troduce these two persons before her
counter.
lady might like
is Mr. Fairer, He's brought me sam-
ples from New York for five years,
Used to be we had to go on to purchase,
We've got things brought to our doors
now. I'll make a list of my orders,
Mr. Fairer.”
She went to her desk and began to
write, and Milly and young Fairer
talked. She was pretty, and he thought
her flirtable.
be said, “My mother lives here, and
1've got—well, some other friends on
rom the East. I'll see you again.
be sorry not to, for you are good for
sore eyes, you are.”
Milly did not know much of the world.
pretty.
each other again,
“She's going to be married soon. Mr,
Fairer,” said Miss Chip, looking after
her, “to Adam Knapp, up there on the
hill
“That don’t make any difference to
if you mean it for a warning.”
Miss Chip, “and 1 only meant it for a
bit of news,”
But for all that, at the end of a fort-
night Milly blushed and laughed to
think that she had met Fairer six
times.
“It can’t be all chance,” said she,
“The Agricultural Exhibition,’ as it
was called on the bills ~the Fruit Fair,
as the girls and boys dubbed it—was to
come off very soon. Melinda was very
busy with her dress, Ler pink bonnet,
her new dress made of what the gentle-
men at the store choose to call Japanese
grenadine, her sash, her scarf, her low-
cut shoes and bright stockings--each
pulled for old Mra, Hedley's purse, as
if 1t had been a double tooth,
“However, I suppose you had ought
£0 do the Knapps credit,” said the old
her dressed in all her splendor, *‘and
you do look genteel.”’
Milly nodded an assent,
away.
Down at the end of the
tittle two-seated yehicle,
smart: looking brown horse.
and hurried
In it sat
more elegant than ever
“Hop in, Miss Milly,” was his ele-
gant address, ‘and if I don’t take you
i”
i
horse. Milly was enraptured,
that this was indeed style,
}
i
| the road, in such a turnout, with such
| a driver?
wagon, ‘was 2 woman covered with mud, ,
and yuite insensible. He picked her
up and came toward the wagon.
‘Mother!’ he cried, in a sort of shriek.
“Mother, light the lantern.
erazy it's my poor Milly.”
The lantern was lit. Milly it provec
to be——Milly in a dead faint, with all
dous,
mother, and Mrs, Hedley, believing as
ter them on foot, What Adam thought
he kept to himself.
i
| and caught a kiss,
i : 1
{ Milly had a vision of a brown-stone
i
{ on the instant. How much a commer-
| dressed like a prince
She turned her
under her glove.
gold.
the one
cravat,
fair, Adam,” said Mrs Knapp,
of the kitchen window, to her son,
moodily setting on the door-step.
‘I don’t think I'll go. Milly said
she don’t care to,” sald Adam, gloomily
chewing grass,
“On,” sighed Mrs. Knapp, ‘‘I was
80 set on going, 1 did so calculate on it,
What a
but he loved his mother.
“Well, I'll be shot if you shan’t go,
then, mal” he said. “I'll fix up right
Mrs. Knapp brightened, and went to
they had a talk together. When it was
over, Milly said:
“Now, Adam I’ve told you every
to break with me you can.
wouldn’t let you have me
knowing how I'd behaved.”
Adam looked at her quietly.
“Milly,” he said, “I think you need
to be taken care of, and if you'll let
me I’lido it. It’s well tha drummer
has got away from the place, though,
if he values his bones.”
a ——————————
Faffs And Bangs,
A fashion authority on
tant topic of the hair says:
up switches are popular,
The tuck-
Thea are
and with
ornamental halr pins make a very pret-
ty coiffure, Young ladies affect puffs
which are very becoming to many, and
the of some faces, “The
of
the American
is 1am a perplexity
ittle for the ar
appearance
style” is one
management that
The reputation “bang” of un-
happy suggestion and not specially ten-
airs from Milly Hedley, if I was yon,”’
world, nor the prettiest.”
Adam said nothing.
They drove slowly to the fair ground,
Milly and her cavalier in the
crowd.
}
he big apples, the bright peaches,
Prizes were awarded.
drank tea,
People ate ice-
There was a
teller, and a swing that held six people,
black clouds
v, and the sun
big
began to gather in the sk
Milly and her cavalier were eating
ice-cream in a bower bullt for the pur
pose and baptized the “Rosebud Daury;"
the horse came to Mr. Fairer's side and
whispered to him. With an apology he
started up and ran away, returning in
a moment or so, very pale and with a
queer, frightened look in his eves,
**Tisn't very polite, Miss Milly," said
Yon
can get some of your friends to take you
You see my wife is
pleasant surprise, and I'm to drive her
back. She's very jealous; a great deal
the past, so entirely out of fashion that
even on iittie girls it is scarcely allow-
all the money in the family, I've told
It’s very mean,
Ain't there some stage I can give
put a dollar on the table.
Milly, with a furious look, pushed it
“Do you think I'd have come with
youat all if I'd thought you were a
jut he was off. Happily no very
She waited until the brown horse
trotted away, and then stole out of the
Not only had she been fooled and in-
eyes was the greatest wickedness possis
ble~*Kept company with a married
man."
She plodded up the road with fourteen
miles before her, and the dust of a rising
storm about her, with only one wish, to
hide her head in her little bed at last,
and there die.
Old Dobbin was making his slow way
home before the K napps’ wagon Mrs.
Knapp was proad and happy. Adam
had received the prize for dwarf pears.
The rain beat down, but the oil-cloth
covering kept it off pretty well, and half
their journey was over when, suddenly,
Adam stopped with 4 jerk; his mother
gave a ory.
“What's the matter?" said she.
“I'd have run over somebody next,’
he said, and jumped out,
Lying in the road, straight before the
An effort has been made by a few
leaders of fashion to make popular the
brushing of the har off the forhead,
but without any show of success, The
the
most
style of coveri:ig the
very brows is so
women that its abandonment
ight of, least for the present,
The brushing of hair back isan Eng-
i fashion that few of our ladies seem
forehead to
to
will
becoming
nnt
ba thot at
inclined to tolerate,
Puffs appear in
dressings and are discarded
some very stylish
in others,
favor,
i 8ay8s that curls
Curls are slowly coming in
letter from Par
or five inches long, reaching jnst to ¢
below the ¢ }
are very fashonable,
neck, iignon
Ornamental
in plain tortoise shell are the
ular among refined
styles in fancy patterns are culled
But few
for.
A lovly little shell pin, with a half ring
top, is worn in
five or six being used at one A
larger size, with flat, square top is also
handsome and very ladylike. Natural
flowers are much worn for evening
dress, but always preferably a gift from
some loved one.
lodies,
evervday hair dressing
a
Lie,
—————- I I A
The Love of Praise
It is an instinct as much as conscience
It 18 an organic faculty as much as
the reasoning faculty is.
body.
of that which wa call pride. But the
It is the sense of individual
have a right to judge you, and what
sr A AAS i. 0
Losing Three Millions at a Sitting,
at one poker sitting that I saw on the
Comstock, on which occasion he pock-
eted a good $10,000. Bill Gibson lost
in two nights at poker just $15,000
next. The work of those two nights,
by the way, cost him a huge fortune,
He had just got a sure pointer on Crown
Point, which was then selling at 87 or
$5, and had started down to givean or.
der for as much as his $15,000 cash in
hand would cover. On his way he
stepped into his house and found the
boys waiting for him to open a poker
game. The result was that he sat down
to play with them for a little while,
took a header in bad luck, and dropped
his cash, entirely forgetting the pointer
that had been given him. Crown Point
went up to $1,900, so that Gibson if he
had carried out his original intention,
would have cleared anywhere between
$3,000,000 and $4,000,000,
| FOOD FOR THOUGHT,
{| Associate with the wise, and their
| knowledge will cling to thy skirts,
| ‘I'he truly valiant dare everything but
{ doing any other hodv an injury,
Nothing is so eredulous as vanity, or
| 80 ignorant of what becomes itself,
Truth, wherever found will draw
i forth homage from the pure heart,
The desire of appearing to be persons
{ of ability often prevents our being so.
It Is one of the sweetest tests of
{ friendship to tell a friend of his fault.
The man who commands bimself is
| greater far than he who commands Lhe
world.
Time doe not end all at once, It is
ending in part, every day and hour and
i moment,
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but
| folly leaves the worst for the day when
it comes.
In this world, full often, our joys
are only the tender shadows which our
sorrows cast
All other knowledge is hurtful to one
who has not the science of honesty and
good nature,
(God sends us ten thousand joys but
| we will not even streteh out our hand
{ to grasp them,
Charity is not a meteor which oecca-
sionally glares, but a luminary that is
i forever shining.
What are the best
! Those in which we
who was traly such
Tears are softening showers which
cause the seed of heaven to spring up
in the human heart
Do not feel proud at baving suppor
ted your misfortune, How could yon
not have supported it?
To most men experience is like the
stern light of a ship, whieh illuminates
nly the track it has passed,
Our attention little things is the
index to our character, and often the
balance by which it 18 weighed.
The life of a mere worldly man is
an African river that wastes itself
days in memory?
met a companion
4
0
LA
are less wealth than is learn-
wisdom cannot be stolen or
8 therefore thy best friend,
must be excessively stupid,
uncharitable, who believes
virtue but on his own side.
as well as
there 8 no
Thera
Crissy,
is nothing lower than hypo-
To profess friendship and act
enmity 1s & sure proof of total depra-
vity.
Both erudition and agriculture ought
be encouraged by wit
will come of them-
and
Selves,
i 16 government:
manufactures
thie
and
may
A wise
best,
hope for
worst
whatever
man ought to
epared for the
bear with imity
happen.
Mua
prove in
iL respect
of re
0 Mian 1 Wy
Cogn
sublimest
anda
the smallest
iuty the
remarkable
has a
author's
ore
the
ife, and
repeated,
would
ous
=
ay Appears
art, when it
nishes from
’ yd po wood Fhuegd
wrnuen i SMR aia
dividual happiest
’
grealost
% thing 1
alent of success I
d
0 Wii
whatever wilh
t of fame,
oF
yon i
$8 runs ood
WIOUEZH
A+ $iey
5 HLS,
we
to become aged
crowded so mueh of anguish, that
seem fo live years; yes,
in a brief space,
If to do were easy as to kpow what
were good to do, chapels had been
churches, and poor men's cottages
princes’ palaces,
The greatest evils in life have had
their rise from something which was
| thought to be of too little importance to
: be attended to.
A wound from a tongue is worse
than a wound from a sword, for the
latter affects only the body the former
the spirit—the soul.
There are natures which blossom and
ripen amidst trials, which would only
| wither and decay in an atmosphere of
| ease and comfort.
To have his tongue cut out, and to
were preferable (0 his condition who
cannot govern his tongue.
Have the courage to show your re-
| spect for honesty in whatever guise it
| appears, and your contempt for dis
honesty and duplicity, by whomsoever
i exhinted,
Of all passions jealousy ia that which
| exacts the bardest services and pays the
bitterest wages, Its service is to watch
the success of our enemy; its wages to
be sure of it.
Keep your promise to the letter, be
| prompt and exact, and it will save you
{ much trouble and care through life,
and win you the respect and trust of
! your friends,
Never be cast down by trifles, If a
spider breaks his thread twenty times,
twenty times will he mend it again,
Make up your mind to do a thing and
you will do it,
Charity makes the best construction
of things and persons, excuses weak.
ness, extenuates miscarriage, makes the
best of sversthmg, forgives everybody,
serves
NEW SOFTHEWEEK |
~ Thirteen Senators and fifty-five
Representatives attended the joint con-
vention of the hilinois Legislature on
the 7th, Two votes were cast, one for
Black and one for Bishop, and the con-
Garland was on
to the
Ja urney-ureneral
Oth formally presented
predecessor, ex-Attorney General
—Areneral Grant’s condition was re-
ported better on the Oth, He ‘felt
much refreshed, and was in a more
cheerful frame of mind than for some
~The resignation of Thomas F. Day-
aware was read in the Legislature of
that State on the 9th, In the House a
from the Senate,
-In joint convention of the [llinols
Legislature on the 9th 15 Senators and
58 Representatives answered to roll call,
Two votes were cast for U. 8. Senator,
one for Black and one for Morrison.
— Reports of great mortality among |
to come from the Indian Territory, One
9 the Creek Nation reports |
5000, |
On the Cherokee strip it is
An earthquake was felt at Lancas-
ter, Penna., at o'clock on the Bth,
p=
the services
temporanly suspendsd by the
The earthquake was felt at
in Lancaster county.
The vibration was preceded or accom-
panied by a rumbling sound,
The
wWele
of Presiden
held on
It was devoted almost wholly to |
consideration of Federal appoint- |
first meeting
the
of the appointments in his department |
which he deemed necessary
proper administration of public bu:
under the new regime. The lis
to the |
in which a change ig desirable at onc
solictor General Phillips has sen
esignation to the President, to take
3
upon the appointment and quali
-In the Senate of Illinois on the 10th |
a Lill was introduced to prevent pooling
of the f that Both
5
railways of
Houses unanimously adopted a resolu-
Stale
The lLegisia- §
commend.
bash Railroad strikers,
ture also adopted a resolution
ing the acti of Congress in placing
General Grant the retired list, In
joint convention of the Illinois
stare on the 10th, member
resent, one
Nenator,
51
Hi
13
oa
101
was
5 being i
U.B.
vole
4
af the
if the
* Xs sen
leans Exhibition
hat r $1 ad
Al ever wWiiea Wess
AL . # 5
Mountains,
~The
Rock Glycerige
Junction, three m
Penpa., was demolished on the 10th
the explosion of a magazine containing
6000 pounds of nitroglycerine. H.W,
Herrington, one | the proprietors, and
H. V. Pratt, an employe was Killed,
The Central Hotel and
stores and houses, in Newbern,
— ——————
nitro-giycerine factory of th
Jompany, at Howard
Bradford.
*
%
wy
from
les
twenty
North
is estimated at $1,000,000; insur-
ance, $50,000, The Castle House block
tel and several stcres, was burned on
Loss, $45,000,
—Jt was estimated, on the 10th, that
“Farmers in the neighbor.
18
a prominent military officer’’ of
by letter that “there are 3500 Fenians
~C. ¥. Raggin, a respected citizen of
Lavington, Illinois, shot and Killed his
He was 00 years of age. It is
Jos,
ville, in the Indian Territory, on the
Oth, by shooting ber through the breast
It is said he was epamored of another
woman and wanted to get his wife out
of the way. ——————
pr IT ent on the 11th, nom-
inated Edward D, Clark, of Mississippi,
to be Assistant Secretary of the Inter.
jor, and Sidney D, Jackman to be U. 8,
Marshal for Southern Texas. Secretary
Manning on the same day, appointed
Eugene Higgins, of Maryland, to be
Chief of the Appointment Division of
the Treasury | t, in piace of
C. 8. Trevill, of New York, resigned.
General Grant's condition contin.
ued favorable on the 11th. He has not
complained of n in his throat for
SevEMl AMpR. . Douglas saia last
night: “While General Grant had
slept but little on the 10th, he had rest
ed comfortably and arose before noon
time feeling better than he has for sev-
eral days. He gato of
nourishment in liquid form and his
pulse was lower than on the 10th.
— Republican State Con
of Michigan met on the 11th, J
Cooley was mated for Justice
McAl
gents of the University.
- SA PHA SR On eBcanarnR
—The town elections in Essex coun-
ty, New Jersey, show slight Democratic
gains, but the Republicans retain con-
tro! of the Board of Freeholders.
A public sale of imported Alderney
cows took place on the 11th in
nore, Although the autendance of
fancy cattle breeders was large, the
prices were low, the range being from
$55 up to $135.
—Thomas H. Trippe and James Earle,
while driving near the railroad depot |
Easton, Maryland, on the 11th, were
struck by a train and Earle was killed,
Trippe being dangerously, if not fatally
injured. J. D. White, a passenger
an Fast Tennessee Railroad train, was
killed near Knoxville, on the same day,
by putting his head out of a ¢ win-
dow while the train was crossing a
covered bridge,
dest
ail
fi
OF
ai
—The works of the Michigan Saw
Company at East Saginaw, Michigan,
were destroyed by fire early on the Lith.
The loss 18 estimated at $60,000; the
insurance at over $30 C00., The works
had been recently rebuilt, having been
~The court-martial in the trial of
General Hazen met on iith in
Washington, General Hancock presid-
ing, and the trial of accused was
begun, on the charge of
the
the
“conduct wo
the prejudice of good order and military
sex $1243
discipline in violation of the 62d
of war.”
— Mrs, George wealthy
widow, at Seiple’s Lehigh
county, Penna., was visited on the 10th
by a man who represented himself as
““a New York attorney, who desired
to settle some matlers in connection
with her deceased husband’s estate.”
During the night of the 1 the visitor
blew open the family safe and fled with
some valuable papers. It is thought his
object was to secure $10,000 which Mrs.
App jreceived on Monday the sale
of iron mines, but which was deposited
in an Allentown bank.
article
A
Wp, a
Hp
station,
el
Iota
— Four more ineffectual ballots for U.
8. Benator were taken the 11th in
m of the lines Legisiatu
On the
votes,
E431
joint sessic
One hundred voles were cast,
ballot Morrison received
and on the others 99 voles,
At,
rat f
frst mn
FOBRTY-EIGHTH OONGRE::—
SECOND SESSION,
BENATE.
In the U, 8. Senate, on
inations of President
confirmed in executli
There was no debate and
Riddlebrger relapsing
6th all
Cleveland
ve Bession.
objection,
into silence,
V accepi~
members of
d the comm is-
Chey
the
Wie Same Ga
{
hy
i the resignations of ti
: oy
pons of the new Cabinet
the
upon
In the U.
of
On ne
S, denate,
Mr. Van Wyelk
Sth ¢
reiative
Backb
{ Lhe
ie
Te
ming hours
WSL LOoUl
Wis Called
made a s)
in the Ast
Administration
Van Wyck n
reflecting BENET
Administration. Mr
and historical state-
He declared ths
of the hat
Was
Ws
Case
4
4
11
t
and aid to do justice
wrongs, Mr. Teller
Va:
assault of the
Mr. Van Wyck's
his action in the mat-
was simply 0 compel
The attempt had
two pens 1
Greneral Burnet and the whol
y showed the loose methods
ing in the executive branches
government, where the laws were de.
fied with impunity. Senate adjourned.
in the U. Senate, on the 10h
resolution offered by Mr, Hoar on the
Oth, that Henry W. Blair be sworn in
as Senator from New Hampshire to fil}
a vacaucy, was taken up, After along
debate, Mr. Vest leading the opposition
to the resolution, it was carried by a
vote of 36 to 20, Mr. Jones, of Florida,
voted with the Republicans in the af.
firmative, Mr. Blair was then sworn
in by the Vice President and the Sen-
ate adjourned.
In the U. 8, Senate on the 11th, only
two nominations were secured,
were Edward C, Clarke, of Mississippi,
to be Assistant Secretary of the Inte-
rior, and Sydpey D. Jackman, of
Texas, to be United States Maishal for
the Southern District of thal State,
Mr, Clarke was a Colonel in the Con-
federate army. He is 45 years of age,
and an intimate friend of Secretary
Lamar, When confirmed Mr. Clarke,
who is now bere, will relieve Mr, Joslyu,
who will return to his home in Xlinois,
After the Cabinet meeting of the 10th,
it was confidentially expected that a
batch of appointments would go to the
Senate to-day, including a sprinkling
from each department. Those on the
anxious bench cannot understand thas
hesitation to provide them with places.
They don’t seem to realize that the Lime
of the new secretaries has been almost
entirely occupied in listening to the ap.
peals of the office seekers and their
friends and that no opportunity has vet
been offered to consider the claims ana
fitness of the applicants. Hereafuer the
secretaries will follow an established
rule to see no one in quest of office ex-
cept between certain hours, The adop-
tion of this rule has oon found ae neces.
sary in order to gain to attend tu
The Presi.
Jer
ht ond
YW VCX HS
I 4s the
- hin
3 Bas be
upon e-
WO
-
* “
sentatives at a stated time each day to
t the claims of their fnends. The
t will receive no papers on be.
half of a :
} be presented to the prope:
executive department, This course
save the President much time and