NEAR THE DAWN, When life's troubles gather darkly Round the way we follow here, ¥hen no hope the sad heart lightens, No volce speaks a word of cheer ; {hen the thought the shadow scatters, Giving as a cheering ray— ‘When the night appears the darkest, Morning is not far away. When adveraity surrounds us, Aud our sunshine friends pass by, And the dreams so fondly cherished Wiih our scattered treasures le; Then amid such gloomy seasons This sweet thought can yet be drawn, When the darkest hour is present, It is always near the dawn, When the spirit fluttering lingers On the confines of this life, Parting from all joyful memories, And from every sceae of strife, Though the scene is sad and gloomy, And the body shrinks in fear, These dark hours will soon be vanished, And the glorious morn be here, Pain cannot affect us always, Brighter days will soon be hers, Sorrow may oppress us often, Yet happier time is near ; All along our earthly journey This reflection lights our way : Nature's darkest hour is always Just before the break of day. EMBARRASSED. “Why, Charley,” I asked *‘‘what is the matter now?” as my friend, Charley Brent entered the office and threw down his hat with the peculiar sling that I always knew indicated some mental disturbance; what has gone wrong with you this ime?” “Oh, I'm in another scrape,” ho re- | _ phed, with an attempt at patient resig- | nation that was quite absurd. “hat kind of a scrape is it—money?” “Money, no—it’s girls; hang "em. I believe they were made just to torture a man’s life out,” “Why, what have they been doing now?” “Why, you know I'm engaged nut and out to Lily Arnold.” “No, I didn’t know it before.” “Well then, I am, a regular out and dried engagement—I love Lily and she loves me; parents willing, aunts, uneles, | cousins all ditto—but you see New Year's Day I made heaps of calls snd they would have me to drink whether or no. So when I made my last call, 1 was kind of—kind of not tipsy, Will,” he said, very gravely, noticing my look of incredulty, “I think that I have too much self-respect for that, but I will admit to being slightly sep up. My | last call happened to be upon Nell Blair, | and she, you know, is just the neatest | specimen of female beauty that ever | walked. “No, I know nothing about it, I| never beard of her before,” i “Well she is, I tell you, the most | unique pattern of girlhood you ever | saw; great big black eyes, and hair to | match, curling in little ringlets all over | her head; red cheeks and the kissingest | lips. New Year's night she was rigged out in « way that made her fairly daz- ziing, and yon know we were alone, and she did look so sweetly pretty thst I lost my head and swore I loved her, and only her, and asked to marry me, and confound it all, didn't she say yes? So here I am engaged to two girls, so what in the name of everything that's proper am I to do?” “Mgrate at once to Utah, you shameless follower of beuightyd Mor- mon.” “Don't tantalize me, Will, but help me oat of this serape.”’ “How am I to do that,” I should like to know” “Why, go back with me at once to | Earlville, and take Nell Blair of my | Lands; you'll fall in love with her just | as sure as you see her,” “But if she is so wonderfully capti- vating, how is it thet you prefer Lily?” Supposing that I should be contrary, aad fall in love her?” “Ne. no, Will; I couldnt stand that ~-but I say, won't you come?” Tes, I'll go,” 1 replied, as a wicked thought came into my head; *I agres to the arrangement.” “To fall in love with Nell?’ “Certamly; I consent to vietimize mysel! npon the altar of friendship,” So the next day I went to Earlville, with my friend, who took me at once | to sce Nell Blair, and I tound that his account of her beauty had not been ex- aggerated, Nhe was the most hewitch. ing little brunette imaginable, and she looked so running over with fun and mischief, that it was thoroughly infec- tions, sod in a few moments we were well sequainted, After sitting a short time Charley got up saying, ‘Miss Blair I am goiug to leave this y New Year's night, although he did not | and that he must in consequence, re- wot anything intoxicating here-—Me. | tract all thot be then said; wuersupon I Brent offered himself to me. I said | gave him a long lecture upon drinking, “Now, Charley,” I said, * I wish yon would promise never to take anything of the kind again,” “I have already promised Lily,” he want you to fall in love with Lily.” | rephed. “It was the condition upon *“Oh, but I cannot possibly do that,” | which she granted her forgiveness. But 1 exclaimed very earnestly, | Nell,” he continued, “were you really “Just in fan, you know,” she plead- | serious when you said yes?" ed, that lovely blush coming again.— | “Not any more than you were; but I | So I promised to pretend that I was | Was in earnest when [said yes to Mr, desperately smitten with Miss Arnold, | Weston yesterday,” who would be there at Nelly’s the next | ‘I wish you could have seen his | day, and after making au outrageously | face.” long eall for a first one, I was desper-| ‘Why,’ he stammered, ‘I thought he ately in love with the brunette, but | Preferred Lily,” when he came into my room the next | —‘‘About as much as you did me,” | morning bright and early, evidently | “Then yon two were playing a trick | anxious as to the result of his experi. | Upon me?" ment, T affected great indifference, and | ‘Yes, I did it to punish you for ask- said, “Miss Blair is certainly a very | ig him to take me off your hands.’ pretly girl, Charley, but you know I | ‘Well, dear, I hope you will never admire blondes.” | regret that.” He looked quite crest fallen as he | Aud I never did. said, “‘yon’re not going to disappoint | emt ff m——— me now, Will; I thought Nell would | How Comrade Keith, Mow? suit you exactly, but she improves very | - much upon acquaintanee—yon should | hear her sing.” As soon as he left me, i and would feel bad enough when he came to his senses. And now I am going to counter-scheme a little—] | Frederick the Great of Prussia was i at his palace at Potsdam when some | [ went to fulfill my engagement, and |of his orders by their excessive sever- | found Aliss Arnold with Nell, as the | ity caused great discontent among the Iatter had promised. She was an ex-| Prussian troops; so the soldiers then in ceedingly pretty blonde, with a pure, | garrison resolved to avail themselves of | sweet face, which to my mind, how- | the ease and facility with which Fred: ever, could not compare with that of | erick could at all times be approached | the ever changing dark eyed beauty. | by them, and thus a deputation of the “Remember your promise,” Nell whis- | grenadiers of Olgilvie marched deliber- | ber | ately from their barracks across the | | great square which lies before the pal- | she exclaimed aloud, glancing out of | gee and halted at the porch. i the window. I seated myrelf by the | An officer in waiting —afterward the | fair Lily, and commenced a low, earn- | great Field Marshal Keith, who was | est conversation, engrossing her atten. | killed by the Austrisns at Hochkirchen | tion so entirely that when Charley en- | _soquainted the King of their arrival, | tered she could do no more than bow, | adding, “Shall order them back to | He gave me a quick look of suspicion, | the barracks, sire, or place them under | and was about to seat himsell by the | arrest?” i side of the lady when Nell called him “Do neither; they have come to see i me, and see me they shall; good soldiers | have nothing to fear from me, and the | regiment of Olgilvie is one of the finest | in Prussia. I shall try the power of | discipline!” Frederick hastily put on his shabby | old uniform, his long jack boots, whieh | bad neyer known blacking, his orders of | knighthood, his cocked hat, sword and “Ob, I don't know,” she replied, | sash. i blushing. ‘Most gentlemen are quite i “Sire,” urged Keith, “will there not satisfied when they are enjoying N@Il's | be an inconvenience in all this?” society.” “To whom?" “She is very beautiful! certainly,” I4 *To you, sire?” replied, “for a brunette,” “How comrade Keith, how?” “The most beautiful girl I ever saw” “Discussions will lead to other depu- | —with a slight sigh, for Nell was talk- | tations, and every order Your Majesty | ing now very earnestly, aud playing off | msy issue will be dissected and caviled | the engaged air with amusing accuracy, | 4 in every guardroom and beershop in | although Iam afraid it was not at all | Prussia” appreciated by Charley. She would | ‘No matter, comrade; march the ras- room, and with evident reluctance he followed her, casting back anxious glances at me and my companion, which I pretended to be altogether unconscious | of. “I am afraid,” I said, "that Mr, Brent begrudges me the privilege that I am now enjoying.” suppressed mirth that it was with great | pline.” difficulty I restrained my laughter, But| In they came ly, twenty my conscience began to reproach me a | tall and swinging fellows, 21 after little, for 1 saw that the veritable flan. Frederick's own heart; but the appear. | cee was feeling quite concerned. Fin- | ance of the King dressed as if for par- ally, she rose to take her leave, and I, | ade awed them to total mlenc-, as a matter of course, offered my es- “Achtung!” (stientionl) cried he, | cort, Charley's sharp eyes had kept | drawing his sword, “to the righ: face | close watch, and breaking away {rom | frontl—io the left face—{front!” | his companion, he strode across the | These commands the deputations, | room, and drawing Miss Arnold's arm | Who were formed*in line, obeyed in | “Thank you, Will; I will | perfect silence, and wondered what was | | 80 Frederick erted suddenly: **To the | right sbouit face, to" your barracks, quick, march!” Then, as he never gave the word “halt,” they felt compelled to march wish to troubls you” “Trouble,” I exclaimed, ‘'do not eall it by that name.” “By any uame you please then,” he answered, now thoroughly out of tem. your services.” Keith laaghed heartly as the baffled The moment they were out of hearing, | deputation disappeared within the bar. we gave vent to our mirth, which was ™Ck yard, where their expectant com. increased by seeing Lilly's little head des gathered round them to hear the going in that peculiar way which always report of how Frederick received their denotes considerable excitement in the | c0mplaint. speaker, and we could understand very | “We have never epened our lips” well that she was explaining her late | Said the oldest grenadier, with a crest. somewhat false position, fallen expression. “Do you think he has been sufficient. | “Der Teufel! did not you see the Iy punished?” I asked. king?” cried they. . “I do not know about that: It does | we have mat loft bim not seem to me a very severe punish. | fol Bi i : pl, why, did ment for allowing him the privilege of | "7, oF Jour HAtTuctionsy “ i "It was impossible,” my society for awhile. Is it such a a ; . terrible venaneel” Impossible? —and why so?” ‘* " “Becanse when we saw old Father A ponsnce,” 1 anwered, *“‘that 1 . . \ would bo willizg to submit lo all the | Frederick in bis Sehting ont and dirty it 0 uy Mite: | our Learts failed us, and the—power of you not | She lowered her dark eyes at my earn- | Bronzes and Sistuettes, Old gilt bronzes of the monarchy or of the First Empire may ordinarily be distinguished by the gilding having become mors orange in tone and, as it were, varu'shed by time when not But this effect is only safe w y Is to examine the un- burnished parts of the flesh with a magnifying glass, If the (rain is regular it has been produced sy the modern invention. Even such exam- ination will pot always save ti.a col- lector from paying too dear for his If he has a penchant for “historicul” pieces which he iwnlieves to have come from the palace of Ver. for old things of Thus, from a good candelabrum of the been in the royal service, and from a portion of a kitehen candlestick which tremely tempting to the amateur, Beware of old statuettes in painted wood -caryers block out their work, A lot of worm-eaten fragments, morticed into shape of a human figure by a fourth-rate German carver of furniture, may be so fixed up with stneco and silk and lace and tinsel, as to pass for a Bpanish or Italian statuette of an in- teresting period, Without taking any such trouble a new comer in the camp of the bric-a-brac hunters may be de- ceived not only in ivories, and works in wrought iron and steel, by the new process of working in “pate dure” or hardened paste, a material of which many specnuens are now to be seen with our leading dealers in novelties, The results of the first experiments amateurs, Now the manufacturers find that an honest business at reasonable prices pays best --— Lost in the Alps, A cure from Lyons was receutly spending his holidays among the Swiss being ambations of crossing the rocky chain which separ- ates the Glacier d’Argentiere from the Mer de Glace, he engaged the services of a father and son, named Devouas- soux, to act as guide and porter. dangerous cols in the whole range, and which, on account of its being virgin, templed them, no doubt, to try and conquer it, It 4s known as the Four des Cortes, and is simply a riven ice slope, interrupted bere and there by masses of jagged rocks, and coustantly swept by ice svalanches, In fact, It would be diffienlt to select, in the whole of the Alps, 3 more perilous slope for men to risk their lives on. Bat to add to the peril, the weather was wretchedly in mist and snow, adventurous cure and his guides set off from the village of Argentiere, a few miles from Chamounix, the next day, When three days had passed and they had not arrived the worst was feared, and a party of guides who went out in search of them found their bodies frightfally mutilated at the very foot of the ool of the Four des Courtes, It was evident that they had succeeded in attaining a considerable height, when, probably, missing their or swept out of ther steps by the falling ice, they fell several thousand feet on to the glacier below, where they The bodies of the gnide and his son were interred on Friday in the church. to Lyons, his native place. who has thus paid for his daring with tion is feit in Chamounix that he should THE FASHIONS, Long flowing sashes are more fashion- able than ever; their lapels are often ornamented with patterns of flowers embroldered in natural shades of color over either a dark or light-colored | ground, according to the style of the toilet. Some are embroidered with jet or colored beads, others are simply of striped or wate ed silk, If one does not care to make the waist appear thicker one slinply places a bow with one long loop and two unequal ends at the back of the skirt, a little to the left; the rib. bon sash going round the waist only suits very young or very slight persons, | ces tastened on to the skirt, quite round, { without points or basques., Let us not, | however, run into extremes, or adopt small | waists and soft materials; but the bodice | curved out over the hips, and peaked in { front and at the back, is very elegant | and becoming, and the polonaise or | princess bodice, coming down to form a ! basque, tunic or panels over the skirt, { is also one of the most stylish models of | the season; all three are equally fash- | ionable, and may be selected according | to one’s age, figure and taste. { If dresses are made up with simpls. | | city, materials are in general beautiful | and expensive. Shot silk is in vogue | no longer, but dresses of this materia! may be modernized by the adjunction of | a tablier of net embroidered in appli. | que, with patterns cut out of fine cam- | bric and worked round in buttonhole- | stitch, This is a very effective style of | trimming. We have been shown sey- | { eral toilets, the skirts of which were of | | colored faille, covered with a second | skirt of embroidered net put on full and i falling loose, and which are most ele- | gant and stylish, At the back long | loops of wide ribbon of the color of the underskirt fall over the dress, complet. | ing the toilet, Very pretty dresses are prepared in | August for garden parties and out-of- | door fetes. One of the most tasteful | { models of the kind we have seen is a | { dress for a young ladv, It is of white | volle-des-misaine. The round skirt is | put on very full and trimmed with two { wide lapels of embroidered etamine, | | The tunic forms a tablier, and is draped i 80 as to form a large square lapel, also trimmed with etamine. Bodice of eta- mine; the fronts open over a small plas. tron of etamine, and come down below the waist in a deep peak. The back is made tailor-fashion, without any trim. ming. The sleeve, short to the elbow, is trimmed with a small facing of eta- siv mine, The jersey jackets obtain first favor appearing, as it now does, dazzingly | bright with beads. These beads are ar- ranged in various small patterns, such as scallops, diamonds, spikes, crescents and 30 on, in vad, steel, jet or colored glass, over the soft tricot of the jersey, which 18 generally of some darx shade | of color, he latest model is the per- fectly clinging bodice, buttoned down the middle of the front and coming down a little lower than waist, fin. ished with a small surned-up collar and plain long slesv s let us mention Also, a8 a novelty of the ssason, the pretty jacket-bodice of white or buff etamine, trimmed with insertion and lace to match, and very pretty to wear with any colored skirt. he Light summer mantels are made of silk gauze, embroidered with muoall round beads, steel-biue, garnet red | beige, bronze or lead-colored. * This beaded ganze is employed for visite sleeves, middie back-pieces and the lower part of lapels; all the rest is of brocaded silk gauze without any beads, A full front-piece is generally added, gathered at the neck and arrangad in a thousand different ways, but no longer in turkey's-breast plastrons, This frightful fashion has disappeared, to- gether with full-puffed sleeves, and tournures of exageerated size, and bumping up and down in quite an inde- pendent manner at the back of the waist, have replaced them for persons devoid of taste, who seem always anx- ious to adopt the grotesque part of Fashionable stripes have invaded the sunshades of the season. Those made of lace or net in the popular tints of HORSE NOTES, ~Phil Thompson trotted a mile mn 2.20% over a half mile track recently, There will be a four days’ meets at Wheeling, W. Va,, beginning ~y tember 8, ~Fred Gerker says that $2000 would not buy his S-year-old brother to Col onal Wood, his recent Newark pur. chase, ~Majolicas heart failed him in the first heat of his race with Phallas, and after that he was practically not in the race, ~—Tyrant has been let up in his work, and it it maybe that he will not start again until the Sheepshead| Bay autumn meeting, —IL18 reported from Saratoga that Messrs. Appleby & Johnson have pur- chased of Chinn & Morgan the noted 2-year-old Ban-Fox for $15.000, ~Mr. Haggin, of California, has secured the refusal of George Kinney, the Dwyer Brothers’ great race-horse, designing to use him for stock pur- poses, ~Kit Freeman, the dam of the pacer Buffalo Girl, record 2,12}, foaled re. cently a filly by Pocahontas Boy, the mons pacer, — Associated Press accounts of the driving Majolica and Murphy as driving Phallas, while it also stated that Majoie ica *‘ran by the side of Phallas, —Jotn 8, Campbell, the former driver of Richball, the pacer, but who 18 now riding his own runners, present. with a gold watch for vices. ~—Jack Splan was fimed at Pittsburg at the instigation of the Cruelty to An. imals Soclety for using a spur whip on A spur whip has a long brad faithful ser. lazy horses, Dan Woodmansee, the trainer and driver for Commodore Kittson, is to take his string of fiyers, Johnson, Lit- tle Brown Jug, Minnie R. Revenue, Prince Arthur and Fannie Wither- spoon, on a tour through Michigan, ~The famous trotter Speculation, Crown Point, record 2.244, and Oakland Maid, 2.22, died recently in California at the age of 23 years, He was sired by Rysdyk’s Hambeltonian, dam Martha Washington, by Washing- ton, — The Narragansett Park, of Provie dence, R. 1., will open the Eastern eir- cuit instead of closing the Grand cir. cuit, Its dates remain the same, Sep- tember 1 to 4, and the only advantage gained is that the purses are smaller in the Eastern circuit. ~The largest dividend paid this season on a $5 mutual ticket was realized by the victory of the 4yearold Frolic, by imp. Stonehenge, { imp. Faver- dale, in the first race at Brighton Beach on the 31st ult. Seven tickets were sold on the winner, and each paid $445.60. ~The Minnesota State Agricultural Society will give liberal purses for trot. ters and pacers in connection with its Fair, to be held midway between 5t. Paul and Minneapolis, from September 7 to 12 inclusive. The Society will of- fer $1800 to the 2.17 class, $1800 to the 2.20 class, $2000 to all stallions, Phallas barred, and $1000 to all pacers, Charlemagne, the favorite steeple. chaser, fell at the hurdle on the flat, near the half-mile pole, in the steeple. chase handicap at Monmouth the other lay, He had the race in hand and is one of the safest timber horses in the world, but he may have tired under the heavy weight of 170 pounds, which is the heaviest of the yearn a race over the lon; course, which is a very trying one. Mau 1 S.did the quarters of her grand mile in 2,088 at Cleveland on the 30th ult. as follows: 32§, 31%, 31 and 33} Bair urged the mare during the Nast half-mile, and applied the whip on en- tering the homestretch. The track is said by good judges to bave been fully one second slow. Mr. Bonner is likely to retire Maud 8S, from public, at least such has been his expressed intention in case she beat her record. out estness, and looked so lovely with the | long lashes resting on her owing : cheeks that I arose i@volnntarily an seated myself beside her. “Don’t you think that I deserve a re. | ward for following out your orders as I did?” “In what way? What orders do you mean?” she inquired. gentleman ia your hands, I hope that you will take good care of him,” “Certainly,” she replied, *“I shall be most happy to do so; but where are you going” “Oi, 1 have sn engagement that I must keep. I shall have to excuse my- “Why, in trying to be agreeable to Miss Arnold when 1 would so much rather have been in Charley's place,” “Many gentlemen wotld have con. sidered it a great privilege to enjoy for a while the exclusive attention of the discipiine proved too great.” ited thmisesin. The Upper Alr. | have been tempted, for the sake of a fee, {to have undertaken so hazardous a | journey in such bad weather, Even if | the weather hsd been good it is ex. The greatest difficulty which meets | tremely doubtful if the passage could count of the condition and metions of the upper portion ere. | - er : As has been said, ‘we liveat the bot Victoria's New son ia-lLaw of the atmospheric ocean, of which the The last unmarried daughter of | tempt it.” of the to us,” The air is arranged symmetri. Battenberg, and England is saddled eally about the globe, and it is much | with one more petty German prince denser close to the earth than above it, | beigs, mushroom, os pale fawn are the —Ed Corrigan has great confidence most frequently seen. Sunshades made | in his colt Freeland. He says; “I am | of shot silk are not so generally seen | willing and anxious to back Freeland this year as they were last, Those with | against any and all comers, Miss W ood painted panels have almost disappeared | ford, George Kinney, Drake Carter { Pontiac, or anything elise, To this end | The new sunshades are, like the bon- | would suggest a sweejs'eak race, | nets, transparent. Some are made of | £1000 each, with whatever added mon- | plain net gathered over gold wires and | trimmed with knots of colored ribbons. | Others are made of the spotted net | known as pont d'esprit. One, of the | latter, trimmed with bows of green | ribbon, was intended to be worn with a | dress of black lace on a foundation of ey may be decided on; the distance to be one mile and a furlong, or one mile { and a quarter at theoutside, and weight for age to be carried.” : sell,” stammered Charley, | oonscions and sheepish. period} hopes “Of o added, with charming little toss of her head; “good evening. As soon as he had left, she turned to oid ad: ros, I “Mr, want to ask 50 ing & little queer, n gon . Miss Blair,” Alawered, “What is { : “Does beautiful Lilly.” “Not with Miss Blair 80 near, and yet so unattainable,” “Ah, Mr, Weston, you are a flat. “Not at all; but don't The sotual height to which the air ex. tends is not known exactly, but at the level of about forty miles it is no lou. for dunst enotigh to be capable of re. ting the sun's rays, At the height of about seven miles, | green silk. Another new sunshade is | made of a very bright shade of poppy- rod gauze striped with insertion of black lace upstanding round the fer. rule. Plain skirts are in favor and are like- ly to remain so, as they are found to be exceedingly convenlent and more econ. a es els That ud Yor. jackets vill continue to be short in the basque the autumn is an. other [air RISHCY, 40 be drawn fiom the general aspec presen Another point to be noted is the sensible of the dress sleeve, which fairly to the wrists. However, short sleeves are still worn, and for summer wear are far preferable to the long ones. lieve that Harry can give him a better race than other trotter on the turf can, and be glad to make races with him for a proportion of purse or gate money.” With the exception of Bankrupt Ho AI Ty consecutive as and thrift, did in their events have around from i ef } 1 zs : | Es
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