THE DREAM OF THE AIMLESS. ————————— 1 dreamt a dream in the morning, When the shadows were dim and gray, 438 oh, such & prospeot golden "or my a ning Way lay The ns was fil Xp gladness The air was filled with song, And I thought that but love and beauty Could inspire me all day long. I dreamt a dream at the noontide, ‘When half of the day was past; The first half I knew was barren, But glorious I'd make the last; But the world lay part in the shadow, The songs were not half so sweet, And love and beauty were fleeting Like shadows beneath my feet, I dreamt a dream at the even, W hen the day its course had run, And my heart grew sad within me To think how little I'd done. But 1 said: “I shall work to-morrow, And make my name be known, Till the nations of earth shall wonder, As my mighty power they ownl" But alas! and alas! time passes, The sun rises, shines and sels— Each morning so full of promise, Each evening so fall of regrets! And day follows day more fleetly, While ambition and glory rave, Till, at las’, outworn and aimless, I shall sink in a nameless grave, RIT AN EVENTFUL NIGHT. Has any of us, I wonder, a dustinotly juss, the other reasoning and impetu- ous? Or in some remote and anguessed niche of our soul does there sit en- ti ronged a small and potent demon, waich sometimes breaks restraint and jets loose among our better sense the hounds of anarchy to deafen conscience with their yells and hunt our dearest | loves to the bitter end, { I can moralize and marvel now, since all 18 over and done! I can marvel if I were possessed by some unguessed aud puissant spirit not my own, in one melancholy episode of my life; or if some nneanny and unworthier quality of ay being had quickened to volition | within me, For certainly what I had | been before and what I have been since, | 1 was rot in that deplorable time which | I shudder to reeall. I was not ill, nor harassed, nor de- | spondent; I was strong of body, my | mind was content, my heart at rest, when I was suddenly impelled to the | maddening belief that I was wronged | as man had never been wronged before, | and when every impulse of soul and sense seemed goading me on for ven- | geance and humsn blood. | That particular evening I was sitting | alone in the yet unlighted library of my | somewhat isolated suburban residence, Outside was a deliciously fresh and | balmy dusk--a serene and beguiling | hiatus between the setting of an un- | clouded «nn aod the rising of a stormy | moon! ihe winds were still; the great | maples were motionless; there were no | sounds save those of occasional hoofs | and wheels along the uneven and un- | graded highway, or those of the uneasy | river complaining with the burden of | the prolonged spring rans. Nothing | was visible but the formless shadows where all was shade—nothing more bat the dim gleam of the scented lilac | bloom, and of one narrow beam of light which issued from a window of the | music-room at the far end of the long | veranda. As I sat there gazing dreamily out into the balmy dusk and listening drow- sily to the grumbling of the restive river—somebody began softly intoning some fanciful operatic air, and then presently an exquisite voice aroused the hushed gloaming with strain after strain of harpy melody, BWith a sense of infinite peace, of serenest delight, I leaned back in my Juxurious chair and closed my con- tented eyes. My Lyrie was singing— | my wife, the beaatifnl songstress I had lured from an anticipated career of con- quest snd splendor, snd caged in the calmer and prosier stronghold of my | wedded affections. I had never wondered it Liyrie might some time regret her marriage with a | man neither partionlatly young nor | especially attractive; I had neyer ques. tioned if she might some time regret the love for which she had renounced a more dazzling life; I loved her, and she | was mine, And yet in the undimin- ished charm of our loving, I had never | eared to speculate of what might have | been or what mignt be-—of what might | have been in a time of which I had no knowledge; of what might be if for ber the charm were dissolved in the al. chemy of latent ambitions or undivined illasions, I distrusted nothing, I apprehended nothing; my mind was content and my heart at rest, as in the dreamy dusk I leaned luxuriously back in my library. i : I i “A passionate ballad gal'an: and . A mental song like a trampet cal Singing of death and honor which cannot die.’ But as | listened the song ceased ceased STUDY with a sharp dissonance and with a li jangle, as if her fingers had come Sowa 3 a Stustled crash upon the resplendent keys e piano, Then all was silent. And in the midst of the silence, with a flash and a shock, the essed demon uniashed the turbulent jealousies and maddening from my chair and with a stealthy tread walked from the library and down the yet unlighted corridor toward the mu- sic-room. The door was ajar, and I felt not the minatest surprise as I peered into the apartment and beheld the confirmatory scene which was being enacted there, There indeed was an intruder—a tall man cloaked like a brigand of romance a handsome man, whose broad and rak- ish hat flared back from a countenance impressively pallil and haggard! His arms were abont my Lyrie, her golden head dropped :gainst his breast, and she was weeping bitterly, **1 could not believe that you would remain from me so long if yon were just andibuy, Can we noi plan something that I may be near you—that you may come to me sometimes?” “You were happier to believe me no longer among the living, You will happier, too, if we shall meet again no more,” the man answered with some flerce passion kindling in his haggard black eyes. He lifted her drooping face, he kissed the beautiful brows, he unloosed her pleading hands—and then he turned swiltly away. As he yanished through the open casement of the veranda, she giacerd up and perceived me advancing toward With the glance her great blue eyes dilated and darkened with unmistakable terror. Perhaps my accusing gaze aflrighted her and she feared, she knew not what; for with a scared little ery in both her trembling bands, I was intent only in the pursuit of = cloaked figure vanishing outside—a flying wndow where all was shade, I had been impelled to the belief that 1 was wronged as man was never wronged be- 1 whom she still cared! was beginning to sough among the great maples; the grumbling of the river sounded nearer and more near, so footsteps, or seeing arakish hat looming like a black sihouette against ajgleam of white moonshine, On and on I hastened in stealthy pur- across a wooded inclosure of knolls and hollows, and so emerged upon an aban- which somewhere intersected the high- way, hat had become altogether invisible, For a saddled horse mbbling the lush swampy grasses in a hollow down the roadway, and there were vaguely sng- gestive rustlings among the vines and elders between me and the river, which moet barkless current. “The clump of elders is his last scended into the curving roadway and ground which flanked the river, erect and defiant. He lay prone upon the earth, moveless, as if he had com- posed himself for sinmber, and totally anaware “that a Cain had trscked him io his retreat. What denunciations F uttered I do “A man with broken length oconsgions tones, And as I glared apon him I perceived that his garments were drenched with blood, and that one stout foot dangled excavated roadway, and some splin. he explained with a sort of satine humor as I involuntary lowered the murderous thing which menaced him, At this junction there was an appall- ing crash like the booming of thunder, and then a rumbling and roaring like an onset of artillery, Instinetively 1 turned my gaze toward the neighboring halls. I knew what had happened; burdened with the prolonged spring rains, the restive river had rent asunder some fettering dam above, and the mighty floods were already deluging the land. In another half hour the roadway would be an impassable torrent, the marshy crescent would be a plunging ses, and my helpless arch-enemy must h if nothing intervened to spare im, I wonld leave him to his doom, as- suredly! I should be sn idiot to do otherwirel And then wi‘h a shock aud a flash, the demon, the lunacy, the uoworthier quality, or whatever it might have been, was extinguished within me, Perhaps I had been an idiot already, I an to reflect! If my girlish bride had loved him in a time of which I had no knowledge, even if she still loves him, even if she had meditated wrong to me, I should indeed bs idiotie to do ht which would be a joy to my foes grief to them who es mo and an eternal ignominy to myself! would fostead be his deliverer; I wonid take bim back to her; and then I would leave them to themselves; T wonld have keep the saddle for a half mile, you will be safe.” I had fancied a few moments before that my vehemenoce and menaces only mystified him; but he understood djs- tinotly enough now. My task was sufficently perilons and ancomplished none too soon, We had scarcely gained the elevated ground above the roadway when the watery avalanche thundered down and sub. merged even the precipitous brink over which he had so unluckily stumbled. He wus safe; but of my safety I had been too inesutious, For even as I momently lingered on the brink my footing failed me, the flood smote me, and 1 knew no more, When consciousness was restored to me, I was lying in my own chamber, and my darling was kneeling beside my | bed, her beautiful beloved face all wan i | and soguished with a trouble which I | knew was for me alone, “Life was worthless to my poor | brother, and you would have given | your own that he might live,” 1 heard ! her murmur. I needed no more to understand the | truth, i i | weirdly distorted dream; and in the | lary and gladness of the dawning, I {| put an arm about her and drew her to | my heart, J “You never told me about your brother—tell me now,” I ssid. The explanation was sufficiently lucid, { No doubt her brother had been more { sinned against than sinning; but all the {same he had been condemned for a | grievous offence, and he was a fugitive i from pursuing justice. For years she | had believed him dead, and now I did { past. And row when all is over and done, my mind content, my heart at rest, I the chaotic misery of that eyeutfal and inconsistent quality of my being hud been quickened to uncanny volition within me! . A Forufied Gambling cuss, On the east side of Dupont street, San Francisco, a building is being al- i tered for the purpose of establishin restaurant in it, and in connection therewith there is being fitted up a room which will be used by Chinese | gamblers. The room is twenty-five feet | wide by eighteen deep. The studding | has been covered inside and out with i grooved and tongued pitch pine. The outside of each partition is covered with ' and fastened by means of round headed carriage bolts, set about five Inches The entrance from the street is through a narrow door set in the west. ern partition, and hid from view by a large staircase thal leads to ihe upper covered with steel strips a quarter of an | inch thick and several inc | which are as well secured to the par- ; tition by iron bolts as possible, floor in place of the ordinary threshold, : there is a thick fron plate, From the ‘of a swivel bar, which fits into the | sockets, and in addition thereto there is a heavy iron-bound piece of timber six feet long, which, if occasion requires may be thrown against the door as a brace, from a floor hold. The door it- {self is of three-inch pme, coverad with a quarter inch steel plate strongly riveted, In the rear partition there is a door that opens into a large Kitchen connec ted with the restaurant, The kitchen is a room, the walls of which are brick. Two windows light the room, but each | of these has heavy iron gratings set in that, under the most favorable circum- stances, officers having wedges, axes, pinchbars, and iron mauls could not effect an entrance under an hour's very The purpose of the door {to the kitchen is that in case a raid is made, the players may carry the evidence which, if found, would lead to conviction into the cook shop, and destroy it by throwing it into | the furnace. i — Smiles for the Kalser Only, | A letter trom Grastain tells a mildly | romantic story of one Fraulein Keon, | the daughter of a manufacturer who {is an habiinal visitor at that resort, | The incidents named constitute a | rather pretly episode in the life of | the aged German Emperor, Emperor | William first saw Fraanlein Keon at (iastein three years ago, the young lady being every day at a window di. rectly opposite the room ocenpied by | the Em » One day the Emperor, | who had grown acenstomed to seeing | her there and had become rather fond | of the repeated incident, missed her face from her usual place at the win. ! dow, and thade inquiries about her, The lady was thereupon introduced to the Emperor, and a pleasant acquaint. ance followad, Always after that the old monarch spoke to her every time he met her in his promenades, Each sea- son since that, when leaving Gastein, he obtains from her a ise to be his vis s-vis in the allowing season, Fraalein Keon is a modest retiring young lady, and when several members of the Cerman aristocracy, eager to imitate their Imperial master in his at. tention to her, waked to be i troanoed. she Juplied : ‘I am very willing to do what I can t0 please the able mh if . to see pe a my ow or i promen but cannot allow myself to be Sate show by others,” Birth Trees, The old Romans always planted a tree upon the birth of 8 son, and judged of his future prosperity by its growth. It is related that Virgil had a pdr for him, which far oa. : the trees of any of his comtem- poraries. In ancient Germany they lowa's Great Walled Lake. ——————— As we emerged from behind the row of trees a large, irregular body of water appeared, which the guide told us was the far-fun.ed Wall Lakes, And we must confess to a sense of disappoint. ment at fir «t sight, A very large pond, which was!ed over mad ban! ¢« on the opposite side, and over which the'odor of harvests .nd dead fish cam + faintly, did not stril.e us with the w. nder we had expected, The guide «med to expect this look of disgust for he pointed out the exceedingly high banks on the nearest mle to us, and sald nothing else. Indeed, the bu ks were very high, and from our side ws could see nothing of the lake except te fringe of water nearest the other shore, We approached the lake very impa- tiently, for we knew that the mystery, if there was any, was hidden behind the high bank ; but the guide who had seen the lake for years—and, 1 began to think for centuries, delayed, and it was not till we had time From the beach to the summit of the bank, | extending for over a mils in length, | bage vowlders, of herculean propor- | other, | smaller rocks were missing, taken away {by man for building purposes, enough remained to show what its former magnificence must have been. | ing bow small even the largest of man’s | works were compared to this work of | nature, How those huge bowlders were piled i up in such regular order, and even how they should come inio a place naturally 80 devold of rocks, is the wonder of scientists, Of course, the glacial theory, | evolved especially for ignorant scientists | monly advanced. But how those rocks not explained, unless, { sun, had formed Wall Lake. { rocks carried along with it, not relishing | a wetting, had piled themselves upon | of the lake, and thus formed the won- | derful wali, But scientists do agree in {the old Indian legend, which is as { follows : | who loved her, contrary to the wishes ! of her parent. | warriors of her tnbe, At night their only shelter was a mantle which he had brought with hum, Their food was only such berries and herbs as she could find, Far into western Iowa, they fled, into a thinly-settled land, deeming j themselves safe at last. But, {i ing one morning and looking to the { urging their tired horses forward that { they might overtake the fugitives | while asleep, | what 15 now Sac county. ut the { Jovers felt that help must come soon, | or they would be taken. But the water spirits which inhabited lake took pity on the fugitives, and all that night in the darkness, while the lovers slept, | they rolled great rocks from the bottom af the lake, the walls of their own lake | casties, and piled them upon the beach, | making the present wall. When the the | their astonishment to see a rocky for { tress, where had been but a muddy { beach the day before. They took ' advantage of the miraculous defense, { and when their enemies appeared, all ithe magic wall. Then through the | darkness a canoe, guided by unseen | touched the beach where the lovers | them, i does his legend. Said he: *“O, this ‘gacial business don’t amount naterally.” about it. Oa another subject, however, he becomes more loquacious—a fight with the men who once came to steal rock from the wall They used to come in the night, break up the large rocks and baul them away for use in building. Those who dwelt around the lake, and foresaw among the probabilities a great summer resort and still greater prices, determined to stop the briganduge, and so one night with a wall for a fortress, they awaited con- clusions, There was none of the romance of the Indian fight about this, But they were stern, dirt begrimed, terribly in-earnest men that stood with their ready rifles in hand, awaiting the attack, The robbers stole almost up to the edge of the lake before they discovered the enemy. There was a brief but sharp fight, and the wall has not been touched by robber hands since then. This wonderful lake is situated in Sac county, Ia, and being on a branch road, not many people go there, 1 is chiefly interesting to scientists, nas pleasure-seekers find no timber for camping grounds, while game hag been almost entirely driven away, And the great wall frowns as it Jooks at the silent lake and the low coast opposite deserted save for a farmhouse here and he will forget that you ever attempted to tnjare him, What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to homauly. They are but trifles, to he sure, but scout wrod along life's path way, the good they du is ineonceivable, Much charity which us at home is too to get. DE and THE FASHIONS. ~Black or cream lace mantels are worn with any toilet. Canvas draperies are much em- ployed for silk dresses, — Etamine and cotton fabrics stamped with gold are novelties, - Rea satteen petticoats are worn at the seasiae and mountains. ~Twine color and green continue to be a favorite combination. ~~Gauze ribbons are used for trim- ming dresses as well as bonnets, — Rococo jewelry, like that worn by the Italian peasants, is very popular, -Embroideries for yachting tumes have anchors, oars and minia- ~Jackets made of silk or woolen lace rest. ~ White vests are made of Turkish and buttoned with small pearl buttons. -~-Turkish and Indian embroideries ~ Lizards, spiders, butterflies. mice —Cream and white lace are over foundations of chartreuse, amber, — Roman sashes are those of wide, New and pretty house aprons to wear at high teas and the like over rich in ef- The novel feat- jacket, but are. The ~usters are of gray alajaca, moha'r or beige veling, or waterproof, are cut ike the dunng the winter. long cloaks worn two hollow plaits and have dolman small bundle. The tissue called “sac for traveling cloaks, are lined with silk and trimmed with passementerie or ~—A dress worn by a miss about twelve years of age was of fine ecru eta. sertion in open-work. Threads of silk in several eolors were mixed with the rosebuds were em- insertion. They were of silk in the natural colors of the flow- er. The skirt fell loose over an under- suk. The lous XIII over a vest of moss faille, with ends as Jong as the basque a flat lace of coarse ecru cording worked over with moss silk. The side and back terminated in a double fluted plait, The of the skirt bad a large moss rib- bon bow, — Hats for garden and seaside use are of coarse straw. The same serve for ladies and 5. They have high crowns, either trimmed with ribbon loops, or the loops are combined with bright-colored flowers, These rindi may also be trinmed with full puffings Blue straw hats sides, In the back are red catogan bows, which falls over hair, Gar den hats are also of “indienne,” foulard or andrinople, in colors to correspond with the suits Dressy bonnets and halis are much trimmed with the petals roses arranged in bunches and wreaths, A capole, for instance, may i around the brim and a large bunch with fine moas rosebuds in the centre to form an algrette, ~ Undergarments are as varied making as ever. fae in or satin bows. Even petlicoats have rich trousseaus have all the under-gar- ments trimmed with the most costly embroidery very sparingly used, The chemises have often uo ruffles on the border nor nbbons under the insertions, Fine laces are used in the same way, Many skirts have no lace trimmings, or have only a very narrow bordering of Valenciennes lace placed flat under the embroidery. With the full gathered skirts now in use, either a large bustie springs. The skirt is of salin or of woolen goods. A small petticoat over it is of faille, satin or surah, trimmed with lace or with a plain flounce. This most serviceable when of black mery- elleux trimmed with black lace. Cor- sets are now placed over the drawers and skirts, — Parisian brunettes are now toilets in such colors as light pink or blue, and even cream or white. Light beige is particularly becoming, with the addidion of some red ribbon bows, or a red sash. This color retains full favor, but it is a bad blue for blondes when not trimmed with some hi or very dark shade, The present style of waists and skirts in contrasting tones is both serviceable and economical. P ; waists for this purpose are of embroid. ~Phallas and Harry Wilkesare very likely to have another race, — Beauregard has had an unbroken career of triumphssince the Grand Cir- cuit began. ~Next 10 Ban Fox, Quito ranks as among the best of the 2 year-olds | started at Saratoga ~Clemmie G. and Phyllis are to i trot at Omaha for a $3000 purse with | $5000 extra, to beat 2.19, | ~It is likely that Mr, Pierre Loril. {lard will sell off quite a number of | brood-gnares the coming autumn, ~—Gossip, Jr., is sald to have paced a | quarter in 30 seconds, A match race between the New Jersey pacer and | Jobnston is talked of. { =—-The thoroughbred stallion Hugo, owned by Paul Hacke of Pittsburg, died on Paul Hagus’ farm, near | Greensburg, Pa., on August 1. | ==The Chester Driving Park, Cinein- { nati, O., offers premiums of $6800 for | its fall trotting meeting, September 29, 30, October 1 and 2, ~—Pat Bheeedy and Matley Corbett, Jim William's pair of racers that did 80 well early in the season, have gone all to pieces, and will probably be | turned out for the year. — Freeland has run three mile-and-a~ quarter races this vear, on three differ- ent tracks, in exactly 2.00, carrying | the same weight in each, 117 pounds, —Rataplan is uniikely to see the post again during the present season, owing {to a quarter-crack, which 18 so bad that only absolute rest will remedy it. Charles Reed, Fairview Stud, Gal- latin, Tenn., has pnrchased from Ap- pleby & Johnson the chestnut horse ¥orester, foaled 1879, by imp. Ili-used, dam. Woodbine, by Censor or Ken- tucky. Forester will be used for stock purposes, - A match trot between David ner's Dainty in harness, driven by John Murphy, and J. Barry's Captais Hunt, under saddle, driv Burk, for $200, ¢ wood Parkon the 17th. The von in three straight heats, 2.96%, 2.29, 2.824. Three stallions have been recently imported from England by A. W. Me Alester, of Columbus, Mo. The breeding of the horses are as follows: Claudius, bay, foaled in 1878, by Ce- crops, dam Light, by The Prime Minis- ter; Helicon, brown, foaled 1880, by Hymeneus, dam Cantata ; Hirsch, brown, foaled 1874, by Savernake, dam Ulena, —James L. Eoff, who once handled George M. Patchen and Princess, the dam of Happy Medium, is dead. He went to California in 1540, and since resident of that Of late he was troubled with still he was quite active cited. He was if mile track on the took place al ! bas been classed as a State, rheumatism; fOr 8 man sore the owner of the ha oid Cliff House road, San Francisco, but had leased it prior to nis death, ~The Dwyer Brothers’ great Miss Woodford, by imp. Billet, dam. of Si. George, was { foaled in 1 She was started in thirty-nine races, winning thirty of them, running second five times, third twice and was unplaced twice. Her gross earnings to date amount to $99, $95.50, Freeland Ed Corrigan’s crack, that is now proving himself equal if not superior to Miss Woodford, was foaled in 1870 by Longfellow out of Belle Knight, Freeland has started in fifty-three races, won twenty-seven (in- ng a walk-over), been second six , third five times and unplaced fourt en times, His gross earnings amount to 36,255 -- Fourteen thoroughbreds have this year won upward of $10,000 each, and mere than $220,000 in the aggregate. Of these Joe Cotton and St. Augustine are by King Alfonso, Pontiac by Pero (#omez, Ban Fox by imp, King Ban, Bankrupt by Spendthrift, Wanda by imp, Mortimer, Portland by Virgil, Modesty by War Dance. Volante by Grinstead, Tyrant by imp. Great Tom, Favor by Pat Malloy, Freeland by Longfellow and Miss Woodford by ump. Billet. Pontiac and Wanda are owned by Pierre Lorillard, Miss Wood- ford and Portland by Dwyer Brothers and Freeland and Modesty by Ed Cor- | rigan, other owners being credited with mare, . v Ch 3 4 | by imp. Knight 1880 # 3 vyrpw wines —"The season is now more than half | over, and King Alfonso heads the list of winning sires his get having won about $65,000 his principal winners | being Joe Cotton, St. Augustine, Liz. | zie Dwyer, Ida Hope and Florence Fon. i80. He has thirty-six representatives jon the turf, eighteen of which have | been returned winners of forty races, { having started 226 times. Imported | Mortimer ranks next, Twenty-six of | his get have started this year, twelve of | which have won nineteen races and | about $50,000 having started one hun- dred and twenty times. Of the other | sired Grinstead, Virgil, Ten Broeck, | imp, King Ban, imp, Great Tom, imp Billet, imp. Glenelg and Longfellow promise to make good records, | For several years there has been a disposition upon the : spints of the turf to within easy reach of New York city, Brooklyn, and Jersey City, but land is high, and it has been found a matter of the utmost dificalty to secure a suffici- down collars, These should have no fancy flohus, Plastrons, puffings and fichus are reserved for plainer suits, which should be relieved by some such addition. Colored covered with black tuille or lace are used with black costumes, but EEE : 2 e g g j a5 E 5 ¥
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