—————— os BAC ———
Steg caling Dimples.
I was going to kiss the dimples from out
the little cheeks,
Where they ripple and they dance every
time she laughs or speaks:
She said I shouldn't do it, but I held her
fast and tight,
And kissed and kissed the rosy little face
with all my might,
And then a pair of eyes twinkled very
gravely out,
ful pout,
With little drooping
you will say,
To see such bonuy,
all away.
corners—uno wonder,
bonny dimples stolen
#
I thought I should have kept them for just
a little while;
But little
a little smile,
And then a laugh
all her face,
And every dimple
again in place
SRS RT,
TER DISCRETION
teath were soon peeping through
sunshine was over
191
xe
I have stolen was back
o, taste and money,
wearying
and
ture of time, tro
after weeks of
amongst all the
haunts of old o
na, glass and bric-a-~1
Collington’s comi«
arstock Hill was con
and ready for the recep!
bride.
His bride, like |
prations, b
principles of
she was {nnocent:
educated
She was
her manuer of
Her | hus
ed himself
made the
him highly eno
better or worse
affection had b
now a youthful m
heart in the hollo
hand, Of yore, whe
Collington—the wife
approached
Venetian gh
had with «
utterance of a spar
hot to
with her he
ged with
his young
sweet will yat the exqi leCes
of orystal and porcelain thats ered
specially made to be hat » by then
The new Mrs. Collingti was a hi
ly-bred girl, the d ter of a gentle-
man who was entil fix of
“Honorable to
~her father's only
count, with vast est
father was poorer than bh
cook, and the little mon
spent on the !
world—himself,
wife and children to struggle on
they could ou the crumt
the rich brother's table.
Many outsiders Lo
that t
urally and contin ly in the
of the Hon. Jau
they were qual
the midst of wildly
ant gardens, not a buadred yards fi
the entrance gates of of Lord
Holdare's oldest and grandest family
mansions, But Lord He
stter than anyone else that while
Hon. James knew that anyone
would maintain his wife and daughters,
he would make no effort
self, Accordingly be kept a tight
upon the crumbs and deall them ou
sparingly.
Thus it had been that
Mrs, Collington’s had been a life of
sharp and humiliating contrasts, Rag-
ged carpets and rough fare at home,
and every luxury to which her birth en-
titled her to when at her uncle's; accus- |
tomed to spend many a fair June morn-
.ing out in the burning sun picking peas
and strawberries to send to market,
and now and again sitting down to
dinner at her uncle's table with dukes
and duchesses, and the crest of her race |
on gold plate around her in every direc-
tion,
It has been said that she was quite as |
well educated as she had occasion to be. |
She had never been conscious of any |
deficiency either while picking peas or |
dining with duchesses, She could talk |
very well about flowers and horses and
dogs. She was unsurpassed in her dis. |
trict at lawn-tennis. She knew that |
china and silver that had been in a no- |
ble family for many generatious was |
very valuable—‘‘on account of the |
noble family,” she supposed. Beyond |
these things she knew little, but she
always looked beautiful and aristocrats |
ic, talked well, and was expected by
ber noble relatives *o make a great |
match,
If the Holdares had boen unblessed
with four daughters of their own, they
would have given their young niece the
chance of a season or two in town. As
ft was, when they should all be fairly
settled, Lord and Lady Holdare deter-
mined “to give James’ girl a chance,”
* But In the meantime, James’ girl
grew iired of picking the flowers and
fruit and vegetables which her father
cultivated for sale So chancing to
meet Mr. Collington, who was out for
his autumn holiday, and finding from
the friend ut whose house she met him
shat he wes neh and a luiied ber, she
unknown
nd Chippendale, chi-
. Mr,
Hav-
shed,
his
known
rac gener: ALLY
Hi nouse on
etely furni
of
1p
and dec
ad 1 e purest
1
S
as
Vaasrrrpud
QI8CTY
shake th
pi SRST
& pre
Her
brother-— was a vis.
But
3's chled
her
best it
ig
As i
wing he loved
name y-—leavis
»
“a boar # 1 i 9. 3
@ that fell irom
A » 3
for granted
yery
4 paapet
358 00%
i It
these crumbs must fall nat.
lowes’ famils
n a small house in
lovely and lexuri-
one
dare knew
the
elise
to do so hima
the present
and brilliancy to a.
| agreeing to marry him.
Mr. Collington was a gentleman, and
{ the Fellowes’ family felt themselves
termination by
i
i
ture of proud position and penury
which she had stiflingly existed hitherto,
| At the same time, though he, his far.-
ily, and manners were unexceptionable,
{ the Honorable
| would have liked it better if his money
you'll like—eh
She smiled an amiable assent,
rating his artistic furniture, and mis-
lending her about it; “yes, yes,
not to your taste,” he chuckled at the
exquisite humor of this idea, “get rid
supply the
“How very good you arel’’ she said,
smiling sweetly, but unemotionally: and
| more interesting than
They were none of them scientific, and so
the subject of the ingredients that went
to make up the composition known as
charm for them. However, the man
gold, they swallowed the
| food, and gave him thelr daughter,
He bud said nothing to her previous
{to their marriage relative to the artistic
| decorations and furniture of his house,
surroundings were,
was the
they ap-
wt to enlarge on
ones which
Sordid as her home
i muddled, shabby, and ugly as
appearance of all the rooms,
| pealed to hus delicacy nd
widely different
awaiting her in her
were
He
vt
hy
the
married hon
18,
felt sure that WO!
all, for he had
aste which only a
appreciate
that reliance on his own
well-cultured taste
her re-
#
i
rive
x Ler aves
$ " rv Teti
S16 Was very reti-
but an extract
ie to her mothe
nice as we thought hs
id be very happy i
Le
ok as if be expected
something definite
looking at, and I ha
He hasn't
ways |
+E
ye
Wkill
nott
By
about is we’
re ing definite
to say. mu taste, prefers
things! Bat
for he has
a i st wife,
was a very dowdyish-looking
person, the kind of
would prefer a hard-backed oak seitee
a comfortably aided
Mr. Collington is very
ty new
that's from habit, I bel
shown
Hye
Ve,
me ikeness of his ir
ahin
Hie
just person who
to chair, fut
hberal, and 1
know I shall be allowed to furnish the
use as [ please,”
Poor, unconscious Mr, Collington!
All the time he was picturing to hime
the expression « of delighted surprise
which would flit over her face when he
introduced ber to the artistically som-
bre splendor of the home he had pre.
pared for her she was educating herself
for the task of furnishing by studying
suits in gold and gorgeousness in the
shop-wiudows of Paris,
Unfortunately it fell oud that, on the
eve of their departare from Pans for
a telegram reached Mr, Colling-
ton from his London Manager, entreat-
ing him, Mr. Collington in the vital
interests of the firm, to proceed, with-
out delay, to Russia, where the Gov-
ernment were almost ready to give the
¥
i
wif
supplying their fattening food to the
horses of the imperial army. It wasa
Mr. Collington could
| throw away.
at once to St, Petersburg, but he shrank
§
journey for his young wife,
possible to take her with him, It was
equally impossible to leave her in Paris,
He had but one alternative, She must
{
tique form and color which he had ar
ranged for her.
He took a tender leave of her feeling
no qualms on her account, for he had
full reliance on the probity and discre-
tion of the mature maid he had engaged
to attend upon her. At parting he said
quite cheerfully:
©] should liked to have been with
you to show you the old shop on your
first introduction to it, but I've no
doubt you'll find everything tolerably
eomfortrble, Nothing magnificent,
you know-no crimson velvet and or-
mol, and acres of glib frame, and ex
| Leusive fwkes of ooking glass, but com:
of the matter.
Six weeks had passed. Mr.
ton 8 negotiations with the
Government, after detaining
liked,
more remunerative than a compliment
from the G intent agent
quality of the food,
He bore the disappointment
and even cheerfully,
joyful eyes into the almost
future wi
fussian
him far
on the
manful-
turned
jel 1s
and
imn
ly,
ich should see him
ful wife, re-establishe
more beautiful he
Whil
steaming
me,
thus i
her, Mrs, Colllx
preparing
he was
toward
Blit
for his return, At
©
Was even more
Omnely
y y :
{ast 80 she resolved
have a home shed in
befitting {
It almosl
must
he should furni
i manner i
wl wealth,
t Provi
Ine
al
lence have
3 } : "ht
i the Russian Governm
ng, an
i LO reorganize
aber
We
y was still
id #1 at iy
16 treasures fron
meantime, it
transformation or defo
ve
I
rooms be had "lrealed
.
ar
'
As An st does his pictures
Presently sbe came in from her drive,
and greeted him with such affe
ctionate
f
eff :
orgot the fur-
fellow
His
beauty
ounded forward to welcome him, No
loud coul ween them,
and how lovely she would look amidst
old furniture, when he had restored
ita proper places, and had done
away with every vistige of the ebonised
which
the
psion that he almost
What
if, to
sparkled into
niture
a happy
himse be sure!
brighter as she
d ever come bet
the
it to
and ormoelu abominations
in
were
now giving him blows
every turn!
eve atl
After a minute or two, which she
in rapturously recording what
she had been doing in his absence, she
taxed his truthfulpess and tact se
verely.
“Are you not glad to see all these
lovely things in place of the dingy old
rubbish I found when 1 came home?"
she asked, with a pretty air of depre-
cating too much praise from him for
all the trouble she bad obviously ta-
ken,
“They are very rare and beautiful,”
he replied, hesitatingly., “We must
gradually reintroduce them into their
proper places in these rooms, and the
beautiful interiors will grow into fresh
beauty under your graceful hands and
artistic supervision,”
“What do you mean?” she askel,
spent v
full upon his fast falling visage.
“lI mean you
| have my priceless treasures, which you
back in their proper
places, my love,” he answered, ner-
vously,
ly but surely into his mind,
i
In that moment she came to the con
clusion that mistakes bad been made
on both sides, He bad, evidently, mis-
guidedly supposed that she would be
contented with the furniture that had
been gond enough far his first wife, while
she had labored under the erroneous
jdea that so fatuous an old fogy would
feel obliged to her for renovating and
redecorating the dominion over which
he had requested her to reign.
“Your rooms full of rabbish are be.
yond your reeall, Mr, Collington. 1
advertised a houseful of old fashioned
furniture for sale, and dealers came in
{
gave me |
naturally, but |
1 don’t know
They
it,
from every direction.
where, for any price,”’
“one-irrecoverably gone?”
“yes, said rather haughtily,
feeling that her efforts were not meet-
ing with half the recognition they de-|
served,
' she
“And with thew my ambition of be- |
Ing noted for the finest collection of
antique artistic furniture in the north |
of London?’ he muttered, making
mighty effort to bear the blow with for- |
titude
But, Mrs, Collington failed to perceive |
the effort, and resented the want of
preciation which marked his manner of
receiving the tiding of the changes she
carried out during
Consequently she
to her own room in dudgeon, and made
a pont of not speaking to her husband
when rendered it
should
al
ap- i
had 80 successfully
his absence, retired
social
perative ti
rom it,
exigencies
iat she
in emerge
Her relations say that the impending
stween them Is
fattening
of bh
ad oblig no i le ¢ Lis
separation be
to the
itheome source
gli~
that
which
fely dus fond
wealth,
wile 80
O0n atier the
On Top of the Rocky Mountains,
¢ use a lot
ir speed,
sins they
and by
» speed when t
and steer clear «
surprising experiness,
juris
ail
with
4 »
Ler Lime
hier 1
. OF, TRLWET, « Ig
the m
3
before mentioned,
ried by cot
they also act
iTiers on Ow
BE Messengers, it
A
be.
§ not an easy Way 10 carry supplies,
sufficient quantil
tv of fool is isd In
the travel
y last through the nine months, Mr,
Safford said that in traveling alor
steep oliff he looked down into a deep
gulf 1,500 feet in depth. It was al a
“Going over the Range,’
on Eogineer Mountain, In this gulf
the snow never melts, Four cattle fell
over the slide several years ago, and
they lie there stil , frozen stiff. The per-
sons who remain during the winter at
Mineral Point are only a few miners
All of the others go to foot of the |
mountain, where there 18 no more civ.
lization, Mr. Safford says during Aug-
ist and September there is a great deal
of traveling on horsekack. The horse.
back riders wear high boots or leggings,
VanSiske wears |
when he takes an airing op his big sor- |
rel. Mr. Safford s=ys the air is very light |
on the top of this mountain, so that using |
any extra exertion is very tresome,
That a person cag walk on the level
fore the snow storms bl ck
place called
the
i
i
:
person, Some days the mountain Is
damp, di-agreeable and very bard to |
When the weather |
is clear, however, it is perfection, The |
it was about
two-thirde of the time fine weather
while he was there. The air is so clear
he
thought was half a mile away, and a
short walk, aud was quite surprise |
when told it was seven miles distant.
On the mountain is a lake with two
outlets. From one end of the lake the
water goes rushing down the westerly
aide of the mountain and finally empties
into the Pacific Ocean. From the other
end it pours down the easterly side,
whirling onward to the Gulf of Mexico.
When Mr. Safford came away, October
20, the thermometer was one degree
above #-1ro, and tuere was 10 Inches of
THE DARK CONTINENT.
4
Man's Wanderings for Two Years |
Among Fierce Tribes,
of the
10
for his
than
New
South
Mr. Kerr, a member
York Stock Exchange, went
nearly two vears ago
He is an Englis
thirly years of age,
of the Stock Exel
nan less
a member
1882,
becams
mnge in is a
His achievem
have been rather those
Africa. shits,
of an
He has
ve trip northward
rica, during whi
tribes
however,
explore:
made an
Al-
ch he journeyed SILOnE
notorious for thelr
who have seldom been visited
He em]
porters and
1s his
land, which
left then
to Central
power and
Lerceness,
by white men, joyed a lot of
blacks as
and first
4
altends
ule
0 Matabels
Zl who
is,
AY Years ago, I}
TIAR Teg
Ave rade
ff Wa: DO uncommon sight
Mangene
yokes ready
Ww £3
tor the
Arab des
CATAVAL
coed
r then went eat to
of Lake Nvassa, where he saw
ins of Lis ingest
Whi
nia, the pretly mission
town, h was so unhealthfal that it
was deserted two years ago by the
now prosperigg al
HIOus place one hun-
Here Mr. Kerr's
deserted him, and
ttie food and no means
of getting assistance, He was reduced
to great straits when, sixteen days after
he reached the lake, the
ary steamboat that plies on Lake Nyas-
sa arrived with M. Giraud, the French
explorer, who was homeward bound.
Mr. Kerr joined the ensign.
They had splendid sport floating down
sen, such big
buffalo, hippopot
ami, and many Kinds of antelope falling
to their rifles,
mis
stopanes, who are
Bandawe,
dred miles not
last lot porters
left him with 1
A Baul
rt}
of
mission-
little
young
to Cape Town. In all bis wanderings,
of the most unhbeaithiful
spots on the East Coast.
Mr. Kerr brought with him gold dust
gion south of the Zambesi, where the
Portuguese mined extensively
centuries ago.
good quality north of the Zambesi. He |
will soon pultlish a report and map of |
his travels,
Finland Dwellings,
Houses in Finland are built by first
raising a substartinl foundation of
stone several feel above the ground.
Upon this beams are piled one above
the other, dovetailed at the corners, and
packed with moss and other good non.
conducting material, and firmly fasten.
ed to each other by wooden pegs so as
to make up the walls, Deals are laid
on the outside of these walls. and they
are carved, painted and otherwise
adorned, according to the wealth amd
fancy of the owner, [Houses thas con.
structed are very warm. The Caar and
Czarina slept in one of them on their
snow on the level.
SOUTH AMERICAN COWBOYS,
A Howling Savage Who Puts the Texas
Bull-Whacker
to Shame.
{pronounced Bouscho
Argentine and Uri
8 dare-devil, regard!
rod and man,
The guacho
; the cowboy of
is
a reckies
peaceable when
t a howling savage when drunk.
but
brave as a lion, a8 active as a panther
ii Loany test,
ful to his fr ends, but
fate toils
with
with endurance equ
as implacal
enemies iy
ing the year
no roof but the azure s
but the ground, no pillow but
dle, and no she
but the
He
tt
Ponciio.
loves nothing it his horse, and
WT # not i s vocabulary, His
speech is mixta yariteh and thea
i» i nix i Spanish ana Lie
{xia dialect: §
* Ea { uses
At full
of rawhide
i an
ack a glass ball
or ahog ora ‘horse
ly a8 a steer by the
ith lassoes are of fre-
The duelists stand.
ing or horseback, within range, firing
slip nooses at each other's heads, spar-
ring and dodging like pugilists until
{ one or the other is dragged out of the
saddle. It sa sure enough duel; the
| pan who is caught is often dragged
| with a noose around his neck behind a
galloping horse until life is choked and
pounded out of his body. Travellers
on the pampas in the olden times were
frequently treated to scenes of this sort,
with gauchos standing by to see fair
| play; but of late the gauchos are be-
| coming more civilized, Emigrants are
| crowding out upon the pampas and are
jeavening the lump. The word gaucho
is becoming a word of reproach and,
except upon the frontier, is now applie
| ed only 0 worthless characters, who
| live by stealing cattle, and corresponds
| to the genus *“*rustler” of Texas and the
| Western Territories of the United
Slates,
On the frontier, however, the gaucho
| is still seen in his pristine glory, mov.
| ing further and further out upon the
| pampas, trying to escape from the re-
{ sirnins of civilization, and resenting
| the inroads upon his ancient domain,
| Few ot them acquire land, but Keep
{ their eattle upon Goverment territory,
looking with contempt upon ranchwmen
who build houses to live in aud intro.
duce foreign breeds of stock, His doe
main #8 growing smaller annually, and
a few years hepoe he must become do-
mesticated or disappear. Civilization
seams to sap his vitality and quench the
fire of his life. A domesticated gaucho
iss forlorn as au Imprisoned eagle,
He loses his sense of honor with his
energy, and becomes a drunkard, a
gambler and a thief,
Ulough deep while sluggards sleep
} PARSES C reduli Tal
can th
TOW & DOOSe
as great ace as expert
rifle will or He
Ww
nan
ii catch a sh
}
the
oop
ny logs as ens
horns, Fights wi
quent occurrence,
and you sluli have cor ad
- WL a fit