—etm—" ——————————————————— The Gray Day. Evermore a'l the days are long, and the cheerless skies are gray, Restless wander the baflling winds that scatter the blinding spray. And the drifting currents come and go like serpents across my way. Wearily fades the evening dim, drearily wears the night, The gho:tly mists and the hurrying clouds and the breakers’ crests of white blotted the stars from the desolate skies—have curtained them from my sight, » Have Speeding alone, my wave-tossed harque en conutered no passing sail, Welcoming friend por challenging foe an- swers my eager hail— Only the sobbing, unquiet waves and the wind's unceasing wail. 3 faultlessly true, He holds my course as though the seas and the mirrored skiks were blue, And the jort of peace, where the winds are stl WOIe evermore in view, For over the spray and the rain and the uds shines the eternal sun; changing stars in the curtained 0 ] when the day still gleam once to the dining-room. Lucy follow- ed her with suppressed amusement beaming from every feature of her face, She guessed pretty accurately what her aunt’s secret was, though, till Miss Hester opened the subject, she would not breathe even a hint of it. As the dinner progressed in impressive silence, she found herself wondering why George did not come. Later on, as she sat at the twilight, and played over her favoritesongs, singing snatches of them, wandering aimlessly from ‘*Auld Lang Syne’? to the **Lass of Richmond Hill,” and then to **Home, Sweet Home,’ she little thought whe was listening to her on the other side of the lilac tree that shaded the drawing-room window. There in safe obscurity, George Leslie with just the suspicion of a bang, and white-robed figure the open between a There was even a suspicious and the poor fel- skies when the port of rest is won. CR A FR ET TI A FOOLISH MISTAKE. which of us are you going to rive up, Mark Beauclere »r me? It pust be one of us, dear, anda the sooner 1 decide the better.” io speaker—a tall, lithe, brown- qaired. brown-skinned young fellow of three-and-twenty, with and honest face and a pair of earnest blue*eyes—placed vimself very deliberately in Lucy Arm- 's way, as she was strolling under 1 the shady ol 5 1 3 strong ees ix 1 garden, with pulled over her eyes, acd a il of some poet in her It was a scorching July after- Lucy had quietly slipped the half-dozen ladies who wg round her Aunt Hester’s ea table, ciscussing all the latest news »f the perlod. Mark Beauclere, vg “ees an wmsthetic young “She's treated me very badly for all that, I hope she may be happy. Heaven bless her!” as he glimpse of *~ Nest” ihe as the -ather weak sight and a large income, was there too, but, as he generally was ‘0 be found at Miss Hester Armstrong’s ‘ea-table, he counted almost as one of the ladies; and Lucy was a litt] hem all, and wanted to be alone. he were having some very coked as if s trees, and seemed in no way sudden interruption, you quite startled fer the rel ared for the “Wi Ys George, ¥ had in her way. 1IAVe sone placed himself didn’t you go in and! talk to to gel an oO} to you for the last vant {o know give up, wl to trying ‘Because I wants you, trier § ng Lo ."* and she glanced up: inder the shelter of George, what's the laying her hand hight ‘Are you ill—or—ar nly beart-sick and and young dd | Ty you, at ] her the HAZEArQ. congratulate f as speedily as possible has cared 1s I haved carad abou but about MILLE ut,’’ Lucy confused. me ©) ou mean, like boy.” (r€01 yw Ww need, and turned aside with rather asavage expression. To be called Hy boy’ by Lucy under certain sircumstances would be all very well bu that tolerant almost tone, it was too mnch. “Am I not to congratulate you on jour engagement to Mr. Beauclere?”’ 10 said grimly. “(Certainly not,” reply. “Then you've refused him, Lucy?” with humiliating eagerness, :d you would.” “ir. Deauclere has not done me the yonor of asking me.” “Ah!” and George's fice fell percep- a? O04 1 ty for ivy in patronizin peakd was the vcry grave HSINY. won't you?” he continued. *‘He told me he was going to propose this very day,’ in a savage whisper. “Then perhaps he will inform you of up with a droll twinkle in her bright hazel eyes, ‘‘Now George, if you're pot comin pass, please.’ . ’ Pied PU rou?” he whispered, with a very penitent glance. “Pardon me, I verv much, indeed. 1 thought, George, ' do like Mr, Why shiouldn’t 1? you and YYY6 edt were friends, George turned away with an excla- him,’ and Lucy returned to the house, serenely smiling under her broad-brim- med hat, The drawing-room was empty, but in a little snuggery beyond, which aunt called her boudoir, there was a muffiad hum of voices, and Lucy smiled more comically than ever as she went up-stairs to change her dress for dinner. Both George Leslie and Mr, Mark Beau- clere were to dine at **The Nest,” and Lucy. brimful of ‘mischief, resolved to tease George thoroughly before she put him out of his misery. So she donned a fresh muslin gown, and fastened a crimson rose in ber hair, and then went down and took her seat near the drawing-room window, which commanded the entrance to the front garden, and with a very demure smile awaited thie course of events, Presently she was joined by ber aunt, looking gravely important, and bristling all over with a secret. Miss Hester was a tall, slender, , keen eyed, thin-lipped lady of as near 40 as possible, with gnooth dark hair, regular features, and p stately not to say commanding, pres- ; she had very beautiful white of she used them in a majestic way, en dinner was announced it was by a wave of them she signified to her niece that cis raat to proceed at i Then he shrank back into his to the bitterest re He found it difficult to realize 1; yet Deauciere had iimself up flection. that he was rejecte such pleasures as to him, He enjoyed his dinner for Instance, thoroughly, and grew quite confidential over his coffee after. “It was very sudden, your going away, George,” he remarked, after a | long chat over the old times at West- | water, and the pleasant evenings they used to have at “The Nest.” “Do you | know, I thought once that rather a fancy for Lucy?” George grew brick-red again, bent his eyes resolutely on the table. ! “It would have been a capital thing | for you; and I believed she liked you, for she seemed altogether out of when she got your letter. In Georga you might have done worse than to have married Lucy Arm- | strong.” Still silence and steady contemplation | of his glass on the part of George. “And, for that matter you might do | worse than marry her still.” | George looked up with a sudden an- gry flush, then he grew qulte white. Mark was not chafling in the Jeast, he felt that; still he could not take it all in at once, “1 Lelieve it's entirely on your a« remained single,” Mark continued with good-natured garrulity, “in spite of all her aunt’s efforts to you had | and | sorts | fact, much | ret dh that afternoon and There was no fur- reason f staying at West- water: and he was going to ask his un cle, of the firm of Leslie & Longhamp- t to send him on a confidential mis- sion to the extreme end of the where they were supposed to do ness, George « 1 not be philosophical enaugh to look at happiness another man’s eyes,” to get completely out of the Mark Beauclere; and he could not even summon up courage to congratulate Luey or say good-bye; but he wrote her to Miss Armstrong had been accepted. er { th wil his r iH i Oil of real feeling was hidden under some stiff, formal phrases and through it all peeped a very sore, bruised, affronted, but still faithful, love, Lucy laughed at it first, and cried over it. then wiped her eyes, and wrote an explanatory and affectionate reply; but, alas! George was gone on the confidential mission. His letter said that he was on China, and bore the Southampton post- mark. He said he might be absent for years, or forever. To poor Lucy, in the t dismay of her discovery that George first really gone, it seemed the sam then Was thing. “My dear Leslie, this is a st and a pleasure! How are did you get back?’’ and found Ins hand grasped a comfortable-looking gentleman in gol rimmed glasses and a wideawake ha “‘]—I beg your pardon, I don’t—I can’t recall you, though 1 seem your reorge u? 11 in YOIcC % portly lean . you're more chang y. and yet 1 Is it possil *‘Beauclere rant sil a moment, forgotten — I've been away iy tells on all of us,” “I wish it told ym me as it does or rith a smile, “Com me, old fellow-—no put us out in i ’ righton with 2 We live at Jump in s a "bus came up—* tell me all about your adventures, and when you returned.” “1 only landed three days ago, and I had any adventures except of the most commonplace kind. Tie bu- siness I went out to manage turned ou very well. 1 made some I've come to England t that's all. How is Mrs. Beauclere?’ “*Quite well, thanks, Have you put on the halter yet, George?’’ “No. The Celestial Empi tainly not the place of all others pt a man to matrimony.’ icky’fellow! I wish I had money, ant o settle down— 5 res it “3 “ . JA Fone like was just seemed It George was silent-—it treason to echo the wish. it. Of course he made poor Lucy mis. erable, that was only to be expected, | “Did vou say Mrs, Beauclere was staying at Drighton?”’ George presently asked, in a very meek voice; “because | thought of running down there for a few days. Will you come Mark?” “No, thank you,” with a droll shrug. “My wife and Lucy are staying at the Royal: give them my love, and tell them they need not hurry back, as I'm all right”? ii yu forgive me? stake from first Mark Vi It was all a dreadful mis to last! I thought it was you wanted to marry; and when he told me that evening that he bad proposed and been accepted, I was frantic. Aunt Hester never once entered my head,’’ Luecy’s reply was a little unintelligi- ble, but after a time they managed to understand each other. Miss Arm- strong could not long resist a lover who had been faithful to her for five years, believed her lost to him forever; and George resolved to marry her out of hand, so that there should be no more msunderstandings. times Mark Beauclers chaffs them be SOE i take was Mark's after all. - o_o TEN YEARS HENCI How for Age will Re- move War Veterans from the Active Army etirements he retirement « k forward ten yea 14 | 15350 LAAeS WAR HAN eral Sheridan will red a year, and every one Major Generals and Brig except General! Miles, chiefs of staff departme the drawing-room he couldn't her old-fashioned work-table—a black heart beat a little quickly; and on the whole he was glad that he had not to meet her on the first evening, “Does Miss Armstrong always live with you?" “Yes, of course; where else conld she Indeed, I don't know in the l-ast You see, my wife and I go in for thing; ad if we hadn't some one to keep us in order and see to our creature comforts, I'm afraid we'd starve. If ever you do marry, George, don’t select a clever woman with a taste of logic and metaphysics,” Mark whispered, looking round cautiously, *‘'It'ssimply awfall” “I never fancied Mrs, Beauclere would develop a taste for those sub- jects,” George replied; and then he smiled a little sadly as he thought of Lucy as a blue-stocking, and Aunt Iies- ter, who had always been his special horror, whisking about the house. up- setting the domestic comfort of every one, and waving her hands, in com- mand or disapproval, unceasingly. “I never could stand it, I know,’ he said to himself, as Mark went on giving him some details of the establishment, with a sort of rueful good humor, “A clever wife and an energetic aunt-in-law would be too much for me.” And it had evidently proved too much for poor Mark uclere, He was no | r slender, sentimental and esthetic; indeed, his chief idea in Ife seemed to be thorough enjoyment of - | | 3 y ira, LOT spector General General Holebird, Mact ¥. Surgeon (zen00 master General Roeb Newton, Chief of E Benet, f £ Si eg) te + iighest (xeneral’s he +3 Lis the Pay Corps and the nine the present cavalry Colonels, Grierson, Hateh, Sturgis, Drackett, Carr, Royall, Olis, Dudley and Switzer will be retired, and only Merritt will | remain in active service, while he, of course, will long before have become a general officer. Of the present artillery Colonels all five—Ayers, Hamilton, Best, Gibson, Tidball—will long before have been retired. Of the twenty-five | Infantry Colonels the only ones not re- tired by the end of 1806 will be Ruger, Eighteenth; Wheaton, Second; Shafter, First; J. RR, Brooke, Third; E. 8, Otis, Twentieth, and H, C, Merriam, Retirements for age will also have gone on in lower grades. In short, ten years hence, considering the other casu- alities, as of death, retirement for disa- | bility, and so on, officers who have ser- | ved in the war for the Union will con- stitute a minority in the active army, while those who had achieved fame as | general officers of volunteers will be | rare exceptions, BE —— Nitrate of Soda. The death of a sea captain recently was ascribed by medical authorities to blood poisoning, Jeaused by his vessel carrying a cargo of nitrate of soda. The sallors were affected with what they called rheumatism. The Safath being in the after cabin, suffe the full force of the evaporation of the nitre, It is sald that four captains in the em- loy. of a leading eastern shipping firm wave died within a few years of the same cause, Fifty years ago Russia stood almost among iron-producing nations; now her name is nearly last, and her imports of iron and steel amount to more than $75,008,000, THE RICHEST WOMAN, The Wondrous History of Mme, Con- sino, of Santiago, Chil, The Croesus of South America is a woman. Donna Isadora Cousino, Santiago, Chili, and there are few men than she, and no and people Monte She traces her ancestry back to the « record fathers who landed His family was for his uncles i and the ensign of the . 0 hey extriiva ~ money her gance, ri to, lava lve of in already sire 1s before the Span- ranch of the fami y in the 3 ago, and none of them distinguis 1 ed themselves enough to ¢ Cousino has nade of a1 ncolng HO eas rpetual, as 1 fuel ci America, } } Lg i whiel wilic] HHS 4 ALI It i 1 rshal a thousand men fi arms if she needs them. The vineyard of ‘Ma nearly all of the market of claret and sherry wines, and the cell: the place, an enormous buildis HX Ler Wi iy s11l ik on Mme. Cousino makes all her France. very valuable imported stock, both cat- tle and horses, and her racing stable is the most extensive and successful in South America. The madam takes a gerat interest in the turf, attends every racing meeting in Chili, and always bets vefy heavily upon her own horses. At the last meeting her winnings are repor- ted at more than the purses won by her horses, which are always divided among the employes of the stables, In addition to Macul she has another large estate about thirty miles from San- tiago, but gives it very little attention, and has not been there for 4 number *of years, In the city she has two large and fine houses, one of them being the former residence of Henry Meiggs, the California fugitive, which was the finest residence in Santiago at the time it was built, All the timber and other mate- rial used in its construction came from California, and it is mostly red cedar, The «construction and architecture are after the American plan and in a rance and arrangement it resembles the villas at Newport. The cost was but it was built in the days of Meiggs' glory, when money vas of no vilue to him, The other city residence of Senora Cousino is a stone mansion erected onthe Spanish- Ameri- { can plan, with a court inthe centre, and is ornamented with some very elaborate carving. The interior wag decorated {and furnished many years ago by Par. | {sian artists, at an enormaus cost, and the house is fit for the palace of a king. There 18 no more « in residence in America, and the money ex pended upon it would build as fine a s that of W, H. Vanderbilt ork, The widow i 1 house il a New Y spends Httle time in its wall fers her home at or business Is, ie madam Is ver id has from v8 around her con ill the . however, Lota, whe i T v fond ifteen thod of having on of distinetion ntertained by -—- Coolness 2 Boy's were your thoughts? “Which?” inquired the yo “What did you think about?”’ “Nothing,” was the 1 response, “Nothing at all.” And that was all they could get of him. The delighted father was so | proud of the boy’s coolness under fire y 11 i in { aa} : cain add 4 sy ¥ Os | that he related the incident to every in town, tremendous reputation for courage. Sn amis AAAI OAH Painted Rock. | county, Cal., is 150 feet high, and upon | it are many color paintings in a good state of preservation, that are thought to be the work of Indians, There are two caves in this giant rock, one at its base another some sixty feet from the ground, and in each of these are pictures of animals, . s————— WW Flees have 10 expend 1mmense labor in the gathering of honey, Let us sup- pose the insects ognfine their attention to clover fields, Each head of clover contains about sixty separate flower tubes, in each of whieh is a portion of sugar not exceading the five-hundredth past of a grain, erefore, before one grain of sugar ean be the bee must nsert its proboscis ito clover tubes, There are 7,000 grains in a pound, so that it follows that 3,500, clover tubes must be sucked mn order to ob- tain but one pound of honey, WOMEN, ! SOCIAL POBITIONS OF | How FEtiqueite Interferes wiih Business in a Store. ly with heig swept into the Ff 4 i | A la htened color and ai | gry ey {the prog Fourteenth 8 pint that RE pri irietor « u npl eel i had BIA Col rgarit Feat cd s must I have ing my oF t + i tried ail sort ler set with » wv little ¢ { €. i rence between tain ts the clerk po- ' nETET NE never The attention, Ns | i 14 , it may the French ited within appearance of by a certain we added, th smablie have bes i ] the last few ds i n greatly exe lays by the ap he volume just published rr. Rommel. He said: “‘Demoraliza- tion has fastened upon every class of French society. The peasant rushes to the largest towns; the artisan*beaten by the foreign competitor, flocks to politi- | cal meetings and gets drunk on agita- | tion: the bourgeoisie crowds every pub. | lic office and yearns aller sedentary em- ployement, asl all the while the fore cigner migrates into France. The exo- { dus from ibe fields to the cities, the wild | rush after all easy and sedentary oocu- | pations, the scourge of fonctionarisine | on the one hand and of, proletarisme on the other, the absence of self-reliance, the paralysis of anything of individual initiation, the universal appeal to the state, are 80 many signs of this moral foundering. Never has there been such a display of that religous indifference that precedes a storm; never has there beed such utter contempt for opponents’ opinions, or such deep ry of the principles of authority, civil, military and religious,
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