My Lover's Barque. 1 lean from my window, looking down On stony arches and turbid tide, The lights stream in the drowsy town, And the wake of oars where boatmen glide, Fav, far beyond to the harbor's mouth; ‘I's the beacon light like a lurid star, iV here the winds blow hot from the purple South, And the foam caps leap at the sandy bar. sh! the ship at anchor! Ohl bargemen bold! Ok! river rolling to meet the seal My heart within me is faint and cold; I pray you, I pray you give ear to me, Oh, tell me where 18 my lover's barque? 1s ft riven or wrecked by Indian Ee On some far sea in the nameless dark, Does a white moon rise o'er its shattered sails? some morn she will come to tho harbor’s month, With the musk of the East in her dusky hold; shall sae her masts in the purple South, I shall hear the songs of her sailors bold; { shall hear ber cordage rattls and strain, I shall lean me forth and with joyous Tears on the barque of my love again— first of all at the crowded piers. t will she bring me from that far nd:an jewel, or pear! of price? mond, sifted through burning wat bloom from jungle or fleld of rice? ! Ah me! shall 1 find once more, » priceless treasures that crowd that st gold that my hair once wore, 1 lost red of my faded Mp? and wait at the dreary plers, he ships return and the ships de- the haoane lin low J0DEes ule KIOW with the dying y their ashes upon my heart, may mock, the winds may te moons wax and the white wane; lis in and the tide rolls out, barque of wy lover comes never I was tall, overgrown, awkward, and sixteen, with a pervading consciousness that my hands and feet were very large, and the added misery, in the case of the former members, that they were always red, and I never knew what to do with them when in company, I del: wheu one morning the dear old lady called me to her. “*Here is something for yon, Jim,” she said, ‘‘an invitation to a children’s party at Mrs, Edwards.” **Children’s party,” I repeated, proba- bly, with a shade of scorn in my voice, as indicating that I was no longer to be placed in that juvenils category. **Not children exactly,” i “Postage not stated,” was the [aint TepiS. They all laughed loudly and looked at me, for that was my name, The biood rushed in orimson floods to my face, 1 got on my feet somshow, and with my heart torn between a wild de- sire to go into that hall and a wish to sink utterly away from human kind, I stuambléd out of the room, The door was closed behind me, and I found myse!f almost in darkness, as the hall was but dimly lighted. I paused 8 moment, and then I heard the faint sound of quick breathing; another heart was beating as violently as my own, For cnoe in my life I knew what to do with my arms, I caught hold of her. I scarcely know how, The darkness gave me courage and I held her ina close clasp, and pressed my lips to her cheek in threo or four rapid, half-fright- ened kisses, before she could free her- sell from my embrace, “There! there! Mr, Hill,” she said, with a faint, merry laugh, **don’t be so bashful again. *I'm sure yeu're bold enough now!” “Have I paid my postage?” I stam- mered, “Indeed, yes; enough and to spare, Come, let us go back to the parlor.” She led me 10, a willing prisoner, and the rest of the evening I was her bond the country boys, and gloried in my ac- complishment), and, at ast, crowning delight of the evening, her escort home, This was all, The next Mabel Byrne become only a memory; strong at firet, fainter as time went on, When I saw other fair and sweet as she, minishiog, seemed rather to increase upon me as the years went by. I recluse from ladies that my mother was quite worried lest I should become a confirmed old bachelor, Perhaps one reason why I retained my diflidence was that my pursuits wereamong books, and not amoung people. I had made the twenty-seven found myself in a comfort. able position as assistant professor in one of our best colleges, the salary of which, with my own in Earope. Equipped with bag and hammer, dignity. said, is fourteen, and Tom Byrne and all the boys—young men, I should say,” with a twinkle of amusement, *‘will there.” I had sundry misgivings that I shonld very much afraid of girls, though be and fascinating beings. However, party was to be quite a *“‘awell” affair for the village, When the evening came it found me with the rest, seated in a large parior, very unhappy because of my arms and bands, which would by no means ar- range themselves mm apy graceful or becoming manner, and extremely bash- black-eyed girl about a year younger than myself, whom I knew to be Tom Byrne's sister, She sat some distance from me, but first came in, and now from time to time cast glances at me which increased at onoe my bliss and my confusion, I avoided the well traveled other tourists, and I was therefore ut terly amazed when one evening, as I near the little house which was “Jim! Jim Hill!" “What is it?’ I replied, with a Lalf nervous start, “Ah! I thought it Have you oid Tom Was my forgotten Byrne!” Of course not, for I had met him ec- rade, always ons of the best of com- panions, “I saw your name on the book at the bs you. At any rate I thought I would start out to meet youn," “But how came you here?” I in- quired, ‘in this out of the way corner of the world.” You know she is quite an Bo Mabel was with him. My heart gave a curious thump, and for a moment played, but they were of a quiet charac- ter, such as “Proverbs,” ete,, so that I had no op- rtunity of approaching any nearer to Mabel, who showed herself very bril. liant in her questions and answers dur- ing the progress of these intellectual amusements, Then somebody suggested that we sunould play *Postoflice,” “Poatoflice! what is that? how do sou play 112” I whwspered to Tom Byrne, my next neighbor, ‘Don’t you know how to play Post. office?” he asked, with a scorn of my ignorance, “Oh, well, I suppose you city feilows don't know anything.” “1 never heard of this,” I assented meekly, “Well, I'll tell you how it is, A girl asks for a letter for some boy, and then you have to ask her how much postage, and if she says one cent, yon must kiss her once,” “Oh!” said I, “Yes,” replied Tom, *‘and you kiss her twice for two cents, and three times for three cents, It's quite fan, if it1s a preity girl” he added, judicially. “I suppose 80,” I replied vaguely. Wn I forgot to tell yon,” he added, “If sho says ‘postage not stated then you kiss her as oflen as you like, they are going to begin.” To be sure, one of the oldest boys was appointed postmaster, and one girl after another went out into the entry, each presently knocking at the door asking for a letter, whereon the boy called for Shashi followed her into the hall, and to judge from the sounds of screaming and scuffling which gene- rally followed his postage under nly fol a I watched the in a state of be. wildered alarm, i a girl should call on mol Bat ne one did, and I was helt disap half relieved, that 1 wea exempt, when at last it was Mabel Byrne's turn to go out. She left the room with a lovely blush alomniy ciosad pm. bars. And then 0 then lar o brief nT TROY was a faint The postmaster opened the / o few inches, : “What do you want?” he saked. ‘*There is a letter here,” she replied * For whom?" “Ar. James Hill" «Faw mneh to pay!” *“Yes,” he went on; *‘she is so devo- ted to her art that it seems to quite ab. sorb her life.. Bhe has not thought of i { for the ordinary run of society. She will be glad to see you, though,” he added, consolingly, ‘‘as you are a man of science.” We walked back together to the little inn, and presently I was shaking hands with a beautiful and stately woman, whose bright, dark eyes flashed with the strange intensity and fire that I had of Mabel Byrne. after we three bad taken an evening meal together there followed a delight. ful evening in the little parlor that Tom and his sister had secured, For once in my life I felt myself quite at ease in a lady's society, In tho first place there was Tom to keep me in countenance by a predominance of my own sex in the company, then Mabel did not expect me to talk of airy noth. keim. Bhe spoke first of my scientific pursuits; she showed so much knowl. edge of the subject that I really found myself talking with earnestness and enthusiasm of the formation of the country, and especially of the glacial lected, She, in her turn, contributed to the evening's interest by telling me of her work, and showing me her sketches, which wore really of a very high erder of artistio merit, There was no scuool. girl weakness in her haudling of the brush, but a force and poetic thought recognition in the world of art, “And yon have never heard of Ma. bel's paintings natil now?" ssked Tom. “No,” 1 confessed, “Yon know I liave been quits absorbed in my speoial studies,’ “Yes, and you have not seen Mabel for ever so long, have you?” *No,” 1 od, ‘not since that sum- ther ten years ago, whon I was at my other's ” § grandm . “Jolly times we had, 100,” sald Tom, reflectively. ‘‘Remember that party at A sudden rush of blood to my face utterly confased me. [stam ae and Tow, to my relief, went on with some rambling reminiscences, It was some seconds before I dared to look at Mabel, Surely she was blushing, too, The next morning we all went on a trip up the slopes of the mountain, Mabel in short, gray suit, alpine hat, and stout boots; Tom carrying her draw- ing materials, ‘I'hus we made this and many another delightful expedition, Life took on new colors for me. There was a radiance and glory about it that I bad never dreamed of before. Every day I found fresh reason for admiring my beautiful companion, and our walks through the deep valleys and up the rough mountain sides were to me like enchanted journeys through a realm of fairies, In this loveliest country in the world, with this most glorious woman by my side, I was, indeed, as one trans- figured by the light of thegrand passion that took possession of my seul At first 1 knew not what had befallen me. I thought only that my pleasure in Mabel’s society sprang from a simi- larity of tastes and pursuits, and the charm of her conversation; but gradu- ally I woke to the overwhelming fact that I Joved her with the one great love Lof my life, that seemed to me now to date from the days of long ago, to have been always with me, and to stretch out into the future to make it trans- cedently glorious, or a long despair. And yet as soon as I had learned my own secret, my former bashfulness cameo back upon me with tenfold intensity, and I found myself often embarrassed in her presence, while at the thought of i . | possibility: And Mabel? Her eyes were | kind to me, softened lustre compliment, I blushed, floundered and was lost, One evening we were talking of all so strayed to marriage in general, and especially to the matrimonial lot of some of our friends, “You remember Hill?” asked Tom. “Tall, baskful added. “Yes,” replied Tom, laughiag. married Miss Catling, our school teacher. I always thought she proposed to him." “Sensible giri!” 1 exclaimed, *'I | think 1t is positively a woman's duty | sometimes to help a man out. Yon re. i member that book of the late Dr. Hor- ace Bushnell, published some years ago, called ‘A Reform Agaiust Nature?’ In it be denounced the whole woman's rights movement, bu! maintained that every woman ought to ha¥e the right to { propose marriage to the man she liked. I think he was sciéntifically eorrect.” I spoke with great eagerness, looking { always at Tom; but at the last words my glances turned to Mabel. Her eyes | were fixed on mine, and the look I met there sent the blood to my heart with such a swift, tumuitnons rush that I | grew [aint with confusion, and presently rushed out of the room and to bed | though not to sleep The next day I went oul in tho after Boyd, don't An Extinct Voleano. Information of rare wuterest to the spientific world, Kiauoca, the most famous of modern volcanoes, whose fires have burned for ages, is extiu- guished for the first time, and the greut crater is now dead and cold, A lake, near by, at the same time disappeared. The usual impression of a volcano is that it is a gigantic cone, Kilauea, on | the contrary (and in this it differs from many), is merely a crater, a depression on the flank of the great ‘mountain of Mauna Loa, and about 4,000 feet be- low its summit, It may be described | as anjenormons pit on a rolling plain—a | pit nine miles in circumference, and | varying in years past from 800 to 1,000 | feet in depth, according as the molten sea below has been at ebb or flood, | Hale-man-mau, on **The House of Ever- | { lasting Fire,” is the expressive title be- | stowed in Hawaiian mythology upon a lake of burning lava ou the south side of the crater—a Iake whose fire and | and steam and smoke, il we may credit | the native legends, have continued for | untold centuries. Elsewhere in the crater, and of comparatively modern | origin, is the famous New Lake, which | has been most visited by travelers in late years because of ite greater activity and grand and wonderful scenery-—the surging of waves of fire upon no flery shore; jets, fountains, and srays of mol- ten lava, whose upper particles, caught | by the wind, were wrought into ‘Peles hair,” like threads of molten glass, and borne away for many miles, These wonderful phenomena, evidences of the great interior fires and forees of which we know so little, came to a sudden this year, just after the islands had ex. nild earthquake aisturbances, nothing unusual for that region, Kilauea has been of the great vents, or breathing places, of the interior fires vents is closed, another, in some other locality, will break out into renewed ac- The a damp and very rough gorge, where pany me. I was half glad to be alone, of The last rosy light was flashing wondrons charms of Swiss scenery. parior, led there by a force that seemed to draw me by a power beyoad my con- trol, The room was quite. dusk and she was alone. As I entered she came to- ward me with a quantity of lettors and papers in her hands. she said. Mochanically I took the the fires of Kilanea. L'he await with interest explosions else- scientific world will news of volcanic where, Should the tires of cold, the Hawalian iost of ther cl tourists, and especially visitors, The ashes of an extinct cra. ter have little fascination, Another island of the group has a crater—ap- ex now-—even grander aunea; the crater of Ha- leakala, on the sland of Maui, Few travelers ever care to visit this grand rolio of former volcanic activity, a cra- ter twonty miles in circumference, and whose oblong bowi would easily hold the entire city of New York below Cen- tral Park, Two chasms in the sides of the bowl were the outlels many years ago of great rivers ol molten lavg, whose course to the sea is marked to-day by great black roads upon the green slopes of the island, Dat Haleakala, meaning in the native language, “The House of is no longer attractive; its | ten thousand feet in air, 1s seen by tourists no closer usually than from the deck of the passing sleamer. For extinct cra- tors the tourist is satisfied with an after. noon trip to the diminutive Panch-bowl, an easy half-bours walk from the hotel | in Honolulu. Young trees rustle in the breeza, and the grass grows strong and sweet for uaiive cattle on the floor of this little crater, which, doubtless, was | Kilanea remain islands will have iief sitractions to to scientific one natives of the vicinity on the anxious HORSE NOTES, ————————————— East about May 1, Jan Chaloner, English jockey, is dead. died in Chicago on March 28, trotters from California. —-—W, J. b. m. Croxie, 2.19}, —The b, m. Elite, foaled 1878, by will be bred to Lord Russell, brother to Maud -S. —The race-horse George Singerly, is ing at Brighton Beach Race Course, viz: Engeman Memorial, handicap, Gravesend handicap, Inde. pendence Stakes and Iron Pier handi- —It seems pretty well understood that Lizzie Dwyer will never course again, as her leg has led 80 enormoasly that it will be a mira she can be got ready for racing—this at all events—and many think e trouble will shelve her fore the gee Li Lil Yer, —"The race for the Ascot plate, for two- years-old, at the Northampton sj meeting London, March was won by Baron De I. De Hirsch’s bay ¢ Berber. The race for the great Northamptonshire stakes was won by Lord Hartington’s four-year-old bay colt Sir Kenneth, —W. H. Brasfield place of seven acres limits of Lexington and adjoining the Fair grounds, on which he is building a covered track 780 feel long and 20 wide, with conveniences which will to the comfort of buyers attending sales, Hereafter there will be n ponement on account of rain. —3ir. Simpson says Lthere 1s; current in San Francisco that Buchanan, the trainer, in behalf of the Fairfax Stable purchese of the Catifornla cracks, Beaconsfield and Ichi Ban, with a pr pect of secur both. From this it looks as if FY ak oi80, hag % o} 3 t has purchased a the city {eet add i8 negot ew stable was det mined not to be cast down by its to secure Pontiac, and is ain the next best thing securing cidental champion. next best, we might say better, as Deacons- field is at even weights with Pontiac in the Saburban, and would, of the two, be a more serviceable horse, for Pontiac is only a great tance, while Beaconsfield seems at home whether at a mile or a cup course. The death Sam Crook, an old- time trotting borseman, at Chicago, on the 28th ult. , recalls the tragic circum- stances of Billy McKeever's death at old Dexter Park. Crook drove Butler the first heal in memopable race against Cooley, and then ad to go on, giving pldce to 1} The consequent history of Wie We 1 detailed too often to need repitition The death of McKeever was a hard blow to the good name of the trot- ting turf, and one from which it took Chicago years to recover, MeKeever rests in Greenwood Cemetery. has gone the wavof ail mortals, and General Butler, the unconscious par- ticipant of that foul deed in the shades in Instead of horse r Of the Crook Winter Evenings. The parent who demands that preserved horse. on the field. George Lovell has laid the owner of the horse resides, He also booked the bet of $6750 to $300 against Lizzie Dwyer, and $11,100 to $330 against Springfield —this was laid Among them there was a large package | and scholars; bu! care should always | on which 1 dimly discerned the word | ye taken not to continne a lesson so | "Dus, ” followed br 8a hogiple Slasp, | long as to make it tiresome, ‘Then give “You have paid something on + | them a portion of the evening to pur- | i he ae I said, “How much wasit?” and looked | yne their own course, without preseribed | Op itslon of the majority of the specula up. " a | bounds; in this way they gradually |, $100 against Dutch Roller; $10,000 “Postage not stated, roplisd Mabel. | joarn to care for themselves. Parents | to §200 against Ban Fox; $5000 to $50 Promptly, smilingly she uttered the against the Americus, and $1000 to $20 | Wickham; $3400 to $85 against Rata. | plan; $1500 to $100 against Joe Cotton, words, Then her dark eyes softenod 5 and faltered, The papers and leiters were scattered over the floor, caught her in my arms with all the au. dactiy that had been once befora mine in my boyish days. QOuly now, as I pressed passionate voice at last to utier the yearning that was consaming my heart, smote pcan Of Interest to Physicians. German papers oall attention to a fact which might prove of interest also to American readers, Physicians and drug- gists, they say, are badly wanted in the East Indies, as their number there is ex- ceedingly scarce, and the sick are many, A physician receives $5 for an ordinary visit and £7.50 and more for a consulta. tion. Dentists charge $15 to $25 for filling a smngle tooth with common pastes, Pharmacists who speak the English lan- guage receive from $7540 $200 as clerks, and if able to open up a business of their own can sursly count upon make ing a small fortune in a short time, as in the absence of competion there is re- 4 no limit to charges. As the medi. cal and pharmaceutical colleges of the United States turn out every year seve- ral hundred physicians and pharmacists not exactly wanted, it may not be amiss to reproduce this statement, which is well authenticated. Iron Covering. A recent invention of a sheet iron for cotton bales is‘exciting tion in the South, The cov. ering can be used again and again un- 1 it is worn out, If the invention a good variety of innocent games, 80 | When we enter a home where there | bare of children’s books, papers and | games, we not only pity the children, | but also the parents, becanse it is so | evident that they have little conception | of the pleasure derived from entertain. there is of their children being wrecked, being driven into the street or a neigh- boring saloon for evening entertain. | ments, Parents who have children have a duty to perform which they have no right to dodge, The father of a family who every evening absents himself from home, to gossip with the neighbors, not only does a great injustice to his wife, but sots an example to his children that will alienate them from their homes, and perhaps lead them into so- sioty that indulges in something even worse than gossip, It shoald be the study of parents to make jome 80 pleas- ant that the children will have no de- sire to leave it, even for the mos! eatio. ing saloon, -One hundred and four colts and fil- lies bred at Palo Alto, Cal., will shortly be shipped to New York and sold. Twenty years ago it required tive tons of coal to make a ton of iron ra Now a ton of steel rails ay be duced from the ore with half quan- tity of coal, against Pontiac. ~The programme of the Pennsylva- nia Association of Trotting-Horse ber 6 and 7 next, the place to be deter. mised hereafter, Stake No. 1 is for on nomination, Aprii 15; $5 June 1; $5 August 1, and $10 October 5. Stake two in three, on same terms as No. 1. ree in five, on same terms as No. 1. Stake No. 4 is for foals of 1882, $50 1, and $20 October 5, Stake No. 5 is terms the same as No. 4, class, also on the same terms as No. 4 the indefatigable horse broker, has He reports the sale of a black mare, by Mohawk Chief, dam by General Den- ton, for Mr. A. F. Carley, of Schenect- ady, to the Sire Bros.,, of this New York. Price $4000. ‘Chis mare has no record and can trot close to 2.20, We know her, and can vouch for her new owners havi aleo sold cob, wi Fi Ney FASHION LIUTES ~— Blue is reinstated and is seen in all materials, ~ Amber is said Lo s most pov. —Fuchsias are a favorite ower de- sign for the spring goods. silver butions have the ugustus etched upon them. — Brown and gray-blus are the lead- ing colors for spring wear, ~The Spanish fashion of wearing of head A returning to favor. ~-Brooches of four-leaved clover in green enamel, the perfect counterparty of the natural leaf, ard popular. -— Wide goid-band bracelets are com- will be much called for next season. —French lawns with cream ground —White heliotrope is in high pop- wear in a corsage bouquet, so finds ta place on the shoulder of many a ball —Organdies are shown with grougpds of the most delicate tints of pink and blue, as well as white, with sprays of blackberries, oak branches, bunches of cornflowers, convolvulus vines, delicate roses and birds, —A has the round bodice vers of em! } v embroidery 1s shirred on the bodice, cluster of loops and ends of ribbo arranged on { side of the cambric dress for : sy child neated with re- “he skirt of wide A ’ the rig pansies of all The bord pe massed togel avy lille 4 sn wal wv rl ays of lily of the valley. 3 Are wru ' i ~Feru sateen has glrewn over inslies to nature, all the exqu perfectly reproduced. —A charming dress for a litt is of vellow satin, cut princess, sq Arcund the bottom of the skirt are three ruffles of Oriental lace studd with gilt balls, An lace was fastened at a bunch of pink apple rs being caught in same flowers while pink and yell neck, A i draperies, ribbons were disposed ar a draperies wit gements 8 Very 5 are in many instar | and novel. One charact irt of glossy silk in soft witl lle embr bodice of the sa t harmonizing color, rich 3 Crepe, idered tull necklaces are quite a fur The newest styles consist of five f I ite, black ink, which are worn t t throat, and are tied at the o of the same alls carelessly in long loops. times the rows of beads are sewed or to a band of velvet. When t case the velvet must always be of the same shade, not of a constrasting col- or. Gray, turquoise blue, pale yellow, beads are used i: y hie ¢ Ion ia § $ is is the ¢ Foran PT, tan light green and lilac rh A Sliniar way. wear of blue velvet, cut straight, like a dress for morning The front is . that of a redingote, and it is trimmed on both sides with revers of old gold satin, which form a chemisette above. The chemisette 1s buttoned in the middle down to the waist and ends under a scarf which starts from the under arm and falls down over the apron of the plastron. Steel beads trimmings finish both ends of tue scarf. The back is cut in Prin- cess shape, is curved by middle seam and is laid in two large pleats. The satin collar is cut straight and the rath- ~—DBeads are used in profusion as a trimming, and the variety is immense; and they are generally becoming. Among the trimming for spring gnd summer months a large importation is shown in ‘‘rosary beads,” and many of the designs are exquisite. To trim a and short sleeves with pearls, is a usual method of decoration, and high bodices with long sleeves are Folds of very effective. Pearls enter into the composition of many of the fancy items of feminine- toilet, and impart a dressy appearance to an otherwise sim- ple costume. Fringed necklets are also in great vogue, and jetted lace or naments for the front of bodices are i —A rich imported garment of*fancy black plush shows a short back and long square tabs in front. It is bord. The front closes with a very rich pearl and ox- idized clasp. Another garment is in fine sik plush, short back, long pointed tabs in front and trimmined with Alas. The sleeves of this garment are stripad with a satin beaded trim- ming that is very effective, and the front i= clasped together with a very rich ornament. Aross the back is a finish of deep chenille fringe, tipped with bronze beads, and the lining is of —Bonnets for the spring are being with plush or uncut velvet. There are small capotes without any other trim. ming than a high diadem of different material and color from the crown; very often the disdem is of beads: sul. phur colored and amber diadems are very popular for even now the elegant or
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