An Old Hand. Blne-veined and wrinkled, knuckly and brown, : This good old hand is clasping mine; I bend above it, and, looking down, ¥ study it8 aspect, line by line. “This hand has clasped a thousand hands That long have known no answering thrill; Some Lave mouldered in foreign lands — Soine in the graveyard on the hill. LClasped a mother’s hand, in the day When it was little and soft and white— Muther, who kissed it and went away To rest till the waking in Gol's good light! “Clasped a lover's hand, years agone, Who sailed away and left her in tears; Under Sahara's torrid zone His bones have whitened yearsand years. Ulaspedl the hand of a good man true, Who head it softly and fell asleep, And woke no more, and never knew How long that impress this would keep. Clasped so many, so many! so few That still respond to the hving will, Or can answer this pressure so kind and rae] 80 many that lie unmoved and still. Clasped at last this band, my own; And mine will moulder, too, in turn, Wil any clasp it while I am gooe? lu vain I study this hand to learn. OURS BY MUTUAL CONSENT. There was no doubt that the Messingers were fortunate in possessing SO charm- ing a It was built at the head of a narrow valley shut in by two hills, and beyond the sloping fawn stretched a wide expanse of sea. house as the Ness. ait lis unaffected people, devoted to young step-sister, They treated A 1 lependent on them. And, _ Naney filled the place of a loving r sister to the tribe litt Lie Of friend-in-chief to her gentle ones LL sunny afternoon in e rs, Messinger sat at low of the « , was a placid little lady, mind or temper, and her swee fy ii 1.3 seldo 1 he a Wil Cam ntemplate, wind Nancy r expression rather sweet in wi us ntle as her sister's, but her great dark eves and firmly cut mouth and bore evi and came herself eaier i harad ia ce of muchg viduality of ch over window and hair to the i- * * 1 4 basket tat tir 3 3 $ . I have had a le or 3 » the hall it on tie nail laving down “Nancy! really?" asked May, | almost excited. **Are you not deli ed?” **[—I-—have a cot said Nancy nervously the sea. “I thought he went-out to India five years ago, I was only 17 then, and did not realize what . meant. We had known each I ives. and I mistook our Dut Oller ail friendshij ‘yy terrible did you make this discovery?’ asked Mary, in distress. Nancy, regarding him with surprise, “How you have grown! When did you come? and how did you find me?" “I came two days ago,” he said, red- dening slightly in irritation at her first words. “Father was anxious that I should stay with him yesterday, but called at the Ness this afternoon, and Mrs. Messinger told me where I should find you.” “T.et us go home now, and then you can see them all,” she said, turning back. **You will hardly know the child- ren; they were such mites when you left.” “1 certainly shall not, if they have altered as much as you have done, I scarcely knew you,’’ he said, looking at her with intent grey eves, and inwardly companng this beautiful graceful girl with the gauche schoolgirl of five years since, “1 am older,’ she said, her heart sink- ing strangely. ‘He might disguise the fact that he finds me a disappointing failure,” she thought rather bitterly. “Of course we are no longer boy and girl,” he agreed. *‘But I hope we shall always be friends, Nancy? We have been that all our lives, haven't we?’’ “Yes, let us be friends,” she said. And thinkin~ that he was eager to im- very wiss to break off gagement before you came home, wasn’t OTT is “HY. ..yves ves, of course, he said doubtfully rally quite changed, I suppose, Nancy?’ | “Naturally,” she said calmly, thinking that she was not so sure about that after all, 3 cigs} to herself “Naturally he echoed, his eyes, tle clouded. DeCOInIng 4 (wie ’ x nents never ' ever i boy and gi do they? People develop so differently from what would from your letters j! should have you utterly different ix i you,” i **Youare equall { I should have expe f answered, pa jet us i each other as we are; we need much of one another, you know. They had Just hed the gate lead- imo tnt MALL AREA one expect, if "ry differen ted you to be,’ she put up with 108 Si outside, Jim er last words, as; go and still he was cared to own. betore could answer h tions quite calmly. “My dear Mary,” ently, ‘‘vou for p- fo You must as r Lions, £8 204 100) thera d wn Bi LL We what the COnciusi two. but what made it all clear to me It filled me with dismay felt that I simply coming home. § and LAr, meet Lim me from my engagement.’’ “And what does he asked, anxiously. ‘He is delighted,” said Nancy, brig] ening. ‘He says that his feelings h changed, too.” +] ways think of you in the fut his wife,” sighed Mrs. Messin il was slow “Are you sure say?" you are wise, dear?’ L ti *And Vi Ned, ciled t delight full “You fore.” sald Mary, a little reproachtully. sure.” Nancy answered firmly. i will break the news gently to 't you? And please je arrangement soon, I feel airy and free!’ get recon- 560 nev tle nLiy. ! have done 0,” replied Nancy g 4 A nd since 1 wrote to him I have silent to spare you any anxiety. felt it for the last three years in writing to him, from the present Nancy, but from the Nancy as I could remember her at 17, in fact. I have been ‘writing down’ all the time to the level of his intelligence as shown in his letters, and that level is nainfully low. But happily, you see, he is as pleased to end our engagement as I am.” “ile would be much more likely to object if he once saw you,” said Mary, frankly, ‘for these five years have done wonders with you in every way.” “Oh, he is so boyish that he will think me strong-minded, and therefore dislike me.” said Nancy, laughing. “And I did send him my last photograph, you know." asked Mary in surprise, “Well,” confessed Nancy rather re- luctantly, “I believe I had some secret, unconfessed hope that he would offer tw break off the engagement if he once saw that hideous caricature. But here comes Ned; I shall leave you to explain Lhings to him.” A day or two later Nancy started for ‘her usual afternoon walk along the cliffs, Since she had been released from the ement which for some years past iv, ey weighing on her spirits she had been in a state of exhilaration which 8 1 her. Tue world seemed wholl® beautiful; life was an unmixed blessing; sin and poverty were rarer than she bad thought. Walking quickly along, absorbed in these pleasant reflec. tions, she did not hear footsteps behind her, and was surprised at hearing her- self suddenly uddressed. Looking up with startled eyes, she found a young man gasing at her with a puzzled, intent on in his handsome face.” nt EY ou are Nancy, are you not?’ he said doubtfully, holding out his hand, . “Why Jim, is it really you?" ashed He shall s himself.” r mouth t eign to its sweel i bathed her face; an she bore herself | that no one guessed of the and wounded pride she thus s hid. If Mrs. Messinger had been given to abstruse reflections, she might have | asked herself how Jim and Nancy could possibly avoid each other, according to | their compact, when he was always | coming to the Ness? For he came every day, and at all hours of the day, as he had been wont to five yearsago. There was one difference between this daily | intercourse and that of old times, and { that a rather important ope. Nancy {lost all her gentle brightness when speaking to Jim, and was coldy, dis- tantly polite to him. He saw this, and no doubt resented it, but Naney never | guessed that from his manner, He did everything he could think of to please her. but with no outward effect. In- wardly she knew that her love for him was strengthening Jay by day, and that no power of hers could prevent it. Jim was in a most trying position. | fle knew himself to be deeply in love with Naney; his feelings for her had never died, 88 he had imagined; but | with the knowledge of her as a sweet, noble woman, came the knowledge that he had forfeited the right to tell her of hislove. Is letters had been of a kind of which he had wearied when he ceased to be a youth, But, anxious that his own letters should not be as uninterest- ing to her, as hers were to him, he had written in a boyish, semi-frivolous strain, which he thought would Pleasin to her, as natural to herself. fe could not understand how such a thoughtful, intelligent girl as he knew her to be, could have written such shal- low; charaete letters. Ie supposed that she had not eared for him enough to write about what she fait interested in. His position with to Nancy was much worse than ph any mere squaintance, Every other man could tell her of his love, while 1t seemed to Jim that he had lost this right by gladly engagement, i evening i their matters worse was that ared to dream that Nancy never appe : any ovber relation than the present con. strained friendship was possible betwen them, One afternoon he found her alone; a rare occurrence, indeed, for she was careful to avoid tete-a-tete with him. “Shall we go into the garden?” she asked, thinking that anything was pref- erable to sitting stiffly in the drawing- room. “1 should like 1t immensely,” he an- swered, rising and opening the door with alacrity. “Will you take me to our old favorite seat? I have ofteh thought of those old days when I was feeling homesick, Nancy.” “I thought vou were very happy in India,” she said unresponsively. “So I was, but I was home-sick some- times, especially when I first went out.” “This is the seat, is it not?’ she asked, as if she might have easily for- gotten the place where he had first told her of his love! “Yes, this is it,” he said dreamily, looking out over the cliffs and sea. over this view,’ said Nancy, anxious to prevent any embarrassing pause. “Who is Mr. Penstone?”’ “He is our curate,’’ in the town, but Mr, Penstone maintains that the view from--"’ “He must be an idiot, then!” compared!’ “You might have walle mentioned the other,” ing her eyebrows, I unti said “I—1 beg your ; pardon,” h I thought understood you YOu mus un ¢ that—the view from the Beacon finer than this.” “Yes, that she said. “What a hideous name the 1 “Of is what Mr. Pensts #1 to} “Yes: he is 8 1 Of A man war i day he fell more was hopeless, he fou Ment yar $ I IIS LIEW iti excuse for call- ] in taking advantage bh » found Nanev in the garden,” arrayed sun-bonnet, busils ties for tea. ‘Y find it rather hot work, I am afraid.” he said, looking down gravely her flushed face. “let me pick : - p24 d iarge while y oF v5 vk Fp ig SSrawier- Thank you. she.answered, resigning ine a little,” He had soon filled the basket, thin at his they suggestion, Nancy took off her sun-bonnet, sat there, thinking that he would seon have only the memory of her sweet, pure face to bear with him, “I came up this afternoon to say good- rather abruptly.” eyes in wonderment “Good-bye?'’ she said, are you going?’ “I am going bagk to Inda; I have had “To India? at once? Oh, why?" she asked piteously, growing very white, and looking at him with frightened eyes, An expression of tumultus hope began to dawn on Jim's face as he saw how his words had affected ber. “Do you care, Nancy?'' he asked eagerly. ‘Would you rather I stayed?" “My wishes have nothing to do with the matter,’’ she said rather bitterly, “Indeed they have’ he said very earnestly.—*' Nancy, tell me, would you rather 1 stayed?” “If Isaid ‘Yes,’ would you stay?" she asked, quietly. “Only if you loved me,” he said, “I cannot stay on and see you day after day, and feel that you will never care for me, May 1 stay, Nancy?" “If you like, she answered shyly. Jim took ber into his arts, and kissed her very tenderly. ‘‘There is one thing I want to know,” he sald present] looking down into her eyes; ““when ald you begin to love me, dear?” “When did'you begin to love me?” she replied, blushing under his gaze, © 1 don't know; I have loved you all my life," he answered. “I don’t know, either,” she said: lio 1 was about four or five, 1 think. $s “But, my darling, you broke off our engagement,” he said wonderingly. “Yes; from your letters I thought I did not love you. They were go stupid [I mean “Yes, they were gtupid, but yours were silly too, and I Thought that was the kind of thing vou liked,” he said, a ray of intelligence dawning in his eyes, “I thought you were terribly boyish, so I wrote very ‘young’ letters, thinking they would interest you,” she said be- ginning to laugh. “We both fell into the same mistake, then,”’ he said, laughing, too, though a little regretfully, *‘Oh, Nancy! we might have had such a good time! I wish I had the letters that have written!” ‘““Yes, it is a pity.” she said, is all right now, and I will sweetest letters to vou in the future,” “Indeed you will not,” he replied, in “I never mean you again, We must those letters as a vast ‘It-might- ”" “But it th leave look upon have-been.”’ i —E I ———————— Peculiar Suicides, al diff remember which | because 3 HORSE NOTES, —Al RR. record 2.274, has been added to Budd Doble’s string. ~Green Mor#is’ horses won at the Washington meeting. $3485 not one was a gelding or filly. —Jimmy Dustin has sold the b. g. James A. to Mr. McKay, of Philadel- phia, nie McGregor, Miles. Tom Allen, record chased at the Fasig sale, at Cleveland, 2204, over to Tom ~—P. Lorillard lost of his has recently Lexington mares Novice, by Glencoe, ~The stakes of FASHION Mares, This season's silks are very some and there is a great variely, ~Erench parasol handies will be more used than American, which lack | 1u Gnish and designs, A +3 wreael 11 3 —Much scarlet will be worn this | season, and the shades of red diminish none in favor, ~ Never before has jet trimming been | 30 very elaborately and elegant, and never before has the price per yard heen | quite so high, — Bows of harmonizing colors are | made according to taste for dress Lrim- | ming. — Military styles, says an authority, {are to prevall in spring and summer fashions, and the Hussar hat will be modified in straw, of —S0ft vests ; crinkled Japanese | crape go stylishly 7ith any silk costume, and may be eitLer in white or delicate | color, free-for-all advertised ~The special tournament stakes by —James Foster's black mare, Belle the son of Goldsmith Maid, —** Lucky’ Baldwin does not to cecme East this year. gramme is to wind up the season at Chicago, and from retrace his steps to California expect lie His pro- 1 1 i Baldwin's Volante have been fo * the to be run at 1886, over the St. Louls or race-track, between June Lie race “ty ~The suppression did not of betting prevent pleut; Major Pickett, the himself a remarkably good horse, —The well-known racehorses and General Monroe are sald going remarkable well this Eole is nosed for being a remarkably awkward starter, but this year, his trained savs, he is q feet. General Monroe has been laid up since last July, and the long rest seems we ¥ 5 to have benetiled him, Mercantile $ Fran Eols be ¥ Wi Driving Course trotting season next stion Day in New Jer- four races: One for the 2.55- four entries; a {-mile heat running race, with five F 3 § ” 2 iv for the 2.50-class to road Saturday (Decor: with idicap entries, one ble-team race, with four entries, ~ Entries for asecond spring meeting at Suffolk Course closed at the west corner of and Chestnut streets on Monday evening, May 24. The dates of the meeting are June 1, 2, Purses of 8500 are offered for each of the following classes: 2.18, a O09 oO OF 2.23, 2.27, 2. ™ Droad 30, 2.33, 2.37, 2.45 and 1.00; also, 2.25 and free-for-all pacing. The success of Ben All in the Ken- Louigville the sentiment pre- y somewhat pian resem- heroine ral or and I Noirel. lose that feel gather un- articularly y real ted in sach a 1 METIS. responsis “1 asll to very few men,” remarked the bia ist. calmly, *“‘The fact is K men to that 1 use snufl ‘Who in the world are your custom inquired the listener, with considerable astonishment, “Why. the ladies, of course.’ was the reply. “Nearly all my customers are women, and 1 have quite a good trade,” “What sort of ’ who ers, then?” “All kinds,” said the man, “There are a certain class: wiw great deal of snuff, but then the habit briefly. wee know wives of members of Congress who are fond of tobacco in this form “I should think that their vanity wonld keep them from such a habit,” “It makes the nose “They don’t all snuff it. A great many dip snuff. is very prevalent, especially in the South States. My customers, however, I think that the majority of people who use suuff dip it. That is, rub it over their gums with a small stick.” “Is it an expensive habit?" “Not very,” was the reply. “Itdon’t cost as much as smoking and chewing, and in my opinion is much cleaner than the ast. The best snuff is Martinique, which costs about $1.25 per pound. But the article usually purchased costs fifty and sixty cents per pound. There are not as many varieties made now as there used to be when the habit was more prevalent. Only standard brands are in the market and it may be said that the trade is dying out.” ip —— —Ben All is the third of the get of Virgil who has captured the Kentucky Derby. The others were Hindoo and mede swerved with Mclaughlin in the race with Forester for the Lorillard stakes in 1583, city, has filed suit 1n the United States against Michael and Philip Dwyer, the well-known turfman, for damages. Mr. McCampbell as the surviving partner of Peler Fox & Co, a firm which was thers have in thelr possession the race- and refuse to give up the animal to to the Plaintiff over be, consequently sues for that amount of damages. “Broad Church,” writes from Ban Fox will not face the flag in the Suburban. He looks well bodily, bar- riug that swelled ankle, which certainly does not portend a great racing future up just a wee bit lame. One of these times he performed better than Ben Ali, requiring a little persuasion from bring him to a race, Jim Murphy is the man; but, with all of Marphy’s pains- taking efforts, 1 have my doubts about future success for the King Ban colt. The ap ces of the snkie—that of the left forefoot a sort of callous swelling that is not likely to re- duce with time. While he is taking his work ht along there is no ques. tion at all the ailing limb troubles him more or less, as evidenced by slight lameness after work, and 1t is just & question whether an animal in that condition can be properly fitted for such a race as the Suburban.” Con- cerning Freeland, be says; **And so the papers, will have it that Freeland is a cripple, a wreck of his former self, and all that sort of thing. As i the difference between romance and reality, let me say that the champion is the very reverse of all this. Watching him on the 21st of May cover the | Chantilly lace will be worn by | young ladies this summer, and by their | elders, French will be worn more than Malta or guipure, — Very small rosary bead buttons are sed to trim and edge jackets that are yd with big flat or medium-sized | —In opposition to these, however, we also see charming little capotes, with of colored 1 or crape, azd ¥ rei f i i i | border of beads to match, simply trim. crown ; 2 3 or a light with a spray of tlowers Redfern’s ie par he trie Writ little t jacket. one cloth Upon this an is executed U muxiare « med with | i sx - mts all-over y A J# the Bfarion LArTOW CIO v ff Se re - wp, OF Gne siraw, will border, and y a large woquet, foanitedd 103 ¢ aented in at the LER 1 ; ) ~ #1ty model is the Ferronn I+ 4s ‘ Pr ’ t has a round crown of beade iace border is edged will very becoming r ¥ ISL8 Ol over nming ad in § a bow 3 ens there is the Eventall capote, The crown is t p erly pleated iz I each side, forming a large wing of jet than the edge 05 black lace, with right relieving e s'yie of the bon- net, completes the trimunng. ~ Alternate tucks of French muslin insertion and Valenci lace com- bine to form the transparent lea~-gowns, which, but for a certain looseness ol fit, might grace a ball-room. A striped boucle matinee of canvas in bleu de i clel had full Surah, bloused front, | trimmed with Mechlin, and tied with ; sash of watered ribbon, clevs On ar, Lhere 18 ulle, very beads, r higher the capote. A puff of a bird +} f 3 the somo colored } 0 Lnes oe oh ta 3 a alas! they —- Flats vonnetls, alas. Laey | more and more such as to lead us to suppose that the heads which they over- top in such a conquering manner have not one grain of reason left in them. | Their shape disappears under immense loops of ribbon, describing the most ex- travagant outlines, surrounded by ex | traordipary plumage and peaked wings threatening the clouds, are and asia ~The Belfast embroideries in white upon colored foundations prove very effective draperies upon many of the pew wash dresses, On others is shown what is called embroidered lace, which has more substance than the various kinds hitherto used upon cotton goods. For house draperies and bloused fronts this lace is chosen rather than the Irish embroideries; the latter, however, be- ing more effective for flouncing and panels. Many of the skirts are draped in a way suggestive of the utmost sim- plicity, but those initiated in the mys- teries of dressmaking will readily per- ceive there are complications it would be vain for an unpracticed hand to try to imitate. ~-Prints are not so popular as they | were last season. Of course they will be worn, and to quite an extent, but | their day of favoritism is somewhat eclipsed by the numerous canvas ma- terials now in vogue. Zephyr#® are be- ing produced, however, in infinite vari- ety. The later goods, instead of having their designs and colorings printed upon their surface, have them woven | in their textures, the so-called plain | material used for bodice and founda | tion usually being shot with white. | The goods usually used for trimming | and draperies show stripes, cross-bars | and checks in frise, boucie and tufted | knots upon this shot foundation. In | some instances the used for {draping has a crinkled appearance, | smulating crape, and offers the advant- age of requiring no roning after being washed. It should be well shaken before it is dried, so as to obviate all risk of fattening its tufts and boucle rings. The advantage of this style of drapery is that It allows more scope for draping elaborately than ome that has to be woned. ~In place of the eight ribs with which the fsames of parasols are usually new Ella sunshade has This renders them higher, scope for exercising adornment. In many i wide spaces between each rib are semi-transparent, covered with flutings of clear net. In others the trimming similates a square par over the framework as
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