His Sweetheart's Name.
Oh! would you know the sweetest maid
Phat ¢'er drank from the fountain,
The fairest one, the rarest one
In valley or on mountain?
If I should tell the secret now
You then would know it well sir;
But as she's mine, by vows divine,
J} think 1 will not well, sir,
Her eyes are blue,
Of tender hue,
Aud elear as yonder wel
Though me you blame,
Her pretty name
¥'il never, never tell, sir.
1
1, sir;
She's a farmer's daughter deas,
Aud trips among the daisies;
She's like a dove, my little love,
And [| will sing her praises;
Thougu down the rosy, rosy lane,
To greet me she advances;
With smiles so rare, she doth not care
+ To meet a stranger's glances.
Her eyes are blue
Of tender hue,
And clear as yonder well, sir:
Though me you blame,
Her pretty name
I'll never, never tell, sir
My little wild-flower bloometh swet,
Alar irom town or city;
Her matden heart is full of love;
Her soul is full of pity; i
The grand old farm glows with the charm |
She gives, from field to dell, sir; {
But as she's mine by vows divine,
+ name 1 will not tell, sir,
Her eyes are blues,
Of tender hue;
Her voice is quite divine, sir;
nd when the leaves
il with the sheaves,
She'il change her name for mine gl
AIT HRA,
LOVE'S AWAKENING,
“You understand
cine and beverages?’’
ts softly assented
about the medi-
x es,” the new
nurse,
She had laid aside her widow's bon-
net and veil, In her p black dress,
serviceably unadorned, sue looked very |
shim and young.
Though her hands were so soft and
white, they looked capable. Mrs.
Rameaux might be inexperienced—she
owned as much berself--but she would
assuredly learn quickly, and intelli
gently; and her sympathy would never
be at fault.
| This much the young doctor’s pro-
fessional intuitions told him as he saw
her softly bead over her first ¢ot in the
extemporized fever hospital. Then he
passed on.
} She might be a young woman and a
beautiful one. The atmosphere of the
countryside around bad been such
these many weeks that a man, watching
as he did, day and , by the
bedsides of the dying and the dead,
could have hisdrift and tenure of mind
scarcely such that facts like these
would bear in upon it with any element
of the exciting.
It had been
Had beer? It
day, week after
knowing} no
a
hit
nigut
$
visitat
Day after
week, the fever raged,
abatement. T who
could flee, leaving all, did so.
Among those who stayed fresh vy
were marked and dropped wi
new sun. A great pall, an awe-
fallen er the co
ectre of Death amor
inn
an awful
was so still.
080
$
ALHE
every
it
4
ar, Haq
The sp
walking their
down, a familiar a
board, had given to all the
faces a serious expression,
terrified
had asked
ng with th
some word
mm with
tri) > x y
SLTUCK it Ov m-
street
oieat
gUesL
oY
acted amor
an explosive.
v
100 gO al all, I shall stay.”
\ Lek ¥
“Many hands will be needed—and I
may be of use. It is what I have
wanted, It is my opportunity.”
she might have said it was what she
had prayed for—the chance of devoling
herself, of practically renouncing the
world, of leading a consecrated life,
It had been her one wish since her
husband had died—she scarcely at the
time more than a child. All seemed to
have died, too.
Her friends said she was morbid.
Mrs. Buneaux only smiled gen
Her smile in those days was sadder
than tears,
“She will get over it said the friends
next. S» young, so lovely, how could
it be otherwise? This giving up, as it
were. of all her future; this monastic
simplicity of dress; this visiting of the
poor and the sick, and dedicating of all
her days to the cutting-out of charity
children’s clothes—this was a phase; it
must pass; the reaction would come.
There was a mingling of the sarcastic
the impatient in these assevera-
The inpatience predominated,
pethaps,
To prate of charity and the love
of one's fellow-man, is a thing permis-
sible In good society—provided it be |
not carried too far. But to have |
one’s intimates suddenly proceed to put
such theories into effect is a grievance
to be looked upon as personally offzn-
SIVe,
jut Mrs. Rameaux’s unconscious-
ness and serenity under this half |
or wholly expressed opposition were
singularly unwavering,
If this was a **fad?’ she failed to tire
of it as quickly as flesh and blood usual-
ly dispose of such.
When this last astounding announce-
ment came, the Rameaux acquaintance
1
:
had an air of dismissing the matter as
|
4 ua
le
Liye
“0 i
Aaliu
now having passed beyond comment |
altogether.
“Lucy always was queer,” said one |
female voice. i
“Not always,’ retorted a masculine |
organ more dublously. ‘That is, she |
was always rather high-strung. But—
well, having been married to Rameaux
might be enough to-’' Then the
speaker bethought himself and stopped.
Meanwhile, the new nurse gently,
with soft footfall, passed on in her self-
chosen work, Tne weeks dragged by,
still the fever raged.
She had held the hands of those
writhing in mghtless delirium of pain
and moistened the lips of the dying.
} The strain had on her. The fine
oval of her face had grown more trans-
parent. About the full brown of her
eyes the blue circles had hollowed.
. ~ She was bending now over the pillow
of a yo girl who had been hovering
on the owy brink for days, To-
night the crisis been reached.
girl was of a singularly nervous
and sensitive temperament, and
through all her ravings Mrs. Rameaux’s
low tone and magnetic touch had bad a
strangely soothing, controlling effect
upon her.
her voluntary nurse, came to coustitute
on the latter one of those claims
by which all rich natures are
in bondage to some weaker one,
that the eyes were closed and the chest
sound and normal sleep, she realized
that the crisis was passed and the life
saved, Mrs, Rameaux suddenly gave
and burying her face in her
“Mrs. Ram+aux]”
She started up breathless, coloring
“I.—don’t think me a very weak. 1
is the mattter with
of his grey eyes, were not
the
worn
is,”
You
11 you
matter
out.
Wi
“But I know what
said, *“*You are
have you ill also.”
Ile spoke with an almost abrupt
1
“How can I rest? They need me,
door to a visla
The faint light
ickered over her
vhite sweetness of
which 1ndignat t
unwonted
dried
das mt
through the open
of white cots beyond.
ion a
t emotional
her own most
ee]
Frey
A CY
do
have
not need
as you been giving thi
retorted Dr.
“lt is
¢
May, pointing t
You
to hols
lavish
convent
bet ween
amid the
They stoo
where
at
sphere
ntiment
sweeh.
“lizzie on
murmured extenuatio!
have been sorry for her.”
After the were
would hay
depends
given much {
eel TA 119
y unworthy—was
There were elements
broughy back Mrs.
tragic experience,
She
Rameaux’s
shrank—wi
of all her face—{1 any
might seem to bear uj
of 1 life in whic!
i ii
i
had been bruised i
.
yn
ar
el
6 coul
t
and fury of the disease
pent themselves, There was
tough a great lull
Mrs. Rameaux had stepped one night
the door. The wind was soft and
humid, and there was a vague SUITING
of spring in the air,
Ragged tatters of dark streak-like
clouds swept the faint of
moon; and above the watcher’s
the bare trees clashed together
a rasping of dry branches,
Mrs. Rameaux ch
drew a long breath.
When she up
coming through the
towards the door.
He was pale, and she noticed at once
a drawn look about his eyes that
she had never seen before.
He stopped near her.
“Will you rest now?’ he said. “You
mav. The worst is And—Liz-
zie 18 nearly well”
shit
to
disc tue
head
with
wed her eyes and
looked
Dr. May
hghted
Wiis
hall
over.
into Mrs. Bameaux’s cheek,
“You have more
1,” she said, * You look iL”
“Do IY
He still lingered opposite her. Ie
did not seem to attach any importance
to her words, The breath of the night
wind brushed zoftly in between them,
He put his hand abruptly into the
pocket of his inner coat. The object he
drew out was very small and dark.
“] saw these to-day, driving through
woods, Toey are wonderfully
You
Mrs. Rameaux held out
hand, and in it he laid two frail wild
She caught them, with
rapid, sensitive motion, to her face,
“Oh, 1 like them-1 like
Thank you,”
And then she turned and left him,
drove slowly away.
There was a strange tumult in his
veins, It was as though he could feel
the throb of the spring in all this
hushed, awakening nature.
His path led him by way of the woods
again. Through the naked wterlacing
boughs above him the moonlight,
white and watery, filtered in ghostly
gleams,
Faint, intangible perfumes of stirring
soad-life haunted the air, He seemed
to breathe the very soul of the night.
A desperate joy that life was still his,
to feel, to enjoy, seized him, Nature,
long su by the chill charnel-
house atmosphere of death, asserted
itself with a mighto rebound, He sud.
denny drew his horse with a sharp |
tightening of the muscies,
There was a reason for this throb and |
rush of blood through his arteries, And |
he had found it in the phantom of |
a woman's face, sweet and pale as |
a white camellia bud, and framed
in black, that Lad risen and floated
him, - luminous as a vision
wrought from the beams of the moon
He found all hig patients doing well.
He drove back rapidly, The whole
[Ie had not hopad to see her again,
But as he went in she was crossing the
hall, She held some bandages iu her |
hands and her sleeves were drawn
up from her delicate wrists and the |
waxen curve of her arms,
In her dress he saw the two wood-
violets. A silver bar of moonlight
she turned towards him with a half
smile,
The fever in his veins burned more
fiercely. Never had there been such a
night as this! They two were alone on
With his eyes on hers, drawing
nearer to her, he spoke at once.
“I love you,” he said—"1 love you.
You are the
one woman, and we were meant one 101
the other.”
White tot
him.
“You are ill!
know what you are sa
He caught her by
fierce gesture
“Po not speak in that way.
gay is as hfe and death to me.’
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She drew herself up to her full height
he lips, she started from
14
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4 “1 1y
vAVINE
ying.
the
'
hand with
rembling in
1
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every
1
n you si Know ih
1 1 } f 1 ¥
1 81 5 Ol is dead oa id
Ag me fr
oul
vurie
arales
iit Hil any
as
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Wi - ie
A slight ue
Mra, Rameaux
was pale as the whit
sroat. Pale? As she me
clear gaze of the haggard eyes, In»
ill intelligence had or
mingle wilh a nameless
or swept, m yanted, desp
rus, over
'
Ii
ryait
pain,
¥ 1 we
med, wit
ow and
a sullasing neck, br
chesks,
she took
Her
effort she
another step forward,
lip quivered. Oae despairing
made to master the emotion, then, like
tall, slender sapling that is felled to
the ground, dropped suddenly on her
and, as once before, buried
her face against the border of the col
It was y st in the room
a long interval, except for her sobs.
Then he touched her bent head,
She looked up, crying at
his face.
“Oh. I have hurt you! I
agitated you! [How ill you look!
“No.” eame the deep breathless
anawer. “You make me live!"
She dared not speak or move, holding
his hand in both of hers.
Then when the spasm had passed:
“Ig it true, dear?"
Again the beautiful eolor
sweeping over neck and brow.
“Oh, I never thought to
k nees,
deathly
iii
the sight of
have
's
came
love—~I
way again!’ she cried with a sobbing
“It is all so strange! Just
But when you fell
{ll—when you took the fever—the very |
“Hush, hush! Are you sorry the |
She had buried her face against
“I am weak-—to love you," she whis- |
pered low. i
But for all answer he drew her close,
“You have suffered,” he said simply.
i
—Spanish and Russian short jackets
of flounce lace are made up over surah,
the edges of the jacket formed of the
well-defined scallops of the lace, these
opening over plaited or shirred vests of
the silk, There are also cream-colored
sets of Irish point lace, which inciude
gilet cuffs and deep Charles IX collars,
ready for use at a moment's notice, and
always dressy and becoming. Also
maring collars with scarf ends attached,
in beaded nets and all the fancy white
and cream laces, to say nothing of
legions of beautiful devices in lace,
from the stately Medici fraise to the
simple ruche and frills of etamine net.
—Immensely big buttons—too large
to pass through a button: hole are used
simply decoratively, being sewed on
dresses that are ned with hooks
and eyes.
LOOK AT YOUR SOLES.
Different Styles of Shoes,
“New pair of shoes, eh! Well, I
guess you need them, and I’m not cer-
looks o’ these soles,” aud the speaker,
his left calf on his right knee, exposed
remarks, he
isn’t it, how many
in this country in a
the different et
stylishly-shaped shoe,
toe and
Continuing his
worn
year, and also
There you see a
tapering
. 1
Yih.
on the foot of some elegant gentleman
the
polished floor, keeping time to
latest waltz, polka or schottische.
I
the hard pavement, it leads yon
it in disgust at its unsteadiness
Lo one side,
walking on
pers, as it were) owing to the inebriated
condition of the wearer.
“There goes a coarse cowhide brogan,
a made
ho! 'twere intended to last forever. It
‘soled?
the up-
shoe as
ApPeEAr-
ance, and 18 §
{ {
iriena
. i
5 wth
pearance
labor of
mand 1
young ths
legged.
b ai K at
They are shoes thal
toes early days in near)
family in America. We don’
for certain whether babies are proud of
their first not. My observa.
L
rection
serve
#
Ol
shoes or
in this
cases Inclined me toward the
tive and i oward
I do know, however, that I
the little fellow does when he has
put on his little feet is to kick as hard
as can to see if he can
shake them ofl; not s10-
ceeding, he grasps one at a time with
his two dimpled fists and puts it into
his rose bud mouth how
tastes
“Now. here 1s a pair of shoes, a Ii
out of the ordinary they were
built for a hunting shoe, or boot, after
the idea of a young gent here in 1
They afford protection from cold, keep
out snow and water and brace lhe
“Then. here's the riding boot
that might tell many a thrilling story
were it imbued with lite and furnished
with a Lively tongue. It's a pretty
thing, isn’t it? And I tell you, to see
them filled with the calves of a good
looking young gent banging gracefully
tions di have in some
aflirma-
n others {
he
and
00 it
#41
wie
Hn
Lil,
OWI.
eg,
a boot
3
sore eyes,’
-
Milk Venders of the Canary Islands.
Another industry is that of milk ven-
ders, Goats's milk is used almost ex-
clusively. And instead of carrying the
milk about in gourds or in cans, the
goats themselves are driven into town
his servant inspecting the entire pro-
cess, This certainly prevents the milk-
man from entering into silent partner-
ship with the pump. Cows do not seem
to be used for milk, but are employed
very generally for draft, The yoke does
with us, but are fastened to the fore.
head just below the horns; so that the
cattle seem to bunt their load along
rather than to draw it. I understood
that the gain in this sort of harness 1s
that thereby thereby they secure the
strength of the neck as well as that of
the body. If they would hitch to the
top of the horns they might get the
strength of those too,
HP ———————
Crit Davie, of Harrodsburg, Ky ,
purchased recently a chestnut coupe
horse, b years old, sixteen hands high
and very stylish, for Geerge A. Sin-
FASHION NOTES
Wide, white IT reules braid, fringed
and knotted at the ends, forms the
gash belt falling low on the hips of
many frocks for girls of 12 to 15.
i-When the sacgue-form of frock 18
used for little girls it is now
med as to simulate a long, round
amd full skirt, with high hip draperies,
aria § ct
¥ ain
—Pea-jackets are provided for cool
and there are summer ulsters and
dust coats for traveling. Play suills
are made of thick twilled linen, and for
country use mothers will find a blouse
and kilt skirt of dark blue denims one
of the most useful items in the outiit,
— The new silk mulls have stripes of
mossy looking friese that are very pret-
combination with the thin foun-
dation fabric. Other goods of this sort
have stripes of satin open-work,
revering, Yet others ha
over-pattern resembling
nille, the heavy spots; where there is
appearance of kmots,
thick plush.
—Coats and kilts of chevl
nel, and also of thick brown
linen are shown for country
are jackets
of fine linen duck or cord pique: These
are worn with walsts fine
cambrie having plain or embroidered
ruffles at and wrists, a!
own the front. The kilt
underwaist,
a h
and
1HKe ve an
netted
« nade
being made
W
and
blouse of
the neck id also
£
to al f-fitling
bil HE over from
1 Yeu » 4
I Teaches oll)
r and tear
been
BO
i Fithin the
few te fallen
into disrepute, and that there is soine-
will be welcome
fell constrained
that
asl years Us qui
jabde
hose who
to wear it,
—Every-day suits for boys are made
of gingham, linen, blue apron check or
light flannels or suitings. They are in
one-piece suits for younger boys, and
in kilt suits for the next grade older.
The little dresses that the well-grown
boy at 2 or 24 years should wear are
made with a yoke, and either one box-
plait down the middle of the back or
eacn side of the middle, five box-plaits
both in front and at the back, or with
two in front and three in the back.
These may be real plats, or the ma-
i
i
i
i
i
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HORSE NOTHI3.
Sr -
A, J. Cassatt has purchased of
Colonel Doswell, of Virgina, the prouy
Mr. Douner's g. m. Russells, 6
years old, a full er of Maud 8, has
been bred to Startie, sire of M
Denver (Col.
f Bell
wed] the |
field for £10,000,
- Mr. D Iryea
(rould again
sorpewhere in
mile Lrack,
mare el
bietonian,
—)etrolit has
the 2.27 and 2.25
Cireult programme from $1000 to $1200
§
sum total
purses fot
classes on Lhe Grand
the of purses,
we ET LET TE
lard h
the
road e BE
resignen iv
as
residency \rK
recently
el ; Be 8 brother dhie lale
George 1. Lorillard.
—{. N. Payn’s blk. s. m ¥
of the
entries to the free-for-all novelty
race at Ion il
r, which did not 0
Harry Wilkes and
Phil
ol
Lie other entries,
% iry } {s
Monmouth :
AS hich he was
a8 One
+ »
heste
Annie
Laelie (Olid
Maud Mess
11
0 10
American
Darby
Jerome
Phil Th
Char
Occident 10 2 16%
it 3
~The Suburban handicap, which
was run at Sheepshead Bay on Thurs
jay, June 10th, resulted in an easy vic-
tory for 8. 8. Brown’s br. c. Trouba
dour, by Lisbon, dam Glenluine, his
time being 2.123. There were twenty
starters, This was the third running
of the Suburban, a sweepstakes for
3.year-olds and upward, at §100 each
half forfeit, $25 if declared bj
£2500 added, the
February 20, with
receive $5 #) of the added
Le
oniy
ing the waist cooler and lighter. The
ine, and the fullness below this point
makes the skirt. There may be a plain
hem only, or fhe hem and several tucks
it Some of these dresses are
double-breasted and have two rows of
buttons. Metal buttons or those of
vegelable Ivory are used on
goods, while pearl or bone buttons are
more appropriate for washable ma-
terials,
Flannel suits: should be kept in
suitable wearing condition throughout
ones should be dressed in them.
linen dresses does very well with ordi-
nary weather; but there is a chilly
that requires something for proper
protection. As soon as the boy, by
reason of years or size, has outgrown
his dresses, there are Kilt suits of serge,
flannel, camels’-hair or any of the light.
weight wool fabrics that are ordinarily
employed for boys’ wear. The skirts
are laid In deep plaits, often with a
single, very wide box plait in front and
narrower plaits around the rest of the
skirt. The coat can either be double
or single-breasted, and there may be
side or box-plaits or a vest, in the latter
case the sides of the coat being slightly
cut away at and below the waist-line.
There are no collars on any of the new
coats, the collar of the skirt waist upon
which the skirt 1a buttoned turning
over the neck of the coat, which is
bound or faced with braid or stitched
by machine. The cuffs of the shirt waist
reach the wrists and show a line of
white below the sleeves,
—Maud 8. is being trained to trot
without toe-weights,
the* third 10 per cent of the stakes.
Troubadour carried 115 pounds. Gen-
eral Monroe won the first Suburban
with 124 pounds up, in 2 11§, and Pon
tiac, last vear’s winner, made the
distance (1; miles; 2.004, earrying
102 pounds. Mr, Brown 18 said to have
won $42,600 on the victory of his horse
outside of the stakes, The new York
World of June 11, has this to say of the
race: “In racing circles, especially
since the Kentucky Derby was run, n¢
other event has been so discussed, ©
the eighty odd acceplances more than
dozen had been named as sare winners,
Twenty riders weighed in and the:
in
iid
showed that the public and the sporting
things’ absent were Exile and Pontiac
The latter had never been considered @
i
i
a splint, and had to be ‘scratched.’ Aa
to the twenty that did appear, ther
presented a magnificent spectacle
They got an even start, which was vir
tually a sure thing with the flag
‘onnor’s hands, They rap
a good race, and while the finish was
not as close or exciting as it was when
General Monroe just beat War Eagle
and Jack of Hearts, it was a good race
cleverly won by Troubadour, with
Richmond second. Away back in the
ruck were the blasted hopes of thou.
sands who had pinned their faith and
invested their money on Joe Cotton,
Favor, Ban Fox, Barnum, Lizzie
Dwyer and Springfield, all of which
had been named sure winners,
badour ran in the lead from start
to finish, and won very easily. He was
den by Fitzpatrick, who never
tain Brown,
must have been very gratifying
especially as he not only
stake, but raked in a
much of which was on at