A Maidea’s Dreams,
No foot-fall wakens the mansion
Asleep in the sun’s warm rays,
The Lady Clare is aweary
Of silence and lonely days,
Love's magic of late has stolen
The charm from her life's still ways.
She turns from her book, and rises,
To gaze from the casement low,
The languorous lily perfumes
Towards her on soft airs blow—
White lilies! Ah, once she loved them,
She gathers red roses now.
Dh, when will the noon be sunset,
And over the green hillside,
And up through the beechen shadows
The lover she looks for, ride?
And when will this life be ended,
And bring the bright life untried?
While thus she waits in impatience,
Naught guesseth the Lady Clare,
Chat sweet as ave love's red roses,
Fu'l often a thorn they bear,
And the new life that seems so joyous
May bring with it weight of care.
Perhaps in the years that follow,
W hen cares press heavily,
And the thorns bkave pierced through the
TOses
Then,
’
all her dreamings will be
sweet life "mid the lilies,
In maidenhood blithe and free.
EL RTE TIS
BEWARE OF WIDOWS.
16 ¢ »
It was a typical winter day. :
ywdery snow was falling, and a fringe
icicles adorned the steep gables of
roadside rattled and shook
along the
But in spite of the cheerless prospect,
Malvern Travers whistled cheerily to
as he breasted the driving wind
{ made his way through the dry,
t 1g snow towards his home.
under her door to-night,’
ng to himself, with a smile
Here his meditations were interrupted
by the sudden opening of the door as
he reached the threshold, and by a
sharp voice exclaiming:
“Hurry up, for pity’s sake, Malvern,
and don’t be a-letting the snow into the
house.”
And Malvern obediently hurried
a3 he answered with a smile:
“No danger of that, Priscilla,
There's not a snow mountain.”
*Theie’s nigh it,
in
mighty then,
sister-in-law,
to mind atramping over to
s in such a storm, and all
‘ll be bound.
turned Malvern meekiy.
. ted Mrs, Pri
cepire in
viele 6 fablichment
N-iaW 8 eslaolisiimen
with wis-
I moderation.
as there i8 no witl
ro. Mrs, Priscllia’s really execs
jualities were rather dimmed by
possession of a sharp tongue.
“I told the truth,’’ smiled Malvern to
if as he sought
rtment. “She didn’t
birthday card, so of
wasn't obliged to tell.”
And carefully takingalarge, square
envelope from his overcoat picket, he
drew out the card and examined
carefully.
It was a
AL
? border
rose
ask if 1
it
iv
very pretty card,
surrounding a
ots and orange-blossoms,
SFE t «IAT
iOorgel-me-n
represented
onately.
side was a
ings, as billing
ing affecti :
16 reverse simple
oak tree clings the vine,
» heart will cling to thine,”
le was not a very appropri-
ate one: but Malvern’s eyes it was
the pink of excellence.
He was a very bastiful man—so bash-
ful in fact, that he passed
tietl
This fact was a thorn in the side of
bis sister-in.law, and many and sharp
in
in
bim on the subject; but alas! with no
avail,
and gone intoa battle without a tremor;
but when it came to make love to a
pretty girl, his heart and nerves both
failed him. And yet Malvern—poor
fellow—wuzs in love.
He had of late mustered up sufficient
zourage to escort Electra Feversham
and her stepmother (a widow) to
church, and to a picnic or skating par-
Ly or other merrymaking on several oc-
zasions.
slder lady than to the daughter, and,
town had begun to connect his name
with that of Mrs. Ignatia Feversham,
much to their own amusement,
Now Electra was the prettiest giri in
the village, with her sloe-black eyes,
and cheeks that matched the scarlet
shrysanthemums she wore in her nut-
brown hair, while her stepmother was
4 showy and not an uncomely woman,
with a sharp eye to the main chance,
and no decided objections to adopting
some other name In the place of Fever-
shaw,
Malvern Travers, though bashful,
was not wanting in decision, and he
bad recently determined that if he
sould only be reasonably well assured
‘hat Electra would not refuse him, he
would manage to ‘“make her an offer”
in some fashion.
w *
- » -
It was the morning before Electra's
virthday, and Electra was baking hard
in the kitchen.
Her stepmother believed in early
breakfasts, and Electra was up before
daylight on the short winter mornings.
The savory odor of broiled ham greet.
sd Mrs. Feversham as she came briskly
licking down stairs, a plaid breakfast
shawl bugged tightly around her
- shoulders.
“Ahem! is that snow sifted under the
door?" she asked herself, as she reached
she bottom step.
A closer mspection assured her it
was not.
“Why, it's—it’s a birthday card.”
And hastily seizing the missive she
‘stepped into the parlor to examine it
privately. .
“For Electral Well, I declare! Who's
it from I wonder? There's no harm in
spening a birthday card, so I'll just se
«what it 1s,"
and carefully orying open the en-
5
; 3
velope, Mrs, Feversham beheld a taste-
fully-decorated sheet of rice-paper, on
the inner side of which were some
written words, which she proceeded to
read:
“Miss ErnecrrA.—I shall pass your
home at sunrise to-morrow morning; it
is your birthday. If I see your face at
the window, 1 shall take it as a sign
that you are willing to accept my card.
Yours sincerely,
MAanvERN TRAVERS,”
“Ob, indeed!” Mrs. Ignatia grew
red in the face as she comprehended the
purport of the words, **So it is her he’s
been coming to see, hey? 1’ll have a
finger in that pe, Mr. Malvern Tra-
vers! I’! take charge of this document
myself. And it won’t be Electra’s face
you'll see at sunrisel’’
And carefully secreting the paper,
she hurried out to the warm dining-
room and the waiting breakfast,
An hour or two later, Mrs, Fever-
sham, arrayed in her second-best
things, appeared in the kitchen, where
Electra was mopping the floor,
“I'm going over to see old Mrs, Dim-
ity. I heard she was ill,”’ she
nounced. “Aud I shan’t be back to
dinner, so you needn’t mind cooking
any. There's enough left over fron
breakfast for you.”
And Electra made no comments,
| having better discretion than to ques-
| sav or do.
i It was a short time after the dinner-
| hour when M:8. Feversham returned.
“The old weman's pretty ill, an’ I
promised that
stay all night, an’ set up, if need be,”
she informed her daughter.
| walk easily enough, for the snow ain’t
| very deep,”
if she had, as her will was seldom con-
sulted,
and a little grandson in a small bat
cozy cottage situated in the very heart
of the woodland,
She welcomed Electra cordially, but
| disclaimed the need of having any one
{ to sit up with her.
{ “But I’m glad to have some one to
| talk she added, ‘and to look after
{ things a little.’
itiie
« apt ee ”
iecLra an
to,
1 Mrs, Dimity chatted for
ile, when the old lady fell asleep
time her lit
from
18
'
boy Sammy
in ths
| and after a
came back
| woods,”
“Look a-here,"’
found in a tree,’
And drawing a crumple
| his pocket. he laid if
**Miss Electra Feversh
Why, it was her own
natural exc
content
ay card from
tra's cheeks
written words.
t how could it have got int
she wondered,
Sammy could throw
0x
al cursion
Jectra’
am, ”?
name!
fare
a1
RELI
FF 4) 11% eye
8 Ol Lhe enveiops
tv Yoarss T°
Malvern Tra-
burned as
light
pt that he had climbed
tree after a squirrel and put
hand into a hollow of ti trunk,
| found the paper.
*And now I shall not be
| dow to see him!’ thought
y
no on
tt: Bid ant ¥
S0UJeCL, il
$ 3
ng
ie
at +1 x
at the win
: >
WOUEn i
nd:
“Could she
| purpose?’
{ And suddenly the truth flashed over
| her—her stepmother had discovered the
card and secreted it!
Electra felt a thrill of indignation at
ithe thought.
“It must be 50," she declared.
I will let him know somehow,’
It was growing late, and Electra was
getting supper little kitchen,
when the other boy, Tom, came stamp-
inz the snow from his feet,
| He was not alone, for Electra could
: hear him talking in loud, good-humor-
| ed tones,
Presently the kitchen door was flnng
wide open, and Tom was saying:
{ “Walk in, Malvern, and get a good
warm fore you go.”
| Then to Electra he said:
“Here's some chicken-jelly an’ elder
berry wine, Malvern has brought to
mother; his sister sent ‘em. I'll just
i turn ‘em over to you; fur I'm in a
{ hurry. Stay to supper, Malvern,’
{ And away he rushed.
| But Malvern did not stay to supper.
| He stayed long enough, however, to
learn that Electra intended to remain
| all night, and tbat she would have to
walk home in the morning.
“Let me come and take you home in
| the trap,’’ he urged.
And Electra consented.
Mrs. Feversham looked vainly from
her window at sunrise the next morn-
ing. No living creature appeared, But
a couple of hours latter she was more
have been sent away on
“But
t+
in i 0
daughter and Mr, Malvern
driving leisurely up to the house,
“Well, I declare!” she began angrily,
when the latter had driven away.
tercepted card, and exhibited !t to her
astonished stepmother, who thereupon
concluded it would be wisest to hold
her peace.
Truly, the ways of Cupid are past all
assisting the course of true love to run
in a smooth channel.
Ao i,
Provided They Got Up Safely.
Some years ago a party of Cambridge
philosophers undertook, for a scientific
object, to penetrate into the vasty
depths of a Cornish mine. Professor
Farash, who made one of the number,
used to relate with infinite gusto the
following startling incident of his visit.
On his ascent in the ordinary manner,
by means of a bucket, and with a miner
for a fellow -passenger, he perceived, as
he thought, certain unmistakable symp-
toms of frailty in the rope. “How
often do you change your ropes, my
good man?” he inquired, when about
way up from the bottom of the
awful abyss. “We them every
three months, sir,” 1ed the man in
the bucket; “and we 1 this
one to-morrow, if we get up safe.”
~Joe Davis, 2,171, has been sold for
$6000 to Charles Burroughs, a wealth
‘resident of on 0. J
Stage Robbing.
Two stage robbers in jail at Madara,
on the road,
coach last fall and relieved the
gers of their valuables, Joth
they ever participated in, but under the
influence of free cigars they confessed
that they had certain friends and ac-
as road agends, some of them on the
Yosemite trail,
“For a man who wants a real good
business and an easy sort of a life.”
said Tolman Terhune, one of the pri-
| work on the Yosemite route. Living
| is comparatively cheap and good in that
vicinity, and stages are just plenty
enough-—not too plenty, but just enough.
You don’t want to tackle every
that comes along, for that would spoil
i the whole thing,
the recollection of
of mind
spring on them.
‘hold-up’ hasn’t occurred
§
i
at all. You must let
you another
EL)
B
careless and passengers take
risks.
“My observations
here sn’
{ world that the m
| more than a road
Oi] i Pp
1 1 TE a
Mek IL You
be too et
a stage
to San Fran
enioy voursel Ming!
ii gr Of. « Ti Nn
like it ome oui and
&
seek
take
crack.
“Well,
I mean
knew a {
nl
my
rood deal
left the stag:
friend left
more than he
fore, and I have heard that h
i by it extent, At Ali
made fewer hauls, but they were bigger,
less wear and
Wii
wien
10 some
tear.
‘Now, there is no danger in
Did you ever hear of a stag
I never did and I
thirty
stopping
a coach, 0
robber being killed?
have been on the coast for
Nobody kills a road agent. In the first
place the passengers are too scared, and
in the next they are soalmighty anxious
i to have the thing over with that
ng
with the demands made upon them.
ig as safe a business as vreaching, and
safer than preaching in some towns that
I know of. 1 have heard an acquaint-
ance of mine, who operated in the north-
i ern part of Oregon, spy time and again
that some of the gentlemen whom he
| invited to shell out made him feel
! ashamed of himself by giging up things
| that he would never have thought
asking for. One man, 1 remember, he
told me about in particular, He was
standing in the row with his hands up
VEATS,
i my friend came up to him and pulled
| out of his vest pocket a little wad
others, told the robber he had
iped on behind. Well,
| friend had to get that money, and
that took time, but he found it
right where the feHow told him it was,
He would a good deal rather gone on
without overhauling the trunk, but
since the man told him that there was
money in it. he would never have
rested easy after that if he had not
got it,
1 know dozens of just such exper-
fences. I had a cousin operating on
the Yosemite road, over near where I
was rounded up, who took more plea
sure in the business than any man I
ever heard of. He enjoyed the fun of
the thing, and he often used to say to
me that, as between robbing a stage
and going to a minstrel show, he
wont take the former every time,
Now that, you sce, was because there
was absolutely no danger in it. He
was an experienced man, and knew that
the thing was safe. I honestly believe
that if, when he was going through a
stage load, somebody had fired off a
gun, he would have fainted away, not
so much from fright as from surprise,
“My cousin was considered a very good
man in his day. He had an air of au-
thority about him and a voice that could
be heard a mile in the mountain air,
When he said ‘Hands up!’ hands went
up, and no driver ever dared move a
peg when he heard him remonstrating.,
Yet he was downed once, and by a wo-
man, too, Ile stopped a stage load of
people from New England, and there
was a schoolma’am in the crowd who
wore spectacles and was a good deal
more angular than any of the women
they raise out here. When he ordered
‘hands up’ he didn’t notice that she re-
fused to obey, because she was down at
the footof the line, and he didn’t pay
much attention to heranyway. Ashepro-
she was a slender old girl.
he came to
ig all his | ints
he yelled, ‘Hands up” Well,
her hands up. had
Cape Cod umbrellas,
a8 big as ye
nd y ¢]
LIA
So he sai
il her, ’
throwi WIwer
~ho
ib
alsed her ha i
da with the grip of death, ane
my cousin's
2. 3.4
r doub
fire
id for the
a
than
Tougher Pie Crust
1
Sawyer ]
pie-paste into
} there came a
Sawyer
it
anil GOUEN,
dhor.,
swered it, rolling-pin in hand.
Willie Jones who had knocked
Mrs. Sawyer,”
“pa would like a piece
the
The
ail
was
the in-
of
‘Pleas . said
nocent child,
your pie-crust.”’
“Certainly, Willie,”
flattered, “but it
said Mrs, Jones,
nuch isn't baked
yet,”
“He doesn't want it baked.”
‘But he can’t eat raw pie-crust.”’
‘He isn’t going to eat it."”’
“Then what is he going
i199
“He said he wanted to mend the har-
ness, and make hinges for the barn door
with it’ and 4
The rolling-pin hung fire, and (he boy
to do
houses of Jones and Sawver can never
be broken.
A Young Hungarian Girl's Debut.
Eighteen years ago there appeared for
the first time onthe stage of the great Berg
theatre in Vienna--a theatre which is to
Germany what the Comedie Francaise
is to France—a young girl of not more
than 15 years of age, the daughter of
humble parents. For a moment the
audience sat spellbound at the charm-
ing, blushing picture before it, and then,
before the debutante had spoken one
plause., That night Vienna had a new
sensation, The people at the clubs,
cafes and society were wild,
Next morning the young Hungarian
eirl woke to find herself famous as Jan-
ish, the favorite ingenue of the Austrian
Adored by the
public, and with men of the highest dis-
tinction in the world at her feet, it
would have been extraordinary if a wo-
man, even so wonderfully gifted as Jan
ish, had lost her head; but by a rare
chance fate willed it otherwise, and the
great actress, to see whom crowds flock-
in private life the same gentle, unassum-
ing, modest girl that she had been
when she accompanied her aged grand.
mother to early mass each morning.
FASHION NOTES.
~The most fashionable combination
of color in millinery is hellotrope and
mMoss-green,
~Charming gowns for brides have
trained skifts trimmed with flounces of
white embroidered silk, mtermingled
with shell plaitings of white satin edged
with Valenciennes lace.
for a young girl is of pale lavender
gray faille 4’ Alsace shot with maize.
The back drapery is lined with maize
satin, Straw hat, trimmed with yel-
low roses and foliage,
- Another has a skirt of embroidered
nainsook, bodice and tunic of
sash and bows
den hat of embroidered nainsook with
red bow,
— Coronet
| favor.
| that are quite pretty are shown.
bonnets
ends, aie arranged 1n this way, and jet
| others,
| shoes of white satin with the
| white satin stitch, the designs outlined
| with pearls. The long und: wl kid
| gloves are decorated with an embroid-
| ery to correspond,
-— White Milan straw bonnets s
trimmed with clusters
| cream white
{ high monture upon the front
bonnet with narrow satin |
match, will form one «
Par exceller
mply
palé mauve
y place i
of
» 1
yO flowers
strings to
for dressy wear this summer.
is of
~A walking-dress
dnnamon and
«ged with a pk
crepe; 1
crepe, 1
bows
CTeani
'
colored en
HIAsSLIC
green checked
siting of green Sci
odice and tunic of Sc
immed with green velvet
ribbon velvet; chemise
oI
Of
I
i hat
ial
Inusiin,
ibroideread
of green velvet.
ati ze
gauze,
~ Very stylish and becoming j
are made of light-weight
Of exira |
inetle, very s«
it and |
1 with
and
ine 4 y
COIOT, Line
brown velve
of medium-
#
i
ANA
™ i sr tie ab i
i118 Jersey 18 sO0TL Of
ih .
Lid® TEeVers on
y velvet
coat back,
faced with
wered with t
aited
d with a
it and fal
sides
HOW Of
are
are aided,
n the back and
s{tiest hats are decidedly
X11, trimmed with bows of
and a yellow bird
be whole of the
ruhan, jets,
Sometimes
crown and trimao
point
4
d’esprit t
In both cases they are very be-
The Spanisl t iS NOW cov
ana cro pampiiies
3) 1 1 @ 1 1
Un the is piaced
y fine Chanti!
lace; ist of which are placed
black,
unr jd
with
side
ls % f § ¢
large bow of exceeding!
in the mast
pale pink and crushed tea roses,
—Still another is of striped and plain
woolen goods, The false skirt 15 cov-
ered jwith a striped one, over which
a drapery of the plain material, which
is long and draped high on the sides
and trimmed on the right side with
braid. The back drapery is trimmed
the same. The corsage is Breton style,
and opens in front over a vest which is
traversed with braid, the deep collar
being trimmed with same. The back
of the jacket opens at each seam over
plaits ornamented with brald, The
| straight collar and sleeves are also trim-
med the same, iat of straw, snuff
color, trimmed with velvet, ribbon bow
and aigrette,
e, i8
—Some of the new wraps are chiefly
original as regards the sleeves, a ten.
dency toward the wider shapes being
observable. Some are made with the
| pagoda sleeves hanging loose from
{the arm, and displaying bright col-
ored surah linings under the net or
canvas materials which form the
sleeves themselves,
French tea~-gowns are shown
these sleeves, which bave a certain
grace but are by no means utilitarian,
but act rather asa hinderance to ex.
| with the delicate egg-shell China and
| soap-bubble glassware which go to
{ make up the dainty adornings of my
| lady's “Ligh-tea’” table.
— Young girls’ costumes are usually
made up of the soft wool fabrics that
are now so numerous and beautiful in
Gesign and coloring. Nun's veiling seems
to be the favorite material, however. A
very pretty dress for a miss is of cream-
colored veiling and blue figured velvet,
The skirt is ornamented at the bottom
| with three rows of the velvet in dimin-
| ishing sizes, and is rounded and closed
{in on one side under a small panel of
| figured velvet, and a fine plating is
| placed at the bottom. The back drap-
| ery is long and without trimming. The
| corsage is new in design and very styl-
ish. It is open in front, showing a
| small chemisette of surah bordered
| with figured velvet collar, and the
| fronts are laced with a silk cord, form-
| ing a knot on the right side.
-DBodices continue to be as varied
| in style as during the season past, and
| each particular shape is designed for
especial wear, For instance, the trim
jacket-bodices are seen upon utility cos.
tumes, the pointed corsage very high
on the hips, very long and pointed
front and back, and cut either square
or half-low in the neck, is used in full
dress toilets, and for demi-toilets are
cutaway bodices, with Continental or
Fedora vest, round waist, with
belts and ribbon attachments;
habit-bodices
HORSE NOTES,
~There are over ove hundred 2.30
stallions living.
~8t, Jullen is running out without
shoes in California.
~Mcleod is being driven on
road now by his young owner.
Harry Wilkes will start in the free-
the
~The mateh-race for $500 between
Lizzie R. and Edwin A. is off.
~Jack Phillips 18 said to have]
money on Felix at Island Park.
ost
~ Ben Woodmansee has returned to
John Burgess, of East Orange, N,
Joy.
—The North Hudson Driving Course
dates for a meeting have been changed
to Beplember 8 to 10, :
4 1 :
—Ben Ali has been on the ailing list
for several days, and it is doubtful if he
faces the flag again for weeks,
—Charley Foster and Judge I
pacers, will have a match
$2000 at Cleveland during
"5 nch,
race
the
~The Dwyer
twenty races and
BORBON.
have
: 15,795 so far
Ed Corrigan
won
this
has won thirty-
three races and $7
ar
~3r, A
ialely In
on purct
gtylish
inches high, and
three
iased
Years
better than
he shot
by (101
are,
1.4
itd,
y, where
showed a mile In
L time of asking,
There is talk of
lante and Trou
0. before Jt
between
» run at
118 match
a match
made there
Face,
8 Wosdford
takes
s31cd
ia
race over again.
the Dwyers surrend
stakes rather
y mare to anoth
hea mn
he mud.
subject. A
upposed to
ite parts; hence
uring it Dr.
. STous
analogy
i, which develop
or of vegetable
s; and the
long y entertained that
tht Le regarded as an inde-
pendent growth of corresponding nature
does nol now appear so extravagant as
{ was at time considered. There
can be | doubt that a cancerous
tumor of any size may be developed
from a single cell, and it 18 probable
that the origin of such growths in parts
distant from their primary centre, is to
be traced to the conveyance of cancer
celis, or of their germs by the circu-
lating current; so that it seems very dif-
ficult to draw a line which will separ-
ate such independent growihs on the
one hand from the ordinary tissues
of the body, and on the other hand
from structures really arasitic. It
is interesting to remark (hat blood
vessels cannot be traced in these pro-
ductions at an early period of their
formation, but that they make their
appearance, as in the normal develop-
ment of the tissues, at a later date"
In the horse it is considered to be an
abnormal development of the ordinary
tissues of the fool: for were it other
wise it could never be cured. If, how-
ever, it appear in other parts of
the body, which is a rare occurrence,
cance
remarkable
vith the parasitic fung
themselves in the
animal stroctuore
Age
re
s
one
ttipn
It
A common
antecedent of canker is thrush; its seat
In such animals there seems to
favorable
to the production of canker, which, ou
the occurrence of a simple injury to the
foot by the accidental introduction of @
nail, or from any other existing cause,
is immediately followed by an extra
ordinary morbid growth.
Treatment—Our first business is tc
remove the shoe and cleanse the fool
with a weak solution of chloride of
soda; the principal part or the morbid
growth is then to be dissected off
If any hemorr » follows 1t can be ar
rested with pl ts of lint, saturated
with tincture of muriate of iron, or any
other styptic; next, sprinkle the whole
surface with powdered bloodroot—san-
guinaria canadensis-~then apply adress
ng of strong pyroligneous acid, and by
means of pledgets and bandages keep &
continued pressure on the parts. The
foot must must be dressed in this man.
ner for several days, occasionally wash.
ing it with a solution of alum, sulphate