Only a Dream
Only a dream, my darling,
A dream as false and fair!
How it shone in the blossoming flowers,
How it bret ed in the wooing air!
Tt woke with the rising morning,
It blushed 11 the sunset gleam;
It shed its ravliance on the way,
1t brightened the hours of every day,
And oh there was never a voice to say,
Only a dream!
Only a dream, my darling;
We were both in earnest, too,
Aud every word we whispered,
And every glance was true;
How could we know that promise
So rich and strong could seem,
Yet die as the fair frail lies die
When the east winds mock the April
aK y y
Only a dream!
Only a dream, my darling:
Aud vou are young and bright,
And iife has many a golden prize
Hung dazzling in your sight.
And I—1 have worked and duty
With their quiet moonlight beams;
Only just sometimes I pause and think
Of the cup that Love once gave to drink.
And the past and the future I try to link!
Only a dream!
A TURIN
TRAVELING COMPANIONS.
Mr. Aug
and down bh
ered smokl
wbsorbed in
stus Wetherby walked up
is apartment in an embroid-
LX -
re
stless thought.
dressing-mirror he bestowed upon it
rlance of critic
pow and th
miringly into his own eyes, and wit
elbows on a level
gracefully twist the
not t
Finally,
from the ta
perused it
lows:
PEAT
HA
sing satisfaction; and
3 1 Ch
with his shoulders, t«
)
waxed
ends of his
to cat
Cry
come
you
heire
5 8 i ¥
Yerdo if
He four
one
cConspicuo
her
adjoining
youl § Aa)
window
A flect
and eves
his coal
erby
apol etic
seal
The
prompt
and made 1 iim.
“hank you! I hope 1 am not n=
moding you,” said Mr, Wetherby, with
his most graceful and winning manner,
“Not at all.” she answered, raising a
pair of bright, frank, eyes to his face,
And then they sat for a few
silent as the train started.
The bievze, W
and dust came in strongly at
dow, and of
to
course M
her.
Then they naturally got to talking,
the young lwly manifested no shyness or
stiffness as Mr. Wetherby looked at her
smiling red lips and laughing eyes, and
noticed her easy, self-possessed manner,
he congratulated himself upon having
such a companion for the amusement of
his brief journey.
She was alone, t
him to assume a little
next
shaw!
Yj SE
in
Inoments
th its inevitable cinders
the win-
course the young lady tried
it. could not, and equally of
Wetherby offered to do it for
close
ou. which encouraged
“fave you far to go?” he inquired,
when hie had conveniently arranged his
satchel and umbrella at his feet,
“Would vou call it far to Princeton?”
ghe returned innocently.
journey would be so short.
J ancied, too, from an indefinable
sou. ing in her look and manner that
he hud “made a mash,”
would have significantly expressed it,
and with an inward gratification, set
himself to deepen the impression by his
most winning smiles, and elegant and
fastidious airs,
Besides his admiration of the young
lady, lie would hike to show the people
around him that he was somebody.
Just in front of him sat a pale deli-
cate looking lady, who was nervously
endeavoring to keep two little children
quiet, Their fidgeting and prattie
interfered with Mr. Wetherby's conver-
sation,
“Great nuisance, children on the
cars,” he observed, fastidiously, to his
fair companion,
“I don’t object to them. It is amu-
sing to observe their funny little ways,”
she replied good-humoredly,
“When thee are good and pretty: bus
children like these little scamps ought
| to have a special car provided—a sort of
cattle box n
| He ended abruptly, as the lady in
{ front turned her head, and, with a sud-
den flash. bestowed upon him a glance
of which only an outraged and insulted
mother is capable,
“(rood gracious! I hope—I did not in-
tend that she should hear me!’ said Mr,
Wetherby, ‘However, if people choose
to listen to private remarks, it makes no
difference.’
Then he laid back in Ins seat, and
while his fair companion looked from
the window, revenged himself making
faces at the baby, which was staring at
him the back of the seat and
making ineffectual attempts to grab
hold of his gold-headed cane,
The sweet infant at once stared in
round-eved wonder at the unaccustomed
| facial expressions; but as they became
| more ogre-like, its little moon-face
| worked, and it burst into a territied
| shriek which started half the sleepers in
| the car.
| “You will excuse my little son, sir,”
| said a behind Mr.
1
over
VOLICe
| performance W ith which vou have been
| kindly endeavoring to entertain him.”
And the tall, stalward gentleman
leaned forward and took the terrified
from its mother’s arms,
» have intruded ourselves
he
observed, as
“You will ba
he other e. and able
3
being lee-
&1
moment,
shawl and
posite
ple of
had
i
“Bleeding hearts and forget-me-nots,
He, Who would expect mu
sentiment In a old fellow like
that? But perhaps, after all, the slippers
o
wre a tender gift of a sweetheart
'
he! “0
)
rougn
sallow, smirking old maid, probably
3
in order to have her image perpetually
with him. No doubt he
asleep contemplating them, and is at
this moment lost in dreams of his loved
one.’
This flight of fancy
young lady that Mr,
present
so amused
Wetherby
brilliant remarks,
“There are initials on them, I see
(;.—Peter Grubbs, perhaps. The name
would correspond with his appearance
don't you agree w ith me?”
take so much interest in that old gentle-
| man and his affairs,” the young lady re-
turned, in a cool, quiet way, with her
| dark eyes looking full in his face, “For-
| tunately, I can gratify your curiosity.
His name is not Peter Grubbs, but Pey-
ton Gray--not very unlike, don’t you
think?"
“Whewhat!? gasped Mr, Wetherby,
staring—'‘not surely Mr. Peyton Gray
of Chesterton?”
“The same. I am his daughter Min-
na, and I must confess I worked those
absurd slippers when I was about ten
years old. They were my first attempt
at embrokdery, as anyone ca: see,
Father never wore them until lately,
when, bemg a little lame, he found
them convenient, Mother knit the
stockings: he will wear no others."
Mr, Wetherby pale and red by turns
listened in silence,
To add to his dismay, Mr, Gray, at
the end of his daughter's speech, quietly
turned his head and fixed his Keen gray
eyes upon him.
“Yes, young man,’ he
cooly, “I find both the slippers and
socks very comfortable—not but what I
should have been sorry to have lost one
of my boots.”
And without further notice he pro-
ceeded to don the latter articles of dress,
Mr. Wetherby sat in dazed silence
comfort himself with the thought that
it might be possible so to disguise him-
self not to be recognized by Mr, Gray
sent himself at Verdon,
|
with Golden, the
Breed.
“Is Mr. Golden, the Indian shot,
Interview
in?"
false name at present, and delay his visit
for some days?
But while he thus mused in dire con-
ing to him, said, blandly:
“Do you stop at Verdon, Mr. Weth-
erby?”’
“Eh
aw-—you take me for—'’
“For Mrs. Merrow's brother, of
course. She told me yesterday that she
expected youn. You see, father and I
have only run down this morning to
meet sister and her family, who were to
join us at Cousin Merrow's and all re-
turn home together, Let me introduce
you to my sister and my brother-in law,
Colonel Steele’ —turning to the tall gen-
“II shall be most happy when
ent 1
vali
the
must positively look after my
as I think we are approaching
station and will have only a minute
iting.’
valise?
NE
sent. You see”
‘we could all
that is how
Here it is under the
i
with a charming
read the n
we came Lo
our
ne on
know
smile
it, and
who vou were,
The next station was
1eve rthele NS, Mi: Wethe
alighted there,
homeward,
not
rhy,
baggage,
next tram
To the iries of a fri
l 11s
i
had confidentially
-o-
The First Baby.
vin '
know
and screams 80,"
and
| 3 wel + 4
We RIWHYS when he has
He wrig
op
"ha
but he might Wrigg
i Wi les
“Yes,
scream for something else,
“1 never thought o
Home little foot seems
“Rub it.”
“1 wonder if the jolting of
makes him sick?’
“We're sitting right
ought to have
that.
¥ xe
cold,
the car
wheels
1
%
i
over the
taken seats in the
“I do hope he’s welll Maybe a tin}
speck of belladonna would soothe him, ”’
So it was to the end of the journey,
i
i
i
{
i
“Yes, sir, he's in,” the ser-
vant who answered
“Walk in.”
After waiting for awhile in the par-
lor, Mr. Golden made his
the exchange of a few
replied
the
conventional
tion ensued:
“Mr, Golden, where were you born?’,
“In Austin, Texas. When I
the Indian Territory, where 1 lived for
nine or ten years, when I came East,
and have since then spent most
time in this part of the country.”
“Who were your parents?”
was my father, and my mother was a
Scotch woman, For eight or nine year
I was a chief of the Black-Foot trilx
and California.”
“What name did you go 1
go 1 when
Jackasses in this Crowd
A group of lawvers were discussing
the late war;
“I was at Shiloh,’ said “and
while standing under a smoky sky in
a storm of leaden hail beheld the noble
Albert Sidney Johnson fight and fall
upon the blood-red altar of his coun-
try."
“And 1,” said another,’
Wilderness when the very
with the fire of battle, and the myriad
one,
»
was at the
of the brave, I, too, fought, bled and
died for my country.’
“And 1,” said a third, “stood in the
fire's front at Gettysburg, when the wild
rebel yell mingled strangely with the
shriek of the deadly shell that plowed
the patriot ranks, I, too, fought, bled
and died for my country.”
“And I. gentlemen,” said a lank,
seedy, solemn man, with a faded um-
brella under his arm, “I was at Jones-
boro when shot and shell sped swiftly
by in the wagon train and all seemed
lost, But I, too, was a patriot, and
while I neither fought nor died, I bled
for my country=1I bled the army mules,
Gentlemen, ama horse doctor; are
there any jackasses in this crowd?”
———-—-———
For drunkenness, drink cold water;
for health, rise early; to be happy, be
honest; to please all, mind your own
hiainaea
“1 was called Dead-Shot
Harry, That was the name my
me?
“How long
ctv?’
“* About eigl
“Were you
“Ya
VOArs
Bigelow’
remember
Wi
Methodist
$1 the
ght's the
to
4
the
intend
in
Street
Good Templars,”
“What are
hands?’
“Oh,
those SCArs on your
those came from having my
and thumbs tied up when with
If I took off my clothes I
you some scars my
would make vour eyes stick
the Indians.
could show on
out.”
“1 wish
paper, please,
state In your
(volden just as
vou would
** said Mr.
there is some fellow in Washington who
goes around and pretends that he is
Texas Harry, but he isn’t, and was
and raised in this part the
country.”
Mr. Golden is forty-one years old,
weighs 181 pounds, and is five feet
In general appear.
§
ol
He
His wife is a frail little creature and
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Law Laid Down With a Revolver.
In a flourishing mining camp known
as Cimpp’s Flat, Sierra county, thirty
years ago, the locationof the claims and
the mining laws adopted thereunder were
such that one continuous war of litiga-
tion was the result, Two mining com-
panions having conflicting claims, seeing
the almost impossibility of settling their
disputes by a resort to the District Court,
mutually agreed to try their case before
a Justice of the Peace and a jury of
twelve miners selected from those have
ing river claims on the Middle Yuba,
A. 8, McMillan, of Minnesota,
banking and express agent of Langton's
express and banking house at Downie.
ville, had been elected Justice of the
Peace for the township, including Min-
nesota and Chipp's Flat, in 1853, So ib
was that he should and
the total came off early in the vear JAM
Inorder thats
roo should be had for the parties
gant and their friends the billiard
Yiti
ti
ing at Snow
just a little
cho 11 4S
of Minnesota.) was
the most spacious building
The trial commenced
east
Both of
in
the
other
of
vie with the
during the progress
each seemed to
trial,
each side to conduct the case, and it
in-
of their respective clients, At all events,
+}
C00,
ved,
st ioe
in the
law: but if there was one thing in which
when refreshments would be ser
Honor,” while
Anything more
pre-
fa-
ire.
a case,
h
perceptible
than
tlie
and 1iskey
effect on the presiding on
onnected with CASE.
had
avi tv
Hiy
pa
Ls Hie i
Iie Ail aro ind,
ul als in tl
been freely
iy
Lo
ar-
nine, Heal-
USAIOs Ol
tit Me
} 1
ie
and t
rangements ;
tO Wh
toattiia boss AY
LOTNAVOES aly
nly spread out
in shallow
stn to dry.
dry, it is br
put into boxes ol
ket, A large
but :
we do Wu
Renu
to mar-
is used for
:
is emploved as
in tun
for a few
soups
A CONN i
ymatoes when preserved
or other cans is
hours in warm water, and
in the ordinary manner. There is a
great prejudice against canned tomatoes,
many being The acid
juice which they contain unites with the
solder of the tin cans and forms a dis
1.1 Ly
agreeable compound,
soaked
unwholesome,
=
The Work of Cameo vUatters.
When a cameo cutter is ready for
he intends to produce in the
He then follows the outlines
white parts outside,
in his hand and proceeds to work upon
chine table, and by a treadle works a
small lathe situated at his right,
his left is a frame filled with drills made
of steel wire and of all varieties and
shapes.
The ends of the drills are covered
with diamond dust ground in olive oil
The dust is obtained by crashing uncut
small steel mortar,
The cutter has placed before him a
picture or a model of the subject to be
made. Everything then depends upon
the correctness of his eye and his artis
tic instincts, The work is inexprossably
slow, but when completed it is mar
vellously perfect.
ss MAI
Truth, being founded on a rock, you
may boldly dig to see its foundation; but
built on the if
proceed to examine its 4
ou
: ita fall
vA ARNE
MODERN DBDALD-HEADS,
A Wig-Maker Thinks That
Louis X1V. Style Will Soon
Come Into Vogue,
the
«1 men don’t wis
vy once did years ago,’ sadly
maker to a reporter “ecently.
“They don’t to care if they
show a sleek, clean plats « EDA ially the
married men and confirmed old
elors. They upon the
hair as a badge of intelligence or CoOni-
arity, May are
profession doesn’t think
Onur principal customers a actors
and women. The latter stand
the slightest trace of baldness, and are
willing to pay well for a fine Many
Wear w but they
Weunr
seen do
bach-
look absence of
¢
be they
BO, re
cannot
wer
Wigl.
WOMEN in SsoCiely oe,
that
to the natural har detection is
improbable. Human hair is cheaper
and in wore demand than formerly,
hence there 18 no necessity for anybody
going through life id deal
the United and
after an experience of tort years I
opler thes vw ago for
Negroes, were the
baldheaded. |
in all parts of Slates,
five
received an
two wigs fon
first of that Kin
They ed then cur
“Fashion repeats
pre W101 18 that
the powder: d
come
i viz] wit
¥ Hi Wa
kr ts 13 § 2
Wan i
ir
m-
next decade
x 1
will
style
wig
into yogue,
those days. The head was the center 10
a cavalier macs
The Moss Industry.
industries of
least
New
Orleans receives annually about 20,000
at say $175,000. Of these
12.000 bales are rehandled
by the cit and the remainder
is sold or shipped in the condition in
which it landed, The forests and
swamps of Louisiana are stocked with
an unlimited supply of the fibre. That
procured from the live oak tree is the
better quality. The gatherers of green
moss heap it up on piles, wet 1 and
weigh it down with earth or logs, and
the heat generated by the decaying bark
surrounding the fibre hastens the pro-
curing, and in two or three
months, according to varying Seasons,
the decomposition is complete, The
moss is then turned out and dried,
cleaned by hand of sticks and dirt, and
baled and shipped. Live-oak moss 80
commands
readily four cents per pound. In passing
the moss through the gins there is a loss
18 not tie
resting m important
bales, valued
receipts some
V 1108S gins,
18
as clean and glossy as the finest and
The moss is turned out
from the gin in neat looking bales, bran-
orders all over the country. Its price
is not as high as it was a few years ago,
various cheap substitutes having been
brought 1m competition with it,
The new comet just announced by
Prof. Brooks makes the ninth that he
has discovered during the past five
years, It is the third comet discovered
this year, and with the last one an-
nounced in 1885, m kes four comets in
succession detected by this one obser
ver. The two most recent discoveries
of Prof. Brooks were made within four
each other, and were visible at
time as the one found earlier