l-Starred. Oh! prayers and sympathetic tears For each and every ill-starred knight, For whom ring no vicigrious cheers; For those who, earlgin the fight, Saw daylight turning into night And yielded up to Fate their spears, The dented shields, the pierced cuirass, Sad story is it thatthey tell of brave young knights whose hopes, alas! Bore meagre fruit, who fightiag fell Before the foes they could not quell; Who found no wine within the glass. For some there are but ill-equip To face the world; Bt IO OPed iil And some faint-hearted, feeble-lipped, Mt but the lowest ts to fill, Soon shivering with the coward’s chill, And of the armor “courage’’ stripped. Oh ye 'gainst whom the fates are set, E'en though you've falled on every field To gain fair honor's banueret, Let high above be held each shield, Each one with purpose strong annealed, Aud each shall win a victory yes. SILLA. “My friend,” said Notary Roudelot, “leave with me the title-deeds to your property ; empower me to sell, or rent— #8 may best subserve your interests the farm at Graud Champ and the saw mill at Rocheres—Nothing could be better; such transactions come within my province. Since your wandering life as a soldior will not allow you often to occupy the chateau at Bregues— whence you take your name—I accept your generous offer, and will pass the summer season there with my family. But to take charge of your personal property—to sell, or buy, or simply uables and collect the interest—no!”’ “*But, my dear guardian, what the deuce would you have me do with this heap of papers? I certainly can’t lug them along with me to Algiers, and carry about with me securities repre- senting an income of 40,000 francs in my regulation-canteens?"’ “Well, baby, you can leave them on deposit with some broker, or, better yet, with some good banking house— my son-in-law Merillion’s for instance.” “Not a bad idea. Well, that's set- tled! Make them up into a package and let me cram them into my saddle- bags—I must be off,” “So soon? Cant you breakfast with us?” “Thanks, no! I sent my trunk to the station this morning, as I want to go over again on foot the charming road from here to Epinal, so full of memories of my childhood and youth. The driver of the public coach was to notify La Misquette to prepare a breakfast for Charles and me—for you know I am running away with your nephew" | “Very well.” The notary called his wife and his second daughter, Marie, a young girl of twelve, who soon appeared. { Mme, Roudelet, who had been the | bosom friend of the young man's mother, shed "tears as she beld him | took leave of his ward, felt a drop of | moisture trickle down to the end of bis nose. three leagues yet to make before reach- ing the station at Epinal, where he was to take the train for I’ This, for a lieutenant of the zouaves, was mere child’s play. He arrived ten minutes too soon, and was just getting his baggage registered when he turned pale and exclaimed: “My saddle-bags? 1'must have left them at La Misquette,”’ The train was in the station, and the guard was calling out: “Those going to Paris and way sta- tions, en voiture!” De Bregues was standing like one petrified, when he heard a faint, breath- less voice, saying: “M’ssou! Mssoul" He turned around. It was the smallest of the two glpsy girls, bathed in perspiration, her little bare feet cov- ered with blood, her face distigured by scratches, the saddle-bags hung over her shoulders and held up from the ground so that she should not fall. herself from the strap. She was get- ting her breath again. “*Not five minutes more,” cautioned the employe. He took a bank-note and put it into her hand. She looked at nm, mutter ing something in a jargon in which German, French, and some unknown which he could only make out the Teu- tonie word todischlagen—to kill All at once he meaning dashed upon him **When she goes back her people will beat her to death.” *One first-class for Paris,” he cried; he had given the girl handed it to an ticket. towards Paris with the little Bohemian, ragged, barefooted and dirty, seated opposite him. What a journey, and what reflec- tions! In the compartment were an old lady and her son, a tall lad of fifteen or eighteen, flanked by a tutor. These people glanced at him from tume to time evidently with feelings of min- gled fear and disgust, or a mountebank who has been securing a recruit,” thought the lieutenant. They reached Paris at the early hour of four A. M. De Bregues went directly to the banker, M., Roudeldt’s son-in-law, He asked the chlid what her name was, *“Tsilla,’ she replied. She then went on to relate that the lad had stolen the saddle-bags, and had met the girls in the ‘woods, where he concealed the booty under a rock. Then they had gone down into the vil- lage to beg. It was market day, and the little one had got separated in the crowd from her companions, She had then made her way back to the forest, taking the saddle-bags, and pushing through the thicket so as not to meet any of her people, had reached Epinal, the nearest station, thinking that the owner was probably a traveler. One may imagine the astonishment Aymeril de Bregues was twenty- | three and a lieutenant in a regiment of | zouaves. He had just left the Ecole | Superieure, where the art of war] 18 taught, and before joining his regi- | ment had come to make the necessary | arrangements with M. Roudelot re- | garding the inberitance left hum by an | uncle who had died, the year before, | The notary’sson Charles was Ameri’s | intimate friend. While the one was at | Ecole the other had been reading law. | The two young men soon found | themselves seated at the table in one of | the little groves scattered around La! Misquette, in high spirits and with | ravenous appetites. They talked about | what young men of twenty-three | asually talk, their future. | “] shall be a general at forty-five if | a bomb-shell does not burst in too close proximity to my handsome per- | son.” **And I shall have succeeded to my | uncle's office and tin-boxes, if not % my cousin, Maria, into the bargain, | While thus engaged in the construc- jon of their respective castles in Spain, | their dreams were temporarily dispelied | by the appearance of three strange looking beings—Bohemian gypsies, The eldest was a lad of, perhaps, twenty; the second a handsome girl of fifteen, and the third a younger one of len. Browa skins, blue-black hair, shining with grease, dark, flerce eyes, scarcely oval and fringed with long lashes, and the dirtiest of rags—such were the salient features of these strangs wan- derers. The girls wore great rings of copper in her ears, copper-bracelets on their arms and around their bare ankles. The youngest had considered it proper to twist among her curly tocks a crown of mountain ivy, whose red berries added a pecuiiar effect to her dark color. She began .to thrum a tambourine while her older companion hummed some wild air, and the lad executed a dance, interspersed with bhand-balan- cing, perilous leaps, ground and lofty tumbling, and astonishing dislocations of his supple limbs, The two friends had thrown them several sous when the landlady ap- ** Begone! marauders, thieves, Fourt/ Fours! Dalett red like frightened The girls disappeal sparrows, while the bey, after having picked up the sous, indulged in a hearty peal of laughter, and, converting him- self into a lar companion. **1 owe her at least a part of my for- tune—60,000 francs in bank notes and fifty Suez shares payable to bearer, Take charge of Ler, I beg of you. duct her expenses from my income and make of her, if possible, a model young lady.” The next day he came to dinner and to ray farewell. The traveling com- panions of the day before scarcely recognized each other—he in his ele- gant uniform, she clean, neat and almost handsome in her rich costume, Her eves filled with tears when she said adieu, Five years passed, At the end of the first year Tsilla had written to her benefactor a short letter—original and peculiar, Besides this M. Roudelot, Charles and Merillon mentioned her in their let- ters. She was making astonishing progress, but still remained the wild bird of the forest, only happy in the open air and in climbing trees like a boy, She also continued to write, but a volume would be necessary to record in detail the progress of this untutored child of nature towards the highest in. tellectual and moral culture, “During the vacation,’”’ wrote Charles, ‘when we were at the cha- teau; she passed hours before that por- trait of yours which hangs in the grand saloon opposite the colonel’s,”’ Aymeri was wounded in Oran and sent home for two months, to remain during his convalescence, He returned a captain and decorated. It was in August, He brought with him for Tsilla and Marle, two handsome Arab mares which he had had especially trained for ladies’ use. He was surprised at the changes that so short a period of absence had wrought. Marie was seventesn—a fine blonde, with great, dreamy eyes and inclined to be stout. Tsilla, on the other hand, was small, nervous, thin. She was at the age when girls appear at the least advantage and said but little, He gave them lessons himself in the art of riding. In a few days the Bobhe- mian girl had almost become an accom plished equestriemne. Marie, more timid, did not dare to take the risks that did not seem to appal her more courageous companion, and remained behind while Tsilla ventured on feats that almost made one shudder. Charles was lost in admiration, “Take care!” Aymeri smd to him, the day before his return to Algiers; I~ ro. — wader cousin ce; you are neglecting your and 1 don’t imagine that Talila would make a perfect wife for a " “Marlo? Why, she thinks ”"” . no one to have a dot of 100,000 francs in the event of her e, and should he die, the half of his fortune, His name received honorable men- tion for the part he had taken in the capture of Sontai, but he was seriously wounded in the assault on the Chinese redoubts at Formosa. He was there gazetted chief of battalion, and as soon as his wound would permit, sent back to France by order of the physicians, He was no longer a handsome officer, #*§lis bair bad turned white, and the lever had left him quite thin. Tsilla had grown to be a creature of peculiar and dazzling beauty, being now eighteen, On his arrival she clasped him in her arms in feverish embrace, “How they have used you!” was her first exclamation, He was lost in admiration of her beauty. *Well,”” he asked Charies, about Tsilla?”’ “She does not love me. She replied to my request, *'I will be your friegd, but 1 shall never marry,” I returnea to Marie. Uhfortunately I believe that she 18 1n love with you, Do you care for her?’’ “No.” It took the young officer a long time to regain his strength. Oune day, while still very weak, he was lying in an easy- chalr, when some one knocked at the door. Tsilla entered. “Papa Roudelot tells me that you have given me 100,000 francs. This is too much. I only need 10,000 francs. | Can I marry whom I please?” “Certainly,” returned Ayroeri, turn- | Ing red; *‘so long as he is respectable.” “He 18 respectable—it is God, I wish { to become a Carmelite nun.” “how { not become ‘the spouse of God’ save | from disappointment. You love some | one else, If he does not return your | affection he is a rascal.” **He is not a rascal.” i i {me tell me bis name, and I swear | to you that unless he Is pledged to some- 010 else’ | She hesitated a moment, then, falling | on her knees and hiding her head mn his | bosom, whispered: **It is you!” | And this is the reason why a news. | paper published at Nice, recently, con- tained among its list of arrivals the fol- lowing: ‘Monsieur, the Commandant and me, de Bregues,' i i { |M —— A First-Class Mascot, “You may not loan me a cent, but **1 can rise above circumstan- Do you see this?’ He | tramp. j ces, [ can, | on it, | a blouse or palr of overall’s, “There is several years board in that, | I call it my mascot. philospher’s stone, everything. “You tell me how, and 1 will you 10 cents.” “Go yer. It'sthis way. loan jority go. Some are 5-centers, but there tations, I work this way; I goes in and when you eat)’ square. I eats it, of corn beef hash, or something soft, | worries the most of it down. my mascot into the fodder. for me, 1 gets my Il orders up a plate I Then 1 to public gaze. 1 gets very indignant, I calls for the head waiter and hammers the table with my fist. I gets everybody looking on and 1 asks the head waiter what he calls that, | the Stuff he feeds his guests on? sarcastic and asks where is the | the overalls—seeing as they are given | clothes with every plate of hash. Then | they apologizes. I roar some more, and | start for the door. If they ever suggest | pay I talks louds, and wants to know { how much nerve they have got to ask {jeans and brass buttons. But they hardly ever talks pay. They are so anxious to get me shut up and out of there that they are glad to see me go at any sacrifice. That's the whole busi- ness, It works elegant. Don’t give it away, for 1 don’t want ry common tramp to get to working it. Gimme that 10 cents, So long.” A Queer Superstition. There is a superstition in Scotland and England that the days now known as the 20th, 30th and 31st of March originally belo to April, but were borrowed by h in order to kill three young sheep. The superstition exists in some form in many European countries, In some cases the days are represented as occurring between Feb- ruary 11 and 15 and having been bor- rowed from January. The following, from the folk-lore of Scotland, is what keeps the superstition alive. In an- cient times young sheep were called “hoggs.”” ‘‘Hirpling" is limping: March said to Aperill, I see three h upon a hill, And if you'll me dayes three, sleet; Tha third ©’ them was sic a freeze, RINGS AND GEMS. Worn by Grave and Reverend Sena tors, Senator Edmunds bas perheps the prettiest ring in the Benate. It looks like a child's riog, has a lovely red cameo set and is worn on the little finger. Whenever the Senator is par- ticularly interested in following the argument of an opponent, his eyes are bent entirely on his ring, and he seems to be wholly engaged in ascertaining its quality. This was notably the case during the debate on the resolution calling on the President for the papers in the Duskin matter, When Kenna was speaking In defence of the Presl- dent, Edmunds did not raise his eyes from Lhe pretty cameo except to take notes occasionally. Senator Logan wears only one plecs of jewelry—a small gold ring, which appears to besunk in the flesh of his little finger. Hoar of Massachusetts has a serpentine ring and scarf pin from which sparkles what is said to be a blue India diamond. Senator Ingalls wears a disreputable looking black band on one of his fingers and a hair watch chain, which Is concealed, however, by his closely buttoned coat. All his vanity tends toward eye glasses, Of these he has three pairs, and they are positively gorgeous. The Senator is nearly always swinging one of them around his fingers while listening to a debate. Harrison of Indiana wears a delicate little bluo stone ring, which adorned his father’s hand when the General was in the White House, Bowen of Colorado has the biggest dia- mond pin the writer has ever seen in Washington. It is whispered that he | won 1t, in his early Colotado days, in a game of draw poker with a miner who had struck it rich, snd who had, after the manner of the rst silver kings, at | once invested in diamond ornaments. It is noticeable that the great mil. lionawres of the Senate have very meagre personal adornments, Stanford { of California has not one bit ef gold or {a precious stone on his person, His | watch chain 1s plain silk, and his collar { button, which can be seen beneath his { lowing tie, 18 of bone, such as are sold | for ten cents a dozen, Sawyer of Wis- | consin wears no rings, a silk chain and a flat, gold shirt stud. Fair of Nevada, { with his $45,000,000, wears nothing in { i i tonhole to the pocket, Jones of | vada carries a little silver wateh from | which hangs a fob. It might be re | Sawyer excepted, bave full growths of | hair, while the bejeweled Senators | above mentioned, are nearly all hair { less. Whether any general conclusion {can be drawn from these facts 18 a | question, but surely the coincidence is striking, A Picturesque Arab Dance The Arab quarter (ue Port Said) con- sists at present of booths and wooden huts, and the bazars possess for ex- perienced travelers little interest or picturesqueness, In one of them, how- (hawazki girls were langnidly dancing before the usual audience of low class Arabs and negro connoisseurs. One clad in scarlet was a novice of no skill; the other—graceful and clever, with a handsome face of the old Egyptian type, worn hard and marked by a life of vien—was prettily dressed in wide { trowsers of purple and gold, a spangled jacket and headdress of coins and beads, with a fingling girdle of silver amulets, Asked if she could perform for us the “‘balance dance,” she consented to ex- hibit that well known Egyptian pas for the modest consideration of two francs ‘ and a bottle of English beer. The cork | of this contribution being drawn, a | lighted candle was fixed in the neck of | the bottle, which was then placed upon | the grown of her black and glossy little | the sand, and extending ber hands, | armed with castanets, and singing ina { high but not unpleasant voice to the | accompaniment of a darabouka and | rabab, she swayed her lithe body in slow, rhythmical motions to the words of her song, and the measured beat of the musicians: **I am black, but it is the son of thy love which has scorched me! Sand me some raln of help from thy pity, I am thirsting for thee.” The Ghawazki began with Arabic words of this tenor, keeping exact time to her strain with foot and hand and the tremors of her thrilling slender frame pow slowly turning round, now softly advancing and receding, now clasping her hands across her bosom or pressing them to her forehead-—but per- petually keeping the bottle and highted candle in perfect equilibrium upon the top of her head. Suddenly she sank, will: the change of the musical accom- paniment, to the ground, and-—while not only mamntaining the completest harmony of her movement, but even making this strange posture one of grace and charm-—she contrived in some dexterous manner without touch- ing it, to shift the bottle from the top of her head to her forehead, and thus reclined on the mat, her extended HORSE NOTES — Maud 8. now wears 17-ounce shoes forward and 9 ounce shoes behind, —Nathan Strauss and Colonel Kip are talking race with Majolica and Bonita, ~The trotter Skylight Pilot has been purchased by Henry Hughes, of Pough- keepsie, N. Y., for $3500, * —H. D. Markstone has entered suit against W. C, Daly for the recovery of the black mare, Florence M. —Peter V, Johnson has severed his connection with R. B, Veech at Indian Hill, and has returned to Chicago. —W. W. Donnell, of Lebanon, Pa., has purchased the b. ¢. Wingham, by Peiinont, from the Woodburn stud arm. -W. A. Hadfield, of Allegheny City, recently lost by death from lockjaw Lis fine 3-year-eld Trifle, by ‘I'riton, valued at $2000, —J. B. Richardson, one of the starters in the 2.40 class at Cleveland, caught a boot in the first heat, fell and was distanced. ~The fact that there can be no pool- selling is what deters the New York Driving Club from holding a fall trot- ting meeting, ~The veteran Dick Wright, record 2.193, trotted in 2.20} at Cleveland, recently, and got second money In a stubbornly contested six-heat race. Dick Wright is 18 years old, ~The b. f. Volunteer Bell, recently purchased by Jackson Bryant and Wil- lam Robinson, of Woodbury, N. J., trotted an exhibition mile in 2,40, last half in 1.18, at the Woodstown (N. J.) Fair, —Dawn, by Nutwood, dam Countess, by Rysdyk's Hambletonlan, 5 years old, trotted in 2.19] a second heat at the Petaluma (California) Fair on August 27, beating B. B. and Lea Grange. . —In W. C. France's New York sta- ble are Inez (2.22{), Bob Pinkerton (2.30}) and Cornelia (2.211), bred to 'eter Storey. has been sent to Kentucky and bred to Jay Bird. ~The trials of the members of the Coney Island Jockey Club and the Brighton Beach Association for allow- ing betting, which occupled several days of the Court in Brooklyn last week, amounted to nothing. — Between heats of the Ohio stallion | race at the Cleveland meetiug, W. J. { Gordon’s four-in-hand team, consisting { of Nobby and William H., leaders, and Mambrino Sparkle and Clemmie G., wheelers, was driven a mile by Millard Sanders in 2.32, —On the last day of the meeting at the Hudson River Driving Park, J. | D. McCormick drove the team Billy D, and Bay Tom a mile in 2.25 and | repeated in 2.224. Before that Bay | Tom’s fastest time was 2,24} and’ Billy {D. 226, The pacer Gossip, sire of { Gossip, Jr., was driven a mile to beat { Goldsmith Maid’s time on this track of | 2164. He made the quarter in .35, | half In 1.094, three-quarters in 1.32 and i mile in 2.18%, ~The bay mare Milkmaid that was started in the Clay stakes at Island | Park last June, recently met with { During a heat in which she and five | others were trotting, aspectator walking | across the track, when he should have {been on the other side of the rail, in- | terfered with Milkmaid, causing her to {swerve and stumble and fall. The {bay mare Lysander Girl was trail- | ing Milkmaid, and she, too, went down, | throwing her driver, William Brogan, | heavily, probably fatally inluring him, | Both horses were badly injured. { -~The Dwyer Brothers have just sold | sixteen horses from their racing stable | for an aggregate of §17,025. Among i those disposed of were Pontico, that cost them $8000 at the Rancocas sale, | Bankrupt, for which they paid $6500, |and of this colt it is a matter of turf history that last year in his 2-year-old form he won seven stake-races off the reel, and then as a 3-year-old was trans. ferred to the Brooklyn stable. He was a losing speculation, and the Dwyers think was fittingly named. Harlem cost the Dwyers $3200 as a yearling, and he went for $450. There were also sold four other horses, among them the 6 year-old Drake Carter, who, in 1883, after he had captured the Omnibus stakes at Monmouth Park, was pur- chased by Mr. Pierre Lorillard for $17,600. That year Drake had won many stake-races, and as a 44-year-old, among other victories, he captured the autumn cup, three miles, at Sheeps. head; The Grand National Handicap, two miles and a quarter, at Jerome Park, and the Bowie stakes, three miles, at Baltimore, ~There has been considerable ‘‘gos- sip” connected with the recent sale and attending proceedings at law to settle the ownership of the gray gelding Zahn, The mg was formerly owned by William A. Hall, a New Jersey defaulter, now languishing in the State Prison. After his incarcera- the horse, the consideration having been an unpaid board bill owed Cahoon FASHION NOTES ~ Fancy beaded hairpins are fashion able worn in the hair, and tortoise- shell pins have a crescent, star, horse- shoe or plain initial letter in small pearls mounted in silver at the top. ~—A mantle of biscuit-colored frise brocade on a red ground is short in the back and has rather long ends in front, It is trimmed with fine woolen lace corresponding to the tints of the bro- cade, —8hort mantles reaching to the wa'st-line have slinz sleeves, and Lhe fronts have scarf drajery crossing the breast and fastened at the left side of the waist, long ends depending below the knees, —A rich dress of poppy-colored satix is veiled with white guipure lace. The gracefully draped polonaise of em- broidered white China crape has the plastron and belt of the satin of which the skirt is made, —An evening dress of almond brown faille Francaise is made en princesse, The flowing draperies are raised high on one side, disclosing a tulle skirt of the same tint embroid- ered with gossamer-like gold thread. ~The fashionable colors this season are, in standard materials, black, seal brown, navy blue and garnet. In high novelties there are shades similar to coquelicot, or poppy, heliotrope, plum, chartreuse green, bronze, reseda, or mignonette, St. Patrick’s green, sal mon, crevette, or shrimp pink, and va- | rious wood and ecru shades. —A8 heretofore, the trimmings on bonnets are massed directly over the top of the brim and stand almost up- { right, DBristling aigrettes of ribbon, { feathers, loops of velvet and long | pointed leaves are crowded together so as to form a compact cluster which is set firmly upon the bonnet, and not al lowed to wave or swing about as has | been the case on some of the present | season’s bonnets. ~The leading millinery materials will be plush, velvet and a thick-ribbed | goods not unhike what was formerly called velour, and sorcewhat similar to a very thick-corded Sigiliennne The new plushes are spotted, motted and | have splashes like large snow-flakes on their surface. But the little figured or fancy velvet or plush other than the sort described is seen 1u the first in- voices of Paris millinery, Lezece will be used to some extent, bul many Paris milliners have discarded it alto- | gether. There is a new, very light, | thin lace that is seen on a few bonnets, | but the majority of them show ng lace, — Autumn millinery. Very short tipe are in small clusters, rolled pompon fashion, and used as a cover or finish for the ends of long plumes, which may be set immediately over the brim | in front and reach over the crown at | one side or exactly over the top. Some | hats show plumes set in the back of the | brim and curling forward, For this | purpose they sheuld be about fourteec | inches long. Paarl-tipped short plumes, | which were so popular years ago, art | revived, and are promised in shaded {tints and white with delicately tinted | tips, upon which the beads are to be | fastened. ~—Millinery ornaments are unique | and attractive. The special feature for | the coming season is the back comb shape. This style is shown in every material, color and size. The jet | combs with long chain pendants are | specially pretty. Those of steel in the | natural metal, and also in blue, irrides | cent, bronze and copper shades are alse | desirable. Shell, in real and imitation | goods, is similarly mounted, Pins are very long and really formidable looke | ing, some having round heads nearly one | and one-half inches in diameter. Beads are very popular. The new “‘Elbac,’ ts brought out in all shapes and sizes, and is used with black velvet and | plush, and with materials of the same color. ~The narrow plaiting at the boliom | of the skirt is not altogether discarded, | although it is not seen upon all of the | new styles. A newer fancy is a bias fold of the goods set on in the same way. On an elegant imported dress of { black Heurletta cloth there are three | of these folds, one above the other, | each about one inch wide and put on | perfectly smooth. Another Onish for | the bottom is bias ruffles about thrre | inches wide, set on with only just fall | ness enough to permit them to stand | a little omt from the skirt. It is said | that bias ruffles are to be revived, and | that several very narrow ones will be { used as a support for the heavy mate- | rials spoken of, the ruffles to be of plain silk matching the darkest color in the fancy goods, and sewed on the skirt-lining under the heavy goods, —Some of the following hints will be found very useful to mothers with families of small children. Just at this season, when summer ends and autumn begins, and the children are home from mountain and seashore, garments will be found to be in rather a dilapidated condition, and the anxious mother must prepare them for school. It is too early to buy winter ally trimmed with white or cream lace or only with long loops of ribbon over bodices are HE : g ok hi f g : -
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