FTC es EE Boreaved. Do you know that my smiles are sadder far Than a rain of heart-broken tears? Do you know that my gay, bright greetings bear The pent-up sorrow of years? You have iaid on my heart the heavy stone That closes youth's sepuloher, Yet I press your hand, and we lightly talk Of the beautiful days that were. You have atabbad my soul yet I meet your eyes With eves that are meek and still. How I long to caress and—to wound you, dear, With the ssifsame passionate thrilll Oh, changed and lost! If I wept beside Your grave, with deep grasses grown, You could not be further away from me, Aud— I could not be more alonsa! A SR MATR IMONIAL SCHEMER. a curious circumstance, that the waiting-room at your dentist’: is to be a cheerful apartment, well provi led with illustrated papers and the current magazines, your need of dis- tractment before a trying interview never similarly recognized by your citor, who leaves you to attend his leis- } an outer office, where every tion on your part is noted by the clerks, at least in little ante-room of unmiti- ess and dingy discomfort. thought Miss Sybil Ea- me {oa lawyer's office ne in her life, and was above contrast, “1 use lawyers do net often them, and never Mr, Wiggins 4 y- or 0 visit Do vou think be disengaged?’ he clerk nearest to her. 1't say Miss, but 1 would be long,” Sybil was not only a lady, and pretty. He wondered wad come about, and why she Was 80 Nervous. As a matter of fact, Sybil was more than nervous: an rs prese ntly, 1 she was ushered into the solleitor’s he had all her wits about wd straight and ¢ S500 shouldn't Ly $ + impatient her, omposedly into mn Ly sight dilly tressed {ier a the bright iiir, gad De childhood; professional man “What can 1 f — ahd Hired do for y 1 rin Liar ¥ \ WOKING at hier pen 1 er his spectacies, Sybil was i 3 cue intelligent All IRECIN bt or Toiow aking her from him, rself, and spoke out with business-like air. “I arf the daughter of riley Square, Bayswater,'’ she stated, and 'w ish to ask you in the first place whether you would, under any circum- stances, undertake a case for him with- aut being sure of payment, in the event sing decided against him? would depend on the na- ; ray) lied Mr. Ww ireins, of ¢ bi if ££ 13 Dr. Eason, } of “r + ba § iy 3 1H ‘Um ire of -that the ease, wutiously. “1 might y predict the issue Let fell you.™ then you can judge.” most ladies, she forgot that awyer's preliminary opinion even in exchange value; but Mr. Wig was privately influenced by her fre beauty, and encouraged her bya g how to proceed. ‘it won't take many wi she I, “for I've written it all down g0 as not to make a mess of it in with ne has gins resh rave reds,” ig. . Mr. Wiggins’ manner under- sudden transformation; open urprise and admiration illumined his ountenance, : My dear young lady what admirable forethought! How I wish your example might be followed by every client I have! Admirable!” His pretty visitor produced a note- book, and proceeded to set forth, with details into which we need not enter, how her father's claim to a legdey of £50,000 was being disputed on account of a mere technicality, by a certain Mr, Rugh Lorrain, of Queen's Gate, to wh am the money must come if the will wera proved invalid, My father is too poor to fight it out,” aid the girl. ‘‘Ie is afraid of heavy ‘aw expenses, and would rather give everything up at once. That is why I have come to you. There are ever “0 many of us, and we dreadfully. Why should we surrender t without a strugrie to this mean man rho y has not a shadow of real right to went ivi I'he girl spoke indignantly; flashed, and she looked so lovely that Augustus Wiggins quite forgot his own pecuniary interests, “My dear Miss Eason!” he exclaimed place myself unreservedly of your youth and beauty. Let your father come and give mie instructions, and I will do all I can for him."’ “Must you see him?” asked Sybil in dismay, “Won't what I've told you, do? He is sure to decline to ageept your generous offer Oh, Mr. Wiggins! couldn't you make t double or quits? Let him pay you doable, I mean, it he swing, and nothing at all'if he loses.’ The solicitor's eyes twinkle at this lething. ingenuity on the part of a «client, “Well, well,” he said, “‘arcangements of some ‘such nature have been come to before now, but in this case your father may set his mind at rest; the costs would certainly be ordered out of the estate, Anyhow, jay dea, oh intellis nt young lady, 1 in advance g v1 a pie your visit i" Sybil finished pulling up the waists of er gloves, and and then looked at him with os are as pice now, Mr. v ns,” she sald, “‘as yon used to be in orley . Squae, when vou always took the side of us children against our enemy the gardener,’ “What!” exclaimed the lawyer, re- garding her with tresh interest; ‘were you one of those dear little girls who would skip on the gravel and send the little stones all over the grass?"’ “¥es,” replied Sybil; “and you always told the man to let us enjoy our- selves, and sometimes you turned the rope and counted for us,” “So I did, so I did,” said Wij ggins, nodding his head. “Dear me! you've grown up very quickly.” “Ah, I'm the eldest girl,’ remarked Sybil, laughing, *‘and that, in a large family, an ageing cirenmstance. Good-bye, Mr. Wiggins, 1 am sure 1 don’t know how to thank you.” “Now that's a sweet little maid,” said the lawyer to himself, when he had watched her down stairs, ‘and I would like to save her fortune from Hugh Lorrain, He's a hard man,” The after nook \ was drawing to a close, ! Wiggins, still think- the Poin case, put on his 1 hat and prepared to leave the is st x he passed outside the door of an inner room, wil some pane sudden thought st him. “Hugh Lorrain had a son!” claimed, and then to ipped, rand made a ¢ aleula rack cane twenty, n planned a mat Years’ War? Well, why not nip a lawsuit in the bud? a bungler, and failed; but Wigg and The me only offered sco those grills of which old- ve ofl + to won't, LAR nated hii w: for the display of diy Ho HEL he piqued himself, but rous fash aley in bi 3s breast, “It is to be told himsel “but I must be wily as Ulysses, as patient as——as Penelops,’ The lay Dr. Eason man, witl i. fair face ting manner, called and g: only all i 5 Friary INLormatio sche and ioned © as npyt His # Ul The more bea} SUARIOZ not a day “Can't You fo Hy WW, sin nave You do ng “Oh, grinding near here,’ “Ma rried, ong id Ww igins. . NO. ’ “Bravo! tha woman worth havi Lorrain laughed. looking IY imaginable manner, “That's what I mean got some cash.’’ he said, + iby youl fellow, n, knowingly, “if ou hop: well done, they'll bring it little less raw than ust YOil ¥ cooked gyou must Now tell me more At the end of an amie tion, the two parted with mutual friend- liness, Loitain promising to dine with the solicitor the following Thursday. Obs iously the next move was to get Dr. Eason to bring his wife and daugh- ter the lay; and consent to thi being obtained, Wiggins felt that the battle was half won. He now devoled himself to arra ging f this dinner-party, whic must be planned from beginning to end with a view to arousing the interest of the young people in one another. When Thursday came his two servants won- his fussiness,. As a rule, he | allowed them to manage hisdinners with. out interference, but on this occasion not only must he inspect the menu and give minute instructions about the, w ait- | ing, but he must take the arrangement | of the drawing-room furniture out of the housemaid’s bands, The piano must be put so, the chess-table =o, this | that screen there, order {0 you : Vant 1 y to a cinder! ial: if say done about yourself.’ able conversa LATE « “What's the meaing of it all, that’s what I want to know?" demanded the “Old Miss Brown’s coming; he’s go- cook--a conviction in which she was much confirmed when, just as the guests were expected, Jane informed her that the master had appeared in a new dress suit, with a flower in his button-hole, and a pair of “panksnay’’ on his nose, Lorrain was the first to arrive, admi- rably dressed, and with the dash of the puttican about his open, self-possessed ring, which Wiggins noted with roval as sure to impress the unso- iisticated Sybil. The solicitor contri ved very casually to drop the fact that he expected so ie people of the name of Eason, and had satisfaction of see ing a look of keen Interest dart into Lorrain’s expressive face. “Living in wp Square?" the young man asked quickly 3 but before any’ awe could given the door and the Easons were announced, bil’s allowance was what girls call PhS byt she lind § Knack of put. a stepped in now, with soft folds of Indian muslin falling about her lissome figure, a pretty flush on her cheeks, and a smile on her lips for her friend Mr, Wiggins, she made a charizing picture, and one that effected an abiding lodgment for itself in Lorrain’s mind. As for her, she was a good deal exci- ted at being introduced to any of the name of Lorrain, At first she tried to be cool and reserved, but soon she un- bent, reflecting that she might have caught the name wrong, or he might belong to quite another family of Lor- rains, In the course of dinner, however, bac at him: Did he live in on her clothes the TE Eo hie poorest Gate?—upon which amomentary silence which was broken by a deft ref- to be Bertie’s hol by mountaineering in the Alps, name this subject, and Sybil, getting in- quite forgot to manner how hated him. After dinner Wiggins put forth all his a strategist, and made surpri- heh she course of the safely for the ad { great deal of but Sybil in the evening, to provide uaint- ance, *1 shall allow 1m the pleasure, then, Miss Eason, of sending von the book we have been talking about.” Wiggins heard him say, as the E to go. He was looking ver into the girl's face, ind her very muct HH good night,» low, sli vaeil ASons rose g the child. od | Dy flu s {1 equency but Mr. y surprised Lorrain always to see her, that yment t him not for am SUR complicity, Il this time th both knew a law- ft wi pending bot sn thelr parents Was penaing ween Laeir parenis, quest Wis ough ion never broached be- had a reputation for 3 ween them, into any ho was ratade Inde his soll ug i valuable; {1 narke od 3 igging ¥ FULLY how do what an awf Risay, or?! low you are! the case will g “You gi uestion Mtr. Ja proper to the last dagree, Kindly leave my office. ”’ Lorrain walked led a hansom, “Now or never," directed the Orta 18 1i0- Eo out very soberly and 3 1 to himself, to Morley he said as he cabman Square Once more luck favored him; Sybil was sauntering round the square alone, Bertie joined her, and presently hardly knew how--she found herself sitting on a bench with him standing in front of her. He was quite simple and direct, “Sybil,” he said, “your fathe {mine are fighting this case, and week it will be decided; if for us, will hate me; If for you, I can’t play the part of a fortune-hunter. So let me say now that all for a wife, and tell me, give me what I want?” Sybil was equally simple, but had not 80 much to say. “I don’t know whether I know weil enough,’’ she faltered, glancing up at him and down again, “but I think I think I do.” And therewith she glanced up again with a happy smile and told herself of course she did. Was he not everything a man should be? Dr. Eason took Mr. Wiggin’s word for it that this engagement was an ex- cellent thing, but old Hugh Lorrain was farious for days. Then Bertie made a solemn appeal to him, and in the end the old man actua- ted partly by affection for his son, partly by not unfounded anxiety as to "the re- sult of the trial, consented to agree to a compromise, This Dr. Eason had always signified his readin ss to enter into, and finally, after endless consulta tions, a division of the money was effected which, wile Jea leaving Dr, Bs principal legates, settled a large sum on ng people. 3 was not 80 Jubii 4 a might have been expected. True, scheme had succeeded rag Scat his reputation for diplomacy was Lhe and Sybil be had become deeply interested tn the case itself, and so convinced of his ability to establish Dr. Eason’s cli, that the compromise patched up ut the last minute seemed to snatch a second, even sweeter cup of trinmph from his lips, It was not until the wedding-day arri- ved that his self-satisfaction regained undivided supremacy, On that occasion his calm consciousness of sagacity, be- nevolence, and power over his fellow- men made his manner grand, Every- body eredited him with having been the manager of his life he had his fill, of respect, Privately Lorrain whispered to Sybil, with the basest ingratitude, *'You know, all old Wiggins really had with it was After that I didn’t need any ¢¢ would have found the gRINg way on; shall never forget that Mr. Sybil warmly. “I'm going to ul to him all my life.” ear————— How the Sultan of Morocoo His Guests, Dining with the Sultan o an honor Honors ' Moroeeo is ‘pleasure a recent Fren of than a connected the The Sultan i than a crowned neatin His sad De : . 1 f YW Paldie if 1 and pomegi re the butte : re lomor , lemon, : “VIL ips, Coll iI Wit 1 ha i AAR drum major, 1 the process wid on trays of and " { al Af 1 he removal of Lid . A baton headed Dre Wing the {i deep bo rder Very Daniel death, He now the lower end Joscawon, N. H, lis death whic] h occurred at the age of 49, n and remarkable. He was ig the court at Concord in a brilliant argument, holding the attention of the crowded assembly by his clear utterance, his vig and earnestiess, his convincing logic, well-rounded periods, and the striking dignity of his presence. Ie had closed one division of his argument, éven to the last word forming the cadence per- fectly in a distinct voice, with eye clear and bright, and figure erect and seem. ingly full of life and energy: then, wit out a moan or a gasp, the movement of a muscle or the quiver of an eyelid, he fell back upon the tloor—dead. Women«Mon. of the tos Was sud address closest gor Women jump at conclusions and gen- erally hit; men reason things ont logic- ally and generally miss it. When a woman becomes fluiried she feels for a fan: when a man becomes flurried he feels for a cigar. Sone women A woman never sees 4 baby without wanting to run to it; a man never sees a baby without wanting to run from it, A woman always carries hier purse in her haud so that other women will see it; a man carries his in his inside pocket s0 that his wife won’t see it, A man of fashion hates the rain be- cause it deranges the set of his panta- loons; a women of fashion hates it be. cause 1t deranges her complexion, When a woman wants to repair dam- ages she uses a pin; when a man wants to repair damages he spends two hours and a half trying to thread a needle, i ———— A Comedy of the Castoms, A new use for cattle has been appa. rently found in Prussia, where a band of “smogglers’’ employed a cow in their attempts to avoid the tax on lace, A strong ten-months old cow was wrap, round with & quantity of lace valued at a thousand dollars, Over tis was fitted THE GAME OF “INDIAN A New and Popular Sport with the Young People of St. Joseph, Mo, As the moon rose over the Eastern hills and flooded the valley with its soft, silvery light, a reporter left Dunford’s lake house with the results of an after. noon’s shooting—one duck and a brace of mud-heus, Perhaps a mile had been traversed when the mind wafted to his ear a faint shout, Again and again came the sound' growing more and more distinct. Soon the ringing of | hoofs was heard approaching, the riders came into view a like that of a Comanche Indian | rang out on the affrighted air. A horse a lady dashed wildly by, fol- steed, on which | was seated a man. Both horses swept vind, the animals straini like the alrinie along which seemed © speed of the sound the of his frightful yells, i poe 44 ible, th arge Finally the in om distance, and lering on, half a mile down the road was voung ladies of thi Lili ¢ h a 1} gallant died 1 portet OVE About WOIK nn party ot residents « it sun were rec Cw at a point he Arctic crele, It was those hushed evenings whic a falling barometer glassy surface of the 1 was unruffled even by the zephyr. Southward, above a majestic monntains rear snowy peaks, Far in the west { fleet of fishing rafl, and long lines water fowl were winging their way rocky resting places, Above the sun, which trom my staml near the compass One 80 ¥ 0 eral parallel strata of fleecy clouds, The water horizon rolled up higher a higher, until, like a great golden globe, the sun rested upon its rim. The lower cloud stratum became orange-tinted, The next was dved with saffron shades, while the rosy reflection of the upper For ed e het ked, the sun still resting rim, and then-—most startling | a line of light appears below | the fiery orb-—the horizon is retrograd- | ing. By thus forcing the mind to re. in his tree our own planetary motion, an effect is produced far more amazing than that experienced by the startled Hezekah when the shadow retreated on the great dial of Ahaz so The “Devil's Leaf” of Java. At Timor, near the island of Java, there isa t called the devil's leaf, a being ola thorny nature, possess a fata ng when penetrati the flesh, 1 once met a gentleman " Honoluin who had been stung by this plant and barely escaped death, Had who had a great raw sore-—like sometimes made by the sti y Sat southern Iacific waters—on his oft arm. He alluded to it facetious! his steawberry mark, and sa he thought he should pose as the long lost brother—a term often thrown at us with other ‘chestnuts’ from the mins tr. 1 stage, ihe] Milk is good for chicks even in the |y hot weather of August, But do not » to last two or i THE BENSITIY E SERVANT. Ww hich Most Housewives Will Recognize. A Picture 11 kinds, tippling, I have had servants of ‘a Honest, dishonest, sober, good-natured, ill-tempered, Irish, Ger- man, black, white, polite, impudent, industrious, lazy, old, young, and red- headed, Some commenced weil and ended badly; others commenced badly and grew belter as they went along. But each and every one knew how to run the place better than I did, until J began to regard them as the real oe house, and genera ly kept on my guard lest 1 mid offend them. The humors of these are amusing. I had creatures One girl sr on a dry, ord on the who put watermelon dusty, shelf, and a f ice in the refrigers- tor, When leaving roora with the china, she ’ led he dinine the qining invariably r arm than she her way out on the lounge « returned, pil nore dis} On would sel a few iplece {Un one © we brought d walked over a4 waler- 4 Wi) privats 152 beneath ———————— Mode in Babylon ils, ourse, vary in size, ths by t the dak number ladies at Grosvenor The prince invites 1.000 and wmve a larger nom- Balls in being Ux i Westminster, tia "1 5 lemen | » river given the of ¥ +4 gen resent of W AER, B48 A TU, hy 500. lie would in the season. From G00 is reckoned a good-sized J00 is a fair assemblage unerous balls of seventy six every night of th begin directly alte: tO Sin people large ball, and but there are m 100--five or ru fy € Pall SEASON. Balls third week in July. People who are in sociely are expec- ted to give one ball at Jeast in the of a season. Occasionally they may give two, and sometimes they split | the m iato two parts, taking plate on successive nights, Very little trouble is entailed. The caterer undertakes everything, He removes all the furni- ture not required, warehouses it or keeps it in a box van for the night, If the house is inconvenient the plan now adopted is to hire an empty house. As much as £150 or £700 is paid for one day’s rent under such circumstances, and rarely less than £50 is demanded The ball oontraciat supplies chairs, tables linen, lighting, awnings, plate, china, glass, and every requisite includ- ing waiters, cooks, lackeys, policemen and linkmen, the last to light the guests to their Food and wine are likewise furnished, but v often the wine is out of the private ce lars and is not overgood then The cost of a su without wine is 7 shillings to 10 sh Bhim jac | per head, and with wine & Shillings xia Besides soup, hot cutlets are frequently served. The rest of the dishes, perhis twenty in number, are of course cold, parties are likewise catered. na AA A ——" A Butter Saver: An invention by » Ciloagy oan 1s mid to increase the Sf butter from. milk 1 twelve reds fr i mes tre DH I a a a
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