——— —— —
Is 8he Biding ?
{s she biding where eternal summer smiles
upen the seas,
And tlie snowy orange blossoms ever
flake the shelly strand?
Is she biding, is she*biding where the ten.
der tropic breezes
lows on the sand ?
Somewhere, somewhere, I know not where,
Upon the laud or ses-—
Somewhere, somewhere,
My love abides for me,
all pure and fair,
Is slo hiding "mid the clover blooms upon
the purple hills,
Where the mellow bees are humming
the apple blossoms float?
Ia she bid
fet leaps and trills,
and
Aud
for her throat?
Somewhere, somewhere, 1 kilow not
My love and [ shall meet,
For there's a fate through foul and fair
That guides my way ward feet.
w here,
leams
"
Is she bLiding whers the stariight
upon the frozen gloom,
Aud tmantly sings the carols that
the drowsy worn?
[s sho hiding, is she biding where the roses
pgever Hioom,
Ani the popples never wave their ¢
som bapuer through the corn ?
She bides somewhere, 1 Know not where,
But surely this I know :
I'will always seem like summer there,
Howe'er the wind may blow,
wri -
RODNEY BOYD'S MISTAKE.
“Yes. I'm dying, nephew; I can live
but a few hours at the farthest.”
‘Oh, uncle!” gasped Rodney
in a choking volce, raising his handker-
chief to his face, but more to hide the
flash of joy in the keen gray eyes than
the tears, which amount of effort
could bring to them.
“Eyer since I have been lyi here,”
said the old man, feebly, ‘and I knew
that I must die. [ have thought much
of vour father, We were boys tog ther,
and { n't agree ver) well
when we it ought it to
r
Oi
no
ver
aE
Pras
respect
every
cousin.”
“Thank ¥ ew; I'm glad
feel go. Mary has been as Kind to
as any daughter could be, and
her made comfortable,”
“You'll find the will in the
drawer of the desk yonder, Yo
that I've given the larger part to
I did think of giving you Mary's
tion and leaving the rest to her,
changed my mind.”
Here the old man was seized with
another fit of coughing, so severs that
Mary, hearing him, came in from be-
low, whither she had gone to prepare
some refreshment for the invalid.
Mary was a fair, pleasant woking
of about eighteen, with soft, blue
and lustrous brown bair, drawn
sthiy away from the white fore-
¥
ney
a, nepl you
me
You.
por-
but 1
gil
eyes
BIN
head
might
reums-
; them
looked as if they
smiles, under «
favorable to calling the
v the face wore a Weary
as she bent over his form,
the only friend and pro-
i, but
id,
s red lips
nwo
™
A LR
dimp
1S
a
stances more
: , but no
look
is i been
her orphaned childhe
to leave her,
lid might have noticed
: as he was easier he sald:
better go and own
You must be com
her will
a night, and
Miss
nan to, in
his oiliest and smoothesl manner, af
shail it a privilege to watch by
my uncle while you obtain the rest that
you so evidently need.”
Doubtful as to whether she would be
abla to endure the fatigue of watching
another night, Mary complied, though |
she did 80 reluctantly, for she had an
instinetive distrust of Rodney Boyd, |
which she was unable to reason away |
or explain. i
Rodney Boyd sat in an easy chair be-
fore the crackling wood fire—for noth-
ing would suit old Simon Boyd tat the |
open fire-place, around which he used
to gather in his happy boyhood.
His charge had been quiet for the |
last few hours, apparently in light
slumber. i
Rodney's thoughts were busy. fe |
thought over what he would do with |
the money for which he had been so |
long waiting and scheming.
He glanced contemptuously around |
on the old-fashioned furniture, every |
article of which was so dear to his |
mece’s heart. i
“11'Il never do for mel’’he muttered, |
“1711 sell it off —and the old howe, too.
That will be a good way to get rid of
the girl, and 1'll do it,”’ i
Then his thoughts reverted to the |
will, with a dissatisfied, uneasy feel- |
ing.
“Why did he make one? Ie was
the heir-at-law, and, otherwise, would
have inherited all.”
He was aroused from these reflec.
tions by a groan from his uncle, fol
lowed by a sharp rattle,
On reaching the Le was
startied by the change in his counte.
n
Mary, alluded
1 the
ange.
Te tarned to the door to summon as.
sistanee, and then, suddenly changing
his mund, returned to the bed, and
standing at the foot of if, watched |
quietly the feeble, fluttering breath |
until it ceased altogether, i
Takmg the light he held it to the
dull, glazed eyes, aid them Ioid nis)
hand on the wrist, i
Being satisfied that life was «tinct, |
he went to the desk that his uncle had
spoken of, and, taking out the will,
ean it carefully from beginning to
end,
fis brow darkened as he did so,
“fen thousand dollars fo my
adopted daughter, Mary,’ and ‘one
tiundred and ity a year to my faithful
servant, Jameson, together with his
cottage, rent free, for lifel’
downright robbery!”
Why, it's
| moodily by the hearth, gazing in the
glowing bed of coals, whose mute temp-
tation was added to that which was
| struggling for the mastery in his
heart.
{| Then he flung the paper into the fire,
{ and, waiting until it was ablaze, hur-
| ried out to alarm the household.
| Mary came in, and poor old Jameson,
| who was nodding ofer the kitchen fire,
| and who bad grown gray in his mas
with sor-
| row at the loss of one they had so much
cause to love and honor,
| Lawyer Wimple looked up through
| his spectacles at the infirm old
i door.
“(ood morning, Jameson; come In,
| It’s a cold morning for one like you to
| be out in,”
“That it is, sir. I begs parding for
{ in a heap of trouble, an’ no mistake!
An’ last night, as we was talkin’ it
over, ‘Husban’, says Becky Jane, says
| she, ‘you go an’ tell Lawyer Wimple
‘bout 1t, an’ I'll be bound he'll
some way to help us,’
{ “I'l help you if 1
{ What is it?”
‘Wal, sir, you know how old Mr.
| Boyd allers said that we should have
the cottage down by the river, rent
free, 8p long as we lived; an’ we allers
| counted on’t. But his nevy, Rodney,
| who's the heir-at-law, says that there
ain’t no papers to show for’t, an’ that
it'll be sold with the rest, It's
hard to be turned adrift on the world,
at my time of lif 1’ I know my good
life: ar
old master never meant that 1t should
1s
can, Jameson.
si #
be 80.
Oe inly not; I've ofts
Boyd speak of it. 1
and 4
Wes |
n heard Mr.
have been out
of y
til vesie
he left
“Neo
hi
ait 1
1
iH
ma oO
r. Boyd’s nevy, | ‘8
son, and everybody
Boyd was, JA
Rodney, with his uncle
night he died—nons on us thinkin’ he'd
gO suddent. And I minded
when I came into the room, arter he
called us, that there was a strong smell
of burnt. paper. 1 picked up this here
on the hearth. It bas a bit writin’
iio likes of
yat he
fatuer own
wWhas i om
} nt 1
fies 80% Up
1S
-
¥.
ha
the
off so
o'
that p'raps could tell what it
meant.’
Squire Wimple took from old
son's trembling hand a bit ot
paper.
He coul
words;
**1 beque ith to
Bat it was in
ndwritin
o the lawyer's lip as
“Have you
to any one
you
Jame
scorched
d
IGAKEe
servant
Simon's Bovd’s erabbed
IDOTTOW,
eestrict
Deekin
‘Corners’
FOU WOITY,
Jameson, about your little home belng
taken away from you."
Squire Wimple put on his overcoat
and sallied out on his mission.
He found Rodney Boyd at home, sur-
rounded by quitea crowd, anmous to
get into the good graces of the helr to
the Boyd property.
Bat the lawyer did not seem at all in-
clined to pay court to him.
**I understand that you have offered
house for sale; on what
ii
“On the authority of being its late
owner's nearest relative and heir-at-
law,” was the blandly-smiling re
sponse,
“Providing he left no will, Am I
to understand that there is none?”
“Certainly you may; I really don’t
see why my uncle should make a will,
when there is only one person with any
legal claims, and he the heir-at-law."”’
“Humph. I think his adopted
daughter, and faithful old servant Save
some claims to de consideiel,”
I presume my ancle thought that,
in taking care of this girl until she was
18, and giving her a good education, he
did all that could be required of him,
And as for Jameson, he bad his wages,
80 long as he worked, and I don’t
“Humph!” So you are sure Simon
Poyd left no will?”
“I've already told you so, sir,’’ re-
turned Rodey In an irritated tone,
“Do you doubt my word, or suspect me
of unfair dealing?"
“Bless you, not a bit of it!" re-
‘Squire Wimple, rubbing his
hands together with a candid and
cheerful air, **I only asked for Informa-
tion. Because, you see, if there’s no
will of a later date—I had an Idea
thers was-this one 1s in force, and
which I drew up for him more than a
year ago.”
Rodney sauk back in his chair pale
and trembling.
“ A n--another willl’ he gasped.
“Oh nol” sald the lawyer, cooly,
“that was my mistake. There’s none
but this, it seems. In which he leaves
all hus property, real and , to
adopted d
year to old Ji
Here Squire Wimple took the instru.
ment in question, 4 signed and at-
tested, from his coat
“S05, on whole,”
grea reco
turned to the door, “I don’t think you
need be in a hurry to see this house, or
old man, who has grown gray in your
uncle's service.”
As the reader will readily surmise,
Mary did not teach the school at the
“Corners,” neither were Jameson and
his wife ousted from their comfortable
home,
As for the heir-at-law, he was
obliged to swallow, silently, his disap-
pointment and chagrin; not even dar-
ing to complain,
I.'ke many another, Rodney
in grasping for more, had lost all.
er cemm————————
MATCHING FINE DIAMONDS,
Boyd,
{ The Difficulty of Getting Together a
satisfactory Diamond Necklace,
A fashionable lozking gentleman en-
i tered a well-known jewelry store one
! day recently in a great hurry.
“I want,” he sald, with some hesita-
this one, I must have it by to-morrow
| a birthday present. [I brought this one
{ and its mate from Europe last week,
| aad one was either lost or stolen.”
| enti sally and smiled.
“You ask what és impossible,
said, ‘That is a very {ine diamond
| and cannot be matched in weight and
color without great care,
i might bave to look at a thousand
stones before I could get one like it, and
1"
| having 1t cut to order, There is not a
jeweler in the world who can eateh a
stone like that at a day’s notice, unless
he stumbled on it."
| The customer finally concluded to
| buy another pair ol ear-rings and have
the diamond he had put into a stud.
“That stone,” sald the jeweler, after
the customer had gone, holding up the
solitaire ear-ring lashel a
dozen brilliant i ;
known to t {rad
a pure bloe white
value, I should say it 1
He
1 higher
3 -® : Ty ra
ways jeweler
fer. It i8 not alwi
even then LO
so much h
NOW
slone Lo orn
t jewels
actly alike. One cannol
to a fraction of a carat wha
stone will weigh after it
“Wit the less valuable
this difficulty 13 not s0 great.
the supply of fancy fine diamonds in
this country is limited, there are plenty
of the poorer quality of stones.
fact, the supply of tine diam nds all
over the world is limited.
“The most difficult thing for a jew-
eler to obtain is a necklace of fine dia-
monds, To begin with, he takes one
large diamond. After that all the
diamonds in the necklace must come in
pairs, one on each side. The jeweler
must be even more careful about these
than he would have to be if they were
intended for ear-ri In the latter
case the ‘jewels are separate, and a
trifi | faulty might psa undets ¢ ed.
But sekince, where tl
in one | the sl
wot
amateur.
always ju
+ tha 2
DEN,
€ jewes are
difference in
pass unnoticed eve
f yellow
A stone of a
} waz beside a
i
oa 1
ghtest
color
by an
shade wot
white diaz
8
3
4
a ghtest
be plain, and
ound the throat
38 and every fault
onounced,
iaWwWeier
of a
st-clafs 0
on diamonds
o least that
that a reputable dealer charges,
| “A pustomer once came to us and
| asked us to make him a diamond neck-
lace not to exceed $10,000 in price.
| That is, of course, a small price for a
| necklace, in which there are from
| twenty-five to fifty stones. It took us
ecklace
wie 11 ait: at
i § Ly &@
| after counting the time and worry lost
in the work, we found that our profit
was less than 8 per cent.
thing does not pay.
“We are now engaged in making a
necklace that will cost $25,000, I have
standing orders with leading diamond
merchants for a certain class of dia-
monds tor this necklace. It is Intended
for a prominent Chicago society lady.
We have about one-half the diamonds
necessary. Before it is finished, how-
ever, 1 think it probable that the many
changes necessary to get it satisfactory
will compel Uo te Jay aside half of the
diamonds now selected.
“I have made a hundred changes in
arranging the diamonds for a single
necklace. With any other jewels this
extreme care would be unnecessary, as
defects or differences are not neticed
in them that would be glaringly appa-
rent in diamonds,
“One difficulty, which is equal in the
amount of trouble it gives us to all the
others put together, is the eyesight of
our customers. Being in a critical
frame of mind when they purchase
diamonds, they see ects which do
not exist, and it is to convince
them that they are mistaken. The
eyesight has to be educated in studying
diamonds, and we
busca
Sugar Among the Ancients,
tis] 18 its use to the comfort of living.
by the conquests of Alexander the
Great, whose admiral, Nearchus, found
it in the East Indies,
ansmeesinits,
FASHION NOTES.
ws
nA SSA
~-A novelty in dress buttons are |
large balls of wood showing the grain,
on steel eyes,
—~Wide low collars, exposing the |
the birth of Christ—*'a honey called
saccharon, having the appearance of
salt,’
often prescribed it as a medicine,
jutce of the sugar cane was used by
some of the oriental nations as an
toxicating drink The Arablans used
sugar in large quantities, and it is rela
kad! Benritsale, 80,000 pounds of the
wedding banquet at Bagdad,
—A tiny capote of jetted velvet is |
The |
strings are of black velvet.
~Bodices of velvet have panels cut |
in one with them, and form an exceed |
ingly handsome combination with |
—~Metal bead and mother-of-pearl
wood anchors, pins and |
crusaders, In
skilled workmen. In Germany, even
jerlin
of sciences ooncerning the
tical with cane sugar. He showed by
naments are used to excess in milli- |
—Open-work elik with herring-bone
effects has lines of tiny silk dots. A
cream ground has dots of blue, and a
pink ground dots of golden yellow and
~elisses of gray plush, lined with |
pink, are coming in vogue for babies’ |
wear. The hood must match the
was not only possible, but profitable,
The chemist’s colleagues, however,
laughed the projet to scorn, Saying that
sugar was never produced from beets,
and it came to nan When Marg.
graf died in 17
discovery would die
ty
ght.
ii
nr AI, p——
DBurmah's Ruby Mines.
about eight miles
and are unquestion-
They are situated
from Mandalay,
ably very valuable. Indeed,
the only mines in t world where
really valuable rubles are found. There
are a few mines in Ceylon; but Ceylon
rubles of the true red are very rare,
most of them being of the pink topaz
color. In Siam, too, rubies are plenti-
ful, but they are of the color of garnels.
Within the last twenly years small
rubles have gone up about fifty per cent.
in value, and large ones al per
cent. The bast rubles come to America,
In the British crown jewels there are
pone of any size and color, So dear are
the perfect stones that few can rd
surehase them, The French Roths-
have a fine collection, so have the
srinces, and there are some {ine
the Il crown
«a8
they are
he
wut 200
-
2ai0
y lately, a
TP 44 &
. because the 8
3 Bu
appearance,
always have a waler-worn
The only Europeans that have ever vis
ited them are a Frenchman and an
Italian, who were In theservice of
Theebaw, So far as is known, they are
worked by the villagers upon a curious
system, All stones below twenty-one
“rhitis’ in weight (twenty-one *‘rhitis"’
are equivalent ta twenty-two carats—I,
¥
iad
belong to the villagers, all above to the
crown A perfect specimen ruby of
twenty-one ‘‘rhitis” would be worth
-_—- _-
Superstition Among French Peasants.
Another instance of the superstitious
natures of French peasants has just
been exemplified by a crime which was
committed in Brittany.
a family consisting of a widow named
Jallu, with her two sons and two
daughters; and the sons who were mil-
— A Paris correspondent writes that |
with
is used
plain
for
combined
it
and
material
lea- gowns,
—A rich and refined silk r1abric has |
lace and matelasse alternating. In the
thick stripe 1s a dlamond, outlined by a
sural weave, thus presenting three
stones the color produced by the
weaving,
of
-There is a revol small
birds and hers ©
millinery ornamen
who wish
of the forest |
t against
¢
:
garments,
t in public favor.
all sorts of
wit creations, ranging
that rival sealskin
ain, trim jacket that
After this
dressy and ele-
from elaborate
in
sells for §6
© are
aging
i “8 cost Lo
the pi
to §8.
Children’s Fancy Dresses, Bat
there are quite as many fancy dances
for children as others, aud then
question of dress is all more per-
plexing. 1 will therefore describe some
of the newest notions under this head.
Red Riding Hood is not a new char-
acter. but I think it 1s being rendered
in somewhat new fashion, with a red
velvet skirt bordered with a band of
darker shade: red low bodice, coming
somewhat high on the shoulders, open-
ing in front to show narrow folds of
over which bodice is
laced with red cord; there are square
while oh the like a
turn-down ovllar; the sleeves puffed to
elbow, Auvergnale wears Si
ator kings
VOCKINnE
43
Liie
soft calico, the
3
revers
ede shoes,
black
red velvet
of flowers
ped bodice,
p, with
a bonnet
3. [led stock
short petticoat, with small
black imps upon it; low red bodice
black over-skirt, black cap, with two
standing bors. Folly somewhat
newly rendered in blue and gray. The
blue and
'
cotlon px
apron, with
# vps wide g yl
al one side a bi
pre faa Phpess
ATO at the throat,
somethin
ut strings. Dial
1
18
with points and bells dropping from
them: the tunic and skirt are cut in
1
in the hand complete the costume.
of their msters, the eldest, was pos
sessed by the devil.
this terrible supposition, which they
implieity believed, would bring ill-luck
to the mill, the two men resolved to
shield themselves from the demoniac
Jufdencs of their sister by murdering
er,
apprehension of the catastrophe, went
to the mill, but found their entrance
barred by one of the Jallus, who stood
with his younger sister at the door,
both brandishing hatchets with which
they threatened to murder any one
who eamoe near them. The two were,
however, seized and overpowered after
a long and dangerous struggle, during
which they behaved like maniacs. In
the Interior of the mill house was
found the body of Esther Jallu, the
eldest sister, who was al by her
relatives to be possessed with the de-
mon pride. The woman was put to the
most atrocious torture, having been
pierced In various parts of the body by
a sharp Instrument. During her agony
her mother and sister prayed by her
side in order to exercise the devil. All
the members of the Jallu family have
been placed in an asylum,
«A ciroular of brown
X.,
Him 2 in
dam by Al-
laced stomacher, bunched-up tunic,
than any original style in the make.
The ambulance nurse has always been
propriate for children, 80 costumers are
making it in light fawn tones and dark
A magician Wears a
long crimson velvet coat, bordered
with black, over a white princess front,
covered with gold stars and crescents,
the bodice cut square at the neck, large
sleeves with large loose cuff of white
satin with gold bande¥ high-pointed
red velvet cap, covered with gold stars,
a spangled tulle veil floating from the
top. A queen's dress, made for Lady
Mary Pepy’s little daughter, is worth
describing. A pale pink underskirt,
edged with rows of silver braid, a train
caught up on one side with
ermine, the bodice a close-litting cote
hardie of silver cloth over punk, a pink
cloak falling from the shoulder secured
in the usual way with silver clasps.
There i&8 a great improvement in the
fancy dresses for boys. I call the fol-
lowing as new: Woodland Elf, a close-
fitting dress of green, with high
having tassels at the i 8
ted collar and a cap formed
i
HORSE NOTES.
~The furiher ioportation of horses
been
- Robert Steel
from Charles
foaled
Prince, a son of Cla
by Hambletoman,
—Thie
in
week purchased
the bh, tn,
Kentucky
k Chief, dam Bees,
ast
from Woodburn
averaged Ths
gales are Karlsbad, b. ¢.,
foaled 1895, by Lord Russell, to John
Depee, of Chicago.
stock sold
his ra 8 "rid
1856 Sidhe
— William Weeks purchased (hs 2. g.
Marcus, 2 204, for Mr. Drakee, of New
York. The price was £3000, Marcus
is balf brother to Mr, Cadugan’s s!
lion, Bayonne Prince.
— Inspector B was Enquirer's
winner in 1886, capturing $38
the §87,017 credited to Enquire
47 of which were on ihe turf,
1 458 races and winning v7
—5). B., Herrington, the new mana-
ger of Hudson River Driving Park,
Poughkeepsie, announces that two or
hiree trotting meetings will be given
during the coming season,
~ New York roadman have indulged
in several match races to
no time was taken, W., E.
gelding, St. Louis, and Harry
liam’s 8, g., Tommy Lambert eu
a race,
sleighs, but
Parson's
Wi
i WOR
—Joseph Gavin, Chester Stock Farm,
Chester, N. Y., bassold tor $500, to KH.
E. Roberts and 8. Offnutt,
town, Ky., his 2.vear-old
by Harry Plummer,
lle Maid, by Pickering.
a, i 3vives
. POY Ee.
coil
—Samuel Greenburg’s trotie
well known as one of the
State of
Watertown
t., while trotting
Camp's Nutwood, Jr. It
that she ruptured a blood
—Charles Backman has sold to
Thomas Pattern, of New York, the
very promising young mare Columbine,
by Meredith, dam Refine, by Messenger
Duroc; also the chestnut filly Anne
1885, by Harol
Mambirino
re .
AOOX,
in the
dead
Tikes
Ase bid
Connecticut,
on the road,
with
Tilton, by
dam Lady
Patchen.
~A{3, Valensin, owner
old stall Shamrock,
made a record of 2.25, 1
§500 forfeit for a race
old Palo Alto filly Eda, by
nile heats, best three
gide, January 22, oa
track,
of the 2-year-
that recently
as deposited
th the Z-year
eer.
r B14
a
ion v
w
in five
iid A
a
— Abe
Wilkes, rec
rained
1 fears the horse
injured and w
‘ wf
8 Lud
manently
here were twenly o-¥
sb ® fy ? 90
Tov iin
ot OF
wenty-four
against nin =
year-olds against 2
youngsters of 1886 are the Northern.
bred filly Mamie Woods, heat
N utbreaker’s record by 1 seconds, and
the California colt Shamrock, that beat
24 seconds,
— Watts, the English Jockey, recently
accepted the bandsome retainer of
£6000 from Douglas Baird, the owner
of Esterprise, for the second call on his
services during theensaing three years,
the Duke of Hamilton having the first
call. An amusing story is told respect
ing Watts’ disposal of she £5000 check.
The careful jockey had no sooner re-
ceived the paper than he ran off to Lon-
don, proceeded to Mr. Rothschild’s city
office, and placed the money in the
hands of the great financier for invest-
ment.
—Many of the sleighers went up the
Wissahickon as far au Valley Green and
Indian Rock. They would “*brush® all
the way up. A number of them, when
they came to the new Park road, their
borses being a little tired, would jog
them the balance of the way home.
Now and then a fellow would go by
them at a 3-minute clip, and when he
arrived at his stable he would name
several of the best horses on the road
that be had beaten. Now, when the
tracks are in good shape, this fellow
who clams to have beaten them all,
when asked to join m a friendly trot or
a road race on one of the courses will
back down with a number of excuses,
~Bend Or heads the list of English
stallions for 1886, with four winners of
thirteen races, worth £22 803, and thus
deposes Hermit, In fact, for the first
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