The Miller's Daughter.
The sluggish river flowing
Hlelow it has not now the force
I'o set the frame-work going.
Tlie mill, that yet the storm defies,
Is silent and forsaken,
t ts walls, as daylight dies,
4 thousand thoughts awaken,
vy
But still
I muile as recollections come
Heside the turbid water
About the miller; well, and some
About the miller's daughter.
She stooped above the river where
Its lilies were the rarest;
all the fair things mirrored there,
Her face was far the fairest.
Ne
Che stream, before it reached the mill,
Dy sweet spring flowers was bounded,
I locked for something sweeter still,
And in the summer found it.
Clie words fell faltering from my tongue,
e river ran bafore us,
ent song of love was sung,
wheel lent the chorus,
I
40
1
i
BE RDO
The mil
I'he willer rests beneath the clay;
ys on earth are over,
y hand I won that d
we flowering clover.
lit beneath the moonlight's
t wonder if I brought her
me to view the stream —
, the miller's daughter !
TET TORS
A SOCIAL TRAGEDY.
AY,
v}
Bi
eam,
witls
Wilt
A party of six were ga'hered in the
old-fashioned hall at Seaview,
he residence of Mr. Grant Fairfax,
and the most hospitable and picturesque
abode in all Delaware, and situated 1
he very bank of the river.
i as Hallowe'en, and the
ho clustered round the leaping
4
vide,
n
dn
ol
I
} w
iv W
PEO
3 3
v
mous spell, which
;ad taught them, and in which perhaps
hey hiad littie faith, as they laughed in
he warm 1efulgence of the fire-
zlow
But now a silence had fallen, and
owe bright, laughing faces were bent
wer th
Lil
ogs, chestnuts had been placed.
It was the
and watching them burn side by
side, or starting back with merry rail-
ery as they sprang apart, thereby fore-
telling tbat the two for whom they had
«nu nawed would be sundered widely
r fortune.
IVE lover; must burn
asked a blue-eyed girl, whose
and stately figure made a very
icture for the red flames to leap
AR
“WO,
Det
ALE
§
h I
0
re: %
2 Yi
yu One, my sweet
Fairfax, the
tool
leah
who 8 some-
to whom
1 - 1 » on
Rex Darrel,
you
Was
» we name for
ua will
be a happy ont will bur
t your side, a3 Rex has vowed
mine.’ with a roguisi
r lover.
ie crimson glow from the em-
i that divided
strange. un-
toward her cousin,
glance wandered from Reah to
. noted the fact that his hand was
y moment on the white hand of the
then, with a look, half-pain,
terness in them, the blus eves fell,
the nuts were named-—tiwo for
leah, two Vera Glynn
Iarris, Jennie Dent
Listant sweetheart, an
Della Ioan
i
| §
man
YO
some day love? ur
3 re
il
i OUR
he space
Mn sent a
sg
4
+1
h hii
£
I for
i two for
4
her i
ier lastly
for and the mo shie was to
€or
“Js
who had laughed s
f
i
fair bea
it the other
3
orward
a new
spells, bent
iy
Lie
L chesin: with
y on her fair face.
My love, my love!’ she whi
wi breath, whille a great yearn-
a | oa l 1
her lovely, azure
spered,
eT
3% hate her ¢
harm!”
Darrel, 3
Reah,
eaped int ver
' eried Jennie Dent, as one of
sting with a loud 1
weecused Hex of doing.
jue eves of Della flashed
low, little laugh
*
ith
ii
} . 101
shiee had ;
}
a IB 5
umph, and a {t
bri left
ses Reah’s band steal
lle confidingly in her
whisper of devo-
#
y ’
Ho
Frtle
Ad) &
y and
over’s, nor hear his
son
%be was watching, with a fierce in-
tensity, the nats that had been named
for her and **the man whom she woul
someday love.’
**And there you go, Vera,’
Bob Harris, as another nut bounded in
among the blazing embers;
vowed.--."’
“Never mind what I vowed,”
yroke in, with a flush, “You
willing to receive consolstion for my
oss, for you are sneaking very close to
On
i
’
Vera
{
souple of times, and then lay quiet,
But Bella Eden and the man she was
Oo love-—as represented by the brown
nuts—remained side by side, until they
weame black and brittle,
Bella's eyes, as she lifted them and
met the answered glance of Rex, were
either cheek.
a low, pulsing voice. *'I accept the
omen, and shall love without a fear,”
**While 1 shall always fear that my
lover will prove untrue,” laughed
Reab.
And yet, that cold, bleak November
she could fancy the heavens falling
rather than his love failing her in any
future hour,
. - .
it wes spring time, and with the
bursting of the buds, the green dottings
of Linlwide and hollow, the first breaths
of the violets, rising through the val
leys about her home, a strange, painful
Kuviosion bad come upon Reah Fair-
ax.
It was not that her lover had grown
less tender toward her—not that he in
any way weglected her; but she often
came upon him and Bella, who seemed
too interested to observe her approach,
but, seeing her, would give her a ten-
der glance of pleading and dart away.
And oh: pseleed chat when he was
- . * .
i
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:
)
not with herself he was always with
Bella, laughing, chatting, merrier than
with any other. She noticed many
things, small in themselves, which went
to swell the first faint doubt, until it
grew into a conviction; and that eon-
viction seemed to still the very pulses
of her heart.
**My lover is no longer wholly mine,
1 share him with my cousin,” she told
herself, as she sat at her window and
watched Rex and Bella ride down to-
ward the gates, in the warmth of the
spring sunshine.
And when Bella sought her, on re-
f turning, she found her still there, with
a pathetic sort of expression in her
eyes,
The beautiful blonde, with a long,
poising its wings, and God's judgment
awaits you,
*1 loved —1lax so!"
Then, after a moment:
“It was the night—we burned the
nuts—that I first was—tempted to try
{0 come beween you, I did try—"'
There was a gurgle, a rush of red
blood over her lips, a quiver of her
whole fair body, and Bella Eden was
dead,
**I forgive you, dear,” Reah whis-
pered, as she softly closed the lids.
**You would have broken my life, but
I forgive you, and pray God's pardon
for you, We did not know that Hal.
lowe'en that our folly would lead you
into temptation,”
n—————— Wf ——
weary sigh, flung herself on her knees
beside Reah’s chair, and buried her
face in her consin’s lap,
“You are tired, dear?” questioned |
Reah, no anger in her heart for this |
{| woman's whose fair face had come be- |
{ tween herself and her lover.
| “Tired?” repeated Bella,
| face paled and her lips
| “Yes—tired of my life, cousin!
| going away to-morrow. Let me
{ Reah, without a question; let me
{ quietly out of your way, out of
life. t—Dbelieve me, I did
while
trembled,
I am
RO,
go
your
I did not not |
| sock his love!”
i A shiver went teah,
{ hind flew, clench her 1
| Bella's falr, disordered tresses lay
f gold over her knee.
t is yours, though? He
you of 11?" burst hotly from het
**He has spoken of this new love
the old love still bound
Bella, tell me—has Rex
til he loves you?"
I'he fair, flushed face was lifted; the
azure eyes gave a startled glance into
the of the girl
a tide of
surged over Bella Eden.
“He did not mean to," she
“We were both so miserable —
*“*Did he tell you he loved you?
want but a word! Did hey"!
“Yes"
Reah put aside the crouching figure
with a steady hand, and stood
very lips white,
“Then take him—he is yours!
said, hoarsely, *‘I will free Lim wi
an hour!”
Bella started up in wild affright
ing to her cousin.
you will not
1, Wy cousin, spare me!’
over Ri
i
fa
+
toy
i (801
like |
Aine
a siream Oo
nly
i " as
§
t
LO
him |
Dar-
rell
ones she
and
I
Kay
bitterness |
}
began.
1
I {
up, her
she
¥
sir
Will
n
iu
and
: '
Reah!
r
fig
worth
ut teat h
{ triumphant de
ALEVE il £i1 Der woe
Jait the room, the house, and gla
down at t! fold { habit
i008 Of .
bad not removed, laughed
1
“311 Fis
iron eng,
Ce
the her
i she
exultantly.
“I will saddle her
ake a
tioht!
»
i have him
black pony for me, and
gallop. 1am wild with «
wii
*3¥ ser Tout 1% of 3 ¥
win oy love Sle wWihispare
Own
mad
I will
¥
i
1
i ia
t
i i
And while Reah lay, face downway
wich, Reah's shining black
18 bearing Real’ deadly
13
$s sh y »
: Lae BLL
:
iy
her of
Ww Ss I
gh
5
and far
pet fo
enemy fleet yu
t day—bearin
an antelope
Lt know,
ned the hadows
had written
wmissal to Rex,
to
&
5
wio
of d
havadied than know
Frith white, drawn
bi
the
zgard eyes
outsige
80 clearly
animal in
3
Ol :
d be
“A
Mad sean
window, flying
istance caught them,
, her nwn black pony was
ing up the dri Bella
Lis back,
**1 shall le to hate
she thought shudderingly.
her for her happiness.”
Then a ringing cry left her
dash-
Eden on
six writ}
Ve, wilh
"ry
[4
ny
“*{ will hate
lips, and
or her every
feature; for, almost under her very
window, the black pony stumbled, tried
to regain his footing, and fell prone in
the sunset, kicking out madly to free
tnimself of the clinging skirts and the
crushed and mangled body of the girl,
The servants had also seen, and
when Ilaah reached the hall door, they |
were bearing poor Bella up the steps
and into the vast ball, where first temp-
tation had come to her,
Then was excitement the greatest |
for a few moments, then Bella was!
laid on her own couch in the pretty
chamber she had occupied since, one |
year before, she had come to Seaview, |
having no other home,
A physician was sent for, but long
before he got there they knew that the
hours —the very momsnts—of Bella |
Eden's life were numbered. |
**She has received severe internal in- |
jury,” the doctor said, when he had
made an examination. **There is no |
hope. She must die wittun an hour.
As he spoke, the beautiful azure eyes |
openad, and the ashen lips moved,
“Reah,” they sdid, laboredly-- |
“‘Reah, is it true? Is it death?”
Real bent over the dying girl, all
anger gone now; only a great pity in
heart.
“Dear.” she faltered, “let me send
for-—for Rex. 1 fear-I fear-"'
“Then, it is true? I am dying-—oh,
God, 1 am dying.
A moment, during which only the
sound of Rsah's sobs and the hardly.
drawn breaths of her cousin broke the
silence; then, with a wild despair lo
her beautiful face, and the death-0lm
gathering over her eyes, she half.
itfted herself from the pillow,
“Do not send for Rax,’, she whis-
pered. “He would not care—he does
not love me, Oh, I tried to win him —
from you-~but he was true. I thoaght
he might--might learn to—ecare for
mé--If I could part him--from you,
And so-—I1 told you-a lis «a eto.
day, Roan,”
“Never mind now, my puor cousin,"
sald Raah, pityingly. “Think no more
of it; but remember that vour soul is
OVE
i
3
i
3
i
i
LOVE AT FIXED RATES
Who
Pay.
Modern Cavalier
His Seatiment
Makes
you think that the
then you
ment
a
t hit
ao
ris Of
ih i
have not
a New York
Oung man {
wil
dyer in
pel
to
il
that a y Ww
Will €5C0o1
balls,
| i
or
mesns that
i and con
has ]
e }
of
TOM
SI
y result 1s the beasu f
Miss Joh angling is
jealons and is going abou
desperate measures,’
“Do you appear at balls
ewn name and do you give your busine
cards to the guests?"
“I appear at balls under va
names, I do this to avoid the imputa-
tion of flirting with the girls. Of course
I must protect my personal repute. I
wait on so many New York
ladies during the year that i
be introduced under the same name at
would be supposed that I
was trifling with the affections of a mul-
titude of young ladies, I generally am
presented as some distinguished person
from abroad, a count, a duke, or some-
thing of the sort, When I go to balls
at half price, I am introduced as
baron. I charge twenty per cent. extra
when I am introduced as a dude. There
many society people in New
York that the mistake is never discov
ered. Often at the close of a ball, when
the ladies are leaving, 1 hand a few of
them my business cards, and I find that
it Is a kind of advertising that pays."
~~
Benefited by Industrial Schools,
extremely
ita
meatal
nson
¥
v
inde
%
His
I were to
ney
schools that the children of the wealthy
and those of the poor derive the most
benefit from the instruction and per.
form their tasks in carpentry with the
greatest eagerness, The children of the
rich are pleased with the novelty of the
tools, and those of the poor are excited
to ambition for the sake of future gain
and come by inheritance to a eertuin
aptness in tools, The children of the
middie class seem to take less interest
in the subject of manual training,
—————— i —————
“Grr married, Charlie, get married,
One uever knows how cheaply ne can
live with a good, economical wife until
he tries it. Why, when I was married
I couldn't even support myself, while
How - "
“Weil?”
“Now my wife supports me, It is
ohenoer for me than being single.
CALIFORNIA.
and Perpetual Summer,
*‘It seems as though California has
become the great Mecca for tourists,
travelers, and homeseekers recently,”
sald one gentleman to another in one of
the hotels the other day, this within the
hearing of the ubiquitous reporter, who
began cogltating over the matter as to
why this was so, If true,
Learning that the Southern Pacific
company had an agent in this city at the
Sherman House, the reporter sought
him out, He found Mr, H. M. Van
| Arman, former secretary of Arizona
| dent of California, in the capacity now
of agent for the Bouthern Pacific vom-
| pany, and, as Mr, V, is a genial, free-
| spoken gentleman, had no difficulty in
{ ascertaining some facts about Califor-
nia which seem to be of general Interest
to 80 many who are contemplating a
trip to the Golden state that they are
given below,
The gentleman sald: “The
many people are going to California
plain. In all the states of the
Rocky mountains land is high. and t
peopie .
**The migratory instinct 18 well de-
veloped in the American people, who,
#3 a race, are perhaps greater travelers
th other the world, Then,
ing to Californi y GECADE
rs of a winter 1 A8 we
brough in Hlinoi for
ntry there is no snow nor
blizzards, and the soil 1% 80 pro-
ductive that it requires but little labor
to make it produce large returns.”
**What part of the state of California
offers the best climatic and other advan.
tages wile going there?’ was
v
Teéason si
}
i ng
ix
eas
ie
e crowding each other
“ai
¥
hil
too,
the
passing
that cot
nor cold
2 13% 1
Any in
o
*
wv
Sore
}
}
4
n
) are
L now, in
i 106
136
i
Lag to
asked,
“That depends upon the he
visitor has view. The climate of
California is good everywhere in that
state below the summit
Nevada mountains, There
difference Letween Shasta
L.os Angeles county, for
ture is not governed by the
ix Jad
in ia
’
}
lacts 1
objects t
in
¢ }
Oi i
iatitude As in states east of
Fo
»
mountains, I
of January
instance, «
* $ i is ¥
at Redding, In
: 3
ck M., Lhe
degrees. al
unly, at A.
mieler ma
degrees:
Angeles abo
neg a ttle y
Invalids seek sou
f
»
3000 NEW
15# they
ines is F
than New York.
th
aL
r is more
is, especially t
airy dise ASES, wiil 1
the S A ul
it To
Li] er We in
ohlv 11t
4 iy :
»
8 SU
alle yi ; er
BVaill Her
ills of
LY. rater
vicinit
with C
ig
+
“lL
thar Los
5 Those who are
aiifornia will
far as general farms
are i
n Callforma offer
wer the southern po
One |
lands have atta
lires years in ¢
iv }
prohil
eITas,
i
read
P45
raising concerned,
nort
! her
vantages
Severa
I'easons,
whic
‘+
past {
practic
n
5 Lh
¥
®
18 LIAS
. Fy
HNeaAns ii
JO ITes, I't
Mm going
the
by reas in
measure
the countr
rally
3
{
y¥, and t
increased. unt
all the way from $5
All kinds of farming
ate Jone by means of
is guile expensive, an
certain
“In central and northern C:
the climate advantages are good, land
13 comparatively cheap, and men of
noderate means can procure good
HOmas, There i8 room eno in the
val
i
in i
ue Sacramento to make homes
or hall a million people. Why, Tehama
county, one of the stale,
bas an acreage of about three million.
At least two-thirds of this is good ara.
ble and fruit land, and there are only
about seventeen thousand people 1a the
county, one-quarter of whom reside in
the city of Red Bluff. Land can be
bough. in this county for trom $10 to
$50 per acre, avhich if it were in Los
Angeles or San Bernardino county,
readily selis from $50 to $500 per acre,
| Butte county, just south of Tehama, is
also as fine a country as exists anywhere
im North America. No irrigation is
necessary in Northern California for
| successful farming or fruit-raising. The
Sacramento valley 18 over 150 miles
long and from 20 two 80 miles wide;
i through it runs the Sacramento nver,
{a broad, ncble stream, navigable for
i many miles, It is fed by the waters of
numerous clear cold streams which are
formed by the melting of the perpetual
snows on the summits of the Sierras,
i
if
: is
nia,
}
fh
i ugh
% #
al ey Of
the finest
waving grain, vineyards, orchards in
peaches, pears, figs, oranges, lemons,
i limes, almonds, filberts, pecans, ete,
| are evergreen oaks with their wide.
| spreading branches and graceful forms:
| the ait with fragrance; tall pines cover
i
low murmur of waves on the shores of
{ the Pacific ocean eighty miles distant.
Those who live in this valley, while en.
Joving the balmy alr of summer, can
look away off Lo the eastward and sce
the white snowdrifts on the summit of
thé mountains, so far that it seems like
a fleecy white cloud in the skies, The
streams which flow down the mountain
sides ure {illed with speckled trout, and
the canyons and foothills abound with
quail, grouse and rabbits, thusaffording
to the hunter the rarest sport. When
all these thangs are known, is it then
any wonder that people go to California?
Why in Illinois or lowa or Wisconsin
or Miguigan or Ohio, it takes a farmer
six months of hard work to earn enourh
¥
i
i
: :
| on a hundred acres to keep himself, his |
{ family and stock luring the six months |
of winter. And apropos of this subject |
{ in California great corn-cribs are un- |
| necessary to put up food for stock dur- |
ing winter, nor stacks of fodder, nor |
{ bay. The cattle just run around and
| get fat on the grass and wild oats, 1
| am merely telling you a few of the rea. |
| sons why people go to California, and
| those who do go there never regret it,
| Of course it is no place for idlers. Luck
| attends pluck there as here. Some
{ mouey Is requisite there as well as here,
| but skilled labor Is sought for and justly |
| rewarded in that eountry, The trip out |
| there 1s most delightful, whether you
| Bo via the Grand canyon of the Arkan-
| 8a8 or over the Rocky mountains, for
the ride isa poem in itself, and only
| takes four and a half days from i hi-
i Cago,
m————_—
An Experience.
ng in
that
afraid of death,
tiior
nigi
a AID A AAAS
Colgred Servantgalism in Texas
esse
FASHION NOTES.
~A muff and boa are the ecorrsc
furs to wear with a tailor sult, no mat
ter how cold the weather, the chamob
underwear in that case supplying thu
necessary warmth,
~The supremacy of beads and fu
upon morning loilettes gives no evi
Gence of decrease, The former ars ia
troduced into every species of trim
ming, and even find a place under the
¥ f
i
It often happens that by means o
their agency the borderings of fur seer
down the side of a dress are 80 unite
as to give to the folds underneath the
appearance of an ipserted panel.
~'f'he front of a black velvet gow:
had large bunches of wheat-ears em
broidered in beads so diminutive as te
give to the long spikelels the appear
anca of a painting in glistening black
he revers of the drapery were ap
wide s of white ottoman
silk alternating 1 the same in black
he weat-ear desig reduced in gize
18 shown upon the back of the bodice
and on the sleeves, while the high
was finished with
band, which fell over the
coal.
W
CO
iar barrister
1 waist-
a
SLI
rial
3
11 fy
E340
M
Parma
entirely composed of nat
nose
irda
violets
Ye iar
Lngiand #
sLAre
¢ 4
to these
i
-The
of
its
generat
we
gi
tal
ail
id
th ant followers of
1 obedience he changes an ri
ces of fashion, will again consent
the dire and extreme i
g 1 glove,
ixury and
Bee
to t
t
ever
to limitation of
oy Fe -* : a
ailer enjoy:
grace
ite
ng ih
a ‘=
impossibie
oi f
singie-buttor Tv
of Xx
uld in iu
Las repeated
$
‘
+ sey £31
3 “
in ui
4 ret
ug wristed
i fav
ngs
g gloves
or
=
shot io
ove
rnd
Al
own middie, bh
of the etamine, and
bow on the left
+
the {
Téverses
band
» i
dhavid
sag
rut
n
=
i
JY :
lair
wads in
shadings.: One
and amber pr
upon a reception gown of
iden-brown velvet combined
heavy corded kK of a
shade,
enmeral
’
(OR O £
+ ah 1 » 3
Li Castiinere |
yo
a
A rare
»
produced
wil
1
i
& +
iE much hil
in delicals
8 edges, are
4 pins
ough very light
aud airy looking, while wreaths, hal!
ribbon, half flowers, are equally pretty
especially one peach-pearl edged
ribbon and wistaria of the same shade
Many caps have also been made
divers shades of the Turkish embroid-
ery wilh sequins, while others in light
shades are almost entirely composed of
marabout., A good cap for everyday
wear for an elderly woman is made of
red, with a sguare crown, surrounded
by ribbon bows, a lappet hanging at
the side, edged with lace, which cenk
be brought forward or allowed to droo;
at the side, Useful velvet hoods of a:
entirely new form are made for theatre
wear; they consist of a hall handker
chief of black velvet, lined with quilted
ints
of
A hearing tha
needed a cook, applied for the position,
On being asked what her terms were,
Matildy replied with dignity
“1 wants a nicely fu raished room to
myself for de gennermens what visits |
Dey am gennermens from way
Dey belongs to de hoe roley.”
you want? asked
Matildy Snowball colored Iady of
Mrs, Col. Yerger
’
§
1 4
ustin,
H
nie.
back.
“Anything
Mrs, Yerger.
“I wants Saturday afternoon and all
day Sunday ter "muse myself.”
“1s that all?"’
“No, mmdeedy, dat ain
else
*®
Mon.
all,
Mysterus Order ob de Seben Wise Var.
gins, Tuesday afternoon and Friday
afternoon de Hallerluyer quire of de
Blue Light Culled Tabernacle has re.
hearsals, I'se de sopraner. 1 has ter
be out mos’ ob de day on Friday, be-
suse dats de day 1 returns calls, My
wages am fifteen dollars a mumf,”’
“And you stay away, more or less
five days in the week?’
“Yes, mum,’
“Well, what I want to know is
how much a month will you charge it
you stay away altogether?”
A moment later a dark shadow pass.
ed through the front gate of the Yerger
mansion,
nA SS 5080
The composition used by Mr, Hatch,
of San Jose, Cal, to kill phylioxera
consists of equal parts by weight of
sulphuret of carbon, potash, ox of
iron, and sulphur, mixed with eight
times the sama amaont of mercury.
the forehead caught down hy a strap of
ribbon, a coquettish bow at the side
and ribbon strings to tie under the
chin, A very stylish dress trimming
terflies, all of the samedtone, at inter
vals; an algrette of the same nuxtur
accompanmed this for the hair.
~-A coat dress of French cashmers
designed by Mme. Jeanette, of Regen!
was entirely boraered with
golden beaver, and had the fur carried
and fastened with corded
in
The beaver bordering which
lines on the coat. The same fur per.
formed similar service on the velvet
muff and toque, the bow of the latter
being fastened on with a steel dagger.
In another dress the entire front was of
embroidered jet | up on one side
with deep flowing , and it had a
jet pannier on the revers knotted with
black velvet loops. In the centre of its
velvet train was inserted a breadth of
faille looped below the waist into @
butterfly bow. The high bodice of this
gown was formed by alternate piece:
of velvet and faille molded to the
figure, and had a front of jet with
transparent sleeves of the same to cor
respond, A pointed stomacher of hard
Jet was supplied both to the Tront and
of the low bodice, and flied up
with a jetted chemisetin