The Two Lights “When I'm a man,’ the stripling cries, And strives the coming years to scan, “Al, then I shall be strong and wise, When I'm a man.” “When I was young,’ the old man sighs, ““Bravely the lark and lionet sung Their carol under sunny skies, When [ was young,'' “When I'm a man I shall be free I» guard the right, the truth uphold.” “When I was young I bent no knee To power or gold.”’ ““I'hen shall I satisfy my soul With yonder prize, when 1'm a man.” “Too late I found how vain the goal To which I ran.” “When I'm a man these idie toys Aside forever shall be flung,” “There was no poison in my joys When 1 was young." The boy's bright dream is all before; The man's romance lies far behind, Had we the present and no more, Fate were unkind. But, brother, tolling in the night, Still count yourself not all unbles If in the East there gleams a light, Or in the West. STOLEN FROM THE FORT. The sro shone as brilliantly on the parade-ground at ort Fletcher as though 1t was an earthly paradise in- stead of a bleak and ugly bit of. Mon- tana prairie, cut off from its parent wilderness only by some rough defenses nd two rows of sufficiently ill-built uarters, Mabel rch Heriot, ting in a small in front of her husband’s quar- ters, her f{ingers busy with some hu darns in a pair of scarlet stockings, turned her pretty, discontented than was good for the pro- work, to another pair of 3 which flashed and re eves, more often f her SLOCK1 gress of scarlet out a 8 Ig in mong an activity which promised her more darning in the near future, for they wlonged to ber small son, and though rottie was ouly three years old, he had early manifested a positive genius for wear and tear, holding his own In that, as in other boyish attributes, among the elder children with a cheer- ful self-confidence which filled mother with mingled admiration regret. Life had been so easy—no cares, respousibilit anxieties — while everything a girl could desire of lux- iry, amusement and admiration had heen showered upon her as the adopted of a wealthy and rather tyrannical, been quite perfect ed with Tom ont ball, and read some heard somethin his and no 1€8, no | $1 wughter hough jad all nad dan West I” is bl generous, uncle. It until l Heriot ue eve 8, ice at stirred . pleasant vi La ICL w ber lif ii DO vel the conv e had seemed, y empty aud desolate banish Lb wnd that I yugh to the stormy SE ¢ ¥ es t—a conviclie SLrot ort n Ma her through all 3cenes ht followed her un oT engage me a ng enot cle's bitter oppo- nt to a penniless igh to make her declaration that she wose between her lover and him her hand in T I{eriot's, ate protest that where must she follow, even ) the world's end. Her thoughts came back suddenly to he present al a usual from the children, and she Tr cantering toward her stride of a stick, while half the pleats of his kilted rt trailed behind him. Oh, what a boy!" she cried, rising to atch him as he passed. An Indian woman, with a f bead at reply Lo must ch hy putting with th ie we though 1t om £ passion nt, there t were t re uproarious shout i ¥ wiian i SAW itis ski basketful work strapped to her back, stood at the motl and child, with a Mf yearning sorrow Lier eyes, half touched, half frightened wm want?’ she er mn ng white mother answered, gravely, hand on Trottie's pretty boy she reath between each pretly r happy. pirit take my Then with a gesture of despair teh all her wonderful savage endur- nee subdue, she clasped th hands before her face and sank on with sobs which uggled to silence. I'he tears filled Mabel's eyes, but she dood hesitating what to do, her aver. ya to Indians, which was the natural result of four years spent in their near neighborhood, striving with her com- passion for the grief which most ap- peals to a woman's sympathy. tut no doubt troubled Trottie, Grief was evident in every line of the bent, trembling figure, and for every griet in can boy so She . 4 could nd er Knees, shaking har wt ill at ie SLI Sir sure and unfailing. once, “Not cry any more!” he said in his cheerful little voice, and kissed the ouly bit of brown cheek which her clasped hands left visible, She turned as though she would have had clasped her boy fast, with a sudden terror, sharp though indefinable. The Indian rose slowly, her face re- covering its usual calm as she did so, “Pretty boy very good to me; white mother not be alraid me hurt him,” she said, and walked away with a grave dignity which brought a shamed color to Mabel’s face, She stepped forward with an impulse to say something xind, but paused with a smile at herself, hat shy, half amused. What could she say of conso- lation that an Indian woman would understand, whose religious faith was probably even more vague than her knowledge of English? Andshe shrank from offering a grief that was so real and so dignified the usual very substan- tial cure of squaw troubles, No, Trot- tie has done all that could be done to show thelr sympathy. Poor soull what- over else she might fail to comprehend, she had understood the touch of those babyrhps, With a kiss that was even more ten- der than usual, Mabel Herlot took her boy on her knees, and told him fairy stories until dinner time; to the utter negléct, of the undarned stockings and the torn skirt. All that day Mabel felt strangely | anxious and restless when Trottie was | out of her sight, But hy the next | morning common-sense h gotten the | better of imagination, and, absorbed 1n | her every-day duties, she allowed him | to play with the other children on the | parade-ground. At 2 o'clock the maid | was sent to bring him in to dinner, he | having falled to appear as hungrlly | prompt as usual, In a quarter of an | hour she returned, full of mingled ex- | citement and fright, and said that, not | finding Trottie on the parade, she had gone to the houses of the other officers’ children, only to be told that Trottie was not with any of them. Nor had he been seen for some time. Then Mabel, | a terrible certainty stabbing her heart | with a pang that made her falr face | look suddenly gray and aged, cried, sharply, “That Indian woman has | taken him! My baby! my baby!” | In vain Tom Heriot assured her that | their naughty boy, who was a great | pet in the regiment, would surely be { found in one of the soldiers’ quarters, { feasting his eyes and ears with strange | sights and sounds. “Go and see,’ she said, hoarsely, find her.” i When he came back presently, very white and quiet, from his | search, the alarm had spread, and there were kind faces and mysterious sugges- tions and offers of assistance in Mabel’s | little drawing-room, which suddenly looked so desolate. Nobody but Mabel gave the Indian woman more than a passing thought, for they were all used to dally v from Indians, who had long been per- fect peaceful, and were believed quite incapable of a bolder crime than petty dishonesty. Desides, what mo- tive could tempt them to steal a child, whose discovery in their hands would | be most certainly severely punished, while even his undiscovered possession could not avail them in any way? It was not long before a soldier was sent, after a whispered consultation to climt down the bluff at the further end the parade, toward which the mothers in the garrison had been shudderingly ever since the news of Trottie's disappearance. In a terribly short time he returned, the tears filling Lins kindly Irish eyes, and in his hand rottie’s little fez, which he had found half-way down the bluff, just where a rock overhung tl swilt A great silence fell upon the which had been 80 full of exclt and voices which had hope and courage to Mabel Ww Tom Heriot, his wife's chair, lai 5 and sobbed, Mabel who spoke, almost a strange strained voice instinct with energy, + isits f11 iu f Ui glancing r i % ’ ’ 16 Y ellowstone, fort $ vu * 14 Simei the th en Knes It was once, in Was someting yel was despair, **Tom, darling, do Our boy pr Ise yet which, If itl wera no ’ a oad hat tt wa i » resolved Lal IL would 1 never wen. me again not near this morning he woul . and he would no break a I'om, more than from any ng her belief true, Tom, with another officer and a few soldiers rode to the little Indian camp about a mile from the f only to nothing was left of i% bul some out fires, thing i strong conviction seemed to pass int I'om Heriot's heart at the sight of that sudden y deserted camp. “We must make up several parties and search for them,” he sald, briefly, to the officer with him, #3 they rode back fort, but there was the | ight of a new hope iu his eyes, There is this much family in such a small and community as the garrison at Fort Fletcher, that, however much they may quarrel among themseives In prosperity, touch of a great sorrow on one of its members effaces all asperitias for t time in the remembrance of how and entire is their mutual pendence on each other, From the colonel down to latest arrived re- cruit there was no heart in the ment that did not feel a pang at the that irned- wife's § i Mita Some of his Li $4 to the - iW of resemblance to a the ne closa de. t} wae figure which, the rush of straight baby carried away io whether the Yel- had little There were Indian hiding-place, they hope of seeing him again, asked for them, and with the last one to set out Tom went himself, after a sharp struggle between his restless de- sire to be doing something toward burden of suspense alone, It was she who sent him away in the end. | and she was left to wear through the precious to her in that long watching, | because they seemed to assure her, with the dumb force of everyday association with him, that it was impossible he could be really gone forever, All that night and the next day she lived through her suspense as women live through such agonies, Sometimes on her knees, sometimes pacing up and down, answering when she was spoken to, eating and drinking when told to do so by the friends who took it in turn not to leave her alone, But whatever she did, her whole heart, her whole was one wild prayer—such a prayer as most or us make in our bitterest needs, and whose lonate rebellion against what may His will, the God who made human love sostrong must surely forgive, even when he does not heed it. It was nearly sunset on the following day when Mabel rose suddenly from her knees, * Listen!’ she sald, sharply. There were hurned steps coming aeross the parade, and it (lashed through her heart that no one hurries to tell bad news, The door was pushed open by a soldier, for once too eager to remember ceremony, “The squaw has brought him back,’ he cred, Yes, she had brought him back; for there she stood in the doorway, hollow- eyed, and dust-stained with her long tramp over the prairie, while out from her blanket, where she had carried Bim pappoose fashion, looked Trottie’s tired little face and anxious blue eyes, For a while there was a bregthless, blissful confusion of Kisses and sobs and tender half-uttered words, as Mabel with eyes and lips and fingers assured herself that her boy was safe and sound as when he had been taken from her. Ah! surely there are mo- ments of this sad world whose joy heaven itself can not surpass, and no angel's song will ever thrill Mabel’s heart with more perfect rapture than did the weary content in Trottie’s little voice as he tucked his head down close under her cheek and murmured: “Trottie does love his own mamma more dan tongue can tell.” “Pretty boy happy new,” said the Indian woman abruptly, yet with a tones. They were the first words she had uttered, as she stood silent and dry-eyed among all those happy, tear- ful women, and a8 she spoke she turned as if to go, but Mabel’s voice stopped her, “Why did you bring him back to me?” she asked, holding her tightly to her breast—a possessed him could give him up again overcoming all her shrinking horror, “Him pretty boy, but not mine,” the Indian answered. And then, laylog one hand on ber breast, “Me not want white mother to feel ache here, hike me feel; so me bring her boy back to her.” **But why did you cried one of the ladies, eagerly, **Me not take him,’ s replied; and very briefly, in her imperfect she told them what On Ler return Lo the that she had first seen T told her husband that of their dead . believing that the chil her, bad gone without her of his purpose, and ! get Trottle under his when he was playing quite alone on the parade, and had persuaded the child, who was as little afrald an Indian as of a white man, that If hejwould keep quite quiet he would a very ul after thrown bluff to avert the sentry he brought tried to neither she nor’ take him, theny English, DOY AI ' 10 SAY i Y 1 dd managed to danke! of take him 10 see wr arf r T v wonderf In WARY having abt RIgH * ’ ilown Lhe ey had passed together, he slient, child to the foil broken up a their marc! trict $ walc! paused, and fash- | alia Will, sliens oun, Mabel rose her with him in her arms, good woman!" with all her ¢ ion to le came tow sod bless you, you gad, Ther 3 Yar sith taonnnit fa nd shaken with tender joy, an who would fain share she could, with this other desolate whom would ever » softly. of he of one to one v bill her child nn: “See how | no again on this side of Appy he 100Ks, Y ou not wake.” » » - * * our they Bi ’ 2s i WY O8 her a few bh 8 and eat little They kept made her rest when Tom Heriot, his return, would have her all sorts and kinds of would take nothing, ‘*Me want nothin she in the first j bestowed upon rewards, she g while mother can give,” gravely, as she nad answered Mabel on the day she had first seen Ler, And t waving her band toward the prairie: **Me go back to him out there. Him very good man to me.’ And so she left thew. answered, hen E81 a - - o-oo About Ringe Solemn betrothal by rings were often gone through with mn the middle ages between lovers who were about to be separated for a long period, and the ceremony was considered as binding as marriage. It was a pretty custom long, long ago, for lovers to exchange rings, like one in return. inside. When Dr. John Thomas, bishop of Lincoln, was married for the fourth thue, in 1753 he had engraved on the wedding ring: If I survive, I'll make them five.” Ages ago they had a fancy for wed- ding rings which was very suggestive, A stone was inserted in one ring on which was engraved an intaglio repre- senting a hand pulling an ear, over which was 1nseribed one word ‘'Re- member,’ The fourth finger of the left hand has been from earliest date the wedding ring finger. The ancient belief was that a nerve in this finger went directly to the heart. The Greeks and Romans believed so thoroughly in this that their physicians termed it the healing, or medical finger, and always stirred their medical mixtures with it, a How They Dress in Japan. The Japanese are complaining that the comic opera ‘‘Mikado’’ has sent Japan back twenty years in the popular opinion and esteem. The Japanese have not worn oriental costumes for fully that length of time. The Mikado dresses like any English or American gentleman, and so all of his sub- jects, except such of the extreme lower classes who are too poor to afford to buy modern clothes, Upon great court occasions the oriental spirit comes out in gay colors and a superabundance of gold and jewels, but cut and design are European. FARMING IN CHINA, Orderly Mulberry Orchards and Well. Kept Fields Hiding Their Riches. In passing through the slik-growing districts, which begin very near to Shangha: and extends all around to the city of Hangchow, I could but be struck indeed with the comfort which | prevailed everywhere, The farmhouses of China, or at any rate in that part of China, were models of what farm- houses should be. I had expected to see squalor and wretchedness, and was not prepared for what I beheld. Ex- ceeding goed gardening I was prepared for, for Chinese gardening is synony- mous with everything that is neat and But the orchards and mulberry trees all beautifully trimmed, the brick-built and excellent | houses half-hidden away in them, cer- | chanced to | land from my houseboat frequently in order to shoot woodcock, for it was To get these birds it was | necessary to scramble over the flelds | and through the mulberry orchards of the district, and I was simply amazed | beautifully the groves and trees were kept. Underneatn great quantities of vegetables were grown, not a foot of earth appearing to be wasted, and every inch was in the most superb order, Had the whole country been a vast garden could have better tended and cared for, There were not thereabouts any hedges or walls; the fields were divided from each other by deep dikes, which served loubl marking out the land and i draining, as the case might be, the adjacent soil The ight 1 nt . . . 1s trees, myriads, ; it not been the « f which there wers mathematical y vide order, OQ were all exactness and in the greatest the trees in many kong s. which seem to have been stud k he ground with a view of wasting as much space #8 possible, And as for the tops of the trees, they had all been carefully trimmed to the same pallern, bough having and cut as ci o require, 1 } thing haif so on 1 1 3 » unlike iglish ore chard * * been rumstia LAW every little grains Land Bp weg chanced t i 3 3 Lhe worl ornamental gardens whict through, but mulbe tending over hunt {f count different house comfort poms sel apart and K-WOritns, yusly clean i were and warm se £2. Ail vy hous: ¥ any oue and * ALG €3% cls triads Aint LIS GIST me when 1 was in this coun- I ' . ther increased contentment springing the opening of some large factories at hanghal by A h firms, Hitherto # was a very general feel- & ir the Cases and tor the silk thus indiffer- ently wound and the prices paid for it were alike small. But with the estab- lishment of silk-winding factories filled with steam machinery at Shanghal it silk om one in most Lthemseives, he demand growers that the price of cocoons would go up, and that consequently silk-growing would improve as an In- dustry. In any case the entire popula- tion seemed 10 be prosperous and well contented. It does always do to the dress of any Chinaman a3 an index to the wealth he may possess He may have many reasons—among them beinz a dread of attract the attention of some rapacious mandarin for not showing more richness of attire than is absolutely necessary, and may prefer to go aboul in warm rags rather than run the risk of being ‘squeezed’ by officials, so that many a traveler may mistake this international poverty of attire for want of money. 1 had pointed out to me in Canton one day, for example, A par- ticularly woe-begone-looking China- man going up ths street, The gen- tleman who was a resident on the ad- jacent island of Shamien, sald: ‘Poor? I wish I was as rich as that Chlnaman, Why, half the European houses here are in his debt; but if he showed this by his dress the mandarin here would soon borrow a trifle of him.”’ iad HO take * fever iim he the ($4 local A A - To 8ail Under the Waves, submarine boals is inventor has in English A new idea In other words, it shuts up the latter, A boat of this kind, which could dive down and hang a torpedo to an adversary’s keel would be an awkward customer to deal with in a naval battle, Perhaps the seafights of the future are going to be decided under water, as the land wars may be decided by baloons in mid-air, The new idea, however, is only in its infancy yet, and may not be practically developed for a long while, The tele- scoping boat to which we referred is sald to work satisfactorily, but it has only been tried, so far, in the shallow and placid waters of the London docks, ~At Macey Bros.’, Versailles, Ky., Laura Thompson, by Dictator, dam Lydia Thompson, record 2.264, dropped a fine bay filly on April 14, by Messen ger Chief, and a thoroughbred mare by Bay Dick dropped a colt on the 18th by Rienzi, Both are the property of (Gieorge A. Singerly, — William M. Singerly’s b, m. Fan. nie K., by Messenger Chief, dropped a bay foal on April 14th, by Rienzi, Ty a Versailles, Ky. ~China miks—white, black, lead, serpent, yellow, rose pink, blue mauve and all intermediate shades of color artistic enough for the “‘three little maids''~are seen in profusion on retall dry goods counters, —- EA—— FASHION NOTES. Fine steel trimmings of all kiuds are greatly in favor, and no wonder; they are bright, and show off nearly all colors to advantage, Panels of dresses, long V-shaped pieces for be had in thus fine steel work, well with revers of mousse velvet on a white satin dress, —Summer dresses will much Swiss embroidery in white on net, and there is an evident HORSE NOTES, August Belmonts once noted race mare Sultana dropped April 34, a chestnut eolt, by St. Blaise, the Eng- lish Derby winner. —J. N. Wilson, of Easton, bas sold place of lace. There i588 new and a thick pattern in silk, like coral; and colored silk laces, which kinds of are new, for all tulles purposes, and there Btriped are some fashionable material for bali gowns. —Materials for spring aod summer millinery are unusually rich and varied, are black and tinted beaded in jet, pearl, helictrope yellow, pale blue and pale pink beads in five new patterns, embroidered velvets in very elegant designs, Oriental em- nets in great variety, Nea- crapes in exquisite summer embroidered crepe de chine, f1t silk nets, politan tints, an endless variety of s surahs, elon kK tissues, laces, mines and fancy silk of fancy ribb evening gowns — Bands ns ) tea and ure on as 1 anni the appiu mings, } : w > gold never metallic are much v divisible beads, fashion: the anf beads, i # 7611101 Yeunieus, 1ibbons have iioned glace with the mirasting « somewhat “al f the spring. narrow satin which and on rosettes, There are nu wh of re in the effect. nts among the new probably take the place cardinal and red seasons. These in various Lapestiry’y old rose.” to the brill which repeat the wild-rose and colors, Known colors lant shades rose sh tones of ¢ ink, known as fant Charles X shades and are usually Other pink as ‘“‘cru- which in aii ' colors, the tints of shades are variously stacea’ and “veron Japan," : its palest tint approaches in ir the brilliant hue of the Japanese minnow, and darkest shades becomes a purplish mageuta. The ‘‘Sammant” col n the color, checks, in shades of tan, leaden grays and browns, have many of them a large crossbar taken over their surface by means of a DAITOW ine in bright colors, such as blue, car- dinal and gold. There are many gowns made entirely of these mixtures. In others the closely fitting habit bodice and petticoat are of the check, the overdrapery, cuffs and collar of plain cloth, the skirts, which are plain front and full behind, front drapery takes the form of a long square tabler, divided from the back folds either by a panel or by a simula- tion of one, due to plaited folds of the check. In the habit bodices made of this goods the lapels round the neck like a gentleman's coat fastened with a couple of buttons at the neck, instead of descending to the chest, The under waist is also on a new model, and in- stead of being carried high into the somewhat low to leave room for the folded cravat which com- pletes the costume, Other models have the skirt drapery all cut in one piece and so arranged as lo suggest an un- “ 5 fine he tiny t n nr no QL the 1 in il jooped over a kilt on the Jefi accompanying bodices to thrown back revers, displaying in- serted waistcoats of pale blue or white, with the centre of the throatiel to and the sleeves closing with three buttons over an undercuff which matches the waistcoat, —Tallor-made gowns have taken a new departure. Heretofore shey have been so painfully plain as to cause one to wish they had never been created. Es- pecially was this the case when they were worn by fat and ill-shaped people. And for some inexplicable reason the above mentioned always icsist upon wearing them. It 18 most surprising that women will not see for themselves what they should wear and what they should let alone. One cannot Imagine a more trying costume for one’s figure than a tailor-made costume, unless it be a bathing dress after being in the water, and only women with a perfect shape should ever affect one, However, there is a change for the better, and while they are quite severe in outiine and gen- eral d still there is an improve. ment for better. Velvel, plush and silk are being introduced as walst- coats, collars and ravers upon those ser- viceable looking materials with which all ornamentation has hitherto been dissociated, and panels of contrasting color and more delicate substance are not frequently introduced. Large square plaids in neutral tints are used both as loose draperies and boxplaited panels, while some in bright colors are used as loose draperies on plain skirts of velvet, plush or fallie. Stripes are also used in the sane manner. A man must become wise at his own expense. ~The Volante- The Bard match race will probably fall through since Mr, declines to make a match until after his Chicago engagements in July. —There are at least six supsrior 4- year-olds now at the Memphis course, namely, Montana Regent, Jim Gray, Elkwood, Bir Joseph, Free Knight and Climax. —FE! Monte and Gollah, two of Bald- win’s Derby colts, were given a trial of a mile and a half just before leaving California, and El Monte won by more than a length. Rugn- new the A ih —The Aberdeen Trotting and ning Association is the name of a turf club just organized in one principal towns Mississippi. mixed meeting will be May. — Robert 2.19, is nearly will keep should greatest HF i of given £3 + hie not i v Were scored ms igi. Railey, of saddle ola Fmmet, the as y the b. g. Hamlet fo worses were sold fron "ry + wv . “arly als ¥ 3 Jnmet not Having seen ei Home, «ft at it at at iil Thompson as Maude Messenger nee Wilkes 1s fal looks for a — At a special meeting Jersey Associ f " hhald 4 i el 15 TO0 1 rey fers ther pr nal Trott heap class tions the co f ew Wil yn at Ch the ng associa The Board of Rev fully consider this quest A cheap fee will bring into scores of Fair associations, +} ne - ~~ F Hg OwWoe:s Ji — Nathan Straus jolica, in reply to J. HH. Temple's chal- lenge, says: *‘I will trot his horse J. Q. (or any other horse he owns), and will be most happy to accommodate him in a match race, to be troited over the track of the Driving Club New York, at Morrisania, on Wednesday, June Sth, providing it is a good day and track, the match to be for $1250 a side, half forfeit, winner to take what- ever the track will offer in the shape of gate money ora purse. Iam a mem- ber of the Executive Committee of the Driving Club, and would like Mr, Temple to make all the arrangements as to the gate money.’ Mr. Temple's challenge to match a horse against Ma. jolica was generally supposed to have been on behalf of J. Q., but Arab, it is now said, was the horse meant. ¥ Ol ~The sensation of the week has ng stopped in his work. and those who have backed him for the Suburban and Withers are at thelr wit’s end to know what to do. It 1s said that tbe trouble is sore heels, and that the Dwyers have let him up, put him in physic and will slowly pre- pare him for the Suburban. We have, during the week, had an interview with a practical trainer who saw Tre- in his that he fears his tendon is involved. He moved a half mile with Hanover in 58 seconds, and the trouble began from that time. The trainer in question says he doubts if Tremont will stand a strong preparation, and thinks it likely his usefulness as a first-class horse is al an end. It may ba that Tremont’s trouble is exclusively in his feet and that his legs are sound. —Some of the gentlemen who have entries in the race at Suffolk Course for road horses that have no records better than 2.30 are professedly diasat- isfied and disheartened because one of the horses named is reported to have gone a mile to a skeleton wagon in 2.31§. The complaining ones now wish to make a distinction between a track and a road horse on the slender ground that some of the owners have placed their horses in the hands of professional drivers for track preparation, so that the trotters may be in condition for the race. But all the others have the same privilege. Nearly all of the horses named have trotted public races, and some have records. It would have
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