temotely Akin. Our friends are like the buttercups That turn plain flelds to gold With bounty manifold; Love is like the sweet wild rose Which fills a hidden place With fragrance, color, grace ; Mor vet the dower scorns 'f beauty saving thorns. While and Friendship is a country rich n mead waters, A land of quiet moods; {ke a mountain fair dangers flow WH, WOOL § nee But Love is foys, tumult Adown iis al While higl ys solemn ¢ below, \ t the ski with swill caress ; p has a lake's repose; gid lies Acid SKirs, DeaAvYens an ih wnceast eye I ' x ha "i ob of I suppose be has some sort ol o Battersley, or the ‘t have adjudged i supreme in ttohim,”’ aid I. “Law isn’t always He's a selfish, abominable old r. that! have it what he isl’ your own way,’ said ily ved to fancy that she looked at me by times. with a cuiious, icy gaze as 1 went to and fro, “Hush!” 1 said, suddenly, to myself, with a tin tube of ultra-rmarine in my t the coulrary, It did not believe it was burglars, the same, time however, I wanted ‘the house as quick as pos- pony to-day. Don't want to rier «1 should like to,” said I, wistfully, “hut if that picture is to goin autumn exhibition there is no time to you OS ; rising swiftly oar like a wild I did not tide, i § 18 marshes, woul ound my path, i r tl thie rescue, said he, with solic hastened to hurt?’ I eried out “I have sprained my ankle.” 1 1 ¢ + $ 1 fas But-—I beg your pardon “II don’t quite know who J nor how you came here, “I am Barbara Battersley," sharply. he said, Ou are, 'e said I 4 “My cousgin?’’ with a sudden bright- 80,” I ungraciously “Yes, 1 suppose ! tered down the stairs, I'he morning had been clear and odd fs window to read an volume of “Anne of Geierstein,’”” and eat my lunch, 1 noticed that dark clouds had swept over the sky, and an uneasy wind was rifling the dead-gold of the hickory boughs, and long before it was night the gathering gloom warned me that it was time to desist from my labors, I began to put away my things in a eisurely way. I did not dislike the old garret at twilight, I enjoyed the eerie shadows that peopled itsdim recesses, the elm boughs against the window-panes, the creaking groans which seemed, ever and anon, to thrill through the old chim- ney-stack without any apparent cause; the skurry of the bright-eyed mice across the floor, There was a portrait of my great. great-great-aunt Batterslev behind the big red chest—a hard favored old dame, whese canvas had been rent apfast by some untoward accident, nobody knew bow, any years ago, thereby banishing it to this unfrequented region. And I “What can I do for you?" tioned, earnestly. “You can let me alone!” I cried, contracting my brows, as a fresh spasm of pain thrilled my nerves, He looked at me, half smiling. “I could, I suppose,’ said he; he ques- “but doctor, if you'll kindly direct me to one?’ His manner was kindly, although a little satirical. I was heartily ashamed of myself, “I beg your pardon!’ Isaid, “You couldn't help my clumsiness, and you cannot prevent the pain, Dut. At this moment of thundering knocks at the door. ' It had become of me, “It's raining like the deluge” he, ‘and the tide is up, and said Is anything the matter?’ I don't know what happened just then. 1 believe I fainted. When [came to my senses mamma was there, and the doctor, and cousin Battersley’sjltalian servant, who knew exactly what to do in every emergency. And my ankle was bandaged up, and they had made an inpromptu couch for scarlet plush 1a way rug. And mamma was crying and decla- ring that she did not Know what she | Rudolph Battersley’s Kindness and pres- | mind, We staved there all night, because of | the rain and the rising tide, We stayed | there during the ne week, because Rudolph declared that he could never ettled without 1 taste and mam- and Sim m’'s help. woe concluded to remain because Rudolph ison of thu | us and wi 1s tha he vt AL { rel ny Ie 8 aAvico And { 1 ¥ grever, the HUI Cie i } who | Wii | ad sued 1 i Hee grandfath - Forms of Taking an Oath -- Suicides of Children. recentls ol he fact hat an in number of cases are from time to There is ng pecially distressing in the fact th sciousness may be, and often is fully influ 4) i whe eal t under notice, sometl al con. , 80 pain. by circumstances y stages of life that death is as a relief from misery. It seems to us that well within the limits of sanity a perverse, or morally cow- ardly, or very much worried conscious. may reason the proposition that life is not worth living and clude to die, Precisely the same pro- cesses which go on in the mind of an adualt may be in operation in the mind of a child. There is, iu short, no rea- | son why the young should not commit | suicide as well as the old, if only hope, which, in a very practical way, may be said to be an essential of life—Iis crushed | out of existence, The mind in which | hope dies may court death, and yet be | in some sense morbid, It is difficult, but it is possible, to slay hope in the life of a child, and when this is ae- | complished it is not unreasonable to | suppose that despair may end in self- | slaughter, The intense haste of life and enterprise is doubtless one of the 3 auses of suicides and there be no ques- tion that our system of forced educa. tion, and the premature imposition of hideous brain tasks on the young, press heavily on the consciousness, We ven- ture to think this subject of suicides among children is one which ought to be taken into very serious consideration by those who are responsible for the | operation of laws which may ultimately render the population more erudite, but which will not, unless greatly modi- | fied, make them happier, or, in a social | sense, mare prosperous than heretofore, " APB Short back und long front tabs are the distinguishing marks of nav wraps. nfluenced in ) l sough ness out “31 CON~ COFFEE AND TEA. A the New Glare at Wholesale Trade in York. Part of Wall street is not Wall street at all. Down by the ferry, around Front and Water streets, there 1 stock and bond flavor whatever down there smack of ( i Brazil and of Cuba, nearer home, Down in lea. oof] IZAr the roost, If there i who W Hou ning, 0 th and e6. | 1 & Keeper i An Expert's Opinion of Exerc se itself a very | We know tl live, whether waking that wonderful organ Keeps up its wonderful contractions and expan- But. when we use our muscles, their contractile force upon the blood- vessels helps the blood along its chan- 1434 i MITA IE ns ake the heart nuscular fibers, ind 2 we as sleeping or HIONAK, with less effort, While helping heart, muscular exercise helps the lungs also. More « xercise means for the lungs more breath: that is, more air inspired more carbonic-acid gas expired, muscles are strengthened, While the lungs and heart are doing better work under the stimulus of mus- cular exercise, the heart pumping the blood more certainly to the fartherm st tissue of the body and the lungs more rapidly purifying the blood, other or- gans are benefited. The diaphragm that muscle separating the lungs and heart from the stomach and liver, is rising and falling, and, with the in- creased expansion and contraction of the walls of the thorax, is moving all the contents of the abdomen to activity. The liver, the great gland of the body, has not only more blood sent to it, but is actuated to action, res —--— —Iin colton dress is Are some beautiful styles in plain cloths for skirts in all the shades of blue, brown, tan, mode and buff, and raised stripe effects for the overskirts, These raised stripes are in all colors, and match nicely with the plain grounds. Tufted effects in rich colors are also introduced in combination with plain grounds, FA5131l0ON NOTES. i for dressy frocks for young girls, | The safest colors for cheap por- tieres ars olive-green and brick-red, — Fine woolen Lissues with silk of a lighter shade, forming stripes or squares, and a small pattern of silk dots, or gmail flowerets of silk, imitating embroidery in relief, 1s scattered all upon the dark ground. Cit iYel “eave 8, ovel Extremely Spring are ci Sometimes the colors; sometimes own natural tint; the; almost entirely prevly HE POSE( Wings i they! Lil nfs pull In the n introduced fo EAS01 we pater rome have woolen gro ghades of p relief are In designs in nat — Handsome are much i and box-plaited case. and also tumes of fine cloth empio for tures oi vigogne, ined with these skirt very frequen . and gam Or also coml str 13 among eleg e¢ Bengaline and velvet iped , with Russian polo- nalse above, made of the richest satin chess in one plain color of Suede, iden fawn, nut-brown, silver or En- sh violet—which last-named color is a trifie deeper n the old-fashioned bishops’ purple. This stylish overdress is made very long, with full g at th 1 draping the sides, and a very graceful adjust ment over the tournure, the chosen shade of the lustrous satin nvanably according in tint with one of the col- ors in the Roman-shaped petticoat, two directly opposing styles, the bell skirt and the inverted bell skirt, the one designed for ladies inclined to stoutness. which shows the back of the skirt draped wit fulpess at collapse as it nears the back of the hips and waist. The extreme of this style 18 for slender woman, the fulness coms ing just below the waist, i er ——————————————— HORSE NOTES, om Tanner's Vernette trotted a mille, he bellef is garmng ground that at the sides and over th The effect, when arranged is excellent. distended tournure, | in moderation, the fabric is light or white, these tints naturally adding to the appearance of | great size, They destroy all natural | symmetry, and often { ludicrous and ‘‘squatly’’ appearance. | over from Paris are made of silk ela- | mine, | lovely tints, and zephyr silk muslin | embossed with raised velvet fgures, | The brim of the bonnet is covered with dark velvet in black, gelden-brown, terra cotta or Japanese red, and the garnitures are light a‘grettes and crape flowers. Preity day bonnets, to be worn at 5 o'clock teas, ete., are of fancy rough straw trimmed with velvet and high mentures of French flowers, and also of dainty nets worked with colored heads in shaded effects; and coquettish shirred silk bonnets trim- med with gold or silver powdered aig. | rettes and sprays of white lilac in soft- est velvet. Huge butterflies, both of bronze and gold-powderad gauzes are again used upon summer bonnets by leading milliners, Straw round hats in dove color and mushroom shades ure trimmed with golden-brown picot vel vet, ribbon loops mixed with golden. brown tulle, into which are set large | plaques of scarlet Japan poppies, stakes, Reventy-slx wears and 18 a very ~The little pacer no boots or Loe-weignis good actor. —R. I. Heed, cently pald $2500 trial of 2.26 of New York, re- for the b, g. John H., the ful Maud B Jii= -Russella, + Bisler OR her side, on Mr, y A i miarilie. Dey wit has a ner’s farm, a bay coi 5 record purse of $17 Ju yble has arrives with his iu £ E.. Bouni and Charley Hoga. -A. B. has bought Lhe pacer, f ¥ i603 el Ard On Driving — Budd C from ding slabie, sifornia in 5 real e Mclzregor Oliver Bapks, of ian ght of W. C. France the b, rankfort, 2 years, by Onward, J I.ady Bolton by Bolton, for $10 uvus, rge . dam (260 ih he ntil every —At R. Gentry & Son's Stock Farm, Rosa Ken the dam of Messenger | 1 a bay filly colt by Gambell: Also the dam of Ea a bay bolt 1 ney, - Ln te Gropp by Gam- nestine » 3 dropped believes in Callfor- fed California hipped a supply to his st The greater par 8 cut before hay, ables Aali- the wheat ared like timothy or has 8 he East, hav crop fields just 8 C heads out, and 1s clover hay. ~The belting r the Suburban to 1 Tremont, 8 to 1 The Bard, Ben All, Bob Fisher, and Sir Joseph, 20 to 1 Blue Wing, Billy Gilmore, Exile, Bonnie 'rince, Guenn and Rataplan, 30to 1 Alf Estill, Barnum, Electric, Kirkman, Lafitte and Wickham, ~The late Mrs. Hiram Woodrun willed to Isaac Woodruff a cane pre- sented to her husband twenly-two years ago. It 1s a heavy ebony stick. On an embossed gold head Is inscribed: “Presented to Hiram Woodruff by his friend William M. Rose, September 18. 1865." isd to 1 r fo 15 t Rupert Quito —Lochiel, by Prince Charlie, re- at Melbourne, Australia, under 112 pounds, beating twenty-three. He is a brown horse, 5 years old, from the Charlie, and foaled Lochiel in New Zea and, ~The crack Western 2-year-old Badge, by The 111-Used, dam Baroness by Kentucky, was put up at auction at Lexington on May Oth to close the furd, and brought $3000, Byron Me- Clellend’ being the purchaser. Badge cost only $120 at Mr. Belmont’s sale a year ago. —Labold Dros. are sald to bave won handsomely on Montrose’s victory im the Kentucky Derby. From the time the betting opened the colt has always been in the front, or near it, bul never an actual favorite, As (0 the money lost on Banburg, it is very heavy, for in all the large cities he was at even money, or 6 to 5, with plenty of take ers, ~The J.' L. Rose consignment of, lalifornia trotting stock, just sold at New York, did not command very high figures. The highest price, $3500, was paid for a 2-year old bay colt, very large for his age, but with fine trotti action and decided promise of " by Sultan, dam Lady Graves, by Nut- wood; F. U. Fowler, of Modus, Conp., was the purchaser,
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