Briar-Bloom.
fhe wild azaleas sweeten all the woods,
Phe locust swings its garlands of per-
fume,
sweetest
broods
A snowy the slopes of green and golden
gloom
The scent of briar-bloom,
Sut of all sweets to-day
Among wealth of delicate blossoming,
The blackberry-bramble creeps and hides,
or towers
About the budding shrubs, with clasp
and cling
Bowering the realm of spring.
{Loses are warmesr with their passion red,
Lilles are queenlier with their hearts of
SNOW,
Magnolia cups a heavier incense shed,
1 gO
W here the sharp briers grow.
» ust the hand be, which would bear
away
Their snowy length and dare the threat-
ened doom,
Vet when is past my woodland holiday,
{ can but smile at wounds and deck my
rout
With wreaths of briar-bloom.
Brav
sown souls I love are trimmed w ith flowers
like these,
luse and shrinking trom the broadest
Hay,
And delicate fragrances—
Yet with keen pride to hold false friends
at bay,
And keep the world away.
fall of
full ol
Pickley, fle
subsequently
t. went t
journali
He wassatis
called to perform
itor, especially
he had been
i boy at Sci
3 his father
I shall never
wu have
tion would have 1
f discouragement
except
rk, and as
Knew
1
One v1
One ies]
settled down t
newspaper litera
j-press was t }
ugh any
would no
one
ormation,
more i
id man Hecklin
lage. entered and
4
wok here, I
ie]
peal.
some nes
with
hafter pay me
replied
LAminat
ii ¢
‘zamination
want to read i
lon’t kere ef I's a
tone, i don’t t
of that's the way yer'rg goin’
\. gimme me my money an’ take
ole paper,” and the old man drew
a copy of the great journal and
threw it on thetable, The editor could
hat time, refund the
would remember the
y it when an opportunity
The old man,
. withdrew, and
to the printer said:
fellow is a crank.
desires to go on in his career of
Ol
ANCE, Al
He
*
wi)
mone
amount and §
j
not al-
the
1
Old
igNnor-
right
right,
don’t amount to anything’
re-
of type. striking it on the
proceeding to distribute it in a battered
old case,
What article is that
jr down »
Blackstone, ”’
“It is a pity to tear anything down
« soon. but go ahead, Come in,’’ as
some one rapped timidly on the door.
A wonderfully bright girl, in home-spun
dress and nature-spun hair, entered,
‘My pap was here jes now,’’ she
sald, “an’ wanted you tc stop the paper,
| have begged him not to, for thar
mout be something in it aftér awhile,
He "lowed that 1 mout do as 1 pleased,
an’ I wanted yer ter send it on.”
“How can such lips be 80 ungrams-
matical ?* mused the editor, and then,
with a manner embodying all of the
courtesy which he could summon, he
brought a chair for the girl, and beg-
ged her to sit down, “Pap tole me ter
tell yer not to say anything in yer paper
‘bout his comin’ here, an’ not ter send
his paper through the post-office, fur
I'll come after it every week. Good-
bye,” and the bewitehing smile van-
ished,
“What a beautiful girl,” sald the
you are tear-
!
{
editor, “but, my stars. how ignorant.
| this, is unworthy of respect.”
“That's what he is,” said the
| printer.
| “Tell you what I am half inclined to
do—write something that I
| interest that girl,
this community have gone beyond re-
{ call, but the young can be gradually
| led into a desire to know something.’
| “That's what they can,”
{ old printer,
“An old man might argue for years
| with me, and I would not yield an inch;
old
| eves, a spring-time mouth, and a min-
gled complexion of lily and rose, inno-
cently drops a hint, why, it has effect,”
“That's what it does,’
| old printer.
| “Now. wouldn't you really
| me to drop the heavy books of logle,
and, for the sake of the young girl, 1l
| for no one else, take up the breezy vol-
ume of every day events ?”’
“Thats what I
i the old printer.
| Mr. Anderson Pickley thanked
old man for his kind co-operation,
mentally vowed that if to be lig
doors of prosperity. if not
of fame, should open unto him. He
went out among the people and collect
ed little bits of their affairs, and
viewed a prominent citizen concerning
likelihood of
would,” acquiesced
and
ht meant
success, the
i
inter-
the crop prospects and the
1
The
was feathery in
1x1
humorous articie
ing
iKe
is sndder iy
to a l
ed among
that thrill
“1 live
and see me.”
Mr. Anderson Pi
He sat down and mused over the mys
Her words,
spoken in a volee « hanged to most musi-
i
cklev Was i.
puz le
terious performance, last
cal swestness, failed to show ignorance,
which had
«1 shall go over there
ately. for I'll be hanged ir |
to my paper and
brain with turning this
round and round.”
After giving a lew touches
taillet, and arranging as best he could
his not very elaborate wardrobe, hie
walked over to the tall house, He ask-
ed u negro if Mr. Hecklin lived there,
and the negro replied :
“Doan know nuthin’ "bout
Hecklin. Dis heah’s whar Col
kin libes, Yander’s de C
so troubled the newspaper
immedi-
neglect worry
fifteen puzzie
my
to his
uo Mr,
Wel-
olonel on de
More mystery, and the editor would
but a cheery voice
called :
“Come in,”’
The editor went in. A dignified old
laugh.
“Mr. Pickley,” he said, “you must
excuse my little deception. My name
is Welkin, Ah! here's Dora,
explain,”
An elegantly dressed young lady, the
girl who had come after her father's
paper, appeared, bowed gracefully, and
said :
“Come into the parlor,”
Seated in an elegant
apartment, the editor, stall 1
looked around.
furnished
wwildered,
“Of course you are astonished, and I
must first tell you what a peculiar girl
I am before you will excuse the freak,
which has no doubt caused you some
perplexity.
your arrival, and longed to make your
acquaintance, I wanted to Know you
as an ignorant country girl, and after
the first issue of your paper appeared, |
implored my father to disguise himself
and call on you, which as you know, he
Then 1 called on you, and was,
seed,
My last visit—"'
“Yes, your last
wd itor,
“Well, you know about my last visit,”
pi
visit.!' sald the
“I must confess, Miss Welkin, that
know what to say. When I
kissed you I thought you were a poor,
“Well.”
“1 am disappointed,”
“Why 2
“Because a bright picture has bee
“You said you loved me,”
“1 do—1 worship you.”’
“ And 1 loved you before father ¢ 11
Jhii=
I think quite enough has been sal LY
the C walking
the “This
QIOT iy
1 TOO. 18
Dora's first
no disposition to oppose her.”
to leave the room, he: «
marry as as
five or ten thousand do
our paper, Vi
There, vou needn’t Kiss Ine
Dora. Ih
placently into
1
|
turn-
‘*You
please, |
lars would
man.
and
ing .
may 2000
think
Improve MANY
any
it’s right;
at present
} 3
ni.
o_o. rn
WEALTHY NEGROES.
Made
sentatives of the Colored Race,
Material Progress by Repre-
SIRI (HY)
S18. KE)
SHH) (HE)
S15 IER)
is for-
Mrs,
colored
{ $50 (XX),
income
Francisco, a
an
$100,000 in
Marysville,
the OWnNoers
the world,
own skillet
————
Walter Scott at
Sir School.
Sir Walter Scott, when he was a boy,
had a hard time getting to the head of
He could get up next to the
head, but the lad above him was too
good a scholar to pass, Scott, however,
kept his eves open, and one day he no-
ticed that the lad, when reciting, kept
tugging at a certain button his
jacket, This he soon saw was a habit,
So Walter quietly cut off the button
when his classmate was not looking.
At the next recitation, the
aware of his loss, put his finger where
the button had been, missed it, became
his class,
on
Young Scott
class and kept it. No doubt the great
writer afterward regretted the trick
for trick it was, and very unfair,
i ————— —
A Bridge of Living Fish,
A traveler who has recently returned
says that one day last November it was
in a small stream which empties into
the Fraser and pass over, as on a living
pontoon bridge, to the opposite bank.
I'he fish had been driven into the stream
by the back-water of the Fraser and
were packed together like sardines in
a can,
———————————— AAA
It a man Is right, he can’t be too
radical; if wrong, he can't be too con-
pervative, ;
The heart gets weary, but never gets
old,
ARTIFICIAL TEETH,
A Cleveland Dentist Explains Why It
is Difficult to Get a Perfeot Fit
A young woman had just left a den-
tist’s chair and was adjusting her wrap
to leave, with several dollars’ worth of
gold in one of her incisors, when a re-
porter entered the oflice,
“What is the use of people enduring
the agony of having their teeth filled
when they can have them pulled
teeth which will trouble
never them
gave a sigh of relief
“Why, my dear young man, Very
few people have a set of artificial teeth
In near-
every case false teeth are trouble-
some,”
“That is when vou do not get a good
{ suppose ddd
‘It is difficult to
have it
many mtinually changing.
A plate that t well t
become unbearable In six m
get a perfect fit and
remain so very because
lis are ¢«
mouths
long,
may fit day may
i } vt } ] it i
he plate may even break § in fact, th
cpveral
who must have new plates made
at the mo
13 «} §
1 SOA,
ods was sa
nn be satu
mouth
$s 1134
1a
were
jut procelain tee
are not influenced a i
“How long have artifici
used ?V’
“Oh! agood many yea
the tombs of the Egyptians,
of mummies have also been fou
filled with gold In the early part of
jewelers and silversmiths
artificial teeth. Dentistry was
wr
i RO I
named De Mair, but he
I have seen a set of
Plates are now made of porcelain, gold,
terials, Great advances have been
made in dentistry within the past few
js seldom absolutely nec-
“jiow are artificial teeth held in a
person's mouth without a plate ?"’
“By means of gold bands which are
attached to the sound teeth on either
side. As many as five or six teeth in a
row are sometimes put in in this way."
“Is pure gold used for this purpose Mm
“Coin gold is used. A five-dollar
gold piece generally rolled out to the
proper thickness, and then strips of the
required width are cut, 1 do not ad-
vocate this method of fastening teeth,
because I think it injurious to the
natural ones, It is too much strain
upon them, But there would be little
necessity for artificial teeth if plo
would watch their mouths have
their natural teeth attended to when-
ever it is necessary."
FASHION NOTES.
introduced into
ith good tasle,
duced. These revers, if I may call
the edge of the skirt, or sometimes it
the edge of Lhe perpendicularly |
80
It is gener- |
and placed |
in zugzag fashion,
the colored lining shows.
ally on the right side,
rather forward,
— Court costumes, tennis, and cotton
now occupying attention. |
For the first, there is some attempt to
resuscitate old-fashioned embroidered
and nets that have lain in |
or wardrobes for many, many
and probably belouged to the
boxes
years,
motber of the
present debutante. |
and the muslin, soft and clinging, 18
draped over silk, with the bodice and |
train of satin Merveilleux or lustrous
faille. Watered silk is greatly in vogue,
and skirts are made it, with either
lace or the most delicate fancy gauze |
draped over it. is particularly
fashionable for smart afternoon toilevrs.
ina crepe waistcoats in white,
pink, heliotrope and red are most popu- |
lar, They are usually arranged in|
slanting folds and decrease
a point yard is required for the |
gathere They are also worn in |
tail , especial.
ly th 1
of
ack
ch
aht
light
the «
at a few
fashion
curers,”’
Domine
needle
birds’
. . p a fs
ached to it, after
arge
' ¥
Pair ol
i1zard
great v
cree 9
worn
which is now the ge
ire. ‘ihe most C
are to be seen, inten
hats, such as whips,
i, a small
fev 4 rin nig
63, 10 Gialii
altiachs
stripes of Lyons vel
Lt. Wine Color,
. Point
ald over paras
rhess, Elega
Jirown satin,
are
velvet on each
around the
i primrose-colored .
embro'dered in silks of wood colors,
from faintest Wilton yellow to
deepest Thess parasols have
willow handles, handsomely carved,
and inlaid with bits of dark wood vari-
colored. Jess novel styles are shown
in parasols of rich bia kK or white lace
of superb patlern, over foundations of
satin in every conceivable
There are also many inexpensive sun-
shades, of which mention should be
made, particularly of those of pongee
embroidered with daisies,
Jain
dark-
and On-
a plaited
crepe lisse
HOrose sin,
fy
Brown C
ished
frill of
ie,
Ri
edge wilh
ing
a}
shading
Lronus,
shade,
. 3 ; $1 :
Carmelite is a favorite material for
cool morning or traveling wear, in
gray or fawn. Jackets of the same,
and capes with hoods, lined with white
ot color, are worn, CUrepon 1s a popu-
lar fabric, and somewhat resemnbles a
erinkied-surface nun’s veilling. 1t is
+o» be seen in all colors, and looks es.
pecially well in Davy blue, with while
or fawn vest and trimming, or in soft
pale gray. Heliotrope not very
popular, Itistryingz tom wi complex -
jons, and yet a greal many peopie do
wear it because it recommended by
dressmakers and milliners, The new
cottons of the season are pretty. Ti
pale beliotrope, navy blue crossed with
parrow red or white lines, the sha jes
of gray and red, and thicker kind o
ribbed Indian cambrics, are all popu-
| lar. One of the many ways of making
them up 8 with a plain foundation
skirt, twoand a half yards wide, bord-
ered by a plaiting sowe five or six |
inches deep, then a deep tunic, cut
| nearly two yards long. -aught up in |
| plaits at each side, far back, and the
| back mounted in gathers at the waisi,
and either bunched up, or, as dress- |
makers express it, * pushed up.’”’ This
pushing up is achieved by allowing half |
| a yard extra in the length of the ma~ |
| terial, and catching up so that the ful- |
| ness overlaps, and really looks as if |
| two bands had pushed it up. In front
the horizontal folds only reach to the
knees, 0 that the material hangs plain
beneath, and is raised just enough to
show the plaiting round the edge of
the skirt. This is a graceful style, and
can be easily undone for washing, and
looped up again. The tennis gowns
are made in much the same manner
and nothing could be lighter. Most of
them have alpaca for foundation, or
sateen—the latter washing well.
«The black gelding St Albans,
is
is
ie
2.20{, has been sold by W. B, Fasig,
Cleveland, O,, to a Burlinglon, Yi.
man for $1500,
HORSE NOTES,
~—A good many young men are zoiuy
forria.
— Irish Pat was never a better horse
—Creorge Wethers has been engaged
as the heavy-weight rider of the Han-
kins’ stable.
around
the ai”
—John Murphy 18
very fast, and is able
once in a while,
—Oriflamnme is the first Seyear-old to
the Fordham Handicap
coming
w take
since
—The Merchantville Driving Club
will give $600 in premiums for races Lo
be decided on July 4.
—There will be weekly races for road
at the Gentlemen’s Driving
~The Cleveland people are (guring
upon a race between Harry Wilkes and
as one features of
their July meeting.
— Walter Gratz, of Philadelphia, has
purchased of ( H. Raymond the
chestnut yearling colt, by Reform, ddm
Northauna by Strachino.
the
of th
—1It 18 doubtful if Harper's fine colt,
I ibretto, winner of the Laton
will be seen at post in
That was a bad kick
gato,
— Bennington,
a horse centre
ground has been 8
Soldier's Home
mile track,
}
the
f +
LAS
XT's
V Ley 45
of importance,
irveyed
Murphy.
Met
¢
{
Mr.
Dr.
i We
mile track mane
William Davis,
ire
’
—The gray mare Fannie Beil,
“~ i, owned by Will
lagher, ded recently at
stock farm from the effects of a uall ip
her foot, causing lockjaw.
Henry, of Philadelphia, has
300 acres of land near
, in Falls township,
inty. and has started what
s the Penn Valley Stud Farm,
record
once am Gal-
Hobert top] i
Mr,
—A. Smith McCann, of Lexinglon,
Ky., has sold to W, C. France, High-
land Stock Farm, seven yeariing coi
six yearling fillies, i
hree 2-vear-old fil
lot, $19,000.
IR
one 2-vear-ol
col
lies. Price
vaid
and bookm
Ary
ALIN On
rated
oubsdour's race at the Brooklyn
week was his 0
Woodfor
ast ret
hiss
vel
alia ak
+
— The
Australian,
Wild
Wild
ch. m.
dam
, Lhe proper
. Fernc'iffe,
Nt
Dempsey,
Belle 1)., G6 years,
Infallibl the bh. mm.
Bigaroon, ot
Gilder Rose,
ington,
years, bi
Squirrel,
St. Bel,
a grand
and the b. m. Florence J.,
Bigaroon, dam by Diack
These mares will be bred to
. J. Hutchinson,
Cieneza Swud, California, wi
sold his breeding stud, and
start for an extended tour of England,
has presented 1 W. Aby, the man
ager Mr. Baldwin's San Anita
Stud, at Los Angeles, Cal, the famous
Hock Hocking, by Ring-
dam Fashion, by imp. Mon-
The old horse is in good health,
forefeel are very bad from
of the
o recently
¥ -
s about to
Cap
¢
Oo
master,
arch.
bat his
foundes
has the
Volante.
E J. Baldwin thinks he
fastest horse in the world in
“1 don’t care about issuing a challenge
to all comers,” he said, “because it
might be construed as smacking of the
valn and boastful. Besides, there 1s
noth ny the West able Lo measure
strides with my borse, and 1 believe he
is entered in stakes East with the
Eastern cracks. After I go Kast if
there is no other chance for a sensa-
tional race, 1 may find it convenient 10
do a little challenging, and of i do
nothing will be barred.”
~The Driving Club, of New York,
{ In
and July 6, 7 and 8 are tbe dales
claimed. The club has resolved upon
the following purses and classes: On
the first day it will offer a purse of
the 2.29 class, On ihe second day,
urse $750 for the 2.23 class, and purse
$600 for 3.00 class. The fual day will
show a 2.35 class, for & purse of $500,
and a special purse of $1540, {ree for
all, barring Harry Wilkes, In the 3.00
class there will be §500 added money
for the horse that will trot under 2.20
to the highest figure. Entrance money
is 5 per cent, and entries are to close
on June 13,
A pretly way to give change to »
tollet with little expense Is to have the
costume of black gros grain silk, for
instance, with marquise coat of the
same fabric. A number of adjustable
hoods, lined severally with striped
satin, oream-white surah, cardinal
satin, lac, or old gold, will give an
entirely new effect to the one costume.