A Positive Enga cement,
¥ou needn't ask Nan toa party,
A dinner or five o'clock tea,
Three weeks from to-day—which is Thurs-
day,
For ‘engaged’ and *‘at home’ she will ba.
Bbe set her white Brahma this morning,
In a box with sweet hay for a bed,
On a doz:u great eggs, all a-flutter,
With plumy wings softly outspread.
The hen looks so proud and important,
With her treasares hid under her breast;
Every feather alive if you touch her,
Ax if warning you off from her nest.
And the capable creature will sit there,
Come sunshine, come storm, or what
may,
With her wings and her warmth avd her
wisdom,
Till exactly three wesks from to-day.
And then! oh, the downy soft treasures,
The dear little yellow round things,
That will break from the shells and come
peeping
And stretching their small helpless wings!
Oh! you needn’t ask Nan to a party
Or a dinner or five o'clock tea,
Three weeks trom to-day—which is Thurs-
day
For “‘athome’ and *‘engaged’’ she will bel
had better sons than yours, Jacob,
Show them that you appreciate their
Kindness by giving them a holiday now
and then,
for it."
“Let them once begin to waste time
and there'll be no end to it,” replied
Jacob. ‘It’s no use you puttin’ in an
oar for ‘em, Sarah,
boys. 1 was brought
oughter know.”
His wife said no more, She leaned
her aching head on her hand, and bent
her sad eyes on the floor, wondering,
poor soul, why she had attempted such
a foolish thing as to change her hus-
band’s mind. Sheought to have known
him better after eighteen years of mar-
ried life,
Dawn had scarcely broken in the east
when Jacob Graves arose: He wanted
to make an early start to Morristown,
and his wife had prepared breakfast for
him the night before. Ile stopped to
wake the boys by a thundering knock
on the door of the room
up on it, an’
of cold oatmeal and milk, and
went to the barn to saddle
was to ride,
To surprise the
standing open, and the
held the padlock was wrenched from its
his
been removed |
in the Kitchen |
The supper dishes had
and carefully washed
sink, and restored to their respective
places on the pantry shelves; the red
cloth ha! been spread over the table,
the large kerosene lamp set in the cen-
ter, and Farmer Graves had drawn
from his capacious pocket a weekly
agricultural journal, and seated him-
to enjoy contents, He wasa
thin, spare man, with sharp blue eyes,
bushy gray eyebrows, a long nose, and
a firm, square chin. By means of good
judgment, the strictest economy, and
hard labor, he had managed to amass
considerable wealth, was
quently looked upon v great respect
by his neighbors, v little of
the iron ruie which g«
and made unhappy the
and two young sons.
The big kitchen was very still. The
ticking of the eight-day clock in the
corner, and the buzz of a few flies which
had managed to effec entrance in
spite of sc in defiance
of the pan of fl; laced conspicu-
ously and invitingly a window sill,
alone disturbed the sil The day
had been very warm, and Mrs, Graves,
worn out with 1ts cares, had seated her-
self in a rocking-chair and was, for a
few minutes, restir both tired hands
wind exhausted
Harry, early
were sile
self its
Ali conse-
ith
1- ’
0 KIOew
ned
vad
ives
home
of his wife
hig
i118
y ng
ens
i Us,
Ce,
setlee,
their fatl
Fred.
$
all the
ere are § } =0 we thot
““That I was fool enough to you
waste a hull day,” interrupted the far-
mer, grimly. “Well, thought
wrong. I ain’t no of believer in
this yere fourth of July poppycock. A
pa’cel 0’ men an’ boys paradin’ up an’
down the streets dressed up like mon-
keys! The'd oughter be ashamed o’
themselves, My father learned me bet-
ter’'n that how to use my time. No;
ye’ll spend to-morrow in gettin’ in that |
hay I've got to go to Morristown to |
see Talman bout them hides, but you
two Kin get in the hay an’ then"
He was interrupted by a knock at
the screen door. His wife hastened |
wearily to open it. Two men-—rough- |
looking fellows enough-—stood outside.
“We want to stop the night,” said |
one of them, ‘““We're trampin’ it to
Boston,”
“And you'll not stop your trampin’ |
here,” said the farmer. ‘‘Move on, |
We've no room here for the likes of |
you.”
*‘Let us sleep in the barn on the hay,
then,” said the man who had not be-
fore spoken. ‘‘That ain't much to ask
o’ you.”
“Too much, all the same,
farmer, “I don’t trust no tramps in
my barn. So be off with you.” |
The men turned away, muttering |
something which the farmer did not |
catch; and Fred and Harry, thinking |
it useless to ret arn to the subject of the |
Fourth of July procession, put the har- |
ness away in a corner of the Kitchen,
and went up stairs to bed, their young |
hearts sore with the disappointment
they had received.
So long had Mrs. Graves been under
the despotic control of her husband,
that she seldom ventured a remon-
strance of any sort. But now her heart
ached for her boys. She knew how
deeply they felt their father’s ipjustice
and oppression, and scarcely had the
sound of their foot-steps died away,
when she went up to her husband's
side, and timmdly laid a band upon his
shoulder,
sJacob,”’ she sald, ‘‘the boys are
young, and they need a little recreation
now and then. ILet them go to town
to-morrow.”
“I want no interference from you,
Sarah,’ said the farmer, without look-
ing up. “If women had the manage-
ment o’ all the boys, there'd never be a
man worth anything.”’
“But they work so hard every day,”
1
i
other
3 1 4 sy 3
out! ng. gh
i
l
1at
AL
you
vd
SUL
1
said the |
pleaded the mother, ‘No man ever
this out o? spite,” grumbled the farmer,
in p n'tentiary for life,
ain’t stole old Bet.”
3ut a familiar whinny fir
mare’s stall as he entered
at this point; and he cl
the barn stairs to throw down the hay
for the faithful creature's breakfact.
But had he
when there was a sudden rustle in the
hay behind him, and with a low cry of
exultation the two tramps to whom he
had refused lodging before
sprang flercely upon him,
**Y ou miserable, sneakin’
. but the sentence was
, for a sudden blow on the head sent
}
mm reeling t
I hope they
yn thse
his mind
$
set
rest on
scarcely
the night 1
he be-
mekward, senseless, and he
like a log upon the hay.
When he recovered
sun was shining
cracks of the barn, ;
hat several hour
ince that sud
im
1
1 fast together, and
consciousness the
brightly
Tid
1 it seemed to him
nse ess,
a ragged hand
to
gag him.
head, too,
energy to
If, He
iad
Io ee el es
|
1 iS
rent
lerate
: Lao
1 than his elder
pare
$
» A
ves
said
in his place.
in
on base ball
and his father gi him
after:
often wish I was
fellow we kn
+
club
Saturday oon,
An 111 §
WwW Will De
}
wih
town to«lay
0 see the fun,
this hay,
same, I mowed and you raked, just
if we'd never heard
the Fourth of July.”
of such
said Harry.” “I don’t believe
really thought of the mater impartial-
He was brought up wo work hard,
Mother says
that grandfather just such
driver.”
“Why, old Bet must be in her stall,”
cried Fred, as a sudden whinny sounds
ed from the interior of the barn. *‘1
was
walk to Morristown! But I don't
know as I care, Perhaps as it is so hot
he'll get a sunstroke and come near
dying, and see then how he’s treated us
boys. I have heard of such things,
Jacob Graves heard no more ; for the
boys having got in the hay drove off for
another load ; he had heard quite en-
ough to set him thinking in good ear-
nest, and for a wonder he was not
The longer he bad listened the
stronger became His conviction that his
boys were right; that he had treated
them as machines, and worked them to
their uttermost, and that his whole sys-
tem of management was wrong. Sup-
twenty-one ? How could the farm
thrive without him? What was he,
Jacob Graves, working for if not for
his boys ? And the thought that they
wanted to leave him cut his heart like
a knife, He thought of his own youth
how empty of all joys it had been |
The recolléction of the privations, the
disappointments he had endured came
to him as it had never come since he
had left his father’s howe, He, also,
had been anxious to strike out for him-
self, to leave behind him the old home
with which he had no tender or loving
associations, and what had he done ?
Forgetting the lessons of hisown youth,
he had made just such a youth and such
a home for his own sons, He had
closed his eyes to all signs of rebellion,
his ears to the gentle reproaches of his
overworked wife, He had followed In
the track of his father because no other
had been pointed out to him, and now
were anxiows for the day to coms that
—
him,
Lying there in the hay he saw very |
plainly the mistake he had made, and |
resolved to retrieve it as far as possible, |
What would life be to him without his |
boys ? Oh, he must not, he could not |
Burning with new resolutions, he
made an effort to free himself, and at |
Then he went down
the stairs and stood at the barn door |
just as the boys drove up with the sec- |
ond load of hay. They looked warm,
and Fred was fanning himself with his |
hat,
“Why, father ! back already ?” cried
Harry, in surprise,
“Yes: 1 didn’t go far. 1
seein’ Talman till to-morrow.”
“You don’t look well,” said Fred, |
“You haven't had a-—a—sunstroke, |
have you,” remembering his hasty
words.
“Yes I have
But never mind that. I've changed |
my mind ’hout those horribles, boys. |
If it ain't too late, you can git ready
and go,
The boys looked
much astonishment,
*‘It’s the sunstroke, I
Fred, under his breath.
“Thank you, sir,”” said Harry, half
that the sun had
mind, *‘It isonly |
half-past nine, and the procession won’t
3’
put off
a kind of a sunstrike, |
at each other in
guess.” said
“But we must get this load in first,
of course,” said Fred.
*“*No matter bout that, I'll see to it |
myself. And boys, you might like to |
have a few fireworks to homes this even-
, and invite a few o' your friends,
here—'" he paused, and a bl
into his face, for he had Just dis-
covered that his pockets were all turn-
ed wreng side out, ‘I'll give you som
when you're ready to go,” he
sald, and he ked to the house,
tering
ing ol) |
i 3 3
All 100K
Ale
at
something
“He's «
said Fred,
**I believe 3
this before,’ said
The effects of r
stroke never left Mr. Graves. Only
his wife did he tell his experience in
) f
barn, and she, faithf
1 sg
!
t
ul soul, i
y every means in her power
he r lutions he had made that
hat wher
© Was o
to do ils part in tl
faction. The peasant,
the time, died soon
who had meant to adoj
mate of the hut could find no trace
him when he went to fetch him,
who WAS
after; and the cure,
¢ t! i“ 3) ’R
other in-
of
- A -
Metropolitan Funerals,
The poor of New York are the most
extravagant people in the world in the
of their funerals, writes
JMakely Hall. When a death occurs |
flocks. The richest undertakers are in
the tenement house districts, and they
have agents and wires innumerable,
Many of them count their fortunes in
six figures, though they live in squalor
and apparent poverty. They own livery
stables, grog shops and tenement houses,
and every tenant, employe and political
“heeler” is expected to work for the
undertaker who patronizes him, The
manufacturers of mottoes, wreaths,
shrouds, texts and other catchpenny de-
vices, that hang upon the human woe,
in close accord with the under-
taker.
They extend their lines across the |
river and out to Calvary cemetery, on |
the outskirts of Brooklyn. Here the
tenement house dead are buried, coffin
on top of coffin, till as many as six
bodies rest in one grave. All along the
dusty road to the graveyard are rum
shops and beer saloons—-mere specula-
tions on the part of the undertakers,
Up town it is the custom to conduct
funerals with extraordinary privacy,
and when the ceremony can be per-
formed in a country house, the dead is
conveyed out of town without any for
malities at all, The one idea of poor
New York is to make a show of the
dead, while rich New York abliors it,
iiss AIP MIs
A Russian physician, Dr. 8. Th,
Stein, reports some remarkable experi.
ments, in which he has induced cata-
ract in the eyes of young porpoises by
subjecting them to the continuous vi.
brations of a tuning-fork for from twelve
to twenty-four hours, or for a much
less time when the animals were de-
prived of the Jowe: of hearing. The
cataract soon disappeared on removing
the exciting cause, and could be re
newed. The phenomenon has not been
satisfacterily explained,
Pecullarities of Different People,
“Did you ever consider how people
first began to shake hands 7 No? Well,
817 down here and I'll tell you
what I think about it, for I have given
this subject some study,” said a gentle.
man toa reporter,
barbarous times, when
every savage or semi-savage was his
own law-giver, judge, soldier and police-
default of
in all other protec
when they chanced
the hand that wields the sword, the
Each did this to show
that the hand was empty and that
A man cannot well stab another while
he is engaged in the act of shaking
alm a cowardly blow with the left while
on good terms with him,
FASHION NOTES,
— Another attractive costume
HH
HORSE NOTES,
Crit Davis, Harrodsburg, Ky,, has
Valenciennes lace, The entire drap-
eries, waist and sleeves are thus made,
lower
imports, Ths
with each
It
0 give it,
of men unless it be
The reason is obvious.
to receive homage, not t
18
is
They
f
of {
the other sex a
of warmth gris
misinterpreted unless
persons are very closely related, in
ch cases handshaking is not
he lips do more agreeable duty,
‘“‘Every man shakes hands accord
ature,
Agressive, pro
be
such
needed
to his 1 whether it
ud or humble,
Hal fie
or churi
is certalx
s one of the
low handshal
cream-white, as is the lace.
remain
are
in length, as they still
LATTOW, The handsomest
very
of
i
that can trot a mille In from 2.40 to
—H. H. Harris, of Chicopee, Mass,
has purchased King Philip, 2.21, by
in egg designs. For summer are shown
bought already tied in the hat shops,
These are usually made of two kinds
—Maud 8S, has had twelve miles this
season between 2.18 and 2.274, and the
~—A. J. Cassett has sold to Lomasney
nie Scotland,
~—(eorge A. Bingerley recently pur-
Harrods.
burg, Ky. a brown trotting gelding
called Paleface,
—This year's American Derby was
of blue. It takes
knotted effect so desirable. When
trimming.
tla
— Black seems to be Lhe
While black
it is distressing
other woman you meet
127)
in
Bea
the
serviceable,
and all the in-
grief or mourning
colored silks are
in
Plain
habitants were
gracefully draping fabrics
as Turk’s
Cotton fabrics grow more beau-
Noth-
ing can be softer or finer than batistes,
while the sateens outrival foulards in
point of lustre, and the ginghams are
marvels of art and elegance,
—In the black materials made up for
the street the tailor fashion 1s followed
in the strictest manner. The draper-
jes are very full and long, usually laid
in deep side plaits in the back and at
satin.
ng first began, ar
ip
cessily weaponless,
One wi
much value and strengt!
rT leg
3
eg,
1s as strong
as the right foot or because they
handed.
st] do not,” he continued, “object to
irawn up into the folds of the skirt, so
form a long point of the other
Front draperies usually have the
right and left sides differently arranged
aithough some very elegant new cos
tumes have both sides of front and back
draperies exactly ke. Very
stylish img 1its have sham skirts
with a at
ampie overdraperies
a whole skin
overlapped
ments or
to
SONS
the bottom and
made almost
side seam
ished
handsome butt
faced
folded
wilh
ins
ns,
side n
terial,
These
eh)
Ww
back
Whatever
dress in general
only on t
occasions,
demands w
formal §
¢
nen
VLE EL.
of fashion
think of appearing at any
arrayed In {
f uld be taken, therefore,
its are ed solely to t
Le morning drives or busi
one oO
wore use the same
fabrics may be made up with various
combination materials, or, indeed, be
used wholly by themselves, the fashion
being much more elaborate, and the
general effect, while it could not be
plain, bandsomely
finished dress, is by far the more ele-
gant, yet the addition of a Tew folds,
or the different arrangement of the
draperies, may make an almost com-
plete transformation in the style of the
dressy
ot
ner, while the second horse got $1000
and the third $500,
—D. Malcolm, a Brooklyn brewer,
bas purchased the bay team Hullson
and Phtlmout from E. de Cernea, of
New York for $2000.
—On June 24 Jay-Eye-See trotted a
mile in 2.274 over the Racine track,
ing slowly but surely.
—Captain Bailey's Pinafore and In-
dian Joe have proven themselves the
fastest team in Philadelphia, They
sions where (ine woolen suits are alto-
everybody that I object to. It is pleas
or woman, and to be on such terms of
masterpieces of creation as to justify
equal,
telligent dog, who holds it up for you
to shake on being asked to do so, is
something pleasant. For the dog, un-
like some men, would scorn to give his
paw to one in whose eye and in whose
face he, by his fine instinct, in some re-
spect the equal if not the superior of
reason, discovered treachery or evil
shaking with Tom,
that ought to be put a stop to.
cn AE AIRS A.
~Young girls who have walking
dresses opened at the throat for a
cravat, and sallor hats to match the
suit, left over from last season will find
them perfectly wearable again this
summer. The effect of such costumes
was so neat and stylish and altogether
so comfortable to wear that it 1s very
sensibly decided they may be resus.
citated, The sailor hat 1s becoming to
almost all young faces, and stiff white
collar so liberally displayed and snowy
tie are delightfully fresh and clean
in appearance, so that their reigm be-
gins again,
~The jockeys McLaughlin and Hay-
ward both say that they should not like
to see The Bard and Hanover rsoe,
M’ Laughlin says it would take too much
out of Hanover, and Hayward says
that Hanover would out-foot The Bard
at the beginning of the race, and might
keep golng to the finish, The Bard
certainly would keep going, and a des.
perate race would surely. ansud.
-Plaln-colored cashmere,
camel’s-hair will
for young
veiling
ladies’
homes.’’ These materials may be made
of various sorts, There are
fabrics that are designed for use with
!
i
|
|
body, back draperies and sleeves of
striped or fancy goods, and the front
The
vest and fanciful cuffs may be of plain
goods or of surah exactly matching in
color. While the general lendency 1s
toward the employment of a single
color or two colors in a sult, the addi-
tion of collar, revers and cuffs of an
|
and when the selection is harmonious
and suits the wearer's complexion and
style the effect is charming.
For still more dressy occasions
there will be a very general use of fine
woven goods combined with lace and
embroidery and trimmed with ribbons.
Norrower flouncings of lace are grow-
ing in favor, many new dresses show.
ing| eighteen-inch-deep flouncings on
the skirt and four or five-ineh deep
edgings for other garniture. Oriental
or Egyptian lace still hold the place of
favor, although plat Valenclenes and
Florentine laces are in good demand,
A most exquisite costume for a young
lady 18 composed of fine plat Valen.
ciennes and crepe de Chine. The Jace
is about eighteen inches deep, and is
set In jabot fashion on either side of
the skirt, the front being made up of
alternate folds of the soft crepe and
lace set on diagonally. The back drap-
eries are made up of bias folds of crepe
and lace, so plaited as to give the same
diagonal effect as the front. The waist
is altogether of lace, Very long, full
whers the draperies are caught up.
—J., I. Case, of Racine, has sold to
John FP. Cole, of Topeka, Kan., the
’ .
baby stallion Coleman Sprague, 4 years
old, by Governor Sprague, for $1000,
—~Nejlie Mayo's mile in 2.28 at El.
she also
that gait
fast pacing
trots well—did a half 1.12 at
only a few days before Ler
sy Brothers, Versailles, Ky.
having the Woodford Park
Race Course, have a large livery and
where they trafic in all
kinds of horses. :
—J. I). Morrissey’shorses are n
Coney Island. Montana, Regent
Banburg have improved so much
Mr. Morrissey hopes to start them at
Monmouth Park.
— Walter Gratz,
purchased at St. J
hunter, the chestnut colt Pocatello, 2
years, by Joe Hooker, dam Countess
Zieka, by tmp. Balrownie,
—Jerome Turner, 2.154, 18 still lame
rom the effects of a strain t
at Terre Haute a couple of weeks ago,
it is feared he will not able to
again this season,
sale stable,
y aif
YW al
and
that
viialb
of Philadelphia, has
of y
Louis, Mr.
0 a tendon
and be
start
— William Gregg has purchased {1
A. Singeriy a
y Messenger Chief dam a thoroug
nare by Day Dick. The
1%
}
rn was taken
4-year-old
pate
oH)
$115,000
3 4
creased 1
(X¥): in 15
ted in st
special occasion
special race it will
dition.
—Mambrino Paymaster, althoug
rino, son of B
I (
son of Mamb the \]essenge
Was 80 tle appreciated when alive
that he sold for $00, and was advertised
to serve mares and insure a foal
$2.50 each. Now his biood, through
his great son Mambrino Chief, is eager-
ly sought after and highly prized by the
breeders of the Jand, T {
$
Pik
at
al
I'he founders of
kingly lines are not always born in the
purple,
— Budd Doble has about a dozen
horses at Chicago, including the fol-
lowing: Oliver K., 2.16}; Bonnie Me-
Gregor, 2.163; Charlie Hogan. 2.21};
Yoxie McGregor, 2.274; Omar, 2.34, by
Green's Bashaw; Otho, full brother to
Omar: Annie Carey, 2.301, by Daunt-
less, dam by Night Hawk; a bay stal-
lion, by Bonnie McGregor, dam by
Romulus; a bay gelding, by Robert
McGregor, dam by Romulus; chestnut
stallion Richard, by Judge Hayes, dam
—Quite a number of persons who
own horses decline to put them in
friendly races at the different tracks
for fear of getting a record. They
don’t stop to think that if the majority
of them were to enter in the regular
trotting circuits they would get noth-
ng, owing to their horses not being
fast esough for that kind of company,
and that their horses would be worth
considerably more with records for
road purposes. A mare is always worth
more with a record than without,
—Of The Bard Mr. A. J. Cassatt says:
1f he does not break down or go amiss
1 shall send him to England in Septem-
ber. After the Champion stakes at
Monmouth there are no stakes he can
go into, and 1 shall probably send him
as soon as the Monmouth meetings
brought to a close. I shall not race
him in England this season. It is my
intention, if he lands in England and
does well, to retire him for the rest of
the year and allow him to become
thoroughly acclimated, and nol race
him until next season. 1 will confine
him principally to scale-weight races,
like the cups of Epsom, Ascot, Don-
caster and Goodwood, the Hardwick
stakes, and races where be will not be
orushed out by weight. I should not
care to depend wholly upon one horse
for my racing in England, so will prob.
ably take over a number of good ones
if 1 can get them,
Mr. Cassett says he will, in all preb.
ability, retire The Bard to the stud on
his return from England unleds he
should retain all his speed, in which
to start him
of cracks which time