men wane
“Pansies for Thoughts.”
IZarth wore her beautiful garmentsg
One day, in the long ago,
Ani the sunlight kissed the flowers,
Ai the grass blades whispered low.
in the blue of the bending heavens,
Ulouds sailed, like snowy fleece;
And it seemed that nature murmured
A beautiful hymn of peace,
And so, with my soul attempered
To the spell that the day had wroughly
I gathered my heart's love pansies,
The delicate flowers of thought,
* u * - w » -
‘laim lay on the sleeping valleys,
The hush of the restless night:
And calm on the stately hill tops,
With their crown of silver light.
Like a tender benediction,
Did the loving moon-rays fall
On a mound of snowy daisies—
With the night-stars watching all.
And there—with the calm around
With the eyes of tho stars to see,
I bought my heart's love pansies,
1 -for thoughts of me.
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“3
ansies
® -
But, pow—as my mind goes backward,
lo the days of the long ago,
I feel, though the years bring wintery
1 art fresh flowers grow.
And I thi
When wy
I shall Kn
uk in the better country,
love of old 1 see,
yw, that, in heavenly gardens,
[houglit pansies bloom for me,
EE ——— TAIT
A CONSTANT WOMAN,
Pair,
sly drawn—
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Say
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abstract !
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Imagine i
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“It was no
n Farmley sul
“Well, ne:
But
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Lil
50.
you Shy
anyway
“Id
er
Will persis
the man »
“Go dre
and i ut
ippear again,’’
him, and left t
Mrs,
sne to visit, and it was never so delight-
ful as when her guests, well
'hosen with respect to harmony
sympathy of tastes, were
about her own gracious little person in
the large dining room, whose generous
bay window opened upon the flush of
sunset, the long
the glimpse of a curve of shining river
and soft, blue ridge of hills beyond, But
this evening the little company was out
of tune. Marion Dennison looked pale
and grave, Farmley (nice fellow as he
was usually, Mrs. Blair said to herself
indignantly) was silent and morose, or
yO lui.
always
assembled
his hostess,
‘‘Really, young people are very tire-
some when they fall in love,” thought
Mrs, Blair. “And when are they not
falling in love ?”’
After dinner Mrs, Blair gave Farm-
ley permission to light his cigar, and,
taking Marion Dennison’s arm, went
out upon the gravel walk at the back of
the house, where chairs had been placed,
and joined him, The dusk was full of
sweet smells of flowers and herbage,
and there was a pale light abroad, min-
gling with the fading daylight, and
emanating from a yet unrisen moon,
“1 wish you would sing something,”
Mrs, Blair said to the _.
Marion Dennison sang as no one élse
sang. She had a low mezzo soprano
voice, infinitely sweet and clear and
thrilling, but not powerful. It had
been trained, but not overtrained, She
sang as naturally and freely as a bird
pings, and as effectively and simply
without accompaniment as with one.
She had what the French call tears in
her voice, There was an intense pathos
in some of her notes. She was never
«nore charming than when she sag,
and she was always charming, Murs,
and watched the girl's delicate, spiritual
face, acknowledged to herself that Am-
unreasonable thing. Ambrose
ley himself, throwing one arm ovel the
back of his garden chair, allowed his
cigar t :
tache, with his fine eyes glewing with
resentful passion at his
while she, her head thrown
and her hands clasped loosely in her lap,
seemed lost to all things sublunary.
Was she
dashing, absent English lover of
who had captured her young
when yet it its early teens,
whom she had giver
stand promised never
got ?
A servant came out of the hou and
approached Mrs, Blair apologetically.
“A gentleman!” she said low, in
swer to his whisper. Marion stopped
singing. y gentleman 77
“In theli
WW hen
"
an enbans
0 go out
cnchan
heart
) and
Farmley to under-
was inl
¢
i
ghe had
hil
fell
, and it cast
1
1 lover too beaut
good for this earth
A moonbeam could
ribl oler
charm ol Ws en
t yy t
LO eet
a want of |
6 hunt up m
t always happen tha
g : liv + §
ng sO joy, thoug!
16 INO
2 ho sub
traig
peopl
disappointing
0
(id
3
iE
ce, Captai
Left it
quarter of
sheep farming in |
“Bless me soul, yes!
ago. I've been into every
the globe since, too,
Years
f everything else everywhere,” Again
he ended up with his laugh, which set
Ma- |
rion sat as white as marble and as mo-,|
She must say something, Mrs, |
Blair felt, The only way to force her
into doing so seemed to be to leave her |
alone with her visitor. As she succeed- |
ed in vanishing from the room Mar.on
sent a look of bewildered appeal after
her.
“Outside the closed door Mrs, Blair |
3 What should |
she do ? Ask that unspeakably vulgar |
man to remain over night ? Unless he |
cut his visit very short he would miss
the last train to town ; and it was not |
in the least likely that he would cut it |
short, As soon as her back was turned
he would probably begin making love
to Marion, He certainly looked as
though he wanted to. lis open glances
had expressed enough admiration of
her. What had he expected to find ?
A shriveled-up, passe woman ? Did he
think every one retrograded as he must
have done since Marion first had met
him ? Bul, of course, he was not con-
scious of his own abominableness, It
occurred to Mrs, Blair to ask Farmley’s
advice as to this dilemma. But a sec-
ond thought suggested the indelicacy of
such action in view of Farmley's own
feelings and the shock the intelligence
of the Captain's arrival would be to
him, Mechanically, however, Mrs,
Blair had walked to the back door,
From there she saw that Farmley was
no longer sitting under the moonlight
on the gravel sweep, The little group
sincerely dramatic action.
of chairs stood empty.
to her again with a note on the salver,
“From Mr. Farmley, ma'am. He
excused himself to you for leaving
such a hurry.”
“For leaving 7?’
vexed,
the note,
Farmley
repeated Mrs,
She tore open
had hasti-
the station to catch the last train,
had been a sudden determination on his
feelings.
Ie had Miss
ngs stood it was painful
for them to
spoken {to
and embarrassing meet
again,
With her unfal !
her great kindness aad long
for him, of which he was
Blair would forgive him,
and
renee
friendship
She was still reading
reception
ly opened, and Captal
3 a p41
the door of the
co —-———
Locust Plague in Spain.
from
ia the
m, and
gangs of workme: ve had to go ahead
of px ger trains in
the lines of the myriads of locusts that
have descended upon them. In many
cases the insects have laid so thick on
the rails that trains have not been able
SET
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!
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————
Lost Aris,
Na, nated
ig glass malleable,
courteous in public
Maki
Being
ances,
convey.
Syrian process,
Duelling.
Tempering bronze and copper to the
hardness of steel,
Amusing one's self as one pleases on
Sunday as decorously and legally as on
other days.
Making Damascus blades,
Painting and powdering the female
face so as perfectly to imitate Nature.
Lifting monoliths to such heights as
the tops of the Pyramids,
Growing brave without growing bold,
Making iridescent glass,
Being satisfied with the Present as
certainly as good as the Past and pos-
sibly better than the Future,
ml ——
Bird-Lime.~Bird lime Is made by
boiling the middle bark of the holly
seven or eight hours in water; drain it
and lay it in heaps in the ground, cov-
ered with stones, for two or three
weeks, till reduced to a muci
lage. Deat this In a mortar, wash it in
rain water, and knead it until free from
extraneous matter. Pat it into earthen
pots, and 1n four or five days It will be
fit for use. An inferior kind Is made
by boiling linseed-oll for some hours,
until it becomes a viscid mass,
ECONOMIC PRESIDENTS.
High Office with Snug Fortunes,
There
opinions
just now
onflict
the press
Ol
lo accumulate
One
to be Boma «
writers lor
the amount
Boers
among
about
ih
money
going
in his Presidential term,
the other day declared the
dent was finding the expenses of his
position worse than the salary ; another
Ww Leg
Lhat
with
alary. that neither of
thing about the matter,
ng every news.
s confidence about his
y {8 undoubtedly able
The fact i
any
veland is not taki
i
iv
i
mid
Things in
busing a8
A girl is
in her father’s bh
guest, She is neither
the family’s debts nor enj
itd fortunes, as In the case
bes
never con
TEL
OVS
and female
For this
girlof h
male
riage.
weds a
prevents
TCASON A 1nd
8 own Lown.
desires
1f a Chinaman
his neighbor's door. It
is a sure cure to kill not only that par-
tire family will be in jeopardy of losing
ask him to do so, but when he does not
wish him to stay he puts the question,
“Oh, please stay and dine with me!”
The visitor will then know that he is
not wanted. A man could borrow
money on the strength of having a son,
but no one would adv ‘nce him a cent
if he had a dozen daughters, The for-
mer is responsible for the debts of his
father for three generations, The lat-
ter is only responsible tor the debts of
her own husband, A rich man’s ser-
vant gets no salary, yet many are the
applicants; while big salaries are paid
to the servants of the common people,
but few make applications, The per-
quisities of the former, often more than
triple the salaries of the latter, are the
sole reasons of these differences.
———— i
~{inrrison rode three consecutive
winners at Monmouth on the Fourth,
~Dierre Lorillard, Jr., has secured
second call on the services of Jockey
Fitzpatrick.
.~Many people in Chicago say that
the best horse did not win the Amer.
can Darby,
1
|
NOTES.
thelr style and
the better, are the
Com posi-
order of the
and
tion
of silk net, first Jald
in
other
at the shoulders,
style, these crossing each
The sleeve
Just
of
nearly to the elbow. When
black lace and net, the
plece 18 very often of
made of
and ornaments of the jet on the front,
where the folds cross each
reach nearly to the foot of
These are somelimes
of corded silk and velvet lo
the gown, Composed of alter-
velvet and beaded
are applicable to the present
and can also be worn
made
lace,
they
BOn,
in the cooler
fig
auiul
nn days to come,
—Jackets the
are complement of
mountain and sea-
ason, and a
homogeneily
these suits
of the
simple
Be
effect of
general af
3 by {
the same color, thou
of the same fab
The most st)
hese have fancy vest
ugh very frequently
the gown simulates a walste
he cutaway
y
ormin
‘
i
the bodice
a4
at
neath t jacket,
, combined with skirts of
ited cloth, French g
$n ¢ { fv torial .
hing the skirt in material, and
nf 4 y
Corsages piain
ards iack-
ki have
$
wie
and
a vest
y stylish
cheviot,
immed
s+ buttons, picys th
y effectively. One ext
made of dark-blue
with a hairline of wb
at beneath
this made of wh ly
gold in fine arabesque
“@ on
ile, shiows
walisico the blue
ite pilot clotl
i
L +)
wilh
one
leaves ink roses
brim her fine
1 n wo : or id watiy
lace over old gold satin,
with beads and
wings studded with
on the side and |
lace is outlined
coronet |
3 black |
ters
bonnet
and it
cabochons, Hack
gold and jet beads
a iront. The black
vith gold beads, and
the strirgs and bows are black ribbon |
shot with gold. The veil to be worn |
with this bonnet is black net studded |
with gold spangles and fastened with a |
black enamel and gold pin. A French |
bonnet, the crown in a mignonette |
lisse, is crossed with circular and oval
rows of corrugated beads and orna-
pearl blonde in the re.
vived Charles X pink, and the ostrich
An osprey in
silver and gray. The strings match the
A hat in beige straw had the
Vandyke straw. The high trimming
in front of the crown consists of pink
chrysanthemums mixed with bows of
A very
adorned with white lilac. Another
hat had a coarse straw crown, with a
Punchinello brim in Manilla straw. In
front there was a cluster of pale blue
and cream ostrich tips. A pretty
heliotrope beaded chip was trimmed
high in front with turquoise blue rib-
bon and gold tissue net, the folds of
which were edged with lace.
A very insidious enemy lurking in all
well water is lead, Lead is tho less
dissolved the more impure the water,
No taste or odor betrays the enemy in
the water; it is cool, sparkling, but
much worse than sewage. Water con-
taining about 1 part of lead in 1,000,000
will produce acute lead polsoniog, lead
colic and lead palsy, Water containing
lead between these and certain lower
figures produces many dark and myste-
rious silments of digestion and control
of the muscles, Lead is very common
in water, and one in five wells contains
enough to be
HORSE
NOTES.
—There will probably be a running
—The Sheepshead Day course seerns
fo be the fastest in the country this
BEeABOn.
—Buflalo Girl, 2,12}, foaled July J,a
bay colt with black points, by Jerome
The average speed of the
this youngster is grealer
f any other colt ever foaled,
9
dey
fo
y
7
I
parents
Of
Han 0
hat
— Betting on the Doncaster SL.
to be run on September 14, is as
follows: b to 2 agalust Merry Hampton
Eridspord ;
Leger
now
He
De :
a rupture o
to
some months, dr
and Bob Pinkertor
top road wagon
Poughkeepsie mee
Waverly be
rela
»
ie
I... captured th
ivy 9 921 ) 944
Py wnt,
scond heats
hen Billy Button came
2.23%, and David L. won
the fourth heat and race, trot-
ting the last quarter in 34 seconds, A
great deal of dissatisfaction was ex-
pressed by some of those present, who
said that Billy Button had been pulled.
Mr. Payne says he will match David
IL. against Billy Button for a race, mile
heats, best three in five, in harness,
for $1000 a side and the total gale re-
ceipls,
5 } he
in «ety,
- Hanover continued his victorious
career by capturing the rich Emporium
from seven opponents, and crediting
nearly $7000 additional to his owner.
The quarter was run in 20s, the half
in 524., the three-quarters ia 1.19, the
mile in 1.45, the mile and a quarter
in 2.10 and the mile and a half In 2.35§,
the fastest time the race has ever been
run. And this, too, with 128 pounds,
24 more than some of his opponents
carried. [Te also won the Spindnft
stakes, a mile and a quarter, with 125
pounds, He has now wom thirteen
consecutive victories, three last year
and ten this season, which represents
gross earnings of $56,532.50 of which
sum $41,007.50 has been won this year,
—Alyoone, the fast son of George
Wilkes and Alma Mater, died on July
4th at Highlawn Farm. Alcyone was
foaled in 1877, at Lexington, Ky., the
rtyof Dr. A. 8. Talbert. As a
year-old he won two races under the
guidance of Tip Bruce, getting a record
of 2.44, and in 1883 made a record of
2.97. This was after two seasons in
the stud, during the first of which be
Silverone, 2.24}. as a 3-year-old.
n 1884 he became the property of Hon.
lizur Smith, who him in the
stud with his fall brother, Alcantara.
During the National Horss Show at
New York in 1885 Alcyone took first
prize in his class, He was a mediam-
sized but very compact horse, with g
fine outline.