Her Photograph.
A picture of a dark-eyed girl
NW ith pensive, thoughtful alr,
Whose pure sweet face looked from beneath
Its frame of misty hair.
My heart was captured |
I loved her at first sighs;
“Sweet maid,” I whispered, ‘‘let me be
Your own true chosen knight.”
Ber foo;
And then 1 tried to find my queen,
I sought ber near and far;
Her pictured face shone on my path
And was my guiding star,
But oh, how can I tell the grief,
The bitter grief to me,
When I found out, beyond a doubt,
There was n't any she!
For this sweet picture that I loved
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Composite photograph |
And the fair girl whose pensive eyes
Had made my pulses stir,
Did not exist, or rather there
Were forty-nine of her!
due woman's face was in my mind—
How could I then divine
That I, while faithful
| to ons love,
Was trus to forty- }
nine?
}) Seience! You have «
On you I lay the guilt;
You've made my honest love appear
Like any crazy-quilt!
lone this thing,
And this one thing I ask of you,—
Can you, with all your art,
Unite these forty-nine poor bits
And give me back my heart |
THE DANCE OF DEATH.
Philander Darby entered the reading-
room of the club, At the granite
hold of the building he hac
but the power of habit is strong, ¢
for five years it had been his habit to
spend from one to three hours daily in
the luxurious apartments set apart for
the choice spirits composing the club,
He had hes on this occasion,
not because he ever failed in being
a welcon on to the groups of
young mel to be found enga;
of the
hesitate
fate
arnault,
}
Ye
Happy
0’ Bret Cosby
upon his 1
‘“It strikes i
Death's
commented
that's about the style
adopted these latter days,”
that young fashionable,
breaking the silence, ‘‘He's an ill-
mannered monster that's not got the
politeness of a French dancing master
when he pounces upon and waltzes off
to destruction with a fellow, as he’s
done with Darrow.”
“Fata viam invenmient,” mutlered
Grantley. “There were Giles, Fleming
and Hoyt as well as Darrow.”
There was an uncomfortable pause, |
The tragic deaths which had befallen
the quartette of their members in the
Ie
4
ing events to revert to.
“The mare that broke Fleming's
country from Arabia,’ said Bret Cos-
by; “one would think she had crossed
continents and seas, spurred of the
three fateful hags, so speedily did she
accomplish Flemiug’s doom on her ar-
rival,”
“The fate that overtook Tom Giles
was not less strange,” commented
Hardin ; ‘it was a chance in a thou-
sand, To be struck, at a distance of
fifty feet, by a pin from a passing loco-
motive, Is to me the very ‘lrony of
fate,’ ”’
The attempt at pleasantry evoked but
a feeble smile. The gubjees was one
that struck uncomfortably upon the
nerves of the group,
Golden shook himself together, ‘‘It
would be the splitting of a hair to me,’
ke said, cynically, *‘to make choice be
electricity that killed Hoyt, It was
| by a charge of lightning when there
was not a cloud in the sky.”
“Hoyt had veen warned not to touch
the battery wires,” interposed Hairs-
ton,
Grantley shrugged his shoulders,
“I believe you had also warned Jack
bian ; had you not, Hardin 7%
Harden assented,
the unwilling,’”’ quoted Grantley.
“Who was there to warn Giles or Dar-
row 7?"
“Jor the matter of that,” dippantly
the doom that may
he Mmcenas 7’
Illendered restless by the tnrn the con-
away from the group and was leaving
the room. He heard the idle
Cosby had spoken. He went
had heard.
doors swung shut after hi
“After all, it may
wom to whic
on as
not
SsLiny
bia
“There's many
IN ne has a
MLLul
dame at best, and may
when he least expects iL.”
“I'd take Phil’s chance
he's to draw from he
events,’ said Hardin,
ng already in
house ready
5. Ha! sj
is swingei
15 Wingi
1 wi gravity ;
have seen somes
th
3 my Carolyn, 1
thing lovelier.”
she bowed her veiled head lower over
the pretty flowers, A strong arm was
passed about the slender figure,
“Oh, my beloved !"* was wh spered
in her ear, “these blossoms are but in-
sensate things, at best; don’t waste
your caresses upon them. I am coun-
sumed of envy of my own gifts to you.”
She was yielding to his touch, ex-
rays,
Out from
to
of
of the absorbed
the shadows
one side
bride's
ed, glanced for a second, The
half-opened buds. The moon-plant
shivered through all its fellage. One
azing upon it regretfully.
broken flower, and so intently was he
gazing at her In her wistful beauty,
that meither of them saw what the pair
of staring eyes, shadowed by the fern
fronds, caught a glimpse ofthe hide-
ous, many-legged beast that had darted
forth from the follage of the shaken
plant, Alert upon one of the broad
leaves it stood until the quivering foll-
ago settled into stillness, then it crouch
ed, walting,
“Ah! Phil,” murmured the bride,
her eyes dewy and her voice tremulous,
to be no more than this
moon-flower, lo.ely to look upon, but
to be broken by the first rough usage.
cannot make even this small
bud attach itself again where it may
gather life and beauty anew.”
She bent forward making a pretty
blossom ; but instantly she
started back, making a vain effort to
suppress the exclamation of pain or
the conservatory. Her cry was shrilly
echoed on the instant from the clump
of ferns close by, which, violently agita-
tea, gave sudden egress to the figure of
It was Bardinelli, late master in
music to Carolyn, It was to the side
of his former pupil he now darted,
was still clasping her in his
was questioning her in an
agony of apprehension, while she, ner-
vously agitated, was using her woman-
ly arts to reassure him,
“I is nothing, Phil—a mere scratch
A great spider, I think.
creature nipped me and leaped
I could well see what it
Ah! Signor Bardinelli, is it you?
Oh, Phil—what—"'
I’ale and terrified, she lay in the arms
her husband, who, livid as death,
only held her closely, making no effort
strain the Italian, who had, with-
t
sting
4 Bulg.
The
¢
Ol
out ceremony,
pearing a faint line of discoloration,
received, The one
deadly chill
to the wound, had
sent a
“Tarantula I”?
No other was spoken.
or
id which
word
he drop
greenish,
viscous liqu
each time mad haste
as she compre-
of his b
(en y wedding revellers
floor of dance hall.
a ga and agi-
tated replies; there groans here
and there and half repressed.
Then there was a silence as of the sepul-
chre in the garish house,
this silence stole the first weird notes
of Bardinelli’'s **Dance of Death.’
No one looked at the musician ; every
eye was fastened on the bride, She lay
upon the wine-velvet of the divan,
white and rigid ; about her trailed the
satin and lace and
her bridal attire,
wie
it
i
1 the ne
cleared
het
I hers
$ i
¥O 1
Were rap a questionin
were
anbs
quicker strains, So
improvising the airs, telling to the still
figure upon the couch the tale of a life
noble in its dreams and aspirations,
tragic in ita failures, Yet through the
wondrous harmony dropped ever, clear
of the rhythmic tarantella waltz,
The call to movement reached the
dreamer, She
ed over the floor, Her movements were
Graces, Her face was the frozen one
of the doomed Iphigenia. Upon the
silence of the room the Itallan’s wedley
wrought like magic. The wedding
guests swayed hi and thither in
iiroteaus mimicry of the dream-dancer
upon polished floor. The breeze of
the night wafted the mystical strains
out through the open casements, and
bore them past wondering wayfarers
upward to the empyrean to swoop the
confines of other ws of mystery,
Bardinelll was lending all the cun-
ning of his hand to rouse the suspended
beloved pupll. The
heavy lids veiling her vision were slow-
ly raised ; surrounding objects were
had less of grace and more of energy.
It were as though the shackles of flesh
were being again riveted upon the free
movement of the spirit, The statue
had waked to life, though another than
Pygmalion should reap the kisses of
those divinely parted lips,
Louder and louder swelled the waltz
melodies of the forgotten musician,
One who casually glanced toward him
saw that he was contorted, and that
the veins in his forehead were purple
chords, tensely drawn. So might have
looked the Laocoon wrestling in the
folds of the sea-monster,
Not the less surely, however, was the
master hand informed of the genius of
a deathless will, and the observer, un-
knowing, turned again to mark the ef-
fects of his power upon her, who, like
Eurydice, was being lured back from
the world of mystery and shadow by
his Orphic enchantments., Suddenly
she stood still. The throng of specta-
tors gazed at her, Their united breath
would not have stirred the down of a
thistle puff. Her white bosom rose and
fell. The orange blossoms looping her
corsage trembled like sentient creatures
filled with a passion of joy in her living
warmth and loveliness,
Her eyes roved anxiously over the ex-
was king
For whom ?
She smiled a dazzling smile of rec
nition, and joyously stretched forth
Her bridegroom hurried to meet
For the first time there was a disc
in the music. Noone noticed it. The
was a break, a pause, then a crash of
chords, then silence,
“It was you who drew me
among the living, Phil,” murm
the bride at ress on the heart of
husband, “Not the bands of death
could hold me from you yet, dear. It
was the yearniug my spirit that spoke
O you through th {
ir
lin,
back
red
her
itl
n
e music o
beloved I’! he ans
wer
ian rs
-oa_-ee
Wise Birds
WAS ¢
eal,
rd, nor is he Ki
Ameri
’ \ } Ley » » rere t 1
ame brings up suggesti
ke the
and he is never made a pet «
Kindness or
nore favored bird
down
», and practi
ity
to good, hard
al and calculating
he discount all
Can
A ———
Strange Wedding Scene in Italy.
The Marquis Cantino, of Italy, re-
millionaire, Miss Ada Rutland, and ar-
rangements were made for the marriage
ot the pair. The day came, the guests
were all gathered, the clergyman was
ready, All at once the bride appeared.
A thrill of excitement, mingled with
The
white dress wore by the lady was seen
to be decorated with garlands of white
doves too numerous to be counted,
The face of the Marquis darkened as
he asked : “Where did you get these?’’
upon this splendid idea myself, and
gave instructions to the farmers on my
inglish estates to catch all the doves
they could and send them to me."
“And yom suppose,’’ coldly said the
Marquis, ‘‘that I can take you to my
arms with that murderer’s dress about
you? Never! 1 despise youl” Thus
speaking the horrified bridegroom dart.
ed from the room and took the next
train for Paris.
sean
~The Hartford Gentlemen's Driv
ing Club was regularly erganized on
the evening of Jaly 5, with the follow-
ing officers: President, Colonel H.
Kennedy, Vice President, J. H. Par-
ker; Secretary, OC. F. Gladding; Treas-
urer, H, ©, Welles; Direc Messrs,
J. P, Allen, % T, Stuart, 0, H, Wick-
men, BR, N, Fit and F, 8, Tar-
box, The mem already num-
scventy-one with ap-
coming in, Itis purpose
new organization to Sold wal.
nee meetings MN Charter Oak Park
every Wednesday,
HORSE NOTES,
~ Three sisters and one brother to
~ Harry Wilkes and J. QQ, have been
shipped to Detroit,
—Terra Cotta has a couple of en-
gagements at Saratoga.
—A match race between Harry
Wiikes and Clingstone Is not lmproba-
ble,
Ethan Allen’s skeleton has been
disinterred and will be placed in the
State University of Kansas,
~The half-mile track at Yonkers,
N. Y., will probably be made over into
a mile track before another season.
—Captain Wiliam Williamson, of
Mobile, Ala., has purchased from Ed.
Wiley the 3-year-old colt Eight to
Seven, by Enquirer, daw by Hebel, for
£2200,
~The Chicago running meeting was
a great success, the receipts on Derby
day and on the Fourth were sufficient
to pay the expenses of the entire meet-
ing.
—Mr. Haggin’s Firenz| appears to be
the queen of the Eastern 3-year-old
fillies, She has only beey defeated once
this year, and then by the phenomenal
Hanover.
— Baldwin's horses have been shipped
East. Volante, Gollah and a few
others were sent to Saratoga, while
Miss Ford, Los Angeles and the rest
went to Monmouth.
—New York is to have another race
track, and Mr. Jerome is Lkely to be
at the head of it, The new track will
probably have a straight finish of at
least half a mile,
—A. J. Alexander, of Woodburn
Stock Farm, has sold to J. D. Cdsh-
wan, of Mason county, Ky., Pilot Rus-
gell, & gray stallion, 2 years aid, full
brother to Maud S., for a big price.
—Six 2.30 pacers have lowereI thelr
records this season— Billy F. from 2,23}
to 2.204, Flora Temple from 2.
i, Gray Harry from 2.24;
. C. Lee from 1.2% Ww 2.17
a from 3.27} to 2.22} and
9 O01 8 9 18
rom 2.204 VW Z.i5%
$,
to J. R. Laney,
s bik. m. Lyra
of Amherst, N. 8,
by Antenor
dam Morn-
with her bay
) ORY
Dar
yy Peacemaker,
by Nutwood
ing Star |
—T 116 Huds
Association w
September 6, 7, 8,
Inwing
IATLET
. 8, ant
the Grand Circus
Oak Yark
gount of $18.50 will be of
Mr. Coster had Garnet at
Oak Park on ths ] of July ready
trot against (Queen Wilkes, but the mas
being lame, aid not appear, and for
was collected by the owner of
As this forfeit was 85 Mr,
returned to New York in
mood.
~In a race at Marshalitown,
June 30 there was a collisior
the trotters Bob M- and Western |
finder, and E. F. Geers, driver Bot
MM. had six teeth knocked oul and was
therwise injured, while the dnver ol
Western Pathfinder had his ribs br
and the horse had his leg broken.
1654
elt
el
O1
Garn
0 [2
a
IKE
‘he following records
foll made
s New York 1
ark meet-
were
1.
yriving 1
, UY 5
sthora of race h
i starters very large
nd on the narrow
is frequently exceedin
gerous to nde, It ¢
ing to enter, and many
horses just for work,
The ass)
all toeans charge an entran
ote 1%
track it
als Owl
of them
with stal
*
v
aki
HE IX
in the saddle. ya sl
by
—Speaking of Hanover T
said the other day: ‘‘l dare
be a case of Luke
over again, Hanover
gr
say it will
did.
lst him walk over instead of fi
him, and even when he gets stal
no business Lo win.’
Tat
—The Keystone Stable has been very
successful with Himalaya since
purchase from the Preakness Stable for
$1500, having won two races and been
times, On the 16th the
voast-off’’ met the Peakness Stable’s
“orack,” Rapert, and easily disposed
of him, running the mile in 1.44, equal
—Jt is whispered about at Mon-
mouth, that the Dwyers are nibbling at
reached as to price he will soen Wear
the red jacket of Brooklyn. It is quite
a plausible story. The Dwyers recog:
pize that, next to Hanover, Kingston
is the best 3-year-old out, and when he
shall be thoroughly fit Hanover may
have to race a bit to beat him. Dy
purchasing Kingston it would clear the
field and give them all the 3.year-old
stakes. They could give Hanover &
rest, let Kingston run for the suramer
stakes, then revive Hanover in the
autumn and sweep all the mile and
three-quarter and two-mille stakes.
—Libbie S. was purchased at Bewl.
ing Green, Ky., four years ago, by C.
C. Sanborn, of Gainsville, Tex. She
was then 5 years old, and had quite a
reputation as a combined saddle and
buggy mare. She had wou numerous
premiums in the fair ring, and the
price paid for her was 8750, The pedi-
gree given in the ill of sale by J. A.
McEiwaln was by Drennon, dam by
Whirlwind, thoroughbred. The Dren.
non stock 1s saddle stock, In Texas
Mr. Sanborn used Libbie S. as a family
mare. Sbe ran in the yard like a pet
dog, and the women and the children
drove her. She isa roan, stands 15.1
on short legs, and has the power to
She i& a hearty feeder
FASHION NOTES.
~—Fancy cloth, in small checks,
employed for jackets for Cool days;
ning is plaid silk or shot surah,
~Mantles are still made with a vals
vet foundation, almost hidden byt
most costly jet work, They all ff
the back, have ends more " less lo
in front, and well up in the neck,
plenty of lace and jet fringe trimmiag.
Sometimes figured gauze with velvel
stripes are used,
~The chief points in parasols are
soft gathered coverings of Indian silk
edged with cord, the sams underneath,
The ribs are often covered with ribbon
and the parasol not lined. The Mikado
is a flat shape, which suits thes high
hats and bounets, and some of these
are covered inside and out with flounce
ings of silk lace,
— Pretty dresses for young girls are
made of plain cashmeres and plaid silk.
The fish-wife tunic has the turned up
portion trimmed with velvet ribbon to
match, The bodice is of the plain cash
mere, with blouse vest of the plaid,
These are in blue and brown plaids, A
dress of softest fawn-colored cashmere
has a facing on the kilts and tunic of
red silk. Above theseskiris is a jacket
of plain cashmere, with full plaited
waistcoat of the ellk, finished by a belt
of red leather.
—Many of the stylish traveling suits
of English summer tweed in fine
shepherds’ checks or sinpes, made in
severe tallor fashion, have suite
natty Princess os Weles of the
same fabric, the graceful visor in
front, which shades ihe eyes, bsing
entirely covered with tweed. There
are also Lordon-made ulsters Qtting
like a glove at the back. thepe formed
of rough-surfaced zephyr wetght
homespun, apd designed for long jour—
geys by rall or steamer. These also bave
the jotkey cap en suite, this being the
real name of the close, trim lid
covering which royalty has
upon.
en
a 13
Caps
a
ie
Leag-
smiled
— Under the head of dresses there is
worth telling, Especially is (his
the case in regard to Jerseys. They are
toade now to fit like wax. Some take
the forma of plain or striped ciose-QL
ting bodices, with revers A new
make, which l popular, has a
plain silk 1 ¢, a striped
front ant 23 : sless jacket
ver. For yachting there is the el
autism
IA Vine
with anchors
Apother pretty styis of jersey Las a
beaded yoke with i t below,
the Nor ite and
aribal wade
Lave
bc
OLE,
3
ii.
kl 5,
oy
"he materials for
templing. Switzerland
inusual aclivily, and iawns
light blue, deep Lright
covered with
he principal
er dresses
Las
lors—
over have
iine of 2 hot
these is the
silly such &s
| florets; and
Inss
reat charms in tl
The style of wor
n sti
Gay.
raised ten,
of coral, or
nother beaut
n a thin flax cl
{ away, #0
idery remai
taken
“if
far
201
+
, 80 that itl can be |
Nets are embiol
the order of Edelweiss
ur i
summer dres
silks io twelve-vard
wreity dresses, Mo
dyed in a long rauge
a serviceable gown
at can pay frequent visits
’
nase | rainne
’
w
injured, Tussore lawn
uomended., It is silk, and
ks like silk, and can be employed
underelothing as well as for dresses.
in Paris is perhaps the most
yaterial of the bour, and
make has been revived,
3, and durable, combining
he capabilities for drapiag for
which the stuff is famous, and it is
printed in many classes of desigus—
floral, geometric and Japanese. Crepe
de chine has been lowered in price and
improved in quality. One of its many
charms is that it takes such a depth of
color #0 pure in tone. The new hunt.
img red in crepe de chine makes up
into beautiful dinner gowns. For
every-day wear there is the even-useful
nun’s velling, with quite a new {aoe
several new faces, in fact, The plain
is frequently now combined with the
same tone, having broad interwoven
satin stripes of velvet brocade, or,
perhaps the newest of all, tartan col
ored stripes in velvet. The newest
stuffs for lawn tenuis gowns are the
scotch woolen stripes in pretty tones.
Indian cashmere has been brought out
this year with Pompadour stripes. The
leading novelties in collons are the
check lawns, accentuated by firm in-
terwoven cords; Swiss cambrics, with
open-work stripes and the Ecossais or
tartan stripes made up with ribbons of
all the combined Lones. French
batistes have open-work checks, which
are very pretty to look at.
~Jn the list of summer elegances
for brides and bridesmaids are Pompa-
dour totlets of cream-grounded satin,
brocaded with plak and silver flowers,
draped in Watteau fashion over round
skirts of plain corded sik, finished at
the foot with full ruchings of fringed
silk. There are also imported quaint
old-fashioned
u
{0 be rec
10
4 . vr
the thiek old
smooth, frm
th
laos ascaded
show
loops and ends of the sash from
hero,