RN At the Stile. Oh! I know a little maiden, She lives close to us at home ; When the air with peace is laden In the evening she will roam, In tha evening down the meadow i Lie stile upon the lane, beneath the osk tree shadow She will meet her love again, {ot Bhe has very many lovers, ™ Has this maiden, half a score; She's a fortune to the glovers With her twenty pairs, or more. There's the banker and the tailor, Who are looking out for wives, And tho parsons son—a sailor— Will make love when he arrives, Then the curate comes to prattle All the gossip of the town, While the captain talks of battle, And besieges with a frown, There's a farmer every Friday Comes to market in our square, Bringing with him, wet or dry day, Posies gathered for the fair. They implore her, till she blushes— Says they do not know their mind— their vows and speeches crushes, Bur she is not all unkind; For she tells me of their going, With a laughing sort of smile, 4nd I know what I am knowing, And I learn it—at the stile, EA AIR SI RETRIBUTION. $2. AS the wards the { lotes of ] sharge., 1 where he said: vied I. 11 orty iaiel agit through many an under ily we turned into a room, “This patient Ss many Strange wrfectly harmless get m to tell you his case, while I go over into ward A.” L ing around the neat little room I saw a | large copy of our I'en we strolled slowly doctor told me the Ta i iis Tye ile 1 things: is 1 and BAAD, i i ’ i y 1 you must get 3 YOK = Commandments fastened 8 washstand, a bed, and a | : ing in the corner was 7 ) f a man, and he was re = said the man, | with a br “1 oe . - 's Here, neral, here, rising and facing about isk military salute, “Private Blake, this is Gen. he has come to listen to your grievance, Tell him all about **I will, General; and why? he'll get me out, and that’s wl was your command eral?’ [ belong ‘sy Jones; ’ iL. | § Fa, i pecause 1Y. y ry my 1d so did Corps. 1, when John Smith tion in front of Peter No, my man, but 1 hay if you say so." ‘But he wasn’t rai, ( | I'm in } General, and it was a you remember, Gen- was shot for de- A od 1 Was, 2 (housand vears! When I saw him lyi his wooden ov ind I knew God! I must pray agai IIe ran dropped on doctor help 3 g before the poor old I was happy. with the mandments ved my neighbor’s daugh- fellow came astray, and sl night I look out by barber, house for me a a neat little Praver : the Co wall, and ter, b New Yor died, and of this wine 1 star; and she says: **llarry, dear, Le patient; yvou’ll join me by-and-by.’” I know that well en- ough, but, General, it won’t be in less than a thousand years! I was to be married, General, and that devil came from New York in his sleigh and took her riding, and he hung around our villiage, and I was in misery because she grew cold to me. And one day he | came into my shop and looked around, and asked me to shave him. He told | me to be careful, as he had a mole on | his right cheek, which a clumsy barber | had cut; but I didn’t cut it, I'm as good a workman as ever you saw, but | they won’t let me have my tools here. | “When my poor little Mary sacked me for good and all, General, I knew there was something wrong in my head, but I hid it, Ope day my mother told | me that Mary had gone off with him, and they wern’t married, and that’s the last I remember, General, They | said I was kept strapped down more than a year in an asylum, and then I come to and they discharged me as cured, and I went back to our village to find my mother dead. I opened my shop again, but the people wouldn't come to me to be shaved. They said they didn’t like to have a crazy man fingering about their throats with a razor in bis hand. So I went out West, changed wy name, and opened a shop «ata town ou the Mississippi, close to ric] a Ford's on the SL10D Si mn ad ut a rich up 1 O11 a il @ the landing, and did very or three years, One day a big man came into my shop and threw himself into my chair, and said he wanted to be shaved d-—a quick. He was about half drunk, and went to sleep as soon as he laid back. I woke him up and asked if he wanted all his beard taken off. He said, ‘ves,’ and he went to sleep again. I had in my shop what I had brought from Connecticut, the Lord's Prayer and the Commandments, in big letters, { hanging on the wall. I lathered him well and took off his mustache and beard on the left side of his face, then I began on the right, but had hardly started when my razor touched a mole? “I knew him, General! 1 knew him! The devil that had led my poor Mary astray, but now he was in my power and snoring in sleep. I slipped into my yard and got my axe, Once, twice, axe to cleave his skull, but idea flashed through my mind lightning. I gol out all my and bound him to the heavy chair arms and legs and head-—so tight that he couldn’t move if he had been strong as Samson. Then 1 yelled in his ear and woke him up.” *“*Whatinell is the matter,’ “* ‘Matier! i! Where twist all you dev you Know me? 0 struggle He did know me, Gren ina minute, yelled ; is my ral, sobered LU Cal 853 door. Pr: should I pra) Decause you've iY, man, 1 Hiinunies + ‘* ‘What ar *‘I'm goin “rAnd end lows?’ “s ‘Neve r ! K to camp, guard-house ice to our sick when the guard, he lookex y and saw the Johuny, your name?’ said the **My name is Talbot, sergeant, ** “And what did vou belong to?’ “+1 Ix longed to the Second Creorgia,’ ‘**No you don’t,” said the sergeant, ‘Your name is Smith, and you belonged to ti One-hundred-and-third York.’ “And so It turned out, General. It appeared when they tried him that his oo Jumper, and had deserted to the rebs- intending to desert back again and get sent North, “He was sentenced to be shot, gen- eral, and I was detailed on the shooting squad, and I felt awful about it. *Thou not kill,’ was rushing through my head like a train through a tunnel, When the squad fell in the provost marshal made me take the twelve pieces into a tent, and he told me to load eleven of themn with ball and one with a blank, like they always do. 1 didn’t want to have anything to do with it, so I loaded eleven with blanks and rammed three ball-cartridges into one piece, Thinks I, I'll know who does the killing if nobody else does, because that piece will kick like sixty, So we marched out, and the provost marshal read the sentence, and the chaplain prayed, and then there came the ‘Ready, Aim, Fire!’ and I found ! myself lying on my back, I got ball-cartridges after all, back to camp I felt awfully, as though there was letters big as mountains, strung shy, ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ “That nigh after Retreat 1 It seemed of fire, as along was spreading street asking for me, I went out, ‘Blake, get your razor and brush and come with me.’ So I got them out of my knapsack and followed the captain to the surgeon’s tent, The surgeon says: ‘Blake, you must not mention it ; that deserter we shot to-day is here, We have had a discussion; Capt, Hunt declares that a dead man’s hair grows; I want to convince him that it don’t, 80 you shave him close and we'll see if | he has a rough or smooth face to-mor- row.’ **The poor fellow lay here, General, with three awful holes through his breast, and I Jathered him and took off { commenced on his right, but as soon as I did my razor touched a mole! It { God’s work, General. There he lay, | “‘What's the matter, Blake?’ said the captain, rGod save i his name?” tH i5mith,? “INo, no captain, | Connecticut and in the t wasn’t Smith then.’ “And General, Mr. Lincoln Stant and Ge sheridan Wis us captain; what was .. Hit in ¥ r X y DEAT 0 and Mr, 1 Mead« 1 on n. Grant adit and | me HAYDN'S SKULL. An Interesting Story Throwing Light on Some Ancient Legend, The production of a cast of Haydn’s skull at a recent scientific meeting at Jerlin recalls the weird story of the ab- straction of the composer's head from the coflin after burial which most musi- cal readers are familiar with, Haydn died on May 31, 1809, during the French occupation of Vienna, In 1820 his re- mains were exhumed in order to be transported to the family vault of the Esterhazy, at Eisenstadt, and the body in the coffin was found to be headless, A search was made in Vienna among collectors devoted to craniology, a skull, supposed to be Haydn’s, was found, and buried with the body in the Ester- hazy vault, An interesting contribution to the strange story is now made by Herr Frankl, a Viennese journalist, who publishes a document purporting to have been written on June 21, 1832, by werial toyal Prison, and arranging all about the abstraction, Ac- cording to this story, Peter was a phre- nologist, and stole the head in order to corroborate the ti Dr, Gall, Count E named Jungerma he director wories of : Yiu s Ro enbanum, of a Vienna civil-service iYyceumn uian, a y, he went to the cemetery a vdn had been buried and Then Lie goes on --—— “ A Fashionable Nile Town. WW hat ¢ight is Luxor! Turn the | head as will, you are sure to some pi altogether different from anything you had previously beheld, tor Luxor is ‘‘the metropolis of | Here the strange people of all quarters congregate. It may be considered the | fashionable town of the Modern Nile. The majority of sight-seers terminate | their journey there, and 80 the natives make the most of their opportunities to { sell their wares, The streets are of never-ending interest, One gets impression that Luxor is the busiest mart in the world, Here are Nubian dancers; bead sellers; sieve makers: a he You Sy ture Thebes, * i vessels with the hammer; dealers in | pottery; marble cutters who, seated at { the doors, let you into the secrets of Arab tombstone nomenclature: bean | Is similar; makers of donkey trappings; elers; money changers and — i{dlers, What a bedlam and Babel they make. And then comes along the jocular street sprinkler with a skin of water upon his back. As he moves he turns from side to side and scatters the cooling element, strike whom it may. drs —— Whoever Is wise, 1s apt to suspect and be difident of himself and upon that account Is willing to ‘‘hearken unto counsel” whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly fall of himself and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very réason because it is his own. a The Alaska Indians The Chinooks are indeed a wonder- ful looking tribe of Indians to who Know the redmen on the pla They all wear als and pan loons and strong boots, They earn plenty of money to buy store clothes, and the women are gay in red and yel- low handkerchiets, as bead gear, while their sacques are made of bright-color- od cloth and ornamented wi in patterns, of hose good C One was decorated with the outline her family, The woman here is of much importance in heredity, as a man fish, or otter, and they are very careful about their totems, | FASHION NOTES, Hght tissues are plaited or gathered, Sometimes they bave puflings on the shoulders and some. times on the elbows, The prettiest slyle for sleeves is to have them open on the elbow on the outside of the arm to show a half sleeve of embroidered tulle, lace, etamine or surah, which 18 either piaited or shirred, The tissue ~— Sleeves of also be on some other part of the dress, formance of *‘Lohengrin’’ in front and had no trimming with the exception of a light band of flesh-col- ored tulle around the border. band was a large crescent of diamonds and rubies. As the tulle could not be ing lald against the skin, A similar ornament, was on the shoulder and another in the hair. cloaks, The chess-board tartans we noticed at the commencement of the either jacket. with a jersey bodice or cloth As to waterproofs, they | sues lined witl lard silk or vy the fabrics preferred, Tr india rubber, Fe silky alpaca are y The sliver-gray alpaca is very ladylike as well as extremely useful. ' ~DKIrts are still draped up a good autumn and winter we are assured the long plaited skirt will come into fashion again. Even now plaid skirts are to be seen In fancy woolen as well as thick 3. The skirt plalted in hollow plaits, of moderate length behind; in front it trimmed with embroidered or with very narrow flounces, and panels or tabs of a differ. ent color are generally placed on each side, between the train and fr . OF the skirt opens in front, to show a tab- lier of a different material, This is also a fashionable style, We shall cer- tainly tee trains come in again fi dressy in tollets, though at pres- ent skirts are still mostly cut round. - AS black dresses are indispensable at all seasons every lady should have t least two of these mn L wardrobe, 1% # Bil Lissue fa a5 i8 ont is i A001 a veils ing very little trimmed, In wrfect cut, is most serviceable for many It may have a panel of brocaded laiting or worsted embroidery down the side. Another style of 1 ming consists of embroldere A y id ill in OCCa~ 4 rin galloon place border « Dressy bls the {ik guipure is much Chantill draped The waist 14 guipure, HK a on in ite are was at ie of Lif i : itt Marquerite ma white sat duchess lace. TI! cpened broadly over a gul of cream-white crepe lisse, an veil ie of tl ry fal Was Ina Lhe I) finished p hem. Her or 1 we © Ana on bodice gatne a a % 5} - 3 BEG Willl 8 G8 ments were diamonds and pearls, Lve wor gowns of and wi ' 4h 4 $4 a bricdesmalas a ite or gleayes el au over made of real Valenciennes lace, cate natural tH 1 % 8 Crossed Lilt the designs painted in de They each carried gilded wicker filled with punk yellow iaiden-hair fern and white elder blossoms, One of the elegant toilets was of mauve satin, brocaded with pink velvet roses and dark green velvet Jeaves. This dress was made up in combination with pink satin de Lyon the shade of the roses, The Josephine corsage was trimmed about the open neck with coquilles of point lace, ¥ ine 1 nt 1 BK els alll 0ses, 1 worn th Judging from presen! indications woolen goods will be the rage this sea- son as well as last. They have carried everything before them for some time past, and the probabiity is that they ? ye will for a long time 10 come. Lhe the present man's oldest sister, The Canse of Her Terror. A lady in Bath, Me., was recently much alarmed by dreaming that some one was holding her wrist, Vainly endeavoring to scream for assistance, she loud enough to awaken herself, 80 rie looking and at the same time 80 expensive that only those with fall purses will be able to wear them. Among the variety of elegant dress stuffs are the Louis XV and XVI cloths and soutache cloths, They have all the richness and firmness of a vel- vel broche, up with form the most important part of the gown. The foundation of these cloths is a tiem and fine diagonal cashmere, which 1s almost hidden by the design i cut and uncut, and sometimes the pat- Two gener ing the ground one in contrast. Some Among really holding her left wrist, and all her strength was’ inadequate to release ‘it. Whether to call her hostess or not was easily decided, for her terror rendered her as speechless as she had been be. fore awakening. It could not be that any of her friends had seized her wrist in sport; it was too rigid a clasp, and had been continued some time, for her left hand was cold and numb. Bat just as she was able to speak, in a moment she found the relentless grasp of her own right band, and not easy to withdraw from its twin companion, so desperate had become its hold, color are plum and brown, two shades of green and tones of gray, Some of the floral lacelike stripes in these new stuffs are of great beauly, especially when the fowers are shaded and a dash of silk finds its way bere and there into the petals. Bold angles and rectangles appear entwined with flow- ers, and in every case the pattern is large, bold and well covering, so that at a first glance no one would realize that these fabries come under the head of woolen at all, but rather to be classed with the highest make of bro caded velvet. The soutache wools show interlaced patterns in plain and frise like bralding. | ~The two race meetings at Niagara Falls were financial fallures, | ~=Hanover and Banburg matched, as widely reported, -'There are already over 200 horses at the Louisville (Ky.) track, ~M. J. Daly has purchased the g. | Bg. Editor, paying $1250 for him, | =--J, B, Barnaby has purchased the | gelding Captain for a road horse, -—W. P. Balch, of Boston, has pur- chased the b, g. Amber, 231%. by SBmug- gler, ~Nohorse is barred from the free. louis are not | for-all trotting race at the St, | Falr, ~ New Zealand advices report the { death of the Imported stallion Feve, { at Foxtown, ~ Bankrupt, the once great crack, { has been sold to Eugene Leigh, of { Chicago, for $2300. ~L. C, Lee, record 2,174, the cham- pion pacer of the Pacific coast, is owned by John D, Morrissey. —Several thoroughbreds were shipped | from Liverpool, England, to Buenos | Ayres, Bouth America, recently. ~There 18 a trotting Park, Providence, a scheme on foot to hold meeting at Narraganset by electric light. Was downed Mr. Emery tickets hz bought very easil should ~ Patron ; 51 1igyer v AMIZsLone, he pool on that Corrigan Knight, Knight. ~The r. BUSPEnsory surf bath — While Bay is very fast, trainers are comp ing that it is too hard and trying on horses’ feet and legs. ~—Mr, Sibley, of Franklin, Pa., has purchased the standard-bred trotting | stallion Sterling Wilkes, by Bellwood, {dam Kate Pennington. — Darlington, the first colt got by Iroquois, has been sent into Eph Bned- { eker's stable, and Eph. ho handled | his dam, Soubrette | s colt fc his 53-year-old eng hnston, 2 064, to wagon iird pacer will come hree.-corner race ) atl od Hagzin after ceed West and ride ! ‘ isan 1 } a THR 1 45 Poughkeepsie, tanced in the first heat, nd idge, however, rej : protest was tha Ties n made, 1 track at 1 . reel ¥ 4d CLAD lt rs ENIT at al van fifty. yy poi Myrtella } 9% 1 re hu rly - wif, AE Lh ii) Pr fs great | hile Ge 1 even in four performe t hi and Hoosier LEW Comers « pacer th Wilkes c CG. 2.28, reais $ vo Lue iS Season, rge nes to the nt with C 2.25; ff W 2.204; Baron Wilkes, 2.27 and Howard, 1ba Je 1Kkesr, e were Tr if ie prin the f{ree-f ighikeeps iS wi aliti ed by one Argyle by the made a little cious; bul the race was driven des; ately, and the favorite Argyle, was beaten, all P3 neces, or | meriis ba( ; ‘ i ie, f ~ 4 f $f y oo Ja als ias of the Coates brotl hers and é pub suspi- other YET ¥ LO known {hat vation al ~ Jt 18 quite well advocated the int races having the horses on platform p2 just to the n and have a man near the first turnr which works perfectly In running races, and 1 am very sure that it will in trotling even!s, provided the starter is & man who understands his business, The person who handles the echo flag has a very easy job, nothing todo ex- cept to obey orders received from his principal, by signal, viz, to drop his flag the instant he sees that of the star- ter drop, and otherwise to hold his flag in the middie of the track, Un- der this very simple and common-sense | system the drivers have nothing to do | except to look aliead between the ears of their hors 8, and it is shown to them by the falling or the upholding of the echo flag whether it is a start or { not. They Jo not listen for the word or the recall bell, and a deaf, or par- tially deaf, driver has an equal chance with one whose auricular or- gans are of the keenest. The actual | starter on the track should be a man | selected by each association who would Ot the place, and 1t is not necessary {for me to dwell upon what are the proper requirements. My astonish. ment is that so evident an improvement in the prevalent plan of starting horses in trotting races has not been generally adopted on important tracks, - Woolen goods in gray or ‘‘froc de capucin are usad for traveling or in. door suits. A very dressy indoor cose tume is of ‘‘capucin’ vigogue. The half-train skirt is very full and forms large plaits, The skirt opens on the right side from the hip down over a large breadth of white silk embroid- ered with white flowers in relief. There is a flat apron in front. The pointed waist is bordered with wide steel galloon worked on a white ground, In front of the waist is a white and “‘capucin’ draped fichu which crosses and is fastened to the belt, The upper of the walst orms a small vest with a straight col- of steel galloon, - 0 starter a litt 8a4Y 2am) vidal " OR purpose, tand ; with an echo flag down is the system fr Li a indges’ 8 judges’ ¢
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