From Cradle to Coffin, Ng rock the cradle gayly, and swing itto and fro, A new life sleeps within it tones and low, A mother soothes to slumber, in love-notes soft aud mild, While Lela in sleep snd safety there rests an earth-born child, As we rock the cradle gayly. Wo lay aside the cradle, the bird its nest has flown, ind spread its pinions boldly, to make its way alone; fo fly, to fall in sorrow, or rise and keep its way, toils, temptations, frultage of life's day, As wo lay aside the cradle. In tender Mid triumphs, fair Wa bend abora the coffin, another soul has The earthly fight is over, 1s won or lost, and dead Tho babe who in the cradle first knew of earthly strife, And there, with hands close folded, lies all we know of life, As we bend above the cofiln, IRR RS. PAMELA. Mme. Launoy was just putting on her at, preparatory to going out to attend + display of fall goods, advertised ex- ensively by a fascionable dry goods Hore, Just at this moment she heard the ‘ront door bell ring loudly, Mme. Launoy looked at the clock, “Why, it is.not 2 yet,’ said she to werself. “Who can it be coming so sarly? It isn’t my reception day, any- sow, and beside I am not expecting wnybody.” The door was opened bastily, An elderly lady, with a figure which was stil} slender, and sparkling eyes, enter- od without being avnounced, “Maman!” exclaimed Mme, Launoy, “1 was just going to stop at your house on returning from the Bon Marche, 1 haven't seen you for three days, Will you go shopping with me? The papers advertise a tine silk at six franes forty, It is a great bargain, it seems.” ‘It is a fine time to be talking about silks,” exclaimed Mme. Martellier in a voice that seemed full of coming events, “Daughter, I wish to speak to you about + very serious malter,”’ “Oh! my gracious! Ihad pot noticed; vour face is pot the same as usual, What has happened to you?” ‘To me, nothing—that is to say, nothing personally. But as everything relating to you''— “To mel Why, what has happened to me? Speak quickly. You frighten “Well, poor child, you see’ — Mme. Murtellier stopped for a second; (hen changing her tone she said: “By the by, I have a hack at the door. Let's go down; we can talk just as well while riding.” “But, mother, 1 would like you to eli me,” ‘*Let’s go down first,” A carnage was standing before the residence of Mme. Launoy. The two women got into it after Mme. Martel- wr called out to the driver: “Thirty-eight P:incess street.” As soon as the carriage started Mme, Martellier took her daughter's hands in | wis with a look of compassion, saying: | ‘Poor darling! 1 foresaw it all a year | ago, when you were 30 anxious to marry | that Mr. Achille Launoy! I thought | the time would come when you would | regret having done so," ; “My husiand! It is about my hus- | band you speak. That tranquillizes me | a Intle, I know you don’t fancy my poor Achille, although he is always as kel as can be to you.” “He, kind to me! In what, pray?” “Why, when we got married, did he not at your request give up certain habits that displeased you, although it wade no difference to me?———Anyhow, mwamiua, I warned you that if you have inything to say about my husband I will not believe you without proofs.” “As vou likel After all, I am too kind to be worrying about your affairs, I shall order the driver to go to Sevres | #reet! Go and buy your silk and let | matters rest as if I bad said nothing.” | “No! No! Forgive me, 1 was wrong. But tell me to whose hiouse are we go- ing on Princess street,” “You will soon learn! And.as you find I have never been very enthusias- teover Mr. Launoy you will be com- pelied to acknowledge that I had good cause for my prejudice. Do you re. member, Valentine, what I often told you when you used to tire me out with vour endless repetitions about the gene tleman, that he was not the kind of a sean 1 wished to see you wedded to?” Yes, 1 remember —1 remember! But still, mamma, what has my poor Achille been doing wrong?’ “What has he been doing? Why, nothing at all, except that, although you have been his wife barely a year, he has been deceiving you during the last two months.” “Achille? deceiving me?’ exclaimed Valeutine, And forgetting the respect due lier mother, she added laughingly: “Don’t talk nonsense, mother! I will answer for his virtue as readily as-I1 wottld for your own!” “Oh, psiaw | You are foolishly blind, When 1 tell you’ '——- “First say what you tell we,” “That's so. 1 baven't indulged the secret to you as yet, Well, here are the facts: First, you must know that Anmnette—you remember Annette, don't you?” “One of your former chamber inaids?”’ “Exactlyl W Annette wrote to me three days ago she had lost her was : ul, and that she just “What next, “I am maman; what next?” to it, pra be nothing strange in Mr. Launoy’s knowing somebody in that house. But, Valentine, you must know that a mother’s heart always has misgivings, and something seemed to tell me that I was on the trail of a mystery, and when your husband, for it was really he, dis- appeared in the stairway, 1 could not help crossing over and entering the house.’ “And then?” “The doorkeeper’s box is on the left hand side, going in. A woman was in it. ‘Excuse me, madam,’ sald I, ‘but will you tell me if you know the gentle. man who has just passed in—I would like to find out whether I am mistaken.’ And I carelessly took a five franc coin from my purse. On seeing this the concierge beamed ner most gracious smiles upon me. “ ¢Of course I know him,’ said she, ‘It is Mr, Achille, one of our tenants’ “Mr. Achille—who?’ “+I only know him by his given name, madame, He inhabits un room on the first floor, which he rents from Mme. Marin, the seamstress, who leases the whole floor, He doesn’t sleep there. He only comes daily at § o'clock, and remains a few minutes, But, without being too inquisitive, madame, may 1 ask why you inguire about Mr. Achille?” “To this question I gave an evasive answer, and not wishing to inquire fur- ther for fear of arousing the suspicions of the concierge, I gave her the five francs and withdrew. Now, will you still accuse me of slandering your hus. band??? Overwhelmed with grief, Valentine, after a moment of silence, replied: “Yes, indeed, you must be right,” And then she added, as if against her will: “And yet, if in all this there was something else instead of treachery. Why did you not ask that woman what kind of people my husband received in that room?" “Why, I have just told you that I did not want to arouse her suspicions, 80 as to mate her talk all the more to- day.”’ “Yes, that's so; you are right! that infernal street still far?” Just then the hack came to a stop. “‘Here we are before the house,’ said Mme, Muartellier, “Very welll Let me get out alone, It is best that the concierge should not see you at first. By the by, what time is it? * Mme. Martellier looked at her wateh. “Three o'clock!” “Oh, then, there is meet ng my husband!’ Valentine opened the hack door, got down and boldly entered the gate, Mme. Martelller remained alone about ten minutes, when Valentine re- turned, pale and nervously agitated. In entering the hack she called out to the hackman: “Driver, take us to Luxembourg gar- Is no danger of The hackman whipped up his horse and then started off at a rapid pace, “Well, darling!” inquired Mme. Mar- tellier. “You were quite right mm your con- I am that he is deceiving me. He, Achille! No; I must be dreaming!” “Naw you seel’ Mas tellier, triumphantly, do you say almost sure? found no positive proofs?” “NO. the same thing, “But Have why you on me--five louis—which I had taken to buy a dress. Oh! I never thought 1 would have used that money to tribe a portress, Well, the fact is that, as you already kuow, my husband spends twenty or thirty minutes daily in the room which be rents from Mme, Marin ."’ “Yes, but with whom does he spend the time? That is the question,” “All alone!” “Eb! did you say?’ “Just what you have heard -- all alone! The portress says that he never goes to the house with anybody; that no one Las ever inquired about him ex. cept a wicked looking old lady, who went there yesterday and questioned her about Mr, Achille. By the lady, I sap- pose she must have meant you, maman,’’ “But if he goes without company, and if nobody ever asks for him, what in the world can your husband go to that house for? One may suppose all kinds of things." “Wait a minute. About a week ago, as the concierge was standing at the door, Achille came up with a friend, who left him, saying, in a roguish man- ner: “ ‘Goodby, old fellow, I leave you to Pamela,’ “Ah! there now! that’s the secret,” ejaculated Mme, Martellier. “‘Pamelal Some wretch living in the house, 1 sup- pose, who, not daring to receive him in her apartments, comes down to the famous first floor room. "’ “That is just what I thought too." “What a Machiavelli I have for a son-in-law!” “Here we are at the Luxembourg. Settle with the driver, maman — I haven't a sou left, Let us walk about now for an hour--no, not quite an hour, only forty+ive minutes,” ‘And in forty-five minutes?” “Then we shall return to Princess street, Iam anxious to know the full facts of the case,” After sending away the hack, Valen- tine and her mother “I shall go alone, if you prefer i.” “No, indeed,” replied Mme, Martel- lier, spiritedly, *I could not think of abandoning you to the anger of that monster, who, on seeing that you have found out what orgies he was revelling in. might be capable of injuring you.” “A monster] Achille, a monster! Mother, believe me, I can’t realize itl”? Mme. Baudru’s little Swiss clock was just striking the quarter to 5, when she conducted the mother and daughter to Achille’s secret bower, as Valentine had called it. The worthy concierge had an extra key, by means of which she entered in the morning to air the room. A few seconds before § Mr. Launoy appeared, Vith a happy countenance he took off his hat and overcoat, Then going to a cupboard he took from it a superb pipe splendidly colored, a pack of Cap- oral and a box of matches, After flll- ing the pipe with care, he lighted it and sat down in an arma chair, Hall clos- ing his eyes, he puffed away with a look of satisfaction that could hardly be de- scribed by words, Through the door, purposely left ajar, Valentine heard her husband murmur in a sort of ecstasy: “How good it is, Tord, how good it is! When think that old she goat, Mme. Martellier, made me promise to give up smoking. Soas not to set Val- entine and her mother at odds—1I kept my word—as Jong as I could; ten long months! Then, when I could stand it no longer, took you back, my little Pamela-—good old pipe that I was so fond of in my student’s days.” A cry sounded from the cabinet, the door of which was opened abruptly. “Valentine! Mme, Martellier!” claimed Mr, Launoy, wildly, And he tried to hide the forbidden pipe. “No! darling,’”? said Valentine ; “don’t hide it! Bring it with you. You may smoke it at the house as much as you please, on well together,” And she joyously kissed Achille, who gazed upon her with a bewildered look, while Mme, Martelller, with a dark scowl on her coumtenance, growled at the entrance of the cabinet: “Old she goat! To think that I gave | five francs to Mme. ten to the hack driver, just to hear my- self called an old she goat!” ex- Drive the Drauggzist Crazy. —————————. While wailing tor store, with a note which be gave to the clerk, who laughed, did up a small box of cachous, put a dime in the till, and then passed the note over to his cus. tomer, It read: “Send me something to take tobacco out of my mouth.” ““That nots,” said the clerk, *‘is from a printer, and is a fair sample of the many queer orders we receive, I don’t suppose there is any business in which than in the drug business, But we generally guess pretty nearly what is wanted, and really get along very well.” **1f that note had come 10 me,” said | the gentleman, “I should have sent the | fellow a corkscrew. *’ “No doubt, but you are not a drug- | gist, What would you send in receipt of this order?” and he banded down from & file a note that read: “I want some of that smellin® stuff what goes through your brain.” “1 give it up.” “I knew at once what was wanted it was ammonia. Tne note really de- scribes the effect of inhaling It very well, I get a note once in awhile, though, that bothers me, Here is one of them: “Please send me enough stuff to throw up a girl four years old, “Phe mu. wanted anemetic. The dose was for a girl aged four years, Another note that bothered me was this onec:V “1 want something for a caustic.” “I was wrapping up some nitrate of silver when all a8 once it struck me that the order was for a purgative, and 1 asked the boy who brought the note what ailed his father, Cramp, he re- plied, and then I was sure. Caustic should have read costive. A post-office employe sent over here last winter say- ing: “The old woman's gob a bad cough and she can't cough; send me some- thing for it.” “Another sent word ‘that his wife and two little girls were down with the chills and wanted the very best thing I had that would kill them,’ Of course, he meant the chills, A lady sent only to-day for a plaster *to take the stitches out of her back.” Orders for ‘the essence you put people io sleep with when you're going to cut off their legs’ call for chloroform or ether, ‘Some- thing for a woman whose appetite is loose on her, means she wants a tonic, as sho Is losing her appetite. Then there are orders for ‘something for a sore baby’s eyes,” ‘a baby’s top fora nursing bottlh,’ and the like. The reatest, however of these peculiar or- ers, is the one which calls for “some- thing what 1 have forgot the name of, but it’s a sure eure for dyspepsia,’ or any other common ailment, To such I always send our preparation.’ No Chance for Improvement. “Did I understand you to say that you bad had considerable experience with the Indians in the west?’ inquir. ed a man on an eastern train of a tall 1 ANACONDA’S BATH. A Strange Sight Witnessed in a Bow- ery Museum. I saw three of the bLiggest snakes ever known in captivity given a bsth the other day. It was in a Bowery museum, to which a leather-lunged and ragged young man on the sidewalk invites the passing throng to come and sup their full of horrors. In a room upstairs there was a long glass case con- taining, perhaps, six or eight anacon- das. These were lolling sleepily about with their wicked-looking eyes half shut, and their glossy, mottled bodies tied up in bow-knots together. The hoarse-voiced gentleman in charge of them deseanted volubly upon their life and habits, It was a very common mistake to suppose that snakes in captivity were kept under the influence of drugs, he said, They were always sleepy after they had been fed, and persons who had to handle them took care that they were fed often and regularly. That was why snakes in museums were al- ways seen to he enjoying a sort of dig- nifled ease instead of getting up and smashing things to pieces, as they might easily do if they could get their muscular bodies around anything. That was the reason why snake charm- ers could handle their snakes with im- punity, He wanted to know if I want- ed to see thessnakes take their baths, He said there was not a particle of dan- ger and it was a very interesting sight, and when 1 had secured a safe line of I told him to go ahead. Two assist. ants brought in a big tub, bigger than a Harlem washtub, and put about three feet of water in. They tried the tem- perature several times with thermom- eters, and when they had made it at 70° they told the chief of the lavatory that they were ready. “We heat the water to 70°, so that it will be exactly the same as the temper- | ature of their cage,’’ said he. **You | see that the bottom of the cage is care- tully lined with thick flannel. Under it are a lot of oil lamps, which are kept always burning. Their heat 1s distri- buted by pipes all over the bottom of | the cage, The snakes are so very sen- | sitive to cold that lowering the temper- | ature 10° would kill them. That is | why snakes are the hardest of all ani- | mals to be kept alive in captivity. It | requires incessant watchfulness to see { that the temperature is just right for | them.” | assistants and approached the cage. In | one side was a little sliding door. He | knocked that back noiselessly and slow- {ly advanced both hands in the cage. One of the biggest of the snakes was | lying alone in the centre, with its long | tail twisted about in curious fashion. | The chief's right hand moved slowly | muti] it was right over the head of the | creature, Then it made a sudden de- | scent and clutched the snake firmly { about the slender neck, just behind | where its ears would be if it had ears | The anaconda gave a squirm of indig- | Before it had time to make any trouble | the chief's left hand grabbed il about | three feet from its tail. Giving a dex- | his hands over one arm, and | had his snakeship at his mercy. 1 i The chief drew back slowly, so as | not to disturb the other snakes, and in | another minute had the big monster | out into the air. One of the assistants | seized the loop of its bedy, and the two { bore it, trying feebly to struggle, to the { tub and plunged it in. i struck the warm waler the serpent | stopped wriggling and sank in quiet en- | joyment to the bottom. The chief and | the assistant did not let go of him, | They swashed him gently to and fro as a laundress rinses out a dress, They | kept him there perhaps ten minutes. | When they lifted him out the other at- | tendant man up with some towels and gently rubbed the big c.eature off from bead to tall, When be was completely dried off the chief gently insinuated him into the cage again, aud letting go sud- denly, jerked his hand out of the cage and shut the door. “We go through this operation every ten days,” he sand. “If we dida’t the anaconda’s skin would get dry, crack open, and 1n a short time he would die, t 18 a matter of absolute necessity, and not of choice, you may be sure. It's no fun to be lugging the big brutes around. Did you notice how 1 caught him by the back of the neck? + That is the secret of the whole business, When you get hold of a suake there he is practically powerless, Inthe first place, he doesn’t know what to do uniess he can get his head around so that he can see what 18 goigg on behind him. In the next place, the pressure of the spinal cord and its delicate nerves deadens the sensibility and partly stupefies the snake, You know that a man who is hanged feels no pain after the drop falls, even if his neck is not broken, because of the pressure of the rope on the nerves in the neck, If I shonid grab him six inches back of where I do, there would Ya the liveliest thrashing and nig around that cage you ever pe . and six men like me couldn't hold the then he —_—_—S FASHION NOTES, —~bimple walking costumes have the skirt arranged inéhick doubls plaits at the back, and draped in front only. The bodice is in the shape of a jacket, tight-fitting and double-breasted. ~Indoors young ladies wear bodices of colored surah, goldsn-brown, red, or navy blue, plaited all round the neck. Below the chest the plaits are no longer sewn down, and fall loose and ample; a surah sash fastened round the waist confines the bodice. —Close felt hats of the Louis XV and Directoire periods are adorned simply with bows of ribbon and an ar- row tipped quill feather or pigeon’s wings. Sometimes rosettes of piece velvet are their only ornament. —The tissues preferred this year for winter toilets are self-colored, striped or chined. The tailor style, simple and correct, remains the beau ideal of modern elegantes, who wear complete costumes of fancy woolen fabric, with jackets of dark blue ribbed cloth, or of fancy cloth, checked or spackled. ~{n lingerie several new models claim our notice, One is the large turned-down collar, which is in great vogue, Sometimes it is a mere collar, sometimes it comes down into a rufils to trim the bodice in front. In either case it is accompanied by a pair of cuffs also plaited, and put on over the lower part of the sleeves, ~The bonnets are made of fine French felt or of velvet, or it may be made of bands of pinked out cloth, like the dress, ‘This is one of the very few ways in which the dress material can be used in accordance with good taste. Ordinary dress materials are in no sense suitable for millinery purpeses, Unless the cloth be fine and handsome it 1s better to make the bonnet of vel vet. Regular suitings have no place among millinery goods, They are neither artistic nor appropriate; ravely are they effective or even an approach to good taste, ~The coiffures is still a disputed question, the adherents of tha Psyche style being quite as numerous as those of catogau. Some combine both styles, heaping up coils of hair on the top of the head, and massing the rest in a heavy knot in the neck; but this re. quires an immense quantity of hair. I'he most usual style at present is to fomb up the hair and arrange it in the | shape of a diadem, leaving only a few | curls or waves to fall over the fore- head. — Bridal dresses remain substantially the same through all changes of fashion and fabric, They follow the cnt and draping of ordinary attire in a degree, but rarely are those for persons of ae- knowledged taste elaborate, or other than rich, plain and simple. *“‘Fusi- ness’ is of all places the most Iintoler- able in wedding apparel. The favorite materials are moire, faille, satin, and, for inexpensive dresses of lighter grades | of silk, surah, crepe de Chine, and the | like, —A pretty dress for a young lady is of navy blue woolen material, brocaded with tiny streaks of red silk and {trimmed with red velvet. The toilet | blue slik, with a balayeuse of red silk | showing just beyond the edge. Over thes skirt there is a plaited tab placed on the left side, of the same silk as the skirt. Above this adress of the fancy | woolen is artistically draped, and open { on the left side over the plailed tab, | with two velvet revers, one on each side, — Fashion allows some rather ling innovation in the way of gold aud silver embroideries, laces, nets or | fringes, and gut or silver ornaments on | bridal dresses, While this shall be | permitted it cannot meet with indorse- | ment from the best authorities, It ‘might be tolerated in the case of | wealthy or dashing widows in a second | marriage, or of ladies in society who | are long past their girlhood, but for the | average bride soch garniiures are mani- festly inappropriate, and in bad taste, and should not be eacauraged, Most of the more elegant evening dresses have princess fronts, with their eutire length handsomely decorated io | some of the many prevailing fashions. Metal embroidery is one of the leading styles, favor »eing divided between gold for more delicate shades and white and the effective fire tinted shades that are seen in new passementenes and fringes, and which show the iridescent tints of superheated metals. Very dark olive, blue, s'eel gray and black are the more effeciive grounds for these parti-colored garnitures, They are, of course, sometines used on light tints, but the besl taste comunends them as previously noted. ~The shape of corsages is as varied #1 that of bonnets. They are made plain with short basques for wool dresses, sharp-pointed or rounded in front for afternoon tollettes, and open, diagonal, or straight, with plastrons or vests, for evening wear, For the first HORSE NOTES, ~The £t. Louis Jockey Club will | hang up $45,000 in purses and added money at its June meeting. ~Jerry Anson, owner of the pacer | Toledo Girl (2.15), Martha (2.274), eto. died at Toledo, O,, in December, ~J, DD. Morrissey’s stable won $35,493 last season, Banburg leading | with $18,250, Kaloola won $13,923. Spink, the sire of Caplan Lewis, 2.20}, died at Rochester, N. ¥., the property of George D. Archer, on De- cember 4 ~Miss Russell’s produce for 1887 is: a gray filly by Belmont, The famous brood mare is in California, where she was sent to be bred to Electioneer. ~"*Knapsack” McCarthy Is winter- ing his string at Alhambra, Cal. He has eight head in his stable, and is de- lighted with the climate and surround- ings, ~—Barnuwm started in 63 races in 185° but won only about half as mucu Mobey 4s he did in 1886, when, with wenty starts, he captured over $17,000. ” -A company of San Francisco capi- talists have organized the Pleasonton Stock Farm Company for the purposes of beeding trotters. Director, 2.17, by Dictator, will head the stud, John Madden purchased of IL. RH, Bisdon, of Trenton, the b. m. Gypsie (trial said to be 2351} to wagon), by Mambrino Patchen (Herr's, dam by Vaadal, he by imported Gleuco —John A. Goldsmith, who drove Sable Wilkes when he made his 3-year- old record of 2.18 in California, 18 on his way East, and will spend the hoil- days at Walnut Grove with his brother. — Eleven new 2.30 performers of 1887 are by Happy Medium, eight by Elec tioneer, eight by George Wlikes, seven by Onward, six by Harold, six by Gov- ernor Sprague, and five by led Wilkes, ~1t 18 reported that the parties in Italy who purchased the b, m. Zoe B., 2.174, for $10,000, in 1884, and shipped her to Europe, had offered the Sire Brothers $15.000 for Rosalind Wilkes and were refused, —{3reen Morris now denies the state ment which was attributed to him thal he had concluded not to run Sir Dixon for the Kentucky Derby. His mind, be says, 1s not yet made up in regard to the matter, ~ Walter Gratz has leased the filly Netroma, by imported Highlander, dam Miss Dance by War Dance, to a theatrical company which is shortly to produce **A Run of Luck.” The old steep'echaser Trouble is also included in the cast, — Ed Corrigan ran twenty-four horses last season, won 38 races out of 18210 which his horses started, and captured $34,457 In stakes and added money. Carey was his biggest winner, with $7975 to his credit, and Tennessee was second with $7215, ~The ground purchased near Ford- ham, in Westchester county, N. ¥., a short time since, and which was re- ported to be intended for a new race- conrse, was bought for John A. Mor- ris, the new Treasurer of the American Jockey Club, for a stock farm. ~The sale of the stud of the late Lord Wolverton at Newmarket, Eag- land, was very successful, high bidding having ruled from the start. Princess Louise Victoria, by Hermit, brought $18000; Mon Droit, $2,500; Alone, $0250, and Lady Ieregrine, $9000. The sale altogether amounted to about £50,000, —[mportations of Enaglish-bred ant. mals have of late been attended with such favorable financial results to the shippers that an luternational horse agency has been started in Lomdon, with especial view toward atiracting buyers from this side of the water, Willtam Allison 1s at the head of the enterprise, ~Robert Steel has sold two brood mares, namely, Merry Thought {reeord 2.224), by Happy Medium, dam by Blackwood, second dam by Couklin's Star, third dam by George M, Patchen, She is in foal to Epaulet, The other is Graceful (223}), ty Happy Medium, dam by Hamlet, second dam the dam of Gloster (217). Graeeful is in foal to Erin. «~The Sire Brothers have bought the ch. g. Scott Newman, by ilenry Bell {sou of Cuyler) dam by Whirlwind, with a record of 2.274, from H. Simons, of Louisville, Ky., for $3000, an? pro- pose driving him double with Donme I. Scott Newman Is usually driven with “blinkers.” Put an open Eridle ou him aod he canvot be made to go to the front. ln 1887 there were sixty-nine miles run in better than 1.43, against 55 in 1880 and 24 in 1885. Stuyvesant’s 1.40, with 111i pounds up, at Bay, Septem ber 7, was the best. . of the Na- —— The Bod | of Review . EE ia recent mesting. at xX FB iy g Fg il } i 5
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