Remembrance. ~ How often we worship some cherish'd re- membranoce, Some image we deem 'tware a crime to forget; We trace in new forms to the lost a resem. blance, And find a delusion to solace as yet. As time rudely tears from his joys their disguises, And Hope, noe more, Mau turns from the sham which at last he despises To pleasures that cheated and mock'd him before! Jlow fondly he thinks of that far away altar, Where faith and devotion were barter'd in vain; He hears the sweet lips with their treason still falter, Believes they were true, and would trust them again, He sees, but forgets, all the labor they cost him— The dreams that have left him but ashes for fruite— A wreck, hie returns to the ocean that toss'd him, His faith in its mirage once more to re- cruit, He basks in the light of his childish ill- usions, And lachrymose grows with an idle re- gret; Avauptl vanish'd past with your empty delusions, 1 ask but one boon, and it is to forges. the false trickster, 1s heeded ON A SIDE STREET. “I think I'll call cy the new people who have moved to Denver street,” said Israel Courtland, as he sipped his coffee one morning at his handsome breakfast table: “Now, Israel, I fear you would ask me to do that, you are so democratic, Mrs, Waite may be a nice enough woman, but I can’t call on everybody in the township, If I call on people on the side streets, how long would I be received into first society?” “Well, as for that,” laughed good Mr. Courtland, *‘I should make a so- ciety for myself. I can’t understand why women are so fastidious about streets. If the world were to have looked at our home forty years ago, Mary, they would have seen us as poor children living on side streets, Mra, Waite has joined your church, and it seems to me that if I belonged to a denomination which professes brotherhood I would show it by my works,” ‘“*We don't profess social equality when we join a church. If Mrs, Waite and offer to help. She seems to me to be a very unwise woman. Why, she is sending her daughter Helen, about the same uge of our Belle, to the high- school, while she actually takes in washing from some of the neighbors to let that girl be educated. She would be better at work in some family, and so help her mother.” “I'he woman don’t look unhappy, wife, and if she prefers to educate her daughter, why, what's to hinder? My theory is to let people get all the educa- tion possible. People of sense never ted, and ignorance never makes good citizenship. Who knows but Helen may do as well in the world as our Helle?” *How absurd, Mr, Courtland!” She becoming annoyed at his **high moral philosophy,’’ as she called it. Ie had married his brighs, ambitious wife with the expressed ber happy, and whether intentionally or not, she had acquired the power whicl early love gives one person over dn- other. She managed to do as she liked, Courtland do as she liked. A very successful manufacturer, he and father, He was fond of Belle, a self-willed girl like her mother; but his heart centered in his only son, Henry, + promising iad of twelve, like his father, generous, unwilling to bicker about little matters, and frark and open as flowers that bask in the sun- shine, The subject of calling on Mrs, Waite was dropped, and Mrs, Courtland thought no more about it. Belle had no further des re than her mother to washed, but Henry, possibly from sym- pathy with his father, resolved to know Mra, Waite’s only son, fatherless and near his own age, A warm friendship sprang up between them, “Father,” he said, one day, *‘I have given my bicycle to Arthur Waite, You know he hasn’t any father to buy him one, and he always looks so hungry at mine.” “Well, my young man, how will you got another? said the fond parent. “I expect to ask my father,” said the brown eyed, noble-browed boy, “Don’t you think I'll get one?’ he said archly, slipping both hands round Mr. Courtland’s arm, “Well, Henry, between you and your mother it's a wonder I bave any money eft,” and he kissed the radiant, up- turned face, A month later, when the mellow October days came, and the family had just returned from the sea side, Henry was stricken with dyptheria, Arthur, who of course had missed his playmate, for there has been no bracing sea air for the poor woman's son, was like one benumbed by some dreadful shock when be beard the news. He lingered ered great armsful of wild flowers in the country, and laid them on the broad door-steps of the mansion; did errands for the neighbors to earn a few cenis that he might buy fruit for the sick lad and, stole in to ask Mrs, Courtland if hg gr 1s, t ng Jest she might be intrudi came over to offer her services, an and called for Arthur; but when he came the bright eyes showed no look of recognition, and the boy went away nearly heart-broken, The sickness was of short duration, and then the Court. land’s buried their idol Arthur brought back the bicycle, laid it on the door steps, and never rode on it ater ward, “Mary,” said Mr. Courtland, after months had passed, such months us a man knows who has buried the one bright thing in his life, ‘I've been thinking I'd like to adopt Arthur Waite, He is a warm-hearted boy, not so hand- some as our Henry, but noble, and then, you know, our child loved him so well, ”? Mrs. Courtland was fond of him, nnd yet she was not quite ready for this step, for him to bear their name, and have a share in the property; but gor- row mellows us all, and she gave her consent, The manufacturer, who had grown ten years older in the past year knock- ed one morning at the door of the little cottage on the side street, Mrs. Waite left her washing, and, though a little surprised, was in no wise abashed by his presence. Her own husband had been a man of unusual intelligence, but unfortunate in business, and had died when matters were at their worst, She had preferred washing to breaking up her little family, for there are few things which a mother could do at home to earn money. “Mrs, Waite, I've come to talk with you on an important matter. Ever since Henry died, I have thought I should like to adopt Arthur and make him my heir.” The color left Mrs. Waite's checis, Here was an opportunity of which she had never dreamed, wealth and position for her boy; a way opened for him to go to college, perhaps; but how could she spare him! She had toiled for him from his babyhood. was proud and could not love him as she did. But she must not stand in the way of his best good. She was growing older, and could not work al- Ways, “I thank you Mr. Courtland,’’ she finally found strength to say. “it seems to me that I could never give up the hoy, but I will pray over it and let you know.” “He is a noble boy, Mrs. Waite, We have had many a talk together when I have taken him with me to Henry's grave, as [ often do. Our hearts sorely long for some one. And | we know of no one so dear as Arthur." Mrs, Waite washed nervously, and there was a throbbing pain in her head all day long. When Arthur came home | from school she told him of the visit, | **Would you go and live in the great | house, dear, and be educated and have | money?" “And leave you? Never, mother!” And the lad of thirteen seemed to be- come a man at once, ‘You've worked for mie and if I live I’ll work for you, Mr. Courtland is a grand man, and if he offers to help me to go to college 1'il take the money and pay him back.” And so a note of earnest thanks was sent to Mr, Courtland, and Arthur re- | mained on the side street under the lowly roof, The time came when Helen was to help earn. One day she came home with a joyous face. have good news, has had a call for a fine school out West, | and he has recommended me, 1 shall { have a good salary aryl you won't need |.to wash any more,’ { “But, my dear, who will care for | Arthur? He mus’t be educated, too." { “Oh, I know the Courtland’s will | help him. Mr, Courtland never wanta | him out of his sight.” “I don’t see how I can possibly have | is best for us all.” | two who were all the world to her, and | she went out to new scenes, The work | was hard as teaching always is; nerve. | made herself loved by scholars, sympa- | thizing especially with any that were | poor. At the end of the year she was | re-engaged, and now she began to grow {anxious for the mother to come West land make a home with her. Mis i Waite had given her consent that the ! Courtlands should send Arthur to a preparatory school for college, where he would be in good care, and the house on the side street where so many happy hours had been spent, became vacant, “You have worked long enough, dear mother,” said Helen, as she met her mother at the cars, “and I have arranged for a nice boarding place for us two, where you will have no work to do.” : “No work, Helen? Why, I would rather work. I was not made for so- LY a “Well, youcan read, mother, and go to visit poor women in their homes, A kind word will comfort many a lone iy and discouraged one,” Several weeks went by and Helen was never so happy before, The good mother was resting for the first time in years, She could not feel that it was quite right for Helen to work for her, but became satisfied at last, when she saw what a comfort it was to havea mother waiting to welcome the teacher when the day’s work was done, One day Helen came into the house almost out of breath. ‘‘Oh, mother, you can’t guess who came to school to- y, came with our superintendent; the young lawyer who used to go with Belle Courtland, I must have blushed scarlet for I've seen them together so Mien a dome, He's come 0 the city go into partnership w udge Coates, and he actually came to eall upon me, a8 he knows ubout Arthur, 1 wonder if he can be engaged to Belle?” “Why, Helen, you seem unusually interested,” sald the mother, which re. mark was intended to be In the nature of A A proot, , he is friend of Sunday-school, and never seems to know that she is both clever and pretty, A good chance for a young lawyer, eh?’’ “Not bad, Chester. The girls I’ve known have been too much of one kind, stylish and shallow, but little help to a man who expects to go to Congress, or be a governor In a Western State!” and Hemingway laughed, but the words meant much, In course of time the lawyer called again at the school, and by and by at the house where Helen Waite boarded, The mother grew somewhat anxious for her daughter's happiness. ‘You must remember, dear, that our circle in life has been different from his, We are still poor, and you must take no en- couragement from his attentions,” “I'll keep my heart whole for you and Arthur.” was the response, Month after month went by, The young lawyer was learning that no- bility of character and industrious habits are as superior to money and social position as diamond is to com- mon coal. & - » Y ears after, when Helen had become the wife of the lawyer, who had reach- ed one of the highest places the State has to give, and Arthur was his law partner, Mr, Courtland said to his wife, “It paid, Mary, for Mrs. Waite to edu- cate that girl, Living on a side street didn’t hurt her. If our Belle had been as helpful she would have won Heming- way.” “Well, Israel, we all have to learn lessons, Life is a queer school, isn’t it?” * Ee * A STRANGE RACE, The Ancient Inhabitants of the Canary Island. Medouard Depont, while en route re- i cently for the Congo, having put in at the Canaries, protited by the occasion to visit the Canaries Museum at Las Palmas. In his notes dated from that city he says: Some persons have for the last fifty years taken great interest in the natives of the Canaries. Their curious manners, their heroic resist- ance, their sudden disappearance from the history of peoples after their con- quest, have created for them always in- creasing interest, They present the rare example of population which have fate agent, thanks to the insular posi- tion and to their distance from the cen. tres of civilization, The Canaries have been, however, known from a very early period. They were renowned for the mildness of their climate, and had been called the Fortu- nate Islands, The were fabled as being there, and the poets were elumous in their celebration of them. The name Canaries is men- tioned for the first by Viiny, who says that he learned it from Juba, king of Mauritania, Although lost to sight for several centuries, 1 was nevertheless known that the Canaries were often the prey of corsairs and adventurers who were ravaging the coasts and conveying the Gouanches Into slavery, In 1402 the Norman, Jean de HBethencourt, {conquered them in the name of Isa- | belle, the Catholic. The avowed mo- | tive was to convert the idolators to the true faith, and under this pretext he i committed the greatest rapines and cruelties, In a comparatively short time, by a | phenomenon of which history offers but few examples, the Gouanches bad { Jost their nationality, their name, their | language, their customs and their tradi. tions, The chroniclers of the conquest | bave informed us in their long accounts {of the exploits of De Bethencourt and { of his companions, but they have given only incidentally details concerning the | unhappy inhabitants, whom they con- | sider as native barbarians that were not | worth the trouble of studying, Dr. Chil, of Las Palmas, has devoted himself during the last twenty-five years to the task of reconstructing, ches, He has examined all the writ | ings pertaining to them, made numer. ous excavations, and, stimulated by his formed in that city, and a Canarien museum, where are grouped their col lection, Here are some facts which were ob- tained during a visit to Dr Chil and the Canarien Museum, The Gouanches are large and robust, Their hair is brown and sometimes blonde; the face is long, and likewise the skall, with the chin prominent, They mbabit yet al most exclusively the mountains in the centre of the seven Canaries, Be fore the contest and after the fil. teenth century they remainsd absolute ly in the age of stone, To manufaoct- ure tools and arms they utilized the volcanic rocks which form the islands, principally the basalt, because of its coherence, and the obsidian or glass of the volcanoes, which is very soarp. Notwithstanding the inter- course necessarily frequent with the navigators of all nations along their coasts, and who had been of the metals for a long time, they knew neither of their use nor the art of pro- ducing them, and were restricted to the natural material of their islands. The Canarien Maseuimn possesses some polished axes, of a form and workman. ship perfectly similar to those of other parts of the globe, beside the usual in- struments, knives, pincers, ete. But at the side of these characters of an inferior civillzation sowe institutions, customs bing a hard piece of wood against a soft plece, They cultivated wheat, and, above all, barley. They consumed a great quantity of figs and dates, which are only a little carneous, and peculiar to the Canaries, The vine to them was unknown, Although warriors, and of- ten engaged in civil war, their arms were of the most rudimentary kiod, The stone axes were exceptional, They did not even know the use of the sling. They hurled stones by the force of the arm, and this method of attack was sometimes terrible, The defensive arm was the stick, which was redoubtable in their hands, Their breasts were protected by cuirasses of wood, It was with these elementary means that they for along time resisted their Spanish conquerors, and accomplished exploits which are celebrated in the account, of their chroniclers. The Gouanches had neither chariots nor carts carrying everytiung on sheir backs, They possessed neither boats nor rafts, but were skillful swimmers. As the seven Islands were too distant to communicate in this way, their pop- ulations remained isolated, and, al- though they had essentially the same degree of civilization, yet in detail their manner was different. In the islands of Fuerte Ventura the remains of Ime portant structures are found, which were called palacio by the conquerors, They embalmed their cadavers with care, but the process has been lost for preserving the flesh, The preserved body was surrounded with aromatic branches, and a number of the tanned skins of the hog and goat. The mum- my was then placed in a cavern, where it ! is preserved until our days, or in the open alr, under some little tumulus, With the Egyptians of the time of the Pha- raohs, and the Peruvians of the Incas, the Gouanches were the who practised mummification, ticularly valor, chroniclers assert—to testify, without they had no idols, very advanced. They had, notably in the Grand Canarie, convents of men who lived on public charity, and coh- vents of women ngorously cloistered, for whom the sight only of a man was a sin, The morals of the Gouanches { were severe, The man who miscon- i ducted himself was punished, In the case of a woman she was unpityingly condemned to death, Another feature of their customs was that the men and same road, but had paths, They knew not how to write, but had, nevertheless, public schools, where the traditions and national songs were taught. Their language was lost after the conquest. They now speak { only the Spanish, i cr Politeness of Spanish- Americans. There is one peculiarity about Span- ish- American people which is extreme- { ly attractive to the stranger within the | gate— a characteristic, by the way, of | the entire modern Latin race-—the men | and women of all classes are invariably | polite in their outward forms and cere. { monies, It may not mean much, itis {true, but it is irresistible even to {those who are most indifferent {to the ordinary courtesies of life, ‘is the same salutation, the same { lifting of the hat, the same “Buenos i Dias'’ or “Adios,” the same moving | aside to give up the right of way. At | first the pilgrim learns to regard him- iself as an exiled prince whose flinsy { disguise is pierced by discerning eyes, but after he perceives that persons { whom no magoificence of apparel could | render kingly are treated with the same { courtesy, he ascribes the reverence he | has received to the innate courtliness i of the lords of the soil and accepts it as | his due. Riding out towards Santiago, | beyond which favored region the presi- { dent has an hacienda, it 18 not unusual | to meet Don Bernado returning from a visit of inspection, His ready saluta. | tion, his courteous bow are given to i every passer by, and it is noticeable that the handsome young general inva- riabily takes the initiative and touches his big Panama hat before the pilgrim, unaccostumed to such a feature of Jef- fersonian simplicity, is aware of his in- tention. or the other, maidens of any age are nina; in many cases even married wo- men being addressed by no other title than this same all embracing term. Servants go so far as to call the ladies of the house by their Christian names; a curious custom which was impressed upon the pilgrim the last time he called upen an acquaintance-—the young and pretty wife of a distinguished man of affairs political and otherwise—the ser- vant who opened the door replied to his presentation of his card that she did not know whether la nina Dolores was in or not, but she would see; and upon usheri him into the reception room proton. d a fellow servant there engaged in arranging the furniture with the in- oairy whether Dolores were visible, A RE The Origan of Shoddy. An Eastern man says wollen mills are for sale at hall their actual cost. So? Perhaps if they would mix less cotton with their wool they would have less competition from labor ia Euro No man yet buys American st ¥ who can afford to pay for honest English cloth, tar’ T or no tariff, The writer of this article was a repor- ter in an eastern manufacturing center in his younger days and always hated to interview people in woolen mills, It FASHION NOTES, -A great amount of fancy jewelry is worn just now. and a favored ear- ring is the gypsy hoop set with emer- alds or turquoises of extra large size, these surrounded by tiny diamonds of the first water, ~Dog-collar clasps, bangles and lace pins are shown, with garnets and opals surrounded by a fine net-work in gold or silver filigree. There are also me- dailion heads exquisitely painted and mounted in bronze or antique silver setting; also those of Limoges enamel surrounded by a crescent of French brilliants, ==Molre antique and moire Fancalse in smaller waves, corded silks of wari. ous brands, and plush and velvet, are certainly given great preference this season In the creation of grand toflets, but not to the entire seclusion of brocades, Special use Is made of these stately fabrics by several Parls and London men miliners, who select new and wonderful designs in the pom- padour brocades, delighting in the lustre and shadowy effects that figured satin alone can produce. Large and small patterns are both made use of, and the highest-priced gowns sent out to America are those woven in Lyons, with shot grounds, magnificently illa- minated. ~The multiplicity of folds, which were the chief features of skut drap- eries two years back, have almost en- tirely disappeared for walking gowns, and were replaced during the summer by the gracefully and slightly draped skirts, recalling a riding habit held up on one side, Jerseys and Garibaldis have retained their hold on popular affec. comfort, convenience and becoming- | ness, and made in silk are still pretty | and smart with black skirts, even for Yet it is to be feared their i doom is spoken, they are becoming | “common,” and so are fading into the { limbo which bas already engulfed | Newmarkels and covert coals, among | many other sensible and charming | modes against which the dread sen- | tence “vulgerized’ is written. : {| winter, | Long mantles have reappeared, to { the delight of all women who really { understand the true principles of | graceful and elegant attire; and with {them the small, close bonnets, which | now, as ever, become a charming wo- | man’s classic head belter than any | mare showy or eccentric bead-gear. | When I remember a lovely lady, some | few winters Lack, with her bright halr | back of her neck, under the tiny close | black bonnet, adorned with a simple | wieath of green leaves like an anadem { above the broad, low brow, and her | long mantle of black cut velvet and | for draping her warmly from head to {toot, *‘I wonder women can be { found so simple” as to relinquish array so exquisitely picturesque, dig- nified and graceful as this in favor of { high-tuited bonnets, like nothing but | the lifted crest of an outraged cocka- | too; hair scraped up from the nape of {the peck, and tight, short jackets, | sulted perhaps to the tailor’s ideal of {tne human form divine in & Woman, i but in reality equally trying alike to the slim and the stout. ~Evening gowns are richer than lever in texture and design, albeit | somewhat simpler In make, thereby | partaking of the tendency of frocks in general. In spite of the struggle to | revive the Directolre modes, English | women show small inclination to adopt | them; perchance, because they recall | to the Philistine mind the wildest fads {of esthetic nymphs—perchance, be- cause of all modes the pseudo-Greek is | the most trying to modern faces and | figures, The Louis XV is still adhered {to by many women, and brocad's nearly all partake of the quality of de. | sign of that epoch; but the Louis X1II | is, so far as can be seen, distinctly the {coming fashion for dinner and recep- tion gowns, and it is singularly becom. tog to » woman of stately and dignified | presence, and also a grateful relief to {those who are tired of wearing low bodice: in season and out of season, re- gardless of the form of thewr arms, The overgorgeous embroideries in panels and trimmings are somewhat less tav- { ored than was the case two or three seasons back, and Chloa crepe and other exquisitely supple and shim. mering fabrics have taken their places, save when real antique lace asserts its imperial sway and is now, as ever, lord of all. ~A modified circular is the shape or plush of the richest quality. Even- the whole gown, while He SiEses 2 1 ebilss 5 : £1 i 2 A it i : Hi E ; ; E A 5 g : ] i : HORSE NOTES. ~Freddy Gebhard has named one of his race horses Her Lilyship, ~Fred, Richardson, the jockey, has fallen heir to a large fortune in Eng- . ~W. ©. France says he has sold Jorgswo head of horses since Decem- rl ~Charles Wheatley is to be preside. ing judge at the next meeting at Je rome Park, Secretary Fasig, of Cleveland, ha sold his bay mare Rumps, 2.40%, by Bourbon Chief, ~A party of New York turfmen are looking for a site for a new race course in New Jersey. ~There will be seven cross country events and hurdle races during the St, Louis meeting. : ~Kingston is the most improved horse in Dwyer’s stable. Tea Tray I¢ now thoroughly well, ~T, J. Middagh, Patterson, Pa., It driving Toney Newall (2.19) and Dick Organ (2.243) to the pole. ~Pearl Jennings Is in heavy in foal to Ten Broeck, next be bred to Grinstead. ~The spring meeting of the Hudsor River Driving Park will be held on June 12, 13, 14 and 15, ~The dates selected for the summer meeting at Homewood Driving Park, Pittsburg, are July 10, 11, 12 and 13. —Charley Ford (2.163). although now 17 years old, is still very fast, He k owned by Judge White, of Chicago. Work on the new T. Y. C. California She wil straightway course, at Coney Island, imay be said to have begun, It Ir | probable that the Futurity Stakes will | be the first race run over it, | -— Robert Steel's man *‘Friday” (George Eckstein) will accompany the former’s consignment of trotting stock | to Lexington, Ky., next month for the | Woodard & Harbison sale, I George W. Burton has purchased {of Lawyer William Greer, of Middle i town, Del, a brown mare, 6 years old, | by Liberty, dam by American Star. | She is said to be good-gaited, -Rudolph Ellis, of Philadelphia, has purchased from Major Thomas W, Doswell, Hanover Junction, Va., the stallion Wiliful, and he was shipped from Virgina on January 10. ~Jobn Van Hagan, who for a time had charge of A. J. Cassatt’s Chester- brook stallions, but more recently was assistant trainer to G. S. Caldwell, died at Washington recently. —The noted sorrel trotting gelding Wells Fargo, 2.18], by George M. Patehen, Jr., has been sold at public auction to Secretary Cook, of the Speed Association of San Francisco, for $1275, ~The Locating Committee of the Vermont Horse Breeder's Association met at Rutland, Vt, on January 24 and decided to bold the annual exhibi- tion at Rutland on August 28, 20 and 30, —Colonel BR. W. Simmons, who is the presiding judge at the New Cr cans meeting and who for years acted in a similar capacity at Brighton Beach, has been selected as the presiding judge for the Monmouth Park meeting, which will contizue twenty-five days, during which time $200,000 in stakes and purses will be given, —J. B, Haggin, E. J. Baldwin, the Maltese Villa Stock Farm, Hon. George Hearst, D. J. McCarthy, Mat Storn and Theodore Winters are among the California horsemen who will be repressnted on the turf in the East this year, — Among the English races that did not obtaln the requisite number of en- teries were the Eclipse stakes of £10.- 000, to be run at Sandown in 1890, and the Lottery stakes, for mares in foal, the produce tw run as 3 year olds In 1801. —The ch. g. Belmont, which shares with Neptunus the disiinction of hav- ing run more races in 1887 than any gb horse--64 1n Bumber--died ng Brighton Beach on Jan , e was 4 years old, by ey IN-Used, out of Caroline, by Kentucky. —While exercising on the track at New Orleans recently the filly Belle Taw and a Faustus 2 year old came in violent collimon, and old was pretty badly hurt, -The American Jockey Club, at a meeting of the Executive Committee on Jan. 25th formally elected F. A. «Terre Haute has withdrawn from the {rotting circuit com of Colum- bus, O., Saginaw and Kalamazoo and bas joined a circuit composed of Terre Haute, Freeport, Ill, Janesville, Wis, and Milwaukee, «Modesty will not be seen at the again. She was wind-broken last season, showing but little improve. ment up to the closa, She is now in Lexington, and will be bred in the spring to The 1ll-Used. ~John Tunney, of Philadelphia, has 5 a) by Highland Gray, _ une, * * Belle Hammond by fin.
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