What If-—
And yet, O Methiren! what if Gad,
When from heaven's top he sries abroad,
And sees on this tormented st
The noble war of mankind rage;
What if his vivifying eve,
O monks! should pass your corner by?
In deeds, in deeds, he takes delight;
The plough, the spear, the Inden barks,
The field, the founded city, marks;
He marks the swiler of the streets,
The singer upon garden seats;
He sees the elimber in the rocks,
To him the shepherd folds bis flocks, i
¥or those he loves that underprop {
With daily virtues heaven's top, {
And bear the falling sky with ease, |
Unfrowning caryatides, |
Those he approves that ply the trade, !
That rock the e¢hiid, that wed the maid; i
That with weak virtues weaker hands, |
Sow gladness on the peopled lands, |
And still with laughter, song and shout, |
Spin the great wheel of earth about, i
t vel O ye! who linger still
s in your fortress on the hill,
ith placid face, with tranquil breath,
The unsought volunteers of death,
Our cheerful Geveral on high
With careless looks may pass you be.
ERAT
NELL'S WIDOWER.
I'he waters of lake George sparkled
like diamonds in
morning,
toward
while the hand:
fy
{1
I 1 1
USL DIAUK
ered
rose KO
are. . Easy now,
to land, then you unmask, jump out,
| catch hold of the boat, and help unload,
| Isn't this splendid???
the
her
young
!
gicle
$10,
“Surely you are going to spoil our
exclaimed: then added,
“There, don't be frightened; it
softly:
nl
is all
“Oh, what shall I do? 1
Who are you? How
am fright-
came you
These words i
with a half-sob,
“You ask that? Why you brought
John!?
wel h, oh!
take. 1 thoug
mine — John
I have mada a fearful mis-
ht you were a friend of
Brownley, You were
like his, and
{ are just size, 1 did not
| face, so I have stolen the wrong man,”
These last words were uttered with a
little hysterical laugh over her ov
stupidity.
“Exactly! I could have tol
but vou forbade my speaking,
was to be a lark, you Know,
ne, let me assist you out, ”’
“Oh, no. Wemust g
his
vil
sunlight, one Au- |
Mountain tow- |
» sky in grim majesty,
1 bu i {alas ald
«1s of small islands that
om the lal were luxuriant in
CO
green, velvely grass, waving trees and
graceful bushes,
A young man dres in a navy blue
mp suit, with a white cap on his |
worn at this re-
the boat
ke View
landscape |
ad, like those 1
sat lazily
posts,
House, €njo)
stretched before |
His face was Lurned toward the
therefore he was entirely
hat a beautiful! girl of seventeen was |
gliding toward him oa tiptoe, evidently
bent upon misc
Suddenly a han
over his face,
ceeded
on ie plier a lie ne
IAKE,
unconscious
was thrown |
fingers pro- |
his curs, wl
. “Miaf
erciiel
whic?
a blindfolded |
ot a word now for your |
1 are a doomed man, so stand
me wilh me—q iick, too, or
mnie will be here before I get you
there sounds her whistle at |
just starting on her re-
| ward; but
a lark!
» added, slipping her
4 **I am run-
ing to take you
iL prig on i
Oh, 8
x ‘
arm.
I
ail 8
med to enter at
he started off, after
th, without an effort at
o lead hi
once
In
paused, except
from the ground,
had placed it before reach- |
t away teward a
made for entering row-
nd around this dock plenty of
comfortable boats were moored.
aching one which
for instant
hurried
i
she had evi-
prepared use, she |
a 2 n, and st
word! There,
» fot or
i
SPOAK ~
1 2 1 r .
| you to, fo
girl had seated
boat, with
young man, and
ith a fearless and ex-
y pushed away from
she upon
around
te
OLY
looked
had qui
and was gaz
head an
she half
golden at
when turned,
with a curious expression in his
splendid dark eyes,
After } a
placed t i
ie Dana
41111ie Te 116
nue resign
INOS
seconds, Le re-
and with a
the situation
few
kerchief,
«1 himself to
HE FAY
now I think we are
row 1 will explain,
y of yours has leagued
Aunt Jane to make a match for
we. 1 am just out of school, so will
} married yet, Auntie has a |
friend, a young man, rich, handsome,
and all that bosh, who wants to be in-
troduced He came to Bolton
yesterday, where Le is going to stay a
couple of weeks, Hels coming over on |
tie Fanule to be presented. But their
pian won't work, for I won't be intro-
duced. He is a widower, The idea of |
their picking out a widower for me. I
won't have . 1 don’t like second- |
hand love. They worked hard to fix |
my hair and make me look well to meet
him; but I slyly interviewed the house- |
keeper, and made ready for a picnic— |
cold chicken, cake, nuts and ralsins,
fruit, all snug in the basket at my feet,
Then I spied you and carried you off
for company, One don't want to pic-
nic all alone, you know. I am going to
the loveliest island, almost a mils away,
and there we shall spend the next few
hours. Won't they tear? Ivor Mary
will have to entertain bas royal high.
ness, Mr. Ensign, herself, since we will
both be missing. You don’t mind, do
you, brother-in-law elect? I told you
not to speak, but you may say justi yes
or no, If yousay no, I will give you
the biggest piece of chicken and cake
in the basket, Speak-—-do you care?”
“Nat 1.
“John, you are a trump! Dut your
voice sounds queer, Raise the hand-
kerchief a little to breathe. 1 don’t
wish to smother you; but you must not
uncover your eyes until I show you an
island fit for fairies to live on. John,
the Fannie is at Lake View; now just
imagine the fun Mary running all
over, calling, ‘Nellie — Nellie Isler!
where are you?’ and echo alone will
answer; then, ‘John, John, do help find
Nellie, won't you? there is a darling!’
and no darling will answer. Never
mind, we will have a good time with-
out her. Runaways alwaysdo, Stolen
There, John,
0 while |
Wise
be
3
HOW
to me,
“What! go back to be
that wid
**Oh, dear, h
must go
wer?”
WwW
back,
1 were not
View?"
“NO. I rowed ov
Moh House,
} 1
was
Carried
Ica i
1 me
promising
Now, after obeying
adrift
y AATiLL
other nic
der, you
asked this with
quizzical iis shoulders,
turned seechingly toward
¢ handsomest
on y al Tw far +
hazel eyes she had ever met,
**Y ou are in no especial
back, are you? That widower, by
time, must have joined in
triumphant to t
The youn
her,
ace
#3:
LAlLS
and it would be too
ve
ind
ROOT 0
80 800n
and talk
iu
at
“Yes, you do.
self, Int
ple acquainted,
formal place,
rodduction
il
itt wl
see 1 Know
while rowin
our picnic
fun?”
He
spoke,
The laugh was infex
Ny
Ll
Mn
your
’
8.
les
3
£4
floated out
the grass
before them,
la ighs
Ws, seated on
! pread
(say
ents of t
chatted over
ver the cake, pelt
ed each other will i alm:
after demolishing on
they gathered up the cloth,
the
sel
land on
pleasan
After expl
ner, they returne
boat, and sit
the tall, oid
songs, in whie!
lightfully.
At length Nellie !
sq :
nuda,
god thi }
stored ir
at in the boat, th
a ramble over the small i
they had 12 1
Pl
’ » 1 hs
off on
wicca $90] ¥
|
moe
LITRE,
o
»
ry n work and Cor
the vieiaily of the
i shade of
81 ig SAY ral
blended de-
a
AR $483
- jo * -
pe aT dh
turning,
“Blindfolded?” asked John,
announced 1hie time,
“No,
not to be rowed, but must work your
passage. I shall play lady
time, I assure you."
So John rowed
View, receiving
wished -
be presented to her relatives,
Nellle was at once questioned about
her absence, as All had been anxious
over her strange disappearance.
Uncle, aunt, sister and John Brown-
ley enjoyed a hearty laugh at her ex-
pense, as she told of her mistake and its
consequence,
“I suppose you managed to entertain
his royal highness, Mr. Ensign, with-
out me,” said Nellie,
“He never came,’
“Never came! how
wn?’
“We do uot know; no word was
sent, and the Fannie did not bring
him," :
“Strange! then I had picnic and fun
for nothing.”
“Yes; perhaps he will come to-mor-
row,” said Mary.
“May heaven forbid! I shall not
see him if he does,” replied the willful
Nellie,
That evening Mr, Isler went to Bol-
ton to inquire after his friend, On his
return he informed Nellie that circum.
stances had summoned him immediate.
ly elsewhere, as soon as he arrived.
So Nellie was free to enjoy herself in
her own way.
Mr. John Woodbridge helped her in
his way also,
He rowed over every day. Moon-
light sails on the lake, tramps off after
ferns in the woods, and excursions
from one island to another, took up a
good deal of time, Then lake trout
as she
the lady to
at parting what he
did that hap-
waters sre sweet, you know, But 1
abounded. and thay mast trv shine
.
Huckleberries were plenty on the shores,
80 they must go berrying. Then camps
visited, and Huddle
Bark had an ice creain and confection.
ery store, and that must be patronized,
and so John and Nellie were constantly
together, while the sister devoted her-
“Nellie, ?? said John, one day, ‘as we
let us visit our pienic island.”
soon sitting under the oak that
sheltered them on that never-to-be-for-
gotten day.
“By-the-way, Nellle,
came of that widower?"
what ever
York,” said Nellie.
“Where you will meet
week,” said John, sadly.
“I shall not. 1 detest
batch of widowers.
ing to do with the prig. I told you so
that day when I ran off with you, don’t
him next
the
“Yes. I remember, Nellle; I shall
shall
in
1 :
love thenr
}
that
80011,
fell
you from first
ing home but
til 1 know whether
in return. Do you
know 1
loved
We are g
you
*
“Love you a littled
“Oh, darling,”
turning
“Nol”
try to
nese pleasant hou
No, indeed,
will not
be
liculous fellow,
ff
iy
uld nousens
J
a great
than you
» I dare take the kiss I lon
“Then c«
, and be fi
rife $nnite %
y1ife 58 At OLCe, ¥
boy yrgiven,”’ sa
tv
hiy.
“Darl
al
+h 114 $e
i Dan, 10
worst remals
: exciall
away from
do that,
t
VQ
wien oh)
married
me only
ue camp suit,
seen at that time,
and appear on tix
style. As] was l
pier, I was taken pi
“Oh, John, can
ally
“Yes, really. I
bridge Ensign that pri
“*And I did meet him,
“Yes, I explained n
ing to your uncle's satisfaction,
left Bolton for the Mohican Ho
Le nearer you, YX our friends all
to Keep my t. Nellie,
you forgive and love me still?
gt
Juv} | T
dear!”
Jolin gpened his
and as she glided
she murmured:
“So I'll have to be a seco
ums as he spoke,
into their embrace,
“Yes dear, but no wife, either first
or second, could be more romantically
or dearly loved. Do you not believeit?"’
“Yes, John, I do believe iL"
“Then you do not regret that picnie,
You never will regret it
did you know, my own,
that you took a prisoner for life on that
I shall strive to
make your life so happy that, though
never regret our pitnic."’
And she never did,
w— me
Choosing a Hu«hand,
Husbands are
they just grow,
have to kdow him when you see him,
He may not look like the man your
fancy painted, yet you will recognize in
him the qualities that go to make up
the reliable, enterprising, amiable man,
As a rule women are not possessed of
acute, business minds and are not as
observant as they might be, One after
another they will fall into the same
open trap, just as though they were
blindfolded or were impelled by some
uncontrollable force. The majority of
them seem to think they must marry,
and all that is necessary is to find a
man that is good-looking or rich. The
average girl first takes a fancy to a
protty man, and thinks and dreams of
lovely hair, charming eyes, elegant
dress, divine moustache and dove-like
voice. She declares that he is too
sweet for anything. This fever passes
off in tiofe, but too often it leaves a
perverted taste, A dandy figure, swell
manners, and clattering tongue are apt
to even outweigh a good heart, indus
trious habits and moral worth, Even
after marriage visions of the early ideal
rise up to disturb the serenity and tran.
quility of the domestic scene, Better
such an ideal had never hoan farmed
woe wade to order;
HOW POTTERY IS MADE.
Methods of Worken in a New Jersey
Establishment-Various Processes,
The fashioning of
may, at first glance, seem a simple pro-
Cens,
mud pies. The mud ple urchin
potter in embryo.
is the
But when you know
ed dish 1s produced, and that it may
have received thirty of these handlings
only to be utterly ruined at the thirty-
first, and the proposition looks somie-
different, The story of how a
saucer is made isinteresting. Imagine,
in the first place, three heaps of stuff
that look like ground chalk, These
china clay, flint and feldspar.
ete,, before they reach the pottery, to
fit them to the use for which they are
intended, They are the potter's raw
material.
Thess three materials are mixed in
proportions, the formul
which is said to be a secret known only
When I was told this
how it could
when it
feel
to the potters.
o
4
) ong
Still 1
Wy,
added until the mixtu
1 Of
sCreciuing
I'he
t i’ DUHMDE
ese Are Canvas ag
w trays of wood
is forced tl
Ways are
i “ fF 3 . +
or cakes of the consisie
and deposited in
he superfluous moisture has evapor
. It is then submitted to the proces:
“wedg : ir be ating to expel
id
is then ready fo
+ nan who shapes Lhe dishes out
th
SRer does Lhis
plaster prepared
st important
a Intl
a ALi
Ty ¢
iA Y WO
if y 1
the “green room.’
*y oF 14
en riectly
Wi the saucer is perf
ready for its first or ‘biscuit’
A round vessel of coarse pol
looks like an old bandbox
a’ r,’ Is
is placed
baking.
tory, which
and is ealled
‘Sgge
Then th
in layers, each layer
covered with sand, When the
sagger is full strips of common red
clay, called “wads,” are placed round
the rim, and the sagger is ready for the
at the bottom. ©
The kilns are about 20 feet high and
12 acroas, being circular in form. Their
size is designated by the number of days
take to fill them, The one 1
saw was called a 19 day kiln, because
it would take one man 19 days to fill it
with saggers, Eight men went at
work at it, and it was filled in two days
and a half, The saggers are placed in
piles, called “bungs,’” 20 feet high.
Tue “wads” serve to steady the piles
and to keep out foreign substances,
ging, On the top of each “‘bung’’ an
inverted sagger is placed for a like rea-
son. When the kiln is full the opening
is bricked up and the fires lighted. The
hours. Then the fires are put out and
the kiln allowed to cool for several days,
when it is opened, care being taken not
to let the cool air chill the contents sud.
denly for fear of cracking them.
The next process is that of glazing.
The glaze is generally a mixture of
water, flint, spar, paris white, clay,
zine, lead, baracie acid and soda ash,
though sometimes other ingredients are
added. In this mixture, looking like
thin cream, the saucers are di , and
after drying a short time they are ready
for the *‘glost” kiln. The safgars used
for this firing are glazed ir to pre-
vent the porous earthenware from ab.
sorbing or “sucking” the glaze from
the surface of the dishes, Care is also
taken to keep the latter from touching,
lest they stick together in the fring,
This is done by means of pins stuck in
the sides of the saggers, on the ends of
which the rims of the dishes rest. The
glost firing is about twenty-four hours
long, Then the fires are drawn, he
door opened as soon as possible and tive
contents removed to the ware house,
where the rough points, or “stilt
| marks” left by the pins, are removed
| und the dishes, except such as are to be
decorated, are ready to be packed for
i the market.”
a — afb
FASHION NOTES,
| =Inspring and summer fashions a
{ host of detalls are borrowed from
| gentlemen’s dress, There are narrow
and flowing cravats, both plain and
| colored; plaited shirt-fronts, tiny jew-
eled studs, scarfpins, and linked but-
| tons for throat and sleeves, with a
{ close, high corsage. A lace frill, very
| closely gathered, is worn; this is copied
| from the masculine toilet of a former
| epoch.
{ -~The sheer woolon goods imported
| for summer afternoon dress are French
| buntings and gauzes of various kinds,
{ These are finished with fancy selvage,
{ showing in solid costume, and in con-
| nection in some cases with fancy silks
{ of iridescent sheen. A preity pale
blue bunting was recently imported,
| in which the selvage was open in the
| pattern of a fringe, but bound at the
{ends with the usual narrow, corded
selvage of goods, The gown was
draped elaborately and caught up with
long looped bows and ends of black
moire ribbons. The basque Was
draped in shawl fashion across the
front, showing the open selvage of Lhe
goods,
cashmera lace, draped
and looped up with
green velvet,
of
bows
~The figured, linen, batiste
those boxplaited and matle of plain
linen or cambrie, finished with brier-
stitching at all the edges, will again be
seen this season over skirts of various
sorts,
ish fashion for neglige tollets for the
{ vive until the autumn.
be used
ness below
walst-band,
gathered into a narrow
or otherwise tlie
omanred
also
will define
creammwhite
the waist,
1 311%
flannel will
adapted specially for the chilly days
that invariably appear in midsummer.
~{Juite the newest fans imported
finest gauze, exquisitely painted with
birds or flowers, such as Gloire de
Dijon roses and
white tints; these cover
fan, and come lo top, where Lhe
fan is cut out, following the exact outl-
{line of the flower, The ribs are of
sandalwood. Others are of ivory
worked with a serpent like design
sliver. All the parchment painted fans
with Watteau designs.
of the Louis XIV—XV period, are a
la mode, Thejostrich feather screen
fans and all that genus are going
out of date, except perhaps the screens
made of artificial flowers
frame and
ing of white tulle, as though
in a bag. These are new, and
been sold by hundreds bul young giris
are using a great deal the (rm ravens’
wing fans, each rib a stiff feather the
exact color of the dress, with a bow to
match. Very long streamers are added
| to fans,
—Although there are no decided de-
viations in the main lloes upon which
fashion is moving, there is an endless
series of innovations in minor charac-
teristics. Taking the single item of
corsage, the styles are legion. Very
often they are most effectively made of
fragments put together with such pic-
turesque effect that they oulvie many
a richer style made of a single ma-
ternal, When two or three
combine to form a :ingle corsage, the
lining of the waistcoat is cut to begin
| with, This bullons snugly up the
back, and upon the froal of this is
mounted, for instance, a plain velvet
piece that points like a girdle in the
immediate front. At each side of this
the
of
inclosed
{ posed. Next to these come LWO more
revers of plain silk or veivel again.
All these revers narrow to an inch and
a half as they reach the neck,
~—Hellotrope is still quite popular.
{It is preferred to all oiher delicate
shades for public promenading. Tale
of gray are in good demand,
| sami dress occasions,
| colors, tan, light browns and all me-
{dium cool and grayish tones are pre-
| ferred 10 those
nounced. 89 many inquiries have
| been made about the shades called
| Gobelin that it may be as well to state
| that they comprehend ail dull, faded
| tints. Gobelin is not necessarily blue
| any more than Suede is necessarily tan
| color, although some authorities ap-
pear to have in some way arrived at
this conclusion. What are known as
Gobelin shades are taken from old
tapestry of that name, and may desig-
nate either red, green, gray or blue,
or, indeed, any of the tints of that rma-
terial, * They are exceptionally beautl-
ful and soft, having the faded, mellow,
blended that is to a4 great
extent the sign of value in these Lapes-
tries, Suede is by courtesy undressed
kid color, .which may be any shade
from white to black. The folly, there
fore, of so designating colors must be
evident to every person of intelligence,
Black is, as usual, prominent, especi-
ally in out-of-door dresses. Indeed, it
is highly probable that it will be the
most approved of all colors for street
wear for a long time to come. The
ago, but the present enormous
for everything white has surprised
even its most enthusiastic advocates,
For ‘all ages, complexions and occa-
sions white seems to be one of the lead.
ing faverites, and for young indies and
misses’ dressy and semi-dress wear it is
preferred to all other colors.
Crafty men condemn studies, simple
bn them, and wise mes use
W
HORSE NOTES,
~The Chicago stable has already won
about £50,000,
All systermns of betting are in vogue
at Sheepehead Bay.
~Join Murphy will be in shape to
| drive at Charter Oak.
Oliver K. worked a mile in 2,24},
at Chicago recently.
— Manzanita, 2.16, will be shaped
for a fast mile this seaskn,
—Irish Pat is about through with
racing. His legs are shaky,
~L30y trotted the last half of a mile
at Cleveland Friday June 8th 1.08,
~Sllver Thread's 2.174 was the faste
est mile paced at the Albany meeting.
—~oldstream 1s now the property of
the Hemusiead Stable, Price, $2500,
~This is the sixteenth year of thg
existence of the Grand Central Trote
ting Circuit.
—W. R. Claypool, who trained Ty-
rant, died of consumption in Califor-
nia on May 260.
~The trotting stallion Star Duroe
(record 2.254) has his book full for this
season at Kikton, Md.
—Doctor M. dropped into the 2.20
pacing list at Terre Haute recently by
acquiring a record of 2.193.
~Charlie Myers drove E. Li
Messenger Chief mare a quarter in
seconds recently at Belmont Course.
~Dwyer Bros. now own the {ast
horse Prait, William Lakeland havir
bought him out of a selling race for MM.
i F. Dwyer.
—J, F. Caldwell thinks of taking
Parole all through the South and West
next winter and exhibiting him al ag
admission fee.
~, N. Paype sold
| Frasier, of Liverpool,
gelding Joseph C,
{ Prince. Price $1000,
~In his twelve years in the stud
Flectioneer has sired twenty-eight 2.30
| performers, nine of which have rec-
ster’s
36}
G.
hay
{ ords of 2,20 or better.
Exposition Driving Park Associa-
tion, Pittsburg, Pa., presents an $3200
programme for its summer meeting,
which will be held July 17 to 20,
~The Waverly Driving Park, of
| New Jerser, offers two purses for July
| 4, one of $250, for the 2.34 class, and
| the other of $200 for the 2.40 class,
~Jichard Ten Broeck, the famous
turfman, has purchased a farm near
Palo Alto, sixty unles from San Fran-
| cisco, and is fitting itup as a residence.
~The Victoria {Australia Racing
| Assoclation will give over $150,000 at
the spring meeting this year, the Mel-
bourne cup being worth over
(00,
| —A race for a purse of $2500 has
| been arranged between Harry Wilkes
and Clingstone, to take place at the
Cleveland (0.) Driving Park on July
{ Foarth.
~{3. H. Jones, of Audubon, Iowa,
has bought, for $2000, a haif interest
in the brown stallion Dillard Alexan-
der, sired by Francis Alexander, dam
by John Dillara.
—1he roan mare Sequel, by Strath-
more, and the black mare Jett, by
Kentucky Black Hawk, both drovigd
colts to Messenger Chief recently
the farm of Macey Bros, Versailles,
Ky. The mares and produce are owned
by George A Singerly.
—Second payment was made on all
but ten of the 153 nominations to Lhe
Detroit Driving Club summer meet-
ing. Belle Hamilton and Kitty Black-
stone dropped out of the 3.00 class,
David 8. out of the 2.25 pacing class;
Joe Braden out of the free-for all pac-
ing class; Kate Alton and Flora W.
out of the 2.40 class; J. Douglass and
ILibbie 8, out of the 2.20 class, and
ee 8
Harry E. out of the 2.39 class,
—The killing of Jockey Cross at Je-
rome Park was followed on June 11th
by the falling of the well-known jockey,
Pope, from Eilphin. Pope sustained
injuries which will end his nding for
a long time, and, indeed, at one Lime
it was thought be would die, On June
2th the list of casualties were com.
pleted by the falling of King Troubler,
Referee, Repeater and Harry Mann
| the last named horse breaking h's neck
| and injuring his jockey, Mike Daly
preity seriously, As might be expec
ted. such a succession of casuaities has
aroused a revulsion of feeling agains!
steeplechasing, and there is talk of cut
ting 1t from future programine,
~The Chicago Stable was the larg-
est winner at the meeting of the StL
Louls Jockey Club. It won fourteer
races, among them the Oaks, Charles
| Green stakes, the Cup, Directors’ anc
| Granite Mountain stakes, and $14,430,
Crawford & Roche won the Futurity
| apd Real Estate stakes and a purse
| race, making $10,220. J. B. Haggin
| won the Derby, three purses and
$6600. The Melbourne Stable won the
Vestal stakes, three purses and $6446.
E. Corrigan won seven purse races and
$4800. J. W. Guest won the Elwood,
Percheron, Merchant’s, Eclipse and the
Tur! Exchange stakes and $3570. M.
Young won $3344 in second and third
moneys. DD. A. Honig won five purses
and $2850
—Harry Blaylock, the jockey, is sa-
$20.
Uff was to render services to the de-
fendant during the racing season of
1887 at a salary of $4000 a year, and an
additional stipulated sum for the
mounts or races In which he rode,
Heisihy:
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