Neither May Nor June. Though now "tis neither May nor June, And nightingales are out of tune, Yet in these leaves, fair One there lies, {Sworn servant to your sweetest eyes), A nightingale, who, may she spread In your white bosom her chaste bed, Spite of all tha maiden snow Those poor, untrodden paths can show, You straight shall seo her wake and rise, Taking fresh life from your fair eyes, And with claspt wings proclaim a spring Wheres Love and she shall sit and sing; For lodged so near your sweetest throat What nighingale can lose her note? Nor let her kindred birds complain Because she breaks the year’s old reign For let them know she's none of those Hedge-quiristers whose music owes Only such strains as serve to keep Sad shades, and sing dull night asleep, No, she’s a priestess of that grove, The holy chapel of chaste love, Your virgin bosom, Then whate'e Poor laws divide the public year, Whose revolutions wait upon The wild turns of the wanton sun, Be you the Lady of Love's year, Where your eyes shine his suns appear, There all the year is Love's long Spring, There all the year Love's nightingale shall sit and sing. AN UNEVEN PARTNERSHIP. “I'm sure 1 don’t know what to do!" Mrs. Eyebright sat leaning over the cradle, where the littlest baby of all the baby flock turned and tossed in the restless slumber pecullur to the period of teething. There was a basket of unmended clothes—that terror to all young moth- ers—on the table An open cookery book, out of whose leaves poor Joanna Eyebiight had vainly been striving to not too extravagant ingredients, lay later style, met her eyes on the adjoin- ipg window sill, In thestudy, close by Mr. Eyebright was writing. ed by tears. *‘I’m sure I earn my liv~ ing, and that by the bardest work. But there isn’t a cent that I spend for the have to go to him for, standing like a suppliant. It isn't fairl It isn't right/ When 1I-—"" “Joannal” it was Mr. Eyebright's voice, sharper and curter than per- haps he meant it to be—**I wish you'd der my window! How such a noise?” Mrs. Eyebright sighed. Her husband's summons had roused the baby into a screaming protest. glass of the window. Sooth to say, she had forgotten all about Joha and Guy, who, just recovering from the measles, could not be sent to school, allowed to stay in doors, “Boys, come in!” said she, disturb your father.” It took some time to gettle the two couflicting elements and calm them down to un game of dominoes, and to hush the baby once more to sleep, “You teur millinery once more, creasing the the ragzed ostrich tips with a sort of scornful disgust, when Miss Ballantyne who lived in the nearest house, tripped in. 1 folds of said she. **You used to dancer of us all, and” “It’s a subscription affair, isn’t it?" “Yes; but and—" Mrs. Eyebright shook her head, said she, “Put is that any reason why you should live the life of an oyster in its shell?” cried indignant Jessie Ballan- tyne, ing a little, “But Le belongs to the Amateur Club,” “He smokes the best he?" cigars, don’t ing to his nerves!” *And Le gave a dinner to the Editor's Coterie last week, didn’t he, at Monti- celli’s?”’ “It is very necessary, he says, for an author to be on good terms with the newspaper men,” murmured Joanna, “Jlis profession, you see—"* “Oh, I understand!” said Miss Bal- lantyne. “Bat what about your pro- fession?"’ “1 haven't any.” “No? Are you quite sure of that?” Housekeeper, nurse, companion, seam- stress, cook sometimes, and always chambermaid,” recounted Jessie, using her fingers as a sort of calculating ma- chine—**if these don’t constitute a pro- fession, what does?” Mrs. Eyebright smiled faintly, but shook Lier head with a slow negative motion. “Joanna,” cried Miss Ballantyne, “why do you look so tired? Are you sick?” “No—only 1 have no girl at present and baby keeps me awake nights,” “And I can remember you the bright- est and prettiest girl of all our set,” said Jessie, who, at thirty never dream- ed of calling herself by the lugubrious title of **old maid.” “If this is matri- mony, why, deliver me from it—that’s all I have to say. Well, Jo I'm sorry for you! That surprise is going to be lots of fun, and you may tell the grand mogul sol’ And Miss Ballantyne took her leave, Mrs, Eyebright looked sadly at her ttle “expense book." “Clarence says my allowance is amp- ly sufficient for any woman of moderate econotny,’’ she mused, **But if | have a hot joint for dinner—and Clarence al- ways sneers at cold meat—there’s noth ing left for thie new velvet for my hat, And [ won't ask him for more money, Ol, dear, how tenderly he looked down on me, that day at the altar, when he promised to love and cherish me! He may love me, though sometimes I have my doubts of that, Dut a4 20 Shietiahlug ~oh, lie has all about that I am his Irudge, his “the medium through which his wishes are conveyed oa to his children, and his trades-people, He is a rising author, they tell me, but 1 never got to read any of his books, He wears Japanese dressing-robes, and writes In the study furnished up like a poem. I go in calico, and get alter- nately heated at the cooking-stove and chilled in the back yard, until I am not fit to be scen. This may be a partners ship, but it is certainly an uneven one.” Ana with a deep sigh, she rose to put the piece of roasting beef into the oven, because Bridget, the washerwoman, firmly refused to touch *‘anything be- yant the toobs!”’ “She is more independent than I am,’ mused poor Joanna, as she looked dolefully at the finger she had burned in the culinary process. ‘She has a definite sphere. I am drudge in gen- eral.” At that moment she heard her hus- band’s voice in the hall, raised, as if in gome annoyance, “Joanna,” he sald, petulantly, “its very strange you cannot protect me from interruptions, when 1 have so often told you how important it is to a brain-worker to keep his thought-cur- rents intact!” “What interruptions, Clarence?” **The door-bell rang twice—the sec- ond time as if some one were determin- ed to jerk it out by the roots.” “J didn’t hear it, Who was it, Clar- ence?" “A stout young woman, who heard that you wanted a girl.” “Oh, Clarence’ (with a face of re- lief), “where is she? Did you tell her—"' **I sent her about her business, The had fact is, Joanna, you don’t need a ser- washerwoman—and that last novel of mine hasn't seemed to bring in much We must really econo Of late I have been puzzled to account for how the money goes,” Joanna reddened and closed her lips firmly. *1f I say one word, I shall say too much,’ she thought, with an odd sen- sation, as if her veins were filled with boiling hot water. She pushed past her husband to an- swer the inarticulate summons of the walling baby. ““There is a limit to all endurance,” she thought; **and last.” Mr. Eyebright spent the evening with a friend, two or three days after- ward. When he came back sat, hall-asleep, over the Kitchen fire, “Hallo!” said the author. “Where is Mrs, Eyebright?"’ home to her mother,” said . rubbing ber eyes. *"An tuk her, If ye pllease, “rone the childer with here's the kays.”’ “What has she mother for?" An’ it's me that don’t gone home to her know,’ said tcAu’ if ye here’s the Kays!” Mr. Eyebright went into the Dallan- tyne house, i3 her friend.” he to “i Jessie said may—"*Jessie will know.” “Well.” said Miss Ballantyne, who was sewing on a spangled ‘surprise’ costume for the approaching masguer- ade, “I'm not at all surprised. 1 only wonder that she hasn’l it before, And such an overworked drudge as she has been!” “A-drudge! My wife?” “Why, where have your eyes been, haven’t discovered composedly, In a family like yours, there ought Ww be at least two servants Kept, and poor Joanna has done the work She has never bad any recreation, for done Her nights have been broken by sick children, her days devoted to Oh, yes-I can’t blame her for leaving youl” And Miss Ballantyne went on to give “Better say you will never forgive Miss Ballantyne, with spirit, “For it is all your own Mr, Eyebright went home to the soli- tary hearthstone. There was no wife to ask him for money. There were no children to disturb the flow of his ideas, yet the sixth chapter in his novel was not written according to bis plans, He did not go to bed that night, but sat up, staring at the dying coals of the fire, Mentally he arrayed himself be- fore the bar of evenhanded justice, with Joanna and Miss Ballantyne for witnesses, Mentally he tried, condem- ned and sentenced himself, ‘I have been a brute!” he thought. He took the earliest train to Cedar Vale, where Joanna’s youthful years had been spent, and went straight to the old homestead, fully expecting to be received with the frozen coldness he de- served, Joanna was out in the orchard, help- ing Guy and Johnny to gather red- striped apples, At the first sight of her husband's face, she ran joyfully to meet him, “Clarence! Have you come for me yourseif?'’ Oh, how good of you-—and with all that you have to dol!” she cried, “Joanna! Dear wife! How was it that you could find it in your heart to leave me?’ he exclaimed, his voice al most merging into a sob, “To leave you, Clarence? Why, 1 never thought of such a& thing!” ex. claimed Joanna, “Didn’t you get my note, elling you that mother wae taken suddenly Hl, and had seat for me? | told Bridgett “Hang Bridget!” said Mr. Eyebright, “She told me nothing. She gave me nothing but a bunch of kays, and a strong impression that she had Yeen at the brandy bottle, And then I went to Jessie Ballantyne, and got a lecture three-quarters of an hour long. And the worst of it was, dear, that I really deserved every word of it!” “Clarence! How dared she?” cried ind t Joanna, had the of her convie- tions, my dear. She held up a look ing-glass before my eyes, wherein 1 saw myself — a selfish, thoughtless wreteh! No, Joanna, don’t look so ap- pealingly at me, I'll say no more, but 111 prove to you by my future actions that I mean to turn over a new leaf, Do you remember the old lines: *Evil is wrong by want of thought As oft as want of heart!’ And since you are willing to trust me yet a little longer—*’ But his words were checked by her hand on his lips, Clarence Eyebright kept his word, After the lesson of that day, he not only loved and honored his wife, but he went to the full extent of the marriage vow, and cherished her with a true and loyal tenderness, “And it seems,” said Joanna, her eyes moist with happy tears, ‘fas if it were our honeymoon over again!” ————————— CARL DUNDER. Some More Things He Would Like to Know. How vhas it dot if somepody owe me two dollars I dean’ meet him for six weeks, while if I owe somepody two shillings I vhas sure to see him twice a day? How vhas it dot if I wear my old clothes vhen I go oudt I vhas certain to meet eaferypody else mit his store clothes on, while if 1 vhas dressed oop eaferypody else has on his week day clothes und says I vhas a dude? How vhas it dot 1 obey all der laws, und go to church on Sunday, und yet 1 haf two big bolls on my leg, while dot feller next to me, who vhas in shail half der time, goes by a raffle und wins four turkeys? How vhasit dot if I haf two inches of snow on my sidewalk some police- mans comes along und says he vhill muke it hot for me, vhile dot feller across der street haf two feet und no- pody says him one word? How vhas it dot if I go by a grocery vid pays cash for goods der grocer simply nods to me und says it vias a cold day, vhile if a man comes in who vhants credit for sixty days, until he shump around like Ilight- If I gif some euchre in plug-uglies his gas vhas so bright dot can’t look at him, und his und pounds on der shell und says won't Dot clerk takes him off two dol- s mistake, pay. she vhas a und spit on my hands mighty und raise a row, und two policemans jerk me out of my boots, I tell some n flout SOG neighborly mit dey borrow my ¢ .p . 1:1 sffea und butter like und nd tea und ¢« hurricanes, If 1 wine wheelbarrow de neighbors vhas werry, werry sorry, but vhas shust out f wheelbarrows Lwo hours ago, I goes py Michigan avenue 10 see a family und buy some coal flour, und a butcher cart rans cafer me Some tief Yao Or goes him vias ona butcher street for und not dot whole a Li on half a a big dog barks all night, My neighbor keeps bites eaferypody und und a myself in shail if I don’t send dot ter- If some horse runs avhay he vhas If somepody falls on his back by der City Hall be vhas me, house, If some barn burns oop milout insur If some bank break in two I vhas der big loser, ———————— Our Veiled Ladies. The fashion of wearing veils has be- come very prevalent, It is a fashion which should not be encouraged. Its redeeming features are that the veil protects the halr and keeps it well ar- ranged; it protects the forehead from the wind and wards off neuralgia. These two services of the veil can be retained, but the veil should not be worn over the eyes, 'I'o them itis very injurious. It Is injurious to the mechanical sesing apparatus, since a constant adjusting of muscles and lenses is required, and a striving to obtain a clear mage for the retina, It is extre- mely wearing to the brain, which has a great deal to do with touching up and finishing off the picture which falls upon the vision, and in making the mental image a perfect ons, no matter what the external one may be, Veils of dotted lace and dazzling white illu- sions may give rise in a few weeks to an irritable condition of the eyes that years will not remove, REC RE, A Dog's Saloide. In New York a dog committed sul- cide by jumping off a ferryboat. The owner, an old woman, asked a police. man to detain him at the dock until she got aboard, but as soon as the boat started the dog jumped for the deck, and, by a fret effort, succeeded in pulls ing himself on board. Then he ran through the woman's cabin with his nose to the floor, and found his mistress on the forward deck, His stumpy tail bobbed so fast that it was almost invisi ble, and if a dog ever laughed he did, The old woman was angry. She scold ed him as though he had beon steall meat, and his tail gradually pry wagging, while his head sank lower lower, I NYE AT MONTICELLO. He Jos Down a Few Thoughts In His Own Winning Way. Not long ago 1 visited Monticello, and paused to weep over the grave of Thomas Jefferson, the great yet simple man who wrote the poetic but impracti- cal statement that all men are created equal, As a matter of fact, if all men are treated equal, they very early de- velop signs of inequality which must be recognized by the most obtuse, That they are, under the law, endowed with certain inalienable rights, among which may be enumerated life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, no one will deny, but in the pursuit of happiness how varied are the tastes and ambitions of man! What a wide gulf yawns be- tween the joys of a life spent in reading Browning and that experienced by Jack the Ripper. And yet it only illus- trates the divergence of opinion as to what constitutes life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, Mr, Jefferson was the author also of what is called Jeffersonian simplicity. It consisted somewhat in living well and dying in debt, Jeffersonian sim- plicity, as introduced at Washington during the latter part of the present century, is a delightful relaxation. It is as pleasant a way of whiling away an evening as one could well think of. The only objection to it, of course, is the expense, The great outlay neces- sary in order to perfect it is what has kept Jeffersonian simplicity back. 1 saw the neat little brick smoke house where Thomas brought his Vir- ginia bride, It consists of one room on the ground floor, containing, smong other things, a window. Mr, Jefferson married, and with his wife at once set out on a bridal tour on horseback from Richmond to Monti- cello, arriving between 12 and 1 o'clock on the night after his wedding. I can, in imagination, see the two young peo- ple riding through the brush, up the hill, Mr. Jefferson shifting uneasily in hig saddle from time to time, in order to give the saddle much needed rest and change of scene. In his hair I see the burr of the chestnut, and I hear him roguishly say that he calls it his chestnut hair, partly on that account and partly because it has been used be- fore. Then I hear him swear a little as he climbs a persimmon tree for his hat, Mra, Jefferson nides along behind, with a look of chastened regret, think- asking If she regards marriage failure. She is dressed plainly, as a the back Over all with porpoise strings. down place by means of large white majolica buttons. It is the only bad habit she IAs, Mr, Jefferson gets : \ bist the door of the lillie his red smoke house, and walking in a and rocky manner t ““W hat, ho, within there!’ and ing an eight pound key from Ii o the door, then tak. s pocket, to her new home. This picture is under similar $ : § gor A454 DOL OVerarawn, circumstances the girl, home had been one of all her life, wrrived in the middie of the night within the bare walls of the littl the Wp of and at the hands of her hus- the a good provider, He also rode to Washington fromm Chatlottsville in a gig. in order to avoid one of the lunch counters on the way. 1 am surprised did not board simple president, I hope lo gel a crack at it myself. Then you will see a gen- in front of the White House every hand. An armful of hay will stick out at the tail of one of the wagons, and the team will work at this while the ex- What could be more touching than for the president of the United States to drivein from the farm, and entering an office in the wmormmg, with a sun burned nose and the odor of new mown hay and new milch cows still hovering about him, to grasp the hand of a crowned head and present it with a large red apple as a mark of esteem? At the noon hour I see Mr, Jefferson as he untied a large red handkerchief and took out his dinner, consisting of bread and molasses, a hard boiled egg and a wedge of prune ple. Hastily eating the bread and molasses and peei- ing the egg, be produces from his pocket a large horn handled clasp knife, and enqtting up the pie on a copy of The Congressional Record, be stores it away in the recesses of his being, This was what first set the example at Washing- ton for what is now called the congres- sional recess, But there was something, after all, in the welcome of Thomas Jefferson to his bride asshe landed in the new home, bare and desolate as it was, which was not humorous, In fancy I can see the young wife, with loosened and dis- heveled bair, as she looked about her, and then bowed her head upon the bosom of the great man, while tears of tenderness and J wilted the shirt frails of the mighty American, No picture is more beautiful than honest affection in the foreground with a back- ground of genuine greatness, It touches all hearts and disarms every foe. To bo great in the eyes of a ma- jority of voters is a triumph, but to be ‘woinan is FABHION NOTES, —For general utility and out of door dresses many pleasing fabrics appear, Among these are the cloth finished flannels which are very popular. In addition to the usual colors, ars Lhe new shades of coachman’s drab, Gobe- lin blue, Lincoln green, Havana brown and mahogany. These are inexpensive and make very handsome suits, There are also an infinite variety of checked suitings in browns, blues and greens with bits of lustrous coloring woven in among the tiny blocks, These suit- ings are the favorites for tailor made gowns. Cheviots, Scoteh tweeds and corduroys are much used for outdoor wear. The materials in plain colors are most effective when mingled with contrasting colors or two shades of the same coloring. They are frequently, however, made with trimmings of black brald, regular patterns of which come expressly for shoulder, vest, col- lar and cuffs, and by the yard for the skirt. ~=A charming and Inexpensive street gown recently made, 18 of navy blue wool, in which 1s woven a parrow streak of vivid red at intervals of an inch or more. The skirt has a band of red cloth on the bottom a quartsr of a yard wide, The full drapery reaches to the bottom of this, is drawn up on each side at the hips, s0 as to reveal the band atthe sides and in front, At the back it hangs in full straight folds, A walstcoat of the red cloth with straight high collar fits closely to the figure, and is buttoned from throat to point. To be worn over this is a jacket of the blue woo! fOtting tight behind, with postilion coat tails. The fronts are long and pointed, like those of a mantle, Ithas a rolling collar and fastens at the throat sloping away to- wards the points. A Directoire poke of dark blue felt, lined with red velvet and trimmed with blue ostrich tips, complete this lovely costume, ~The striped Jersey flannels which come for dressing gowns are remark- ably pretty this season, and are in all shades and combinations, Inch wide stripes of pale pink on a gray ground, or pale blue oa suede, and black on white are among the newest, while mn more serviceable darker ones are the red and blue stripes, shaded stripes of cesses’ shape, and the fronts trimmed with India silk to match the coloring, fulled on at the throat, shirred at the One breadth of the silk is sufficient for the two sides. Ribhons under the collar The leg-of-mution shape, which tle in a bow at the throat, the waist, or they are small at the shoulder and wide and open at the wrist and lined with silk, For mourn. made in the above manner and trimmed either with black — For evening wear there is a great becanse they are preity and inexpensive, are the colored and dotled, in all the new shades and admirable for ball of the same shade. Then there plain and em"roidersd white, scarlet, Among the embroidered tulies, those without tin. which are shot with most sought for. sive, Plain crepes, worn. In heavier malerials there are failles showing leaf patterns in gold thread on grounds of Empire green, gray and red, and armures in lavender lilac and pale blue, powdered with delicate sprays of silver, The very expensive materials such as peau de goie, brocades and royal armures which are woven with real gold, silver or cop per threads, are generally combined with plain goods to match, ot which most of the gown is made; the metal embroidered textile forming the tab- lier, vest, cuffs and eollar, ~1t is very difficult to say what Is the most fashionable hat or bonnet of the season, Directors pokes and Em- pire hats and bonnets are great favor. ites, but they are rather “trying,” and to look thoroughly well, must be worn only by those who have a certain style, whereas the capole and toque are remarkably becoming to most faces, One of the most picturesque hats worn at the present time is a low=-crowned black felt with broad brim turned down on one side and slightly raised on the other, Two long fiat ostrich feathers encircle the brim, the ends falling a little below the upturned side. A bunch of looped black ribbon is lald upon the low crown, and the brim which narrows fo almost nothing at the back is lined with black velvet. The little bonnets of last year are also much worn, they flare a little more, and the trimming no looger rises in a pyramid in front. They have broad ribhon strings which are tied in a bow under the chin, The “Tosca” hat, another form of the Empire is enormous, and trimmed with huge bunches of feathers and ribbons, but while this style is affected by some, it can never become lar and all ine dications point to low crowns and graceful drooping trimming. Professor Miall says that there are to be found associated with seams of HORSE NOTES. A —— ~The St. Louis trotting meeting will take place October 1 to b. ~(iarnison has at last signed to ride for Mr. Belmont rext season. -The Woodburn BStad (Ky.) $114,600 worth of trotters in 1888, —Robert Bonner has sold Miss Majolica to W. RB. Alien for $15,000, Arrow, pacing record 2.131, was blistered on the front legs recently, ~ Pierre Lorillard has stable room for three horses on his pleasure yacht. ~The Memphis Spring tunning Meeting will commence April 24. J. DB. Haggin will send 100 thor- oughbred yearlings Il ast for sale at auc tion next June. —Jockey Taylor, who is to ride for the Dwyer Brothers next season is wintering in Philadelphia, ~—Budd Doble’s stable arrived at Los Angeles, Cal, in charge of George Starr on the last day of 1888, It con- tains Johnston, Jack, Knight, Eut- ledge, E4, Annan and the runner Father John. ~{Jolorado claims the distinction of furnishing the first trotter to beat 2.30 in 1880, January 1, at ths Overland Park, Denver, the bay stallion Magnet reduced his record of 2.284, made in 1888, to 2,274. —Waterlily, bay mare, 14 years old, by Hero of Thorndale, out of Siren (sister of Peri), by Edwin Forrest, has been sold by A. J. Alexander, Wood- burn Farm, to Jackson 1 Case, of Hickory Grove Farm, Racine, Wis, ~The mare Catchfly, 2.18}; now 12 years old, 18 owned by Colonel Pepper, of South Elkhorn, Ky. She will be bred to Onward shortly, Catchfly when campaigned was so hard to hold that her driver usually strapped the lines around his body. ~— American trotters are in demand in other ceuniries. Among those re- cently sold and shipped out of the United States are Skylight Pilot, to parties in Rio Janeiro; Spofford and Governor Hill, to a Buenos Ayres gen- tieman; Belle Oakley, Elwood Medium, Milton Mollie Wilkes, Colonel Wood, Phyllis, James G. and Jose 85., tw Europeans. —W. E, Splen, of Glen Falls, N. Y., has bought at Lexington, KXy., the b. g. Last Chance, 2.28% 8 years old, Victor Von Bisma.ck, dam by soid on Falis, has purchased at the same place the mare Ariadine, by Victor Vou Bismarck, and a chestnut yearling colt by Robert MeGregor out of Ariadine, —la J. Los he great breader ol “For a training Rose, Angeles, says; with quarter mile turns—that and the stretches are shorler. horse can trot on a straight but he must learn the turns, The three quarter mile track is less track, Any will do as well or better on the longer stretches on the public track, ~ According to the record for 1888 the popular racing distan se in America is three quarters of a mile, nearly one quarter of all the racesrun having been hat distanze. There were 4201 in 1888, and 1071 were three quarter mile dashes. There were 584 a mile and a sixteenth, There were 22 race was the There was a in heal racing in Une 24 mile 80 far the largest individual nomi. 1s J. B. Hagglin, of California, with 106, Hon. Wilham IL. Scott, of Pennsyiva. enters 64 mares, served by lagond'Or, Wanderer, Kantaka and Algerine, D. Swigert, of Keatucky, nominates 58 mares, served by Glen- elg, Tremont, Bersan and Rocherkill Beile Meade Stock Farm makes 33 nominations, the stallions represented beingfiroquois, Enquirer, Luke Black- burn, Great Tom and Bramble. B. G. to Alarm, Himyar and Fellowcratt. Hindoo and Billet are represented by furd, aud Stratford and Bend O:r in the 286 nominations of Mr. A. J, Cas- satt, August Belmont’s 22 represent che p ive sons and daughters of The il-Used and St. Blaise principally. —George Smith, of Pittsburg, betler known as “Pittsburg Pil,” was much su jast week when a stranger inquired if his name was George Smith, and If his father's name was Christopher Smith, Pbll applied af- firmstively to both questions, and the stranger then said: **¥ou are my cou- sin, and our grandfather bas died, leaving $150,000 among eight of us You and your brother are the two whom we are looking for.” The hii i Hg
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