Around the Corner. One day my heart was very sad, Oppressed with heavy sorrow, Aud not a ray of hope arose To cheer me on the morrow, 1 walked along the crowded street, A dull, distracted mourner, And guessed not what awaited mo As 1 went “round the corner, There met me one whose sunny aco The smile of heaven reflected; The friendly greeting she bestowed Was wholly unexpected. For { bad thought her hard and cold, of lover's arts a scorner; Tut she was taken off ber guard As | turned ‘round the corner. What eared I though the skies were dark And threatened stormy weather? W Lat mattered any grist at all If we two were together? The blushes that were on her check Did regally adorn her; And oh! I blest the fate that turned My steps around the sorner. And thus I find it is through life— So full of wondrous phases— That when we walk amid the gloom Or press through tangled mazes, Feeling all triendless and alone, A hopeless hapless wourner, Some blessings surely lie in wail For us around the corner, RET, MRS. COOPER'S NIECE. “So the family record says, father,” responded the elegant young gentleman addressed. *'1 am disposed to A implicit reliance upon it and on you.” “You have done nothing since you left college but kill time.” “It is only retaliation sir. Some day or other the old chap me.’ “You are too flippant. Aunt Priscilla left Since your the money. Your income ought to be enough for a single man, on me too.” “ll try to draw on you less, vir.” “It is not that, Philip. You nor revel, and I don’t mind your horses, your club, your natural history craze, nor vour luxurious tastes, But still have too much, in fact.” “I don’t find it too much, sir. In fact, I was thinking what a graceful means. economy, 1 assure you.’ “Oh, that’s it, eh? mode to increase it very have heard me speak Spriggs, of New York? “Money-lender and skinflint? heard of him." “Nonsense, hilip. He is quite worthy, as well as a very wealthy, wan, much, of Philander I have in short loans what of that? my mony, or some of it, sometimes.’ Bat not at cent. per cent,” “No matter. I don’t propose that you shall borrow of him. He has an all his vast property, just as you will mine,” “Does she shave notes, father?” “Phil, be kind enough not to indulge in chaff, I have seen her and talked with her. She is young, well educated, and has good taste—a society gentlewoman with tastes,” “Well, father, you are not so old, and since you admire her so much, 1 see no reason why—" “Stop your nonsense and Spriggs and 1 bad a talk over it when 1 was in New York, and we cluded, if you two come together, to chip in equally and settle a half-million on you on your wedding day. With what you have you'll do well enough for a while.” “I'd like to oblige you, father. 1 suppose I must marry some day; but it wili be some one I love, and then, Philadelphia like, insist on a woman of good family,” “Some one you love! you see her. Good family! Of course you're entitled to that. The peerage of England is full of Viscount Briggses, von Gotha among the erlaucht families, Your grandfather made $300,000 in hides and tfllow, and if he had not in- vested it in real estate that multiplied itself more than ten-fold before he died, I should bave been in the same busi- ness to-day, and you in the counting- room or warehouse, Y ou’re a foolish boy, Philip, and your aunt's legacy has rulned you.” “1 wish, sir, there were a half-dozen the same way, Its of no use getting angry, father. You can’t keep it up. I'll take to anything you say—law, physic, or divinity, sell my horses, drop my club, read by the cubic foot; but to LAITY excuse me,” “Ses here, Phil,” exclaimed the father, who by this time was at a white heat, *‘you can marry to please me, and I will not only start you fairly in life now, but leave you all 1 have when I am gone, Marry to suit some foolish fancy of your own, and I'll—yes, I'll found an asylum for idiots. Now you understand me.” And Briggs march- ed off, leaving his sou to his medita. tions, “If I stay here,” said Philip to him- self, “father and I will quarrel. Bet. ter give the dear old gentleman a chance to cool off. I'll ruralize a little,” That afternoon Philip packed a port- His quarters were quite com Tie house was an old stone building manhie Lay erection, and roomy. ITe was assigned to a chamber upstairs looking out on a trimly kept garden in which old-fashioned flowers and pot herbs were grown side by side, and which sent a pleasant fragraace through the opén window. The room itself was adorned with pictures and knick-knacks showing feminine taste, and the bedstead was furnished with a hair matiress, and not the bag of feath- ers of the vicinage, “Decidedly,” said Philip to himself, ‘‘there is another female on the prem- jses, something younger and possibly fairer than the substantial Dame Coop: er, and with some refined taste.” But neither that day nor that week did he see any woman other than Mis, Cooper or the hired girl, In a week’s time the country grew monotonous to him. As he gat upon the veranda one afternoon debating the matter, a wagon was driven up the lane and stopped at the door. Lightly out | stepped a young woman in a neal travel. ing dress, and the driver followed her | staggered, burly as he was. Mrs | claimed: “Why, it's Gwenny, | clare!” | *Youdear old Aunty Ruth!” said | the new-comer, hugging and | the farmer’s wife. *‘l came to have a | good time for a month,”’ “And so you shall, my dear,” the hearty reply. { Philip took ar ocular { the looks, dress, aud | new-comer as he took off his hat, | sweet face and graceful figure, | presentable anywhere,” { nal comment. ‘‘IHere’s | not visit the Brauch yet,”’ “You have a boarder, aunty,” the girl when upstairs with Mrs, Coop» er, **Yes. He'sa Mr. Dee,” “It don’t look as it he had any call to work for his living, judging by his white hands and his fix-ups, and he's | plenty of money." “bee! Then he Was inventory of HA I shall Yesgrd AUCK, isn’t a busy bee, | able he'll do for a walking-stick.” was natural enough. When she had asked his name on his coming he had | said, in bis airy way, ‘Philip B., at | your service,” and she had taken the | sound of the initial eral times Philip saw the blunder, | smiled at it, and, as the naval oflicers | say, “made it so;’ and when Gwenny came to the table she was introduced, “Miss Gwenuy, Mr. Bee.” As she was the niece he concluded her name to { her as Miss Gwenny, and wife as Gwenny, Philip chose the more respectful form of the two, not of the more stilted { which luterested him. Philip's mother ber veins, and bore the same name. | This later Gwenllian was a mystery to him. What was she—a teacher? not the look nor the way of the school- ma'am. A governess? Possibly, If 80, in a good tamily, But her belong- ings were not of the second-hand kind. She had parel. Her lace was of the gloves were perfect and of the newest; her dresses were pretty in material and | well-fitting, though quiet in tone, aud though she displayed little in the way of jewelry the stone that sparkled on a diamond. She had been | ed and every word and action showed a purity that fitted her name. On the other hand, Philip was as much a mystery to the young girl. He was 8 geutleman beyond doubt, Dut what was he doling there, a man of cul- | ture, refinement and =sthetic tastes, idling alone, The girl did deem she was the attraction, but It | grew shy, and her shyness for the lasi wedk of Ler stay infected became shy too, and lost all ease, Atl that she had to return home to Phila- | deiphia the next day. and tossed restiessly, He could not | sleep, as good as his word, but he would win a wife then or never, Near morning until the sun showed itself, Then he | slipped out of the house and strolled | ing to remain out {| breakfast bell. had avoided it. He made his way to a mossy rock, which | few days both { he saw--Gwenny. | “Miss Gwenllian!” he exclaimed, She rose with a rather embarrassed alr. *I rested badly last night, Mr. have been here ever since, The morn- ing air seems to refresh me.”’ “I have the same experience,’’ be said. “I have rested badly, or rather have not rested at all, I" She looked up inquiringly, and at something she read in his eyes, drop- ped her own, while a flush overspread his face and neck. “Gwenny!" he sald, desperately, and took her hand, The fingers trembled in his, but were not withdrawn, “Gwenny darling,” he said, ‘we are Lo part to-day. Do you kuow that 1 love you dearly?" “Do you--Philip?’’ she murmured, but she did not look un, “Gwenny,” be said, ‘I have been sailing under false colors, but innocent~ ly enongh. 1 have a way among m friends of using my initwis, and so am called among them FP. B., or Mr, B. When your aunt asked uy name, I said, “Mr. B.” and I did not care to undeceive ber; but I desire no conceal ment from Jou, unless you do not care slight tightening of her fingers on bis as she ball whispered: noo must kuow that I care for you, “Now, darling,” said the exultant Philip, “You must let me speak Lo your “1 tear you may find him rather ob- stinate,’’ she said. ‘He sets an undue store by his daughter,” “I can satisfy him of my position in society, and that I am able to malantain you, I have means of my own, and have-—well, I may say I had, great ex- peetations; but my father, who is sev- eral times a millionaire, has taken it into his head to fit me with a wife, 1 prefer to choose for myself, If you will be content to share what I have, Philip Driggs does not care for more.” “Briggs—Philip!?? eried Gwenny, re- leasing herself from his grasp and look- ing at him wonderingly. ‘‘Is your father’s name John?" . Yes, 1H ** And he lives in Philadelphia?” ah Y es, * Gwenny burst into a peal of silvery laughter. ‘Do not feel vexed, Philip,” she said at length, *‘1 am only laugh- ing at the similarity of oar positions, My father chose a husband for me in the same way, and 1t was to escape dis- cussion of the matter that I took these few weeks rustication, | my oid nurse, and I have called her from the time She was married from house, Her husband had very | money, and father bought them | farm and stocked it, But, oh! think, { Philip dear, how your father and mine will chuckle! You are Dhllip Briggs, and I—1 am Gwenllian Spriggs!” { ‘aunt’ i around. our A | The yes. The eye is the index of the soul—the | interpreter of thought, feeling, | character, beneath the sheltering brow, | read the strunge volume of human life, | with its varied phases and vicissitudes, its hopes, its griefs, its fears, ils high | resolves, its base designs, its noble en- | deavors, and its guilt and crime. In this eye-glass of the soul--this | finger tips, so sensitive, | destroy it; so small, you could pack it within the compass of your thimble— and revelations, histories and prophe- | disclosing soul — pictures and | secrets which tongue or pen reveal, How wonderful this magic lamp that reveals the spirit life! What strange | forms and fancies mount to view | kindling thought and emotion fluctuate | within the soull | electric fire what passions rise loves, what hates, what celestial mations, Tha eye reflects the complexion of what inti | what deep secrets are revealed! The eye is the key of character, If eye, If you would know the temper of | your neighbor, you need not follow him to his business or home~-look in at the | window of his soul, Is he sour and { surly, erabbed and ill-naturned?—you sec the bear at once, and straight-way head. Is he kind, and generous, aud good-humored? — you become cousci- onus of warmth, comfort, and protec i tion, There are cold, grizzly eyes that be- token bard friction with strong eyes that give no admission into | dance, and dart, and take you un- awares; there are jealous eyes, intri- guing eyes, prying eyes, aud quick, | keen, restless eyes, full of passion and | of fire, there are roving eyes that seem (ever In quest of something; longing ‘eyes, in which a spirit breathes and | sighs; Jmploring eyes thal ever turn | their wistiul gaze, as if they would ask your love and sympathy. There are eyes like precious gems, | that dazzle and allure you; there are soft, liquid eyes, into which you look | uuruflied surface dit forms and shad | ows; and there are eyes into which you | gaze as nto a spirit world—so bright { are they with heavealy light, There are eyes so emotive, so mag- petic, that they seem but outlines of the soul, so aglow with spirit that they seen themselves spirits, whispering | celestial inspiration, So are there eyes { pure and clear, from which beams a soft | love-light, which warms and cheers, and brings a sense of grateful repose, | This is sometimes seen in mature life, | after a flame of passion has expired, And there 18 the eye of the youthful lover! it is more bewitching and pas- { sionate. In that strange magnetic ball { is an electric power that thrills the ten- {der cords of human hearts. What | wondrous power of attraction and re- | pulsion is lodged within the finger cur- tain of a maiden’s eyes! How many hearts has it Inspired with love and joy how many crushed with grief and pain? How terrible the possibilities of the human eye for weal or woe! porch mending the clothes of one of her numerous progeny. A neighbor passing stopped in for a social chat, A large work-basket half full of buttons sal on the floor of the porch. After various remarks of a gossipy nature, the visitor said: “You seem to be well supplied with buttons, Mes, Goodman," *X es; very well indeed.” “My fous! if there ain’t two of the same buttons my husband bad on his last winter suit, I'd know ‘em anywhere.” “Indeed!” said the minister's wife, calmly.” 1 am surprised to hear it, as all these butions were found in the contribution box, so § thought 1.amgus as weil put them to some #0 I—what! must you go? Well, be sure to call again, —Straw bridge s Monthly. Facts Worth Knowing, A good essay cannot be written by one who has nothing to say that is worth knowing, says Prof. Hill There are about twenty-five thousand new books published in the world each year. It is a significant fact in this centen- nial year of our government which no gagacity of our forefathers could have foreseen that women have the privilege of voting on school questions in four- teen States and four Territories, that in one State (Kansas) they can vole at municipal elections, and In one Ter. ritory (Wyoming) they enjoy complete political equality with men Ink stains are removed by the im- mediate application dry salt before the ink has dried, discolored by absorbing the ink, brush it off and apply more, Continue till the ink is all removed, Cold food, says the than sensitive stomach hot; so, in tried as nea:ly frozen as may be taken. The Sanitary Era adds, The will of Isaiah V, Willlamson, sbout £1,300,000 to charity, di- vided .unong a host of institutions, All ithe adv ge in the world will men and women r [lewitt says: “If you want mt 1 tell my children with to the best way of making mone: , i will say that I counsel them ¢ trath snd work.” the Fiftieth Congress, just ended, nearly $10,000,000 were appro- priate the construction and provement of public bulldings, not ung to Kioow w refe: @ Das i sR erected 208 churches in country. According to the American Book for 1889, issued by the American Baptist Publication Society in Baptist Associations, with membership of 2,907,794 members, an of 31 associations, The number of orda'ned ministers is 21,420, increase of 943, In the white bers, Dr. Court says: Truth objective is ing of reality; but veracity with even a distorted image, The oldest minister of the Gospel in the world in active service 1s Rev, Wil- consists esty, In Scotland, year. He walks about a mile to his preaching service every Sunday with an hour's length, discharges all his pas- toral duties, and is a most efficient chairman of the County School Board, A ———— Fashionable Women. Fashion kills more women than toil and sorrow. Obedience to fashion is a The washerwoman, see her fashionable sisters all extinct, The is hearty and strong, when her lady has itis a are almost worthless for all the good of character; they have still less power cal energy. They live for no greal purpose in life—they are dolls, formed to be dressed and fed to order. They nobody, They write If they rear children, And when but weaker scions of Who ever heard of a any virtue and power of mind, for women. Not one of them had a fash- about as little to do with fashion as with the changing clouds, Rebellion at a Wedding. Not long since at a wedding in high life, in New York, a beautiful girl of eighteen was suddenly struck dumb in response to the word ‘“‘obey.” Three times the priest pronounced it with an emphasis and holy unection, each time caungt go on. One imploring word from groom and a Taint noe " rose on the 58 Hi i ir bag FASHION NOTES. —Tall dresses to be worn after Lent will surely be composed, in many cases, of rich gauzes and India sliks, either heavily embroidered in go'd and silk threads on the material itself or in For the bands white silk is the usual foundation, on which the gold em- broidered leaves, flowers, vines, | curious arabesques show as though embossed. Leisure hours, the fur capes which have been worn all long redingote dresses, as they simply repeat the lines above the waist and break the long, graceful lines of the skirt, The fur capes will be substi- | tuted by shoulder capes of faced cloth cut about the size of the fur cape, but | the cloth is placed layer upon layer, consisting sometimes of three and at others of six capes, each deeper than that just above it. ‘The cioth edges of each cape are smoothly cul and require no other finish. | shoulders are high in the way now | popular, and the collar of velvet or plush 18 turned over widely around the neck, and a great Directolre bow of | ribbon 1s tied at the throat, Red faced mended to young women lor coaching | capes, while two qauleler { made to alternate in other capes, such as green cloth and yellowish brown cloth alternat ng in six layers, or gray | of two shades, or grayish green with fawn color cloth. —Jackets will be worn for early | spring, over dresses that are fads without redingote, The Directoire revers, short and broad, are on a num. ber, and are turned over at the top Ww disclose a vest of cloth of lighter color | in some jackets, while others have long {ered with applique designs, lof a darker shade an] edged with feather braid, Some have the Empire | belt on, four or five inches wide, and | placed across the vest, disappearing | under the revers., It is usually elab- | orately embroidered. TEA GOWN. —A handsome pew tea gown for { cordion plaiting of falling from the neck to the floor. It has the Directoire revers, and a sash | of the surah tied oun the side at the | waist, from the side seams. The Jight blue sarah The back is tight fitting, It is a handsome costume, WAISTS AND BARQUES, —The Empire waist | suitable for young ladies’ dresses and { for school girls’ made of thin summer goods dome insertion down the fronts and the | Some have the fronis gathered on the | shoulders and lap in surplice fashion also lapped, | fronts gathered to the shoulders of the | plain back and open in V shape at the throat, then drawn down to the walst line, while still others are draped across the front In curving folds and rimmed down ouly one side, A full straight skirt is in keeping with these waists. — Belted walsts should not be worn on full figures, They ure more adapted to slim figures, Dasques or round walsts made wich darts aod side forms, should be worn on full forms. They should not, however, fit as closely as those made for stiff dresses. Easy Ot- ting basques of gingham or percale dresses are made with or without a thin muslin lining, and to give them variety a short, square-cornered jacket 1s set on the front, extending only to the waist line, and opening over the pointed front of the basque, which has embroidery laid upon It; this embroid- | ery is three inches wide, and is set on with the scalloped edge meeting down the fronts, and edging the bottom of the basque to Lhe under-arm Seams. | Sometimes the basque is of plain color, while the over-jacket front 1s plaid or | striped like the back and sleeves. Full sleeves are on most of the cotlon | dresses, but for very large arms are | easy coat sleeves finished below the | elbow with a plaited frill of the ma- | terial or of embroidery falling looses | and displaying the tapering waists. Other pretty waists have no darts, though they are made over a lining | fitted with darts, the woaterial is gath- ered on the shoulders, and drawn down |to a point below the waist line, and open over a tucked or shirred vest of plain goods. A pointed girdle or a wide Empire belt crosses the front. Mutton-leg sleeves look well with this walst, ~A{3loves, which had lately been so elaborately trimmed with bows and ribbon, are once more quite simple, The Mousquetaire cuff has gone out of fashion. (loves are made plain, long, but with only three butions at the wrist; a small elastic circle should be placed inside, so as to keep the glove straight and clinglog to the arm. For the morning the fashionable glove is of dark kid, with thick black seams: for the afternoon it is of Suede (ungiazed) or riding, © HORSE NOTES, Jobin Condon is thes owner of a fast Dictator stallion in Crit Davis’ stable at Harcodsburg, Ivy. Robert Crouch has begun to jog some of the horses at the Elkton | Stock Farm, near Elkton, 3d, ~Nora, by Smeggler, dam by Rob- | ert Bonner, will be campaigned by W. | Van Valkenburg this year. ~—O1d Deck Wright was sold to W, Ww. French, of Toronto, Ont, for $600 | after the Collingswood meeting, —Shaner will not ride for the Preakness stable. ITughes will don the | black and yellow sleeve and cherry cap | this year. ~— Henry Simon, of Lomsville, Ky., | has sold a palr of 2 year old Lrolters to | John Gilbert, of Dumingbawm, Ala, ! for $2500. —D). T. Pulsifer, of New York, Las { purchased of J. W. Daily the chestnut tilly Veda, 3 vears, by Dlue Eyes, dam Vienna, by Vandal, —f&3, W. Archer, President of Lhe wehester Driving Course, of Roches- er N. Y., and Ira E. Bride, ot Chi- ago, have been taking in the races at New Orleans, | —Mr W. F. Todd, of Calais, Me , | recently refused an offer from a Ken- tucky breeder of $3000 each for the use of four of Emeline’s daughters for one year, —1In the race for the Grand inter- national Hurdle Handicap, at Broy- Eng., on March 12, Aleeus, by Galapin, with 157 pounds, was winner, with Danter, Ly Sir Levys, second W. B. Jennings, Leesburg, bas purchased of Clapham Smith, timore, the bay mare Maggie Dn | foaled 1878 by Charley Howard, Emma, by Australian, In (raberiunzie, ~ecoggan Brothers, Louisville, Ky., | have lost from Distemper the yeariing | chestnut colt by Buchanan, dam Meta H. (dam of Kimball), by Harry of the | West, out of Louisiana D., by Daniel | Boone. 1 ian WO, i —R. | has sold to C. W. Bathgate, Fordham, | N. Y., the bay colt Varius, foaled | 1887, by Virgtl, dam Chinook, by Glenelg, out of Notice, by Lexington. —The Stonewall Farm which Mr. Shuits leased at Lexington, Ky. con- | tains 875 acres. The brood mares and | stallions will be sent there next mwouoth | from Parkville, Long sland, ~ Lathrop, 7824, bay colt, by I'rin. | ceps, dam Quinque, (sister to Hun 2.90%, Trio, 2,23}, and Bister. {). by Volunteer, has been sold to | John Chrisman, of Paris, IIL —The Lafferty Pool bill, legalizing betling on race tracks, is sailing along | prosperously through the Pennsylva- nia Legislature, with every prospect of | a speedy passage by a big majority. A. Swigert. Lexington, Ky., i tress, “3 “3 | oa —The National half-mile track and | agricultural fair association has ex- punged from its rules the clause per. | mitting the suppression of time when | 8s ower than 2 45. —W, H. Wiison, Abdaliah Park, | Cynthiana, Ky., and James Miller, | Paris, Ky., have purchased from W. R. Merriman, St. Paul, Minn. the bay | Stallion San Gabriel, by Sailtan dam | Minnehaha, dam of Alcazar, record | 2.204; Sweetheart, 2.224; Bva, 2.233; | Bewutiful Belles, 2.20; He will be | placed in the stud at Mr. James Mii- | ler’s Sunnyside Farm, near Paris, Ky. ~James E. Kelly's new race track | near Elizabeth, N. J., it Is said, will | be one of the most perfect of its kind | ever constructed. It is very favorably | jJocated, being only a mile from Eliza- | beth on the line of the Peansylvania | Railroad, and hence will enable trains | to land and return passengers from aod to New York with great expedition. —Mr. L.J. Rose, in the great Kel- logg horse sale at New York city re- cently, realized nearly $120,000 from his consignment. This siows what may be accomplished by juditiously developing borses and booming a sire and family in a legitimate manper, A 2 year old does pot walk out of the woods unheralded and sell for $26,000, — Windsor, 2.20, by Major Ander- son, dam by May Day, Jr., died at the Twin Springs Farm on the 21st uit. fle was foaled in 1863, and was the sire of Windsor M,, 2.204; Prince, 2.96; General Ewing, 2.27§; Frank Finch, 2927}; Lizzie F., 227}, and many other well-known performers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. —The English mare Peri, recently purchased by Mrs, Langtry and sent to her ranch at Middletown, Lake county, Cal., died on February 11. She was by Holmby (son of Lord Clifden, dam Hannah, by King Tom), dam Fairy Delle, by Wingrave, and her breeding was 80 exceedingly fashionable that something was expected from her, —Eagtries for the Wilmington Fair, Wilmington, Del., which will open on ber 2 next and continee until