The Pet of The Twelve, The pet of the family twelve— Round my heartdo I fondly entwist ber; Her dear eyes are 80 blue, and her tresses of floss That she flings on the air with a co~ quetish toss Are still wet with the tears of her sister, The pet of the Earth and of Heaven — Lo, the arch of the sky stooped and Kiss. ed her, Then ber eves became blue, tresses of floss Quick she snatches from Earth with a coquettish toss And then laughs at the tears sister, and her of her No grief fog poor April has she, Nor a sigh nor a pang can enlist her; Now she wreathes with the blossoms her tresses of tloss, But to scatter them wide with a co- quettish toss the green-covered grave sister. ¢f her ow The pet of the twelve— who but May? Oh, my heart it can never resist her; 1 will love her blue ayes, and her tres ses of floss, Though she fling them about with a coquattish toss, And doth laugh at the tears of ber sister. —————— CAUGHT IN THE COVERLET: Ward No. 9 was to any casual inspee tion precisely like the other nineteen | with which it formed the General Hos pital of Jeffersonville, Ind. It clean, and the long rows of cots on each | side But nniformity w WAS | of the wards were always in order. the necessity fort, its as a little try: '} to the mi never whatever ng i MeHKIs were served inte, the food r quality 1 known t [his even of the wis kind to SOUrness the soup. a Stay of six weeks, Fred ii Ay { Company B the Minnesota, | to find it a little monotonous. | y be ungrateful for the of his treatment here, to long for a little caning wdness more | he had abou exhausted the simple | Jleasures that the hospital had to offer Ie had read several of the memoirs of | great and good men, which formed the | bulk of reading matter, and these, too, fonnd singularly alike. Even 1d pleasure to had | of Baxter's ‘‘Saint’s a single reading. had a writing letters not to Fred for reasons that will pres- | After debating the mat- nind for a few days, he final- red on a course which migl the tedinm of his sure. which was likely t longer. At time here had been received | he had Der never- resource in to 3 1 which was open nd, Car 116% © some x considerable supply shirts and sizes, with ning rts of men with Upon trial, of es ever i to any particular ease, but drawers THOR wounds. of them were foun adapted : cutting open here and sewing up there they did very well, especially as the | weather Ww Among other | things received were anumber of sheet and coverlets fo beds. The thot il were not aniform, and introduced seen anywhere in AS WArm r the 10, the only wil 1. Ravmond had been | vonng ladies of one of YOLK Hu 1€8 ¢ one « , Ohio, and ma names Ted nn thelr v of tracing letters on t the least bit ho wonld think of for corres mdence grew ont of interest to passed before he His lot Meline, simply | spt give new it yet be his regiment «1 to Miss Lillie in eloquent epistle + 14 tory of the writer's loneliness, ratitude of himself and comrades | interest shown in the comfort of | nion soldiers, and the satisfaction | mild the inmates of the hos- if “any of the young ladies shonld | liberty to relieve the dullness of | by an occasional letter.” not long before he received a handwriting which he antly identified. He was more ex- opened the envelope had been for a long time, and than he had supposed he be over a letter from a stranger, Like his own, it was a very simple epistls “The girls were delighted,” it anid. “to know that their work had don some good. The soldiers deservy- ed everything,” and so on, “and if he tc hear from her, why, she write, although she was only a school girl.” And then, asking that he wonld tell something about himself, she signed her name, Lillie Meline. There was this P. 8.: “What is the namber of your regiment?” “urely this sort of correspondence was sufficiently mild. Neither party to it had the intention to begin anything like a flirtation by mail. Indeed, Lillie had purposely conveyed the impression that she was very young, so that there might be no temptation on Fred's t to Shange the scope of his letters. Bho Was a se aolgisl, eighteen years of age, home now for her vacation. As she had meant, he got the impression that she was much younger, a mere alip of a girl. That was just the thing. He conld write freely about himself to amuse her, and letters and her sympathy would be none the less pleas- ant use of her youth. Now, I am bound to confess that the sorrespondesuce which followad was nct give in n i when he than iar Cok cared world in anv way very remarkable, look much interested in the handwriting, the faded letters, the dates as in the little glimpses of personal history and character which it reveals. It does not greatly concern our story to | How 1t Rapidly it changed, both and substance. It came to be Dear Miss Lillie” and “Dear Mi mond.” It was no longer genernl and sympathe Had they fallen in love with each other? That would have been ver) absurd in 11 seeing that she was only a little , as he supposed. Can people 1 never seen oencl as 10 i “My Ray- and 110. who Can people fall in love © th each alone? What is that process through which we have most of us gon of us, despite the poets and novelists, many times? Is it not in all cases the ideal conception which we have, rather than the person to whom wi attribute it? Two clements always enter into this ideal. The one is the physical per- fectness of the beloved ol ject. Beauty of form or feature, grace in action, manly strength wre what we see But so blind are we, that anything short of under = OTE l tiene Cir Cer rind muss monstrosity may, He mental and m jualities always the chance ception may G43 jiere ence than by any case, wrong Course would utteri upon so ual 1LAl also disappes re a iadin g gradu So, interest into the Thus = leepest passion. fow But en the wearit 1.01 3 while Le continued ften on the m With ti mangas they Lillie regular CALs 's Jotters were returned, ith th ntelligence that Raymond h al been is din battle i } }] 1 herself « f she had eal health in ons menta fittl he recover : * 4 * Months filled and starvation, left of him mentally or ph i names with eredible hardships reached the Union lines more dead than alive. And now another hospital experience followed, lightened by no eorr spondence, oonid not remember Lillie's name or address—he had, of course, lost all let. ters—and the more he tried to remem- ber, the more hopeless seemed the at- tempt. Finally he gave it up altogeth- er. At last he reached his regiment again, greatly to the astonishment his comrades, but not much more service The three years for which the men had enlisted were about to expire, and although the Govern- ment gave them the inestimable privil- ege of re-enlisting as veterans, most of the “boys” decided that they wonld first go to their homes, Early one morning, therefore, in the Autumn of 1864, the cars bronght them to the little town of H They had no rations, and were hungry, Ar. rangements had bean made for their breakfast at a large place on the road a little farther along, Put for some reason they were delayed several hours here. Naturally they began to spread about the little village, and the citizens be- stirred themselves to do the best they could under the circumstances. With- out preparations or conoert, their offorta were not ver systematic, but they were hearty. The oceries, res taurants and hotels wore taxed to their utmost. Raymond was walking throngh the little town, looking for the chance of breakfast, but not seeing how he conld exactly press himself upon those for he 03 to see Ed citizens who geemed much already As he was passing a modest cottage a side street a middle-aged lady, in the vard, and holding a on “Soldier!” He turned and brought his hand to the visor of his cap as though 1t was a superior officer, in tead of a superior being, he saluted. “Ind you speak, ma'nm?"’ “Have you had breakfast?” she said. He said that he had not yet had that pleasure, “Come in, then,” “Ours is quite re ady.” she returned. He looked at his hands and his clothes with some anxiety. It was three years dince he had eaten a really civilized meal, and his ambition now did not ex Perceiving the kindness of the inten- tion, however, he accepted the invita tion Opposite him at the table sat a young lady dressed in black, whom the hostess nicee. His own name was not asked. manner of this young lady, even more than in her dress, suggesting some re- sorrow. She did not hold whose She gloomy or woe-begone. She politely to the conversation, little part, except now was not | listened | taking | and then to ask | finally brought the something of his w hil [3 i in, whi 1 {Oo spenk Sh attentive, : \ thoughtinl joticed that and Ones, as he arprised da little start the intenseness of her look. Lhe ‘hickamanugs her thot her Wer ill Wik and sad fier i looked was went on up, he was at IK fa IR wil dd “3 1 ii edie composure in a mo and said » was quite well her voice ©1 low trem : 3 $i , with a | asked the Tr I she turn- ed white as he gave The next « She 111 $s vy juestion $14 hard to con Ole sper “Did you know — Fred yw to be asked ii It was his turn n i i dd who wait answer Famous Women in Men's Clothes. Woman's World, London: —Rosa Bon- hear followed the most liberating of all eallings—the artistic—and was born snd bred out of society, into which she never cared to enter. In art one must follow inner light and personal genius, A picture isa speculative investment ; those speculating don’t care whether the painter (if a woman) wears petti- coats or All they look to is the quality of her work. Bon heur bad to go to fairs to make studies for her cattle, and to wander afield un accompanied. Hence her choice of the French laborer's blue smock, eap and trousers. They protected by keeping her sex out of the sight and mind of the rough men with whom she fell in, save d her from being draggled, and relieved her of the wearisome task of trundling up skirts when she had to carry puint- ing implements, I never saw her in a male peasaut’s suit, but have seen her in a plain skirt, falling below the calf, and a Zouave jacket over a loose shirt, of the Garibaldi fashion, in gray cash- mere. The fashion of her woman's raiment seldom changes. Her hair 1s cropped, but not to the skull. This tidy, descent dress accords with the rustic, sunburnt face of Rosa—a face that tells of constant mental tension, keen, search- ing perception, hardness of head and | straightforward simplicity. Sarah Bernhard’t mannish trousers, ? VORB garments | ng. It may be that she is well aware o charming a8 years Italian boy f“ simplicity of in black vel- | effeminate i be a pleassut change after the | clinging draperies, with the weighty | trains and box pls Mang. which mak Ber rustle like a snake 1n fallen autumn musician advances on the stage. { never knew an elderly lady, however | wore masculine | those who don it them and are of conquests Mme. nd, beauty, charm and | i fancy ashe looks better in i ld in the Not that the rounded | KOX, her pale - One sees the t and ankles, the { the pretty throat and Her as the Bguar forehead, DAZE. AN The crow’s { who n general, it heoomes an age to make Dieulafoy has mi jquancy. she has discarded als ttomnhs bring out je attempts 0 ring ous hips and full gorge of her the fe the brown hair | BOIRROTS Small ear igh cnt as Clos . 1 v NAS § arge Can gO ot with LL howing beautifully thi fow pre proper. had aye and He thought raj 1 i the derstand COTTeR] Case Was arm, ster hs the enoug at thi k m like a flash Jut this was not the town not the this was young girl he hs “Who is this vo “My niece, Miss «Moline? Li “In the names syyyd 113% vy Meline sy of wo . “what does “Yann - od, rather “Miss Moline s of the unphysiol whether any taken place. was exire me, HRYEe WAY Pe riaaps now It is too [Cy OW wir will hear 3 pansed orbid it, and ‘I do not A Inomens, bu he went on know hut w fo « plain 3t. of that or and half-starvation able to re. shell how much I should have liked to hear | from you again. All this time I| thought you were a little girl. But | now if I die for it, I must say it—I love you, dear,” ; Ha did not die for it. She took a stop nearer, held out her hand, and then leaned her pretty head on his shoulder. ! «It is all so sudden,” she murmured; i “ht and nestled closer, and | “And all this time I thought you were dead.” 1 she EE —————— Rovan, —*Mith Bondelipper, I thaw thomething remarkable yethterday.” “What was it, Mr. Snobberly?"’ “1 went into a dime mutheum on the Bowery, and thaw a fweak, a remarka- ble fweak. It wath a calf with three aves,’ “A calf with three eyes! Are you sure, Mr. Snobberly, that you were not looking in a mirror?" —— “Par,” sald an American to an Ir- ishhman who had lately landed, and who was staring at Niagara, “did you ever 00 such a fall as that in the old coun- ¥ “Faith, apd 1 niver did; but do yer geo, why shouldn't it fall? What's to t its fallin’? That's what I'd ike ter know?’ At this season the wells from which the drinking water is obtained are liable to be polluted with surface water. Grade around the weil amd force the surface water away. than the thor ut the i I coul madame, $ bug Ww ss Home Happiness. Dear boys and girls, you oan add me happiness, e special ther who is not very | grandma who being thought and moYe There is a right shut the door; a right way 0 open wavy to rise, to hold | a right way to do everything | that is worth doing at all And yet we have known children to give their parents sad hearts by neglect of theses little home duties. It is more easy to do these things right than to do a right way to sit down, to One very ugly habit some young peo- i ple have is that of calling aloud the | name of a brother or sister, or even of | a father or mother, who may be in an- other room, or upstairs, or in the yard. A polite person will always go to the one whose attention is required, and speak in a low and modest tone of voice. The home might be made far more pleasant by observance of many of these little matters, —Our Little People. “My father is a very genial man," ghe sald, ‘and desires that I shall ox- tend the hospitalities of the house to every caller, Will you take something before you go?’ “Well, yes,” roplied the youth “l will, with your permission, take a kiss from you,"’ The maid was abashed, but the youth was equal to the occasion and the hos. pitalities were extended, — So a Cut several oranges in transverse slices and remove the seeds. Lay some of the slices in the bottom of a glass fruit-dish; sprinkle with sugar and some cocoanut; then add a of silced banana, and fill up the with alternele layers of oranges, eocon. nut, and banana. FASHION NOTES, Although fashionable modistes have returned from Paris bringing with them the choicest of Worths' voroations,” we do not find that they eclipse or make the work of American Fashion artists, seem less desirable by COMPArisOT. At one of our best estab- lishments may be seen seventy models of the most exquisite novelties selected from the best European honses, Worth himself will rarely exhibit more than eight, The of the season was the centennial ball on April 20th, and among the bewildering display of es- pecially prepare d toilets for that occas 100 was cade train-front of white satin silver flowers embroidered at the foo! in front, slender vines of silver up the fronts of the pointed corsage, and silver fringe dropping below the waist and our event short sleeves, For one of the ladies of the Cabinet, a gown made by Worth. is of blue and white brocade with trimmings of Opal beads, has been made a grey tulle trimmed of the front The fashions with for of modifications these gowns, the Aare white inst bel silk century used ng the skirt, with a frill across the foot in the old fashioned way, deep ruffles at the neck turning over, ruffles so bodice and form wide drape the thie sleeve. White wool y y ine de sole, Is embroidery on mou prettily used on brocade, the silk forming the lower part of a. green NOTRE the COrsage, of ning on the ing to the th g 4 wie gin. taper- Ou the skirt IDLE Ghormley green brocade, bw massed clusters is Harrison, ng would as to are WOAr also making a gown for Mrs, but no of question a hint to be given material Not less gowns for street amount even unique the and home show many new material and style. laine, China nets and the both In Cashmere, mousseline de CALNYAS Are all Qispiay« i in ng days, light cloth, striped silk hair old brocads i taffetas shot First Empire iit which pro The widely with SgQuUAre id be taken in sleeves, i h Moire YOATs of st ft front, point , cord it i ound it to lie around the bow on top puta pleated down flatly, zo ana SInadl + 1 T (Aral O38 yn of great nsed The taste of the wearer 18 guide to fashion in this, as in details of the styles which dresses other For afternoon wear foulards are shown in great variety, including bean tiful effects, One in blue with a black with black lsece and with pale blue ribbon to match the fonlard. The waist is made with fall effect which is now usually seen in all material. A dainty afternoon gown is of blue and white striped India silk, combined with white mousseline de soie that is wronght with finest threads of white wool. Black velvet ribbon tie bows on the waist, with collar and wrist bands of black velvet, and velvet on the skirt draped in jabots showing their selvages next panels of the embroider. ed mousseline, An exquisite teagown is an old pink and apple green brocade which form the train behind, the front of maize colored silk is cove red with embroider. ed erepe lisse festooned with maize rib- bona, A As Saas, Panis as a gallant blind man, Seated at the corner of a projecting doorway on the boulevard, just out o sight of those who approach, he waits until he hears the light, quick footfall of a lady, and then steps out into view, hat in hand, bowing his head, white with age, and exclaims: “Ah, madame, pity me! Have pity on a poor blind man who is deprived of the privilege of seeing youl" No woman; it is said, can resist his plea. 100 A single shad produces 000 eggs, ; 0 1 and only about 5,000 are hatched natur- ally. By the artificial method, 08,000 are successfully hatched. rrr rt HORSE NOTES, Jane L., 2.194, has been added te Weeks’ stable, James E. Cooper is troubled with rheumatism, E. Ii. Bulkley has sold the pacer Whitelight, 2.254. (G. B. Morris bas pu ama at a high figure, James I3. Green is kept busy ing his big stnng of trotters, —Hanover is doing his work in manner to encourage his friends, —Reth Griffin is at work on the Del- a mont track with his track machine, —Jay-Eye-See, Harry Wilkes and Phallas are not lively to be seen on the turf again, —FEntries for the Dansville (K3 meeting, to be held on June 5, 6 and 7, will close on May 27. R. 8, Strader of Elmer | one mile from Lexington, Ky., | fine lot of trotting stock for sale. Place, has a ~The Czar, full brother to the Em- sror of Norfolk, recently, won the sacific Derby, one-and-one-half niles, n California, in 2,36, i | —Budd Doble will remain at the | Washington Park track, Chicago, until { the date of the running meeting, when { he will go to Detroit, J. F. Golden is at the Gentleman’# | Driving Course with the b. Budd Doble (pacer), 7 years old. by Clay Ab- | dallah, and the s. g. Billy Ross, © | years old, by Seafoam. | | i o Be fe in 3 w ~The Lehigh County Agricultural Society has fifty men and fifteen horses land carts at work grading the new track at its new Fair grounds, in the | suburbs of Allentown, Fa. —W. H. McCarthy has arrived In | Terre Haute, Ind., ith his stable of | trotters that were wintered at Los | | goles. It contains Geneva B., 2.19%; | Lena Wilkes, 2.29%; Rajah, 2.20%; | Cora Van Tassel, Lucy BE. and the | pacers Sir Archie and Cousin Joe. i —In the five furlong spin at Mem- phis, on Monday April 20th, with ten starters, four of them fell on the | turn, Endurer going down first, when | Kermese, Hattie D., and Katie 8. | running close behind him, fell in a | heap. Stevenson, on Hattie D., had | his collar-bone dislocated, and has been laid up since. —The $10.000 Southern Hotel Guar- | antes stake for the 2.25 class, opened by the St. Louis Falr Association, closed | with the following nominations: Mc- Cormick Live Stock Company, Bowl. | ing Green, Mo.; W. P. ljams. Terre Haute. Ind.; V. Simpson, Winona, Minn. : Cowles & Clyborne, Dowagiac, Mich. : Hamilton Busby, New Y ork, N. Y.: C. F. Clark, Mexico, Mo.; Wilson and Stanley, Detroit, Mich. ; D | W. Hunter, We Mo.: Bob Stew- art, Kansas 3 Mo.: Augustus Sharpe, Louisville R. P. Pepper, Frankfort, Kv. vt Is n old-style road race came off re- cently between two bdouth Jersey trot- | tors. The contestants were Chestnut and Old Virginny, owned re- spectively by General ( harles Halght, of Freehold, and Mr. Frank Rives, | The course was from Freehold to Long { Branch and return, a distance | thirty-four miles. Each horse drew | two men. The start was made at 10.10 A. M. and the round pleted by 12.50, ing the distance two hours and fc ia stop of twelve i at Long Branch There is talk of | another match for $1000 a side. —. The two American bred trotliers, Spofford and Governor Hill, were safely landed in Buenos Ayres after a voyage of forty-seven days, The severest shaking sp occurred off Newport News, The gale was strong and the sea ran high. The horses were protected bY padded stalls, In pleasant her they were walked on deck. They also sad a large open box, with plents of straw to prevent slipping, into h they were turned, one al a time, when the ocean was calm. The shoes were badly worn on the voyage. The fric- tion was as great as if the trollers had been on land. The two horses walked ashore in their new and far distant home as frisky and nimble as colts. They will be driven on the road and compete in races. Three days before Spofford and Governor Hill were lan- | ded the bay mare Skylight Pilot, w ho had preceded them to Buenos Ayres, | died. She was by Strathmore, had a | record of 2.19, and her loss was keenly regretted. | ~—There never was a time when | horse could win as much money as now, | there never was a time when 2-year | old racing had reached anything like its proportions. The most valuable | stakes are for 2-year-olds, Al Mon- | mouth Park there Is the Junior Cham- | plon, worth something like $25,000; the | Select worth about £2000; the Sapling | Tyro, July, Hopeful, August rnc Criterion, each worth about $6000 the Amboy and Oarteret Handicaps, worth each about $7000 or $8000. At Coney Island the Futurity this season will be worth about $80 000 to the winner; the Great Eastern, worth $8000; the A tumn, worth $6000, The ‘7itan, at Jerome, will be worth $7030 or $3000. The Great American, at Brooklyn, will be worth about $20,000, and the new Eclipse stakes, at Westchester, will be worth about Kenwood and Hyde Park stakes, Chicago, are each worth about $5000, There are at least twenty-five stakes in the East which will bs worth about $3000 or over. Ld Oh trip was com- to cool © weal $a a3 OLD MAN—*As your first baby is a boy 1 suppose you have the privilege of naming it.” Young Father—'‘Yes, siree, 1 would not allow any one else to name that oherub.’’ “Have you thought of a good name for him yet?” . “Dozens of ‘em; splendid names; just the thi ng: but they won't any of them »n “Why not?" “My wife won't have "em." each of flour and sugar, halt of butter and milk, two with vanilla: bake on wafer-irons and roll while One cup ta” avr Vellgreased Lob.
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