a _- »
Somebody's Child.
Whon lie was np, he cried to get down;
And when be was in. he tried to get out;
And no little boy in Boston town
Was ever so ready to fret and pout
Poutsy O,
And fretsy O,
And spend the whole day in a potsy O!
And what shiall we do td this bad little man
But shake him as haved as we possibly can?
When he was cold, he eried to be warm ;
And when he was warm, he eried to be cold
And all the marning ‘twas scold and storm,
And all the evening ‘twas storm and scold
Narmy (Oh,
And seoldy OO,
da what he was toldy O!
shall we do with this little bad man
fitin as hard as we possibly can?
Youth s Companion
THE WAGE OF TREASON.
And never
And wii
But shak
This, as on every other evening, Pro-
Alexis Ivanoviteh, scientist and
director of the Imperial gymuasium at
St. Petersburg, pressed a kiss, half ten-
der, halt mechani al, upon the fair white
forehead of Dounia, and stole AWAY from
al domieile, while Dounia re-
alone and reflected. Where
Ivanoviteh's nocturnal ex-
The professor was
fessor
the conjug
mained
did Alexis
cursions take him?
no longer a young man—he had passed
his fiftieth year—and science and his
absorbing duties as director of the Im-
perial gymnasium, where 500 pupils
Lied under hum, leit him no time to
devote to amorous intrigues. And then,
was not Dounia robust and
beautiful, with her luxuriant anburn
hair, her steele colored eves, and her
perverse, enigmatical smile. She was
poor, and ignorant he
married her, he rieh, a grand dignitary
of the Slav university, and councilor to
h 8 majesty
And love had conquered all obstacles,
aud Dounis, daughter of a shepherd of
the Cancasus* became the idolized wife
of the director ot the gymnasium. The
seductive Circassian had indeed often
trinmaphed in the heart of the savant
depostic duty. How frequently
he sat by her, admiring her and listen-
ing she babbled in French, gently
eritioising her linguistic errors. Was
not her native conversation worth a
hundred times as much as the subtile
literary and philosophical discussion
in which he eng: with the
men of St. Petersburg? Since se
Alexis
stu
nner
young,
when
GDsCUre
the czar,
Over
as she
god
however, Ivanoviteh's
d her to confound
ne gender, and t
rules of syntax witl
, us formerly,
the he
I did not
Was Alexis
her? had
use regularly
return 1
Ivanovitel
» proud of her extra
Do you know, by
kill you?”
“What, kill an unknown!—one who
lins never harmed you? You must be
engaged in some very grave undertak-
ing to harbor such a resolution.”
“Very grave, indeed. But you wished
to see and know: come with me and
you shall be satisfied.” And
Ivanoviteh drew Doonia, still surprised
and frightened, toward the low deor of
the mysterious house, which opened
silently after he had knocked in a peen-
linr and measured manner,
held within, and
\
in
commitiee was being
they were discussing a circular to
sent out which was to inform the aflilia
life of the CZAr, Alexis
troduced Dounis as a neophyte, and,
two or three women approaching her,
gave herginstructions. She was
pamphlets to distribute, the names of
prisoners, and sick persons whom she
and other duties to perform
tation of the wife of Alexis Ivanoviteh
of the leaders of the society, and
the author of numerous pamphlets se-
cretly published by the Nihilistic press,
seemed quite natoaral and msed no
Wavs noxt
anil wae ii seni (prt
Postnin, ii i fred as il
differen for
one
nr
suspicion and me Wer
considered
ire ely Emaieig
in a dream to the
thelr tragic pu
meeting then adjourned
I'he following day, while
carrying ont
Alexis
at the gymnasium, juspecting the
] ng to the compl
wttending
Strueber,
wrofessor, visite {
wered from the shock,
tie i ght
, then, her
Ho was the
those
empire and
neither or the
Rrroest. Alexis wished to
zar! Ah, filled
now, Was ho more
of her fault, and iteven i
in deceiving him, sl
for the crime
wl hers
lover with
es, listem
dents, and
work, Karl
Crerman i
had not yet
the terrible experience
before bad given her,
husband was a conspirator!
Lice, of
thi
Siberia n
ree
associate, the accomp sav-
age men who terrorize
whose andacity
conld
tl *
ile the «
allow
ASLARSIN he
she
a frenzied
he primtive
in her moutain
Strueber appeared
German!
But
i wails
hoe
*Iiers
Was
He
money 1n the
disturbed, and it
game with
ce every night?
the
emmy ty
erson of unprepossess-
with a letter. Alexis,
#
rubles without the least
BOC pted the same
anks. Gambling
pursuit
pursu
igh the snow
i not the rigl
Dounia was guilty. A
tor at the gymnasium, as Germs
named Karl Strueber, profiting by the
director's oconpation and the isolation
of his wife, had won her. And it was
the thought of this that tortured her;
that perhaps she alone was guilty, and
that Alexis was not deceiving her; that
he loved her still and might be able to
0
young
her of treason, ignoble and unpardona-
ble. Ah, could she but establish his
faithlessness! She would then be
cusable for her own.
bard on that clear and frosty night,
through a strange and lybrinthinelquar-
were scarcely illuminated by the mys-
terious moonlight.
Alexis, having arrived at his destina-
honse, within which all seemed silent
and dark, when he paused. Betreating
house and listened.
were coming in his direction.
being followed,” he thought.
his pocket, cocked it, and
ed plainly against the bright moonlight
at the entrance of the alley. Alexis
raised his pistol ready to fire. Just
then, Donna surprised seeing no one,
and believing she had been ountwitted,
threw back her hood in order to get a
better view of the locality. The moon-
light revealed her features plainly, and
Alexis, recognizing her, ran from his
hiding place.
“Dounia!” he cried, ‘‘what are
doing here?” unfortunate woman?’
‘1 was following you, Alexis Ivano-
vitch,” she answered, with trembling
voles; ‘it was wrong, I know, bat I
could not resist the desire. 1 wanted
to know where you spent your even-
in 1"
“Curiosity is very often a bad conn-
selor, Dounia,” said the professor,
gravely, after a few moments reflection;
“heaven grant you may not regret
wanting to know that which I had de-
termined to hide from you. But per-
haps, I am wrong after all. The wife
hide nothing from her husband
and the husband have no secret from
his wife. Ilove you, Dounis; my love
alone ca me to lot you re ig-
norant of certain things, a knowledge
Or porter a ticket?”
lied Dounia witl
go out o
BOSWET
unediately thereaf
the terrible me
In the
gues
mean-
Wh ¥
4 oy oe
but sup rb
tain her i
vokir
thine fo
room she
zr 8 AI
oring
a few words, d the
tal
Re
wrote
to his master
Ten minutes later, Alexis Ivanoviteh
threshold of the chamber
bracing Dounia; while endeavoring to
information concerning
the vast conspiracy of which the police
already had sn inkling. The next mo-
ment the bloody form of Strueber,
felled by a crushing blow of a battle
ax which Alexis had torn from the wall
Alexis, with fiery enthusi-
asm, ered: “Rise, Dounia; wife of my
Thon hast aided us to punish
Thou art a second
Judith, my beloved!"—Translated for
The Argonaut from the Lyench of Ed-
mond Lepelletier.
There has been an Improvement,
regulations, which were prescribed by
the lord chamberlain 200 years ago for
the benefit of officers, many of them
belonging to noble families. When in-
vited to dine with royal persons, they
were to be neatly dressed, with clean
coats and boots, and not to enter the
room ina half drunken condition. The
mouthful, as that would make them
drunk too soon, nor to empty more
than one goblet for every two dishes.
They were not to put their hands in the
plates, their bones under the table, lick
their fingers, wipe their noses on the
table-cloth, or drink so much as to make
them fall off the chairs or unable to
walk straight. "Lhese are extracts from
a guide carefully drawn up for the gunid-
ance of officers and gentlemen of noble
families, which shows that manners have
improved since 1024.-—Chicago Tvib-
une,
The French factory of Mantols is
the only one in the world where glass
large and perfect enough for the lenses
of a big telescopes can be successfully
FASHION NOTES.
Is there anything whereof it may be
said, ‘See! thisisnew?'”
We have tried this summer to des-
{ eribe, ns they have appeared, all the
| novelties in tissues, dresses, wraps and
| hats: occasionally we have described an
{ amusing fancy in the line of some of
| these articles, until now we find the
summer énded and no one ean say, ns
There is nothing newer or more elegant
in Paris, than can
It is astonishing that the celebrated
all the world, have not
in their fashion the
great centenary by a complete rovoln-
tion of the fashion.
jut it may be owing to a want
lack of imagination
of
or
customers who make the law. So they
continue to fashion the
dresses and hats according to the style
of last season,
From a practical point of view, this
half stalnlity of the fashion has great
advantages; very often,
toilettes
occasion to
and hats, not that they
ruined or even not fresh, but becaus
they are not the latest thing, At
present day, we know how to profit by
this that costs
has so
aside
that one
We lay
the summer
litth
dresses
use,
} i ’ ¥
lead the lashon,
vy, than formerly, arrange
» that the
inp changes,
However,
which wore
more careful regarding
their
ity le does notshow too
we see charming
unknown last year,
the autumn hats have striking novelties,
Have we seen, before this season, hats
of white straw softened under adrapery
with large oval dots?
And the black straws trimmed witha
knot or two of skye-blue velvet, with
pinions of black lace formed by a light
metal holds them high
round as if they were natural?
The broad girdle that has been made
and in various styles,
which
of black tulle .
Ww hich
*
IN SO ANDY Ways,
18 1t not a nove Ity
directly from England? They
have deseribed them: o
formed after the model
plaited leather;in ore
flax
original
ties one
comes to
us
+11
of 8k, as we
twisted twine
the waist; In 1
} chemisetts
SKin, ete. Also the z
Of the
which is truly
Ty y
innn-
of the prettiest
8 itself in th
The turn down
fall
the center of the vest
are finished by a fine English stitch
Many pretty hats, are almost
ready to be displayed to the eager gan
of the leaders of fashion, will be chron.
icled in our next letter.
Ferice Lesure,
sleeves and
the broad plait in
which
CURRENT FASHIONS.
SILKE DREsH
Woolen stuffs considered,
consequ ntly turns to
STUPYS,
what bas been
factures. The novelty of the season in
the simpler and cheaper of the silk
dress goods appears in varieties which
show very narrow satin stripes alternat-
satin stripes on basket texture. These
more frequently used in the combina-
tion, for instance with velvet, when a
costume of extreme richness is desired,
suie, gros grain or
when less expense is
in an inexpensive dress.
Peau de soie is continned in a weave
that is richer in effect, but closely re-
sembling the fine satin worn in the
time of our mothers; gros-grains and
faille francaise of the excellent quality
and beautiful finish in which they have
been practiced for a number of seasons,
retain standard importance, and vary-
ing the plainer weaves the armures
promise to be popular. All these are
silks in plain colors, if we may except
hose | with satin face, which generally
show warp of color lighter than the
wool.
The novelties in black fancy silks are
brocades in grounding of alternate
broad, plain and armure stripes, and
brocaded armures of solid surrounding,
There are also terns in striping of
basket texture of broeaded des and
broeading on grounding of plaiding or
crossbars of basket texture, The de
signs are in bold florations, but so thin.
ly laid on as to show the grounding
perfectly.
The cviored brocades are without
Jretedent in richness, Shay arg Yo
oriated designs reproducing o
the exact size of the flowers
resented, but in some patterns show-
ny flowers of exaggerated size. In
memory is a piece of satin in the new
reddish purple known as iris color, re-
lieved with dahlias in several of the
colors in which dahlias appear, almost
putting nature to shame in the size and
etegnnee of the blossoms. A piece of
satin brocade, the design of which was
the work of the silk buyer of one of our
large houses, is of grounding in Turkey
red, relieved with hydrangeas, the
blossoms giving the new tints of vieux
rose, vieur rouge, the pink, silvery-blue
aud other colors which florists are wont
to infuse into the hydrangeas through
certain pigments dissolved in the water
poured upon the roots of the plant.
[his piece of satin is indeed a chef
in both design and weaving,
Paris Exposition,
Sumptuons sating, devoted to trains,
side panels and other uses in robes in-
tended for ceremonions occasions, are
in designs of heavy garlands in natures
colors on each side of the
front of the side
massed in the front
ning up the front side of the
of the knees,
while these rich silk stuffs may be re-
in eleganee in
there are patterns
and suited to
breadths, 3
corners and run.
breadth
brocades,
much less prominent
As in millinery, plain cut velvet this
v nea of fancy WeRyYoR
in popularity; although fancy velvets
in the gor-
the satin bro-
however, only a
making
all #1
ii Lhe
cades: introducing,
up, the satin brocads
with the plain
of the robe;
are
the
fotas skirt, as to give the effect of the
or full
a front or
i18 Te
back
tumes, Wide side panels,
breadths of brocade open on
vi Ivet
gide and
‘and velvet appuars
in the waist, belt, collar, epaulettes and
cuffs, on the waist. Plain velvet
part in the wo mwiumes,
pan
d as the foun:
design of the ¢
y a festure in the
1 2 ¥ I *
woolens, and very rich effects
vealed bu twoen the
also
ju cp
OLLer wind
tion or the relief
Plaiding
antumn SUES, as
are
wids
A
len 4
ng out between 8 and
minim
1
COIOTS ANA
] kot continnes to Te
y wrap in highest fas
10 Plain
ve been superceded for
by jackets of cork screw diago-
he latest expression of the
; 3 style jackets are
single-breasted, fitted to the
side darts, up
or
§..41 11
¢ioth walk
Bin
buttoning
face i
of the edge with pla nn
within an inch
vest with standing collar, the rolled col
Inr faced with silk finishing the jacket
proper. Side pockets cut in are cov-
ered with a square flap, and the sleeves
are finished with cuffs. The odges are
close up the front. The jacketsalluded
to are far removed from the directoire
styles,
Contesting favor, with the walking
acket, however, for utility, is the pel-
erine, another name for the coachman’s
cape. Pelerines appear in cloth of all
suited to wear with any costume.
this eape is frequently an addition
to the street cloth costume, made
the capes of graduated size; and in some
cases two colors, or two shades of eolor,
alternately appear in them. They are
finished with stitching, and fastened
with a hook clasp,
Human bleeding once so fashionable,
like other fashions, as in hats, bonnets,
&e., is now, fortunately, obsolete,
save in war, human bloodshed-—its for.
mer advocates now oeing ashamed of
the delusion. It is now known that
the best blood, in the particular ves.
sels, was that which was lost, the
poorer, from its thickness and slug-
gish Sow, remaining behind,
The horse, that nobly animal, most
resembling man of any of the domestic
animals, is still the victim of the “lan
cet,” but why he should be thus pun-
ished, after the same bas been discarded
in human treatment, itis difficult to
Cetermine, ouly on the supposition that
we naturally prefer error to truth,
The "blood is the life,” and 1 can see
no good reason for taking it away in
the usual quantities, ‘he Creator
made the blood for wise pu just
the amount needed, naturally, while its
loss must be an impediment to good
health, .
Arter climbing up one side and slid
ing down the other put up the sled.
Unbearable Days.
They will come. Neither money nor
friends, nor social superiority, nor in-
tellsctual power, will keep them away
the days of which we say: “I have no
pleasure in them.” They are the days
in whieh the husband seems neglectful,
the wife careless, the children unduti
ful. We suddenly awake to the fact
that Mary is getting terribly freckled;
that her nose 1s undeniably a pug. We
perceive with clear vision that Tom is
coarse, and rude, and erude The
voices of the little ones grate harshly
upon our ears. We say in anguish of
soul: Is this all? Is this life? Must I go
on in this way year after year? The
indulgence of this spint suddenly plae-
sufferer at odds with all
her—assuming the culprit, or victim,
to be a woman, as is very likely, Tom
her man
ner, the criticism in her eyes, the
in
about
Hi
He
puts on a mask of
armor. Ten to one, he is tender heart
hurt by coldness
gots out of
Mary
fim
mn
nay # whole suit
and eriticism., Little Tom
to the
enol
looks forward
shal be
away from home
}
pouts and
4
i
1
Oi
There is
nery of the household.
i 10 go
un deadlock
: The
if there be a servant, 1s disre
ths
By this time, the dis
another for
servant,
spectful;
sters quarrel,
has taken
the baby is eross;
] he suff
NO One JOves
santalls
menuad
Bhe over
labors, her
What
naugn nobody remembers,
nobody car If she 3 of
WHY, her place would ]
This thought is agonizing
1
goes
all her
ungratel
done 18 as
these Ones,
were out
deepe £10010 !
the i . we “blackness
darkness” perv les the house, morall
speaking I'he
r winter
ths
ask, how not to ito
z one's back upon thesun
ined many lives, broken the
unnumbered children,
hearts, dark« ned homes where we
1 44 i
eImenis ol
alienated
tediv 1
}
£ i vie
Aas 18 oiten the cas
Yas ”
Classes
heaven
and do works,
Pie taken upon s
gible for much gloom: a
or broken }
Life
BG gorg
are often mistaken
jut the effect
£
upon one's
the same. { ambition is crippled,
piration fettered, hop discouraged,
friends disappointed, children thrust
into outer darkness, the cause does not
matter, unless by finding it out we can
also find a remedy. Whatever be your
dark, dull, unbearable days must come,
on the other side of the thin cloud
but one day at a time to bear. Instead
he darkness, keep it bright and
glowing.
if, through efforts of the higher na-
ture, the soul should grow in the un-
time be looked back upon as the best
days. MF. B.
~The celebrated imported stallion
Glengarry died at the Kennesaw stud
{Captain James Franklin's), near Gal-
latiy, Tenn,, on October 22. Glengarry
was bred in Eugland in 1806 by Cap-
tain Lane, and was imported in 1860
Ly Messrs, Jeroms and Cameron, his
dam having been sent over in Decem-
ber, 1866, but died on the passage. He
was a brown horse, Ly Thormasrby.
from Carbine by Rifleman; second dam
Troica, by Lanercost; third dam Sibe-
ria, by Brutandorf, As a race horse
he was only moderate. His speed was
so very high that his stable thought to
win the Belmont stakes of 1360 with
him, but he could not stay the route.
In the stud he proved a great success,
among the best of hig get being Fielch
Taylor, Creenland, Stuyvesant, Ken-
nesaw, Kirkman, Glengarine, Gilenhall,
.
wo Jeck"Hammond is reported to
have won £00000 by the victory of
Laureate in the Cambridgeshire stakes,
It has been stated that MM, Cham-
poniere and F 8, two French
doctors, have cured warts by the inter.
pal administration of 12-grain doses of
calcined but the modus oper
andi of the dicine they could not
explain,
HORSE NOTES,
John Hannigan now trains for the
Montana Stable,
~W, I. Cassidy's stables will prob.
ably winter at Nashville,
Jay Bird has put five new perform-
ers In the 2.3) list this year.
-hitabob, the English S-year-old,
— The pacer 1. C, Jee (2.15) is re-
ported permanently broken down,
~The English three-year-old Chita
bob was recently sold for £1,0g)°
~—RBuccessor, the well-known 2-year.
old by Vauxhall, Is very ill with pneu
monia.
—W. T. Woodard’s fail sale aggrega-
ted $113,565 for 222 head, an average of
$510.65,
Malta pald $138.70 in two-dollar
mutuals at Clifton, only one ticket being
sold for her.
1’8 work
continues
with
to
Starter McLaughlin
the flag at Clifton still
give sat'sfaction,
~Dictator, by Hambletonlan, dam
in the 2.80 list this year.
- Jt was a surprise to most horsemen
tl Now or Never should bring the
that
¢
~dJohn Hammond is reported to have
in the Cambridgeshire stakes,
— Attorney General Rogers, of Lou.
New Orleans do not iniringe the
IAW,
Barnes rode at Lexington with vary-
ceess and will wind up the season
He will winter at Lis
—Dr. Moorehouse, of Toronto, has
from John Fulcher, of Lon-
4-year-old sister to the high
jumper Roseberry.
— William Donohue, the well-known
collar-bone at I.inden
recently
~Taral has severed his connection
with the Bevenovcek Siable, and Stoval
as been engaged to ride tor the stable
the balance of the season.
—J. B. Perry, Lexington, Ky.,
fing
i
ch., a weanling col
. dam by Guy Wiis en,
to
t by Sable Wilkes,
2.15%, second
Bells, The
sister Beautiful
1 2. yerr-old,
, dam by 3
ied recentlv at Lexing.
is a full brother to
by G. & W, H. Cor-
£2. Pa.
—d. T, Mock has sold to
Bros, , ¥ 5 N¢
Mimic, dam Miss Lyle, by Lyle
3d
a gi i-ad ge 3
Everts
b., a yearling colt
alls t
wn a quarter
* writes
of
Most
nile
been run
Ii Alarm,
sined a
i, LU., OR
campaigned
ii Hoideger,
expelied last
ob!
July
through
own and
Who Was run
s ti
nonin,
—T. Horace Cleland, Jr. Fairholm
stock farm, lebanon, Ky., has sold to
M. Fietchier & Ero., Auburn, 11, the
standara bred stallion Artist Wilkes,
bay, 5 years, by Red Wilkes, dam by
Mingo Morgan, Jr. The price paid
was £4000,
«Mr. F. Gebhard’s well-known
horse Leo died at Mr, F. G, Giswold’s
hunting-box at East Williston, L. I,
on Mooday October 28. Leo had the
“best on record” for high jumping. At
phenomenal jump of 6 feet 9 inches,
Leo's death was due to lockjaw,
Mrs. George I. Lorillard’s chest.
nut filly Flitaway, foaled 1885 by
race at Linden Park, on O tober 24,
~The name of the Buenos Ayres
sportsman who has purchased [the re.
nowned English horse Ormonde is Sig-
nor Juan Bocan. He is said to be ove
of the wealthiest men in South Amer
tea, and bas purchased a large number
ot the best mares in England, all of
which he bas taken with Ormonde to
his Southern home,
—The Newmarket October meeting,
which closed on Friday, 25th, contin.
ued sensational to the very last, The
Cambridgeshire, on the 24th, fell to
Laureate, who started at 25 to 1 in the
betting. Primrose Day, who won the
Cesarewitch in such hollow style, star
ted at short odds and was absolutely
“nowhere” at the finish. Laureate,
the winner, with a very good colt asa
Zvear-0ld, winning four out of six ra-
ces, viz.,, the Hamilton plate, at Yar-
mouth; the Sandown Nursery, at San
down Neptember ing; the First
Nursery at Newmarket; First October
and the Ross Memorial, at the same
meeting. The past year he has not
until Cam
ngs plate. at
Newmarket, in May; third to Dovovan
in the Newmarket stakes; unplaced in
. also in Epsom Grand