RS T——— The Reason. ————————— Life is very sweet just BOW-—= Full of light and Rowers; Not a single cloud to mar, Or give a hint of showers. 1ife ia very sweet and fair, Rosy-hued and smiling: With the musie of the birds, Happy hours beguiling. Life is very sweet, You ask: What can be the reason {ooking blankly at the clouds) Of the rainy season? Life is very sweet because Because—why not assist me? Sweet in spite of rain of clouds, Just because you kissed me Abbie C. McKeever in Pittsburg Bu CAUGHT IN THE ACT. «11 ymplore you to take time to con- sider my offer. [ am well off in this world's goods; I love you devotedly, and my one aim in life would be to make you happy.” «+] cannot listen to you, your persistence AUNOYVSE, and I tell you 1t 1s §8, ise Horton, rising listin. Mr, Herne; distresses me, use le " And Lon- | Tyrrel Herne at- | tempte 1 to take her hand, bowed coldly and passed from the room, leaving the mortitied suitor to his own reflections. And bitter enough, and not unmixed with evil, were th thoughts that filled Tyrrel Herne's mod, He had been so sanguine of had pictured to BUCOCOSN, himself such a happy re lease from pe- | the for- relieved. yo} 1C5 cuniary embarassments, which tune of Furth his selfish, unscrupulous nature was pable of loving, which made his pointing nt the more severe. «I will win her yet!” he muti red, as | he le And if, as 1 pect, she loves another, let him look to | himself Louise Horton was t child of | her widowed mother. She was beauti- ful, slightly above the middle height, | of graceful form and carriage, with a wealth of auburn tresses, that peculiar dark bine that appear black Add to these charms a fortune of fifty thousand dollars, and it is not to be ; at that Tyrrel Herne was chagrined at her refusal; all the more that he shrewdly the existence of a rival in the person © an acquaintance of his own. This rival was no other than Edgar Ravn 1 lawyer, who had made | the acquaintance of Li while on a to Asbury Park, during the pre- 3 1 3 He was handsome and 1 Louise would have srmore, he loved her, as mi ns | ca | disap + tha rv v S118 {ft the room. SUL ha Onl ne only eyes of fl iB EL sometimes wondered t RB suspoecied nise visit yious BETES degre: won In the gentl ummer i L sr that no other shie, yIL184 had shown him a man had : indeed, to her own heart 1 admitted the interes le mar nes ; Lt he whi [ feel sare ti 1 thoughtfull; said as much. Some my fortune that for Edgar 1s ve I shall hate my fe 1 lose my ve. I i lo i Bp ak at the bal r though ACtunil’ I think it 1s ry iT to- tod to do so when and smile drew him toward look from her bright eyes, it he iRnce Sie hind LEE: U i sand the strange § manner, and , at the lered he close r to her vipave I been mistaken?” she asked herself. ‘How cold and strange i ! Is it possible that I ceived myself, and he does not love me after all?” For her. the ball, with its brillianey and gay pleasure, was from that ment spotled. Lie seerns have de- mo ers had been closely followed by one person in the room. in the shade of a curtain, with and disappointment rankling in his heart, Tyrrel Herne watched them. “He wins!” he muttered to himself, as his dark glance followed the waltzers, “He will win and wear the prize I cov- eted! Is there no way to spoil his game-~to give him a taste of the bitter oup of disappointment that I drink? Let me thunk!” And he stood with deeply wrinkled brow and gloomy eyes, while a wicked thought took such shape and plaumbil- ity in his mind, that he resolved to car- ry it into execution, The ball was approaching iis close, and couples were forming for the last lance as Herne slipped noiselessly away and bent his steps to the cloak root. No one there. He looked in and assured himself that the room was noe npied. Raynor's overcoat hung close beside the door. It was the work of a mo- ment to take his own pocket-book, srammed full of notes, and slip it into the ingide pocket. This done, and with another guilty glance around him, he hurried back to the ball-room, But the dastardly act had been seen, snd by tho very one from whom, of all the world, he would have hidden it. Louise and ber mother, chancing at that moment to pass the door, were sttracted by the strange expression of Herne's fase; and pausing fof an instant in the friendly shade of s half-drawn suriain, were spectators of the whole proceeding. Na waver, was far from res- lizing the trne meaning of what she had seen. She merely thought that a oke was intended, and as Tyrrel loftthe room, she emerged from her hiding place, and in the hurry snd confusion of departure soon forgot all about it rel's cowardly scheme was rapidly ap- proaching a crisis. High words were passing; voices were raised loud and angrily; two men confronted each other in hot dispute. «For God's sake, Tyrrel, be eareful what you say!” eried Stanton, a mutual friend. “You will certainly find the pocket-book somewhere! But even if yot do not, why bring such a charge against Mr. Raynor?” “For good reasons,” answered Tyr- rel, hotly. “He stumbled against me in the hall, and immediately I missed my pocket-book. It contained five hundred dollars—a sum that might tempt a wealthier man than this pett fogging lawyer, who builds his hopes of fortune upon marriage with an heiress; an unsuspocting girl who little knows his true character! I say he has my purse! If he kas not, let him submit to a search, and so prove his boasted innocence!” Raynor, stood silent and pale as death, Ys ¢coneit At of scorn at his enemy, aud then appeal said, Stanton, my witnes “ 1 i “Let it be 80,” he you are my friend, be search me, and afterward I wi this scoundrel : with his hfe!” As he said this he cont, Stanton’s answer for his flung Of i'n hand dived deep into s ing purse, There an instant and Raynor himsell stood one appalled. Tyrrel's mocking yoice arose trinmphantiy: sod much for innocence Was ! Well, ean you explain this?” «1 ean, if he cannot!” cried voice at the door, and instantly Louise came into the midst of th Never had she looked than now, as she stood beside jured lover. Her eyes flash or ros looked like one “My mother and myself a mao @: she she said to Tyrrel Herne, then told the story. All eyes were turne with sympath Tyrrel, cre stiatlern 216 L. (xOLhare nows but . of cours ft only i rd of ils graces, ih id of Swilz il greater force. 4 the £riana int One must « snow line of Revera through the wh winter on! stant compiele, ii where. The alr is « an and at a Do- igorating, alike in the valleys and brisk moves me tine a pleasure and bs lit i * EL RESRIRER, is thousand feel above io al rcenes of . Gothard are abundant, Streams toss out of the funnels of upon one itne. The icicles are of a ’ to make say: ‘Prodigious! Prodigious!”’ Dominie Sampson They are of a man’s proportions and pendant in rows, like a regimént sud denly glacified during drill. Tlere is avalanches, Some one sees a or five pore sensat ice ” ule 1 ine rolling down towards us, jut though there is no present peril of this kind, the high piles of the snow by wail even upon railway traveling in the Alps during winter time. There is an of course. One cannot be some 6,000 feet above the sea in winter time in Switzerland without feeling it, tt The Aged Poet-Laureate. Alfred Tennyson smokes a big clay once. He dislikes notoriety and is raid to have burned all his letters, so that nis future biographer will have a hard time of it, writing his life, He says he does not propose when he is dead to be “ripped up like a pig.”’ To strang-rs he is surly even rade, but with coange- nial spirits the native sunshine of bis nature shines out. He does not believe in poetic inspiration, but belleves that all good poetry Is the resu't of long, pa- tient and persistent work. He has been known to spend a whole day over a sin- gle verse, Neither the blame nor the praise of the public effect him, but he does his work in his own way regardless of the critics. There are thousands of level-headed poetry lovers who believe that when he dies the greates poet of the world will pass away. “WILL you please insert this obitu- ary notice?” asked an old gentleman of a country editor. “I make boid to ask it because the deceased had a great many frisuds about here who'd be glad to hear of lus death.” A MAINE man, who didn’t care two shakes of a lamb’s tail about the newspaper, rode fourteen miles through a fierce storm to get a copy of a weekly that spoke of him asa *‘prominent citl- zen, Done In a Hurry. Litte Miss Morgan, the dressmaker was in a very perturbed condition of mind. Mrs, Rockwood, one of her poorest customers, had just told her that she was in the direst need of five hundred dollars, and unless it could be got she would have to give up her little home and seek another, Mrs, Rockwood had been & rich man’s daughter, but her marnage had offended her father, aud when he died he left all his money to his second wife, The good-hearted little dressmaker mother should have an income of ten thousand dollars a year, while Mrs. Rockwood was about to be turned out of doors because she needed tive hundred dollars, Now, the step- mother, Mrs, Canline, was also a cus. tomer of Miss Morgan, and when she called there a good word for Mrs. Rockwood, “I saw you going into Mrs, woods yesterday,” Mrs. began, itting an elegant costume, they getting on?” efi? i1'8 Canline her- ends meet,” said the dressmaker, shak- “Well, of course, I'm sorry,” Luly added. “But as you make your bed, why so you must lie, She offended her pa, and be left her nothing aud me 1 couldn't help that, And 1've my boy at ecoliege who is just the age much money. I told id send him a present that while this Christmas, He come home--it's too far, you know. And I shall give him five hun- dred dollars. Of course his expenses are all attended to, But he must have a little swing, There it is, all pote. 1 shall send it this afternoon.” “Five handred dollarsi’ sald Miss Morgan; “‘exactly the awount of the mortage the Rockwood’s house is be sold | n “Are they really going to house??? asked Ms, Canline, thriftlessness! Well, I ildren a little sam. 1 shall lars. for I have a silly way generous to Lhe unde swerving. '’ “You who have all her father's for- hought; ‘‘you who came nt and child so that he Oh! for shame! that he nesds 80 him 1 wus worth can't $10uU iT. lose their WW hat send the present hem tive dol- of being shall Christmas all send Lae ; a HT ell-laced broad + Le No MAMMA, 5 1 t held th S86 Words; SARAH tas gitl carefully great across her 4 Morgan,’ oles “Come a! ale said, into the envels Mone) for Louis must be sent to-night, 1 car from the doc- } 8 pes wilh the ev. register Liem as I come tor’s, 1 b ‘ars on my | Miss Morgan ran to the and in a moment fe anda § v the desk. Dei over it, sealed notes Then the lady shipping them into her t, hurried te the doctor's snd was just in time to register hex letiers at the station on her way home, A few days after Mrs, Canline was in receipt of two notes, one from her son. which ran thus: “DEAR Mayya:—Uuless you have the gueerest possible idea of my wants, you must have made mistake, you send me five dollars? Yours, astonishment, Lovis CANLANE." The other began: “Dean, KIND load you have taken o five hundred dolars home and poor Edward's reason lieve, did more good. Your ever grateful stepdaughter, Saran Roc Kwoob,” Poe ke in MAMMA: What a hr my heart, That has saved our 1 b- She saw that the money she inlended fr Louls must have gone to Sarah, and She supposed that the pain of It was done as we do most stupid Of course she hundred to Louis, As for Sarah, she could not be made to give up her prize at this date, And Mrs, Canline resolved to play the gen erous and affectionate parent. She went about for a week boasting that she had paid off the mortgage on poor Sarah's house; and as Sarah was too grateful to bide Lie fact, Mrs, Can- line gained a good ¢ al of credit for kind feeling to her st daughter among their mutual friends Many people wer surprised; none more 80 than little Miss Morgan. “I'm #0 glad,” she often sald to her thimble. ‘I really thought I changed the money in oss envelopes, | wanted to do it se. I rejoics Mrs, Can- line did it berself. I do feel grateful that she did.” Visrrorn {at insane asylum)—'‘Who is that fine-looking man waking stars, and thi out of letters?’ Attendant—*Oh, he was the editor of a children’s column in some paper. One week he lost the answers to the puzsles, and tried to solve them hime self." Philosophy is thougt. In life's duties seek relief, THE FLOWER GARDEN, CERBUS, From a very interesting work upon the culture and propagation of Cacti, published by A. Blane, Florist, We take the following Illustrated article, mode of Cactus growth, the stem being greatly elongated, usually of small diameter in proportion to its height, frequently much branched, but bear- upon which are arranged bundles of spines, as in other genera. In height these plants are the giants of their fam- n the native habitats while even in cultivation itis not un- common to find specimens 15 to 20 fect in height. Some are very rapid grow- ers, and make large plants in a few Others, again, are slow 1n growth that a dozen years seem 10 make no appreciable difference in their size. There are, however, two very {istinet sections or groups of species of the true Cereus, which differ consider- ably in habit; one species being distin- 5 the other by the procumbent of trail. The plants includ both bear handsome and abund- Under the name of Cereus over 200 species, natives America, the West Indies Islands, regions ant Howers, from but generally agreeing in the peculiar they inhabit, Most of the tempers ture, with gimilar soil to other genera, though as a rule the strong- growing species can be safely encour aged with a little well-decayed manure if necessary. The trailing sorts need ry little rooting material, and some d, as C. Grandi-fl and its al- obtain sufficient putriment by their i roots alone when upon ble or trellis A 11 be readily ropagated by cuttings of the year's ; wih, and even large portsons of the stem will root if separated from the parent and placed in dry sail. So read ily are roots produced, that in some parts America ve are formed by placing port stems in closely togethe Cereus need medium TNs nn suite ~ af of tropical fences 3 iis ne of that they it neoad only bx species is suitabl i it be not of I iif VArious col it. This y the plant view 1 hold r Smilax requires eRe] a rather cool mewhat led, in which t requires suj port for its growing drils, and further requires i casionally. L kh yntended that the oceasional cutting smilax is AR NOCORSATY to ita perf 4 and healthy growth as pruning 1s to the fruit tree. In my own experience 1 have found It also fet (He shad y be cut ave alwavs i (8) my plants they do much better than when they are out but twice. Under glass my method is as follows: In Feb- ruary or March I procure a young stock of plants in two-inch pots which Ths 1 allow to grow until nicely rooted in the pot when l plant out in beds, using for cofiveuience in stringing, the center bed of each house. These plants are the same distance apart in the rows Wires are strung along the rafters of the house, and from these wires strings are conducted down and fastened toa use green cord for the purpose though any ordinary cord will do. As the plant grows it requires at first a little trim- ming, especially as each tendril shoots up from the bottom of the plant. With plenty of shade and moisture the de- soribed, I take a crop three months later. By a crop I mean cutting the vine off each string with about six inch- es from the base of the plant and at the top close to the wire; this m kes a “string” as it is ealled. about three or four feet long. After it is cut the same rocess of stringing and enltare has to ye gone over again. A great deal has been written about the necessity of giving smilaX a few months’ rest after taking a crop. I have no desire to brand this statement as wholly incor- rect, but I will simply say that I have now some plants from which four crops a year have been taken for five years under the same and only con- ditions of culture as described above. In house culture, it ms my opinion that if the vine is treated as nearly as ible as 1 have described for graen- use culture, no difficulty will be ex- perienced in growing it. rain it over strings, and out it ceonstonally and with the necessary moisture and shade you can grow it su wi In commer cial florioulture, it of the most profitable erops raised. Many growers in the vicinity of the large cities grow | entire houses of it; one in particular | nesr New York, | ench one hundred feet long, devoted | entirely to smilax. During the last Faster festivities smilax was high in price, and this dealer made a small for- tune from his crop. i . i { TES, | There scems to be floating in the | air, just now, only the sound of wed | ding bells, sud before our eyes only | the vision of long veils of tulle, with | orange blossoms, which completely en- velope the beautiful forms arrayed in | gleaming eatin and point lace. After | the marriage of Mademoiselle 4'Uzes, | come those of Mille. Carolus | Mlle Digeon and Mlle Isabelle | tuzzi, some points coneerning which, | we may speak of in future letters, To day, it is an established fact straig dresses t the lead in the | fashionable world, All dresses | straight skirts (hit train in the back. The two round pleats, that we have spoken of formerly, no more seen but are replaced by inside pleats like those of a bellows {he cor FASHION N( Bie forming a sil are Nantura head in of the nineteen -~F. P. Harper, Stables, will have —A very scarce article is the get of George Wilkes, A few are to be sold at W. T. Woodard’s sale, ~ Jocky McGlone has been ruled off the Clitton track for ungentlemanly died § oi — Will Cody (2.194), who Indiana, Wag one Bull’s pest public performers, —~ Oakland Boy has arrived at Dal timore frogs France, where he has been used on theroad by his owner, —J. Bemington, Minneapolis, Minn, has sold to H. Henry the chestnut pac ing gelding Edwin, 2.23}, by Egbert, ~The New Orleans track Is making money, but suspicious riding and job out. The pur FE Blue — Kingston, with 136 pounds, is top in the Westchester toboggan side handicap. Proctor Knott got in taste of the wearer, has a encireling the waist. employ for these girdles, or gold braid, not passementene, genugpe, woven braids. The charr Mademoiselle de Luvnes w » a 21 and collar of turquoi ¢ braid; the girdle was clo #11 best ho 3 & vy fuel beautiiu: s sie by two pearl pins, was closed in the back by rette sh LPH d clasp set with saplar i nds As we remarked in never have Jew is. diam our former letters, Indies worn so ms add, to our beautiful + Vo wtemeoent, was empl ninrm orchid of gold young iady dress 1 and 3 Aa EE 4 sa ‘hap 1 that Is { the presse: t pA ieslion § : —— Language of the Future, Pre<eminently the language future will be Eugli Paul Punesr- Press, language because 1118 1 ith gue of two stalwart and one ng-lived na jon. Its rudimentary idioms were i11 use at the founding of London, fory years sulsequent to the crucifixion of Christ. Its vitality is in direct ratio with the vitality of ils parent nation. The restless enterprise of English ex- ploration has carried the language, with its flag, around the world, The English language has broken down the barriers of old-time cusioins in diplo- macy. the discarting of French at the damo- an Couoference at Berlin, and the adop- tion, for the first time, of English in international discussion, During the period of Rome's full frui age of Supremacy, before political the universal language of world. The early Engl sh “a dramatisis 000, and Thomas Jefferson's inaugural address could have been read but by 16,000,000 pecple. Fifty yearsago the German Jauguage was in as great favor numerically as English, Not so to-day. To German 1s accorded a speaking cli- entele of 60,000,000; to French, 45,000,« 000; to English, 100,000,000, | sing together it can well be assumed it | will be in the language of those earthly singers, Milton and Byron, Bryaut and | Whittier. NL ————— EM 's Brother.—Do jou love my sister Effie? Effie’s Steady Company.— Why, Wil- lie, that is a queer question. Why do you want to know? Effie's Brother—She said last night she would give a dollar to know; and 1d like to skoop it in. “You write for the ¢ mic papers, don’t you, Woodby?" inquired a friend, Hardly tor,” replied Woodby, gloomily, as he pared the lambrequin of his trousers with a ‘penknife, ‘‘w0." Scrouge (testily)—‘‘Money for the heathen rubbish! In these hard times the only one I am charitable towards is myself.” Rev. Siy=**True, 1 had a Ta) i” "» aN ade rT se Yagsily Sevens § ~Cayuga, wi is op we of 128 i in the Bowling handicap for 2 year olds to be Westchester track, —Surprise, 2.284, by Gray Dan and Black Sultan, has been sold to M. F. resen- h an Farka t ED impost run at the p Sire Drothers. Persons wishing a good horse for W. 71. Wood- i at Jexinglon, -e to March ard’s sale, to be hel n i kL. ~Captain W. H. Boyce, more gen- Billy Boyce, now holds superintendent at the Ww. ¢ France, Lexing- of farm of Ky. ~The famous runni 5 races and won ’ g f j1eals, mare Fashion 1 of them, 21 Her best pro- foaled when she 4 3 Dein four-inlle fuce was Dangerous, was 21 years old. Wright Bros. have sold to A. the stallion 0 Riteloot, 5. dam Pluck Disston has sold from h Stock at Woods- br 38. . of my coit Proetor, dam — Baldwinsvill a is be v aliey arin, 5 RK i McKim the t ey Bentoneer, three year « r i wiyartat igs th sores £ UB Bp 2 is fast bec HEE ' -Maryland ita well-bred hor farms nt sections erells well adapled * # sd salva ta 8:00, DlaL, having been ff of the for n grazing 18 poses, eWSpaper re- , of J. i AOL Eastern ha Ham- ctioneer no Alcazar yd hut for any breed. : + Hamble- blishment tial blood strongly i v 4 * wing to the en us raintail in fall trotting races 1 have © ff on Thanks y were only decided on Jan- [he 2.4) class was w.n DY im Molvenna, In 2.51, 2.51 and the free for all went to Maud 17. 2.42 and 2.49, - jeago dispa.ch says that the Ch able as now made up consists of tbirty five head in all, fifteen of which, in the charge of Tom Kiley, will be sent to Mempnis in the Spring, after which they will take in the then return fo Washington Park, where the stable will again be consolidated. —lmported stallions and the sons of imported stallions make a very credita- ble exhibit for 1830, for imported Ray on 4’0Or heads the list of winning sires, tollowed by imported Prince Charlie, the list of those winners is given else- where, Other imported horses which ake p ominent positions are Glenelg, Billet, Til-Used and St. Blaise. —Mock Brothers sustained a great (TIA aT shoul [8 day iy mare Jewel, by Gill’s Vermont, who died in foaling a bay filly by Mimic. other very promising being by Mimic, a son of Messenger Lhitef. Jewel was valued at $4.00. ~The Aunual Nursery stake of the National Association of I'rotting Horse Nutpan, by Natwood; Alcyoue; Frenzy, by Florida; vy Nugget, Guy Kohl, by Gu Wilkes, Its present value is $102, Nat- jonal Trotting Sire stake, for foals of 1=88, to be trotted in 1891 8 worth now $1215, and the sires now represented are Patron, Brown W Sphinx, Ken- tucky Wilkes, St. Bel, and Harold. Hilisdale, by Carilla, i , : i gs | § 2 i s57k is
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