14
It 1&2 Better to Live.
1 have sometimes felt that the burden
Of 1ife was too heavy to bear:
And have longed to He down at the noontide
And rest and forget all my care;
But over my heart comes the message,
Repeated again and again
‘It 1s Detter to live and to suffer.
That to die to be rid of the pain
There is rest in the darkness of dying,
And end tothe weary despair:
The grave holds sure peace and calm silence:
NO sorrow nor pain can be there:
But perhaps in the struvgle of living,
1% a soul that has need of my care
Kome heart may be bearing a burden
That my hand may lighten or share,
Twonid be easy to say “1 am weary.”
snd lie down and give up the stiife,
To suffer no more th the heartache
And sorrow | this life;
But perhaps from jay Sorrow
swept heart
«linly sv eet may be wr
And my lips when they drank deep of sulk
ongs may have gung.
ent with living
iS away:
g for pieasures
flen
vy complaining
tg refraine—
ve die
and to suffer,
se tid of the pain.’
i sufler,
o blest
e darkened
IV way,
-——
DEPTH OF MERCY.
MES. A, M. PAYNE,
Morse
hinidren Calle d
simple Ruby, as
him-—the little feeble
Mr. Charles Morse, sat
n the door-step waiting for his nurse |
i t, and take him to walk. |
y singing, and counting |
straws which he
them into bunches and
rloefully at the result he
¥ pa 1
but
on the step
51 oke to
bitter
nuoy
minded sou ol
y [118 La
r some
seldom
H
16 Was HB
His father
anted, and
fis her Maly
disag pointment to her
nt give him all b
duty
[he
artes
his done, never
1 who Was (
“Never bring hin
ried, with a stamp of
looks like a monkey
I nev
ther.
was happy,
wd God's loving
wed everyvthing-—he
easure to another with fre
night brought
ch new day was a fresh
forgetful
life
gin er again.
t altnough he did not realize it, all
Iappiness came through the loving,
er care of one poor ill-taught girl
had been hired to wait upon him
+
1
at
and follow him about. She had been
obtained Ruby first to
walk, and Ler mother spared her from
home “hecause of the wages "
But Minnie was not like an ordinary
oirl of twelve. She had that strong
mother-nature which is born in some
women. and which cannot be bought
with “*wages.” She opened her great
gray eyes in pitiful surprise when she
discovered that the little boy put under
her eare almost hike the dog who
trotted by
when began
was
led more care
than the brute 1
that was
IZeTing sense
tinet, as he grew, he
and amusements
hout regard to danger, and «
were needed to restrain
worked wall together,
ther-heart
ften the |
! BRAG NUrss
ginng to ner
vith a dim rr
shunned a
won ie
, who should |
began
his reg
ther to
try to fill their places in
playmate and
e minded boy.
her for everything, and
she could sing to hum, |
stool at her
wwed, and listen hour after
mixture of
wild irish melodies
which she She had one of those |
peculiar wild voices with an indeserib-
able depth of pathos in it, and she had |
learned a great number of songs and |
Huby and she would wander
beyond the town and along
we lovely country roads, and the far-
vere’ wives standing at their Kitchen
windows would hear the sonnd of the |
plaintive singing sod the low humming
noise, with which it was accompanied, |
and Buby and Minnie would be seen |
hand in hand with baskets full of |
flowers going homeward.
Nobody ever spoke to them or dis
turbed them, pin. they were very merry |
together. Minnie would gather great |
bunches of clover and make a wreath
“to crown Ruby,” she said, and he
would put it on and wait about the
school-house until the children came
out, that they might see *‘‘Ruby’s
Crown.
Chere was one strange old hymn of
which he was very fond. Minnie saved
it for a ‘good night song,” she told him
and sang to the innocent listener as his
big blue eyes were fixed upon her face,
and the lids drooped lower and lower
as the plaintive notes of Pleyel’s Hymn
floated out of the window, upon the still
night air,
Depth of Mercy! ean there be
Meroy still mn store for me.
Curions words to enter the ear and
play upon the feelings of a meek little
feeble-minded child, who could never
comprehend their dee significance.
But he always demanded the quaint
old hymn, snd Minnte sometimes said
that she thought some good angels
tanghit him the meaning of it.
All the mother and father love, which
the child had missed, all the devoted
tenderness of a fond sister, or the shel.
tering care of a brother which be had
never known, were made up to him in
the unvarying kindness and attention
of his little nurse. It never wavered,
she was the one person in the world to
him, and with a kind of love such asa
dog will show to a master, he clung to
her.
"hey were abroad as usual one day
wandering up and down through the
streets of the village picking dandelions
by the wayside, or showi their de-
light in the beauty of the fair spring
Decame
m
Little, simpl
a low
Ww she
ar to fhe strange solemn |
hh tunes and
Aang
Lies
of erecuion.
coiled up, glistening in the morning
sun, and the workmen were busy
placing them. Ope man whom
habit had accustomed to
was walking across the roof very near
the same way,
and danced up and down. ‘‘The man
wnlks on the sky,” he said “Ruby could
do that!” and then he laughed
watched the man earnestly as he
ened the sheet of tin in its place
“No,” replied Minnie, *"Ruby wonld
{ full; come on to the house iter
| dinner we will come again.”
But she found it very difficult to gt
him away, and when he had been
| most dragaed from the spot he
ued to look back and watch the men
and
fast
HOw,
1
ile
contin
Dinner time came, end thes
The ceased their
| gathered in groups at the back
{ now house to eat their lunch
| tastea some pudding which
| brought to him,and then stood
{ looking at his mother, who
{ the dining room in 8 dress which
| sparkling with beads.
| She was going out, she told Minnie,
| and Ruby put a hand shyly on the beads,
“Shine like the roof,” he said, and then
| the simless vacant | wih
| the mother frowned and
| Ruby followed to ms
men too, work ai
Huby
into
Calne
followed, and
nt
with 1ts bright roof glittered in the sun!
in the
all the world had gone to dinner,
nie had not finished hers, but
rose and went slowly down the
toward the new he
Minnie }
tune and lin
She did
street,
Min-
Ruby
not perceive
but when her
en and her napkin folde
upstairs.
ceased,
\
to take him
Where was Ruby?
r heart she called hi
step sought him in hi
4 i
1 (qUuiCKer Hite
haunts
wed slowly along the
Sickening
rirl It was
8, seemad
A rare
y call, and then she
yr the street
ere Ruby
+ she sank
} 1 pMislae,
flowers care essly,
then
sang clearly and
1 in a wreath,
.
she had
she conl
although she
nearer
\ -
never lifted
ana ne .
She heard the
down to the
her eves,
ng, and #80 Came along the platform
ope 3
He ran across the road laughing.
“Hd you see me, Minnie?” he
on the pretty
Why do yon ery, Minne?”
For the girl caught him and held him |
fast. She cried over him and all the
mother love that he had missed, was in
“] was so afraid you would
fall, Ruby,” she said simply, and then
she held him fast again,
“Depth of Mercy! can
sang the child
“Yous, dear,” answered this hand
maiden, to whom God had committed
this soul, “you must love the Depth of
Merey, for it saved you.”
And in her heart there arose such an
adoration toward the One who had di-
and down the st
there be,”
rected an angel to stay the boy's steps
that she was one, who was sent.”
An Effective Prayer,
A Portland boy committed some mis.
demeanor for which he was about to re-
ceive punishment at the hands of his
mother. The boy begged to be allowed
to go to his room. Permission was
granted, and the child went upstairs to
his own room and closed the door be-
hind him. The mother followed and list-
ened outside, after telling him he must
harry aud come down again and re-
coive his pumshment. The boy went
to the side of the bed, knelt down, and
this was his prayer:
«Dear Lord, if you love little boys
and want to help me out, now is the
time."
The prayer was answered. Lewiston
Journal,
A FRiExD 18 giaa to be understood as
a friend: but a friend is none the less n
friend for being misunderstood by the
one to whom he is afriend, True friend-
ship is not conditional on being under
stood, any more than on being recipro-
cated. o who is a true friend under
any circumstances, is a true friend
under all aircumstances. A friend is a
friend because he isa friend--not be-
cause his friendship is recognized or
appreciated by the one to whom he is a
morning, idly moving to and fro.
friend.
i
i
AGREEABLE PEOPLE.
Covern Your Temper,
ant to meet; people from whom we are
sure to receive n smile, a kind
cordial hand-shake, or some other token
of good will. When one is depressed
in spirits, or, as the common saying 1s,
“blue,” the meeting with a genml,
merrv-hearted friend has a
indeed, I have known the en-
person to turn the
‘8 Tif
counter with such a
Agreeability 1
conditions; it may le inherent, 1t may
educa
tion, or of pl surronndings, or of
i happy combination of circumstances,
but all HITE
quality, and whether
Care fully cultivated.
eflorts to
casant
that it 1s a desirable
inherent or
will
not,
x
it thelr ob ct,
iid tear in mind thats
r wast proceed from the
a grown person 1s the result
ban)
One feels 80 com-
fred
Of
or done some-
pathway of
self to be
wfter having said
brighten the
nes
ow all their little an-
Novano:
others, thei un
or not I
3} i
harming famil
th one exception
The
s in the
his atinirs
fri 16 wns
Oonea visi
its members
interesting sid only
son of the hon:
own in whi
wd moved prosper
fF CARING DoE
the dinner
r were in a sta
DieRreda ix
i
iri i
wavs sought by
nr
whan
wien i
neapie wih
:
’ %
Ginmbnas
purcha £4
or the out
4
tion of
hie
ans in New
n of the « rig
a quarto,
with gilt
at Home in
ir leaves, of
the size
And a
eopy of the
full §
jleaf being RixHi luches,
No
etter
Te
original has yet
found
that this Latin translation by Leander
de Cosco takes precedence.
1 in the types
of Stephen Planck, of Rome,
without year or place
DpARnish
and as a copy now in Germany is held
at the price of £3,000, there seems to
be little doubt that this is valued as the
princeps. The price paid by
Judge Chamberlain for this partienlar
copy was $2,900. A perfect translation
of the letter may be tound in Major's
Select Letters of Columbus,” one of
the publications of the Hakluyt society.
There is, besides this edito princeps,
a copy of De Cosco's translation, pre
sumptively the third appearance of the
latter, printed at Rome in the types of
Stephen Planck in 1493. This edition
comprises thirty-three lines to a full
wmge, which measures 8§x5§ on the
eaf. Itis in size a quarto, and bound
in vellum with ron h edges. In 1858
Pilinski reproduced twenty covies in
Paris. But after the issue it was dis-
covered that it was facsimiled from an
imperfect copy snd wanted the first
and last leaves, — Boston Herald.
Spring Bonnets.
All the interest of fashionable wo-
man-kind centres now npon the shape,
style and colors of the spring bonnets,
for who can tell what Madame Fashion
will dictate from season to season, It
always remain a serious question whe:
ther it is possible to make a hat answer
for another season, or how many new
chatiges may be necessary.
There is a wide field from which to
choose in the wonderful display, which
the milliners are making for the ben-
efit of those of us who are to tell the
good news, before the actual sales bo.
gin. Fiowers innuineratie and 80 dike
the real nodding beauties of field and
garden that one can scarcely believe
them the work of human fingers, Fine
sprays are extensively used and perch-
them the daintiest ble
ed upon
butterflies in lace, black or white with
outsprend gauzy wings, delicately
traced. The writer his been
flowers called bonnets and hats, Per-
almost all the straws are
work, black and
| these vie with the
One most beautiful
| tirely of
{ butterfly in jet hovering over it.
bonnets are many of them
| crowns, and a wreath
the outline of the erown.
open or lace
lighter colors, and
ince hats in favor,
large hat was en
bright green—and with these come
the long grass,
One lace straw was shown containing
n huge snail coiled up and a of
broken roses with almost all the
gone. Pale pink is shown both in silk
| trimming and velvet, and a curious
! mixture of pale blue and green
| these trimmings sot
work straw bonnets. For
| great flapping hats will still be
| or, and will not be caught up
Flowers will trim these for
| most part, although love ly ribbons
| shown. Pansies are used very «
spray
were npon open
chlidren the
in fav
inany
| way,
{ rt
wien
bonnet being composed of them, ana in
| other cases the entire bonnet is of fine
pansies or forget-me-nots,
One great advantage of this spr
styles is, that the hats and bonnets are
| very light almost without weight, and
it will be a pleasure after the velvet
| “airy nothing" which is a *‘dainty
light' as well, perc d upon the he
and to know that it is
de
ad,
omfortable as
well as most becomin
————
Night«Tearrors in
WE BIEN,
How of
similar re-
Sometimes
IMAZInAary. even
minded men find a
lief from imaginary fears!
an assuring word from one whom the
child fally trusts, her presence
for a while in the room, may be suffi-
erent to allay his fears and soothe him
to quiet slumber. Sometimes his mind
may be relieved by diverting it, as the
Reporter suggests, by producing his
| tovs, or games, or picture books, or by
playing on a musical instrument.
———————————
Nine Don'ts,
frong
with
ssn
Don’t read in omnibuses or other jolt-
ing vehicles,
Don’t neglect any opportunity to in-
sure a variety of food.
Don't eat or drink hot oreeld things
in suncoesaion,
variety of food that may lead lo excess,
Don't direct special, mental or physi-
cal energies to more than eight hours
each day.
Don’t read, write or do any delicate
work unless receiving light from the
left side.
Don t keep the parlor dark unless you
value your carpet more than your and
your children’s health.
Don’t delude yourself into the belief
that you are an exception as far as
sleep is concerned; the nominal average
of sleep 18 eight hours.
Don’t endeavor to rest the mind by
absolute inactivity; let the tired part of
the brain seek its rest,
~Philip J. Dwyer, John MeCarty,
James Sheviin, M. F. Dwyer, Richard
Hyde, L. C. Dehman, John Delmar, A.
C. Washington and W. L. Scott have
been elected Directors of the Brooklyn
Jockey Club for the current year.
Charles W. Aby, Manager of F.
Gebhard's Guenoe stud, Middletown,
Cal,, bas sent his chestnut colt Rod-
man, 2 years, by Rutherford, dam
Leveret, by Lever, Ww Jerome Park,
whore Pincus will probably handle and
develop him for his engagements, which
jnelude the Junior Champ on and Fu-
turity.
—Theodore Winters, of Sacramento,
Cal., lost recently the yearling Salis BY
Joe Hooker, dam Marian, dam of Em-
peror of Norfolk, Duchess of Norfolk
the Czar, El Rio Rey, ete. He was
the first foal Marian had need b,
any sire but Norf and the colt,
aithough by Joe I , WAS a very
ine onr aud of great prow
FASHION NOTES. HORSE NOTES,
A —— ————c————
As 1t is the season when the wardrobe
: Ji Wilkes w 3 i 1]
| should be overlooked with a view to iis Harry Wilkes will. not be sent to
Europe.
—)verton is the Lest jockey now at
New Orieans,
A, McDonald has twelve trolters
| ers, that they will be safe in making up
| surah, India or washing-silk blouses, ns
| well as those of fancy flannel, perecale
| and gingham, for wearing in the house
with extra skirts, Bhirt-waists,
will be much in
waists,
| with a broad waist belt or sash, fasten
led in front ander a long,
| buckle. The neck and full
| finished with broad,
frills,
{ ue latest bodices
the fullness being lad
| shaped like a girdle; they
loft shoulder and under-arm
| are fastened invisibly or with |
buttons, ’
Bi
favor, also
ha
possessing pe ricct figures, as they
display « imperfection. The bod
dice lining is fitted as usual and fasten
ed in front, while the bias ent bo
without side forms or darts, buttons
over ths ulder and under
sean, fitting without a fold
front.
The
a gathered back, the |
having but very slight
{ only real inliness of
found in the sleeves,
Princess garments of
on account of thelr hanging
| shoulders, thas re
4 robes shonld
very
fie
1100,
i
EXirt 18 aiso
Heving the
50 much weight derpe,
& hair costumes
paneis, «ther
trimmed, the
trimme
plain
bodies
i Lo eorrespond.
A very pretty,
with prigeess bac
frout,
18rK gr
£4 *
si3is £ 5
front i he broad, black
Re $0 De worn wi
have no sleeves or shoulder straps
of silk has a full front entirely «
siennes lace, with a frill of 2
wiath encirchng the neck.
Corset covers are square, V,
necked, and more or 3
trimmed with lace, but the latest
novelty is only a triangular shaped
piece of the finest muslin, edged with
face. The long ends cross on the chest
and are fastened by a simple knot. The
prettiest dressing jackets are of plain
or higl
elaborats iv
joss
| ing colors,
Tucks appear on
all other garments, and tor beauty of
effect all depends in every department
of woman's wear, on the skill and ar.
tistio talent of the modiste employed.
ridges
i Bulwer's Schools.
{| Strange to say, Dulwer changed his
| gohiool of novel, He commenced his
career by romances of action based un-
{ novels, To this class beloug those that
| will aiways be the most popular and
are the test known today. Among
these were **Pelnam,” ‘Paul Clifford,”
«The Disowned,” “Eugene Aram,”
“The Last Days of Pompeii,” *‘Rien-
21,” **The Last of the Barons,” all of
which England devoured with rapture,
But his fine literary instinct showed
him that the vogue had changed and
that the influence of Ba'zac and his
school bad become suprems, so be
changed his style and wrote “The Cax.
tons,’ “*My Novel,” “What Will He
Do With It?” ete. Dut the prodigi-
ous influence which he has upon the
Euoghish novel readers must be ascribed
to his mystical novels: “A Strange
Story,” “Zaovoni,” amd “Coming
Race.” which was published anony-
mously.
i
Otn after-life is largely molded by
our bringing up. But our training is
not to be offered as an excuse for our
conscious wrong-dofng. “I know it
jsn't right, but that's the way I was
brought up,” says one. Bat *‘let me
not guarrel with my up-bringing”
says Carlyle. Lotus not seek a refuge
from blame in the defective work of
onr parents. What we are, we are.
Good or evil, what wo do, let ue do,
Never buy milk from a dairyman
whose wagou has a creak in it,
If the old horse's have
ragged edges tha. cut hislips have them
rasped off, !
#
#
-
in his stable, including T. T. 8., Frank
8B, and Golden Rod,
Prince Royal is high in flesh and
bas wintered well,
John I. Phillips has
mapped out a plan of action.
~-Dwyer Bros,’ Longstreet
by some for the Buburban,
is far
— August Belmont has a crack
year-old for the Futurity stakes.
~Chesapeake is on the sick list,
has been let up on In his work,
Trainer Jimmy Rowe says he
ingston for the Brooklyn
J. M.
2.14, and
| year,
is
Lan
Pettit will handle Jewett
Decorator, 2.253%
$ again Ls
-— WW iiliam of
| purchased
i York sales,
Marks,
several hor
Philadelphia,
ws al the New
kets for the
weld at Belmont
already been sold.
~ Many ti
| racas to Ix
| Muy 14 have
was hore
roa -norse
Course on
- Warren, Pa., will take the place of
cuit,
— Entri=s to the Detroit Merchants
nd Manufacturers’ $10,000 stake for
2.24 class will
hot Al
es ciose og
DW
ithers has engaged
wn !
jockey, John Regan,
in the ali-black coiors of Brookdale
the Delmont
for $250.
i)
at $1!
fiveshares in
i Finany Di i
in demand ) ad
OOKs
BOIOWS LO
year. if
Lee
Tales us
18 trainer will
ne OnLy
i 3
has win i 1
1, With
the
137 pon
Decoration day
sonia on May
nOOLE are in
Tq Sa
Nas, is
against
Aton will De Kuowin.
ithe astern
has been
Tacs
1 rainer
winter on hi 3
1 take bold of
*
is
Ast GArLl
were given Lo hum
£411
bide
168 horses DOW
urse are divided
Seventy.nine 2- year- olds,
L.year-olds and sixly two 4-
Is and upward,
y $ apy
guaroer d at
as
FACE 0
1 1 will trin at Delmont
He will have Uak-
ently shipped from
joel: Solitaire, 2.57; Annie h.,
¥v ¢
and a8 number of green oles,
Dod"
Course this
Boy, 2.44 (re
Twi
Var.
po |
iA
.
he Les: sorse 1 rode was
Bassett, and I think be was as
horse as 1 ever saw saddled.’
» reply of Jimmy Rowe waen
yo above questions recently,
3 vey
Orphan Doy. the 4-year-old, by
Brigadier out of Orphan Florence, Is
said to have turned roarer,
We have received a nicely gotten
up catalogue from the Ciloverdell Stock
Farm, near Colmar, Pa. At the head
of the stud is Mambrino Dudley, 2.19%.
| Mr. A. H. Mooreis proprietor,
—{leora and Independence, the
| team which William Rockafeller drove
to pole m 2.17 at Hartford in 1873,
brought only $1485 atl auction recently.
| William Riley paid $000 for Independ-
| ence, and W. E. Speir got Cleora for
{ $035
| ~The entries arq large for the stake
| paces of the Kentucky Trotting-Horse
| Breeders’ Association, to be troited for
in October at Lexington, Ky. Send to
the clever Ed. A. Tipton, Secrelary,
fora list.
~The scare over El Ria. Rey's health,
arising from the report that he showed
signs of great exhaustion after hus trip
from West Chester to Nashville, turns
aut to be uncaned for, since the colt ir
doing well in his work.
— Morrill Higbie, who trained Flora
Belle, 2.22%; Little Fred, 2.29; Gover
nor Sprague, 2.20, and other §
ones, died at Cauton, Ill, on March
12. He was born in 1835 at Oppen-
heim, N. X., and moved to Canton in
18567.
President Charles Green, of 5t,
Lou's, asserts that there is not a word
of truth in the report that the St
Louis race-course has been leased to a
syndicate for $20,000, for the purpose
of giving long race meetings this sea-
BOIL,
«The betting
caps during
on the spring handi.
eek has been marked
by Alling the book on Rico for the
Brooklyn and Suburban, Dunboyve for
both Brooklyn and Suburban, and Cor-
tes, the Faverdale colt and Sorrento
for the Suburban.