ENE CNP The Rose of Ayr. IY AUGUSTA A. L. MAGRA, / elim Digh on the castle walls, Towans bloom bright in the glen; ne hearts oft are in stately halls, ¢ clan count ten thousand men, Is have passed from the kirk to-day, wee the brides were both young and fair: yu er of the Highlands, the L «dy May, winsome blithe Rose of Ayr. ed far down in the gien, t with peace and love d the clan's brave eside above wot and jewels vy her shining brown ha.: hieftain's wile in the castle now ay envy the Rose of Ayr 8 Are eal men test violet grows in the dell, wild rose best loved of old: r heather, the bonnie bluebell sorrow than gear and gold! are the lands of the Lady May, r roam proud!y there, hours are whiled away of the Rose of Ayr t of all: i the leal and good fided hall CArk and care: Flower of the Ros ’ of Ayr. LD SPOT. NPE GREENLEAPF, the United States mail logs during the Winter nsiderable part of the s primitive method of seemed then to be the practicable, as the drifting the ravines level with the ] it dangerous if not drive horses across the carrier's duties were i me and perilous. He was ne hundred dollars for a single between Fo tten and Fort won, a dist ly a hundred les, | oven at these fig- hore were fow bi for the eon- ind a Mr. Brown kept it, almost for sev- mpetition, on d made to i} £00 wnee of onl is a she trip i 3 x +3 Weald imagined. » kn le i the nal JAGUATY, Of f affairs the mail- be a decided- onage. Shutin as we iz Winter months, iry froze in the uld venture out only for wood were thankful for any- n garri- lian, a lucky oO naturally came to ritant per ring the iol the TMAre versation. He was ns we much think of and talk about, how ild aver for Mr se 80 we shot time, t a FAY . ighteen dogs made with two al¢ lges | carried the visions for the idmals, Of the ' clways at yn, and six at Fort Totten. and urged the teams thirty miles a there was seldom i in which to camp, they iy bundled up together on the ie, dogs and men, and slept under A wild and lonesome life, 1I8 © tine Riodige he pre 81x 3 8, HIX Were WOre Snow-shioes, md vores e rate of about At night, as Her Winter of 1868-9 mails il been delayed for five weeks, and Imiring the in spite of the weather, o determined to make the journey It was hard and slow work, the two teams; and to make worse, there came on a bliz- yo CIT vRNA ite un ¢ made such progress as he could in the on + lost. There were wo landmarks to rae, and pushed on for two days 1s Jer he country was still strange, and dogs were {- st tiring oat. Another , and one of them died. The pro- visions were nearly spent, and the Soud body was cat up and served out to the ot oer five Un the next day two more of the dogs bol, and their bodies likewise vers fod to the survivors, after Mr. Brown himself, had eaten what lie could. This wae early in the afternoon, and the party flonndered on till night. Progress was by this time exceedingly slow, Mr. Brown was badly frozen, and the glare of the sun had made him al- most blind, besides torturing him al most lo madness, At sunset the few survivors lay down together upon the buffulo robes, but when Brown awoke in the morning, only one dog was alive. He and his muster breakfasted upon one of the dead bodies, and then the man iat down to consider what to do next. Benumbed with cold, hopeless, and Ml but sightless, he roused himself for ne last effort, “Spot, old fellow, come here.” Spot was the last of the six dogs; a wugh-haired, wolfish-looking, surly er ature, with a bad “sn te (ny thief and a brawler, but withal large and powerful. He was no doubt heart- ily of the journey, the unusual length of which he could see no reason for, When his master spoke to him, he seemed on the point of starting homewarZ by himself. The fort was the place for him in such weather as this, however, Mr. Brown might choose to go driving over the prairie day after day, for no purpose that any dog could sick He obeyed the word of command, while the har- He must draw "The carrier threw himself “pot went on, and having no longer and half soon fell course. Fatigued Mr. Brown very own in the watch-tower at ¥ number one.” The sergeant hastened up into the “Something i8 coming over the hills sergeant raised his field-gla aa de ® draw The WH ipa!” oment the drummer was in and the , and then f1 At that the guard-roc to call. This he di flew to the @& exciiing dog hitched to a sledge wus Irthiwest, khouses were The moment, and the CoO west cot the strange sight mes preached the Every one was mys ile looked s up int HP ils ome one frost Before verv pronor inn t nonneed ! : someaebhod He A ns miles since and had saved his life! and long may it be before the story 1s forgotten ¥ 3 TN F a= a hero ar Hiteen mpanion, a ————— A Hard Experience. From Frances I. Willard's “Glimpses of Fifty years’ quote the following, No girl went through a harder experi- ence then I, when my free, out-of-door life had to cease, and the long skirts and clubl ed-up bair spiked with hair pins had to be endured. The hall of we to.d and never can be. 1alwayvs believ. ed that if I had been lot alone and al- human being might grow, body and “ten times more of a person,” every way. Mino was a nature hard to tame and I eried long and lond when 1 found I could never again race and range hal delighted comfortable ‘Shaker bonuet,” but now I was to be ‘‘choked with ribbons" when I went into the open air the rest of my days, Something like the fol- owing wns the ‘state of mind” that It revealed to my journal about this time: This i» my Birthday and the date of my martyrdom. Mothar insists that a last | must have my hair ‘done up wo- man-fashion.” She says she can hardly forgive herself for letting me ‘run wild” so long. We've had a great time over it all, and here I sit like another Sam- son “shorn of my strength.” That fig- ure won't do, thongh, for the greatest trouble with me is that I never shall be shorn again, My ‘‘back” hair is twisted np like a corkscrew; I earry eighteen hairpins; my head aches mis. erably; my feet are entangled in the skirt of my hateful new gown. 1 can never jump over a fence again, so long as I live. As for chasing the sheep, down iu the shady pasture, it's ot of the question, and to climb to my “Ea. gle's-nest” seat in the big burr.oak wonld ruin this new frock beyond re. pair. Altogether, 1 recognize the fact that my occupstion’s gone.” a in A new use for skim milk is mended by some farmer in New Eng- Iand, who suggests ‘that it makes an excellent fertilizer for lawn grass, being fully as valuable as manure and not so unsightly, The use of skim milk for such a purpose, however, will depend on its price, On some farms it is con- sider «d of but little value, That itis an sacellent lguld fertilizer cannot be denied, recom- age, it must have been dreadfully dul after sunset, To be sure, most people went to bed at Jdark in those days, there were no books to read, visits to make, or places of amusements to attend, but, after dark. fire, that scorched his face and ed Lis eyes, or else illumined the dark- ness by the light of a torch—a smoky, bad-smelling torch. Any one who has hunted by torch-light knows what an apology for a light 1t is. When pre-historic man discovered that oil would burn, and, by means of wick, a light could be bad, he must have thought the perfection of hight was aftained, Yet what a wretched light it was! Puta lamp-wick in a cup of lard oil, set fire to one end, and note the result. Then came -invented some our era and they really were a great step in advance. A wax candle gives a very soft and pleasing light, and if it were not for the expense and trouble, they might be In Now, candles 186 gent ral oil TeseTrvolrs, of whale oil originated with sinus, and as early as 1680, 1 200 vessels in ing whales, As late wericans had 600 vessels en- tually displace umber of i, 3 hited vears later (1816; 1t country, it made slow progress in The first really success- erected in Doston, in with Was 1n- into this but us An dis 5 was made established st works in the United , & Frenchr vy which Professor Slates LDOwWn » and ot i IAS © nee r of um be EDWARD HALE, Prince Albert letter to his very sensmb dan when she went to bousekeeping, is the mother of of German calculate in conld, It is the danghter who the present Emperor In this letter he bade her i ivance, as well atie would make of half Ano then he words of wisdom “Mr will take up the other half.” This remark is painfully, sometimes fatally, true. But there is one branch as she thie tines ad in these Unexpected i hier income pected need not appear so often. There may come cousinsand aunts of a sudden, at a time; then, of course, Mr, them. But you must not say that it 1% he who provoked you into expense when vou chose to give a party which f 03 the year, or when your ner, and you had to send out for some chops or some steak. Buch thease are not fairly to be charged to the Unexpected account. For tho rest, in the house, you can make up your mind quite accurately at how much ex- ense you shall feed them, and you can ring your expenses within those limits. I believe that young people who set ont with a determination to do this, escape many of the annoyances of life, and, after a dozen years, they like hotige- keeping and believe in it. On the other band, those who have not started so, at the end of that time are apt to dis- like housskeeping snd to try some other experiment. In the midst of the Civil War, 1 wrote a little tract on this subject, which 1 oalled “What shall we have for diwner?” I have been glad to know since, that it has been of some nse to people, Cire cumstances have changed since then. About the time I wrote that tract [ paid a doliar and a half for two pounds of tenderloin beefsteak; I have never done that since, and I hope 1 shall never have to. I cannot, therefore, cite the war prices of my dinners then as an ox- ample of what your dinners may cost you now, But, siter twenly-five years more experience, | shonld like to give young housekeepers a fow coutral state ments as to how they shall spend their money for one hundred and seven. dif ferent articles, which John and. Jane, ot Darby and Joan, or Frederick and Maud, are going to devour as a year goes by, How should I know what their names are? Observe that you may feed your fam- ily, if you whoose, on malt pork and hardtack, with such varieties as shall yrevent sourvy and maintain reasonable th; or you may feed thew, on the ——. Sb ——" wh — ———————— 1 S———— other band, as I was fod at Delmonieo’s, Union College, and have the changed twelve times, beginning with { oysters on the shell and eomiig out | with candied orange and black coffee. | But, whichever scale you take, there { which you may find it convenient to keep in mind. member of your family consumes about one barrel of flour a year. Becond, the bread which is made from wheat flour i 18 a8 convement a form of nourishment | a8 you can well give the people who de- for our modern life. those whom you love more that is one reason why you give them butter, or beef, or mutton, or other an- nimal food. The reason that we cannot spend so much time in digesting or ruminating as the cows do, and we must have some {ood which we can digest more rapidly, In practice, your butter will be the largest single expense item in your list of one hundred and seven articles, un- less you make it for voursell. Your flour will come next; vour beef, mutton, turkeys, chickens, lamb, and | veal, unless, as I say, yon make them. If you take my advice, you will not buy | any fresh pork. If have an old { lover in the country who wants to show his admiration for you by sending you a piece of fresh pork from na Pig which he i fod himself and killed Limes { object to your acceptin : not, if 1 | store and buy v your food your butter { flour and bread, your other meats | ab o ingand drinking. | divided then you I do not but I would irnoer ouy were you, go Wu toe ’ If» bh § vont all together half of what y The among and sagar. Reo eral ¥ cheap foo Sugar has | though you | the general aon ta oannot live on sugar, and momizing in based simp- sh to prevent peo. n eating what they lik I used I vou might count for your { ex- } YOUr vyoariy for @ per cent ol r oysters two and Foes more, haps four per cent cheap food and » ’ pends on “I ren are pnetimes we i made oc badly made: it fore, to learn | if y First, second, third and last lect the sance which Solomon suggests for a dinner of herbs, and recollect that the same sauce is necessary at the grandest feast which you can provide, 1% yw Lo make hi a make it yourself ven recol- er come to dine with you. A dinaer of herbs with this sauce is better than the stalled ox without it, Whether you be rich or poor, I do not think you want to be cheated. Whether you be rich or poor, I do not think you want to epoourage any sys- tem, which makes it hard for poor peo- ple to feed well. Hold then to these | general rules: 1. Always buy ss large | buy more cheaply. 2. Be you risk or | poor, pay oash for what yon buy, and do not embarrass yourself or the dealer | by a lot of petty accounts to be paid ai i some futare time. 8. Be you rich or poor, recollect that you must have plen- ty of carbon and nitrogen in you every day for the day's work. 4. Riek or poor, do not try to work the breim in the hour after you have eaten, but give that hour to the same purpose to which ths ox and the ass and the cow give most’of their time-—namely, to the as- similation of food, —so0 that the differ. ent organs of the body may have their rights and their share. 0. that no prices are poermanent-—that what is cheap one day may be dear another, and because your mother used to economize so on eggs al one season of the year, do not think yon must economize so at another. Or, again, because you do not like salt fish, donot think there is no virtne in e ting salt fis'i, 1f you can hold bravely to these rules for one year, you will hold to them in substance for the rest of your life, so largely will they diminish the annoyances of the duties of a house- keeper, he young housekeepers whose for. tune is 80 good that they have their milk, butter, cheese, eggs, pork (fresh and salt), chickens, duos, geese, pi geons, veal, lamb, mutton, beef, all without paying for them, well under. stand that this article is not written for them. They can spend the time which its study would have cost them in tak- ing to-day’s pleasant reading in the Chautanguan courses of the week. American Agriowlturist, i Texxyrox still ocoasi the pipe, which has always his favorite style of using the weed, Our Fashion Letter, — As the season advances, the grow rapidly in favor. ure seen in wool or soft silks, with are exquisite, being formed of silk sou- tuche, mixed with fine gold cord, There hae also made its knot, wi adapted to adorn rich soon woven in the beautiful / riainly most charming effect favorite ornament of it thie season, leading modistes Hf Ive manner. continue to be the fibrics Many checks skirts, favorites in ow of these nave Oi small en- ross stripes in bright shades. Another pretty labric is raisin,” firm, and with large squares formed by dull satin siripes. Fashion this season exteni, the combination plaided fabrics A sumple, tasteful, street dress of blae favors vet very CoO fume © and green Scotch plaid, small jacket of dark blue cloth and a 3 it and at tl The skirt is plain ir sides, with deep folds in front 18 partly cove BIBYS, CSPEOIAI) olors and n trimmed with g vit i etty grey cashimeore wit! 188 Darrow = sm-dress of grey r onal with broche med IY AH sovered by a front breadth laid in { bove, and showing below a broad lor wh last design, do of a pair of however, Ve ar's NIDE § LO re piace the other paar of the lates! of mastic wool of last with plain coreage was made to do duty for a second with very shght alterations, 1 and back of the were left al nosed change On the front of the corsage was draped a fick of madres silk, with large which waa held at the waist by a The two ends tended coqnettishly below the buckles, At the opening of the fichu, at the neck doubt, Coven, son- Corsa without sort of squares Arg The sleeves, of the same plaided frabrios, were ent on the bas high on the shonlders and the ornaments and trimmings, than in the garments themselves. Flat trim mings seem to have the preference embroideries, laces, passementeries, galloons, velvet or silk appliques, steel, pearls, and gold and silver threads These trimmings appear not only on dresses and outside wraps, but are used on asols and hats, especially em- broidered tulle, aad lace. are Orchids? What are orchids? A plant whose home is in the tropical forests, and yet ‘What their visible forms. It is a curiosity of the vegetable world, which, perc in the air, sends out its long, searching roots and draws its nourishment from the atmosphere. Ethereal in its nature, #0 far as this character st 0 is conocern- ed, it is very substantial in the valua- tion which its owners and raisers place upon plants of rare varieties. The ex- perts in this branch of horticulture say that some fine roots are well worth £5,000 each, snd some have held »* even higher figures. Their rarity, th diffi- oulty with which they are props ated, the exquisite delicacy, strange (orms and groat variety of blossoms are the reasons given for these extraordinary values, Before the window of a Tre. mont street florist, not far from Park Street Chureh recently, a throng waa guthared to look upon a cluster of these lowers, which just now ocoupy so lugh a place in the lar mind. Strange in form, of a (delicate, pearly, waxy whiteness, daintily lined with pink or purple, they prosented sn unusaal sight even to those uninted with their rarity aod their a ton Advertiser, HORBE NOTES, ~{z0rgy has broken down completely, and it is probable she will never start again, ~ Arab (record 2.15) ie be came Janes will 1% in ~~, M, Smith, of Earlsvilie, I., is seriously ill ~{z0rgo has broken down completely, it is probable ehe will never be Lord Marcus Beresford has re- his position as starter to the in England, ~The New York Driving Ciab will probably offer a $10,000 guarantee puree at its fall meeting, ~The thirteen days racing at Fliza- beth were verv profitable, the figures ~—M. M. Morsé*has been unanimously re-glected to the office of Secretary of the National Trotting Association, ~James Eliott, of Philadelphia, Iropped out of the Island Park Clay - The Red Wilkes stallion J. R. rd 2.19}) will be catn- after a short season m the Shedd (re inners and jockeys, lewis sock bremies hia § iis Lone victories of Elizabeth A were, e to Hamilton's vigorous riding at the fi The crack California y let up in Li runnen have about sett! t of Rico to Brooklyn or Suburban vas exslly beaten by Ons POSE hacine and Pliny tart a Ave —Before 1. A. Davis can = Horse onl a national track he will WW go down in his pocket and pay the tue of $1,000 on hin Hoy Wilkes race at Lexingt« imposed — Terra Cotta’s leg ied, he has been thr and from Lexington, son int Leigh. Rusin WOO, y i Hips Wiiere he he will $33. $ vg al Dame Trot, 2.21; and Elist Monday h, Major J. ny W. Doswell, chestnut coil dam Cerise, $000, Badse made wnily to captur his owner, D pital race, and his wr the Brooklyn handicap now looks beller Lian ever, —T. M. Berry's leo Drigol, winner f the sixth race at Nashville on Friday May 9th, was entered to for $30, and was run up to $1005, at which owner bid bim in, First money was only worth §3X, and the advance was §705 — Terra Cotta has run bis last race, we s0id price Lis fartu of the Chicago dtable, near Lex. ington, Ky. His siable companion, Eg- mount, has also retired for good having been dong stud service for a month or so on the farm named, —The New York Jockey Club has issued a very handsome book pro- gramme for the spring meeting at Mor ris Park, which begins on Friday, May May 31, June 3. 4, 5.6, 7, track. Speaking of the statement that East inter in the season, Bob Thomas, trainer, said: “I will bet hundied that he 8 never out of California to run In Homewood Driving Park, which has been closed for the past two sea- sons, will reopen again on May 30 (Decoration day,) with races for the 2.50 and 2.34 trotting classes and a 2.35 class pacivg race, with purses of $400 for each. July 15 to 18 have been claimed as dates for a summer trotting meeting. — Fred Thomas, an American horse, won & 3 73-yard trotting race at the Neulllp-Levallols meeting last month in 5°14%, or at the rate of 2.474 per mile, Mollie Wilkes won third prize in a two and a half mile trotting race al the same meeting, and thereby won $55. ‘I'he Best hose a Russian stallion, won $230, aud the second horse got $75. ~—At the Belle Meade sale the Dwyer Drothers secured the yearling brother to Inspector B. and Bella B,, for $3000, and $1500 for the brother to t. John 8 Camp- bell, of the verwytk Stable, who once owned Punka, bought her colt by Iroquois, it being her first foal, ~The Limestone Stock Farm, Ply- mouth Meeting House, M county, bas bad the follow! pod: Chestnut gily out of by Barto,
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