won A FADED VIOLET. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. Phat thought is folded in thy lea es! What tend or thought, what speechless pala! f hol thy faded lips to mine, Thou darling of the April ratnl {hold thy faded lips to mine, le fn, and azure tint are fled P dry, mute lips! ye are the type Of somethihg in me cold and dead. Pf something wilted like thy leaves, Of fragrance flown, ct bezuty dim; Yet, tor the love of thease white hands That found thee Ly a river's brim That found thee waen thy dewy moute Was purple as with stains of wine For love of her who love forgot, I hold thy faded lips to mine! That tou should’'st live when 1 am dead, When hate is dead for me, and wrong, For this, I use my subtlest art, i For tals, 1 fold thee in my song. sms impos A A. AIAN SA i MISS BABY'S NEW SHOES. | BY JESSIE PP. ARMBTRONG. “The fact 18, Miss Baby," said nurse, yon got out of bed the wrong side this morning; yon have been cross ail day.” “J didn’t getted out ata l,” answered Miss Baby, ‘‘you took me out your owprelf, nurse. And O, do put on my | pew shes, because they are so pretty!” | ‘No, you cannot wear them to-day, #0 it is no use to ask. Here are your other shoes; try to put thew on your- solf while I go and dress.” And nurse put down a nice little thick pair of shoes by Miss Baby, who sat on the floor pouting. Then nurses went into the next room, and baby, who was dressed to go out, looked around. Opposite to her was a wardrobe, and through its open door baby could see the now shoes. They had been bought for her birth- | day party the week before the day she was five years old—very pretty little bronze shoes they were and Miss Bay was rather proud of them. She looked at them, and then in two minutes they were on baby's little feet, and these very soon carried Miss Baby hers into the garden, She was tired of wait- ing Nurse was so long dressing. And she roulidl hear music, and wanted to know what it was. And also, deep in her little mind, baby had an idea that if she could get the start of nurse, and wait for her in the garden, she would never know that she hal on her new shoes, A hittlo black-oyed boy with a violin, was looking throngh the garden gate, snd when he saw Miss Baby coming he laughed and nodded to her in the most friendly manner, as he played. Scon nurse, who was still in her bed- | recom, heard such merry sounds coming from the arden that she quickly wnt to the window to see what was goiug on. “Surely that is Miss Baby's voice!” | she said to hersel!; “how naughty of ber to run out alone!” Now nurse was rather a “‘slow-coach” It took her a long time to put on her | jacket and bonnet; and then she gener- | ally found she had buttoned her jacket wrong, and she had to nndo it, and do it all again, So she had plenty of time to watch baby and the little violin boy, as the stood dressing at the window, And this is what she saw, First of all baby stood at a little dis- tance from the gate, shyly lanching at the little musician, as be sang his mer- ry song, rolling his black eyes and toss- ing his black curls. Then litle irl drew nearer to the gate, and stood, paling time with one tiny At last the boy began to dance with his little bare feet, and nurse heari a shriek of delighted laughter from Miss Baby, and then she saw her open t gato and drag the boy into the garden. “0, Miss Baby!” amed “Yon nanghty child! How dare ve Quickly ste finished buttoning i the 100t, SCT nurs, wm?” or jacket—all wrong—for the third t me, hastily she eaught up her garden hat and put it on, wrong side belore. Down the staircase and through the ha!l went nurse, really in a hurry for once. When sho reached the children on the lawn she eonld hardly believe her eyes, At first she was too amazed and shocked to speak. The little Italian boy sat on the grass frying to force a grimy, bare foot int, one of baby's bronze shoes, and baby, deeply iuteresied and unaware of nurse s approach, stood watching him, with the other shoe ready in her hand, In another momont nurse had joined the pair. Then there was such a noise as is not often heard anywhere but in the par- rot-house at the Zoological Gardens Miss Baby's mamma heard it, and came ranuing from the house, wondering wht it could mean. There stood the litle Italian, rub bing a dirty little fist 1.to each eye, sud shrieking shrilly at the top of his voiee, Nurse, with a face like a tur- key-cock, was talking loud and fast, as she chook her finger at the boy and threatened him with the dog and a policeman, and Miss Baby, screaming and stamping in a passion of rage, was | beating nurse with the **Grannie’ bon- net she had spatched from her head for ! the purpose. ; , baby, baby! What is the mat- | ter?” cried mamma, as she came np, | “He—he—hbadn’t gotted any shoes and so-—1 gaved—I[ gaved him mine!’ sobbed baby. i “Well, well, darling, but yon must | not beat poor nurse. Come, leave off erying, and tell me why nurse is angry and why that little boy is crying?” Then mamma sat down and took baby | um her lap, snd Shits nurse put on her she an o little gir ether | told her all about it. pe foe “But he 18 a pooe little boy, and 1 wanted to give baby, dolefully. { “Well, darking, I am glad you are surry for the little boy, but your shoes will not fit him, he shall have some others. Go upstairs, please, nurse, and | bring down an old pair of Master Har- | old's; they will fit hin, 1 should think.” i Nurse went away, mother told her that she must tell nurse | she was sorry that she had put on her best shoes when she bad told her not to dows; and that she ought not to give iu of her clothes sway without ve. g ‘“‘Are yon angry, mamma?’ asked baby, tearfully. “No, dear; 1 am not angry now I see you are sorry. It ulways makes moth- | ervery orry when baby is disobedient | and passionate; but 1 alway. love you, durling, even when you are nanghty.” Baby was «ilent for a few minutes, then she asked: “And does God, too?” “Yes, my darling; God loves us al- ways, eveu when we are nanghty. And! because he loves us 80 much we cught | so? Because it makes him so sorry to | sve us naughty.” “Yes, mamma.” said baby. And then nurse came back with | brother Harold's she and baby gave them to the little Italian boy, who by this time had stopped crying. **These are bizger.” ste said to him, and your feet will go into the~e because they are brother Harold's, and Harold is a big boy!” | Then they made the child sit down | on the grass and put on the shoes, | which really did fit. And then baby's mother gave him sixpence, and Miss Baby picked a flower and gave it to | ing her mother's hand and smiling at | the little boy as he walked away nod- tucied under his arm, “And he never once said “Thank you!"" remarked nurse. “But he looked it,” said mamma, “Aud now, dear, yon must go back | into the house and have another pair of shoes put on.” | “Yes, mamma, I will,” said Miss Ba- | by; “and 1 am sorry, nurse; and I feel “Hom!” suid nurse, “I hope it will last !" DEC( It is always extremely pleasant to | have some kind of fancy work which | will oecupy but a small space tll it is | nearly completed, snd which can be | done by piecemeal. For such a pur- pose we know of nothing prettier or | more s:tisfactory than a cover for al bod. Very beautiful ones may be made of alternate squares of linen and fine erochet, which work is again becoming | very fashionable, Many of these crochet patterns re- | wanble old guipure and Venetian laces, and although they require patience snd perseverance till the pattern is learned, still they amply repay one for the t. me and effort expended. Some of the delicate cambrie or linen d'ovlevs, | which can be bought ready finished with hew-stitched edges and a pretty | design traced in the centre, are very suitable to nse for the linen squares, The designs may be worked with wash- filoselles or with v ry fine flax thread. Shades of gold on white are most ex- quisite and a very desirable change | from the reds and navy blues which | have so long reign-d; supreme. The edge of these spreads should be fimsh- ed with a crochet lace or torehon lace; | JRATIV E WORK, od squares, It is a well-known fact that German ladies excel all others in the art of | cross-stitch embroidery, and having had the opportunity of seeing a great | deal of their work 1 ean fully indorse statement. A beantiful spread | moments, consisted of strips of light ercam-colored canvas, embroidered in | shades of bine, and set together with strips of Russian lace insertion. The spread was then lined with bine silk | and finished with a flounce of Russian | edging-lace abont eight inches deep. | It 18 really necessary to see this work | belore one ean be convinced of its ex- | ceding great beanty., A very popular style of decoration in ! fancy work at pres nt is one « xtremely simple and easy of execution. This is ell d wafer work and is done in chain stitch upon a linea or serge foundation, These wafers are commenced in the centre, and are worked in eularging | circkes, round and round, until they are about the size of a twenty-five cent | piece. Bomelimes five or six rows are placed round the edge of a tea-cloth or # spread, the wafers in each row being 8 trifle smaller than those in the pre- ceding row, till the sma lest are only the s zo of small peas. With the help of a little artistic talent a great variety can be given to their arrangement. With a silk or satin foundation, added beauty is given to the wafers if they are made of strands of gold thread placed as closely together as possible and fastencd with the finest of strong, yellow silk. With the great variety of materials and the vast number of beautiful pat- terns which can now be found in every art store, no woman or girl need be without a bit of fancy work, no matter how simple, with which to occupy the lew spare moments whieh come to nearly all; and till one has tried to save these spare moments she does not know how many little articles, which tend to the result of her efforts. Ena, The Traveled Alphabet. Numbered with amusements for evening hours, suggested by Good Housekeeping, is the “Traveled Alpha- bet.” This game sufficiently taxes the ingentity to make it quite as suitable for the older as the younger people, Deciding on the person with whom the alphabet should begin, esch one must take a loiter in tarn and apply it to the country to which he or w" is going, and the object of the journey, : No. 1. am going to Africa to Ants and Arnconds gat No. 2. 1 journey to Brooklyn t Brosd and Poot y ogitiyn to aut No. 3. I travel to Cleveland to get a No. 4. 1am to De tain Danitaljondoind to Denver to ob. No. bh 1 to BE 0.5. Tjourney to Egypt to Bat n his should be continued nasil alphabet is exhausted. Any ae fn ling to comply must pay the forfeit new game, story. mth —— ns ATi Railroad Haman Nature. Now and then one finds a person who exhibited by the gatemeu in the depots. There orders are to pass no one in thing in the world for them to wave back old age, youth, beauty, sud any- a friend expected on that train. One of the surliest officials | every saw has agate in the L. & N. depot in Cin stiflly away from desperate men, weep- ing women, and howiing children. To every protestation he had but one ane swer: “Can't pass 'thout a ticket.” The other day while I was watching him a little gates, Of the two tenders she selected this one to operate on, although any- one could have seen that the other had the biggest heart. After several peo ple had been turned away she slid for- ward in a graceful way and inquired: to the President of the road.” “N—o, ma'am!” he stammered, thrown on his beam ends by the query. “Ah! you loek so much like him. Are you the superintendent?” “No, ma'am-—not exactly.” *I'hen you must be the manager?” “Hardly, ma'am.” ‘Dear me! but how could the people be so mistaken?” she went on. “Half a dozen of them said you were one of pointed to tind you are not. Perhaps, though, you have the general mana ger's powers when he is not here.” “What is it, ma'am?" “My sister will be in on the 6:30, and I so want to go inside the gates and help her with the children. As you must have the authority of the manager in his absence, I make bold to" “Certainly, ma'am; walk righs he interrupted. “You are so kind.” “Don't mention it" “But all leading railroad bit of tally, and then she made a beeline down the depot. “We turned to look at the gateman, and the change was surpr He or SDRAM. e creased by four inches, his chest was thrown out, and he was 2K x the stufling out of if come off the perch. of all had found his weak spot.—2¥, I. TR im he Aristocratic Carriage. Women who wish to preserve the limness and contour of their figure must begin by learning to stand well, ‘hat is explained to mean upward of flattening of the back, with the shoulder-blades held in their proper places, and the definite curving in the small of the back, thus throwing the whole weight of the body upon the hips. No other women hold themselves so well as the aristocratic English- women. Much of their beauty lies in ness of their figures, and the fine poise The same aristocratic carriage is within reach of any American girl who it is only the question of a few years of external vigilance, never relaxing her watch- herself; and, sitting, or standing, always preserving her erect. ness and pose, the result being that at the end of that time it has become sec ond nature to her, and loses it. This in a great measure preserves ire, because it keeps the muscles strung, oo. prevents the flesh around the SO Dever tm and well sinking down of the Another thing to avoid isa bad habit of going up-stairs, which most women do, bent forward with the chest contracted, which, as well as an idolent, slouchy manner of walking, is injurious to the heart and lungs. Augusta's Beantiful Shoulders. The Empress Augusta was famouns in her younger days for her personal beauty anc cent shoulders. In the later years of her life her beauty of feature had quite disappeared, but to the day of her death the wonderful shoulders re. mained the same. And court gossip tells the following story about it: The Empress has always been excessively proud of her beauty, and so, when the unkind years began to leave their trace upon her, she devised the most skillful aids from art. For her neck and shoulders-—indeed, for the entire upper body-—she had a waxen covering made which perfectly simulated nature in coloring, texture and outline. This armor once assumed, she was never known to remove it, and indeed for many years the fact of its being the proddet of art was a matter of suspicion rather than actual knowledge. Cer. tainty came about in this way. One of the young women of the court of an experimental turn of mind slipped sly- X up behind the presence one ay and gave just the tiniest touch of a needle on the smooth white shoulders. The Empress did not stir. She pushed a little harder, still the Empress did uot wince, and court speculation was silenced forever.—N. ¥. Sun. Seoretary Biaine speuas an hour or two a day on literary work. He is en. gaged upon some historical treatise the Suisject of which is not known. Mr. Blaine beer much pleased at the success of his book, * ity Joss Congress,” and longs for a np Fe elif irinf A MOTHER'S LOVE, The Peor Negreas Who Perjured Mersell i to Save Fier Sen's Life. ir party recently by a lawyer in | whose practice the incident had oc curred, says the N. Y. Evening Sun: i slaves a young mulatto, owned by a : of auger struck and killed his master’s son, who was also his own half-brother, | the deed was discovered and made his lost. As poon as she was freed the unhap- py mother followed northward, dee tshe would find her son if he was si~] alive, for he was all she had world. Year after year she drifted | vaguely from place to place, providing | for her wants g | Iaundress and never resting from her efforts to find her boy. She had been | & comely young woman in her early heart had made her old st 40, and at 50 she was bowed and wrinkled like a woman at three score and ten. One day a summons came to her from an adjoining state, a fearful { legal document which she did not com- ! prehend, but which she understood in some vague way to be connected with the welfare of her child. In her per- plexity she sought out this lawyer and | told him the story of her life. Inquiry showed that she had been summon to prove the identity of a erime-hay ened negro who was under trial in a { neighboring state on a grave charge. A curious train of evideuce had re- | vealed much of the early life of the | eriminal, and had fastened upon him | the suspicion of being the negro who | had so many years before killed his master's son in South Carelina. The question rested upon the testimony of tho aged negress as to whether or not this was the man. She was brought into court. Before her was the strange and imposing ar- { ray of court officials; the solemn nature | of the oath was carefully explained 14 { her and she was then sworn “the truth, the whole truth, snd he truth.” The life was drawn out by skillful | ing, and then the prisoner was brougi before her. aad son again face to face; he with all on his wi i ing but t story quest it Mother stood the sins tof a criminal’'s life shoulders, and sbe bound oy al was y her ! devout soul ti y e strongest vow a human being can make, to speak the we that should send his guilty ( punishment. She gave one deve look at the slouching figure and hand ened face before her. iH the hunger { of her life appeared in her eyes. Thea . she raised her bent frame to its fullest | height, and, lifting her right hand looked calmly the judge and law- | yers. “Befo' heaven, | said, ‘dat | nebber saw dis boy befo She had saved him from the gallows, but he was sentenced to serve a term in the peoitentiary for the charge oun { which he was originally arrested. | But it cost her own lemorse and terror for the not-to-be-forgiven i sin which she believed herself to have { committed to with the deep | wound which heart had received | after the hope of 80 many years wers { loads 100 heavy for the tired soul, and | in a few mouths the frail body was buried the potter's field with the [lawyer as the only mouruer. a ii 53 » $ at SWEeaArs, the life. gether wer in love-makis { Aage really me {| Murray's Magazine, A young girl into a theatre (o play : i She stands in the w ingenue ed upon the = } he sees a man i and a woman making love. The man says, “Dearest. fly with me.” The wo- man savs, wt." The man savs, { “We will go 3 come.” The & | time such words as those fall on the | ears of a young girl unaccustomed 1 hear them they might, if said with fer- vor and passion, mean something, but this is the way it generally goes: “Dearest, fly with me.” “No, no, no!” from the stage mana- LP is ow against yon. Now, try it." at last the idea of “Fly with me,” as be of a most appalling Kind. The gen- tieman has ha talked over. voice, he has tried it in a low voice, it in a heavy voice, until thers is no sense left of what “Fly with me” might the romance of love-making is ne, Therefore, what effect can it have? In love is it not the fact that some of the Shatin lies in treating of an uskoowon Old Chairs. Two chairs that have been handed down four generations go to help out on the furniture used in the late Abram Sampson's house in Coleman, Mioh. Tho oldest one was bought in Boston, Mass. in F743,and | has now Taste ie 0 years. Fe a on parrel 1a the house that was bought in New York in 1839, has been in twelve different states, and is good for twelve more. is ! ir f g IL RA es A Diabolical Time-Plece. It Is said that one ean have too mneh of a good thing. Tom Edison is a good thing; ergo, one ean have too wmuch of Tom, or rather too much of the fruit Mr. Edi. One way to Bt. Paul. The startling possi- to be diabolical, It is a talking instead When itis 1, 2 or Edison's invention comes right out wud tells you so to your face, aud when it is high or low 12, the me- chanical fiend jumps into you with an extenmporaneotis lecture on the waste ethics of on the lark, temember these are They can be varied each day according to the satirical flu. wife, There is a and export beer. hew-gag exhaust and tom-tom escape- Just here is where lurks the danger. While a man is down-town writer, bis wife at home can be wind. What if the man does telephone that he can’t come up to din- ner? The patient clock runs right along, giving out monosyllables and civility to rest of the family, with its big storage battery of eans- tie invective bottled expressly for his own private use—sometning like this “Ah, there, Flinsflam, it is now 31 o'clock a. m. Nice time to crawl home to the house where yourlove lies dream. What's the matter with goin when whi 1 # iy # 8 10 use to put up the oid the ing the weary hours away! & 10 roost le folks do? It club and lodge ut of balance is, Where did you get that hat, and whos is it? Mot to stay three weeks. see for herself if th ngs are been represeated. Ye that is fairer t! hi room ches aikn, a # coming Lo-morrow Ww als io as ad as 5, there's a land whers | lias land pa You are en aonieer 1'ress, - THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. a Curious Calenlations Ceneerning This Enormons Sam of Money. “The Van- ‘niated to | Wu)" ards {old ow» “Of cour-e ed his pape snd, leani: ack in the chair, col i I do not know whether that statement is true; but | saw it published in the &0 epormons that leniating the oportions of that number of lars. Here is a little slip in my wallet bere that may give you some idea. If Adam, when he first und in the “The sum seemed I spent quite a while in o physical gilver do : i 0K eq Garden SaY id not to-day Lave iry to ver dollars transport it would each of a ca- If these cars it would be it were possible for 300,000,000 silver dollars to be laid on the ground in a straight line, with edges touching each other DEOPER “ ¢ s ov §s v % eight cars, tons, train farther than from London across the Atlantic Ocean and over the North American Continent to San Francisco. A sidewalk of three hundred million silver dollars could be laid six feet wide and more than fifteen miles long. If three hundred million dollars were laid oue on top of the other they would make a column 475 miles high. If taken down and arranged in the form of a cube each side of the latter would would weigh more than 10,000 tons. If such a weight were dropped from the that ess. would be great enough to desire part of the city." —Fhi ; A Daniel has come to judgment in Montreal, where a man has been cone demned to pay the sum of $1 as dam- for havirg ealied upon a person in a factory with a view to coliveting a debt, court held that the domicile of the debtor is the proper place at which to demand money owing. It is further declared that to ask om the street for mouey that is due coa- | stitutes an assault. i Collis P. Huntington is prepariag to erect a palatial mansion of gravite in New York, Few millivuaires can afford two such expensive luxuries as a genus | ine German Prince and a New Xotk ' RASA SOL is It doesn’t pay to cry over spilled iik, By judiciously watering what you have left in the can fnstead, you sometimes hae 84 Much a8 you had before the ac- H , an ish woman, pg of ok on has p' or ag unselfish ¥OOD FOR THOUGHT. 4 Pe regvl ir in your habits, Pedigree is not everything. Conlentme: is mere instinet, Fly pleasure and it will follow you. Coutinue to keep the brain active, Bad trees are only good to burn. A pig pen i+» poor diamond markets Adversity 1s a goddess with frogea smilies. Love is the offspring of chance, fis pure is habit, Men are belpfai through the intellect and the afl. ctions, The only real kings are those who rule themselves, No man can judge right whose stand- ard 1s wrong. Our highest joy comes when others re- Joice with us. It takes something more than wool to mike a sheep, A better thing than being a glans 1s to be a giant killer. ~~ Youmust have interesting occupation in vigorous old age, Fruderce in a woman should be an ine stinct, not a virtue, Marrying to suit other folks is the prudery of politeness, The reason wy a cow wears horns Is because she’s got two, The wan who knows one thing well can write his . ame on marble, Discontent is the want of self-relianess it is infirmity of will, The higher you raise a little man the more he slirinks, The most dangerous place in which to be, is tu be ul pe, Noman can ever be rich whose happi- neas depends on money, The strongest man on earth isthe cose ! 3:8 control himself, never thinks is a man rd destraction, : 35 be proud than it does s¢ put together, pportunities, bud make them, has in his heart : his head, wish, and he that wil die fasting. for some folks, made for faskion. to ve laughed at for thelr folly. religion is only a gale of a palace, There is a variety of work to be done, and every varely of talent to do it. Friends get on r when eack is willing to “come off ’ a little bit, Everythirg that is nice grows on the other side of a bart ed wire fence. “Charity begins at home,” but that is no excuse for letting it end there, Tbe Lord i: tended women to be good, The devil 1s content if they are pretty. There 13 no success without yon work for it. You canuot extemporize sue- CUS8, Use Time well, and you will get more {from his band than be will take from yours, An Englishman correc's his mistakes bef re hu them: a Yankee after wards, Many people spend thelr time trying : Lie hole where sin got into this Or ¢ A a made aie t y amp on the oule Delt HiaKes ousanl times harder to be ricoes than it is without The man who has the courage to ad- that be has been in the wrong is not A pledge that will save in every part of the globe, if E=pt: “1 will be true to the trath.” he best way to rid of your own troubles, is to get interested in those of other people If you can’t find a hot iron to strike, sinke hard enough and often enough to make the iron Lot. A man may have a grand motive and yet never accomplish much, through lack of perseverauce. The man whose neighbors think be is almost doubts it himself, Our eyes are pur in front, like the en gine’s light, *0 we can see the track alead, Practice in life whatever you pray for snd God will give it to you more avundantly, A man asks a woman's love before he marries her; after marriage he demands her gratitude, Ho who cannot hold his peace till the true time comes for acting and speaking We know what the 1 who never thinks talks about, ow we would like to find out what the girl who never talks thinks about. Al good zien 10 hil world have the same k religion; it the dead frauds and roo, religion ¢ 1f a man could live a thousand years be wonld proba; spend the last fifty fretting over wht he could have done in the previous wasted time The man who takes the most is sure to fecl the keenest pain when he S608 0 many above him. It 18 the every