BEYOND THE GATES. Harriet Mabel Spalding, in Christian Intel ligencer, Boretimes in dreams I see it, This city fair and grad; Its doors of Jasper brightness Stand forth on either hand, *Twas here the pilgrim tarried, Aud here good cheer awaits The weary one who enters At the openiog of the gates, Each window is an apal With hues born of the noon, Through which rich perfumes wander, Caught from the alr of June, And here are sandals waiting In which the weary feet, New shod in royal splendor, May roam the shiuing street. Oh, City of the Beautiful, Coulda waking hearts forget The gardens wher te Lilies Like crystal flakes were set? Where heaven's doves in sunshine Like rainbows went ad came? Where the sun woke swathed in azure, And died ou flelds of flame? Here, too, are fountains playing To cheer this heart of thine, And meadows lush with violets And winds as rich as wine While each thing gad and beautiful The loving soul awaits When once the veil is rended, And we stand within the gates, Dear Clty of the Holy, For the waiks of paim I long; For the love that maketh lovely, For the faith that wakeih strong, For thy green and grov : cedars, Thy taxes of silver) 5 For thy peace pi prehension That tiocds thine is.es of bali. Take Thou my hand, my Saviour, The way is dark and wild Far off, a star, the city shines, It beckons on thy chitid Joy! joy! then come, tue beautitull A miyoiad host awaits, And heaven refulgent floods lay soul At ihe widening of the gates, DINNER-PARTY. When Madge Selby married Ted Vaughan, everyone said what a thou- sand pities it was that a girl so pretty { | AWAY On a young ing but hus looks to recommend him. However, Madge thought differently, and being an orphan possessed of $500 a year of her own, aud with no one to er unhappivess in the future, she took Ted Vanghan with his good looks, his $1500 a year, and his love for her, for better and for worse. was no “worse” in the matter, for Ted turned out to be a mode! husband; and been found in the length and breadth ene, and, as one friend took the trouble to inform Madge, she would soon find out the difference her old country home and this bijou residence, where yon had to think twice before ou turned round on the staircase, and jitterly regret the change. But al- though Madge had been married for nearly six months, regret had not been even a momentary visitor at No. 5. Her band’s business took him away all day; but as he got home about gix o'clock 1m the evening, there was not much to grumble at on that score, and Madge had plenty of work to do in seeing after her little houre, and training her capable servant in the ways of a re fined household. She had also, as well as the general servant, a nice-looking girl of fourteen to assist in the kitchen, who was willing to come to her {or very small wages to be train- ed for good domestic service, so that their establishment was a modest bat comfortable one, As Madge nad been a popular girl all her life, and bad been born and bronght up within five miles of of Lensham, she knew every one worth knowiog—both in the town and ont gide And, therefore, the invitations to dinners and dances, consequent on her wedding, were very numerons; and during the winter they went out pearly every night. Now, no one in the world likes to re- ceive favors without doing anythirg in return for them. And Ted, who, in some ways, was exccedingly proud, de- elared tiat nothing wonld induce him to go into society at all again unless they were able to devise some return for the hospitality of their friends. To be very hospitable on £2,000 a year is » little difficult; and Madge was one of thore girls who, always haviog been accustomed to reflnement in her home Life, eould never offer anything to her guests but what was perfection in form and substance, Afternoon teas are all very well, but between Lins dinner struck Madge Vaughan, table. The dining room was proved to be capable of holding eight people very comfortably; and the Vaughan’s vimt- ing-list in Land, spent an anxious quar- ter of an hour in deciding ‘who was to meet who,” “Mrs. Milletto is out cf the quastion, kind though sho has been to us, Ted,” Madge, raising her pretty head, and looking at her husband with a wrinkle of anxiety on Ler forehead. “You sco, she wonld not quite do for our finy establishment! Now that pleasant Major and Mrs Dacent, whose party we wont to woek, and our old friends she Hancocks, and Miss Btaudd, whose evils have been so kind 40 us, and that n vung gentleman, de. i pon 5, up a very pleasant half-dozen, and they are the sort of people who will all be glad to meet ona another.” And so the charming half-dozen were sottled ou. For Madge had made a wise sulostion, and one which it would be well if all hostesses were to follow, Bho Lind asked only those friends whose sympathios and tastes were all in com- mon, who knew the same pe aod who were both plessant-loo) snd pleasant tempered, The uvitatious were sent oul eight days bef rehand, and everyone of the six accepted with pleasure, so that Madge began her preparations with feelings in which anxiety and excite- ment had the upper hand. She fortu- nately knew of a good cook, in the shape of a woman who had married a grocer in a small way, sud who was very glad to turn an occasional honest penny by helping at dinners and par- ties; and she at once engaged her to assist on the eventful evening, so that her tno maids might have their minds free to attend to the waiting, Madge was too wise to commit the mistake of hiring waiters, whose black coats and mutton-chop whiskers look 80 palpably unnatural in a small room, and who always give one the impres- sion that the host and hostess have strained every nerve ‘to do the thing respectably.” But she wrote out min- ute instructions to be learned by heart, from them. As the dinner was to be alla Russe with the croutons, or fried bread; and as soon as everyone was served, the hook was to be The fish, and second and third courses were to le managed in the same way; but the enfrees were to be brought in straight from to each gnest in turn, with their plates, breads removed, of cougse, to crumbs and vants were, room, ted with the waiting and when they had rehearsed the whole thing once over, the two girls proved caps and aprons, looked china menu tablets, and after deep thought, this is the bill ot fare that she party -— Mexv, Julienne. Mock-turtie Soup. Cod and Oyster Sance. Filleted Herrings. Dutch Sance. Herrings' Hoe and Mushrooms on Toast, Madras Curry. Boiled Leg of Mutton and Caper Sauce. Roast Chicken. Orange Jelly. Raspberry Cream. Pine Apple Trifle. Cheese Straws, Olives on Toast Dessert, They had arranged that the wines to be offered to their gnests must be good but simple. With the soup and fish was to come a very pleasant ‘““Hoch- heimer,” purchased from a well-known firm and; with the other conrses, a sound claret which wonld not be rnin- onsly extravagant. The after-dinner wines were a delicate claret and port; bat then, as Madge sagely remarked, “Yon can make the move early, dear Ted, and with the charms of our society before thew, the men will have no desire stay and punish your wine!” Of course, had Madge and ber fr ends been total abstainers, wine would pot have been an impor- tant item in the fare: but delicate home-male lemonade, made with fresh lemons, might have been handed round, or toast and watee, And with the des sert might have been introduced some those delicions Syrups one buys vs, and which sre quite perfect with the addition of Madge, after due consideration, bought tinned soups, which save end- less worry, and, with the addition of a littls sherry, are quite as nice as those made at home with most expensive stock. A nice head and shoulders of cod, carsfully boiled, was sccompanied by the following excellent OYSTER SAUOR. Three dozen oysters, half a pint of melted butter made with milk, Pat the oysters, with their liquor, into a saucepan, and heat them until they just reach boiling point, when remove them and pour them into a basin. Mix tife liquor with ome teaspoonful of flour, two ounces of butter, half a pint of milk, and a little salt and pepper, and make the mixture into a good smooth sance, when add the oysters, The filled herrings—a delicions and cheap dish-—were split open, cleaned, and the roes removed, a) then delion- fo be 0 a piquancy to the dish. DUTCH BAUCE. Beat the yolk of an egg well; add to it one teaspooninl of vinegar, and then beat all together. Add to this as much over the fire till as thick as custard. Don’t let 1t boil or it will curdle, The roes of the shad, carefully cooked, make the following excellent entree, ENTRER. A few rounds of thin buttered ent into small squares and season with pepper and cayenne. Place the #oft roe of a shad, which has been lightly fried, upon each, and on the top one fried mushroom to cover the toast. Serve very hot, The curry which Madge had arranged to form t 8 char entres Was inde Bota a very excellent recipe-for if on badly made is no a ion under the sun, and if well made, no nicer. MADRAS CURRY, Take three large onions, slice and them in butter. Then fry your meat in the same first taking out the onions. wg 0: a pint of seasoned gravy two large spoon curry powder, a little sour appl little salt, Add it to os stew quickly an hour and a half, nearly done, add the juice of lemon, and serve it np, cut into with rios d as it boiled, and when at boiling point to separate the grains with a fork, then to shake it out into a dry, hot dish, and to leave it fora few moments in front of the fire. The leg of mutton and eaper sauce presented no difficulties; and the pota- toes served with the third course were grated through ao sieve into tiny flakes, The other vegetable being tomatoes, was a plainly-stewed dish, and was handed round also with the roast chick- en and bread sauce. Madge bought an orange *‘Clarnico” jelly, which, with the addition of a glass of sherry, made a delicious and cheap sweet, and the raspberry cream was not much more expensive. BASBERRY CREAM, Take a pint of thick cream and put two large spoonfuls of raspberry jelly into it. Whisk it all one way until, thick, and put it into glasses, PINE-APPLE TRIFLE, Soak an ounce oi gelatine in a cap of cold water. Put into a bowl with two cups of white sagar one chopped pine- apple (tinned), the juice and rind of one lemon, hour. Pour on it three eups of boiling water; strain, squeeze hard, When the ! Beat well, and let harden. ton with meringue. snowy napkin, came next. CITEESE BTRAWSH, Two ounces of butter, two ounces of flour, two ounces cayenne, salt. To be made into a paste, and rolled out very thin; then cut into pieces four inches long, baked a Light brown, and sent (0 table very hot. The other savory—Olives on Toast was too perfectly simple to need any careful recipe. Into small squares of toast insert a stoned olive standing up- | right; or, if liked better, use small | with anchovy paste. Thus ended the menu; and Madge | tion of the table and the dessert, which, lin the case of dinners a ia Russe, is i gins, | room, papered in dark blue, and fur- nished with light oak sideboard, table, | her dinner-table should be | mony 1a yellow, Down the centre of { the white table-cloth, from point to { of canary-colored silk, which she bor- dered by | thrown ate down om the cloth. In the centre, where the strips met one | another, lay a sheet of lookingglass, of conrse unframed, on which an opal glass swan laden with violets The simple glass 1 971 oranges completed the harmony. arranged in the sammer with silk and pale pink rose sutamn by salmon-colored milk ing would not then have been cately perfect. Madge felt that a considerable enlty presented itself inthe ap; ropriats lighting of the dinner-table-for silver candlesticks had not been among Bay her of gaslights above the heads guests was an inartistic which she cordially detested. So dne thought she bought shades Harv colored of hage P Pes, which ench gas globe; and in the table, at each corner of of ahs the centre the fitted iis fairy lights of artistic yellow eolor- i - with quite agreed with her, | wor till six o'clock, Madge had the dinner hour for a quarter to eight, an hour both fashionable and conven- avery long evening, The table laid at seven o'clock, and all the ar- rangements completed, and Madge, ina pretty white muslin gown, with a knot | of violets at her breast and in her hair, busied herself with making up tiny vio- | let buttonholes to place by every guest, and by carefully putting each name- | eard { there might be no di right assorting of the couples. To complete the harmony of coloring {she bad, with her skilful fingers, | painted a single violet blossom on each i ourd and at the corner of each of the | menus, as well as filling the drawing- { room vases with that flower, When the guests were annonnced, | Barah opened the door, and conducted ithe ladies to the top of the stairs, where Annie was waiting to take their wraps off in Mra, Vaughan's room, and to help them to shake out their dresses and to smooth out their hair, Dinner was punotual to the moment; and when Ted, with Mrs. Dacent on his arm, as the lady of the highest rank, led the way to the dining room, he fel$, by the little thrill of surprise that ran through that lady dow to her very finger-ti oir so far as outw And when the excellent dinner, and the t evening, with its ocon- ve n and music, were st an ‘end, Daocent kissed Madge good-bye, y life.” And liege olf thutoughly rewarded the trouble she had in planning her Pinna het 0. Wamioasz. tomb of Aristotle, recently dis American students at Et 4s declared to be authen f to the island, sithough HIGH LIFF IN LABRADOR. One of the Most Cheerless Spots en the Face of the Earth. The probabilities of Labrador’s be coming a summer resort are not greasy though the few travelers who do reach its inhospitable coasts report much of interest to be found. John L. MeNaughton just returned from a three months’ trip through Labrador and tho Island of Anticosti, says it is the most Providence-forsaken place he ever found. “The island,” he said, “is constant- ly enveloped by fogs, encircled by sunken rocks and furious currents, and swept by high winds. I was told | at Halifax by shipping men that in the | last ten years upward of 100 ships had gone down off the treacherous shores of Anticosti and that fully 300 lives had been lost there in that time. The Canadians tried to settle it once, but i failed, and now the island is practi. cally uninhabited, suave by a fow hunt ers and travelers “But to my mind," is far better natives are shout eight he continued, *it | than Labrador, where the | forced to hibernate for months in each year. of his wind the Inside with the about on hovel, hurricane board i them. ! ve in an open cellar und the | { iorneath $n ¥ 5 3: ghtand howl § im nulives and Ww rFaiss pandomoni { thout their dogs the would | way, for have no Not a mile of road 3,000 miles of generally. | they ha whole const but they g right well and dogs. 1 have been make ni the d« rol with sleds i 14 couiq with twanly miies nety to 100 miles out that 8 day J WS, is from better than my experi- ence, “The dogs are a each | Wd two packs meeting in is the signal for a fight, in the drivers generally engage whips i curses, and if any and women are along their screams add a other, a harness ich jue variety to the soene, I can vou. Summer opens June 1, | when the ice breaks up, and then the | natives commences their harvest. Cod | fishing and mackerel fishing are their industries, and next three months when the Ifreezeup comes aud drives them back | It a fife bor avain ] . gai nto their hovels dreary but they and I doubt if they wo ir their ro iu ontented away fro? them a kindly, hospital thie world. — Helping the Donkey, The late Eu Frederick vas Crown Prince, while I peror y WOxIs ne th Ar m one morning porcely ilk woman whe “ $ ' KX Woman woo Wes pound R h a 0d 10 aii it t ; a gnough, trotind much tothe He Woman When the Prine it it she rebuked hin iar with the ionkey on, jo lower orders, where- | mi the Prince laughingly replied Ae. 18 ng at court.” Effects of Close Shaving, Do you what know a clos until I aay, moans? i never did # face the other through eroscope, which had been treated t Why, the e tire skin resembled a piece of raw To make the perfectly smooth requires not only the removal of the hair, a portion of thé shave means the removal of a layer of skin all around. I'he blood vesssls thu exposed are not visible to the eye, but under the microscope each little quivering m LOIS luXurious process, fie 3 ’ Hp face fensd mu) Dus His0 . uticie and a close protests against such treatment. The nerve tips are also uncovered and the pores are left unprotected, which makes the skin tender and unhealthy. This sudden exposure of the inner layer of the skin renders a person liable to have colds, hoarseness and soar throat. —Medical Classics. i ————————— Where It Would Lead There was a yvouug Irishman who went to learn the printing business in an office where Swinkins is employed as reporter. Swinking has that wild, incomprehensible ambition uliar to men who have not been ioaen for the press very long to see his work come out in type just as he wrole it One morning he paid a visit to the new compositor. “] wish,” said Swinkins, ‘that yom wouldn's change things that I write when you set them up, All that I ask is that Low follow my copy.” “Follow your copy, is itp" *Cortainly.” “Faith, then it's in the waste basket Oid be half wime." —Merchant Traveler. A IAA The Idol of the South. Gen. Gordon will hold piace as the greatest of the remaining Confederate fighters, says a New Orleans letter, and his sulieply and herole figure will, whenever it appears on horse back, be greeted with the oid ear Piercing 1 that used 10 soare the | ivors a lights out of My a twenty-five w n one ron ait? ne ve ghey eg ion at the front, while his sifal wife, who an him a Na eam was birth » - inn ry ASIOUX SURPRISED. He Was so Scared that His Meart Stopped. A good many writers have asserted that an Indian is a born stole, says the New York Sun, and that the reason he doesn't laugh or cry or express sur- that nature did not intend him to. That's all nonsense, however. lhe puts it all on for effect. I've heard when they with them thunderstruck man, and I've were positively amazement. In 1886 the hostiles got to attacking sean We one yut to give the red man a setback. a of the route day, and wward evening secreted our- in a dry ravise, to what would happs during the nigh I'he stage was about 10 : and soon 9 we got a sur- A band of twenty we in from the west, s and ¢ almost ou top of section ong, RCO n ' due there 3 CLOCK, alter three India ¢ the trail vn and lal prise in Bomselves away horses down around ards to look after ad left their tv with g ir p We were bac could not son the mou of maa of them ight sky. We rand we pres HY were al HORE NOTES, | —Hal Pointer is sald to be going very | strong this spring. ~There are 306 entries for the Terre Haute $11,600 purse. — Quite a strong trotting cirzuit bas | been organized in Quebec, | - Many lad es attended the races at | Belmont Course, ~Tenny's victory in the PBrooklys | handicap was not popular, — Yorker trotted the half-mile track at Baltimore in 2.2724 | Mr. Foy takes good 1 of the re | porters who visit Belmont _surse, | . . ~Huron Ed Corrigan’s 22-year-old by Ircqrois has proved himself a won- derful cult. ~The string representing Messrs. J. A. & A. H, Morris at Gravesend nome bers twenty-two. : The rain caused a postponement of the races at Belmont Course. ~T & openiug of the pool-rooms al New York resulted in a number of ar- resis, ~The s!'xty-four shads at the Pimlico Driving Club, Baltimore, were soll for $l 460, —The spring running Texington was one of : cessful ever held 1 meeting at the most sue- ¥ % ele. K. first Tom Grady drove Martin markably well, and won his amid cheers all around. re- race 6 conch, we five foet from the We sould hear sking ready, and justi the it to dash oul on unch 860 thom 1a A voliey about n ] udian not fee v. thay velled ou | we gave Tal iK SO many old women scared by them the Great Sp save them We killed ni four with that one one of the wounde A ARYA wed ne and wound and beyond he survivor st and Lhasinm in We ¢ jess wast of New Yor K. Mr. Paul C. lips, is in charge and the c¢ over 30 men and who go through a regular course Frank P. Clark in Kansas ar instruclor, IANEes Consist « { lies of training. City Releroe. The Growth of Athletics. For ourselves we think we discern signs of growing interest among mon in athletics We da not refer to the craze for professional. jsm which crowds base ball grounds, makes pugilists wealthy, and keeps the single scull chmmpionship flitting from nation to nation, like an fleeing from justice. But the eastern cities are full of amateur athletic clubs, and institutions of the same sort are springing up all over the country. Professional men, bred in colleges, ClAss0s of for skill and strength, and are spread. ing the gospel of muscle over the land The old idea that a bucksaw is the best gymnasium is losing strength, and well appointed gymuoasiums are springing up everywhere, There is even hope that in the near future many ministers will be able to pitch a base ball with all the force and acouracy that Martin Luther exerted when he threw his ink- stand at the devil. —Kansas City Releree. Wrongly Translated. The story is an old one of the party of tired travelers who entered a house decorated by a peculiar sign and de- manded oysters. “This is not & restaurant” said the oourteous gentiemen who met them “I am an surist.” “Isn't that an oyster hung outside the door? “No, gentlemen ; it's an ear.” A body of sailors from an American wonsal stopping st Samoa went 10 the (Forman pv, Be sad demanded din ner. ee “This Ia not a hotel,” sald the offend od domestic official who met them. s+ Well, if it isn’t a restaurant what's — Jimmy Golden has added Emma & , { 2.194. Protection, 2.19%; and four green oues to bis siriog. : Thomas Waddington scems to have ' fallen heir to the late John H. I hillips’ checkered jacket and cap. —Colonel Weatherford has sold the 4- year-old, Blarneystone, to Jesse Arm strong, of Memphis, for $7500. — Kingston is going so well that M., | F. Dwyer is sald to regret having de- clared bim out of the Brooklyn handi- | cap. — There were 117 days of continuous | racing at Gut@nburg during the meet- ing. | Josiah Linton, of Wissahickon, purchased a fast young son of dirader’s | Clay at Lexington, Kv. for $1200, —Hinda Rose is now 11 years oid, | and she is in training with a view to having her reduce her record, 2.190}, made as a 3-year-old, ~The Board of Review of the Natl- ons] Trotting Association will hold a meeting at the Leland Hotel, Chicago from Kentucky Balgowan —1f the pace had been forced the fall of the flag in the Derby 18 is believal that sight have beaten Kingman. — Murphy & Doiloway, owners of Teuton, oflered R. A. Swigert §15 009 which, it is stat. d, was re- Mie " ichael, ised, James Goodley’s sorrel mare Maud fil, by Slipper Jr., recenuy a fine colt by Prince Ashton, he itucky Prince, ON dr 1 4 by K Henry A, Firth and Joseph Me- Fadden are training a lot of young trot. Lars, get of Manchester, at Dille:- beck’s Penn *qurre track, near Norris. town, £3 Red Wilkes and Onward each bad forty-eight performers on the turf last yepr., Nutwool hd forty-five, Happy Melium, {or y-thiee, and Egberl, feor- ty- Ie A. E. Terry's American trotting colt, Cash, won the Prix 4’ Awmerique at the Paris Vincennes meeling recenMly, trotting 24 miles in 6 25,at arateof 2.47 per mile, Charley Noien, the well-known horseman, i & close frienl of Edward Harrigan, who wore the “leather patch™ and of “Old Homestead” Denman Thompson, | ~The first trainer’s license ever is ! Bued in this country fell to Jake Pincas, and the honor of receiving the first j ckey's license went most appropriate- ly to William Hayward. The Tro'ting and Facing Horse | Breeders’ Association of Eistern Penn- ryivania will hold their aunual meel- ing, September 30 io Oclober 1, at ibe West Side Park, Wikesbarre. —The iron fence In front of theclub., house and grand stand atl Belmont Course is a great improvement over ihe oll woolen affair, and is much admired. Harry Forrest, the builder, donated his profits to the club —1t is not often that fourth money is divided, but Minnie Dale and C. F. Iseminger did it in the opening race at ' Belmout Course r==antly, There were three heats and Minnie had 5, 4, 3, and ; Iseminger 3 4, 5 If all goes well Senator Stanford's ! Racine will underiake to heat Salvater’s ‘ record over the straight track at Mon- mouth this season, Racine, Rinfax, Nero and Tycoon, of the Undine stable, have arrived in Chicago. «lda Pickwick was the largest win- per at the Nashville meeting, capturing $3685 Her owner, E. 8S. Gardner, of the Avondals stable, headed the list of winning owners with $4485, followed by J. M. Brown & Co., with $3804, —At a meeting of the Board of Dir ectors of Belmont Driving Club » sign? inquired the # The the German a" was the sige coat-of-arms, — YX 'r Companion’
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