a —————
ROWN THE S
LORD HOUGH
Love! It began with a gee,
Grew with the growin gf towers,
Smiled in a dresamiul trgge,
Recked not the pussagdnl hours
Our passion’s flood or,
Fiowing for her and m
Till the brook became a or,
And the river became gaa.
d
Ot
hy
th
a
inds §
Grief! It began wi .
Grew with he v Mt raved
A piaver for pacdon unigrd,
Pardon AV:
T [LS Ur age . 1
The sty '
Till the brook beoa
And the river became
t ‘treat
yer,
¥en.
Lifet It he
srew Wi
pleasur sto fly.
ILS SOP OWS mbs bf leads
And st emi v Vis
For he wearer yo ars
Tit! the t
Al
1,
§ tare dead,
It
th hey,
i ie A river,
i A Sed
ap ———
o SIRMONT.
“ore the
The villa
stin, which had
t the sky all ro-y
fom his pa ubbed, as it were,
wit . gold-dust; and the Mediterra-
mean, witho it a ripple, without a shud-
der, smooth, still suing u der the
dving dav, scemed like 8 huge and
polished metal plate,
Far off to the right the j*gged moun.
tains out.ined their black piofile on the
paled purple of the west.
We talked of love, we discussed
hat old subject, we said again the
taings which we had said already very
often. The w el melancholy of the
twilight made our words slower,
causcd a tende ness to waver in
aj
Dear.
Clie
came back ceaselessly, now pronounced
by a strong man’s voice, Dow uttered
woman, seemed to fi.l the little salon,
to flutter there like a bird, 10 hover
there like a spirit.
Can one remain in love for years in
succession?
{Yes,” maintainnd come.
¢No,” affirmed others,
We disting
Hshed limita i
and all, men
rising and troubling
they cou'd
mounted to the
ant 1alked of
ercien thing, the
ous union of
found emotion
But all of
eyes had be
cried out:
“Ob!
ite”
On the sea. at y bot
rizon, loomed up Ass,
mous and confuse
The soumen had risen
seats, and without understanding
looked at this surprising thing wh.
they had never seen before
Bome one said:
«jt isa Corsica! You it so two
or three times a vear, in certain excep-
tional conditions of the atmosphere,
when the air is perfectly clear, and it
is not concealed by those heavy mists
of sea-fog which always veil the dis
tances.”
We distinguished vaguely the moun-
tain ridges, we thought we recognized
the s ow of their summils. And
every one remained surprised, troubled,
almost terrified, by this sudden appari-
fion of a world, by this phantom risen
from the sea. Maybe t at those who,
iit e Columbus, went across undiscov-
ored oceans had such strange visions
8s this.
Then said an old gentleman who had
not yet spoken:
«See here: I knew in that island
which raises itself before us, as if in
person to answer to what we said, and
singular memory-—-I1
e case of
which, im-
Here it
nished son, we estab
ted exumpies;
filed wit}
1
Look
ym of the h
gray, enor
from th
foe
to recall to me a
knew, I say, an admirs love
which was t s, of
probably enough, was happy.
is:
«Five years ago | nade a journey in
Corsica. T more
unknown a from us
than America, even thoarh you see it
from coasts of
France. as we have done to-day
a which still
chaos, imagine a storm of mountains
separated by narrow ravines wore
torrents roll; not a single plain, but
frmmense waves of granite, and giant
undulations of earth covered
brushwood or with high forests of
chestnut-trees and pines. Itis a vir-
gin soil, ancultivated, desert, although
you somatimes make out » village, like
8 heap of rocks, on the summit of a
monntsin. No culture, no industries,
no art. One never meets here with a
worsel of carved wood, or a bit of
fove
it 5a age island is
distant
}
nd mor
gometimes the
2-8
Imagine world is
minder that the ancestors of these
refined, for gracious and beautiful
things. I is this which strikes you the
most in their superb and hard sountry ;
their indifference to that search for se
“uctive forms which is called Art.
“Italy, where every , full of
masterpieces, is a masterpiece itself;
Italy, where marble, wood, bronze,
iron, metals, and precious stones attest
“nan's genius, where the smallest old
things which lie about in the ancient
houses reveal that divine care for
grace—Italy is €or us the sacred conun-
try we love, becaase she shows us and
proves to us the stiuggle, the
of the intelligence which crestes.
“And, face to face, with her, the
* navage Corsica has remained exactly as
in her earliest days. A man lives thers
thing which does not concern his own
bare existence or his family feuds.
And he ras retained the viees 4d the
virtues of sivage races; he is violent,
malignant, sanguinary, without a
thought of remorse,
ble, generous, devoted, simpl , open.
ing his door to passers-by, and giving
freely h 8 faithfui friendship in return
for the least sign of human svmpathy,
«8a, for a month, 1 had been wan-
dering over this magnificent is'and
with the that | was at
end of the world. No more inns, no
taverns, no You gain by male-
paths hamlets hanging up. as it were,
on a mouttain-side, and commanding
tortuous abysses whence of an evening
voi hear rising the steady sound, the
dull and deep voice, of the torrent,
You knock at the doors of the houses,
You shel er for the
something to on till the morrow,
down he humble
vou & eep under the hum-
ble roof, and in the morni
the extended Land of vou
hus vou as 1
| 0! the village.
| wa King, 1 reached
quite itself
narrow val.ey
throw itself
ther on. The two steep slopes of
mountain, covered with bra-h, allen
trees, shot in this is
gensation he
onds.
ask a night, and
ive {
And vou sit
i
b ard, and
ng You press
hot, who
ended ar as the outskirts
holes
ping
Of x
about #»
ten
dw
Dolttom
after
iittie
oue night,
H
the
A
which
Dy at
Was
«ea, a league fare
lia
into the
rocks, and great
«Centably sad ravine like two somure
walls,
“Around the cotiace were
vines, a little gardeu, and, farther of
| several large chestnut-trees—en ugh to
live on: in tact, a fortune for this |
sountry.
“The woman who
i old, severe, and neat
{ Tue man, seated on a str w chair, near
{ the door, rose to salute me, then sat
| down again without s.ying a word.
His companion said to me:
‘Excuse him, monsieur, he
now.
old.’
«She spoke the French of France.
{ | was surprised.
{ «+f asked wer:
¢ «You are not of Corsica?’
txhe answered:
i “Nos the Continent.
| But we have lived here now fifty
some
MI
received me was
Xi entionally 80.
is deaf
He is over eighty-two ye .rw
we are from
| years.’
«+A feeling of anguish and of
at the tho
VEArs pass din this gloomy
Far from the cities wh re |
tl
sei ed Frit LEH)
ight of
of
one. the nothingness of
the black loneliness of t
ad deceives
dreams until the vers
“The old woman
tortured by tl
Nurses |
hour of death.
joined me, and,
10st which ’T
ottom of th:
dab dl
Jives hidden at the
resigned of sous:
iO
she.
you come from France? said
“Yes; I'm travelling for pleasure.
“ «You are from Puris, perhaps?
No, | am ’
‘It an extraordinary
emotion agitated her. How | saw, or
rather felt it, 1 do not know.
«‘She repeated, in a slow voice:
“ «You are from Nancy
«The man appeared in the deor, im-
passible, like all the deaf.
sumed :
silt deesn't
He can't hear.’
“Then, at t
«80 you know people
«Oh,
rom Nancy.
tha
WR
seemed
ohe re
make any difference
he end of several seconds
at Nancy?
nearly evervbody
: of Sainte Adina
[ very well ; wre friends
sf my father.’
¢ «What are vou nalled?
«¢] told her my name,
d me fixedly, then
ice which 18 1
“Yes, ve
Ves,
ae!
s family
they w
“¥
said, in that
i [re
r
etn
% yr ed INOries:
well.
at has become
«“iAh! And the Sirmonts, do you
know them?
«Yes, the
general.’
| «Then she said, trembling with emo-
tion, with ar guish, with I don’t kiow
what, feeling confused, powerful, and
holy, with 1 do not know how great a
need to confess, to tell all, to talk of
those things which she had kept shat
in the bottom of her heart, and to
speak of those whose name distracted
her soul:
s «Yes, Heuri de Sirmont.
him well. He is my brother.’
last of the family is »
I know
! with surprise. And all of a sudden
my memory of it came back.
«It had caused, once, a great scan-
dal among the nobility of Lorraine.
A young girl, beautiful
Suzanne de Sirmont, had run sway
with an under-officer in the regiment
of huzzars commanded by her father,
«He was a handsome fellow, the son
of a peasant, but he carried his blue
dolman very well, this soldier who had
captivated his colonel’s daughter. She
had seen him, noticed him, fallen in
{ love with him, doubtle's while watch
| ing the squadrons filing by.
“But how she had got speech of
another, to hesr from one another;
| how she had dared to let him under-
stand she loved him--that was never
{ known.
“Nothing was divined, nothing sus.
i pected. One night wien the soldier
had ust finished his time of service,
they disappeared together. . Her peo
ole looked for them im vaio. hey
ddered her as dead,
«80 1 found her in this sinis‘er val
ey.
“Then in my turn I ‘ook up the
word:
«+Yes, I remember,
Suzanne.’
«She made the sign ‘yes,’ with her
head. Tears fell from her eyes. Then
with a look showing me the o'd man
motionless on the threshold of his hut,
the said:
« «That is he.
«And I understood that she loved
iim yet, that she still saw him with her
wow itched ey es, ?
wo] asked:
« «Have vou at least been happs 7’
with voice
You are Mile.
“She answered A
ier heart:
“Gh ves!
happy. He has
have never
very
nade me very happy. |
egretted.’
of locke
atone
ove! Ti
{ this mn,
secome herself a peasant woman.
wid made for herself a life without
JKith, ITHONt luxury, without des
cacy of any kind, she had
simple customs. And he loved him
vet. She was become the wife of a
rustic, in & cap, in a cloth skirt. Seat ¢
on a w-bottomed chur, nie
from an eartheawarc dish, at a wooden
table, a soup of potatoes and of eab-
bages with lard, She slept on a mat
tress by his side.
«She had never thought of anything
but of him. She had never regretted
her jewels, nor her fine di esses, nor the
siegancies of life, nor the perfumed
warmth of the ch mbers hung with
tapestry, nor the softness of the down-
beds where the body sinks in for re-
pose. She had never had need of any-
thing but hum; provided he was there,
she desired noth.ng.
¢« £1ill young, she had abandoned lifes
and the world and those who had
brought her up, and who had loved
her. She bad come, alone with bh
into this savage valley. Awa! he had
been everything to her, a i that one d
Hr (i0-
il that one d of, all t at
d at ber, sad, sarprized,
fol
1 WAS
had
a
it rich voung lady
owe this peasant.
she
io
BLOOD
ghe
gl
in,
Rifes, Fes
one w or, all that one hopes f
L
had fiiled
ror the
her hi
one eud
been mo
py sald:
had ideas which
the same, she
isfied, needs whicl
requirements too
only have been 8
id. ina low, slow and
+ What matter! she was
creat the end of the
wm, Corsica was sinking into the
ight, returning gently into t SOR,
stting out her great shadow, which
snpeared as if in person to tell
story of those two humble lovers
who were sheiter:d by her coasts.
And down t
©
he
— > ————————
fHE HOME 00OCTUR,
NERVOUS HEADACHE,
headache will
and in many cases
entirely cured by removing the waist
of one's dress, knotting the heir high
up on the head ont of the way, and,
while leaning over a basin, placing a
ne aked in water as hot as it
ne on the baek the neck,
ft 4 many times, also applring
behind t ears, sand the
and nerves that have
misery will be felt
th ‘mselves ont
liciously, and very freqgrently the pain
promptly vanishes in consequence
Every woman knows the aching face
and peck generally brought bome from
a hard dav’'s shopping, or from a long
round of calls and afternoon teas. She
regards with intense dissatisfaction the
heavy lines drawn around her eyes and
mouth by the long strain on her facial
muscies, and when she must carry that
worn oountenance to some dinmer
party or evening's amusement, it robs
her of all the pleasure to be had
in it.
Cosmet‘es are not the oure, nor
bromides, nor the many nerve seda-
tives to be had at the drug shop. Use
The ordinary nervous
greatly relievel
*s
be
ba bor of
6
the sponge
strained muscles
ad so
3
and
2A
much
gmonth
ing the face in water as hot as it can
throat and behind the ears, where most
of the nerves and muscles of the head
centre, and then bathe the face in
water running cold from the faucet.
fresh-
nap of ten minutes can follow, every
trace of fatigue will vanish.
“ The same remedy is invaluable for
sunburn, and the worst case of thm
latter affliotion of sensitive skins will
succumb to hot-water treatment. The
cold douche shonld not be followed in
this oase; a light
of vaseline or cold cream, which pre-
vents peeling of the skin as the hot
water prevented inflammation. Noth-
ing so good for tired eyes has yet been
discovered as bathing them in hot
i i and } nen Hix nine oases out
0 y applications o
cloths wrung out in hot water in which
the hand cannot be borne.
From the array of talent already se-
oured the concert in an artistic sense
will be an nndoubted success, while for
its financial result no fears may be en.
tertained, judging from the above list
HR
W FARMS.
WONDERS IN CULTIVATION OF
LAKE AND BEA.
om.
An Acre of Water More Productive
Than One of Land Stocking the
Ocvenn Limitless Possibilitics
of This New Iudastry,
Within a century from the present
| date the waters of this country will sup-
| ply a8 much food as the land produces.
t Ho the authorities in tue Fish Commis-
| sion and geological survey assert. By
| that time water farms will have become
| as plentiful na farms, and the
aqueous acres will be cultivated with as
much attention as the terrestrial.
Water-farming is, in fact, to be the
great industry of the future, It is far
| more profitable nunow, foragiven area
than the tilling of the most fertile soil
A fruitful of earth will support
oue young bulloek, incre: } i
of the beast five
i twelvemonth, water, prop-
erly located, will produce 10,000 poands
of oyster meat, shells and juize not
included, in the same length of time.
Oysters are, weight for weight, very
pearly equal to Leef for making flesh and
| blood. By artificial propagation, as itis
pow beginning to be carried or, the en-
tire bottom surface of all streams near
the sea, and estuaries also, cas be made
to yield crops in this proportion.
But great as will be the business of
raising oysters on our coasts a century
from now, it will bear but small com-
parison with the cultivation of fish. This
will be carried on in three branches.
The most important will be their propa-
gation for market in the waters of the in.
terior, which will afford opportunities
hitherto undreamed of for economic fish.
farming.
It is not generally realized that there
are in this country literally millions upon
millions of lakes available for this pur-
pose, in size all the way from mere ponds
to the great inland seas of fresh water.
Ia Illinois slone there are tens of thous.
ands of lakes, and hundreds of thous.
ands more can be readily created. There
are in that State hundreds of thousands
of extinct lakes which can easily be trons.
formed into sheets of water by the sim-
plest means. All the enormous *‘‘Lake
Plain," as it is known to geologists,
comprising Wisconsin, Mionesota snd
Michigan north of Ohio River,
is dotted with countless sheets of water,
conditions being abundant for creating
a mallios by such inexpensive arti-
fices as the damniog of By
damning at intervals, and
rivulet can be made to form artificial
inkes, where io the United States
ft is pretty much the same, and ever;
gore of this water can be made to pro-
duce several times as much food as can
bs obtgived from the most fertile acre of
land.
Even the vast arid region—the Great
Desert” of the Wost—is speckled all over
with multitudes of extinct lakes, which
can be filled once more and made to teem
agsin with fish life, as they once did. In
the marshes where once these dead ponds
were, countless shells and fish-fossils are
found to-day. From such sources were
obtained the remains of mastadons pre.
served in the museums, the mighty
land
cre
ounds in a
One ncre
the
streams,
every creek
for water and so perished, leaving their
boars behind them to excite the wonder
of & later sage. When the irrigation of
fact, the water stored in reservoirs will
vegetables.
All thes» millions of water farms, as
¢ are some day destined to be, will be
ted with fishes native to the Missi.
lley-—such 8% the crappie, black
bass, rock bass aod pickerel—as well
ad.locked salinon, carp and ot
ecies, palatable aad quickly
The Mississippi Valley it.
way, with its multitu
bay will aford exteasive and
for the prop: gation
as
fv pe
Aa
profitable areas of
scaly food
One principle at the bottom of the fact
thet water farming igizer gains
than land {armiog is that, whereas
a pound of beel must carry ils own
weight, as it were, the animal wasting
most of what it eats in the muscular ef.
fort of walking about, the fish is sus.
pended without effort in its native ele-
ment, having merely to waggle its fins oc.
casionally in oracr to achieve what loco-
| motion is necessary, so that nearly all of
| ita food goes to support and increase the
| bulk of ita body, at so much per sixteen
| ounces, market price.
The second great branch of the water
| farming industry of the fature will be
| the cultivation of the coastal waters of
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as
of the Gulf of Mexico. It is ns easy to
| stock those waters as to do the like for the
ponds aod lakes, snd operations for pro.
pagsting cau be carried on with
equal certainty of success.
On the Pacific const lobsters are being
[Hated by the millions, in the shape of
tle fellows s couple of inches long, and
they are thri so well, oe un.
known on those hitherto, that =
soon a8 they have had time for multiply-
log, likely to supply the w
BE cas New Tgnad
To think for oneself is not achieved —
ftisagirtof the gods to a favorite
son,
All great discoveries are made by
men whose
t hinkings,
The modern lover does not implore
to be deeply loved; he begs not to be too
much to ed.
Confiuence is a thing not to be pro-
duced by compuision. Men cannot be
foroed nto trust,
The most sublime psalm that can be
heard on this earth is the | of a
human soul from the lips of cl ood,
ro y'smicrob , r cently discovered
is of infinitesimal 8.2¢, and Is remarks
makes !
Lie for 14a activity.
i
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,
Malice seeks only causes,
Ho is gentle that doth gentle deeds.
Truth, wisdom, love, seck reasons,
Beek 11fe's pleasures while you may.
Virtue is
Bene,
“ common #8 common
A man may be knowing, but not
wire.
Vitue is like a rich stone
but plain
ions,
We ean give advice, but we cannot
give conduct,
Men who know the least always argue
Our power lies 1n the strength of ow
intuitions,
To wake vp from a sweet sleep 18 10
be born aga n.
A reputation for honor once lost is
lost forever.
The lie of
the
The society o
of good u siinera
in action Is greater than
Lie of 4 wot
woiunen is the element
No gift can make rich those that are
pour 1 wisdom,
“Misery loves compary,” bat can’t
bear cow petition
Men sre ll.e wine —age soars the bad
god betlers he good,
It 18 vanity to wish to live long and to
be careless to live well
Virtue is manhood, and to be without
it man would be no more,
A man who is a poor 11a- finds it on-
To be a big man among blg is
La]
what proves a mau's character.
men
If we cannot be brilliant without dis-
ever be dull,
Luck is a goo! thing
if you have no Jes
T
but God 0oks at wihal be
He who wisiv 8
others has air-ad
at what a man does,
MvALs,
a world look
y good
5 OWN,
0 secure the
secured hi
the good m
ud all man
He who prrsseat
makes wal dgailist LID
Kind,
If vou think no
Wi up in 3
'eonle who are
grudges BE
@ing,
Expectation!
8 Lhe «
Ee 118 pa ent, B
No matter if
obscura post never
you in
an
with doling your secon however
unimportant Lhe ocx
Had
Dad,
Compawi~n will sins than
condemnation.
ure more
In a world of shams even a plclur-
esque | ar bas bis place,
Homility isso rare that & usually
gets ~alled mean-spiritedness,
‘the nece sity of circumstances proves
ing will aever dis of sa.lety.
Natur makes no vagabonds;
world makes us respectaole,
the
The happiness of love 11 in action; its
ers,
As a rule, the less folly a man
cursed with the more he dreads hisown
foolishness,
Take time to deliberate, bul when
the time for action arrives, stop think.
ing and go in.
He who determines to love only those
who are faultless will soon find himself
a one,
People generally despise where
flatter and cringe Lo those
overtop.
they
1.0t your zeal begin with yourself,
then you may with justice extend it to
your neighbor.
1f a man has nothing to sav, he is
sure to take much time and use many
words in saylog it.
| If tombstones were always reliable
| the devil would soon be willing to put
| out his fire and quit.
There are just two kinds of people in
| the world—thcse who are right and
| those who are wrong.
My friend, you may be more cunning
! than most men, but you are not m ore
| cunning than all men.
The world is in our eyes, not objec-
tive, but subjective. You see what is
in you, not what is out of you.
| The man who loves himself does not
who is his own worst enemy.
It’s a mighty cowardly man who
hasn't the courage to advise another
with the toothache to have it yanked
out,
Men may be just as willing to hate
or fot your virtues as for your faults,
ut they seldom have the same .
tunities,
HORSE NOTES,
~fpofford and Governor Hill are now
owned 1a lin y,
— About 0 thoroughbreds are wine
tering at Chureuill Dowus, Lou svills,
Ky.
The ence famons Tom Bowling,
now 21 years, sold for §60 at auction
recently.
—~John A, Gldsmith will probably
bring a large string of trotters East
Nutwood, 2 18% now hasseventeen
performers, twelve trotters and
five pacers,
by de
There araabont ninety thoroughbreds
in winter gq at Montgomery
Park, M -mptas, Tean.,
arters
— 11 Corr gan w'll have about twenty.
five ons and d HE 1rTs of Lougfeilow
in hig gai next seas an,
Chie great pacer DD reet’s 2,07, 2.08,
at Stock'o .recen by are the fasts
sb Wo collective hi-ais on record,
—In adiition wo ths Hamlin, string
E .tGoars wl als d ive Fred 8 Wilke
e+ Fiauk Durich McEwen next
Sd,
’ "ni
*
aii a
— idnsy (acer) 219%, is the only
girs o wo 251 lis,
They are Fou Foou, 2.25%, and Fausia
(pacer) 2.2:
—J wkey Fred Tacal has purchased
a han is me brow stone hous 4 133k
treet snd Lisuox avenne New York fer
$22 000,
If Jockey tiarrison receives a li‘ense
sign
e is ia "16
—Orit Davis will hand'e G zells, the
prom:sing v mag son of Ou wad, owned
of Lebanon,
Ky., next season.
~Alcyone is the only size that had
two of his get trot intr 2.15 hdt this
season, [Chev are McKinney (4) 2.12%
W. Dav has been elected Pres.
the New York State Horse
aeders’ Associatio M, E. Servis i»
Dr. Jd.
ident of
¥
Elmer Rally, of Midway,
0 J atne« k. VV per Lis
@ Hos 3 Jory an
Jd. E. Yepper &
—0 Ks..
n er
e<L 1D 1d ub-
der the name 0
=HROWR
Farm 1%
Old, by
Trainer
p, and
ext
at
Lien t
win eng
it Driving
nate
be held
valuable
Fes { a big
free
next
for memier } to
sp ing an which
sffered,
fo
~utside of Garfield Park, Cl
and ther= is no immediate prospect for
resuming the sport in ithe South,
—Colonel Lawrence Kip and Major
8. T. Dickinson are mentioned as cans
‘residency of the Driv-
ing Club of New York.
— William J. Thompasn, of Gloueces.
lease
of the Ivy Oity track, near Washington,
There is talk of organiz ng a tarf
club, and #b wut 100 men have already
The
at Broad and
Philade'ph a, may
materiale
rons
Cuestout streets,
—Australian papers are responsible
for ti statement that aa offer of $100,-
000 has been refused for the Australian
stallion Nordenfeldt, winner of the
Victoria and Australian Derby in
1845.
.~As great as have been the achieve
ments of Allerton, he 1s now In winter
the wagon record (2.15)
Alto (2.1188) having cap
only . Palo
124) the 4-year-old record.
¥
The races to road wagons at Bei
The weather
trac was
was deligutfal,
thawed out just
esting.
and the
muddy.
— Experience of the past season has
shown tha the bank at the tarn in the
third quarter of the Belmont track is
throwa up too high, acting as a handi-
cap for horses in second and third posi
tons, It will be graded down some Six
inches and filled in next the pole.
~The independence Driving Park
Association clalms the dates August 23
to September 3, Inclusive. This will
give twelve days’ racing, being the
Jongest trotting meeting ever held In
this country. For each day there is
provided a $10,000 stake and two
class races for purses of $1500 each; and
there is besides a liberal appropriation
for specials,
— Carbine, for the third year in suo.
cession, occupies the place of honor
among the winning horses in Australia,
having won i in stakes d the
past season. prominence the
champion is due principally to his vies
tory in the Melbourne Cup, which, 10.
cluding atrophy value of §750, was worth
$51,150 to his owner, Donald Wallace,
Carbine's earnings Gusiag his four sea
sons on the turf amounted to a grand
total of $144,435.