TANDEM LOVL, hen Lydia on tandem rides, then Find sunshine brightening all my Een birds grow mute as fast | With Lydia on the wheel. 1 aS ay, As gayly as the miles I fag, All the swift moments play at tag, And never do my spirits flag, With Lydia on the wheel. I eare not what ill luck may bring In Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring All of life's troubles off we fling, With Lydia on the wheel! And now On Hyuen’s More hay py momen I know. With Lydia the wheel! HANS YORKEL. AMED DIMPLE. that pledged to go Or woe, we are tandem, weal s shall ull (pr is he? “O-o-0h!” The peal of langhter which this dignified much for Eugenia. Khe picked up her dog and departed. red with indizna tion. leaving Dan. the only person ir the world who ever dared to tease her grootod response was (quite toy to apologize to annty given, and I fear, peat his offence From that time, we noticed that Eu genin was more or less I caught her holding measure suspiciously to be by her for encouraged to re niaeasy {ince yard Dimple, aunty’s near proach. After a few weeks there was no use disguising the fact. that full grown dog was rapidly increasing in size, indeed he seemed to enlarge dur. ing hiz slumbers, and wake up a full size bigger than when he went to sleep. it began with his legs, which so ex. tended themselves that, had you seen him in a collection of freaks, you would have suspected Bim of being on absurdly mounted cn its thin supports, began to swell out, Eugenia grew very grave. She would sit for hours over her books, glancing furtively from time to time at Dimple, dozing by her side—for he had grown much too large for her lap —a8 if they had never been introduced. i } { 1 i t elf basket ud been 0 Carew hat rowth: at! weral gallons a day, he t nightein a kennel, alas! for he corned the larger basket that had wen quietly provided-—but no one evel poke of his size As the months ar of Dimples be ame positively embarrassing, fo hough aunty and I could have laughed wer it, and made it a perfect send in the way of a spur to languish into a sumptnous whicl purchased for his baby hood orn did indeed never he he was hecotne alluded dog’ fed--atd he viatered, to the extent of whe we to the how edie Wis roiled on, the singo fuaptoess nae gould ng conversation, Eugenia, feeling that ® duped, regarded™it as so avoided he had been een 4 mortification oat re he sublect with ten “What h t] *311 tie Mi ' i 1s 1 ny upwars jeep looked and brows i ¢eYes lerstom] each other goal times as we Eugenia years hat Iman had been abl } aunty } 1 In ged to count my cousin previous evervthing, for the resting time 1] for full of work: but now she lounged and played anid all sports, as iad before in all her sweet, self willed young life, was among and of for the first time, There had been three days of steady rain, and tired of seclusion, on the af ternio®i of the third day, | wrapped myself in my mackintosh and went for a walk, leaving Eugenia, with a slight to look after Dan, aunty having gone into town for the day. As | came home, the sun broke through scattering clouds, lighting up the world with rosy glory. The storm was at an end, the fair promise of the morrow was in the soft air, in the twit. | ter of the birds, in the fresh perfume of leaf and flower, in the golden beau. ty of sunset, Eugenia and Dan had come out of | doors to enjoy the loviiness of earth and sky, and stood with Dimple on the veranda. Suddenly the dog stretched | himself to twice his natural length, | took my cousin's skirt in his teeth and | nodded to her that she was to . of summer lu her wen inined in she never us ux out housed cold, with him. “No. Dimple, no dear.” she coaxed, | bending over him. “Don’t make me | come out to-night. I've had a cold, you know, 1 really ought not to 80: | you will have to wait, doggle dear” | But Doggle Dear did not intend to He shook bis head and her dress and growled softly. 1 alied | dowly toward the house and watched Primple Here) ordering, Sugeni brother smil mustache, jhe conflie! pleading far ug at the two bel AL last Dan spoke, “Dlirple!” the kept the skirt that go Eugenia hand ont “No, I am going to hurt understand in a moment; Your mistress Hy cath his raised his eyes his me dog herween teeth you hear put her Let do air? hen quickly him; he will he has plenty of sense us not going now or at any other time, her permision. She is going to be wy Ses v. Fugenia had lifted an astonished startled glance to his face as he spoke but dropped her head low over the dog break or inuch In as he went it { hot De “Khe lov vers all do ou have trained and we are puch obliged it i her any Yoil ment, © CATCHING FISH, and Hike tha Unwary Flyers. pod ir : pike | hare Again it tried to cateh on the then gave up the not Another obwerver lake when he young sand swallows, was fishing in a small noticed pot I away three martins, sit ting on a mb just over the water, lutte to them to fy. en § i . gr i mother ing about deavoring induce them of the water and seized one of birdlngs from the limb, the poor moth er darting about in the greatest aiarm Noon came another leap, and in than balf ap hour this voracious Nish had carried off the three foung birds. jose Feathers Changing Color. Witmer Stone refuses to accept the idea of Gatke that feathers can actual Iy change their color without molting, unless they are bleached or worn off He concludes that the annual molting at the end of the breeding sea is a physiological necessity and is common to all birds: whereas the spring moult and striking changes of plumage effected by abrasion are net physiological necessities, but depend in extent apon the height of develop ment of coloration in the adult plaom age. amd do not necessarily bear any relation to the systematic position of the apecies, alo sO Home Weaving. The good old fashion of home weav. ing threatens to become a fad since the Princess of Wales and her daughters have turned their attention that way. Woollen howe spun. cotton and silk are not only more durable, but more satisfactory from an aesthetic point of view, when hand woven, BURNING HOMES. Gen. Weyler's Merciless Cam- paign of Fire, Horrible Agonles bv the Victims Destroyed Suffered Five Thousand Houses Last Week Fifty Thousand Par sone Have Left Cubana, fr * f Jung that six men were indeed eight were w Three of the men Killed are are colored, wounded have not sald two of then are There ate many co empl Haggard's still, night they engage in val” men veal at and pearly every urday what they call » at which many walermelons ane whisky are consumed and dancing ie up for hours, progress, when about a dozen white appearsd and began cealings, The whites were drinking and soon made lared kept The nsual “lestival’’ was in hey 0 take part in the pro- themselves obpaxinne to the « The white men interfered with the dancing, tried to take the pa toners of the colored men away from them and then began to trip the dancers. This was kept up for some time, the colored men continually warning the whites to desist Ike Solomon was especially threateniog io bis warnings, and be told the whites that when they tripped him there would be trouile, The next time that Bolomon and his part ner came by in the danoe they were tripped, Bolomon rose [rom the floor, pistol in band, and immediately opened fire, shooting Henry Jackson through the heart. The white men drew their weapons, and then the firing became general. The lights were quickly shot out, but the men contingad to fire in the dark, The white men were better srmed thas the colored men, and when the Iatter had exhausted their weapons they fled, Lights were then struck, and it was found that the three white men and three colored were dead and that eight colored men were wounded. men. — The Turkish government has mado formal complaint to Greece about the shipment of arms to Crete and the appearance of armed. bands In Macedonia. tis sald the powers will send a collective note to Greece ok these subjects, . LEVERING I8 NOTIFIED. Issues of mist View of the Coming Campaign. Joshun Levering, of Baltimore, was offic! ally notifled of his nomination for the Presi. Ieney of the United Btates by the Prohin tion Party, Prior to the the Maryland Prohibitionists and nominated notifieation, held their Convention, varions Maryland districts, They raded the streets of the elty with and music, the line of march terminating at also pr banners the Lyceum Theater, where the notifleation mosting was held, The national lags, the State colors and theater was prettily decorated with tlustrative of the principles of the Prohihi The body of the houss was we filled, and on the stage were men prominent in nll walks of The meeting Dan flav, Dr. J. } “id prayer order by Hon William after whict nent Whereas lay of J i ¢ 4 #IRNDG states and a other persons were ad fr Toeven ag part is uct from taking pa tin such ravention of the neutral United States; and, Whereas, said civildistarbances nnd armed ay power peace and amity, continue to prevail ia said aud, Whereas, since the date of sald proclama- tion said neutrality laws of the United States have been the subject of asathoritative expo- sition by the judicial tribunal of last resort, and it bas thus been declared that any com- persons organized in the United States for the purpose of proceeding to and upon a foreign country, with which the United States are at peace, and provided with arms to be used for such pur. pose constitutes a “military expedition or enterprise’ within the meaning of said pea- trality inws, and that we Jo hereby solemnly warn all citizens of the United States and all others within their jurisdiction against vio tations of the sald Jaws interpreted as bere. inbelore expiniaed, and give notice that all such violations will be vigorously prosecuted And I do bereby Invoke the co-operation of all good citizens in the enfurcsment of said laws, and in the detection and apprehension of apy offenders against the same, and do hereby enjoin upon all the exvoutive officers of the United States the utmost diligesos in preventing, prosecuting, and punishing any infractions thereol, In testimony whereo!, | have hereunto sel my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed, Done at the ¢ity of Washington, this twen- ty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine- ty-six, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-first (Heal) Groves CLevELAXD By the President : Rican Over, Becretary of State. CABLE BPARKS, The gremter part « { fn bul Exhibi The the Montreal dings wns destroved Mit g120.70 The Russian Jon of 1,000,000,000 fraucs, £200,000 100, ) in gd by the | by fire, sobs wil be al Ahsohilds, has beer covers The well-known bathing place on the nort «five titnes over in Paris business portion of lifracombe, the ho coast of Devonshire, Eng, burned, inv a loss of 8500 000, ved from Maj Car, ieport thet a Whe Ving Advices recel nga, Madagas- caravan of two French men and th ee Englishmen has been minssa- ‘red by the Fahavalos near Amboliplans, Dr. Grenfel writes from Labrador to Bt. John's N. F., that hundreds of people are ’ [ starvation and are appealing for perishing « i food and thelr digtross A revo a penal pet vered Was dis GR PRODUCTS Car Hams s Pork, m= ARD Or Dest 1+ shies § tides LT he CHREESE-X. Y. Fane N. Y. Fints Bin Cheese io {38 i i North State Carolina LIYE CHICKENS Hens oy Ducks, per Ib 1 TOBRACCD, TOBACCO-MA. Infer's..§ Sound common - Middiing Fancy 150 80 cal 1063 @ 25 400 700 124) LIVE STOCK. BEEF Dest Doeves......8 430 BHEED SR . 2%) Hogs 370 FURS AND SKINa, 450 sn IN @ MUSKRAT. Raccoon Bed Fox Skank Black, i Ip WAH m Mink Olter. [181183 8 gEuEse: EEW YORK FLOUR-Southern.......8 360 & WHEAT No. 2 Red. ..... 64 WE Weetorn 38 CORN-—-No, 2....... + OATS--No. 3....... Ay 10 is bi «9 5 2 334g nig ne 14 6% BUTTER-State.......... EGOGS--State, ........ PRN CHEESE State. ......... me al FRILADRLITUIA FLOUR-Southern. ......8 3500 mw WHEAT “No. 2 Red. ..... 61 2 ” CORN—-Na. 3............. OATS No. 3............0 BUTTER State. ......... EGGE--Pesna, t......... 31 mt 13 1
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