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
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WE Weetorn 38
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