ljove's Only Change. And did you tliiuk uiy heart Could keep its lovo unchanging, Fresh tut tho buds that start In apriug, nor know estranging t listen I Tho buds depart: I loved you once, but now— I lovo you inoro than ever. Tu not tho early lovo ; With day and night it altora, And onward still uiu.it uiovo lake earth, that never I alters For storm or star ahove. 1 lovod you onus, hot uow I love you more than ever. With gifts ill those glad days How eagerly I sought you 1 Youth, shining hope, and praise , These wore tho gilts I brought you. In this world lit tie stays : I lovod you ouce, but uow 1 lovo you woro than over. X child with glorious eyes Hero in our arms half-sleeping— Ho passion wakoful lies ; Thou grows to manhood, keeping Its wistful, yuuug surprise : I lovod you once, hut uow— I love you more than evor. Wheu age's pinching air Strip's summer's richposstssrm And leaves the branches bare, My secret in coufussiun Still thus with you I'll slurs 1 loved you once, but now— I lovo you uiore than over. 'leorgt Lathrop, in the (\mt\i\enl. My Great-Aunt Elizabeth. r As I can remember my great-aunt Elizabeth—and I was a very little boy when I used to see her—she was a woll ronntlt had Elizabeth, fearing she knew not what. Toward sunset Ebsworth entered the lane on horseback. He was dressed as nsual with much caro in the latest English fashion, and with tlio usual black silk stockings. As ho entered tho yard the old man weut out and ad dressed him : "Thomas, thee can turn round and go homo and stay there. Ido not wish more of thy visits." Tho young man was taken aback by this language, but lost neither his pres ence of mind nor his courtesy. "Friend James," he said, "may I ask why thee treats mo thus ? I have not deserved it." Thomas, though of tho Established church, adopted out of policy the plain language with his Quaker friends. " I will tell thoo why. Thee conies for my daughter. Thee shall never havo her and here the hot-headed naturo of the old man got the better of him and ho burst out: "I shall never give her to a worlding who thinks to get my money to spend on cards and wine, and," he added, looking scorn fully at tho shapely limbs of the young man, "on black silk stockings. Got thee Neither she nor I want to so© thoe agaiu." A faint cry from an upper window led both of them to look up. There, prone across the (ill, lay the fainting form of Elizabeth. The old man with an imperative gesture of anger bade the youth depart. Locking hopelessly ut the houso ho turned down tho lanoand never was scon to c-nter it again. But did ho thus give up the chase? Ah ! that is whoro a dreadful mystery comes in. Watched and lectured by her father, dogged by surly John Hat ton, Elizabeth sank into apathy, the roses faded from her cheeks, and at last she was worried into consenting to a marriage with this persistent suitor. A year passed, when one day John rode up to the old man's, a prey to some excitement which changed his whole features. Hi.-, father in-law looked at him wi'.ti amazement. "John," he Mid, " what is the mat ter? what aileth thee?" " Matter," ho hissed, " matter—take thy daughter back. I want no falae woman for my wife." Bnt he had not learned the temper of the man he wn talking to. With a blow that would hare done credit to an arm of thirty hi* father-in-law felled , him to the earth. "Take that, thon foul speaker, and may the Lord forgive me my anger. Bnt none ahull apeak such lie* of my j children." "A lie, i* itr said John, slowly ris ing, greatly cooled by thin most incon sistent action of the old Friend. "Then what does thin mean V and he spread a crumpled piece of paper before h father-in-law's eyes. It was with difficulty the old man could read it, although it was written in a clerkly Italian hand. It read: " Will thee not meet me, dear Elf sa beth, by the spring in the woods after ■unset to-morrow ? As we pledged each other our true love, let us keep our pledge in spite of the one man who stands in the way, no matter how near ho is to thee. Thy own THOMAS." It was not dated. The old man saw what it referred to and said : " This was written years before thy marriage, when I drove Thomas Ebs worth from the house. But she never met him, as I watched her hourly for I days afterward." "Perhaps so," said John, "but it may have been written within a month." As be spoke ho backed off to a respect ful distance a* he saw a dangerous light in the old man's eyes. " John," said he, " anger me not. Thou art a fool, and thy wife is my daughter. I shall speak to Friend Ra- I chel Wilson and she shall adjust this matter between us. But never speak to me again about it." Friend Rachel was a local preacher of great forco of character and diaore tion. Bhe reported that Elisabeth had received this note from Thomas Eba worth the dsy he wms driven away, but her conscience wsa too much under a sense of duty to heed it. Unfortunately she did not destroy it This explacation—undoubtedly the true one—did not satisfy John Hatton, bnt he dared not openly defy it. He grew more and more an |y, soon took to drinking, and af'er a few years of do mestic unbappiness, be fell off his horse one day when strong liquor had weakened his brain, and broke his neek. My groat unnt never married again, and for fifty yours after his death led that placid existence which ia nowhere found in anch perfection aa in the So ciety of Frienda. And Thomaa Ebaworth, what of him ? Alilo and ambitious, ho fuiaifled the predictions of my anocator and il lustrated again how fooliah ia the wis dom which would fence paaaion with prudonco and love with calculation, lie removed to Murylatid, married late in life, and became a prominent figure in the early political hietoryof our Union. Once only did tho lovcra meet. My great-aunt, left with atraitoned meana and several small children, livod after her husband's death near tho "Baltimore road," the main highway which in thoso days led from Baltimore to Philadelphia. One summer after noon she took her work to a seat under a great oak troo by tho roadside. She was still a comely woman with a fresh sweet face and brown hair untouched by gray. Her ytungest daughter, a girl of eleven, was with her and it is her account of what happened that 1 shall give. Looking down the road tho child spied a delightful Bight— a real private coach brilliant wim shining lamps and varnish, and driven by a liveried coach man in the majesty of cockade and but tons. As the coach reached tho of the oak the coachman drew up to rent hia horses. Suddenly tho door was thrown open and a gentleman, dressed in tho elaborate oostume of the day, sprang out ami holding out both hands cried : "Elizabeth 1 Elizabeth!" " When mother hoard him," said my informant, " I saw her turn white and lean back against the tree ; her lips moved bnt she made no reply. ' Eliza beth !' he repeated, ' have I no place in thy memory ? I have never forgotten, never can forget.' "What mother answrred I do not know. Somothing she si 1 in a low voice, and for someminntes they talked together in an undertone. Then mother began to cry and sho made a motion to hira with her band, as she did to ns children wlion she wished us to leave her. I heard tho words 4 Thomas, thee has a wife.' With that the gentleman put his handkerchief to his eyes, entered the coach and was rapidly driven away. " Mother sat crying for a loug time under the oak, and I was so frightened I did not dare speak, nor did I say a word about it to her for several years. Then one day I asked : " 4 Mother, will thee tell me who that gentleman was who spoke to thee under the oak tree?" "'That, Anna,' aho replied in her nsnal calm tone, • was Governor Eba worth, of Maryland. I'knew him when I was a girl. But as he was associated with mneh that was painful in my early life, I should prefer that thee would not speak to me of him again.' " And I neTer did." Our Ccmtinmt. Well Poted. He WM a plain old man from the conntry; hp wore an old-style, broad brimmed hat, and hi* clothe© were homospnn; but when a slick-looking stranger atepped np to him on Vine street and professed to know him, and aaked all abont hia wife and family, and wanted to know when h© came down and when be was going back, the old man declined the proffered hand, and drawing track, said: "That's all right, young man; never mind the per liminaries; git right down to business 'twonce. You've got some goods at the depot and want to pay freight. Hain't got nothin' tint a hundred-dollar check. Wonhl I hold the check and let yon hare |f>o 43 to pay the freight? Or p'r'aps you've just drawed a prise in a lottery, and would I jes' step ground with you and see you git tha money; or p'r'apa—" but the confidence man slipped away; the granger was too well posted, altogether. As the old man gsscd after bis retreating figure he chuckled out: " Slipped np that time, Mr Hmko; I'm posted—l've read the papers."— Cincinntfi S Uurd ty Night, Black as a Sign of Mourning. "Black is the sign of mourning," says Ratielais, " because it ia the color of darkness, which is melancholy, and the opposite to white, which is the color of light, of joy, of happiness " The introduction of writing paper blacked at the edge as a mark of respect to the dead, oamo into use at a very early part of tho seventeenth century. Black wax was also used about this time, though persons about this period did not stand upon etiquette to the ex tent they do now, aa they used red as well aa blaok during tha time mourn iug was observed. Paper with a block border is of a more recent date, and when first introdnoed as a token of mourning tho border was of a reason able width; of late years the sable bor der display has grown so obtusi*© and so excessive that evan visiting card have been aeon entirely blaok with the name only printed in whi'e. MIMES' DEPARTMENT. Meaning of Fruits. If one wishes to convey any mos sago it can easily be done in the fruit ono chooses. For example: the apple is tho emblem of "family bond" and " prudence; " grapes, " friendship; " pears, " ambition" and hope;" plums, "independence;" cherries, "happy thoughts;" peaches, "love;" currants, "you please all;" pine apple, "you are perfect; " lemons, "zest;" slates, 44 what will yon?'' chestnuts, 44 render mo justice;" figs, "argument," etc.— llnuir. Womcd'a Tritri *oi Mlgn of Wrikitrw. Women give way to tears more read ily than men I Granted. Is their sex any the weaker for it ? Not a bit. It is simply a difference in temperament, that is all. It involves no inferiority. If yon think that this habit necessarily means weakness, wait and see. Who has not seen women break down in tears during some domestic calamity, while "the stronger sex" were calm; and who has not soen those same woman rise up and dry their eyes, and be henceforth tbo support and stay of their households, and perhaps bear up tho 44 stronger sex " as a stream bear* up a ship. I once said to a physician watching such a woman, 44 That woman is really groat." 44 Of course she is," he answered, 44 did you ever see a woman who was not great when the emergency required?"— T. IF. Uigginton. Srwsand Noirt fur Wtrrri. Ella Tunney ran beodlewly into debt for flno clothes at Beymonr, Intl., and then committed suicide because she could not pay. It is said that there aro eleven nnns in tho Hotel Dieu convent, Quebec, who have each oompleted over fifty years in the sisterhood. A Bourbon connty (Ky.) woman tells it on her husband that he courted her twelve different time*, and that she re jected him on eleven occasions. It was the wife of President Madison who gave a yonng woman the famous advice: " Give your appearance careful and serious thought in your dressing room and forget it elsewhere." In Wyoming, where woman suffrage is established, a man and his wife we,re rnn by tho opposition parties for the same office, and they preserved perfectly amicable relations during the canvass. The husband was elected. A Oilroy (Gal.) man had spread a pound and a half of damp powder on a bed to dry, and his two danghters were examining it, one of them with a lighted cigarette in her mouth, from whioh the powder was ignited, and both girls were severely bnraed. The moat elegant and expensive wrap ever made to order in America has been completed in Philadelphia. It is a fur circular of immense proportions, with large sized collar, all of real Russian sable,'lined with handsome black satin, thickly quilted, and is valued at $4,500. Mrs. Dorothy Phelps, of Weld, Me., ag' d eighty two, srith some help from another woman, is taking care of eleven head of cattle and forty sheep. These two women, with the help of a hired man a few months in the summer, man age to carry on a large farm quite suc cessfully. When Queen Marguerite, of Italy, visited Naples lately, she found every dcorway and window adorned with ber favorite flower, the daisies. When sbe took the steamer from Nsples for s Mediterranean port, she found every ono on boerd the vessel, from the ad miral to the scupper-scrubbers, adorned with button hole bouquets of the seme flower. PaahlMi IMM. Bunflowera, lilies, poppies and peacock feathers are now in good demand. The first spring wrsps are short visit© mantles, with long talis in front Bnrano, s dotted embroidered silk lace, bids fair to be the rival of Hpanisb. Neapolitan bonnets in black, white and oolors are making for the summer trade. Rtraw hats and bonnets will be worn almost to the exclusion of chip this spring. Many small espote bonnets are seen among the first openings of spring mil linery The new cambrics come in similar oolors and patterns to the peroalcs and sateens. The new batistes follow the oolor ings and designs of the new sateens and peroalea. Thick and thin materials are much worn together this season in tha compo sition of evening drawees. Terra-ootta, ma*tic, fawn, moss and bronxe green, coral and soft blue, yel low and piuk seem to be the oolors to prevail in spring millinery. A welding outfit reoantly made up ia Pari* contained no white petticoats except tboaa of white satin, and no white stocking* except those to be worn at the wtdding. Rurano lace comes in clusters of Urge dot* embroidered in satin stitch on a strong silk net. The edges are formed of clash-red dots or buttonhole stitched scallops or points. White Hpanish lace bonnets are now made up over white illusion with a little cluster of flowers or some other bright colored ornament half-hidden in the folds on the left side. Home of the new dress cashmeres are plaided or baired in almost invisible lines of a lighter shade than thegronnd color; for instance, bottle green with hunter's green, and dark bronze with gray bronze. Hero are some of tho colors of the solid sateens for skirts: Hbades of blue, from water to navy; red, from pah rose to deep crimson and bright scarlet; purples, from violet to mauve; olives, yellows and browns. The liveliest and purest shades of rose, pink, blue, inative, maize and other light colors are seen in spring sateens in addition to the sage grays, bronzes, olives, hunter's green, maroon, navy and turquoise bines, black and white. Laces outlined in beads, or the pat terns entirely composed of beads, are very beautiful and excessively fashion able. Their very high price puts thetn beyond tho reach cf every day purses, so they will doubtless remain long in vogne. Very fashionable New York ladies who adopt short-sleeved evening dress wear their bracelets above the elbow. These bracelets, with dog collars for tho throat to match, are made of massive gold links set with real gems or semi precious stones. Tho empress of Austria has intro duced a new coiffure, which foreign journals say is likely to create a con siderable sensation. Hhe wears her hair falling in wavy folds upon her shonldcrs, con fined a Is grecquc or with bars of pearls. Some of the new percale* have grounds of navy blue and others of turquoise, on which in white are large and small dots, singly and in clusters, figure* like the letter 8, horseshoes, checks, tiny birds in flight in a mingled pattern, small cnboa and other geo metric designs. Khirring still abounds in English costumes, entire collars being made of it, and draperies being shirred from front to back in lines running parallel with the borders of the basque. The one new thing in English drosses is wrinkles. Wrinkled sleeves and chemisettes appearing above velvet enff* and vest* hare a very pretty ef fect, especially if made of satin. THE FAMILY lUH'TOR. RMRIH RON HJOOOCOH. — I>r. M. 8. le-slie, of Lexington, Ky., says that the beet remedy in ordinary hicconghs is al>ont twenty-five grains of oonimon table salt placed in the mouth- and swallowed with a sip of water. Aiooaot. rr> Urn*©.— Sydenham re comroenda the application of alcohol to burns, especially for children, where immediate relief is most desirable. The alcohol should be applied for one or two hours constantly, as the pain re turns when dry. In case of large burns care must t>© taken lest the alcoholic vapor* s'npefy the child. How TO MAWAOR A Conon.—A distin guished F.ngliah physician, in a work on coughs and colds, says if wc wonld know jnst bow to manage a Congo we must learn how not to oough. The in clination to cough ahonbl at any rate be suppressed nntil the secretion, the existence of which sets np the cough, is within your reach; a full inspiration should now he taken and the accumu lated phlegm is then removed at a tin gle effort; thus the mucous aurfaoes are not causelessly irritated, and a se vere bronchial attack passes easily through its stages; whereas, if the membrane is irritated by violent and useless fit* of oougbing, it gets sore and relaxed. Again, by inhaling steam or sucking an ipecacuanha loxenge on first awaking, the dried secretion may be loosened or easily expelled, and the usual fit of morning cough partly pre vented. ________ Wedding Flpea. The city of (londa, so famed for the old stained glass in the cathedral, and mora generally associated with the manufacture of Dutch pipes, is about fifteen miles from .Rotterdam. Among the variety of pipes made there is one called the wedding pipe; it is three feet three inches long in the stem; the bowl is ornamented with ooata-of-arms. The Dutch make festivals of the copper wedding, the silver wedding, the golden weddiog and the diamond wedding. On the occasion of tha copper wedding the stem of the pipe is ornamented with copper leave* twining all the way up the stem, and nt each suooesaive festival the leaves ate renewed according to the date of the commemoration, which sel dom paaaes the golden. In Amsterdam I once saw a diamond leaved pipe which had been prepared for a seventy filth wedding. -0 d W'tds. Fmarit Murphy, the Amcrieaa tens parages lactam, is at work in Bo.*- lead. PEAKLM OP THOUGHT. hrror tolerates; truth condemns Dare to (JO true; nothing can ntd a lie. Men should x) tried before they are trusted. * To indulge u ccnacionsneM of good- DAM in the way to lose it. Great men and geniuaes find their true placet in time# of great erenta. Trouble# borrowed and stolen out number by far all other* in the world. On the neck of the young man a parkin* no gem *o gracioua a* enter prise. Nature ha* sometime* made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. We seldom find people ungrateful as long as we are in a condition to render them services. The fortunate circumstances of ear life are generally found to be of our own producing. I*t him who regrets the lons of time make proper use of that which is to come in the future. Old men's eyes are like old men's memories tbey are strongest for thing* a long way off. The most miserable pettifogging is the world i* that of a man in the conrt of his own conscience. Happiness is perfume that ona can not abed over another without a few drops falling on one's self. lie courteous with all, but intimate with few; and let thoae few lie well tried before yon give them ycur confi dence. There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble and excel lent in a character which is a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial. A ( liance for (mentors. A machine is greatly needed in many parti of the country for twisting to g'thor swamp bay, tbo straw of grain, bushes an 1 the small branches removed from trees in tbe operation of trimming them, for the purpose of utilizing tbom for fuel. Hnch materials are extensive !y employ, d in many parts of Europe for beating bouses and for cooking food. 1 box are twisted together or tit dby band. Although this country is well supplied with wood and coal, and tbe facilities for transporting tbom are excellent in most sections, still there are places where the inhabitants are obliged to rely entirely on tbe ma terials at band for fuel for warming and cooking. They bare an abundance of liay and straw, and sometimes bushea and the branches of trees that have la-en planted. If tbey are twisted together andbound they form very good and convenient fuel for domestic pur poses. The materials as prepared should be nearly in the form of sticks of s.ovs wood. In addition to being twisted they should be bound so that they can be conTenientlr handled. A machine that would accomplish these results would be of very great value in many portions of the West, and especially so in the treeless, coallees sections of the gTeat wheat giowing region. It should be of ample construction, not liable to get out of order, and cheap. barge machines might be constructed that oould be moved from one house to an other, as thrashing machines now are, but small machines are more desirable, so that every settler could have one. Tbe machines would be valuable in places where there is a supply of coal but no wood that can be employed for kindling purpose* or for supporting brisk flree thst are often required for cooking meals. With a suitable ma chine a substitute for wood could be obtained from materials now wasted, at the expense of a little labor.— 7Vmes. Am Rxtraordlnarj Story. A private letter published by the Franl/urtcr Zfituxg tells the following extraordinary atory: Not long ago the priest of one of thechnrohea in Samara, Russia, in the course of a aermon. re called the bratal assassination of Alex ander IL Hia hearer* became greatly excited, and at the close of the service left the chnreh in a frenzy of rage, alioating that they would have rerenge. Not finding one of the mnrderera ready to their hand* they ran about the street* assaulting every one who waa dreteed after the manner of Europeans. That night a Nihilist committee having headquarters in the town met and de cided that the priest who had unwit tingly instigated the riot should be put to death. They oaat lota and a young girl was designated for the bloody work. She turned deathly pale, but promised tho committee should be sat iafled and iU sentence carried out Two night* afterward the priest WM awakened by the noise of an explosion in his daughter's room. He hurried to ttte spot and there found the girl lying just slive st the foot of bear bed. She explained that she bad been chosen by lot to murder the priest, but had pre ferred to kill herself rather than her father. Bii* refused to divulge the names of her aoootaplioee, and iu a tsw momenta waa dead.