BUBBLES, ‘e blew two bubbles, one fair day, ! Myloveand I, my loveand I, And gave them, as they sailed away, iy Our names, my love and L We said, ‘If these frail namesakes rise Together in the sunny skies, ‘ Whole and unbroken, till we lose Among the clouds their changing hues Then we shall know that neither heart Will aver break, nor ever part From its one mate, our lifetimo through, Until we die But each keep whole, and aash keep true My precious love and I'! But ah! should either sink or break, My love or I, my love or |, One heart will change, and one will Alas, my love and I!" ‘We smiled to see the shining things Go soaring up on viewless wings, Fair crystal spheres of iris-light — And resling through the dizzy air Flashed like athought and vanished where? “Alas '" we sald, ‘how sad and strange? Why is it—why, acho That must die or one must change, My happy love or 17" ono *Tis many a sur My l ove and I, Thus sported in the bloom and dew, My no ve and I. Long vears, with varying shade and light, Have passed, lik The old tradition t wo knew, And grieved because we th Proved {alse many a For n The constan nmer since we two, ve and I. my erry | a bubbles, out of sight yught it true, me beside vith xi and neither died. a had ol y ald | 134) itry more, love and I! in Worthington's Magazine. THEIR WEDDING DAY. HE village of Tong | ] d fair 142} Jur | |® 100K¢ 16 KRDDERATaAnCe tf ACross fromm ing and fut summer breege ll, however, studded Was with Hor Ts bride » [39 treat ing was the cupied the with the high around it was called —for about ten years. She was a widow, and Eve was her only child. 4 if i) Waa “Tong the villagers did not half ca for the net Mrs. Darling Kept berself to herself a deal too much Ff their « comfort. But a8 Eva grew fron ] ten to a girl of fifteen, 1d seventeen thes was 1 tanding agai her Ther davs treat, tere mothe: the red hot wails VOOR ers chars VR governe t her th i Destin the las of the + 4} 0 we gL at Mrs entry Darlinz cared Hotes kbs ACTORS A he Cireat hureh, WEE 1 14 AT Aad iver in it, ands “lireat House Fons het the i be § he dark wooded had Great Hause Mrs, Parla mere Arch: the first. AT r 3411 re twos the family, 4 ar vesrs older re. this indy MAR ff 1 them should mares the S00 Was i 2 olde E hint tance raattor’ so vers nich which ma he irl Mes Dantin. Thes men of prowi ts baracter. “the Pantihs TE ss whin theceiare Jat ming nlway two termine VATICA AE 1 an the } lel scientific kept @% meni Jand Ho » but =» 31 bat with WAS slow in awh he h Wi tint Plivbig; | possiblh like Frank goodJoaking fellts, mn lemp woo it PN Fon had set) i himself wae ripe for marriage with the pate girl. Anon he seid amp athe the resent. nt ho. could hardly hells ieeling, bul it was mere ‘Seenifg: his jealousy Lmrned fis hesrt.) . Darling flies, but everything for athlgbicsy suite apd pretty facps. Heojgvmen s 49, handsome lad, frank abil generon He knew early in his eouriship’ s.vmat he Lid but to ask Eva to mari vith y h 3 The girl's dark eyes could mi key !® Ok. you silly 1” was the inte ( ‘ ® ue 0 | quiet hitch t somew hut forced, and {silent suddenly now and then. I a man of his word { Darling. { But | her. ftion ar Las the yonnger wl. from the mother n Nature seems des | their secret; her cheek, with ‘a blush every time they met. | And so they had plighted their troth | and were duly to he married this June morning. They were likely to make | a very comely couple at the altar, with | the great tombs of departed Dantins north and south of them, Meanwhile, though everything was quite ready for the bridal procession to leave the Retreat and’ cross the road there was delay. It was to be al wedding. A dozen friends of the Darlings were in the drawing-room talking and smiling and enjoying the | perfume of the flowers which ‘lay on the table. Still somewhere. there was clearly a The smiles were the guests fell Mrs. Darling made eivil forays into their midst at jervale She was evidently a strong-fninded woman, as was indicated by her composed man ner, her hard, incisive tones and her | gold, searching blue eyes. Some one was caught whispering, “Will it not have to be postponed?” The words reached Mrs. Darling's ears ‘Oh, no," she replied promptly, with an icy but sparkling smile. “Dea: Eva 18 quite satisfied that John Dan- tin will not fail to be present, He Mrs, Darling, it is this sudden disappear objected one of the guests, added “Yes, but, dear go very odd, ance,’ “Three days “You, the Yé's no Dantin 18 an though an excellent one best Here entered ing room, CYes Spe An Mrs denying it. REO, Jack Eva he reelf and all audible towards murmur of satisfac rand certain men of 1 the bridegr: was a beantiful bride undeniably disturbed would the party } wom involuntarily and er pli such linve Sweetness in the momen arling £6, ils “Of course he wilt hor He will n Ths re aa i ie her eves of a very pngnacions And 80 walked ove t dRre stops i n a momentary finah Kind. f FRE i crimson procession r the stretched from the porch to » where the motto, with you!" looked down « gitst of wind set the pocket of and ‘Foy yn theses den gat fins bits uti A murmur of volees als Abou a wid Thor { ri fs chie and flannel Hi merrily greeted the bride'sappoaranes once in half a century Tong saw ding of this kind, It wis a spestachs by no m to bie lost A cortan bedridden villazer had been carried wito the bit of a gardes in front of his gittace, ‘bedding sod wil, to behold the wight. Futian ANA “smiong them did nat sass at all fright ened by so hiian company ito the éhiarch, nat 1 ariive geanee much Thus they passed i ithont : park towards the Great House, Mr. Dantin'a roval Uadiger 1 w many a f aver bidding, was in spite of vtrich, at ving the WIL Jack & aber Inside thes ng wderness #ipast a Pasiton “1 wm Paring, ‘that not to 1 et with by Mr. ke of the head id to Mra Was were i Os The lady tomecd her head slightly il seemed disposed to be angry x most extraordinary thine. clarmed, looking at the leek in the chureh It wasted eid o the time. The old rectir pit a gas face on thy Why, tral, shonld he He hal buried ated wed] ded wo pe ple that he had come to view r import of the minntes t EIR Sl F218 fis Ceredrony as L0H ry “You have bo eons again another my dear Miss Eva,’ Br axud, ‘that Fad must not psd, TE as the linked sweetness of expewtation, long drawn.ont; that is atl." SPnt cand for cones there was a i of. petnlance an thie girls voice, ag hier ayes: clouded with tears, ‘lit i» orinlike him. 1 fear samething must Lgve happened to him. Philip,” &hy altdad, making » suddin supest tthe ann who was Lo be made Her Drother- “have yon any Llea what it Hav, 19 0 $ 4% LO LOA BW, How shot RY wa thateply, [asthe elder Daniin sbhuflleil away, VEY. op © Philip’. face was utiisiatly pale. Chere wasono candor i 1s oye even ‘seen through his specfacion. mil! Ontaide thelehfirah and in the body het typo whalle then bo | of the Gartd ing the whispers were nf x The village | Hight lie-alept he knew not where, with'| py), sion begin to rot away, a-block bf chiseled-stone for a pillow. of LA mateh light had shown him that he Fwadin a sort of cul-de-sao—a pile. of | of tyme by holes. Even so-called hand- noun; ngments, earth and bits of iron | qa papers are often no more durable, | ‘more emphatic naturs, Young men. ltwas fa CMbster Japko ha] fig dnl | i put het in bad rin, wha thir ix own mind that hey b | matd too, told of it reply— ‘not jest yet, o' coorse. They'll " wait 4 bit yo'll see, Three minutes to eleven, and still | | no bridegroom ! * - Ld ’ For an explanation of this unusually dramatic scene in Tong Church we niust go back three days. Philip Dantin had striven to keep his rage against his brother within due bounds, but had failed. His staffed specimens in the subterranean rooms could not . Ld Ld console him, nor could his live beasts | either. These underground rooms were quite a remarkable feature of the Great House. They dated, from the sixteenth century, if not eaglier, For one hundred years or more §hey were disused. Philip, however, Hersuaded his father to expend money in making them tolerably habitable and very suitable for the kind of museum he had accumulated, The { of them was the very ‘sanctum sancto. ritm” of his operations, At its ex treme end there was an ancient door way of chiselled stone several inches in thickness, and beyond that utter darkness and the beginning of a laby rinth which had not been explored for ages and was left to itself, It was be lieved to have On this third evening before the day that was to make him a happy fellow, Jack Dantin found his way into his brother's den to have a chat with him. For a time Philip bore with his high spirits uncomplainingly, though Jack's praises of Eva were like Eventu however, his patience gave way xelomation which made HO 1880, BO many thorns in his side, ally, He uttered his brother start in surprise “Why, old fellow, what is the mat ? You surely don't He stopped that in Philip's face which USER "” \ said should« I wri at? vaved the alligator, tin had been 1} “The PRssAY it I'll find the The key was four was 3 nu Philip, who was near back, banged it, and had sped park in a re markably short of time. He threw the key into one of the ponds, fell to congratulating him est the sipped locked mto the y Stars and 1 oil 100 ALG hie Rp a and then seif npon his diabolical conduct Sin then he had got wv - oe Tae A00TE WE jacked. No one conld get access to them, HH Jack Dantin shouted till his lungs mrst no one would hear him. It mas be imagined what a wretched yet fearfully glad time this interval the wedding to-day was for Philip Dantin. He professed to be entirely ig f his brother's hinted having across country to bafore norant « but $7 whereabonts, nt n str ain large town whence here with London The elder Dantin and idence was a constant train connection the servants had eyery o« in Jack's reap pearance in time for the wedding, and that until the eve of the day Philip, too, uxpressed bis agreement with thy View of the matter. In fact, however, poor Jack, he realized what had befallen gave himself up tor lost rible to remember where renmstances, and stun- ning do re that his brother had incarcerated him. As the aonrs sped by he saw clearly that he was destined to die, and that Philip meant to profit by his death, most habitual smokers, he carried matches with him. For a time he was Javish with them, then he husbanded them The hours passed. told him that it was night. He wound it up, slept, reawakened, and struck more matches itself, when him, It was ter he was under snch woeful a 13 call ft was wo | 8 passage through which he conld worm { wos 9 o'clock of his wedding morning. | seemed to him that he furthermost | { his fingers, uttered a ery of joy, pushed 1] bridegroom ! Like i | i His watéh | In the meantime he had thought of | many things. But in one thing only did he take sny interest. The passion of self-preservation was strong in him, for his own sake and Eva's solved to try the passages and see if liaply he might prove the truth of the | certain time, him he had made a clean breach seme- where, though he conld not feel where, He worked on through the night. His wedding day dawned above, and he was still boring in this noisome hole for dear ife and his bride. Gradually the current of air increased in volume, and at length he had made his way. He looked at his watch by the light of his last match but one, It Though ready to faint from fatigue and exhaustion, he went on in this new passage, groping like a mole, It had lived all his days in darkness. Ten o'clock! Half past 10! A quarter to 11! Ata quarter to 11 he was snddenly lazzled { by a faint streak of blessed daylight. It was far in front of him, or seemed He ran towards it on hands and knees, touched door with BO, a wooden the door, which yielded, and saw be- fore him a thick red enrtain, which he recognized in a moment as belonging to the vestry of Tong Church. » - » » - » Three 11, and still no A second later, however, Jack Dantin staggered from the vestry door into the church seen by the wedding minutes to and saw and was party in mire, bruised his clothing BOTTY spectacle of mind and and bleeding, and with torn in all directic “1 am not too after all” he fell by the late, eried, and then down he altar rails Some one also fell almost at the same instant Philip Dantin went pale As Aa brother, Hi whispered 1 corpse when he saw his toward E 1 A hoarse YOIL0% and reels Vi, upon the pavement, . . y Dantin's mis [ag ju Fie for several weeks and then died Before 18 crime and its cons juenoes lived his death, however him the cruel forgave dee nad wrought in a mon ce — WISE WORDS, young ms The Tre than gr Do not den your It certainly take re contagion nn others to bear the In ¥ oy song vain people happy. We follow gives us the advantage I'ake up the first cross ii come Yo, me Arde tT pera It is 80 easy to convert others. tis | whole pan dowdy three so difficult to convert oneself. It is much easier to be contented without riches than it is with them. of a ton onnee is in There amore help in Aan encouragement than there f advice To arrive Lievens, really bu through lips what HH ni nt ae one must dif¥ rent from One's own. Home is the one spot where aff tion d« } yminates, the one school where ninds become expanded and « formed. I narac ters are Power will intoxicate the best hearts No 18 Wise ¢ nough nor good enough to x trusted with unlimited power as wine the strongest heads man As a man may be esting all day, an for want of digestion is readers with never nour she 1. 8 ndless cram themselves food may in vain intellectual Some minds seem built tight compartments, and th them are kept shat very truths in the understanding influence on the will, 3 LER 13 80 have —_—_— The Decay of M. Delisle, the principal librarian at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, warns us that our modern literature destined to perish Of the 2000 and odd volumes published annually in France, not one, he thinks, will remain after a Cheap paper is a splen- Books, { did thing in ite way, but this is the He re- { price we must pay for it. Old-fash ioned paper made from rags has stood the test of hundreds of years, as the many fine specimens of fifteenth-cen- | old legend which ninde them a aort of | ¢.0¢ printing show, to say nothing of arterial connection between thechurch and. the Great. House, | still earlier books in manuscript The first day i Nowadays, however, paper is made of was spent in the grim gropings, which | o1f sorts of material of a more or less soefned likely to. be only too fatile, himsell in the stifling maze, That ing the way, as'it seemed, to future gross in that direction. “This “second night was a sorrowful indeed. There wera times shen poor fellow, felt he should lose his Ba C I senses, © At last, however, he slept, and AL 0 § twhen; he awoke he struck one nore as Providence willed ioc) hime? «0 0, VEG Ho'w he toiled at his task! At first ) hu FIN W hat Zio wT PIETER brother |. 1 do eall that--li.: 0. bh fo " Dn irate | de fined a sharp-edged piece of odurrowed with his fingers; latterly stone ke a chisel. All day he worked. |The wall diminished in thickness, A breath of air ja Wi ‘nce fold wil “4 Heir only resalt:wasto make him lose | oo M. Delisle i | “one of Grisi's famous sire, but omitted perishable character. In particular, points out, books printed on paper made from wood At first the pages sre covered by yellow spots, and these are replaced in course being treated with chemicals that slowly destroy them. London Duily News ss — She «Shook. Queen Vieloria ie an excellent pian. ist, with a. remarkably correct ear, on easion the queen asked her to sing, and she, with fear and trembling, sang the shake at the end. The queen im- mediately detected the omission, and, similingly, her majesiy said to Lady Normenby, her sister: “Does not your wigter shake, Lady Normanby?" To which that lady promptly replied : “Oh, yvs, ma'am; she is shaking all over." Argonaut, | HOUSEHOLD AFF IRS, GERMAN HOLIDAY BREAD, The author of a celebrated cook book sends to the American Agrienl turist this recipe: In the evening set # sponge as usual for bread, in quan tity enough for three loaves, In morning, when fully risen, add one pound of brown sugar, one pint of dried apples, or pears, minced fine one pint of broken hickory or walnut three tablespocufuls of cars way and one of corisnder seeds. Mix thoroughly, mold into loaves and bake when Hight. Wrap lonf towel and put in a cool place, keep for several weeks, the ments, each in a it will OLD-FASHIONED CURRANT DUMPLINGS, Old-fashioned boiled in a cloth, tables, and yet it is generally a favor ite, and will be fonud just the thing to vary the desserts, It Into a pint of flour, heaping teaspool and half a large teacupfnl of finely chopped beet currant dumpling, is seldom seen on our is made thus: sifted, with a ful of baking powder rub a teaspoonful of salt, cenrrants, washed suet and the same of thoroughly and « with a fork stir cold water to make a rath dough. Put this a floured canton flannel cloth, rough side ont to swell $14 closely NOw enough very about of a eupful bisenit-like all yw with a into a potful of ing room stout string and i for three water ; not let ouing : . 1 nresses husbands and oy as deli pt 1 crust mingle their flavors in a happy moment and the cook hits 5 ted | rot ers OTs, Vide Onay the apple an the proportions of seasoning to per- fection. Mr. Hawthorne says sa sec- tion of it looks like African marble, wel © 10 ¢ inches deep snd a pile afterward and ten wheat ACT ORS cake “ Agricnlturist, used in tumblers wash id water, afterward rinse in hot water We ak LS ig be streagiher by sticking aster undern« q ‘ puts one at a time, J the stove 1 prevent el kers, veler shells, wien Io rightly fins vice for a § r tw which boiled a desirable lemon, filled eaten, still often A roasted or while hot with sugar and hot, just before retiring break ap a cold Sait will eurdle fod, in preparing gravies, ste., do the dish is prepared will new milk: there milk porridge not add the salt until Bread and eake bowls, or any dishes in which flour and eggs have used, are more easily cleaned if placed in cold water after using. If a bottle or fruit jar is placed on a towel we'll soaked in hol water, there is litle danger of its being cracked by the introduction of a ho hquid. been It in said that chocolate cake can be kept fresh by wrapping it tightly in buttered pape= and putting it in a tin box sway from all other substances, The simplest way to keep an oiled table “‘nice and new” is to wipe it over thoronghly once sa week with a flannel cloth well wet in good kerosene oil. For frying always put a pound or two of fat in the pan. This sno waste, as the same fat ean be used over and over by pouring it through a strainer into a crock kept for the purpose. The eardasazl onde in a kitchen is to clean up ax yon go, and if attended to this saves half the labor and fatigue cooks suffer from who pursue the old method of having a grand and compre: heneive “clean up.” Malachite, agate and azurine, when broken, may be cemented with su phur, melted at lox heat, so as not to i change its color, in which different pig ments are stirred to give it proper tints like the stones To bake bananss, strip from one side a piece of the skin. Then loosen the skin from the sides of the fruit, dust well with granulated sugar and bake in a moderate oven hall sn hour. Berve hot in the skins Wi B— ————————— ———————————— A... M——— —————— ———— An Expensive Trolley Experiment, | | The attempt of the big Brookiyd | syndicate to popularize the trolley i | thattown is becoming an expensive | experiment, There seems to be | natural prejudice against the trolley | as 6 means of motive power Fast, and the misfortune of in tk its Adve cates in Loving to pay heavy damaged] just ones, nevertheless—for inflict. ing injury to persons sand vehicles has discouraged attempts to introduce if into other cities. Brooklyn prac- tically gridironed with trolley wires, and the gigantic syndieste which i pushing it all over the country made that city the proving ground for all its efforts, believing that if it were successful there it would soon find fa- vor in most of the other cities in the country, After a year's experiment its success 18 equivocal, { furnishing | E) As a mears of the City of Churches, which is also a city of homes, with rapid transit, it bas justified the expectations of its But in developing it to more than thirty persons have been killed by the wild flight of the cars and 200 others crippled, in of trucks and ordinary vehicles These deep and he trolley, promoters, this stage addition to a general devastation casualties have erected = owing public aversion to { : | 1 ¥ fa Le success Of mt wiped ont the i ate or damages x profits of the synd WL EeVAry claim { 3 relia . : troliey lines has been al- propo Nave been nt The other courts a { 212.500 courts, and the sed the svstem md been Car r railway, re than y fares | its various he Manhattan Elevated Railway any, New York City, is making a no profit of $15,000 per day, I Somebody's Good, ived on Toe . 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