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IVHBAT. DH'MBKI I, 1*M.
IN A BALL ROOM.
A 9TMV.
The cloak-room »m clearing Gut,and
the pile* of ahawhraad wraps *tUwU-d j
to the fee* that the m^Jbrity of the com
pany bait arrived. The shire Hunt '
Ball, twenty yearn ago, begau early.
Being the great event of the year to
many sober country people, they made
a point of arriving at the very begin
ning and .staying to the em1. Tue
mime bad been mounding merrily fur
sometime, when two ladies came in, evi
dently mother and daughter; the one, |
uiiddle-aged. calm and sedate; the 1
other, young, eager* and excited. The
latter Hung off her cloak, gave a hasty
glance at tbe gtasa, ami sto»d quivering
with Impatience, while her mother
leisurely divested bernlf of her wrajw
her cap.
C, mother darling," the
i. "Your cap is ail right 1
lovely. We are mo late.
'U1 be quite tired of wait- |
r said the mother dryly:
Ha dreadful lldget lest ail
dies should be engaged,
no partuer left for him."
„ lushed s\nd laughed.
Never.mind, Florrie; if anybody
wants to dance *ritb you, they will
manage ft aomety>w."
Florrie blushed.again, while a finite
of the ttost perfect content broke over
herfeoe. ,1% was ■» fair young face,
prKty oot with pny wenderfui beauty,
hut with freahneMti, .innocence, and
sweet temper; a fece that weary pater
familias, yawning in doorways would
eomment^ipon with* approt>ation; that
jealous mother* would not pU k to
> pieces, and that daughters would ad
mire without envy.
They fbiiu<j« "poor papa" warmly dis
cussing some magisterial difficulty with
a county neighbor, and bearing this
enforced delay of his entrant-*- to the
bail -room with perfect equanimity.
■they eoter*»d; howTtfwently site rwpond
edtotbe greetings of various frieutU!
' Even the gentlemau who soliciWtl the
• favor of a dance • rettlved but half her
attaution. She- wa* only seventeen,
-apd bad not y vt learned the art or the
necessity of coue«M»Iiiig tier feeling*.
Ever>- emotion wrote it»elf in Hear
letters on Shat childish face.
Vp and doia the room Iter
• Jtray eyes wandered a* she stood by her
mother, wagerly ^canning the groui>s of
dancerp, and t£en a sudden light cauie
into tlwut, a r\i-l» of color into Iter
cheek.*, ais a \oung man detached him
self from a knot of red*eoated sports
men and approached her. With what
' a radiant smiloshti greeted him! Her
-nifther noted it and sighed; a sour
toaiden of forty seeing it, sighed too,
and said to bec^lf: "What a tlirt that
girl is," t>ut even while saying it she
knew she waa unjust. The young man
did not sigh. He smiled a* smile al
njoet as radiant as Florrie's owu—al
most. not quite.
**Oh, Miss Darley," he U'gan, "I
* thought jfou were never coining."
' "I thought we never were," she re
plied naively; "but we are here now,"
she added in a tone of extreme satis
fa-tion. *
**Yea you are hero now,'' he said,
"and you will stay to the end and give
me a great many dances. Wouldn't
you like some tea"."' Of course she
would iike some tea, and as she wis
going to dance the next waits with hiui
It wan hardly worth while to return to
her mother for the few iuterveuiug
B moments. , • A-v j
*• tyiatrw,wM no tlirt, but she wawhnhr
just out, had seen nothing or
and bad never stirred from undW her^
mother's wing. What wonder th»'fi
ahe was completely captivated by
handsome young solul*,, who cont.*fveu '
i hi ho many little Way* to .oaply,
though he had i^jL sai'J it, .hat he
** lovml her. She «raa over he»j a ad ears
w. dotted that he was or
her husband, and hail the
* iu^yuuta.
.Inly very happy in her
-ould willingly nave sit
by her aide and danced with her the
whole nhrht- Rut Klorrie had been
well drilled on this point. She looked
wistfully at her programme when he
handed it back to her half tilled with
his own name.
"You must scratch them all out hut
two. I should like it, but I musu't,"
she said simply.
A look came over his face that half
charmed, half frightened her.
"Ah!" he began eagerly, and then
" ehtcked himself. "1 should like it,
but I inusn't," lie added half under his
breath.
•—> > -» — i
**I>id you speak?" she asked.
"No, no; therv is the music. Come."
To say that Florrie enjoyed the b;»ll
would be to exprew it feebly.
She was simply steeped
in content. Whether shedauced, or sat
unnoticed bv her mot tier's side, she was
profoundTy nappy. Then she had that
second dance to look forward to, and
resolutely refused to go to the tea-room
till then, that she might honestly want
some refreshment after it. Then fol
lowed another ten minutes, of whk*h
each moment was a life-time of bliss,
never to be forgotten.
As they passed into the ball-room
they met a girl coming out who bad
already attracted Mr. ley ton's atten
tion by her extreme beauty—her da2
sllng complexion, her ma*<es of golden
l>air, and her big blue eye*. She was
leaning on the arm of a miserable-look
ing little man, who had beeu heading
the train of her admirers the whole
evening, and who did not ap|>ear, judg
ing from his countenance, to have de
rived much comfort from the amuse
ment. The young lady stopped Florrie,
saving:
''Well, Florrie, are you enjoying your
self* I have tried vainly to catch your
eye the whole evenihg, but you have
been 90 occupied you would not look at
me."
There was an undercurrent of sar
casm in the tone which was quite lost
on Florrie, who replied enthusiastic
ally:
'•I am enjoying myself immensely."
The beauty smiled and passed on,
giving Mr. Peyton a glance from under
her long eyelashes that kept him silent
till they got back to Mrs. Parley.
"Who is that young lady?" be asked.
"She is Miss Talbot," Florrie Said. -'Is
she not pretty?"
. Over fcer, too, bad conie s vague in,,
definable sensation of something, she
■could not tell what, tliat jarred upon
her.
A few minutes after Mr. Peyton h:>;l
moved away Alice Talbot rarne up,
And, dismissing her disconsolate partner
With a careless nod, she sakl:
'ii)ear Mrs. Darley. mar I sit by you?
Pa pa is always in the middle of a group
♦fgentlemen, snd I never can get near
I torn." Mrs. Parley cordially consent*!,
not without a little wonder, for Mm
lUbtK wa$ accustomed to go about
alone with her father, and did not
Vually appear to ftel the want ofa lady
was your last partner, Florrie?"
Jtlice inquired.
V'Mr. Peyton," said Florrie.
i "Mr. Peyton,!'Alice repeated. "Oh,
Of course— f know. He is one of the
•fticers of the —tb. You must intro
duce him to me. He baa called on us
d It seems fooiish not to know
n,
f
A few minutes l&ter-tbe introduction
made. But Mr. Peyton did not
disposed to spend much time on
Alice Talbot He turned to KlotTle
eagerly and said :
"Will you lft me take you iuto sup
per*'
Then tbe vague shadow vanished at
ou<-e from tbe girl's miud.
"Yot must just let me have on#
more dam* wkh Miss Darley," Mr.
I'eytoo aaid when Mr. Darley express
ed bis decided conviction that it was
time to go, and the father could uot re
sist bis child's happy pleading eye*
SI. rt tabled old gealleuiao, l» won
d* red w ant there was in daaciBg (hat
alt girls were so fund of it.
When the dance wan ov*r and the
pair came back tlicy found Alice Tal
bot stoutly r*»iMtiug an attempt on tbe
part of her father to take her away.
"I must stay for tbe next dance, papa.
I am engaged to your good-looking
friend," >he added in a whisper to Flor
rie. "I wouldn't miss it for the
world."
But Florrie liaidly heard her. She
was absolutely wild with excitement.
Never before "bad Mr. Peyton been so
devoied; never l*fore bail she been so
Mire that he loved her. nor had she
realized what it was to be so loved.
"I shall *ee you on Tuesday at the
(inlyV' he said, as they stood waiting
for the carriage, looking down with
more tenderness than he perhajw kuew
into the flushed happy face.
It brightened, if that were possible.
"But I thought you said you were ou
duty that day.
"I'll get otf somehow. I would risk
a court-martial soouer than miss seeing
you."
"That would be wrong," she said
gravely, with her earnest eyee fixed on
bis face. I hope you w ould not neglect
your duty on any consideration. I am
sure you would not," she added in a
tone of deep conviction.
"I never will after that," he said in a
a very low voice.
"Do you know that this dance has
begun ever so long ago?" she said
presently, "and I know that you are
engaged to Miss la blot for it."
"Oh, Miss Talbot is so inundated with
partners, that I am sure she won't have
waited for me," be replied carelessly. ,
Nevertheless, he found that she had
waited for him, though there were
several gentlemen eager to supply his
place.
Wheu he apologized she gave him a
brilliaut smile, and said she ipiite un
derstood and forgave him.
Meantime tbe Darlcys drove home.
Tbe inoou shone down on the father
dozing in bis corner; on the mother,
silent, with many anxious hopes and
fears regarding htr darling; and on that
darling, sitting upright, and wide
awake, ga/ing iuto tbe clear frosty sky,
and murmuring over and over again to j
herself, "I am so happy, I am so happy." I
It was six months later, one hot night
in Juue, that Florence Darley followed
her mother into another ball-room.
Only six months. But n great deal of
experience can be gained in tbat time,
and Florrie bad acquired rather more
than her share.
All iuUescriiuiUie ClUtllgu nau cume
over her whole faee ami manner. Some
thing o!" her sweet MneM and happy
content were g<itH'. A touch of rcstless
dw, even fretfuiness, ',ad taken tlieir
place. She was as profoundly iuditfer
ent to moat of her acquaintances as she
had been on a former occasion, hut she
made an effort to conceal it, and when
she lookid round the room it was with
hasty furtive glances.
No one rushed eagerly up to her now
to express delight at her arrival and to
claim half a dozen dancc*. Hut Florrie
bad not been in tbe room a minute be
fore the knew tbat Mr. Peyton was
there. He was standing by Alice Tal
bot, who was looking more brilliaut
and beautiful even than usual, and was
Ustowing her brightest smiles and aU
her powers of fascination upon him.
With miserable, fitter humility Florrie
owned that it was no wonder he had
neither (-yes nor i-ars for any one else,
liut the acknow lodgement did u4K make
it Itss hard to bear.
"She has so many admirers she might
have left him alone," said the po»r little
thing to herself. But she has held her
self bravely to,o»,J^p»rd appearance. A
handled times Tfcf nicked herself in
the act of*3f 2r "«.••• wander in
search of k 'ttting . ' and talked
■ , Ww£pi*"*™ w
nia#*y 0,,l\I,..t "1e uev«tf knew
s ' u^fSnin
S?5fiSh?.Si Anr
to her, she was apparently so (W>
tnrtWA-d i«i > L.
have spared herself that small piece of
hypocrisy, for by him it passed unno
ticed, and only brought a smile of derie- :
ion to Alice's face. Florrie herself spent
the rest of the night in regretting it.
For, alter all, a smile or a how from
him would have beeu better than uoth
ing
Mrs. Ihurley looked anxiously in the
girl's pale face and eyes that had so
deep a look of pain in tbeui, though
thelips smiled so incessantly.
"I thiuk, mv darling," she said at
last, ''that it is time to go."
"It is quite early," Florrie said wist
fully. Siie could uot voluntarily give
up the last chance.
Hut the mother knew how vain it
was to wait, and that the sooner they
! went the better it would be for Florrie's
peace.
'Is- ■ I M ..1— !(..
! "and it is later than you think."
'lheu Florrie acquiesced at onw. It
was over, then, this evening that she
| had looked forward to with such fever
ish hope and fear;, and what had it
brought? Only the establishment of
the miserable conviction that she had
fought aim in 4 for weeks past. He was
indeed lost to her. Vet, with the incon
> siateney of human nature, she began at
on*-e to consider when and where she
might have another opportunity of see
ing hiiu. She thought even that an oc
casional glimpse of his fact-, a word or
; a smile, would satisfy her. 'And she hud
I if
At the top of the stairs they met him
and Alice.
"(.ioing already?" said the latter,
1 jrayly. "Have you enjoyed yourself,
j Florrie?"
"Very much." said Florrie, promptly,
and was about to pass oo, for her mother
j was already at the J »ot of the stairs,
when Mr. revton cheeked her by say
ing, with a slight expression of uneas
iness on his handsome face:
"I was so sorry you were out when F
called yesterday. 1 came to say good
bye. I am off to Southampton to
morrow, thence to India." Even Alice,
who never took her sparkling eyes off
the girl's sensitive face, could not de
tect by the quiver of a muscle that this
was the first intimation Florrie had
had of the fact. She looked with cool
i-omposure at the young man, as she
*aid, quietly :
"I am very sorry we mi.<«<ed you."
"And you will not stay and give me
one dance?" he raid.
"I am afraid I can't. My mother is
tired."
"Well, you must keep one for me at
the first ball we meet at ou my return
from India."
"Oh, certainly^# jfio are not eaten bv
a tiger in the meanwhile,''she answered,
laughing. "Good-bye—boo voyage."
And with a nod and a smile she ran"
lightly down the staircase.
He'turned to Alice.
"I won't let myself be eaten by a
tiger as long as I know you, my darl
ing. Are you waiting for me."
"Hush!" she said, glancing round
uneasily. "You must make a fortune,
before you cau have the right to call
me that. My father will- never consent
otherwise."
"Trust me. Only sav you will be
true to me."
She raised her lovely eyes to his
face for a moment, and he did not
notice that she said nothing.
He walked home in the early morn
ing, smoking a cigar, and Kidding
castle# in the air, of which Alice Tal
bot was always queen; while Florrie,
still in her balKircus, knelt In her little
room at the top of the house beside
the open window, looking over the
wide expanse of London chimney-pois,
and sobbing: •
"I am so miserable—I am so miser
able."
It was eighteen yean since that
memorable hunt baJI, which Florence
Dariey bad marked as a white-letter
day in her life, when she ouce mure
found herself within thsold wall* of
the coifl house for a similar festivity.
Florence Darlfy still, an# likely to Te
nia it so. lioth in her own opinion
and in that of tier friends, though a few
of her contemporaries wero disposed to
consider her conUnU'd acceptance of
ihe title of "old maid" ax a personal
injury to themselves. And truly she
wait only thirty-six, and might have
pasted for younger had she chosen to
assume the manner aud dress of youth.
But she bad long since lost her parent*,
and liad, moreover, two grown-up
nieces, who, motherless, looked up to
her as to a mother so she had uo wish
to cling to youug-Jadybood. She had
pJa<<ed bersrtf in the ranks of the cban
< rous, aud it was la tbst character sne
csnte to-night.
"Sly dear Florrie, you really make
youiself ridiculous »itti your assump
tion of old age," said a tali, goldeu
L-airtd woman who eutered the riKun
just behind her.
This was the celebrated beauty,
Lady Norleigh, ouce .Miss Talbot. She
was still lovely, though there were hard
lines now round the U-autiful mouth,
and a restless look of weariness and din
content in the large blue eyes—a cur
ious contrast to Florae's serene con
tent.
"How do you do, Alice?" said Miss
I>arley, declining to argue the point. I
thought you were in London. What
brings you into these parts ?"
"Oh, I came," said Lady Norleigh
flippantly, "because Norleigh wanted
me not to come."
Norleigh, standing by,laughed feoblv,
and tried to look as if it were a joke, iu
which attempt he foiled. He was that
miserable-looking little man who had
hoverOd so humbly round Alice in this
very room years ago. Several unex
pected deaths had considerably al
tered Miss Talbot's sentiments toward
him. Nevertheless he looked none the
happier for his double good fortune.
Iiiay Norleigh passed on in her dia
monds, lace, and satin—the cynosure of
all eyes—while Florrie, in her sober
black gown, placed hersolfon a bench,
prepared to amuse hetsclf by watching
her girls amuse themselves, though her
attention wandered a good ileal to her
former rival.
"Auutie," said one of her nieces, sud
denly starting her from an intent, half
sad, hiilf-amused oltservatiou of Lady
Norleigh, "I want to introduce—" the
name was lost.
"I think I have had the pleasure of
meeting your aunt before,Miss Darley,"
said a voice which in eighteen years
liKiinrlit h'lorritt'ii
Iiau urui U.JI.. my
memory ;whieh even uow brought suisli a
rush of mingled |>uiii and pleasure,
Mich suffocating heartbeat*, that, fur a
moment, the sedate old maid was un
able to speak. She shook bands with
the speaker aM if in a dream, waa dimly
conscious of his sitting down beside
her ami making trivial remarks about
the weather, the decorations of the
room and so on. (Jrudually she col
leett d herself enough to look at liim.
and to take in the change*time had
made in him. They were not many.
He was still handsome, but very much
older both in mauners and appearance
more so than even the lapse of years
accounted for, but Florrie dccidcd that
sue would have kuown him anywhere
lie did not stay beside her, and present
ly Florrie saw him talking to a very
pretty woman, whose youthful ap|»ear
anee, combined with her exceedingly
smart attire, proclaimed her a bride.
Whose bride? As Florrie noted the
aflictiouatc admiration with which
Colonel Peyton looked upon her, she
thought she had no need to ask, and,
indeed, almost at the same moment her
niece said to her:
"Is she not pretty? Mrs. Peyton, I
mean."
"She is very pretty," Florrie said,
with a smothered sigh. With profound,,
half painful interest she watched the
fair young wtfr.
"She looks good,." she thought, "as if
she would make a man happy. Heaven
bless nim. Heaven bless them both."
Col. Peyton, however, did not spend
the whole eveniner iu attendance upon
his bride. He presently went in search
o{ Lady XorJeigb, with whom he had
already renewed his acquaintance. She
was extremely gracious to him, and
mailed as brilliantly as ever, but it was
a uard smile.
There was a certain defiant hardness
now in her whole bearing.
"Well," she said, as they took their
places in a quadrille exactly opposite
Florrie,"how do you find Knglaua after
so many years of absence?"
"1 fiud it," he replied, "so changed
that I am tempted to return to ludh
and never to repeat this experiment."
"Ob, nonsence," she said, gayly. "I
suppose you did not expect to find every
thing just as you left it."
"No," he answered, smiling. "I was
hardly so unreasonable as that, but I
was not prej>ared for so many changes."
"Come, now. What changes?" she
urged. "For my part 1 could almost
fancy not an hour had past since—"
She paused, and then said: "Do you
remember a ball here about—well, I
won't say how many years ago."
"1 do remember," he said, gloomily.
"And here weal! are again," she con
tinued; "most of us at lcjist. Here am
I. here are you. and there''—with a
slight change In her voico and a glance
at Florrie-—"is Florence Darley.''
His manner changed too.
"Y«-s," ho said, ".she is not changed."
"You flatter h<r," Haid Lady Nor
leigh, sharply.
He looked confused for a moment, hut
went on undaunted.
"She looks us good, as sweet, a-* con
tented as .she diu eighteen years ago.
Hers is indent a face to make one feel
the better for looking at, to save one
from believing that then is no truth or
faith left in the world."
"The meaning of ibis tirade being,"
said ljuly Norleigh, sarcastically, "that
you are conceited enough to believe that
M iss Darley has been wearing the wil- I
low for you all these years. Don't look
so innocent and indignant. You know,
as well as I do, that you nearly broke
her heart once; oulyj luckily, hearts are
uot made of breakable stuff, and hers
was mended long ago." Then, with a
sudden softening of tone, perhaps with
some vague wish to atoue for the wrong
she had once so deliberately done Flor
er.ee Darley, she added half to herself:
"But the scar remains, I think. Yes,
you are right; she is a brave, true wo
man and you—were a fool."
"I know it," he said with a quiet
emphasis that Lady Norleigh quite uu
derstood.
When the dance was over and Colo
nel Peyton had left his partner, hp went
over to Florrie and sat down besi Je her.
"IX» you remember," he said, "that
you promised to dance with me the first
time we met on my return from India?
I am going to cNim that promise."
"And do you remember," she
answered, smilimr, "how many years
ago the promise was made?"
. "Then you do remember?" he said,
with an eagerness that moved her
strangely, it was so like bis old man
ner.
"Yes, I remember," she -said, "but
I never dance now; I am a chaperon."
"You a chaperon !'* he said. "How
very ridiculous! It seems but yester
day that you and I danced together in
this very room. I>o you remember
something you said to me that night,
about hoping 1 would never neglect my
duty?"
"Observations made in a ball-room
are seldom worth remembering," said
Florrie gravely. "It would be m >re
satisfactory if, instead of recalling all
(he nonsense you or I, or any one else,
may have talked so many years ago,
vou were to give me some account of
India."
"Oh, I will tend you some books
about it if you are interested in that
sort of thing," he said, his face falling
a little.
"Well, but tell me something about
what you have been doing all this
time," she said with an air of grave,
kind interest.
"I can tell you that in three words,"
he answered bitterly: "Haying the
fool, and yet I haw been saved from
many follies by that one speeoh of
vourK Your look and tone have
haunted—"
"I *»iould like bo much to bo i ntro
ll u ml to your wife, Colonel Peyton,"
Florrie interiupted.
w ife?" he s»id, astonished. "Oli,
you mu»t mean my sister-in-law. 1 have
not a Wife."
"I big your pardon," she faltered. '
"Somebody pointed her out to me as
your wife."
He looked with momentary surprise
at her crimson face, then tbe surprise
changed to an expreteiou of gladneM
and tenderness. But he only said:
•'When I have one I will certainly
introduce her to you."
The girls chatted gayly ou their way
home over the events of the ball,
wondering a little at "Auntie's" un
usual silence, while "Auntie" leaned
t>ack in tbe carriage with clasped hands,
and whispered softly:
"I have seen him again, and we
shall always be friends. Whatever
happens, I am content."
FIREFLY FLASHES.
A chance to stand on one's head:
Wods Lufltua'b eht.—New Haven Beg
ister.
A- Stalwart sister only: "Mrs. Sco
ville says she Is not mad." Then she
is not a member of the It-publican par
ty.—Norristown Herald.
Cards supplied: A Cortland man who
read at the end of tt friend's marriage
notice, "No cards," sent him a euchre
deck by the first mail.—Marathon Iu
dcj>enuent.
One, indeed: Housewife—"Before I
you employ must I you ask, 'Have you
a lover'.""* .Servant maideu —"One? I
should smile!"—Translated from Om
nibus.
Tbe blind fiddler: Jess—"It's a wou
dcrhoo he can see tae do't, and him
stone blin'!" Jock—"He disna need
tae see't, lass! He hears't wi' his fin
gers!"—London Punch.
The l>oarding-house turkey: "When
dem ar fo'teen boarders gits fru wid dat
turkey, Clarinda, 'pears tome dar will
be mighty little ler fur us to 'spress our
thankfulness ober."—Teius Sittings.
Starting ill business: A tramp ap
plied to a citizen of Austin for a nickel
to buy a loaf oT bread. "Can't you go
into auy business that is more profitable
than this?" "I'd like to open a bank
if I could only net the tools," was the
caudid reply.—Texas Siftings.
Ea«y enough : "How can I keep tiie
cattle from breaking down the fence to
get into my garden at nights?" *aid an
Austin man to a neighbor. "That's
easy enough." "But how can I keep
tbe cattle - from breaking down the
fence?" "By leaving the gate open."
—Texas Siftings.
An old hand ut it: An Austin grocer
grossly insulted Mrs. Mose Schatimburg
the other day, without intending it.
She is an immensely stout woman,and,
stepping on the scales, playfully re
quested the grocer to weigh her. As lie
adjusted the weights he remarked that
she weighed one hundred and niuety
pounds, which proved to be her exact
weight. "How did you come to guess
it?" sheasked. "I am used to guessing
at weights. 1 weighed hogs for five
\ears in Cincinnati." Texas Siftings.
LEFT ON AN ICE FLOE.
A Woumlrd SonuiHii .tlmndonH in Arc
Up Hnlrr* by n W hnlop.
&in tYuniHxeo Chtonicle.
Cant. Richard C'ogeiu, of the whaler
Rainbow, is charged with abandoning
Seaman Edward Lee, wounded and
bleeding, on an ice floe in the Arctic,on
the 11 tli of hist June. The case ia being
investigated by Commissioner Sawyer.
According to the statement of 8. »?•
Jewell, one (>f the Rainbow'sP-crefr, a
whale had been "raised" oh ibe morn
ing of the day in question, and four
boats under command of First Officer
Uilley in the steam launch started in
l»ursu?i, the witness being in Fourth
ilate Wallace's l>ont. The whale was
not sighted and Second Officer John
('orrigan and his boat's crew waited in
:» hole in the ice to see the whale spout.
While thus waiting, Corrigan's boat
was stove in the bottom and the report
of a gun was heard, whereat all the
boats came up, summing from the re
port that a whale had been struck. (*«>r
ligan made known that lie had "lost a
man," but the witness heard no reply
to the first officer'squestion of"Where s
the man'.'" The fourth officer's boat
link-took in tow the injured one, the
crew of which was engaged In baillug
her out to keep her above water. The
small breeze which had been blowing
when the l»oats started out half becomo
harder and harder aud the ice was clos
ing in all around so as to make escape
from the hole most necessary. I teach
ing the ship,Third Mate George Neville
volunteered to go after the lost man,
but ('orrigan replied that it was of no
use as he was dead.
The Rainbow sailed oft from the dan
ger from the rouning mass of Ice and no
attempt at rescue was made. Accord
ing to the witness' impression Lee was
in the bottom of the second officer's
boat and he did not know that such
was not the faet until the Rainbow was
boarded. A few days after, when ott
Cape Hope, some Indians came aboard
and one of them said that a white mtu,
with a wound in his arm, had been
.-ecu afloat on an ice-cake, but whether
dead or alive nobody could tell.
nhfg Frond I'roYM lnmle
<|dAvr •
A colored man living On Jndiana
street lately hud occasion to a*V the
advice ol the patrolman in that district
as to how he should treat some hoys who
called him names as he passed a cer
tain corner.
'•I wouldn't uiind 'em," was the re
ply.
"Jist what I reckoned on." said the
complainant. "I had my mind made
up to treat 'em wid proud disdain.
But dar's a naybur o' mine who frows
elulw at my dog an' cusse* my chill'en.
AVould you also come de proud disdain
over him?"
'•Yea I think no."
"An' dar's a white man libiti' round
de eo'ner who says I stole his ax. I
reckon dat proud disdain will flx him
if I keep it up long enough!"
"It certainly will."
"Wall, den it am settled dat I doan j
taik hack in n«»tie o' dese cases, but dar i
am one ting I want understood right
brah au' now. De tiex tiuie I am en
joyin' an' ehenin' siesta ou de door,
stepsand a six pound cabpage hits me
on dc middle west-button dar" won't
be no proud disdain to be had in any
grocery fur a mile roun'! I'.Je gwine to
riz up an* yell fur revenge an' shoot fur i
blood, an' de ossifer who interferes wid
me am gwine to be rendered uncon
scious for forty-eight diys!"—Detroit j
Free l*re*»*.
\a Olil-rvkloiiNl r«ra-Hhafhiac.
Crtmvbrll County .Vr"-«-Isttrr.
A crowd shucktd seven hundred
bushels of corn at Dan Patterson'®, the
other night. It was an old-fashioned,
ante-bellum Georgia corn shucking and
brought back vivid memories of youth.
Ah Sara Si *p pie-bays, after all had eaten
to their satisfaction of the luxuriant
supper genred by Aunt Sonhrorua and
others, the darkies collected in tlw yard
ami patted and sung th^following:
Haturday niglit and Sunday, too.
Purty g«l on my 10104;
Monday morning jea 'foreday
De white folks got me g wine.
Oh, git long, Li/.le Jane.
AfW-r which thecrowd dispersed, whoop
ing hurrah for Dan, his hospitality and 1
hi* crib of corn.
Only seven days elapsed alter the ,
wedding of a man at Dubuque before he
elo]*ed with the bride's couain.
THAT PLUMBER.
But whatsoe'er you have Is do.
Take »ot tbe specious plan.
Nor trout, I pray, a single day.
The demon plumber-man.
Farewell, farewell, but what I tell,
Totfelneown ease adapt;
And ere tm sleep this very night,
See if tit/ drains be trapped.
And hear In mind he tlreth beat.
Whom drain*, both great aad small
Are ordered best; aad to the mala
Have a miBaieat faU.
RELIGIOUS.
Topics of latareit io tha Denomi
national World.
Modem) Clerg>men and Their Influence—
" How to Reach Children—Gen
eral Religious Miscellany
—Note*.
B«*n Ctefgyan.
The clergy nowadays receive frequent
reminders that at beet they are rather
an unnecessary class of men. They arc
told that tbey rvpresent the waning and
dying power of priestcraft, that they are
the paid speeial pleaderoof a bad case in
a hostile court and before an indifferent
jury, that they are neither men nor.wo
men, but a cro«o between the two—with
moat of the vices of the former and al
the petty faults of the latter, and tha
at best they are only mild enthusiast
who sigh for a mythical past or dream
of an impossible future. Notwithstand
iug all these serious indictments brought
against them by the unbeliever or the
worldling, the clergy, as a whole, main
tain their place In the affections and re
gard of the i>eopIe. They take the lead
in our cities, towns and villages when
ever any movement is organized for let
tering the condition of mankind. No
other profession in the community
speaks to such a large constituency in
favor of morality and goodness. And
barring certain painful exceptions, no
other body of men in the community is
equal to them iu disinterestedness and
genuine goodness. The sneer of the iu
fidel will never olncure or change this
fact. And yet while admitting all this,
it is plaiuly apparent that the influence
ol the clergy is not only not what it
used to be, but not nearly as great as it
ought to be. The country parson of
England two hundred years ago, or the
1'urilan parson of New Euglaud one
hundred years ago, exercised much
more power and wielded a far wider in
fluence than ihe modern parson of to
day. Why this declension in power
and influence? First of all it maybe
answered that the more general diffu
sion of knowledge has lifted ali the peo
ple up nearer to the pedestal on which
the clergyman formerly stood alone.
People who sit in the pews now fre
queutly know more about the special
subject on which the clergyman is
speaking than he does him
self. The "topics which were form
erly discussed only in the pul
— * . » »„„
learned f-inrialifin in fresh i>ooks and
magazines, or even in the teeming jMiges
of llie daily newspaper. The sacred do
main of theology is now boldly invaded
by seekers after truth in every depart
ment of human learning. They draw
bark the curtains that lined to hide the
holy of holies from the common gaze;
and it must be confessed that they fre
(juently Ii11d hut little to reward their
eauer 'iuquisitivcness. The trend of
modern thought in toward an ahoiute
intellectual and moral republicanism;
and while this is perfectly in keeping
with the Christian dogma of brother
hood,'k cuts away all the supports from
the medinvul Christian idea of priest
hood. (So that the moderp.,m»*' *«oir
must derive his induce,/ ,'*ot 1 roth the
fictitious supf :l of the Church, but
from bis innate superiority and nobd
•jigr as a man amoug men. Another
reason for the lessening of the inliuence
of the clergy Is that their intense con
servatism has made them appear, iu
some respects, as fossils in a world in
stinct with life and change. Iu many
waysnu dern thought has left them far
behind. They tenaciously cling to the
old dismantled forts, and make a show
of defending them, when no enemy is
near. They often mistake their theory
of truth for the truth itself; and they
frequently confuse the traditional in
terpretation of a fact for the fact. The
consequence of all this is that they are
considered unpractical by men who live
in the real world of to-day. The mes
sage they deliver may l»e irue and im
poitant; hut it is often tinged with a
glory of the pas'-, or saturated with im
possible hopes for the future. Theolog
ical obtitruct.lon« are put in place of the
facts ofiiuman life and experience; and
the Book of Daniel and the Apocalypse
are exalted above the Beatitudes or the
Sermon on the Mount. It is not strange
that a restless, practical age like this
should cease to follow exclusively men
who have in some things ceased to
sympathize with its struf?Kles and tri
umphs. And the clergy will only re
cover their lost ground when they sup
plement their blameless lives with a
wider sympathy lor the thoughts ami
aspirations of men and women as they
are.
How lo Kcncli Children.
At a if (flit Sunday School Congress,
held at St. 1<oui.h, the Itev. J. J. Mor
rill t>|Hjkr tomr homely l>ut wholesome
words about the bent way to roach the
hearts of tlu* young folks, lie believed
that no 011c could hope to win hoys and
girls who did not retain his manhood.
They eauuot be flattered hy syllabub.
None but a class of dead beats of the
free soup order would fail to resent be
ing called sweet boys— sweet young
men, as the speaker heard a worker ad
dress a company of youths. It was al
most more tnnn genuine boys and girls
could endure to be oaiit-tl dear young
i»eoi»le. There was something about a
healthy young boy or girl which caused
them to be attracted by strcugth and
intrepidity. They would rather be
driven than coaxed, but preferred above
either met ho* 1 to be strongly led. A
nice young man with u sweet lisp, hair
parted in the middle and a waxed mus
tache w.i* more in place in a dancing
school than in a pulpit, with the boys
and girls looking him through. A fussy
old man who could only drink one
kind of tea, and never was so happy as
when he was toasting his emltroidered
slippe rs over the grate, could do more
at sewing societies than amoug the
rifing generation. It was the rough
and ready Peter who was bidden to feed
the lambs. To win toys and girls to
public worship, we had to pit-sent the
youth's side of truth. Some one had
said that truth was Mpherical. To have
that sphere touch lioys aud girla the
young side should tie turned toward
them. Roys and gilto needed the same
truths that their senfftrs did. No greater
mistake had been ma«b* than by those
who thought that child talk could be
childish. Some men had so long re
g&rdcd and repr«**>BU-d truth as a thing
adapted to adult mindatbat they never
could caU*h a glimpse of the forms that
would reach all tuinda.
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
Society easily excuse*the empty head
and the empty heart, but nevw the
empty band.—iSev. W. J. SkiUman.
To judge religion we must have it —
not stare at it from tha bottom of a
seemingly interminable ladder.
Trouble aud perplexity drive me to
prayer and prayer drive* away perplex
ity an i trouble.—Metaiu thon.
A' < hristian minister said: "I was
nev4r of any use until 1 found oat that
God did not make me for a great man."
It is a great truth that every product
of the creative power previously existed
as a thought in the mind of Uo<L— Hev.
Or. Baldwin. »
Keligiod finds the love of happiness
and the principle of duty separated in
us; and its mission its master-pieee —
is to unite them.—Vinet.
David's contentment arose from find
ing his sufficiency in God. The Ixxtl
was more to him than the manna, or
the stream in the wilderness.
The strongest men are the moat
tender-hearted. The coolest and sweet
eat waters flow from under the greatest
rocki—W. W. BatterahalL
litigious principles inculpated in a
child's heart are like golden nail* which
time drives in fast, and no philosophical
claw can completely draw out.
Tl»e r*asoh£why wp find so many
dark |>iae#M ia'be Bible ia, for the moul
part, becauaf ere are ao mauj dark
places in our hearts.—Tholiick.
God'a laws were never designed to be
like «4»webst which catch the little flies,
but suffer the lam ones to break
through.— Matthew Henry.
Earnestness commands the respect of
mankind. A wavering, vacillating,
dead-and-alive Christian does not ret
the respect of the church or the world.
-John Hall.
That men cannot do without Chris
tianity is shown by the certainty with
jrbich the predominate* of an aiVds
nying unbelief does but call forth a
keener craving for belief.
s> The humble follower, of Christ may
be evil -spoken of in the Chnron where
he belongs; but even if so, it should not
deter (dm from worshipping Qod in the
appointed wa.v.
Tfce most trying of surroundings, th-a
severest reverses of fortune, the sorest
of6orrows, cannot ruffle the depths of a
soul that is filled with the fullness of
(rod.—J. E. Sawyer.
Not a single faithful word is ever ut
tered that does not repeat itself in
rchoee till it reaches the throne of (Jodi
Not a noble deed is ever done, however
obscurely, that is not chronicled in
heaven.
The Bible is the rule, the direction by
which man is to work out his own sal
vation, as the guide-board is the direc
tion by which he is to walk out his
journey. Iteligiou is in the man, or it
is not anywhere.
It ia they who glorify who shall en
joy him; they who deny themselves,
who shall not be denied: they who
bear the cross, who shall wear the
crown | they who seek to bless others,
who shall be blessed.—Dr. (jutlirle.
Christ himself was a Man of sorrows,
acquainted with grief, and perse
cuted, when upon earth; and what a
consolation to the true believer in Christ
to know, that however much he may be
evil s)ii>keu of, there is a home for him
in heaven beyond this vale of tears,
where all is harmony and peace for
evermore.—Evangelist.
Are we to mm>ose, then, that the
only Ik'ing in the I'niverse who cannot
answer prayer is that One who alone
has all powfr at his command? The
weak theology which professes to l>e
lieve that prayer has merely a subject
ive Lencnt, is infinitely less scientific
than the action of the child w I to confi
dently appeals to a Father in heaven.—
Trincifnl Dawson.
Unless I am greatly mistaken, there
is no class of men who have been so
much victimized by had advice and ig
norant and mercenary counselors as
laboring men. It is enough to make an
angel weep to see how designing men
have again and again duped and misled
the very class who deserve the wisest
counsel and need the most unselfish
friends in the world.—Rev. N. B. ltein
iek.
Prohibition invest* morality ami re
ligion with their greatest .safeguards.
Strong drink is vitally related to im
morality of every grade and ty|H\ It
is found associate*! with the grossest
forms of moral wrong. It keeps multi
tudes from ehurehes. It forces men out
into a zone of moral coldueb? when*
good Inlhicnets fail to aflfect them. The
thousand drinking places of Albany are
ruining more men than the churches
can save.—Rev. l>r. t "««*h. •
.
Tbc Prfildenl'i H*nm.
The Washington writer of the Courier
Journal says there are thirteen hornet)
in the President's stable, five of which
belong to the (Jovernuient, and arc used
in connection with the President's office
or for work in the grounds. A pair of
them are sometimes driven in a plain,
close carriage Itelonging to the office,
in which, when one of the President's
secretaries or clerks is sent on business
any distance, he rides.
<)f the eight horses which belong to
President Arthur, four arc those which
be uses when he is driven four-in-hand;
in his landau, or when attached to
either of his other carriages, they are
driven in pairs. These are Iwtys, ami
have this week been clipped. They are
Hamblctoniaus, I hear. The Pr-sident,
his son, his daughter and his private
secretary each have a riding horse which
they use. The President's is a sorrel,
and is named "Coquette." That on
which his little daughter ridcajk*ery well
is a black, and was her dead mother's
riding horse. It isjiatned Sallie Howe,
possibly for the New York lady who
was, 1* am told, one of Mrs. Arthur's
bridesmaids, and was at one time the
wife of Col. Frank Howe. The horse
the President's son "Alain" rides is a
chestnut. He has a pair of horses for
driving to a one-seated buggy. One of
these is named Olga, the other Hero.
The name of each horse i» over Its stall.
There are also two fine dogs belong
ing to the the establishment—one a
valuable setter, the President's own
property, and the other a shepherd
dog, little Miss Nellie's pet. The latest
addition to the number ot carriages is
I ihe "Brewster Victoria," mentioned In
I _ I..llnp !» iu I'nrv liatiilunTri*
:ind has the President's eoat-'rf-apjw on
it. The ground of the shield is red aud I
the devices thereon are in color*. Above
is an tu^Ie. The motto w "Imnelle
Obstanti." This carriage has light
springs and a rumble.
W'heu President Arthur decided to
drive the four-iu-bund he made the
colored coachman, All»ert, bli**fully
happy. lie used to be General Grant'*
coachman, and remcml>ers with pride
driving bis four-in-hand, in which Mrs.
Grant and others of the family rode,
but General Grant rarely. Albert took
Mich delight in driving four horses that
a lady who was out witli Mrs. Grant
one day told ine that they were driven
f)ai>t all the houses where negroes lived
n the eity, instead of spending all the
time on the principal streets. Mrs.
Grant explained that Albert was no
proud of driving her with four horses
that he never failed to show the estab
lishment olF to the colored people of
thetown. Albest w as retained by Presi
dent Iiayes at General Grant's request,
and often implored him to set up a
"four-in-hand," aud was greatly grieved
that he would not He has wen re
tained ever since the Grant adminitftra
tion, and now feels his glory restored to
him.
I A family of Madison, Ohio, nineteen
I years ago purchased a paper of pirn.
When a pin waa needed it was taken
from the paj>er, :ind after it had serred
its purpose it was replaced. If a pin
was loot, general search was made until
it was found. In this way the one
paper of pins has kept the faintly sup
plied for nineteen years.
Here is a story far temperance osa
tors: A party of six camped out is
Wisconsin an a cold night. After suf*
per two draak liquor moderately, two
freely, and two let it alone. I n the
morning the temperance men arose
refreshed, tke light drinkers were still
with cold aad hardly able to rise, and
the two wha had drank freely wesa
frotea to death.
THE WEDDMG MING.
CHAILU W. 5TIIIIM
Tiny band of brittle roIJ •
Human tonauebitli »* v»r told
Ail the wonder* thou doel bold.
Problem of eternity!
Holding la epitome
LoveS Immortal bUtocj.
More thea el! the wtee here fowad
Overhead ead aarieniroaDd,
Use within thy little reuad.
In thy magic epbere, I weea.
By the light of f»ncy"« ehae*.
UeU or Hetfw mar be aee*.
Rhepeeof Ixrre end ahaaeeef H«ti.
rtiaatem anUpodeaof nlc
Strive to pass thy golden gate
Woe of bell If Hsle aboold wta.
And the pcrtai enter lb
With his reUaes at Mai
Bat If Lore, and Lavs SMfte,
Ttoroaghtaee to the heart balk MM,
Wm Ik* ms\nal
iioavec naoiictw •# w/ *'B*1
bric-a-brac. .
but a rose.
JMRRIXT
II vr noUilng bata row I *•*".
Nothing fcnt a rose .
Any wil»a taigtt robot hnif 1 Utaror—
Anj «md (hat blow*.
WIhb >+>c took it from m; irembJlng flufOT,
With a band a* chill—
Ah!lb« flying touch upon there tinge®,
Majaand thrill* Lhem still!
■Hor* ParhfU-Vfeatr | | '
Cincinnati ttahtrdoy .V%M.
It is mm id tliat when you touob a man'* J
pocket you touch hi* soul, but how «u
U bcfcn* pocket* were iuvented? Was |
bin soul uatouciied up to that period?
The uncfanls knew nothing of fwrketa,
SHdcit are a comparatively mcflcru
'Invention.' The condition of a little
six-year-old ancient, with no pocket in
which to stow away hi* top, fish-hooks,
jack-Kuifc, jewnharp, hcau-hiower, cel
lar door key, loose matches, cigar
MuniftM, ji*oi ping-jack, marbles, fak
stopper, hut ton-book, India rubber
gum, idate |k>bciI, kite string, drum
sticks, etc., must have been quite «le
plumbic. Before pockets came into
fashion purses were sus|«euded from a
girdle. ThiHres secured thorn by cut
ting tfiena away, hence the term cut
purse, which ia much alder than tl»e
pickpocket.
80 GOES THE WORLD.
■AKUAin ivnma.
When I wear the cap and hrtU,
Many (rieuda have 1;
I'nto cnrrl**.'. merry heaita.
Marry heart* reply
Juntas lb Is old earth of oar*
1 Umpire In a hsndrsd flower*.
Wlien shore. in an in mar Ni houra,
I .might a mi aimer t-kjr.
When grief bldea with me, aim!
Not a friend have I;
hml hesrtK mt-et on every aids
With a cold "good bye,"
Jost ait thlMOid earth of our*
I'arta with all tbe drooping flower*.
When above, tn autumn houra,
Utomum aombre nky.
AgfraniUaf a BH<h rasas.
JYncoil TelevrafiK.
A bridal couple l>oarded the train at
Kcniptville the other duy. The groom
was a strapping fellow, and squeezed
the hride mto a seat neat the window.
tSomeof the train hands who were post
ed put the newahoy up to bringing in a
box of baby rattles and oiler the em
barrassed party their choice for Ave
cents. All sorts of excuses were offered
by the man as reasonable for not buy
ing it. Finally he m.-tde a clean breast
of the situation with, "See here, young
feller, I've only l>een married a little
over fifteen minutes. (Jive us a rest.
We don't want to set un housekeeping
right here in the oar. Keep your tin
ware an' I'll be along next year. If the
returns are satisfactory, I'll buy vour
hull cal>oodle."
THE TWO VILLAGES.
lto-»K TKRKV.
(tvw tin- river iiihI on the hill
l.it'lli a village. white and itlill;
A II an.iiinl It the foiest treea
Hhl»er unit whisper in the bre*>*«:
Over It sailing shadow* go
<if Miarli;ghaw k Hiid screaming crow;
Ami mountain jtra use*. I ,w itnn awoct,
tiiow in the middle of every atrevt.
Over the river, uuoor lull, , *
I letit iinot her village still:
Tfcerel aeeln the Aloud? aiflM
Tw inkling atar»of household light,
Klree that gleam from Uia uinthy1* door,
MM that curl on th« rtrer** afaore;
And In the road* gr?t*«aa *row
.1 or ihe wu.ela Uiat haaton to and tro,
In that village on the Mil.
Never is sound of amlthv or mill;
The home* are thatched with griuta and flow*
era; , Tj
Never# clock to lell the houra:
The mnrhle doors arc nlwnya shut; f ' ■ ♦
Vou cannot enter in hull nor but;
All the village Ilea uMeeps
Never iigrain to sow or roop:
Never in inoana In dream or sigh,
Hllcut and Idle und low they lie.
In the village under the hill,
When the night Is starry andatlll,
Many a weary soul. In prayer, •
I.ooks to the other village theie,
And, weeping and signing. long* to go
l'p to Hint home from till* iielow ;
Longs to bleep liy the forest wild.
Whither have vanished wife and child;
And henreth, praying, thU answer fall;
Patience!that village shall hold ye all!
1 he Trlnm|>h of Dlahonraly.
.Vet" i'orl; Mercury.
Civilization does not seem to help on
honesty. It makes men sharp, ami in
the great struggle to feed the stomach,
clothe tho body and house It the primi
tive man 1m deteriorated. Even in attain
of the heart honesty Is the exception.
The other day, in Ontario, a young
man courted a girl, hut, finding an
other one more to ills fancy, married
her. Two l»ig brothers of the jilted girl
horsewhipped him. One held him
while the other plied the lash After
wards the victimized young man sought
the brothers separately, horsewhipped
both, and one so badly as to lay him up
in bed for a week. Tfo Mbter became
alarmed and tremblingly wrote to her
former lover, asking him if he intended
to tlirash her. He replied that he did
not, but probably would go for the old
man. At last accounts hostilities .had
not been recommenced. Tints a dis
honest lover triumphed.
THE JERSEY ULY.
The following wmm written by a cell" I
tlenian wba in evidently opposed t»j'
toadykm,and whose name Ls auhjoim-d:
Kneel down, aoclcty,
I'luk of propriety,
t rook your proud knee,
And your ureal goddee* greet
<'nn you IniMglne It,
Hojal I'lanlaganet,
Hend* yoa n I.lly?
(Four dollars s *eat)
Think of It! Royalty,
True Rrlllao loynlty,
J^-nrUyou their Roddeaa,
To whom you may pray.
FunI.Iou'm Appollo*.
f>o\» up your dollar*,
For thatt whatahe'a bare for.
i Don 'l give lh la a way.)
Reheats a coneoeUoa
To m'II ooaUat auction.
And outbid each other,
And then of It brae.
Native ability
Meet* with hostility—
(Ob, how we love oar AmerloM k|)
Though 1»beaklttteh,
Am long a* It'* lirltteh
W e're ready to U«*dy.
(My brain may be Barrow.)
Hut la It illegal
To think that oar Kagle
'Will killed be In time
By the Kngltoh coek uparrowf
w W m - J.
iJJWm OTTTWH*
MATRIMONY ANO^MATCH-8AKJMCL
A (yalcal View «flseleiy aa< IMmtm
Vaally Fair
AU (A* Year Kmmd.
It is moordedof an ancient Age thai,
on being naked at what period of his
life* a man ought to marry, be replied:
"When he is youag.it i* tooearly; when
old. it is loo late." Discouraging as
such an answer may be tmnkfcwd, it
still Uavca the qwstion open as far as 1
middle-aged individual* are concerned;
whereas the m^Jvimonlal aspiratlooa
oftoew. as well a* of jussnile and
"Lore d'age" woai.i-bc fionedicts are
wmmsrily and unrompeoaaisHiigfy
checked by the ofc-qpotea prohibitory
monosyllable; "Don't!" Thai mar
riage is a lottery at ore sagfeslhre afi
blank* than prist la, we i*»lieve, gener
ally allowed; and the pondbiltty, at
this drawback beta* admitted, it would
be unreasonable to blame the candidate
for the happy state if he looks before he
If-ape and weighs well the psoa and eons
of the undertaking ere he trreooverabl*
com mitts htmsell Kveryone w maim
fortunate in his fint interview with the
woman destined to heoooas his wilt ha
found her engaged is the homely bat
practical employment of darning stock
ing*, "Mine are always In holes." ha
reflected, and this rerofniseeoce of haeh
elor discomfort decided the
he proposed, was aeeeptsd and. aa he
conacientloaBly adds, ^nsvsr had i
to regret it**
It is, moieorer, a metaaeboiy fact
that yoong men of the prssssit day ai»
less ImpaWTe and mors eatenlatiag
than n traditional reports j» to ha
credited—they formerly vara, lad are
rarely inclined to barter their liberty
except for a proportions "quid pro
quo." Love In a cottage b<w long been
an exploded myth, and tha
fallacy, that when one can dio« »»
can, only requires a tew months' tnJ
to be at once and forever dlapvoved w
are gradually-althougb not periua!
without protest—adopting thou«»|V
vogue among our neighbor* acn*2 o,!
channel, ana aAcustoming oursolr™ u
regard matrimooy aa an "aflkir" not u
be entered upon lightly, but demand
ing the fullest and most mature delibJT
ation; like Talleyrand, we are iuclinm
to distrust flist impressions, a'tbou*K
»»««b»wilUortr»*umb to u,7?
traoBion of a preity face, and piunjtB
unhesitatingly into a flirtation on ,.Vpf!
I available opprrtunity, yet, howev/r
clowly they may. flutter rouud the (-au
die, lake especial care not to Imrn il^ir
wing*, while on their side the ujr
ladies we may be wire, are eq uily
cautious aa to the amouut ofencour*.,:.
m«atth<ymay safely venture t> u-.
stow.
When we read i» the Morning l\»<
or fourt Journal that a marriage b*»
Iwea arranged between Lord Fit* Ara
rat and Miss Pamela ttetdwechari, omy
daMhliv and hairem of Eva tirfj.
wecmel, Esquire, of I«thbury and Ahv.
fair, wc may be morally certain that
vomr aistch-making duenna has had a
finger In the pie: and by her |ht>u»
sive reaaoning has induced lhe inK.iri.
ously impecunious patrMan t > rrganj
with a favorable eye, the somewhat
thadily acquired dowry of his artianerd
bride. Wlthcut her aid he would in ail
human probability have continued t,»
vegetate on an income barely auftiri, m
for his "button-boles" and cigarette*
while Miss raiucla, notwithstanding
Uer hall-million, would in e»jual likeli
hood banJMever remained outside the
social pa^ptyond which *»r an un.ie
credlted parmiue there la m passing.
ffc>r■>—<< of B(Mtri am h*« ii u
MalvHl la kjib* MrNi.
Jt is now the fashion to lie healthy.
Jt has taken many generations of wo.
men and ages of experiments with os
metic* to convince the world that
health is after all the only l>eautititT.
Itouge and earmine are rapidly falling
into diarepute, and are regarded as de
funct barbarisms whose eternal con
demnation is the common Interest of
humanity. It must be confessed tint
liouiaville women will enjoy a peculiar
advantage In this abandonment of arti
ticial beautitlera. While admitting tliat
Ixmisville has as much lemsle loveli
ness to the square inch as any city in
the United >statcs, it mint also tie ad
mitted that the barbaric instinct of her
women have been only too apnarent in
the disposition to paint thing* a|i it tie too
rid. A woman who "makes up" danw
not appear on the street or elsewhere
without her war (taint, and, as dispatch
is sometinxs more uigeut tliau accur
acy, her toilet is not always nude with
equal can', and there are one or two
cases on record where carmine was mis
taken for Egyptian black, and vice
versa, and the Oriental eyebrow, w hich
had been her ambition, showed up in
terra cotta, and the facial a pert turn
l bat should have represented Cupid's
bow was suggestive of nothing *» much
as blacklH-rry pie.
The woman or to-day in amnuiou* u
be healthy, lajcauae nothing U •*>
conducive to a |'li a*aill mental condi
tion and that uninterrupted How of ani
mal apirit and Hpurkling vivacity that tell
fo well in aooiitl eircleaaa health; and,
ircoDd. becauac there la nothing like a
good digestion to keep old age at buy
and stave off that tine ao dreaded by
eve ry woman, when at hit
•Hie hateful crow (halt tn>a4
Tkc teiuc* of hf* tjw.
Beauty b power; even knowleu«v,
ootnea into ita prweoee with ua
oorered head; and no one can nJKm
ttriaao fUUy aa the women lo whoiu Na
ture bM been eliary of attraction*.
Homo l>ooka have recently appeared
which advocate the cultivation of beau
ty on the above sound principle*, and
nnxluK ofxratiili in all the minor de
tails, which finally consolidate in a
brilliant and truly enviable en*euihl«
that la not only mtinfactory for the
time lieing, but I* warranted |>ermaiiciil
w lieu once acquired. 'I'hey maintaiu,
for inatance, that all the akin want* la
leave to act, and it takea care of itacif.
In the matter of hatha, u plunge in iee
cold water la not recommended, a* it
require* a woman of iron coutttitutiou
to endure it, ami where u hot batli ia
uaed, it ahould come before retiring, w
there In leaa danger of taking cold, and
the body, being weakened by the al»lu
tion, haa need of rent. It ia well to um<
a llefh brush, ami afterward rln*e o(l
the aoapHuda by briskly rubbing Uiu
laxly with a pair of coarae toilet glovea.
The nn*t important part of a hath ia
the drying. Kvery part of the body
ahould be rubbed to u glowing rednraa,
uaing a eoarue cniah towel at the llniah.
If sufllclent friction cannot be given, a
Mnall amount of bay rum, applied with
the palm of the hand, will be found
efllcacioua. I-adic* who have ample
leisure and Who lead methodical IIvn§
take a plunge or a|>onge bath Hint
times a week and a vapor or aun bath
every day. To facilitate this
very heneliclal practice a aoutb
or caat apartmeut ia dcaira
blc. The lady denude* hcraclf, tak«.e a
•tit u« ar the window, and take* in tlw
warm raya of the aun. The effect u
both Ixmiklal and delightful, Wli-u
he day la *unlea* recourse la had a
vapor bath, which ia equally
eiotiM, but leaa agreeable. To elf'"*
ihi* a purgatory la improvised by m*aaa
of a sinrit lamp, n perforated ottoman
.or willow roeker, and a large woolen
blanket, that ia tucked round her ae
■— a — i ltiu.1 fr.ifii im
vuir«j i»/ pit fVM. ».«v
mping. It is said till* cannot be en
dured for more than thirty minute* at
a time, and that it mo vividly recalls
•ome prophecies relating to a possihis
hiture state that It Induces severe Jo
troHpectiou, and in alm<wt a* cflectire
for devotional a* for hygienic iwrpo**
One of the mont useful article* of U»s
toilet is a bottle of ammonia, and any
lady who has once learned its value
will never be without it. A few dr<»|*
in water takra the place of the amount
of aoap, and deans out the pores of lbs
"kin as well as a bleach will do. WmH
the (ace with a flesh-brush, and rub ths
lips as well to tone their rolor. It »
well to liathe the eyes i»efore putting »■
the spirits, and if It Is desirable Vt »a
oreaae their brightness this my
be done by dashing soaps#*
into tliem. Always rub the eye* la
washing toward the noae. Many ooa
tend that a free use of aoap turns tbs
■kin yellow, and sortie go so tmr as tads
dare that a too frequent appilcatioa sr
water la Injurious. Some prefer Use*
log the hand*. neck and lace with •£
ointment of glycerine, rubbed dry ••
chamois akin. This is said to b# at
tended with the most salisllartory *+
M
aad la always clean, rosr, and
aba baa come to grief, and b*-r
penance oagbt to be a lemoo to mtf
woman of aound mental condition, I*
a laement of gashing eoafldeece,
•a at time* will attack even the
tegalated woman, she cava her sssj*
*»»; to her lover, awl sub-erjusaJV
fWHred a vote from kim -taUng
SRS^rrt^w-S
fhe taS'ls»£»***
brushed with wet ami dry hruabw«T
whenever a lady getea e*aa<* s»*«J»
be eaagbi pinching aereolorle*
-a very Kanaka? aad qoiu e#*«*
meaaa of making tharaam bioo»
TO FETCtt A UtMS.
Wkat It b?
asm s«r lean thaaa walalrbask**
Way Ixprasa. .
A real Stalwart: There la oaefj
ta KewHammblfeaoHlalwartjJ^.
w oaf mi bikbdoor.- JT
A bit of baman nature: T*"£
wbaloatfha election hat a»w«f^.
wlnaeraa though the la** **
oaUdaboek ofpoamatohim- \!w<A
fatoreatinc medical lw; ^r**
ma^ShJi'a jSrbml«n<l
Mil* took three of them **V«L—► _
tol9y the rwt ♦-Detroit W