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THE LADY’S YES. 
“ YES!” I answered yon last night; 
“ No !” this morning, sir, I say ; 
Colors, seen by candle-light, 
Will not look the same by day. 
When the tabors played their best— 
Camps above and laughs below— 
Cove mo sounded like a jest, 
Fit for yps or tit for no. 
Call me false or call me free, 
Vow, whatever light may shine. 
No man on thy face shall see 
Any grief for change on mine. 
Yet the sin Is on us both, 
Time to dance Is not to woo; 
Wooer light makes fickle troth, 
Scorn Of n>o recoils on you. 
Learn to win a lady’s faith 
Nobly us the thing la high : 
Bravely, as for life or death, 
With a loyal gravity. 
Lead her from the festive hoards, 
Point her to the starry skies. 
Guard her by your faithful words. 
Pure from courtship’s flatteries. 
By your truth she shall be true— 
Ever true, as wives of yore; 
And her Yes, once said to you, 
Shall be Yes forevermore. 
1 UliH'i-beth Burntl Browniny. 
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BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. 
As I ntu a man, 1 have to imagine the exquis¬ 
ite Joy which a beautiful woman must expe¬ 
rience In the consciousness of her beauty. The 
frequent Inspection of her own imago in the 
mirror is more than pardonable, and not to bo 
attributed so much to a weak vanity as to a just 
admiration and a proper desire to fool more In¬ 
tensely her power to communicate pleasure to 
others by the simple swoetness of her presence. 
8hc has a Goo-given right, to prize, love, adorn 
and preserve that which men will t urn from the 
most alluring scene or object In inanimate na¬ 
ture to behold, which they never tiro of behold¬ 
ing; which they quite or almost worship; which 
transforms their harshness and brutality into 
tender and attentive reflnpimmt, and which they 
self-forgetfully risk their lives to protect. It Is 
a rich possession, even when It la “only skin- 
deep.” Nothing else so stimulates the Imagina¬ 
tion. gives such a foretaste of the earthly para¬ 
dise of solitary reveries, or inspires more earnest 
efforts to make life a success. But It Is danger¬ 
ous also—dangerous to Its possessor and the 
susceptible man on whom it shines. When wo¬ 
man's exterior is so nicely endowed, she is 
tempted to neglect her Inner self—to become 
capricious and narrow and exacting; to demand 
tlm homage and attention which should ho 
spontaneous ; to wound and madden by selfish 
coquetry, to test her power, regardless of con¬ 
sequences; to intrigue; to drive men to reck¬ 
lessness and desperation; to harden her heart 
against sentiment and love; and at last, to don 
the scarlet, and descend Into the depths. 
Yh, fine physical beauty is incongruous with 
baseness ; it docs not harmonize with a false or 
a h rd heart, and quickly becomes dimmed In 
company with cither. It may and will be co¬ 
quettish at times, and delight in a devotion 
which cannot be rewarded, and love the little 
arts of manner, management and dress which 
increase Its attraction*; but if it would well 
preserve Itself It must not wish to harm, nor be 
happy in the unhappiness of another. It should 
let such a spirit be monopolized by mere prottl- j 
ness. And here this moralizing ends. But do 
you not remember aacorc of fair beings to whom ! 
it might be applied? 
There was Celehtia. Alt, Robert! your | 
heart is in a tumult again at. the very mention 
of her name, although she long ago ceased to be 
the aroma of your life. How quickly she was 
transformed from charming girlhood into a 
full-blown loveliness which astonished ail who 
saw her—even herself, 1 fancy, flow sweetly 
her comings and goings, and down-sittings and 
up-rlslngs, and poetry of motion and voice of 
music pervaded the house and tho neighbor¬ 
hood. You remember how the very servants 
would make pretexts to go and linger where 
she was, that they might look at her. You re- ’ 
member how men and women murmured their 
admiration and praises as she passed by? Do 
you not think she knew all tin's, and delighted 
in it? Do yon not think she rejoiced in the pic¬ 
ture reflected by her miraor os she stood before 
it, and with dainty touch adjusted her drapery 
and adorn logs? Do you not believo she would 
sometimes linger there long. Just to enjoy a 
beauty which she saw excelled nowhere else 
not even in the wonderful Ideal portrait of t he. 
famous Roman woman which hung upon the 
wall? Do you not bclJeve she compared the 
sparkle of her diamonds with the SOul-sparkle 
of her eyes? Do you not believe she saw as 
clearly as we did how much fairer and sweeter 
a flower she was than tho fair, sweet rose in her 
hair? How could she help almost falling In 
love with herself? How could she help seeing 
that she was a creation w hich must compel the 
love of others ? if wc could find out those un- 
lispcd thoughts of hers In the secrecy of her 
boudoir, pc haps she might call them vanity 
and folly; yet knowing what she was, when we 
considered, could we understand how she could 
suppress them? Well, Robert, she innocently 
tilled you with unutterable longings. You hov- 
1 ored near her as if she were your only hope of 
heaven. And because she smiled on you, and 
was kind, you dared to think it. possible that 
you might make that, wealth of beauty all your 
own. How could she dn otherwise than smile, 
and be kind when she was so happy ? It was a 
bitter disappoint ment, when she gent ly refused 
to give herself to you; hut afterward you saw 
how uncalculating and blind you, a common 
mortal, were In permitting yourself to hope 
i that you might be singled out. from all mankind 
to possess so rare and brilliant a gem. Yet., did 
you know that t he next Spring sho gave herself 
away to a common mortal, and now irradiates a 
little family circle of her own? Him went, lo a 
j distant place, leaving only such golden merno- 
! ries as move my hand while I write these lines. 
That was a milder beauty of Fanny's. It did 
1 not, dazzle and bewilder, like Cm.nvn a V, but it 
! diffused an Influence around that was like the 
soul of twilight or moonlight. It seemed to 
! steal upon us gradually, and we wished it would 
j never end. She was far from being an angel; 
but when she stood before ns, it. sometimes 
seemed 11ko an angel’s visit. What willowy 
grace alio had, and what enchanting ways! 
; When she willed, how skilfully she sent love- 
shafts to hearts In tho arch glances of her eyes ! 
A big, black-bearded man came and carried 
her off. 
You, John White, have not forgotten the 
day when we sat on the side of the mountain, 
and the lady on horseback rode pa. t us up the 
steep. You said, afterslie bad disappeared. Mint 
you had no eyes any more for tho lovely land¬ 
scape of the valley. You never found out 
whether .she was of seraphic origin, or of Mio 
earth, earthy; but. you said she could not have 
boon made ol‘ common clay. 1 found her, by 
chance, a year ago. Recognizing her, I recalled 
the mountain meeting, and die remembered it. 
She said :—“What, is the name of the splendid- 
looking man who was with you V” She Is a de¬ 
lightful maiden, and almost us beautiful as when 
she threw you into raptures. I could direct you 
to her home, If you should ever wish to go there. 
As to Former Jones’s daughter, T don’t know. 
She was very, very fair; but lacked some of the 
refinements of education and society. Perhaps 
1 might call her a half-polished diamond. I 
fc hlnk she had power to break hearts, mid I 
j know she was able to win one. 
Of this womanly beauty there are as many 
kinds as thorn arc beautiful women, though not 
as many degrees. And this reminds me that if 
my memories were loss interesting to myself, \ 
! should have laid down my pen before now ; and 
yet they are insipid in comparison w ith tho'pres- 
j cnce or the living, breathing bounty Itseir. 
Gregg. 
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WOMEN PERSONALS. 
The Alliance (O.) Monitor Is now edited by a 
woman. 
Miss Norah Grant is running as an inde¬ 
pendent candidate for Recorder of Crawford 
county, Iowa. 
I v a woman tells more than tho truth in speak¬ 
ing of a rival’s age, she will probably make the 
thing even by stat ing her own. 
Mas. John Bauds, of Omaha, has left Mr. 
•John Baggs, taking t he money-bags, and leav¬ 
ing John to hold the lit tle empty Baggs. 
Miss Saha W. Barton, an American girl, now 
studying music in Florence, Is to he prima donna 
or opera In Warsaw, Poland, the coming Winter. 
Grace Greenwood (Mrs. LIppIncott) has 
purchased a lot at Manitou, Colorado, near the 
Soda Springs, and will build a dwclling-bouae 
there next Hummer. 
Miss Mary Not.an of the St, Louis Central 
Magazine, has applied fora patent for a porta¬ 
ble reservoir of her own invention, which la to 
he used in preventing large. Ores. 
Mrs. Prescott of McGregor, Iowa, secured ! 
the premium for tho finest, baby at the North¬ 
western Iowa Fair. She ts twenty-five years old, 
and her sever, months’ urchin weighed thirty- 
one pounds. 
Hauling for the f^rumj. 
EAST AND WEST. 
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BY AUyCTA. 
13 V the play-room Window looking Fast 
A crioof children stand, 
And trace In glee on the frosty pane 
'l’he pictures ol' wonder-land : 
A fairy queon ’mid fern and Howel¬ 
ls holding a revel gay : 
From a castle tower a Italy smiles 
On a knight who rides away : 
A winding way leads up the bights 
To the shining shrine of fume. 
On whose gleaming front I 'toy flllloUly trace 
The letters „f Charlie's name; 
And Klla smiles to And a wreath 
Like tlie one she wore In May, 
And dunces away In dainty grace 
For she will he queen ulwuy. 
Across tho hall In the western room 
Their grand-slre sits in a dream, 
And wutolic# the pane whore frost creeps slow, 
And the slanting sunbeams gleam 
With loving light on his silver hair, 
Touch gently Ids face and hand, 
Then slip away ns if to lead 
Ilim on to the sunset land. 
They rest on the till! where evergrce.ns 
In their fadeless beauty keep 
A changeless guard over mosey mounds 
Where the loved of Ills manhood Bleep; 
They touch the frosty pane again 
With a sudden flash of light, 
The old man reaches a trembling hand 
To be led through gathering night. 
The firelight gleams on the e us torn pane 
And over each happy face, 
While prophecies of the coming years 
In tin' frost, tho children trace. 
The western room grows dark and still 
And the old man sitsalono, 
Wlille death has sealed a smile of peace 
On Ups where the sunset shone. 
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PEPPERS. 
BY SARAH A. aiBBS. 
Yon will wonder, children, that any one 
should toil you a story about such common 
things’as Poppers, or why we sometimes smile 
when we see little folks getting angry and doing 
foolish tilings, that in the end punish them¬ 
selves, and say, “That reminds us of tho girls 
and the poppers.” 
Eva was a little girl of some six Summers, 
wiio.se home was in Illinois. She was a quick, 
Intelligent child, always busy, but very apt, 
when tilings did not go Just right, to have vio¬ 
lent “storms." While those storms lasted, thero 
was but little fair weather anywhere about, tho 
house, for she would Jump and scream, usually 
putting her hand over or Into her mout h at tho 
same time. At the lime of this storv she was 
visiting some friends in Vermont, and had been 
loft, to spend a fortnight with us, while her 
mother visited some other relatives. 
Several days passed away pleasantly. She 
hu-ded herself about tlm bouse or with her dolls, 
and if any little clouds came up across her sky. 
they were quickly dispelled, without a singio 
storm. 
Then Ella came to us from New York, and 
being nearly the same age as Eva, we thought 
the little girls would have such rare times, 
“ In the fair September weather. 
Going hand in hand together.” 
FEMININE FELICITIES. 
An exchange, in announcing the death of a 
lady, says that she “ lived fifty years with her 
husband, and died in confident hope of a better 
life.” 
A man who was told by a clergyman to re¬ 
member Lot’s wife, replied that lie had trouble 
enough with his own, without remembering 
other men’s wives. 
A New Orleans paper says that a young 
widow in that city, who writes well. “ is train¬ 
ing herself for an editor.” Who is the editor 
she is training for? 
That was a delicate compliment given by a 
ragged little Irish newsboy to the pretty girl 
who bought a paper of him. “Poor little fel¬ 
low!” said she, “ain’t you very cold?" “I was 
ma’am, before you passed," ho replied. 
There was once an old woman who, in answer 
to a visit ing almoner’s inquiries as to how she j 
did, said“ Oh, sir, the Lord Is very good to 
me; I’ve lost my husband and my eldest son, 
and my youngest daughter, and I’m half blind, 
ami I can’t sleep or move about for t he rheu¬ 
matics; but I’ve got two teeth left iq my head, 
and, praise and bless His holy name, they’re 
opposite each other!” It has been said that 
this old woman was thankful for small mercies. 
—St. Pavl'8. 
But, there was one drawback to their perfect 
happiness—they almost invariably wanted to do 
the same things and use t he same playthings. 
As they were both very selfish, noil her was will¬ 
ing to give up to tho other, and so t here were 
constant quarrollngs; and if there were no 
“storms,” the weather was very “ squally,” to 
say the least. 
One afternoon Gilbert remarked that there 
was a prospect of a hard frost that night, and 
various Uiings from tho garden must bo secured 
before dark; among the rest, was abed of bright 
red peppera, whoso brilliant color had several 
times tempted the busy Ungers of the little girls 
to pick “just, one," and as many times they had 
boon forbidden to meddle with i Item In any way. 
Now, as I started out with pan and shears to 
gather them nil, Ella came bounding in with 
hair flying, and after making some Inquiries 
about the business in band, demanded pan and 
shears for herself. 
“She could cut peppers as well as anybody; 
she would be very careful. Oh, yog; she wasn’t 
a baby, that I need toll her not to put. her fingers 
to her mouth or eyes;’’ and away she ran, only 
falling down twice In getting to the garden. 
Just, then Eva came In with a great cry of dis¬ 
tress, and a little questioning revealed the fact 
that “ I wanted to cut poppers my own self, and 
Ella has been and gone, and is cutting them as 
fast as she can and then another wall. 
Hhe waa provided with another pair of Bhears 
and, after many cautions, was allowed to go and 
help, For a wonder, she was very graciously 
received by Ella, and they worked together 
happily until the task was completed. Then 
they wanted some needles and thread to string 
the peppers, and another hour passed pleasantly 
before they were satisfied with the result of 
their labor. Of course, it took some time to 
decide whether they looked best with the large 
ones all at one end of the string, and the small 
ones at the other; or, when strung, first a large 
one and then a small one; and they had to be I 
tried each way, for Eva was a particular little 
soul, and wanted them to look their host. 
Ella had not so much patience, and declared 
she should string hers “Anyhow, just as she 
picked them up,” to tho great dismay of her 
primmer neighbor. 
Before they finished 1 was called out of the 
room, and was occupied until 1 heard a great 
commotion In the kitchen, nnd before I could 
reach it, angry voices and screams were beard 
— Mien a crash, then roans of pain. When I 
opened the door, the girls stood opposite each 
other, with an overturned wash-basin of water 
between them. Eva’s fingers were In her mouth, 
and her face was almost purple with pain and 
rage, while her screams could have been heard 
half a mile away. 
Eli.a was rubbing tier eyes vigorously with 
both hands, and was screaming as loud us Eva. 
After a moment’s hesitation I comprehended 
tlie nature of the disaster, nnd commenced ap¬ 
plying cloths wot. In milk and water to Eva’s 
mouth and Ella’ 8 eyes; but it was half an hour 
before the screams were stepped. Their linger 
was cooled entirely, hut pain and fright were 
not so easily quieted. By degrees, between 
their sobs and cries, I found out the truth of 
the mat ter. 
After they finished tlieir work, Ei,i.a rushed 
off for tho wash-basin. Of course, Eva followed. 
Each Insisted upon using itflrat; but nflcr a few 
pulls from each one, tho water was spilled, and 
the dish on tlie floor. 
Ella eoramanced. rubbing her eyes, and the 
pepper on her unwashed bauds made them feel 
as if they were on (Ire; yet, in her fright and 
pain, she kept on rubbing them as vigorously as 
ever. 
Eva's fingers had, as she afterwards expressed 
it, “ Hot her mouth all on lire yet it was with 
difficulty that I kept tlieir hands down, while I 
wont rapidly from ono to the other with soft 
cloths and cool water. 
Ella's eyes were red all (he afternoon, and 
Eva's mouth gave her a great deal of trouble ; 
lml they both saw how wic ked and foolish they 
had been, and how a very little forbearance 
would have prevented the whole mischief. 
I roru that day t hoy played toget her quite hap¬ 
pily. If there was any danger of “storms," it 
was only necessary to remind them of “Pep¬ 
pers" to restore sunshine to their sky. 
jJiiidrr. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS.-No. 5. 
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r?T Answer in two weeks. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA.—No. 3. 
1 am composed of 8 letters: 
My 1 is used to denote a certain number. 
My 2 is a personal pronoun. 
My .’t is a body of water. 
My 4 is a kind of plant. 
My 5 Is an exclamation. 
My 6 is a verb. 
My 7 is an organ of tho body. 
My 8 is a vowel. 
My whole Is the name of a European sov- 
J. M. Brainerd. 
|£s7" Answer In two weeks. 
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CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.-No. 4. 
M V first is in cold but not in warm ; 
My second is In iron but not in load ; 
My third is in black but not in white ; 
My fourth is in flour but not in meal; 
My fifth Is In April but not in May ; 
My sixth la In ocean but not in shore; 
My seventh la In old but not in young; 
My eighth is In four but not in five ; 
My whole la one of the Territories of tho 
United States. Si w G 
i-&" Answer in two weeks. 
PROBLEM.—No, 3. 
What Is the difference. In contents, between 
a vessel four inches square and six ln-brs deep 
and the same vessel When remodeled into a cir¬ 
cular one sixteen inches In circumference? 
Also, what is the difference between the former 
and one of the same depth compressed to two 
inches in width; length six Inches? 
Answer In two weeks. Scholium. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS.-Jan. 25. 
Problem No. 2.— 
95.680536 rods, j \ 87.6528 rods. 
80.807934 “ V and - 93.622-163 “ 
23.75153 “ 1 118.724730 “ 
Miscellaneous Enigma No. 2. —Thou shaJt 
not take the name of the Lord thy God In vain. 
Cross -Word Enigma No. 3. —Marsh. 
Puzzle No. 3—Spain, 
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