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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1896.
Shrewd statisticians estimate
that the late election has turned
loose at least $400,000,000 which
was hoarded up in anticipation of a
cyclone.
A Kentucky friend of Secretary
Carlisle is authority for the state
ment that the law firm of Cleveland
& Carlisle will be doing- business in
New York early in the spring-.
It took $412,807 to pay the ex
penses ot the armored cruiser New
York last year, but some million
aires who have dropped more than
that annually on a yacht, or a news
paper might be willing- to try a
battle-ship tor economy's sake.
"This country" said Gen. Horace
Porter at a republican club banquet
in New York the other day, "should
be the asylum of the oppressed of
other nations, but an almshouse,
never" " That is the key note of the
republican party on the immigra
tion question. Ex.
o
On Tuesday last the list of mills,
mines and factories that had re
sumed work had reached 275 and
the number of idle men given em
ployment by them amounted to 155,
495. Nineteen other establishments
that had been running- on part time
resumed full hours for 10,500 men.
After it is all over the" man who
complained of the"hostilities of the
press," writes a nice note to all of
the newspapers, through the press
associations, thanking- them for
liberal space and fair treatment.
The average politician is a humbug
at all times, and a particularly big
humbug during a campaign of edu
cation. Journal.
Some six weeks ago New York
City tried to sell $6,000,000 of 31 per
cent bonds, and was compelled to
withdraw them from the market
because of the lack of bidders. Since
election day it has offered $16,000.-
.000 in 3J per cent bonds, which
were bid for many times over at a
premium of from 2 to 5 per cent.
It tells the whole story Of restored
confidence more eloquently than any
orator.
It appears that Palmer and Buck-
ner carried something alter all. in
Dudley Township, Haskell County,
Kan., they received five votes to
four votes for McKinley and Hobart,
two votes for Bryan and Sewall, and
one vote for Bryan and Watson,
thus triumphanting by a plurality
of one vote. This isn't much, to be
sure, but it at least saves them from
the humiliatou of .5 a complete
skunk."
The California gold miner who
proposed to pay Mr. Bryan's per
sonal expenses during the next four
years and support his family also,
has a better e3e for the main chance
than appears at first thought. His
gold would command a big premium
under free coinage, and there would
be no law to prevent him from in
venting enough of his gold in cheap
silver dollars with which to pay his
miners and other laborers and emf
ployes. It Is happy thought. Ex.
The official computation of the
stale of Pennsylvania was com
pleted at the state department Sat
urday. McKinley and Hobart re
ceived 728,300 votes, Bryan and Se
wall 427,127, Levering and Johnson
19,274, Palmer and Bucknerll,000,
Matchett and McGuire 1,683, Bent
le and Southgate 780. This shows
a plurality of 301,172 for McKinley
over Bryan and Sewall, but adding
to the Bryan vote the vote cast in
the people's party column for Brya'n
and Watson, the plurality for Mc
Kinley overBryan is reduced to 295,
71 n
A mile in less than a minute and
the bicycle and rider both uninjured.
That is record claimed for a voung
Denver rider who has spent months
dreaming about it, and has tried
again and again to make the time.
The course is down hill for the first
half mile and up hill for the latter
half, although the upgrade is not
heavy. Stanley Burrows the young
man who performed the feat, rode
a wheel geared to 120 inches and
started back over a hundred yeards
from, the beginning of the course.
With a steep down-nill and a terri
fic wind, he was making lightning
time when he passed the starting
place. One timer's watch was
-stopped as he flashed over and
registered the time as 1:07:31 3-5,
In an instant Barrows was beyond
hearing. As the rider passed over
tbeast tape another timer stopped
his watch at 1:08:30 1-5, making the
elapsed time :58 3-5 ...
Congressman Newland of Nevada,
who has been one of the leaders in
the free coinage crusade, declares
that "tariff" is to be the paramount
issue in the coming congress and
he proposes to assist in restoring
prosperity by joining the republi
cans in giving the country prosper
ity through tariff revision. In this
respect Congresman Newland only
follows the lead of Senator Jones of
Nevada, the ablest and staunchest
champion of the white metal in the
national legislature. Nevada is
getting into the band wagon. Ex.
THE GIRL EMGKAKT.
Sbo leaned out of tho carriage win
dow and saw the vau door close, and
then asked tho porter if her box were
safe and sound.
"Aw, aye," said be and slouched np,
wiping the wet from his hand on his
corduroys. "Aw, aye, it'll folly ye safo
to Drogheda anyhow. Goodby, an God
speed ye."
"Goodby," she said and gave him her
hand. "But aren't tho rest o' yo coin
in?" sbo called.
The station master came and gave
her a parting word, then two or threo
town loiterers, then the station master's
wife, with a shawl over her bead and
picking her way through the puddles.
Last of all came a man tho girl's fa
ther, one could see ruuniug stiffly and
glancing back often at the horso and
cart standing forlorn outside the gate.
"Goodby, Mary, an God be with ye,
my girl." He held her hand for a sec
ond or two, and his lips kept moving,
while she answered bravely. "Ye'll
write from New York?"
"I will aw at once. "
"Do. Don't keep us," he said, then
stood back with the others and blinked
at the driving rain. She pulled a hand
kerchief from a battered brown hand
bag and nervously wiped her lips.
"Ah," called she, "yez all thought
yez'd see mo cryin. Ah, I tricked yez
rightly."
"Ah, no," answered tho porter. "We
knew ye'd bo brave."
"Aye, aye," assented tho rest and
shifting their legs. "Aye, aye."
"Away yo go!" shouted the guard.
Tho engine shrieked. Mary shook out
ber handkerchief and called goodby;
her friends waved their arms. Sho had
started for tho United States.
"They thought I'd cry," said she as
she sat back and fell to plucking at tho
fingers of her woolen gloves. "They
thought I'd cry ocb, no." Sho was
brave, yet her lips were quivering, and
her eyes were turned mournfully on tho
fields and hedges and tho cottages, hero
and there Filming white through the
gray drift of tho rain. "Wo'll soon be
at it," she said presently. "Ab, Lord,
the day it is. An the state I'm in ocb,
ccb!" Sho stooped and wrung the wa
ter from her bedraggled skirt. "An me
hair that tattered. Aw, it's sbockin.
But I didn't cry," she said and flashed
ber black eyes at me. "Ocb, no.
Whisht! We're gettin near it. Aw,
there it is. There they are. Goodby,
mother. Goodby, Patsey an Johnny an
Lizzie, Gocdby, all."
I stood up, and over her hat caught
a glimpse of the group gathered on tho
street before the cottage the mother in
her nightcap, the children bare legged,
all waving their arms and caps and cry
ing their farewells.
"Goodby," cried Mary back through
tho rain, "Ocb", goodby."
That was the last of them she would
see, she Eaid, as she sat down again the
last, till the Lord knew when. Sho was
for tho United States? asked some one.
Ah, she was ; she could get work there;
she could do nothing at home. Sure, it
was better to go than to be a burden on
them all. Ah, yes, she'd been out be
fore and had come home to Eettle, but
but, and here the handkerchief went
fast to her lips well, things bad turn
ed out troublesome. Sbc'd do better out
there. There wero too many at homo,
and her mother was poorly. Ah, and sure
times were shocking bad.
' 'Aye, nye, " the men Went in chorus,
"they wur; they wur. " Then looked
mournfully at her red cheeks, and from
one to another pasfied tho word that she
was a brave gin, so sue was a crave
girl, and God speed her, said they as
one by one they went out clumsily at
Navan station and left Mary and me
together.
It was a fair day at Navau, therefore
did the train settle itself by tho plat
form for a long rest.
' 'The guard mebbe's gone to seo the
fair," said Mary, and I laughed, stamp
ed vigorously (for it was cold) across
the carriage floor, wiped the window
and looked out.
Down tho farther bank of the rail
way, along a narrow patn wJiicn nan
Etarted beyond tho fields somewhere
near the Boyne, was coming a little
procession cf six men, bearing a coffin
on a rough hurdle made of ash poles.
The meu wpro bare headed; a singlo
bunch of wild flowers lay atop the
streaming ceffin; there were no mourn
ers, nor anywhere cbnld one Eeo any
sign of Eorrow or curiosity. They came
on down, the men with their pitiful
burden, crossed the track, came to a
siding, slid tho coffin into a fish van,
Ehut tho door, pulled their soft felt
hats from their pockets, mopped their
faces, then took shelies behind the van
and lit their pipes. There wanted only
a bottle to make the sceno complete,
and I was confidently watching for it,
when right at my elbow there rose
great sobbing.
"Aw, aw!" cried Mary. "Did ye see,
did yo see? Ocb, what a way to be
tr'ated. An such a day for a buryiu.
All out in tho wet tho wet an the
cowld. Aw, poor creature! Aw, inuth
er, niuther, ye'll die, ye'll die! I'll niv
er see ye ag'in, nor father, nor no one!
Aw, it's cruel to l'ave ye! I'll go back,
I'll go back!"
Her sobs were pitiful. Loiterers be
gan to gather round the door. It was
only a poor girl going to America, I
explained. They would pity her, I was
sure. Oh, they would, said they,-aud
went, all but one, a big, sunburned fel
low, dressed in rough tweed, who came
forward and asked my leave. Porwhat?
Ah, he knew the girl Came in, went
over and laid a rough baud on Mary's
shoulder.
"Ah, don't," she said. "I'll go
home, I'll go homol"
"What ails ye, Mary, at all?" eaid he
and shook her again. Sho turned.
"Ah, God A'mighty, James!" she
cried, and her tears went, "it's you?
Where are ye goin? What brings ye?
Who towld ye?"
James sat down heavily and v beg an
bixtEDg his bbbt with his stic& Abt
he'd been to the fair, had sold early,
was waiting for a train to take him
home.
"Where are ye goin?" he said over
his shoulder. 4 'What were ye bleartin
about?"
She looked up at him quickly, almost
defiantly.
"To the United States."
He nodded, began again the tattoo on
his boot, and before another word came
the train had starred.
"We'ro goin," said Mary. "Hurry
and say goodby, or they'll shut ye in."
"No matter," he answered. "I'll
g'wanabit"
The maid sat apart from the man and
answered his abrupt, mannerless ques
tions as bravely as she might Why was
she going? Ah, he knew. There was no
need to ask. Why had she not told him?
Better .not. What was tho use? All was
over between them.
The man eyed her wonderingly.
Over, he repeated. Over? Did Eho not
know he was ready to make it up to
do his best? Aye, yes, she knew, still
Still what? It was bettor to go, Eho
said, and looked tearfully out at the fly
ing field?
Yes, it was better to go. I agreed
with Mary. He was a lout, for certain ;
a good for nothing by all chance. She
would loso nothing by leaving him.
There there, Eitting beside her, was
the trouble about which she had spo
ken. Sho had come homo to settle down
with him, but things had been trouble
some. Ab, yes, one knew it all. Ho
had been easy going and lazy; wanted
things to turn up ; felt no inclination to
hurry into married cares. Ah, sure, ho
could wait awhile, and if he, then
Mary. Something like that it had been;
anyhow Mary liad not settled. They
had quarreled, and now she was leav
ing him for better or worse. Sho was
wise. Had tho man no bowels? Had he
nothing for her but hard questions and
pitying looks? Would he not, before ho
went, say ono kind word to this girl
who had trusted in his word and man
hood, and, finding them wanting, was
now leaving him forever? Did there not
some golden memory linger about his
heart? Not one. He was wooden to the
core. Ha would sit on there, tapping
his boot and staring at his big freckled
hands, neither hurt nor sorry, hut just
wondering that a girl could be such a
fool. The train would stop, and, with a
nod and a flabby shake of the hand, ho
would take himself out into the rain.
And good riudance.
The train slowed. Mary's lips began
to quiver. The train stopped. I gather
ed in my legs, so that the fellow might
pass without touching me. He raised
his head and looked out at the sky.
"Ah, I may as well g'wan to tho
junction," ho drawled. "It'll bo all tho
same. One could do riothin such a day
anyhow."
"Yis," said Mary, not cheerlessly.
"Suro ye may as well."
We Eat silent all tho way to Droghe
da, and there wo parted Mary, eo it
was set down, to catch a train north,
James ono back home and I to do my
work in town.
Two hours afterward I met the two
in the rain swept streets, and in my
surprise stopped short before them.
Mary looked up and laughed.
"Ah," said she, "I'm hero yit. That
train went without me."
"Oh," said I, "that's very bad. Why,
the next won't be here for hours. And
you're drenched. But but" and I
looked at .Tcmes as he stood slightly
flushed and dripping wet, blandly star
ing across the street.
' 'Ah, yis, ' ' Mary answered. ' 'James
missed his too. I'm not goin at all.
Suro we've made it up." I put my
watch slowly back into my pocket and
nodded. "James has promised nie, " she
went on, and her eyes fell, "an we're
goin to get marr'ed come harvest time,
an he'll try hard for a place wi' tho
marquis. An an God knows, sur, I'm
not sorry, for mo heart was sore at J'av
in home."
They knew their own business best,
but there fell an awkward silence, so I
asked James concerning his prospects.
Did he see his way clearly? Ah, he did,
and began tapping his boots. Sure there
was always a way if one could only
wait till it came. "Isn't sho better here
anyway, whatever comes," said he and
gave me a moment's glimpse at his face,
"than Out yonder wid the strangers?
Sure 'twas madness av her to think av
it. Suro Providence sent me to Naviu
fair." Providence? And had Providence
sent also that dismal procession to the
fish van, that Mary might Eeo it and
Eob for her friends and her James and
the home of her heart?
"And you, Mary," I asked, "are you
quite satisfied?"
''Ab, yis," said Ehe mournfully.
"Ah, I hope so."
I took her into a ehop audhought her
a little wedding gjfta sil-yer brpoch,
shaped like a harp and set with green
marble then wished them more happi
ness than I expected they would have
and went my way.
Three hours afterward saw me at
Drogheda station again, and thero was
Mary, standing dejectedly by her box.
"2sTot gone homo yet, Mary?" I asked.
Her handkerchief fluttered out.
' 'No-o, sur. I was lookin for yo. I
I wanted to give ye back this," and
she held out the brooch. "I'll never
wear it. Och, it's all over. I I'm go
in on to catch the ship. "
It was well. I determined now that
neither Providence nor emotion should
hinder her going.
"All, 1:0," sho sobbed. " 'Twas only
foolishness. Me heart was sore at Pavin
them all, an the sight of tho coffin an
James comin'liko that. Och, c'u'dn't
bear it. But 'twas foolish av me. It's
better for me to gOL"
I took the brooch, pinned it on her
jacket and spoko a .foolish word or two
byway of comfort. She would, I hoped,
Wear it for my sake, if not for
"Aw, sur," sho burst out, "if he'4
puly been studdy, for I liked him well.
Och, och"
She tnrned and looked down the plat
form. There sat James, drunk and
asleep. Shun F. Bullock in Speaker.
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VISIONS WHICH WARNED.
Two Instances "Whcro Dreams of Horses
and Tire Caino True.
Dreams, like girls, "aro queer," and
dreams wherein horsea figure largely
take rank among the queerest In the
year 1890 a gentleman entered a prom
ising pacer for a race to como off some
time during the summer. Ho was
speeding tho horso on the last of tho
snow and wrote to his wife, who was
visiting in a distant town, that his
prospects for a race horse were rosy.
That night the lady, although not espe
cially an admirer of horses, dreamed
that she was sitting in the stand. watch
ing the finish of tho race wherein her
husband's horso was to take part. Re
plying to the letter, she said that his
horse would win the race, tho last heat
several lengths ahead of a gray horse,
the only other ono she saw in her dream,
and that the judgo announced the timo
2 :2Q14. Tho letter caused a good deal
of amusement in the famijy during tho
mouths previous to tho race, and finally
i when tho day came five horses started,
among tnem being a danc gray, xno
dream camo truo in every respect,
tho race being won in threo heats, and
at tho finish tho gray was tho only one
in it, the rest just coming into the
stretchy time, 2:20. Tho dream I can
vouch for, as I saw tho letter weeks be
fore tho race took place.
Another gentleman, who was sleeping
! at an inn beside tho track where his
1 horses were stabled droamed, that he saw
tho window of a stall containing a val
uable young horse being stealthily open
ed from the outside. Then fire flashed
and fell among tho straw, revealing tho
J horses in a state of terror, pawing and
snorting loudly. The dream was so
vivid that ho awoke and fancied that
ho could in reality hear tho horso strik
ing tho walls of his stall. He partially
dressed and ran out, and not a moment
too soon. Some miscreant had thrown a
cloth burning and soaked with oil
through the window. This had ignited
the straw, and in a few seconds more
tho horso must have porished, though,
fortunately, as it was he was but slight
ly injured. Trotter and Pacer.
ROYAL PECULIARITIES.
Charles VIII of Franco was said to bo
the most affable- man of Ids time.
Charles Cartel, or Charles tho Hammer,
carried a macu weighing 30 pounds.
Philippe H was born in August, and
fcr that reason was called Augustus.
Augustus was afraid of thunder, and
whenever n storm camo on went to tho
darkest room in Ins palace.
Constantino IV is mentioned byconteni
j porary historians as having tho most hand
! Eomc beard in his dominion.
Alfred tho Great had a mysterious mal
ady, which is now supposed by medical ex
perts to have been chronic dyspepsia.
Caligula was a maniac. For nights to
gether ho would walk tho halls of his pal
aco unablo to sleep, alternately cursing the
night and praying for day.
Julius Ca;sar was an epileptic. His at
tacks of tins disoase sometimes seized him
whilo engaged in urgont business, and ho
frequently remained unconscious for hours.
Mary Stuart was bald and woro a wig.
Baldness was a very common aflliction
among tho ladies of that day. The heavy
masses of artificial hnir then in use prob
ably contributed to this result
Tiberius was tall and spare. For many
years of the latter part of Ills life lie lived
at Capreai and never visited Homo, un
willing to display to tho gazo of the peoplo
his tall, bent figure and faco covered with
plasters and unguents.
Charlemagne was over 7 feet high and
exceedingly gross in person. Sixteen men
wero required at his funeral to carry tho
coffin. Ho had an appearance of great
majesty, his only detracting featuro being
a shrill falsetto voice, which annoyed him
so greatly that on public occasions ho nev
er spoKo aloud. fat. Lionis taiooc-uemo
crat-'
THE BLUEBLOODS.
Priuco Louis of Savoy, duko of Abruzzi
nnd nephew of King Humbert of Italy, i
a lieutenant on the Italian cruiser Cristor
foro Colombo.
Henceforth tho ameer of Afghanistan is
to be known as tho ''Light of the World."
His majesty is having a g -ld coin struck
to commcmorato his new dignity,
Queon "Wilholmina of Holland has de
voted tho proceeds of her miniature farm
during the past season to reliov ing tho v.q-?
cessities of tho poor and for tho patients
of the hospital.
Tho czarina is studying tho laws of Rus
sia. "How can I be expected to assist in
tho government of my people," sho is said
to havo declared. " when I know nothing
about their laws?"
Qucon Natalie of Scryia recently lost a
valuable diamond out of a bracelet, and
now that it has been recovered sho has
ordered that it shall bo raffled for tho ben
efit of a Biarritz charity.
Kaiser Wilhelm designed tho hunting
costumo which the empress wears when
sho accompanies him on his shooting trips,
whilo tho ono ho mado up for himself
pleases him so much that ho Has had a
bronze statuette cast of himself clad in it,
gun jh hand.
FOREIGN FOLj.
It; peems reasonably certain that tho
sultan's throno won't fall unless it is,
pushed. New York Press,
Turkey needs a good dressing down.
Undo Sam should not let her bo a Bos
porus. Philadelphia Press.
Spain has exhausted hor conscription
list for tho year and hasn't even begun to
exhaust the patriotic spirit of Cuba. New
York World.
Certain Germans are showing thoir teeth
at England again. Tho kaiser has con
veyed the information to those interested
in building ships for tho German trado
that they are henceforth to bo built in
Germany and not in England. Baltimore
American.
According to the London Times coito
spondont at Constantinople, the sultan has
issued an irado extending reform to tho
whole empire. What this amounts to will
presently be seen. We shall doubtless soon
hear of a celebration of tho irado by tho
massacre of a few thousand more Arme
nians. Newark Advertiser.
Then Ifo Was Ubi.
A northern man traveling through
Missouri on horseback arrived at the
lank of a river. Thero was no way to.
cross it except by swimming ; so, dis
mounting, ho tied his clothes to thp
horso and drove him into tho river,
swimming after him. Reaching tne
other side, ho dressed and continued on
his way. Beforo going 20 feet, howev
er, ho camo to tho forks of the road and
looked around for a sign. There was
none, but just across the river, near tho
spot ho had entered to swim across, he
saw a board nailed on a tree. There
was nothing to do -but to get in and
swim acros again and read that sign,
go swam across, and, after climbing
up tho bank, he read the following no
tice: "Five dollars ne for crossing this
bridge faster than aWAlk." San Fran
cisco Argonaut. "
WHY !
I married my wife, why?
Listen, and I'll tell you.
Not because sho makes a good pic,
Thonob sha can, I tell yon ;
Not because she's wondrous wise,
Versed in Greek and Latin:
ot because she likes to dress
In fine silk or satin ;
Not becauso sho rides a wheel
(I still wear the bloomers) ; '
Not becauso in kindliness
All my crochets humors;
Not becauso on politics
Sho keep3 always posted :
Not becauso she knows bow I
Like my meat when roasted;
Not because of beauty rare
(That is quickly over) ;
Not because while sbo works hard
I could livo in clover;
Not becauso sbo does possess
Fortune that's immense
Simply just becauso she's got
Good, sound common sense.
Charles W. Hird in Boston Post.
A BAG 03? LETTERS.
A bright tiro was burning in the
studio of Jack Torriugton, tho cele
brated newspaper artist, nnd everything
indicated that ho know thoroughly how
to appreciate those- comforts to which
he had only lately becomo entitled, for
only about a mouth before Jack, like
Lord Byron, "awoke ono morniug to
find himself famous."
He had had a long and bitter strug
gle with adverse fortune. For more than
ten years ho had toiled untiringly, re
warded only with poverty, starvation
and neglect. He had lived and worked
in a garret, carrying his drawings from
editor to editor always on foot, for he
could not afford to pay omnibus fare
only to be told that they had not enough
work to give to their own staff. But
now at last fate had smilecrupon him
an enterpris;ng art editor had "discov
ered" him and ho had become the fash
ion. Ho was seated at his caso before tho
fire sipping his coffeo. He had already
looked over the daily paper and thrown
it aside. A largo pile of letters lay on
tho table besido him, but he had not
opened Any of them, probably becauso
ho know beforehand what their con
tents wero likely to be. When ho had
completed his meditations on the morn
ing's news, however, ho took one up
nnd opened it. It was from the editor of
ono of tho leading ladies' weeklies, Tho
Glass of Fashion, and it ran thus:
"Dear Mr. Torriugton "We have been
much gratified" "Oh, hang the com
pliments," exclaimed Jack, and ho
hung them that is to say-, ho skipped
them. "Would you," tho editor coutinr
ued, "have timo to undertake ono or
two full page drawings for our summer
number? The subject would bo entirely
your own choice, but of course it
would be something appropriate to the
season. You can name your own price. ' '
"Oh, most likely," said Jack, and
ho threw the letter into the fire. This
was tho editor who had written to him
only two years before, "As you do not
excel at this kind of work, I fear it will
not bo possible for us to employ you."
This letter was followed by about a doz
en more from other editors in very much
flin KnniR tprms.
The next letter that Jack picked np
was directed in a gracoful fominino
hand. There was a dainty perfume
nbont it, and
there was a crest on tho
envelope.
"Who tho devil can this be?"
Jack. He opened it.
thought
"Dear Sir " itbegan, "Snrelyl can
not bo wrong in supposing yon are tho
same Mr. Torriugton who was sketch
ing down here a year ago"
"Let's seo what the name is Anna
Delacy Thome. Oh, by Jove, I know.
It's that woman down in Shropshire
who used to come and bother mo, to
show her iuy sketches, and who used to
tell mc how happy I was to be able to
do such charming work, and who never
once asked me into her house to have a
pup of tea. Well, what more?
'Thos,e delightful pen' and ink
sketches.' Oh, bother. 'Everybody
Jcuew that you would be famous some
day. My husband saw ycur portrait ii
one of the papers, 'and ho says ho is
quite sure it is you, etc. Is there any
chance of your coming down this way
next summer? Vo should bo so glad to,
see you, and I should find you plenty
of models. ' Thanks, I can do that fop
myself. 'Have you tho sketch stilj
which I admired so much of two girls
standiug on the bridge and would it be
very expeus :oV
"Yes, madam, it won Id bo expensive,
but yon could have had it last year for
5 shillings." This letter also was toss
ed into the fire.
Tho next was directed in an untidy
scrawl, with many smudges and ortho
graphical mistakes. It ran thus :
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"Poor littlo thing!" said Jack to
himself. "Sho had rather good shoul
ders. I must see if I can find anything
for her to do."
Tho next letter was from a fellow
student of his who had been rather sue
cessfnl as a portrait painter, but of
whom Jack had seen nothing since their
student davs. except now and then
when they had met by accident:
Dear Jack I really must cougratulato you
on your unprecedented success. Everybody is
asking mo about you. I feel quite proud of
having been your fellow student. But I always
knew that you wero going to do great things.
Why, I never saw any ono get along as you
did. Yousimolr caUoped. whilo other fellows
crawled. You were certain to make your mark
sooner or later. I wish you would como round
and criticiso the portrait which I am painting
of Mrs. Bolton, the celebrated beauty. It is
nearly finished, and I should so like to seo
what you would think of it. I am "at home"
Thursday afternoons.
"The.dcvil you aro! So am I," said
Jack.
The next letter that ho took up Was
directed in a hand tho sight of which
two or three years aco would havo
caused all his pulses to throb with emo
tion. "Surely I know that writing," he
said to himself. "Well, I should think
I do. 'Let's seo what sho has to say!"
Dear SIk. TonniNOTON Let mo congratu
late you a thousand times on your success.
Wo all knew that you wero going to fcs famous
sooner or later
"I wonder who 'everybody' is!"
Everybody says that you aro the first black
and white artist of the day.
"How strange that you never told me
flol" thought Jack.
Your drawings in Up to Date aro simply
lovely. Mother says sho never saw anything
that she liked so much in its way. Wo havo
had nil the sketches that you made of ma
framed and hung up, as everybody is asking
to see them. Could you possibly find time to
run down hero at Easter? 'Mother says she
would bo so pleased if yon could. The Middle
tons aro to bo here, and I expect wo sbnll havo
a jolly timo. But I suppose you have so many
friends now that you can hardly call your
time your own. However, I hopo you don't
quite forget old friends.
Jack smiled to himself as he read
this a dreamy smilo, full of memories.
Two years ago what would not "such an
invitation have meant to him? A little
pf that abounding faith'in his future
Which Mabel now declared herself to
have felt all along would havo done
wonders toward helping him to success.
And this was the girl who had refused
him three times. Threo times nay, 300
times, if ho were to count the unspoken
language cf tho eyes. At first it had
amused her to poso for him, but when'
she found that tho sketches wero not
published sho soon wearied of it.
Do come, and I will poso for you as much as
you like. Yours very sincerely,
MABLT. SlU ASCII ax.
P. S. Do you remember tho sketch which
you mado of mo sitting in the boat under the
old willow? I wonder havo you it still?
When Jack had finished reading this
document, he tilted back his chair,
threw back his head and laughed aloud.
Then he took it up and read it over
again, and then he laughed again. His
favorite fox. terrier, which was lying
j asleep on tho hearth rug, jumped up at
. tho sound of the unwonted merriment,
I but finding nothing moro interesting
than an inanimate bit of paper he curl
ed himself up into a round ball and
went to sleep again. Then Jack got upr
pushed back Ins chair, put Ins bauds 111
his pockets and walked over to tho win
dow, humming to himself something
which sounded very like:
.And saddle thou my gray war steed,
For I'll go nnd woo elsewhere.
And the only letter that ho answered
was that from tho little model. Ex
change. A Story or Wilson lJarrett.
Here is a good story of Wilson Bar
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theatrical profession ho becamo a mem
ber of a company performing at the old
Theater Royal, Dublin. His part nat:
prally was a small one, and Mr. Barrett
had no expectation whatever of receiv
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enco.
Greatly to his surprise, however, his
first small speeph was greeted with q
round of applause. This unlooked for
tribute qui to elated the young actor,
and he exerted himself to the utmost in
the endeavor to sustain the good im
pression he appeared to havo made. Ho
succeeded even beyond his hopes. Ev
erything he paid or did wns rapturously
applauded, and the principal performer
were thrown completely in the shade,
The "stars" were of course disgusted,
and the rest of the company lost in
amazement, oione more so than young
Barrett himself. He scarcely supposed
that he quite deserved such an ovation;
but, with the natural vanity of youth,
ho considerd that these Dublin folk
showed a rare appreciation of budding
merit. Howeverj he was shortly to bo
undeceived.
Just as ho was leaving tho theater
ono of the scene shifters grihuingly ac
costed him:
'.'Sure, yo wor cock o' the walk tq:
night, girl"
"Well, yes, Mickey," returned the
actor, with pardonable pride. ! think
I knocked 'em a bit, ph?"
''Och, sir," said Mickey, "sure it
Wasn't that at all, but it's got about;
among the boys that ye'ro a brother of
tho man that was huugj"
A Fenian named Barrett had tbafc
morning paid the extreme penaUy of the
law,
"It was very long afterward," said
Mr. Barrett in telling the fetory, "be
fore I again ventured to pride myself
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