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For flv years Jack Fleming had
llvml alone. No one know ery much
bout him, except that hf was a
thriftless, indiili'iit genius. When
his father diet) llif furl nno that might
have cone to him had endowed certain
wealthy clinritablo Int-t itntioim. His
mother hud died In his infancy, and
Jai'k r'k'inintf had urown up with tho
urvantK nd his books for compan
ion. Ho had never neon enough of
his father to lova him. In his child
hood Jack had one friend, Horn (iold
ihwait. Hie was u beautiful girl,
cvcrul years his junior, who lived in
the house adjoining his father's, and
every day one or tho other would
climb the fence that separated them
and drop over into tho little yard for
a romp. Dora was proud of her pro
tector and playmate, for even then
Jack was full of book knowledge, and
oon learned to love Shakespeare and
Milton as read aloud by her hero.
The children were inseparable until
Jack was 15 and Dora 12. Then Jack
went to college, but every holiday
found him at homo again, and often
books went by tho board and Jack
camo homo on the sly to see his littlo
Bweothcart. Of course, on these oc
casions he was smuggled into Dora's
homo, and good-natured, easy-going
Mr. Goldthwait would havo thought
it the basest treachery for any mem
ber of bis family to inform his noxt
door neighbor, Jack's father, that his
aon was playing trunant.
After three years at college Jack
was hopelessly behind in his studies,
and his father, still ignorant of tho
reason, called him a blockhead. One
day Jack received a tender, loving
letter from Dora asking him to come
homo at once, as her father had just
received word from England that ho
had fallen helv to a largo property,
. including a theatre in one of the largo
-cities, and the business of the latter
was in urgent need of his immediate
attention. The family would sail for
England immediately, but Dora
wantod Jack to go with them, If he
could. A few hours after receiving
tho lettor Jack Btood in front of the
Goldthwait residence on Gramorcy
park. It was closed. No servant
answered tho bell, and Jack's heart
felt liko lead. Again ho looked at tho
lettor. It was dated two days before,
and had been delayed In the mails.
At home he found his father, but In a
mood In which ho had never seen him
before. ,
"You young rascal!" ho shouted, as
Jack entered. ".So you have been
wasting your time next door Instead
of studying."
No plodding on tho part of Jack
could induce tho turbulent old mar
to toll where the Goldthwait had
gone.
"Never mind," thought Jack,
will hoar from her soon, and then-
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Hut no letter camo. Weeks length
ened into months, and Jack grew tall
and thin. Ono day ho went up to his
college town, and an Inquiry at tho
postolllco elicited tho fact that sev
eral letters had come, up to a month
ago, but they had been forwarded to
Gramorcy park.
That night father and son faced
each other for the last time.
"Whoro are tho letters Dora wroto
to moP" domandod Jack, as ho leaned
over toward tho old. man, who stood
smiling sarcastically in his face.
"I told you that if you refused to
return to col lege you would regret it,"
was tho reply.
Jack turned on his heel and passed
out of tho house.
He had lived a week In a rear-hall
bedroom on Twenty-second street bo
fore ho discovered that its windows
were only separated from those of his
old homo and that of Dora, on Gra
morcy park, by tho brief Now York
backyards in which they used to play
together. Tho Goldthwait house was
dark. It had been ever sineu Dora
left. Next to it where his father's
mansion loomed up against tho treos
beyond, lights were often seen. Hut
strangers -occuplod tho familiar
rooms.
One ovenlng Just fivo years since
ho had left his old life behind him
Jack went to his dingy littlo window
to gaze at the two mansions. Ho
shivered with cold; but tho blood
rushed quickly to his faco when ho
saw the homo of tho girl he still
loved brightly lighted up. For an
instant ho stood still, amazed. Then
ho sat down on his bed to think.
Finally, downheartod and discouraged
he turned to a groat pilo of manu
script and rubbish on tho floor, and
picking a book from tho nondescript
mass ho turned ovor tho leaves.
"Twelve plays out," he muttered
to himself; "flvo of them probably
lost." Only that day ho had sent his
best and latest comedy to tho now
EngliBh actor who had arrived tho
day before. As soon as it was ro-
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fpoii., ithxiit another word Jaek
leajHMl up to tin cubby's wat and
whipped up the horit It. was tho
first time he had ever earned a dol
lar by manual labor, and as he
clinched his teeth (Irmly a flitfh
mounted to hU clun ks.
When the niiee-fiiiniliHr .vstanrant
came into tdght Jack thouuht, with
moisturo in his eyes, of tho many
times ho and Dora Had lunched in tho
great dining-room. As ho reined up
Itefore it, haggard and mud-bespat-tetvd,
totally different from his old
self, ho started with amazement.
There, standing on tho sidewalk, was
tho subject of his dream not the
Dora of old, with short frock and
curling hair streaming in the wind,
but tho beautiful woman into which
the years had changed her.
It was dark before ho went back to
his littlo room and stationed himself
once more at his window to ga.o at
tho lights in tho Goldthwait mansion.
Ho was filled with a conflict of lovo
and prido. Ho had no reason to be
lieve that Dora had forgotten him,
but his lovo for her was as strong as
ever, lie longed to go to her, but
tho knowledgo of his poverty and
shabbinoss kept lilm back.
Tho windows of tho groat old dining-room
were bright with light and
their raised curtains gavo him a clear
view of tho place. Ho saw hen flitting
about tho tablo as of old, putting tho
finishing touches on an arrangement
of fruits and flowers. Ho could soo
her plainly. She looked oven younger
and more beautiful than sho had that
afternoon in her heavy street wraps.
Half an hour passed, and some ono
elso camo into tho room a tall, hand
some man. Dora seemed to forgot
hor household duties, for sho hung on
the man's arm and seemed to plead
with him. At last he sat down, and
thon still another person came in; it
was Mr. Goldthwait. They sat by
the fire with Dora between them.
She was talking earnestly, and the
handsome stranger seemed to bo
llstonlngjlntently. Occasionally Jack
would seo that Mr. Goldthwait spoko.
Thon Dora would beam with happy
smiles. Suddenly sho jumped up from
her seat, and a moment later when
she returned sho had in hor hands a
fluttering manuscript.
She road it. Tho old smile played
about her lips. Tho gestures waved
the graceful hands. It maddened
Jack. Ho felt that ho must bo near
her onco moro must hear hor voleo
again.
A wistaria vine ran down from his
window. Clasping tho strong dry
stalk, Jack doscendod, until he stood
on the fence so dear to his memory.
Softly ho crept along until ho reached
the littlo veranda at tho rear of tho
Goldthwait mansion, and poerlng
through the window ho foastod his
eyes on the faco of tho girl ho loved.
Jack was ovorcomo as ho saw again
all tho details of tho rooms which
onco had boon ho familiar to him. Ho
bowed his head. Ho pushed against
tho glass of tho swinging window.
Tho window opened a trtlln. Jack
started back frightened, but tho air
was still outside, and tho inmates of
tho room had not noticed. Now ho
could hear Dora's voice. It said:
"Now, Mr. I-angdon, let mo road
tho climax to you before dinner Is an
nounced." Langdon was tho name of tho Eng
lish actor to whom Jack had sent his
play, and as Dora's sweet voleo read
on, Jack real I zed that it was his own
comedy sho was reading.
Tho climax was rendered with toll
ing effect. Tho two men loaned for
ward with Interest.
"Capital! Capital!" cried Langdon.
Jack was filled with intense excite
merit. His hands woro clinched.
"Do you accept It?" asked Dora,
triumphantly, of the actor.
"I do," was tho roply. "It Is tho
comedy that I have been waiting for."
"I will write to him to-night, thon,"
said Dora. Tho beautiful girl sank
back in her chair and went on: "And
now I will toll you a story that will
explain why I was so anxious to have
you tako tho play."
Jack listened breathlessly.
"You sec," said Dora, "I used to
havo a friend hero named John
Fleming. Whim wo went abroad I
wroto to him, but ho did not answer
my letters. I lost slht of him, but I
did not loso my well, my regard for
him."
"A splendid fellow," interrupted
Mr. Goldthwait.
"There never was ono liko him,"
said Dora. Then sho went on
"Well, when wo reached New York
last week father and I began to look
him up, and wo found In tho first
placo that tho reason ho had not
answered my letters was becauso his
father, who was angry at both of us,
had Intercepted them; in tho second
place, that father and sou wero never
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"Well." find Mr. Unction. "tli!
climax twain anything hi your play."
New York I'll-.
DYNAMITE IN THE CHAT P.
Imminent I'itII In ''lilli Two w
tnrkrri Vliotiglit 1 lirjr Mitnil.
Two gentlemen who tlguro ex
tensively In Wall ktreet affairs oc
cupy a small suite of oiiices in an
upxr floor of 21 Hroad street, New
York, says the Times. Tho wet,
chilling atmoi-phert) one day re
cently hampcri-d them somewhat in
their work, and after tt brief confer
ence thev determined to have a tiro
built in tho one grate, which docs
duty for two rooms. The janitor's
helper was summoned, and soon a
fierce young lire was roaring behind
tho sheet-iron blower." No vigor
ously did tho lire roar that ono of tho
gentlemen Mopped to the grato and
removed tho "blower." Ho was
about to remark that coal lasted
longer in a slow-burning firo whon
an object in ono corner or tno
grata caught his eye. He let tho
blower fall with a bang and rctreuted
precipitately into tho other room.
"lorn," ho cried excitudly, "there's a
dynamite cartridge in ourgrato."
"I he deuco there is," said lom
calmly, without looking up from his
tablo of llguros.
"Yes, 1 mean it," exclaimed tho
other with a perceptible tremor in
his voice.
"Oh, Walter, what arc you talking
about," said Tom as ho aroso to tako
a look at tho gruto. In an instant,
however, his indifferent demeanor
left him und ho omitted a prolonged
whistle. "Suro enough, Walter,
there Is a cartridge and it's getting
hot, too. Get a pu.il of water and put
out the firo."
Half a gallon of water was dashed
upon tho fire without regard to conse
quences. There was an incipient ,ax
plosion, a cloud of steam, and a grate
ful of sputtering embers. With a wet
towel Tom heroically snatched tho
dangerous cartridge from its hot bed.
Ho examined It carefully, and hand
ing It to Walter, went back to his
desk. Walter lookod it over, threw
it back Into the grato and went out
for a breath of fresh air. Tho "cart
ridge" was one of those round 6-cent
savings banks which were so plentiful
a year or so ago.
GENIUS AND GREASE,
The
Comparative Krnlnu of Teanher
aod Couki.
A year or two ago there was printed
a list or questions concerning do
mestic service in tho United States.
They wero prepared by Miss Lucy
Salmon, tho professor of history at
Vassar college. Among othor in
teresting facts gleaned from tho
answers to thoso questions which
havo lately been made public aro
these: Hy a comparison mado be
tween tho wages roceivod by teachers
in tho public schools of Cambridge
and cooks in tho neighboring city,
Hoston, it is found that (6 per cent of
tho teachers In tho former city earn
ffi'20 a year. If tho very small sum
of $285 were deducted for board for
ono year, this would leavo a balaneo
of 3!t.' .or clothing, travel, books,
lectures, charity, pew rent and tho
inevitable rainy day.
I ho average wages of tho Hoston
cook, ore, according to 674 returns,
$4.45 weekly, or 231.40. As tho cook
has no outlay for food, fuel, light or
laundry expenses, It Is estimated that
this added money value would amount
to $275 and bring her wages up to
$500.60. Tho difference in tho amount
of tho toucher after paying neces
sary expenses, and that of tho cook,
who has no such outgo, would there
fore bo only $103. Tho teacher must
dress bolter, as becomes her position;
sho must attend lectures to keep In
touch with Improved methods; she is
urged to subscribe from her pittance
to journals of education, has street car
fare to pay in stormy weather. Hy
comparing two of the tables in the
report it is seen that tho Hoston cook
is probably In possession of more
money at tho end of tho year than the
average teacher In Albany, Atlanta,
Haltimore, New Orleans, rattcrson.
Rochester and Syracuse.
luhniila II row ii Know.
A boy about ten years old occupied
ono of the front seats in an oral ex
amination in history at ono of tho
grammar schools a littlo over a
month ago. Ho was rather brighl
looking, and evidently had a very
good opinion of his own learning.
"Who can tell what slaves and
servants of tho king wero called in
England In old times?" aked tho
teacher.
Tho ten-year-old raised his hand
liko a rocket.
"Well, you, Johnnie Hrown."
"Serfs, vassals and vassalies,"
the reply. New York Times.
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III it now, lU tttiM li biik, fully or
tiftV feel H pilll , 'l'tltl", Mild p.n.-il.lv
thirty feet or lllni e deep, U t he 1 til nil
l!iiiiH, ho narrow in innt plaee Unit
a buy chii i-iiiilj ttiiulille il. It i iiii
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lunie di'MTtptive word, so narrow Is
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you would in er call it a roiiye, fur
it in clear, though injdj.'nilleant. Hut,
when the Atchafiiliiya rears baek into
It or the Ked liiver roars through it.
then its turbid current is red or yel
low, and then the boats eau eonii' up.
Had nothing else templed, I tdiotild
have (jiiuo to Kvergroen just toyuuun
tint college there. I am now partic
ularly glad I went, because, In its
way, it was a revolution to me. 1
never saw uiiything aspiring to the
name that could be said to come so
near placing education within the
reach of every one lis this. Any one
I'lnro shifty and adaptive than thu
president, could nut be imagined. Ho
loves his vocation and compels suc
cess notwithstanding the most un
to ward circumstances.
Hy a series of adjustments, founded
both on thrift and philanthropy, huso
combines and arranges as to make it
possible for utmost anybody to edu
cate himself, or any parent to edu
cate his boy. Some boys aro too
poor, or their parents, to pay any
thing. Very well. That boy pays
for Ills education in work; feeds tho
hogs, milks the cows, saws the wood,
etc. Then parents cannot pay any
money too poor, or failuro of crops.
Very well. Ho will take corn, cows,
pigs, chickens what a country mer
chant would call trade, In pay. Tho
other day ho told mo that ho had
taken a large, and no doubt vener
able, billy goat in this way.
This may seem amazing, but it is
really heroic, philanthropic, and
shows remarkable administrative
ability. It is horoio bocaiiso few
men could bravo derision In making
an educational Institution move by
educating boys through taking pay in
wood, work, corn, hogs, butter, etc.
Hut this president was tho architect
of his own education. Ho got his
by management, honest, though, and
hard work, and without money, and
is anxious to assist worthy and am
bitious poverty struggling for that
best of all earthly prizes education.
Ho boards his scholars, mule and
femalo, in sopurato buildings at $10
per month. And ho gives them good
and abundant fare. And this pays
for education, too. If this bo not a
benevolent Institution In disguise, as
well as a disguised educational one, I
know not what it is.
Thero Is not only cheap education
hero, but thero Is pretty solid, old
fashioned discipline. Tho boys are
under tho president's eyes. Ho eats
and sloops under tho same roof with
them, presides at tho tablo, and meets
them in tho morning at tho chapel In
prayer. It is a sort of family circle.
Thon, when tho boys havo obtained
twenty-live demerit marks, they havo
an option to either take a sound flog
ging or bo expelled. .As a stlmuuls,
however, for a boy to retrieve him
self, ho can hy superior conduct and
lessons reduce tils had standing and
restore himself.
I went Into tho homo or boarding
apartment and saw the hoys. They
evidently had both a respect and
affect ion for their president, uneasy
freedom and familiarity of inter
course, with royslerlng enough to
show there was nothing servile and
degrading, yet with no touch of pre
sumption or parade of temerity or an
affectation of It. I'ndoubtedly this
school Is a blessing to tho locality.
It has an academic eotirsc, a partial
one, and a business department. It
is non-sectarian. Let us cherNh all
the educutional institutions we have.
Kdueution Is hard enough to secure
at best.
llrew the I. Inn at Hitltfi(.r.
"Sniggers has got religion and Is to
bo taken into membership of tho
church next Sunday."
"Then I leave."
"Why so?"
"Free salvation is all very well,
even when it does bring every
Tom, Hick and Harry into church,
but I draw the line at Sniggers."
"Why?"
"Ho sold mo a horse once." New
York Tress.
Swint liny nf !((.
Joldots I begin to understand
now why they term Hov. Thirdly a
doctor.
Klder Hcrry-Why?
Joblots His preaching bus cured
mo of insomnia.
The mariner's compnsi was known
to the Chinese as early a 1!. C. nil."
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so be drew tied like ruts imprisoned
' there. I'ur ihiys t hey worked, culling
iin the ceiling mid plunks until
they could catch the gleam of light
through the thin wood In one place,
then cutting again until aunlher
pint was similarly cleared, mid so on
until the light, passing through the
slight surface, marked the lines of a
square place large enough to admit
tho free passage of a man's body.
Then, when every possible prepara
tion had been made, and thero
seemed to be nothing more (hut they
could do to insure the success of tho
llual move, they knocked out the ob
structing square and craw led into the
daylight as the water, freed from the
opposition of the compressed air, fol
lowed them, and tho vessel sank lower
into the water until I he natural buoy
ancy of the timber cheeked her.
There they were, perched on the
curved surface of a capsized wreck,
drifting at the mercies of the seas.
Hut they had no Idea of surrender,
Having escaped to the light they at
onco set to work to build up a sort of
signal station to attract the attention
of any vessel that might chance to
como that way, and upon tho top they
fixed a staff from which fluttered a
signal a shirt.
Fortunately, a brick-laden schooner
passing that way sighted tho signal
of distress, boro down upon and
rescued the men, who wero almost
exhausted by their days of suffering
there, their torn hands showing how
they had labored thero in the terrible
darkness, hut they soon recovered, anil
any ono talking with the captain to
day would never suspect that ho onco
dug his way out of tho sepulohor of
tho sen.
HE GOT THERE.
A Dry Onoiln ( lurk Who Mold Thing!
That Wnra Not Wioili.il.
"Have you black llama lacoP" sho
inquired, stopping ttt tho linen coun
ter. "No'rn, wo don't keep laco at this
counter, but I have some now damask
linen"
"Sir, you are impertinent. I did
not ask to see damask "
"Kxcuse me, ma'am. You should
not have stopped to ask questions at
the linon counter. I thought you
looked like a lady of taste and ele
gance and would want to Inspect our
new royal damask imported linens.
Mrs. Colonel Jones Just ordered a
do.en patorns."
"H'm! it dosen't cost anything to
l,ook at them. Dear mo, what a beau
tiful finish! You may duplicate Mrs.
Jones' order, I'm not going (sotto
voce) to let tho old cat get ahead
of me."
"That's what I call a clear ease of
bull-dozing," said a follow clerk os
tho customer walked away.
"Oh, that's all right," responded
tho other, "any fellow can sell u custo
mer tho goods that sho wants, but it
takes an all-fired smart salesman in
sell her what sho doesn't want."
A Jiir Mailman.
In the Insane ward at Hlockley
almshouse is a man who, once a promi
nent figure in riiiludelphla councils,
Is now stark, staring mad. Although
a man weighing in tho neighborhood
of '250 pounds, he Is afflicted with the
Insane Idea that he Is a baby. One
of his favorite pastimes Is to lie on
tho floor, kick his heels in tho air
and laugh or cry as the mood strikes
him. One day last week, while In
dulging In his favorite occupation, a
guard accompanied by several visitors
passed through tho ward. Imme
diately tho quondam councilman be
gan to raise an awful outcry, Tho
visitors stopped. "What's tho mat
ter?" one of them asked in alarm.
"Hoo-hoo!" cried tho 250 pound in
fant. "You ought to be ashamed of
yourselves. All you big men stand
ing there and letting a littlo baby
like me lie on the Hour. Hoo-hoo!"
Philadelphia Kocord.
Anifrlian I'mgrm.
Disgusted American, on a dusty road
Well, here we are riding behind tt
pair of horses and taking their dust,
just be cause our grandfather did.
Friend What's the matter now?
"The horses ought to bo hitched at
the rear cud of the carriage. Quick
as I have ten minutes to spare. I'll
invent some way." New York
Weekly,
V4 Ii v Siilun sinlli'.
Thinkitt The rich, the good book
says, can't get into heaven.
Knowitt Yes; and the poor can't
get into tho churches.
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Inity lory of ant ienl lime had Imv
i'uiiiii a line ami living on nf today,
Vmtr gondolier ftatull at III" alel'll
nn. I 1'tupi ln with lightning iqHeil ami
by I he list only of om oar, I ho pic-tiit'i-niu
I tun I, until with a skillful
turn you llnd yuursclf hcfei-e a flight
of Mcp that mark t'io cnlraneu li
yeur hotel. Hitching posts for your
water horse are on cither side of tho
ili'urvuiv, and should you cure to go
out again the concierge will but give
a whistle und half a du.en gondolas
w ill glido up swiftly in answer to tho
call.
In going to market, of course, the
same mode of conveyance Is employed,
and on the liialto Is set forth llsh but
lately caught In the Adriatic, fruit
from the Isle of Lido, other supplies
that have been brought by boat from
more distant lauds, and many small
attractivo trifles to tempt tho for
eigner who II nils in this strange city
a rare charm that Is almost a witch
ery. r unerals puss by, tho dead In tho
lead, with mourners following in
gondolas hired for tho occasion or
private affairs, though in Venice the
law that restricts the decoration to
but ono color namely, black pre
vents any marked difference being
noticeable between tho turn-out of a
count or a concclrges. Such laco to
lie bought In tho prison school near
tho Hridgo of Sighs, where women
for a tiny pittance weave the most
Intricate patterns by a marvelous
system of threads and pins. The
most expert workers aro paid but
eight cents a duy Imaglno what a
royal stipend conies to the apprentice.
Then thero aro Imitation ' pours ia
their perfect colorings and imperfoot
shupos, tho oxact copies of gems so
rare a slnglo string would cost a
king's ransom, yet rows and rows of
their counterfeits may be bought
with a five-dollar hill. Turquoia
wood carvings, and mosaics all appeal
to woman's funcy and woman's purse,
but beyond and above all the pretty
pigeons whoso indemnity from all
harm makes them so friendly with
strangers, stand out clearly and
distinctly as ono of tho ploasantost
features that is now but u memory of
a woman's visit to tho aquoius
Venice.
THE SUN AND THE STARS.
aitroiinmy Claims That tha Two llodltS
Ara About tha Mama.
The sun Is a star and the stars are
tuns. This fact has been a familiar
one to astronomers for many years.
That the stars shine by their own in
herent light, and not by lights re
flected from another body, liko the
planots of the solar system, may be
easily proved. That many of them
at least are very similar to our own
sun Is clearly shown by several
considerations.
Three facts prove this conclusively.
First, their great intrlnslo brilliancy
compared with their small apparent
diameter, a diameter so small that
the highest powers of the largest tel
escopes full to show them as anything
but mcro points of light without
mensurable magnitude. Second, their
vast distance from the earth, a dls
tunco so great that the diameter of
tho earth's orbit dwindles almost to a
point in comparison. This accounts
satisfactorily for tho first fact. Third,
tho spectroscope that unorrlng in
strument of modorn research shows
that tho light emitted by many of
them is very similar to that radiated
by the sun.
Their chemical and physical constl- .
tutlon is, therefore, probably analo
gous to that of our central luminary,
Tho red stars certainly show spectra
differing considerably from the solar
spectrum, but these objects are com
paratively raro, and may, perhaps, be
considered as forming exceptions tc
tho general rule.
feint to Matrimony,
"I am almost certain that F.thol
and Algernon will marry ono of thes
duys."
"I thought they were only friends."
"They aro in love."
"What makes you think so?"
"They quarreled tho other night
and bttdo each other farewell forever."
Rut. I'lltik Hank nn Kduratlon.
It's a good deal better not to know
much, deah breddern, dan to know so
much dat it makes ya feel uncom
fortable to talk to any ono dat don't
know as much as ya do yerself. New
York Herald.
An liiiiollla Kvfiit.
"They say C'holly has softening of
the brain."
"I cannot conceive it possible."
"Why not?"
"Hocauso his brain can not become
any softer than it has always been."