4 H HIIIIIIIIH
Won By a Tune
-Hit I r M I I 1 I I
OOD BY. dearest!" t
"Good by !"
For the twentieth time AlarK
Jermyn uttered the words of farewell,
and for the twentieth time the girl
responded, but, realizing that the part
ing was not an ordinary one, they
Were loth to part even then. Years
heuce tney might meet again; ierhaps
never!
"And dearest, you'll remember, if
the recollection of we ever stands In
Jour light, you're to forget I existed,
bromine me that"'
The girl looked into the earnest face
bending over her, into the depths of
the grave, brown eyes.
"I cannot," she said softly. "More
ver, Is It necessary? Is it what you
would do were you in my placef
Her log-ie was unanswerable, aud he
sighed.
"If you were the only child of some
body next door to a millionaire," she
went on, "aud your father forbade
you to marry any one who was not
wealthy while you really loved one
poor as a church mouse, would you
give up without a struggle? Of course
you wouldn't. Mark. You'd wait, and
wait, and hope!"
"But waiting doesn't always bring
Wealth." broke in Jerniyn, "especially
In th musical profession. Why did
my father ever destine me for his
own career?" he added, bitterly.
"Because It's what you're most fit
ted for," Elsie Iteuton replied. "Mark,
dear, you're going to te a great man."
He waived away her words with a
dm lie and another kiss.
"You flatter uie, sweetheart," he said,
"all hough it's true my father was far
from being a mediocrity. He changed
his name on marriage, and died when
I was only five years old. But bis ex
istence really ended, so far as the
world was concerned, when he for
sook nis old uame, for he never com
posed a single thing after."
"How strange!" remarked the girl,
woudetingly. "And what a terrible
example to you. dearest."
"You may think so. Of course, I
was too young to know much then,
, and never heard how it all happened,
for my mother soon followed my
father."
"And his name before was ?"
"Wegar Mark Wegar one of the
foremost composers of his time!"
A couple of years later Mark Jer
myn was In London, It seemed much
lonjT since he had parted from Elsie
Kenton in Paris, where they had been
fellow students at the Conservatoire;
she for the sake of finishing a musical
education, he because he had his fu
ture living to consider.
In Paris the girl had been free from
the hidebound conventionalities of
home, and her doting parents would
doubtless have Iteen horrified had
they known she had dared to regard
some one with affection. The two had
parted; he to work for a name and
she to enter Society.
And now he was In London, his fame
having preceded him, and Mark Jer
niyn, the celebrated pianist, was an
nounced to make his debut before the
most critical audience in the world.
Success had not spoiled him, aud he
remained the same modest man that
bad held Mule's hand In his two years
since; deeply, madly in love with her
still. Several times she had written
to him, and with her last letter In his
pocket as a talisman, he faced the
eager crowd that evening.
The performance was a success,
Mark Jertnyu's reputation was more
than upheld and he quickly became
the lion of the hour. Invitations from
the highest in the land literally show
ered upon him, so numerous, that they
would have taken years to respond to
all, one of the earliest coining from
the Hentons offering a Jirincely fee
for a short recital at airt.bcoming
"At Home." To this Jermyn stilfly
replied that he only accepted social
engagements. An answer soon cnme
altering the tone of the Invitation,
and a day or two later he found him
self about to meet his loved one once
more.
The .place was already thronged
with guests when he arrived, but
Elsie was the first to greet him, and
as he took her band he would have
knelt down there and then and kissed
It, had not decorum forbade. She wel
comed him gayly, and he felt all at
once the happiest of mortals, for n
, Ingle look served to tell him be held
her heart still.
"I'm hostess for the moment," she
observed. "Let me take you to
mother."
He followed her, and a little later
wu being Introduced to Mrs. Renton.
"Mr. Jermyn. mother!"
The stately lady addressed, looked
p. and as she saw bla handsome,
dear-cut restores, started.
"Mr. JwmynT sh. yes. of coarse!
Tow appearance seems familiar. But
thca, aren't your photographs all over
London r she asked.
Mark bowed, but guessed by her
tone that she had never sees his por
, trait.
He samtered aimlessly about, con-
ratac trot with one and another, till
M length he found himself addressing
.ft tost hloMetf., And Jermyn waa
t " '- snnrrtsed; Elsie's father
I I 1 1 I I 1 I ii
was not nearly so formidable as be
had pictured him to be; on the con
trary, his attitude toward the young
lion of the season was courtesy and
geniality Itself.
"Ah! my daughter tells me she met
you in Purls," he remarked. "One of
the first to discover your genius, I be
lieve? Elsie's a dear girl, my dear
sir!"
"She Is," assented Mark, earnestly.
"Always a dutiful girl, and a prize
worth the winning," continued Mr.
Kenion, briskly. "It's a pity we're to
lose her so soon but there! the men.
the men! I was youug myself once."
"You mean some one will fall in
love with her?" queried Jermyn. anx
iously. "Has fallen In love. Scores of them.
By the way, there she is with Lord
Maplesou."
Mark Jermyn turned and followed
the other's glance to where Elsie
stood talking with the man he had
noticed a few moments before.
"Are they ?"
"Engaged, my dear sir, engaged.
And to be luarried shortly. My wife's
a wonderful woman's she arranged It
all!"
Mark's first Impulse was to flee, but
he resolved to Icmtu the truth from
Elsie's lips first At last he caught
her glance, following her Into a small
ante-room leading from one of the
principal apartments. When the door
closed, be took her hand, and looked
into her eyes.
"Elsie," he asked. "Is it true?"
She averted her gaze.
"Is what true?" she murmured.
"That you're engaged to Lord Ma
pleson?" Her eyes filled with tears and she
turned toward him passionately.
"No!" she said vehemently. "He's
asked uie frequently, but I've always
refused. But mamma Insists, and the
rumor we're engaged Is about already.
Oh, Mark! Mark!" with an out
stretching of her arms that was irre
sistible; "what's to be done?"
He took her into his arms.
"You love me, what Is to prevent
our happiness?"
"Mother she Insists. Father, I
know, would rather I married a man
of my choice."
"And I insist on you marrying me!"
he cried earnestly. "That is, if you're
willing to become the wife of a non
entity?" She looked up quickly.
"Who Is the nonentity?" she asked.
"You, the clever artist or" with a
gesture of disdain "Lord Mapleson?"
"Then, darling," he cried, "if your
mother will not consent, it must be a
runaway match. You're sure you
don't mind Intrusting your happiness
to me?"
"No, indeed, Mark, no! I love you,
oh! heaps more than I did two years
ago, and that's something, isn't it?"
He admitted that it was. and kissed
her, when some one calling Elsie, she
had to leave. Mark strolled buck to
the drawing room with a lighter
heart. Some one was asking Mr. Ken
ton whether Jermyn was to play; the
host shrugged his shoulders, but the
musician at once Interrupted with the
remark he should only be too de
lighted. A move was made to the piano,
while all voiceB were hushed as it be
came known that the great Jermyn
was at the Instrument. He ran
through several of his better known
things In succession, playing as he
had never played before, bis audience.
sjellbound and enraptured. The ap
plause at his conclusion, unlike most
drawing-room applause, was for once
sincere.
Mr. Ren ton was profuse In hjs
thanks, and then his less genial wife
inquired as a special favor, whether
he would give them a novelty.
"A novelty?" repeated Mark, anx
ious to please has prospective parent.
"Ah, yes! I had 'almost forgotten.
To-day's the twenty-second. Isn't It?
There Is one thing I only play once a
year, and always on the twenty-second
of this mouth."
The last notes of the song were
gradually dying away, when all at
once there was a tense scream from a
distant corner of the room.
All turned and saw that Mrs. Ren
ton had fainted. '
A few days later Mark Jermyn cull
ed to Inquire after Mrs. Renton, whom
It was understood was seriously 111.
The young fellow was at once shown
Into Mr. Renton's study, where the
millionaire greeted him cordially.
"My dear Mr. Jermyn." be said.
"you're the very man I wish to see!
You remember the effect your Won
derful playing produced on my wife
the other evening?"
"I'nfortunately," responded the fa
mous musiclsn. "Believe me, I'm ei
wedlngly sorry."
"It's not your fault, my boy," he
at swered kindly "The event has
bf jught something to light which I
b:pe may mean your happiness. . I
hive learned that my daughter loves
fau."
"Yes," responded Mark, quietly.
And I lore her, top."
"Just so, Just se! What I was going
t sy waa this; my wife. It apposes,
Tva once eafafod to your father."
Mark Jermyn looked np In astonish
meat.
"Yes," continued Mr. Renton, "and
from what I can hear of course, this
Is in confidence between you and me
it broke Mark Wegar's heart. My
wife jilted him for myself, and It
seems that, out of pity, he afterward
married a cousin whom be discovered
had been In love with him for years.
The air you played the other evening
was one of Wegar's eomixisitious, was
it notr
"Yes," replied Mark. "My father
left me the manuscripts, with the in
junction it was only to be played on
the twenty-second of November in
each year the anniversary of what I
could never make out."
"Ah! my wife recognized the theme;
It was the old love song he used to
play to her and of which she had
been so fond. The date you mention
was the one on which she broke off
the engagement Old memories came
back to her, and -and "
"Say no more, sir, It's a painful sub
ject."
"To be sure, to be sure! My wife
wishes me to tell you that, although
she broke your father's heart, she has
no wish to break either yours or her
daughter's. We are both williug you
should murry Elsie."
Some one oiened the door just then.
and Elsie Reutor, seeing Mark, threw
herself into his arms. New York
News.
A PURSE FOR HIGHWAYMEN.
Highway Robbery Very Prevalent Id
England a Century Ago,
The frequency of highway robberies
only a century ago sounds surprising
to the preseut generation. Horace
Walpule. In a letter to a friend, re
counts an adventure of this kind which
ltefell him and his friend and neighbor,
I.ady Browne, In the autumn of 171.
The night 1 had the honor of writ
ing to your ladyship last I was rob
bed. Iady Browne and I were, as
usual, going to the Duchess of Mont
rose at seven o'clock. The evening
was very dark. In the close lane un
der her park pale, and within twenty
yards of the gate, a black figure on
horseback pushed by between the
chaise and the hedge on my side.
I suspected it was a highwayman,
aud so I found did I-ady Browne, fur
she was speaking and stopped.
To divert her fears I was just going
to Kay, "Is not that the apothecary go
ing to the duchess?" when I heard a
voice cry, "Stop!" and the figure came
back to the chaise.
I had the presence of mind liefore I
let down the glass to take out my
watch aud stuff it within my waist
coat, under my arm.
lie said. "Your purses and watches!"
I replied, "My watch is not In my
pocket."
"Then your purse." I gave it to him;
It had nine guineas. It was so dark
that I could not see his hand, but felt
him take It.
He then asked for Lady Browne's
purse, and said, "Don't be frightened;
I will do you no hurt."
I said, "No; you won't frighten the
lady."
He replied, "No; I give you my word
I will do no hurt."
Lady Browne gave him her purse and
was going to add her watch, but he
said, "I am much obliged to you. I
wish you good night!" Then be pulled
ifT his bat and rode away.
"Well," Mid I. "Jjidy Browne, you
will not be afraid of lieing robbed an
other time, for you see there Is noth
ing in It."
"Oh, but I a in!" said she. "And now
1 am In terrors lest he should return,
for I have given him a purse with my
ild bad money that I carry on pur
pose." "He certainly will not ojicn It direct
ly," I said, "and at worst he can only
wait for us at our return; but I will
a-nd my servant back for a horse and
a blunderbuss." which I did.
Faithful U the Last.
In many Scotch families the old man
servant Is a permanent Institution. He
enters the service of n family when he
is a boy, sticks to bis place, and resigns
only when the Infirmities of age are
upon him. Naturally he grows In time
to claim as rights what were at first
granted blm as favors, and If he Is op
posed asserts himself with a spirit of
independence. An English paper tells
a story Illustrative of this.
A. lady's coachman a crusty old fel
low who had been In the service of the
family in her father's time gave her
great trouble and annoyance on several
occasions by not carrying out her In
structions. At length his conduct be
came unbearable, and she determined
to dismiss him. Calling him Into her
presence, she said with as much asper
ity as she could command:
"I cannot stand this any longer,
John. You must look out for another
situation. You will leave my service
at the end of the month."
The old servant looked at her In
amusement for a minute, and then the
characteristic "loyalty" came to the
surface.
"Na, na, my lady," he said. "I drove
you to the kirk to be baptized, I drove
you to your marriage, and I'll stay to
drive you to your funeral!"
A Potent Remedy.
Customer Are you quite sure this
preparation of yours Is good for weak
lungs?
DruggistCertainly. I,ess than one
year ago a ninn In the lust stages of
consumption bought a bottle of It and
to day '
Customer He's a dead one, eh?
Druggie -"-Not on your lift. He's a
cnlamlty howling political orator
CbVago News.
Tight shoes won't hurt you if left to
the shoe stores.
MATERIAL IS WASTED
PRESENT FASHION FOR EXTRAV
AGANT SLASHINQ.
Fad for Snipping Up Clothe Adds
Greatly to I ot of Costume a ad Ioc
. Not Show to the Casual Observer
Gotham Modes.
New York correspondence:
LASHING of ma
terial ia iu evi
dence on every
hand, and in many
stylish gowns is
done so freely that
the getting of the
purts together
again is a mutter
calling for much
work of a diltlciilt
kind. This hint
point explains the
costliness of many
dresses that do not
iniike show of com
plexity until the
tune that Inn been
into them has
due consideration.
Slashing is carried into street attire less
wasteful!-, perhaps, yet usually at no
small sacrifice of materials. The accom
panying initial shows how velvet may be
treated. This gown wss navy blue, with
mink trimming, light green silk showing
through the slashes. At the right of the
STYLES THAT CALL FOB
next pictnre i a white broadcloth coat
steueilled as freely as anything shown in
the fancy for stencilling of a few years
ago. Besid'-s these tortures for the dress
ift.'ttcrinls, there are many lesser oue in
tab and stole finish. Stole effect tike
that of the middle gown of this group
necessitate snipping, and the squirrel
jacket next it showed that even fur may
not escape the scissor. Often slashing
ti street gowns Is resorted to in order
to secure fullness. The skirt at the top
will Is- slashed down about ten inches,
and a nick of silk will Is- let in, nn inch
v, ide at the waist and tapering to noth
ing it the hips. That is a much prettier
way to introduce fullness than to gather
tiic cloth, and it suggests that a protest
already has been entered against too
much fullness at waist and hips.
The present is a period of transition in
skirt fashions, which, accordingly, are
of much interest. The uieniis suggested
for eflWiing a radical change from very
tigl.t skirts to full ones are numerous,
and it is nip and tuck ix-tween some of
ilieui as to which will catch and hold the
favor. Many of the new skirts are at
tractive, and there'll he more of them.
Yet despite Ihein all. the tight skirt will
lie bard. Almost as apparent as the ac
tivity of designer in getting up new
tj pes. is the reaching after devices that
will extend the stylishness of current
sorts. Many tricks are resorted to iu the
t
INELABORATE NEOLIOK ATTIRE..
ay of trimming that shall relieve the
Idur skirt from the charge of being out
f style. These appear in model gowns,
, so sic especially significant. Big
kuttor.s placed ill the manner shown at
:bo left in to-day's first pictured sroup
re the oily concession nt times, while
ain, ruffle arc the rcoM. That such
chest are indulged a no cius fur
w voder, because tie ws'jh1 o' the pres
iDt skirt is a siron rsa.nmendatin.t, and
the esse with which It can be kept free
from mud and dust, as ruuiprrd with a
full akirt, make i still more attractive.
There i one grade of gown whereon
aecordeon pleating seem very appropri
ate, sud where a great deal of it is seen.
That is ou neglige gown. The pleating
1 so fluffy and dainty In thin materials
that here it ia seen at It best. The
current showing of neglige ia much va
ried and very dainty. The material in
clude heavy and light silks, silk en-pen,
cashmeres, woolen crepes, ehallies and
even chiffons. Then trimmings vary as
much as do uaterial. Eur, lace, ribbon,
velvet, cli i (Ton and button are standard,
und novelties are s host. The neglige
attire the artist present here waa of the
inelaborate grade. At the left there is a
white. lH-nu.de .so'ie, with r.ihik ednin
and heavily embroidered collar and cuff;
then comes a dainty house jacket of
white Japanese silk self-trimmed with
rutliea, and last is a iilit blue cashmere
neglige finished with black velvet in dif
ferent widths. Eroni such pretty but
neither fanciful nor showy get-up the
shopper may pass readily to negliges a
elaborate as evening gowns ami well nigh
lib costly. These seem too much like
dress-up to lie reserved entirely for the
privacy of the wearer's boudoir, but
there intimate friends aru received, and
where is rivalry in dress more intense
than bet m ceil fashionable dearest
friends?
A l-'our-Footeil singer.
Why the singing mouse should pos
sess Its unique gift no one knows, but
undoubtedly It sings. It is a small ani
mal, with very large ears, which are
moved nlsmt much while singing, as if
MUCH EXPENSIVE WORK.
that were necessary to the success of
the vocal performance. The song Is
not, as you think, a prolonged sq.tcak
with variations, but a succession of
clear, warbling notes, with trills, not
unlike the song of a canary, and quit')
as beautiful, though some of the notes'
arelnuch lower, tine great peculiarity
Is a sort of double song, an air with
accompaniment quite subdued. Upon
first hearing this one believes that ha
Is listening to more than one mouse,
so perfect Is the Illusion.
Medicine for Him.
"His wife has treasured all the let
ters bo wrote to her when he wa.-l
courting her; keeps them by her all the
time."
"Gracious! She doesn't ri-sid then)
over, does she?"
"No. but she threatens to read them
to him whenever lie gets obstreperous.'1
Philadelphia Press.
A Deadly Arsenic hprlng.
There Is a deadly spring iu the des
ert In south Nevada. A prospecting
party found the skeletons of Severn I
men about the spring, but drank of tin)
water notwithstanding. They wen)
seized with violent cramps and suffer'
ed Intensely. Home of the wster ws
brought swsy and analysed. It was
found to contain a large percentage of
arsenic.
Women prompters hare been tried
at the Berlin theaters vrtlb success, as
It has been found that their voices car
ry better across the stage aud are !
audi). 'a in the auditorium.
POETRY VERSUS 8CIENCS.
Naturalist Bore KlUnced by SI4a7
hmith'a Quotatloa.
For Sidney Smith to Joke waa no
rreat effort, but not even be could al
ivays joke so effectively as in the Ul
itauce mentioned in "Memories of Half
i Century." He was the guest at din
tier of an archdeacon at whose table
there were others of the cloth, mmoaf
them one who was greatly interests!
in natural history. As the man rodo
bis hobby to death, be was the prlnc
if bores, aud his entrance was there
lore viewed with something like con
deruatlon. He was unknown to Syd
ley Smith, but his pec uliarity waa soon
laid bare. -
"There'll be no talk at all unlesa yea
ran manage to Boor him." said one of
the men to Smitu. -uau i you manage
ur
"I can try." be returned gallantl,
although with some doubt, for there
was not telling to what branch of bis
crotchet the Iwre would turn.
The dinner began. The one or two
customary toasts such as "The Queen,'
"The Church." had been honored, aud
there came a lull which was the bore'a
opportunity.
"Mr. Archdeacon." said he, "hare
you seen the pamphlet written by tny
friend. Professor Dickenson, on the
remarkable size of the eyes of a com
mon house-fly?"
The archdeacon courteously said be
hnd not had the privilege, and In spite
of the discouraging looks on the faces
of the guests, the bore pursued his ad
vantage: "I can assure you It Is a most In-
. , u.1H.v t.tl, ,..
ICII'HIIIlg JlfIIIIJW,,:i, a':uiu(i iumii
tieulars, hitherto unobserved, as to the
unusual size of that eye."
"I deny the fact!" said a voice frosa
the other end of the table.
All smiled save the bore.
"You deny the fact, sir?" said be.
"May I ask on what authority you
condemn the Investigations of my most
learned friend ?"
"I deny Hie fact," replied the voice,
which was Sydney Smith's; "and I
base my denial on evidence wedded to
Immortal verse well known to every
scholar, at least, nt this table."
The emphasis laid on scholar nettled
the naturalist by Its implication,
"Well, sir," he said, as calmly as be
was able, "will you have the kindness
to quote your authority?"
"I will sir. The evidence Is l boss
well know n, I may say Immortal, lines?
" 'Who saw him die?'
I,' said the fly.
Willi my little eve!' "
The guests roared, and during th
rest of the dinner nothing further was
heard on the subject of natural history.
i
Thunder is rarely, If ever, heard at
a greater distance than eighteen tnllea.
The wife of the Governor of New
Borneo has a baby rhinoceros for a
pet.
The moose deer has the largest horns
of any animal. They often weigh from
fifty to sixty pounds.
Beetles In Hie East and West Indies
niv so brilliant in coloring that they
are beautiful as g' ms.
Denmark has the largest army la
proportion to Icr size. She has 1H1
tiddlers to every li),J of her popula
tion. The largest butterflies are the "bird-
Ingeil" of the Moluccas. Their wings
are sometimes twelve Inches In v
pause. A crsoii usually begins to loss
height at the age of fifty, and at the
age of ninety has lost at least one and
a half Indies.
A wall thirty feet high and thlrteea
feet broad could be built all round
England with the coal annually raised
iu that country.
The world now consumes C..'fiX),(W,.
(Xi) isiunds of tobacco yearly, or 2.K12,
rs tons. This Is worth ),0VIOO.
In other words, the world's smoke bill
Is Just $5,iMio a week.
A Berlin periodical, Der W elnkenner,
relates that when Bismarck died alsiut
JO.lsX) bottles of the choicest wlnei
were found In his cellars, mostly glfn
from friends and admirers. Tlu-y came
from all countrh-s.
But eight States do not now require
eia initial Ion by a Stale Board of !hos
who wish to practice medicine. They
re Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky,
Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, South
Dakota and Tennessee.
Prizes of $1,200, $750 and $500 fof
the best Instruments to measure wind
pressure-are offered by the Hamburg
Marine Observatory to German and
foreign Inventors. The plans must be
sent In by April 1, !03.
The New York City lbicord. sn offl
clal publication, owned and Issued br
the municipality, Is the biggest news
paper In the world. It appears ever
day in the year, Sundays and legal
holidays eseepted, and sometimes con
tains as many as 3H3 pages.
Five of the twenty fellowships re
cently awarded In the department of
philosophy, Unlrerslty of Pennsylva
nia, were glren to women. Most of
these fellowships carry with them aa
Income during the academic year ef
$MW and free tuition, with an addition
al $100 for particular research work.
Honesty Is a prevailing rlrtuo among
most Chinamen. Home of them la
their native towns and cities, o'ftea
leave their places of business unguard
ed while they g( off for half an hour
tr more. Should customers arrive la
tne meantime, the Hnd the prleea of
foods plainly marked, select what the
want aad leave the mmtf tat tktmT