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DC5T7 SeS5 MY TASS BEFORE JANUARY I. 1884.
A LEAF FROM THE DEVIL’S JESTBOOK.
Beside the sewing table, chained and bent.
They stitch for the lady, tyrannous and
proud—
For her a wedding gown, for them a shroud.
They stitch and stitch, but never mend the
rent
Torn In life’s golden curtains. Glad Youth
went
And left them alone with Time, and now if
bowed
With burdens they should sob and cry aloud,
Wondcrlng, the rich would look from their con
tent.
And so this glimmering life at last recedes
In unknown, endless depths beyond recall.
And what’s the worth of all our ancient creeds
If here at the end of ages this is all —
A fair face floating through the merry baJL
A dead face plashing in the river reeds?
—C. E. Markham in California Illustrated.
UNCLE PETER.
From constantly telling the story of
Uncle Peter and his wealth, good old
Captain Cogoliu had come to believe in
it himself. The truth really was that
the said Uncle Peter had been the de
spair of his family from his very child
hood, and bad finally embarked on an
American ship as a cabin boy, after
which nothing more had been heard of
him.
This was the plain, unvarnished truth,
but Captain Cogoliu was a native of
Marseilles and bad an imaginative mind,
consequently this plain truth had to be
embellished. One day he happened to
come across a sailor who had just re
turned from the United States, and after
drinking a glass or two of spirits toge
ther the two men became communica
tive. The captain happened to mention
the fact that he bad an uncle living out
in America. He drew upon his imagin
ative mind and was able to describe tho
said uncle.
The accommodating sailor remem
bered having met just such an individ
ual, and, what was more, the supposed
Uncle Peter bad even confided a box of
presents to the care of the sailor for dis
tribution among his relations on the
other side of the water. Unfortunately
on the way home there had been a ter
rible storm, and the box had been
dropped overboard, but still the fact re
mained that Uncle Peter had made a
fortune out in the new country and had
sent word to his friends that he should
not forget them.
Two or three years went by, and at
the end of that time Uncle Peter owned
plantations, slaves, gold mines, petro
leum mines, and everything, in fact,
that an American uncle is expected to
possess.
The Cogolin family became the envy
of the little village where they lived, and
in the evenings, when the women gath
ered together round the doorsteps of the
steep, narrow streets for their daily
gossip, the name of the famous Uncle
Peter was frequently heard.
The Cogolins themselves waited pa
tiently.
“Poor fellow,” the captain would say;
“let him live as long as God wills. We
are in no hurry.”
»•••*•
One day a letter arrived for Captain
Cogolin. It was from New York, and
the envelope had the embassy stamp. It
was a heavy letter and might have con
tained any number of bank notes.
There was, however, nothing more in
it, and nothing less than the certificate
of death of Peter Cogolin.
“He is really dead, then?” said the
captain's wife.
"Of course he is, since the embassador
has taken the trouble to send us this.”
There was a solemn silence, and then,
although no one but the captain had
ever set eyes on the American uncle, a
few tears were shed in honor of his mem
ory.
The wife then spoke again. “All the
same, your embassador does not say a
word about his money!”
“You would perhaps have liked him
to have written about that first and then
told us of his death in a second letter.
No, no, they don’t do like that in Amer
ica. They know what’s what, and they
would not write to us point blank about
money as though they thought we were
starving. We have only to wait, and as
soon as he decently can the embassador
will write to us about the money mat
ters.”
Unfortunately the embassador, no
doubt through negligence, did not send
another letter, and in place of the peace
ful dreams with which they had deluded
themselves a fever—the money fever—
seized the whole Cogolin family. They
did nothing now but dream of Uncle
Peter’s millions, and on Sundays when
they were all gathered together in their
cabin it seemed as though the sun had
lost its brightness and as though even
the garlic had no flavor.
One morning tne captain announcea
his intention of taking a trip.
“I can very well get off for a month or
so,” he said. “The lads will manage the
boat during my absence, and I feel as
though I can’t rest without seeing for
myself what’s going on in New York.”
He had to embark from Havre, which
made him furious, as he looked upon
money spent in railway traveling as
money stolen from him.
The enormous ship, however, with all
its sailors and passengers, the gilt of the
saloons and the bright, marvelous ma
chinery, threw him into an almost reli
gious admiration.
From 8 o’clook in the morning until
evening he never uttered a word, but
just wandered about from one end of the
deck to the other or gazed at the foam
ing waves.
His speech only returned to him to
ward the end of the journey, when he
began to speculate on what he should
find awaiting him in New York.
He began to be restless and wanted tc
talk to some one about his errand. The
steward was a compatriot, and therefore
inspired him with confidence, but the
steward was busy and referred him to
two tall, lanky, sunburned men who
were always strolling up and down the
deck together, and who looked like
Americans.
“Those gentlemen will tell you all
about New York,” said the steward.
“They know the place like A B C.”
Captain Cogolin was delighted at the
Idea of making the aequaintaneeof people
who knew the city of his dreams so thor
oughly, and he followed them about ev
erywhere, from the stem to the bridge,
up and down deck, and into the narrow
corridors of the cabins, trying all tha
time to enter into conversation with them.
They, however, did not seem anxious
to meet his advances. Each time that
the captain, with his hat in his hand, ap
proached them and commenced in his
most affable manner, “Excuse me, gen
tlemen, but do you happen to know”—
they turned around quickly, protending
not to hear, and walked off, leaving him
standing there.
“They certainly have odd manners,”
said the captain to himself, and then he
consoled himself with the idea that, after
all, every country had its own customs.
The two Americans, in their turn puz
zled by the eccentricities of this man,
who followed them about everywhere,
questioned the steward, and a* he was
fond of a joke he drew upon his imagi
nation for their benefit.
“You know there has been a great
diamond robbery in Paris?” he said con
fidentially. “Well, that man is Ernest,
the celebrated detective. He is on the
track of the thieves and to avoid sus
picion has disguised himself like that."
The two Americans looked at each
other and soon afterward vent down
into their cabin and shut themselves in.
They did not appear again on deck,
not even when the ship sighted New
York, and all the passengers were ad
miring the panorama. On landing, Cap
tain Cogolin looked out for them, hut in
vain. They had slipped away amid the
confusion.
* * * * * *
“The embassy, sir. Can you tell me
the way to the embassy?”
It was the captain, who after wander
ing about all day in a network of streets
and avenues, all exactly alike and all
mercilessly numbered, was trying for
the hundredth time to get some infor
mation.
“How in heaven’s name shall I ever
make these hurrying, crowding, English
speaking savages understand!” he ex
claimed at last in despair. “Why in all
the round world couldn’t my Uncle Peter
have taken himself somewhere else to
die?”
Suddenly the captain caught sight of
a face he knew. Yes, it certainly was
one of the Americans with whom he had
traveled. There could he no mistaking
him, although he had changed his
clothes and his hair and beard were
cropped close.
“air!—sir!
The other one hears and makes off.
But no, this time he shall not escape,
and the captain follows him.
The American has long legs, but the
captain has strong ones.
“What!” he says below his breath,
“this fellow knows New York like A B
C, and he won’t just tell me where to
find the embassy.”
The American cannot escape, he skims
round corners, and he dodges down
streets, but the captain keeps up behind
him.
The chase goes on until at last the
American is incapable of running an
other step, and he takes refuge in a res
taurant. The captain follows him and
says, breathlessly:
“Excuse me, sir, but can you tell
me”
The American turns pale, pushes a
chair to the captain, and says in excel
lent French:
“Hush! let’s have no fuss and no use
less scandal. Sit down here a minute in
this comer.”
“Good!” thought the captain, “he’s a
queer stick, but he’s getting more rea
sonable.”
The American continued:
“I know what you’ve come to New
York for. Now, the question is, Can we
come to an understanding?”
“Why, certainly we can. Certainly
we can,” exclaimed the captain, rubbing
his hands. “It seems to me straightfor
ward people can always come to an un
derstanding.”
“Hang the straightforwardness, but
let’s come to business,” said the Ameri
can desperately. “In this pocketbook
there are £2,000 in bank notes. If you’ll
say the word, they are yours, and £1,000
more shall be brought to you tonight
when the Brittany weighs anchor. Is it
understood that you start with the Brit
tany?”
“Why, certainly, certainly, on those
terms,” said the captain, who was more
and more bewildered at every word ut
tered by the American.
He tried in vain to understand it all,
but it was and ever remained a hope
less mystery to him. He pocketed the
money and then found his way to the
docks and made inquiries about the
Brittany. He secured his passage, and
sure enough the money promised him
was brought to the boat that night, and
Captain Cogolin was not sorry to set sail,
for he had had enough of New York.
* * * * * *
And so the captain returned to the
bosom of his family, but to this day it is
a mystery to him why he should have
received his Uncle Peter’s legacy in so
extraordinary a manner. It certainly
was extraordinary on taking into con
sideration the fact that the said uncle
had died insolvent in the hospital.-—Mil
lion.
A “-Mourning" Dinner.
A somewhat eccentric dinner was once
given in New York by a lady who was
wearing very deep mourning for her hus
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purple and white, the napery of course
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