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THE FENCING BELLES OF BOSTON.
Tha Boston girl more graceful grows.
Her blood in healthier heart beats flows.
Because the arts of foil she knows.
Dressed in becoming fencing clothes.
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—Boston Transcript.
THAT PICTURE.
During five or six years Marcel had
worked at that famous painting which
ha affirmed should represent the cross
ing of the Red sea. and for five or six
years this masterpiece of color had been
obstinately refused by the jury at the
annual salon.
So. from force of habit in going and
coming so often from the studio to the
musee and troiu the musee to the
studio, the picture knew the road so
well that, if one had set it on wheels, it
; would have been able to go all alone to
I the Louvre.
Marcel, who had ten times repainted
j and rearranged this canvas from top to
j bottom, attributed to a personal hostil
| ity of the members of the jury against
himself the ostracism which rejected
it annually from the Square salon,
and in his idle moments he had com
posed in honor of the Cerberuses of the
institute a little dictionary of curses
with some illustrations of a savage fe
rocity. This collection, which had be
come celebrated, had obtained in tho
studios and at the School cf the Fine
Arts the popular success which is at
tached to the immortal complaint of
Jean Belin, painter in ordinary to the
grand sultan of Turkey. All the daub
ers of Paris had a copy of it in their
memory.
For a long time Marcel was not dis
couraged by the determined rejections
which he received at each annual ex
hibition. He was comfortably settled
in the opinion that his picture was, in
its least proportions, the long sought
for pendant to the "Marriage Feast at
Cana, ” that gigantic masterpiece whose
brilliant splendor the dust of three cen
turies has not been able to tarnish. So,
every year at the epoch of the salon,
Marcel sent his picture to be examined
by the jury. Only—in order to throw
the examiners off the scant and to try
to baffle them in their preconceived de
termination to exclude it, which preju
dice they seemed to have against the
“Crossing of the Red Sea"—without
changing anything in the general com
position of the painting, he modified
certain details and changed the title of
his picture. Thus, one year it came
before the jury under the name of “The
Crossing of the Rubicon." But Pha
raoh, badly disguised under Ctesar’s
mantle, was instantly recognized and re
jected with all the honors due him.
The following year Marcel threw
upon the foreground of his canvas a lay
er of white paint to represent snow,
planted a tree in one corner, and dress
ing up an Egyptian in the uniform of
the imperial guard of France he bap
tized his picture “ The Crossing of the
Beresina.” The jury, which had rub
bed up its spectacles that day upon the
tails of its green palmed coats—on
official occasions the members of tne
institute wear dress coats having green
palms embroidered on the lapels and
collars—was not duped by this new
ruse. It recognized perfectly the obsti
nate canvas, especially by a lug devil
of a many colored horse that pranced
about on top of a wave of the Red sea.
The dressing of this hoise served Mar
cel for all his experiments in coloring,
and in his everyday speech he called it
“a synoptical tableau of fine tones, ” be
cause it reproduced all the most varied
combinations of color with their plays
of light and shade. But once more,
unmoved by this fine detail, the jury
had not black balls enough to fully ex
press their feelings in rejecting “The
Crossing of the Beresina.”
“ Very well. ” said Marcel, “I’ll wait!
Next year 1 shall send it again under
the title of the ‘Passage des Panora
mas.’ ”
A few days later, and when Macrel
had already forgotten terrible threats
of vengeance he had uttered against his
persecutors, he received a visit from
Father Medicis. Thus the bohemians
had nicknamed a Jew named Solomon,
who at that epoch was well known to
all members of artistic and literary Bo
hemia, with whom he was in perpetual
relations. Pere Medicis did business
in all sorts of bric-a-brac. He sold com
plete sets of furniture at from 12 francs
up to 0,000. He bought every thing and
knew how to sell it again at a i>rofit.
The exchange bank of M. Proudhon
was a very little affair compared to the
system applied by Medicis, who pos
sessed the genius of traffic to a degree
never before attained by even the most
able of his fellow believers. His shop,
which was situated in the Place du
Carrousel, was a fairyland where one
found everything to be desired. All
the products of nature, all the creations
of art, all that comes forth from the
bowels of the earth andol genius, Med
icis made of it an object of negotiation.
His business touched everything, ab
solutely everything that exists; he
dealt even In the ideal. Medicis bought
ideas in order to exploit them himself
or to sell them again. Known to all
the litterateurs and all the artists, an
intimate of the palette and a familiar
friend of the writing desk, he was the
Asmodeus of the art. He would sell
you eome cigars for the plot of a novel,
some slippers for a sonnet, some fresh
fish for paradoxes; he chatted “by the
hour” with writers whose business it
was to relate in the newspapers the
scandal of society; he would procure
you places in the galleries of the house
of parliament and invitations to private
soirees: he lodged by the night, the
week or the month the wandering daub
ers who paid him in copies of the works
of Flavius Josephus.
On entering the home of the bohe
mians. with that intelligent air which
distinguished him, the Jew divinal
that he had arrived at a propitious mo -
ment. In fact, the four friends found
themselves at that moment met in coun
cil. and under the presidency of a fero
cic-as ajipetite they were discussing the
grave question of bread and meat. It
was on a Sunday, and the end of the
month! Fatal day and sinister date!
The entrance of Medicis was therefore
greeted with a joyous chorus, for they
knew that the Jew was too miserly ot
his time to spend it in visits of mere
politeness. Therefore his presence al
ways announced an affair ot business.
“M. Marc'.l,” said Medicis. “I have
come here solely to make your fortune.
That is to say, I’ve come to offer you a
superb chance to enter the artistic
world. Art, as you well know, M.
Marcel, is an arid road of which glory
is the oasis.”
“Pere Medicis,” said Marcel, on the
hot coals of impatience, “in the name
of 50 per cent, you venerated patron
saint, be brief!”
“This is the affair,” said Medicis.
“A wealthy lover of paintings who is
making a collection of pictures destined
to make the tour of Europe has order
ed me to procure for him a series ot re
markable works. I have come to offer
you an entrance into that gallery of
art. In a word, 1 have come to buy
your ‘Crossing of the Red Sea.’ ”
“Cash?” said Marcel.
“Cash,” responded the Jew. making
the orchestra in his breeches pocket
play a lively tune.
“Goon, Medicis,” said Marcel, dis
playing his painting. “I wish to leave
to yourself the honor of fixing the price
of this work, which is beyond all
price.”
The Jew placed on the table 50
crowns in beautiful new silver pieces.
“Go on,” said Marcel; “that is only
the advance guard.”
“M. Marcel,” said Medicis, “you
well know I shall add nothing. Reflect!
Fifty crowns. That makes 150 trancs.
That’s a sum, that is!”
“A feeble sum,” replied the artist.
“Why, know that my first word is al
ways my last, merely iu the robe of my
Pharaoh there are 50 crowns’ worth of
cobalt. Pay me at least the material.
Equalize those piles, round up the fig
ures, and I will call you Leo X.”
“Here's my last word,” said the
Jew. “I’ll not add a sou more, but 1
offer a dinner to all of you, various
wines at your own discretion, and at
the dessert I’ll pay m gold.”
“Does any gentleman wish to make
any further bid?” yelled Colline, rap
ping three times with his fist on tin
table. “Going, going, gone!”
“Agreed,” said Marcel.
“I will send for the picture tomor
row,” 6aid the Jew. “Now let us
start, gentlemen; the table is laid.”
The four friends descended tbestairs.
Binging the chorus from “Les Hugue
nots,” “A table, a table!”
Eight days after that feast Marcel
learned in what gallery his picture had
taken its place. While walking through
the Faubourg Saint Honore he stopped
in the midst of a group that was gaz
ing with curiosity at the hanging of a
sign over a shop. That sign was none
other than Marcel’s famous picture,
Bold by Medicis to a dealer in provi
sions. Only, the “Crossing of the Red
Sea” had once more suffered a modifi
cation and bore a new title. Some one
had added to it a steamboat and had
called it, “At the Port of Marseilles.”
A flattering ovation arose among the
loungers when they discovered the
painting. So Marcel turned away, de
lighted by this triumph, and murmur
ed,“The voice of the people is the voice
of God!”—Boston Transcript.
Politeness Pays.
“I have often heard my uncle,” said
the nephew of a noted lawyer who died
lately, “dwell upon the fact that he
owed much of his success in life to a
habit of invariable politeness, without
any element of tody ism, which had
been instilled into his nature by the
teachings of a wise mother. His first
start in his profession came through an
old scrubwoman who was employed
about the house where he boarded when
a young man. One morning he passed
out as she was scrubbing the front
steps, and he saluted her politely, as
usual. She stopped him. ‘They tell
me ye are a lawyer,’ she said. ‘Yes.’
‘Well, I know a poor widdy woman
that wants a lawyer, and if you will
give me your address I’ll tell her.’
The ‘poor widdv’ proved to be the chief
heir to a large estate in Delaware coun
ty. My uncle became her attorney
and trustee of her children, recovered
her interest in the estate and derived a
good income from its management for
many years.”—Philadelphia Record.
Roaming Chinese Tribes.
In the plains on the western borders
of the Chinese empire, in the very
heart of Asia, there live roaming tribes
who seldom visit towns, except it may
be in the way cf trade. They dwell in
tents which they pitch wherever they
may happen for the moment to be wan
dering or working. The tent used by
some of the roving Mongolian folk is
made of telt and is usually low, small
and pointed toward the top. Tue wood
en door frame is no higher than half a
window frame in our houses, but the
tent, although not equal to the wants of
a large family, is snug and comfortable
enough in summer, but cold in winter. |
—Western Mail.
Sells Worthless Securities.
There is an individual in New York
who makes a good living by dealing in
securities which have a purely specula
tive value, and which, in many cases,
are known to be worthless. He buys
these cheap for cash and sells them to
men who go into fraudulent bankrupt
cies and want to make a showing of as
sets to their creditors. He ha3 been
making money in it for years and has
had a share in filling oat the schedules
of a great many bankrupts who have
taken advantage of his sagacity in sup
plying them with collateral.—New
York Letter.
DELIGHTFULLY ROMANTIC.
A Stage Held Up and a Maid Carried Off
by a Good Looking Had Man.
A romantic case of kidnaping occurred
the other day iu the country back of
Mazatlan. Tlie stage between Rosario
and Mazatlan, which left the former
place, stopped tit 1 a. m. the next day at
Agua Caliente, where another passenger,
a young aud pretty girl, was taken on.
She was Carlotta Newman, daughter of
a poor blind woman living at Mazatlan.
There were two other passengers, a man
and a woman.
The stage left Agua Caliente tit 2a. m.
and had gone only a couple of leagues
when the driver suddenly reined up at a
call from the roadside, where four men
on horseback sat coolly pointing re
volvers at his head. There was no de
mand for coin, and from the quiet man
ner of the highwaymen the driver could
draw no idea of the nature of their de
mands. While one man held a gun
pointed at the driver aud another at
tended the horses the others dismounted,
stepped to the end of the coach and
courteously requested the young lady to
come out. The girl re' wgnized the larger
man, a magnificent looking fellow, as
Jose Valdez, her rejected lover, and di
vining the plot she begged the passengers
to save her. Valdez warned them to do
nothing, and as they had no firearms
they dared not jirotest against the ac
tions of the bold robbers.
After urging Miss Newman to come
out without avail, Valdez and his com
panion laid hold of her and carried her
to the horses, placing her upon one and
tying her to the saddle. The girl’s
shrieks and tears had no effect either in
hurrying the men or arousing their
anger. When they were again mounted
and ready to leave, Valdez turned to the
driver and said calmly, “Go, friend,
and excuse me for molesting you.”
The drive. lost no time in accepting
the permission, aud the agitated passen
gers inside did not breathe easily until
they saw the party, with the girl in the
center, gal lop over a hill. The driver
and passengers reported the matter on
arriving at Mazatlan and gave the
names of Librado and Bernardo Valdez
and Rufino Zatarain as the accomplices
of Jose Valdez, the first two being his
cousins.
Valdez is a dare devil and spendthrift,
and though of good family bears a very
bad reputation. lie was rejected by Miss
Newman, who is a highly respected girl
of American birth. The prefect of the
district of Concordia, in which Agua Ca
liente is situated, has charge of a party
of rurales searching for Valdez, and
strong efforts are being made to capture
the villain. His hiding place is unknown.
News of her daughter's capture pros
trated the mother in Mazatlan.—San
Diego Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
A THURIFER GUILD.
English Clergymen Agitated Over the
Questiou of Incense Iiurning.
Two subjects are at present greatly ex
ercising the minds of many clergymen
of the Church of England—one is the
startling falling off in their incomes ow
ing to the long continued and increasing
agricultural depression, and the other is
the use of incense in churches. The lat
ter is always a prominent topic of cler
ical discussion about Christmas time,
but this year it seems to create more in
terest than usual, owing to the growing
prevalence of the practice.
There are now so many servers, aco
lytes and other altar assistants engaged
in lighting and swinging thurifers in the
churches of England that they seriously
propose to form themselves into a guild
or society for the promotion of incense
burning. The name suggested for it is
the “Thurifer Guild.” One of its objects
will be a study cf the history of the prac
tice and the best manner of manufactur
ing orthodox and sweet smelling incense
in an expeditious and economic manner.
—London Telegraph.
The Congo Railroad.
The opening of the first section of the
Congo railroad passed almost unnoticed
in this country, chiefly because it is due
to Belgian enterprise. But for all that.
British traders already realize the vast
possibilities involved and are actively
preparing to obtain a share of the new
trade. The road at present extends from
Matadi to Kenge, and thence will be
pushed as rapidly as possible to Stanley
pool. The list of freight charges lias
been published in the chief European
ports, and tw-o British and one German
steamship line have made Matadi a port
of call. It is confidently predicted that
a Congo boom is about to commence,
and that King Leopold will soon be
within measurable distance of reward
for his courage and patience.—London
Letter.
The Singer Family Abroad.
It is extraordinary how- the Singer
family has managed to mix itself up with
the aristocracy of France. With noth
ing but a huge fortune and a large stock
of eccentricity the original old Singer
married no less than 10 women, cover
ing a wide range of position and charac
ter. He numbered his descendants by
the score, and tbese it is who have man
aged to ally themselves with some of the
proudest families in Europe. At the re
cent wedding of Mrs. Winnaretta Singer
in Paris to Prince Melchior de Polignac
there was a great gathering of the Singer
clans, and they bore such names a3
Rochefoucauld, Decazes, Murat, Modena
and Dudley.—Cholly Knickerbocker in
New York Recorder.
An Old Goose.
It is positively asserted that a promi
nent farmer living near Ellicott City,
Md., has in his possession a goose which
has attained the rather astonishing age
cf 36 years. The bird was purchased by
its present owner in 1880, and was then
23 years old. It is as sprightly now, it
is stated, as any of the flock, and there
is nothing in its appearance to indicate
such an advanced age. In a discussion
by several old fowl fanciers here regard
ing the ages of different birds it was af
firmed that geese often lived to such an
age, and even a longer period.
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