l
e
Gerard De Lalresse.
Ah, but because you were struck bltnd,oouId
bless
Your venae no longer with the actual view
Of man and woman, whose lair forma you
drew
In happier days bo dutoously and true
Must I account my Gerard de Lalresse
All sorrow smitten? He wus hindered too
Was this no hardship? from producing plain
To us who still hare eyes, the pageantry
Which passed and passed before his busy
brain . .
Snd, captured on his canvas, showed out sky
Traversed by flying shapes, earth stocked with
brood
Of monsters centaurs bestial, satyrs lewd
Not without much Olympian glory, shapes
Of god and goddess lu their pay escapes
from the severe serene; or haply paced
The antique ways, Ood counseled, nymph em-
braced,
tome early human kingly personage,
uch wonders of the teeming poet'a age
Were still to be.
Say, am I right? Your sealed sense moved
your mind.
free from obstruction, to compensate
Art's power left powerless, and supply the
blind
With fancies worth all facts denied by fate,
Mind could invent things, add to take away.
At pleasure, leave out trifles mean and base
Which vex the sight that can not say them
nay, c
But, where mind plays the master, have no
place.
And bent on banishing was mind, be sure.
All except beauty from Its mustered tribe
Of objects appantlonal which lure
Fainter to show and poet to describe
That Imagery of the antique song
Truer than truth's sou. Fancy's rainbow
birth.
Conceived mid clouds In Greece, could glance
along
Eour passatre o'er Dutch veritable earth,
with ourselves, who see. familiar throng
About our pacings men and women worth
ttowlse a glance so poets apprehend
Blnoe naught avails portraying them In verse;
While painters turn upon the heel. Intend
To spare their work the critic's ready curse
Due to the daily and undignified.
From Bobort Browning's "Parleying."
t A NICE NEIGHBOR.
"I don't think I should hare taken
this house if I had known there was a
marble-yard so near," said Mrs. Graf
ton fretfully. "It almost drives ma
frantic to hear that man chip, chip,
flapping all day."
"You can hardly call that a marble-
?rard, mamma." Laura answered sooth
ngly, as she glanced across the way at
tho solitary workman under a small
shed, where perhaps half-a-dozen blocks
bf fine white marble stood ready for
the chisel.
'I call it an aggravation. They said
It was a nice neighborhood. Well, it
may be, but I don't fancy watching a
man making tombstones all day."
Is that what he docs?" tusked Laura,
looking pensively at the workman over
the way.
He displayed a line set of muscles,
S3 he stood with his ilanncl shirt open
end his sleeves rolled up, looking
about for a place to pnt a .large new
block of marble. He was a tall man,
close-knit and supple, with a good head
and eyes of great power.
Laura stood watching him, and won
dering how many times that little
Chisel he held had chipped out "Sacred
to the Memory," etc. The little shed
was an annex to a small one-story
Structure.
"I suppose he lives in there, poor
man!" she mused; "all alone, cutting
tombstones from one week's end to the
other. Oh, mamma!"
Her cry of dismay came from the
fact that the stonecutter over the way
had attempted to lift a large block of
marble on to a small truck, and it was
too heavy for him.
There was :i great crashing thud,
and then he dropped to the ground,
white and insensible as the marble be
side him.
Oh, mamma, mamma!" cried Lau
ra, springing up, "he has killed him
self!" She dashed downstairs and out ut the
front door, over to the marble-yard,
where Mrs. Grafton followed her at a
more leisurely pace.
The man was Iviii"; on the ground,
and a small stream of blood was ebbing
from his lips.
Laura lifted his head and bade her
mother brinff salt and water, while she
summoned a little bo who ran for trie
doctor.
"Stcfano!" exclaimed the physician,
as he bent anxiously over the injured
man. "This is too bad! I was afraid
it would come some day. How did it
hapjen?"
"He was lifting one of those horrid
tombstones,' said Mrs. Grafton resent
fully. "I should think those working
men would learn to be careful, when
they know that so much depends on
tho preservation of their health. I sup
pose he has a wife and four or five
children to supiort!"
"No, madame," said the doctor with
a peculiar glance at the patient; "he is
a single man. That anil do, miss,"
he said to Laura, who was helping two
volunteer aids to lift the injured man
on to an improvised litter. "Take him
tight into the house, please."
The "house" proved to be one large
room, furnished for the most part with
pieces of marble, wrapped in drapery
of brown muslin. The floor was litter
ed with chips of marble and dust,
while the bare white walls were rudely
marked with charcoal outlines and cer
tain ambiguous drawings, which Laura
fancied were the beginnings of monu
ments and other funeral stone-work.
There were, besides, a couch and
some chairs, a table and an extinct fire
place. 'The injured man was laid down on
the couch, and made comfortable with
pillows and covers, which Laura
brought over for him.
The doctor worked with him anxious
ly till he opened his eyes and betrayed
signs of consciousness.
"You must not speak," said the
doctor warningly. "Lie perfectly still
and put your hand on the place where
the pain is. Ah, is it there? Not here?
Are you sure there isno pain here?
Good!"
He made a careful estimate of the ex
tent of the injury, and then called Lau
ra aside.
"It is not so bad as I feared," he
said confidentially; "but he must not
be moved on any account. Every
thing depends on his being kept quiet
And yet," he added doubtfully, "I
don't see how we can manage here."
I will take care of him, "doctor,"
Laura said quickly, "if that is what
you mean "
"Laura, my dear," interposed Mrs.
Grafton.
"Well, mamma, wc can't leave him
here to die!"
He, must have friends somewhere.
They ought to be sent for."
I happen to know, madame," ob
served the doctor, "that he is quite
alone. He is a foreigner an Italian, I
believe. They call him Stefano."
I will stay with him," Laura reiter
ated. And stay she did, though Mrs. Graf
ton was scandalized by her uncalled
for devotion.
As the man began to recover she
made him all manner of dainties, which
were set forth on tempting china.
When she found that he cared to
read she scoured the library for )ooks
that would please him, but failed to
find what he liked, until one day he
asked for Petrarch, and Dante, and
Ariosto.
"What are you thinking, signori
na?" he asked one day, as she sat with
one of the great poets in her hand, af
ter an hour's reading.
"I was wondering," she said hesi
tatinglv "why you ver euose to be a
Marbleuttier? I should have thought
aome other trade would have suited
you better."
How, signorina?" he asked with a
peculiar smile.
"Thero is not much scope in toml
stones for poetry or a love of the beau
tiful. What are you laughing at?"
she demanded, as he indulged himself
in a merry outburst.
I was laughing at the idea," he
said, strlvimr to reirain his eravitv.
"Yes, it is a mean business, cutting
tombstones."
"And I .don't suppose it pays very
well?" sad Laura, doubtfully.
No, not very welL When one is
sick and can't cut tombstones, he
might as well give up and get one of
his own."
This was uttered with such a sudden
accession of gloom, that Laura hasten
od to say:
Don't get despondent, Stefano. You
will have some work just as soon as
you are well. My mother wants a
tombstone for my grandfather's grave
indeed, I am not quite sure but it
will be a monument and she has
promised to let you have the work."
"I am much obliged, signorina,' he
said in a smothered voice that came
from behind his hand.
He coughed vigorously for several
minutes, and then he managed to say:
"How can I ever repay you for all
your kindness, Signorina Laura? Will
you let me teach you Italian when I
am well? I should "like that."
When Laura proposed this to her
mother. Mrs. Grafton was up in arms,
but Laura had her way, notwithstand
ing, and the lessons began.
"I saw you out in the shed this
morning," said Laura reproachfully,
one day when Stefano had gone against
the doctor's orders.
"True; but one must live!" he an
swered with a shrug. "And there is
your grandfather's tomlwtone."
"Never mind that. He has waited
eighteen years for it. and he can waif
a little longer. You must take care of
yourself, Stefano. It is not fair to me
for you to overtax 3'ourself."
Ills face suddenly lighted with joy.
"Is it possible that you care, eignori
ua?" he cried eagerly.
"I I want to see vou well. If you
get sick again, it will throw discredit
on me as a nurse. I do wish you
would- give up marble-cutting alto
gether.'' "One might if he had some inspira
tion," he said in a low tone. "I could
give up anything for you. If I thought
some day you would love mo' one-half
so well as I love you, I would do any
thing make any sacrifice."
"Stefano!" she cried indignantly.
"You forget yourself. You must not
talk like that "to me."
"Forgive me. I did not mean to of
fend you. One cannot help loving what
is good and beautiful, if one does cut
tombstones."
"Oh, I never dreamed of this?" cried
Laura, bursting into tears. "You
must go away, and never come here
again."
The next day he was out in the shed,
chipping marble again. Laura went by
ami saw him.
"You ought not to do that, Stcfano,"
she said reproachfully. "You are not
able."
"It matters very little to me now
whether I live or die," he said sadly.
"If I. did not hate cowards, I would
soon settle it,"
She went homo, and for some time
he did not even sec her face.
Meanwhile, he wi:nt on working,
and one twilight he threw himself down
on the couch in his work-room, tired
out in mind ami body.
As he lay there, with his face in his
hands, a voice that sounded to him like
the voice of an angel called:
"Stefano!"
It was Laura who came towards him,
holding out her hands.
"Stefano," she said, "I did not know
that I loved you, but I have found it
out, and I have come to tell you."
He uttered a low cry and fell at her
feet.
"My angel!" he said, kissing tho
hand she held out to him. "Can it be
that you love me well enough to be
come the wife of a marble-cutter?"
"I have made up my mind not to
care about the tombstones," said Lau
ra. smiHnr.
And Stefano caught her in his arms,
laughing gaily, radiant with joy.
My love," he said, "the tombstones
existed only in your fancy. I am not
a mere marble-cutter, if you please
My name is Stefano Michetti."
"Michctti!" Laura echoed. "Stefano,
it cannot be that you are the sculptoi
of the famous bas-reliefs in the Hall of
Justice?"
"Even so; signorina," he said, laugh
ing. "They who know me call me
generally nothing but Stcfano, but my
family name is Michetti. I rejoice that
its fame has reached you."
"Oh, how could you deceive meP"
she cried reproachfully.
"I never tried to. You jumped at a
conclusion, and I let you alone; first
because it amused me, and then be
cause it amused me, and then because
I hoped to win 3'our love, even In the
capacity of a poor stone-cutter. Laura
mia, the sculptor would not have
eared for the heart that was too proud
to bestow its treasures on the statu
ary." "I could not resist you," she mur
mured, "In airy capacity."
He kissed her fondly, and then,
glancing around the room, he said:
"This Is my siudio my atelier but
elsewhere I have a beautiful home,
where you shall reign as a queen! See,
iny darling, here is my work!"
He drew aside the brown drapery,
and revealed the most exquisite panels
and fret-work, beautiful sculptured bas
reliefs in Carrara marble, about which
the artrworld was raving.
But you need not cancel the order
for your grandfather's tombstone,"
said Stefano mischievously. -I will
execute that, as I promised to."
What Mrs. Grafton said when she
heard it all is a matter of small conse
quence as long as she yielded her an
tipathies gracefully.
Laura was married very soon after
wards, and Stefano's fame still rises.
He has just made a splendid stone
capital, embodying a frolie of cupids,
for which his own beautiful boj' did
the posing.
m 1
THE CITY OF THE SUITAN.
Will It Ultimately Come Under the Rule
of Russia?
In a certain very limited number of
years from the present time it may
be two or it may be twenty Constanti
nople will have changed hands, and the
hands into which it will have fallen
will not be those of England. As to
the change, there can, humanly speak
ing, be no doubt whatever. Two cen
turies ago the backward movement of
the Turks began. Things moved slow
ly then, they move quickly now; but
not for a single day has there been a
cheek in the movement Hungary,
Servia, Roumania, and last, but by no
means least, Bulgaria, have each in
their turn been relieved from the pres
ence of the Turk. Even now little
more than Roumelia remains of the
European province of Turkey. The
last chapter has not vet come, but it
1 has very nearly come. The teaching
of history is uniform and conclusive,
but it is not required to prove that the
great city on the Bosphorus can not
much longer remain in the hands of
the Ottomans. To see Constantinople
and to see the Turks there is enough.
The continuance of such a regime in
the central joiut of modern Europe is
inconceivable, incredible. A to who
will be the successors of the sultan,
that must always be a question of deep
interest for England. Whether it is a
question which is worth fighting about
is an entirely different matter. At
present Russia and Austria are racing
for the goal. The forthcoming com
pletion of the Bulgarian section of tho
railway to Constantinople, the annexa
tion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and
the commencement of a n;w line of
railway under Hungarian control, giv
ing a second communication further to
the west, are all points which seem to
favor Austria at the present moment
On the other hand, the divided nation
ality of the Austrian army, the unpro
tected nature of the northern and north
eastern frontier of Hungary, combine
with man' other circumstances to
fortify tho position of Russia. This is
not the place to go into a discussion of
the probabilities of a Russo-Austrian
campaign or the enumeration of .the
strategic advantiges of either power
might be prolonged and would form a
most interesting study. But one great
fact remains clear above all details
namely, that if ever the unaccomplish
ed can be foreseen and the unknown
deduced from the known ait early con
flict between Russia and Austria is
among the most absolute certainties of
the European situation. As to the re
sult, it is of course idle to prophesy,
though there can be hardly any doubt
that English sympathies would lie and
ought to lie on the side of the kaiser
as against the czar.
But to whichever side the victor for
the time being may incline, the main
spring of action on the part of one,
at any rate, of the combatants must
remain absolutely Intact It is well
that English people should realize
fully what is the strength of the idea
which is behind the descent of Russia
to the sea. Looked at from the out
side and without prejudice, the situa
tion is a very striking one; the forces
at work are cnonuous. A nation of
one hundred millions is shut up against
the north pole with no outlets save the
Arctic sea and the shallow and often
frozen waters of the Baltic. To all in
tents and purposes this vast nation is
one people a Russian can be under
stood from Archangel to Odessa. That
the irresistible pressure of a hundred
million people, speaking one language
and moved by one idea, will break a
way to the sea I firmly believe. There
arc two points at which the sea may be
reached: the one is Salonica, the other
is Biissorah. Granting that one of
these two points for tho moment will
ultimately be reached, thero can hard
ly be any doubt as to which can be oc
cupied with the least disadvantage and
danger to England.
Assume the worst, and picture Rus
sia seated on the Bosphorus with the
control of the Dardanelles. According
to all the accepted traditions of English
statesmanship, such a consummation
would-be equivalent to the end of the
British empire, the one great and aw
ful calamity to avoid which all our re
sources should be expended and the
four quarters of the world involved in
war. But is this so? It would be un
fortunate, certainly. Constantinople
is a wonderful city; the Bosphorus is
a magnificent port. But Marseilles is
also a great city. Venice is a great city;
Toulon, Spezzia, and Flume are great
ports; and yet in the face of all of
them the work of the British empire
goes on and prospers. Why is it so
self-evident that the existence of one
more great military power upon the
Mediterranean could conjure up a
danger which the presence of the great
French, Italian, and Austrian strong
holds has not yet created? To Austria,
doubtless, the establishment of Russia
at Constantinople may be death; that
is owing to the internal constitution of
the Austrian empire, which no power
can alter. But for England there is no
such danger, and consequently no such
need for a conflict
But it will be said there is the Suez
canal the Suez canal is the key to In
dia. Russia on the Mediterranean will
threaten the canal, and will have it in
her power to seize the key of India.
Now, in tho first place, I say that the
Suez canal, save in time of peace, is
not the key to India, but that, on the
contrary, it is a dangerous temptation
laid before our eyes to lead us to neg
lect the real and only true key to our
Indian empire. The road to India in
time of war is round the cape and not
through the canal, and if a hundredth
part of the money which has been
spent in securing us from imaginary
dangers in north Africa had been ex
pended upon fortifications and docks
at Simon's bay and Cape Town the
terrible dangers of the present situa
tion would have been reduced to a
minimum.
As a European power in competition
with the armed states of the continent
England is at a hopeless and permanent
disadvantage. As a member of a con
federated empire of sea-bordered English-speaking
states she will be in an
absolute"- impregnable position, in
which the quarrels and bickerings of
the European governments will be ab
solutely without importance, and ouly
interesting as a study of contemporary
history in its smaller developments.
So long as we give hostages to Europe
by claiming an interest in its quarrels,
and a right to participate in them, so
long shall we be at their mercy. The
day on which we declare, once for all,
that we have no concern with the do
mestic politics of Europe, and inform
pur enemies, if we have any, that if
they wish to quarrel with us they must
take to the water to obtain satisfaction,
we shall enter upon a now and brighter
period of our history. At present the
indiscretion of a Roumanian patrol, the
ambition of a Russian colonel, or the
intrigues of a Greek patriot may drag
us at a day's notice into a conflict in
which we have nothing to win and
everything to lose, and in which we
must inevitably spend our blood and
money in serving the cause of other
nations.
Already events are helping to im
press upon the colonies the nature and
extent of the privilege and of the re
sponsibility. Our real through ronte
to the cast has within the past few
months been completed through the
west Already the military authorities
in India are looking to Australia as a
base of supply which can bo reached
more easilv than England. The proper
fortification of Esquimalt, Sydney,
Singapore, Simon's bay, and Mauritius
will make us absolutely independent of
the Suez canaL Close the cape route
and Sydney and Melbourne are still
open. If the great Australian ports
are momentarily unavailable, the Cana
dian Pacific railway will ouce more en
able us to turn the flank of any enemy.
The one and only route, throughout
the greater part of which wc move on
sufl'erance under the guns of every
man-drilling power in Europe, is the
one on which we expend all our fore
thought and all." our resources. It is
time that we recognized the new facts
of the political situation.
All this comes of our forgetting that
a new England has sprung up, destined
to be Infinitely greater and infinitely
more powerful than the old on the one
condition that she breaks forever with
the old tradition which made her one
of the old land powers of Europe, and
accepts the new and brighter role "of
the greatest sea power of the world.
H. 0. Foster, inNinctcenth Century.
i 1
How the Germans litre.
The Germans begin the day, not
with a good American breakfast of
meat and potatoes, but with a cup of
coffee and a piece of bread sometimes
honey with the bread, but rarely but
ter. About the middle of the forenoon
everybody eats a "piece," the peasant
and day-laborer eat their hard, brown
bread, and wash it down with a muddy-looking
liquid; the skilled workman
also eats brawn bread, but has good
beer to drink with it; the merchants
and professional men usually eat their
sandwiches dry; school-children at
their morning recess eat their "pieces"
which they brought from home, or else
buy sandwiches and pretzels (German,
bresel) from the bakers' boys who are
on hand with big baskets. Others oat
as they go along the streets. Almost
invariably I relish my 10 o'clock sand
wich, but it makes me feel so like a
boy to eat a "piece" between meals.
The big meal of the day is dinner,
which is usually taken between 12 and
1, and consists of soups, meats, aud
vegetables, and a dessert of pastry and
fruit Tho soups arc excellent and
vary according to the day of the week.
The meats aro genorally roasted or
boiled, with ocoasional fried cutlets or
steaks. The vegetables are potatoes
(not so large or mealy as in Massachu
setts), red cabbage, white cabbage
(fresh, or as sourkrout), cauliflower,
kohl rabi, beets, peas, beans, etc. The
pastry is destitute of rich, juicy pies,
but has cakes, dumplings, tarts, pan
cakes, aud bakers' sweetmeats instead.
Fruit varies with the season I have
had peaches, pears, plums, grapes,
apricots, apples, etc., but no water
melon. I miss the sweet potato very
much; and I have eaten sweet corn
only ouce in Europe, and that was at a
hotel. A few other Americans and
myself seemed to be the only oues
who knew how to manage the puny
cars, the rest not knowing whether to
cut them up with knife and fork or to
eat them like bananas. This reminds
me of an American who, at a hotel one
day, called for some crackers, and
thereby astonished a party of English
people who heard him. The English
say biscuit instead of crackers, and fully
expected to see tho waiter appear with
a plateful of firecrackers.
In the middle of the afternoon the
Germans have bread and coffee, after
which they fast until between 7 and 8
in the evening. Then they have sup
per, which is similar to the dinner,
with the exception of dessert Fre
quently the family remain around tho
supper table after it is cleared, and
spend the evening (especially if com
pany is present) in conversation moist
ened with beer or other drinks and
sweetened with confectionery. Cor.
Boston Advertiser.
They All Want Free Passes.
A member of the produce-exchange
who is a large shipper over the New
York Central applied to William H.
Vauderbilt not long before his death
for a pass to Chicago and back. Mr.
Vanderbilt then told him that dining
that year the New York Central had is
sued of yearly aud trip passes more
than thirty thousand, and that this was
such a serious drain on the company
that it had been decided very greatly
to limit the number. Railroad men
woidd have felt easier about the inter
state commerce bill if it had prohibi
ted tho issue of free transportation to
anyono except employes or officers en
gaged in business for the road.
A Reading railroad man recently
said that few knew how greaty the
free pass was used to influence traffic,
for very often a large shipier of grain
or pork would be controlled in his
choice of roods by the possession of a
pass of ono of them. "Men, and good
business men, too," said he, "will
often pay a higher rate for freight
simply because the road over which
they ship has sent them a yearly pass.
It is an open secret among railway
men that the Grand Trunk captured a
very large business from Chicago east
by tempting shippers with passes. I
have seen men-worth hundreds of thou
sands, shippers of thousands of bushels
a year, go into sulks because a pass to
New York and back was refused to
them. The whole business has been
demoralized by this custom, so that now
in the west a man who charters half a
car thinks, that free transportation for
himself ought to be thrown in. I came
through on the Grand Trunk from Chi
cago to Boston once, and there were
nine through passengers. The con
ductor said it must be profitable busi
ness, for seven of them were deadheads.
"If there is a number of the ex
change who doesn't carry a yearly pass,
or who can't get one," said the produce-exchanger,
"it is hccaune he don't
know how to work it. But there s one
mighty hard road to work, and that is
the Pennsylvania. I pulled the string
that did it, though," and the man
chuckled as he said this as though he
had made a turn on the right side for
100,000 bushels of wheat and he was
worth a quarter of a million, too.
'It isn't because men aro close,"
said a railway superintendent, "but
there seems to be a failing of human
nature to which a free ride on a rail
road ministers, just as you will some
times see men abundantly ablo to buy
champagne and terrapin making a set
for a free spread like a newsboy
scrambling
Htm.
for pennies." Xciv York
Speak and Write Plainly.
A lady stepped into a cab and said
sweetly to the driver "291 Huron."
All seemed well for a time until the
jehu gavo signs of going over to the
west division. Upon inquiry he was
found to be setting forth for Van Bnrcn.
It was in vain Booth cried out Sic scrn
per tyrannis, because the plain man
who heard the words did not possess
any familiarity with the Latin tongue
and very naturally reported the words
as being: "I am sick, send for Magin
nis." While Lewis Gaylord Clark was
in our world and was helping N. P.
Willis edit a paper, his note that h
would write for the Home Journal as
soon as he could find his lost muse,
was so printed as to put Clark in the
attitude of seeking a lost mule. A
doctor in the country left a dispatch at
the telegraph office ordering "a dozen
limes" for a patient The man in Chi
cago filled the requisition by express
ing to the invalid a dozen "2ics."
A fashionable girl of this city scut a
letter to Winona, but it reached its
true destination in a month after it had
been well inspected by the postmaster
at Yienua, Austria. Poor letter, it did
not know where to go!
A" city lawyer fell into a terrible pas
sion over a letter he had received from
a brother attorney. After making some
hot remajks about wasting time oVer
hieroglyphics," "puzzles," "chicken
tracks- and "ink ligiunmg, no sat
down and gave the offender some red
hot advice about writing more plainly;
but the letter did not hurt the man's
feelings in the least; he could not read
the note, and put it aside with the re
mark: "I never could read that fellow's
writing." Mr. Emerson sometimes
wrote so badly that sentences lay in
manuscript for hours or days before
they would give up tho writer's mean
ing. Once when this great man had
written a sentiment in a book for a
friend, and had- gone far away east,
that motto or maxim refused day after
day to show its face. Each neighbor
who called in was set to work at the
puzzle. It was solved at last by a man
who knew about Mount Monadnock.
He worked from that base aud found
that
A score of winy miles will smooth
The rough Moimdiiock to a gem.
All which puzzles of enunciation or of
written thought, coming from great
people or common people, are blem
ishes which can not show any good
reason of existence. David Swing, in
Chirugo Journal.
Liszt and the Ladles.
Mme. Janka Wohl contributes to the
International Review, of Florence, some
interesting reminiscences of Liszt Sh'e
says the abbe was very discreet as re
gards his lady admirers. Only once
did he satisfy her curiosity on this
point "I was working one morning
at Lowcmberg," said he, "when a card
was brought in to me. It contained a
name I did not know. The visitor, a
fine young Englishman, entered the
room. I fancied I recognized him.
He approached me, and whispered a
word in my ear. I at once detected
the voice. I was thunderstruck.
What have you come here for? Have
you run away? Have you left your
husband?' She had thrown herself in
to an armchair, and was laughing out
right 'This is a nice reception, in
deed,' said she; it was not worth the
while my risking myself as I am do
ing.' 4But you are ruining yourself,' I
exclaimed, fearing somebody would
come in. Shu flew to the piano and
began playing. 'I am your pupil;
that's all.' And she continued sing
ing, filling the house with her voice.
For heaven's sake,' I cried, 'hold your
tongue. Tho house is full of people.
They will come, and you will be re
cognized.' 'What, she cried, twirling
U10 mustache she had not, if they re
cognize me? I will congratulate them.
They will have seen worse than I am.'
Enough of this childishness,' I re
plied, seriously alarmed; 'tell mo what
brings you here.' She was a cautat
rice of European renown and irre
proachable character." "Malibran?"
"O, no, she was dead." "Jenny Lind,
then?" "She was also dead. My
heroine- was not only watched by a
jealous husband who did not deserve
the treasure which had fallen to his
lot, but also by an infatuated, un
scrupulous admirer, who tracked her
like a demon, hoping some day to
profit by a fault she might commit.
Everybody knew this, and I trembled
for her. I had met her occasionally, I
admired her greatly, but you know I
never coveted the moon. To sum up,
I could scarcely believe my eyes on
seeing her there, disguised as a young
man, calm aud candid, as if she were
paying me an ordinary visit How
over, I persuaded her to go, but not
before we had breakfasted together. I
promised to call on her, but never
went I have always avoided ad
ventures of this kind; I detest melo
drama, particularly in private life.
Two years later she came to me again
in the same way. I was then living
like a recluse at Monte Mario. I made
her sing my 'Ave Maria.' She sang it
in a way that would have tempted a
saint. Alas! it will never be sung
again like that What has become of
her since? She is dead." Liszt never
divulged her name.
Elopers Sure Enough.
"There had been an account of an
elopement in the morning papers,"
said the commercial traveler, "aud I
was thinking of it when a couple drove
up to the country hotel and registered
Mr. and Mrs. So-and-so.' I winked at
the boys and said: 'Here's for a joke.'
The old hotel-keeper was a very dear
friend of mine and took my word fot
gospel truth, so when I said: 'Look out
for 'em! I think I know 'em, and they
are eloping and they are not married,'
ste., you ought to have seen the old fel
low. He scowled and lifted his chin,
and wagged it half a dozen times, sort
of as though he was thinking it over,
aud then he walked off. All the other
boys in the house were put onto the
joke and we agreed to watcti the old
man aud see what he did.
"Supper rang, and the party of trav
eling men took scats at one table and
left the new arrivals to the sole occu
pancy of another. The hotel proprie
tor, who helped serve at the table, took
his station as much as possible behind
the young couple, his eyes all the time
watching their every movement
"Will you have some sugar in youz
tea?' at length said the young man to
his companion, as he passed the saccha
rine for her use.
No, thank you, I never use sugai
in my tea,' was the sweet response.
"We were watching the old man as
he stood near them and hoard this an
swer. He grew about a foot in a sec
ond. 'He's got a clue,' said I to my
self. And it was a clue such as would
make the eye of a Pinkerton detective
sparkle. The idea of a husband not
knowing whether his wife used sugar in
her tea or not! The old man didn't
linger long nltout coming to a decision.
He leaned over and said: 'Young man,
you leave the table. That woman is
not your wedded wife.'
"The couple never whimpered. They
called for their team and drove on.
The most surprised party in the aflaii
was ours. We hadn't dreamed we
were so near the truth. The next day
the same pair were arrested in a neigh
boring town and carried back to their
homes. If I should tell that landlord
now that the Methodist minister 'that
boards with him was Jesse James in
disguise he would believe me." Lewis
ton (Me.) Journal.
a
Murriage In Holland.
An Amsterdam correspondent writes:
Until the betrothal of the young lady
has been announced she remains the
solo charge of her father anil mother,
and she makes acquaintances always
in the presence of a third party. The
Holland young lady does not go to tho
theatre with a gentleman who lias been
introduced to her a week before, neith
er does she vary her beau to suit her
dress or complexion. Unmarried
daughters in this country are chaperon
ed to all places of amusement; even
dancing parties are interspersed with
songs, recitations,- etc., for the amuse
meut of the elders of the. family, who
sit around tables, socially sipping their
coffee, wine, or other favorite bever
age, while the younger members glide
over the waxen floor to the fitful strains
of music. Here the young must make
the best of their opportunities, for
when it pleases the parents to seek the
quiet solace of the home the daughters
also quit the gayety of the ball-room.
It was an old oriental doctrino that
women havo r.o souls. More enlightened
philosophy concedes that they havo
purer, finer, more exalted souls than
men. But they aro too often contained
in feeble, suffering bodies, which hamper
and retard their full development. For
all these painful ailments incident to the
sex, Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription"
is the best specific in the world, and is
sold under 11 positive guarantee that it
will do all that is claimed for it. Price
reduced to one dollar. By druggists.
Europe appears to be uneasy on ac
count of the feeling manifested all over
the country- in exjwetntion of war, which
has induced a general military prepara
tion now going on, it is said, from tho
Bosphorus to tho English channel. In
order to live in comparative peace, they
must bo fully equipped for destroying
lives.
The Pepalatltm rJlurahaK
Is about 3,000, and we would say at least
one half are troubled with some affection
ol the Throat and Lungs, aa thone com
plaints are, according to statistics, more
numerous than others. Wc would ad
vine all not to neglect tht opportunity to
call on us and get a bottlo of Kemp's
Balsam for the Throat and Lungs. Price
50c and $1.00. Trial tize free, ttes
pectfully, Dr. A. Ileintz.
Willicm Ihuid, was reported in tho
Herald ut Rochester, N. Y., tho other
day, killed by lightning at Livonia.
Henry Minnehan, who took shelter in a
barn with Hand, was prostrated and may
not recover.
Itch, Prairie Mange, and Scratches
of every kind cured in 30 minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Uao no
other. This never tails. Sold by
O. B. Stillnian, druggist Columbus.
Jamestown, N. Y., was visited the
other day by a terrific, storm. Four
buildings at Kaudolph were struck by
lightning and burned. Several horses
and other stock were killed. Fruit and
forest trees suffered considerable dam
age. '
From the earliest historical times
down to the present, there has been
nothing discovered for bowel complaint
equal to Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea ltemedy. There is no
remedy as near perfect, or one that is as
strongly endorsed by all persons who
have had occasion to uso it. Sold by
Dowtv & Becher.
A report, comes from Pesth, that two
hundred houses had been destroyed by
life in Krgy-Karoly, Trinsylvauin. Tho
castle of Count Kuroly narrowly escaped
destruction.
Do You Know
that IJeggs' Cherry Cough Syrup will
relieve that cough almost instantly and
make expiration easy? Acts simulta
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thereby relieving the lungs of tho sore
ness and pain and also stopping that
tickling sensation in the throat by
removing tho cause. Ono trial of it
will convince any one that it has no
equal on earth for coughs and colds.
Dr. A. Ileintz has secured the sale of it
and will guarantee every bottlo to givo
satisfaction. 3feb23
Several Rock Island freight
have been arrested recentlv.
thieves
Good MesHll ! Every Case.
D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper
dealer at Chattanooga, Tenn., writes
that he was seriously afflicted with
a severe cold that settled on hia
longs; had tried many remedies
withont benefit. Being induced to
try Dr. King's New Discovery for
Consumption, did so and was en
tirely cored by the use of a few bot
tles. Since which time he has used
it In his family for all Cougha and
Colds with best results. This is the
experience of thouasuds whose lives
have been saved by this Wonderful
Discovery.
Trial bottles free at Dowty &
Heitksmper's drag store.
The post office inspector tho other
day nt Grand Bnpids, arrested carrier
Joseph J. Barry, charged with robbing
the mails. It is claimed that tho total
stealings amount to 86,000.
Salt Rheum or Erernia.
Old sores and ulcers,
Scoldhead and ringworm,
Pain in the back and spine,
Swelling of tho knee joints,
Sprains and bruises.
Neuralgia and toothache,
Tender feet caused by bunions, corns
and chilblains, wo warrant Beggs' Trop
ioal Oil to relieve any and all of the
above. Dr. A. Heintz.
Miss Mary Lahee, a highly cultivated
young lady of Burlington, Iowa, com
niitted suicide the other night by hang
ing. She had been in ill health for some
months.
A CSreatt flararla
Is lu store lor all who use Kemp's
Bal
sam for tbe Throat and I.unge, the great
guaranteed remedy. Would you believe
that it Is sold oa its merits aad that
each drujrgist is authorized to retund
your money by the Troprletor of this
wonderful remedy if it falls to euro you.
Dr. A. Ileintz has secured the Agency
for it. Price 50c and l. Trial $ixc Jree.
President Cleveland has appointed
Charles J. Russell, of 111., and J. P.
Thome, of Md., to le members of the
Board of visiters of the military acad
emy nt AVest Point, in place of General
Palmer and Mr. Gwinn, of Maryland,
declined.
Fifty cents is n small doctor bill, lmt
that is all it will cost you to cure any
ordinary case of rheumatism if you
take our ndvico and use Chamberlain's
Pain Balm. Everybody that tries it
once, continues to use it whenever they
are in need of a remedy for sprains,
painful swellings, lmno back, or soro
throat. It is highly recommended by
nil who have tried it. Sold by Dowty k
Becher.
It is reported that the Spanish Cham
ber of Deputies hnve abolished the right
of trial by jury.
Do Not lie Alarmed
at the rising of blood from the lungs. It
is one of tho earliest symptoms of con
sumption, and only shows the healthy
effort of the system to throw off the
scrofulous impurities of the' blood which
have resulted in ulceration of the lungs.
Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery"
is a positive remedy for consumption at
this stage. If taken faithfully, it will
cleanse the blood, heal the ulcers in the
lungs, and build up and renovate tho
whole system.
Ah Ead te lloam Scraping.
Edward Shepherd, of llarrisburg,
III., says : "Having received so much
benefit from E'octric I5itcrs I loci it
my dutj :o let et-ffe: ins: humanity
know it. Hive hail a !:i::ing Bore
on my lc lor eight ( -r; my doc
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bone scraped or ler ampiKa'.cd. I
us.ed iusld. three billc4 o' K .vi
Diners ana seven
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Electric Bitter are
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Salvo Ht 2.1c. per box
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A remarkable phenomenon in Noble
county, Ohio, having tho nppearanco or
something like snow covering the whole
face of tho country, but upon investiga
tion turned out to. be saltpetor. Tho
citizens of the county aro alarmed about
it, as thoy are unablo to explain or ac
count for it.
Purify Your Uiood.
If your tonguo is coated.
If your skin is yellow and dry.
If you have boils.
If you have fever.
If you are thin or nervous.
If you aro bilious.
If you aro constipated.
If your boues ache.
If your head aches.
If yon have no appetite.
If you havo no ambition, one
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tho nlxn-e complaints. Sold and war
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A frightful death roll is reported from
Portland, Ore., of tho total number
known to havo perished in tho mining
disaster at Naniamo is ISO. of whom 82
were Chinamen and OS whites, more
than half tho white men leaving families.
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