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BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY.
7 Copyrighted by the Author, and published
by arrangement "with rim.
(Continuedfromjast tceek.)
'. f CHAPTER IV.
CliTIXG FOR THE MOOJT.
,T' .Tho strident voices of 400 looms would
fr -. ;seem to ba too much for human nerves, bnt
. tho walls of tho weave room Number Two of
the Breton mills are hung with soiled plaid
.- . shawls and chip hats, the livery of tho fac-"-"
tory girL Their restless forms are busy
":. among the rattling machinery, their swift
; cunning fingers moving harmlessly where
' mutilation would seem certain. It is a mere
' " matter of habit; ono look at most of tho set
" 'pale faeds would show there was no brain
...f pre in exercise. "Why, tho overseer will
" " -tell you,those girls are as much machines as
v' the frames and belting; though they un
doubtedly liave ono advantage for the em
ployers, tho girls are cheajer. Tho wonder
.ful mechanism of those looms, the skillful
'system of "belts and pulleys and tho enor
" ' mous water wheel cost a fortune. Girls can
be bought in tho market any day for a crust
of bread.
Is not that figure familiar tho one that
stands this moment leaning against a dingy
white pillar, while the rushing belts and slid-
. ing frames seem hurrying the faster all about
s " her! ."Yes, on, tho pioco of wall between the
"i.tw-o-'jailliko windows nearest to her hangs
V tie plaidshawl Philip Breton had for a coun-
C .terpano only list night. Her dress is soiled
T'aii'd ill 'inada, and her Jiair tied up In the
closefeand ugliest coil to escape tho greedy
- macnTncry,'ever reaching put for nowvic-
.' vtlnia. IJut the warm, soft tint of her cheeks
V and tho moist sheen in her black eyes were
always tho same, and many a young man
would rather "look at her this minute than
,tafcofEau extra cut, they call it, of cloth at
vlwtmty cents.
"a Her days used to bo more terrible to her
even than niv. Sho had wished every morn-
"riug that she might die before night, and at
-Tiigbt lliat God would take her before morn-"
Jing; take her, she cared not where; no place
jMd be worse, certain. Hut she was slowly
jiving, sue thought, into tho dead calm
it all the rest had learned; and yet how sho
hated the great massive mills, irresistible
giants that held her with deathless grasp,
grimly contemptuous of her writhiugs and
foolish si niggles. The oversee?, too, how
blio hated them; their sharp words stung her
like tlie lash of so many taskmasters, and the
paymaster who doled out to her tho few dol
lars, the wages of her blood and life, as if
that could lie paid for. Sho had longed so
-many times to throw back bis money in the
-. tjuiliug, patronizing face; but tho poor can
- ?Kt afford tho'dearest of all luxuries, pride.
; utidenly the mill ltcll rang out above the
l-rur of the wheels, and at its voice tho looms
stopped, tho breath of their life taken away,
and the belts ceased from their eudless race.
Another day's work was closed, and the
poor girls hurried on their shawls and hato
as if at last something pleasant awaited
them and went out in '-hattering groui.
"What i- it, Tonimier A broad shoul
dered young fellow hail left the crowd and
followed her shyb up tho hill.
"Nothin1 much, only may I walk homo
with .your
'Will that do you any good? Hurry up
then."1
He was an honest fared young fellow, and
a little letter dressed than most of tho group
that waited about the ! "i yard gate.
""What you want to -alk round here with
me for I can't see. They can't work you very
hard, Tommie, if you want so much extra
exercise.''
-- It was rather a contemptuous laugh sho
had for him, but sho showed a row of small
white ttHith that poor Tommie thought were
very beautiful.
"I wanted to say sozneihm particular,
Jennie," And he reached down his big dingy
hand for a stalk of grass, and began pulling
it nervously to pieces, as he kept up with her
quick feet. They wero just issing Mr.
Ellings'.vorth's house, and father and daugh
ter stood in tho doorway. Xo doubt Mr.
Ellingsworth had just coino home to tea. Ho
held his tall hat in his hand, v.hilo he waited
with his beautiful daughter to enjoy the soft
spring mildness. Jano Graves could see in
behind them. How could they bear to stay
outside? JShesawa white spread tea table glis
tening with silver and rare china, soft tinted
caqiclsund pictures in rich gilded frames,
far prettier, sho was sura, than anything
natutv had to show. The girl's face, as sho
stood resting her white hand on her father's
shoulder, was as calm as the twilight itself.
"How has she deserved it all mora than I?
Sho was never tired in her life, and I never
lie down at night but my hands and feet
ache. Seowhat she gets for being idle; see
what I got for my ten hours' work, every day
since I was a child.''
"We've known each other pretty long, Jen
nie, and and" ho had pulled tho grass all
nil to pieces "and I s'io;e3-ou know how I've
I mean how I'vo felt, I am doing a littlo
better now." Tho young man's eyes bright
ened. "I've got a littlo money left me, and
you know I'm just made second hand."
"AVliat is that to me, Tonimier sho said,
innwtientli. Her woman's soul was longing
for the beautiful life of the rich, whose house
sue was passing, and iho felt, too, the admir
ing glance Mr. Ellingsworth had given to
her graceful figure. "Why was this awkward
boy ny her sido to spoil the effect;
Tommie Bowler winced, but ducking his
round head to avoid the sharp look ho feared
was in the beautiful eyes, he went on dog
gedly. "I s'posed we'd been agoing together quite
a while, Jennie, and I was goiu' to ask ycu
whe : you was willin' to be nia,-ric.l0
"Marrieil to youf
Ah, Tommie Bowler, wtiat were 3-011 think
ing of to want to marry a girl who had such
atone at tka. for youf
Tears of Khamo started into his eyes. "I
ftlnt so low; I never thought but what you
would before.
She gave him a look half curious and half
pitiful. Ha might as well have cried for the
moon. Could it bo the lad thought that just
because sho was pretty she could make his
home happy for him hisf
'Tin not going to have a hand at making
another poor man's home. Peoplo like U3
bad better bo singlo; there's only half tho
trouble that way, Tommie."
The broad shouldered young man, who did
not know what was good for him, fell back
from tho woman his heart hungered for as if
he was shot. And she walked on, with hard
ly another thought for the foolish lover who
imagined they two could bo happy together.
"WI13- couldn't sho be rich? They had al
ways told her sho was beautif uL If she onl j
had a chance They 303' men are fools over
pretty women, and that i3 the only hope a
woman has of winning her way. If she only
cad a chance.
A delicato gray mist Coated over tho river
below tho village, and the green forests and
fresh -meadowy oa the other sido smiled
through it, like a fair woman through her
tears. A tired soul might have drunk in its
beauty and been rested, but Jane Graves cast
her eyes down oa tho dusty road before her
and walked along with a set bitter curl on
her bright red lips, and did not once look at
tho gift of God's mercy to the poorest of his
creatures. For her part sho despised the
poor; sho didn't pit- them; great strong men
wbo'sutunitted to be trodden on and ground
under the feet of the rich; whose blood and
muscles and quivering flesh were weighed in
the balance against a few dollars of the spec
ulators. It was good enough for them as
long as they submitted to it Sho didn't
blanratho rich; they were the only wise peo
plo; sho only envied them. They did well to
take all they could get and walk over as
many thousands as would fall down before
them. Oh, if she could only win her way to
their ranks. But tho rich men do not come
into tho weave room for their enslavers.
.ISdddenly'sho heard a step behind her; a
step she knew from all others in the world,
BH tho whole air seamed to tremble with a
xiew.'Btnmgef heavenly impulse. "
"Good evening, Jane.1
goo jterned with a new, sweet shyness. It
tnts Curran, the agitator, who was beside
je jl soft flush was on her cheeks, a warm
light in herjeyes that had grown larger for
him in delicious surprise.
"Who is that .young fellow who just teft
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your
"Oh, ono of my lovers," she answered
coquettishly, dropping her eyes before his.
"He your lover!" repeated Curran in his
imperious fashion. " You're not for such as
he, Jennie."
Her heart flattered in sweet fear at the
meaning sho thought in his words. Sho was
trying to walk very slowly, bnt how fast
they seemed to pass the houses.
"So I told him," she said.
"You did well, then," and ho looked down
adniiringly on the girl. "You are a fine wo
man. I don't suppose you know it"
Jane Graves tried to look as if it was nows
to her, and Curran went on. "Few women
are prettier. There are fine prizes for such as
you in this world if you will only wait" He
continued thoughtfully, "Men have to work
for distinction; a pretty face brings it to
women."
"ivnat sort of prizesr And sho trusted
herself to look up at him. How grand ho
was, with his firm, strong Taco. If ho only
had a touch of weakness in him that might
bend down to her.
"Position, money, power."
"Iio woman caros for those." And sho be
lieved it as she spoke, looking away over the
river.
"What thenP ho asked, smiling. "Those
things aro what all men are working for, I
suppose."
"Women care for-but ono thing."
Sometimes tho climax of a character is
reached oalj in old age, when storms havo
wroaked their fur' for a lifetime on a soul.
Sometimes it comes in childhood, with three
score years of decline to coino -after it It
was at this moment that this girl's lifo
reached its moral height If she could but
have kept it
"That is love," sho added softly. "It is
their lives; they hope only for that; they
dream only of it."
Curran laughed, but gently, as ho took ho
hands at parting, pressing them perhaps un
consciously, yet no man can be wholly care
less to such beauty as hers.
"It is only because women aro more foolish
than men, not because they aro more do
voted, that the' are ablo to make such ab
surd mistakes."
She smiled on him as radiantly as a red
petaled roao unfolding its glowing heart to
tho morning sun the sun that gives every
thing and wants .nothing, and stood half
turned watching his retiring form. Tho road
at this point passed near a deserted ruin,
once a brick sawmill, which liad shorn tho
hills and valleys around of their pride, now a
favorite trysting place for lovers of moon
light nights like this. would be. Curran wa3
just entering under nn arch, where once had
swung a heavy oaken door which long ago
had served some shivering famil- for a
week's firewood.
Ho went in and did not onco turn. How
cruel men aro. Perhaps, sho told herself, ho
is to meet there some messenger of tho Great
leaTie he had told her about, and they will
plan together somo bold stroke. It was
beautiful to havo such power, even if it mado
him forget this one poor girl, whoso heart
longed so eagerly for another smile.
Tho whole world seemed glorified to tho
girl as sho walked on. Sho had loitered so
long that the sun was now almost sotting,
with his flowing robe of carmine about him,
and the wholo landscape soemed in a rapture
of silent worship. Jane Graves was like oae
in a dream her home, which sho could tell
from its cheap dreary counterparts, might
havo been a palace; the path along in front
of it, beaten by so many faltering footsteps,
seemed only pleasantly familiar to her.
What had she seen to envy in anybody's lifo
that had not her dear hopo!
But down tho hill comes a great whito
horse, tossing his mano and curveting in the
pride of his strength and beauty.
Its rider who held tho rein so gracefully
must be young'Philip, the mill owner's son;
ho had just finished college, they said So
that was tho young man Bertha Ellingsworth
was engaged to; not ill looking, and he rode
welL Tho girl smiled to herself. "But
Bertha Ellingsworth had not seen Curran."
"Did he lift his hat to meP Sho looked
inquiringly about her. "There is no on
else, and his black eyes soemed to know me,
too; how odd!'' thought tho girl, as she
walked 0:1 more hastily, and tho horso and
its rider disappeared in a cloud of dust
"And it seems as if I had seen him some
where, loo."
CHAPTER V.
a vlvit; by moon-light.
Bertha lay back indolently in her favorite
armchair, watching tho deepening twilight
from her parlor window. Her 03-eswcro al
most closed, and I'inlip, auecting to do inter
ested in Mr. Ellingsworth's conversation,
thought ho might look at her as foudl- as ho
choso without discover- and rebuke. He was
sure ho was not noticed, but tho girl was
quito enjoying his silent offering so loug as
no uui not guess sho perceived it If a girl
must have a lover, Philip did very welL But
her lover was no divinity to her; she saw all
his faults as clearly as anybody; not with
impatience, however; that was not her tem
perament For example, ho was too short
and his shoulders wero too slight She never
forgot it for an instant But then ho always
did what she said, and that was very con
venient, and yet she was half provoked with
him for it. A man ought to command a wo
man's love, not try to coax it from her. He
thought quito too much of her for what sho
returned him; he ought to bo stern and cold
to her sometimes, and givo her a chance to
be something besides an ungrateful recipient
But perhaps sho would not like him at all in
that character. Sho suddenly opened her
eyes wide aud looked curiously at her lover;
there is nothing so chilling as such a look as
that, and Philip winced under it
"Well, I suppose you two aro bursting with
tender confidences." smiled Mr. Ellinsrsworth.
as ho rose to his feet; "I really won't stay a
minute longer." Ho moved toward the door,
then he smiled and looked around; ho had
thought of something very funny. "Now
Philip, my dear boy, you mustn't be too sure
of her just becauso she seems so affectionate.
That is where a young man makes his worst
mistake As long as thero is another ttw" in
the world, he may havo hope, that is, tho
other man."
His daughter looked coolly after him.
"Must you go? Why we shall die of ennui.
We shall havo to take a walk ourselvci Ex
cuso me, Kiilip, while I get ready."
If t alone, the young man rose and went
to the window and looked out at the evening
sky. There was a little frown on his face.
"What an unpleasant wa- of talking Bcrtlia's
father had. One would think he believed in
nothing. Thero was no danger of his feeling
any too sure of her; how far away sho seemed
to him. The idea of marriage seemed vaguo
and dreamlike, and yet he had her promise."
"You may adjust my shawl for me." His
vexation fled, and ho smiled with tho sweet
complacency of possession as ho laid tho deli
cate bit of laco about her wmrm shnnldom
To-night would be a good time to turn his
idea into reality, and ask her when
"But you must promise me ono thing," sho
said, standing close to him for one moment
"What is that, Bertha, dearf ho asked
with guilty uneasiness.
Sho put her soft white hand in his so
charmingly that ho was suddenly sure it
could be nothing hard sho would require.
"I promise," ho assented.
"Xolovo making in tho ruin, if I lot you
take me there."
"Why, BerthaP he exclaimed so sorrow
fully that ho showed his whole plan. Tho
girl laughed.
"You aro too cunning by half, Mr. Philip,
but then you know lovo making in the saw
mill is too common. Why, it is the rendez
vous of all the factory hands. No, I couldn't
think of it for a moment"
"Then I won't insist on taking you to the
old saw milL"
'Oh, yes! it is charming by moonlight"
'Ono would think you hadn't any heart"
Philip did not confess the peculiar charm
this woman's very coldness had for him;
there was somo quality in it that was irre
sistibly exciting to his nature. Perhaps it
was tho presence ot an unconscious reserve
of passion, never yet revealed, that ho felt in
her, that kept his heart ever warm, and his
eyes ever tender for its unveiling.
The round faced servant girl had come up
from Ihe kitchen, and stood awkwardly at
the door.
"Yes, you may light the gas now, Annie;
we are going out" She laid her hand lightly
on Philip's arm as they went down the walk.
"I must really have a maid. That Annie is
too clumsy for mo to endure in the parlor or
dining room. Oh, yes, I probably have got
a heart; some time it will frighten yon, per
haps." -
They walked slowly along the street, pass
ing the very spot where Tommie Bowler had
offered his poor little all to Jane Graves only
an hour or two ago. Their feet trod care
lessly on the bits of crass the nervous lovar
had scattered along the path.
"But you haven't told me about tho meet
ing. Did the agitator have auburn curls, as
I said? That is the clearest idea I have got
of a hero."
As ho told her his adventure they reached
tho ruin and went in. The moonlight poured
through the dismantled roof, and made a
white track for itself over the uneven floor,
leaving the rest of tho interior in tho shadow.
Such as remained of tho fallen rafters made
, convenient benches for visitors, who'might
easily enough imagine themselves in some
old world ruin. And tho young mill owner's
son and Bertha, tho hem of whose garment
had never touched poverty, seated themselves
where many a penniless young fellow had
wooed some pretty weaver maid to share his
destitution, all for lovo soon starved out of
both their lives.
Philip felt all his last night's enthusiasm
coming over him again, as he described the
meeting of the hopeless poor and tho lifo of
the family that had taken him in. Ho seemed
to bo again thrilled with Curran's eloquence
as ho pictured his noble presence", and tried
to repeat his vivid sentences. Was Bertha
listening so patiently to him or only idly
watching tho shadows as they shifted with
tho moon? He hoped sho was touched. She
could help him so much to do something for
tho thousand souls in .the mills if thero was
anything could be done. And then it seemed
so sweet to have an earnest thought and hope
in common one more bond to unite them.
"But what can I do, Bertha? It is all so
mixed up. Do you suppose my father would
listen to me? But if ho would, what can I
propose? If I tell him tho people are poor
and unhappy, he knows all that. I can't ask
him to divide all his wealth with them; that
wouldn't last so many very long, and then
ho couldn't employ them any more they
would be spoiled for work, and we would all
starve together."
"I wish I could see him," said tho girl
slowly.
Ho looked at her blankly.
"Whyf
Suddenly a double tread of feet without,
and tho forms of two men, ono much taller
than tho other, blocked tho doorway.
"Hush, then," whispered Philip excitedly.
"There ho stands."
The men came forward till they stood di
rectly in tho path of tho moonlight, which
seemed to clotho them with its silver sheen.
No need to tell her which was ho; tho girl
bent eagcrl-forward and fixed her eyes on
tho majestic figure that stood with folded
arms.
"I am very late," began tho shorter man
apologetically.
Curran did not reply, and the man went on
in a minute more. "What is tho news? I
want to report your village, you know."
"Thero is 110 news. It is the same old story.
What is the good of reporting and reporting,
and then doing nothing'' Tho words escaped
between his teeth like tho staccato tones of a
cornet "I am sick of tho word 'wait;' it is
the resource of the weak."
"But wo aro weak. Givo us time."
Curran unfolded his arms with a gesture of
impatience.
"Tho injustice has got its growth: it has
f ittoned on our flesh and blood, and sucked
out tho life of untold generations before us."
His eyes shone fiercely on the man of caution.
"I bcliove the time has come to destroy it,
and tUo crime of murder lies at our con
sciences for every crushed soul sacrificed for
our delay."
Philip fancied Bertha trembled.
"But," began the stranger, in the metallic
voice of the objector, "the officers of the
league think the laborers aro not ready."
"No, nor will they ever be; they have sub
mitted too long. But they are alwa-s good
for action if somebody will lead them. They
hang oa our lips, but wo do not speak."
"Yes, we aro spreading intelligence, send
ing out orators like you; wo are arranging
political campaigns. By and by capital will
be more reasonable."
"Do you fanc3 then," retorted Curran, bit
terly, "that tho rich will willingl' open their
coffers to tho logical workman, out of wha-o
earnings the- have filled them? Isn't it too
delightful to bo able to build a palace for u
home, and create another iaradiso for a gar
den; to many off their sons and daughters
when the first coo of love trembles on their
young lips? Then will thoy divide," and he
raised his voice with terrible emphasis,
"when there is no escape from it As long
as tho people submit, if it bo till tho trump of
doom, so long the lorda and masters will de
fraud them of the price of their labor: so
long their wives and daughters will look
down complacently on the sufferings of the
million, ono of whom starves for every piece
of finery they smile to wear."
Philip felt Bertha tremble again, but her
eyes never once wavered.
"What do you proposer'
"I don't know," muttered Curran, turning
his head half away, "but when I see the silent
raging in the hearts of tho poor, when I see
the riches squeezed out of their scant, ill fed j
blood, 1 am mad with impatience. But I
suppose all great changes come most benefi
cently if they aro slow. Then there nro no
heart sickening reactions. Come out into the
open air. It seems closo here."
The two men went out and tho indistinct
murmur of their voice's was all that could
bo heard.
"How do you like myhcroP said Philip,
pleased that Bertha should have a chance to
learn from the saml source whence he had
been so stirred. Now, sho could sympathize
perfectly with him, in tho new idea that ho
felt must have such a groat influence over his
life,
"Ho is coming back," she whispered breath
lessly, "alone."
Curran looked in astonishment at two
figures starting toward him out of the sha
dows. Ho recognized them at once.
"Well, I hope you may have learned some
useful truths," ho said scornfully, looking tho
young man full in the face.
Bertha's lip quivered, and she came close to
him in tho moonlight and laid her whito
hand on his arm. "Wo did not mean to over
hear your secrets," she said earnestly; "but
surely it could do no harm to listen to such
beautiful words. They seemed to be wasted
on the ono you meant them for."
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mean to oterhear your
secrets."
Philip looked at Bertha in"startled sur
prise; ho hardly know her; then ho glanced at
Curran, whoso curled lip softened its stern
lines. Tho girl's bonnet had fallen back on
her neck, and her face was turned up toward
his in the perfection of graceful entreaty, her
big blue eyes showing dark in the evening.
Tho agitator glanced at her sparkling dia
monds, and tho rich laco shawl that lay over
her shoulders, then hack into tho beautiful
upturned face, and at last his eyes fell before
hers. His boldness was gono; his scorn and
contempt for the women of tho rich changed
to timidity before her.
"Don't distress yourself, my dear lady," he
said at last; "thero Is no harm done, I am
sure."
As his tense mood relaxed, tho charm that
had so transformed tho girl seemed broken,
and she drew back as if in surprise at finding
herself so near him.
The walk homo was a silent one, till almost
the end.
"Do you know what I am going to do to
morrow, Bertha! I am going to put on the
old clothes again,"
"Don't you think it rather boyishP
"I'm in earnest this time. I am going to
learn how to make cloth, and find, out just
how hard tho work is, and just how why
Bertha, are you yawning C
They had reached the doorway. She looked
very sweet, even when smothering a yawn
with her two fingers, as sho stood on the step
above him, and gazed off on tho river. His
foolish heart began to beat
"Bertha, Ave are not at the sawmill now,
and"
She smiled. "But yoa were not to say
anything if I let you take me there, and I
have let you, havent IP
"But arent you ever going to consent
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"IVc did not
to"
"There," sho stamped her foot playfully.
"You are almost breaking your promise;''
then she looked at his reproachful face and
let him take her hand and kiss it "You
know there is a sort of solemnity in the kind
of business like talk you want so much. But
Til promise this: if yoa will bo patient for
just one month, you can say what yon please
tome." :
Philip went off in great gleo, and bis horse
Joe could not leap too high to suit him, for
what Bertha had said was almost what; he
asked. Oao month from today that would
bo a Friday early in the morning.
CHAPTER VL
A DAT OFF.
Jane Graves was putting oa her hat and
faded plaid shawl for another dreary day's
work. She hated it with all the passion of
her nature. Sho saw nothing in it but
slavery and degradation, and in her impa
tience thought she would rather dio than
drag out her lifo thus. Somebody must do
the work, but not such as sho, surely.
"Come here, my dear." -
Sho had been lingering aimlessly, only
that sho dreaded to turn her foet toward the
factory, whoso tolling bell rang sternly in
her ears. Now she approached her mother's
bod with a gentler expression on har face.
Tho thin hands wee laid on her arm, and
tho sick woman drew tho girl's head down on
the pillow beside her own.
"Was I ever so pretty as yon, I wonder?"
sho said wistfully. "They used to say I wa3
tho prettiest in tho village." And tho sunken
cye3 brightened at sweet memories, tho
sweetest in tho world to a woman.
"It did you littlo good, mother," said the
girl in a muffled voice.
In a moment more she started up
"There, mother, I am late again: a quarter
day's pay lost, and a scolding gained."
Tho sick woman's eyes opened wide, and
tho girl waited one sad minute more, to sec
how terribly whito the poor face looked oven
against her pillow.
"I had something to say, I thought," said
tho woman eagerly, "but I can't remember,
I am so sick. But perhaps it wasn't any
thing. You may go now, dear; I am sorry I
kept you.
Tho girl pinned her shawl about her. What
good of looking in tho glass? It could only
tell her she was pretty, as her mother used to
be, and remind her what a fool she was to
expect a different fate. Fifteen 'ears, and
she might bo sick and broken on this very
bed, perhaps telling her own unhappy child
how pretty sho used to be. The girl shud
dered at tho picture as sho went out of her
mother's room.
"Oh! I remember now," called tho sick
woman.
"Did you want the tea put near you?"
asked tho girl, coining Back wearily.
"It is not that but but you are not to go
to work today. Somebody is coming to 6ce
you. He wants you to live with him."
"What, to marry me.1" exclaimed the girl
in astonishment
"Ho didn't speak of that," smiled her
mother, languidly, "but I can't talk any
more, l am so tired."
Jano Graves had learned one lesson of pov
erty, not to hope. So after this strange an
nouncement of her mother'3 she onh laid off
her hat and shawl, and waited. After look
ing idly out of tho window for a while, and
swing nothing that had not worn itself into
her very soul years ago, tho vaguo woman
instinct stirred in her and she moved about
the house arranzinir thines. Sho found n
little map that hung in tho sitting room u
littlo awry and straightened it. It- was a
dingy map of China tlfat had come onco with
a pound of tea, and sho wanted to throw it
away, but the wall looked too bare without
anything. Sho took down a couple of ugly
littlc gift chronica her father had placed on
the mantelpiece and tore them up in disgust.
There seemed nothing else to do, there was
so little to arrange. Sho wasn't sosurc but it
was better in the mill perhaps it was a
blessing tho oor wero kept so many hours in
its grim walls, where at least there was but
littlo ohaueej.o think. What was thereto
1 ig for in such homes and such leisure as
tnis?
She stepped to tho closet and took out a
well thumbed book and sat down. She turn
ed two or three pages, and then countwl how
main- times sho had read them before, and
she felt sick with the foolish hopes and
dreams tho oft read book had used to wake in
her.
Sho laid it away with a sigh mid picked up
on o!d newspaper. How slow tho forenoon
went.
She read down the advertising columns.
How many beautiful things in tho world, and
all for sale! Somebody must havo the money
to buy them or the stores wouldn't bo run
ning. Where was it al! ? Did anybody work
any harder for it than hw father and herself !
Jane Uravcs opened her little iwoketbouk and
shook it over tho table; but it was as empty
as tho day sho bought it
Then there came a light tap on the street
dcor. This must bo the "gentleman," this
tall, elegant figure in a checked summer suit;
and ho actually lifted his hat to her.
"My name is Ellingswortli.'
Ho needn't have told her; he hod figured .
in the girl's fancy for years as tho very im
personation of rank and wealth.
"I called about a maid Mr. Graves gave
me leave to speak with his daughter. Is she
in?"
"I suppose I am tho one. Will 3-011 coino
inP
Sho watched him as ho crossed tho room to
tho nearest chair. How- much lichter ho
walked than she could; and ono might liavo
thought from his unconsciousness that ho had
been used to just such a miserable room as
this all his life. Ho showed no surpriso at
her being tho prospective maid servant; no
doubt he knew it all tho time, mid the wa
h' spoke was only a part of his good man
ners. But then sho could not imagine his
showing surprise at anything.
"There will be but littlo to do," Mr. El
lingsworth continued, looking at her face and
not seeming to see how ill sho was dressed.
'There is onh my daughter; 3-011 11133- havo
seen her, yes? and myself. The wages will
bo small," and ho named them aud smiled
ajiologeticall-, as if ho expected her to de
cline. "Your father spoke to mo as if you
did not like tho factories."
Out at service; well, why not? Could it be
any more degrading than tho life she lived
and such wages, too. Why, she could drs
quito prettily then; and her girlish heait
fluttered. And she could leave ugl3- things
and rude people, and breathe perfumes and
havo only graceful surroundings; what mat
ter if they were not hers?
Sho would bo lifted right up in the very
atmosphere she longed for. Yesterday she
had envied the Ellingsworths, to-morrow 6he
could share their beautiful life with them.
Why not?
She lifted her bright eyes to his face. It
was in half profilo at this moment, and sho
could see his hair was just touched with gray.
How could men in this world ever grow old?
Ho was smooth shaved, showing in full effect
tho delicate, cynical curve of his thin lip and
tho clearly defined outlines of his chin. IIo
must have been very oddl3- affected by the
poverty pictured so unmistakably about him;
but there was not the smallest sign of it on
his well bred face.
"I will go," sho said abruptly; "when do
you want me?"'
"I shall be atvay for it fortnight," he said,
rising, with his own admirable smile. "Yoa
can come when I return."
Sho rose too, but could think of nothing
proper to say. But how- poverty stricken she
would look in her factory clothes, lier
spirits had fallen alread-.
"By the way," Mr. Ellingsworth turned, us
if a sudden business item had struck him. It
was a peculiar expressionless monotone ho
used sometimes when on delicate subjects
that seemed to baveos littlo personal qualit3"
as a printed page. "I alwa-s pa in advance;
bo kind enough to accept your first month's
wages and our bargain will bo cloEcd."
The girl found herself alone, looking at the
crisp, fresh looking bank bills he had placed
in her hands. "How thoughtful these rich
peoplo are. They have timo for it, I sup
pose." Her wardrobe was vein- simple. There
hung over the back of the chair the dull
check of a merino, chosen long ago to endure
the most service with tho least show of it.
On the bureau before tho mirror was a papr
box holding a discarded ribbon or two, pink
or cardinal, and two cr three pieces of cheap
jewelry the girl was too proud to wear.
"It won't take me long to pack," sho said
aloud.
Sho suddenly took a pretty attitude of lis
tening. Sho had closed the door into tho
sick chamber in a moment more and stood in
tho middle of tho sitting room when Curtail
camoin,
"Why, yon don't look very sick, Jennie. 1
have to walk to Lockout by S o'clock, but
thought I would look in just a minute."
"I am going to leave the milL" How pro
occupied ho seemed to-night "I am going to
leave tho mill, Mr. Curran," tho girl repeated
with beating heart He might not like her
VBw plan, and at the very thouzht of his dis
approval she felt all im- bright hopes taking
to themselves wings; and tho old dreary pio--ture
of factory gates and soiled calico dresses
came back.
"Going away, little girl?" Ho seemed to
speak with a slight effort, as if hw mind was
pot on what he said. "Well, I suppose you
can't bo any worso off, but wo shall miss
yon."
And was that all he had to say when he
thought sho was going forever out of his life
had ho no reproaches for herl
"I am not going far," sho began hurriedly.
"There would bo no use going far." He
had seated himself oa tho other sido of the
tabla from her, aud rested his face on his
hand. "It is just tho same e nrywhere.
Wherever thero nro a thousand souls ten will
grind the rest I don't supposa the rich
mean to bo so unjust, not all of them; they
don't stop to notice that they aro getting all
tho good things in tho world. It never oc
curs to them to wonder why tho great earth
seems to produce only for them."
Jano Graves sat back in her chair, hor
hands crossed in her lap. Why didn't he
talk about her just a little? She looked up
at his absorbed faca wistfully.
'Why, Jonnie, sometimes I got so tired
trying to stand up against it all, so sick of
my own heartache, that I can make nobody
share with me." He had risen to his feet and
was walking moodily across tho room. That
very night ho must pour out all tho precious
energy of his soul into dull, stolid ears, that
seemed so slow to understand. A hall full
of strango faces would look up coldly at him,
and his hot words would be quenched as they
fell from nis lips, in tho unmoved depths of
their hearts. It seemed so vain, all ho could
do or say, and ho felt so tired to-night, long
ing, instead, to rest his head on some gentle
breast, and be soothed with some foolish
words of comfort and tenderness.
The girl had risen, too, and stood resting
tho back of her hand on tho table. But her
eyes dared notjift to liis. Sho tried to
speak, and her lips trembled so that her
voice came strango and unfamiliar.
"I am sorry for you. Is there no ono, no
woman f' she half whispered.
"Women do not care for such as I," ho
said, smiling a littlo bitterly. "They love
light and pleasant things. I am too serious.
I should oidy frighten them; they could not
understand."
Then ho came toward her with a softer
light in his eyes.
"You are a good little girl, Jennie." He
had taken her trembling hands, which only
trembled the more. "I shall mis3 you very
much. What is tho trouble with your eyes,
Jemiie, you can't look at me? I am going
now."
Then she raised her eyes, like lightning, to
his face.
"Oh, let mo comfort you," she cried. "I
would die for you. I will ask nothing back
but a smile now and then. Nobody can ever
love you liko 1110."
His face was troubled, but cold and im
passive as rock. Ho still held her hand3, a
(he sank in a heart breaking flood of tears at
his feet
After a moment he bent down in pity, and
gathered her trembling form in his arms.
How- tho sobs seemed to shako her. Ho
smoothed back her wavy hair from tho low
forehead, and oven kissed her wet cheeks.
But all he said was:
"Poor littlo girl, poor littlo Jennie."
For an instant she la- still as a nestling
'hild. Then she sprang back from him, and
fled into her mother's room, and wept and
moaned for shamo and heartache, until the
calm of weariness came over her, as nature's
lilesaed gift to her hopeless children.
(To be Continu-d.)
The Influence of Symbols.
An American, writing home recently
from England, says: "I happened to be
present at tho funeral of a soldier, who,
for bravery iu the Zulu war, had received
the Victoria cross. The badge was fast
ened to his breast as he lay in the coffin.
His mother, bidding him farewell, touched
the precious bronze token and said: 'It
lessens my grief at losing him that he
should take that into his grave!'
"It was the symbol to her not only of
his heroic life, but of tho gratitude of his
country. I wondered, as I heard her, if
we Americans make as much use as we
might of the influence of symbols in train
ing our uneducated classes."
A singular instance of the effect of this
kind of symbolism was once shown in the
famous reformatory school at Lusk. One
of the teachers had induced about twenty
of the boys to give up profane and inde
cent language, and to do extra work, for
which they were paid. But they were in
different and half hearted in the effort.
"Form them into a society and give
l hem n badge," suggested the superin
tendent. The hint was carried out In a month
the bo-s were eager and enthusiastic in
their work, and as proud of their prison
society as were the old soldiers of Napo
leon of the Legion of Honor.
The man who Is successful In leading
human nature to its highest endeavor
must work upon the innocent weaknesses
as well as upon the stern love of duty.
Imaginative men and women like to sym
bolize their work or sacrifice for the world
in some uniform or badge. Youth's Com
panion. Down on Muinlilcrs.
"There is one bore that I wish you
newspaper paragraphists would pitch
into," says Mr. M. 13. Husson. "You
have pretty nearly succeeded with your
jibes and flings in putting a stop to the
fellow who used to carry his cane aud his
umbrella under his arm or over his
shoulder and prod peoplo with it Now,
I should like to see you take hold of the
fellow with the low, mumbling voice, who
talks to people in the cars. I have some
acquaintances whom I shrink from meet
ing on the cars simply because I cannot
hear more than half they saj-, and then I
have to strain my ears so that it makes
my head ache. I don't like to keep ask
ing them over and over again what they
have said, so I frequently pretend to hear
them when I don't, and I sometimes make
distressing blunders in my answers. Only
last week one of these acquaintances told
me that his brother's boy had died the
night before. I ouly caught tho words
my brother,' 'boy' and 'last night, and,
concluding that a boy had been born to
his brother, I said, pleasantly: 'Is that
so? "Well, wo must mafco him set up the
cigars on that.' Now, fancy how I felt
when I learned the next day that the boy
was dead. I wish you would go for these
mumblers, who mumble in the cars or in
other noisy places." Chicago Times.
Fruits of Colombia.
The fruits and vegetables in Colombia
aro delicious and grow without culture or
care. The plantain is in universal use
and is always served as a vegetable. It is
fried and boiled when tho skin is yellow,
when it is known as "green'- plantain,
and when it is black and tho fruit is con
sidered thoroughly ripe. The banana is
never fried in the tropics, but is always
served as a fruit There are many varie
ties of banana. One of the most de
licious species in flavor and fragrance is
tho little fig or guineo banana, which is
scarcely a finger in length. The red ba
nana is not a different species, but a va
riety produced by grafting nt Baracoa,
Spain. All the bananas in Colombia are
3-ellow. Tho caruba, or iassion flower
fruit, the enstard apple, called by an en
thusiastic traveler "the spiritualized
strawberry," and the guava are all de
licious fruits which nover reach our north
ern markets in perfection. Amy C.
Shanks in Good Housekeeping.
The Bucket Shop' Advantage.
"The odds are all with the bucket shops.
I would not lay my money in any of
them," said a veteran gambler. "Thebet
yon make is against the shop. You lay
your money that a certain stock will go
down. The shop bets it won't.
"That seems even, doesn't it? But It
isn't, for the shop keeps a portion of your
wager whether yon win or lose commis
sion, it is called. I say it is odds. Ten
dollars is your lK-t on seven shares against
$7.50 if the commission is ouc-qnarter;
and I think a man is a fool to be con
stantly laying money against a smaller
sum. It will break him sure.. You will
seldom find an experienced gambler who
can be induced to have anything to do
with these concerns. "New York Tele
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