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OU MAURIER AND MOSCHELHS.
rint Masting; or the Two Great Artists
In Guy Bohemia.
We first met In Antwerp in the diss
rooms of the famous academy, says
Moscheles In the Century. I was paint
ing and blaguing as one paints and
blagues in the storm and stress period
of one's artistic development. It had
been my good fortune to begin my
tudics In Paris, where in the Atelier
Gleyre I had cultivated, the essentially
French art of chaffing known by the
same of "la blague Parisienne," and I
now was able to give my less lively
Flemish friends and fellow-students
the full benefit of my experience. Many
pleasant recollections bound me to
Paris, so when I heard one day
that a "nouveau" had arrived straight
from my old Atelier Gleyre I was not
a little impatient to make his acquaint
ance. The newcomer was Du Maurler. I
sought him out. and. taking It for
granted that he was a Frenchman. I
addressed him In French. We were
soon engaged In lively conversation,
asking and answering questions about
comrades in Paris, and sorting the
threads that associated us with the
nme place. "Did you know un nomme
Poynter?" he asked. exquisitely
Frenchifying the name for my benefit
I mentally .translated this-lnto" equally
exquisite English, my version natur
ally being "a man called Poynter."
Later an American came up. with
whom I exchanged a few words In his
and my native tongue. "What the
deuce are you? English?" broke in
Du Maurler. "And what the deuce are
you," I rejoined. And we then and
there made friends on a sound Inter
national basis.
"It seemed to me that at this first
meeting Du Maurler took me In at a
glance the eager, hungry glance of
the caricaturist He seemed struck by
my appearance, as well he might be.
I wore a workman's blouse that had
gradually taken Its color from Its sur
roundings. To protect myself from the
Indiscretions of my comrades I had
painted various warnings on my back,
as. for Instance, "Bill stickers, be
ware." "It Is forbidden lo shoot rub
bish here." and the like. My very
black hair, ever Inclined to run riot,
was encircled by a craftily concealed
band of crochet work, such as only a
fond mother's hand could devise, and I
waB doubtless coloring some meer
schaum of eccentric design.
It has always been a source of legit
imate pride to me to think that I
should have been the tool selected by
Providence to sharpen Du Maurler's
pencil. There must have been some
thing in my "verfluchte physiognomle,"
as a very handsome young German
whom I used to chaff unmercifully
called It, to reveal to Du Maurier those
dormant capacities which bad been be
trayed in his eager glance.
A MOTHER-OF-PEARL HOUSE.
Built by m Chlneie FUberman Hany
Year Ago.
Old habitations are to be found nil
over California, says the San Francisco
Call. Sometimes there Is good reason
for ihem being odd, but often it Is the
result of some crank Idea. On the
beach near Cypress Point, in Monterey
county, there is one that cannot come
under the first head and hardly under
the last The residence belongs to a
Chinese fisherman and is part natural
and part the work of his own hands.
The natural portion of the house is a
small cave in one of the many rocks
that stick up all over the beach. The
other part is a sort of wooden shed
which has been built in front of thlfl
opening. The lumber used is of the
roughest kind but the esthetic China
man overcame this objection by cover
ing the whole outside with abalone
shells, the hollow side being turned
out The Chinaman evidently did that
many years ago, when the shells were
plentiful and had scarcely any market
velue. Every shell used has been de
stroyed as one or more nails have been
driven through them according to thuii
size. Some of the shells are magnll
ceat in color and enormous in siie
There is one at least fifteen incae
In diameter, and a duplicate in
good condition could Bot be bought ia
Can Francisco for anr price. Most of
the larger shells, if they were not
punctured with nallholes, would read
ily sell for from $3 to $5 apiece. But
that size cannot be had In the market
now, and would be difficult to find on
the rocks of any part of the coast The
general effect of the house, when the
sun strikes It at the proper angle, is
dazzling. The polished, pearly sur
faces sparkle with astounding bril
liancy and flash with all the colors of
the rainbow. It is a pleasing and sur
prising sight-and the only pity is that
so many beautiful shells were de
stroyed to produce It.
No Wonder It'a a Cre.
The sliver question, as It Is under
stood in some parts of Kentucky, is
graphically Illustrated by a letter
which one of the statesmen at the cap
itol received from a correspondent In
that state. It appears from this epis
tolary evidence that a controversy was
being waged between a sound-money
man and a sliver champion. The gold
man thought he had the best of the
argument He asked his adversary why
he thought that the free coinage of sil
ver would make times better.
"Simply because it would put more
money in circulation," said the white
metal crank.
"But how will it put; more money in
circulation? " demanded the gold man.
"How?" asked the sliver man, with a
smile of contempt at his opponent
"How? Why, you blamed fool, If you
can take one gold dollar to the treas
ury and get sixteen dollars for It, won't
that increas the circulation?" Pitts
burg Dlspiich.
It Was Too Bad.
Walter Savage Landor, though he
often handled his fellow-men some
what roughly, hated to see an old troo
felled and even shrank from plucking
a rose. One morning he collared his
man cook and flung him out of the
window. Then, suddenly remembering
on what "bed" in the garden the man
would fall, the flower-loving Landor
exclaimed: "Good heavens! I forgot the
! vlnlatot".
An English Slap at the Dutch.
The Boers are no doubt puffed up
with their constant good luck when re
sisting British attacks, but they must
be well aware that they have nothing
to gain by war and that their position
Just as It is Is one of the aost fortunate
in history. At least, we can recall no
other republic In which every man was
for his wants well off, in which all
taxes were paid by foreign immigrants
and foreign toll and in which the whole
community, without ever submitting
to a conscription or entering a barrack,
had acquired a high military reputa
tion. We cannot believe that these ad
vantages will be willfully thrown away
and do not see wherein, if peace is
maintained for the next ten years,
Great Britain will suffer except from a
few taunts, and what do taunts matter
to a people with our history?
If it amuses Dlrck Cloete to consider
John Bull cowardly or soft, let him
consider it; he will reconsider that opin
ion before the end arrives. England is
not In a hurry if the capitalists are. She
survived Napoleon and she will survive
Krueger. not to mention tbe veiy mem
ory that there ever was a Dutchman
between the Zambesi and the Cape."
What proportion of all these who can
read now know that New York was
once a possession and a settlement ol
the Dutch?" The Spectator.
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The Pollticlau's VUlt.
" Twas just a social call," quoth he
That phrase is quite. enough;
There's no use going on to say
He called my little bluff."
Washington Star.
Identified by His Glass Eye.
William Moran, of Wellston, Ohio,
was so baily mangled by a railroad
train that it was only by a glass eye
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Strange.
He I can't get my wife to use tha
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