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Inabvhood,
(Limes Whitcomb Riley,(
Heigh-ho, Ilebyhood 1 Tell me where you,
linger ;
Let's toddle homeagain, for wo Iaavo gong
asbray—
'Tako this eager hand of mine and lead' mo by
the auger
Back to the lotus lands of the Far -away!
Turn back the loaves of life—don't read the
story—
Let's Bud the pictures and fanny all the rest ;'
We earl y rill the written, pages with a brighter
r
' Than o11. Timor. the story -teller, at his very
best!
Turn to the broolr where' the honeysuckle,
lin
p g
O'er its vase of perfume, spills it on thobroez
breeze,
And the bees and humming birds •
in ecstasy aro
sippin
From the fairy flagons of theblooming locust.
trees.
Turn to the lane where wo used to " teeter-
totter."
.Printing little foot -palms in the mellow
mould—
Laughing at the lazy cattle wading in the
water,
Where the ripples dimple round the buttercups
of gold.
Whore the dusky turtle lips basking on the
gravel
Of the sunny sand bar in the middle tide,
And the ghostly dragon fly pauses in his travel
""Powest like a blossom where the water -lily
died.
only One Had Faith.
Long weeks the sky had been a brass,
Tho land an arid plain,
And all the people now, en masse,
Had met to pray for rain.
From all the countryside they came,
Perepiring, but devout,
" The young and old, the halt and lame,
And blindhad ail turned out.
All day they prayed and prayed, and prayed,
With supplication loud,
Twos ninety-seven in the shade—
Tho sky without a cloud.
The sun went down. Tho bright stars gleamed
From out a brazen sky,
And by their merry twinkle seemed
To mock their misery.
But on tbeirjourney home they caught
A drenching—all that throng •
Save one good little girl who'd brought
Her waterproof along.
POILLIS CRONIARTIE'S PORTRAIT
LIVER ORMAND, A. R. A.,
cantered the big studio adjoining
hie house before 10 o'clock in the
mornibg. He was more carefully
-tressed. than usual, sad his manner
eel Iess competed. He dried bhe
brushes which had stood in water
all night, mixed eame paints and
-fixed an easel midway in bhe room. On
this he placed a portrait, whioh he critically
examined and severely jaulged, for on ne
previous work had ha brought to bear auoh
foreo of skirl begotten ef practice, ,experi-
ment and labor.
The canvas he surveyed represented
girl not yet in her twentieth year, the
carves of whom figure were full, delicate
and graceful. From the shapely shoulders
rose ea firer and rounded threat, en which
a email and beautifully -shaped head was
dolioete1y poised. The faoe had all the
oharm and softness, the hope and vivacity
of youth ; the complexion wan dazzingly
fair, the rippling mass of hair red -gold,
the nese etrafghs, the chin peaked and
• dimpled, while the lips wore email and
pimping and theoyee of a grayish green.
The artist looked at it from every print
of view, his dark faoe ohenging expression
continually, and then turned away impa-
tiently, for hie work by ne means satisfied
him. He walked about the studio fever-
ishly, pausing now and then as if to hear a
sound he expeotee, and finally glanced at
his watch. Ib was new twenty minutes
,past the hour, end hie alttor had not
. arrived. He went to a great window which
opened te the ground and looked out at the
garden. A fleck of sparrows he had daily
fed were hopping about the grimy lawn,
n ew brightened by the ennehine of this
April morning ; the spring green of budding
shrub' and trees made delicate streaks of
color against the red roof of a neighboring
studio ; at the tar end was the tennis ooarb,
where ho had placed balls and rackets well
wlthia view for a purpose ef hie own.
Suddenly a bell rang loudly. He started
and oeald scarce restrain himself from going
forward ; he waited, however, for a couple
of minutes, when the door of the studio
opened and the original of the portrait
entered calmly, deliberately and with a
self-peseessed air, followed by her younger
brother, whe, when she was nob a000m-
panied by her maid, aoted am a chaperon
during her sittings to the arbieb.
" I hope I'm nob late ?" ehe said, looking
,at a little jewelled watch sob in a bracelet,
and seeing be was a half an hour behind
the appointed time, " but the morning was
se fine Billie and I thought we would walk
Across the park instead of driving."
" I'm glad you're not later," Oliver Or -
mend answered, all tame of his impatience
vanishing, and only signs of his pleasure at
•teeing her remaining.
"1 told Phillie you'd be waiting," re-
marked the boy, " but the said it didn't
matter."
His sister gave him a glance that might
have annihilated one of his sex who had nob
the privilege of being her brother, but
Billie, taking ne notice, turned away.
" Nor does id matter," replied Oliver Or -
mend good hamoredly.
Phillia Cromarde took eff her gloves,
-,5.ung aside her oloak, and eat down in the
arm -chair placed upon a dais. " I knew
the position I am to assume by thin bime,"
who maid in a voice that wart clear and sweet,
somewhat cold and emphatic.
" I mut strive to finish your faoe to -day,"
the artist r. method.
•" Then I must stare at that plaster out
head in the owner?"
" If yen please ; the chin a little higher
—thanks."
Ho rot to work and she began bo think.
How patient he was, and not in the leapt
areae because etre had wasted half an hour
e bums that was valuebio to him. And how
glad he felt to have Been hor, oven though
they had met two dayi beton ; his eyes
had given her a welcome whioh his lips
had uob orpreesed. He loved her, for he
had !sold her so, and she liked him as well,
nay, eteetor than any ether Baan, but ehe
i arendel not pledge herself to become his
wife, Ambitious and energetic, she from
an early age had determined te shape her
own:carter and meant the soolal scale, in-
different of the feelings and careless of the
opinions of °there. Oliver Ormond was an
Asaawiato, some time iator he might become
an Aoademiolen, and an his wife she would
be a porton of importance in arbisbio olroloe.
Bat there' was another sphere in which she
wished to reign. The artieblo world was.
well enough in lire way, but the aristoorabio
world was higher. ,A, title carried weight,
there was something In nobility that lin-
premed, and she believed herself created to
take her plane in rte ranks.
Nature had favored hor with a ehapely
figure and a beaubifnl faoe;. She had never
experienced difficulty in winning the admir-
ation she desired ; her fortune wee large,
and her family had been people of gentle
birth for generations.
She had the dangerous gift of imagism -
tion, which, wedded to ambition, thee the
dont with fever. Therefore she had
dreamod of being the centre and sovereign
of flag -oed din plomettiet*, creere she wed caved bals, over- quotedrfeeb leve eastebh suit liar,', ha
threw geverninente and wra reoogutzed. as "'Chou I dsn'b knew what trite lnvrt 1*,•,,
a poweefut ally,and a dangerous feet The she replied.
husband whore aspiration she wars to " No, your heart is not awake, hub Orli
stimulate, and whore worship she was to love me a little I shalt be eabietled," he elK-
aooept,, often figured in these dreams as old claimed.
and imbecile, bub of ducal rank and of fie was Hibbing on the dale at her feet ;
wealth beyondes+.irnabe ; for love had little her left hand dropped by ber ride; he
piano in her heart, and for dernesticity eke seized ib and oovered lb withkIrses.
eared nothing. " We must wait, I oannob bind myself,"
Quite recently oho had met Lord Edge- she remerked. .
hilt, who would one dare inherit .his father's " Waiting means borbure," he said plain -
title of Marquis ef Boaworbh. Before tively.
knowing who he was she had deseetbed "Censenting might mean greater misery.
him to her brother Jaok as a "eor'eamingly in the future.'
tunnylitble men a iii e o ides as h
d s iib He 0
, y ggot up and walked to the other end of
collar," but on his being introdnced to her the room.
as Lard Edgehill she bad changed hor mind " I shad leve yon always ; you alone," he
regarding his appearam.os, in whioh ehe . murmured.
oewsed be see anything ridiculous. Hondo- " Do you wish me to nib longer to -day 2"
forth she set herself to rouse his admiration she asked, glancing ab the portrait.
and to win his affection, if such was to be
found in his nature.
While Clever Ormond worked in silence
Billie Cromertie, with bands eboop in hie
poo'kets, wandered round the atadtsa aim -
mealy, until, oomieg to, the window and
catching eight of the rackete in she tenni,
court, he asked if he might knock the balls
about.
" Certainly," said the artist, striving to
conceal the pleasure he felt at getting rid
of the lad.
" Thanks ; we're going to play the Mora
lands in the afternoon, and I shall be glad
to practice ".Billie. explained as he bounded
out on bhe lawn.
" Are you tired ?" the painter inquired
of his sitter.
"A little," she replied.`
" [Then you may rent for five minutes."
She looked at the eanvae and smiled with
an air of eatlefacbion. " De you think it
really like me Y" the asked.
"1 fear ib dozen'b de you jnebfoe," he
replied.
" Oa the oanbrery, I thought its too bean-
tifel, too much idealized for me."
" That is how I see you," he murmured,
his dark eyes fixed on hor face lovingly,
pleadingly.
" It has always been one of my ambi-
tions," oho went on, unboellug him, fe to
.have my porbralb painted and hung in
the Aoademy, and now ib is about being
realised."
"Unless anything happens meanwhile,"
he rejoined lightly.
" What can happen?" ehe !Bemired seri-
ously. " Another sitting or two and it
will be finished, and as an Associate you
are certain of having ib exhibited. It
would break my heart if anything were to
prevent is from being seen ab Burlington
House."
" Then you may reab eabieied ; nothing
'shall," he said.
" What you promise yeu do," she replied
with a smile by way of rewarding him, "se
that in another month I ,hull hang on the
academy wall, where friende will see me,
strangers admire me and crowds Hook
round ma all day. I shall be talked of ab
dinner parties and aeeembliee in town and hi
the homes of our country coming who visit
the gallery. Then my name will be in the
prase, not only of Great Britain, but of
Anetraiie, Ameriea and the Continent, and
people whom I have never seen or may never
see will read of me, and. my name will
become familiar to them. Ie nob bhab cele-
brity ? It Is aimoab power 1"
No theught of the man whoa° work was
to make her femorae entered into her mind ;
there was no room there for any obhor
image than her o wa.
" I did not think you were so ambitioue,'
he Bald.
"Ah, yen don't know me," ehe answered.
" When I was a child I need to dream of be-
coming a great actress and of crowding big
houses with my name. Then, as I moved
before a vast and silent audience, all eyes
were fixed on ma,, all ears were filled with
my voice, all hearts were thrilled by my
power, I triumphed above my rivals and
eemewhat diedainfally accepted the than -
dere of applaaee whioh wore my duo."
She laughed aloud at the picture.
" I =pewee your mother wouldn't hear of
you going en the beards," he suggested.
"Oh, mamma never had much influence
over me. She has been an invalid as long
ae I remember, and she has no will of her
own. I have always anted on my own
judgments. I abandoned the idea of be-
coming an aobreac on coaeideration, though
I know I can act."
" And what is the dream that now fills
yeerlife?" the arbieb asked.
" Ab, I mustn't tell yeu," she answered
smiling at him.
" Don'b yen think," he asked in that low
earneab bene that always impresses her,
" that true happinese lies, net in fulfilled
ambition, but in loving and is being
Ioved 2"
" Yen are romantic," she amid, evading
his question.
" No matter what I am, I love yen," he
replied, beginning to quiver; from excite-
" You have bold me that before," she re-
marked;•.watohing the pallor of his faoe and
the glowing brightneee of his eyes with an
interest each as an anatomist mfghb feel in
examining a fresh subject.
" I knew I have ; forgive me, I cannot
help repeating it again and again. I love
you," he said in a grave and earnest voice:
She made no answer -and he oonttaaaed
" Think how happy we might be in the
future."
" Or how miserable."
He folt chilled, hub overcoming the feel-
ing he replied :
" Mieerable we could never be, for I shall
love yon always."
She, with emotions soarcoly ebirred,
looked en pasatvely, analyzing her own fool-
ing,. Hie ardor fiabbered her, bub oho
credibed horse with the power of inspiring
bio affoobton. To be loved was a pleenure
she approotated, but to love as he did was
as impooeibfliby te hor nature, She pitied
him and almost experienced a faint sense et
gratitude.
" Do you Iove mo," ho asked breathlessly.
She hesitated a emend, and then, seeing
hie anxiety and being unwilling to pain
kdm, ehe answered in so low a voice that ib
was almost a whisper
"' Yen."
" Then be my wife," he cried out jubi-
lantly.
" No," she aodw Bred quickly, " ab leant
nut yet."
She reflected 'that ehe was still young
and all the world lay before her. She must
not bind hereolf ; some great event mlghb
happen in her life. Why was she given
theta ambitieue longings if lb was nob to
fsreehadew and prepare her for a high des-
tiny? Then she thought of Lord Edgehill,
who bad dancers with hor three times on
Monday.nlghb, and she know he admired
her—his eyes had tenured her of that.
" Yon don't know how 1 love yon ; yen
don't know hew 1 'suffer," Oliver Ormond
continued ; " when you are absents 1 long
for you even though your preeenco is a
harbor's, my love ie ee great and you are eo
oold."
" People who have laved as yon have be-
fore marriage become miserable afterward.
My father once loved my mother passion-
stely, and now they have been soparated for
two years. Marriage la binding ; one
shenld bake ogre not to make mlatakes," mho
seed speaking deliberately.
Do yen trust me? he asked.
"
Na. How
rkm
tIa all
upset p ,
my mind is confused. '
'Then to -morrow 2" she suggested.
" No. I must have time bo recover and
matter myself that teie may not comer again.
',plead in vain, I am miserable 1"
' But you will finish ib, even though I
may BOOM unkind?"
" FtnIeh 112 Certainly. No matter what
hapeene I shall always love you, I cannot
help that, even if I would."
She went to the window and called
Billie, who was rushing about the tennia
coact- !•tike", turning to the artist, she
acid :
" Shall you go bo the Menoriefe' ball to-
night a"
"
If you will be there—yes."
" Oh, yes, I am going."
" You will keep me some danoe, ?"
" Of course ; come early and secure
them."
As she followed her brother into the hall,
Oliver Ormand once more rateed her hand
to his tips.
When they had gone he returned to the
studio and walked about aimlessly. He
knew that such effeoblen as he gave Phillie
Cremarbie could never be returned by her,
and with hie love wee ,unmarred despair.
Yet to become Indifferent be her would be
an impoaeibiltty. His nature was sanative,
his temperament more highly strung than
his fellows, by reason of which he had suf-
fered much through life, bat never had he
known such pain as this, where, stretched
upon the raok of anepence, he was tare by
doubt. He pub away her portrait with ite
faoe to the wall, but he could nob shut her
image from his sight. He went into bhe
garden and strove to read a magazine, bub
bee word, he read conveyed no amuse t o his
mind. Tobacco failed to soothe him, and
after luncheon he sob out for a long walk,
believing that exercise would brangmlize.
Ab 8 o'clock that evening the Oromarties
eat down ba dinner. An hour later Penile
retired be array herself is ell the glary of a
dazzling costume, for the ball did net
begin till 11, and she had therefore two
hours to prepare, As she rase from the
table her brother Jaok, who was to accom-
pany her, deciared he would go around to
ills club and return for her in good time.
" Be aura you de not keep me waiting,"
Phillia said with a warning gesture.
Shorbly after 11 the came dawn to the
drawing room whore her invalid mother lay
on a ooaeh reading,a novel. By Phillie'
directions every limp and Dandle in the
apartment bad been lighmed bhab ehe might
be seen with effect. A shimmery mass of
creamy gauze and delicate laoo, with pearls
around leer throat and a roe° at her breast,
she entered, and going toward her mother,
playfully made a. profound eaarboep.
"My darling, how beautiful you lock !"
exclaimed the invalid, raising hereelf on her
pillows.
" Den'b 1, mother 2" the girl answered,
gazing into a great mirror bobween clusters
of wax llgbte.
Never and she looked mere brilliant. Ex-
citement had hetghbened the cutler of her
fair complexion and givenluebre bo her gray -
green eyes. The email head, with ibe masses
of red -golden hair,waa supported by a grace-
ful throat rioting from a beet white as ala-
baeber and psr,eobin meld.:
"'.mere will be none there to oompare
with you," eatd the indulgent mother, glance
Ing at her proudly.
" I think I am perfect. Bab where'e
Jack ? I told him nab to keep me wafting;
Ulm begins by making me ones, he will spoil
my temper."
As ehe looked again in the mirror, she
eaw the deer open and her brother enter
slowly. Hie faoe was pale and there was
aomebhing unaeaal in his appearance bhab
immediately arreebed her attention. Tne
thought flashed upon her that he had been
drinking, and with an air of indignation
she burned around prepared to stab him
with a pbraae. As he advanced into the
room oho naw, however, bhab his walk was
steady and his manner eolloobed.
" What is the matter 7" she asked
breathlessly.
"Something has -happened to—to—a—
friend of oars," he replied.
" A friend 2•'
" Yee, some one yea know very well—a
man whom YOU eaw be -day."
" Oliver Ormend 2" she said, in a low
tone.
"s Yea. He is dead."
" Hew did le happen 2" she flaked in a
voice she strove to steady,
" In returning hemp this afternoon he
wag crossing Piccadilly at a Hyde Paak
corner, when a cart knocked him down,
and one of the whotle peened over his
threat. He was carried to Sb. Geergo'a
Hospital, lent before reaching le he wan
dead.'
Phllife'eat down. It was by e,n accident
thou, and nob by suicide, se she at first
feared, that he had died. She was spared
the remorse that might arise ab thought of
hie self deetruobion. He was dead, and he
had kissed her band bub a few hours ago ;
bhe impression of hie lips was still almseb
freab upon bhe flesh. And ho had loved her,
aye, better than any man might over love
her again. Hie death was a sere lose.
Then oho remembered her portrait. It
would remain unfinished now, and could
not hang upeu bhe wade of the Academy) as
oho had se long and as earnestly desired.
That was a bitter ditappointmenb. Another
would bo if hie death prevented her from
attending thio owls, be which oho had looked
forward with pioneer) for weeks ; Lerd
Edgehill would he there, and he would look
or her.
Math she lone this apportanity for win-
ning iirn2 That would be an fojasbioe to
herself wvhiob she could not permit.
4° Come," oho ward, breaking the faience
her :nether and brother had kept, femrlal of
die tu rbing. herr.
You surety dwell moan to bay yeu will
go to bits ball to -night 2" cried Jack, indfg-
nenbly.
"Why nob, pray,? Mr. Ormond was nob
a relative."
"Bat he was a friend."
"If wo aro to remain ab home because
frionds die we should never go eute" thole -
plied, her oyes beginning to eparkle.
"Besides, paepte who know he loved you
will wonder," maid Jack.
"No este will know ,ii have heard of his
death."
"Bub the men al the club told me."
"And they will materially think you had
more tach hod certalsierabionthan to Dome
and repeat this new®, send strive to spell any
*ventage. amusement,"grrise replied aa -
"I didn't bbtnk-«-,"
"No, you never do until it'd too tate,
Ute le boo short, and my pleesurei, i b
least, too few to meoritioe this," she an-
swered, sweeping indignantly swots the
room. Thera etoeping over aced kissing the
invalid, who looked pale and frightened,
ehe said, "Good night, mother, I'm going,"
and lefb the apartment.
Jack, go with her, dear, er she will go
alone," his mother whispered, and he
chaseurid,
Dng their drive Phillie spoke no word.
She was vexed that her brother had told
a
her this news, we, and indignant that her
wishes should have met with oppoeitlon,
no matter how slight. Moab of all, she
was afraid her aanoyanoe should be noticed
and her appearance spoiled on this evening
when, el all ethers, she wiabed to leek
to beat ad arriving at b vanba e. On a the
Monoriefa they could hear the ebraains of a
band and the patter of feet. The whole
hoose wee ablaze with llghbs, and the halt
and staircase orowded with palms and
flowers, The "effect somewhat relieved
Phillia' humor ; she resolved to banish the
recollection of the laet halt boar from her
mind said to enjoy the dance as if notating
bad happsned. In the lobbies and around
the door of bhe ball -room wore groups of
menwho shared in admiration as she
passed and inspired who oho was. The
lutetium received her with effusion, said
recently a number of men whom ehe knew
crowded round and asked her be dance.
She did not quite till her programme, but
left spaces here and there which she hoped
to fill with Lord Edgehill's name.
Soon she was in the midst of the dancers,
whirling about to the d>fliction" strains of a
vales, a glare of lights spinning round
her, the odor of a. myriad flowers in the
atmosphere, a face ,mtliug down into her
own, and all thought of what had jasb
passed wait erased frem her mind. With
teverieh pleasnre thenight flitted quickly,
having but one drawback, Lord Edgehill
had not yet asked her to demos, and was
paying evident attention to a dark com-
plexioned girl.
Phillie felt indignant and herb, but ehe
experienced some relief when eventually he
came and sat beside her and asked her for a
al.e. She received him coolly, and pre-
tended to believe she was faliy engaged, bub
on examining her programme saw she bad
no partner for one far down on the lith.
Thio ohs promised him, and he left. But
when the time came to claim her he was
beside her once more, and with his arm
around her she whirled through the great
room as if she were treading en air.
" 1 thoanht you would be here bo -night,"
he said, when presently they moved ab a
slower pace. " I should have been mach
diseppotated if yen weren't."
" I was undecided about Doming," she
replied in a tone ef indifference, for ehe had
nob forgiven hire his attentions to the dark
'girl ; ' I felt bleed to -day."
" Bat I'm glad you have Deme. Ien'b this
dmace delightful t"
" Yee."
She was leaning over his shoulder, mov-
ing seemlogly without voluntary action of
her own, lulled by the rhythm of the muef°
and the metien of the dance into a dalfeleue
feeling of pleature, when en raising her eyes
she caught eight of a faoe and figure passing
at the lower end of the room. Suddenly
her heart stopped, she relaxed her hold
and would have fallen but for her partner.
He Demon carried her to a seat.
" What le in?" he asked.
'I felt faint," ohs answered, after a
pante ; " The room le hot and I am tired."
"Let me geb you some water."
" Na, thanks ; but may I triable you to
find mg brother, I think I had better go
name." Her face wee white and her beam
flattered wildly. Wise er what was ib she
had seen ? Her mind was confused ; ehe
could nob, she dared not think.
In a few minutes Jack was before her ; els
took hie arm and whispered, " Are yea
sure the newa you bold me this evening is
quite true 2'
" About poor Ormand ? Yea, one of the
men• who mentioned it eaw him knooked
down. Why 2"
" Because some one strikingly like him
passed into this ante -ream ; let ua see who
it ie."
The apartment she referred to opened
from the ball -room and had no extt of its
own. Ib was occupied by a half-dozen
chaperone ; ne man was visible.
" I kept, my eyes en the dear so that he
could nab have come oat without my seeing
him. Could I have been deceived ?" she
asked.
Jack made no answer, but leaked grave.
" I feel faint again," she murmured ;
" bake me away, take me home." She had
to welb te considerable time in the hall be-
fore the `carriage could get to the deer. tllhe
music was ebill playing, the lights yet burn-
ing, a crowd of loud -voiced people were
oruehing past her, but 'she saw er heard
nothing.
" If ib were poseible for him be- know 1
had come here, having first heard of his
death. what would he think 2" she asked
herself. And again came the thought :
" He said he would love ms always, and
but a few hours weer tie kissed my }Lad.
No one will ever levo like him, nor do I
deserve that any met ehonid."
The newepepere next morning had fall
accounts of the aceleentwhich had suddenly
cub short a career of promiee. Phil.
lie read the details with dry eyee, but ere
"peke no word.' Again and again the
thought of the man she had seen enter the
anteroom at the M•enoriefs reourrsd to her,
and as often sire dtemleeod it without com-
ing to any conclusion regarding what
puzzled her.
But during the evening a now light was
thrown upon her mind which helped her to
a decision, While at dinner Jack men -
timed having In the course of the after -
eon met Hugh Mereland, whe was about
to deed a big picture to the Academy.
" My perbraib won't hang there now,"
Philain
eat regretfully.
" Why 2" asked her brother.
" Because it le uafiniehed."
" I think you mistake," replied Jack,
" When I met Hugh Moreland he woe
going to poor Ormand'e house, where he
now Iles, and no womb together. Before
leaving we had a look round the ebadie, and
eaw year p,rrtraib. Moreland said it was
the best thing Ormaud bad ever done, and
examining it carefully. he remarked hew
foruunabo it was bhab lb was quite fin
robed"
Phiulis hoard in atlenoe. Every word she
bad spoken to the dead artist regarding her
portrait during their loam interview come
back to her ; her anxiety ooncorning the
picture and his repeated promise. A fool,
ing of cold anti faintness passed over her,
but ebe strove bo regain oaneoieueneee and
euooeededt
t" Ib ie quite finished ?" she paid with an
effort.
" yogi' ,
"Then he had kept hie word,"-7'ernple
Bar.
New York ham a company whioh inanres
landlords the it ,crat, against lees either by
bad tenants or empty houses.
Excluding about 62,000 small arafte, the
co:ran:eotr of the world is carried on by
45,000 vessels of 20,500,000 registered bone,
with a ,carrying capacity of 48,000,000. ` <,
THE STREET LIFE OF PARIS,.
What a lay Reveals on the French
Capital's Pavement,
C
STRANGE SIGTS AND SOUNDS,
Y and by tall gray
•xousar on shadowy
,irebegin to offs to m 0
tartly against the
brightening Fides of
Paris. The stillness of
i early morning tIs broken
"
'Three free, by the heavy footfall of
it9 1L■• imalR a man upon whose
o ' ...�.°' 1 shoulders are °arelesely
f a treason of
piled
g
. .i
qh�� bions and red. His
handy axe tared with old hate, and his re-
sounding voles cries : " Marchand d'hablts,
Marohand d'habitm 1"
Aa he pauses a dottier one, muffled by bhe
moist air, chants " Vibier, Vtbier 1" only
to be overcome by the shrill pipe of a horn
which heralds the mender of porcelain.
" Recommodeur de faience et porcelain° 1"
he oboutr. "Raeommodeur 1"
The sun has eerie, and the street life of
Penis swarms upoa the atone flagging. An
army of venders, with the listless .regular
etepe 'of a chain gang, plods by, elowly,
moeaobonously, adjusting itself to the bur-
dens ib bears.
The men give their Dries in queer, bar-
baric nautical nobs s ; yet load enough and
mournful as they are, they mingle with and
are lost in the thud of feet, the roll oI
vehicles, the count/eta voices that pear
item feria'- tireless threat.
Above the deep roar .of men's tones, a
thin, h! h pibehed song "aaoends. Ire
rhythm fleets out to the reneIess grinding
of a cracked organ. Three little children
shiver oas the pevameat, and through thin
rage bhe damp wind sweeps cruelly. A
woman singe tee enprano, bat her fees le
pitiful in rte utter hopeleseneee. In her
ears are brass rear, and around her neck a
string of amber beads.
A raded red scarf is wrapped abonb her
tawny bhraet, and as the ohildish voices
rise bravely, ehe shivers and•panaee to draw
her thin finery more closely. The song is
ended, wed the
CROWD SURGES ON UNHEEDING
Sho watches it mutely, but within her
dark and lonely eyes there is nothing but
despair.
The Paris wore man delights an artist's
eyes.
The eon of the people binds hie swelling
valet with a brilliant red jersey sash ; he
oleehee hie roltd muscles in corduroy ger-
meats much tea l'orgs, and he thrusts his
heavy feet in o clumsy wooden satiate,
which click clack upon the neigh flint
pavemela6,
Bat the Parts workman In an animal, in -
matte i
n•mattes ly curious, rude, bizarre, " fiat -
topped," volatile, reverenoing no laws of
'moiety, worshipping nothing but the fieode
of sour red wane with which be placates
HIS UNQUENCHA-BLE THIRST.
Moreover, though well paid, he ie avari-
°1o:e, and eimoab begrudgee his Sunday Ball
on the Setae. Sometimes he gees to the
music hullo, arid between the numbers de-
vours bread, beer and sausages.
Ab noon and night in the boulevard oaten
he is k o!'etereasly oonvicial ; he smokes
and singe, and deluke dark, burning Miners.
His favorite drink le pale green absinthe
—absinthe the divine, which corrodes and
kills finer fibres than theParia workman's.
Tufa broad renew of the people is asec%sl-
ietto chemical—Deadly in action and harm-
less when nnetirred.
The Parietal!, student, in hie way, is as
puzzlieg at the workman, while in numbers
he in a conepic:sone figure In oiby life.
Students with lame curls which tali frem
hene:ath rakish Tam O'Seanter ceps saunter
by, pipe tee mouth, le oktng like picturesque
beggars. noir ale teem hint of atrange
happaninga and bear the trade -marks of
nanny lands. But the strident will tell you
with the sang freld ef their kind that ib
really doesn't tnabtar—jaat
A TEMPORARY EMBARRASSMENT,
which ford -•d them to pub their own gar-
ments temporarily in pawn.
Another ohms weary velvet suite, flowing
Byreeio ties semi broad brimmed hate.
They burry I akte, palate hex in hand or car-
rying bits of "imam furniture, mingling,
forming part end porbien ef many nation.
'althea which surge together in careless,
hearbless Paris.
Turks, Arabq, Jews, Russians, Algerians,
Roumanianr, Norwegian,, Italians, Albino's,
men of tree far northern Slavic races,
B-ibish, Melt, S motok E bioplans, Germane
earl Americans meet mud jostle on the
boulevards. Each one fa a little mosaic,
which aide light r+r sthrowa shade upon the
steely of sur human kind.
The pros' tiling color tone of old Paris in
yellow. Huge, rough blocks of yellow
atone, Gemmed with thick yellow clay,
pave
THE WIDE BOULEVARD.
Throe Narmeiody horses abreast, or elm
taodate, draw laden wagent with wheels
nine feet hige slowly but realstlnseiy. The
dray hereon, eh along their high collars bung
with bells mud gay teasels, are enormous.
Their drtvor harms a song as he plods boaido
them, ,slapping their flanks or snapping a
long tehtp.
IIis
hoots ere clayey, his corduroys are
de -p yellow, iii tau is tawny, be is a study
in brilliant bits of the miser's color.
Old women to caps and aprons toil along
bearing aloub'e baskets fail of bread !a
peelers like these of Spaie and Italy.
For the hone of struggling artiste they
climb six or Devon flights of atelier etatrs
ter stand for henry, bread in arms, ae
modelle.
THE LEGIONS OF ouvcnsTS
pass and reptile in a never ending file.
These women, me far down in their own
ranks of life, are bhe most pltifaleights of
Parts.
Young girl', above whose sunken cheeks
blase eyes lib by oonmararpbive fire', hurry by
as though eager be find sleep in the 'tinkly
waters of the Seine.
Old women creep along, their glazed eyes
teeing nothing but the misery of the in -
'tent.
Mobhere, premabarely aged, carry fretful
children and pause uncertainly, desperately
clutching the last sou which mutt go hither
for a leaf or a bit of charcoal. Whichever
the choice, derpeir goes with it.
Oa the ;tenting roof' of sheds and booth
overhanging the river ether outcasts Bleep
heavily. Net many yearn end they will
sleep a few feet lower in the ooze and mud.
There le more room en the free reefs than
in the covered building where ropes mark
scanty epees along the iteor, where one
may rust for an hour or mere if ono poneeeees
a non.
There are other types of street life in
Paris. One is the amazonian woman with
the voice of braes, whioh proolalme her and
her two -Wheeled Barb of vegetables and
fruit for many block'. tI)he mouldy man of
letter', oebwebbed by too much thought,
abetraotedly olassifles hit as the rt . .
strongest, most pre0Sleal bype of het mai_
Bab the men of the revolution and bhe kiss s
peyobologiab
$ is MOItPn TRAIT TUTS,
There is the ponderous wagon weighted;
until it is a load for a horse—the wontalea
lrent red bare, arms, each a knotted owke
ike limit, deep throats, broad oboete bare&
to the lobed) windy, ' masalve biplr that
strain end tug and gain peek da a steady
rotenone force ; there men with metaorhea
listen to the rough sahib's olick and follow
the eeerohing shaft of yellow sunshine until
ib fallsi? o b f a
u n town f nos scouted mod and
a ateaaetY
with brutal paselons, ahruz k end wrinkled,.
as the last autumn pippin hanging in the
orchard ; they look at the emall, keen epee
shadowed with bate and cunning, the
thick mouths elated in grim, ornel linea,,.
and the coarse black heir, part falling on
their noire, part bound by red republican
colors, whioh are to them the colors of the
commune. They remember that, because,
of these women, stately ptilereoraahed, the
lofbleab building' toppled down, and mag-
nificent altars, with pure abatazee, were dese-
crated in the capital of the world.
It le impossible to sketch the theasaad,.
phased eentiments o; Paris street life.
Ib Is cold, it glitters, and ib is gad beyond.
expression.
It is tempestuous, yet menotonone," for tit
is the awirl and ebb Land flew of ocean of
life blood.
And within its ehitting shadows and its
impenetrable doers, as within the sea, many
things lie hid.
JAPAN'S PEOPLE.
They Arra Progressive and Contented and
We Need Not Worry About Thew.
They de not 'seem to be a thoughtfutl
people, bat take life like children, keenly
alive to the beanbiee of nature, ekfiful
ail they do, and intensely erbiabio to their
fingers' ends. It is said that even their
language illustrates the impersonality of
their temperareent. Their social institu-
tions aro based on the family and not open
the individual. The patriarchal form of
society survives here. Children aro taught
to be obedient to their father and to wor-
ehip their anosatore. It it through the
father that the family continually extends..
The mother deem nob Bonet. If the wife
have children, especially sena, she is all
right. - If she fails here, she has no eseur-
anoe of her petition. Yat we find here
woman net seoiuded, nob showing evidence
of oppression, Dimple, natural and merry:
I am told that fiegrsently ''the gray mare hi
the better horse," and the man submits to
the better judgment s•,f his wife.
I don'b know why we should need to
worry about ,;hese people. Whey ahem to
be doing very well for themseivee. They
have attained thew ideale far more con
plebelythen we have. How to do anything
has been settled here for ages. They were
deing fine things when our anoestots had:
scarcely emerged from barbarism. ' The
country has a 1fniehed look. Wherever a.
wall is needed we find its. Their cities aro
mnoh cleaner than ours. Their house',
though they seem bare bo us, ate, in some
reepecte, mere sensible and better ordered
then our ewe. They are rapidly assimil-
ableg all that they want of our civilization.
They have the raifrerd, the telegraphae
canals, ateamchtps, all thsreughly can-
enr:cted and well managed. Their postal
rervice osyspels • the admiration of their
critic for Ito eficieboy and aeoaraoy. Pati-
na
ublir education is universal and practical.
With their skill, baste, industry and
economy, I see ne reason why the Japenese
should not have a brilliant future.—Japans.
ese Letter.
A MODERN FAIRY T,I.E.
A Princess, an Old Wonsan and a Flat -iron.
in a Little Comedy.
This is net a fairy story, but it ie almoelr
as pleasant reading. Once upon a time the.
Pnacesa Locales, wife of . the Marquis o€
Lorne and daughter of the Queen of Eng-
land, was taking a lonely walk—after the
habit of prierootnes. She approached a cot-
tage door, cs to alae a pleasing habit of prin-
o®sees. Fnrthermere, she carried ouo the
traditions governing the behavior of royal
young ladies by aektng for a glees of water.
The eld woman, who happened to be
ironing, did non Dare to get the Ponces a
glass of warcr, and Bald so. She -added
that she wee busy, that the spring was dis-
tant and that oho wanted bo linieh her iron-
tog so thab she misshb go to the city next
day to see the " Qasen'e child." Where-
up<n the Princess graciously offered to
finish ironing the shirt presided that the
old woman would get her the water.
When the old woman returned a neatly
ironed shirt was ready for her. Where the.
Princess picked up the art of ironing is nob
known, but the shirt was beautifully done.
The Prince's, after sire had drank the water,
told the old woman aeh9 she was and, the.
aid woman wan prepesly impressed. The;
shirt wan never wore, but was kept to be-
come esu heirloom in the family. And then
all Bred happily ever after.
Not Mach on Noise, but—
Ctoes and persletott te*'tentien to Mee
business will s v iy cause tree to get Ahead.
Look ab the gas meter. Ib is quiet and an'
obtrusive, bun keeps diligently at work, and
by the end of the month manages to roll up
quite a tidy figure.
All the Difference tin the World.
" Dld you ask Miss De Sbylo 1f she won
be yonrt, Horatio ?'
" I should say not, Gideon."
" B rb I thought you intended to do eel"
' Hd,rdiy. What I did ask her was if E
might be here."
The Norman -English coined silver pence
with a arose oat meeply into the coin, ire
order that ib might he easily broken into,
half -pence and farthings when amall"changn
was needed.
A Kansas prohibibioniet is so radical their-
he
hanhe refused to ateteed an entertal1nmenb
whioh a tight rope figured.
The first American come were made hs
England in 1612 for tho Virginia compeeayi
" Their aonrtship was full of romance,,,
was ib net?" " Very, Neither one slf°
them told the ether truth."
At bhe sale of Gny de Maapaseane
personal: efTeobe the bidding for the whited
handled razor with which ho out his threat
In an attempt at enioide was feverish, .s.
stain en the handle gave added value to the:
retie.
Agly--.Seems to me this cigar has (
puff) a meta:lite taste. Aroble—L
enough. 1b Zook' like a nickel cigar.
Ctineiderabie gold het been found he
small quantities in Alaska, and the reel
dente of Juneau' aro exnibed by the dial~
coverlet'
" And dee Jimpsett reed hie prem to yew
yeetorda 2 Trow did you endure itt"
Just fixed my giant eye on him bud went be
strep with this other."
A new yacht for the exclusive ase of lih!r
Bunten Imperial family has been erdeausib
by
the threaten Government. Both al
grde else and equipment it will odfwi
garde
et lbs kind afoat.
d