10
Revelations, and the Psalms, went into an"
orderly mixture with the Gospels.
"Now, if tou turn up a trump," and
Pootle laughed so loudly that his nephew
hair awoke, and turned on the lounge,
'It might he Gabriel's."
Colonel Dallas clapped the volume down
on the table. The hands were instantly
tjuiet.
"Suppose we do have a game of cards?
Pootle continued. "There'd be time enough
for a dozen pots of poker before we get to
Sandy Hook."
"As you please," said the Colonel.
The negro attendant in the saloon, being
summoned, appeared atiirst to have never
heard of cards, either aboard or pshore, but
upon a dollar being mentioned, he evolved
the idea that he might procure a pack from
the barkeeper. "When he returned from the
errand, and rapped at the door, it was Colo
nel Dallas who was readiest to open it He
took the cards frc-i the waiter, felt in aa
inner pocket for the dollar, and said some
thing jocose in response to Pootle's protest
that a host should bv right pay the expenses
of entertainment. Then he crossed to the
window, fumbled over the removal of the
wrapper from the pack that he had bought,
and threw out the crumpled paper.
A knot of passengers leaning over the
guardrail below, saw a shower of cards
flutter down to the water and float astern.
The Colonel had not bungled, however, for
he turned half around to face his com
panions with a whole deck of cards in his
hands.
Then the four men began a short, casual
'game of poker.
CHAPTER IL
A LITTLE BY-PLAY.
Mrs. Dallas sat deserted by her friends,
tut not unconsidered by strangers, for she
was the sightliest woman on the deck. Ar
tificiality replaced the freshness of a youth
that had'been rarely and regally beautiful,
but she had not reached the age of 40 in
either fact or semblance, and herqueenli
aess was all left her. The admiring .ob
server wondered why she had turned her
hair yellow, or touched her face with pow
der and pigments, for these colorines were
not illusive in the glaring sunlight of
an August afternoon on the water. But she
knew better than they how to treat herself
as an exhibit, and if it was detrimentally
that she defaced nature, how was it that she
was more looked at than any other woman
on deck? She woie clothes of decorous
fashionableness; moverover, she behaved
sedately, and her assumption of abnegation
was complete. If she wtre not thinking al
together of something further off than her
fellow-passengers, then appearances were
false. A troubled expression trembled
about her mouth, and, after awhile, mois
tured glistened in her eyes. For half an
lour she had gazed off on the bay, down
which the steamboat was swiitly steaming,
when Knickerbocker Knox reappeared to
"her. She dabbed her eyes hastily with a
handkerchief, but he had already seen the
tears.
"What is the matter, Mrs. Dallas?" he
asked.
He realized at once that his question was
impertinent, but he did not like to make
the only possible excuse which was that a
handsome woman's tears always confuse a
man's senses. She hesitated a moment, and
then said, as he seated himselj in a chair
that had been vacated by her side: "Have
you lost mv husband, Mr. Knox?"
"O, no' and the pride of an amateur
jester swelled Knox's narrow breast; "the
Colonel is the loser. I have just come away
lrom him with 20 of his money won at
poker."
"Fie, fiel" she said, reprovingly. "I fear
vou have led the Colonel astray, and I'm
glad, trnly, that he is fined ?20 lor his lapse
into vicious habits."
. Ten minutes later, when their dialogue
had recurred once more to the weather, Mrs.
Dallas said: "I wouldn't have gone into the
hot city to-day, only that I was expecting to
meet the Colonel, on his arrival from Europe
with our son ."
'your son? Impossible," and Knox
meant to look as gallant as he felt, the
result being a rather idiotic ogle.
"Winston is the Colonel's son," and the
pencilled eyebrows were arched prettily in
a deprecatory acceptance of the compli-
ment, "and I am his ste'p-mother. 0, 1 am
motherly, though. Monster of synicism
you smile. Listen! Vou asked what was
the matter, when yon saw tears in my eyes.
I was crying over'something that I saw to
day. I am a mother to a dozen children
0, yes; and unfortunate ones they are. I
have adopted them lor their ills, and taken
them to a hospital, where I visit them once
a week. To-day I made a round of tbeir
ward, and took some delicacies to them.
One little creature made me hide myself for
a good cry, behind the screen that was set
around her cot, and the tears you saw were
left over. She had been there a month with
a shattered leg, almost immovable in the
heavy plaster casing, and suffering agonies
of pain. In her tiny arms, clasped tightly
to her bosom was a dilapidated doll, one leg
of which was worse factured than her own.
To this beloved doll she was talking, in the
intervals of her own suffering. 2ever oo
mind, baby,' she would say, 'lor oo's going
to get well. Doesoor lee hurt oo awful?
Don't cry don't cry.' She would coddle
the doll, coo to it, pat its broken leg, and
comfort it until by spells her pain became
too intense to be borne without outcry.
Then, getting eaMer, she wonld quietly
chide the doll, and say: 'Oo's a bad dirl to
make a fuss. Oo must be dood. O, it was
the most touching scene I ever saw."
Mrs. Dallas did not look like a lady de
voted to works of charity, and Knox said,
in mingled astonishment and admiration:
"Do you spend time and money befriending
the unfortunate poor?"
"Could time be better used? And as for
the money, not all of it is mine. My friends
declare that the law against beggary ought
to be applied to me, but thev encourage my
offenses by contributing liberally. I am
only an almoner."
"Take this $20 bill," and Knox impul
rively laid his poker winnings in her lap.
"Thank you on behalf of the little crea
tures whom it will benefit," and the gloved
hand that held the money took his in the
same warm clasp.
The boat neared the Sandy Hook wharf,
where the transfer to the railroad was to be
made, and there was a bustle among the
passengers. Colonel Dallas and "Winston
came to the deck, and Knox bade Mrs. Dal
las good-day. The hurry and skurry ot the
change to the cars being over, and the Dal
leses being seated for the short remainder of
the ride to Long Branch, the wife saw at a
glance through the cool surface of the hus
band into a very fiery condition of mind,
and asked him what had happened.
"Are you so down in your luck," she
laid, with an apt utterance ot slang that
would have shocked Knickerbox Knox as
coming from the lips of an angel of charity,
"that the loss of 520 to the dude bothers
you? Well, here 'tis," and she stuck the
crumpled bill into his waistcoat pocket.
"Sheeba, you're glorious," and he held
her hand lovingly against the heart which
may be supposed to have been under the
enriched pocket. "How did you get .it?
2fot by and he neatly lifted the bill out
with her o'wn fingers.
"Xo, Colonel, 'this is what I did it with,"
and she thrust out the tip fit her tongue.
"I lied it out of him."
The Colonel was too deeply engrossed
with prior concerns to ask tor particulars
then.
"The queerest thing that ever happened
to me, Sheeba," he said, "was about ten
minutes ago. We were Having a pretty hot
game of poker in a stateroom with an old
chap named Pootle. It was after Knox had
quit with the 520 that "Winston ami I
had let him win." The Colonel's hands be
came pantomimic as he proceeded, and his
manner lost its politeness altogether as he
talked to his wife. "I am sitting here, with
three kings and an ace in my hand, and the
other kinjj is in the pack, there. There's
over 5200 in the pot. "Winnie has dropped
out, leaving you and me for a finishing
hand. "We've drawn, ahd you're hold
ing up four jacks. "Winnie stands be
hind you telegraphing to me about your
"Jacks. I've got an extra card in about every
pocket ofmv clothes and the pack is one I've
rung in. The ting tbatl want for a fonr-in-h
and is right here," indicating an inner
pocket of his coat. Now Pootle
hasn't a glimmer ot an idia that
I am a sharper. He is too
innocent an old fool to have suspicions; but
there u a witness I've forgotten a-chap
asleep on a lounge,"but he's now got his eyes
infernally wide open. "When I slip my
hand under mv coat, ostensibly to get my
handkerchief, but really for the king
which I try to take out so I am stunned to
find, instead of the king, I've pulled out
that photograph of your friend, Mrs. Gan
zett, that you sent me in your last-letter,
and that somehow happ'ens to be in my
pocket. My silent curses, if visible, would
make the sea lurid for miles with sulphur
ous fireworks. Cut that is only for an in
stant The young man grabs my hand, and
cries, 'Palming a card, eh?' He twists the
photograph from my hand, and collapses.
But I've lest the pot. Then the youngster
apologizes for what he now thinks is his
mistake, and I forgive him."
"Forgive him?"
"O, surelv, I forgave him. He seemed to
expect it. "But he owes me $200 all the
same," and the Colonel embellished his
story profanely.
CHAPTER ILL
A CARELESS SHUFFLE FOE AMUSEMENT.
One house at Long Branch was distin
guished among its larger and finer neigh
bors by a thick clump of trees at the side
furthest from the ocean, and it therefore had
a genuinely rural aspect not common to
summer residences close along the shore, u
was different from the others, too, in its
very slightly weatherbeaten exterior, instead
of their bright newness of annual painting;
in its lawn with grass that had been left Un
shorn for a month; and in other evidences
here and there that a carpenter, a painter
and a gardener were not standing, tools in
hand,to repair the smallest deterioration.
A real estate agent would have expertly
guessed at a glance, that the premises had
been rented, after the commencement of the
season, at a reduced price, to some unexact-,
ing tenant. Two peddlers thought it was
not occupied at all, and, after
gazing dubiously at the closed shut
ters and the shut front door, they
shouldered their packs ahd trudged along.
An organ grinder reasoned more astutely
that there were inmates, but they were
asleep. It was not a justifiable time of day
for a nap. The hot sun had gone down, the
sea breeze of nightfall had arisen.anjjit was
an hour for Long Branch people to be astir.
He had no patience with privacy or quiet
ude, and fating his organ close up to the
porch he began to turn the crank with un--usual
velocity. A few bars of stately
"America" had been emitted in jig time,
and the operator was running his eyes ex
pectantly over the windows for signs of dis
tress, when one of his own ears was at
tacked by the thumb and finger of Colonel
Dallas, who had entered the dooryard from
the avenue.
"Get off with your torture box," said the
Colonel, "or I'll kick it to flinders."
The organ grinder was slow to reconcile
the gentleman's threat of violence with his
calm 'immobility of face, and it is likely
that he would have defied him if a personal
assault only had been mentioned; bnt the
organ was too precious a thing to be ex
posed to bruises that would not heal of
themselves, or fractures that could not be
mended in a charity hospital. The owner
lugged it hastily away.
To Colonel Dallas the matter was but
triflingly incidental to his return
to his wife's domicile, after a lazy
afternoon round of hotels and clubhouses.
The unkept condition of the house and
grounds seemed to strike him, and he com
pared it, in a loitering glance, with the ad
joining spick-and-span properties. Kb such
lack of nicety was visible in his own ap
pearance. His toilet was" faultless. Prom
the high white felt hat down the buttoned
gray frock coat and neatly creased trousers
to "the unflecked shoes, he was carefully
clothed, after the fashion of a man who,
in a vacation of heavy commercial pursuits,
was indulging himself in a not undignified
degree of lightness of costume and pastime.
He entered the house, passed through the
hallway, and ont again to a place that was
not only overspread by the foliage of the
group of trees, but was shut in a well by
shrubbery and a hedge. Mrs. Dallas was
there, sitting with needle work in her lap,
but with her hands idle. A second occu
pant of the inclosnre was still more supine,
for she lay dozing in a hammock. The
Colonel's entrance awakened her. She sat
up and rubbed her eyes.
"Does the "Widow Gansett ever sleep?"
said the Colonel, with as much raillery as
gallantry.
Mrs. Dallas glanced quickly at her hus
band, and her meaning was clear. She did
not wish him to forego Mb politeness. The'
other woman, who was jolly, plump and
comely, showed no resentment at the famil
iar greeting, but accepted it as though the
man had known her all the 21 years of her
life, instead of less than as many hours.
"0, 1 was having such a funny dream,"
she said, laughing. "I thought I was a
society belle, who knew that she was being
sketched unawares for publication; that I
couldn't show my indignation at the auda-
cious artist, because the slightest stir might
spoil the picture; that a mosquito alighted
on my nose and you awoke me from it all
except the mosquito bite, which is real."
and she rubbed the bitten member as she
swung indolently In the hammock. "Now
I shall have a nose indeed."
"Don't let it chance your face." Again
Mrs. Dallas sought by a look to check what
she thought was going to be a too careless
compliment, but the Colonel continued:
"You can't afford to spoil your likeness to
yourself." At that the merry widow took a
little alarm, too, and Eobtred the smile out
of her round face. "I have something
rather important to tell you. In my wife's
last letter, which I received Tin the day that
I started from London, she told how she had
taken this quiet place for the summer, and
brought vou to spend your vacation here.
She inclosed your photograph, which she
said would show that she was to have an
amiable companion."
"The portrait flattered me, as you do."
"The picture has done something of more
consequence for you."
"Indeed," and the widow slid out of the
hammock, to stand as questionicgly at a
human interrogation point
"It has got you a husband."
"What?"
Mrs. Dallas wrote that you were a widow."
"Yes; I am a widow."
"But you are not."
"Shouldn't I know best?"
The same Mrs. Dallas who, aboard the
cars and boat, had readily dropped with her
husband into coarse language, was made
nervously anxious by his slightest abate
ment of good deportment in the presence of
Mrs. Gansett. He paid ' heed to her dis
quietude, and addressed the widow se
riously. "Listen to this," he said. "On the Sandy
Hook boat, yesterday, I met a gentleman
named Pootle. Perhaps my wife has told
you how I pulled your photograph from my
pocket by accident"
"In taking out his handkerchief," Mrs.
Dallas interposed.
"Well," after a hesitant instant, in which
he seemed puzzled by his wife's solicitude,
"the photograph fell into the hands of Mr.
Pootle's 'nephew, and 1 carelessly didn't
get it back. An hour ago I saw them over
at the hotel. The picture was then handed
to me by the nephew. Pootle happened to
see it in my hand. He started so; and he
gazed so; and he exclaimed, 'Good gra
cious' so."
"Love at first sight," Mrs. Dallas sug
gested. "And a spasmodio attack," said Mrs.
Gansett.
"Bat it wasn't first sight." the Colonel
resumed. "Then he told me what Mrs.
Gansett knows and doubttss yon do too
that the original of that photograph was his
wife, unless he was singularly mistaken,
Ire said that he"had married a girl a third
of his own age seven years ago; that it
was a sudden match alter only a month's
chance acquaintance in London; that it be
came an incompatible union within a week
and was ended in two, for at the end of his
trip back to New York she left him, and he
neither saw nor heard of her afterward.
Bis marriage had evidently been a freak
ish escapade, and he presumed that, on her
return to her family in Chicago, she dis
missed him entirely from her regard.. I
don't think he was equally able to rid his
mind of her, however, for, on seeing your
picture, nndrecognlzingyouashis lost wife,
be. was bent on seeing you."
tffiE
'Is this story true, my dear?" was Mrs.
Dallas' question.
"It is exactly true," was the widow's .re
ply, in a voice that was indecisive between
laughter and earnestness, "but of my sister
not of me. We were twins. It was she
who, in a fit of rebellion against parental
discipline, married Mr, Pootle. She was a
daring girl, while I am a coward. She
could see a mouse without screaming. She
died, poor dear, a year after that matrimo
nial venture. I have the Jitters that she
wrote to me during her wief, ridiculous
honeymoon."
"Pootle is a rich old fellow," the Colonel
reflectingly remarked. "Sheeba, what
would you do if you were Mrs. Gansett?"
"I can't imagine," Mrs. Dallas quietly
replied, but there was a wicked gleam in her
eyes that the Colonel understood, and he ex
claimed with approval:
"3s, you can. You would not correct
Pootle's mistaken identification."
'"0 dreadful idea!" cried the widow.
"As if the man wouldn't know me from his
wife-at a glance."
"Twins seven years absence good-natured
gullible old fellow" the "Colonel
murmured.
"0, what a wild notion."
"Yes," said Sheeba; ''only one of the Col
onel's jokes."
"Merely a suggestion," he assented, "and
immediately pertinent, for he will be here
wis evening lor ine purpose oi seeing jim.
What are your own circumstances?",
"Colonel now this is impertinent," his
wife protested.
"0, nevermind I'll answer," the widow
said. "I've been a widow two years, and
just getting jolly again. My husband and
I went to California to make a fortune. He
died before he bad time to succeed, and left
me without anything. Then I obtained a
place as a teacher in the seminary where I
had been a pupil, and there I am yet ex
cept when a good friend brings me away for
the summefi vacation. Then I am a chap
eron." "A chaperonl" and the man smiled.
"A chaperon," and she was all decorum.
"Mrs. Gansett is my guest," Mrs. Dallas
explained, "and she has brought along a
pupil from the school. ' That is what she
means."
"This pupil is she here?" Dallas asked.
"I haven't seen her."
CHAPTER' IV.
SOMETHING- TO PLAY FOB IN EAENEST.
The most clever of dissimulation is apt
to fail when practiced by husbands and
wives upon each other. Their intimacy
usually enables them to detect the sham at
once. It was so when Sheeba Dallas tried
to speak carelessly of the visitor whom he
had not yet seen, although he had been a
day in the house.
She silently obeyed his covert gesture,
and followed him into the house. There he
faced her, and, without a word, waited for
her to tell about the other guest.
"Her name i3 May Morris," said Mrs.
Dallas, rather doggedly, in spite of her eflbrt
to seem casual and inconsequential; "she is
an orphan a pupil, as I told you, of my old
acquaintance, Gerty Gasnett, who brought
her along to spend several weeks here with
me. She is a she is ahl here she is.''
The lightest of footfalls on the matting of
the hallway, the whisk of skirts as they
came into contact with the doorpost, and a
ydung girl stood in the entrance, shy and
hesitant at the sight of the Colonel. Mrs.
Dallas went to her, with an affectionate, pro
tective caress, -and said: "May, this is my
husband."
"My wife was speaking of you as you
came in," responded the Colonel, as he
bowed, and took her hand. He was alert to
the instinctive movement with which Mrs.
Dallas quietly withdrew the girl from him,
but he only said: "I am very glad to know
vou. Miss Morris."
.It was not a prolonged inspection that he
could then give to her, for she was as really
put out of the room by his wife as through
force, instead of gentle guidance, had been
used. However, her costume was that of
an equestrienne, and, reminded that dinner
time was only a few minutes ahead, her
withdrawal for a change of dress was reason
able. She was no more than 16, as could
-be seen, although the. severe outlines and
heavy fabric of a riding habit were calcu
lated to mature her. Her auburn hair was
knotted tightly at the back of her head,
instead of flowing in a free, juvenile way;
her form was snugly enclosed!, with none of
the unconstraint of a youthful gown; her
height was apparently increased by the
narrow, long skirt; and thus she had the
semblance of a woman, to anybody who did
not look straight into her face. There the
sweetness of 16, and no older, was unmis
takable. The open frankness of her eyes,
the clear perfection of her skin, the ex
pression of honesty unaware of evil such
denotements of young maidenhood were not
missed by Dallas in his single minute of
observation. She shrunk back to the door
way, from which she had only come forward
a step or two, on in Mrs. Dallas' encircling
arm, and disappeared.
Colonel Dallas was instantly rid of the
courtesy which he had shown to the
stranger, and his manner was almost bully
ing, as he said: "Who is May Morris?"
"I have told you," was the woman's half
alarmed reply.
"What is she?"
"I have told you that, too."
"You intend to use her in some job, eh?"
"No, I do not."
."Then she has already served you?"
"Ko."
Anger came into his voice as he advanced
close to his wife, gazed intently into
her face, and slowly said: "Sheeba,
after half a dozen years of partnership in
profitable deviltry, are yon going into a
game on your own hook? Don't you do it?
If you failed you couldn't call on mo for
help; and if you sneceeded you wouldn't
have anybody to divide the swag with; so
you see, Sheeba, it wouldn't be sociable."
"I have no job of any kind on hand, Sam
Dallas, and that's the truth," was the quiet
reph.
"It has a queer look, Sheeba. I go abroad
to work the ocean steamers as a card sharper,
with the understanding that you are to
make a predatory round of the watering
places. I come back to find that you have
hired a cottage, and areiugly ensconsed in
it, with two highly accomplished and re
spectable companions. In the girl you show
a particular interest. And you tell me
there is nothing in it. la that reasonable,
now, my dear pal is that entirely credi
ble?" The woman controlled her voice like an
accomplished actress, but not withont an
effort that her critical companion saw, ns
she said: "Do you expect a woman to be
always reasonable? Then you are bound to
be disappointed even in me. I was tiredV
sick needing a rest Hadn't I earned a
vacation, Sam, by the boodle that I got from
my last job of Washington lobbying? You
don't grudge me a holiday? To I bethought
me of Gerty Gansett I thought she might
like to renew my acquaintance and well, I
longed to have some honest, wholesome com-
.panionshipfor a change. That's all abont
it. x requireu pure air as a reiiei irom
moral malaria. And this merry widow and
childish girl make a delightful atmosphere.
While they are here I forget that I am an
adventuress. That isn't business, Sam
but I'm on.a vacation." After a pause.and
a forced rally of vivacity.she asked: "About
-yourself, Sam? What luck?"
"Fair to middling. That son of mine,
"Winston Dallas he's coming along all
right, Sheeba. Some day yon'll be sorry
he isn't your son as well as mine. He's
snch a swell that nobody could suspect him
oi capping for my game; and when he had
pretended to lose his last dollar, along with
his partner's, aboard the steamship, his dis
tress was so realistic that an old chump
positively forced a loan of $100 on him. It
was beautifully done, and I take a father's
joyous pride in Winnie."
"Where is he?"
'He waited at the hotel to bring old
Pootle to dinner. They will get here by
dinner time." '
"Why are you bringing this Pootle here?
Merely to let him see his supposed wife?"
"He's got to. give up the $200 that he won
yesterday."
"That's right, Sam; but not here. I' am
rarely troubled by scruples you know it
and so indulge me this time). Take your
bird elsewhere to be plucked. Leave me to
mv holiday here with Mrs. Gansett "
The laughter of that jolly widow was
s
PITTSBtm isAtfdfi,
heard from the room above, and then the
lower, more musical merriment of the girl.
"And particularly with May Morris,"
Dallas reflectively added.
Mrs. Gansett came downstairs, talking to
May, above, and then entered the room;
whereupon Mrs. Dallas escaped, and went
to May, ostensibly to hurry her toilet for
dinner.
"A verv interesting girl-May Morris,'.'
said Dallas to'the widow, as they "lounged
into seats. '
"Indeed, yes," was the hearty reply.
"She has fascinated my wife."
''As she does everybody."
"Who, and what fs she?"
"One of my pupils."
"I know that. But what is her history?"
"She was sent to our seminary. I have
been told, when so young that a rule had to
be broken to admit her; out the excuse was
that she had neither father, mother nor other
relative on earth. A lawyer was her guar
dian, and he made all the' arrangements for
her maintenance."
"Then she has money?"
"She is heiress to a large fortune left to
her by her father."
"Well?" -
"I can't tell more than that about her."v
"Can't, or won't?"
"Won't try because I don't know any
more."
"Not after I have brought you yqur long
lost husband?"
"You mean my sister's."
'"You will have to convince him of his
errdr, for he firmly believes in your iden
tity." "Mark me, sir; he will say at sight of me
that tha picture has misled him," and she
arose, sauntered toward the door, and looked
back to say: "Besides, don't you think in
common courtesy he ought to take my word
for it?"
Colonel Dallas marvelled what had got
into Sheeba to bring these tiresomely re
spectable people there without intending to
make them profitable. Could it be possible
that she meant to actually become as good
as she seemed? No, no; she wouldn't if she
could, and she shouldn't let her if she
would. He had mentally reached that de
termination when the object of his specula
tion returned. She would have avoided
further dialogue, but he forced it upon her,
"Mrs. Garnett tells me," he began, blunt
ly and coarsely, "that May Morris is an
heiress without protection. She is fond of
you, as .1 plainly see. Well, that s not
singular so am I. In love and business,
both, Sheeba, you're an admirable woman. I
leave jt to your ingenuity to pluck some
precious plumage out of this tender little
dove."
"Shamel She is my guest"
"When did you,begin to insure your ,
guests against being plundered? Have you
forgotten how we. became acquainted? I
was doing the heavy swell so well that you
tried a confidence game on me, and you
were so clever in your operation that I fell
in love with you. From that day to this
the only things I have known you to be
ashame'd of were your mighty few failures
to get the swag that you reached for. What
is the difference between this heiress and
any other victim, except that she is com
pletely in your hands?"
"How can I get the money from her? She
doesn't carrv hpr fortune in her Tinrse. Her
income is from a trust fund an investment
of money realized from a venture which her
father made for her when she was an in
fant, and which seemed to be worthless ud
til after his death, when by lucky chance it
turned out well. It is in the'handsofa
trust company and controlled by a legal
guardiau. You see the girl is beyond
danger of more than petit larceny."
"She is very rich, though."
"Yes; she is very rich."
"And we can't get at her fortune?"
"No."
The Colonel mused a moment, and then,
clasping his hands and turning suddenly,
as with a new idea, he said: "Yes, we can.
Winnie shall marry her."
Sheeba was suddenly angry. "Your son?
No; he shall not."
"He is an engaging young fellow; she is
young and inexperienced; your influence
with her is strong; a summer of courtship
will capture her; ves, Winnie shall play a
summer game for her fortune."
In an attitude of impulsive defiance Mrs.
Dallas flung out a fist, as she exclaimed!
"Sam Dallas, I meant it when I told you
that no harm should come to her in this
house."
"Would it be harm for her to marry "Win-
ston?" and for the instant the Colonel was
cowed and defensive.
"He is a blackleg scoundrel."
"So am I, and yet you love me. So are
you, and I love you. This May Morris is
at heart not better than we"
"You lie, Saml She is an angel of inno
cence among us devils. You shall not do
or say anything to hurt her."
"Sheeba isn't a hawk," and he surveyed
her coolly; "I sized her up too small. She
is a tigress a vicious tigress. Well, pounce
upon this white little lamb not on me
tigress," -
"I will defend her," and she swayed
slightly from side to side in her excitement,
as though about to spring on him. "Do
you know when it is that a tigress is fierc
est?" The Colonel laughed, and then was struck
by an idea that astonished him. "Why,
yes, I know," he cried. "A tigress is
fiercest when she defends her cubs. That is
it. This girl is your own daughter."
Sheeba recoiled in dismay, and made no
denial.
( To be continued next Sunday.)
Copyright, 18S9, by Franklin Pile.
CHILDHOOD'S MELODRAMA.
-1-The
Imaginative Faculty ni Manifested In
Bora and Glrli.
Atlantic Monthly.
Lonely children particularly develop the
dramatizing faculty, creating companions,
as, lacking toys, they are ingenious at in
venting playthings. A brotherless and
sisterless 4-year old of my acquaintance,
taken upon a journey, gave her fond mother
some sensation, the little one being over
heard reciting to a friendly stranger' the
outrageous pranks, including theft, assault
and battery, and incendiarism, to which her
"big brother Peter" was addicted. Ai an
offset to the disgrace of this relationship,
she dwelt with sweet enthusiasm upon the
winning traits of her"little sister, Sally
Pinker." On being questioned by her
mother, it appeared that this hypothetical
brother and sister were very distinct reali
ties to the solitary child, nor for a long
time would she drop them from the lists of
kinship.
As a child my record for truth-telling and
ingenuousness of behavior was never im
peached; yet I recall instances of mental
chicanery, which had they been made patent,
wonld have sufficed to raise grave doubts in
the minds of mv natural protectors whether
I should not become a perjurer 'of the
blackest stamp. "Well I do recall that dull,
rainy afternoon when, open air sports being
out of the question, I cast about for some
novel entertainment indoors. I had heard
of the extraordinary delusions which had
seized upon a relative ofjnine while in the
delirum of a fevr. I too, would be deliri
ous, see visions and talk wildly. I suc
ceeded so well at this kind of feigning that
not only was my mother alarmed, but I
myself became genuinely ill, unnerved by
the vividness of my own figments and the
blood-chilling character of my own inco
horent utterances.
Woe of a Country Editor.
Benton, Er., Tribune J
"When a man is trying to run a country
paper with an army press and a hatful of
type and 17 paid-up subscriptions; when he
is compelled to skirmish around on the out
side of his business to make a living by
begging, borrowing or stealing; when he is
out of heart, hope, friends and money; in
debt, in love, and in the middle of a rail
road rumpus that will not come to " a focus;
when he has nothing in the past but re
membrance of failtire, and nothing in the
future but visions of the poArhouse well,
under such circumstances he is in con
founded poor shape to assume a virtue that
he hasn't got, or joy that he doesn't feeL
StttfoAY, jtANTUSY ' 6,
SOME OFTHE BALLET.
Lillian Spencer Visits the london Al
hambra and Describes It.
PRETTX BUT DEMURE BAE1IAIDS.
An Excellent Performance, But a Free and
Easy Audience.
A COUNTERPART OP DUMAS' CAMILLA
rCOBRESPOSDENCE OF TUZ DISPATCH.1 -
ondon. December 25.
We have no place of
amusement in Ameri
ca that corresponds
with the concert hall
in London. I doubt
if any such place would
be tolerated I Besem
bllng to somo extent
our variety show, it
nevertheless differs ma
terially. The entertainment begins at 8, bat
no one pays" much attention to the stage.
Every eye is busy watching the stream of
people which never for a single moment
ceases to ponr in and out the various en
trances and exits of the building.
In company with a party of friends I
wended my way through the numerous cor
ridors of the celebrated Alhambra, appro
priately called "The Home of the Ballet,"
until I found myself in a large room, con
structed after the manner of a theater.
There was an auditorium, or orchestra, di
vided from a pit by a circling rail, and two
or three galleries, or, as they are more com
monly called, balconies; in thefirst of which
were the stalls or private boxes. The up
holstery, while not as sumptuous as we are
accustomed to see in America, is, notwith
standing, very pretty. The chairs are tuft
ed with plush and the .stalls hung with lace,
over which fall heavy damask curtains. A
velvet carpet covers the floor, on each one
of which is to be found a first and second
class bar. Just wherein lies the difference
between the one and the other I have not
been able to ascertain, but I suspect it is
more in the quality of the glassware than in
the liquors themselves.
PRETTY BABMAIDS.
Behind the counters, backed by tall mlr
Aa -iiA A& havmnMa whn fnr modest
rnmnnrtment might readilv be mistaken for
Quakeresses. These girls are chosen from
the families of well-to-do mechanics. "J.ney
are poorly paid (as what laborer is not in
England) but they are noted for their come
liness, their strict attention to duty and
general moral rectitude of character. The
barmaid is always smiling and polite.
She thanks you for taking a glass of
wine, and thanks you for paying for it. She,
presents your change with a charming grace
and courtesies to you at your departure.
Jocular gentlemen sometimes "my dear"
and "my pretty one" the barmaid who
serves him, but he rarely ventures to take
any further liberties with her. It is doubt
ful if she would submit to such, being
possessed of a certain pride, which is not
without its dignity.
If you do tfot care to refresh yourself at
the bar you have merely to beckon a waiter,,
(they are as thick as thieves) and order a
The Barmaid,
bottle brought to your seat, on the back of
which is a small box-like receptaole ostensi
bly meant to hold the glasses required.
I knew perfectly well before venturing
into the Alhambra that most everyone (la
dies or otherwise) visiting London made a
point of spending an evening at the home of
the ballfit; but I Knew also that no lady re
siding in London would venture within the
questionable precincts. My apprehensions,
however, on this score were somewhat al
layed at sight of the well regulated stage
performance, magnificent ballet divertisse
ment and uniformly good conduct of all con
cerned. Smoking is freely indulged in at the con
certs, halls, and drinking,- too, for that
matter; but then every first-class theater in
London boasts its barl Gentlemen do. not
remove their hats, albeit the swell women in
the stalls are in full dress.
THE AUDIENCE.
J 'At precisely 8 o'clock the fat bourgeois
and successful tradesmen, followed by the
numerous members of their respective fami
lies, flock noisily through the doors and
bustle importantly into the front seatsof
the orchestra. They remain from the begin
ning to the end of the representation, which
continues as late as 12 o'clock (the later the
better for the profits of the bar), applauding
and enjoying to their honest hearts' content.
The next class of people appear about 9,
and consist principally of those chance visit
ors and toarists "who are out sight-seeing,
and who, from sheer curiosity, straggle in,
take a hasty peep at what is going .pn and
straggle out again.
About 10 the unattended ladies begin to
make their appearance.. They are mostly
modest-looking girls, simply dressed and.
exceedingly well-behaved.
The Counterpart of Camille.
Ten thirty finds the lobbies filling witb
the big swells from the clubs,-who ao not
take, seats, but stand, puffing scented
cigarettes. Neither do they remove their
hats, or coats, whlcli- circumstance points
conclusively to the fact that they will only
remain a brief space of time. Simultaneous-'
ly with the entrance of. the swells is that of
the women who fill the stalls and whose re
splendent diamonds' and sumptuous gowns
excite the admiration and wonder of all be
holders. A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
I saw one who was a lr .ng counterpart of
the original of Dumas' Camille. She might
have been a duchess, to judge from the
splendid poise of the queenly head, cov
ered with braids of raven black hair, which
set off to rare advantage the ravishing white
ness of her skin. I have no words with
which to do justice to her charms. Court
beauties of the reign of Charles II. boasted
this rare type, but I. am of the opin-
f IP0'
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1889.
ion that even these great ladies could
not have commanded the air of superb
hauteur, the gentle yet imperious presence,
of this woman of the Alhambra CoVentHall.
She only remained an hour, duringwhich
interval several fashionable men paid her
their respects by exchanging a few cursury
words with her in her box and withdrawing,
having removed neithertheir hats from their
heads nor their cigars from their mouths.
I don't know, of course, bnt I think if I
were a man I should respect the divine
loveliness of a woman of this type, if I had
no respect for the woman herself, and lift
my hat, if not to her, to that Qod-giveif girt,
her wondrous beauty. But I am not a man,
and if I attempted to lift my hat, either to
"beauty" or the "beast,-" I should pull out
half a dozen pins, and have the pleasure of
sep ingTmy hair come tumbling down in a
heap. Consequently I am constrained to
repress my chivalrio tendencies!
The admission to the Concert Hall is 1
ahilliner: 1 shilling and 6. 2 shillings 3 or 4.
The stalls range;-from 8 to 10. The
performance begins with the insertion (into
a kind of groove made for the purpose) of
a square white placard with the figure 1
conspicuously displayed, signifying that
the first number on the programme is about
to appear. Each succeeding perfomer ib
likewise labeled. No encores are vouch
safed, but every member ot the company
appears a second time in order to stretch
out the entertainment, which becomes very
wearisome! Fart first is made up of a little
of everything under heaven, from negro
minstrelsy and acrobatic antics to tricks of
trained dogs and cats and eerie maneuvers
of uncanny prestidigitators.
SOMETHING TO DEEAM ABOUT.
Part second introduces the ballet,and the
ballet of the Alhambra- is something to
dream aboutl We have nothing to compare
with it in America. Complete dreams
are enacted, and while of -course wholly
pantomimic, are strongly dramatic. They are
The Queenvf the Alhambra.
played in nil seriousness by the principals
chosen from the premiers, the regular corps
completing the en semble and thereby pre
senting a spectacle of dazzling beauty. The
raise en scene of "Arcadia," the poetical
"ballet now running at the Alhambra, is
divided into acts each of which ends with a
climax of unparalleled spendor.
The audience of the Concert Hall joins in
the chorus of all the popular songs. The
singer is in nowise disconcerted by this "un
expected assistance," from the spectators.
She rather takes it as a compliment, and re
peats her refrain over and over again to the
manifest edification of the volunteers, who
each time become more and more familiar
with the melody.
The final curtain falls at "midnight on a
striking scene. Through the thick clouds
of smote can be faintly discerned the sleepy
faces ot the smokers, who nod drowsily in
their chairs. The gas is almost im
mediately lowered, in order to clear
the honse the mora PTnpriilinnnlv and n
shadowy gloom, thickened by the fumes of
tobacco, spreads round like a pall. Through
its transparent density, is dimly ontlined
the retreating figures of the audience, which
like so many ghosts melt into ashy nothing
ness. The barmaid, too, has vanishedl The bar
is closed I The stalls, but a little while ago
ablaze with the jewels of their occupants,
are dark and empty. The vast auditorium
is clothed in funereal gloom. The play is
indeed over!
Outside, however, the pavements are
a blaze of light; the sidewalks crowded with
people. Vehicles of all kinds fill the streets.
For a brief space London is wildly astirl
Then midnight sounds from the great dome
of St. Paul's, and the turbulent city sinks
into a fretted, troubled sleep!
Lillian Spenceb.
A ffOYEL SIGNAL ROCKET.
It Does Not Noed a Stick, and Its Explosion
Can be Heard 13 Mllei.
Engineering. 3
A new signal has recently been brought
out by the Cotton Powder Company, of
Queen Victoria street, London. The dis
tinguishing features of this invention are
'that no stick is required and there is no
back fire. The rocket takes the form of a
metal cylinder, in the base of which is the
propelling charge. Above this is a charge
of tonite, and above this again a star com
position. The rocket is placed in a phosphor-bronze
socket, which may be screwed
Or let into the rail of the ship. "When it is
required to fire it a firing tube is placed in
the center of the rocket and to the top Of
this a lanyard is hooked. The propelling
charge is fired by simply pulling the lan
yard and the signal is propelled , upward at
one impulse. The wire fuse by which the
detonating charge is exploded is at the same
time ignited, and this burns until the rocket
has reached the maximum height, which is
600 feet.
The stars are thrown out, giving a bril
liant illumination, and the tomte charge
then explodes. The noise of the explosion
is equal tothe firing of a six-pound gun; but
being high, is heard at a great distance; in
deed, in one instance a disabled vessel
Brought another to her assistance from a
distance of 12 miles. These rockets are so
portable and easy to fire no match or port
fire being required that they are very suit
able for boats, and doubtless many lives
would have been saved bad they been in
use in cases where ship-wrecked crews have
had to take to the boats. The Board of
Trade has authorized its surveyors to pass
these rockets distress signals in lieu of both
guns and rockets, so that many lines of
steamships have1 landed their guns and use
these signals instead.
The Kational Lifeboat Institution is also
introducing them with red stars, which is
the distinctive signal to summon a lifeboat
crew. A further advantage in this form of
rocket'is that a combination oi colors and
number of stars can be so arranged as to
form a code on the principle ot the Morse
alphabet, a feature which may prove of
great importance in naval maneuver and
for torpedo-boat operations. The full-sized
rockets are seven inches long and two inches
in diameter. A smaller site, which is
called the "rocket light signal," is also
made. This has no explosive charge.
Another modification of the idea consists of
a sound signal, which has no stars. This
takes the place of a gun.
Enterprise In the ScLool Bnifaesi.
NewxorkSun.J
A business man who went to a teachers'
age'ney to ask for a list of good schools for a
young boy, was surprised next day to re
ceive an express package of books and cir
culars on the subject. The next day another
considerable bundle came, and thereafter
for a fortnight he was. besieged at his office
and home by school teachers from up the
Hudson, over in Connecticut, and out in
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, all anxious
to receive the pupil. ""Well," said he, in
reviewing his experience, "there is more
enterprise and rivalry in the school business
than in any line'of trade I know of."
LETTHEDANCEGOOI
Dr. William A, Hammond Unhesi
tatingly Favors the Amusement,
IT EXERCISES MIHD AND BODY.
To Enjoy Dancing Partners Should be
Changed Frequently.
THE HEALTHI EFFECTS OF DiNCCfQ
iwairmt 7oa ths ispaich.1
0"W I suppose
there is more
dancing done
throughout th e
"United States dur
ing January than
in any other month
of the year, and it
may notltherefore
be deeaiei, inap
propriateilf I re
strict my remarks
upon this occasion
to the considera
tionof the effects ot this amusement and ex-
h ercise upon the systems of those who indulge
in it.
Nothing is more wearisome to the average
man or woman than exercise for the mere
sake of the exercise. A walk in a familiar
country, with nothing but tree3 and cows
and a dusty road to look at, while it may
give exercise to the muscles, does this in a
not much less mechanical way than if the
limbs were put on a board and shaken by
the vibrations of a steam engine. "While a
like amount of physical exertion in the
streets of a large city, which are crowded
with peopl e and lined with shops resplendent
with the most beautiful products of art, not
only brings the muscles into play, but at
the same time stimulates the mind. The
walk through Farmer Smith's lane is pretty
much the same day after day, and eventual
ly the mind becomes fatigued with its un
varying features. But Broadway or Fifth
avenue or Chestnut street are always chang
ing and the mind is kept alert and amused,
for, after all, the one factor that never palls
is variety.
This susceptibility of the system to be
come wearied and, as it were, callous from
a repetition of the same impression, is ex
hibited not only in the way I have men
tioned but in many other interesting modes.
j.iib onuy, tor instance, soon Becomes naou
uated to the repeated dose of the same medi
cine, and it is necessary to increase the
quantity from day to day in order to obtain
the desired results. A first dose of au
eighth of a grain of morphia will probably
put most persons to sleep; a second dose of
the same quantity acts less energetically; a
third dose still more feebly, while a fourth
has no appreciable effect whatever. In or
der to obtain sleep the dose now must be in
creased, and a like process must be gone
through with from day to day so as to sub
ject the body to a continually increasing in
fluence. 1
A CHANGE OF SENSATIONS,
Alike condition exists in regard to pains,
the body soon becoming accustomed to very
agonizing sensations unless they are ren
dered more intense or altered in qualitv.
Even the most acute tortures fail to be ex
perienced by the nerves, unless they are
changed in some way or other.
There seems to be a natural tendency in
all animals, including man, to skip or jump
or dance when they desire to show pleasure.
Our domestic animals, for instance, exhibit
this inclination in ar marked degree, and
children, even, when only a few weeks old,
exhibit their delight by kicking out their
limbs while stilL too young to manifest pleas
ure in any other way. Even the most sav
age nations of the present day make-dancing
one of the chief features of their rejoicing.
Our ancestors at the very dawn of the his
toric period, and doubtless for many thou
sand years before, danced at their victories
over their enemies, during their acts of
worship of their deities and when they met
to feast over any event that gave them par
ticular pleasure. No custom is more ex
tensively and ineradicably shown by the
monuments that have come down to us from
antiquity than dancing. The walls of As
syrian and Egyptian temples and dwellings
abound with representations of dancing men
and women. The Bible contains many allu
sions to dancing as one of the chief means of
showing pleasure.
But between the dancing of adults ot the
civilized portions of the modern world and
that of older nations and of the savage peo
ple of our own times there is very consider
able difference. Our remote ancestors
danced to show their joy over some notable
event and the savages of the present period
are actuated by like motives. It is true
that the ancients took pleasure in witness
ing the saltatorial exercises of professional
dancers, and several semi-barbarous nations
of the present day look with great delight
on the gyrations and contortions of their
dancing girls. But there is nothing to
show that any of these people danced for
their own amusement. A Sultan of Mo
zambique or Zanzibar or some other snehj
country was astounded on being intro
duced Into a European ballroom to see a
King and other mighty personages, men
and women, whirling around the room to
the strains of a magnificent band of music.
"When I want dancing," he said, "I am too
augnst a sovereign to do it myself. I would
feel degraded by such an act. I hire people
to do it for me and I take pleasure in look
ing at them." Anyone who has seen the
dancing girls of India or Turkey will at
once admit that so far from being a pleasur
able exercise to them, it is a painful labor,
which has no compensation except the
money they receive from those before whom
they exhibit themselves.
But our men and women dance for the
pleasure they derive from the act. Now let
us see in what that pleasure consists.
PLEASUEES OP DANCING.
In the first place, there is the association
with others who have come to dance, which
of itself afibrds a degree of exhilaration not
to be despised. The sight of handsome men
and beautiful and well-dressed women be
decked with jewels and other finery affords
a no small'measure of delight as well to the
inexperienced in such matters as to those
who have become accustomed, in a measure,
to the excitement. Here variety plays its
part, for it may safely be said that no two
balls are attended by the same people
dressed in the same way, and thus satiety is
not produced. A certain degree of fresh
ness is therefore inseparable from such
affairs. '
Again, there is the brilliant light modi
fied by passing through media of various
colors; the ravishing music sensualized with
all the art which those who compose the
harmonious strains for waltzes and other
dances know so well how to employ; the
supper table loaded, with the most appetiz
ing productions of the cook's and the con
fectioner's skill; the wines which, when
taken with due moderation, cause just such
degree of increased cardiac action as to send
the blood a little more rapidly than usual
through the'hrain and thns to qnicken its
action, to heighten its sense of enjoyment
and to retard the coming of that weariness
which sooner or later follows all excitement
in excess of that which is habitual.
A very slight increase in the amount of
blood circulating through the cerebral ves
sels suffices to augment .the acnteness of all
the perceptions, and sometimes even to give
brilliancy to minds that are ordinarily
stupid. It is by no means necessary to use
alcoholic liquors for this purpose, for a cup
of coffee or tea, a few grains of quinine, or
the presence of a fever will produce a like
result Even the assumption of a recum
bent posture will in many persons so in
crease the activity of the brain at to enable
intellectual tasks to be accomplished which
would otherwise be impossible. Many cele
brated mathematicians and literary men
have been obliged to lie down in-order to
work out their 'problems or write their most1-
effective poetry or prose- The managers of
balls know very well what they are about
when' they provide champagne for those
whq dance. They should take care, how
ever, that there is not too great a profusion
df this most exhilarating ot beverages.
BENEFITS OP DANCING- '
m It is a good friend when used with discre
tion, but a most majignant enemy when .
abused. A (ingle glass too much 'will so
deaden-the sensibilities and (hint the per
ceptions Si to render any kind of pleasure '
impossible.
Now, as to the dancing itself, I have no
hesitation in saying that in it we have aa
powerful a means of exercising both the
mind and the body at the same time as it is
possible to obtain. The muscular develop
ments extend over the greater portion of the
body. They are not merely, automatic, but
it is necessary that the attention be directed
to their proper performance, for otherwise
catastrophes of various kinds wouldbe likely
to result. But there is one feature that I can
not too strenuously insist upon, and it is this:
The dancers who desire to obtain the ut
most amount of pleasure from the healthful
and beautiful exercise in which they in
dulge should take special care to change
their partners frequently. I have already
called attention to the fact that the system
soon becomes habituated to any particular
kind of excitation. "Varietv is, in dancing
as in all other things, the spice ofiife. There
is only one exception to this precept, so far
as dancing is concerned, and that is that
some people dance with ether objects in
view than the mere dancing. A couple who
are in love with each other will dance to
gether all night, but even they would have
to confess if they told the truth that the last
dance was not so pleasant as the first.
The' man who invented the "german"
know what he was about when he devised
a dance in which frequent changes ,of part
ners are necessary. The old-fashioned
square dancea were not without their ad
vantages in this respect, and are too much
neglected at the present day. The ''Virgin
ia reel" was wonderful in its capacity to
give pleasure, but it is now scarcely ever
seen, except in some out-of-the-way country
town of the South.
Let the world, therefore, continue to
dance: but in this, as in all other things,
let it be guided by wisdom and moderation.
"William A. Hammond.
H05EST WOMEN CALLED TfllETES.
Another Phase of the Kleptomania Qaeitlon
BcTcnse for False Charges.
New Tork SunJ
Merchants are aware of the injury the
spy system does them with good customers,
but they must resort to it in order to protect
themselves. It is said that some years ago,
when a prominent and highly respected
member of Sorosis was arrested at a certain
big bazaar, charged with stealing by one of
the clerks, and was taken to the station
house before the case was investigated
properly, the members of that organization,
and very many women who knew the lady
personally, made a compact never to enter
the store again, and they have generally
kept it. The lady was released speedily
and apologies were profuse; but the indigni
ty had been donejher, and no amount ot ex
planation sufficed to soothe the indignation
of herself and friends.
Another lady of prominence was. in a
large dry goods house in the city buying
toys, and with her a niece a young lady in
her teens. The lady was selecting particles
and the miss was amusing herself looking
at the various ornamental things on
counters and tables. Something was missed
from the counter, which wa3 afterward
found hanging to the- fringe of a lady's
cloak who had been at the counter, but who
had gone to the back of the store. The
young girl was charged by the clerk with
purloining the article, and she, alarmed and
excited burst into tears. ' The aunt hastened
to her, and, on hearing the clerk's charge,
gave her card to the floor walker, sent for
the heads of the house, and proposed to
settle the matter in- a fearless way, when
the article was brought back by'the woman
who had unconsciously carried "it away, and
the floor walker and clerk tried to make
amends. It was no use, however, for tha
lady ordered her account sent to her hus
band, and from that time never entered tha
honse, though she had been one of its best
customers. ,
In Brooklyn a few years since the wife of
a well-known citizen whose mind was un
settled, was charged with taking an article
ot trilling value from the counter, and was .
sent to the police station and put into a cell.
Her husband was telegraphed for, and has
tened over from his business house in this
city. Hq tried to get his wife released with
out exposure, and requested that the matter
be kept quite on account of his children.
The article was not in her possession, and
there was no evidence that she had ever
seen it. But the firm gave out the fact and
all particulars to the press, and the result
was that the mental condition of the unfor
tunate woman was greatly aggravated. The
entire tajniiy connection resented the treat
ment of the firm, and none of them ever
entered the store again. They have used
all their influence against the house in
every direction and at every opportunity.
A Reasoning 31fnd.
New York Sun.)
Between two up-town houses there is a
little patch of ground where the small boys
of the neighborhood play. It is enclosed,
and access can be had only through the
yard of one of the neighbors. The other
neighbor had a hole cut in his side wall this
fall, and put in a stained glass window.
The window was finished the day before
Christmas. On Christmas morning one of
the servants of the owner of the stained
window brought over a watch chain as a
present to the small boy who lived in the
adjoining house. The servant gave tha
compliments of his master to the small boy,
and wished him a merry Christmas. It was
the first Christmas present the small boy
had ever, received from that source. He
put on the watch chain and went ont in the
yard to show it to the other small boys. He
saw the stained glass window. He reneeted:
Then he went to his big brother and said:
"fknow what I got this watch chain for.
He's afraid I'll fire bricks through his new
window."
High -Pressure
Living characterizes thesernodern days.
The result h a fearful increase of Brain
and Heart Diseases General De
bility, Insomnia, Paralysis, and In
sanity. Chloral and Morphia augment
tho evil. The medicine best adapted
to do permanent good is Ayer's Sa
saparilla. It purifies, enriches, and
vitalizes the blood, and thus strengthens
every function and faculty of the body.
" I have used Ayer's Sarsaparilla, in
my family, for years. I have found it
Invaluable as
A Cure
for Nervous Debility caused by an In-
active liver and a low state of the blood."
Henry Bacon, Xenia, Ohio.
"For soma timo I have been troubled
with heart disease. I never found any- ,
thing to help me until I began using
Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I have only used
this medicine six months, but it has re
lieved me from my trouble, and enabled
me to resume work." J. P. Carzanett,
Perry, HI.
"I have been a practicing physician
for over half a century, and during that
time I have never found so powerful j,
and reliable an alterative and blood-
purifier as Ayer's Sarsapailla.,, Dr
JT. Maxstart, Louisville, Ky.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla;
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