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more. It was something grander, pnrer,
deeper and quite undying. Whence came
it, then? If she was, "as she had thought,
only & child of earth, whence came this
deep desire which was not of the earth?
Had she been wrong, had she a sonl some
thing that could love with the body, and
through the body and beyond the body
Eometnins of which the body with its yearn
ings was but the envelope, the hand or in
strument Oh, now it seemed to Beatrice
that this was so, and that called into being
by her love she and her soul stood face to
face acknowledging their unity. Once she
bad held that it was phantasy; that such
spiritual hopes were but exhalations from a
heart unsatisfied; that when love escapes us
on the earth, in our despair we swear it is
immortal, and that we shall find it in the
heavens. Now she believed this no more.
love had kissed her on the eyes, and at his
kiss her sleeping spirit was awakened and
she saw a vision of the truth.
Yes, she loved him, and must always lore
himl But she could never know on earth
that he was hers, and if she had a spirit to
be freed after some few years would not his
spirit have forgotten hers in that far here
after of their meeting?
She dropped her brow upon her arm and
softly sobbed. What was there left for her
to do except to sob till her heart broke?
Elizabeth, lying with wide-open cars,
heard the sobs. Elizabeth, peering through
the moonlight, saw her sister's form tremble
in the convulsion of her sorrow and smiled
a smile of malice.
"The thing is done," she thought; "she
cries because the man is going. Don't cry,
Beatrice, don't cry! We will get your
plaything back for you. Oh, with such a
bait it will be easy. He is as sweet on you
as vou on him."
There was something evil, something al
most devilish, in this scene of the one watch
ing woman holding a clew to and enjoying
the secret tortuics of the other, plotting the
while to turn them to her innocent rival's
destruction and her own advantage. Eliza
beth's jealousy was, indeed, bitter as the
grave.
Suddenly Beatrice ceased sobbing. She
lifted her' head, and by a sudden impulse
threw out the passion of her heart with all
her concentrated strength of mind toward
the man she loved, murmuring as she did so
some passionate, despairing words which she
knew.
At this moment Geoffrey, sleeping sound
ly, dreamed that he saw Beatrice seated by
her window and looking at him with eyes
which no earthly obstacle could blind.
She was speaking; her lips moved, but
though he conld hear no voice, the words she
spoke floated into his mind
"" Be a god and hold me
Next came the bustle of departure. Effie
was dispatched in the fly with the luggage
and Betty, the fat Welsh servant, to look
after her. Beatrice and Geoffrey were to
walk to the station.
Time for you to be going, Mr. Bing
ham," said Mr. Granger. "There, goodbv,
goodbv! God bless youl Never had such
charming lodgers before. Hope you will
come back again, I'm sure. Bytheway,
they are certain to summon vou as a witness
at the trial of that villain, Jones."
"Goodby, Mr. Granger," Geoffrey an
swered; "you must come and see me in
town. A change will do you good."
"Well, perhaps I may. I have not had
a change for 25 years. Never could a fiord
it Aren't you going to say goodby to
Elizabeth?"
"Goodbv, Miss Granger," said Geoffrey
politely. ""Manv thanks for all your kind
ness. I hope we shall meet again."
"Do -ou?" answered Elizabeth; "so do
I. I am sure that we shall meet again, and
1 am sure that I shall be glad to see you
when we do, Mr. Bingham," she added
darkly.
In another minute he had left the vicarage
and, with Beatrice at his side, was walking
smartly toward the station.
"This is very melancholy," he said, after
a few moments' silence.
"Going away generally is," she answered
"either for those who go or those who stay
behind," she added.
"Or for both." he said.
Then came another pause; he broke it.
"Miss Beatrice, may I write to you?"
"Certainly, if you like."
"And will you answer my letters?"
"Yes, I will answer them."
"If I had my way, then, you should spend
a good deal of your time in writing," he
said. "You don't know, "-he added earn
estly, "what a delight it has been to me to
learn to know you. I have had no greater
pleasure in my life."
"I am glad," Beatrice answered Bhortly.
"By the way." Geoffrey said presently,
"there is something I want to ask you. You
are as good as a reference book for quota
tions, you know. Some lines have been
haunting me for the last 12 hours.and I can
not remember where they come from."
"What are they?" she asked, looking np,
and Geoffrey saw, or thought he saw, a
strange fear shining in her eyes.
"Here are four ot them," he answered un
concernedly, "we have no time for long quo
tations: "That shall be tomorrow,
Not to-night:
I must bury orrow
Out of sight,'"
Beatrice heard heard the very lines
which had been upon her lips in the wild
I WitS k"WM Ml- k rh I'll 'I Iw
GEOrFBET WOULDN'T ACCEPT THE OFrEK.
With a charm!
c a man and fold me
With thine arm.
Teach me, only teach. Love!
As 1 ought
I mil speak thy speech, Lore,
Think thy thought
Met, if thou require it,
Both demands.
Laying flesh and spirit
In thy hands.
That shall be to-morrow,
Not to-night;
I must bury sorrow
Out of sight.
Mut a little weep. Love
(Foolish me!)
And so fall asleep, Love,
Loved by thee.
Geoffrey heard them in his heart. Then
they were gone, the vision of Beatrice was gone
and suddenly lie awoke. Oh, what was this
flood of inarticulate, passion-laden thought
that beat upon bis brain telling of Beatrice?
Wave after wave it came, utterly over
whelming him, like the heavy breath of
flowers stirred by a night wind like a mes
sage from another world. It was real; it
was no dream, no fancy; she was present
with him, though she was not there; her
thought mingled with his thought, her be
ing beat upon his own. His heart throbbed,
his limbs trembled, he strove to understand
and could not. But in the mystery of that
dread communion, the passion he had trod
den down and rclused acknowledgment took
iife and form within him; it grew like the
Indian's magic tree, from seed to blade,
from blade to bud, and from bud to bloom.
In that moment it became clear to him; he
knew he loved her, and knowing what such
a love must mean, for him if not for her,
Geoffrey sank back and groaned.
And Beatrice? Of a sudden she ceased
speaking to herself; she felt her thought
flung back to her weighted with another's
thought. She had broken thrt -,h the bar
riers of earth; the quick electric message of
her heart had found a path to him she loved
and come back answered. But in what
tongue was that answer writ? Alas! she
could not read it, any more than he could
read the message. At first she doubted;
surely it was imagination. Then she re
membered it was absolutely proved that peo
ple dying could send a vision or themselves
to others far away; and if that could be,
why not this? No, it was truth, a solemn
truth; she knew he felt her thought, she
knew that his life beat upon her li'e. Oh,
here was mystery, and here was hope, for if
this could be and it was what might not
be? If her blind strength of human love
could so overstep the boundaries of
human power, and, by the sheer
might of its own volition, mock the physical
barriers that hemmed her in, what had she
to fear from distance, from separation, aye,
from death hiinsell? She had grasped a clew
which might one day, before the seeming
end or after what did it matter? lay
strange secrets open to her gaze. She had
heard a whisper in an unknown tongue that
could still be learned, answering Life's
agonizing cry with a song of glory. If only
he loved her, some day all will he well.
Borne day the barriers would fall. Crumbling
with the flesh, they would fall and set her
naked spirit tree to seek its other self. And
then, having found her love, what more
was there to seek? What other answer did
she desire to ail the problems of her life
than this of Unity attained at last Unity
attained in Death!
When Geoffrey wote on the next morning,
oiler a little reflection, he came to the de
cision that he had experienced a very curi
ous and moving dream, consequent on the
exciting events of the previous dav, or on
the pain of his impending departure. He
rose, packed his bag everything else was
ready and went to breakfast Beatrice did
not appear till it wai half over. She looked
very pale, and said that she had been pack
ing Effie's things. GeofJrey noticed that she
barely touched his fingers when he rose to
hake hands with her.and that she studiously
avoided his glance. Then he began to won
der il ehe also had strangely dreamed.
midnight that had gone. Her heart seemed
to stop; she became white as the dead,
stumbled, and nearly fell. With a supreme
effort she recovered herself.
"Miss Beatrice," he said again, "yon
look pale. Did you sleep well last night?"
"No, Mr. Bingham."
"Did you have curious dreams?"
"Yes, I did," she answered, looking
straight before her.
He turned a shade paler. Then it was
truel
"Beatrice," he said in a half whisper,
"what do they mean what can they
mean?"
"As much as anything else, or as little,"
she answered.
"What are people to do who dream such
dreams?" he said again, in the same con
strained voice.
"Forget them," she whispered.
"And if they come back?"
".Forget them again."
"And if they will not be forgotten?"
She turned and looked him full in the
eve.
"Die of them," she said; "then they will
be forgotten, or "
"Ur what, Beatrice?"
"Here is the station," said Beatrice, "and
Betty is quarreling with the flyman."
Five minutes more and Geoffrey was gone.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE FLAT NEAIt IDE EDGWAKE EOAD.
Geoffrey's journey in town was not alto
gether a cheerful one. To begin with, Effie
wept copiously at parting with her beloved
"auntie," as she called Beatrice, and would
not be comforted. The prospect of rejoining
her mother and the voluble Anne had no
charms for Effie. They all three got on best
apart Geoflrey himself had also much to
think about and found little satisfaction in
the thinking. He threw his mind back over
the events of the past few weeks. He re
membered how he had first seen Beatrice's
face through the thick mist on the
Bed Hocks, and how her beauty had
struck him as no beauty ever had
before.
They reached London at last, and as had
been arranged, Anne, the French bonne,
met them at the station to take Effie home.
Goeffrey noticed that she looked smarter
and less to his taste than ever. However,
she embraced Effie with an enthusiasm
which the child scarcely responded to, and
at the same time carried on an ocular flirta
tion with a ticket collector. Although it
was so early in theyjar for fogs, London
was plunged in a dense gloom. It had been
misty that morning at Bryngelly, and be
come more and more so as thedayadvanced;
but, though it was not vet 4 o'clock, London
was dark at night. Luckily, however, it is
not far from Paddington to the flat near the
Edgware Road, where Geoffrey lived, so
having personally instructed the cabman, he
left Anne to convey Effie and the luggage
and went on to the Temple by underground
railway with an easy mind.
Shortly after Geoffrey reached his cham
bers in Pump Court the solicitor arrived as
had been arranged, not his uncle who was,
he learned, very unwell but a partner.
To his delight he then found that Beatrice's
ghost theory was perfectly accurate; the boy
with the missing toe-joint had been discov
ered, who saw the whole horrible tragedy
through a crack in the blind; moreover, the
truth had been wrung from him, and he
would be produced at the trial indeed, a
proof of his evidence was already forthcom
ing. Also some specimens of the ex-lawyer's
clerk's handwriting had been obtained and
were declared by two experts to be identical
with the writing on the will. One thing,
however, disturbed him; neither the Attor
ney General nor Mr. Candle ton was yet in
town, so no conference was possible that
evening. However, both were expected
that night the Attorney General from
Devonshire and Mr. Candlcton from the
continent;, to the case being first on the
list it was arranged that the conference
should take place at 10 o'clock on the fol
lowing morning.
On arriving home Geoffrey was informed
that Lady Honoria was dressing, and had
left a message saying he must be quick and
do likewise, as a gentleman was coming to
dinner. Accordingly be went to his own
room which was at the other end of the
flat and put on his dress clothes. Before
going to the dining room, however, he said
good night to Effie who was in bed, bat not
asleep and asked her what time she'had
reached home.
"At 5:20, daddy," Effice said promptly.
"Twenty minntes past 6! Why, you
don't mean to say that you were an hour
coming that little way! Did you get blocked
in the fog?"
"No, daddy, but
"But what, dear?"
"Anne did tell me not to say!"
"But I tell you to say, dear, never mind
Anne!"
"Anne stopped and talked to the ticket
man for a long, long time."
"Oh, did she?" he said.
At that moment the parlor maid came to
say that Lady Honoria and the "gentleman"
were waiting for dinner. Geoffrey asked
her casually what time Miss Effie had
reached home.
"About half-past five, sir. Anne said the
cab was blocked in the fog."
"Very well. Tell her ladyship that I
shall be down in a minute."
"Daddy." said the child, "I haven't said
my prayers. Mother did not come, and
Anne said it was all nonsense about pray
ers. Auntie did always hear me my pray
ers." "Yes, dear, and so will I. There, kneel
upon my lap and say them.
"In the middle of the prayers which
Effie. did not remember as well as she might
have done the parlor maid arrived again.
"Please, sir, her ladyship"
"Tell her ladyship I am coming, and that
if she is in a hurry she can go to dinner!
Go on, love."
Then he kissed her and put her to bed
again.
"Daddy," Effie said, as he was going,
"shall I see Auntie Beatrice any more?"
"I hope so, dear."
"And shall you see her any more? You
want to see her, don't you, daddy? She did
love vou very much."
Geoffrey could bear it no longer. The
truth is always sharper when it comes from
the mouth of babes and sucklings. With a
hurried good-night he fled.
In the little drawing room he found Lady
Honoria, very well dressed, and also her
friend, whose name was Mr. Dunstan. Geoff
rey knew him at once for an exceedingly
wealthy man of small birth, and less breed
ing, but a burning and shining light in the
Garsiugton set. Mr. Dunstan was anxious
to raise himself in society, and he thought
that notwithstanding tier poverty, Lady
Honoria might be useful to him in this re
spect Hence his presence there to-night
"How do you do, Geoffrey?" said his wife,
advancing to greet him with a kiss of peace,
"You look very well. But what an immense
time you have been dressing. Poor Mr. Dun
stan is starving. Let me see. You know
Mr. Dunstan, I think. Dinner, Mary."
Geoffrey apologized for being late, and
shook hands politely with Mr. Danstan
Saint Dunstan he was generally called on
account of his rather clerical appearance.
and in sarcastic allusion to his somewhat
Bhady reputation. Then they went into
dinner.
"Sorry there is no lady for you, Geoffrey;
but you must have had plenty of ladies' so
ciety lately. By the way, how is Miss
Miss Granger? Would you believe it, Mr.
Dunstan? that shocking husband ot mine
lias been passing the last month in the com
pany of one of the loveliest girls I ever saw,
who knows Latin and law and everything
else under the sun. She began by savin?
nis jite tney were upset together out of a
canoe, you know. Isn't it romantic?"
"You know, Geoffrey," she went on, "the
Garsingtons have refurnished the large hall
and their drawing-room. It cost 1,800,
but the result is lovely. The drawing-room
is done in hand-painted white satin, walls
and all, and the hall in old oak."
"Indeed!" he answered, reflecting the
while that Lord Garsington might as well
have paid some of his debts before he spent
1,800 on his drawing-room furniture.
Then the Saint and Lady Honoria drifted
into a long and animated conversation
about their fellow guests, which Geoffrey
scarcely tried to follow. Indeed the dinner
was a dull one for him, and he added little
or nothing to the stock of talk.
When his wife left t he room, however, he
had to say something, so they spoke of shoot
ing. The Saint had a redeeming feature
he was somewhat of a sportsman, though a
poor one, and he described to Geoffrey a new
pair of haminerless guns, which he had
bought lor a trifling sum of 140 guineas,
recommending the pattern to his notice.
"Yes," answered Geoffrey. "I daresay
they are very nice; but, you see, they are
beyond me. A poor man cannot afford so
much for a pair of guns."
"Oh, if that is all," answered his guest,
"I will sell you these; they are a little lone
in the stock for me, and you can pay me
when you like. Or, hang it all, I have
plenty of guns. I'll be generous and give
them to you. If I cannot afford to be gen
erous, I don't know who can!"
"Thank you very much, Mr. Dunstan,"
answered Geoffrey coldly, "but I am not in
the habit of accepting such presents from
my acquaintances. Will you have a glass
of sherry? no? Then we will join Lady
Honoria."
"What have you said to Mr. Danstan to
make mm go away so soon, Geoffrey?"
asked his wife.
"Said to him? Oh, I don't know. He
offered to give me a pair of guns, and I told
him that 1 did not accept presents from my
acquaintances. Really, Honoria, I do not
want to interfere with your way of life, but I
do not understand how you can associate
with such people as this Mr. Dunstan."
"It is really curious, Honoria," said her
husband, "to see what obligations you are
ready to put yourself under in search of
pleasure. It is not dignified of you to ac
cept boxes at theiters from this gentleman."
"Nonsense. There is no obligation about
it If he gave us a box ot course he would
make it a point of looking in during the
evening, and then telling his friends that it
was Lady Honoria Bingham he was speak
ing to that is the exchange. I want to go
to the theater; he wants to get into good
society there you have the thing in a nut
shell. It is done every day. The fact of
the matter is, Goeffrey," she went on, look
ing very much as though she were about to
burst into a flood of angry tears, "as I said
just now beggars cannot be choosers I
cannot live like the wife of a banker's clerk.
I must have some amusement, and some
comfort, before I become an old woman. If
you don't like it why did you entrap me
into this wretched marriage, before I was
old enough to know better, or why do you
not make enough money to keep me in a
way suitable to my position?"
"We have argued that question before,
Honoria,'" said Geoffrey, keeping his tem
per with difficulty, "and now there is an
other thing I wish to say to you. Do you
know that detestable woman, Anne, stopped
for more than half an hour at Paddington
station this evening flirting with a -ticket
collector, instead of bringing Effie home at
once, as I told her to do. I am very angry
about it. She is not to be relied on; we
shall have some accident with the child be
fore we have done. Cannot you discharge
her and get another nurse?"
"No, 1 cannot. She is the one comfort I
have. Where am I going to find another
woman who can make dresses like Anne
she saves me a hundred a year I don'tcare
if she flirted with SO ticket collectors. I
suppose you got this story from Effie; the
child ought to be whipped lor tale-bearing,
and I daresay that it is not true."
"Effie will certainly not be whipped," an
swered Geoffrey, sternly. "I warn you that it
will go very badly with anybody who lays a
finger on her."
"Oh, very well. Bum the child. Go your
own way, Geoffrey. At any rate, I am not
going to stop here to listen to any more
abuse. Good night," and she went.
(7b be Continued Next Sunday.)
L0TES HIS OLD HOME.
Bill Nye Shows His Patriotism by Giv
ing Wyoming a Big Boom.
THE STANDARD ST0RI 0NRARE AIR
A Crude legislator Who Imagined Ha Had
Broken Into Congress.
DISQUISITION ON THE PEAIEIE DOG
nraimit tob the dispatch. i
WYOMING will
be, in size, the eighth
State in the Union.
She has an area of
100,000 square miles,
30,000 of which is un
derlaid with coal.
She has a wealth of
$100, 000,000 and 100,
000 population. Wy
oming is over97 times
the size of Rhode
Island, and human life is quite secure now
in the larger towns, especially during office
hours.
I do not see why Wyoming should care to
be a State and pay so large a price for such
an empty honor, but it is thought that more
security for settlers and investors is fur
nished by a State government than by the
fff
Thought Be Wat Going to Congrest.
imported Federal style of management gen
erally furnished by an administration which
desires at all times to reward its friends.
For this reason, if for no other, the young
Territories look forward to the lime when
they may not only select their own officers,
but also help to select he President himself.
Few who have never lived in the Territories
know how many people there are on the
frontier who can read and write and eat pie
with a fork. There are quite a number of
dress suits in Wyoming.
COULD PAY THE NATIONAL DEBT.
It is also estimated that the mineral
wealth of Wyoming is more than sufficient
to pay the national debt, although the offer
to do so has not yet been officially made.
This estimate of the mineral wealth of
Wyoming is exclusive of the Pauper's
Dream, a very rich mine, of which I hold
the controlling interest. At a depth of 102
feet we struck a pay streak of pure water,
which rose to a height of OS feet in the shaft
We were just about to put in pumping
works when the cow, which my partner was
going to swap for the machinery, ate a
grown person's dose of poison weedswelled
up and expired. The mine has since been
idle.
Wyoming is rich not only in the precious
metals but marble, granite, sandstone, lime
stone and slate are also found in the rock
ribbed bosom of the Territory, as well as the
bowels of the earth, awaiting only the ar
rival of the scientist, the capitalist and the
savant. Good servants can always get a
job in Wyoming, and capitalists with let
ters from well-known society people will be
cordially received at all times.
Large oil fields are known to exist in va
rious parts of the Territory and natural gas
is supposed to underlie the coal belt. Day
Defore yesterday Wyoming was known to
have 1000,000 cattle, and bright, new,
speckled calves, with wabbly legs, are being
constantly added to that number us I write.
Grass on the plains and loot hills of Wyo
ming cures itself even as the Scriptures say
to the medical fraternity, "Physician, heal
thyself."
NEED NOT GO HEELED NOW.
Years ago T would have said to any one
going to Wyoming, "Heel thyself," bnt
now it is not necessary. I know a man who
has lived in Wyoming 20 years and has not
been assassinated. Indians are not so com
mon now in the Territory as they used to be.
It is very rare now that hostile Indians
come into the principal towns and carry off
a female seminary. If they do. the papers
hush it up so that the effete East knows
nothing of it.
I have read this winter in the New York
papers, at eight different times, of the same
kind of case, viz., of a mother walking the
streets, homeless and hungry, all night, with
mountains, and by not saying anything at
all except to issue his orders, and at table
ask some one to "please pass those mo
lasses." or something like that, which did
not arouse political hostility, he was chosen
as a reserved and non-committal candidate
from that county and elected.
He went with the other members, of the
Legislature. When the proper time came,
and as they all got off at Cheyenne, he did
the same, but it leaked out afterward that he
had bought a ticket and checked his trunk
to Washington, thinking he was elected to
Congress. He had quite a hard time getting
his trunk back, but as his whiskers were
quite long, the front of his shirt did not
show very much, and so he got alongvery
well till his other shirt got back from Wash
ington. AGRICULTURE A POOB FOLLOWING.
I have never regarded agriculture on the
Laramie plains as a success, though mother
parts of the Territory, where the season is
longer, it may be better. Few crops can grow
successfully at a height of over 7,000 feet on
the coarse soil of this great plateau without
irrigation, or even with it, for winter always
lingers in the lap of spring there until it oc
casions a great deal ot talk, and so the sum
mer is very brief indeed.
For one who has tried to build himself up
by means ot dumbbells and sewer gas, this
dry, exhilarating, champagney air is better
than a summer at Saratoga at $6 per day.
The air is crisp and clear. It also has the
faculty of making distant objects appear to
be much nearer than they air. When I cot
as far as Omaha, a stock grower told me that
he could give a good story regarding that
peculiarity of the mountain air. It seemed
that an Englishman once went to the West,
and in the morning at Laramie he started
out to walk to the Medicine Bow Mountains
before breakfast "They are 40 miles away,
I think," said he. "And so along toward
noon he gave it up. On the way back he
came to a little irrigating ditch, where a
cowboy discovered him removing his cloth
ing and getting ready to swim across. 'What
are you going to do?' asked the cowboy. 'I
am getting ready to swim the river,' the
Englishman replied straightway. 'You
can't fool me any more with your infernal
optical illusions.'
AN OFT-EEPEATED TALE.
In Denver a Leadville man called my at
tention to the contiguity of the Rocky
Mountains, and said I would be iooled if I
judged by appearances in this dry, bracing
atmosphere. "I could give you a" good story
regarding that peculiarity of the mountain
air," said he, and then he told me the tame
story the Omaha stock grower told, word for
word.
As I did not talk much on the way up to
Cheyenne and seemed rather haughty and
reserved, a boy on the train who acts as
peanut purveyor and literateur for the road,
took me to be an Eastern man making my
first visit to the West, so he spoke to me of
the wonderful resources of Colorado and
Wyoming, also of the health eiving atmos
phere and how it could take hold of a physi
cal wreck and put him in the prize ring in
side of a year. "The air is enormously
clear, too," he said, as he dropped a copy of
"Velvet Vice" into the seat by a silver
haired clergyman, and "How to Treat Dis
eases of Horses and Swine" into the seat
Lnear a young lady who was on her way to
visit mends in California. "Yon would
get fooled on it every time. I could give
you a good story regarding that peculiarity
ot the mountain air," said he, and then he
told me the Omaha stockgrower's story, ver
batim et literatim.
It is a good story, and designed, as I
judge, to illustrate in a forcible manner the
extreme rarity of the air more than the ex
treme rarity of the story itself.
The flora of Wyoming is diversified and
beautiful, though on the plains it is almost
odorless. Several kinds of cactus are found,
either of which, when in full bloom, are
SLAYES TO 'SOCIETY.
Not Much Pleasure in the Capital's
Gay Whirl After All.
OUR STATESMEN ARE BALD HEADED
A Dissertation on the Habit of Smoking in
the Halls of Congress.
WOMEN IN THE G0YEENJIENT BEETICE
Messes. J. F. Mabquobdt & Son,
prominent druggists of Tiffin, O., say that
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy gives the
best of satisfaction and takes the lead there.
Nye as a Cowboy.
very beautiful. The Turk's Head cactus is
about the size of a baseball, and is better
fixed for protecting itself than any other
plant I know of except the electric plant.
There is a cactus also which looks like a
green waffle, set up on edge.
THE MAN T7HO ETJLES.
Francis E. Warner is the present Gov
ernor ot Wyoming and was not imported
for that purpose. He governs the territory
forenoons and attends to a large and flourish
ing business in the afternoon. Wyoming is
at present on friendly terms with the United
States. Female suffrage has its home in
Wyoming, and people who write in a pro
lific manner against it, without knowing
anything about it, would do well to go
there and find out something about it.
There are thirty species of mammals in
Wyoming, outside of the Legislature alone.
The praino dog is gradually becoming
extinct in Wyoming and giving place to
people who know more. Washington
Irving, who was a good writer and used
good grammar all the time, in drawing off
pieces for the paper, made a fluke on the
prairie dog, I think.
THE PEAIEIE DOG'S FACE.
You can see in a moment, if vou are anv
judge of physiognomy, that a prairie dog
does not know anything. His thought
waves all originate in the pit of his stomach,
and though of a social nature, he uses no
judgment in selecting his associates. He is
a thorough chump, and has lived so long iu
the bowels of the earth that he gives less at
tention to mental improvement and more
thocght to girth than any animal that moves
in our set His pelt is worthless, his tail is
a humiliating failure and his whole life is a
fizzle. He teaches no lesson in industry,
economy or morals, and his death brings
with it no appreciable shock.
Bill Nye.
"What Yer GoM to Dor'
a sick baby in her arms, and being found in
the morning by the police with the little
corpse in her arms. Crazed by grief and
suffering, driven even from the meanest
shelter, with a little sick child wrapped in
an apron, the daylight found her with dry
eyes and disordered brain, walking the
streets, with Jay Gould and Russell Sage
carrying the poor little starved body of her
dead baby wrapped in a calico rag.
For eight years I lived in Wyoming
Territory, but'l never heard there of a case
like this. Possibly we wore our trousers in
our boots then the men, I mean and we
used navy tobacco perhaps to excess, but we
drew the line at starving little children to
death because their mothers couldn't pay
the rent by making shirts atl7ccntsadozen.
A CHUDE STATESMAN.
I know that in early days Wyoming had
some crude ideas, but she has outgrown
them a good deal now. I recall, especially,
some of her statesmen. We had one mem
ber of the Legislature, I remember, who
was elected from Coe & Carter's tie camp.
He had never held any office of trust or
profit as the gift of the people before, and
so all was new to him. I will not give his
name, because he is in better condition
physically than I am at present He was a
plain, self-made man, who had risen to be
foreman of a tie chopper's camp in the
WHAT HUSBANDS F0EGET.
for a Loving
i Wife.
An Indifferent, Icr Touch
Cnrcias Exasperates
Detroit Free 1'rcss.l
Women demand love from the man from
whom they have a right to expect love. And
nothing so quickly exasperates a wife who
fondly loves her husband as to be given an
icy or an indifferent touch for a loving
caress. Men are apt to forget this. They
are so engrossed in themselves and in their
life work that they forget the needs of a wo
man's spiritual existence.
To most women life is made up of trifles.
Their nature is occupied with trifles, and
they do not bring to a consideration of the
problems of life the same kind of intellect
and the same broad views that a man brings
to them. You cannot judge the ways of a
woman by the same gauge by which you
judge the ways of a man. A woman is a
creature swayed by her instincts, her affec
tions and her emotions. A man is guided
more by bis reason.
I would not think of denying that a
woman's instinct is as unerring, and in some
cases more unerring, than a man's judg
ment Because a wife's troubles Is made up
of these trifles, and that much of her ex
istence depends upon them, is a reason why
husbands should be particular in the small
affairs of daily existence.
rrnOM a stajt cobbespokpint.i
Washington, March 8. To keep np
with the procession in Washington, as
society goes, must not only be a surpassingly
onerous task, but one from which
but little if any sarisfaction can
be secured for either mind or soul.
It may be that there are Borne women
as it takes all sorts to make a world who
find solaco and the fullest enjoyment in
"dressing up" ever" afternoon in their best
clothes and goirv a-calling, loaded with a
stack of cards, but we, personally, would
devoutly pray to be excused.
We feil in with "the swim" here just to
sen and know intelligently what it all
meant and included in the city which repre
sents the country, but "great Ca:sar!" if
we may be pardoned for the slang protect
us from any such system of social slavery.
To do the sights in the morning to array
yourself in lull dress regalia lor grand re
ceptions and be introduced to hundreds of
people from every State in the Union that
you will never meet again in the course
of your happy home life, and whose faces
you forget immediately, and with whom you
chat interestedly and, perhaps, eloquently
for the possible scace of 10 minntes, is in
teresting at first, but it becomes indescrib
ably monotonous in the long run, even in
one so Bhort as ours.
CHANCES AGAINST CLOSE FBIENDSHIP.
As follows at times, you may make dear
irienas in sucn a whirl, but the chances are
against it, and the whole business is mainly
a deference to social forms and a law of
etiquette 3gainst which many people rebel,
and wisely, too. The wives of most Con
gressmen are thus bound to the observance
of an arbitrary rule which to our view is
assuredly exacting, since they are awarded
na"salary for their services, but like minis
ter's wives they are supposed to be subjected
to the calls of all constituents, and even
when not willing to saorifice their time and
enjoyment feel constrained to do so because
it is the common custom.
It is said of Mrs. Carlisle who is the wife
of the Speaker of the last House that she
has never missed a call when due, that
what she has accomplished in the matter of
the battle of the cards is something marvel
ous; but if we were the wife of the Speaker
we would, unless given the same salary,
just do as we pleased. We would not lay
ounenes upon me altar oi our country to
any such extent for nothing. A martyr is
perhaps thrilling to read about, but mar
tyrdom iu real life behind the scenes must
be burdensome to the lost degree.
As we said before, there are women who
possibly enjoy this merry-go-round. But
there are not a lew, perhaps, so loving, loyal
and devoted to their husbands' interests that
they would do even more, through the love
that moves the world, more even than their
real duty, and thus sacrifice themselves for
those whom they love through thick and
thin and for better or for worse.
The living of her own life, the independ
ent expression of her own sentiments, the
using of her own judgment, have always
been decried in a clergyman's wife as being
destructive of his success. She is to be the
meek and model woman, who is to be sub
missive to her husband in all things and
serve as an echo for his opinions at all
times. She is, moreover, to be subject to
the criticism ot his people, and manage her
affairs in accordance with their whims and
prejudices.
Something of the sameunwritten law pre
vails in the etiquette of Washington as to
the wives of public officials.
SOME ABE INDEPENDENT.
Then there are some who assert for them
selves independence, and feel no pressing
claim to keep up the reception end of the
administration in a country which repudi
ates tnem as citizens, ana preiers to extend
the rights of such to ignorant aliens, illiter
ate natives and barbarous savager. Some
of these, however, have not the courage of
their convictions, and secure for themselves
freedom by being in mourning for distant
relatives, lor whom under other circum
stances they would never dream of mourn
ing or by the religious observance of Lent
which, being Methodists or Presbyterians,
they would never thinK of observing at
home.
All of the balderdash and stuff about so
ciety girls attending the marriage marts to
such condition of fatigue and "goneness" as
to necessitate being bathed and rubbed
down by professionals, and swallowing
quarts of hot bouillon, and being swathed in
milk, and being every day subject to
massage to enable themselves to keep np in
good condition during the strain and racket
deemed essential to the maintenance of the
social end of the administration, are
certainly a pure fabrication, as are
so many other reports. Unscrupulous
correspondents, under pressure of having
something senational to say, manufacture
such yarns, and some of the innocents of the
world outside believe them. To please
their best patrons, from whom they receive
favors, they are constrained to put a fair
face, a distinguished mien, a gown of trans
cendent beauty and French finish, and a
dazzling lot of diamonds upon the
MOST COMMONPLACE DOWDY
that ever occupied the pinnacle of high po
sition. With a wealth of imagination and
countless fine words they make some
vulgar creatures imagine memselves as
ranking with crowned heads. These become
so inflated with such treatment that they
put on royal airs, and make of themselves
the butt of wits and point of scorn. They
secure an oi tneir puDiisned glory lor nice
little tips of fives and tens and other tangi
ble gifts. It is hard to believe that there
are people who plume themselves upon the
flatteries they pay for, until it is remem
bered that Washington is not noted for a
lack of fools any more than other places.
If we were to take "hearsay" for authori
ty, we could tell some rather thrilling tales
of some celebrities in this charming city;
but in these days, when sensations are upon
the tongue of everybody one day, only to be
disproved upon undoubted testimony the
next, it does not pay to retail them. If
credence could be placed in the numerous
stories told as to prominent men and famous
women whose goings on and doings are
talked of sub rosa in society the impression
would be created that the most beautiful
city on the continent was a den of infamy,
rather than the abode of our best representa
tive men ana notea women.
GALLERY OBSERVATIONS.
A careful student ot human nature can
soon gauge the characters of the representa
tives of the nation even by only seeing and
hearing them from the galleries within the
walls of Congress. The quick, sharp, brainy
men cau soon be distinguished, and the
"mullet heads" are as easily discovered.
A good majority ot the House are bald
headed the most striking point at first
glance. This brings up the inscrntableques
tion as to why men grow bald just at a time
when they are flattering themselves the
most that they are as attractive and hand
some as in their callow days of youth. We
are told the Bepresentatives are very sensi
tive under the gaze of the ladies in the pews
above, and their efforts to conceal their
baldness by the pulling up of hair from
other quarters are so manifest that "the
girls" find great subject in it to discourse
upon the vanity of men. General Banks,
however, is not troubled with the circular
shine of bareness where the hair ought to
grow, for his thick thatch of white hair is
remarkable.
To the end that real merit should be dis
covered and demerit be denounced and dis
carded, all American citizens should visit
and take note of the proceedings of both
Houses of Congress, and, moreover, criticise
and condemn when needful. In these davs of
cheap excursions men and women should
make it a point to supervise their legislative
department The earnest business man
would soon detect, with but little trouble,
the incapables, the individuals whose per
sonal gains and ends were put before the
public interests the men whose aim was
principally how not to do it It the lawmak
ers were seriously and intelligently super
vised by their electors,
THE TJNKDLT ONES
might be subdued. As it is, Congress ap
pears to the observer to be a noisy school of
overgrown boys, whose teacher has no power
of control, and the pupils, ignoring all au
thority, make of themselves a spectacle for
gods and men and we may add women.
The noite, the confusion, the racket, the
prancing in and out, to and fro, the utter
show of disrespect to those who make
speeches, the disregard for the galleries who
come to hear, the all prevailing disorder
show that reform is needed and should be
enforced.
Then another matter to complain of is the
emokiug. The House is badly ventilated to
begin with, but when members begin smok
ing on the floor they make a stat of affairs
wholly obnoxious to those above them, even
it the cigars are not mean. These men have
not the instincts of gentlemen, since they
have plenty of smoking rooms in which to
indulge their desires without making them
selves offensive to others. These men should
be taught good manners. Speaker Seed
should "go" for them and enforce such dis
cipline as would remove from their minds
the idea that they are privileged to be hogs
in the people's Capitol. Even in our own
Union station "all smoking is positively
prohibited" a mere railroad station, how
much more should it be so prohibited in the
public halls of Congress? We have no fa
natical objection to the weed some of the
very best of men smoke under proper condi
tions and if there is in it all the comfort,
delight and solace that Ingersoll declares
there is, when he lauds and magnifies it as
one of the best gifts of heaven to man, we
can see no good reason why
"WOMEN SHOULDN'T SUAEB
it, for they stand in as much need of com
fort and solace as anybody and should get
all ot the joy of lite that is going. But,
wnen, as everybody knows, its odor is
sickening to many, and its stale tunics are
obnoxious to everybody when shut up in
an ill-ventilated room like the Hall of Bep
resentatives, it seems that "no smoking"
should be a rule most vigorously enforced.
On the occasion of our visits there was one
smoker who leered up at the ladies' gallery,
as much as to say: "I am an awtul big
man bigger than old man Reed I can do
as I darn please, and if you don't like it
what are you going to about it?"
Some papers that talk of the Treasury
girls and other women employed by the
Government service as beautiful beings
given to flirting, making much of them
selves, doing very little work for big pay,
and finally marrying grandly and hence
forth being great ladies give a very errone
ous statement. The Treasury girls, as we
saw them, are mainly middle-aged not
pretty who are more intent upon their
business than upon mankind. They seem
to work steadily and hard, and their duties
seem scarcely less wearing and onerous than
those of a teacher with 40 or more youngsters
to manage and instruct. Many of them are
widows, others are old maids worn and
wrinkled, but their services are valuable.
SINGLE FEOM CHOICE.
It is said that many of the single girls are
old maids from choice. They prefer their
own money find life more enjoyable upon
a hundred or more dollars a month, than
the mingling of misfortune in matrimony,
the drudging of housekeeping and tne
slaving tor children on a small income.
This is all out with accepted notions and I
romance in which a man is all that is to be
desired by women, but the pressure of liv
ing and the extravagance of the age are al
together out with the old idea of beginning
married life with a dollar and coming out
as a millionaire. The pleasure of the hour
and the felicity of the present count for
more with people nowadays than the ulti
mate outcome in old age of laborious years
of toil and the savingof pennies.
Benjamin Franklin's idea that those who
would thrive must rise at 5 and work like
all possessed and save every cent not re
quired for mush and milk, has gone out
everywhere, particularly in Washington.
Nobody rises at 5 anymore, but they thrive
all the same. The colored people "furnish
evidence upon this point. Upon their plan
tation homes in old days tbev got hog and
hominy. Now as a "tip" they think a
quarter or half a dollar man and stingy
a "dollah" being about he lowest "figah."
Making so much money they live high. A
grocer told us they were his most extrava
gant buyers. They wanted the finest of fish
and poultry, even when they live in hovels.
No rising at 5 or living on cheap food for
them.
THE AVEEAGE LENTEN DINNEB.
The chief Lenten diversion is dinner
giving, and such dinners! Elegance, lux
ury, 13 courses, seven wine glasses at each
plate, ferns, roses, violets, tulips, cut glass
and silver make such brilliant and striKing
array as enchant the eyes. The wines are
of the rarest, the viands the choicest and
richest, the decorations most charming and
beautiful. They cost, we are told, from S25
to $10 a plate. 'It is not stylish to have a
caterer. To be right you must have a
"chef," and have everthing done at home.
This 13 more expensive, but that is the
only way to be original, and produce effects
not t") be reached by everybody. Rnswell
P. Flower and Mrs. Flower gave a "Violet
Dinner." The magnificent "spread" of
Andrew Carnegie given to the tiresome
"Pans" was doubtless a "Thistle Dinner."
The story as to Mr. Quay has not died out
in the proper nine days. It is still a prime
subject everywhere in the drawing rooms,
in the museums, in the House, in the rotunda,
at the White House everywhere. It will
sot down, unless he downs it
Bessie Bramble.
A MODEL OFFICE EOT.
Tom Phillebrown's Rise From Threa
Dollars a Week to Partner.
SECRET OP HIS GREAT SUCCESS.
Ona of
Oliver Optic's True Stories With.
Yalaaole Hinte for Boys.
ECONOMY AND GOOD HABITS WILL WIS
SHE HAD HER EEYEXGE.
A Lady's Catting: Retort to a Gentleman
Who Attempted Wit.
Boston Courier.
Nothing is easier than to say disagreeable
things, and there are people who labor un
der the mistaken opinion that there is noth
ing more clever. It was ono of these mor
tals who was asked not long since what was
the age of a maiden lady of his acquaint
ance. "I do not know," he replied; "I have
never studied archaeology."
As fate would have it, the lady in ques
tion chanced to overbear him.
"And yet you remember," she said, with
a suspicious smoothness in her voice. "I
have heard my mother say that I was born
the first year that you were old enough to
bring home the washing."
The retort' was cutting, and the passage
not over refined, the fact that the man was
most anxious to conceal nis origin giving a
sting to the words in which the other took
her revenge; but the woman was on the
whole to he blamed least
fwarmji roa the DisrATcnj
Tom Phillebrown was a real boy. I am
not going to tell you who he was, only what
he was; and what he was any boy may
be if he is so minded. He was not brought
up in the country, away from temptation,
and with only a meager knowledge of the
world; but he was born, and always lived,
in a great city, though the country has its
temptations as well as the city, and some
times even greater ones.
Tom's father was not rich, for he was a
mechanic who worked hard for little money,
and he could not send him to college. But
he was an honest and square man, and
tried to do his whole duty to his children.
He was a thoughtful man and devoted most
of his spare hours to reading good books.
He drank no beer or other entangling fluids,
and saved a little money every year. He
was not fitted out with a brilliant intellect,
and passed his whole life as an humble
workman, undisturbed by any other ambi
tion than the desire to live wiselv ami wH.
Tom graduated at a grammar school and
then went to the High School, where he was
an average scholar. His teachers could not
regard him as a brilliant boy, but they
heartily recommended him a3 an honest,
faithful and painstaking fellow, who was in
no danger of becoming President of the
United States or even of making a decided
mark in his day and generation.
FIFTX CENTS A WEEK.
With the moderate testimonials of his
instructors he obtained a situation in a
wholesale store at S3 a week, to learn ths
business. He was IT years old and boarded
at home. He gave his pay to his father
every Saturday night, and was allowed
half a dollar a week for his small expenses.
He realized that he was working for very
small wages betore the first year had passed
away; but he did not growl even to himself
about it, and was modest enough to believe
that this was all he was worth.
But he was boarded and clothed by his
father, and his other expenses were ezy
small. In fact, he opened an account at a
savings bank, and a3 fast as he accumulated
a dollar he deposited it. Yet, measured by
his personal income, he was not mean and
stingy, for he occasionally gave a dime or a
hali-dime in charity, bought a book, and
visited places of amusement, though he
could not afford to go to the theater or other
expensive entertainments.
He was never caught five minutes behind
time, because he made it a matter of con
science to be on time. "You get 60 cents a
day for tea hours' work, Tom," his father
used to say to him, "and that is 5 cents an
hour. If you saw 5 cents lying on the desk
in the store, you would not steal it any more
than you would steal a 510 bill if you saw
it there. Being 15 minutes late four morn
ings comes to 5 cents, and if you are behind
time to that extent, I consider it just the
same as stealing the money."
WASTING TIME A EOBBEET.
When Tom was sent on an errand by his
employer he did not go to the fire, if there
happened to be one, while he was out; he
did not stop to see the end of a dog fight, to
look at the pictures in shop windows, or idle
away his time in any other manner. If he
wasted half an hour it was robbing his em
ployer of so much time.
He carried nis reasoning still farther, and
made it cover his lime in the store. If he
had any work to do it was stealing to "loaf,"
and tie kept himself busy as long as there
was anything to do. At the same time,
Tom never hurried himself, unless the occa
sion required haste. He did not ran when
he was sent to do errands, bnt held to his
usual moderate pace. In the store he
never "flew around" aimlessly, bnt kept
busy as long as the work lasted. Perhaps
it was fortunate for him that his employer
was not a "driver," and the young man
suited him exactly. At the end ot his first
year his wages were raised to S3 a weefc.
At this time Mr. Phillebrown had an ad
vantageous offer, which induced him to
change his residence to another city, and
Tom could no longer board at home. This
event practically cast him loose upon the
world, and made him his own master. He
found a place to board with a carpenter at
$2 50 a week (this was many years ago).
Another boy might have thought the room
and the table were not good enough for
him, but Tom was modest and, therefore, he
was satisfied, for he did not take on much
style.
HOW BEAUTY SHOULD SLEEP.
She Sbonld Never Yield lo Morpheas With a
Frown Upon Iler Face.
Let Beauty take care that she does not go
to sleep with a frown or discontented ex
pression, lor such will be apt to leave its
imprint during her sleeping hours and con
tribute just so much to permanent unbecom
ing lines. As she finds herself sinking
into the arms of the drowsy god
let her close her mouth easily
allow the eyelids to drop gently
but fully over the eyes, and, just as she
yields herself to his soothing embrace, sum
mon some pleasant thought that shall set
the seal of peaceful content upon her face.
She should not lie with one hand under
her cheek; a common habit with youthful
sleepers, which wrinkles and slightly numbs
the skin, and, of course, she should breathe
always through her nose.
A BETTEE POSITION.
Business was good with his employer, and
another boy was taken, giving Tom a better
position. The new boy did not stay a
month, for he was late In the morning, and
dawdled away his time when sent on er
rands. Tom continued to be honest and
faithful. He dressed himself plain'
y, but neatly, out of his salary,
and never called on his father for any help.
He was occasionally called upon to work
evenings, but he did not regard this as a
hardship or put in a claim for extra pay.
On the contrary, he was glad that th pro
prietor of the house required this additional
labor.
The next year, at the age of 19, Mr. Mar
chant voluntarily put him on a salary of
S500 a year. Tom felt rich then, but he did
not change his boarding place, or otherwise
increase his expenses. His bank account
was the principal gainer. He was always
cheerful and pleasant, and he had a goodly
number of friends. He was asked to "take
a drink," buy a lottery ticket, visit bad
places, and the cash of the house was
altogether in his keeping. He had all the
temptations which beset young men in large
cities.
HOW HE SPENT HIS TIME.
He went to church as regularly as he went
to business, and he was enabled to resist
them all. He went to proper jlaces of
amusement, boarded two weeks in the
country in his vacation, read good books
including good novels, 3nd read the newv
papers as thoroughly as he did his Bible.
When he was 21 his salary was increased
to $1,000 a year. Then he spent more money
on himself, but none of it upon vicious
pleasures. A year later he beeame the
junior partner of the house, putting in
$1,000 he had saved. Then he began to
make money.
Of course he married his partner's daugh
ter, and had half the profits before he was
25. He accomplished it all by keeping him
self clean, and by being honest and faithful
even in little things.
Olitee Optic.
CREMATION HAS ITS TEEK0ES.
Falnfnl Exhibition or Feellnff by the Kola
iIvm of n Subject.
A most painful scene has, says a Paris
correspondent, been witnessed at Pere La
chaise during the cremation of a young lady
artist, Mile. Lapointe, whose professional
prospects were very promising. She died
suddenly, having caught a severe chill dur
ing the recent trying temperature. Before
her death she expressed a wish, that
her body should be cremated, and
this was done accordingly. While the
coffin was being placed in the furnace her
parents and friends were unable to control
their emotion, and when they saw the flames
their grief was most poignant The subse
quent arrangements r connected with the
withdrawal of the ashes and their deposit in
the "urn" were also witnessed by the friends
of the deceased, and caused further scenes
of a character which will not tend to the
popularity of cremation in Paris.