18 THE HTTSBUBG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, ' APEIL 6, 1890. I denly she turned and faced him turned like a thine nt bay. The last red rays of sunset struck upon her lovely face, made 2 more lovely Etill by its stamp ot haughty linger; they lay upon her heaving breast, Full in the eyes she looked him with those wide, angry eyes of hers never before had he seen her wear so imperial a mien. Her dignity and the power of her presence liter ally awed him, lor at times Beatrice's beauty was ol that royal stamp which, when it hides a heart, is a compelling force, con quering and born to conquer. "Does it not strike you, Mr. Bingham," she said quietly, "that you aretaking a very great liberty? Does it not strike you that no man who is not a relation has any right to speak to a woman as you have spoken to me? that, in short, you nave been guilty of wbat in most people would, be an imperti nence? "What right have you to dictate to me as to whom T should or should not marry? Surely, of nil things in the world that is my own affair." Geoffrey colored to the eyes. As would have been the case with most men of his class, he felt her accusation of having taken a liberty, of having presumed uponan inti macy, more keenly than any which she could have brought "arainst him. "Forgive me," he said humbly. "I can only assure you that I had no such inten tion. I only spoke ill-judgedly, I fear be cause because I felt driven to it." Beatrice took no notice ot his words, but went on in the same cold voice. "What risht have you to speak of my affairs with Mr. Davies, with an old boat man or even with my lather? Had I wished vou to do so I should have asked you. By what authority do you constitute yourself an intermediary for the purpose of bringing about a marnace which you are so good as to consider would be to my pecuniary inter est? Do yon know that such a matter is one which the woman concerned, the woman whose happiness and self-respect are at stake, alone can judge ot? I have nothing more to say except this. I said just now that you had been guilty of what wmld in most people be an impertinence. "Well, I will add something. In this case, Mr. Bingham, there are circumstances which make it a cruel insult 1" She slopped speaking, then suddenly, without the slightest warning, burst into a flood ot passionate weeping. As she did so, the first rush of the storm passed over them, winnowing the air as with a thousand eagles' wings, and was lost on the moaning of depths beyond. The light went out of the sky. Now Geoffrey could only see the faint outlines ol her veeping face. One moment he hesi tated, and one only; then nature prevailed against him, for the next she was in his arms. Beatrice scarcely resisted him. Her ener gies seemed to fail her, or perhaps she had spent them in her hitter words. Her head fell upon his shoulder, and there she sobbed her fill. Fluently she lifted it and their lips met in a first long kiss. It was fin ished; this was the end of it and thus did Geoffrey prosper Owen Davies' suit. "Oh, you are cruel, cruell" he whispered in her ear. "Sou must have known I loved you, Beatrice, that I spoke against myself because I thought it to be my duty. Vou must have known that, to my sin and sor row, I have always loved you, that you have never been an hour from mv mind, that I have longed to see your lace like a sick man for the light. Tell me, did yon know it, Beatrice?" "How shonjd I know?" she answered Tery softly; "I could only guess, and if, in deed, you love me, how could you wish me to marry another man? 1 thought that you had learned my weakness and took this way to reproach me. Oh, Geoffrey, what have we done? What is there between you and me except our love?" "It would have been better if we had been drowned together at the first," he said heavily. "No, no," she answered, "for then we never shouid have loved each other. Better first to love and then to die!" "Do not speak so," he said; "let us sit here and be happy lor a little while to-night, and leave trouble till to-morrow." And, where on a bygone day Beatrice had tarried with another wooer, side by side they sat upon the great stone and talked such talk as lovers use. Above them moaned the rising gale, though sheltered as they were by cliffs its breuth scarcely stirred "their hair. In front of them the long waves boomed upon the beach, while Jar out to sea the crescent moon, draped in angry light, seemed to ride the waters like a boat. And they were alone with their great bliss, or did they only dream? Nay, they were alone, alone with love, and lovers' joys, and all the truth was told, and all their doubts were done. Now there was an end of hopes and fears; now reason fled and Iiove usurped his throne, and at that roval coming heaven threw wide her gates. Ob, sweetest and most dear I Oh, dearest and most sweet 1 Oh, to have lived to find this happy hour oh, in this hour to die 1 See heaviness is behind us, see now we si one. Blow, ye winds, blow out vour stormy heart; we know the secret of your strength, you rush to your desire. Fall, deep waters of the sea, fall in thunder at the feet of earth; we hear the music of your pleading. Earth, and seas, and winds, sing your great chant of love 1 Heaven and space and time, echo back the melody 1 For life has called to us the answer of his riddle I Heart to heart we sit, and lips to lips, and we are more wise than Solomon, and richer than barbarian kings, for happiness is ours. ao tnis ena were we born, dearestand most sweet, and from all time predestinate! To this end, sweetest and most dear, do we live and die, in death to find completer unity. For here is that secret of the world which wise men search and cannot find, and here, too, is the gate of heaven. Look into my eyes and let me gaze on yours, and listen how these things be. The world is hut a mockery, and a shadow is our flesh, for where once there were there shall be naught. Our love is real; love shall en dure till Ml the suns are dead, and yet be young. Kiss me, thou conqueror, for destiny is overcome, sorrow is gone by; and the flame that we have hallowed upon this earthly altar shall still burn brightly, and yet more brightly, when yonder stars have lost their fire. But alasl words cannot give a fitting form to snch a song as this. Let music try! But music also folds her wings. For in so su preme an hour A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast and through that opened door come sights and sounds such as cannot be written. They tell us it is madness, that this nn earthly glory is but the frenzy of a passion gross in its very essence. Let those think it who will, but to dreamers let them leave their dreams. Why then, at such a time, do visions come to children of the world like Beatrice or Geoffrey? "Why do their doubts vanish, and what is that breath from heaven which tbey seem to feel upon their brow? The intoxication of earthly love born of the . meeting of youth and beauty. So be it! Slave, bring more such wine and let us drink to Immortality and to those dear eyes that mirror forth a. snirit's face! ouch loves indeed are few. For they must be real and deep, and natures thus shaped are rare, nor do they often cross each other's line of life. Tes, lew there are who can be borne so high, and none can breathe that ether long. Soon the wings which Love lent them in his hour ot revelation will shrink and vanish, and the borrowers will fall back to the level of this world, happvif they escape unrushed. Perchance even" in their lile-days, tney may find these spirit wings again, overshadowing the altar of their vows in the hour of earthly marriage, if bv some happy fate marriage shoulafbe within their reach, or like the holy pinions of the goddess if out, folded about a coffin, in the hour of earthly death. But scant are the occasions, ana few there are who know them. Thus soared Beatrice and Geoffrey while the wild night beat around them, making a fit accompaniment to tneir stormy loves. And thus, too, they lelL "We must be going, Geoffrey; it grows lste," said Beatrice. "Oh, Geoffrey, Geof frey, what have we done? "What can be the end of all this? It will bring trouble on yon, I know that it must. The old saving will come true. I saved your life and I shall bring ruin on youl" It is characteristic ot Beatrice that al ready she was thinking of the consequences to Geoffrey, not of those to herself. "Beatrice," said Geoffrey, "we are in a desperate position. Do you wish to face it and come away with me, far away, to the other side of the world?" "Ho, no," she answered vehemently, "it wonld be your rnin to abandon the career that is before you. "What part of the world could yon go to where you would not be known? Besides, there is your wife to think of. Ah, God, your wife what would she sav of me? You belong to her you have no right to desert her. And there is Effie, too. No, Geoffrey, no; I have been wicked enongh to learn to love you oh, as you were never loved before if "it is wicked to do what one cannot help, but I am not bad enongh for this. "Walk quicker, Geoffrey; we shall be late and they will suspect some thing" Poor Beatrice, the pangs of conscience were finding her out. "We are in a dreadful position," again he said. "Oh, dearest, I have been to blame. I should never have come back here. It is my fault, and thongh I never thoueht of this, I did my best to please you." "And I thank you for it," she answered. "Do not deceive yourself, Geoffrey. "What ever happens, oh Dromise me never for one moment to be'ieve that I reproacntd or blamed you. Why should I blame you be cause you won my heart? Let me sooner blame the sea on which we floated, the beach where we walked, the house in which we lived, and the destiny that brought us together. I am proud an of glad to love you, dear, but I am not so selfish as to wish to ruin you; Geoffrey I had rather die." "Don't talk so," he said, "I cannot bear it. Wbat are we to oo? Am I to go away and see vou no more? How can we live so, Beatrice?" "5Tes, Geoffrey, she answered, heavily, taking him by the hand and gazing up into his face; "you are to go away and see me no more, not for years and years. This is what we have brought upon ourselves, it is the price that we must pay lor this hour which is gone. Yon are to go away to-morrow, that we may be nut out of temptation, and you must come back no more. Sometimes I shall write to you, and sometimes perhaps you will write to me, till the thing becomes a burden; then you can stop. And whether you forget me or not and, oh, Geoffrey, I do not think you will you will know that I shall never forget yon, whom I saved from the sea to love me." Tbere was something so sweet and so in fiinitely tender about her words, instinct as they were with natural womanly passion, that Geoffrey bent at heart beneath their weight as a fir bends beneath the gentle, gathering snow. What was he to do, how could he leave her? and yet he was right. He must go, and eo quickly, lest his strength might fail him, and hand in hand they bhould pass a bourne from which there is no return. "Heaven help ns, Beatrice," he said. "I will go to-morrow morning, and, if I can, I will keep away." "lou must keep away. I will not see yon any more. I will not bring trouble on you, Geoffrey." "You talk of bringing trouble on me," he said; "you say nothing ot yourself, and yet a man, even a man with eyes on him like myself, is better fitted to weather such a storm. If it ruined me, how much more wouia it ruin yonv They were at the gate of the vicarage now, and the wind rushed so strongly through the firs that she needed to put her lips quite close to his ear to make her words heard. "Stop, one minute," she said, "perhaps you do not quite understand. When a woman does what I have done it is because she loves with all her life and heart and soul, because all these are a part of her love. For myself, I no longer care anything I have no self away from you; I am no ionger of myself or in my own keeping. I am of you and in yours. For myself and my own fate or name I think no more; with my eyes open and of my own free will I have given everything to vou, and am clad and happy to give it. But lor you I still do care, and if I took any step, or allowed you to take any that could bring sorrow on you, I should never forgive myselt. That is why we must part, Geoffrey. And noV let us go in; there is nothing more to say except this: if vou wish to bid me goodby, a last goodby, dear Geoffrey, 1 will meet you to-morrow" morn ing on the beach." "I shall leave at half-past eight," he said hoarsely. "Then we will meet at 7." Beatrice said, and led the way into the house. Elizabeth and Mr. Granger were already seated at supper. They supped at 9 on Sun day nights: it was just half-past. "Dear me," said the old gentleman, "we began to think that you two must have been out canoeing and got yourselves drowned in good earnest this time. What have you been doing?" "We have had along walk," answered Geoffrey; "I did not know that it was so late." "One wants to be pleased with one's com pany to walk far on such a night as this," put in Elizabeth maliciously. "And so we were at least I was," Geof frey answered with perfect truth, "and the night is not so bad as you might think, at least under the lee of the cliffs. It will be worse by and by!" Then they sat down and made a desperate show of eating supper. Elizabeth, the keen eyed, noticed that Geoffrey's hand was shak ing. Now what, she wondered, would make the hand of a strong man shake like a leaf? Deep emotion micht do it, and Elizabeth thought that she detected other signs of emotion in them both beside that of Geof frey's shaking hand. The plot was working well, but could it be biought to a climax? Oh, if he would only throw prudence to the winds and run away with Beatrice, so that she might be rid of her, and free to fight for her own hand. Shortly after supper both Elizabeth nd Beatrice went to bed, leaving their father with Geoffrey. "Well," said Mr. Granger, "did you get a word with Beatrice? It was very kind of vou to go that long tramp on purpose. Gracious, bow it blows! We shall have the house down presently. Lightning, too, I declare." "Yes," answered Geoffrey, "I did." "And I hope you told her that there was no need for her to give up hope of him yet ot Mr. Davies, I mean?" "Yes, I told her that that is, if the greater includes the less," he added to him self. 'And how did she taKe it?" "Very badly," said Geoffrey; "she seemed to think that I had no rieht to in terfere." "Indeed, that is strange. But it doesn't mean anvthing. She's grateful enough to you at heart, depend upon it, she is, only she did not like to say so. Dear me, how it blows; we shall have'a night of it, a regular gale, I declare. So you are going away to morrow morning. Well, the best of lriends must part. I hope that you will olten come to see us. Goodbv." Once more a sense of the iron v of the posi tion overcame Geoffrey, and" he smiled grimlyns he lit his candle and went to bed. At the back of the house was a long passage, which terminated at one end in the room where he slept, and at the other in that oc cupied by Elizabeth and Beatrice. This passage was lit by two windows, and built out ot it were two more rooms that of Mr. Graneer, and another which had been Erne's. The windows of the passage, like most of the others in the vicaraee, were in nocent ot shutters, and Geoffrey stood for a moment at one of them, watchiog the light ning illumine the broad breast or the moun tain behind. Then looking towards the door of Beatrice's room, he gazed at it wi h the peculiar reverence that sometimes afflicts people who are very much in love, and, with a sigh, turned and sought his own. He could not sleep, it was impossible. For nearly two hours he lay turning from side to side, and thinking till his brain seemed like to burst. To-morrow he must leave her, leave her forever, and go back to his coarse unprofitable struggle with the world, where there would be no Beatrice to make him happy through it all. And she, what of her? "The storm had lulled a little; now'it came back in strength, heralded by the lightning. He rose, threw 'on a dressing-gown and sat by the window watching It. Its tumult and fury seemed to ease hit heart of some little pain; in that dark hour a quietnight would have maddened him. In eight hours eight short hours the matter would be ended so far as concerned their actual intercourse. It would be a secret locked forever in vtbeir two breasts, a secret eating at their hearts, cruel as the worm that dieth not. Geoffrey -looked up ana inrew out Ms heart s tnongnt toward his sleeping love. Then once more, as on a bygone night, there broke upon his brain and being that mysterious spiritual sensel Stronger and more strong it grew, beating on him in heavy unnatural waves, till his reason seemed to reel and sink, and he remembered naught but Beatrice, knew naught save that her very life was with him now. He stretched out his arms toward the place where she should be. "Beatrice," he whispered to the empty air. "Beatrice! Oh, my lovel my sweet, my soul! Hear me, Beatrice!" There came a pause, and ever the un earthly sympathy grew and gathered in his heart, till it seemed to him as though sepa ration had lost its power and across dividing space they were mingled in one being. A great gust shook the house and passed away along the roaring depths. Oh! what was this? -Silently the door opened and a white draped form passed its threshhold. He rose, caspine: a terrible fear, a terrible iov. took possession of him. The lightning flared out wildly in the East ern sky. There in the fierce light she stood before him she, Beatrice, a sight of beauty ana oi ureaa. fane stood with wnite arms outstretched, with white, uncovered feet, her bosom heaving softly beneath her night dress, her streaming hair unbound, her lips apart, her face upturned and a stamp of ter rifying calm In the wide, blind eyes uplift Thro' the darkness and the drift. Great heaven, she was asleepi Hush! she spoke. "You called me, Geoffrey," she said, in a still, unnatural voice. "You called ine, my beloved, and I have come." He rose aghast, trembling like an aspen with doubt and fear, trembling at the sight of the conauerinz elorv of the woman whom he worshipped. See! She drew on toward him, and she was asleep. Oh, what could he do? Suddenly the draught of the great gale rushing through the house caught the opened door and crashed it to. She awoke with a wild stare of terror. "Oh, God, where am I?" she cried. "Hush, for yourlife's sake!" he answered, his faculties returning. "Hush! or you are lost." But there was no need to caution her to silence, for Beatrice's senses failed her at the shock and she sank swooning in his arms. To 6s continued next Sunday.) BAM SHALL IS A MOGUL. No Fine Wemher Locomotive, but a Big, StronE, Unity Ten-Wheeler. "Some of you women," said Sam Small, at Fort Worth, "will go home and say: 'I'd like Mr. Jones so much if he only had a little more dignity.' Bless your old souls. Dignity! Listen I could be as nice a preacher as ever walked the face of earth, but you have plenty of that sort of preach ers. I went into a roundhouse at Nashville one time, and there I saw one fine looking locomotive it was so brightly plated and everything about it was so very pretty and clean. And I said to the master mechanic, That is the prettiest engine I ever saw. " Yes,' he said, 'that belongs to the Pres ident of the road, and don't go out of the roundhouse only about once every three months, when it takes the President down the road for a trip.' "I looked around, and In came one ot those great" big ten-wheel moguls dirty, dusty, and with oil dripping from every part of it. " 'What is the matter with that one7' I asked of the master mechanic " 'That one just came in from the road. She pulled in 40 cars of freight from Chat tanooga.' "Listen If I stayed in the roundhouse of religion I could be as pretty a preacher as any of 'em. But if these fine preachers would say they would take hold of a couple of hundred old sinners apiece and yank them into salvation, they would come out dirty and dusty and greasy; but they wonld have the sinners." SILK CULTURE IN AMERICA. Bemlnlsceneo of tbe Attempt Kinds In New Uampiklre Year Age. Boston Globe. Silk culture was practiced in many towns in New Hampshire 50 years ago, and among them Hopkinton. Colonel Stephen Long, afterward a civil engineer and for whom "Long's peak" in the Far West is named, was one of the first to introduce the silk worm into this town. With others he planted a large mulberry orchard, of which about 40 trees are yet alive and flourishing, on the farm of C. G. Hawthorne. Others lollowed their example, and during the years from 1834 tol84G many persons were engaged in raising cocoons and manufacturing sewing silk. In the production of silk the farmers thought they foresaw wealth and luxury. It is told of one man that in urging his neighbors to go into the business, he said: "We shall all wear shirts of silk." For various reasons such sanguine ex pectations failed to materialize, but it is true a large quantity of sewing silk was manu actured and was quite a profitable in dustry. Among who succeeded 'best was Mrs. Abram Brown, who lived on Putney Hill. Her daughters, the Misses Ellen and Malrina Brown, now living in Hopkinton village, relate how they used to assist their mother in the work, anil still have in their possession beautilul specimens of hosiery and sewing silk; also tbe remains of a silk dress which was woven at home on a com mon hand loom, such as were in use in almost every farmer's house at that time, NATURAL PEUFEDMS. Ladle Have Taken lo Using the Real Bon Leave Imtead ofExtract. There are two scents that are being much affected just now to the exclnsion of the druggists' perfumes, says a St. Louis florist tin the Globe-Democrat. For one roses are used. Quantities of roses are bought, and the leaves are strewn in the drawers among the clothine and between the folds. When the leaves dry they are gathered up and spread out in the drawers again, all about the clothing, in the hat, the gloves and even the boots. A delicious and last ing odor is iu this way obtained for the clothing, and it is so delicate that it really seems to emanate from the breath. The cheaper roses can be used for this purpose. The other scent is obtained from the mag nolia luscata, a pretty white flower, with thick petals and an odor something like that ot a fresh banana. Tuey are used like the rose leaves, but unlike the roses, they lose their fragrance when dry. THE BhST KAT TRAP. Hundred of the Undent Can be Captnred by Mean of a Deep Jnr. The best way to catch rats is to induce them to drop into some receptacle. They never think of how to get out when they tafce the fatal leap. In Burmuh a jar trap caught 72 tbe first night, nine tne second and none the third. The trap was then put away for a few weeks, after which it was as successful as before. The jar was about or 2 feet deep, and 14 or IS inches broad, and a hole was punched in tbe shoulder just large enough for s rat to enter. There was abont 6 or 7 inches of paddy (rice in the busk) in the jar, which was then buried to within about 8 inches of tbe top. The mouth of the jar was then closed with a board and a stone. It is important, however, in traps of this kind to see that tbe inside of the vessel is so smooth as to afford no foothold for the rats, or they will readily escape by climbing the sides. THE ART OF DEAP1NG Is Applied'by the Tasty Housekeeper in Adorning Windows. FASHIONS SET BY THE FRENCH. Genuine Gobelin Tapestry Cannot he Pro duced for $900 a lard. SKILL IN THE IMITATION OP SILKS rWBITTIKrOB THE DISPATCH. 1 Window draping is an art; and to drape a window artistically is a matter which can not bnt exasperate the average housekeeper. In the illustrations taken from the Uphol sterer, or Philadelphia, one of the best trade magazines in this country, it will be seen that there are many simple ways of arran ing a curtain. One of the main objections to a window curtain is that usually a puffy valance or lambrequin is needed at the top, and too much light is thus shut out of a room. To avoid this, fretwork has been exten sively used, dnring the past few years. A laticed panel is put across the extreme top of a window. The curtain is then hung from the pole, which is attached to the bot tom part of this panel, and the fretwork, from its very nature, allows the light to enter, broken or soltened. During the past year, the French have set a fashion in win dow dressing which has become almost uni versal, with those who can afford to adopt it, for the dressing of a window, always a complicated piece of work, is with the French artist a A-eam that never seems to reach full realization. In the first place, one should have at a window two sets of shades, a light shade a Holland of a natural color, and a dark shade the light one to use during the day, when necessary, and the dark one at night. There should then be three sets of curtains; a lace sash curtain bangs close to the window pane, and shows tor a distance of about a foot and a half, up along the borders of the windows; back of this, suspended from a fretwork transom or a cornice pole, comes the regular lace curtains; and back of this are heavy fabrics in damasks, brocatels or tapestries. The illustrations are in the heavier goods, but they can be just as well arranged in lace, and can be applied to doorways as well as windows. Flowers are more than ever used as a win- dow decoration, and the bits of bric-a-brac now at the front window have been sup planted by the rhododendron orchids or frailer plants. A Casabene curtain is a curtain with huge figures, usually In tropical plant shapes, in some cases three and a half and four feet high. The curtains are not usually used two at a window, as a much prettier effect Kin Wmmifo lC?il , in f'4vAy'". "nWiwr'in1'' WJ)"tf RllII iBiSl L. WSffigm mmmi hBsEHH can be had by allowing them to hang J ci-aight without folds, showing the full pat ...rn. People who talk about their Gobelin tapestries would hesitate over their claims it tbey really knew what Gobelins were. The bare cost of making a modern Gobelin tapestry is over 5900 a square yard. At the Art Club exhibition in Philadel- phia the other day a party of critics were discussing the character of a big tipestry from Mrs. Harrison's collection. It was finally pronounced by them to be a Gobelin; as a matter of fact, the bare cost, if it had been a Gobelin, would amount to fully $30,000, and as It was quite old its specu lative value Mould have run into twice this sum. Few of the tapestries which collectors have secured as Gobelin tapestries are genu ine fabrics. Gobelins are made by the French Government to be used as " state gifts, and seldom pass into the hands of anyone but those for whom they were made. Nottingham curtains are now made so that tbey closely imitate Brussels in effect, but when examined the unmistakable character of Nottinghams is easilyseen; at a distance, however, of three or four yards, a $5 Not tingham has identically the same appear ance as a $100 Brussels, and, as far as effects go, looks quite as well. This imitative faculty of our nineteenth century mill-owners is shown also in imita tion silks. At the Pan-American exhibi tion the "magnificent silken draperies" re ferred to by critics and prefs were, as a mat ter of fact, cottons at 12 cents a yard. The auction shops .ire doing a big busi ness in bric-a-brac. The scheme is to dress up tbe furniture which they receive for sale with commonplace plaster ot paris imitation of terra cotta and bisque. Inasmuch as the shapes are identically the same as the genu ine articles, being molded from casts of the originals, and the subjects being thus of an approved and artistic character, and colored in fac-simile, tbere is not one person in a hundred who can distinguish the copy from the original. In a Chestnut street store the other day, pieces worth about $1 were selling lor about S4 SO. The illustrations show recent masterpieces which leading upholsterers have produced. HAD FAITH IN THE HORSE. Story of tho Son of General Crittenden, Who Died With Caiter. Harper's Magazine.! The little son of General Crittenden was devoted to his father's war horse, that was named for the illustrious John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, the child's grandfather. He asked his lather to tell him of a retreat he made during the war, but at a certain point said, "Father, were you on John J.?" Being answered affirmatively, the young ster slid down from the paternal knee, and was toddling off as fast as his little legs could carry him, when his father said: "Where are you going, mv son?" "Father," he said, turning and showing a face full ot reproach, "John J. never would have retreated if you hadn't turned him 'round." This same boy grew to manhood, and died with his face to the foe with Custer and his men on the Little Big Horn. THE VALUE OF LENT. It I a Splendid Thine to Observe From a Sanitary Point of View. Whatever may be thought of the religious value of Lent, which has just closed, its sanitary value is beyoud question. It cries a halt in the rush and racket of, life. Par ties are bad form so the fashionable rest. Feasting is tabooed so epicures recruit their digestion. For a period of 40 days, in the very midst of "the season," the belles get a little "beauty sleep," and the beaux are not in active demand. The "still, small voice" has a chance to be heard whether it is or not. An institu tion which thus operates among the waltzers and gluttons of fashion is so lar good at any rate. But alas, tbe passions never keep Lent. JUST HADE IT ENGLISH. A St. Iiool Man ha Chanced HI Name bnt Retained the Meaning. Cfaarleson & MacSorley is a well known firm name in St. Louis, says the Globe-Democrat. Charleson came originally from the North of Ireland, and was the oldest son of a rather wealthy man named MacSorley. One day father and Son had a serious quar rel, and the latter left home lor London, where he resided for many years, changing his name, without tbe aid of law, from MacSorley to Charleson. "MacSorley" means in the north pi Ireland "son of Charles," Mao being 6on and Sorley Charles, therefore tbe aneered son simply Anglicized his real pame. Years after he came to America and eventually to St. Louis, where he was joined by one of bis brothers, and they entered into business under the formerly well-known name of Charleson & MacSorley. STOCK IS TO SELL. Jay Gonld'i Advice to Eddie When the Younsiter Had Made a Purchase. Many business men have saved much by following Jay Gould's advice to bis son, Eddie. The boy had a lot ot papers in hand one day, and the old man asked him what they were. "Some stock in a mine that I bought to-day. It looks like a good thing," replied young Gould. Beiore the bojr could go ahead and reel off the properties his lather said: "Bemember, always my son,, that stock is issued to sell, not to buy. FOE BfiAIN AMD HAND. Facilities for Polytechnic Training Offered By THE NEW WESTERN UN1TERSITI. Theory and Practice of Pittsburg Indus tries Supplied at Home. IMPEOYEMENT IN SCIENTIFIC WORK IWBITTEN FOB TAB PISFATCH.I On the summit of the hill above the crowded level of Allegheny City stand the new buildings of the Western u niversity. Immediately before and below them, but so far removed by the commanding height, that the bustle and roar is lost in the dis tance, lies spread out the lower half of the city, stretching away to the west between the hills that rise on either hand, is the Ohio; and from the roof of the University build ing the eye can follow the course of that beautiful river as far as Dixmont and Sewickley. It is almost an ideal sitnation. On Ob servatory Hill, or as it may in future be appropriately termed, University Hill. Mr. James B. Scott, in tbe exercise of his public spirited function as constructor of public and ornamental buildings for this com munity, has given us architectural monu ments which attract greater attention by their central position, but he has hardly done anything which will serve its bene ficial purposes more permanently than his work in locating and erecting the handsome new university building, and its less orna mental, but not less practical consort. Sci ence Hall, on the property of the university, adjoining the older observatory. A DECIDED CHANGE IN THE SITE. There could hardly be a more marked contrast than that between the site which the university formerly occupied on tbe corner of Diamond and Boss streets before it sold those buildings to the county and that on which it is now located. In place of the smoke and grime of the old location are the fresh air and unstinted light of its location on the top of the hill. The roar and dirt of engines on the railway near by, and the rattle of vehicles on the street, are supplanted by the quiet and lofty se clusion, with the open expanse of the'lawn and campus of the university around it. Every external condition which operated to distract attention or make study difficult has given place to exactly thoseconditions which aid the work of education, and per mit the student to give himself fully to his tasks. It is a part of the secret history of the transfer of the old university property to tho county that at the time the Bale 'was made the price at which the board offered the buildings to the county met with no ob jections, both on the part of the county and on the part of the friends of the uniersity. The County Commissioners thought they could hardly pay the $50,000 asked for the property, upon which the members of the University Board having the matter in charge told them to occupy the buildings whether they bought them or not, and gave them the privilege of using the buildings without charge in case they should find other property as suitable to their purposes at a less ngure. SATISFACTORY TO ALL CONCERNED. On the other hand, some of the friends of the university thought the price asked in sufficiect for the value of the property. Yet the event has proved tbe wisdom of the transaction on both sides. The county would not sell the old property at its cost, while in securing the exchange of the noise, smoke and darkness of the old site, for the light, cleanliness and silence ot the new one, the university has accomplished the greatest gain possible for its educational purposes and emciency. But the contrast between the old site on the corner of Diamond and Boss streets, and the new one which overlooks and commands Allegheny and the source of the Ohio, is not more marcea tnau tne departure which the occupancy of the new building serves to in augurate in the scope and the purposes of the university itself. The need of this age for scientific and technical instruction is impressing itself more and more npou the public, as the progress ot science goes on. This need is especially prominent in Pittsburg. The urgent man ner in which our great manufacturing establishments are drawing upon the scien tific institutions at other points for trained scientific superintendents, and tbe require ments of our great engineering works, fur nish illustrations of the almost universal demand for technical and scientific educa tion, in tbe practical operation of our indus tries. This need is so urgent that it has evoked some criticism of Sir. Carnegie's re cent munificent gift to Pittsburg, to the effect that he should have furnished Pitts burg with a scientific or polytechnic insti tute, rather than a library. A POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL PROVIDED. Not merely as an answer to this sort of criticism, but as an indication of tbe great vaiue oi me new university to jfittsDurg, it is important to note the fact that tbe scope of the university, npon occupying its new quarters, is so broadened and enlarged as to exactly supply this need. Upon the summit of its lofty hill will be found Pittsburg's sci entific and polytechnic institution. In pre paring the new buildings and adapting them to the future plans and scope of the institution the trustees made the decision wbich has come to maturity, as the univer sity is now organized. The preparatory de partment of the old university, which was merely academic in its charac ter, and the field of which was largely occupied by high schools and other academic institutions, was discarded, as something which tbe university could spare much better than the higher departments. Instead of it the trustees of the university have added scientific and practical depart ments under the leadership ot capable in structors and supplied with the fullest equipment in the line ol technical instru ments, models and all that is needed for the most thorough and exhaustive instruction in all branches of natural science. The wide range of this equipment is illustrated by the difference between the four blacksmiths' forges and the 16 carpenters' benches in the basement of Science Hall, and the cabinet of delicate and exact models made by Prof. Stewart lor tbe illustration of geometric forms and figures, in tbe engineering depart ment, in the third story of the main build ing. ELECTIVE BRANCHES Or STUDY. It should not be understood from this statement that tbe university has abandoned its classical branches of education. On the contrary it comes nearer to fulfilling its old and. heretolore somewhat ambitious, u-.me of university by affording to the students a choice between practical and scientific in struction. There are under tbe present scope five different courses which are elective to the student, but which course the student is expected to complete, if he undertakes any of them. The student may take either of the following courses: The classical, the Latin scientific, the scientific, the civil engineer ing, mechanical engineering, or the course of analytical chemistry. The nature of the literary and classical instruction in the university is familiar, and need not be enlarged upon. Tbe new feature which is of a special interest to Pittsburg, is the full equipment -and thorough instruction provided in the differ ent departments lor scientific and technical instrnction. In this respect Science Hall, with its numerous .apartments stocked with chemical and technical apparatus, and the main building with its fine gymnasium, at tractive temple and splendidly lighted reci tation room are not more typical of the most modern methods for instruction than the full and costly equipment of the university for the mostjmodern branches of technical ana scieniinc education. y It la not the purpose of the scientific de-.L partment of the university to teach the students to be skilled workmen. These de partments are not manual training schools; although some of 'their apparatus and train ing partake of the same nature, the work is much higher thaq that and the results are intended to be much more thorough. The purpose is to turn them out fully equipped in scientific knowledge and the ability to undertake the direction of great practical work, or to tnrn their attention to special ties ot scientific research, with the certainty that their training is such that they can accomplish the highest results. A special illustration of the methods by wbich these results are aimed at is pre sented by the work laid out in Prof. Kerr's department qt mechanical and electrical engineering. A mere sketch of the plan of study in this department, which is all that space allows in this article, will show the practical thoroughness of the scientific edu cation which it provides. A large share of the course of instruction is in shop work; not, as has already been said, with the idea of training skilled workmen, but for tbe purpose of teaching students the uses, capa bilities and strength of materials. The student is first given two terms of wood working, being tanght to make patterns and various shapes in wood. Then he goes into the foundry, where he learns mold making and makes molds and castings of both brass and iron from tbe patterns which he has already made in the carpenter shop. THROUGH EVERY STAGE OF THE 'WORK. A fter that he is taken to the blacksmith shop, where he studies forging, tempering and the making of the tools and dies. One of the strictly practical features of the scien tific instruction is that the student, in each branch of this course, is expected to make the patterns, molds and tools which he is to use in the more advanced stages. After a course of instruction in steam fitting, the last year of shop work is that in the ma chine tool room, in working at lathes and drilling machines. This instrnction completes the course of shop work, taking three years. Then comes the testing laboratory, where testing ma chines are provided for testing the tensile strength ot material, and for testine the qualities or oils used in machinery. Prac tice is also given in the testing of cement, and iu learning how to indi cate the horse power and steam consump tion of steam engines, with tests of boilers for evaporation, and consumption of fuel. In the course ol electrical engineering the instruction embraces the testing of dynamos and motors to determine their electro-motive force, the output of current, and the effi ciency of the dynamos. The course of elec trical engineering is not, of course, expected to make electrical scientific experts, but enables the students to obtain a grounding in electrical engineering which permits them to take up specialties of tnat work of science. PHTSICAL LABORATORY WORK. The other scientific departments of the university exhibit the same quality of prac tical work and instruction. In Prof. Frost's physical department, including the subject of sound, optics, mechanics and elec tricity, attention is especially given to the development of physical laboratory work, in which the student makes his own experiments, and records his observation, thus strengthening the tendency in the line of original research. The department of civil engineering under the direction of Prof. Carbart, with Prof. Stewart as assistant, carries on tbe work heretofore done with the addition of experi ments and tests of the strength of materials for bridge building, and more or less in struction in shop work ot similar plan with that in the department of mechanical engi neering. Tbe chemical department under the direction of Prof. Phillips has 14 rooms filled with apparatus for all branches of chemical work, with a special arrangement for original research, in which tbe students are educated with a view to making their own researches and experiments. Especial attention is given in this department to a class of work which is of peculiar value to Pittsburg, namely, the analysis of glasses and ores and tne assaying ot metals. THE WORK OF THE OBSERVATORY. The connection of tbe observatory with the new buildings of the university will also furnish a feature of much value in fur nishing opportunities for astronomical study and scientific work. Although the uni versity has been connected with the observa tory heretofore, it is well known that tbe work of the observatory has been to a cer tain degree independent. The original re searches carried on by Prof. Langley, and the workdonebyMr.Brashear in connection with that institution, have already attained world-wide fame. Nearly all the original research which Prof. Langley has made for the advancement of astronomical knowledge was made in the observatory which is now connected with the university. Mr. Brashear's work in astronomical observation has been of no less value, bnt he has attained a special prominence in his manufacture of scientific and astronomical instruments of such exactness as cannot be reduplicated to day anywhere in the known world. It is intimated that future arrangements may be made by wbich the mutual ad vantage of a closer connection between Mr. Brasbear and the nmversity may be ob tained, in which Mr. Brashear shall occupy the position of one of the leading scientific instructors. That is a matter for the future; at present it is sufficient to know as a feature ot the university course that the observatory will be used for the instruction of the students in astronomy. FILLS A PITTSBURG SEED. Nothing like a complete recital of the courses of study to bn provided in the new building, or a full description of its stock of apparatus, or the three floors of the main building occupied by the spacious chapel, the fully equipped gymnasium and well lighted and ventilated recitation rooms, is possible or essential in this article. The practical furnishing of the university with buildings, rooms and equipment is all that tbe most modern requirements could expect. The interesting act to Pittsburg is that brought out by the illustrations taken from the course, that in this institution the uni versity supplies the need or Pittsburg of a polytechnic institute, promising the scien tific instructions most needed in the prosecu tion of Pittsburg's great material industries. The departments for supplying scientific direction to our industrial and engineering works will, when the university gets fully into operation, add more to tue material work of Pittsburg than the imposing build ings and the beautiful lawn on the top of that commanding hill do to the at tractions of architecture and landscape in our community. There is no doubt that the industry and wealth of our city will show its hearty appreciation of tbe new departure of the university into the line of scientific and technical instruction. J. F. H. W0ESB THAN THE GIELS. Society Young: Men Have Tnken to Darken Ink Their Eyebrows. bt. Lonis Globe-Democrat. A strange lad of the young men of the present day is darkening the eyebrows and eyelashes. They imagine this process gives an expression of strength to the face which is otherwise lacking. The stuff used for the purpose comes in a tiny box, and is a black powder. Iu the box is a little kid pencil, similar in form to the stump of a blender used by a crayon or pastelle artist. This tiny kid im plement is dipped in the black powder and applied in a dextrous manner, first to trace the eyebrows darker and into the desired shape. After ihis.theeyelashesaretouched, and then a slight line is drawn under the eyes on the lower lid. At each corner is put the final touch, a little dash of the dark powder, which gives a languid look pre sumed to be captivating. Why Boaton Llke Volapoll. Kew York Tribune. Boston people lake kindly to Volapok, it is said, because tbe word bean (perversely spelled bin by Yolaprkists) is in that lan guage the root of sibinam, existence. It is also quite gratifying to local pride to say bean-ob (binob). I am; and as the dinner hour approaches to break forth in Samlet's soliloquy, "Binon'u no binon, at bisom akl" So bean, or not to bean. ALOW-COST COTTAGE Plans for a Handsome Home Eighteen Hundred Dollars. for SOME FEASIBLE MODIFICATION A Suggestion for a Grand Crusade Against tbe Eumsellers. WOBKINGSIEN'S M0XEY THE0W5 AWAT rwniTTEr roB mi dispatch. : wages and thrifty habits enable Fair thousands of mechanics and laboring men to build pretty cottages and other thousands might be equally fortunate except for the rum-seller. Every rum-seller lay M heavy hand on a crowd of vietfms and ad dresses them substantially in this fashion: 'No, you shall not build cottages; lhat part of your income or wages that you might save for such a purpose must be spent for the pleasure of the society I afford yon. I will build cottages and rent them to you so long as you pay regularly and patronize the bar liberally. But remember, business is business; you can't play any out-of-employ-ment or sickness fakes on me; when you can't pay the rent, out you go like a pack of dogs," If the people of this generation are grow ing wiser and stronger, as acute observers declare, it must follow that many, of these victims will extricate themselves from the toils; but how are we to help tbe rest ot -them? One of the Perspective. best suggestions is to arouse the powerful labor organizations. It is understood that Mr. Powderly has already given the subject much consideration. If the Knights of Labor and other organizations enforced tem perance principles they would have a fight on hand that would give them all of their old-time importance. Temporarily their ranks wonld be decimated, but better men would take the places of seceders and the best of the seceders would return. Their old antagonist, capital, would joiu hands in such a fight, the whole world wonld applaud, and rnmsellers would be doomed. ' Following will be found a brief descrip tion of the quaint and attractive cottage de sign that illustrates this article: General dimensions: 'Width, 33 feet; depth, including veranda and porch, 40 feet 6 First Moor Plan. inches. Heights of stories: Cellar, 6 feet 6 inches; first story, U feet; second story, 8 feet. Exterior materials: Foundations, stone; first story, clapboards; second story, clap boards mitered at corners to produce shing ling effect; gables, clapboards; roofs and dormer, shingles. Interior finish: Two coat plaster tinted to suit owner. Maple floor in first story, with diagonal under floor of hemlock covered with tarred paper. Second story floor, white pine. Interior trim, white pine. Stairs, ash. Chair rail in kitchen. In terior woodwork finished with hard oil. Colors: All clapboards and body of panels in pediment, light brown. All trim and framing of panels in pediment, maroon. Outside doors,, sasbes and rain conductors, olive. Veranda floor, tan. Veranda ceil ing. Tuscan yellow. All shingles dipped and brush coated with slate-colored stain. Accommodations: The principal rooms and their sizes, closets, etc.are shown by the floor plans. Cellar under kitchen only. Loft over second storv, floored for storage purposes. Fireplace and mantel in dining room and in reception hall included in esti mate. Large veranda. Cost: $1,800, not including neater and range. The estimate is based on New York prices for materials and labor. In many sections of the country the cost should be less. Feasible modifications: Heights of stories, sizes of rooms, materials and colors may be Second Floor Plan. changed. Cellar may be enlarged. Fire places and mantels may be omitted. One chimney will serve if heating apparatus be used. Staircase hall may be partitioned from the reception hall, and the stairway re arranged. A bathroom may be introduced in second story. Vearanda may be ex tended. B. "W. SHOPPELL. AN OUNCE 0P PRETENTION. In Ruiila People Hire Doctors to Keen Them Writ and Fay Them Salaries. In Tiflis, Bussia, a club of 125 families, just formed, has hired a doctor, M. Ogani auts, for f60 a "year, who agrees to visit the families regularly and give them advice as to how to keep healthy, to tend them if sick, and, besides, to give the club occa sional short lectures upon hygiene and nhyiiology. Each family pays CO cents per month for this service, and 25 poor familiea are admitted free. Similar imnnmnii I ."...'.'.'.'.yW'l ''I", J f Of j I jKT Jc t ' 'e.dBni -u -ejj-RSsjg, i7io3af P & La jhaye Deen made with the drugglsta,