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THE HTTSBUBG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, ' APEIL 6, 1890.
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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
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RllII iBiSl L.
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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
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