! Wl1)! IHJb rill odUKu Dior A 1 111. . PAGES 17 TO 20l THIRD PART & t t a sm? WORK OF A DECADE. 4? Pittsburg's Public Building From '' Its inception to the I, Present Day. ICTUSES FOR THE DELAYS Jit is a Structure Perfect In Detail 'and a Credit to the City. SOME'OF THE OKNAMEKTAL WORE Hori the Foundation Was Mads Firm, Though On a Bed of Quicksand. ' THE AEBAXGEHEXT OF THE IHTEEIOE XfUlllXK X)B TBI CISPATCn.1 14 two more weeks the lilt story will belaid on the new Gov ernment building, juat ten years a ter Mr. Kennedy, of Seven Seal medi cine fame, com menced to tear down the old building! on the site. In the de cade natural gas came into general use, the city has reached oat its arms and the pop ulation has great ly increased. The growth, indeed, has been phenom enal, and it is a question now in the minds of many people whether the building when finished will be The Hew Tower, large enough to accommodate the extensive business or not. Be that is it may, the pablio will be clad to get the building in a finished state with its present' dimensions. The ancient and modern history of the structure since it was first talked ot wonld fill several volumes. Songs have been sang and jibes flung with wanton abandon at the slowness of the work, but after all there are many extenuating circumstances and numer ous causes for the delay that the people do not know or understand. . A GBASD STKUCTUBB. "When Inspector Pattison was approached i .. for some information yesterday, about the 3, architecture o the new postoffice, he said: "I wish yon would say to the people of Pitts burg that when this building Is finished it will be one of the finest, most substantial and ornamental structures of all the Government's houses. The people who stop long enough to examine the architect ure in detail will be surprised at its beauty and delicacy of finish. The time is 'coming .hen impatient Pittsburg will be proud o L thlVtomldini;, and future generation! will commend the enterprise and far-sightedness of their ancestors. That it required ten years to build it will be orgoteen, and we ' are doing everything possible now to hasten the work." The Pennsylvania Construction Company is responsible lor the present delay. That company commenced last spring to put on the root and said it would have It finished in 35 day, but if it completes the job by November it will do well. The third loreman is being tried now, and he doesn't seem to b. mucn 04 an improvement on the other two. .j?-, !' i 5 If' it A I AN ALLEOOBIOAL OBOUP. Those in 'charge of the building trill made no predictions abont the time o! its com pletion, bat in a general way it will take at least another year, The Postoffice Depart ment ! anxious to get into the first floor, and it may be translerred abont January L A COION OP YANTAOE. About the only variation made from the original plans was a charge in the tower front- ing Smithfield street. Ktral vearaago tbe r department ut Washington lecided to lower . vum. uvc ICClj ana jlCC Ull wp little house to accommodate people who might desire a view of the city from the height. The superstructure on the top will be well supplied with windows, . and anyone who desires a biid'a-eye view ot J Pittsburg can get it from tlm elevated point tree oi any cost. The elrv-tjr will rnn to "J, .the top flooi where the slcht-seers will be . -(admitted to the root. A balustrade is pro- f .vlded to keep tbem trom falling, and in this " manner the tower-bouse can be easily jbj reached. 3j& "What is worrying Superintendent Ma- Sjlone now is the neglect ot the city to lower gthe grade of Fourth and Third avenues and W-SCberry alley. The building was erected be- $low these streets to avoid several additional fateps in front facing Smith field street. Mr. Malone has already taken measurements and prepared plans to build a retaining wall round three sides or tbe building, unless ike city comes to his rescue and performs its part of tbe contract T BBBULT OP WEOLBCT. 4sHield this work be done it will entail farther excess?, cause more delar. and tbe s ViuMUswill be surrounded with an open spaee like" the Court Honse. Mr. Malone hopes the city will cut down the grade in time to avoid this trouble. The building itself is a model in archi tecture or the Romanesque order. It is six storiesjiigh, including the attic. All the Government buildings are made on the Romanesque stvle, as it Is the most substan tial, and they inj intended to stand for centuries and the wonder and admiration of the ages. The stone is Bine Hill granite from Maine, roughed down to a considerable degree of fineness. The superstructure contains 124, 000 cubio feet, and there are 75,000 cubic feet in the basement. The work of pointing the stone was commenced three months ago, and the Third avenne side is finished. The men are now engaged on the rear. II the people interested enough would take the time to, stand on Third avenue and study that side of the building they could then get some Idea of the fineness of the stone work that has been done, work that re quired months to complete. In the center of this side and the same thing is repeated THE FIEST FLOOB on Fourth avenue is a most beautiful arch. The pointing has brought out the fine de tails that were before obscure. Above this arch are two alcoves, each containing fig ures that are truly works of art. The deco ration arouud them is unique and appropri ate, and has been well executed. PHILOSOPHY OF THE HEADS. In the arch of each window is a head that acts as the keystone. Borne of these heads have been sources of great amusement lor the newspaper paragrapher and wrathful citizens anxious to see the building finished. Superintendent Pattison says the heads were intended to represent types of various nations. The women are arranged toward Smilhfield street, while the men, as is be coming, are given the rear places. Taking some ol them Individually, especiallv the dude with eyeglasses and large mutton chop whiskers, who was doubtless designed to stand tor a Frenchman, they are ridic ulous, but Mr. Pattison says that when the building is completed and the large plate glass windows are put in Vac of the D forullont. the peneral effect will be pleasing n the extreme. He is not very enthusiastic over some of the heads, but il they are not fair types of certain uations.it Is the ault of the people and not the designers or the latter are not responsible lor the appearance of some of our brethren across the seas. On tbe root of the Third and Fourth ave nue sides also are the figures ol Justice, standing erect and holding in her hand a metal scale. The scale has not been placed there yet, but that will be done very sopn. Both groupi are very handsome and much admired. It wonld require an intimate acquaint- ance with the technique of architecture to properly describe and then properly under stand the description of the exterior of tbe new postoffice. It contains any number of pretty pilasters that set it off, and the heavy piers in the iront on Smithfield street add to the general beauty of the structure. Facing the two avennes on the roof and about the center of the building are two towers smaller than the one that will be used for an ob servatory. Indeed fancy stone work and beautiful designs have been Introduced all over the surface with a lavish band. Thelongerone studies this building the more does its beauty and delicacy grow on him. To tell the trntb, tbe new post office will be a credit to the city, and the people will recognize it as such when, after tbe exercise of a little more patience, they behold it complete. Superintendent Ma lone is taking a tonic these days to keep up undrr tbe public pressure that is brought to bear on-him for a 'rapid completion of the bnildine L But the interior will be something gor geous. The floors will be laid in oblong mar ble tile. Tbe great iron columns have been covered with curved tiling to make them .fireproof, and over this will be placed king's cement, as hard as adamant and white as alabaster. Capitals will ornament tbe tops and fancy figures will be placed at tbe base. The iron girders will'be finished in stucco work, or ornamental plastering. Pretty brackets of various btesigns will, hide the comers. V i DAYLIGHT M COMING, Jnit as soon as the toot is finished ''the plastering wiU be coaineaced.j.Iiecoa- r .' -S- QS tract for the tiling was let a few days ago to a Chicago firm, and tbe tile for the first floor are now being made. The first three floors will be finished in xnahoganv, and tbe other two in oak or cherry. Pine will probably be used in the attic Nothing but hard woods will be put in. Just over tbe postoffice department where the men will work Is the skylight The iron in it will be lined with polished copper, and the contractor with his men has been here over a month waiting to do the work, but it can't.be done until tbe roof is put on. The tiling to go between the iron work of the roof has been piled up for some time and Is in the way of the men. Tbe roof proper consists of this tiling and hard ce ment that is placed over it. This makes a fireproof bed for the copper, which is ex posed to the weather. " HEATING AND LIGHTING. What is badly needed at present is the appropriation or (110,000 for the, heating, lighting, etc A bill was provided for this purpose, but through an oversight of the AS IT LOOKS TO-DAY. committee it was omitted Irom the general appropriation bill. If this money is lur nUhed the postoffice can be moved some time this rail. In 1880, when the work was commenced on the new building, there were 95 employes in the postoffice, 38 of whom were letter carriers. Now there are 286 The actual work of tbe office has increased 600 per cent. It may have been forgotten by some, but tbe older citizens will remember that the foundation of the new postoffice is laid on a bed of quicksand. It is reearded as a mot remarkable feat, and is the only example in the world where a successlul foundation was ever made under such circumstances. When Architect Malone was engaged in his famous pile driving operation he was heartily ridiculed, but the wisdom of his plan has since been acknowledged. "When he first assumed charge of the building General Powers had dug a three-foot trench lor the foundation. Mr. Malone some years belore had struck a vein of qnicksaod in tbe cellar of the Central Hotel, and he eared it extended under the building site. HUNTING THE QUICKSAND. He asked tbe Government to allow him to sink test wells, and nine were put down, three along Smithfield street, three in the center and as many more in the rear, where solid rock was struck. "When the w-lls had gone down seven feet along Smithfield street a lot 'of old cellars nere encountered containing I oopskirts, brickbats and kindred articles. One o the wells in the center soon reached the quicksand, and then tbe job commenced. Witnont troinz into intricate details, bv means of an iron curbing the well was snnk G5 leet, when a sloplne rock was struck. These discouraging facts were reported to the Government, and piles Were at once ordered to be driven into the ground. About 15 leet of the foundation was dug out, and the piles were forced into the earth about 25 eet all around under the founda tion. This consumed considerable time, and to keep them from rotting a layer of sand several leet deen was placed over the tops. Over tbe sand a bed of concrete three feet deep was placed, and then the first layer of stone was put down. Each stone was five 'eet wide and ten feet long, tbe Hones in the next layer were a little shorter f and in tbe third one they were five feet quare. Tbe foundation proper was then t trted on top of these stones and piles. THE PILE DEIVUTO. Mr. Malone said yesterdav that he used a ' 40-foot pile driver with a 3,000 pound ham mer, and when with this weight be could no longer force down a pile 5-100 of an inch he stooped. He nlo stated that in his opinion, judging f vm the arrangement of the peb bles aud soil a stream once ran over the site. and this is what made it so difficult to get a solid lonnnation. as a result or his work he claims that the building to-day has not sunk in the least, and he defies anyone to show that the corners are out of plumb. He has nn instrument which he uSes to tell this fact, and he goes over the building carefully every once in awhile searching for flaws. The ancient history of the building will make interesting reading matter. The need tor such a building was lone felt, and after considerable talk and agitation General Moorehead, who then represented this district in Congress, secured tbe passage of a bill Marcn.8, 1873, appropriating (300,000 for a new postoffice and Court Honse orPittsbnrg. At that time the present postoffice was con sidered a rather fine Affair, and some of tbe citizens declared it was adequate and sufficient Their mistake has been demon strated since. Thomas Steele and Colonel Phillips wore some of the leading spirits who worked up tbe public interest. ' FIGHT FOB A SITE. This amount having been appropriated then came the scramble for tbe site, and it finally narrowed down' to three places, the present site. Hare's Hotel, at the conjunc tion of Fifth avenue aud Liberty street, and the property opposite Trinity church, in cluding the Lewis block on the cor ner. The demand was to have the building located as near the business center as possible, and Colonel Phillips insisted that Hare's Hotel was that point Super vising Architect Mullet, who built the N2w York postoffice, came to the city, and looked over the three sites proposed. He was a shrewd little fellow, and went away keep ing his own connsel and leaving everybody in the dark. Public meetings were held, and tbe people were divided. Finally, a ter much dickering, the Gov ernment selected the present site. Seven viewers were appointed, and they appraised the property at 1356 000. Everybody was in a quandary, and tbe owners ol tbe other sites being mad, this gave tbem a handle, and they went to work again. At this juncture Thomas Steele put up tbe f SG.OQO, and he was reimbursed by popular suoscription afterward. Simon Johnston had a drng store on the Fourth avenue cor ner, and be gave ' ' 000. Others did the same, and the property was secured. THE FBOFERTT OWHEBS. "William M. Darlington was the princi pal owner of the condemned property. Bis land extended along Fourth avenue and part of Cherry alley. The Wilkins heirs and "William Armstrong also owned some of the property in the block. Mr. Darling ton was not satisfied with the price offered him, and he went into tbe courts. Judge Over was bis attorney, and the land was in litigation for two years. The court finally awarded him f 19,000 more than the viewers allowed him, and this amount was. also raised by subscription. The law suit de- laved tbe work for two rears. uongressman tiopKins ann uontrressxnan "W. S. Shallenberger, of Beaver, who! were favorable to the, building, did ranch to se cure the, subsequent appropriations.) The PITTSBUKG, SUNDAY, appropriations were made as follows: 'June 16, 1880, $75,000; -March S, 1881. $100,000; Aognst 7, 1883, $200,000; March 8, 1883, $125,600. In 1885 tbe limit to the cost of the building was placed at $1,500,000. In 1880 Mr Kennedy, of Seven Seal fame, com mepced the work of removing the old build ings. BEADY TO MOVE. The location of the offices for the Govern ment officials has been made, and tbe plans forwarded to Washington. The postoffice will occupy the entire first floor. The Post master's room will be in tbe end facing Fourth avenue and Smithfield street. The Internal Revenue office, tbe Custom Honse and Pension Department will be on the second floor. The internal revenue office will be on the Fourth avenue side; tbe Custom Honse on Third avenue and the Pension Office will be in the rear. On tbe third floor are the two United States Court rooms, clerks' offices. Judges' rooms. District Attornev and United titates Marshal's offices. The United States Engineer, Board of Examining Phy sicians and the principal office of the signal service will be located. On tbe lourth floor will be lour petit jury rooms, two grand jury rooms. United States storage room for models and patterns ol subjects un der litigation. On the fi th will be located tbe dormitories lor the men in tbe postal railway service, tbe boiler inspector's room and signal service work-ug room. James A. Isbafx. THE GIRL "WHO WOES. Her Great Fan It Is That ihe Hasn't the Brains to be Clover. I may at well be frank at once and say I do not like the maid who does tbe wooing. She is usurping tbe privilege of her knight, and if I were he I should turn and flee. "But," says Ethilinda, "he needs encour agement!" Perhaps he does. Bnt cot too much of it. When you want to give an in valid something to increase his appetite yon do not offer to eat for h!m; instead you offer a dainty bit, a little spicy, or a little acid that quickens the taste and makes a great hunger come. Treat your sweetheart in the same way, says Ruth Ashmore in the Ladies' Borne Journal. Let him be conscious that you are pleased with bis liking, bnt do not lor a minute take away bis prerogative and do the wooing. No man has a true appreci ation for good things too easily obtained. Man is,yet a little hit of a savage, and the hunt is always a delight to him. Your eyes may reflect his love, .but they need not an nounce your's first, thereby sending out an invitation. My dear girl, ask almost any man you know what his lavorite flower is, and, after he has thought, he will tell you either a violet or the rose. One grows sur rounded and' protected by green leaves, and to get it perfect that is, with stem you have to reach down and pluck it carefully, but in a determined way. The other is guarded by sharp thorns, and though it stands up in a most dignified way, it resists, except by its encouraging sweetness, the one brave enough to take it irom the parent tree. You can learn a good lesson in a flower garden; yon see the hollyhocks plant and know that they are the forward beauties of the world oi flowers; you see tbe lilies with their bowed heads, and are convinced that beauty without faith is of little worth; you are aware of a dainty perfume, and know that the little lady, -whose qualities surpass ber charms tbe mignonette is near; you can see the masculine girl in "Johnny-jnmp-ups;" you can see the positive one in the gaudy sunflower; you can? see the ag gressive one in the .scarlet geranium, ami you can think of tbem all and conclude this, the ones worth having, sweet of per mme and restful in color, are not the ones that protrude" themselves on yonr vision, and say, as do some flowers and some maid ens, "Take us." DUTCH COURTSHIP. The Cigar Plan an Important Part la the Woolnc nod Wlnainr. London Spare Moments. In certain parts ot Holland, when a young man thinks he has' found his affinity, it is customary for him to ask for a match to light his cigar at the door St the loved one's house. This little subterfuge is intended to arottte the parents of the girl to the fact that something is in tbe wind. If a second call with a similar object is made soon after, no doubt is left of the young man's intentions, and the parents proceed to investigate the young man's character and antecedents, with a view of ascertaining his eligibility as a member of the family. "When he calls the third time, always lor a match to light bis cigar, they are prepared to give him an answer. If bis salt is regarded with favor he is politely requested to step inside or the first time, and is served with a light. II he is not accepted he is refused a light, and tbe door is shut in his lace without further cere mony. Bnt having prepared for this con tingency, the downcast suitor will, in all probability, light his weed with a match Irom his own box, aid walk away musing on the transitory natureof all earthly things. "When the accepted suitor is invitee to enter the house he, as a matter of course, informs the parents which of their daughters has captivated his fancy. "When this is settled the young man steps forward and they join bands. While the engagement is by no means considered a set tled fact, even at this important stage, yet it is stated as a truth that when on the occa sion of the young man's third visit bis in amorata has ofiered him a Fecond cigar, which he had smoked in tbe bouse, the en gagement has never been cancelled. CURE FOR MALARIA. The Encalrptna Planted In Iho Neighbor hood Drains tbe Ground Perfi-cilj. For years past the Trefontane Convent at Some had become positively uninhabitable, owing to tbe malaria which attacked in many instances withjatal results its in mates. Senator Torelli presented a bill in Parliament proposing that the estate an nexed to the convent should be planted with eucalyptus as an experiment against ma laria. Tbe bill was passed, and tbe Trap pist monks planted thousands ol eucalyptus plants of all species on the estate. But still tbe malaria ravaged, and several monks suffered severely. But it was remarked that it was only the monks who had tbeir cells lookingson the central cloister who fell victims to the malaria. This suggested the idea of planting four eucalyptus trees at tbe four corners oi the cloister. The plants, sheltered from the winds, soon grew to a great height. The immediate result was the complete draining of the soil in the cloister, and the disap pearance ol malarial lever from the convent. THE TIPPLERS' GIVEAWAY. A Hot Btoraaen Makes Drj Lips aad Indi cates Alcobull.m. I have given up prescribing for ladies who are victims of alcoholism, says a St, Louis physician. One of the Globe-Democrat' lo cal gossipers recently spoke of the amount of suffering caused by drink as far greater than generally imagined, and the same might be said about tippling in high or aris tocratic circles. One of the symptoms of a victim to whisky is -a continual moistening ol tbe lips with the tongue. Udder normal conditions nature provide for this, but when the itomach and throat are overheated by alcohol the lips get so parcped that the tongue has to do frequent du,ty. Men who drink to excess generally smoke or chew tobacco, and thus avoid the trouble which is so very prominent and tiresome to fair creatures wb drlak freely, k . AUGUST 81, 1890. AT A SUMMER HOTEL How Fielding Spent His Term of Seventeen Days and Sights. THE SLAVE OP THE HEAD WAITEB. Boodllng in Connection With a Grand and Artistic Tableau. DECLINE OP THE HOST'S OBCQESTBA IWHIlim l-OS B3 StSPATCB.1 I have just served a sentence of two weeks and three days at a summer hotel. I will not state where the hotel is, but the climate of the place was said to be a sure cure for a large variety of ailments, none of which I bad ever bad before 7 went there. During my stay, however, I enjoyed them all. The landlord told me that nothing bnt the sain brlety or tbe place saved my life. I shall never impose the same strain on that climate again, for I do not wish to spoil it. Tbe early part of my term was passed practically in solitary confinement No body but the head'waiter paid any attention to me, and I should have been maih obliged to him if he hadn't He appeared to have reserved a table in the dining room ex clusively for people of no account ou earth, and I was one of tbem. in tbe bead waiter's warped and dislocated judgment There is. nothing so corrosive to a man s self-esteem as to find himself classed way down in the sub-cellar of the social category down among the men who order the whole bill of fare, and the women who publicly quarrel with tbeir husbands in order to re move injurious suspicions from the mind of the observer to be classed, I repeat, by a gentleman of color who wears a dress suit at break fast time. AN UNEQUAL CONFLICT. But I never could get up the courage necessary to resist tbe bead waiter. When he beckoned to me I invariably fell humbly into bis wake, and then he steered a straight course for the chumps' table, where I was served by a girl with h lir so red that it kept an old gray horse trotting back and forth in The JPrriUett QM in the BoteU the pasture lot outside as she passed from kttchen to dining room and vice versa. I tried getting there early in order to eat before the chumps arrived, but no sooner did I reach my place than I observed in the doorway the melancholy countenance of the lonely young rjan who did not wear cuffs. When he"hadJ seated" the yfiung "man the head waiter at once returned to the door and brought in the husband who palpably re gretted his choice, and the wife who wis the amply sufficient cause of his remorse. Close npon tbem came the remaining chumps treading upon each other's heels in their haste to be fed. Then I tried coming late, bnt the chumps were also unavoidably de tained on that occasion, and we were all fed from the same trough as usual. One day I summoned up all the nerve I had left, and asked the head waiter togi ve me another seat He said: "Yes, sah; dis way, sail," seated me In my old place, and escaped. I hadn't the moral courage to move. THE FINAL TICTOBT. That alternoon I asked the clerk to make the head waiter change my seat, and be promised to do it. At dinner time, my eiuiky brother obeyed the instructions be bad received. He took me to another table; and then brought all the chumps over there, to-. The change, however, was not wholly frnitleas, for it enabled me to hear a faiily good thing. Oo my right was a table where a mother and four daughters sat. The girls were all old enongh to marry rich men, and tbe mother was willing that they should do so at any moment On my left sat the sen sation ol the hour; the only real, live, guaranteed foreign nobleman in the place. And he was a bachelor, too. Lord Yorkshire No Wonder the Ballroom U Empty. Pudding 1 can't remember his real name was a good enough sort of fellow, for an Englishman. He had that peculiar breed ing which makes even Chicago pork seem a very inferior article in England. Nobody who hasn't had the advantage of being reared In that little island, can be perfectly courteous to one whom he honors with his immediate society, and at the same time as cruelly indifferent as a barbed wire fence to the comforts of tbe stranger who casually gets within range. The polished American, on the other band, is scrupulously polite to the man he doesn't know, while be may not tip his hat to his own wife's mother. HIGH HOPES BLASTED. My lord certainly kept his eye-glasses bearing steadily on the table where the mother and daughters sat.and they were not slow to notice it I conld hear some pretty little squabbles between the girls, as to which one of them was getting the best of it The mother did not enter into these dis putes, but sne looked at my lord in a way that meant: "Obi how I wish there were enongh of you to go around." She was in high feather, and the girls couldn't sit still In their chairs. It looked like a clear case even to my nnpredjndiced vision, and I was beginning to be interested to discover which of the daughters stood the beit chance ot being unhappy lor life, when my lord pulled one of his side-wblsk-ers with'an air of decision and remarked to the man beside him, in that generously audible voice of bis; "I) say, dear boy, that table girl, as you call em, don't-yerknow, waiting on those old women over there, is tbe prettiest girl in this hotel; ba Jove." The blight which fell on tbe table at my right beat the one which killed all the cur rant bushes in the State of Maine, when I was a boy. DECLINE OF THE OBCHBSTBA. Everybody was talking about the inci dent after dinner while the evening prom, enade on tbe piazza was in progress. I was there, catching the neuralgia In one ear and tbe sweet strains of the botel orchestra in the other. The orchestra was not what it used to be. Many a seaside hotel proprietor has had to cut down expenses this season. The unhappy musician has been the first to feel the sharp edge, of retrenchment Hotels which formerly supported an orches tra of half a dozen players and two or three dummies who worked the well-greased joints of voiceless trombones have come down to a violinist, a cornetist and a maid to pound the piano. And tbe "bop," I will say only that the hops at our hotel this summer were failures. So, In the last week of my stay, they got up some tableaux, by way of variety. As I was known to have perhaps the most re- Genius and the Nine Mulct. fined artistic taste oi any man of my weight in America, I was selected to arrange the display. BUNNINO A TABLEAU. The belle of tbe hotel (tbrough her moth er as mediator) volunteered to take part There were nine of her, and wonld nave been more if I bad not stuck up a notice in the office saying that the entries for that event were closed. Tbe nex.t day I was ap proached by MrS. A., mother of Miss Birdie (one of the nine). Mrs. A. tapped me play ully on the arm with her fan and inquired what I was going to oo with her Birdie. I came very near ssying tbat I didn't see what anybody conld do with her, but by great sell-controll limited myself to a mild inquiry as to what Birdie's mother wanted me to do with her. It did not take me long to discover that the old lady wanted her Birdie to perch higher than any other in the tableau. I scented danger, and promised only tbat I would give the subject the con sideration it deserved, "I need not tell a person of your fine artlstio sense," said Mrs. A., "that Birdie is the only girl in this botel who can fill a position ol prominence in a tableau. I only wish to inquire whether you had chosen your subject And, by tbe way, I under stand that thS expenses are to be defrayed by the ladies. Allow me to put whatever sum you think necessary at your disposal. But you must promise me about Birdie." OPENING A GOLD MINE. "My dear madam," said I, "it has ap peared to me necessary from the nature of the subjectwhich I must keep secret for the present to give perhaps tbe most prom inent position to Miss B. "OhI you can't think of it," cried Mrs. A., holding up ber bands in horror, "my dear sir, she has been fading steadily for the last ten seasons. Poor girl; I pity her. Under these circumstances I mnst withhold my subscription irom tbe affair." Oi'conrse I had no idea of losing her sub scription. I had figured the expenses of the affair very carefully, and had arranged to conceal my board bill and a few other trifles among them when the account was rendered. 'X don't see how I can promise about Birdie," said I, with hesitation. "Ii you only won't let Betty B. have the best place, I'll subscribe double," said Mrs. A. Z.' "Madam," said I, "you may have my word of honor upon it" So she took my word, and I took her sub scription. Within 10 minutes I was ap proached by Mrs. B. TVOBKED LIKE A CHABM. "I need not tell a man or yonr extraor dinary good taste," said she, thatmy daugh ter Betty" "Madam," said I, "all that you would say has already occurred to me, but tbe nature of the subject points with an unerr ing aim to Miss Birdie A." I thought Mrs. B. was going to faint,and, as she weighed over 200 pounds, the mo ment was full of terrible anticipations. Bnt she recovered her composure, and told me that if I would keep Birdie out of first place she would bear .the whole expense of the affair herself. I accepted her proposition. In the course of the day I encountered all the ladies whose daughters were to appear. They all complimented me on my exquisite artistic taste in all matters connected with tableaux; and they all ended with bribery. Alter these interviews I was somewhat shocked to reflect that 1 bad solemnly promised to keep every blessed girl in the list in some subordinate position. NIKE BIBD3 WITH ONE STONE.' This was not easy, for in a tableau soma person has to shine with especial effulgence. After mature deliberation I decided that I W8S tbe person in this particular case, and I constructed a tableau representting the Nine Muses at the leet of Genius. I fur nished the feet Ail the lights were tnrned lull upon me, and tbe spectacle was proba bly one of tbe most beantiiul ever pre sented to an American audience. The thought that I bad iulfilled my nine bargains at once feli upon my conscience as soothingly as cold cream on a sunburned nose. However, I bad to leave tbe bouse very soon to escape the consequences of too much lame. Just before I left, I asked the landlord what he would give me to write up the hotel. "Write it up?" he asked. "Yes," said I, "eiye the facts about it" "Do you want to kill the place?" said he, turning pale, Huwabd FlELDUra. AROUSING THE DRUNK. One of the Safest Treatment! U Pinching ' Under the Arm. The best way to arouse a drunken man is to pinch him under tbe arm, says a police officer in the St Louis Globe-Democrat. I found a drunken fellow lying across the track at Tenth and Morgan streets late one night and it seemed Impossible to arouse him. I clubbed him over the soles of his feet and rolled and shook him, but he lay as limp as a rag. Just then an old gentle man came along, and suggested thatl pinch him under the arms. The effect was electrioal. I had him awaKe and fighting mad at once. On an other occasion Sergeant Pierce tried the same experiment on a sot at the Fourth dis trict station, who was delaying the Black Maria. The man stood it tor awhile, and then suddenly opened his eyes, and dealt tbe Sergeant a blow tbat would have felled an ox. The treatment is a dead snre thing; fetches them every time. PARROTS ARE 8RY. The Most Garrnlona Blrds'on Earth Are Shy Before Purchasers. St Loafs Globe Democrat. People expect to come into a bird store and open up a conversation with a parrot off-hand. They fail, and then make up their minds that tbe parrot is worthless. This will apply to the majority of people. They do not give the bird credit for the in telligence it actually possesses. There are parrots in St Louis valued at from $50 to $150 that will not be coaxed into a conver sation with a stranger, and yet they are among the best talkers extant. Tbe birds often reluse to "perform" when there are purchasers looking on, but once the store is cleared of people tbey will chat ter away as1 though their very life depended on their being beard. The majority of par rots wjll take to a girl or a woman much quicker than to one qf the'sterner sex. 1ryfrwWfr XHFs 1 Q ssssBKQ J STAND ,CRAIQ vdm&z " - M Biiiiws A NOVEL DEALING WITH COTEMPOBARY LIFE. WBITT2N FOB THE DISPATCH. BY WILLIAM BLACK, Author of "A Frincess of Thule," "Sunrise," and Many Other Stories of the Highest Reputation on Two Continents. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. The story opens at Piccadilly with aged George Betbune and his granddaughter, Malsrle, on their way to tbe reiidence of Lord Mosselbarish. The old gentleman is of a nobto Scotch bonss and claims to have been defrauded of bis property rights. No ba is enraged In preparing for the publication of a ylnme of Bcotch-American poetry, and his errand to Lord Mnueibnrg is to procure assistance from him. Maisne ia jasc bnudlng into womanhood and feels humiliated wben ber grandfather accepts 50 from Lord Musselbare. Oo the way home she asks her eran father wben be will begin the work. Hhe receives an evasive answer which evidently convinces hsr that ber grandfather Is not in earnest. At last sbe begs her grandfather to allow herto earn a living tor the two. He refuses iu bis prondestveln. intimating tbat people should feel highly honored to have tbe opportunity to assist tbe family of Betlinne of Balloray. Young Yin. Harris overheard the conversation at Lord Mnsjalbnrifs residence and became strangely Interested in tbe yonne girl. Ho had been trained for a brilliant political careers his father is very rich and given to Socialistic ideas. Via. la still studying and finds an excuse In tbe interruptions at his father's bonss to secure a snite of rooms just across tbe street from Maisrie's borne. He has an aunt, Mrs. Ellison, who Is Just now busy impressing blm with tbe Importance of securing an American wife for himself. Intimating that the bride will not be without a liberal dowry If Vln. marries a girl of ber choice. At bis room Vln. Is greatly touched by Malaria's tones on tbe violin, and straightway he secure a piano on which he answers ber plaintive notes. This at last leads to a formal introduction of the yonng people. Vln. invites the pair to visit Henley Regatta At the regatta Mrs. Ellison is prevailed upon by Vln. to meet the Bethunes. Sbe studies them Intently, and Intimates on nart ing tbat aba baa been compromised by tbe visit. Malsrte makes no effort tp conceal from Mrs. Ellison thetr poverty or social standing. Mrs. Ellison consults Lord Muvelbnrgh and comes to tbe conclusion that George Betbune and his daughter are after Vin's money. She starts out to save him, but Malsrle wins her with a song. In order to make possible a tour of Scotland with tbe Bethunos, young Harris writes to an American editor to learn if the ma terials for Mr. Betbune's book conld not be collected by a cleric, thus saving the old man his proposed ocean Journey. He Is astonished to receive in reply a letter stating that a work sjch as Mr. Betbune proposed is on tbe eve of puDlication in America, and worse yet-that Mr. Betbnne knows all abont it. It almost convinces Vin. tbat bis old friend Is a first-claass fraud in having solicited aid for a work he could not possibly bring out CHAPTER IX. DOUBTS AND DREAMS. And at first Vin Harris was for rebel lioutly thrusting aside and ignoring this in formation that had reached him so unex pectedly. Was he, on tbe strength ol a statement forwarded by an unknown corre spondent in New York, to suspect nay, to condemn unheard this proud and solitary old man with whom he bad all this while been on terms of such close and friendly Intimacy? Had he not had ample oppor tunities of judging whether George Bethune was the sort of a person likely to have done this thing that was now charged against him? He went over these past weeks and months. Was it any wonder that the old man's indomitable courage, bis passionate love of his native land, and the constant and assiduous care and affection be be stowed on his granddaughter, should have aroused alike the younger man's admira tion and hib gratitude? What if he talked with too lofty an air of birth and lineage, or allowed his enthusiasm abont Scotland and Scottish song to lead him into the realms of rodomontade; may not an old man have his harmless foibles? Anyone who had wit nessed Maisrie's devotion to her grand father, ber gentle forbearance and consider ation, her skill ul humoring o.' htm, and her never-iailing faith in him, must have got to Eribw what kind of man was old George Bethune. And yet, when Vincent turned to the letter, it seemed terribly simple, and Straightforward, and sincere. There was no vindictiveness in it at all; rather there was a pained snrpne on the part of the writer that a loyal Scot one, too, who had I "WANTED TO SPEAK b:en admitted into tbat fraternity of song writing exiles over tbe water should have been guilty of scch a fligrant breach of trust Then Lord Musselburgh's patronage, as the young man knew very well, had taken the form of a chrqne; so that the charge brought bv the writer of this letter practically was that George Bethnne bad obtained, and might even now be obtaining, money br fraud and lalse pretenaes. It was a bewildering thing an impossible thing to think of. And now. as be strove to con struct all sorts of explanatory hypotheses, there seemed to stand in the background the visionary form of Mrs. Ellison; and her eyes were cold and inquiring.- How had she come to suspect? It was not likely tbat she could be familiar with the Scotch American newspaper office; of the United States. Old George Betbune, as he knew, was quite careless about pecuniary matters; lor exampleil the bill for those little dinners at the various restaurants was paid by some one, tbat was enough; tbe old gentleman m ide no fuither inqntries. He was content to let bis yonng friend settle these trivial details, and Master Vin was willing enongh. In fact, tbe latter had devised a system by which the awkwardness of calling tor tbe bill in Maisrie's presence was avoided; this system worked admirably, and Mr. Betbune asked no questions. Donbtless, if he bad temembered, or taken the trouble, he would have, paid his shot like anyone else. But amid all these conflicting specula tions, there was one poiut on which the mind of this yonng man remained clear and unswerving; and that was that whatever .roistht be the character or career of old Ueorge lietnune, nis principles or nis prac tice1, Maisrie was as far apart and dis sociated from them as if worlds intervened. And tbe more be pqndered, the more anxious he became to know whether Maisrie bad -anv idea of the position in which her grand father was placed. Mow much wonld ne he entitled to tell her, snpi osing she was in Ignorance? And. when could he hops for an opportunity? Fortune favored htm. Toward evening, a little before 6 o'clock, he heard a door shut on the other side of the street; and, lifting his head, he perceived it was Mr. Bethune who hud just come out of tbe honse, alone. Here was a chance not to be missed. Waiting lor a couple of minutes, to mak - R9YSTON. sure that the coast was clear, he passed downstairs, crossed the little thoroughfare, aud knocked. Tbe landlady told him tbat Miss Bethnne was upstairs, and upstairs ha went. The next moment a voice that ha knew well invited him to enter, and there withal the young people found themselves face to face. "You are early," she said, with a little smile of welcome, as she stopped in her sew ing. "Yes," said he, and he added quite frankly, "I saw your father go out and I wished to speak with you alone. The fact is, Maisrie," be continued, taking a chair opposite her, "I have heard Irom America to-day about that proposal I made to get some one to collect materials for yonr grand father's book; and the answer is rather a strange one I don't quite understand per haps you can tell me something abont it" He hesitated, and then went on: "Maisrie, I suppose it never occurred to you that tbat some one else in America might be pro posing to bring ont a similar book?" She looked up quickly, and with a cer tain apprehension in her eyes. "Ob, yes, I knew. My grandfather told me there had been talk of such a thing. What have you heard?" He stared at ber. "You tne ?" said he. "Then surely yon might have told me 1" There was something in his tone soma touch of reproach tbat brought the blood to her lace; and yet she answered calmly and without resentment "Did I not tell you? nor my grand father? Bnt perhaps neither ot us thought it. of mucn .importance, xi was only some vagna talk, as X understood, lor everyone mnst have known that no one was so familiar with the "subject as my grandfather, and tbat it wonld be foolish to try to interfere with him. At tbe same time I have always been anxious that be should get on with the book, for various reasons; and if yon have heard TO YOU ABOUT HEB. anything that will induce him to begin at once, so much the better." It was clear that she was wholly in igno rance of the true state of the case. "No," said he, watching her the while.' "What I have heard will not have that af fect, but rather the reverse. To tell you the plain truth, the American or Scotch American writer has finished his book, and it will be out almost directly." She sprang to her feet with an involun tary gesture, and stood still for a moment, her lips grown suddenly pale and ber eyes bewildered; and then she turned away from him to hide ber emotion, and walked to tho window. Instantly he followed her. "Maisrie, what is the matter!" he ex claimed in astonishment, for he found that her lashes were wet "Oh, it is a shame it is a shame," she said, in broken accents, and her hands wera clenched together, "to steal an od man's good name from him, and tbat fur so small a thing. What barm bad he ever done them? Tbe book was such a small thing they migbt have left it to him what can they gain from it " "But, Manrie " "Oh, you don't understand, Vincent, yon, don't understand at all," she said, in a de spairing sort of way, "how my grandfather will be compromised! He undertook to bring out the book; be got friends to help. him with money; and now now what will they think what can I say to tbem what can I do? I I mast go to them bnt but . what can I say7 ' , Her tears were running afresh now; and at sight of them tbe young man threw to tha winds all his doubts and conjectures con- : cerning George Bethune's honesty. That ' was not me question now. "No. you shall not go to them!" said he. witb indignant eyes. "Yon you go to any one in that wst? No, you shall not I will go. It is a question of money; I will pay them their money back. Tell me who tbey are, and the amounts; and they shall"-, nave every isrtning oi meir money Oackr.j and at once. What can tbey ask for more?"'" jtur a second sne regarded mm with a ' glance o! almost more than gratitude; bat; It was only to sbake her head. "No, how conld I allow you to do that?" What explanation could you make? TharaJ must ber some other way often I have wished tbat my grand, ather woald let' ma I I try to earn something I am willing; eflougia . 3 SB- s --.,.. A t-rriif.fi iLi bW$bHi9K9 .C-3iaSii!!s!ffe.t. . .' rfj
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