PITTSBURG DISPATCH THIRD PART. THE PAGES 17 TO 20. I I r I PITTSBURG-, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1890. OUR BEAUTY SPOTS, Pittsburg Has a Reputation for - Unsightliness Gained in Days of Smoke, AND NOT AT ALL DESERVED. It Has Its Splendid Palaces Set in Boiling Grounds of Green AS WELL AS ITS CLAKG1NG SHOPS. Eapld TranBit to the Suburbs is Enlighten ing Citj Tisitors. COZI HOMES OF THE MIDDLE CLASS W i WMTTlQf TOR THI BISrXTCH.1 HAT stranger has ever come here and gone away without remark ing that Pittsburg is the great workshop of this country? "What stranger who has never been here has any other impres sion than that Pittsburg y is all workshop, covered Wlm grime anu uusw Pertinent is the ques tion: Do visitors see Pittsburg? Truthful is the answer that compar atively few of them do. Most of them cling to the down town district, the river fronts and rail road yards. Coming into town by railroad or steamer, the stranger sees our mills, our factories, our shipping interests. Penetrating to the business quarter "down town" he sees our great business houses, marts of trade and is tussled and confused by the flying cable and electrio cars. He even sees the throng on the principal thor oughfares and wonders "what is going on" or where the crowd comes from. A GLIMPSE OF ALLEGHENY. Now and again the enrious one follows the crowd down Sixth street and over into Allegheny, sees the pretty flower garden parks and the rows of dwelling houses. Then he goes away satisfied that he knows it all, believing our sister city to be the chief residence quarter of Pittsburg. Comparatively very few take the trouble to bo.ird a cable car to the East End, an electric car to Eazelwood, go over on the Southside, slide gently up Alt "Washington or Mt. Oliver on an inclined plane, or pene trate the depths of Lawrenceville. Yet in tiiee places Pittiburgers live, and many thousands of them live well. Beauty spots are not rare in this big town. They are not found on the crowded. narrow streets of the busy triangle, but out in the residence quarters named out in the places where the casual or business visitor never sees them. I venture to say there are further improved and the charms of those popular localities are more widely known. The Dispatch has photographed some Pittsburg homes some of the pretty places where the men of brains and brawn, energy and capital, who have made the city great live. Camera and pencil, paper and ink cannot do jnstice to these places, however. The rich coloring of velvety grass, cluster ing vines and autumn-tinted foliage cannot be reproduced by such means. Even the cozlness of an Oakland home is lost in the stiff Hues of a picture. The beauty spots must be reen to be appreciated. THE EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY. Palaces and private grounds there be out Fifth avenue and Forbes street and in the vicinity on either side that would do credit to any city. These are the homes of wealth, luxury and fashion. They are not few and tar betwecn,but come one after another in such imposinz array that one is led to wonder whether all the people in this busy toivu are rich. Not merely are they evi dences of wealth, but their surroundings and furnithment speak of culture, taste and refinement in eloquent term'. Not all the pretty East End places are given over to the wealthy. The well-to-do NELL G WYNNE'S NAME Perpetuated in What Conkling Called the Holiest Charity THAT ETER BLESSED MAKKIND. Greenwich Hospital Where John Jack Tars Are Trained. Ball's SCHOOLS, FOR OFFICEES AND BEAM EN rOORElSPONDEKCE Or THE D1SPATCH.J Greenwich, England, October 10. Kojcoe Conkling once said to me that Green wich Hospital was "the holiest charity that ever blessed mankind." At the moment he was discussing the caprices ot Charles IX and drawing a picture of the life of Nell Gwynne, who exerted such a wonderful in- IX THE PEETTY OAKLAND DISTRICT. middle slasses are represented with splendid residences, architecturally handsome out side and finely furnished inside. These share the natural beauty of the locality in common with their more pretentious neigh bors. "While not surrounded by spacious grounds, ornamented with shrubbery, flow- WH ill A. Fifth Avenue Residence. 3 W M iff wJwBbmM -$ On the Soultetde mil peopie with business connections in this city who come here three or four times a year, or even once or twice a month who have no idea of the residence quarters of the place. INTO ANOTHER WORLD. Fifth avenue, beyond Soho, is a glad and surprising panorama ot pretty places. Here and there a glimpse is caught of the beauty on either side a little war removed from that poDular thoroughfare. The whole Oakland district is delightful. Yet, be yond East Liberty are lovelv suburban places. Lawrenceville covers th'e transition ers and statuary, they have pretty little laws, terraces and flower gardens about them. Sometimes there is a bright bit of park left, surrounded by the street. All these are evidences of' widespread prosperity. REPUTATION OF THE PAST. All about the vicinity of Schenley Park It is a most desirable residence quarter. It is a mistake to suppose that all tbe charming plaees are out in the suburbs. The city it self is full of then!. Many cities are sur rounded by attractive little suburbs while they are grimy and forbidding, but this is not the case with this city. Vet, it ia.possi ble that no place on this continent has a worse reputation, in this respect, beyond its own limits than the one time "Smokv City." This title was gained in the old coal "days by the city's malchlcss industry, and the idea of soot and dirt clings to many minds long after the reaiity has disappeared from our streets and buildings. Even the workmen, the clerks, in short. the great industrial army, have neat and pleasant homes. Thousands of comfortable dwellings ot pleasing exterior, each with large lot, may be found on the Southside hills above the grime and dirt of the hum ming hive of labor which supports them. Well fnrnished all of them. From' their windows far-reaching views of most attrac tive scenery. THE SMOKELESS FUEL. "With a smokeless fuel this great Indus trial center has also become a most desirable place to abide in. Fine residences afore time have been improved and brightened up, and new ones are appearing all the time. It is not too much to say that a great A HANDSOME EAST END MANSION. from shop life to home life, from dingy tenement to fine residence. Hazelwood captivates the eye with its broad, smooth lawns. The Southside hills are covered with comfortable dwellings, with pleasant and picturesque surroundings. Pittsburgers don t work all the time. They live. I took a friend out in the East End re cently and it was a revelation to him, though he thought he was pretty well ac quainted with Pittsburg. So he was, in a business way "Do you know," he said, I have long had close business connections here, but never thought of living here until n?W u-.. ud no i?e? what aa attractive place Pittsburg really is." A CABLE CAB REVELATION. Before the cable cars surmounted the "hump" and brought th "Ri.f -p-j j Oakland into easy communication with the business district this widespread.ignorance regarding the finest residence quarters of the city was not much to be wondered at. Neither is it difficult to see that people have been viewing the beauties of those sections since tbe means oi communication have been Improved. The hundreds of costly and elegant new residences to be found there fully attest the fact Nor is it hard to look iu the future ana see the greatly in creased demand there will be for homes when the means of communication are many of our own people know all too little of all the delightful places within the city limits. Eeally Pittsburg lives. It is a city of gooa homes, happy, bright and intelligent families. "Workshop it may be, no doubt is. But those who think it is nothing else have merely failed to take into the account the fact that in Pittsburg the shop and living room are not combined. Industry is prom inent here, and people are more generally employed, jierhaps, than anywhere else in tbe world. r It is the fruits of this nnirr.l toil that may be seen in the more pleasant parts of the city. A. E. Crum. fluence over this flippant ruler during the latter years of his reign. I find on a visit to the old place that there is much to justify the American statesman's eulogy of this in stitution, which has grown away from the pill box and plaster into a broad plan of relief and advancement for the young rather than the old, as in times past. The grounds are no longer filled with men disabled by the hardships of a naval life, but with laughing, mischievous and manly boys, who are following in their father's footsteps toward the quarter deck and the mainsail. "Why this ideal school for the education of British seamen should be called a hospital I do not know, except the caprice of the English mind, which always prefers to preserve interesting traditions rather than destroy them, no matter how anomalous they may be. ONLY AN INSIGNIFICANT HOSPITAL. There is one old yellow building just in side the iron fence, which has betn named the Droadaaught Hospital, where the sea men of all nations are still admitted without money and without price; but it cuts a small figure in tbe force or purpose of the place. Here again the sentiment of the over-con servative Englishman is observed in keep ing alive the name of the old war ship, which recalls the victories of Nelson and Britain's commanding position on the high seas ever since the days of Trafalgar. The whole world begins at this point. The marks on every geography which indicate longitude or direction start from the spot upon which I am standing. Evert time you take out your watch, look at the dial on the church steeple, or hear the clock strike, you are dealing with Greenwich, and therefore may be interested in its history and and present condition. Two great schools arc maintained at this place which come closer in contact with the world at large every day than all others in the old world. They were practically founded by an acci dent. "When Charles IL ascended the throne there was an old castle at Greenwich that had fallen into decay during the Com monwealth, vrhen Cromwell put his heavy hand upon so many pet royal palaces. "When the "Merry Monarch" succeeded him and fell under the INFLUENCE OF NELL GWYNNE, after he had abandoned half a dozen other women, she induced him to tear down the old place, and build on its sight a charitable institution to perpetuate his name. If was only completed during the reign of Mary of uraoge, wnen sne lonowea out tbe inten tions of her festive uncle, and dedicated the building in 1694 for the noble purpose for which it was begun. The delay in finishing and dedicating it has caused a conflict ot statement about Nell Gwynne's having es tablished this charity, many neople assert ing that the Chelsea Hospital on the Upper Thames for disabled soldiers was her work. aud nit the sailors' resting place at Green- This doubtless arises from the fact that Nell Gwynne's portrait Is displayed at Chelsea, and not at the Home for the Sea men. Bnt as the two institutions were identical in their establishment, it is now contended that she suggested them both, and really laid tbe foundation for two of the "Holiest charities that ever blessed man kind" instead of one. Be that as it may, if there is any one thing certain in history, it is that she exerted a good influence over the most wayward and jolly King that England ever had, and turned his mind toward many charitable deeds now much reverenced. THE SCHOOL EQUIPMENT. Across the roadway from this old relio on the lower Thames is a lull-rigged ship, and its hulk is securely built into the ground. Around it are beautifully laid oat grounds, with graveled walks and flowered beds. As a background there is a row of old build ings liuked together by long covered cause ways dotted here and there with cannon. In those bouses 1,000 boys are being educated for the royal navy, and on this ship in the yard they are receiving a practical training for the life which awaits them when they leave the school. The whole theory and practice of this in stitution is a model school lor all nations. The training is so careful and so thorough on land, that tbe boys get no experience at sea until they are turned out full fledged seamen ready to take their places da a man-o.-war. Beside the dummy in the yard, where they are taught the use of all the net work of ropes that belong to a big ship, the studr rooms in the houses nr fitted on'ttt all clases of vessels from a small sailboat up; so that the lad begins at the very bot tom round ot the ladder and Is taught how to man, make and repair every elass of ves sel that floats the sea. been abandoned for hospital purposes, the educational idea has been retained and Greenwich is a school for the education of officers forthe navy, the same as our academy at Annapolis. Thus across the street from each other, with only a roadway separating them, the sons of rich and influential people are being prepared for officers, while the poorer lads are taught to do the rougher work on a vessel at sea. THE PARSON'S FAVORED SON. The preacher, I find or a parson, as they call him has a big pull in this country. This class furnish a verv large percentage of me young men who are being educated at the public's expense as midshipmen. The sons of officers who are now in commission or have rendered meritorious services, take precedence in the scramble for a place on England's naval roll, but the parson's son is a power and the influence of the spiritual advisor comes next, while the tradesman's son is last in the race. Although the high toned school is really a cart ot Greenwich Hospital, it has no connection whatever with' the institution where the boys are being prepared, because the association of the two might be rated as a menace to the rule of caste, which, by the way, is weaken ing every day. The floWer-beds which dot the grounds in side tbe iron fence where the boys are schooled are well watered every morning. As I walked among them first I met a round faced, bright-eyed lad, dressed in a sailor's uniform, picking a few cerauiums, and asked him something of his hie. He touched his cap respectfully and we strolled alone the walk together toward the big structures, which, he said, were the study and practice rooms, when he said: SATISFIED -WITH HIS LOT. "They work us pretty hard here, they do. I have been here three years and have got two more to stay. My father was killed at sea, and I came here when I was 11 years old. They won't take boy3 any younger, and they won't take them over 14. No mat ter when you come in, you have got to stay five years oe. ore you go to sea. We are well fed, well clothed and taught everything a sailor needs to know. "We get meat every day and plnm pudding on Sunday. No, we don't get any pay until after we go to sea; but we have a vacation every snmmer, when we go home or stay here, as we please. I have no home, and there are several more boys who have not They stay just as I .do." "Can you ever get to be officers?" I asked. The lad shook his head and replied: "Only petty officers, The boys over there have all got a chance to be commanders; but we have not." The glad's chat about his school life was very interesting, and even at his age he was so well satisfied with the barrier of caste, which prevented his being advanced from the position for which he was being educated, that he made no com plaint; but seemed proud that he was able to get where he was toward a seaman's life. It was probably a better lot than he ever had at home. HE RENTS ANOFFICE- Howard Fielding Ventures Into the Deskroom Business. THE FIGURES WERE FLEASIHG, tfut the Eeaiities Proved Exceedingly Try ing to the Kerves. , EEP0ETS OF THE HIRED COLLECTOR PHYSICAL PERFECTION REQUIRED, Alter leaving the boy, only one of a thousand on the rolls of this wonderful charity, I encountered one of the officers. He said: "The exactions here are very con siderable. That is we are very strict about the medical examination. The boys are watched from year to year, and their physi cal condition carefully noted and looked after. None, bnt a physically perfect lad can get in orremain at this school, and alter they have worked and studied the five years, if there is the slightest question of their physical fitness for service on a man-of-war, they are permitted to go to the merchant serv ice with our fgood wishes; but only a small percentage are thus unfortunate. "it is no easy matter for a boy to get in here. His father must be in, or have been in the royal naval service, and have a good record, to enable his son to be eligible. Then precedence is given to the orphans of such men as have died or been -killed. The boy must also be able to read and writej and be from CO to 6 inches high before he wilt1 be received for examination. They are a manly lot, and this is the most perfect feeder to a naval equipment that has ever been conceived by the wit of man." ROSCOE CONKXING'S WORDS. "When Mr. Conkling made the declaration asto Nell Gwynne's goo"d deeds, which comes so vividiy back to my mind while visiting this place, he also gave this epitome of her life: "Nell Gwynne was born in a coal yard; raised like a blade of grass be tween two cobblestones; an orange girl in a theater: the mistress of an actor and after ward ol a King; the mother of a royal house, and the fonnder of the holiest charity that ever blessed mankind." And here it is on the banks of theThames, with its counterpart farther up the stream. The buildings are gray with age, but its usefulness has kept pace with every day Hie until every man, who carries or looks at a timepiece, is in daily communication with it. Just back of "the boys' school on the brow of a hill, which slooe's down to t?u parade ground, stands the big observatory, which every day at noon indicates time for the civilized world. Hundreds of yeais ago it fixed direction for the navigator and the surveyor. It is as much a feature of human life to-day as ever, and is in such close com munion with all mankind, that it tonches elbows with the citizens of all climes every 24 hours. Greenwich is vour neighbor, and its remarkable history belongs as much to one nation as another. Frank A. bubr. rwErmji tor the dispatch. l My friends told me that I ought to have an office. "What for?" I ventured to' Inquire. "I haven't any business." "That doesn't make any difference," they insisted. "Everybody in New York has an office whether he has any business or not." They said that an office would give me an apparent importance in the eyes of strangers, and make me useful to my friends. I didn't understand the last part of this till the boys began to drop in on me and borrow half dollars for lnnch. This was alter I hired the office. It was a hole in a building on Broadway. This hole had a window which opened on another hole which was called a light shaft, because it had to be artificially lighted in order to make anything visible in it. WOULDN'T COST A CENT. The boys had told me that I would not have to spend a dollar for rent. I could clear my expenses by letting deskroom. The cractice is very common in New York. In fact, the stranger's first impression of this city is that all the people are miking a liv ing by collecting rent of each other. l did not have a bit of trouble in getting j-o a weeit a naa so nuea tbe place reaiiy wasn't room lor myself, business and I was en- th.a rent be said he didn't have it. bnt guessed Brown would lend It to him. I guess not. This hopeful communication was followed in the next mail by this: ENCOUNTER 'WITH A DOG. Had a tussle with Davis, the Notary Public, to-day. When I mentioned rent be set his doe on me. Do you know what a Notary Public's dog is? it's tbe big iron seal he stamps papers with. It has a dog's head on It. He took it by tbe handle and said he'd put his official seal on my cerebellum if I ever mentioned the subject to him again. When this rumens occurred the Colonel was telling how he bisected Jim Waters. After it was over I found tbe Colonel tenants, that there bnt it looked like Wailiigor Mail. FEED HTJSSETS HEW BOOTS. Washing the Imperial Elephants. Bt James Gazette. The Emperorof China having commanded the Board of Astronomy to appoint an auspicious day for the annual washing of the imperial elephants, August 17, at the first hour, was the day appointed, and the officers of the Board of Ceremonies put up temporarily mat sheds beautifully decorated on tbe north side of the creek, outside tbe Hsuan "Wu Men, Peking, where the im perial elephants received an ovation. Vari ous ceremonies were performed before they took their annual bathr BROAD EDUCATION, TOO. Besides this he is given a tiorougB "En glish education, the British idea being: that the mora intelligent a man is the bitter sol dier or seaman, if well disciplined, he will be. Perhaps nothing could beter illustrate me power ana purpose of this Government, so fur as its water commerce is concerned, than this school devoted to the mental and physical training of young bovs for its men-of-war and merchant marine. "The hospital whicnNell Gwynne made possible by her in fluence with Charles IL created all this. That institution grew very rich "through do nations and small assessments upon the ablebodied men in the royal naval service. The idea of a school was a part of the orig inal conception, and it was carried . ut at rapidly as possible. It has grown immensely, and vhile the new buildings which are built arannd h first one, now used as a picture gallery, have Frank G. Carpenter Tells on Amusing Story of His Newspaper Friend. Frank G. Carpenter tells a good story nbont his friend, Colonel Fred Mussey, now managing editor of the Cincinnati Commer cial Gazette. It was when Fred was a boy of 5, he writes to The Dispatch, in one of the backwoods villaees of Vermont that he got his first new boots. They were red topped and copper-toed, and when Freddy first tried them on he was the proudest boy in the whole Green Mountain State. "He strutted up and down the street in front of the house, and stamped along tbe wide hall of the old double house in which his father lived, making as much noise as though his feet were soled with lead. As he did this his elder brother who knew that the event, so momentous to Fred, was to come off that morning, came into the hall. He did not look at Fred's boots, but, sniffing loudly with his nostrils dilated as he turned his head this way and that,said,In au excited tone: "What's this I smell? I smell new leather," and then looking all about the floor he at last fixed his eyes on Fred's feet and concluded: "Why, it's little Fred's new boots." And with this Fred swelled more than ever nntll he looked a fat little boy that he was, like the frog in Esop's fables that tried to blow itself ud as bier as a. hnll. And so the early mornin? went nff. Reform s o'clock everyone in the village knew of Fred's new boots, and he persuaded his mother to let him go with his elder brother to the country school and wear them. The two got there a little late, and Fred as soon as he entered tbeschoolroom in order to call attention to his greatness, con cluded to imitate bis brother, and in shrill piping tones, as he sniffed his nose in the air, he cried out: "What's this I smell? I smell new leatherl Why!" and here he lifted up oDe leg so that half the school could see his foot, "It must be my new boots.'' It is needless to say that the school broke into a laugh and that his boots were generally admired. : , Eepairs Needed All Around. MewYorfcHermld.j Parson Prosy (who has brought the archi tect to see about repairing the church) There's a good deal of dry rot in the south gallery, Mr. Gable. Gable Jess so. narenn! and the' rrnnA f?fnT fflon tn t.Al. haw-. .. .I .1!. - una u UVkU UaiS BUU iUijllf couraged. I figured a clear profit of 60 cents a month, making an allowance for car fare and lunches down-town. True, it wasn't much of a place to write in. Old Barrow, tbe real estate dealer, used to put his feet on his desk and go to sieep. xsarrow wasn t an energetio man, when he was awake, but he snored so dili gently as anybody I ever knew. And then his poor old head wonld hang over the chair in frightful positions, till Tjy and by it would droop straight backward, and his eyes, sightless in sleep, would stare at me and give me a nightmare, too. Barrow was not beautiful in any position, but I could contemplate his countenance' more calmly when it was right side up. f RADTICE OF REAL ESTATE MEN. Beal estate men in New York rarely have a customer, bnt, when they do. they get the boots oS his feet and the coat off his back, and rob his grand mother and his widow "and his orphaned children, after which they take the money to Wall street where thev "blow it i ,ln. alnea,tbej- return to -their cages and nuii. lur uuuiucr special proriuence. But the most annoying of my tenants was a man whom I scarcely ever saw. He said he didn't want an office except as a place to get his mail. He also hinted that one or two of his friends mieht like to have their letters come in his care. I interposed no objection because I didn't understand the situation. It wasn't long before this man's friends began to drop in to get their mail. I may as well .say right here that I never saw a letter for any of them, but they were always waiting for one, and they took all the chairs in the office, and when the chairs gave out the rest oi the party sat on mv desk. THE KENTUCKY COLONEL, Then those that had cbairs drew them up and put their ieet on the desk, and a Ken tucKy Colonel stood at one end of it and told them stones. Tbe Colonel smoked a clay pipe and cut his plug tobacco with a pocket knife which had a blade six inches long. While he cut the tobacco he told stories, and in the exciting parts he pounded on the desk with tbe Handle of the knife. Every time I began a feeble remonstrance oocot'the Colonel's staff would say: "Colonel, tell us about the time you cut Slim Jim Waters in tnro with that 'ere knife.- Ef I don't disremember Jim, he favored our Irlen' here 'bout the same figur', wasn't he?" 1 was "our fnen'," and I did not care to die in two separate places, as poor Jim Office on Rent Day. under a table engaged in prayer. He said he had drooped a piece of tobacco. I didn't force matters with Davis because I wished to avoid bloodshed. If there must be any I should pre fer that it would occur after your return. I thought very likely it would. I wrote Eddie to be gentle but firm, and to get the rent money if he had to steal it- His next letter contained the following record of clever financiering: ONE BILL PAID. Caught the artist to-day. Said to myself that I must collect of somebody and conldn't think of any way to do it. Finally told Billings I'd plav bini seven-nr. He's always telling me about his hard luck, and I thought It wonld be a snap to win the rent out of him. But my lack was enough to ruin a millionaire. Billings got me for S7. I gave him my I. O. U.. and then he said he'd pay the rent, so he gave me back the L O. U and I'm saving It for yon, old man. So j on see I've made one collection, anyway. Eddie is a good lellow, but his paper is subject to a heavy discosnt I think I would rather have taken a sketch by Bill ings. Affairs were getting serious; but Ed die's next letter made them worse. I brought matters to a head to-day Barrow wouldn't settle and so I got the janitor's man to put the old fellow's desk and chair loto the elevator and run them down to the gronnd floor. When Barrow saw this be smiled like a bauimer-beaded shark- nittnrnnirnTa.tnhHo Then he went for a lawyer, who Informed me that I bad given grounds for action. I asked them what they were coing to do abont It. ani they said nothing so far as I was concerned, because I was only your agent, bnt they pro posed tO SUe VOU for S1.S0O. Awfnl nnrrvr nlrt man. but thought I was acting for the best. Haven't seen old Barrow so cheerful for weeks. Don't you think you'd better come back? GOING TO COLLECT HIMSELF. I thought I had. The next train was none too soon for me. I reached New York abont noon and hurried toward the office. Near the door I met Marshall. "What are you going to do?" he asked. "Going to collect that rent," 1 replied. "No use," said he; "there isn't a man np there. I told 'em all yesterday that the money would have to be paid at noon to day. ' When I went there I found the place as lonely as Jim Healey's grave. You re member Jim? He was blown up in a pow der mill and bis remains couldn't be found. That's the way with those cormorants. Go up and take a look." t I did so. There stood the desks in a row, andnot'nrman-itrsight. Eyerv desk had a sign on it. Here are some of them: ALL UNAVOIDABLY ABSENT. "Called away by sudden death." "Gone to visit my grandmother's grave. Return Friday." "Please call again." "Eddie," said I, "lefs put the whole crowa out. A NOVEL DEALING WITH COTEMPORABY LIFE. WRITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH. BY WILLIAM BLACK, Author of "A Princess of Thule," "Sunrise," and Many Other Stories of the Highest Reputation on Ttvo Continents, , CHAPTER XVI. ON THE BRlMK. Nay, be could see but the one clear and resolute way out of all these perplexities, which was that he should forthwith and without further preamble marry JIaurie Bethune; thereafter his relatives might do or say whatever it most pleased them to do or say. This would be bis answer to the vague but persistent suspicions of Mrs. Ellison, and to the more precise but none the less preposterous accusations of his father. Then as regards Msisrie herself, would not this conclusive act banish all those dim presentiments and alarms with which she seemed to regard the inture? And if her present circumstances involved her in humiliation, he would take her out of these. The beautifnl fair young bride could be prettily housed somewhere, safe away from the intrusion of any process server. And as for old George Bethune, ought he not to welcome this guardianship that would succeed his own? The happi ness of his granddaughter seemed to be his first care; and here was a stay and bulwark for her, a protection for her when his own shenld be withdrawn in the natural course of things. This solution of the difficulty seemed rea sonable and simple, though sometimes his arguments wonld get lost in a flood of wild and apparently so unconscious of it. too. (-Again and again I noticed peoplu half-turn their heads to get another glimpse ot her as she went by and no wonder why, really, such a carriage such an air of distinction and qniet self-possession, for all she looked so young I never was so surprised in all mv life. Oh, a most beautiful creature and that I must say in common honesty, whatever comes of it." Nay, the very incoherence of his prsisa was proof of its sincerity; and Vincent's face burned with pleasure and pride. How could sweeter words have been ponred into a lover's ears? "Did you chance to notice her hair? did you?" said he, eagerly. "Ah, but it is braided up just now: if yon; could only see it as she used to wear it flowing loose, that is why, it's the most wonderful thing yoa eversaw a kind of of splendor when the sunlight is on it you never saw such a beautiful color, and 'so quiet and soft at the same time. Yes, you must really see that, to do her justice, you know," the young man said in his surprise and delight at having at last ionnd one sympathetic con fidant. "I'll tell you what'l'U do: the next time she is going ont for a walk I will ask her to let her hair down; and I will giva you a hint beforehand, so that you may come along " "Viu, what are you talking about!" his friend said and prudently he did not laugh he only looked amused. "You couldn't ask a girl to do such a thing as that!" "Oh, yes, I could," be said, "And I'm "Can't do it without regular naDers." said he. "I've foand out about it. The papers will cost 87 apiece and the average rent due js omy cj apiece, a allow apiece. I allow tbat it's S2 apiece cheaper to let 'era stav than to put .iii uut. nun uo you ugure 11T t I've been figuring on it ever since. Eddie is right about the law, and, by its provisions I can't see why those fellows aren't quar tered on me indefinitely. Howard Fielding. . of TIN., YOU'RE NOT GOING TO QUARREL WITH ME. BOTJCICATttl'S 1AST WOBK V Jient is Robbery. Waters did, according fo the Colonel's story; so I said no more. GLAD TO GET AWAT. The cares of this office weighed upon me. I was afraid it would involve me in a scan dal. Tbe Colonel might cut somebody in two, or Barrow's head might fail off in his sleep. On the whole I was very uneasy, and Ilonged to accept an invitation sent me by some relatives who wanted me to visit them in their quiet home in Ohio. If I had known what to do with the office I wonld have cone at once. i In this emergency a star of hope appeared in the form of a young man named Edward Marshall. "Eddie" was a good boy and very ambitious. He volunteered to run the omce and collect the rents while I was gone. He said that if there was anything in the world he enjoyed it was making other peo ple pay up in time and bebusiness-like in their methods. I had saved up money enough for the next month's rent, but as Eddie was going to collect from the other fellows I spent "the sum in buying a Buit of clothes calculated to astonish the entire State of Ohio. REPORTS NOT VERT SATISFACTORY. die week of my little vacation had passed away when I received this note from Eddie: I have begun collection. Started with Jack Billings, the artist. He is temporarily embar rassed. Billings draws very fair pictures, but be can t draw to a four-card flush. This is why he is broke all the time. A few days later came this: Barrow, tbe real estate man, hasn't a cent Llone as if ner IICe depended on it. uui.BuqimH, i nave learned tnatnenad desk room with Brown, on the fourth floor, be fore he camo up here. Ho was there two year, and onei Brown rent for 24 months; also S178 borrowed money. Brown, you'll remembor, is the man wholntrorinrAri umw m mn Mhii Atnunin.jjrvra?Wb.en I struck Barrow for I Clara Belle ruralslied the Plot and Wrote Half the Chapters. That versatile genius, Dion Boucicanlt, is dead, and I was the last person with whom he did any literary work, writes Clara Belle to The Dispatch. We were chat ting one day on the subject of plots for novels and plays, and he expressed a doubt of the possibility of anything absolutely new in that line. I disputed that. "Well," said he, "if you will invent an entirely original theme, I will go into part nership with you to write it up." "Then here it is," I responded. "In all your own concoctions of plots, and In all your, appropriations of other folks' plots, have yon come across one in which a hus band deliberately placed his wife as the bride of another man in order to get this second husband's money, as soon as he should die, which an incurable malady dooms him to do within a year or so?" "No, I haven't, and it is a right down good one. The title ought to be 'Two Men's Bride.' Shall we write it?" Boucicault was an impulsive man, and before parting we had settled it to write alternate chapters of tbe proposed romance. That is howl came to be the genius' collabo rator in a novel, the completion of which between us constituted his last composition on earth, " We labored very pleasantly, each being unhampered by the other in his or her own chapters, but discussing together the general plan and its execution. Boucicault always (did his writing in Bolitude, and with a pen. I knew of his having dictated to a stenog rapher, as rapidly as ordinary talk, a quiet thougbtful and considerate article for the North American Review, and was therefore surprised when he said: "I never undertake to makefictionhastily. I must see it go out from the poiut of my pen iu black ink right onto white paper. Opinions can be phrased glibly enough, but 10 oriKiuaic murr uiiuer. witn eiannrata scenes and characterization is slow work if well done." We differ only on one point, and that was whether, in the estimation of the novel read ing public, woman or money is the more in teresting. He insisted -tnat the duplex b-ide of our story was the prime object, while I argued that the million in money) at" which the scheme aimed, was of more popular consequence. Bnt he con vinced me that he was right, and so we agreed on "Two Men's Bride," as- the title, just as he had at first proposed. Had he lived a little longer the story would have been put into dramatic form for theatrical use. ' A Dance on the Street. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There were few people on the sidewalks and plenty of room for evervbodv. Sud denly we met a well-dressed lady hurrying My friend stepped to tbe right So did she. He skipped two feet to the Ieftf she was there. He tried the right track again, and met her squarely lace to face. "Whleh shall it be. madam," he exclaimed in abreath, "a wallaj one of the most beautiful creatures 1 ever wonder and joy; and entrancing visions of that pretty canary caee he meant to se curer-down by Chelsea way, perhaps, or np abont Campden Hill, or it might be ont among some suburban gardens wonld in terfere with the cool and accurate represent ations lie was preparing to lay before his friends. For, after all, simple as the solu tion appeared, there were ways and means to be considered. Vin Harris was now about to discover nay, he already per- ceiveu mat lor a young man to oe Drought np without any aefiuite calling meant a de cided crippling of his independence. The canary cage, charming and idyllic as it might be, would cost something, even if he went as far as Shepherd's Bush or Hammer smith; and the little fortune that had been left him did not prodnce ranch of an annual income. Then again his father: would not the great Socialist (on paper) instantly withdraw the handsome allowance he had hitherto made, on hearing that his son contemplated mar rying that dangerous person, that low-born adventures, tbat creature of the slums? For Vincent Harris was not given to dis gaisibg things from himself. He knew that these were the phrases which his father would doubtless apply to Maisrie Bethune. Not tbat they or any other phrases were of mncn import; the capitalist-communist was welcome to invent and use as many as he chose. But his opposition to this marriage, which was almost to be counted on, might become a very serious affair lor everybody concerned. Next morning Vincent was up betimes; and at an early hour he went along to the Bedford Hotel. He was told that Lord Mnsselburg was in the coffee room; and thither he accordingly proceeded. "Ob. ves. I'll have some breakfast, thank you," said he, as he took a seat at tbe small table. "Anything some whitefish tea- anything. The fact is, Musselbnrg, I want to speak to yon, if you can give me a little time. Something of importance, too to me at least " "Let me tell you this, Vin, first of all," said the elder ot the two young men, with a smile. "You'll have to make your peace with Mrs. Ellison. She's mortally offended at the notion of yonr coming to Brighton and going to a hotel. I suppose you imagined she didn't know you had come down? We saw you yesterday." "Where?" said Vincent, qnickly. "In the Marine Parade. We followed yon some little way if you- had turned round you would nave seen us. "What time?" "Why, about 1, 1 should think." "Then then you saw ' "Yes, we saw" said the other. There was a moment's silence; Vln's eyes were fixed on his companion with a enrious expectancy and prayer; had this friend of his, if he were a friend at all, no approving word to say about Maisrie? Well, Lord Musselburgh was an exceed ingly good-natured young man: and on this occasion he did not allow a selfish discretion to get the better of him. "I don't know that I Intended to tell you," said he. "Fact is, Mrs. Ellison hinted that I'd better follow her example, and have nothing to say on a certain sub ject; bnt, really, Vin, really I had no idea really " "Yes? what?" said Vincent, rather breathlessly. "Well, to be candid with you, I never was so surprised in all my Hie. Why, you remember that afternoon m Piccadilly, when I first saw them perhaps I did not pay much attention to the girl she seemed a slip of a girl pretty, ob, ves, pretty enough; but yesterday when I saw her yesterday by breorge, she's grown to be or a schottische7" Wlfth fl1trrifal wllA f T,rfit9 Itnt 4k sure she will do it she is so unaffected and kind and good humored. Dou't you see, it must be excellent for the hair to have a sua bath at times, to hang loose, and let the sua and' the air get at it I'm snre it must bo good for tbe hair not to be continually braided up like that And I should like you to see her, if only for a moment with her hair hanging free in the sunlight. If possible, and blown about by the wind yoa never saw anything so beautiful! Of course, it will make her look very young too vonng, perhaps younger than she really is; but then, on the other hand, her exoression is rather beyond her years she is grave and thoughtful so that will make np. Did yoa notice how light her step was?" he contin ued, and bis breakfast received but scant attention, now that he bad fonnd someone to whom he could talk on this enchanting and all-engrossing theme. "A light and graceful step means more than mere youth and health it means a perfect and supple figure as well? Did yoa think she was rather pale?" ha asked but only to answer his own ques tion. "Yes, I dare say you might think sha was rather pale. But mind you, that is not because she is delicate ob, dear, no! not in tbe least; it is the natural fineness of her complexion; and when brisk walking, or & cold wind blowing, brings color into her cheeks, then that is all the rarer and mora beautiful. Of course yoa conldn't see her eyes at all? she doesn't stare at people la the streets; she seems to find the sea mora interesting when we are walking np and down; but they are the clearest, the most expressive, eyes yoa could imagine! Sha hardly has to speak she has only to look I I do think blue gray is by far the prettiest color of eyes; they vary so much; I've seen Maisrie Bethune's eyes quite distinctly bins that is when she is very strong and well, and ont in the open air. T don't suppose it possible that any reflection from the sky or sea can affect the color of the eyes; it must be simply that she is in the fresh.air, and stimnlated with exercise and happy " He paused for a second. "Is then anything so very amusing?" "To tell yon the truth, Vin,', his com panion admitted, "I was thinking that whea you came in yon announced yon had some thing of importance to say " "Instead of which I have been talking about Miss Bethune," Vincent said, with out taking any offense. "But who began? I thought it was yoa who introduced the subject and yon seemed interested in her appearance " "Oh, yes, of course, of course," the young" nobleman said, good natnrtdly. "I beg your pardon. And I understand how the subject may be of importance to yon " "Well, yes, it is," said Vincent, calmly, "For I propose to marry Miss Bethune, and at once, if she will consent" Mnsselburgh looked np quickly, and hia face was grave enough now. "You don't mean it, Vin?" "That is precisely what I do mean," ths young man said. "I thought I had fancied that certain things had been found out" his tnend stam mered, and then stopped; forit was a hazard ous topic "Ob, yoa have been told too?" Vincent said, with a careless disdain. "Well, whea I heard those charges brought against Miss Bethune's grandfather, I did not choose to answer them; bnt speaking abont him to you is another thing, and I may say to yon, once for all, that more preposterous trash was never Invented. I won't deny," he continued, with a perfectly simple, lrank ness, "tbat there are one ortwo things about Jlr. Bethune that I cannot quite explain that I rather shut my eyes to, and perhaps) there are one or twa things tbat one might 1 l beheldVr And to distinguished-looking idea that this old man, with his alao ej. - At i-
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