essssES&m 53israK31 ITF1' "sTg i"'W ?- 7m&Zrif! Tfppr rF' fPp5 V&' THE 'Sv 'i PITTSBURG TOSFATCH : PAGES 17 TO 24. THIRD PART. 1 OR PITTSBURG A Bange of Mountains Over a Mile Lous Filed Up on the Banks of lake Erie for Shipment .KEIBLT A MILLION TONS OF IT. Jloniter Machinery Used in Unloading Twseli, Loading Cars and Build ing tht Mountains. EOMEIHISQ ABOUT THE COAL TE1DE. Star Sttia TUt Ksy Hik Grain ttoi of til Infant cf tit Du City's fiuiatu. rwsmzjc ros the du-a.tch.1 Traveling Crane. HAT .stomachs the blast furnaces of Pittsburg have! Toe quantity of food they will hold is al most beyond belief, and the wonder is that metal dyspepsia is not oftener beard wi as out f the Iron City's industrial diseases. Did you ever ascend to the top of Carrie Furnace, of Soho Furnace, orof Isa bella Furnace, and look down its cadaverous mouth down, down, down, until you caught a glimpse of its glowing, seething, hissing and writhing bowels? If you have you surely marveled at the regularity, the never-ceasing, endless flow with winch the iron ore comes up the eleva tor shaft to teed the monster who never sleeps. Night and day this feeding goes on. "Where is the kitchen so large as to furnish this enormous and continuous feast for Vulcan? A. VAST TAXTRT. And there is the cupola and labratory of the blast furnace you find the kitchen of the iron industry. But its cupboards are filled from some other source. You are not satis fied, and want to go btill farther. "Well, one day last week I stood in the pantry of Pittsburg's industrial cuisine. It is unroofed, save by the sty, and yet has two grand portals, one at either end. That at the north entrance is a government light house, on the blue snore of Lake Erie, and that at the southern door is a mass of rail road semaphore signals. In past the one glides the white sails from Lake Superior, and out past the other rolls the ponderous, sulphurous locomotives of the Pittsburg and "Western Railroad. It is Fairport The tails have floated a cargo of lood iron ore to the lockers of the pantry: the railroad has received from the hands of the steward the contents of the shelves for transfer to the caldron bouses. MOUXTAIXS OP OBE. There, in the midst of plenty, I stood appalled at the extent of Pittsburg's insa tiable appetite. In front of me, back of me, to my left and on my right, were mount ains of iron ore mountains in miniature. Each pile had the conical shape and sharp peak, rising to the height of 50 and 75 feet. You could count them, because, like the Alps, mountain over mountain appeared. There were hundreds of them, and in tiers of three or lour deep they lay in straight lines one mile and a sixth by actual meas urement. How much ore is here stored? Guess. It would be as great a puzzle to you as the number ol beans in a Sunday school les tivaljar. You would miss it ten times to one. On Monday at 1 P. K. the hour I was there there were in all 762,000 tone, or 1, 24,000,000 pounds of ore on these lake docks at Fairport. Try and grasp thatl OVER ONE MILLION TONS. In that hour, too, a vessel was unloading by machinery which wast adding to this gigantic pile at the rate of exactly one ton per minute, and lor the reason that some thousands of tons would thus be added by the next evening I am particular to give the time of day I was there. But that is not all. Around me stood the men who have this year unloaded 1,100,000 tons of ore at these dock s, and most of it for Pittsburg furnaces. Yes, indeed, that stupendous basket! ul -of iron food would overload Piusburs's industrial stomach. and paralyze the city with a severe fit of indigestion, it passed through ber kitchen all at once. So far tins year the furnace jaws reached by the Fairport docks nave th-refore been only allowed to swallow some 340,000 tons, leaving the 7CO.O0O tons still in the big pantry. A TRAIN 400 MILES LONG. Seven hundred and sixty-two thousand tons mean a great deal. It all shipments to Fairport from the ore mines of 'Lake Su perior and Lake Michigan were to cease, it wouid take the Pittsbu rg and Western Rail road, at its present rapid rate of shipments to Pittsburg, a year and a half to clear off the docks. Averaging from 10 to 15 tons per railroad car as a load, and that is a very liberal estimate, it vrould require from 60, 000 to 70,000 cars to carry off all this accu mulation of ore simultaneous v. Suppose these cars were made up into one trim, how long would the train be ? Each freight or gondola car is 35 feet long, in cluding the coupling space between cars. At that rate it would only take 150 cars to cover a mile. The train of 60,000 to 75,000 cars would conttquently stretch from 400 to C00 miles the distance between Pittsburg and New York City. But the ore trains of to-day will only average from 20 to 25 cars ach. AS GOOD AS GOLD. The ore thus stored at Fairport has an average value of 53 per ton. The immense bulk is therefore worth 3,810,000 in cold cash. Pretty costly provender, but the fur naces of Pittsburg must have it! The ore and coal dorks at Fairoort. O., are owned largely by Pittsburg capitalists! lhey are a sort of storage place for the ere as 'it comes in from the lakes, from which the furnaces can draw much or little at their pleasure. They were built in 1886. At that time Fairport was a small lake porf re ceiving perhaps 30,000 or 40,000 tons of ore per year, an amount which is now only a fair day's business there. The firms com posing the organization which built the great docks now operated are Carnegie Phipps & Co., the Oliver Iron and Steel Company, Moorhead, McClean &f Co., Isa g bella Furnace Company, Monongahela Fur nace Company, Carrie Furnace Company, all of Pittsburg; the Girard Iron Company and the Briar Hill Iron Company, of Youngstown. A GREAT ENTERPRISE. These furnace proprietors sell and ship ore from their docks to other furnaces not in the company, and at the present time Fair port docks supply iron furnaces in Pitts burg, the Mahoning "Valley and the Shcn ango Valley. It took several million dol lars to build the piers, which extend along Grand river clear ont to Lake Erie. The river bad to be dredged extensively to make it navigable a mile inland for large lake steamers. That was only one small item of the heavy character of "the worn accom plished, however. Fairport is about 136 miles from Pittsbnrg by the Pittsburg and Western Railroad, and two miles north ot Painesville, the terminus of the Lake division of that road. The Pittsburg and "Western "Railroad holds the key to that entire section of lake front, and the franchises have grown enormously valuable within the last three years on ac count of the ore and coal tonnage to and from Pittsburg and the other manufactur ing districts or Pennsylvania and Ohio. DOCKS OVER A 2IILE LONG. Prom the lake shore back the docks are 6,600 feet long. Of the floored docks 3,800 feet are 200 feet wide. The balance ot the length has a storage width of 340 feet In this magnificent area is more storage capac ity than any other docks on Lake Erie, not excepting Cleveland or Ashtabula. When lake navigation is at its height COO men are employed at Fairport It is interesting to watch the process of unloading the ore from the vessels, transfer ring it to the railroad cars, or else storing it for future demand. The machinery operated at Fairport for this purpose is ponderous and powerful. Instantaneons photographs which I took of this machinery while it was in operation will help the reader to under stand the system. The vessels are unloaded by two methods. One is by great traveling cranes the Mc- THE STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK. Michael cranes which drop buckets into the holds of the ships, hoist them out again, and swing them over to the Jrailroad tracks on the pier, where the ore is dropped from adjustable buctet bottoms into the freight cars. The dock company owns 30 of these enormous machines. They move, on a double-wide railroad" track close to the water's edge; and the wbol bed 'of the car" revolves, something after the fashion of the merry go-round. But there is another style of apparatus for unloading vessels, and it is more gigantic and costlier. It is the system of overhead iron tramways on which run little cars, sus pended on which are huge buckets. A ves sel is run under the end of one of these tram way system's when it is desired to place its cargo in storage on the docks rather than load it on the railroad trains immediately. ON AERIAL TRAMWAYS. On Monday the good ship Hespar, of Cleveland, was under one of these tramway systems. Three of the great iron buckets were constantly dropping down into her hold and rising up high above the deck alternately. Each bucket held one ton of ore, and as the regularity of their transit was perfect all day, the aggregate of work for that one tramway gave me an example of what busy scenes there must be when the harbor of Fairport contains 15 or 20 steamers and ships, as it often does in summer. "When the tramway cable hoists a bucket out of the vessel every minute, it carries it swiltly back 200 or 300 feet over the tops of the mountains of ore to the ore piles iu the rear of the docks. You stand 100 feet be neath these flying five-ton buckets and never quiver for fear, for the aerial tramways are of the best workmanship. The end pillars of iron and stone are warranted to have a tensile strength that would put the shine on some city bridges. VERV INGENIOUSLY ARRANGED. The tramways are known among the men as the Brown cantilever machinery. Ther are actually built on the same architectural principle as the celebrated cantilever bridge at Niagara Falls. The manner in which the ends of these wonderful little iron tracks stick out over the ore piles without supports of any kind is well illustrated in one of the accompanying photographs. With this ingeuious machinery it is possi ble at Fairport to unload in one day a ves sel of 200 tons gross capacity. And so much of the machinery have they that 11 vessels can be unloaded and three vessels loaded with coal at the same time. Lake vessels in the -ore and coal trade average all the way from 1,600 to 3,000 tons capacity. In unloading snips three hatches are worked at once, with seven men to the hatch. These men are paid by the contract system, 7 cents V-UJ '& CANTILEVER BUCKETS AT per Ion being paid for shoveling ore into the buckets down in the ship's hold. SEPARATING THE ORES. Now comes the other part of the work. "When it is desired to load railroad cars from the storage piles of ore a still different kind of machine is used. The docks are divided up into spaces for the various kinds of ore, of which there are a great many. Ore is received there from Escanaba, Glad stone, Marquette, on Lake Michigan; from Ashland, Two Harbors and Duluth, on Lake Superior. When a Pittsburg furnaceman sends in hls requisition for, say, ten carloads of Es canaba ore, the train is shifted along the tracks to the space ocoupied by the artificial mountains of ore of that brand. Then a monstrous steam shovel is hauled beside it by the locomotive. This shovel is almost exactly similar to the steam shovels used by the Pennsylvania Railroad in its construc tion work at Johnstown last year. Its heavy iron-bound scoop-bucket is edged with a $& THE CANTILEVERS series of sharp steel tooth-like projections. HUGE STEAM SHOVELS. "When everything is ready the crane swing ing this scoop draws back, and with a lot of buss and noise the bucket makes a wicked lunge at the ore pile. The teeth dig right into the tough dirt, and in less than two minutes the iron pail swings clear in the air, brimful of ore. Then a lever is pulled by the engineer in his cab, and around re volves the crane. "When the bucket poisls exactly oyer the car, the adjustable bottom is released, and with a loud report more than a ton of iron in embryo drops upon the floor of the car. One of these steam .-ditrvelsTrilHoa'd a car in less than ten minutes. The'fastest work ever done with 'the machine at Fairport was to load six cars of 60,000 pounds capacity each, in 27 minutes." The average work of one of the shovels is ten cars of the Pitts burg and "Western road per hour. The com pany operates two of these steam shovels constantly, with five men to each shovel. PITTSBURG COAL BOOMING. Tne 'railroad capacity of the docks is 300 THE MOUNTAINS OF cars per day, but at present only about 200 cars per day are being loaded. Navigation on the lakes is about closing for the winter, but the work of loading and shipping ore by rail will go on uninterruptedly, steadily de creasing the vast accumulations of the ore The coal shipments from Fairport are growing to be an important item for Pittsburg also. Many of the same trains which carry ore down from Fairport to Pittsburg come back laden with Pittsburg coal, which is loaded into the vessels for the head of Lake Superior, and all points on Lake Michigan. Tha receiptsjof coil at Fairport this year from Pittsburg have been TVOEK ON A STEAMER. 150,000 tons thus far. All along the line of the Pittshnre nnrl Woetarn T&Ailrnad coal trains -are scattered, and it is a safe state- ment to make that if you look ont of the car windows at any point between Paines ville and Pittsburg, you will see either a coal or ore train on the sidings. Though black and red in color, it is a royal proces sion for the Iron City. REACHING FOR GRAIN ALSO. An immense addition is now being built to the docks. The new docks are called the Richmond docks, becanse they are in the village of Richmond just across the Grand ' - ' i i r ..r583a SSS5S55S. jj PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, river from Fairport They are intended for the shipment and storage of grain and gen eral merchandise. The docks will be 1,200 feet long. On them is beng built a million bushel grain elevator, the smote stack of which will be 175 feet high; also a storage house 460x100 feet, and other freight ware houses. The venture is hoped to develop a trade with Pittsburg, Baltimore and inter mediate points. J FROM THE REAR. The Pittsburg and Ohio capital invested in the Fairport docks goes under three different names, viz: The Consumers' For warding and Storage Company, the Penn sylvania and Lake Erie Doct Company, and the Pittsburg, Fairport and Northwest ern Railroad Company. Mr. J. R. Irwin, of" Painesville, a former Pittsburg gentleman, is Superintendent of the docks. Such a vast property could not have a more capable manager. He is affa ble and courteous', combining all the quali ties that make a successful business man. SHIPS NAMED FOR PITTSBURGERS. John McA. Gallagher, a former journal ist of Pittsburg, is chief clerk to Superin tendent Irwin. He can tell you anything from the size of a jib mast ten miles out on the lake, down to the inside facts about the railroad curve problem. The waves of Erie are plowed by two im mense steamers owned by the dock company, the John Harper and the Alex. Niniick, both named after Pittsburg bankers. They were both built for the ore trade. Two powerful tugs are also owned and manned by the company to go out to rough water and meet large vessels for the purpose of help ing them into port And on land the cor poration owns two locomotives to assist the trains of the railroads. And thushas Pitts burg capital joined the hands of the mariner and locomotive engineer. L. E. Stofiel. BURTON AHEAD OF STANLEY. The Story of the Discovery of the Yellala Rapids on the Lower Congo. Illustrated Mtwn of the N orJJ.3 There is another field of African explora tion in which the priority of Captain Bur ton's travels has been forgotten. Mr. Stan ley has fairly won his renown as the dis coverer of the previously unknown course ot the Upper Congo, one of the grandest features, as we hope it will be rendered the most useful, in the wonderful internal water-system of that continent But when 13 years ago, after his descent of that river to the Atlantic, popular imagination was excitid-by descriptions of the grea"f"catar acts," or rapids, called the'Yellala on the Lower Congo, many people were allowed to suppose that these falls were a discovery of Mr. Stanley's. Tne fact is that they had been minutely examined by Captain Burton in 1863, when he went up the river from Botna in canoes, landed at Banza Nokki, and marched up to Nkulu, but had not the means to pay the native chiefs and guides for contiuuing his journey farther, to the Isangila and Kalula ORE ON THE DOCKS. Falls, and to the site of the first Congo Free State settlements, many years before Mr. Stanley was there. The falls had indeed been explored by Captain Tuckey's com panions so long ago as 1816, and the naviga bility of that great river fur an unknown distance beyond might have been tested by some other expedition. Moreover, the best geographers were of opinion that the Lualaba, discovered by Livingstone, was the TJppe- Congo before Mr. Stanley de scended the river in 1877. Captain Burton had ablr set forth the arguments in favor of that opinion. WOMEN IN POLITICS. How They Attempted to Run Things in the Time of Charles the Tint. Illustrated News or the World. It is curious that the meddling (as, the scorners put it) of wouien with politics should be so generally considered to be a novelty. In the. reign of Charles L there were petitions to Parliament (and no won der!) from quite unusual quarters, lroni the porters (signed by 15,000); from the ap prentices; and even from the beggars; but that from the women was far the most notable. Five thousand of them, "with white ribbons in their hats," and headed by a brewer's wife, went on one occasion to the door "of the House" with a petition for peace. The Legislators, reasonably alarmed, returned an immediate and conciliatory answer. "The House," ihey said, "was no enemy to peace, and donbted not to comply 'with their request;" in the meantime they "be sought them to return to their habitations" not by any means those of the Primrose League. This did not at all suffice, so the train-bands were called our, and fired upon the ladies. "Pooh!" they said, "It's nothing but powder," and replied to the volley with brickbats: whereupon the volley troops had the want of gallantrvto load in earnest "They are firing ball; we are off!" was the natural rejoinder, but not before several were slain. Has Caws for It Dallas News. Unhappy must be the widowed crow who sees the remains of her husband upon the bonnet of a mortal when she is yet wearing the weeds of mourning. NOVEMBER 23, 1890. A NOVEL DEALING WITH LIFE IN LONDON AND EGYPT, WBITTEJT FOR THE PISrATCHl' BY RUDTARD KIPLING, . Being the First Serial Story From the Pen of the Gifted Touny Author of "Soldiers Three," and Many Other Fopttlar Sketches of Army Experiences in India. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. The story opens with a picture ot the life of two orphtn'. Dick and llalsle. with Mrs. Jen nett In London. Many were their hardships ana a plighted troth was tha result of their com -panionsnip In misery. The scene then shifts to Egypt during the time Chinese Gordon was hut up in Khartoum. The hero is now an artist, sketching the scenes for European illustrated Jour nals, and his fast friend is Gilbert B. Torpenhow. Tho column is attacked by Arabs, Dick is wounded and in his delirium calls for Maisie. But he recovers in due time. Torpenhow returns to London and Dick sends on his sketches. By and by, Torpenhow telegraphs Diet to come to London, that his work has caught on. Dick lands in London penniless, has a hard time for awhile, bat at last gets on the crest of the wave of success. Accidentally he meets Maisie. CHAPTER V. "1 have a thousand men," said he, 'To wait upon my will. And towers nine upon the Tyne, And three upon the Till." "And what care 1 for your men," said she, "Or towers from Tyne to Till, Slth you must go with me," she said, "To wait upon my will 7" Sir Boggle and the Fairies. Next morning Torpenhow found Dick sunk in deepest repose ot tobacco. "Well, madman, how d'you feel ?" "I dop't know. I'm trying to find out" "You had much better do some work." "Maybe; but I'm in no hurry. I've made a discovery. Torp, there's too much Ego in my Cosmos." "Not really I Is this revelation due to my lectures, or the Nilghai's?" "It came to me suddenly, all on my own own account. Much too much Ego; and now I'm going to work." He turned over a few half-finished sketches, drummed on a new canvas, cleaned three brushes, set Binkie to bite the toes of the lay-figure, rattled through his collection ot arms and accouterments, and then went out abruptly, declaring that he had done enough for the day. "This is positively indecent," said Tor penhow, "and the first time that Dick has ever broken up a light morning. Perhaps he has found out that he has a soul, or an artistic temperament, or something equally valuable. That comes of leaving bim alone for a month. Perhaps he has been going out of evenings. I must look to this." He rang for the bald-headed old housekeeper, whom nothing could astonish or annoy. "Beeton, did Mr. Heldar dine out at all while I was out of town?" "Never laid 'is dress-clothes out once, sir, all the time. Mostly 'e dined in; but 'e brought some most remarkably fancy young gentlemen up 'ere alter theaters once or twice. Remarkably fancy they was. You gentlemen on the top floor does very much as yon likes, but it do seem to me, sir, droppin' a walkin' stick down five flights of stairs an' then goin' down four abreast to pick it up again at 2:30 in the morning, Singing. 'Bring BacltAthe Whisky, "Willie Darljng' notohcejur'nifcebut scores o'- Personal attention given to all trade. The utmost courtesy shown whether ' you purchase or ?iot. Is. (Our Own Make.) All orders should be in by DECEMBER 15 to insure delivery. We will not take orders after that date for made-to-order goods, as we never disappoint. A hand some BEDROOM SUIT would be very acceptable, either in Oak, Walnut or Mahogany. We have some very elegant specimens at not too much money. OAK SIDEBOARDS seem to be more generally in demand for presents than any other piece of furniture of like value. Nothing seems to please the Ladiessomuchas a nice place to display their silver and china, should they, however.befortunateenough to have a nice BOARD a Table to match would fill their cup of joy to the brim. We have also a large vari ety of DESKS and BOOK CASES, both for Ladies and Gentlemen, that would do you good to see. We will have a larger assort ment of BROCATELLE, TAPESTRY and PLUSH ROCKERS, suitable for all people, this year than ever before, and such ele gant styles and such astound ing low prices. All time necessary given for payment of goods.. It enables a customer to buy better goods with more satisfactory result s." ' Parlor Si tinies isn't charity to the other tenants. What I sav is, 'Do as you would be done by.' That's my motto." "Of coure! of course! I'm afraid the top floor isn't the quietest in the house." "I make no complaints, sir. I have spoke to Mr. Heldar, frieudly, an' he laughed an' did me a picture ot the missis that is as good is a colored print. It 'asn't the 'igh shine fa photograph, but what I say is 'Never I look a gift-horse in the mouth.' Mr. Heldar's dress clothes 'aven't been on him for weeks." 'Then it's all right," said Torpenhow to himself. "Orgies are healthy, and Dick has a head of his own, but when it comes to women making eyes, I'm not so certain. Binkie, never you be a man, little dorglums. Tney're contrary brutes, and they do things without any reason." Dick had turned northward across the park, but he was walking in the'spirit on the mud flats with Maisie. He laughed aloud as he remembered the day when he had decked Amomma's horns with the ham frills, and Maisie, white with rage, had cuffed him. How long those four years had been, and how intimately Maisie was con nected with every hour of them! Storm across the sea, and Maisie in a gray dress on the beach, sweeping her drenched hair out of ber eyes and laughing at the homeward race of the fishing smacks; hot sunshine on the mud flats, and Maisie sniffing scornfully with her chin in theair; Maisie flying before the wind that threshed the foreshore and drove the sand like small shot abont her ears; Maisie, very composed and independ ent, telling lies to Mrs. Jennett while Dick supported her with coarser perjuries; Maisie picking her way delicately from (tone to stone, a pistol in her hand and her teeth firm set; and Maisie in a gray dress sitting on the grass between the mouth of a cannon and a nodding yellow sea poppy. The pictures passed before him one by one, and the last stayed the longest. Dick was per fectly happy with a quiet peace that was as new to his mind as it was foreign to his ex perience. It never occurred to him that there might be other calls upon his time than loafing across the park in the forenoon. "There's a good working light now," he said, watching bis shadow placidly. "Some poor devil ought to be grateful for this. And there's Maisie." She was walking t toward him from the WarbleArcii, and hesaw ihat no manner i . t S WELCOME AS SPRING COMES CHRISTMAS TIME, AND WITH IT THE MANY JOYS OF GIVING AND RECEIVING GIFTS. OUR READERS WILL PARDON US IF WE TAKE THIS EARLY OPPORTUNITY OF CALLING THEIR ATTENTION TO OUR VAST' RE SOURCES OF SUITABLE GOODS FORTHE HOLIDAY SEASON. WE HAVE OFTEN HEARD THE EXPRESSION, "I'VE THOUGHT AND THOUGHT AND THOUGHT WHAT WOULD BE NICE FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT, BUT CANNOT MAKE UP MY MIND." NOW, DEAR READER, WHETHER YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE SO FULL OF THOUGHT OR NOT, PARDON US IF WE ASK A MOMENT'S TIME TO SCAN THE FOLLOWING 'LIST OF SUCH ELEGANT AND USEFUL PRESENTS. REMEMBER, THAT A SMALL DEPOSIT ON ANY OF OUR GOODS WILL HAVE THEM PUT TO ONE SIDE FOR FUTURE DELIVERY. OUR MOTTO IS, FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. THE ONLY HOUSE OF THE KIND ON WOOD STREET. PIONEERS OF THE EASY PAYMENT SYSTEM. IF YOUR HEART IS TOO BIG FOR YOUR POCKET BOOK WE WILL FILL THE VOID. DON'T FORGET US HOLIDAY GOODS. 307 WOOD iioiti:i; BROS ism of her gait had been changed. It was good to find her still Maisie. and, no to speak, bis next door neighbor. No greeting passed between them, because there had been none iu the old days. "What are you doing ont of your studio at this hour?" said Dick, as one who was entitled to ask. "Idling. Just idling. I got angry with a chin and scraped it out. Then I left it in a little heap of paint chips and came away." "I know wlut palette-knifing means. What was the piccy?" "A fancy head that wouldn't come right horrid thing!" "I don't like working over scraped paint when I'm doing flesh. The grain comes up woolly 4s the paint dries." "Not If you scrape properly." Maisie waved her hand to illustrate her methods. There was a dab of paint on the white cuff. Dick laughed. " You're as untidy as ever." " That comes well from you. Look at DICK WATCHED HER TILL yourown cuff." " By Jove, yes. It's worse than yours. I don't think we've much altered in any thing. Let's see, though." He looked at Maisie critically. The pale-blue baze of an autumn day crept between the tree trunks of the park and made a background lor the gray dress, the black velvet toque above the black hair, and the resolute pro file. " No, there's nothing changed. How good it is I D'you remember when I fastened your hair into the snap of a hand-bag ?" Maisie nodded, with a twinkle in her eyes, and turned her full face to Dick. " Walt a minute," said-he. "That month is down at the corners a little. Who's been worrying you, Maisie?" " No one but myself. I never seem to get on with my work, and yet I try hard enougb, and Kami says " " ' Continurz, mesdemnisclles. Continuez toujours, mes enfants.' Kami is depressing. I beg your pardon. " " Yes, that's what he. says. He told me last summer that I was doing better and he'd let me exhibit this vear." V'Not in tbla-place, surely?" "Of course, .-not The Salon." , IN LOOKING FOR . & CO., STREET. "You fly high." "I've been beating my wings long enough. Where do you exhibit, Dick?" "1 don't exhibit. I sell." "What is your line, then?" "Haven't you heard?" Dick's eyesopened. Was this thing possible? He cast about for some means of conviction. They were not far from the Marble Arcb. "Come up Ox ford street a little and I'll show you." A small knot of people stood round a print-shop that Dick knew well. "Soma reproduction of my work inside," he said, with suppressed triumph. Never had suc cess tasted so sweet upon the tongue, "i'oa see the sort of things I paint D'vou like it?" Maisie looked at the wild whirling rush of a field-battery going into action under fire. Two artillerymen stood behind her in the crowd. "They've chucked the off lead-'orse," said one to the other. " 'E's tore up awful, bat they're making good time with the others. SHE WAS OUT .OF SIGHT. That lead-driver drives better nor you, Tom. See 'ow cunning 'e's nursin" 'is 'orse." "Number Three'll be off the limber, next jolt," was the answer. "No, 'e won't. See 'ow 'is foot's braced against the iron? 'E's all right" Diet watched Maisie's lace and swelled with joy fine, rank, vulgar triumph. She was more interested in the little crowd than in the picture. That was something that she could understand. "And I wanted it so! Oh, I did want it so!" she said, at last, under her breath. "Me all me!" said Dick, placidly. "Look at their faces. It hits 'em. They don't know what makes their eyes and mouths open; hut I know. And 1 know my work's right." "Yes. I see. Ob, what a thing to hava come to one!" "Come to one, indeed! I had to go out and look for it. What do you think?" "I call it success. Tell me how you got it." They returned to the park, and Dick de livered himself of the Saga of his own doings, with all the arrogance of a young man speakiug to a woman. 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