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THIRD PART.
SBURG
WOIDERMPIMS,
The Splendid Object Lesson Mr.
Phipps Has Placed in the
Allegheny Parks.
LILIES OF THE AMAZON
.And the Lotus of Esjypt Placed Side
by Side for rnblic Education.
THE BENEFITS TO BE DEKIYED.
IIotv Philanthropic Millionaires Keap From
Such Investments.
ilXTEKLST 31AXT TIMES COMPOUNDED
'TTFITTE2J TOE THE DISrATClI.2
WAS curious to know
how much interest
Henry Phipps Jr., is
earning on his invest
ment in the conserva
tories of Allegheny
Park-. He put f40,000
into them. Business
men seldom spend
money without th e
hope of securing some
'Mil j 1 " ' ' is one of the most suc
cessful business men in this part of the
State. What, therefore, has been his re
muneration for the expenditure? He cer
tainly expects payment of some sort.
It was a new field of philanthropy. When
Andrew Carnegie put up a magnificent
Among the Park Chrysanthemums.
library and burrendered its golden key to
the public, or when the late William Thaw
donated his frequent $23,000 packages to
public charities, the public became accus
tomed to regarding that as the end of Mr.
Carnegie's part or Mr. Thaw's part in the
matter. The money had left their hands.
Judged by the sordid instincts of too many
o! vi, it bore no hope ol an) return, and so
we have always supposed that rich men of
such generous characteristics as the persons
named practically looked upon the money
as gone from them forever as thrown awav,
in a business sense. They weald simply
enter it up in tbeir day books and ledgers
as so much cash utterly given away.
out or inc usual like.
In the case of Mr. Phipps there would be
all the more excuse for deductions such as
these. When a man's chanties take some
peculiar turn, or are distributed along a
particular line, wc assume that that indi
cates his personal tate. People became fa
miliar with Mr. Tnaw as a trustee ana
thinker in hospital work. Although Mr.
Carnegie is an iron manufacturer, Fitts
riurgers know how little personal attention
lie gives to his office, and they have grown
used to thinking ot Andrew Carnegie as an
author and a book man. His hobby is
libraries.
Hut Mr. rhipp; was not a botanist He
was always a lover ot flowers, but never a
gardener. From what 1 have heard, it is
no harsh thing to say that the average citi
zen who hesitates over half the botanical
names on the palms, trees and plants inside
the conservatories, Knows as much about
the technical part of horticulture as Mr.
Phipps himselt did when he sent his dona
tions to Allegheny Councils. Of course his
interest in such matters since then has
made him quite a savaut in flowers, but at
that time what could have been his hope of
remuneration m a line of investment so un
like him?
Axswr.i-XD i;y two tots.
Well, my curios ty was easily satisfied.
Two little tots of girls unconsciously
answered all these questions one day last
treek. They knew nothing about philan
thropy, interest-bearing investments, or
botany either, yet they demonstrated, fully
and complete, all that I wanted to know.
It was one of those bright, sunshiny days,
when a vague suspicion comes over you
that November is not so near winter alter
all. On such days the promenades .of Alle
gheny parks are always full. Women,
coming troni their shopping, slacken their
speed, and enjoy the leisurely walk acioss
the hazy green. Men rest awnile on the
hencl.es. You could scarcely count the
taby buggies in all directions nurses giv
ing the Utile ones a late fall airing.
Two little misses had been allowed by
their mothers to go out walking for the
afternoon. They decided to go down to the
green houses in the parks. I overheard
their plans, and Sadie was telling Bertie
that she was, oh, so anxious to see those lily
leaves in the water garden.
orr ron the cncnxjiocsES.
"Dia you hear Mattie Brown tell me the
oilier day at school that there were lily
leaves down here big enough to cover all her
bed?" inquired Sadie. Tnen, without wait
ing for an answer she continued. "I wasn't
so green as all that, though, and I told Mat
tie so. Whr, I have seen whole ponds of
water lilies out at Uncle Josh's in Ohio, and
th; leaves there are not as big as cabbage
leives. So, wc will just slip in, and to
morrow we will give Mattie a shame face for
hTfibs."
Bertie was as incredulous as Sadie, and
in this indignant frame of mind ther told
all sorts of secrets to one another about the
story-telling Mattie Brown. Mattie's repu
tation was all torn to tatters. I, too, was
bound tor the conservatories. I was curi
ous to see the effect of the afternoon's sight
seeing on the two little school girls. They
entered the little low-roofed buildings of
brick and glass. Timidly they asked one
of the workmen about the door if they were
allowed to go auj where they wanted.
TUET tVEKE ASTOUNDED.
Chance took them first into the chrysan
themum room, and from that they "wan
dered through thr other wings ot earth
plants, at last coming in upon the huge
tropical palms under the central dome.
Trom the southern end of that a door leads
directly into the aquatit conservatory. The
first room of this is occupied by the aquari
um, in which are kept all sorts of fish.
After that they came to the main water con
servatory, in which is constructed the arti
ficial pond, er great stone basin.
And there Sadie discovered that she was
woefully wrong herself. In the basin were
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a number of lily leaves the like of which she
had never seen nor dreamed of. They were
in truth large enough to take the place of a
pair o! blankets on any bed. And they were
real live leaves, the shape, color and flower
being perfect. The two children stood
aghast. They read the sign which swung
over the water, "Victoria Begin; Brazil,"
but that gave them no light on such a sur
prise. UMBKELXAS TOR CROCODILES.
"Well, I declare, Uncle Josh has nothing
in his ponds like these "eiaculated Sidie.
"Big enough for umbrellas over the croco
dile, if he wanted any to keep the rain off
him," said Bertie.
"Yes, but rain would keep these leaves
smaller," interrupted Superintendent Will
iam Hamilton, who had been a silent specta
tor of the youthful amazement "Let me
tell you something about these lilies, and
then you will know whv your Uncle Josh
does not grow them on his ponds in Ohio.
These gigantic water lilies come from South
America. They inhabit the tranquil rivers
that aretributarv to the great Amazon river,
which your geographies tell you of. In
botany, or the study of flowers, we would
say that it belongs to the genius of nymphoe
acaoe, or water lily family. The earliest
record of the flower is by ilaenke in 1801,
and the first specimen seut out of South
America lor exhibit was to Paris in 1823."
SOME GIGANTIC LEAVES.
Superintendent Hamilton smiled as he
noticed the perplexed expressions on the
faces of his little hearers, aud reaching out
into the basin, he showed them the seed por
tion of the flowers.
"The Spaniards collect this seed," he ex
plained, knowing he could interest them
now, "and eat them roasted. For that rea
son they call the lily and its seed 'water
maize. They still use the seed for food.
Even in the southern part of the United
States the Indians used the seed of a water
lilv for food.
"These leaves you see, when well grown,
as they are this summer and fall, reaeh the
dimensions of G) ieet in diameter, with a
rim 4 inches thicc and a flower 12 inches
across its top "
"Oh," exclaimed the girls both at once.
"For a good while now," continued the
Superintendent, "we have been getting
three flowers a wetk from this lily. With
each flower comes a new leaf.
LIKE FAIItr BOATS.
"The leaves grow in size very rapidly,
beginning small, and gradually reaching
the huge sizes I told you. One day this
summer 1 timed the growth of a leaf bv
marks, and I found that it grew exactly IS
inches in diameter in 21 hours."
"You could almost see it grow," spoke up
one of the girls now deeply interested in the
talk.
"Yes, you could actually see these leaves
grow," replied Mr. Hamilton. "Fifteen
inches in 21 hours is more than half an inch
an hour. Place on a leaf any instrument of
precision, or even fasten to it a small stick,
and then watch the leaf getting bigger
around every hour. The leaf will- sustain
a remarkable weight. Place on one which
is full grown a circle of quarter-inch boards,
and upon them I couid stand a child.weigh
ing 50 pounds. I am going to do that here
next year, and you must be sure to come
and see what will be a fairy boat made out
of a lily leaf."
BOSIE SUEPRISIXG FACTS.
"Oh, you think that so many leaves in
this basin means a number of plants. No,
there is just one plant in the water here,
and from it comes all these leaves. I bought
this single plant from Mr. Sturtevant, of
Bordentown, 2f. J., for 515. He makes a
business of nurturing Soutn American
flowers. I put the plant in the water here
last June. It was then only 30 inches in.
diameter. Xow look at it. This stone
basin is 28 feet wide and 48 feet long. Jjast
week when we took out some of the dying
leave, there were so many of them and they
had become so large that they forced each
other un over the curbstone of the basin's
edge. The plant which I had put iii-in June
had grown out 14 ieet Jrom the center on
each side and filled two-thirds of the basin
GIANT LEAVES OP
lengthwise. And all that came from a seed
not any larger than a pea."
"I wouldn't like to go skiff riding in
those South American rivers," obssrved
Bertie, sagely. "It would be too hard to
row the skiff through such awfully large
leaves. Why. sir, if they grow so large,
don't they fill the rivers from shore to
shore?"
THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWER.
"I was never on those rivers," replied
the genial superintendent, feeling himself a
little stumped for a time, "but as the seeds
are constantly falling out of the flowers into
the water they in turn grow, and thus the 1
streams must grow very fuu of plants and
big leaves. Yes, it might be pretty hard
work rowing a skiff toward the Amazon,
The Aquarium Room.
especially if the tributary is as narrow as
this pond here.
"The flower opens about G o'clock in the
evening. The color then is pure white.
About 9 o'clock that night the whole house
here is filled with the odor of pineapple.
The flower continues white on the following
day, but without any perceptible fragrance.
At 6 o'clock r. M. that day it will change
to a pink color, and the next morning wiil
be found lying on the surface of the water
ready to go under and perfect its seed. It
is an annual plant, and the time is now
drawing near when it will go to rest for a
period. Of course if I had other plants
sufficiently grown they would bloom while
this one is sleeping.
PROTECTED FROSI ASSAULT.
"When the plant begins to wither, the
leaves gradually grow smaller, .every day
they are a little' smaller, until finally they
dwindle into nothing. It is just as interest- I
i j) ,11 A it '
l ux -a
ing to watch them do this as to see them
growlarge little by little. The seeds arc
now in the water here for more plants next
summer. The under side of these leives is
wonderful. They are not only arched in
their construction, but are trussed, and so
full of sharp spines, just like sharp needles,
that there is no danger of their" being at
tacked even by the larger insects."
"But vou said rain would make them
smaller," said one of the urchins, now quite
unwilling to leave the subject.
"Well, that is for this reason: What we
must be very careful about in growing these
great lilies is the warmth of the air and
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IN THE 'WATER TLANT CONSERVATORY.
water. Both must be kept at the tempera
ture of 75. That corresponds nearly with
the average temperature of their native
home.
WARM WATER NEEDED.
"Now, they can be grown out of doors
here in warm summer weather, but the pond
must be so made that the water in it can be
beaten artificially if all the surroundings
are not favorable. But if thus grown out
of doors in the summer months, the rain
falling into the pool changes the tempera
ture of the water, tho air is either cooler or
hotter on different days, and the result is
Superintendent Hamilton
that we could not get the flower to grow so
perfect, or the leaves so large. That is why
very few persons undertake to grow this
kind of a water lily here in the North. The
price is not so much, but it is the necessity
for plenty of room in the hothouse to let
them grow and spread."
"But, come over to this room and see the
lots of lotus that are here. They are, too,
the most beautiful of all water lilies."
And then Mr. Hamilton explained all
about the charming flower; from the stories
of the Lotus eaters and Xiotut -worshipers
down to the later theory that although called
THE BRAZILIAN LILY.
the Egyptian Lotus it is doubtful whether
it was a native of the river Nile. Tne girls
were thoroughly interested, especially in
the curious fact about the leaves of the
lotus rising out of the water, and shedding
the fluid; the globules remaining on them
quivering and sparkling like quicksilver.
ARE EASILY CULTIVATED.
The superintendent told them that it was
a mistaken idea that the lotus was hard to
raise. He says it is hardy, and mav be
grown as easily out of doors in this climate
as tho ordinary pond lilies. They were
much impressed with what Mr. Hamilton
told them about the sacred traditions of the
lotus, but laughed heartily when he con
cluded with the statement that they had
large families, increasing with their seed at
the rate of 1,000 per cent per year. In
Bordentown, N. J., Mr. Hamilton has seen
two acres of ponds grown so thick with lotus
that he could scarcely see the water.
One of the lotus which is here planted has
a personal interest from tho fact that Mr.
Phipps sent it to Mr. Hamilton from Cairo,
Egypt, when he was there last year.
In the aquarium room are beautiful pol
ished slate and silver-mounted tanks in
which are some of the finer and more deli
cate water plants upon which fish thrive.
While showing the little girls these Mr.
Hamilton explained that all the fish had
been eaueht in the Ohio, Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers. There were the jack
salmon, river herring, drum fish, carp, sev
eral varieties of suckers, sturgeon, sunfish,
German carp, black bass, spoon fish, etc.
THE PITTSBURG' ALLIGATORS.
"And here are to two alligators which were
caught in the Monongahela river near Lock
No. 1. They look awlully ugly, don't they?
Well, now here is something to remember
about these peculiar reptiles. They are
what naturalists call 'Salamander-Menopo-na-Allcghanienses.'
They are a species of
the real alligator, but are sometimes called
'dog-fish,' and the remarkable fact that per
haps Jew people are aware of, is that no
where else in the world are they found ex
cept in the Ohio river, and its tributaries.
It is estimated by Pittsburg fishermen that
that there are tens of thonsands of these
little alligators in the rivers about this city.
You see they are overa foot long."
Presently the two little girls left the con
servatories enthusiastic over what they have
seen and heard.
How do yon think you would have felt
had you furnished the money that placed
this course of amusement within the reach
of those children? Especially had von stood
close by and witnessed the Interest they
evinced In all they saw? And what a
nucleus of genuine study may perhaps hare
PITTSBUE&, SUNDAY,
een at the time planted within their minds?
Would you not feel in this a profit on your
investment?
THKT ARE IOrULAK.
Superintendent Hamilton informs me that
one day last week fully 2,500 people passed
through the conservatories. Every hour of
every day in the year it is well filled with
visitors. Its fame has gone abroad, and
strangers stopping over in the city for a day
invariably visit the greenhouses.
School children, especially, and the little
inmates of public institutions come to the
houses by hundreds. There is nothing of a
public character in the two cities that seems
to furnish the same amount of enjoyment
and pleasure and instruction to all classes
of the people as the park conservatories.
To see children aiid grown people thor
oughly enjoy the fruit of his money is no
doubtwhat Mr. Phipps calculates as inter
est accruing on the amount of his invest
ment. That investment itself is more valu
able now than it ever was. For instance
the plants with which Superintendent
Hamilton stocked the aquatic department
a short time ago cost $400. So large have
they multiplied and bo well have they
thrived that there is now at least $1,600
worth of water plants under the glass roofs.
THE DONORS TROFIT.
But that enhancement of the money value
goes into the luller enjoyment of the people,
and, seeing this, the original donor of it all
finds his own profit tnat of pleasure in see
ing mankind enjoy his wcrk increased pro
portionately. Mr. Phipps visits the con
servatories frequently, I am told, hut it is
not to see how some plaut is thriving, but to
iearn if there is anything else that would
make more complete the common enjoyment
of the people.
Here, doubtless, is the source of satisfac
tion, the promise of compound interest
which millionaires expect to realize in their
liberal investments lor the benefit of the
public around Pittsburg the past two or
three years. L. E. Stofiel.
ELECTBICITY TS THE HOMES.
A Itegular House to House Service Neces
sary to Popularize It.
T. C. Martin, editor of the New York
Electrical Engineer, makes a suggestion in
the columns of that journal, which, if acted
upon, would remove a considerable amount
of prejudice, as well as obviate a great deal
of inconvenience which now attaches to the
use of electric batteries for domestic pur
poses. Mr. Martin's idea is that a regular
house-to-house service should be undertaken
by the local -tlrctrteinBy-trho would under
take for a small fixed sum per month, or per
quarter, to keep bells, batteries and circuits
in order, calling to make necessary repairs
and renewals. Such a service, diligently
and honestly rendered, would pay hand
somely. The average resident in a citv is too busy
to bother with his bells, and seldom has
either the time or the inclination to go out
of his way to hunt up the local electrician.
Hence the bells, once out of order, often
stay so, as many a caller knows to his or her
cost. Fans, motors for sewing machines,
annunciators, floor and table pushes, bur
glar alarms, electric clocks, electric time
and date stamp;, small incandescent lamps
for decorative as well as uselul purposes,
would soon come into much more general
use if the inconvenience attendant on the
use of batteries were reduced to a minimum.
Bad workmen and worse work have done
a great deal to prejudice the public against
the domestic application of electricity, but
a better state oi things is at hand. The ad
vance which will surely come must evi
dently begin with improved work, so that
electric bells may cease to be an "unmiti
gated nuisance" to the architect, who is
already inclined to make use of electric
devices and appliances, if trustworthy. Mr.
Martin says: "Life is too short, anyway,
lor poor work, and if an electrician's pros
perity depends, as it must largely, on the
esteem in which his installations are held,
it is the worst folly to use rotten material,
scamp a job, and then ask a low price be
cause it has been cheaply done. The public
is ready to pay a fair price for electrical
work when assured of honest material and
skilled workmanship; and it will be the
readier to believe in electrical engineering
as a profession when its front doorbell rings
regularly.
HIS STOCK COST HOI LITTLE.
now a Club Barkeeper Managed to
Got
Wliisky for Nothing.
A short time ago, says a liquor dealer
through the medium of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, I received a letter from a
Boston concern. Here is the letterhead:
"Castroni Fencing Club, 9 Boylston place,
Boston, Mass. Prof. O. M. Castroni,
Technical Director. Article XI, section 3,
of bylaws: Every member will be required
to pay as dues 25 annually, payable
quarterly in advance." Accompanying this
wasan order for a sample of good whisky.
I thought it was some aristocratic club, and
sent the sample. In a day or two I received
two orders from the same concern, addressed
to people who do business through ns, each
requesting samples.
Then I began to investigate, and found
that every dealer in town had received a
similar letter, and if they all sent samples,
that fellow barkeeper for the club, per
haps got enough good whisky to last him
through the winter. It made me feel a lit
tle mad at being taken in, and I wrote a
pretty strong letter to the concern, bnt be
fore I received an auswer I got an order for
one barrel of whisky on four months' time.
Ot course that gave the snap away, even if
we hadn't known it. I didn't send it.
Some of the others may have done so, but
in a day or two I received a letter inclosing
25 cents for "eight inches of whisky," and
countermanding the order lor one barrel at
four months. Pretty cheap whisky, I
should say, and a slick scheme. If every
body had honored those orders, that fellow
could have started in the wholesale business
himself.
Strong Attachments.
.Boston Herald.
"It's strange," remarked the tramp, ex
amining the rents In his garments, "I never
felt any liking for dogs whatever, ret they
nearly all become strongly attached to me
as soon as they see me."
Going to Help Sitting Bull.
Six scouts and as many Indians passed
through the city yesterday bound for
Standing Bock Agency to jon Buffalo B1H,
J-ucy were going nt nig oraers.
NOVEMBER 30, 189a
A NOVEL DEALING WITH LIFE IN LONDON AND EGYPT,
WRITTEN FOB ME DISPATCU1
BY EUDYABD KIPLING,
Being the First Serial Story From the Pen of the Gifted Youiif.
Author of "Soldiers Three," and Many Other Fopxdar
Sketches of Army Experiences in India.
STNOFSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.
Tho story opens with a picture ot the life or two orphin. Dick and Maisie. with Mrs. Jen
nett in London Many were their hardships ana a plighted troth was tho resnlt of their com
panionship in misery. The scene then shifts to Egvpt during tho time Chinese Gordon was shut
up In Khartoum. The hero Is now an artist, skorchlne the scenes for European illustrated jour
nals, and his fast friend is Gilbert 13. Torpenhow. Tho column Is attacked br Arab, Uick is
wounded and in his delirium calls for Maisie. llutlie recovers In dne time. Torpenhow returns
to London and Dick sends on his sketches. JSy and by, Torpenhow telegraphs Dick to come to
London, that his work has caught on. Dick lands in London penniless, has a bard tune for
awhile bnt atlast gets on the crest of the wave of success. Accidentally he meets Malsip. Soon
he finds his way to her little studio, there to admire and instruct her. MalMe in too much in love
with her art to reciprocate his affection. Maisie has a roommate and she and Dick do not agree
exactly.
CHAPTER VI.
And you may lead a thousand men,
Nor ever draw tho rein.
But ere ye lead the Faery Queen
'Twill burst your heart in twain.
He has sHppedhisfoot from the stirrup bar,
The bridle from bis hand,
And he is bound by hand and foot
To the Queen o' Kaeryland.
Sir Hoggie and the Fairies.
Torpenhow had been moved to lecture
Dick more than once lately on the sin of
levity, and Dick had listened and replied
not a word. In the weeks between the first
few Sundays of his discipline he had flung
himself savagely into his work, resolved
that Maisie should at least know the full
stretch of his powers. Then he had taught
Maisie that she must not pay the least atten
tion to any work outside her own, and Maisie
had obeyed him all too well. She took his
counsels, but was not interested in his
pictures.
"Your things smellof tobacco and blood,"
she said, once. "Can't you do anything
except soldiers?"
"I could do a head of you that would
startle you," thought Dick this was before
the red-haired girl had brought him under
the guillotine but he only said, "I am
very sorry," and harrowed Torpenhow's
soul that evening with blasphemies against
art. Later, insensibly and to a large ex
tent against his own will, he ceased to
interest himself in his own work. For
Maisie's sake, and to soothe the self respect
that, it seemed to him, he lost each Sunday,
he would not consciously turn out bad stuff,
hnt. since Maisie did not care even for his
best, it were better not to do anything at all J
save wait and mark time between Sunday
and Sunday. Torpenhow was disgusted as
the weeks went by fruitless, and then at
tacked him one Sunday evening when Dick
felt utterly exhausted alter three hours'
biting self-restraint in Maisie's presence.
There was language, and Torpenhow with
drew to consult the Nilghai, who had come
in to talk Continental politics.
"Bone-idle, is be? Careless and touched
in the temper?" said the Nilghai. "It isn't
worth worrying, over-. Dick. is. probably
ploying the fool with a woman."
"Isn't that bad enough?"
"No. She may throw him out of gear and
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Brocatelle and
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Platform Rockers and Recep
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A handsome selection of
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Screens and Easels,
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Oak,
A large assortment of Illus
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Photo Graveurs, Artotypes,
etc., etc.
Ohenille Portieres and Lace
Curtains.
Rugs in Daghestan, Moquet,
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Tapestry and Body Brussels,
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Fancy
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Table Covers of all
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Cabinets, Oak and
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Chamber Toilet Sets,
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A large
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Children's Rockers and High
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Par
Fnrim
knock his work to pieces for a while. She
may even turn up here some day and make
a scene on the staircase. One never knows.
But until Dick speaks of his own accord
you had better not touch him. He is no
easy-tempered man to handle."
"No; I wish he were. He is such an ag
gressive, cocksure, you be , fellow."
"He'll get that knocked out of him in
time. He must learn that he can't storm up
and down the world with a box of moist
tubes and a slick brush. You're fond of
him?"
"I'd take any punishment that's in store
for him if I could; but the worst of it is, no
man can save his brother."
"No, and the worser of it is, there is no
discharge in this war. Dick must learn his
lesson like the rest of us. Talking of war,
there'll be trouble in the Balkans in the
spring."
"That trouble is long coming. I wonder
if we could drag Dick out there when it
comes oil?"
Dick entered the room shortly afterward,
and the question was put to him. "Not good
enough," he said, shortly. "I'm too comfy
wnere I am."
"Surely you aren't taking all the stuff in
the papers seriously." said the Nilghai.
"Your vogue will be ended in less than six
months the public will know your touch
and go on to something new and where
will you be then?"
"Here, in England."
"When you might bo doing decent work
among us out there! Nonsense! I shall go;
the Keneu will be there; Torp will be there;
Cassavetti will be there, and the whole lot
of us will be there, and we shall have as
much as ever we can do, with unlimited
fighting, and the chance for you of seeing
things that would make the reputation of
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"TJm!" said Dick, pulling at his pine.
"iou preier to stay here and imagine that
. all the world is gaping at your pictures?
j Just think how full an average man's life is
of his own pursuits and pleasures. When
20,000 of him find time to look up between
mouthfuls and grunt something about some
thing that they aren't the least interested
in, the result is called fame, reputation, or
notoriety, according to the taste and fancy
of the speller my lord!"
"I know that as well as you do. Give me
credit for a little gumption."
JBe haugedifldo!"
A "Be hanged, then; you probibly will be,
for & spy, by excited Turks. Heighol
I'm weary, dead weary, and virtue has gone
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out of me " Dick dropped into a chair and
was asleep in a minute.
'That's a bad sign," said the Nilghai, in
an undertone.
Torpenhow picked the pipe from the
waistcoat where it was beginning to bnrn,
and put a pillow behind the head. "We
cin't help; we can't help," he said. "It's a
good ugly sort of old cocoinut. and I'm
londofit. There's the soar of the wipe he
got when he was'cut over in the square."
"Shouldn't wonder if that has made him
a trifle mad,"
"I should. He's a most business-like
madman."
Then Dick began to snore furiously.
"Oh, here, no affection can stand this sort
of thing. Woke up. Dieu, and go and
sleep somewhere else, if you intend to make
a noise about it."
"When a cat has been out on the tiles all
night." said the Nilghai in his beard, "I
notice that she usu-illy sleeps all day. This
is natural history."
Diek staggered away rubbing his eyes
and yawnin?.
lie did no work of any kind for a week.
Then came another Sunday. He dreaded
and longed for the day nlwavs, but since the
reiMinired girl had sketched him there was
rather more dread than desire in his mind.
He discovered that Maisie had entirely
neglected his suggestions about line-work.
She had gone (ill at score filled with some
absurd notion tor a "lancy head." It cost
Dick something to command his temper.
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ON TORPENHOW'S SOFA
"What's the good of suggesting any
thing?" he said, pointedly.
"Ah, but this will be a picture a real
picture; and I know that Kami will let me
send it to the Salon. You don't mind, do
you?"
"I suppose not. But you won't have time
for the Salon."
Maisie hesitated a little. She even felt
uncomfortable.
"We're going over to France a month
sooner because of it. I shall get the idea
sketched out here and work it np at
Kami's."
Dick's heart stood still, and he came very
near to being disgusted with his queen who
could do no wrong. "Just when I thought I
had made some headway, she goes off chasing
butterflies. It's too maddening."
There -was no possibility of arguing, for
the red-baired girl was in the studio. Dick
could only look unutterable reproach.
"I'm sorry," he said, "and I think you
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what's the idea of
your new picture?"
"I took it from a book."
"That's bad to begin with.
Books aren't
the places for pictures. And ?"
"It's this," said the red-haired girl be
hind him. "I was reading it to Maisie the
other day from the 'City of Dreadfnl Night.'
D'you know the book?"
"A little. I am sorry I spoke. There are
pictures in it. What has taken her fancy7"
"The description of the Melancolia:
Her folded wings as of a mighty eagle.
But all too impotent to life the regal
Robustness of her earth-born strength and
pride.
And here again. Maisie, get the tea, dear.
The forehead charged with baleful thoughts
and dreams.
The household buncn of keys, tho housewife's
gown.
Voluminous Indented, and yet rigid
As though a shell ot burnished metal frigid.
Her feet thick-shod to tread all weakness
down.
There was no attempt to conceal the scorn
of the lazy voice. Dick winced.
"But that has been done already by an
obscure artist of the name of Durer,"said
he. "How does the poem run?
Three centuries and threescore years ago
With phantasies ot bis pecnlar thought
You might justas well try to rewrite 'Ham
let.' It will be waste of time."
"No, it won't," said Maisie, puttiug down
the teacups with clatter to reassure herself.
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"And I mean to do it. Can't you see what
a beautiful thing it would make?"
"How in perdition can one do work when
one hasn't had the proper training? Any
fool can get a notion. It needs training to
drive the thing through training and con
viction; not rushing after the first fancy."
Dick spoke between his teeth.
"Yon don't understand," said Maisie.
"I think I can do it."
Again the voice of the girl behind him:
Baffled and beaten back, she works on still;
Weary and sick of soul, she works the more.
Sustained by tier indomitable will.
The hands shall fashion, and the brain shall
pore.
And all her sorrow shall be turned to labor
I fancy Maisie means to embody herself in
the picture."
"Sitting on a throne of rejected pictures?
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