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No, I shan't, dear. The notion in itself has
fascinate! me. Of course you don't care for
fancy heads, Dick. I don't think von
could do them. 1'ou like blood and
bones."
"That's a direct challenge. II you can
do a Melaucolia that isn't merely a sorrow
lul female head, I can do a better one; and
I will, too. "Whatd'rcu know about Jdel
ancolias?" Dick firmuy believed that he
was even then tasting three-quarters of all
tbe sorrow in the world.
"She was a woman," said Maisie, "and
Ehe suffered a great deal till she could
suffer no more. Then she began to Ijnch at
it all, and then I painted her and sent her to
the Salon."
The red-haired girl rose up and left the
room, laughing.
CHAPTER VII.
If I have taken the common clay
And wrought it cunningly
In tbe shape of a cod that was disced a clod,
The greater honor to inc.
II thou hast taken the ccramon clay.
And thy hands bo not tree
From tbe taint of tbe toil, thou hast made thy
spoil
The greater shame to then.
TAe Two Totters.
Diet looked at Maisie humbly and hope
lessly. "Never mind about my picture," he said.
"Are vou really coin back to Kami's a
mouth before yonr time?"
"I must jo, if I want to get tbe picture
done."
"And that's all yon want?"
"Of course. Don't be stupid, Dick."
"lnu haven't the power. You have only
tbe ideas the ideas and the little cheap inf-
pulses. Hon- you could have kept at your
work for ten years steadily is a mystery to
me. So you are really going a month" be-
fore jour need?"
"I must do my work."
"Your work bah! No. I didn't mean
that. It's all right, dear. Of course you
luustJio your work, and I think I'll say
good-by for this week."
"'Won't you even stay for tea?"
"So, thank you. Have I your leave to
t go, dear? There's nothing more you par
ticularly want me to do, and the line work
dopsa't matter."
lavish you could stay, and then we
could talk over my picture. If only one
single picture's a success it draws attention
to ail the others. I know some of my work
5s good, if otiiy people could see. And you
needn't hive been so rude about it."
"I'm sorry. We'll talk the Meianeolia
over some one of the other Sundays. There
are Jour more ves, one, two, three, four
be.'orc you go. Good-by, Maisie."
Maisie stood bv the studio window, think
ing, till the red-haired gjrl returned, a lit
tie white at tue coi ners ot her lips.
"Dick's gone off," said Maisie. "Just
when I wanted to talk about the picture.
Isn't it selfish of him?"
Her companion opened her lips as if to
speak, shut them again! and went on read
ing "TheCityofDreadlul Night."
Dick wjs in the park, walking round and
round a tree that he had chosen lor his con
fidante for many Sundays past. He was
swearing audibly, and wlien he found that
the infirmities of the English tongue
hemmed his rage he sought consolation in
Arabic, which is especially designed for the
use of the afflicted. He was not pleased
with the rewai"d 01 hi patient service; nor
u-as he cleared with himself; and it was
long beiore he arrived at the proposition
that tbe queen could do no wrong.
"It's a losing game," be said. "I'm
worth nothing when a whim ot hers is in
question. But in a losing game at Port
baid we used to double the stakes and go on.
She do a Meianeolia! She hasn't the
power, or the insight, or tbe training. Only
the desire. She's cursed with the curse of
Iteuben. She won't do line-work because
it means real work; and yet she's stronger
than I am. I'll make her understand that
I can beat hei on her own Meianeolia. Even
then she wouldn't care. She says I can
only do blood and bones. I don't" believe
she has blood in her veins. All the same I
love her: and I must go on loving her; and
if I can bumble herinordinate vanity I will.
I'll do a Meianeolia that shall be something
likea Meianeolia 'the Meianeolia that tran
Fcends all wit.' I'll do it at once con
mess her.
Ke discovered that the notion would not
come to order, and that he could not free his
mind for an hour from the thought of
Maisie's departure. He took vcrv small in
terest in her rousrh studies lor the Meian
eolia when she showed them nest week.
The Sundavs were racing past, and the time
was at hand when all tne church bells in
London could not ring Maisie back to him.
Once or twice be said something to l'.inkie
about "fceimaphroditic futilities," but the
little dog receied so many confidences both
from Torpenhow and Dick that he did not
trouble his tulip-ears to listen.
Dick was permitted to see the girl off.
They were going by tbe Dover night-boat;
and they hoped to return in August. It was
then rebrujry, and Dick felt that he was
being hardly used. Maisie was so busv
stripping the small house across the park,
and packing her canvases, that she had no
time for thought. Dick went down to Dover
and wasted a day there fretting over a won
der.ul jossibility. Would Maisie at the
very last allQ him one small kiss? He re
flected that he might capture her by the
strong arm, as he had seen women captured
an the Southern Soudan, ana lead heraway;
but Maisie would never be led. She would
turn hergray eyes upon him and say, "Dick,
how sellUh jou oie!" Then his courage
would lail him. It would be better, alter
all, to beg lor that kiss.
Maisie looked more than usually kissable
as she stepped ironi the night niaii" onto the
-windy pier, in a gray waterproof and a little
gray cloth traveling cap. The red-haired
girl was not so lo.'ely. Her gieen eves were
hollow and her lips were dry. Dick saw
tbe trunus aboard, and went to Maisie's side
in the-darkness under the bridge. The mail
hags were thundering into tbe forehoUI, and
the red-haired girl was watching them.
"You'll have a rough passage to-night,"
said Dick. "It's blowing outside. I sup
MOte I may come over and see you if I'm
good?"
"You musn'f. I shall be busy. Atlcast,
if I want you I'll send for you. " Hut Ishall
write from Vitrj -sur-Mariie. I snail hive
lieaps of things 10 consult you about. Oh,
Dirk, vou have been so good to me! so good
to mel"
Thank you for that, dear. It hasn't
made any difference, has it?"
"I can't tell a lib. It hasn't in that wav.
But don't think I'm not grateful."
"Damn the giatitude!" said . Dick, husk
ily, to tbe paddlebox.
"What's the use ot worrying? You know
1 should ruin your life, ami vou'd ruin
mine, as things are now. You remember
what yiu said when you were so ancrv that
day in the part? One of us has "to be
broken. Cau't vou wait till tnat dav
c-ocics?" ,, J
".So, love. I want -ton unbroken all to
myself." '
3Iais'.e shook her head. "My poor Dick
what can I say?" '
"Don't say anvthing. Give me a kiss?
Only one kiss, Maisie. I'll swear I won't
tate any more, iou might as well, and
then I can be sure you're grateful."
Maisie put her cheek forward, and Dick
took his reward in the darkness. It was
only one kiss, but, since there was no time
limit specified, it was a long one. Maisie
vrenched herself free angrily, and Dick
stood abashed and tingling from head, to
heel.
"Goodby, darling. I didn't mean to
scare you. I'm sorry. Only keep well
and do cood work specially tbe Meian
eolia. I'm going to do one, too. Itemeni
ber me to Kami, and be careful what vou
drink. Country drinking water is bad
everywhere, but it's worse in France.
Write to me if you want anything, and
goodby. Say goodby to the what-you-call-um
girl, and can't I have another kiss?
No. You're quite right. Goodby."
A shout told him that it was" not seemly
to charge up the mailbag incline. He
reached the pier as the steamer began to
move off. and he lollowcd her with his
heart.
"And there's nothing nothing in the
wide world to keep us apart except her ob
stinacy. These Calais nightboats are much
too small. I'll get Torp to write to the pa
pers about it. She's beginning to pitch
already."
Maisie stood where Dice had left her till
she beard a little gasping cough at her
elbow. The red-haired girl's eves were
alight with cold fl inie.
"He kissed you!" she said. "How could
you let him, when he wasn't anything to
vou? How dared you take a kiss from him?
Oh. Maisie, let's go to the ladies' cabin.
I'm sick deadlv sick."
"Wo aren't into open water vet. Go
down, dear, and I'll stay here. I don't like
the smell of the engines. Poor Dickl He
desert ed one only one. But I didn't think
he'd frighten me so."
Dick returned to town next day just in
i.u.c iui juutu, ior wnicn ne naa tele
graphed. To his disgust, there were only
empty plates in the studio. He lifted up
his voice like the bears in the fairy tale,
and Torpenhow entered, looking very
guilty.
"II'sli!" said he. "Don't make such a
noise. I took it. Come into my rooms and
I'll show you why."
Dick paused amazed at the threshold, for
on Torpenhow's sola lay a girl aslcen and
breathing heavilv. The little cheap "sailor
hat, the bluc-and-wbite dress, fitter for June
than for February, dabbled with mud at the
skirts, the jacket trimmed with imitation
astrakhan and ripped at the shoulder seams,
the one-and-elevenpenny umbrella, and
above all, the disgraceful condition of the
kid-topped boots, declared allthings.
"Oh, T say, old man, this is too bad! You
musn't bring this sort up here They steal
things from the rooms."
"It looks bad, I admit, but I was coming
in alter lunch, and she staggered into the
ball. I thought she was drunk at first, but
it was collapse. I couldn't leave her as she
was, so I brought her up here and gave her
your lunch. She was fainting from the
want of food. She went fast asleep the
minute she had finished."
"I know something of that complaint.
She's being Irving on sausages, I suppose.
Torp, you should have handed her over to
a policeman for presuming to faintin a re
spectable house. Poor little wretchl Look
at tnat lace! There isn t an ounce ot im
morality in it. Only folly slack, fatuous,
feeble, futile foliy. It's a tjpicalhead.
D'you notice how the skull begins to show
through the flesh padding on the lace and
cheek-hone?"
"What a cold-blooded barbarian it is!
Don't hit a woman when she's down. Can't
we do anything? She was simply dropping
with starvation. She almost fell into my
arms, and when she got to the food she ate
like a wild beast. It was horrible."
"I can give her money, which she would
probably spend in drinks. Is she going to
sleep forever?"
The girl opened her eyes and glared at
the men between terror and effrontery.
"Feeling better?" said Torpenhow.
"Yes. Thank you. There aren't many
gentlemen that are as kind as you are.
Thank you."
"When did yon leave service?" said
Dick, who had been watching the scarred
and chapped hands.
"How did you know I was in service? I
was. General servant. I didn't like il."
"And how do you like being your own
mistress?"
"Do I look as if I liked it?"
"I suppose not. One moment. Would
you be good enough to turn your face to the
window?"
The girl obeyed, and Dick watched her
face keenly so keenly that she made as if
to hide behind Torpenhow.
"The eyes have it," said Dick, walking
up and down. "They are superb eves for
my business. And, after all, every head
depends on the eyes. This has been sent
from heaven to make up lor what was taken
away. Xoir the weekly strain's off my
shoulders, 1 can get to work in earnest.
Evidently sent from heaven. Yes. Eaise
your chin a little, please."
"Gently, old man, gently. You're scaring
somebody our ot her wits," said Torpenhow,
who could see tbe girl trembling.
"Don't let him'bitme! Oh, please don't
let him hit me! I've been bit cruel to-day
because I spoke to a man. Don't let him
look at me like that! He's reg'lar wicked,
that one. Don't let him look at me like
flint, neither! "Oh, I feel as if I hadn't
nothing on when he looks at me like that!"
The overstrainea nerves in tne frail body
gave way, and the girl wept like a little
child and began to scream. Dick threw
open the window, and Torpenhow flung the
door back.
"There you are," said Dick, soothingly.
"My friend, here, can call for a policeman,
and you can run through thatdoo.-. Nobody
is going to hurt you."
The girl sobbed convulsively for a few
minutes, and then tried to laugh".
"Nothing in the world to hurt you. Now
hsteu to me for a minute. I'm what'thev
call an artist by profession. You know what
artists do?"
"They draw the things in red and black
ink on the pop-shop labels."
"I dare say. I hiven't risen to pop shop
labels yet. Those are done by the Academi
cians. I want to draw your head."
"What foi?"
"Because it's pretty. That is why you
will come to tbe room across the landing
three times a week at 11 in the morning, and
I'll give you three quid a week just lor sit
ting still and being drawn. And there's a
quid on account.
"For nothing?" Oh. my!" The girl
turned the sovereign in her hand, and with
more foolish teais: "Ain't neither o' you
two gentlemen afraid of my bilking you?"
"No. Oulv uglv girls do that. Trv and
remember this place. And, by the way,
what's your name?"
"I'm Bessie Bessie It's no use giv
ing the rest.. Bessie Broke Stone-broke, if
you like. What's your names? But there
no one ever gives the reil ones."
Dick consulted Torpenhow with his eyes:
"My name's Heldar, and my friend's
called Torpenhow; and you must "be sure to
come here. Where do you live?"
"South the water one room five and
sixpence a week. Aren't you making fuu
01 me aooui tnat tnrec quid
"You'll see later on. And, Bessie, next
time you come, remember, you needn't wear
that paint. It's had lor the skin. I have
all the colors you'll be likely to need."
Bessie withdrew, scrubbing her cheek
witli a ragged pocket-handkerchief. The
two men looked at each other.
"You're a man," said Torpenhow.
"I'm aTaid I've been a fool. It isn't our
busiuess to run about the earth reforming
Bessie Brakes. And a woman of any kind
has no right on this landing."
"Perhaps she won't come back."
"She will it she thinks she can get food
and warmth here. I know she will, worse
luck. But remember, old man, she isn't a
woman; she's my model; and be careful."
"The idea! She's a dissolute little scare
crow a gutter-snippet and nothing more."
"So you think. Wait till she has been
fed a little and freed from fear. That fair
type recovers itself very quickly. You
won't know her in a week ortwo, when that
abject fear has died out of her eyes. She'll
be too happy and smiling for my purposes."
"But surt.lv you're taking her out of
charity to please me?"
"I am not in the habit of playing with
hot coals to please anybody. She has been
sent from heaven, as I mav have remarked
beiore, to help me with mv Meianeolia."
"Never heard a word about the ladv
before."
"What's the use of having a friend, if
you iuusi snug your notions at him in
words? You ought to know what I'm
thinking about. You've heard me crunt
lately?"
"Even so; but grunts mean anything in
your language, from bad 'baccy to wicked
dealers. And I don't think I've been much
in your confidence for some ime."
"It was a high and soulful grunt. You
ought to have understood that it meant tbe
Meianeolia." Dick walked Torpenhow up
and down tbe room, keeping silence. Then
he smote him in the ribs. "Now, don't you
see it? Bessie's abject lutility and the terror
in her eyes, welded onto one or two details
in the way of sorrow that have come under
my experience lately. Likewise some orange
and black two keys of each. But I can't
explain on an empty stomach."
"It sounds mad enough. You'd better
stick to yonr soldiers, Dick, instead of
.maundering about heads and eyes anil 'experiences."
THE
"Think so?" Dick began to dance on his
heels, singing
They're as proud as a turkey when they hold
the readr cash.
You oucht tn 'ear tbo wy they laugh an' joke;
Thoy are tricky an' they're funny when they've
got the readyanone
Owl but sea 'em when they're all stone broke.
Thenhe sat down to pour out his heart to
Maisie in a four-sheet letter of counsel and
encouragement, and registered an oath that
he would get to work with an undivided
heart assoon as Bessie should reappear.
The girl kept her appointment unpainted
and unadorned, afraid and overbold by
turns. When she found that she was merely
expected to sit still she giew calmer, and
criticised the appointments of the studio
with freedom and some point She liked the
warmth and the comfort and the release
from fear of physical pain. Dick made two
or three studies of her head in monochrome,
but the actual notion of the Meianeolia
would not arrive.
"What a mess you keep your things in7"
said Bessie some days later when she felt
herself thoroughly at home. "I s'poe your
clothes are just "as bad. Gentlemen never
think what buttons and tape are made for."
"I buy things to wear, and wear 'em till
they go to pieces. I don't know what Tor
penhow does."
Bessie made diligent inquirv in the lat
ter s room, and unearthed a bale of disrepu
table socks. "Some of these I'll mend
now, she said, "and some I'll take home.
D you know, 1 sit all dav long at home do
ing nothing, just like a' lady, and no more
noticing them other girls in the house than
if they was so many flics? I don't havennv
unnecessary words, hut I put 'em down
quick, I can teil you, when they talk to
me. No; it's quite nice these days. I lock
my door, and they can onl v call" me names
through the keyhole, and "I sit inside, just
lite a lady, mending socks. Mr. Torpen
how wears his socks out both ends at once."
"Three quid a week from me, and the de
lights of my society. No socks mended.
Nothing from Torp except a nod on the
landing now and again, and all his socks
mended. Bessie is very much a woman."
thought Dick; and he looked at her between
half-shut eyes. Food and rest had trans-
lormed the girl, as Dick knew thev would.
"What are youlookingat me like that for?"
she said quickly. "Don't. You look reg'
lar bad when you look tint way. You don't
think much o' me, do you?"
That depends on how vou heli.ivp. "
Bessie behaved beautifully. Only it was
difficult at the end of a sitting to bid her
go forth into the gray streets. She very
much preferred the stud'io and a big chair
by the stove, with some socks in her lap as
an excuse for delay. Then Torpenhow
would come in, and Bessie would be moved
to tell strange and wonderful stories of her
past, and still stranger ones of her present
improved circumstances. She would make
them tea as though she had a right to make
it; aud once or twice on these oecasionsDick
caught Torpenhow's eyes fixed on the trim
little figure, and because Bessie's Sittings
about the room made Dick ardently long lor
Maisie, he realized whither Torpenhow's
thoughts were tending. And Bessie was
exceedingly careful of the condition ot Tor
penhow's linen. She spoke verv little to
him, but sometimes they talked together on
the landing.
"I was a great fool," Dick said to him
self. "I know what red nre-light looks like
when a man's tramping through a strange
town; and ours is a lonelv. selfish sort of
life at the best. I wonder "Maisie doesn't
feel that sometimes. But T cin'f nrAnr
Bessie awty. That's the worst of beginning
things. One neverknowswhere thev stop."
One evening, after a sitting prolonged to
the last limit of the light, Dick was roused
from a nap by a broken voice in Torpen
how's room. He jumped to his feet. "Now
whatnughtlto do? It looks foolish to go
in. Oh, bless you, Binkie!" The little ter
rier thrust Porpenhow's door open with his
nose and came out to take possession of
Dick's chair. The door swung wide un
heeded, and Dick across the iandin" could
see Bessie in the half-light making her little
supplication to Torpenhow. She was kneel
ing by his side, and her hands were clasped
across his knee.
"Torp," said Dick across the landing.
He could hardly steady his voice. "Come
here a minute, old man. .I'm in trouble."
"Heaven send he'll listen to me!" There
was something very like an oath from Bes
sie's lips. She was afraid of Dick, and dis
appeared down the staircise in panic, but it
seemed an age before Torpenhow entered
the studio. He went to the mantelpiece,
buried his head on his arms, and groaned
like a wounded bull.
"What the devil right have you to inter
fere?" he said, at last.
fa interfering with which? Your
own sense told jou long ago you couldn't
be such a fool. It was a tough rack, St. An
thony, but you're all right now."
"I oughtn't to have seen her moving
about these rooms as if they belonged to
her. That's what upset me. It gives a
lonely man a sort of hankering, doesn't
it?" said Torpenhow, piteously.
"Now you talk sense, ft does. But
since you area t in a condition to discuss the
disadvantages of double housekeeping, do
you know what you're going to do?"
"I don't. I wish I did."
"You're going away for a season on a
brilliant tour to regaiii tone. You're goin
to Brighton, or Scarborough, or Prawle
Point, to see the ships go bv. And you're
going at once. Isn't it odd? I'll take care
of Binkie, but out you go immediately
Never resist the devil. He holds the bank.
Fly from him. Pack your things and go "
"I believe you're right. Where shall' I
go?"
"And you call yourself a special corre
spondent! Pack first and inquire alter
wards." An hour later Tornehow ivn io.in,..i
into the night in a hansom. "You'll prob
ably think of some place tn co to while
you're moving," said Dick. "Go to Euston.
to begin with, and oh. yes get drunk to!
night.
He returned to the studio and lighted more
candles, for be found the room ve"rv dark.
"Oh. vou Jezebel! vou tntil i;ii. t'
bell Won't j'ou hate me to-morrow? Binkie'
1 (ntno liarn
Binkie turned over on his back on the
hearth rug. and Dick stirred him with a
meditative foot.
"I said she was not immoral. I was
wrong. She said she could cook. That
showed premeditated sin. Oh, Binkie if
you are a man you. will go to perdition; but
lfyouarea woman, and say that vou ean
cook, you will go to a much worse place."
(To be continued next Sunday.)
Epidemic of Marriage.
Boston Herald.
Latest advices from England are to the
effect that the institution of marriage is
looking up, and more bachelors and spin
sters are now wedding thai, for many years
past. Whatever is done in London will be
done over here; therefore we may expect
shortly to see an tucrease in the marriage
rate.
The Cats of Beef.
Lonts Tost-Dlspatch.
St,
How many people
know how the car
cass of a steer is cut
up for beef. Here is
a diagram of the
dressed animal, aud
appended is a key to
the picture, a, por-ter-hmise
steak; b,
sirloin; c, middle
ribs; d, fore ribs; e,
rump; l", mouse but
tock; g, chuck ribs;
h, round; i, clod; j,
shoulder; k, brisket;
1, thin flank; m,
thick flank; n, leg;
ot shin; p, neck.
The diagram will
help many a good
housewifeand enable
her to give the bnteher ft fw noiais on the
Jdnd of meat the winta.
PITTSBURG" DISPATCH,
TALES OF MONSTERS
That Bave Como Down From Count
less Ages Were Based on Pact.
STEAKGE MEHISTOKIC EEPTILES
That
Bnrrgest the Mythical Eoe,
Plxsnix or the Gordon.
the
THE EY0LUT10N OP MODEEN B1EDS
IWMTTEH rOB KUE DISPATCH.!
HE man who thou
sands of years ago
may have skirmished
in this vicinity in
uearch of the where
withal for his keep
was not a prepossess
ing creature, if we ac
cept as correct the
description of him
that science gives us.
Although as our fore-
riiiainers we must ad
mit him to some sort
of relationship with
Plerodaelyle. ns we ,ook ;th py
and in turn contempt on the rude manuers
of dressing or existing, and mentally re
mark what a fool he muit have been. And
perhaps mankind i3 rig'ht in this respect.
As this progenitor o'f ours progresses we
observe that our bond of sympathy with him
grows stronger and stronger. Wc are not so
prone to sneer at his ways and means of
doing this or that, for ire can see in these a
continuous derelopmeat or reaching after
bcttet things; but, as this being reaches a
point at which he begins to thins, we find
that he is a believer in supernatural ideas
that appear to us ridiculous.
ITORMS IMAGINATIVE AND REAL.
His world is peopled with strange forms.
The caves or his earth are filled with
The Ramphorhynchus.
dragons, griffins or other equally wondrous
creations; the air teems with savage birds
and spirits ot awful presence and super
natural powers; the waters bave also their
share of mysterious and fearful monsters,
and our latter-day man sets aside these
curious ideas of his predecessors as being
worthy only of the belief of children, and
once more resolves that early man was a
fool. And perhaps the modern individual
is not right in this case.
It is almost certain that if some of our
modern men were permitted to look upon
living, breathing specimens of some of the
creatures that are now extinct as far as we
know they would more than likely be of
the opinion that the story teller of olden
times did not deal so niggardly with the
truth as was at first thought. We have no
positive evidence that man was in existence
on this earth when such creatures as
the archaeoptcryx and ramphorhynchus
flourished on it, but the common belief is
that he did, and if so we have no just reason
lor surprise at his notions concerning these
creatures.
HALF EEPIILE, HALF BIRD.
I do not know whether it would be proper
to call the ancient observer ot winged things
an ornithologist, inasmuch as the creatures
he studied were as often reptiles as birds,
and generally as far removed Jrom the bird
life as we understand it as a cow from a
snail, but, no matter what he might be
called, let us fancy ourselves one of his
kind engaged in taking notes at some point
in the vicinity of prehistoric Pittsburg.
Probably the contour of the landscape
was not the same; tbe hills may not have
had the same forms, and the rivers we know
may have been parts of the immense inland
sea which at one time covered the entire
Mississippi valley.
On a rock overlooking the water is polled
a bird, resembling as it stands the cormor
ant ot the present, but in that one respect
the resemblance ends, for in the first place
this bird is fully three feet high. Its body
is covered witty a line djwny growth, which
develops into fully lormeil feathers in the
tail only. It has a long neck surmounted
by a head not unlike that of a goose, but
tbe jaws arc lined uith
STROSG, SHARP TEETH.
Its wings if we may call them such are
small affairs, mere suggestions, in fact, and
we would know without question that this
creature does not fly. On the other hand,
The Archaeoptcryx.
its being a thorough water bird is clearly
evident from the shape of the feet, which
are not unlike those of tbe grebe or loon.
This was the hair bird, half neptile known
to our science as the heipcrornis regalis.
Lo! as we look a movement is ohserved in
wbatappears to be a huge leather-like bag
hanging from a branch of a gigantic fern
some distance away. Then the thing drops
and two wide-spreading wings, shaped like
those of a bat, shoot out trom the body, and,
beating the air rapidly, it comes swooping
down upon the bird occupying the rock.
The latter changes its position to observe
the movements of the other, but does not ap
pear to be averse to an encounter, although
It is by far the smaller oi the two. The one
in the air is seen to have a beak not unlike
that of a woodcock, but its jaws differ from
the others inasmuch as they contain no
teeth. Its body, from tip of beak to tail, is
devoid of any growth of either fur or feath
ers, and it has all the appearance of a
creature clothed in a leather skin. In fact
it is a monster, the like of which we of the
present day have no counterpart, except in
the dragons a'pd gorgons of myth and
romance.
BATTLE' OF THE M0NSTEE3,
In an instant these two strange creatures 1
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have met and are engaged in fierce combat.
Wild, discordant cries are uttered; the
tremendous leathery wings of the one flap
against the ground with loud resonance.
To the observer it would appear that the
attacking bird would overwhelm the other
immediately by sheer weight and strength,
but alter a temporary advantage which
seems to bave been gained by the rush, the
conditions change. The conflict being on
the ground the great heavy wings ot the
Hesperornis HegalU.
pterodactyle. lor such it is named, seemed
to impede its movements, while the sharp
teeth of the hesperornis inflict great damage
to the bead and neck of its antagonist.
In a short time the fight is at an end. The
smaller bird manages to secure a strong
grip on the throat nf its antagonist and it
struggles and strangles. The victor
does not let go its hold, however, until the
struggles of the dying monster have ceased;
then it springs away into the water and is
lost to sight.
A LIVING PARACHUTE.
Now, from a height near at hand a creat
ure about tbe size of a crow is seen to pre
cipitate itself in a slantini? fliVht tn ltm rlro
i me waier, wnere it captures a small
marine animal which is speedily devoured.
The flight of the newcomer in reaching the
level is something after the mannerin whieh
a parachute would fall in a moderate gale
of wind. This creature is the strange reptile
known as the ramphorhynchus.
The comparison of its manner of flying
with the action of a parachute gives as near
the correct idea as pages of printed matter
could convey. The reptile was not reallv
adapted to flying, as some authorities would
have us believe. It was simplv aided bv a
curious pair of wings formed of the mem
brane connecting long fingers with the body,
which arrangement can be best understood
by reference to tbe cut accompanving this
article. When these wings wefe spread
they formed a natural parachute which had
only a staying effect on the creature's rapid
fall to earth when it threw itself on its prey
from its lair in the cliffs. Tbe ramphorh vn
chus was also the proud possessor of a tail
almost the length of its body, which on a
level was dragged after it.
weren't all tjglt.
But if those creatures so far mentioned
are ungainly, now comes several which are
the reverse. They are in the air, and their
flight is as rapid aud as light and graceful
as any seagull of our day. As they go by
close enough to permit observation, we
notice thttt in shape the head still preserves
the reptilian fr-rni, which has been tvpical
u. jii me uiruime creatures up to this time,
and the jaws contain rows of sharp teeth, in
Palaplcryx.
which they differ from the true bird. The
ichthyornis victor is a representative of the
reptilian ag, but is also the nearest ap
proach to the perfect bird that nature's
wondcrlul evolution has produced. Ichthy
ornis was essentially a water-bird, subsist
ing almost, if not entirely, on fishes, for the
capture of which its organism was admirably
adapted.
Many other birds are scattered through
out the landscape. Most of these are quite
small and differ verymuch from the feath
ered forms known to moderns. There are
still, however, some large birds well worth
attention. Prominent among these are what
appear to be species of ostriches at least in
form lor these great creatures would be
tremendous giants alongside of that largest
of our birds the ostrich
LIKE StODERN BIROS.
There are also a few specimens of the
horde of modern days. They are no doubt
the advance guards of the coming race.
Among them are to be noticed vultures,
eagles. gull, swallows, parroquets, pheas
ants, ducks, jungle fowl, etc.
It might he well to say that, although the
people ol this age bave not seen anything
that bears any resemblance to the "dragons"
ot the ancients, it should be admitted that if
man existed on earth at a time when such
creatures as the pterodactyl and hesperornis
were on it. he would have good reason to
lookupon them with the eyes of one who
saw in them supernatural creations. Fur
ther, if such as those mentioned may have
influenced his mind, what would not such
vagaries of nature ns the archrenpteryx and
comnsognathu! of the Bavarian and the
dioruis of the New Zealand fields have done?
I have refrained from considering these
wonarous lorms of prehistoric ages so far, as
it is not known to a certainty that they ire-
(jueuieu wis pan oi tne ealth.
TERRIBLE IN ASPECT.
In the first named we have one of the
strangest creatures the human mind can
conceive of a head embodying the chief
.characteristics of both the crocodile, and
bird; eyesot the lizard; the body naked as
a serpent's, with the exception of the leath
ers which grew irom the forearms, seemingly
to form wings, though it is essentially a
four-footed creature; then a tail longer than
the entire body made upof a number of joints
irom which a double "row of feathers pro
ject. The compsognathus was another
strange bird-reptile. Its proportions were
at times mastodonic and it is thought this
may have been the roc of nivthic lure.
Then tbe diornis aud Palaplcryx grew lo a
hei?ht of from 10 to 13 lect, and were easily
capable of vanquishing a number of men
rudely armed for combat of anv kind and
particularly with such monsters as these.
Taking everything iuto a consideration,
perhaps the wondrous phca.iix, griffin,
gorgoa aim roc oi me ancients were not
such imaginary creatures alter all.
W. G. Kaufmann.
KILLED, BUT 2T0T SHOT.
Strange Case of the Death of a Laborer by
Nervous Shock. .
New York Sun. J
Patrick'Shea, an unmarried laborer, was
fooling with an old musket yesterday even
ing, and finally applied a lighted match to
tbe nipple. The gun was loaded and at
once went off, bnt without shooting anyone.
Tbe shock, however, knocked Shea down,
and when picked up he was dead. Dr.
Lynd was summoned and pronounced death
to have resulted irom nervous shock.
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IN SOUTHERN SEAS.
Fannie B. Ward's Sketches of South
America From Ship-Board.
LATIfl AKD ANGLO-SAXON WOilEK.
A Town So Healthy a Eespectable Grave
yard Can't be Eept Up,
STEEET CAES PROPELLED BI WIND
rcor.ntsroxDExci op the PisrATcn.j
On Shipboard, September 23. Life on
board one of these great English steamers
that ply the Southern Pacific has its peculiar
features, but is by no means unpleasant.
The three-story habitation afloat on a waste
of waters with its crowd of passengers, its
living cargo of horse?, cattle, sheep and
fowls, and its tons of fruit and other freight,
is a miniature village separated froni"the
rest of the world and forced to rely upon
its own resources for sustenance and amuse
ment. Among other noticeable characters in our
daily dramatis personal is a bevy'of young
ladies who came on board at Puna, the Cape
May ol Ecuador. They are evidently sisters
and the daughters of wealth. However cold
the sea winds blow, they appear every dav
in thinnest dresses ot white mull with sky
blue sashes and breast knots, their shining
black hair braided down their backs and
tied at the ends with bine ribbon. Scorning
wraps of any sort, with bare heads and slipl
percu icet, now iney stare at the flannel
gowns, thick boots, gloves, hats and jackets
of las Araericanas with looks that plainlv
say: "From what part of the uncivilized
world do these heathens come?" And
when the duenna is mercifully seasick, with
what gusto do they engage in desperate
flirtations with the young ship-doctor and a
couple of handsome bull-figbters, the latter
being wonderiully bedecked with diamonds,
each wearing his hair braided into tbe bob
bing pigtail which betokens his profession.
ViTATCHING THE COW KILLING.
Besides the daily slaughter of pigs, poul
try and sheep to supply the larder, every
second or third day a cow is killed on the
lower deck, which the animals share with
the freight and the steerage passengers.
anese vessels are so constructed that the
dining salon and all the state rooms open
upon the second deck; while the upper one
is mainly kent clear for promenading and
dancing. There are two or three large open
ings in the middle deck, securely fenced
around by iron railings, through which the
"winches" work when freight or baggage is
received or unloaded. Ithappers that the
frequent cow-killings go on directly below
one ol these opening-, in full view of who
ever cires to witness the bloody performance.
It is significant of the difference in char
acter between the Latin and Anglo-Saxon
races, that while every one of the thick
shod, unsentimental-looking American
girls flees from all sight and sound of the
butchery and thinks of it onlv with lmrmr
the whole bevy ot fair Ecuadorans, in their
angelic white robes and blue ribbons, lung
over the railing from first to last, evincing
the greatest enjoyment of everv detail, trom
the time the poor beast is knocked down
and its throat cut, till its skinned and dis
emboweled carcass hangs up in the shape
ot meat. Since the charming senoritas can-,
not possibly feel the scientific or surgical in
terest in matter that mav uetn.itn ihpir fr
iending cavaliers, the doctor and thepica
dores, their taste for blood shedding must
have been inherited from their bull-fighting
forefathers of Old Casile, who inter-married
with the savages of the New World.
SCENES AT THE TORTS.
At evey port an armv of local offinlnlo
comes on board, to improve the opportunity
of a square meal and a drink ortwo at the
expense of the steamship company. They
wear gorgeous red breeches, bright swords
and plenty of "brief authority," and there
is usually one of them to about everv half
doz:n packazes of merchandise. There is
the captain of the port and all his retiuue;
the Governor of the district with his entire
staff; thecomandante of the militarv gar
rison and several of his subordinates; and
last, and by no means least either in num
bers or importance, the collector of cus
toms and battalion of inspectors, till the
decks are fairly swarming with them. As
the arrival of a steamer is the one event
that breaks the monotony of their live3
they never fail to celebrate it for all it is
worth.
Most of the ports are mere collection nf
mud huts, inhabited by the officials afore
said, employes of the various steamship
companies, and a few fishermen. We stop
at everyone of them, to take on the pro
duce of the neighboring valleys, mainly
sugar, cotton, cocoa, wine and" coffee, for
shipment to Liverpool and Germany, or to
points lower down the coast. Nearly every
port has its railway line, running to rich
plantations in the interior; and as there are
no harbors on this coast, but onlv open
loadsteads, expensive iron piers have been
built out over the surf in most places, from
which the merchandise is transferred to
bargesor lighters and taken by them to the
ships, which anchor a mile or more from
shore.
Where there is no pier, lighters are run
through the surf when the tide is highest.
They are loaded at low tide and then floated
off to buoys to await the arrival of vessels.
There are always plenty of row boats to take
passengers ashore, at reasonable prices
when bargained lor before starting; and
the tourist misses a good deal who does not
avail himself of every opportunity to put
his feet upon terra firma.
MONEY MATTERS ON THE COAST.
In several places the women have beauti
ful straw baskets, cigar cases and "Pana
ma" hats of their owii manufacture to sell,
besides a variety of iruit, cheese, dulcies,
poor pottery and other truck. They have
not the remotest idea of the value of money,
and are habitually imposed upon by local
traders, who tafee their wares at a merely
nominal rate in exchange for the necessaries
of liie, and sell them again at an enormous
advance on the original price. It is difficult
for a stranger to buy anything of these peo
ple, because they are imbued with the idea
that all foreigners are walking gold mines,
who may as well pay one price as another.
I asked an old woman the price of a little
straw basket. "Filteen dollars," she re
plied. Finding that would not do. she
gracefully dropped to SO cents, aboutdouble
the sum that a local dealer would have
given her.
A DEPOSIT OF PETROLEUM.
The northernmost town of Peru is Tum
bez, interesting only fronj the fact that
here Pizarro was met by the Inca messen
gers whom King Atahualpa had sent out
to inquire the object of the white man's
visit. Back of the town are some extensive
pctrnieum deposits, which where known to
the Indians long before the coniin? of the
Spaniards. Since tiuje out of mind the oil
had been used lor lubricating and coloring
purposes, nut tne natives were entirely
ignorant of its real character and value
until a Mr. Larkins, irom AVestcni New
YorK, came down here to peddle kerosene,
and then it was immediately recognized as
the same stuff.
A little farther down is Paita, or Payta
as it is sometimes spelled, the ocean gate of
the fertile valley of Piura, which, with its
town of the same name, lies CO miles away,
across the desert of Sechura and close to the
Cordillera. Being completely surrounded
by bare sand bluff, except thelittie space to
seaward, there is not a trace of vegetation
auywhcie in sight. AU the water that is
used is brought from a point more than 30
miles away, formerly on the backs of mules,
but now through an iron pine. Though ly
ing within the so-called "rainless belt" ot
Pern, it is said that smart showers occasion
ally fall here, say once in three or four
years. To form a tolerably correct idea of
the appearance of Paita, you have only to
imagine a collection of the mud nests oi the
barn swallow, somewhat enlarged and
turned bottom side up. Its aneershons and
houses are set closo together, mainly on one
long street near tbe beach, their wicker-work
frames so thinly plastered over with mud
that a paser-by might thrust his finger
through; and roofed with a matting of
braided rushes, tied on to the rafters. Some
of them are two-storied and very well fur
nished, beiug occupied by agents of foreign
commercial houses who are paid extraor
dinary salaries for consenting to a resi
dence here.
NOBODY EVER DIES THERE.
Paita has no cemetery and it is said that
none is needed, as nobody ever dies here
abouts they dry up in course Jof centuries
and blow away into the de-ert. We are in
formed that the public-spirited citizens were
very desirous of starting a graveyard a few
years ago, having heard that such an insti
tution is a feature of all first-class towns.
They laid out an enclosure, hut even mo
tives of patriotism could not induce anvbody
to be interred alive. Finally a vessel came
along which had a man on board at the
point of death; and as he had neither friends
nor money the captain was easily persuaded
to put him ashore, to start the new ceme
tery. But no sooner had he reached land
than he beiran to mend, and in a short time
w.is as robust as the rest of them! The term
"old citizen" is no misnomer in Paita,
where the average age is said to be well on
into the second century. There are bloom
ing maidens here of 70" and 80, frisky boys
of a hundred or more and "flower-girls" of
twice three score and ten so they tell us!
One is struck by the extraordinary num
ber of gaunt, half-starved lns fhnt lis
sleeping upon the sand-heaps or go prowl
ing about in the most dispirited manner. A
comical story is sometimes imposed upou
credulous travelers to the effect that what
has caused these canines to look so lean and
lazy is not lack of food, but the great dis
tance they have to go for water. I was
gravely assured by a barefooted native that
every morning before sunrise all the dogs of
the village assemble in the plaza, thev
march together in a body to the river, 30
miies away, where they drink enough to
satisfy them for 24 hours, and then slowly
return, being quite worn out by the time
they have readied home!
AN AMERICAN AT LAST.
A rather more interesting coast town is
Pacasmayo. And here an agreeable sur
prise awaited u. For more than 20 years
Mr. B. H. Kauffuiann, a brother ot the
ownerof the Yashingtou Evening Star, has
been the American Consul at Pacasmayo.
He lives iu a big, airy house not far from
the beach, whose bamboo-roofed veranda
commands a splendid view of the rolling
surf and the measureless blue beyond. It is
a cozy home, furnished with all that good
taste and money can buy in this part ot the
world, including fine pictures, dainty china
and a French piano, making one forget that
iracKiess deserts and a treacherous ocesn
environ on every side. Mrs. Kauffmann
was a Lima belle and there are several very
pretty children who are being educated at
home by an English governess. The yonng
daughter, who excels in music, is a striking
specimen of the blending of the two races)
showing the white skin and fair hair of the
Saxon, with the soft expressive eves, fine
form and tiny hands and feet of the Peru
vian mother.
Among the sights of Pacasraavo especial
mention should be made of a street car,
propelled, by wind. It runs on rails like
other cars, but has neither horse, mule,
engine nor any motive power, except the
viewless hands of the air playing in a sail,
which can be raised or lowered to suit
emergencies, just like that of a yacht. There
are brakes, ot course, and right merrily does
this queer land ship scud "along, from the
town to the end of the long pier, when the
wind happens to be in the right direction.
And now there are no more stops to be
made before Callao, the port of Lima, where
we shall bid a happy adieu for some time to
the ocean, of which we are heartily tired.
Fannie B. Ward.
BISHAECK'S COUSTSHD?
Not Carried on In the Half-Hearted Fashion
of Our Degenerate Day.
It seems that Bismarck did his conrtin
as the Irishman played the fiddle by main
strength. The followiugstory is told of this
tender passage in the life ot the Iron
Chancellor by the St. Louis Republic: On a
journey into tbe Hartz Mountains with the
Blackenburg family he fell In love with
Fraulein von Pullkammer, who was of the
party, and whom he had first met at the
wedding of his friend. Von Blackenburg;
but he never made her acquainted with, his
sentiments. On his return from the journey
he wrote direct to the young lady's parents,
with whom he was not acquainted, and de
manded their daughter in marriage. The
good people were rather frightened at
Bismarck's reputation for hieh living, bnt
their daughter having intimated discreetly
uiai sue uiu not regara tne young gentleman
unfavorably they decided not to hurry
matters nor take any decided step in one
direction or the other. So they wrote
Bismarck, inviting him to come'and see
them.
The parents met him with an air of great
solemnity and the yorug lady stood with
eyes modestly bent on the ground when Bis
marck, on altehting, threw his arm's around
his sweetheart's neck and embraced her vig
orously berore anyone had time to demur.
The result was an immediate betrothal.
Prince Bismarck is fond of telling the
story, and he is careful to finish it with this
reflection: "And you have no idea what
this lady has made of inc."
A PALETTE TABLE.
Neat I.Ittlo Home Ornament That Can be
Made for About 35 Cents.
New York 1'rcss.l
The top and bottom of the table to be
enameled or painted in "smooth" style and
varnished two or three times to give it fine
finish; a light decorative design is prefer
able. The legs should be round and about
an inch in diameter. The legs and knobs
at the top of the table to be gilded.
The object of the design is to sug
gest the palettes and maul stick
of an artist. The table hai been made
from my design bvmy husband (an amateur
with tools), who cut'the tops Irom one-half
inch wood used for fret sawing, and fastened
them to three dowel sticks seventh-eighth
inch, as shown in sketch. After I had
painted the tops we gilded tbe legs, etc, and
it was complete.
Cost as follows: Wood for top, 20 cents;
three dowel sticks, 9 cents; three knobs, G
cents; total, 35 cents. Colors and gilt we
had on band.
An Economical Bride.
At the sacred altar lately, says tbe
Klamath, "Wash., 5far, a bride exhibited a
degree of parsimony that would have made
a campaign fnnd committee turn pale.
WHen the officiating clergyman announced
that the regular marriage lee was 81 50,
and added in a neatly-put innuendo that a
little morn was usually thrown in bv the
more bliisfnl. she promptly exclaimi)" "A
doiiar'n a half ! "Why pa and ma were mar
wed for a dollar"" '
AH1I0MA GOING DP.
An Industry Thai is Producing For
tunes for a Favored Few.
DSPRECEDENTEDDE1IASD0FLATE,
The Advent of Ice Machines and the Jlanip
nlations of a Trust.
HOW THE CHEMICAL IS PEODUCED
It is not generally known that the am
monia producing industry of this country
inits present form is practically of St. Louis
origin, auu mat a company formed in that
city seven years ago produces two-thirds of
the entire ammonia product of the United
States. Such, however, is the case. The
St. Louis Ammonia and Chemical Com
pany, organized in St. Louis in 1883, was
the parent of American ammonia-producing
institutions operated by modern scientific!
methods, and the B. P. Clapp Ammonia
Company, the name under which it was re
organized two years ago, is the largest pro
ducer of ammonia in the world.
This company was organized in 1833,
with George Nsh as President, G. S.
Page, Vice President, aud William New
man, Secretary. The company's plant was
put in operation for the first time on May
1, 1SS4, and for five years a profitable busi
ness was done. Then it became apparent
that the concern's interest demanded a re
organization of its affairs upon broaoer
lines, and a big combine was formed which
now holds a kind of monopoly on the busi
ness. The dividends of this company,
combine or trust, as you please, may ba
faintly conceived when it is stated that its
stock is never quoted on the market; that a
stockholder has rarely been known to offer
any part of his holding for sale, and that
when be has done so he has found an instant
and eager market among his fellow stogk
holders. A BY PRODUCT OP COAL GAS.
The manufacture of ammonia previous to
the advent of the St. Louis Ammonia and
Chemical Company had been altogether
controlled by the manufacturers of coal gas.
It can only be manufactured in cities which
use coal gas, the product being secured from,
the distillation of the water through which
the gas is passed iu the last process of its
manufacture. The gas in passing through
thi3 water yields up its ammonical constitu
ent, which is retained in a form called am
monical liquor. This liquor was formerly
thrown awav by gas manufacturers. Now,
however, it is preserved and brings a high
price from the ammonia manufacturers
whose business consists solely in distilling
it. In many parts of the country this am
moniacal liquor is shipped long" distances
for distillation, but in the case'ot the St.
Louis manufactory this is unnecessary, the
gas works of the city supplying all the ma
terial that the concern can use.
The ammonia produced by this company
is manufactured by au improved process,
andwhether designed for the drug trade or
refrigerating purposes is chemically pure.
The product therefore commands the readier
sale than that with which it enters into com
petition, though there is practically no con
flict of interests among those engaced in tha
trade, the field furuishing more than room
enough for all.
CONSUMPTION IN ICE MACHINES.
The manufacture of ammonia has largely
increased in the past six years, bnt the rate
of increase in its consumption has been much
larger. A number of mild winters have led
to the establishment of ice plants in many
cities in which the supply of ice naturally
frozen was entirely depended upon. Tha
great brewing associations have equipped
their cooling rooms with facilities for cool
ing by artificial means, and have also es
tablished ice factories for the manufacture
of their own ice for shipment.
In the South particularly ice factories
have been multiplying, and throughout tha
land the demand for ammonia has been in
creasing in a manner which has created not
only an eager market, but also a constant
appreciation in the value of the product.
During the month of August last the prica
of ammonia advanced 6 cents per pound, and
the indications are favorable for a further
advance during the coming summer. The
National Ammonia Company holds a con
tract for the entire product of the St. Louis
and Cincinnati manufactories until Decem
ber 31, 1891, a fact which in itself justifies
the anticipation of an early rise in prices.
TIPPOO TIB'S 1V0BY.
On HU Way With Immense Loads and New
About the Itear Column.
KewYorkSun.2
News comes from Central Africa that
Tippoo Tib is at last on his way to Zanzibar
with 7,000 porters, carrying an enormous
quantity of ivory. When his present stick
reaches the coast, this greatest of African
traders will have sent to the sea wihin tho
past four or five years about 5500,000 worth
of ivory. His present caravan is the largest
ever seen in the equatorial regions. As he
leit TJjiji a little before September 1 he wi,
soon be due at Zanzibar. It will ba interl
esting to hear what he has to say about tha
Emiu relief expedition. H13 opinions of
Major Barttelot and his management will
likely be rather piquant, for it is well
known that he regarded the Major as en
tirely out of his element in Africi.
The
turnstiles
at the Expo
sition buildings
'
were no respect-
ors of persons, f
I he tall, the short,
the fat, the lean,
the jolly and the
r 0
solemn visaged vis
itor, secured an en
trance on the same level.
The multiplicity of
exhibits were as diver
sified in their character
and make up, as the pur
pose and ideas which
brought the thousands of
visitors to see them.
I he lengthy specimen
oi numanity whose
words we echo to-day,
was loud in his nraise
and admiration of the exhibit of
Tie tea of the Exposition.
HE-NO is a remarkable tea of exquisite
bouquet and flavor.
Guaranteed absolutely pure, and possess
ing the body, and quality of the best
Send us 3 cents, to pay postage, and get a
book givingjrfr about the effects of tea.
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AND TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. BEWARE
OF IMITATIONS.
UARTIN GILLET & CO., (Zt'.ahlUkti tStti -'
Exchange Place', Baltimore. Md. - e
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