tamstmEM iW&- t s3wtv --jps?.? THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. THIRD PART. PITTSBTJEG, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1890. OUR RIVER GIANTS, Big Stern Wheelers That Move Acres of Black Diamonds on Local Streams. PITTSBURG PROUD OF THEM While Visitors From Tidewater Im agine They Are Ludicrous- REPAIRING ON LAND AND WATER. An Early Tessel That Was Propelled by Oars Moved by Steam. BTOEIES OF PlOh'ErlR BOATIXG DAIS IWBITTEX FOB TUB PISFATCS.J s:a, end 0f tbta State are always sure of seeing a cnri osityat the other end. That is a stern wheel steamboat. They don't have them in Philadelphia. Theyhave scarce ly anything else on the rivers around Pitts burg. The enormous paddle wheels of the Monongahela river towboats have rolled clear from the loot of the Allegheny Mount ains to the base of the Rockies, but they have not yet succeeded in tumbling oyer the great divide of their own State. "When you reach Altoona vou are out of sight of the big wheels peculiar to "Western navigation. Pittsburgers think these larce, round wooden wheels are the embodiment of sym metrv, their motion the most graceful thing in the world. Strangers from the East, ac customed to the boat architecture of tide water streams, regard our gigantic wheels as the funniest feature of our inland vcsels. They call them bulky and awkward. "When they get to know our lesthctic ideas on the subject their amusement becomes all the greater. Our sincerity about the poetry of a big steaml oat wheel seems to Eastern visitors something like the sober expression on a man's face when he tells a joke. THE BIGGEST r ADDLE WHEEL. Down on the Monongahela wharf the other day I saw several of these large wheels lying along the chore detached from the FileKs First Successful St-amboat. steamboat shafts. They had been taken off for repairs, except in one instance where if was to be lorn apart and a new one built. I learned that the average cost of one of these wheels on Pittsburg towboats is 5250. One of the accompanying pictures shows the wheel ot the boat Joseph Nixon. It lies on the wharf at the water's edge about at the foot of Ferry street, and is at present used to moor a fiat boat to. It is awaiting re pairs. That wheel is considered one of the infants of the city harbor, so far as size is concerned, and yet it cost probably 5200. There is sa:d to be about 3,000 feet of tim ber in it. The wheel of the powerful towboat, "W. "W. O'Neill, is perhaps one ot the largest on the Ohio river. It contains somewhere about 6,000 feet of lumber, and cost 5500 or 5600. It takes nearly a week to build one wheel. "With statistics like these our Phil adelphia friends will understand that we nave a substantial reason tor pinning onr confidence to the big paddle wheel. These paddle wheels move a tremendous tonnage, The screw-propeller may make ocean racers. and furnish fast passage for pleasure seekers abroad, but no other city of the country can boast of the water tonnage that Pittsburg possesses. A CAEPEXTEE OX EVERT BOAT. "Who has not read of the fleets of coal boats, that are lashed together, acres in ex tent, and s ifely floated 1,000 miles by a sin gle wheel ! On such a trip, however, the wheel requires vigilance. Made of wood, ynu wonder how it stands the buffet of the current, the whack of ice obstructions, or the cutting collisions with sand bars. Every boat, no matter how small, carries a car penter. Hie tools always at hand, he is ever ready to leap upon the shaft, go out A Perilous Position. through the engine holes, and perch high up on the paddles of the wheeL He is often copipelled to perform this dangerous duly in midriver. As the Lizzie Bay, ot Cincin nati, lay beside the wharfboat at the foot of Wood street, this week, I called to the car penter who was standing on the paddle of the stern-wheel, whether he had ever been dumped into the water. "Often," he re sponded. Stories are told of how the engineer, for getting that the carpenter had gone out upon the wheel, had started the engines. A splash, a yell, the sound of running feet up on deck, and nnally the violent ringing of the engine bells by the pilot, reminded the en gineer that the wheel's paddles had held human weight Accidents, however, from this cause are rare. They are more frequent from the carpenter'sown carelessness. The paddles are quite narrow, and it is easy by misstep to fail into the water. EEPAIEIKO ALONG 'WATEB STEEET. The man on the wheel of the Lizzie Bay, iu this instance was "tightening uj)," that is, screwing up the flanges of the paddles. A paddle is made of two boards generally, and the iion fastenings become loosened somewhat by the wear and tear of a trip be tween Cincinnati and Pittsburg. "Whether they are loose or not, it is always safe to ex amine the wheel at both cities. An immense amount of steamboat repairing is done along "Water street and Dnquesne way. In repairing or building wheels the pieces are cut out and fashioned in the shop. The iron pieces are cast and molded, and every separate bit of iron and wood is so nicely fitted that to build up the wheel on the water's edge, after everything is ready, ii only a matter of a few hours. It is a very interesting visit to these shops, because of the variety of work done at them. Anything at all that goes wrong on board a river steamer (or ocean Tessel for that mat ter) can be remedied by the ingenious work meu along these two tboroughtares the tiniest job, from fixing a capstan up to the month's contract for overhauling a disman tled steamboat Some time ago the harbor tug Stella McCullongh was sunk in the Monongahela, close to its mouth. Her boil ers are still at the bottom of the river, but water-logged hull has been raised and towed to shore. A BUST LITTLE SCENE. It now lies high and dry on the wharf at the foot of Perry street, with its broken bits of machinery scattered all around and through it. Near this hull on the river bank lies a pile of new skiffs and lifeboats, built and painted in bright Colors for the coal trade. Not far beyond are a lot of long, black smokestacks, in which workmen are riveting nails. They he like disheveled giauts, and so large are they that the arti sans must have boxes to stand upon when trying to reach the sides. The use of paddle wheels in conjunction with steam as a motive power, dates Irom about the commencement of the present cen tury, but the employment of the paddle UNPINNED wheel Itself is as ancient as the time of the Egyptians. A specimen is known to have been tried in Spain in the sixteenth century. In 1513, June 17, Basca de Garray tried a steamboat ot 200 tons with tolerable success at Barccllona, Spain. It consisted of a cal dron of boiling water, and a movable wheel on each side of the ship. It was laid aside as impracticable. A present, how ever, was made to the inventor for his dis covery. In the principle of the paddle wheel it will be seen that a certain loss of power is"involved. To-overcome. .lhetirawt. backs ot the radial wheel, Ellja "Ualloway" patented in 1829 the feathering paddle wheel, in which the floats were kept, while im mersed, at right angles to the surface of the water. So long as the water was smooth the gain was great Consequently feathered floats were introduced largely among river steamers. The paddle wheel in revolving imparts both a forward velocity to the ves sel and a backward velocity to the water. The latter is called the "slip." OAKS BUN SX STEAM. It seems that the idea of wheels had not occurred to John Pitch, a watchmaker in Philadelphia, who, in 1785, conceived the idea of propelling a boat by steam. His vessel, of which a picture is given here, was PULTON'S HUDSON launched on the Delaware three years later. She performed the trip to Burlington, 20 miles distant, but burst her boiler on the return. Pitch built a second vessel on the same plan. She is said to have moved at the rate of eight miles per hour, but some thing was continually breaking and the unfortunate inventor only overcame one difficulty to meet another. The first real steamboat that ever floated on western rivers was furnished with a pro pelling wheel at the stern. It was the New Orleans, ( which was built at Pittsburg by Bobert Pulton, the far-famed inventor, and his backer, Livingston. But its builders did not believe the wheel would ever send the boat up stream against the 'strong car rent, so they had sails to assist them. The capacity of this vessel was 100 tons. In the winter of 1812 she made her first trip from Pittsburg to New Orleans, creating a tre mendous sensation. The wheel struck a nag in less than two years after the start sear Baton Bouge, and the boat sank. MIKE PINK'S OPINION. Mike Pink, that romantic character in the history of the Ohio valley, was a bargeman, living at Pittsburg, when this first steam boat went down the river. He had been the king of all the early keel-boat men. He knew every ripple in the Ohio and Missis sippi, and in his numerous voyages down to New Orleans with stins and whisky had killed an odd hundred Indians with his trusty gun. He was the crack shot from the keel boats. It is related of Fink, that when he first saw the paddle wheel of the New Orleans, he predicted utter failure for the experiment He declared that the only good it would be, would be to knock the life out ot fish in the Ohio. He advised "bait ing" the paddles, and using the wheel iu earnest lor fishing purposes. Such a quaint idea agrees with the charac ter of Fink, which ii described lnhii own language as follows: "I can ont-run, out jump, throw down, drag out, and lick any man in the- country. I am an Ohio river roarer. I love the wimen, and am chock full of fight" Fink; was murdered in retaliation for killing a steamboatman, for which class of iSfeE r jijS syi". i irmA 4: Reclaimed From the River Bottom. men he always retained a dislike, perhaps on account of the introduction of the steam paddle wheels. DOUBTFUL SEVENTY TEAES AGO. As late as 1817 the practicability of navigating the Ohio with those big wheels as propellers was esteemed doubtful by many persons, A writer in the Western FOB EEPAIBS. Monthly Magazine says he well remembers observing the long struggles of a stern-wheel boat to ascend the Horse-tail ripple a few miles below Pittsburg. He was in company with several other gentlemen at the time, and he savs that "it was the unanimous opinion of the party tint such a contrivance might conquer the difficulties of the Missis sippi as high as Natchez, but that we of .the Ohio must wait for some more happy century of invention." The paddle-wheel, when it was first tried' ju. the. turbidJUlegheuyriverValmost failed. An old boatman writes in Gould's "History of Eiver Navigation" of being aboard the first regular stern-wbeel boat to ply the Allegheny. It was built at Pittsburg in 1830, and was called the Allegheny. The boat was 90 feet long and 18 feet wide. She had two stern wheels, extending 12 feet be hind the boat. On Mav 14 she left Pitts burg, stemming the current at the rate of four miles an hour. The first trouble she encountered was at Patterson Palls, 115 miles up the river. This is one or the wcrst rapids upon the river. GOT THEOUGH BY POLING. Here a very useful improvement aided the endue, a poling machine, worked by the capstan or windlass In the bow of the KIVEB BOAT. boat, which, drew her over with ease. Montgomery's Falls, five miles above, is nearly as bad. They arrived at "Warrren, nearly 200 miles above Pittsburg, on the 19th. It required from 18 to 25 davs for canoes and keel-boats, manned in the best manner, to perform this trip. On May 19 she departed from "Warren for Olean, in the State of New York. N.tI Harr , arrived opposite the Indian village of Cornplanter. A deputation of gentlemen waited upon this ancient Indian king or chief and invited him on board this new, and to him, wonderful visitor, a steamboat I wonder if the old Indian laughed at the odd-looking wheels? LE. Stopiel. MAULEY'S FA1B BBIDB. The Crowning Reward of All His perils In Darkest Africa. Faltn Tenton In Toronto Empire. From the platform where the lecturer stood I looked across to where his' wife the artistic Dorothy Tennant, of whom we have heard so much smiled down upon him from the gallery! A smiling English face, she has, with lovely large dark eyes and arched jetty eyebrows, warm rich coloring, and the prettiest and softest ot English accent Be side her husband she looks tall very tall; and as she talks he watches and listens very proudly, very kindly. ' Seeing them thus together, I felt somehow glad that Mr. Stanley has married. Having won all else worth having, why should he not win the best of all? He has earned honors and fame; riches, also, are assured him. It is good to know that having all these he yet desired a woman's love. It may be that in the far-off African forest, sur rounded b'y peril and on the verge of despair, he learned that love is beyond every other earthly possession; and that next to the anticipation of his ta.fc wll done and com pleted, come the thought of love and homej i N HE wmS A NOVEL DEALING WITH LIFE IN LONDON AND EGYPT, WE1TTE FOE THE PISPATcm BY EUDTRD KIPLING, Being the First Serial Story From the Fen of the Gifted Young Author of "Soldiers Three," and Many Other Popular Sketches of Army Experiences in India. ' STHOPSIS OF FKEVJ.OTJS CHAPTERS.. , Jhe story opens with a picture or the life of two orphans. Dick and Jialsle. with Mrs. Jen nett in London, Many were their hardships ana a plighted troth was the result of their com pa , n,P to misery. The scene then shifts to Egypt during the time Chinese Gordon was shot up In Khartoum. The hero Is now an artist, skotchine the scenes for European Illustrated jour nals, and his fast friend is Gilbert a. Torpenhow. Tha column Is attacked by Arabs, Dickis wounded and In hK delirium calls for Maisic. Bathe recovers in due time. Torpenhow returns to London and Dick sends on bis sketches. By and by, Torpenhow telegraphs Dick to come to "ndon, that his work has caught on. Dick lands in London penniless, has a hard time for awhile, but at last gets on the crest ot the wave of success. Accidentally he meets Maisie. Soon 5D.rs n s way t0 her llt"8 "udio, there to admire and instruct her. Maisie is too much in love with her art to reciprocate his affection. Maisie has a roommate and she and Dick do not agree exactly. Ono day, In Dick's absence, a waif from the street drifts into their quarters and is ca!,ed,, ?r.by Torpenhow. She is pretty, but low-bred. Torpenhow gets Infatuated with her, and Dick forthwith sends him off on a trip. The girl, Bessie, becomes Dick's model for a Mel anesia, Masle and her roommate go to Paris to study. CHAPTER VIII. What's yon that follows at my sldeT The foe that ye must fight, my lord. That hirples swift as I can ridel The shadow of the night, my lord. Then wheel my horse against the foel He's down and overpast, my lord, xe war against the sunset glow: The darkness gathers fast, my lord. The Fight o Hertol'i Fortk "This is a cheerful life," said Dick, some many days later. "Torp's away; Bessie hates me; I can't get at the notion of the Melancolia; Maisie's letters are scrappy; and I believe I have Indigestion. "What gives a man pains across his head and spots before his eyes, Binkie? Shall us take some liver pills?" Dick had just gone through a lively scene with Bessie. She had, for the fiftieth time, reproached him for sending Torpenhow away. She explained her enduring hatred for Dick, and made it clear to him that she only sat for the sake of his money. "And Mr. Torpenhow's ten times a better man than you," she concluded. "He is. That's why he went away. I should have stayed and made love to you." The girl Bat with her chin on her hand, scowling. "To mel I'd like to catch you! If I wasn't afraid o' being hung I'd kill you. Thai's what I'd do. D'you believe me?" Dick smiled wearily. It is not pleasant to live in the company of a notion that will not work out, a fox terrier that cannot talk, and a woman who talks too much. He would have answered, but at that moment there unrolled itself irom one corner of the studio a veil, as It were, of the filmiest gauze. Dick rubbed his eyes, but the gray haze would not go. "This is disgraceful indigestion. Binkie, we will go to a medicine man. "We can't have our eyes interfered with, for by these we get our bread; also 'mutton-chop bones for little dogs." He was au affable local practitioner with white hair, and he 'said nothing till Dick began to describe the gray film in the Btudio- "Teull want a little patching and re pairing from time to time,' he chirped. 'Like a ship, my dear sir exactly like a ship. Sometimes the hull is out of order, and we consult the surgeon; sometimes the rigging, and then I ndvise; sometimes the engines, and we go to the brain specialist; sometimes the lookout on the bridge is tired, and then we see an oculist I should recom mend yon to see an oculist A little patch ing and repairing from time to time is all we want An oculist, by all means." Dick sought an oculist the best in Lon don. He wascertain that the local practi tioner did not know anything about his trade, and more certain that Maisie would laugh at him if he had to take to spectacles. "I've neglected the warnings or my lord the stomach too long. Hence tbese spots be fore the eyes, Binkie. I can see as well as I ever could." As he entered the dark hall that led to the consulting room a man caromed against him. Dick saw the face as it hurried out into the street "That's the writer type. He has the same modelling of the forehead as Torp. . He looks very sick. Probably heard something he didn't like." Even as be thought, a great fear came upon Dick, a fear that made him hold his breath as he walked into the oculist's wait ing room, with the heavy carved furniture, the dark green paper, and the sober-hued prints on the wall. He recognized a repro duction of one of his own sketches. Many people were waiting their tnrn be fore him. His eye was caught by a flaming red and gold Christmas carol book. Little children came to that eye doctor and they needed large type amusement "Tnat's idolatrous bad art," he said, drawing the book toward him. "From the anatomy of the angels, it has been made in Germany." He opened it mechanically, and there leaped to bis eyes a verse printed in red ink: THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. The next good joy that Mary had, It was the joy of three. To see her good sop, Jesus Christ Making the blind to see; Making the blind to see, good Lord, And happy may we bo. Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost To all eternity I Dick read and re-read the verse till his turn came, and the doctor was bending above him seated in an arm chair. The blaze of a gas-microscope in his eyes made him wince. The doctor's hand touched the scar of the sword cut on Dick's head, and Dick explained briefly how he had come by it When the flame was removed Dick saw the doctor's face, and the fear came upon him again. The doctor wrapped himself in a mist of woids. Dick caught allusions to "scar," "frontal bone," "optic nerve," "ex treme caution," and the "avoidance of mental anxiety." "Verdict?" he said, faintly. "My busi ness is painting, and I daren't waste time. "What do you make of it?" Again the whirl of words, but this time they conveyed a meaning. "Can you give me anything to drink?" Many sentences were pronounced in that darkened room, and the prisoners often needed cheering. Didk found a glass of liquor brandy in his hand. 'As far as I can gather," he said, cough ing, above the spirit, "you call it decay of the optic nerve, or something, and therefore hopeless. "What is my time-limit, avoiding all strain and worry?" "Perhaps one year." "My God! And if I don't take care of myself?" "I really could not say. One cannot ascertain the exact amount of injury in flicted by the sword-cut The scar is an old one, and exposure to the strong light of the desert, did you say? with excessive appli cation to fine work? I really could not say." "I beg your pardon, but it has come with out any warning. It you will let me, I'll sit here for a minute, and then I'll go. Yon have been very good in telling me the troth. "Without any warning without any warn ing. Thanks." Dick vent Into the itrest, and wasrap-J JlGflT THAT AILED turously receive d by Binkie. ""We've go it very badly little dog! Just as badly at we can get it "We'll go to the park to think it out." They headed for a certain tree that Diok knew well, and they sat down to think, be cause his legs were trembling under him and there was cold fear at the pit of his stomach. "How could it come without any warning? t a as suanen as being shot It's the living death, Binke. "We're to be shut up in the dark in one year if we're careful, and we shan't see anybody, and we shall never have anything we want, not though we live to be a hundred." Binkie wagged his tail joyously. "Binkie, we must think. Let's see how it feels to be blind." Dick shut his eyes and flaming commas and Catherine wheels floated inside the lids. Yet when he looked across the park the scope of his vision was not contracted. He could, see perfectly, until a procession of slow-wheeling fireworks defiled across his eyeballs. "Little dorglums, tx& aren't at all well. Let's go home. If only Torp were back now!" ButTorpenhow was in the south of Eng land, inspecting dockyards in the company of theNilghai. His letters were brief and full of mystery. Dick had never asked any body to help him in his joys or his sorrows. He argned, in the loneliness of the studio, henceforward to be decorated with a film of gray gauze in one corner, that, if his fate were blindness, all the Tnrpenhows iu the world could not save bim. "I can't call him off his trip to sit down and sympathize with me. I must pall through the business alone," he said. He was lying on the sofa, eating his mustache and Pondering what the darkness of the night wonld be like. Then came to his mind the memory of a quaint scene in the Soudan. A soldier had been nearly hacked in two by a broad bladed Arab spear. For one instant the man felt no pain. Looking down, he saw that his life-blood was going from him. The stupid be wilderment on his face was so intensely comic that both Dick and Torpenhow, still panting and unstrung from a fight for life, had roared with laughter, in which the man teemed as if be would join, but, as his lips parted in a sheepish grin, the agony of death ARE You contemplating giving a present? If so, we take this early opportunity of calling your attention to as fine and complete a line of Xmaa goods as is carried in the city; goods that give credit to the buyer and seller; goods that will give tone and comfort to the home; goods you Will not be ashamed to say to your many friends congratula tions are in order. Should I not be happy to be the reoipient of such a gift?Then,again,when a gift is so muoh appreciated the donor comes in for a good share of the glory. Good goods are always appreciated for their proper worth. Gift Giving Then should only be done through the medium of good, substantial goods, and you can depend the appreciation will be more lasting. 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"This isn't nice at all. What shall we do? We must do something. Our time is short I shouldn't have believed that this morning; Cut now things are differ ent. Binkie, where was Moses when the light went out?" Binkie smiled from ear to ear, as a well bred terrier should, but made no sugges tion. Wern there bnt world enough and time. This coyness, Binkie were no crime. But at my back X always near He wiped his forehead, which was un pleasantly damp. "What can I do? What can I do? I haven't any notions left, and I can't think connectedly, but I must do something, or I shall go off my head." The hurried walk recommenced, Dick stopping every now and again to drag forth long-neglected canvases and old notebooks; for he turned to his work by instinct, as a thing that could not fail. "You won't do, and yon won't do," he said at each inspec tion. "No more soldiers. I couldn't paint 'em. Sudden death comes home too nearly, and this is battle and murder both for me." The day was failing, and Dick thought for a moment that the twilight of the blind had come upon him unawares. "Allah Al mighty!" he cried, despairingly, "help me through the time of waiting, and I won't whine when my punishment comes. What can I do now, before the light goes?" There was no answer. Dick waited till he could regain some sort of control over himself. His hands were shaking, and he prided himself on their steadiness; be could feel that his lips were quivering, and the sweat was running down his lace. He was lashed by fear, driven forward by the desire to get to work at once and accomplish some thing, and maddened by the relusal of his brain to do more than repeat the news that he was about to go blind. "It's a humilia ting exhibition," he thought, "and I'm glad Torp isn't here to see. The doctor said I was to avoid mental worry. Come here and let me pet you, binkie. The little dog yelped because Dick nearly squeezed the bark out of him. Then he heard the man speaking in the twilight, and, dog-like, understood that his trouble stood off from him. "Allah is good, Binkie. Not quite so gentle as we could wish, but we'll discuss that later. I think I see my way to it now. All those studies of Bessie's head were non sense, and tliey nearly brought your master into a scrape. I hold the notion now as clear as crystal 'the Melancolia that transcends all wit' There shall be Maisie in that head, because I shall never get Maisie; and Bess, of conrse, because she knows all about Melancolia, though she doesn't know she knows; and there shall be some drawing in it, and it shall all end up with a laugh. That's for myself. Shall she giggle or grin? No, she shall laugh right out of the canvas, anc every man and woman that ever had a sorrow of their own shall what is it the poem says? Understand the speech and feel a stir Of fellowship in all disastrous fight '"In all disastrous fight?' That's better than painting the thing merely to pique Maisic. I can do it now because I have it inside me. Binkie, I'm going to hold you up by your tail. You're an omen. Come here." Binkie swung head downward for a mo ment without speaking. "Bather like holding a guinea-pit;: but you're a brave little dog, and you don't yelp when you're maltreated. It is an omen." Binkie went to bis own chair, and as often as he looked saw Dick walking up and YOU Cannot fail to find here all the variety necessary to select from. A pretty Parlor Suit, if you are able, and suoh a thing is necessary could anything be given to the wife or mother that would be more appre ciated? We think not, Judging from our past experience. Then we Have a Large selection of Bedroom Suits, apy of which would be very acceptable. 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CASH OR CREDIT. & CO., 307 WOOD ST.' down, rubbing his hands and chuckling, dhat night Dick wrote a letter to Maisie full of the tendcrest regard for her health, but saying very little about his own, and dreamed of the Melancolia to be born. Not till morning did he remember that some thing might happen to him in the future. He fell to work, whistling sottly, and was swallowed np in the clean, clear joy of creation, which does not come to man too olten, lest he should consider himself the equal ofhis God and so re'use to die at the appointed time. He forgot Maisie, Torpen how and Binkie at his feet, but remembered to stir Besie, who needed very little stir ring, into a tremendous rage, that he might watch the smouldering lights in her eyes. He threw himself without reservation into his work, and did not think of the doom that was to overtake him, for he was possessed with his notion, and the things of this world had no power upon him. "You're pleased to-day," said Bessie. Dick waved his mahl-stick in mystic circles and went to the sideboard fora drink. In the evening, when'the exultation of the day had died down, he went to the sideboard again, and after some visits became con vinced that the eye doctor was a liar, since 1'ilfcilt J" i I -a. " Zzzz. BESSIE DESTROYING THE PICTUBE. he still could see everything very clearly. He was of opinion that fie would even make a home for Maisie, and that whether she liked it or not she should be his wife. The mood passed next morning, but the side board and all upon it remained for his com fort. Again he set to work, and his eyes troubled him with spots and dashes and blurs till he had taken counsel with the side board, and the Melancolia both on the can vas and in his own mind appeared lovelier than ever. There was a delightful sense of irresponsibility upon him, such as they feel who walking among their lellow men know that the death-sentence of disease is upon them, and, since fear is but waste of the lit tle time left, are riotously happy. The days passed without event Bessie arrived punctually always, and, though her voice seemed to Dick to come from a distance, her face was always very near, and the Melancolia began to flame on the canvas, in the likeness ot a woman who had known all the.-eorrow in the world and G As we do, plenty of time to settle all bills, it will enable you to buy good, useful pres ents, if it does take a little longer to pay for them; or if your circumstances in 30, 60 or 90 days -will justify going a little into debt, it is always policy to buy the best Good goods always give ion. You should see the Bookcases and Desks we have, suitable for both ladies and gents. They are splendid goods for the money, finished in Antique and Xvi. Century Oak. Also a nice line of Parlor and Music and Mantel Cabinets, in Mahogany and Oak; Solid Mahogany and Oak Chiffoniers. We guarantee there is not offered in this city to-day as Fine Qualities Of these same goods as we are now offering for the same prices. Solid Mahogany Chif foniers we had made to order, French Bevel Glassea Noth ing else offered in this city that compares with our parlor tables We offer the largest variety in the city in All Woods and Colors at all prices, suitable for all people at all times and in all places. You will miss it if you do not see these goods before buying elsewhere. We sell at lower prices find Easier Terms Than any house in Pittsburg or Allegheny, both of which will be duly appreciated, if you will take the trouble to call and ex- . amine our stock and get our prices and terms.. CASH OR CREDIT. 8b CO., 307 WOOD ST; VlNG ette Satisfact was laughing at it It was true that tha corners of the studio draped themselves in gray film andretired into the darkness, that the spots in bis eyes and the pains across his head were very troublesome, and that Maisie's letters were hard to read and harder still to answer. He could not tell her of hit trouble, and he could not langb at her ac counts of her own Melancolia which was al ways goinz to be finished. But the furious days of toil and the nights of wild dreams made amends for all, and the sideboard was his best friend on earth. Bessie was singu larly dull. She used to shriek with rage when Dick stared at her between half-closed eves. Now she sulked, or watched him with disgust, saying very little. Torpenhow had been absent for six weeks. An incoherent note heralded his return. "News! great news!" he said. "TheNilghal knows, and so does the Kenen. 'We're all back on Thursday. Get lunch and clean your accouterments." Dick showed Bessie the letter, and she abused him for that he had ever sent Tor penhow away and ruined her life. "Well," said Dick, brutally, "you're better as you are, instead of making love to, some drunken beast in the street" He felt that he had rescued Torpenhow from great temptation. "I don't know if that's any worse than sitting to a drunken beast in a stndio. You I haven't been sober for three weeks. You've' been soaking the whole time; and yet yon pretend you're better than me!" "What d'you mean?" said Dick. "Mean! You'll see when Mr. Torpenhow comes back." It was not long to wait Torpenhow met Bessie on the staircase without a sign of feeling. He had news that was more to him than many Bessies, and the Keneu and the Nilcbai were trampling behind him, calling for Dick. "Drinking like a fish," Bessie whispered. "He's been at it for nearly a month." She followed the men stealthily to hear judg ment done. They came into the studio rejoicing, to ba welcomed over-effusively by a drawn, lined, shrunken, haggard wreck unshaven, blue white about the nostrils, stooping in tha PRESENTS Suitable for all classes, goods at all prices and terms suitable for all conditions. Presents for the father, presents for the mother, presents for the sister, presents for the brother, pres ents for everybody, and every body for presents. We have the goods and we certainly want your trade For Christmas Gifts ! Or possibly you are in need of goods in our line, Carpets, Fur niture, etc, before and after Xmas. Then we want your trade also. We will give you more and better goods for less money than any house in the city. That's what you want Now use your judgment and see if For Hew Year's Gifts It is not the case. We are here to do business, and you can rest assured that with our present low expenses, and being able to purohase as low as any dealer in the city, it would be sheer folly if we did not sell to every customer that came to our store. Now don't forget us. We do not spend our money idly for advertising, but we are ready to prove To' Everybody Just what we say. We are tha Pioneers of Low Prices and Easy Terms of Purchase. If you do not wish to pay cash, you are just as welcome to the same goods FOR CREDIT. & CO., 307 WOOD ST. i te.Ai!!
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