BggSHji -,fif. .THE FTTTSFOItQ- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1891 19 -- VONBrT. A STORY OF LOVE, MONEY AND WBITTEN FOE J-i X. -- VVLN - Aether of "White Company," and Many Other Long and Short Stories of Great Literarjr Merit STXOFS1S OT FB.EVIOTJS CHAPTERS. Three rartro villas standlnapleasantsubnrban district. "With a view to ocabnttvin M tenants tno owner had not separated them tho entire space In their roar. a.jie juisses i ally owned all the district, livo opposite the Harold occupv one vn;n, ir. iiLua.a( n amu, am vuiiiicjib puvxician, ana 111s swo unugu ters, t-edate Clara and vivacious Ida, occupy another, and Mrs. Westmacott, an athlete and advocate of woman's rights, hasjust moved into the third with her nephew, Charles West marott. Mr. Westmacott Immediately Rtai ts to oiyanie a Woman's Bights Guild. She ar ence makes nn inpression on Dr. Walker, who is a well-preserved old widower. Ida Walker fancies Harold Denver and Clara is taken into Charles Westmacott's confidence. Harold propo-es to Clara and Charles to Ida. Tho girls are alarmed to find that their father Is about to propose to Mrs. Westmacott. To prevent It they adopt Mrs. Westma cott's wavs, hoping to disgustthe doctor with strong-minded women. CHAPTER "VX Trom that day the doctor' pease was gone Never was a quiet and orderly house hold transformed so suddenly Into a bear garden or a happy man turned Into such a completely miserable one. 4Tou don't loot happy," Mrs. "Westma cott had remarked to him one morning. "You are pale and a little off color. You should come with me for a ten-mue ipm upon the tandem." "I am troubled about my glrlf They were walking up and down in the garden. From time to time there sounded from the house behind them the long, tad wall of a French horn. "That is Ida," said he. "She has taken to practising on that dreadful instrument In the intervals of her chemistry. And Clara Is quite as bad. I declare it is getting quite unendurable." "Ah. doctor! doctor!" she cried, shaking her forefinger with a gleam of her white teeth. "You must live up to your princi ples you must give your daughters the rame liberty as you advocate for other women." "I must beg to differ from yon, madam. "Still you are inconsistent" "Excuse me, madam, I do not see the matter in the same light. And I should be obliged to you if you would use vour influ ence with my daughter to dUsuade her." "You wish to make me inconsistent, too." "Then you refuse?' "I am afraid that I cannot interfere." The doctor was vcrv angry. "Very well, madam," said he. "In that case I can only lay that I have the honor to wish you a Very good morning." He raised his broad straw hat and strode away up the gravel path, while the widow looked after him with twinkling eyes. She was surprised herself to find that she liked the doctor bet ter the more masculine and aggressive he became. It was unreasonable and against all principle, and yet so it was, and no argu ment could mend the matter. Very hot and angry, the doctor retired into his room and cat down to read his pa per. Ida had retired, and the distant wails of her bugle showed that she was upstairs In her boudoir. Clara sat opposite to him. She doctor glanced at her and his eyes re mained fixed in astonishment upon the front of her skirt. "My dear Clara, he cried, "yon have torn your skirt!" His daughter laughed and smoothed out ier frock. To his horror he sw the red plush of the chair where the dress ought to "It is all torn," he cried. "What have yon done?" "My dear papa," said she, "what do you know about the mysteries of ladies' dress? This is a divided skirt." Then he saw that It was Indeed so ar ranged, and that his daughter was clad in a tort of loose, extremely long knickerbockers. Her father shook his head sadly. "Your dear mother would not have liked "it, Clara," caid he. For a moment the conspiracy was npon the point of collapsing. There was some thing in the gentleness of his rebuke and In his appeal to her mother which brought the tears to her eyes, and in another instant she would haye been kneeling beside him with everything confessed, when the door fiew open and her sister Ida came bounding into the room. She wore a short gray skirt, like that of Mrs. "Westmacott, and she held it up in each hand aud danced about among the furniture. "I feel quite the Gaiety girl!" she cried. "How delicious it must be to be upon the stage! You can't think how nice this dress is, papa. One leels so free in it. And isn't Clara charming? "Go to your room this instant and take it off!" thundered the doctor. "I call it high ly improper, and no daughter of mine shall wear it." "Papa! Improper! "Why, It Is the exact model of Mrs. Westmacott's." "I cay it is improper. And yours also, Clara! Your conduct is really outrageous. Xou drive me oat of the house. I aingoing to my club in town. I have no com fort or peace of mind in my own house. I will stand it no longer. I may be late to-night. I sliall go to the British medical meeting. Bat when I re turn I shall hope to find that you have re considered your conduct, and that you have shaken yourself clear of the pernicious in fluences which have recently made such an alteration in your conduct." He seized his hat, Elammed the dining ronm door, and a few minutes later they heard the crash of the big front gute. "Victory, Clara, Victory!" cricdTda, still pirouetting around the furniture. "Did you hear what he said? Pernicious influ ences! Don't you understand, Clara? "Whv do you sit there so pale and glum? Why don't you get up and dance?" "Oh, I shall be so glad when Ifrls over, Ida. I do hate to give him pain. Surely he has learned now that it is very unpleasant to Fpend one's life with reformers." ''He has almost learned it, Clara. Jnst cue more little lesson. Wo must not risk oil at this last moment." "Went would you do, lea? Ob, dont do anything too dreadful. I feel that we have gone too iar already." "Oh, we can do it very nicely. Yon see we are both engaged and that makes it very easy. Harold will do what vou ask him, especially as you have told him the reason why, and my Charles will do it without even wanting to know the reason. Now you know what Mrs. "Westmacott thinks about the reserve of young ladies. Mere prudery, aCectationand a relic ot the dark eges of tLe Zenana. Those were her words, were thev not?" "What then?" "Well, now we must put it in practice. "We are reducing all her other vices to prac tice, and we must not shirk this one." "But what would you do? Oh, don't look so wicked, Ida! You look like some cvil.little fairy, with your golden hair and dancing mischievous eyei I know that vou are going to propose something dread ful!" "We must give a little supper-to-night." Tne two invitations were dispatched, re ceived and accepted. Harold was already a confident, and he understood that this was tome further development of the plot. As to Charles, he was so accustomed to feminine eccentricuv, in the person of his aunt, that the only tiling wine could sur prise him would be a rigid observance of etiquette. At 0 o'clock they entered the dining room of No. 2 to find the master of the house absent, a red-shaded lamp, a no wv cloth, ji pleasant little feast, and the Tirn xrTiriTn )iAiT Trnnlrl hrtr iTincAn f rittiv companions. - A merrier party never met, I 1 . isMtifti-' ran 1 1 ii'iwiiiriif 1 0 tifri DIFFERING MEN AND WOMEN.. THE DISPATCH A!M -! V JL -J. -with fences, ana a fine tennis court occupied miams, swo pnm 01a maias, wno naa origin- villas. Admiral Hay Denver, his wife and sou ' and the house rang with, their laughtav-snid thef- chatter. "It is three minutes to 10, xrier Clara suddenly, glancing at the clock. "Good gracious) So it is! Now for our little tableau!" As the doctor entered the hall he heard the voice of Ida uplifted In a rollicking ditty, and a very strong smell of tobacco was borne to his nostrils. He threw open the dining room door, and stood aghast at the scene which met his eyes. The room was full of blue wreaths of smoke, and the lamp light shone through the thin haze upon gold-topped bottles, plates, napkins and a litter of oyster shells and cigarettes. Ida, flushed and excited, was reclining upon the settee, a wjne glass at her elbow and a cigarette between her fingers, while Charles Westmacott sat be side her, with his arms thrown over the head of the sofa, with the suggestion of a caress. On the other side of the room Clara was lounging in an arm-chair, with Harold beside her, both smoking, and both with wine glasses beside them. The doctor stood speechless in the doorway, taring at the Bacchanalian scene. "Come in, papat Do!" cried Ida. "Won't you have a class of champagne?" "Pray excuse me," said her father, coldly, "I feel that I am intruding. I did not know that you were entertaining. Perhaps you will kindly let me know when you have finished. You will find me in my study." He ignored the two young men completelv, and closing the door, retired, deeply hurt and mortified, to his room. A quarter of an hour afterwards ha heard the door slam, and his two daughters came to announce that the guests were gone. "Dearest Papa," cried Clara, throwing ner arms about him. "Do not bo angry with-us. Ii you understood all, you would see that there is no harm in it." "No harm, Miss I "Who is the best Judge of that?" "Mrs. "Westmacott," suggested Ida,. Billy. The doctor sprang from his chair. "Con. found Mrs. Westmacott" he cried, striking frenziedly into the air with bis hands. "My wish is, that you should forget these odious notions which you have imbibed, that you should dress and act as you used to do, before you ever saw this woman." "We are to give up Mrs. Westmacott?" "Or give up me." "Oh, dear Dad. how can you say anything so cuel," cried Ida, burrowing her towsy, golden hair into her father's shirt front, while Clara pressed her cheek against his whisker. "Of course wa shall civo her-up. if you prefer it." "Of courso wo shall,.papa. The doctor patted the two aaresslng heads. CHAPTER "VJX So by the cleverness of the twov girls a dark cloud was thinned away and turned into sunshine. Over one of them, alas an other cloud was' gathering which could not be so easily dispersed. Of these three households which fate had thrown to gether, two-had already been united by the ties of love. It was destined, however, that a bond of another sort should connect the "Westmacotts with the Hay Denvers. Between the Admiral and the widow-a verr cordial feeling had existed since the day when the old seamaa had hauled down his flag and changed his opinions, granting to the yachtswoman all that he had refused to the Reformer. "By the way, Admiral," said Mrs. "West macott one morning, as they walked together down to tho station. "I under stand that this boy of yours in the intervali of paying his devotions to Miss "Walker is doing something upon 'Change." "Yes, ma'am, and there is no boy of his age who is doing so well. He's drawing ahead, I can tell you, ma'am. Some of those that started with him are hull down astern now. He touched his five hundred last year.and before he's thirty he'll be mak ing the four figures." "The reason I asked is that I have small investments to make myselt from time to time, and my present broker is a rascal. I should be very glad to do it through, your son." "It is very kind of vou, ma'am. His partner is away on a holiday, and Harold would like to push on a bit and show what he can do. Yes, my boy is the junior part ner. Pearson is the senior. 1 was intro duced to him years ago, and he effered Har old the opening. Of course we had a pretty stiff premium to pay." ., Mrs. "Westmacott had stopped, and was standing very stiffly with her face even grimmer than usual. "Pearson," said she. "Jeremiah Pear son?" "The same." "Then it's all ofljshe cried. Ton need not carry out that investment. Thev walked on together side by side, she brooding over some thoueht of her own, and he a little aroused and disappointed at her caprice and the lost commission for Harold. "I'll tell you what, Admiral," she ex claimed suddenly, "if I were yon I would get your boy out of his partnership. No one in this world knows Jercmian Pearson as I know him, Admiral. I warn you, be cause I have a friendly feeling both for yon and for your son, The man is a rogue and you hadbest avoid him." "But these are only words, ma'am. Do you tell me that vou know him better-than the jobbers in the citv?" "Man," cried Mrs. "Westmacott, "will you allow that I know him when I tell you that my maiden name was Ada Pearson, and that Jeremiah is my only brother?" The Admiral whistled. hewl" cried he. "Now that I think of it thero is a like ness." As he trudged homewards, thoughtful and perplexed, he was surprised to hear a shout behind him, and to see Harold run ning down the road after him. "Why, dad," he cried, "I have Just oome from town, and the first thing I saw was your back as you marched away. But you are such a quick walker that I had to run to catch you. The Admiral's smile of pleasure had broken his stern face into a thousand wrinkles. "You ore early to-day," he said. "How much have we la our private ac- "Pretty fair. Some eight hundred, I think." "Oh, half that will be ample. It was rather thouzhtless of Pearson. When he went away upon this little holiday to Havre he left meto'pay aeconnts and so on. He told me that there was enough at the bank for all claims. I had occasion on Tuesday to pay away two cheques, one for isu ana tne otner iar izu, and here thev are, returned -with a bank notice that we I 'rfPlftitrr tfiirflfci have already overdrawn to the extent of some hundreds." The Admiral looked very grave. "What's the meaning of that then ?" he asked. "Oh, it can easily be set right. You-aea Pearson invests all the spare capital and keeps as small a margin as possible in the bank. Still it fas too bad of him to allow me even to run a risk of having a oheck re turned. I have written to him and de manded his authority to sell out some stock, and I have written an explanation to these people. In the meantime, however, I have had to issue several other checks, so I had better transfer part of our private account to meet them." "Quite so, my boy. All that's mine Is yours. But who do von think this Pearson is? He is Mrs. Westmacott's brother. She has been warning me against him says he is the rankest pirate in London. I 'hope that it is all right, boy, and that we may not find ourselves in broken water." Harold had turned a little pale as he heard Mrs. Westmacott's opinion of his senior partner. It gave shape and sub stance to certain vague fears and suspicions of his own which had been pushed back as often as they obtruded themselves, as being too monstrous and fantastic for belief. "He is a weli-knowa man in the-city. Dad," said he. "Of course he Is of course he Is. That Is what I told her. They would have found him out there if anything had been amiss with him. Bless you, there's nothing so bitter as a family quarrel. Still it is just as well that you have written about this affair, for we may as well have all fair and above board." ' But Harold's letter to Ms partner was crossed by a letter from his parner to Harold. It lay awaiting him upon the breakfast table next morning, and it sent the heart into his month as he read it, and caused him to spring up from his chair with a white face and staring eye "My boy! My boy!" "I am ruined, mother ruInedT'Hfrtood gazing wildly in front of him, while the sheet of paper fluttered down on to the car pet. Then he dropped back into the chair, and sank his face in his hands. His mother had her arms round him in an instant, while the Admiral, with shaking fingers, picked up the letter from the floor and adjusted his glasses to read it. "My dear Denver," It ran. "By the time that this reaches you I shall be out of the reach of yourself or of anyone else who may desire an interview. You seed not search for me, for I assure you that this lot- 'I ", y J . I Ki S-S." ' II ' ' . j I I ' -" d. V I Ko V I " ' - mi ' ' jfSfw) IHB .IDMrBAIi PICKED TJP THE LHEa ter Is posted by a friend, and that you will have your trouble in vain if you try to find me. I am sorry to leave you in Bach a tight place, but one or other ot us must be squeezed, and on the whole I prefer that it should be you. You'll find nothing in the bank, and about 5113,000 unaccounted for. I am not sure that the best thing that you can do is to realize what you can, and imi tate yoursenior's example. If you act at once you may get clear away. If not, it's not only that you must put up your shutters but I am afraid that this missing money could hardly be included as an ordinary debt, and of course you are legally responsi ble for it Just as much as I am. Take a friend's advice and get to America. A. vounc man with brains can always do some thing out there, and you can live down this littlo mischance. It will be a cheap lesson if It teaches yon to take nothing npon trust In business, and to insist upon know ing exactly what your partner is doing, however senior he may be to you." "My God!" groaned the Admiral, "he has absconded." "And left me both a bankrupt and a thief." ""No, no, Harold," sobbed his mother. "All will be right. What matter about money!" "Money, mother! It Is my honor!" "The boy is right. It is nis honor, and my honor, for nis is mine. This is a sore trouble, mother, when we thought onr life's tronbles were all behind us, but we will bear it as we have borne others." He held out his stringy hand, and the two old folks sat with bowed gray heads, their fingers in tertwined, strong in each other's love and sympathy. "We were too happy," she sighed. "But it is God's will, mother." "Yes, John, it is God's will." Harold had already called together his clear practical sense, which for on instant in the presence of- this frightful blow had deserted him. "It is bad enough, heaven knows," said he, "but we must not take too dark a view of it. After all, this insolent letter is in itself evidence that I had nothing to do with the schemes of the base villain who wrote it." "They may think It prearranged. "They could not My whole life cries out against the thought They could aot look me in the face and entertain it But we must waste no time. I must go to the city." "What will you do?" "What an honest man should do. I wIH write to all our clients and creditors, as semble them, lay the whole matter before them, read them the letter, and put-myself absolutely in their handS." He had caught sight through the long flass folding doors oi the gleam of a white louso and a straw hat in the tennis ground. Clara used often to meet him there of a morning to say a few words be before he hurried away into the city. He walked out now with the quick, firm step of a man who has taken a momentous reso lution, but his face was haggard and his lips pale. "Clara, "'said he, as she came toward him with words of greeting, "I am sorry to bring ill news to you, but things have gone wrong in the city, and and I think that I ought to release vou from your engagement. My partner has fled and left me responsible for heavy debts, and in such a position that I may be required by law to produce some at least of th:3 missing money. It has been confided to him to invest, and he has em bezzled it I, as his partner, am liable for it I have brought misery on all whom I love my father, my mother. But you at least shall not be under the shadow. You are free, Clara. There is no tie between us." "It takes two to make sucbTa tie, Harold," said she smiling, and putting her hand in side his arm. "It takes two to make it, dear, and also two to break it. Is that the way they do business in the city, sir, that a man can always at his own sweet will tear up his engagement "Yon hold me to it, Clara?" "No creditor so remorseless as I, Harold. Never, never, shall vou get from that bond." Harold tried to speak, bnt his heart was too foil. Ho could only press the white hand which curled round his sleeve. She walked up and down by his side, and send ing little gleams of cheeriness through the gloom which girtnim in. To listen to her I 1 " ( " he might have thought that It was Ida and not her staid and demure sister, who was chatting to him. "It will soon beoleared up," said she, "and then we shall feel quite dulk Of course, all business men have these little ups and downs. "Why, I suppose of all the men you meet npon 'Change there is not one who has not some such story to tell. If everything was always smooth, you know, then of course every one would turn stock broker, and you would have to hold your meetings in Hyde Park. Howmuch is it that you need? 1 'More than I can ever get Hot less-thaa 13,000." Clara's face fell as she heard the-amount,. "What do you propose doing?" "I shall go to the City now, and I anaTl ask all our creditors' to meetjne to-morrow. I shall read them Pearson's letter, and shall put myself into their hands." "And they, what will they do? "What can they do? They wH ewre writs for their money, and the firm will be declared bankrupt But I must go, Clara, I must not seem to shirk. My place now must be at my offices." "Yes, dear, you are right. God bless you and guard you! I shall be here in 'The "Wilderness,' but all day I shall be by your office table at Throgmorton street In spirit, and if ever you should be sad you will hear my little whisper in your ear, and know that there is one client whom you will never be able to get rid of never as long as we both live, dear." It was a singular eight whicU met Dr. "Walker's eyes as he entered the sitting room of the Admiral a little later. A great sea chest stood open in the center, and all round upon the carpets were little piles of jerseys, oilskins, books, sextant boxes, in struments and sea boots. The old seaman sat gravely amidst this lumber, turning it" over and examining It Intently, while his wife, with the tears running silently down her ruddy cheeks, sat npon the sofa, her elbows npon her knees and her chin upon her hands, rocking.herself slowly backwards and forwards. "Hullo, doctor asadHha Admiral, hold ing out his hand, "there foul weather set in npon us." "My dear friends, I came hi to tell you how deeply we sympathize with you alL My girl has only juit told me about It." "It has come so suddenly upon us, doc tor," sobbed Mrs Hay Denver. 'Tthought that I had John to myself for the rest of our lives heaven knows that we have not seen very much of each other tmt nowie talks of going to sea again," "Tut! tutl this will never do, this will never do. Admiral. The doctor sat down by Mrs. Hay Denver, and patted her hand in token of friendly sympathy. ,rW-emust wait until your son has had it ont with all these people, and then we shall know what damage is done, and how best to set it ritrht It will be time enough then to begin to. muster our resources to meet it "Our resourcesl" The Admiral laughed, "There's the pension. I'm afraid, Walker, that onr resources won't need much mus tering." "Oh, come, there are some which you may not have thought of. For example, Admiral, I had always intended that my girl should have five thousand from me when she married. Of course your boy's trouble Is her trouble, and the money can not be spent better than In. helping to set it right She has a little of her own which she wished to contribute, bnt I thought it best to work it this way. Will yon take the cheque, Mrs. Denver, and I think it would be best if you said nothing to Harold about it, and just used it as the occasion tcrvcdy "God bless you, Walker,-vou are a true friend. I won't lorget this.'Walker." The Admiral sat down on his sea chest and mopped his browwith his red handkerchief. "What is it to me whether you have it now or then? It may be more useful now. There's only one stipulation. If things should come to the worst, and if the busi ness should prove so bad that nothing can set it right, then hold back this check, for there is no use in pouring water into a broken basin, and if tno lad should fall, he' will want something to pick him up again' "He shall not fall, Walker, and you shall not have- oscasion to be ashamed of the fam ily into which your daughter "is about to marry. I have my own plan. But we shall . hold your money, my friend, and it will' strengthen us to feel that it is there- "Well, that is nil right," S3id Doctor Walker, risinz. "And if a little more should be needed, we must not let him .go, wrong zor me want 01 a tnousana or two. And now. Admiral, I'm off formymoming walk. Won't you come, too? "No, I'sm- going into town." "Well, goodby. I hopa to taxsfatter news, and that-all will come right, Goofiby, Mrs. Denver. I feel as if the bor were mt own, and I shall not beeasyjuntiLallisJ OHAPTEB-Vni In less than an hour 'the Adnriratv-was whirled into Victoria station and fbund! himself amid a dense,, bustling-throng, who-; jostled and pushedln.the crowded terminus,. He walked to the railway stall and bought a daily paper. This he turned and turned until a certain column-met his eye, when he smoothed it out, and carryingdt over to a seat, proceeded to read It at his leisure. And, indeed, as a man re ad t that column it seemod strange to him that'there should still remain anyone in this world of ours who should be in straits for want ot money. Here were whole lines of gentlemen who were burdened with a surplus in their in comes and their hands. Here was the guile less person who was not a professional money lender, but who wonld be glad to correspond, etc. Here, too, was the accom modating individual who advanced sums from 10 to 10,000 pounds without expense, security or delay. He rose from the seat and found himself face to face with Charles Westmacott "Hullo, Admiral!" "Hullo, Weatmacottr Charles had'alv ways been a favorite of the seaman s, "Maybe you know Bread street?" "It is out ot Cheapside." ' "Well, then, how do youeteer for it from here? You make me out a course aud I'll keep to it" "Why, Admiral, I have nothing to do I'll take you there with pleasure." "Will you, though? Well, I'd take it. very kindly if you would. I have business there." On the way he told his companion his admission, and the causes which had led to it They at length found themselves in the office of a small, brown, dried-np littlo chip of a man. He was clean-shaven and blue chinned, with bristling black hair and keen brown eyes, which shown out very brightly. from between pouched underllds and droop ing upper ones. He advanced, glanced keenly from one to the other of his visitors. and slowly rubbed together his thin blne-t veined hand. "I am Mr. Benben Metaxa," said the money-lender. "Was it about an-advanca you wished to sea me?" "Yes." "For you, I presume luiulamttOhaTlatt. vt estmacott "No. for this rentleman. The money-lender looked ssrprised. "iow much did vou deslre7" "I thought of 5,000," saldthe&dmiraJ. "And on what security?" "lam a retired Admiral of the British navy. You will find my name in the navy list There is my card. I have here my pension papers. I get 850 a year. I thought that perhaps if you were to hold these papers it would be security enough that I shonld pay you. You could draw my pension and repay yourself at the rate, say, of 500 a year, faking your 5 per-cent interest as well."" "What interest? "Five per cent per aiiaum Mr. Metaxa laughed. "Per sarasrsffes) said. "Five per cent a month." "A month! That would be GO-perceataj, year." "Precisely.'" "But that is monstrous, "I don't ask gentlemen to oomatome. They come of their own free will Those are my terms, and they can take it or leave it" "Then I will leave it" The.Admlrat rose angrily from his chair. "But one 'moment, sir. Just, alt down and we will chat the matter. over. Your is a rather unusual case, and we may find some other way'of doing what you wish. Of course, the 6ecuritv which vou offer is no security at all, and no sane man would. advance 0,000 pennies on it "No security? Why not, sir? "You might die to-morrow. YouSfsV a young man. w hat age are your" 'Sixty-three." Mr. Metaxa turned- over along cottsam-of! figures. "Here is an actuary table, aid he. "At your time of life the average ex pectancy of life is only a few years even in a well-preserved man." "Do you mean to insinuate-thaWanwjot a well-preserved man?" "Well, Admiral, it Is a trying-life afc-sea, Sailors in their younger days are gay dogs, and take it out of themselves. Then when they grow older they are still hard at it, and have no chance of rest or peaca. X do not think a sailor's life a good one." "I'll tell you what, sir," said'.tho.Ad mlral hotly. "If you have two pairs of gloves I'll undertake to knock yon out un der three rounds. Or I'll race you from here to St Paul's, and my friend" here will see fair. I'll let you see whether Xanvan old man or not" "This is beside the question, witll a deprecatory shrue. "The point la that If you died to-morrow where would b the.. blU,..jl .UGH, "Then the matter it at an end." "Well, we might even now do busfneaa, I will advance you 2,000, and yon can make over to me your pension for your life. It is . pure speculation on my part If you die to-morrow I lose my money. If you'lhre a little longer then I may see my money again. It is the very best I caa-do for you." "And if I live for 20 years?" "Oh,,in that case, of course, my-speculation wonld be more successful." The Admiral sat in dire perplexity; He had come out to get money, and to goback witnoni any, to be powerless to help when his boy needed every shilling to save him from disaster, that would be very bittor to him. On the other hand, it was so muoh that he surrendered, and so little that he received. Little, and yet something. Would it not be better than going back.empty handed? He saw the yellow-backed cheana book upon the table. The money lender opened it and dipped his pen into tha ink. "Shall I fill It up?" said to. "I think, Admiral," remarked West maoott, "that we had better havea little walk and some luncheon before-wejettle-this matter. "Oh, we may as well doit-at once- It would be absurd to postpone It' now,'Me taka spoke with some heat,' and his eyes glinted angrily from between his narrow lids at the imperturbable Charles. Tho Admiral was simple in money matters; but he had seen much of men and had learned to read them. He saw that venomous glance, and saw, too, that intense eager ness was peeping out from beneath the careless air which the agent had assumed. "You're quite right, Westmacott," said he. "We'll have a little walk before -resettle it" "I don't like-It," said Charles, when they found themselves In tha street once more. -a. snarit ana a pilot ash, " said the Ad miral. "I'll tell you-what I propose, sir., There's a lawyer named McAdam who does my aunt's business. He is a very honest fel low and lives at the other side of Poul try. We'll go over to him together and have his opinion about the whole matter. "Well, we've tried the rogues, West- macoiti .Let us sea what we can do-wltb.. your honest man." To Jit Qmclu&t&JKatSuni&afrl CAT TAKE A DBDfKHOW. taut Just One Make Him Feel aalf So-Bad, Been on a Spree. Iast-August I entered the Keelylnstttute,. after a long career of drunkenness, says a well-known citizen of St Louis In the Globe-Democrat. I. remained there three weeks and came away cnredalthough tha doctors said I ought to stay another week; 'While In San Francisco last month J was sandbagged and robbed, t was laid up in fthe hospital for several days, and whila 'there the.attendingjiphysicianfed.ma on Doneo-miiK wita a little whisky In it I did not know my old enemy was being ssmnggled into me until I Anally detected 'the familiar odor-of my breath, and then I was angry. But tha deotors said I had to take it, and the result was the desire for whisky returned to some extent Up to my entering the hospital.nat 'tea. SLjuuuiut ui luuiAiutbiug liquor naa gone own my throat since I left Dwight The' odor even was so nauseating I could not, enter a saloon. Now, I desire and can tako, a drink occasionally, but one drink is uf-' ficient to bring baok all the horrors of a prolonged "spree." I am going back to 'Dwight for supplementary treatment VSWB FB0BX THE 00IXEOEI. Knneir Xeland Stanford Jr. University; nas twsiuuencs, w 01 wnom are women. Corkeu. and Harvard will probably be represented at the World's Fair in Chloago. The Universities of Michigan and Oxford, England, have 2,120 students each this year. Bbowit, Harvard, Tale and tho University of Michigan all have flourishing political clubs. -x Jomr Ward, of the Kcw York nine, will train the Dartmouth baseball teamdnrlng tho winter months. Tals's new mechanical enzlneerins Build ings will cost $120,000, and those of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania $140,000. rnnroETOT has added 6 new professors to .her facnltvthisycar, tho University of Penn sylvania 10; Yale S and Harvard 8. At the new Chicago University there will be four quarters, each consisting of two terms, six weeks in each term. A student will be allowod to choose any two terms la the year for his vacation. lit the turco most important colleze foot- taU games this year, viz., University of Pennsylvania versus Princeton, Yale versus xiarvnru, ana xaio versus Jf nncocon, only one man was injured, and that very slightly. A COKORE33 will open this raonthjjt the University of Pennsylvania. Forty Juniors will form the Hrraso of Ecpresentatives, and SO Seniors the Senate. Many public ques tions will be debated while they are being discussed at Washington. KEPRESEXTATiVEa of Tale and Harvard de hating societies will meet in January to dis cuss tho snbjcot: "Itesolved, That a young man casting his first vote In ISM should vote the Republican ticket," Tale will have the negative and Harvard the affirmative. A KJillil lnAl uMAKMlJ.fhouslhold0word with every fluUsTlivii Howthe 'Modern Flute" W2rohed, From thd Old Instrument. THEOBAEDEOEHHS PATIEKT W0EK Bezmf Perfection "flat Cra ! 'tained on the German Tal), it WRIT' C0SST1TUTB3 G00 FEATErtf rwamxzr tob tsb uuts.tgsu Paper Ko. a. Even Apollonlus mbrht aotrnnand tats flute The-muslo winding through the stops, up- springs To make the player-very rich. data Gutdt Window. From time to time various attempts had been made to improve the German flute in order to raise it from Its ignominious posi tion. In disregard of all natural and acoustio laws the tube had been fitted with keys until it became evident'to makers that to improve it was impossible. Singularly, by the triumph of German genius and in ventive skill, the instrument was produced to deal the death-blow to the German flute. In the year 1838 there lived at Munich, in Bavaria, a musician, Theobald Boehm, first flute at the Boyal Theater and flutist to the King. As, in his yonth, he had beea'taught . tne trade of suversmita and mechanical worker, he at an early age made attempts to solve the problem of improving the German flute. Having for some time employed other makers to develop Mb ideas in that direction, he at last determined to found a factory of his own. The result of a year's work was the production of an Instrument which, for quality of tone and compactness, met with general favor. With a Ante thus constructed on the conical bore he went to Paris, and later to London, on professional visits. At Iiondon he was impressed with the powerful tone of Charles Nicholson, at that time the most prominent flutist in .England. Plcklnc Up Points From Others. Subsequently, oa being introduced, Boehm discovered that the secret of his heavy tone lay in the largeness of the holes of his Ante. The faulty intonation and duality of tone were overcome by Nichol son's extraordinary talents and command of his embouchure. At the same time Boehm became acquainted with one Gordon, a Swiss by birth and a pensioned officer oi the Boyal Guard of Charles X. Gordon was a dilettante and had made several ineffectual attempts to improve upon the old flute. From diagrams in my possession his last at tempt seems to have had some merit, bnt was altogether too complicated an attair to be of any practical utility. After examining those flutes Boehm oon eluded that time spent trying to improve the old flute was wasted, and he resolved to construct one upon entirely new principles. With that object in view he returned to Munich and directly began the fulfillment of his plans. After examining different systems of fingering he decided that rinsr keys were superior to any. Success crowned his efforts and in a short while he had ac quired facility in playing at concerts and: performing his orchestral work. Approved by the Academy. la 1833 and 1838 he again played at Ion aon wnere tne iun tone ana pure intonation of his instrnment were perceived and ap preciated. The year following his flute was exhibited with a short explanation of its system before the Academy of Sciences (Paris). Savart, the Professor of Acous- tics, received Boehm rather coldly, for ha declared that it was impossible to play the scale upon the flute and have it perfect When he heard Boehm accomplish that fact he introduced him personally to the Academy. The report rendered by the Committee of Examination was so favorable that shortly after the instrument was adopted exclusively by the distinguished players of Europe. In London Boehm met with as much suc cess as in Paris: and Gordon, on renewing 'his acquaintance, was converted to his sys tem. Shortly alter Gordon went to Munich and induced Boehm to make a tube for him without holes, as he believed that tha Boehm system could be so simplified as to require only eight kevs. On Gordon re jecting his own system Boehm allowed him tha freedom of his workshop, and placed. twu ui uia uiuah jkiiuui wuij&uieu Kb 111s disposal. Boehm had never patented his invention (until 1847), but Jeft it open for outside improvement If any could be found. Striving After an Impossibility. After a year's labor at Munich, Gordon 'produced an instrument, which he named '"Lafiutediatonique." That was an error, as only the old Antes without keys are dia tonic; all those with kevs, chromatic. With that Ante he visited Paris, but as far as I can learn Itwas never used by anyone, on account of its utter impracticability, for Boehm bad warned him that to make an in strument with eight keys and '13 holes, and' have it practical, was an impossibility. With Gordon it had become a sort of monomania to which he adhered till the end of his life, a very sad end it seems, as it is reported that he threw his Aute into the lake of Geneva, and died in a madhouse. The honor of inventing the Boehm Aute has been erroneously attributed to Gordon by some English authorities, how falsely and ungenerously the most too partial will ob serve by reading Dr. Schafhantl's report to the London Industrial Exposition (1851) .concerning the origin of the Boehm Aute. At one period it had reachedthe nature of a heated controversy, which was Anally set tled by the publication of Boehm's letters in London. As Gordon was dead, he could not, as he undoubtedly would have done if r living,, give the honor of tha 'invention to :its rightful owner. Maldng Keys and Slaking Notes. ' boehm's svstem of finr!nf wan vnlnnM. fin his opinion so far as it improved the acoustical properties of the Ante; that-being the fine fundamental principle of all wind in struments, the mechanism of keys being 'of no importance, isoeam, himself stated that 'to construct keys was an easy matter, but to make notes a difficult one." However, his system is so simple that it Is in itself a great invention, as with it the fingers do not move out of their natural position, and there is no sliding from keys to finger ing, as on the old flute. All that is obvi ated by a combination of keys working oa steel shafts, and when ia repose all the keys are opea except D sharp. On the old flute the holes and keys are not where they meoreucauy ehouiu ue, uu& are piacea in positions to suit the fingers. Boehm could never understand how it wa3 that the flute was played at the large end, while with all other instruments it was just the opposite, and as a result of three years' study of acoustics under Dr. Schafhantl, he crowned his labors by sub stituting the cylindrical for the conical bore. The conical bore is largest at the head and tapers gradually to the foot, while the cylindrical, more in accordance with nature for the production of tone, is about equal. The cylindrical bore admits of a freer passage of a column of air through tha instrument, and consequently with large holes a fuller development of the notes. When the holes are small and not in their correct places the ndtes sound with diffi culty, and easily break into aliquot parts (harmonics). The Result of Careful Study. Boehm arrived at that conclusion after a careful study of acoustics and natural laws, and upon their practical application his fame rests to-day. On being exhibited at the Universal Exhibition (1851) his im proved flute received the gold medal, and at the Paris Exposition (1855) it was awarded the grand prize (gold medal), with a flattering testimonial of its superiority over all others, old or new. He had revo- lutlonized tha world of flutes, and it is no I T everv tin tut lmntr. He lived to realize his hopes, and died fn Munich (1881) at the patriarchal age of 89 years. AJthongh the distance is great which sometimes separates the conception of happy ideas from their realization in a practical form, those who know will see proof of the value of Boehm's invention in the fact that it has lived down the prejudice against all novelties and established itself as the only queen of instruments, of which the violin is king. Although nearly 40 years have passed since the greatest flutists of that time ac cepted the Boehm flute: there "are, strange to say, here and elsewnere good musicians plaving the antiquated -German flute and ready to take up the club in defense of that wheezy relic of barbarism. The antagonism to the Boehm flute has been more notable in Germany and among Germans everywhere. The Old Stylo Flute la PlttsDnrjr. Who candispute that Mozart, though he charmed his audience on a spinet, could have produced still greater effects with the best modern piano? And the same com parison is just regarding the two flutes, for Berlioz, who was one of the judges at ion don when Boehm's flute was awarded the cold medal, stated that "in comparison to Boehm's the old flute was only fit to be played at a country fair." Undoubtedly many artists have carried perfection to its last limits on the Germou Ante, but there are difficulties in the construction of the instrument which it is impossible to over come. I need not, however, go beyond our present day for an exceptional example of what may be accomplished with the old flute. Those who attend the Pittsburg con certs will, no. donbt, agree with me that in point of tone and execution Mr. William Guenther charms us in spite of the possible defects (for I have not noticed them) of his flute. In this case I boldly state that the secret is in tho player who wears his well earned laurels with the modesty becoming a conscientious, talented artist With the Boehm flute no technical diffi culties are known, but to produce a perfect tone requires the most careful practice and perseverance. If the player attempts to make a trumpet of his instrument its effect and beauty are lost, and any conductor wouldbe justified in excluding him from the orchestra. The orchestral player's chief quality shpnld be that he blend with the band, but if ho forces the tone-seeking in dividual prominence, the effect is shrill and harsh. An old Italian proverb saysi "A good voice in 99 per cent," but without subscrib ing to that maxim I will remark that tone is the most essential part wherein lies the beauty of the instrument, and no player can attain distinction without it Some of the Best Flayers. Tulou was one of the most sentimental playersthat ever lived, but his playing was lneflective, as he had no tone. Charles Wehner, of New York, sustains his great reputation on tone alone; while the quality of his tone is perfect it lacks in power and capacity that of his gifted pupil Otto Oesterle, flrst Aute of the Thomas Orchestra. Many of my readers who have heard that body of musicians have been charmed by the superb tone and fine technique of that brilliant, talented, young artist. Tho Boehm Ante will depict joy, sadness and boldness, if the mind asserts its supe riority, and one of the chief causes of the neglect of the old Aute was from the sense less, tasteless character of most of the com positions. Execution has been all-prevailing, a faet which the majority of hearers deplore. Nevertheless composers have beea encouraged into the debasement of ona of the mos beautiful of arts, by audiences. uilJiauuiui mat wmcu at most only excites some wonder, never affords real pleasure and is often the source of absolute disgust. The Seal Tost or Skill. Such pieces as Demersseman's "Carni val" and the "Austrian Hymn," by Heine meyer, are no doubt very wonderful, but wncre is tne music Jbor mv part, as an I amateur ot 15 years' playing, a good an dante sostenuto is a better criterion of a player's ability than the "Carnival," or any of those pyrotechmcal displays. I know of some dextrous performers of such music who are incompetent toplay Boehm's "Andante Pastorale, than which no finer composition exists. From its easy method of treatment the Boehm Aute is fast becoming popular with women both in Europe and America. The keys are as easily manipulated as those of the pianoforte, and the position mora graceful than that of the violin. What sight can bo more impressivo than to see a lovely woman playing a resplendent silver Boehm? The reason which provoked Minerva to throw aside her Ante has for tunately inclined modern women to its use, for by performing upon it their natural charms, instead of being diminished, are but rendered still more irresistible. All flutists owe to Boehm a debt of gratU. tude which they can never repay. WlLLIAH MAXTTEIi, IMPE3IAL AN2CD0TE. Kxplolts In Which Germany's .'Imjetor Flayed m Chief Pats, Vanity FIr.J The German'Emperor has a torpedo boat always ready at the so-called "Matrosen station," or Sailor's station, ia which he is accustomed to make exoursions to Spandau and other places from Potsdam. The other day he was returning from a dinner on tha boat, when ha heard his officers calling him by a nickname which he could not quite catch. Going up to them, he said; "What is the name yon give me?" Everybody answered: "I assure your Majesty that you have no nickname." The Emperor was not satisfied) but, taking asido a young officer on board, he said: I have asked in vain what the nickname is that you call me; I now order you to tell met" "As your jlajesty orders, J. am compelled to say that it is 'Gondel-WilH.'" The word means gondola, or boat-Willie; and, of course, it refers to the Emperor's numerous voyages by sea and river. Another story which reaches me from Potsdam is of a less harmless character. The German Emperor appeared a few days ago before the barracks of the Guard Hus sars. He dismounted and gave the Corporal of the Guard "orders to march his men away silently into the officers' mess close by. Then-he caused the alarm to be sounded by .the Trumpeter of the Guard, whom he kept by his side. The Officer of the Guard, who had noticed nothing of tha event, came rushing out; but the guard was gone. "WBere is your guard, sir," said the Em peror; to which the unfortunate man could, of course, give no answer. His Majesty was mightily pleased at the result of this practical joke. PHOTOS SENT BY "WTB& Th-Iew Use to "Which Telegraph- XJsaea Can Be Fat Described. Electricity. The transmission of pictures by electricity Is one of the latest applications of the subtle but extremely useful fluid, and the principle of this new discovery is somewhat similar to that on which the telephone is based, use being made of varying degrees of light, instead of sound, as in the telephone. Ia order to send a picture over a wire it is first photographed on what photographers call a strippling film, composed of gelatine and bichromate of potash. After the picture is transferred to this film the film is washed with lukewarm water, by which all but the lines of the picture oro removed, leaving the photograph in relief. The point of a tracing apparatus, when drawn across this film from side to side, rises and falls as it strikes each line of the picture. This wave-like motion of the tracer is made use of to produce similar motion in another tracing apparatus at the other end of the line by means of compli cated electrical mechanism, and each de pression and elevation in the picture is re produced In a waxen cylinder on the receiving instrument To accomplish this it is necessary to go entirely over the picture that is being transmitted, tracing lines across the surface A single line con veys no idea of the picture, but as they follow each other they gradually outline the otjest t KIT CAKSOFS PAED. A EoT)Inson Township Adventurer "Who Knew Him as a Brother. SOM THEILIIHQ EXPEEIMCE3. Tb Desperado Eon Get Sons of Bis Bil Blood From His Father A WO 0? EXTEEJIINATI05 05 BIDS The murder by Kit Carson, Jr., of hi father-in-law and mother-in-law revives memories of the glory and adventutes of tha man who by many is credited with having made the fame of the late General John O. Fremont, as they say the latter, without Carson's help, would never have earned the title "The Pathfinder." James Scarborough, of Bobinsoa town ship, probably knows more of Kit Carson, the elder, than most of his biographers knew of him, as he and Kit were together in the days when even tha fancy of Ned Buntline could not overdraw the actual en counters between the restless flotsam and jetsam of Anglo-Saxon civilization and, savage animals and still more savase Indi ans along the Bocky Mountain range. Mr. Scarborough, though now satiated with adventure and rarely leaving his rural retreat in Montour Bun, except when business calls him, grows animated when talking of the times when with Kit Carsoa he roamed tha wilds of the back-bone of tha continent, sleeping often at night in trees to be ont of the reach of tho grizzly bear and eating raw meat for weeks at a time when it was almost certain death to light a fire or discharge a gun. Imbibed a Ixive for Adventure. Mr. Scarborough was born la Maryland, bnt was brought bv his parents to this city when an infant. His parents a little later went West, but soon returned and settled ia yirginia, West Virginia now. When 14 years old young Scarborough visited Cin cinnati and was there persuaded by a cousin to go along with him to FL Benton, on the Missouri river, and engage with tha American Pur Company as a hunter, tha company having a post there. The wort? was too hard for the boy and he soon drifted back to the residence of his parents ia Yir ginia, but he had imbibed a love of adven ture and was thereafter restless until ha got an opportunity to gratify it. The latter part of 1848, when the wonders of the Western Eldorado were inflaming youthful ardor, he slipped ofl quietly to San Francisco, which was thronged by ad venturers of all kinds, it being an outfitting city. Young Scarborough went up tha Sacramento and located one claim afan other and did some mining, but hitfEsta was for hunting and trapping, and fur hunting paid. He made some money from time to time selling claims, and finally fell in with Carson at Humboldt Bay and for years they were bosom friends, hunting and trapping and fighting Apache, Sioux, Chey enne and Blackfoot Indians from time to time until along about 1853, whea Carsoa left San Francisco for New Mexico. A Tight Uttle Bundle of Serves. Mr. Scarborough says Kit Carson, though, born in Kentucky, was as much of a Scotch man as his ancestors; insignificant ap parently physically, being very small, but a bundle of steel nerves. He had gray eyes and though never foolhardy, knew no fear. His lightheadedness and daring served to show How mirth is mixed with madness And laughter linked to tears. He says Kit's son did not get his bad disposition from his father, but as tha mother was a Spaniard whom Carson married in New Mexico in 1813. the son may hava some of the bad blood of the murderers who roasted tha unfortunate Gautimosin. Car son had previously, while employed as hunter on the Arkansas, married an Indi?r woman, but by her he had only one child, a daughtor. His wifa died while the child was a baby and he took her to St Louis to be raised and educated, and it was here that h met Fremont and engaged to guide his expedi tion to the Pacific coast. Mr. Scarborough, says that Carson once killed an inoffensive old trapper, whose only fault was that when he got drunk he could not control his tongue, and that, had his father been pres ent, the young ruffian would, doubtless, have suffered for the crime. Hilling Beds for 860 Each. Mr. Scarborough was suffering from aa attack of pleurisy when the reporter called on him for his story, but he was coaxed to tell it in intervals when his breathing ap paratus would allow him to talk. He had no data at home and only Bpoke from ran dom recollections. Onca when hunting on the divide, near the Klamath Biver with 30 others, they were asked by Governor Lana of Oregon, "to fight the Indians. The Gov ernor, with 00 men, had incautiously at tacked the savages in the edge of the chap paral and his army was badly worsted, as the Indians fought under cover. Tha hun ters replied that they would undertake to exterminate the Indians for $60 a head. The Governor, thongh regarding the prica as moderate, thought the system smacked too much of savagery and declined the of ter. The hnnters finally decided to take a hand for the fun of the thing, especially as the savages were annoying them. Tho re sult was the entire destruction of tha Indian band and the hunters took a con siderable number of scalps. Mr. Scar borough has ona of the scalps in his pos session now, but having neglected to tan i the long lock has almost all dropped away from the skin. In this battle but nine of the hunters were killed while of tha 251 -Indians not ona was left. Xarrow Escape for Kit Carson. On one occasion Carsoa was cut off froia his party during a brush with Indians. ' They knew him, as he was riding his famou white mustang, the fleetest on the prairies. Paying no attention to Scarborough and tha rest of tha party, some 14 men, the savage bent all their attention to take or kill Car son, and almost simultaneously fired all tha dry grass around him. Throwing his blan ket over his head, Kit spurred the poor mustang through a wall of flame, and hia companions coming up. fired oa the In dians, empting several saddles. The In dians were demoralized and fled, but tha mustang carried its gallant rider no further. Its eyes were burned out, and Kit broke down and cried like a child. On another occasion, Mr. Scarborough, who was a dead shot, cracked the cranium .of an Apache who had drawn a bead oa ona of ii.it s most devoted aanerents. The gnu of the Apache cracked just as ha tumbled forward dead, but the ball went wide tha mark. Kit and his friends subsequently gave Mr. Scarborough a scarf as a token of appreciation, for which they paid 510 ia San Francisco. He still has the scarf and it is not for sale. It is the chief treasura among a large collection of souvenirs picked up by him between the Oregon divide and Bogota. ricked Up Four T-anjuagas. Finally bidding the hardy companions of several years a regretful adieu in San Fran cisco, Mr. Scarborough sailed south and spent some years under the equator, round ing up his wanderings by short sojourns ia the islands of the West Indies, and from Havanna sailed for New York, came back; and lived some years ia this city, finally settling down for good in Montour Bun, .where he has resided tha greater part of tha last 30 years. He yearly receives an invita. tion, with free transportation attached, to visit the anniversaries of the "Pioneers So-, ciety" of San Francisco, but he has neveis accepted any of them. During hia wanderings he picked np Spanish, German. and French, and can still converse in those languages, but with the exceptloa of German does not often find use for hia linguistic abilities. Among his souvenirs of travel is a pleca of lava he picked up on the brink of Pop-,' pocataptl. He smiled when telling of reading lately an account of a perilous trip made to the summit of this volcano by soma.' Seople, and stated that he foundno great ifficulty nor saw say ' particulac4ange whea he made the ascent - I J 1 i a -i
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