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If experience 1'1141401d Lo it to dtlea2l l2 3l It"
• oiroeh
Then there' quite a little fortune stowed sway
somewhere Ole,
And I deal it out regardless of a regalli staff
price,
la soogh-dinkepap prise pave" of totems seems
• advice; •
The people they.ean take 11, or run around it, as
tbey Meuse,
But the best thing theyoload In It la NM wards
like unto these :•: ° _
" Worm or beetle, drought or tempest, on • ram
net's land may fall, -
But for Aril-class ruination, trust • mortgage
igainst them all." •
TowANDA. Pa.
On my weddin• day my father touched ma gladly
. on the arm,
And handed me the papers for en eightparro
Cann,
With the stock an' tools an , hi:UMW& for an ludo.
pendent start, .
Saying: "Here's a wedding presentircen my Mu,.
cle and my heart; '
And, eseept the admonitions yon have taken from
my tongue,
And the reasonable lickin's that you hat When you
WAS young, •
And your food and clothes and sehoolin , (not so
much art could wish, - -
For I had a number estin' from a some% scanty
dish), . -
And the honest love you captured when you first
sat on my knee,.
. -
This is all I have to give yon—so expect4to more
from me."
March I, IPI.
People '4 said I couldn't marry the sweet girl I
tried to court,
Till we silently submitted to a minority report;
Then tberli ld-their theories over,' with a quick
- ness queer to see, ,
And said they knew we'd many, but we never
could agree ;
But we did not frame and hang up all the neigh
hors had to say, -
But ran our little heaven in our oan pechliar way ;
We started MT quite jolly, wondrous frill of health
and cheer. " •
And a caporal understanding that the road was
pretty clear.
So we lived and toiled and prospered, sad the little
family party
That came on from heaven to visit us were bright
and hale and hearty ;
And to-day we might ha' been there had I only
just have known
Row to lay my road down. Solid, and lei well
enough alone.
But I soon commenced a-kicking in the traces. I
cee re 10—
nENJ. M..Psca.
There was too much land thni joined, me that I
didn't yet possess.
When once be gets land-hungry, strange how rave
nous one can be
'Twasn't long before I wanted all the ground that
I could see,
Bo I bought another eighty . (rot foreboding any
harm),
And for that sad soma down-money' put a mon- -
gage on my farm.
Then 1 bought-another forty, hired some cash to
•
efts up new.
And to buy a covered carriage—and of course the
mortgage grew.
Now my wife was equare against this, 'Bs but
right that you should know
(Though I'm very far from saying that I. think It's
always so):
Bat she went in hearty- with me, working - hard
- from day to day.
For we know that life was business, now we had
that debt to pay.
May 1, '79
We worked through spring and winter, through
summer and through fait; . •
But the mortgage worked the hardest and the
( novll-75
L.ELSEBIZ
Dealer Is
THE. TRAMP'S STOgit:
steadiest of as all ;
It worked on nights and Sundays ; It worked each
•
holiday,
It settled down among us, and It never went away.
Whatever we kept from It seemed alnest as badits
tbsft ; •
Tho rust and blight were with us sometimes, and
- sometimes not; -•
The dark-browed, scowling mortgage was -forever
on the spot. •
The weevil and the cut-worm they went as well as
, came;
The mortgage stayed fprever, eatlog hearty all the
•
same, 1
It netted up every window, stood guard at every
• door, 4 '
And happiness and sunshine made their home with
1111 no mere.
Tut with falling crops and slckaess we Tot stalled
upon the grade,
And there came a dark day on us when the Inter-
est 'wasn't laid ;
And there came a sharp foreclosme, and I land o
lost my hold, ,
And grew weary and discouraged, and the. ram
was cheaply sold.
The children left and scattered when they hardly
yet were grgein ;
My wife she pined an' perished, in' I found myself
alone.
What she died of. was "A mysteri, , ,an. the doctors
never knew ; '
But I knew she died of mortgaged-Just as wall 'a I
wanted to:
If to trace a hidden sorrow were - within the doc
tors' art,
They'd ha' found a mortgage lying on that wo
_ man's broken heart.
Two different kinds of people_ the devil most as
sails ;
One ht the man who ionquers ; the other, he who
fails.
But still I think the last kind are soonest to give
' up.
And to hide their sorry faces behind the shameful
cop;
Like some old king or other, whose name Ore
somehow lost
They straightway tear their eyes out, Jost when
they need 'em most.
When once I had discovered that the debt I could
not pay,
I tried to liquidat.- It In a rather common way;
I need to meet In private a fellow-Bnancler,
And we would drink ourselves worth ten thousand
• dollars clear• 7 .
As easy a way to prosper as ever has been fonnu.
But one's a hesp.sight poorer when he gets'back to
the ground.
Of course I ought to ha' braced up, an' worked on
all the same ; •
I ain't a•trytn' to shirk out, or cover up from
blame ;
But still I think men often, It safely may be gild,
Are driven to temtttations, in place of being led ;
And if that tyrant mortgage. hadn't-cracked Its
whip at me, • .
I shouldn't have constituted the ruin that you see.
For though I've never stolen or defaulted. please
to know,
Yet, socially considered, I am pretty middlin'
I am belpless,an• forsaken; I am childless an
alone;
I haven't a single dollar that' it's tale to call my
own •
•
My old age knows no comfort, my beart is scant of
cheer;
The children they run from me u soon is I cote
near;
The women shrink and tremble—thele alms are
tear-bestowed ;
The dogs howl curses at me. and bunt me down the
road; .
My bora! Is where ;ilttit finds me ; my Mends sro
tew and eolei ; '
Oh, little Is then In this world for one who's poor
and old !
But I'm wealthy in experience. all put up hi plod
advice.. -
To take or not to take It, with Ili ditrereate la the
price
You may bare It, an , thrive on It, or rim round It,
as yon please,
But r generally 04 It wrapped In come sub
words as these i
"Worm or beetle, druggist or tempest, on a tar•
mers land may fall,
But dor first-class mlnatlon; trust a soOMPide
',drat theft 1,11.11
FOR a writer or speaker who desires to
influence others there is no better. rule
than, "Know what you want to say, and
say it." One whose own thoughts are
misty can only belong to others. Men of
wide influence are always sleepy and clear
in their thinking, and direct in their
speaking.
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floatior of 411115011roas
BY M. SAPF,ORD._
!mei the Moine Jeanie!, New• York.
The weather had been wonderfully
beautiful until late :in .September.
Now a sudden chitige took phiee:
The morning mist, instead of melting
awe,' as usual, condensed into heavy
clouds, which soon veiled every patch
of blue, and in the evening a. cold
rain trickled down the window panes,
alternating from time to time with
hail. Yesterday, mid-anmmer ; to
day, autumn I -
The young couple had been fortu
nate. The marriage had taken place
just a fortniglit - before and they bad
hastilydecided !to ris k :a .little wed
ding J journey. ' Not too far tiway.
They wanted to be able •to return
speedily in case the sky cionded,and
now they had net waited to be driven
home, but happened to arrive there
with the bad weather. Yesterday
evening,' without shawl or overcoat,
they had watched the most beautiful
sunset from the terrace by the lake,
and to-night were sitting .behind
close blinds in the cosy little drawing=
room of the new house.
To-morrow the 'regular course of
life' was to begin. The posters of
the theatres announced 'The Caprice,'
and Rennie knew that for the first
time Trate would stand before her
name instead of 'Fraulein.' An im
portant, very important, change for
an actress I Hermia was a petted
actress who, after serving an appren
ticeship atiseveral theatres in large
cities had. 'been for a twelvemonth a
member of the compauy belonging
to' .the mutt, theatre. At her first
appearance on the stage her beauty
gained her the encouragement of en
thusiastic applause. She soon found
her performances ardently praised,
and everywhere became the darling
of the public and the object •of the
devoted attentions , of a throng of
admirers who called theinselves the
friends of art. But eagerly as many
-:-among them men-of the highest
aristocracy and - undoubted wealth—
sued not only for her favor, but her
hand, it had long seemed as if her
heart were protected by a triple mail,
and only opened on the stage to the
lovr whose part gave him a right-to'
tender responses to his fervent "pale
sion. She wished to , remain as she
was, s:se always repeated, in spite `of
those wlin granted her only natural
talent an an attractive , person, but
did not b lieve in ler enthusiasm for
y
art. Th assurances that such bar
barians existed only in her imagina
tion, and ithat it would be' presump
tion to doubt the genius of the ac
tress, who nightly delighted the pub
lic, only drew forth the answer that.
it would be still greater barbarism to
seek to draw her from her lofty pro
cession out of selfish motives. When
she was hissed off the stage, the
knight who 'still remained loyal to
her might come forward and rely
upon her gratitnde. Hissed off the
stage 1 The cOndition seemed im
possible. .
And now a man without a genea
logical tree cr any nhare in the gold
en calf had quickly won the hand of
the petted actress. - Felix was an
author, in the opinion of his friends
a poet also, and best knolin to socie
ty by the title of 'Dr., ' which he was
authorized to put fore his name.
What had given the 'Doctor,' as he
was called behind the scenes, so pow
erful an influence ? He was not even
a theatrical critic, and his tragedies
gave Hermia no parts ; a poem writ
ten on her first appearance--expres
sive_ of warm feelings, but by no
means exaggerated in its praises—
had scarcely made any very deep im
prengion on a lady accustomed to
such homage. And yet they soon
became inseparable companions. The
whole history of his much ended suc,
cess was that he loved Hermia truly
and deeply, that she was for the first
time overpowered by a passion which
exerted despotic sway over - her feel
ings, and that Felix asked no sacri
fice from the artiste. When he offered
her his hand and she joyously ac
cepted it, both took it as a matter of
course that she should remain an hc
treis,•us he would continue to be an
anthbr. . Could any happier union
be imagined ? To whom , could the
actress be a more fitting wife thanto
the' man who was striving, pen in
haid, to win the public approval
which had fallen so 'abundantly to
her lot; and what woman could have
a more subtle appreciation of the ne
cessities of a dramatic author, than
she who daily experienced what tie
:,
tellectual labor meant. %t''-.
True, during the first fortnight:. Of
their marriage noallusioi had been
made to the subject ; they rejoiced
in traveling 'incognito' and being
simply a neily married pair. Hermia
had intentionally gone away , from
the theatre, and the doctor had not
written the shortest article embody
ing.
the impressions of his journey,
for even the humoroni sketch, 'The
Wedding Tour,' required ,more time
for preparation.. But noW, on the
last day of their freedom and on the
eve of the return to their usual occu
pations at home, and yet not quite
settled in the new house, both uncon
sciously found themselves in that
uncomfortable position of ennui pe
culiar to such transitions, and the
effort to shake it off only made, the
matter worse.
They were sitting side by Ode. on
the sofa, he leaning back In a corner
in the new dressing gown, which was
still so uncomfortably stiff, she. in a
charming neglige costume of white
and sky blue,her head with, its wealth
o luxuriant hair resting on his shoul
der. From time to time he pressed
al,tender kiss upon her brow, but his
thoughts were probably wandering
to the half written last page of a
manuscript he . was to resume - the
next day. Her lashes drooped so low
that- her eyes seemed closed. - Was
she, reflecting upon the part she , was
to fill in the new play, or did sleep
assert its tights unusuelly'early 1
A profound silence had•.reigned
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for the space of ten minutes. Her.
mist's head grew very heavy fOr a
moment-but the , next instant she
started, up, pushed back the curls
from her forehead with both hands,
looked at,her husband and laughed
merrily. 'lt is time for- us to do
something, dear,' she said in toile
of affectionate reproach. •
'Haven't we the best occupation in
each other?' he ventured to object,
though feeling somewhat incredulous.
'Ait l' she cried, and.the exclama
tion contained a whole dictionary,
which he: could consult at pleasure.
Hermia shtvered.. 'Do you know
that; it is really uncomfortably cold
in these " rooms?' she continued.
'What a pretty fireplace I I think it
must be intended for joist such days
between summer and autumn. Sup
pose Wc light a fire P
He seized the bell. 'We can call
Friedrich—'
She laid her band on his arm. 'Oh!
no; she pleaded. - 'Why must we be
reminded that there are any other
human beings in the world ? We
shall be obliged to receive them soon
enough. No, well light the fire our
selves. If It does no other good, it
will
_amuse us for a quarter of an
hour. There is the wood.
She rose, pushed a stool near the
grate and eat down. Felix followed
and handed her a few sticks of wood
and a box of matches. 'You'll burn
your fingers,f he warned her, smiling:
I:fermis's efforts were not immedi
ately crowned with success. The .
matches burned admirably, but the
wood would not take fire. She did
not weary of the task, however, and
Felix banded her a second box of
matches.
'Do you know'what would be pleas
ant ?' she asked after a pause, putting
a double supply of kindling into the
grate.
'Well •
'lf I could get a leave of absence
to learn to keep house. I should like
to know how a young wife feels when
she leads tier' husband' to a *ell
spread table - and can say, "I cooked
this for you; I hope it will taste well.' ";
Ile. now' uttered an exclamation
which sounded like 'Ahl—and was
capable of the widest significance.
'Confess,' she continued, without
allowing herself to be confused, 'did
you never—of course ! before you
knew me—imagine your wife doing
something of that kind! Be frank .
I'll promise not to call you an abom
inable Philistine, if you say yes. I
'myself feel a sort of secret attraction
toward the cooking stove---'
'But, ehild—' ••
'Yea or no ?'
'You would soon be horribly tired
of it I'' he exclaimesl.
'I think so too. But until r was
horribly tired—the leave of absence
need not be too long.'
'These are fancies, dear, with which
we .aught not to trifles have mar
ried '-an actress of genius and don't
expect to find her a pattern house
keeper. To be sure, matches are
-cheap.
She bad just seized and lighted a
whole package and now, putting the
blazing splinters under. the , wood,
which Was already charred, turned
here flushed face toward him. 'An
actress of geniudo you really
think so ?'
Felix thrusts cigar -over her shoul
der into the fire to light it. 'How
can you doubt it ?' he asked. 'All
the world knows—) - _
the world she 'interrupted.
'But my husband !, AU the world is
astonishingly little,' ,
He laughed. can use that sen
tence in my-novel.: I shall' fill my
first line with it to-morrow.' '
The little flame in the grate again
flickered unsteadily over the embers.
l'm horribly awkward,' said Hermia
With comical self-reproach., Tills'
won't do. We must try paper. Will
yciu sacrifice 'the novel commenced
in your bachelor days ? You won't
finish it now you're married.'
'Pray—' he exclaimed with a
gesture of alarm.
know of something better,' she
cried, Wilding out both bands that
he might help her from the low stool.
•'When we went away on our wedding
day: I determined to clear up uhen I
returned home. This will be the very
best time.'.
Clear up?' He _looked at her in
astonishment.
'Clear up!' she repeated, as she
turned toward the writing-table that
stood by the window and began to
Open the drawers. 'Please put the
lamp here, and if you'll make your
self comfortable in the chair—my
supply - of material is large; we shan't
get rid of it very soon. This is the
very occupation for this evening,
with which we take leave of our
short honeymoon.'
She put her hand in the drawer
and tossed, out a perfect hail storm
of letters, visiting cards ' knots of
ribbon, withered flowers, dry laurel
flowers and remnants of wreaths.
'See I', she pathetically exclaimed,
seating herself on his knee and put
ting her arm around his neck, 'these
are the triumphs that once pleased my
vanity. Coroneted cards, notes filled
with enthusiastic praises of my in
compsrable, or bewitching, or divine
performances, written and printed
:verses ; sonnets to- my beauty and
genius, bold and diffident love letters,
boliquets of violets, camelias Prince
Paul or Prince Peter presented be
hind the scenes, the autumnal foliage
of some laurel woods stripped in my
honor--trasti, trash, trash to a gosigl
wife. Into the fire moth them l'
She took up . several sheets of pa
per' held them in the flame of alamp
till they took Bre, thin tossed them
into the grate and was about to con
tinue 'her -occupation when Felix
g.rasped ber hand and stopped. her:
'What - is the object of this, Hernilar'
he isked, shaking his -head. . 'These
souvenirs have
,possessed a certain
value,ln youreyes; why do you want
to destroy them ?' •
'Oh ! I care nothing about them I
now,' she eagerly replied; 'and , you
must feel perfectly sure of it.'
He draw her into fibs lap. be:,
Hove yolk without such flaming truth,
_child. It 'Would portably be folly if
I Imagined I was the drstT or only
person who lied ever addressed a
word of lore to' you orwon a friendly
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It & matte . r, of course that
a liftutiful, talented actress like _my
Hermia has been the Object of count
less hopes and , struggles.' All that
deeply interests me in the'nUatter 111
that they were not ftdfilled. Beside:i t
willingly grant you the memory of
the pleasant hours or minutes you,
owe Mestaleurs X. - or Y., and hope
you will tell me many of Your littie
experiences and adventures. A nov=
elist always need material:,
Bennis released her batd. 'No,'
she answered, 'I shan't be
catightso, deir, Felix. Today, it is
true, you are tbe tenderest and most
trusting of husbands, but who will
answer for the morrow? What is
now of no conseqUence to you—such
a nullity that. it doesn't even' seem
worth the trouble of burning,-may
after a time, in fir t i i evil hour, burning. :
become. important. And I
—am I so sure of 'myself, so certain
that this trash will always be so in
different to me as at this moment,
*bleb is wholly filled by love for. you ?
May I not, in some fit of ill-tetnper,
use it to rouse your jealousy °retinae
some other mishap No, we will
have a perfect understanding. Peo
ple must get rid of the_ past when
they begin a new life.' She - again
tossed a handful of papers and with
ered flowers into the fire.
'But You don't perceive,' said Fe
lix, "that 4 you are giving these things '
exaggerated importance by consider
ing their destruction necessary: If I
had cause for jealousy—'
Bennis stopped him. 'You must
'give my words no meaning they don't
express,' she interrupted. want to
build this funeral pyre - And burn all
my idols. Tomorrow you can empty
your drawers, if you wish. If you
wish-1 won't compel you to follow
my example.' • • --
'My school-boy tragedy is at your
disposal,' he answered jestirigly, tho'
I there was a slight constraint In the
tone. ' Something in her occupation
annoyed him.
'We'll see, we'll see,' she answered.
'Here is;he oddest love•letter ever
written b - a banker's pen. Do . you
want to read it ?'
'Keep it for me.'
'No, no. At once ' or into the fire
it goes.' ' The paper blazed brightly.
'Very well,' said he. 'You'll re
ceive more odd letters, child, and
then I hore I shall inve something
to read.' -
'Do you mean—'
'Of course. , The gentlemen who
wrote them don't stop to ask whether
an actress is married. You will re
ceive more letters, poems, bouquets
and wreaths. ,I am prepared for such
things, dearest; you can feel entirely
at ease. I shall never torment you
with' jealousy, for I know you love
me, and shall always know it.'
Rennie, replaced a packet of let
ters fastened with a ribbon which
she bad taken out to throw into the
fire: 'ls it not a bad supplement to
our profession,' she said gravely,
'that it places us women so entirely
outside the rides of society ? But
don't be too sensible, Felix,' she add
ed in a different tone, 'do you bear?
Don't be too sensible I'
Again several sheets of paper flut
tered into the fire, which was now
blazing brightly. From time to time
a letter was taken outof an envelope,
its contents. read and a little story
told about it. The package fastened
with the ribbon was often picked up,
but always replaced, and at last lay
almost alone with a heap of withered
leaves. -
This hesitation had not escaped
'Felix's notice. The letters bad evi
dently been fastened together fora
long time ; the ribbon bad faded and
the knots were crushed, but the crum
pled edges showed that they had, once
been often read. It was not by acci
dent that Hermia spared this memen
to. She . could not throw it into the
fire is_carelessly as the others.
Perhaps she would not destroy it
at all.
'These letters,' she touched them
with the tips of her fingers, 'these old
letters—
'Seem to be valuable to you,' Felix
interrupted. 'lt will be hard for you
'to destroy them. .
Hermia hastily withdrew her hand.
'lf you could suppose—'
.• 'You see, now, that clearing up is
a' hazardous matter,' Felix remarked,
not' without a certain mischievous
pleasure in proving himself right
and thus being somewhat incautious.
'What is left, is left tor good reasons,
and thus nothing becomes something-'
She shook her head.. 'Oh, no,' she
said th'ughtfuliy, 'these letters are
not like the others.' , -
'Quite true! They are valuable to
you.'
• 'ln a certain sense.'
'That is enough to save them from
firey death.'
'On the contrary. That would be
a sufficient reason for sacrificing them
if they were valuable in your sense.
'ln what other ?'
'Each of - these letters wrung the
bitterest teats from my eyes,'
'Tears 1'
'Caused the:most torturing anxiety,
sleepless nights.' . •
The doctor's lips curled in a supe
rior smile. 'So you really had , a pas
alonate love:
••",)roe are mistaken, Felix. - All
these letters—oh i it tortureq my
vanity to speak of it even to you—
all these letters seek to prove that I
—am no actress------'
'What?'
• 'That I never can become an ars
tress in,the way .I have commenced.'
Felix` was surprised—if he had
confessed the truth, disagreeably sur
prised. He seized the package to
burl it into the flames. 'Oh! then
certainly —I
She hastily grasped it. 'But if he
were right.'
„ "Hermits! People only forgive
sneh affronts when,
'When we are forced to respect
those who offer them.'
"H'in—or—so the min - who wrote
those" letters lova you r
'He thought so. At any rate, he
was the only one of all who approach
ed me, who watched , any proves*,
my proleasion lOW sincere interest,
who did. not-41atter Me:
'And yob, Hertel& ?' • •
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Battery hi so pleasant— Perhaps
might have cherished a Warmer liking
for him If be had.understood how to.
deceive, aid, then—l should certain
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soon have loved him no: longer.'
The young wife rose, dim'. the
package -"of letters back into the
drawer and , followed , her husband,
who bad alsolisei from his seat and
was pacing slowly up and doWn the
room. 'Such men are- isre, Felix,'
she said, putting her. hand
_through
his arm, very rare.'
He made no 'reply.
'Let, me tell you about him,' she
continued. 'I was still a novice---'
'But why call up these , reminis
cenceti, child ?' ,
'They no longer muse me pain. - Lsten, perhaps you will. find some.
material fora novel. I was a novice,' I
but already took most of the parts
now play, and was always enthusi
astically applauded: y the audience.
The certainty of pleasing gives one
great, assurance on the stage, one
feels at home as if among friends—
one likes to " look beyond the foot
lights and enjoys seeing the bright
faces of the spectators, but it is a
long time before individuals are dis
tinguished. One of my. admirers
however speedily attracted my atten
tion. Whenever I came on the stage
he was standing on the left band side
of the. parquet, leaning against the
wall, Ulan, thin figure, with a sallow
complexion, black hair and beard.
lie usually remained so motionless
that he might have been taken for a
wax figure. Sometimes he raised hie
opera-glass with ; both 'hands and
gazed through it at the stage, but
never.turned it toward me. Yet he
watched my acting attentively, but
never showed whether he liked it or
not, cried _ bravo, never applauded.
When the whole house was excited,
when a stormy recall rewarded my
efforts, he stood like a statue, per- -
fectly grave, or with an embarrassed
smile, as if he felt ashamed of me.;
If I were called .to the front of the
stage he turned toward the boxes or
scanned the gallery with his opera
glass. ..1 was; very much provoked
about it.' ,
'Was he a ybung man ?' asked Fe
lix, who -,i•egan to be interested in
this description of character.
'A young man—about your age, I
think, at that time eight years young-'
er than you are now. I too have
grown eight years older.'
' Well Y And how, long did this
state of things last?!
' Longer than yon suppose, dear.
Besides, I usually,saw him among the
throng, who, after 'the close of the
play, waited in the rear of the the-'
etre till I entered the carriage. I
often arm him pass mywindow too—
it wasn't , accidental, fur he always
looked up.' Rertain boquets that
came on the days I was to play and
were evidently sent from the same
florist's shop, but for which no one
claimed thanks; Lwas inclined to at
tribute to him, difficult as it was to rec
oncile such attentions with his chilling
demeanor in the' theatre. One even
ing,when I . took a new part and was
again overwhelmed With applause, I
saw him making the most horrible
faces during one of the longer speech
es, which I _had studied with great
care, a fact that so enraged me, that
I could scarcely remember the words
of my part. Fortunately the hesita
tion suited tire situation; he seemed
to think I was
,playing with remark
able naturalness;
for the 'first time he
lightly'touched his bands together
to indicate applause; while the rest
of the audience seemed to be watch
ing anxiously. The next morning I
received a note--',
'A h !'
'A singular note.. Fraulein, he'
wrote; you make some horrible tots
lok'es in emphasizing last evening. As
public criticism does not perceive, or
at least does not reprove , your faults,
permit a • man who is your sincere
friend' to make this correction by
letter. False intonations of thistind
are intolerable to a cultured ear--'
_ Felix laughed. 'The man is too
rude to be angry with him.'
all, very well for you to laugh,'
pouted Hermis, 'but the tears stream
ed from my eyes. 'No One bad ever
ventured to say such things to me
before.. 'Did he not accuse me of mis
understanding my part, of a want of
culture ? , And the insolent fellow
called himself my sincere friend. I
crushed the letter and threw it on the '
floor. It still bears traces of my in
dignation. I made the Wildest re
solves. Boars passed before T gain
ed sufficient composure to finish the
lines. It contained a *my detailed
account of his assertions, and—to
my shame, I was at last forced to
confess that he was perfectly right.
Now, for the first time I understood
the meaning of the words I hid
thoughtlessly uttered. My anger re:
coiled upon myself; I was inconsol' ?
able,-gave out that I was ill for Bev
end days. When on the reprodue-
Mon of the piece I appeared in the
same part, he was standing in his old
place. For a moment I was tempted
tagive the words the wrong emphasis
in order to defy him; but a better
spirit conquered: A nod—not of
friendly encouraOment, but as if he
wished to say why, of .course--can it
be otherwise—showed his -satisfac
tion:
'A queer fellow 1'
' Yes. But I could not laugh at
him. Do you know I really felt
afraid of him ? For a long time
after the public scarcely existed for
me, jts applause nb longer exhilarat
ed SO, the flatteries of the daily pa
pers I doubted. I cared only - for him,
my rude epistolary critic. Other let
tersleached me; always harshly con
demning my little errors, rarely add
ing a word of praise ; =they - always
agitated me, made me nervous. One
day I thought I could no, longer en
dure this sort bf influence.: 1 wrote
him a letter, which I - told the box
opener to hand him. •
4 That was probably just whst he
expected. -
don't thisks9; his strange con
duct appearedwholly free , from cal
culation. no tenger remember the
precise words .1 wrote; they were not
flattering, but neither were they rude.
In conclusionl begged '
him,. if he
were interestedinterested in my =acting,
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verbally.' • ,
That was imprudent."
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6 For a young girl, but not a strug
gling *areas, who_ wished to , please
and was dissatisfied with herself, so
long as a single individual was not
content. My heart throbbed
Windy as I offered him a seat oppo
site me ; I no longer bad courage to
speak. He looked at me Wit* such
a grave,kindly expression, talked so
quietly, - , cleverly, and to the point,
treated - me so respectfully—only his
words, though softened by the gentle
tone of his voice, retained their - harsh
character. Everything was frank
and straightforward; without - --the'
slightest attempt to make it more
palatable to thelistener. He :was al
ways right, and I no longer felt an
gry about it, but begged him like a
child to assist me,in my efforts, and
allow me to read him a new part be
fore the rehearsal. He hesitatingly
consented. But I probably would
not follow his directions, heremark
ed, rudely enough after such a humil
iation: • •
hq became your teacher ?' •
If you choose to call it so. He'
did_not have the slightest talent for
acting, did not even read 'aloud well,
but always showed the most thor
ough appreciation of the spirit of the
piece, and understocd how to , com
municate this appreciation by his ex
piation: Moreover he had a remark
ably keen ear for the slightest modu
lations of the voice, and sufficient
patience totear a sentence repeated
ten times, till the •sentence satisfied
him. He preferred to read Schiller
and Shakspeare _with me, and reluc
tantly aided me in my parts in mod.
ern coniedies and melodramas. "All
this is mere trash." he used to say,'
"which has very little to do with the
art of acting. It - ought to represent
higher natures, not these pitiable
creatures made up of a few - poor
jests, and these rude girls, who ought
to be still attoarding school to learn
the Alf of social decorum. If the
new authors can create nothing bet
ter, why not remain faithful to the
good old ones, who wrote-_ more for
fame than money ?" When. I said
that this would deprive me of my
whole list Of characters, he replied :
If I only could ! And you should
have another, in which each part
would be an artistic chef-d'-oeuvre."'
• Pshaw 1 An idealist!'
6 I once found courage to ask him
what he - thought of my talent? He
looked at me a long time steadily
and searchingly, and then said in his
gentle voice :—" Talent in art is a
pitiful make-shift for bunglers. How
far a little talent will go at the pres
ent day, if it is adorned to suit the
whims of fashion. It is more difficult
train an ape to represent` .a . man,• so
we must not be greatly surprise d to
see well-trained teen on the stage.
Few possess creative genius, but
without it no progress in art is pos
sible. You play comedy very fairly,
haulier', and will doubtless win still
greater applause it 'you cultivate all
I the little arts in which people now
rejoice. But it you wish to become
an actress by the 'grace of God "--r
-and then followed a description of
the. profession, which made my brain
whirl.'
Felix pressed her hand. 'And as
his ideal was too high for you
'Do you think it was too higk?'
she asked.
iAt least you remain faithful to
the parts you bad chose - n:
!..Ii should soon have' been spoiled
foi them, foil yielded to him and
began to play according to his ideas.
The people in the parquet shook
their heads, an] the manager sent a
physician to visit me. But he meant
honestly by mejust read his letters
—and in the sharpest of all confess
ed his love.' ,
Ah— - a.
'ln it he called me a destroyer of
art, who ought to be made harmless
as-soon as possible. The only means
of safety was marriage. Not with a
barron!cir millionaire, but a man of
intellect and heart. "We will study
the art of the stage together when
we have nothing. better to do," he,
wrote in conclusion ; " and if you at
tain a perfection - which is worth the
sacrifice of happiness I will not op
pose your return to your profession.
Felix tried to , laugh. Very gen 7
erous----ha! ha! ha! really e very
generous !' But this was only done
out of complaisance to his wife , and
he thought—the man knew what he
wanted—you were not so scrupu
lous; so you gained your object,
while he— " So you refused him?"
he said aloud, in a somewhat dry
tone.
Hermia bent her head. Not with
out hestation; she answered after a
pause.
What?'
Perhaps; if I had married him I .
should have become a grfat actress.
I :only feared that he would first
frighten me to death with his frank
ness. I wrote that I could not be
lieve-in the love of a man who did
not even profess any for me. This
was certainly very stupid. But it
produced .4s effect : . his , place in the
theatre teinained empty.. I soon left
the city and did not see him again.
You now have my whole confession."
And the name of this singular fel
-1 low?'
=
' His name was
At that moment the door G Opened
and the servant entered. He handed
Felix, who looked annoyed at the in
terruption,a visiting cani,saying„ 'The
gentleman would not be refused, in
spite of the late hoar; he_thought the
doctor—'
Felix had glanced at the card and
then thrown it on the table. -'.What!
he V i le - exclaimed, evidently greatly
delighted. 4 .141 y dear frienkilermitr,
the best fellow Index the sun. Show
bim in at once, Frederich., But how
does, be happen to 'be here? He has
been wandering e about the world for
sevens eight _ years.' Ile hurried to
the door. 4 Hugo! my dear--=
A tall man in a dark gray 'coat
bad entered and remained standing
stiffly V the door. A pair of pierc
ing eyes. - gazed `intently at Felli,
beatded face. liot until the latter
ehtsped him in an impetuous embrace
did he: seem to remember why le
bad come and. shake him by -the
il.oo,piir Minium In Adana..
hand. 4 Let me introduce you to my
wife,' Felix exclaimed, speaking over
his shoulder. illy-old friend, Doctor
HugoFriedleben- 11
Se turned as he spoke, and was
astonished to find the ' room, empty.
Hernia had disappeared through a
side door. -
A moment elapsed before be. re
covered from the surprise. 6 Pardon
me,' he faltered; 6 1. ought to have
taken you into our drawing-room.
My wife was ID a wrapper: We re
turned this morning from a short
journey, and tomorrow Hertnia--- 1
, An right,' all right,' said his:
Mend gently ; 'she probably has her
- reasons. Why should you apologize?'
Felix grasped his hand and drew
him toward an arm-chair, by the tire.
'Sit down,' said he, sit down, but
first take off your coat. Frederick
is. the stupidest fellow in the world
—you are wet through.'
' It is raining,' OVierved the guest.
Felix unbuttoned his coat. ' Off
with this! Frederieb, tell my wife
—will you have a glass of wine? Or
do you prefer a cup of hot tea? Yes,
a cup of tea ! Tell my wife— ,
'No, _no,' interrupted the guest,
motioning the servant away. 'I am
going directly.'
' What—you are going—'
'I only stopped here on my way
from the station to the hotel -to as
sure imyself--- , "
4 But you will surely sit down. If
you knew bat pleasure—it is eight
yearti— - No ; I won't let you go
so soon. ' You must tell me---'
Friedlebe‘firessed his band. 'To
morrow day after to-morrow.
may possibly spend some time bete.
I have been offered a positjon as edi
torof one of the departments ofyour
principal paper. So we can see each
other again. To-day I am'-tired and
exhausted by the journey. I . now
know what I desired to know—'
',What do you know, my dear fel
low?'
' That my friend Felix is married,
really married.
Felix cast down his eyes in embar
rassment. 'I, should undoubtedly
have informed you of my betrothal
and invited you to my wedding,, he
murmured, "if I had• known your
place of residence.'
Pon't trouble yourself; shitiuid
nct have come.'
' Of course, the long -distance---'
His friend shrugged his shoulders.
' That—but I wouldn't believe. the
newspaper reports, that you had mar
ried an actress--' - -
TO BE CONTINUED.
The Baby Tower of Shanghai
The baby tower I Look through
that rent in the stone-work—not too
clOse, or the stream of effluvia may
kill you. You see a mound of wisps
*and bamboo straw. It seems to
move, but it is - only the crawling of
the worms. Siimetimes a tiny leg or
arm, or a little fleshless bone, pro
trudes from the straw. The tower is
not so fulr now as I have, seen it;
they must have cleared it out recent
-Iy. Is this a cemetery or a slaukhter
house ? The Chinese say it is only
a • tomb. Coffins are dear and the
peasantry poor. When a chili dies
the parents wrap it round with bam
boo, throw it in at the window, and
all is done. When the tower is full
the proper authorities burn the heap
and spread the ashes over the
_land.
There is no inquiry, no check. The
parent has unlimited power to kill or
save. Nature speaks in the head of
a Chinese - mother, but want and
shame shout louder still. There is a
fowdling hospital in the Chinese
eity;rritlii - a cradle, outside the door
and a hollow bamboo above it. Strike
a blow upon the bamboo and the cra
dle is drawn inside. If it contains
an infant kis taken and cared for,
and: no questions asked - There is
also a system of domestic slavery in
China. At an early age a child is.'
worth a dollar. -A father or mother
may for money delegate without
losing it'; for although the 'father.
may have sold 'his sun to a stranger,
or although a mother may haie sold
her daughter to prostitution—and
concubines in China are only thus to
be obtained--the duty from child to
parent remains unimpaired, and is
strictly performed. The incentives
thus offered by Mammon and the
alternative preferred by native char
ity may save lives that would otheri
wise be destroyed ; but this baby
tower is a terrihh institution. It
stands there, close to' the walls of a
crowded city, an intrusive invitation
,o infanticide.
ONE OF THE -TRICKS oF CHINAMEN.
For some time the Chinese, whose
passion for gambling leads them to
run all sorts of risks to satisfy their
ambition to win a few dollars at
games of ehance, have been devising
all sorts of schemes to beat thelaw.
When brought into court to answer
to charges of-visiting gambling places
or keeping a place for the sale of lot
tery tickets, they have come,to a full
understanding of the recent decision
of the Supreme Court, which declares
that a person who visits a place
where a lottery is drawn, or where
tickets are - sold for the same, cannot
be convicted , of being visitors to a
place resorted to for the purpose of
gambling; and now when.. several
Chinamen are arrested by the police
and.charged with conducting a lot
tery or keeping a place for the sale
of lotted' tickets, they choose one of
their nutoller,and then go into.court,
where they - swear that the one select
ed was the only one who had any
thing to do with the management of
the place, and that the others were
merely vi sitors.; In the majority of
cases the evidence is purely circum
Mantis], and as' it is impossible for
the officers to controvert the testi
mony of the defendants, all escape
punishment except the one selected
by the defbndiinta. By doing this
they have to pay but one fine, and
thereby . save money.—San Francisco
Cali- .
Tun men who' succeed withoat the aid
of education are the exceptions. Common
men need all the beip that education cao
give, to , pat tbeinagrea cut' a level ; and
even of the mmeptiorad men ft may be
said tbat they would hue succeeded still
better with the adnntakel at,; adneation.
MEI
NUMMI 24
The Game of licandad.
Theislaapme callitOfkaidid t "
which creates await **tot mum
when if It is:played protosdy. - The
persons who are engsged fa tin gum
stand or sit in a eitela man
the better • thirty or forty. will make --
more fun lan tenar twelvee.Whest
all are read,y, the person .appointed
takes his right hanfil neighboisside
and whispers hi his ear a short story ;
it may , be about some one present, or
about ;tome , public personage; but
whatever it , is, he must write it down •
and keep it as a proof. of what the
statement was. The neighbor, hi his
turn, repeats the story as exactl as
possible to the person on his r ight
hand, and he, having listened, passes
it on. At last the tale returns to
its original narrator who writes it -
i
down as he received t. It is said,
and Y. believe truly, that never once
has it come back as it started. The
most astonishing alterations occur.
Innocent jokes have turned to fright
ful accusations, and only, the reading
of the Brat can 'convince any one that
he did not repeat exactly what he
beard. There is no better type than
this 'amusing play of the time worn
game of scandal that the world is
playing, and has been playing ever
since it began. That a .number of
innocent people, with no intention of
distorting facts, cannot hand the
simplest story from one to another
in the'same room fora few moments
without ridiculous alterations, proies
the - impossibility of getting at the
truth of any story
_whiCh has passed
through many lips. The indisposi
tion of the hearer colors the tale even
as he listens, and moie than this,
many persons are deaf without being
conscious of it, and in Ipeenlhir ways.
There is an auricular illusion as well
as an optical Hinson. I know per
sons, while intently listening, bear
words that are not uttered, and who,
in repeating the - impression that has"
been made upon them, do not in
tend to tell falsehoods, but who will,
nevertheless, say to you, with a bland
smile : "
44 I have told every gne that you
told me that Mr. X's beautiful young_
wife had eloped, and they are sorry
for him,"—And while you deny that
you made any such statement; and
stare in wonder at the speaker, you
remember having told her that "Mr.
X.'s new country house was situated
on a beautiful slope of the hilkand
that he bad bought it to please his
young wife." I, myself, no longer
believe anything - I hear and only
half that. I See. -
When you hear an evil story of
any one you know to be. good, dis
credit it, and say so. Grapes are
not gathered from thistles. Neither
do thistles grow upon grapevines.
The fruit tells you from what tree it
came; but you know also what a
tree is likely to bear. One-you know
to be good and,sweet and kind and
noble, is not likely to have done bad
or cruel or spitefd or petty things.
Why should you believe a tale of
him who is the subject of scandal.
WHAT INGEKITITY WILL Do.—
Everyone has heard, I Suppose, of
Evans, the American dentist, wbu
carries the city of Paris in his coat
pocket. He was the Emperor's pro
tege, and be • hai given European:
royalty more pain, for cash, than any
man in the world. He operates in a
dress suit, drives superb horses and
lives in a wonderful] mansion that
was given to him by Napoleon 111.
Well, there is his like in New York
just now. I was riding through the
Park the other afternoon and my at
tention was called to a big, handsome
man, sitting with a Self-possession
which did him credit in one of those
most atrocious vehisks, a dog-Oart.
"That," said my companion, " is.
Richmond, the new. dentist."
" Who is he!". I not unnaturally
inquired.
"He came here from California
some two . or three years ago, with
some contrivance for putting artific
ial teeth upon,natural roots so that
nothing coul - remove them without
hauling , out the whole tooth. It is
_vaned the Richmond crown setting,
I believe. The crack dentists of the
city went wild, over it, but he hid
patented the whole thing, and had
them where they couldn't move. He
came here with only a little money
and no practice. Now he imploys
seven skilled , workme ; has offices
that are simply palatial, and is ena
bled to support the style you saw
just now. He is, in a word, a sensse
tion, and will make $100,004,. That
shown you what a little ingenuity
will do for a luan."—New, York
ester.
Fun, Fact 4tl Fadein!
4 A. Porn c that won a prize of 110, offer
:ed by one of our exchanges, makes " rev
-erica " rhyme with " whaver is." - A poet
couldn't be expected to do better for the
paltry sum of ten , dollars. If the prize
bad been twenty dollars, no doubt he
would have succeeded in rhyming "ensil
age" with "peritonitis." There'll noth
ing like money to develope a poet's latent
inspiration, .and so forth.—Norrislowli
Herald.
Tug season has again arrived when pu-
licemen miss mad dogs • and cripple - in- -
spectable citizens. When a policeman
shuts both eyes, screws his face into a.
aorrible shape and pulls the trigger.,
something is bound to be hit. —Detroit
Free Press.
"I BEE," said Fogg to ' a manufacturer,
" that your baking powder is sold by all
respectable grocers. Now, who are the
respectable grocers?" "The grocers who
sell my baking powder, of course," re- 1
plied the manufectuser.—Boston
scriPt.
A veccrious baker in Auburn put
broad grin lately on the faces of all his
customers by announcing on a conspicu
ous placard thathe sold yeast of a now
kind which made bread so light that a
pound of it only weighed twelve ounces.
—Albany Journal.
A LEAFY background, two noble trees„,
z hammock swinging beneath, and she on
whom your heart is fixed lazily swinging
in the same, is very pretty picturv„
young man, very' pretty, and we don't
blame you for being attracted by a mak
net of such wondrous power. But con
sider if your means will enable you to
keep that picture all your days, or wheth
er in the coming time it will not be sup
planted by a chromo of s. worn,out
woman frying doughnuts over a hot the
in the heat of summer day. The two pic
tura' are intimately connected.—Bee Ha
ven Register.
MEN'S lives should be like the days,
more beautiful in the evening; or like the
spring, aglow with promise ; and like the
autumn, rich with golden sheaves, where
good works and deeds hZie ripened on
the field.
Tim truth cannot be buried, beheade4
or crucified. A. lie on the throne is aNo
'stM, and truth in ndangeon is truth still,
and the lie on the throne is on the way to
defeat, and the truth in the dungeon is on
the way to victory.
Iv you want to - know just how yon
stand in the community ask your worst
enemy and your best friend, and then
strikes fair average. Most. people make
the.mistake of askie.t.g their best Mends
and taking that u the fair average.
Ha who travels with his eyes open
can
not fail to see unit others, as well as him-self, . bare their discomforts and draw
backs, and be will thus, be 'all the" more
disposed to
me
disposed with' a brave .
spirit.
El