HER HERO. ■ DT ROBERT HAVEL LOCKWOOIX f Copy right, 1893, by the Author.] iX ™ 11Y . "'8 Mr. ww Du<Ucyl step f right into tho parlor. You aro I welcome." "Is Miss Vio Jk,TBiHwF et at home?" ,/H III!Ill 111/ "Yes; she will e'wijWMS* be ri R ht in - MWV&W M , Meantime, tell ' me how j r ou have been since wo * ast me * at WJKW Blake's." '• s P° a^cr *■%//%: ™ Mrs. II adl ey, was a woman in middle life, tall and stately. She, with her only daughter Violet, had spent the previous summer in the Catskill mountains, at tho "Blake House," familiarly known as "Blake's." There they had met Mr. Harrington Dudley, a young gentleman spending his vacation at the sumo house. Be was a fine-looking fellow, tnll, broad-shouldered and deep chested, and, as of necessity the young people were thrown much together, he and Violet began to be very good friends. Mrs. Iladley rather took a fancy to the young man herself, and when part iug, at the end of his vacation, she in vited him to call on them iu their New York home. Bis return to the metropolis was fol lowed almost immediately by a lengthy business trip to the west —he was trav eler for a large electric goods firm—and after a six months' absence he had hastened to renew the pleasant ac quaintance of the summer by calling ; on the mother and daughter at their comfortable, but not over-pretentious, apartments on West Seventy-second street- While Dudley was engaged in con versation with the mother, there was a rustle of silk, and Violet Iladley swept into the room, her great beauty being enhanced by the deep rose-tint which dyed her cheeks and tho animated smile which played about her lips, showing her pleasure at meeting him again. Soon after this, her mother was called away, and the young people were left gayly chatting in each other's company. "Miss Violet," he said, "do you recall those walks wo used to take through the woods by the brook?"- "Yes, indeed! The chickens you used to throw stones at, and never could hit! And the funny old farmer!" she an swered, with her rippling laugh, which reminded him of the brook ho had just spoken of. "Don't you remember how he told us it was not quite a inile to the 'turnpike,' and it proved to be over four?" Then they both laughed over their experiences, and he went on, more seriously: "I have been thinking of the last walk we took together over that route, and what you said to me. You remem ber, 1 told you I cared for you and you only in this wide world and—and—you answered that we should always be friends, Violet I now ask you, as 1 did then, to be more—to be my wife." The young lady did not answer at once. A great change had come over her. All the rose-pink had departed from her cheeks, and her face seemed almost haggard. At last she spoke, in so low a tone that he could scarcely hear her: "No, Mr. Dudley—no! Can't we re main as friends? I like you very much, but—but—" and then out came the con lo*.-.ion, as if wrung from her: "Hut the "TICK CHHKKNS too fRJ.O TO THROW BTONRfI AT." man who wins my love must be a—a —hero. He must do something great., that will raise him above the ordinary men around him. Forgive me —forgive me, Mr. Dudley; but I cannot help it!" lie rose quietly, with a half smile. "Then, Violet, I cannot hope," he said; "for 1 am a humdrum business man, with very little romance iu my composition. Igo away to-morrow, to be gone until May. 1 thought to go away in the joy of your love, but—ah, well, good-by!" She let him out of the front door and, with a last fond pressure of the hand, he was gone. She wondered if she would ever see hiin again. "Violet, dear," said Mrs. Dudley, one morning, "are you going to see Moliio Burton to-day?" "Yes, mamma," answered Violet. "I promised to go over there and show her our new crochet stitch. Besides, you know, to-day is her birthday, and she is to have company in the evening, and Mr. Chalmers is to see me home. 1 will go over this afternoon." "Very well. Only do be careful, and don't run any risks." Three o'clock found Violet on her j way to see Miss Mollie Burton—her j hi-torn friend, who lived in Brooklyn. It was the 30tli of May, a typical spring afternoon, and many people were abroad, enjoying the beautiful weather und the holiday afforded by Memorial day. For ten years or more two hugo towers had loomed up on either side of the East river—great monuments to the indolence and lack of enterprise dis played by the people of the Empire state's two great cities. But suddenly an unlooked-for impetus had been given to the mighty projectof spanning the dividing waters with a huge band of steel, and the work was rapidly pushed to completion. On the 24th of May. 18S8, amid great pomp and cir cumstance, the New York and Brook lyn suspension bridge—the greatest single span in the world—had been opened to tho public. , Naturally, then, only six days after the opening, this wonderful feat of en gineering triumph was a great source of interest to Violet Iladley, and she determined to take the opportunity thus offered of crossing tho structure, instead of going her usual route via Fulton ferry. Accordingly, she passed through the toll-gate and up the foot way. The promenade is in the middlo of the bride, on either side of which are the cable car tracks, with the road ways for vehicles on the extreme right and.left. Slowly sauntering along, she came to where the promenade is raised by a series of steps above the level of tho railroad tracks. Here she first noticed that the crowd was becoming more dense; but thinking nothing of it she passed on. Suddenly her way seemed blocked. The crowd swayed and paused, and thinking she could go no further she turned to go back. But it was too late, for in an instant she found her self surrounded by a howling, shriek ing, cursing mob, fighting madly for life and breath. She was lifted, crushed against the broad iron railing, and drawn along, as if by some mighty current, toward New York. What had happened? No one knew. Like a flock of frightened sheep, the people on the bridge were flying from they knew not what. It was after wurd charged that some one—the po "I.KAPED FOR LIF3." lice said pickpockets—had raised the cry that the huge span was about to fall into the water below, and the crowds had surged back to avoid the involuntary plunge. Gradually, the mass became denser. Those in front pressed back upon those urging them on from the rear. Then an awful cry flew from mouth to mouth: "The steps! The steps!" And Violet—gentle, fragile little Vio let? Crushed and pushed along the heavy railing, she was slowly but sure ly ncaring tho fatal steps. Utterly helpless, almost fainting, she could do nothing to avert her impending doom. She closed her eyes and waited, expect ing every moment to feel the fatal step beneath her feet and be precipitated into tho seething humuu cauldron be low. Was It not strange that her cruel words to Harrington Dudley should have occurred to her memory at that "Oh! if he were only here now"—the thought seemed to burn her brain, "lie would then prove his heroism. Perhaps he would risk his life for hers; per haps—" The crowd surged bock again. The pressure was unbearable. "The steps! The steps!" They had almost reached them. Oh, it # \\ as hard to die so young! "Take hold of my arms, little one! So; steady now! Up she comes." Was it a dream—a pleasant dream be fore the end? Harrington Dudley's voice, Harrington Dudley's strong arm about her, Harrington Dudley's face bending down to her. Then all was blackness. "Here officer! llring your plank this way," cried Harrington. With one end of u stout plunk on the pathway and the other on a stalwart policeman's shoulder, who braced him self on the ties of the railroad beneath, Dudley, with Violet in his arms, slid across the bending support, and leaped for life. It was a perilous venture, but he landed safely on the solid roadbed* and the next moment wus bearing his precious burden to a eab and rattliug away towurd Seventy-second street. Attracted by similar curiosity to that which led Violet to cross the bridge, ho had passed into the Brooklyn entrance and become involved in the crush. By main strength he had struggled upon the broad railing and was seeking a means of escape wln-n a lady's hat at tracted his attention, lie had seen those flowers too oiten not to recognize ihciu. With a cry he sprang forward and lifted Violet out of her terrible sit uation • nd called on the aid of the po liceman with a plank. The next day Harrington called at the Iladlcys. The mother opened the door for him and said: "lam so glad you have come, Mr. Dudley. Violet wauts so badly to see you." lie found her sitting in the cozy lit tle parlor waiting for him. She was still quite pale from the effects of her terrible experience of the day before. "Did you hear that twelve persons were killed under those dreadful steps yesterday?" she said, with a shudder. "Yes. To think that we might have been among the number!" he an swered. "No!" she said, vehemently; "but I would have been among them but for —" She hesitated, and the rose-pink •an.e back into her cheeks. He took tlie little hands between his own, > he repeated: "Hut for?" Slowly sho raised her eyes to his face. "Hut for my hero!" she answered. LANGUAGE MADE BY WOMEN. Their Influence Much Greater Than Is Ordinarily Thought. Says Max Muller in Science of Lan guage: The influence of wnm on the language of each generation D much greater than that of men. We very properly call our language In Germany our mother tongue, wit.i all its peculiarities, faults, idioms, ac cents. Cicero said: "It makes a great difference whom we hear at home every day and with whom we speak as boys and how our fathers, our tutors and our mothers speak. We read the letters of Cor nelia, the mother of the Oracohl and it is clear from them that her sons were brought up not in the lap, but, so to say, in the very breath and speech of their mother." But this is not all. Dante ascribes the first attempts at using the vulgar j tongue in Italy for literary compo.si- j tions to the silent influence of ladies who did not understand the Latin lan guage. Now this vulgar Italian, be/ore it became the literary language of Italy, j held very much the same position there , as the so-called Prakrit dialects in In- j dia; and these Prukrit dialects first as - j sumed a literary position in the Sans krit plays where female characters, both high and low, aro introduced as Prakrit, instead of the Sanskrit em ployed by kings, noblemen and priests. Here, then, we soe the language of women, or, if not of women exclu sively, at all events of women and do mestic servants, gradually entering into tho literary idiom, and In later times oven supplanting it altogether; for it is from the Prakrit, and not from the literary Sanskrit, that the mo lern vernaculars of ludia branched off in course of time. Through a thousand smaller chan nels the idioms of women everywhere find admission into tho domestic con versation of the whole family and into the public speeches of their assemblies. The greater the ascendency of h j female element in society the greater the influence of their language on the language of a family or a clan, a vil lage or a town. JUSTIFIED IN LYING. Defence of the Prevstrlcutlng Sleeping Car Porter. "A sleeping car porter," he said bit terly, as he sat in the office of a little country hotel waiting for breakfast, "is a born liar." "Oh, not all of them," protested his companion. "Well," he said, thoughtfully, "pos sibly some of them aro not, but those who aro not born liars acquire the habit" "Oh, na I've known truthful por ters. " "You have?" J "Certainly I hava" "I'll bot you the cigars you haven't." "I'll take that But who'll decide?" "You." "I'm prejudiced." "Oh, no, you're not You're just thoughtless. You're thinking about some of the ordinary things that some porters lie about but others do not Did you ever get into a small town about 5 o'clock In the morning?" "Certainly." "And tell the porter the night before to call you in time to get off there?'' "Yes." ( "And he called you?" J "Of course he did." "And didn't lie about It?" C3| \ "Na" "Didn't he tell you you'd bo there In five minutes?" "Urn—ah—yes; I believe he did." "And watch you frantically wrestle with your shoes and rush for the wash room?" "I—l believe Ido recall something of that sort" "And then did you wait and wait and wait ?" "Hero's tho cigar. You win. I guess there never was a porter who wouldn't lie about that under those circum stances. I wonder why it is?"— Ch icago Post MONKEY LANGUAGE. liitflrHllne IMhcovuildn lly Prof. Gurnet In the Interior of AfritiH. Professor Garner, who weut from America into the interior of Africa for the purpose of study inn the methods of communication between the monkey tribes, in other words to learn ths monkey language, has arrived at Liver pool on his return. He claims that he has established beyond a doubt that there is ■ monkey language, and that it can be learned by man. He brought with him from Africa two Kulu Kamba chimpan zees, with which he Is able to communi cate. Prof, darner states that he stayed for ' 101 (lays in his cage, which he had carried ' into the heart of a forest 250 miles inland. I This cage was a massive affair that was chained to trees. In it Prof, (Jarror would lock himself and then await ths 1 coming of members of the ape family, i when he would try to communicate with j them by means of the sounds he bad j learned from monkeys in America and elsewhere. He had with him a phono graph with which be kept a record of the sounds made by his visitors. He claims that his visit to Africa was a great success in establishing his theory that the uiokey family has a language. Military Tactics. A guard duriug the war was que* tioned as to his knowledge of his duty. ' You know your duty here, do you, sentinel?' "Yes, sir." "Well, now, suppose they should open on you with shells and musketry, what would you do?" "Form a line, sir." "What! One man form a line!" "Yes, sir; form a bee-line for campt air." A Matrimonial M intake. Mrs. Potts—When 1 was first married I thought it was solely for love that John had sought my hand, but I know better now. I am firmly convinced that it was my money he was after. Mrs. Fpyte—Well, it must be a great satisfaction to you to know that he is not suoh an idiot as you thought he was —Tit-Bit* LANGUAGE OF STONES. MAUCH claims the bloodstone, which means courage. AUGUST claims the moonstone, which is said to bring conjugal fidelity. .TUNE claims for her children the pearl, the meaning of which is purity. To THOSE born in December the tur quoise is said to bring a prosperous , life. To THOSE who are born in September the sapphire brings success and pre | vents evil. FEBRUARY claims the purple ame thyst, which is said to bring the virtue of contentment. THE stone associated with the first ! month of the year is the garnet, which means constancy. THOSE who were born in July must wear a ruby, which brings to its chil ! dren nobility of mind, i THOSE who are born in April must j wear a changeable dazzling diamond, the meaning of which is innocence. I MAY is represented by the emerald, | which is supposed to bring success in love to those who wear it by right of their birth month. THE opal, supposed by many to be unlucky, belongs to October, add to those who are born in that month it is said to bring happiness and hope. NOVEMUER is represented by the topaz, which means that those who wear it rightfully by reason of their birth may cluim fidelity and friend ship. INTERESTING FIGURES. THE public and private indebtedness of the world is estimated to be SIOO,- 000,000,000. THE Merrimac river is said to move more machinery than any other stream in the world. AT the present rate of increase there will be 190,000,000 people in the United States in fifty years. IN the construction of the Suez canal 80,000,000 cubic yards of material were excavated by 80,000 laborers. POTATOES first appear in history in 1503. In 1892 the United States raised 201,000,000 bushels. In 1884 the world raised 79,000,000 tons. ACCORDING to the last census there are over 8,000,000 bachelors in the United States—that is, 8,000,000 men over thirty years old who have never been married. CIIISGAO is the enterprising potato county of Minnesota. Three million bushels were raised last year, three thousand car-loads shipped and the rest used in the large starch factories. IT is estimated that the richest of civilized peoples is the English, with $1,230 per capita. In France the aver age is said to be $1,102, in the United States $1,029, while by the sale of their lands to the United States government some of the Indian tribes are worth from $5,000 to SIO,OOO per capita, man, woman and child. ARMY AND NAVY. NINETY per cent, of the crew of the United States cruiser. New York are Americans. A NEW substitute for powder is used in a firearm just invented in England. It is compressed gas. • A CANADIAN has made a collection of the buttons of officers of every regi ment and department of the British army. BICYCLES for military couriers and big- dog's for sentries and ambulance service are curious features of the tented field. IN 1806 an experimental cruise of all the ironclads in the British navy, thirty in number, was made during very rough weather, to ascertain how they would behave during a storm; result deemed successful. DURING the twelve months just ended there were 1,259 desertions from the navy, 939 men and 320 boys. Of this number 770 men and 303 boys de serted at home ports and 103 men and 17 boys at foreign ports. 'The number of enlistments was about 7,000, out of nearly twice that many applicants. FOREIGN PERSONALS. PRESIDENT RODRIGUEZ of Costa Rica has been unsuccessful in his attempt to borrow 81,000,000. He will meet with wide sympathy. PAUL DK CAHSAONAO is nearly fifty years old, but does not look his age. "Some twenty-odd duels have left no trace on the tall, squarely built figure and dark imperious face." Hut then these were French duels. Miss JESSIE ACKERMAN, an English missionary, recently put on a diving dress and went down sixty feet to the bod of the ocean on the greatest pearl ing grounds of the world, between Australia and Singapore, where 1,800 men are constantly at work. MME. RODRIOUBZ, a noted Parisian dressmaker, died recently in a lunatic asylum. Iler fame was great, and she j always refused to make dresses for women with poor figures. A certain duchess had often desired to become ! one of her patrons, but Mme. Rodri guez invariably said: "When you have | shoulders I will dress you." BOOKS AND WRITERS. IIARONKSS BURDKTT-COUTTS, of Lon don, is the proud possessor of the first folio edition of "Hamlet," a very rare book, for which she paid four thousand dollars. Run YARD KIPLING has applied for membership to the Society of American Authors. Kipling is democratic enough when it comes to pocketing all the roy alties in sight. MME. SEVERINE is described as the only woman in French journalism who really counts. She makes an Income of from twelve thousand to fifteen thousand dollars a year, and her arti cles always have a leading place. THE new congressional library in Washington will, Librarian Spofford estimates, accommodate copies of all the books of the world for one hun dred years to come and still leave seven-eighths of its available space ap plicable fpr other purpose*. POOR LADY JANE GREY. X Doll Who*© Sail Fat© Brnuglit Tear* to llcr Mtatrent*' Eyes. When I was a child I had a great collection of dolls. No matter how old or battered they became, I carefully treasured all that were given me, and I possessed an extensive wardrobe of clothes for each. Why now, in a little box stowed away in the lumber room, would bo found a pile of little gar ments belonging to "Katie," the best doll, I think, I ever owned. But of all my doll children I do not believe any was more dear to me than "Lady Jane Grey." Lady Jane was a rag doll, and I made her myself; she , was very pretty, for a clever artist I friend of the family hud painted her j face. She had a lovely head of black hair, too, made from a theatrical wig j (Tiven me. I was very proud of Lady Jane, and } when she was arrayed in her pink satin j dress and white bonnet she looked j most stately. I called her Lady Jane j Grey at the suggestion of my eldest brother, who was deeply engrossed at that time in learning the history of her hapless namesake. But, alas! the story of my pet doll is a sad one. From the first her life was full of unfortunate vicissitudes. I had not had her more than a month when she fell one morning from ray arms into the bath. I fished her out, and found her looks were somewhat dam aged by the wetting, but I dried her carefully, and soon became used to the mixed look her sweet complexion bore. Then one day when I had left her peacefully reposing on a low chair our dog Punch, the most mischievous and villainous of terriers, entered the nursery and saw her. Poor Lady Jane! There" was no one by to aid her. In a moment that wicked dog had dragged her from her seat, and when I came in a little while after 1 found him growling over her mangled body on the hearthrug. Well, I rescued her, and oli! what a state she was in; one arm was nearly torn off, her dress was quite spoiled and she was scalped; but I mended her arm, made her a new frock, covered her poor head with a pretty cap, and loved her still. I did hope she would end her days in peace, but it was not to be. One afternoon I went out driv ing with my mother, leaving my two brothers (for it was holiday time) in full possession of the nursery. When I came home and entered the chil dren's domain again loud shrieks of I FOUND HIM GROW LINO OVER ILKR MAN GLED HODY. laughter fell on my ears, and what a sight greeted my eyes as I opened the door! My beloved Lady Jane, with her body wrapped in a piece of black stuff, and her eyes bandaged, actually luing sus pended from a nail in the fireplace, and was slowly lousting, while those two heartless brothers danced a kind of war dance around her. Oh! what a cry I gave as I rushed forward to save her; but my eldest brother sternly held me back. "If she is Lady Jane Grey she must perish," he declared solemn ly. "It says so in 'Little Arthur.*" This dreadful decree was too much for my childish heart, and tears began to How fast. Then those boys, who were not so had after all, cut the string and restored her to my arms. But this time there was no hope of her recovery; the fierce fire had burnt her face out of all recognition, and scorched her badly all over. The perpetrators of the cruel saw I was greatly distressed, and sug gested as a consolation that we should give Lady Jane a splendid funeral he fitting her rank. And so we did, and u big hush of sweet syringa shadowed the remains of my favorite doll.—Pall Mall Budget. \Ytailed They Wore All Blind. Robert Burns* friend, Dr. Blackloclc. the blind poet, was a licentiate of the church of Scotland,'and used to preach occasionally. One Sunday he was sup plying a country pulpit. Certain deaf old women, as was the custom in those days, had squatted on the pulpit stairs to be us near the preacher as possible. Like the mass of the Scottish people, they abominated sermons that wen read. One of them, as soon as the dis course was begun, said to her neigh bor, in a tone that was audible through the whole church: "Is he rca Un'?" "Tuts, woman! No; he canna read-- he's blind.** "Blind, is he, ch? That's rnal fort'- I natc. I wish they were a' blind!" Wherein Tliey Differed. A young minister had gone to the home of his boyhood to preach, says an exchange, and of course the vil lagers were full of curiosity to hear him. At the close of the service one of the deacons engaged the young preacher's wife in conversation. "It was a strange coincidence," he said, "that your husband's text was the one from which his father preached his last sermon in this pulpit.' "Indeed!" said the lady. "Well, that i stra. go. I hope," she continued, •it wasn't the same sermon." 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