The Weekly Wisconsin from Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Page 1

MILWAUKEE, SATURDAY; MARCH 2. 1895. NO. 39. I.

and By Mrs. 333. Xjynn I-iixrton. BY BACHEiLER, JQHXBOS 4 Pretty girls with good fortunes and Buseeptable temperaments need careful guardianship in smart hotels where society is anixed; and credentials- are not always forthcoming. Hurpies of both eexes abound, and more than one good bag has bfren made" for'the benefit of the fowler" and" "of the under of fine manners and high-sounding names.

This being so, it was a httie doubtful if Brand was right kind of guardian for Ida Maj- nwd. A ladylike woman who bad less than complaisance, and hose capacity for belief as large as her power of discrimination was small, had a burden of rather heavier tlmii she bear in the charge of a pretty young romantic- tondon- cies and a huudHomu income. And more than one ot Ida's old faunlj friends lamented the.e.huin of cire'iimstiiieesWTiJch hud driven her mto Brand's uerve- less bauds as the sole guardianship she had. So far, no "harm had Mk come to rfic young heiress with a cliap- ibmerou who "ueii-r thwarted her, but also Siprvwho knvw when the ice was tlim Vr when there wore nn-ks -ahead. The hotel was crowded, and the company was of the Butterflies sixating with, one another among the flowers boht their general condition, and, because place was overflowing and the salle-a-unuigor had not universal segregation, tile small tables usually pit on up to two or three perforce tenanted In Whence resulted intimaeiet, wlia-h Were fcuiuetuncs even when Most delightful.

'-The 'hotc'l w'as crowded and there nolf space for segiegation in the salli-a- maugcr. trying tieji to this congestion the maitre fl'hotel, with bous anil apologies, begged to be allowed to place thioe charming people at tlie table ol the and her ulnipuroii. wj-re ali tiiat he had uf mns't louime il Jai.t un his list; aiuj he was slire that in asking this accommodation he was-doing nothing that would be displeasing to madam or mademoiselle. That oiling, tlien. at' dinner, three -Btrangi-J-s were at Ida's table, and the mental stw't-tu king-began 1 tall, handsome Englishman about lii or with tine a smid carriage, good manners il somewhat -overbearing, anil unmistakable look of one who had seen of some sort.

Secondly, a soft-imced joniw Italian. ith tile eaiessmp eyes mni si-ihie- ways ofUiis In, hif, inotlii'r, a tMmal Sinnht-i m-i. indolent, astnti- and l.isi-inai- ing. The Englishman UeraW bis-her: the Italian" was II Banine di Siena; his mother was Jo. 1'nneipi-s- fca di (Vrtosiiim were all nutico- able becausei.

of nuvnher, dross anil al appointments; and soon Has speiial the tjuosuiv rooiu, as rumor magnified the fortuneof tlie 'young' 1 heiress and the- social standing of her In the lurks at times that intriisiye the -harmonious eitvuni- i-tiinces sjrikiK tin- jairuij; imto ol unpleasant fin-tion. And tins Ml tie i-oteJie. formed bj i-hauoe. was no oju-option to tlie rub 1 The jarring note tame from the Englishman. From tlie Hist he seemed to hint- translated his ronilitmn as a compatriot- into the prn ilexes of a friend nnd the duties'of a miaidian.

He drew. n.n invisible possession round Ida and Mrs. Biand. ami before they -well know that be had east his over them ho tlie master nt the situation He made .110 overt of "authority, -such as the World eoiildsec and' eoni- int'nt oil. He simply gave them stand tflicy must not do surli -and such, things, and that it be bettor for it was ttuit thoj should follow his will foeived Mrs.

Brand's muni lio had things the whole pretty jniiin Jus own waj: which was not clw'ajs Ida's Yot or uii- Milliug. she had to go as Gorald 1' lobisher (irdaim.il. and bft by bit she Ifolt her liberty slippinir fiom hci wfthont to tlio iiioiiH-nt when slie could say: -'I On the other- hand, tin 1 jvung baron Wid his the jurniexs "w4Tc -the Sory hotirt soul of eouiolaisaiKe "poomod foi Ida's jileasuje. They'liiid not a. wMi which -was uot la a tiionjrlit extra to her eorvjce.

Whatever iboy might piojxise had but one or, on- vemenue o( la sitrnorma, for bom. had tbo power, the vrry elemi-nt- would be" rulod to nder sei-viee and tribute Alw-jjs sauvo and uuiiablr. uiaile a docided contrast L'lolnsher. who gfiieraUy til? reverse of (imiable, with a certain arbilniriness of maimis 1 c-oilam Miliat uf Ihnt was less f-oflssurnii; than fliieatoning ontic-ing than cumiM-Umg. "'Ttie boiir," tile pnneoss used to call him.

in prottj- Itjiliiin distaxto Jiiuro than Goiald's ho is jour ICnjrlKhman twlio niit nniit'rstand love -and '-would his and soil lior for so much aufl so the young baron would say. With that little shudder which exproesos BO much, fionorall.v adding- "1'or BWH'O! Hint is not the' way wo treat We Italians know- how to tn-at women as they should be tutli iiiid goiitlonoss and courtesy nnd iudulgence, but. most of all, with love!" Ana wlicm ho his Ti-lvot-broivii ryes woiild look into with, smiie- thing behind iind itliiu hirh made that '-erstwhUq frank and haif-nnconsoioiis young oiuau hers to the floor, jwwdortHl by she knows not What. All 'thnt sbe did iiiow was somothins yrt something tliat made her feel part afraid and part ashamed, and os- pocinlly desirous that Gerald Frobisher 5 Bhonlu not sit. 3 Tho day was A day when youthful spirits were not to bo confined within tho four walls of a house, nor yet between the hedges of a hotel gar- 'It Was a'day; for feditious, adventures, what not.

One of the kind which holds the promise of Borne undeclared joy like tho secret perfume lying within tho closed bud of the lily; ono of those when Fnnoo Charming Is on his way, and the- princoss is sotting forth in her chariot to meet young fool and" tho old romem- flnd the joy of living has no flaw from either regret or despair. "This is tho riglrt day for tho old said Gerald Frobisher at breakfast. Hp spoke with tho manner of command rather thai suggestions-ordaining for the others-ncocrding to his own ideas of fitness, without reference to their 1 said Mrs. Brand, complaisant usual. "It would he rather jolly," said Ida, not caring to agree too enthusiastically; secretly charmed with this idea.

"What doyen say, princess?" she added, turning to Ihe Italian UK if it were a foregone conclusion that those two. who their table companions, should also their comrades iu the day's pleasures. keen eyes flashed impatiently; fad his stern month hardened to a line: Is an impossible number," he as to himself, but everyone though no one took-up the chal- tt will be said the princess. her sweet way. Her eyes her smile took in the whole com- "XSiulio already suggested I am glid-that Mr.

Probigher has" fallen in with the idea so amiably." "Pardon me, I have fallen in with no idea from tlie baron or anyone' else," said Gerald, ill-temperedly. "I was not aware that the baron had any ideas-nin the subject," he added as a rider to the orig- proposition, and be thought thcsarcasm liad had. time to strike. The young man laughed'and showed his small, white, jxiinted teeth, like a row of little shark teeth gleaming beneath his Milken moustache. my frieudy he said, gayjy.

"A life spent in shooting rhinoceroses and bears is not the best school -for- the knowledge mankind. We who live in cities hav.e the advantage; over you men of sport and the chase. We have humanity, as our books. You study only -the habits of bears and biiffalos." "We learn a little about men, too," said' "We to deal with slaves-and tlih'ves, cowards and adventurer's of all We learn preity acMirately. I assure you." "Xo doubf," said the baron, retreating in good order, but adding, as his last shot: "This, how-eyer, proves imj'l point.

Thi'se slavjes and towards, do not make up the general society ordinary European draw inji rooms. Hence you must allow us stay-at-home citizen's to hivve some among them you uiust grant the. knowledge Of our world ot geiitlehood and the. best traditions of good iind social diplomacy-." "What time shall w.e start?" saldil'da, to. rJ-eare a diversion.

Timse danjrerous fencinss and bitter douliK-nreaniiigs nere always going on between the two duel as yet with the foils ouly: ibut the young heiress THE' JK-ilSlBLE OF POSSESSION. beginning to fear more serums (ol- lisiim. and was 'tUujy griiwins; m.ore.apparent ana iiiore' Him" -liins- it would continue restrained within the dnetboundaries of rourtesy to be. -As things were, it looked as if would break loose like-a flood and carry devastation and -destrnetion into the little settlement they had formed among theniselyes. loruld- looked lit his watch.

"Be ready in half an hour," he said, shortly. "That will bo a littlo too -quick for Mr. FrobisheJ-." said the princess, again Miuluijr as if the tery soul of sn eet- ness in her handsome If they could have read'her aiid tliuUKhts! "1 Jim not so energetic as joii nngliih. 1 want a margin delib- "lf yonr throws us too late we (inuiut go at all," baid Gerald, un- plrasantly. "AVo.

not incouvonionce uiy mother" said the bai-on. tMth a fiue air of hluil dutynud coiivoatioual courtesy. "Of j-iiui'se 1 saiii Ida. Whcrenpou tho young Italian leaned over to the jirotty girl and said: "Thank- yon, signorina!" with effusion, holding out.his hands as.0110 under.the 'influence', of strong emotion. Ltwkiug 1 into flushing faco of the girl with a world of tender meaning in his eyes, he- said, siM'aking to 'his mother, but: still-looking at Ida" "The signorina alwajs does and saj the right thing at the right moment and in the right way.

Is it list "Assuredly! She is a saint!" said the princess. Gorald rose abruptly from tile table. "Very tvoll." lie said, holding his head straight -and high. "I will givo you a tjuartor's primx-ss. I wi)l order the carriage fgr the half hour, when I shall cxpoct you nil to be ready." "If onr proceedings inconvenience- vou, frieuil.

1 will tako command of'lhe party." said tho Italian, with a manner su(. of the heathen Chinee, it was so I U(l and childlike. Geiald disdained to roply, save by a look that was decidodly as contemptuous Jind as essentially in- snltine blow would have been. Then he strode out of room and worked off a little of his spleen on the unoffending hall porter, -w'ho chanced to cross his path. Mother and son exchanged looks.

"Our friend is not in the best of humors today." laughed the baron. "Arc English gentlemen like queried the princess. "And foolish to'ask such question, whon I know so much better! Who, iudeeij, knows so well as I the charm of the Knghsh not my own dear mother an Englishwoman?" are adorable." said tho baron, with fervor. "Who that knows them would'uot love the sake of one!" he added, in a low voice those eyes looking into Ida's with- the and softness, the passion and the prayer he knew so well to throw into the sake of one, loving all!" wo not better go and get ready?" said Mrs. Brand, with the fear of Gerald Frobisher before her eyes.

"Yws, lot us said in a half- reliev.ed, half-ombarrassed kind of way. And again mother and son exchanged glances and the smile that just lifted.tine, corner. of each well-shaped but over- fleshy-mouth meant "'Good so far," "Whiged if not yet would have been an Englishman's The" morning had passed info, nhe early afternoon without untoward accident of any Gerald -Frobisher's temper. might be exiled untoward. Nevw remarkable for amiability, today it Was the-vilest kind to be found.

His rough life and adrenturous exiieriences seemed to hare hardened him so niuch abraded -at all four corners and full of jagged edges and -wounded spikes. It served, however, to bring out into greater relief the sweet courtesies and graceful plasticities of the baron, whose whole energies seemed de- Totod.io tie one desire to please and entertain the sipnorina, to do as she Se- anticipate her. unspoken wishes and make her feel that she was the main object of his thoughts yet of his heart and life. His gentleness, his unfailing good humor, the skill with which he parried Gerald's rougher -in partying inflaming the Englishman's anger still more, tins putting him for: evermore and more in the caress- ins eyes and musical voice, his subtle tenderness, all stole over Ida as some irresistible charm, some powerful spell spoken by a potent magician. For one of the few times in her yonng life die contemplated her wealth with a glow of pride and delight, and rejoiced that she, was free, rich, and the jnistress of her own destiny.

Afl ihia Gerald saw aid understood. And -roused in him were akin to "those with which he had defied a savage chief at the head of his tribe, stalked a rogue elephant, circumvented a man-eating tiger, fought single-handed with a. cobra-, or looked for whipsnakes in the grass thai he might crush them before they hac power to sting. In the baron he recognized his enemy, whom yet he despised: and forthwith set himself to destroy him with the same "feelings, if not by the same- as those with which had destroyed those others in the jungles and the wilds. The object of-the expedition had been accomplished.

They had seen the Schloa and heard the legends; peered into the dungeons and admired the view from the battlements; eaten their luncheon spread on the trestled tables of the courtyard; talked platitudes, with an ah- of profundity; skirted by intense feelings with an air of and done, all. that peoplelin their circumstances are wont to do. And now'it w-as time to return, Ida always between the two men who were battling together for her possession with as much fierceness, and to the same purpose, as if they had been fighting with clash of steel, not mere-fire of words Fortune hunters bjith of them, they were the Soylla and Charybdis of the girl's perilous voyage. Into whose hands so- ever she niight fall, she wpuld fall to her enduring sorrow. II.

They were not adventurers of the vulgar is. adventurers jn the sense of holding a different social position from that which they assumed. They were gentlemen of good family; bat fortune hunters to wlmin the income was of more account than the woman; made pretense of a love they did not feel. For Gerald's somewhat jjrutal' attitude of command was love-making in his a way analogous to that the savage who first- knocks his intended w'ife senseless and then carries her off to his own hut in the conquest, wife victim all in one. She had her choice then between two.

'In Gerald she would-find a spirit of domination. her- to the uupoetic kind of nature that "leave her; so'ul as arid as the parched sands of the Libyan tyrant, a master, a conqueror. In Giuliotli Siena she would: have infidelity, intrigue, jealousr, and what to an "Englishwoman, accustomed to much open air exercise and absolute freedom of movement, would be practically In the princess she would have 7 a mother-in-law who would rule her with a rod of iron, and never take her to her hoart as a would her to become a Catholic; who would ridicule her English ways and decry her nationality; ho would make up for her neglect by a system of espionage which would not leave her one -shred of 'spontaneous and who in all of whosn persecutions here, and glacial barriers there, would "be joined Maria del Sole (who would repeat anil all. her mother might say and dol. Of the two the balance of uiihappiuess would lie" on tlie side uf the neither man'would treat 'her well, and iu marriage with each, 'alike Would be her misery.

The two aspirants had nearly come to that-duel, w'ith the buttons off. -which secniwl as if it eventually take place, the fifth'seat in tile carriage, which meant who should sit outside with- the The frk-tion had been so great, and the courtesy disguise sn thin, that thelprincess had halt-laughingly proposed (Jrivwnig lo's for the chance. But, btiause she had proposed it. perhaps because he- to put himself iu any sense on an equality wiili'the'de- spisod Italian, Gerald had rejected this arrangement. as much haughtiness as.

sullenness he had flung up tho contest by" mounting the bos. whence he rvVeoiged. by. turning round and engrossing, so far as he could, Ida's whole attention by his persistent talk. He spoke to no one else, if the or the baron cut.

into the conversation, he uruoml each as if neither party existed; save when obliged to answer a questum directly addressed to hitii, and then-he answered in a hionosyllable. jind his voice was more like a'bear's growl than eyon befom If-it were the- baron wb(i spoke him. on any subject indopeiidVnt of the matter in hand, he contented himself w'Hh a rojily-tiiat effectually put a stop advances, for this least He was more unpleasant than could been believed, as the princess said in hier pretty broken English, and; BO far as he could, he spoiled the day's pleasure for all. cpucM-ned, anxious as he was to punish all and sundry for the m- of that uriuesired. association.

For this, too, as for some other things, the baron owed hinu more than one; and in his own mind i esulved to pay his debt with interest. The only difficulty was: How could he pay that debt? Tlie Englishman was stronger than he. arid braver. And stabbing him in the back, in the HE SPOKE TO NO ONE ELSE. dark, was not apparently very feasible.

The way from the Schloss. led down to the valley by a road cut the side of the mountain, A mass of rock.and" un- scalable escarpments rose sheer from the path precipice with eternity at the bottom fell sharply down below. The road" was full-of these acute angles hazardous: curves so "well known to continental and curves which were veritable deathtraps and where the marvel was that Anyone should escape with his life. Two half- broken, loosely-harnessed horses, mainly- gnided by the voice of a voluble and vociferous coachman, who held his "reins as slack as 'a. bunch of ribbons in a cof tillon.

were, the locomotive agents of the carriage, in a transit where the chances of disaster were-as innumerable as there on'the. broad ledges of inac- eessible Tet. tragic 7 occurrences were as rare as the passing of a herd of chamois or a fight an eagle and a vulture in the sky. had washed away some of the edges, opth of the cliffs above whereby the road was strewn with stones that rolled as. the horses stepped on them, and of the outer line against the sharp decline below.

StiU, they bad gone up in safety in the'morn- ing and they supposed they should come down in safety in the afternoon. The 'horses, if loosMy -handled and not broken according to our ideas, were famiHar with the road, and the coachman, for all his outlandish methods of driving, knew his work; them. The. horses, used to the road as they were, surefooted and as a rule trustworthy in their own wild. jvay suddenly -broke-loose and took matters in their own keeping.

Disdaining bit and bridJe -they tore -down the incline, the shouts of the terrified driver maddening them still more, and the hand of Gerald Frobisher on the rein of no avail. Tftey had taken the bit'between teeth, and their teeth strong. The danger was were close to the -worst "bit of the where toe most careful driver, do- 1 ing aB lie knew, conld never be quite sure of Now- things aeemed arms abroad, on the saints and adding to the horror of the moment by her ungovernable terror: The young baron was in a state of collapse. Almost fainting, speechless, motionless, his eyes closed, his form drooping, he lay as jf half dead. Ida sat perfectly still, her eyes wide open as if she were watching how'ihings would go; arid Mrs.

Brand looking- into vacancy, moved her lips in silent prayer. The carriage swayed from side to -side and one wheel hung over the abyss, when Gerald leaped from the box and at the risk of his life some- bow managed to secure the bridle of the off horser-and by sheer force of strength stopped him in the plunge and flung him back on his haunches. His grasp missed would hare sent them all to the, bottom of the abyss together. As it was they HE STOPPED THHM IX THE PLUXGB. through his gallant action gallantly performed; and pleosant his temper might have been'he had undoubtedly saved them all from de-, structioh.

Bat the contempt with which he grasped the baron by the shoulder and shook, him as a terrier shakes a driver meanwhile having got to the head of his horses, with whoui he was reasoning and arguing; pointing out -the error of their-Ways and the folly as'well as wickedness of which they had been guuty; the superb tone of disdainful superiority with winch he said; "Come, baron, pull yourself together like a. man! Tour pre pious- life, is in n.o thanks to jou for yourself or any of the others. Von were not too can see, he added, turning to Ida and speaking with more admiration than he had ever shown to her. "You are English and know how to 'face danger with courage." "It is- to be without nerves," sobbed: the' southerners bjn susceptibilities hich you fold north erners want." "They are inconvenient things at times" said Genld. significantly.

But noiv the baron had recovered and could take part in things'as they ere. "I face a bullet," he said, quite as tign'iififnntly. "Where my mother and la signorina are concerned I confess 1 lose niy head. Ha.il I been alpnu jou would 'have seen a different man." said Gerald, with a sneer. "Mcauw hik, 1 the mau we have seen has rot contributed much to the satety of the whom he profesees so much regard.

We of the Un- sceii only by the seen," "We will speak of this again," eaid the baron; lightly own breast. "At yonr pleasure," said Gerald, measuring hm frum head to foot with eyes that spoke more than lips, could have done. It was as-if they had said: "Ue- luetant to meet you? the crack shot of the-African wilds-and the Indian jungles, afraid to face a coward like you?" All evening the Englishman waited for the challenge- which "never came. was over he strolled about the hotel gardens and made love to Ida. in his domineering, way.

But the baron and his mother did not appear. They bad been at the table d'hote dinner Where: Gerald had almost insulted the young Ida hard been now cool and now sorry as her' mind dwelt now on her yonng lover's cowardice and now oh his charms. after dinner they had vanished into space and no message came to any of the group. Ida- was restless iind of uncertain mood. She sometimes laughed almost hysterically and sometimes was near to tears.

The brutal strain in Gerald's character had never rasped her as It rasped her tonight, and in her she hated him as if he had been a niurderer. When she saw that, for sure, the Italians would not come back this evening she, too, slipped away with an aching heart and a temper nearly as bad as Gerald's. "The one a brute and the other a coward." she said to herself, "and the coward the. best of the-two!" The next morning mother and son had the sweetly-worded note-to Ida from the princess told the.reason of this sudden flight. They went, it because they saw how things were between her, la.

signorina and Mr. Frobisher. He was her she loved him. The baron's heart was broken; he- loved the signorina to distraction; but he was too delicate- to in a thing alreadv his ouly duty was flight Might all the saints bless the sweet young English girl whom they; her 'Italian friends, would forget'. When he heard of this sudden flight Gerald laughed: aloud.

"That cur; that coward!" he said, contemptuously. "He had shown his true colors at last, and we are well rid Of him. Xow, Ida we can be happy, and you will be my wife before the year is out" On which strength came to the girl through her very terror. "Your wife?" she said, her large eyes wide open And foil of horror. "I would rather If I many the barob-Jpwill marry no one else, and certainly not you-who treated him so ill." So there-it fortune-hunters were balked of their and thg young heiress escaped the Scylla of brutality "and the Charybdis.

of deception; she went home a sa'dder if not a wiser woman, free to- bestow herself and her -fortune on whom she when the right man along, she would certainly do. THE EXD. FffiE IN A CITY HAIL Brooklyn, N. Feb. did $30,000 damage to the city, hall today.

Although the entire building was flooded with -water it-is not believed that any of the records either. in- -the comptroller's department or in the city clerk's office have been destroyed. Keeper Dnnn and his family lived on the top floor. Mrs. Dnnn was too ill to be up.

When the fire was discovered the halls were so filled with smoke that it was impossible for the family to escape that way and. the only possibility of saving them was by subduing the fire. This was accomplished by skillful "and daring work on the part 'of firemen. The cupola fell three-quarters of an hour after the fire was discovered. It was surmounted by a gilded figure- of Justice, which was shattered by thfe -falL The bell in the tower waa also broken.

SHOT WITHOUT WlMEfG. Choate, Feb. Hoffman, an. employe the Oshkosh 2Jog and Lumber waa shot last night by some unknown-party. -He quite an estate-without the ad- Iress of any retatzresv It is said that he manjell fat.

2d me. THc ege. New York, Feb. preached itself to me in this way. She had said to me, and lunch with me on.

"Wednesday," and thinking it meant a chop and a cup of tea and a bit of toast, gladly accepted the invitation. But when I got there, I found my lady gorgeous negligee; there were seven other guests, and, in the little dining room was a luncheon fit, as Mother Goose says, "to be set before a king." Now, I happened to know that her husband was a clerk who got a very small salary, and that she had no fortune of her own; consequently, this elaborate luncheon either represented debt or theft. Theft in this way, that just so much comfort would, be taKen from the hard-working comfort that he had a right to have, to gratify the pernicious vanity of a woman. I could scarcely take a-mouthful, and all tte time I thought this one cordiual vice of American women The Daughter's Big Wedding. Mrs.

Younghusband, whose people are kind and loving, who have a comfortable income, but many mouths to fill, go into debt that their daughter may have such a wedding as she desires. She appears in white satin, and is followed by a troop of bridesmaids in dainty frocks. There is a large reception, a rich supper, and the going away on a wedding trip, for which Younghusband himself has had to save the money, a'ud which common sense tells him would have been better invested in furnishing a home than in flying around the country and staying at expensive hotels. But Mrs. Yonughus- band has no idea of sinking, as she calls it, into being a domestic woman.

She proposes to Wear that white satin, frock and all of the- expensive gowns that formed part of her trosseau. She meets other women who. are like herself. AVith much they ''announce their fe- and offer weak tea, weaker punch and" stale cakes to the curious crowd who come gratify by their presence and laugh once they are well away. Everyone of them knew'that that iniich-mirrorred' bookcase 'was a-folding bed, though nobody pretended to have this knowledge, and everybody knew, though this was ignored, that the oft referred to maid was simply a slavey from the- boarding kiti hen, induced by the glitter of a dollar to act in the capacity desired for the, afternoon.

Mr. Younghusband grinds, and grinds and grinds 'until, he' makes something of a fortune; sometimes, if he happens not to be over-strong, he- drops at his post; and, sometimes he needs the dollars so badly, at least he thinks he them, that he steals them, and tho days follow one another until, there' coines one ftW-ful day when he is brandc.il.as a thief, and then all the World-that know 3Irs. Youngh'nMbarid sympathizes with her. Xou. my friend, wouldn't it have been better, if at the very beginning everything had been arranged different? -Suppose Mrs.

Young- husbau'd had'had a trosseau suited to her 'position in life, and "that her-'-wedding trip had been to the litle nest her hns- made for her: that her hospitality had been represented by good, honest food, and an honest welcome. B.ut, alas! tbo average woman is 'eaten up With a desire to appear than she is, and her prayer, if she over prajs. is "give, me moro arid more of this world's- goods, and if I may not have -them give mo the knowledge to appear as if I do have them Tlfe So-Called Swell. There" young Starvation, clothes are immaculate, who sends bouquets and bonbons to various young women, and who is invited out everywhere. Now, Charlie Starvation ashamed to tell the.

trnth, or to live it. He is- a clerk in a shipping office, but the people he noes among believe he is one of the firm. Jf a comfortable life and wasn't defendant; in lawsuit "Stick 1 'lie would have a comfortable place in which to live rather than a poor room in the top floor of a cheap boarding-house. And yet now, if it weren't for the dinners to which ht goes, he wo.uld be. hungry many times.

He is another who falls.down before the god of pretense, and is only anxious to serve- him well and appear what he is net Sitting nev.t happens to be Miss Blueblood. She is long past 40 and has an tongue. body is'sfraid of her. She knows whose moth- or first Was "'a washerwoman then, married an inn-keeper. She knows whose prandfatiier was a peddler and father a She to see any honesty in properly earning niariey and doesn't hesitate to curl hef lip and make biting speeches about that world Which is rich in healthy red blood and has hot become diseased by continual intermarriage.

Why She Hides Herself, Miss Blueblood sits in her room with her door locked for a good many hours every day, and the servants whisper that certainly.all that fine'linen work she does cannot be for herself. She would insist that it was if she were asked about it, Now the truth is, that her rich friends pay her for this work, and yet she is ashamed to tell that she earns money. She thinks It would affect her position socially. The woman whose standing in society is governed by her pretending to be what she is not, is as if she were on the ice bridge of pretense, which very soon the bright sunshine of honesty will melt, and those who rely upon it will fall, to be covered by the waters of forgetfulnes and never be heard of again. I tell you it is the sin, this- wicked pretense, that is making women dishonorable and our men thieves.

Men who love women want to gratify their wishes, and too many have done it at the expense of loss of character. It is pleasantto know that one's grandfather was honest, but if he were an honest peddler he is better worth claiming than if he were a gentleman by pretense. Little Mrs. Cheerful, who keeps house in a bit of a flat, talks about '-Mr apartment" She keeps one servant, and speaks of her as "the maid." "When she is able to-have two, the cook, whose knowledge of cooking extends to what is known as plain fare. She Calls "the Chef." And so- it goes on and.on, and everybody seems to be trying to appear what they are not, and everybody thinks that everybody else is fooled, and nobody is.

As an evidence of the possibility of pretense and the way it may be put down, I happen know of a flat myself with a It was inhabited at one time by an excessively charming literary, woman, who had the good fortune to marry a man of wealth. After her marriage she went to. live in a country place on-Long Island, quite near to one of the fashionable clubs. One afternoon she. was among the many women" there, who were about that woman who is at once the most fascinating of women and cleverest of writers; a woman who does not need to write, for she is immensely rich, but whose books have been, wonderful delineations of men and women.

The former slave of the'quill was finding fault with, the house in which she lived, and which, by the by, was much better than any she had ever had. She said, with a toss of her head: "Heally, I scarcely know how I endure it; of course, we are having it remodeled and ble done- to it, but until it is entirely made over I shall never call it anything but the hut" Mrs. fainted Quick as flash, up went the diamond farmed monocle to the eye of Julian Gordon, and she said, with her inimitable -drawl, that drawl that is so- perfectly veH4ired: "May-task what you used to. call-that flat that you Bred to on Cotton invariably called "The Hut," because for once honesty downed tense. How far does it extend? Not long-ago young Bigmouth, the son of a well-known clergyman, coolly said: "I despise they are all frauds; I don't believe in anything, and I shall always do exactly as I please.

But of course I am going to study for the ministry, for with father's reputation to back me and my good looks I'll get a soft berth, have all the women running after me and all the money I want." And he was ordained the other He is quite as any so-called, man about town, and yet he puts on an immaculate robe of pretense and then laugh's because the world is so easily fooled. And there is Mr. Chivalry Franchise. He was on the reform ticket. He is going to clean out the political drain.

He made no end of speeches, of which the reform-, reform and always reform. Now he is in. And he laughs to himself, aiul sells offices-that ara under his control and fills his pockets with money gotten by dishonest practices, and still is brazen enough to go to publio dinners and regret that his power.is not greater, so that he might do absolutely as the people -wish. It is our national vice and it comes, I suppose, from our youth. All Kinds It is; encouraged by the sard, truth that thoroughness is not required in anything.

James who yesterday was a plumber, tomorrow, because of his great wealth, edits a newspaper. Dr. Quack, who only knows the A of his profession, manages to get a certain sort of notoriety, and he is called when those near and dear to us need attention, Brass, wiose name you see the paper every morning'and whose knowledge of law is confined to trickery, is eagerly sought by widows and orphans to save the little remnant of money that the living are trying to steal from the dead. Mr. False Metal sells me a spoon marked sterling which is silver plated.

And- we accept all! this pretense and try to believe that, what we bur has the veritable hall-mark on it. We should demand, that our doctors and our lawyers are really men. learning, at least in their special branches. We should demand that the, editor of a paper should comprehend good English, and not mistake disgusting personality for honest news. We should offer honest hospitality and not the miserable pretense of it to our friends.

We should live, all of us, within our means. Then there would be fewer men in the penitentiary, a less number of women would go to the dogs; and there would be more happy homes where the voices of little children, playing cheerfully and lovingly, ardently, would constitute the music. Bowing to a False God. A sermon? Perhaps it is, but it cuts" me to the heart to see our bright, pretty American women bowing down to this false god, and to realize that he rides over our generous, loving men as if he were in the car of Juggernaut, killing in them all honesty of purpose and hope of happiness. Stop short, and live your life asrit was-intended to be.

Make, it as beautiful as yon pleaip. Let it be air and just There is nothing in this, rid half so good as justice, because eal justice is. tempered with mercy, it is what we all yearn to uave given', to us, though we may call it by different name. Think it all over, my of it as a mean vice, a ontemptible one, and when you do look at it in that way, I do believe that yon will get rid of it, for there is nobody who has such a tive faith in the uprightness of the American woman and the American man. as their present preacher Bab.

HOLZHAY'S STUDIES. Marquette, Feb. Holzhay, the trajh robber who Northern Wisconsin and Michigan for a few months in 1S89, is feeling quite eon- tented now that he is back in the branch, prison at this place. A little more than six months ago his mental faculties became affected and it Was; deemed best send him to the asylum for: the criminal insane at Ionia, He was reported as cured a short time ago and- Warden Van Evera has brought him back. Holzhay is permitted certain privileges in the corridor, but is very closely watched.

He has turned from the dime novels -and- other literature which he said, on his trial, led to his becoming a train robber, devotes his spare time to researches and philosophy and other kindred subjects. At present he is paying particular attention to psychology and the origin of species. He also spends considerable time in writing. He pays no attention whatever to current events in world's history and considers the prison library trash. He buys from his own resources such "heavy" books as he can and friends" outside who take'an interest-in his studies contribute to his library.

If he still cherishes any hope of freedom he does not manifest it in any way. THEY BEAT THE GAME. Tucson, Feb. boll, one of the old time gambling establishments, was entered at midnight "by masked men Who held up the faro table. The game was in progress when the dealer, George Huston, saw a fellow enter by a side door with a mask covering his face.

robber did not utter a word, but shoved the gun up to Huston's breast and with his free hand took about $340 in gold, which he put in his pocket. He did Trot take all the gold and $500 or $600 in silver was not molested. As the rubber turned the corner of the building Bartender Green shot, but missed his! mark. Had he learneil a minute sooner of- what was transpiring. Green would have' shot the robberj dead as he was pocketing the money.

Officers have not as yet the slightest clue. MEflSTEE GEAY'S FMEBAL Indianapolis, Feb. body of Tsaac P. Gray lay state at the capi-i tol last night and throt a body of eight militiamen stood upon solemn guard duty. o'clock this morning th body was placed in and under the long hours Shortly after escort of the Indiana legion was taken to the Union station and placed on the funeral train from Union The trairi left at 8 o'clock.

Most of the state officers, including Gov. Claude Matthews, were among those to accompany the remains to their- final resting place. All the istate offices were closed and the courts! were adjourned out of respect to the: distinguished dead. The body of the late gjovernor and minister will lie in state for a short time at Union City, and interment will be made this evening. St Paul, Feb.

St. Cloud (Minn.) special to the Dispatch says: "In returning from a dance at Waite Park early this morning' an containr ing twenty-five men aid women was overturned one mile from the city and a stove ignited the curtains and straw. Several people were badly injured. Mrs. James Heath was trampled upon and badly hurt; Mrs.

Joseph Peters 1 sustained "a severe scalp wiiund; Mrs. Chester internaB injured; Owen Hines, local manager the -Northwest- ernTeJephone exchange, was-burned iri.a number of places, and ot lers of the party OlfflYORRLEffll New Tork, Feb. At the much- talked-of tableaux whicfi came off" in Sherry's big ballroom a few days ago and which were unanimously pronounced not to have been eqnaT to ther expectations formed upon- them, a $3 copy of the book was auctioned off by Mrs. Kate Douglas Wigguu the authoress, for $100. Mrs.

"Wiggin: is vice-presf- dent of the Free Kindergarten association for which the entertainment. got up, and has been for years prominently identified with work in California first, and more lately in the- East. She is a most earnest and sincere worker in the cause, and moreover, one of tile most acceptable of the many women who now-a-days speak in. lie. She has, on the platform, great fluency, ease and naturalness, and la, ready self-possession which never serts her, with as little as possible of thit hands-in-the-pocket manner -which tHe.

average woman who finds herself in tie, position to "speak in meeting" now seems, unfortunately, not to be able eyee quite to steer clear of. It was to Sirs. Itollius, another literary character, to whom, it appears, the idea of selling copy of Du Maurier's book, with the autograph of the author appended, to swell the kindergarten funds, was first due. The matter was negotiated through Henry James, who, to add to the value of the "Trilby" copy, was asked- to write his name on the This he did, with a prettily-tuned little sentence of interest in the cause for which his valuable co-operation had been asked. IJnderneatli were the words in Du -MaU- rier's writing: "I follow my friend MR.

James blindly in this, as fn many other matters." Together with this copy of the most popular book of the or of many Mrs. Wiggin auctioned, in the same "lot." a copy of "Ben with the autograph of the composer, Thomas Dnnn English, on the title page. A Mandolin Craze, A certain Signor Volpe may soon, unless signs fail, be held responsible, by intolerably eiasperatetl -friends and acquaintances of numerous damsels for starting- on its way a mandolin The mandolin is a ridiculous and unmusical instrument which, has no singing qualities, no It. resembles, as every one knows, a guitar, but it Ul "packed" with metal, instead of thummed with the fingers, and it, gives out an irritating little tinkle that is, only endurable when it accompanies a mellow Italian male voice out in the open air; a summer's night, under Italian skies. In a drawing room, and solus, it is absurd.

Yet all this, that holds good in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases does not hold good in the one which is Signor Volpe's. This man plays the mandolin in a phenomenal manner, with virtuosity, getting strength arid fire and brilliancy and all kinds, of metallic, soiiorons effects, unexpected, out of tfrat fill -one with wonder. He haa accordingly begun to be much mand at private houses, for drawing room entertainments and the like. Htf has an accompanist, and the piano and mandolin together, as the pair handle them, produce quite a sensation. All the same let us pray that no sharp attacks of mandolinites.

may break out among, amateurs. The banjo was a severe enough infliction under the of slangy youths and "dashing" young ladies. In spite of banjo clubs still subsisting (chiefly in various parta of Greater New York, however.) the tik- ing for tfiat festive instrument may be said to have had its day. A mandolin, fad would be a- fit successor to it Kudyard Kipling. Few of the American admirers of Rudyard Kipling re'alize, how quietly he is living in" the midst of us all -these in the.

midst' of us 'Americans generally that is, I do not speak from the New. 1'ork standpoint, for he conies here- but rarely. His remote Vermont his American wife, seems wholly to satisfy him. When he does come to Nsew York no literary figure arouses greater The "respect manner of tlio man are- almost invariably a surprise. What does one expect to see? One hardly knows: but with the swashbuckling the fighting, drinking, vigorous, splendid from the Hills," in one's mind, possibly a big, dragoon-like creature.

with a something either darkling and mysterious, or. supercilious and bearing about him. Nothing of the sort. His short stature impresses yon first. He is really a very small man, indeed.

Dark he is; but by means either darkling or superciliously unmindful of other people in his, demeanor. Rather the One of his attractions is a gift of listening well 1 of bestowing his whole attention on his interlocutor. He is quiet and agreeable and courteously interested in his fellow beings. Frank Stockton. Another man of letters most modest and unassuming in his mainere d'etre is Frank Stockton.

And- he too is small man and very slighfiu build. He very closely resembles the pictures that one- sees of him, dapper moustache and all, He produces an effect of alertness, trimness. neatness, that the term dapper very adequately fills, in all respects, and, somehow, though he is probably in the forties, he seems quite boyish. However, 'that "background" which Rudyard Kipling possesses as who has seen infinitely much of world under its most varied aspects, is lacking in him, as it must be, the matter of that, in most sons and daughters of Eve. I The romance that hangs about men what have known life- in far-away climes, a perhaps particularly under Eastern skies such glamor to the fancy do these.

erer is not wholly imaginary. That outlook on phases of existence so different does give a certain tone to thought, a coloring to the whole attitude toward things and men, that translate themselves into some intangible, but very real, quality in the manner. New Sculpture' A new sculpture league is in procew of being organized which has for its general aim the enlightening of tie public mind and the forming of the public taste with regard to the importance of sculpture in the highest decorative sense. America is still notoriously barbarous In-" this particular. Our public, places, the squares of our great our parks', are disfigured by effigies that outrage an artist's every nerse.

Then we know nothing, as a people, of the effect which. statuary con. make in its proper setting of. landscape gardening. new scttljK tors' association proposes to give an erM- bition thia to be repeated annual- A ly, it is in which statuary wflt be shown with its fit accompaniment of shrubs and plants, in its suitable name of cunningly-devised green spaces; as it shown, in short, at the never-to-be-forgotten openings of both Salons in Paris.

John- CJuiney Adams Ward, baps, our most representative sculptors, 'are at the head of this movement. exhibition will be awaited with most na- common interest, an interest which- taches likewise, in a very intense to the banding together of leading lately effected, for the purpose of, to influence the municipal anthori the choosing of sites for public and all similar measures toncmne tfie ward aspect of the city. That se baa been unnecessarily uglified thousand ways is too true, also, from artists authorized to speak weight in the matter are the besfr- that can be devised for checking worthless outrages, so long aa the ists nobody of intelligent opinibn subject in the general pnbH to- the Legislature to stop.u terpriges that spoil; the natural beauty of civic- sites mar chance of heard. "But.