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Figaro.
M. Moreau-Ghristophe, the inspector of
prisons under- the second empire, knew the
man who served as the prototype of Jean
Valjean, and whose story haunted the
brain of:Victor Hugo and inspired his
famous “Miserables.” M.
Christophe had a passion for reforming
convicts. He gathered many confessions
and knew many strange secrets. The fol-
lowing story of the convict Urbain Le-
melle is ta,ken .from his notes:
“Urbain Lemelle, like Jean Valjean, was
the abandoned child of a drunken father.
When he was only 8 years old he went
from, farm to farm to offer for a piece of
bread the work that his little hands could
do. He was first taken in hand by a
kind-hearted peasant named BriSset, who
kept him minding cows for three years.
Then he was employed by two neigboring
farmers, who sent him to tend sheep for
three years more. Urbain tired of the life
of a shepherd and determined to become a
sailor, when he reached the' age of 14. He
began as a cabin boy in a river boat from
Angers, whose captain generally spoke to
him with the end of a rope. Three years
passed in his way, during which"UrbAin’s
only ccnsolation was in his friendship for
the sen of the eaptaih,’ a. young man
named Gervais, who Wsts no less badly
treated than himseIf/f*This friendship
was unfortunate for Urbain. One winter’s
day, when-the waters of the Loire were ’
frozen and navigation was . suspended,
Gervais proposed to^Urbain to take away,
the money that was in the safe of the
boat for the pay of the hands.
“Then,” said he, “ we will go to Nantes'
where we will become real sailors.”
“But that is robbery you propose to
me!” said Urbain.
“ Robbery, nonsense!” replied Gervais.
“Doesn’t my father owe you 80 francs?
Well, you can pay yourself the 80 francs
out of the sack and then you will be
square.”
An hour afterward the money was no
longer on board the boat. Gervais had
taken it away and Urbain had hid it in
the trunk of a willow tr-ep. Next day the
imprint of his feet upon- the snow led to
the tree, where the treasure was. found.
Urbain was arrested, and, the lock of the
safe having been broken, he was' con-
demned to seven years’ penal servitude.
He was then only 17.
During his seven years’ imprisonment
Urbain was resigned; industrious, relig-
ious and exemplary in his conduct. When
he left the penitentiary, -where he had lost
-seven year, he thought he had nothing to
do but to return to Angers purified com-
pletely. It was at Angers that he com-
mitted his crime, and he wanted to' prove”
that he was reformed. This hope was dis-
sipated. The fact that ho was an ex-con-
vict closed all doors and hearts to' him.
He found it extremely difficult to get work
and when, by chance he did procure some
arduous- employment, the other workmen
refused to associate with him. He was
condemned to idleness, beggary and theft.
One 'Sunday, while roaming through the
country, he stopped, fatigued, to rest him-
. self in a field where there were some
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horses At liberty, He thought of the sea
that was’only..30-leagues from him, and
of America/that new .world where he ex-
pected to live, as an honest werkingman.
. The.;idea. turned: his head. He jumped, like
a mad matt up-on one of the horses and
started tlW'aTiima I along the road, with-
out',&‘ "saddle orybridle. He sat out in the
evenhig >and arrived at the break of~ day
tit'Ingrandes. ""Nearing that place on the
edge of the road there was a prairie. There
Moreau- he'turned,'loose the horse and entered the
town’? -An ufiknown person turning a horse
Ibose.wqL^ suspected. He was followed, ar-
..Jegtod.. and, ,brpqght before the mayor. He
. ggtye., . hi^, ,.nam,e , without hesitation, but
_yyhij§ t&ey were discussing his case he
managed to escape. He reached Nantes
and tried .to. ship-with some captain on a
long- voyage.- -But to embark it was neces-
sary to have papers, and Urbain didn’t
lia.ve (henL ”
' For some "time he wandered along the
quays almost .on the verge of suicide, when
./a -d)ig ‘413,?-^,, tp.uch'ed his shoulder, the
hand of, a,b.qp.tuian of Angers, who recog-
nized him. The boatman wanted help, so
Urbain3vei}t with him to Angers. He had
hardly arrived before he was arrested and
put- inapSisoh oa the complaint of stealing
■ai horsec-LoNow.-it happened that the hon-
est-'peasant'Brisset was the owner of the
horse in question. He testified before the
court th’dt hfS horse came back to him and
‘ that Ufbtlih' was’too honest a fellow to
Want .fo^^teal it. But he pleaded for him
in^Yain. The unfortunate young man was
convicted a second time by the assizes
court of Maine-et-Loire to 12 years’ penal
' servitude.
'"-At-©fest he’served his/time just as He
did formerly at-Toulon. In prison his con-
duct-•wabliri’ejifdachable, but after four
years of torture inflicted upon him in that
dreadful place, he escaped. Where was he
to go?' Paris was the only place that could
hide him from the police. He went there
.without encountering any difficulties, and
the very next day after his arrival he was
on the-' Place de Greve among the laboring
men. Then Tie'was taken by a building
contractor, with, whom he remained three
yearsTwEfoSerregrets followed him to the
establishment q.f M. Masse, a dry goods
manufacturer, where he received better
wages: For four years M. Masse kept him
and entrusted to his hands large sums of
money,, which Urbain always handled with
zeal.and'intelligence and perfect honesty.
He Bdmmqp-CSfi to prosper and married an
honest working girl. Happy in the thought
that, atyjapt he was loved and respected,
he lived with her for seven years.
One Bund':) y while he was walking in the
suburbs with his wife he met a policeman
. who was a. former convict, who knew him
-at Brest,;..Tlfi$ policeman’destroyed his en-
tire hap,pinesp. He ’airesfed him. Urbain
.wag, brought.:to Bicetre, and from there
,was,ta]ken,to Brest.to finish the-elght years
of penal' servitude that he had. still to
serve, in' ad’dition to the supplementary
years for the time of escaping.
It was during the nine months of his de-
tention at Bicetre. in 1833, that Moreau-
Christophe knew Urbain and learned his
story. M. Moreau-Christophe obtained for
fee
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COURTING OOM-HAUL’S NIECES.
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A R0MANC6--BY HAROLD MACGRATH.
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A MAGNETIC ISLAND.
[SYNOPSIS OF THE PRECEDING
CHAPTERS.—John Winthrop, a New York
journalist, loves Phyllis Landors, niece
and ward of Robert Wentworth, a banker
and diplomat. Hearing he has been re-
membered . in the will of a rich uncle, he
proposes and is rejected. The inheritance
turns out to be only $1000, given in a spirit
- of meanness, the fortune going to his cous-
in, and he welcomes an assignment to go
to London to take the place of a corre-
spondent whose heafth has failed. Hillars,
the London correspondent, whose “health
failed” from drink, relates a sjtory of how
he became acquainted with the Princess
Hildegard, who was betrothed to a profli-
gate prince, and how she induced Hillars
to become her champion and assist her in
her flight. Naturally enough Hillars fell
desperately in love with the princess, and
on the evening when they were ro leave
Berlin together he made a passionate
avowal of his love and embraced the prin-
cess. who became enraged and called a
court officer, who arrested Hillars but sub-
sequently gave him'Jiis passports and com-
pelled him to leave the city. Hillars dis-
appeared and after a year Winthrop heard
from him at St. Petersburg. He was look-
ing for the princess, who had disappeared.
Winthrop at this time was ordered to
Hohenphalia to write a story of the prin-
cess, and went to the capital, where he
was arrested without explanation and
thrown into prison. He is released next
morning upon the discovery that he is not
Hillars, for whom the authorities are look-
. ing because it is supposed lie is a party to
the princess’ disappearance. At the inn
where he stops he discovers a bar-maid
who bears a striking reseni'ilance to Phyl-
lis, and becomes interested in the mystery
of a cultured woman occupying such a sta-
tion.]
" tie, for there is
ard. Would yci
“God forbid!
■■ say you'can read faces; how about the
other one?”
Silence.
“Yes; how about him?”
Said Gretchen: “We are not infallible.
And perhaps I was then much to' blame.”
“No; we are not infallible; that is the
reason why you should take no chance,”
was the final argument of the innkeeper.
“Hush!” said Gretchen.
“Confound the pipe!” I muttered.
had fallen over the window sill.
Five minutes passed; I heard no sound.
Glancing from the side of the window I
saw that Gretchen and the innkeeper were
gone.
Phyllis, it would not be a very hard task
to love her image, which. was Gretchen.
You see, Phyllis was so very far away
and Gretchen was so near!
[CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.]
New York Herald.
The Danish island ‘ of Bornholm, in the
Baltic sea, is so magnetic ak to‘be a danger
to navigation. The island." which meas-
ures about 20 miles in length by about 14
in breadth, and is distant about 24 miles
east by south from the .-nearest point of
Sweden, is famous for its geological pecu-
liarities. It consists almost, entirely of
magnetite.
Bornholm’s magnetic influence is not
only known to the navigators^ of those
waters, but is much feared- by them on
account of its influence on the, ipagnetic
needle, which makes the correct steering
of a ship a matter of'much difficulty.
This influence is felt at a 'distance of 10
miles, and so palpably that, on the island
being sighted, mariners'on "the Baltic at
oneg; discontinue steering their course by
the needle, and turn tostead to the well
known lighthouses and other signs by
which to direct thenr crafty’'-
There are several magnetic islands , and
points along the Atlantic, co1^st of South
America. Near the mouth’b'f the Rio.de la
Plata is a. famous magnetic point—the
western - side of the Tioadl.ah'l known as
the Punta Negra—and. navigators of ves-
sels bound for Buenos Ayres Or Monte-
video have to be very careful not to go too
near.it. Trinidad is another place of the
same description, and one reason for its
abandonment to Brazil was its utter unfit-
ness for a telegraphic station, owing to its
Strong magnetic character.
CHAPTER IX.
I took my pipe and scrolled along the
river bank. AVhat had I stumbled into?
Here was- an old inn, with rather a feudal
air; but it was only one in a thousand; a.
common feature throughout the continent.
And yet, why had the gods, when they
cast out Hebe, chosen this particular inn
for her mortal residence? The pipe solves
many riddles, and then, sometimes, it
creates a. density. I put, my pipe, in my
pocket and cogitated. Gretchen had
brought about a new order of things.' A
philosophical barmaid was certainly a
novelty. That Gretchen was philosophical
I had learned in the rose gardens. That
she was also used to giving' commands I
had learned in the onion patch. Hitherto
I had held the onion in contempt; already
I had begun to respect it. And above all,
Gretchen was a mystery, the most allur-
ing kind of mystery—a woman who was
not wha.t she seemed. How we men love
mysteries, which are given the outward
semblance of a Diana or a Venus! By and
by, my journalistic instinct awoke. Who
are those who, fear the newspapers? Cer-
tainly it is not the guiltless. Of what was
Gretchen guilty? The innkeeper knew.
Was she one of those many conspirators
who abound in the kingdom? She was
beautiful enough for anything. And
whence came the remarkable likeness be-
tween her and Phyllis? Here! was a mys-
tery, indeed. I had a week before me; in
that time I might learn something about
Gretchen, even if I could solve nothing,
I admit that it is true, that had Gretchen
been plain it would not have been worth
the trouble. But she had too heavenly a
face, too wonderful an eye, too delicious a
mouth, not to note her with concern.
I did n!ot see Gretchen again that day;
but as I was watching the moon climb up,
thinking of her and smoking- a few pipes,
as an incense to her shrine, I heard her
voicelbeneath my window. It was accom-
panied' by the bass voice of the innkeeper.
“But he is a journalist. Is it safe? Is
anything safe frem them?” came to my
ears in a worried accent, a bass.
So the innkeeper, too, was a socialist.
Said an impatient contralto': “So long as
I have no fear, why should you?”
“Ach, you will be found out and dragged
back!” was the lamentation in a throaty
baritone. Anxiety raises a bass voice at
least two pitches. “If you would but re-
■ turn to the hills, where there is absolute
safety!”
“No; I will not go, back there, where
everything is so, dull and dead. I have
lived too long not to read a. fa.ee at
glance. His eyes are honest.”
“Thanks, Gretchen,” murmured I from
above. I was playing the listener; but,
then, she was only a. barmaid.
“And it is so long,” tvent on the con-
..tralto, “since I have seen a. man—a. strong
r one. I wish to see if my power is gone,.”
“Aha!” thought I; “so you have already
laid plans for my capitulation, Gretchen?”
“But,” said the bass voice once more,
“supposing some of the military should
straggle along? There might be one who
has seen you before. Alas! I despair! You
will not hide yourself; you will stay here
till they find you.”
I fell .to wondering what in the world
Gretchen had dt>ne.
“I have not been to the village since; I
. was a little girl. Dressed as I am, who
would recognize me? No one at the cas-
-• x, . — ---/no one there but. the steW-
ou send me. away?” j
But this American? You
An “Up-Sitting” From Dusk to Dawn
Proclaims the Engagement.
The Boer girl of the country districts of
the South African Republic “is' 'able to go
to town only once or twice a year, and
then it is to attend' the Nachtmaal, or
communion, which is the chief festival of
these deeply religious people,” writes
Howard C. Hillegas of “The Boer Girl of
South Africa,” in the January Ladies’
Home Journal. “The journey to the town,
is made in ox-teams, and may. require a
week’s or a month’s time, but it is al-
ways an epoch in a Boer girl’s’life, espe-
cially if she is about 16, when she is sup-
posed have attained the matrimonial
age. The some tall, robust Boer youth,
whom she has met at former Nachtriiaals,
may summon enough courage to ask her.
whether he may call at her home and
have an ‘up-sitting,” which is a sort of.
ultimatum before an ultimatum. If she.
coiufent the young Boer will shortly after-
ward ride on horseback many rhiles’ across
tile v’ain to the girl’s home, and will prove
thp.t ae> is worthy of her love by ‘sitting-
up’ and talking with her from sundown
until break of day. For two young Boers
to . arrive at this period of-courtship is
equivalent to announcing the engagement,
and then the prospective bride begins
preparation for the wedding.”
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AUTOMOBILES IN AFRICA.
“Yes;
time,”
“Yes, indeed; for I am just a.s much in
the dark as ever.”
“And will remain so.”
“I hope' so. ■ A mystery is charming
while it lasts. Beally, Gretchen. I did not
mean to play the listener, and I promise
that from now on--”
“From now on!” cried Gretchen. “Does
not Herr leave today?”
“No; I am going to spend a whole week
here.”
There was a mixture of dismay and'an-
ger in her gaze.
“But, as I was going: to say, I shall
make no effort to pry into your affairs.
Honestly, I am a gentleman.”
“I Seem to Have Outlived the World,” He
Wrote at Eighty'/ ‘
“No lapse of years dimmed Whittier's
steady friendships,” writes Samuel T.
Pickard, who contributes the second in-
stallment of a series of letters that passed
between Gail Hamilton and the poet, in
the January Ladies’ Heme Journal. One
of the letters that Whittier wrote to Gail
Hamilton! is dated September, 1887, when,
the poet was in his SOth year:
“I was gladdened last evening J?y the
sight of thy handwriting. .If .Udo.not see
my dear old friends ...I never,forget
them. In these lonqly, t love
to recall thy pleasant’visitsr±o our Ames-
bury home when Elizabeth was with me.
I am getting to be an antiquity. I seem to
have pretty much outlived the world. The
last year has gone hard with me. I have
a.s usual spent some weeks in New Hamp-
shire, but have .returned without the usual
benefit. Why will i he? not drive over, here
(to Danvers); or, better still, come to
Amesbury, and spend.pight ns ■ in the old
time? I expect to be,(the;.e tlie first week
in October. God ble^s-tfiQ.el, . Think of me
always as thy affectionajtg friend.”.
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OLD-FASHIONED WARFARE.
In the third installment. P:f hig study of
Oliver Cromwell in the January Century,
John Morley’ lays stress - upon the old-
fashioned methods, ofi. fighting; that ob-
tained in the. civil, war . (hat .preceded
Charles’ fall.
It is not within my scoper to? follow in
detail the military operations of;, .the civil
war. For many months they were little
more than a series of -confused marches,
random Skirmishes, and casual- leaguers
of indecisive places/ Of generalship, of
strategic system, of ingen.iiity£.in=sciehtific'
tactics, in the early stages there Wa.S”little
■or none. Soldiers appeared on both sides
who had served abroa'd,' aiid’ as'the(armed
struggle developed, ?dnr;''g4[flaJt 'cW(iii^eS in.
tactics made by Gustavus Adeijihus slow-
ly found their way into the operations of
the English war. He’!sup4>resse’d all cara-
coling and parade man.euygrs. Cavalry,
that had formed itsejf Ja.^s-.niafiy. as five
or even eight ranks deee]>.- was heneeforth
never marshaled (ioeper than three ranks,
while in the intervening : .spacps. were pla-
toons of foot and Iight;.fielil-R,ie.ees. All
this, the sodiers tell u^jgave -prodigious
mobility, and made the Swedish period the
most remarkable in the Thirty Years’
War. But for some time .tuning on the
continent of Europe seems'to have been
of little use in the conflicts .qf .two ..great
bands of military, mainly rustic, among
the hills and downs, the lanes ,and pledges,
the rivers and strong places,- of England.
Modern ..soldiers have, noticed as ont of the
most curious features ,of(the civil wgr.fiow
ignorant each side usually was, of the' do-
ings,c positions, and designs of its. op-
ponents. Essex stumbled upon the' king,
Hopton stumbled upqn Waller, the) king
stumbled upon Sir Thomas Fairfax., The
two sides drew up in front-of one another,
foot in the center, hapse-ion the wings, and
then they fell to, and .hapiipqred onq .an-
other as hard as they could, and they who
hammered hardest and stood to it longest
won the day.
Yes, there w’a.sn’t any doubt about it;
Gretchen was a conspirator. The police
were hunting for her, and she was threat-
ened with discovery. It was beyond my
imagination wha.t she could have- done.
Moreover, she was rather courting dan-
ger; the military post was only five miles
down the river. The one'thing which both-
ered me was the “him” who had suddenly
intruded upon the scene, invisible, but
there, like Banquo’s ghost. Perhaps her
beauty had lured some fellow to follow
her fortunes and his over-zeal, or lack of
it, had brought ruin to some plot.
“Gretchen,” said I as I jumped into bed,
“whoever he was, he must have been a
duffer.”
Her serene highness the princess Hilde-
garde was in Jericho, and Hillars along
with her, where I had consigned them.
Next morning Gretchen waited upon me
at breakfast. She was quiet and answered
my questions in monosyllables. Presently
she laid something at the side of my plate,
It was my pipe. I looked at her, but the
leads in my eyes could not plumb the
depths 'in hers-.
“Thanks,” said I. “It dropped from my
window last night, while I was playing
the disgraceful part of eavesdropper.” I
dare say she had expected anything but
this candid confession. It was very cun-
. ning in me. She knew that I knew'she
knew. Had I lied I should have commit-
ted an irreparable blunder.
As it was she lifted her
laughed.
“Will you forgive me?”
for you certainly wasted your
One of the first projects for the use of
the automobile in Africa is that which has
been recently taken up by a French com-
pany, the Compagnie de. Transportation
du Soudan Francaise.' A treaty has lately
been passed with, the government, permit-
ting it to engage in the transportation of
merchandise in Sudan, of which the
French possessions hold an important
place.
Between the station, of Kayes, the limit
of the present railroad, and the Niger lies
a stretch of cotmtry of about 300 miles,
which at present has but small transport-
ation facilities', and it is this gap which
the new company proposes to fill up with
the aid of autom.olnles,'"'iVhich’ will thus
join the railroad to the right bank of the
Niger, says the Scientific American. The
vehicles will be of a slow-speed pattern
and will follow a'kind Of wide grass road
running through this part of the country;
this road, while impracticable in the rainy
season, is. at other times quite well adapt-
ed for the passage of automobiles.
About 50 will be needed to supply the de-
mands of the traffid. ’Tllfesd’are now be-
ing constructed by one of . the lar^,ei Paris
factories. One peculiarity of ’ the si'tvice
is that Chinese are "to’ be einriioyed as
conductors, these having been chosen be-
cause they are able to endure thg climate
of the region and are more intelligent and
capable t-han the natives'.
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WHITTIER’S LOVE OF HIS FRIENDS.
“I shall try to believe you,” she said, the
corners of her mouth broadening into a
smile.
She condescended to show me through
the rose gardens and tell me what she
knew about them. It was an interesting
lecture. And in the evening she permitted
me. to row her about the river. We were
getting on very well uijd.er. the circum-
stances.
The week was soon gone, and Gretchen
and I became very good friends. Often
when she had nothing to do we would
wander along the river through the for-
ests, always, I noticed, by a route which
took us away: from the village. Each day
I discovered some new accomplishment.
Sometimes I would read Heine or Goethe
to her, and she would grow rapt and
silent. In the midst of some murmurous
stanza I would suddenly stop, only to see
her start and look at me as though I had
committed a sacrilege, in that I had
spoiled some dream of hers. Then again
I myself would become lost in dreams, to
be aroused by a soft voice saying: “Well,
why do you not go on?” Two people of
the opposite sexes reading poetry in the
woods is a solemn matter. This is not ap-
preciated at the time, however. It comes
back afterward.
In all the week I hadwlearned nothing
except that Gretchen was not what she
pretended to-be. But I.feared to ask ques-
. tions. They might have spoiled all. And
the life was so new to me, so quiet and
peaceful, with theglamor of romance over
it all, that I believe I could have stayed
on forever.. And somehow Phyllis was
fading away, slowly but surely. The re-
gret with which I had heretofore looked
upon her portrait was lessening each day;
from active to passive. And yet was it be-
cause Gretchen was Phyllis in the ideal?
Was I falling in love with Gretchen be-
cause she was Gretchen, or was my love
for Phyllis simply renewing itself in Gret-
chen? Was that the reason why the por-
trait of Phyllis grew less holding and in-
teresting to me?. It was a complex situa-
tion; one I frowned over when alone. It
was becoming plainer to me every hour
that I had a mystery all of my own to
solve. And Gretchen wag the only one to
solve it.
I shall never forget that night under the
chestnuts, on the bank of the wide white
river. The leaves were gossiping among
themselves; they had so much to talk
about; and then, they knew so much! Had
not they and their ancestors filtered the
same moonbeams, century on century?
Had not their ancestors heard the tramp
of the armies, the clash of the saber, the
road of the artillery? Had not the hand
of autumn and the hand of death marked
them with the crimson sign? Ah, the
leaves! It is well to press them in books
when they themselves have such fine
stories to tell.
“Gretchen,” said I, echoing my thoughts,
“had I been born a hundred years ago I
must have been a soldier, Napoleon was
a great warrior.”
“So was Blucher, since it was he who
helped overcome the little Corsican.”
The Germans will never forgive Napo-
leon.
“But war is a terrible' thing,” went on
Gretchen.
“Yes; but it is a great educator; it
teaches the vanquished how little they
know.”
“War is the offspring of pride; that is
what tmakes, it.so. .abhorred.”
'(-It i s'“ al so't' he offspring of oppression;
that 'is' what makes it so great.”
“Yes; when the people take up arms it
is well. War is the torch of liberty in the'
hands of the people. Oh, I envy the peo-
ple, who are so strong-, yet know it not.
If I were a man I would teach the people
that a king has no divine1 right, save when
it is conferred upon him by them.”
“Gretchen, I’m a fraid that you’re a bit
of a socialist,”
“And who is not whe has any love for
humanity?”
“A beautiful woman who is a Socialist,
Gretchen, is a menace to' the king. Some-
times he’fears liar. At large, she is dan-
gerous. Fie seeks her, and if he finds her,
he takes away her liberty.” All this-, was
said with a definite-purpose. It was to let
Gretchen know. that I knew her secret.
“Gretchen, you are an embryo- Socialist;
a chrysalis, as it were.”
“No-, Herr,”- sadly; “I am. a butterfly
whose wings have been clipped.”
I had not expected this admission.
“Never mind,” said I. “Gretchen, I do
n'ot want you to call me Herr; call me
Jack.”
“Jack,” she said,
mon nabie now.
“Whatever ybur true name- may be, I
shall never call you anything but Gretch-
en.”
“Ah! Jack!” she laughed, and the lurk-
ing echoes Clasped the' music of that
lawghter in their wanton arms and hur-
ried it across the river.
“Sing to me,” said I.
Then imagine my surprise—I, who had
heard nothing but German fall from her
lips—when in a heavenly contralto; she
sang a chanson from “La' Fille de Mad-
ame Angot,” an opera forgetton these 10
years!
“Elie est tenement innocente!”
She had risen, and she stood there before
me with a halo of moonshine above her
head. The hot blood rushed to my ears.
Barmaid, Socialist,, or whatever she might
be, she was. lovable. In a moment I was
kissing her hand, the- hand so small, so
white, yet so firm. A thousand inarticu-
late words came to my lips—from my
heart! Did the hand tremble? I thought
so. But swiftly she drew it from my clasp,
all the joy and gladness gone from her
face and eyes.
.“No-, no-!’’ she ,cried,, “this must not be;
it must not be!”
“But I---” I began eagerly.
“You must not say it; I command you.
If you speak, Gretchen will be Gretchen
no- more. Yes, the kings seeks Gretchen;
but will you drive her away from her only
haven?” with a choking Sound.
“Gretchen, trust me. Shall I go-
row? Shall I leave you in peace?”
how I believed myself to be in danger
“Speak.”
There was an interval of stillness, brok-
en only by the'b.^tiiig of hearts. Then:
“Stay. ’ EM. 'speak no word of love; it is
not for such as I. Stay and be my friend,
for I need one. Can not a woman look
with favor upon a man but he must needs
become her lover? I shall trust you as 1
have trusted other men. And though you
fail me in the end, as others have done,
still I shall trust you. Herr, I conspire
against the king. For what? The- posses-
sion of my heart. All my life I have stood
alone,, so alone.” .
“I will be your friend, Gretchen; I will
speak no word of love. Will that suf-
fice?”
“It is all I ask, dear friend.
will you leave me?”
“Leave you?” I cried. “I thought you
bade me stay?”
“Ah,” putting out her hand, “you men
do not understand. Sometimes a woman
wishes to be alone when—when she feels
that she—she can not hold back her
tears!”
Gravely I bent over her hand and kissed
'it. It seemed to me as I let the hand fall
that I. had never kissed a woman on the
lips. T turned and went slowly down the
path. Once I looked.back. I saw some-
thing white lying at the foot of the tree.
Heaven knows what a struggle it was,
but I went one. I wanted to take he? in
. my arms and tell her that I loved her.
When I reached the inn I turned again,
but L saw nothing. I sat-in my room a
long time that night, smoking my pipe till'
the candle gasped feebly and died in the
stick and the room was swallowed in
’ darkness.
I did not know, I was not sure, but 1
thought that, so long as I might not love
Arbuckles’ Coffee
ARMS AND THE WOMAN
( arms and the WOMAN I
CAPITALIST, PRIEST, EDITOR.
STARS FOR MAIL CARRIERS.
ARMY AND NAVY.
him the favor of exemption from the first
chain gang, on leaving Bicetre for Brest;
and a few months later he managed to
send him back to Paris.- In other word's,
he brought the case to the attention of the
king, who pardoned the man upon the spot’.
Urbain Lemelle lived to a great old age.
He was the best of husbands, and wished
to be the best of fathers, but that joy
was denied him. He consoled himself, nev-
ertheless, by making pets of all the chil-
dren in the place where he lived, and he
amused them often by telling them stor-
ies of brigands. Heaven only knows what
queer stories he must have learned during
his 10 years in the Bagne!
In their haste the Boers do not seem to
have learned how to> render the rails of
railroads unserviceable. They heat them
and then bend them around trees or other
objects. The rails can, however, be easi-
ly straightened.
Rear Admiral Rogers, president of the
naval inspection board, has returned to
Washington from a visit with the board
to Peconic bay, where a test was made of
the sub-marine torpedo boat Holland.
They Will Be Worn to Indicate the Length,
of Their Service.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Washington, D. C—The postmaster gen-
- eral has ordered that hereafter the length
of service of mail carriers shall be in-
dicated on the carriers’ uniforms by stars
instead of the stripes now used for that
purpose. The arrangement of the new em-
blem under this order is as follows: Five
years’ service, one black silk star; 10
-years, two black silk stars; 15 years’, one
red silk star; 20 years,’ two red silk stars;
25 years’, one silver star; 30 years’, two
silver stars; 35 years, one gold star; 40
years’, two gold stars.
As a distinction between a substitute’
letter carrier and a regular carrier, -who
has not received his first stripe, each sub-
stitute carrier will wear a black cloth, bar,
one-fourth inch wide, and one and one-
half inches long, one-half inch above the
black braid on each sleeve, equal distance
from the seams.
On Jan. 1 123 fourth-class postoffices.will
be advanced to the third class. This is
the largest number of advancements even
ordered by the postoffice depai uin^nt in
any one quarter. . It includes offices iij
nearlv every state, particularly those of
the middle west. In six states, Illinois;
Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and
Minnesota, 49 offices will be advanced witH
salaries aggregating $52,509 per annum.
A remark carelessly dropped doesn’t al* i
ways fall flat. j
The rear admiral made a verbal report,
speaking in the most favorable terms o£
the boat.
There has been a decrease of 2195 in the!
number of pensioners, according' to the
annual report of the secretary of the in-
terior. The number of pending claims also
showed a decrease, the diminution rising,
to 157,820 cases. The amount available for,
the payment of pensions was $140,006,514.56,
and out of this army and navy pensions
were paid to- the amount of $138,355,052.95,-
the balance unexpended being $1,651,461.61.:
This shows a decrease in expenditure
over the previous year of $6,296,826.85, The
“annual value” of the pension roll was
$131,617,961, an increase of $649,496 and:
greater than any previous year. Up to the
close of the fiscal year 17,560 army and.
navy claims had been filed for service in
the Spanish war, and of these 303 had been;
allowed.
Our war department has begun to work
on the somewhat extensive fortifications
which it proposes to put at various points
at the entrance of Chesapeake bay. The;
first batteries installed will be at. Cape
Henry. After a careful consideration o£
the conditions existing between the capes,
it has been definitely decided that for the
present it will be impracticable to lay,
mines in the' channel at that point. Efen-cei
the main defenses will continue to be at
Fort Monroe, where a formidable array of
batteries have been installed. The sur-
veys now being made at Cape Henry are
only preliminary to those; to be made at
Cape Charles. The actual work of con-
struction has not as yet begun. It is the'
intention of the chief of engineers to- have
this entrance- one of the strongest fortified
points on.the Atlantic coast. ...... ...
The Many-Sidedness of the Richelieu of
the Mormon'Church.
Ainslee’s.
“George Q. Cannon, who plays Richelieu
to Lorenzo Snow’s Louis XIII in the Mor-
mon church, has had inducements and
practical persuasions sufficient to lead
any one who was less permeated with his
religion to abandon the difficulties into
which his religion was constantly throw-
ing him, and to undertake the life of the
.ordinary man of the World. But he has
clung to his clerical post and executed his
elaborate clerical duties without pause
and without alteration. In 1871, when he
was 34 years of age, Mr. Cannon was
made a director in the railroad built by
the Mormons from Salt Lake City to Og-
den. In-the same year he was appointed
to' a similar post ill the big Zion co-opeya-
tive mercantile institute that Brigham
Young founded, and which does an annual
business at the present time amounting to
over $6,000,000. In the latter part of the.SO’s
and the early part of the 90’s he became
one of the chief promoters'of the proposed
Salt Lake and Los Angeles railroad, and
also one of the builders of the enormous
and beautiful Saltair bathing pavilion in
the Great Salt Lake. Several times he
was at the gateway to great wealth from
investments in mines, yet at no time did
he relinquish his priesthood to become a
miner. Beginning with 1871, he was the of-
ficial editor of the church organ, the Des-
eret News of the present day, and the
founder of a still surviving and influential
paper known as the Juvenile instructor.
Yet he did not , convert himself into an
editor. As a missionary he became a
translator and a student of languages,
and throughout his many years scholarly
tendencies have adhered to him. Yet he is
a priest before he is a scholar, and he
leaves the translating of the Book of Mor-
mon to others.”
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THE GALVESTON TBIBinSTBl
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No. 65
A Lady’s Pen Knife.
Has two finely finished blades.
Handle beautifully variegated
in imitation of onyx. Sent
post-paid on receipt of 2
cent postage stamp and 30
signatures cut from wrappers
of Arbuckles’ Boasted Coffee.
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