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FRUITION.
;ia llfe'g morn we aylj reckon, whil uor high
hopes onward beckon,
f On a wondrous Roal ot glory which our com
, ing doth await.
.Shrink we from no thought of trial, droim we
of no Btcrn denlaL
' We will take the erown and kingdom, we
. will ontor on our state.
Swift the life-blood leaps and dances,'whlle
. ; eaoh eager step advances;
' All that's best of earth or Heaven claim we
i by a right divine; "
From our glorious endeavor naught our true
souls shall dissever.
' , Though Orion veil his splendors, though the
Ploiads cease to shine.
Oh, the purposes we nourish! Oh, the high
resolves wo cherish I
1 The world's fields are white for harvest,
we'll be workers bravo and strong:
Spotless Is our soul's desiring; to the noblost
heights aspiring
; We for truth and right wl'l bat.tle. we will
conquer sin and wrong.
Solve tho problem of tho ages, which novo
puzzled saint's and sagos.
Purify the suffering earth from her misery
and crlmo,
Burdons for the .weak ones bearing, sorrow
with tho au(Tc ring sharing,
Through renunciation rising to an eminence
sublime.
But the fata threads Mow unwinding, on our
lives harsh burdens binding,
Lo, wo falter In our progress, for a brief
Bpace cease our quest;
Some fair gaud of earth desiring, we forgot
our high aspiring,
1 By somo Clrco's spoil onchmtcd sink Into
ignoble rest
Little Ills our lives perplexing, triaing oaros
our faint hearts vcxlns,
We to lower aims descending coaso to strug
gle for tho prlso.
Lulled, perchance. In bliss Elysian we neglect
the hcuvonly vision
j And heed not tho holy voices calling to our
souls: "Arise!".
. Onward swoops the vision splondld, by our an-
gels unattended,
i We bewail our sloth and folly, for our goal
may not be won;
( To our tears, our prayers, our yearning, hope
l no answer is roturmns.'
And the shadows closo around us and tho
' night comes slowly on.
,Cast out In the utter darkness, In our misery
. and starknoss,
Like the foolish virgins asking for the help
that comes no more.
Who our bitter cry Is heeding? Who will
hear our anguished pleading?
' What can Joy and hopo and gladness to our
broken lives restore?
Is thcro yet for us a morrow when this bitter
cross of sorrow
. Wo may cast aside forover, find a balm for
; all our pain?
Frail, but in God's strength connding, In Ills
tenuor lovo abiding.
Find tho hopes, -tho blessed visions of our
happy youth again?
Mary B. Hussoy, In Chicago Itocord.
-S CuPmMT MS -Ol V
-S Cufrnnnr n is
i CHAPTER XXI -Comtisotd.
: Elsio, in her white robe and simple
wreath of flowers, looked liko a snow
drop which had tumbled into a gor
geous bed of tulips. She had one little
shadow of disappointment. Frank, her
darling Frank, was not flawless, he, all
ungifted with tho natural perception
of the beautiful, which his wife in
stinctively enjoyed, saw nothing incon
gruous, no lack of harmony in all the
barbaric pomp around him, nay, even
reveled in its very gorgcousness.
Mr. Woodgrove was, as ho put it,
"mad clean through."
"She might have founded a hospital
with what to-night's flummery will
cost her," he said indignantly, "and all
in honor of a foreigner."
Two gushing girls passed at that m
ment, and Elsie was amused to hear
'them murmur:
"Oh, the dear, dear baron."
1 "Isn't he a love?"
"So distinguished looking!"
"Such an air."
"Hut his. accent, they say, is not very
good."
"Pshaw, dear, you couldn't expect a
:boron to talk like a college professor.
Such a man sets the fashion of pro
nunciation." "To be sure he does. Oh, isn't Mrs.
Grindlay lucky to have captured him?
. Why, a hundred handsome girls with
oceans of money would havo jumped at
Ihira."
But see! The baron approaches our
little group with his promised bride
upon his arm.
! Elsie was overwhelmed with con
fusion; but the older lady was too happy
to be ungracious.
1 "My dearest," she gushed, "I am
charmed to see you. Uncle, it is good
of you to have come. Let me present
the guest of the evening, llaron Albert
on Thun of Carlsbad."
: Elsie curtsied, the count bowed.
They had met before; but Mr. Wood
grove scandalized his niece by seizing
the baron's hand and shaking it heart
ily and assuring him of his pleasure in
meeting him.
"My husband, Mrs. Grindlay!" Elsie
blushlngly ventured, standing aside
that Frank might como to the front.
"Ab, Mr. Grey," said that lady all
' smiles. "I am delighted to meet one
of whom I have heard so much. Per
' mit me to make you known to my friend
Count von Thun."
The baron, who had scarcely conde
scended to glance at the new acquaint
ance and expecting the same provincial
heartiness he had experienced at the
hand, when, to Elsie's horror, Grey,
who bad half-advanced his own, drew
it back, bowed, and said:
"Sir, we have met before!"
Had a bombshell exploded, It could
not have caused greater consternation
among the little group,
.' The baron's face turned livid with
rage. Elsie, whose brain was full of
duels, pistols and all sorts of foreign
. abominations, felt on the point of
fainting, but Mrs. Grindlay with ex
quisite tact, as though having seen
nothing of contretemps, laid her hand
on tho count's arm and led him away,
saying with a pleasant smile to Elsie,
"You must go lo the children, dears
they are Just wild to see you."
"In heaven's name, man," gasped
Woodgrove, inexpressibly shocked,
"do you know what you have done?"
"Perfectly well do I know what I
have dono," Grey answered gravely
but firmly. "That man Is no more a
German baron than I am. He is "
"Who?"
"Ilcrr Schlossinger, the socialist!"
The old man was 30 shocked that for
a few moments ho could not speak.
"Are you sure?" he asked. "May it
not have been a case of mistaken iden
tity?" "Nay. 1 am certain."
"What is to be done?"
"I cannot say. I only know what
Elsie and I are going to do; wo shall
start at onco back to tho hotel."
"But, Marion, surely we must not
leavo her in his clutches!"
"For to-night, at least, wo must; for
to risk a scene here would bo fright
ful." When morning came Mr. Woodgrove
announced his intention of going at
(I Vil 'V
"Sill, WE HAVH jz:t before!''
once to his niece, but meanwhile Frank
had been up with the lark ond pre
pared his batteries before ho opened
them upon the formidable German,
whose hold -on tho enraptured
widow ho foreboded would be too
tense to bo shattered by any' unsub
stantiated testimony of his. A tele
gram to Col. Gilchrist, tho reformer
and editor of tho Chicago Labor Times,
had brought back tho sharp response:
"Schlossinger absconded somo months
ago with funds of our society. Warrant
out for his arrest. Has left wifo and
five children here destitute. Causo po
lice to detain him."
Armed with this important missive
the two gentlemen made their way to
tho Fifth avenue mansion.
Early as it was, to Mr. Wood.rrrovc's
disgust, tho widow was unapproach
able, and Schlossfegcr had been dele
gated to receive them.
"Ilcrr Schlossinger." Frank began at
onco, plunging in media) res with a stern
resolution to hurry through a disa
greeable duty, "I havo this day re
ceived a communication from Col. Gil
christ, of Chicago, concerning you."
"Eah! Gilchrist is one imbecile."
"Charging you with misappropriation
of tho funds of a society to which you
belonged. Already the detectives are
on your track and "
Tho agitator's lip curled contemptu
ously. "You let off firecrackers and think
them bombs," he sneered. "I sent
them the full amount of the discrep
ancy two days ago, and have received
the treasurer's acknowledgment by
telegram."
"Borrowed I suppose," Mr. Wood
grove intervened, "from your unfortu
nate victim upstairs."
"That is my business, sir."
"And so," Gray continued, "you are
determined to marry Mrs. Grindlay?"
'"Most certainly I am, if she will have
me."
"Notwithstanding tho little incum
brance of a wifo in Chicago and five
helpless children? Is Mrs. Grindlay ex
pected to pension them, or will you take
the whole happy family to your an
cestral castle in Fatherland?"
The poor wretch's jaw dropped. IIo
stood as though turned to stone.
"So, you see, man, your game Is up.
You had better throw yourself on the
mercy of tho court," Grey said, de
cisively. "You hold the trump cards. I dm
beaten," was tho spiritless answer, "so
do your worst."
Now it was Mr. Woodgrove 's turn to
take a hand in affairs.
"Frank," ho said, impressively, "we
must not be too hard on this poor char
latan, for he has a grand excuse for his
rascality in' the phenomenal folly of
my niece-, who has gone about for
years like a silly sheep shaking her
golden fleece and crying to every ad
venturer: 'Come, thear me.' No, I don't
think we must be too rough on Schlos
singer." So the end of it was that the German
went his way contented with fairly
full pockets, and Mrs. Grindlay regis
tered a vow that she would never again
put faith in living man, much to the
satisfaction of her friends and children.
CHAPTER XXIX .
HOME.
Deep in a wooded recess on the banks
of tho Derwcnt, in merry old England,
lies the . little village of Hetherton,
slumbering in the noonday sun as it did
when we saw it last twenty years ago.
: Can you not see It? A broad common,
yellow with buttercups, a few farm
houses, an Ivy-clad parsonage, an an
cient Norman church, a dozen resi
dences of small gentility, a street with
quaint shops, bow windows with dia
mond panes, a ruined monastery, a
Saxon stone cross and tho Bull's Head
inn with its big swinging sign, and you
have the wholo scene before you.
- There is bustle to-day about this old
hostelry, for there have arrived a young
couple from far-off America, whose ad
vent has set every tongue a-wagging.
"This is roversing Kip Van Winkle's
slumber and waking up hundreds of
years ago," says the young gentleman,
glancing around with honest admira
tion at the old-fashioned room with its
oaken panels, waxed floor, and an
tique furniture. "But two weeks ago,
Elsie, we wore in tho New World aud
now"
"We are in the old-oh, doesnt it
aecm like a dream. Frank?"
"What a well-groomed country," Grey
cried, going to the window and gazing
with all tho ecstasy of an American on
his first sight of rural England. "One
would think they combed the grass and
brushed tho trees." .
But her voiee with more enthusiasm
burst forth In a perf .ct song of delight:
"To me It is a vision of Paradise tinged
with the hallowed essence of home."
Then Gregson came and spoiled the
picture. lie had traveled in hot haste
from London to meet them at this ren
dezvous, and was, if possible, more ob
jectionable in dress and manner than
ever.
Elsie will never forgot that little drive
to Scarsdalo Abbey. She used to de
clare that in that short half-mile sho
had at least a dozen originals of the
daintiest vignetlet that ever graced the
pages of tho English poet's own paint
ing. At length the park gates wero reached
and tho carriage swept up tho broad
drive under tho elms, startling the deer,
and when tho old Elizabethan house
rose to view, tho enchanted girl could
not repress a cry of pure delight.
Servants met the carriage as it dashed
under the broad portico and they wero
ushered into a drawing-room, there to
await tho pleasure of the old man at
whose request they had journeyed so
far over land and sea.
Nor was their patience tried, for ere
long an old servitor entered and re
spectfully begged that Mrs. Grey would
follow him.
"Guess we're not in it," sniggered
Gregson, "an' as I'm not wanted to do
tho introduction, I guess I'll go back to
the Bull's Head and wilt orders. I
ain't achin' for an interview."
Frank gladly excused him.
Meanwhile Elsie Grey stood in tho
great library facing her grandfather
stood on the same spot where twenty
years before her mother's undo had
made tho infamous compact that had
condemned her childhood to the earo of
humble strangers.
She' looked nervously at tho tall,
stooping figure before her. How dif
ferent ho was from the man sho had
pictured. His face wore so sweet an
expression, his voice was so low and
musical that all fear fled from her on
the instant.
"My child! my dear, dear child!" ho
faltered.
"Grandfather!" Elsie cried, with quav
ering lips, as sho flew to his arms.
Again and again ho kissed her, and
it was long before the first passion of
the meeting had subsided and their
nerves were sufficiently under restraint
to enable them to sit and converse like
rational beings. '
It seemed a long time to poor Frank,
:Who all deserted sat in tho great drawing-room
devoured with anxiety about
his girl-wife, who had disappeared
alone into tho lion's den. In fact he
had half made up his miner to rush to
tho rescue; when the door opened, and
Elsie appeared leaning lovingly on tho
arm of her grandfather.
"And this is my husband, Frank
Grey," sho said proudly. "Yon must
be fond of him for my sake."
"Nay, for his own sake, 1 am sure,"
said Sir Gordon Ilillborough, grasping
"GliAJiDFATUKR"' KL91E CRIED.
tho young man's hand warmly. "But,"
he added with a little staro of astonish
ment. "I had been told ho was an
American."
"And so I am, sir," Frank declared
stoutly.
"Yet, really now you look"
"Oh," cried Elsio, merrily, "I do be
llcvo grandfather expected to see an
American of tho stage, with swallow
tail coat and nasal drawl, who would
seduce him into buying wooden nut
megs and sawdust hams."
"I am reproved, my dear, but surely
this young man is not a type of his
countryman, is he, child?"
"No, sir," Frank interrupted, laugh
ingly, "there are tens of thousands of
better men than I am in the land I came
from."
"There is rot oxe," said Elsie.
the exd.1
Vary Much Out of rue.
No limit has ever been found to the
uses of a small boy's pocket. One day
at school a little girl put up her hand
to attract attention. "Teacher, John
ny's got a catcrplllarl" Johnny was of
course called to the desk, made to sur
render the cherished possession and
sent to his seat with a reprimand. In
about two minutes the same small hand
waved In the air again, and the same
small voice exclaimed: "Teacher, John
ny's got another caterpillnrl" A second
surrender of the caterpillar and a sec
ond admonition followed. Hardly had
silence once more settled over the room
when a frantic waving of the hand
was followed by a perfect shriek of dis
may; "Teacher, Johnny's got a whole
pocketful of caterpillars!" This time
the teacher's dismay equaled her pu
pil's, and Johnny was promptly sent
home with his brood of strange pets.
Youth's Companion.
Indian and Tholr Lands.
Tho Indian reservations amount to
212,000 square miles. There were 240,
873 Indians In this country at the last
oensus.
A BLOW FOIl FREEDOM.
Aji Irian-American Convention at
ChlOTgo Proposes
To Retort to th Use of Force In Di-raklng
tbe Yoke that Chains the Emerald Isle
to England Violent Speeches
Vociferously Applauded.
Chicago, Sept. 25. Stern earnestness
marked yesterday's inauguration of the
"new movement" for Ireland's inde
pendence. In a great gathering of
men of Irish blood from every quarter
of the United States, the preliminary
steps were taken for a f reBh world-wide
effort of the race in behalf of their
motherland. The convention was held
In tho magnificent new Y. M. C. A.
buildinif and started with tho distinc-
j tion of being tho first assemblage of
tho kind held in America within twen
ty years not linked with the idea of
main relfanco upon parliamentary agi
tation. A return to what they termed
first principles seemed to be the idea
permeating tho delegates.
In calling tho convention to order
Mr. J. J. O'Connell, of tho local com
mittee, said that it was a spontaneous
congress oj tho people of the Irish race,
born of the fact that Irish-Americans
were dissatisfiud with the parliament
ary campaign on the other side, aud of
tho further fuct that the parliament
ary party had betrayed its supporters
and proved faithless to its trust.
Ex-Congressmau John T. Finerty, of
this city, was greeted with prolonged
applause on being presented as tempo
rary chairman.
Chairman Finerty delivered the opening ad
dress. Briefly reviewing the successive oITorts
for centuries of tho advocate.? of Irish Inde
pendence, ho said that whenever the Irish
fought the British on the open Held they lost
less peoplo than thoy hud lost since tho passage
of the union act. The Fenians were Hie tlrst
body thut had ever made the English govern
ment listen to reason. England had passed a
sort of home rule bill, but between it uudhoue
of commons stood an immovable barrier of ter
ror and tyranny In tho shape of the houso ot
lords. While that barrier stood there was
no show for the Irish to obtain even a mod
icum of justice. Should the great Irish race
give up the struggle because tho houso of lords
says that it shall remain enslaved? There wore
prolonged cries of "No" In response to this in
terrogatory, and tho speaker went on lo say
that they camo from twenty millions of Irish
hearts on this continent and from llfty millions
more. of nllnutlonnlttlex whose hcurls beat in
sympathy with Ireland's struggle.
We. are hero to proclaim to the world that
the Irish race is neither dead nor disheartened.
Wo are not of a breed that runs out. Thers
are more of u.t now than over before. Wo are
a wall of liro that can never bo extinguished.
We will never give up tho struggle. Wo are
here to consolidate all forcos for uu aggressive
move ugalnst England whenevor wo can strike
her under tho law of nations. Sho is surround
ed by enomlos. Franco, Germany and Hussla
all hate her. For twcnty-ilvo years tho foreign
policy of America has not been what it should
be, and If this government hud been as patriotic
as Is tho American nutlun, tho day that the
British marines landed In Corlnto would have
heard the broadsides of tho American fleet.
From to-day, ho concluded, let us inaugurate
tho now movement. Let us work for the estab
lishment of au Irish republio, free and inde
pendent. The afternoon session was of short
duration and devoted to tho appoint
ment of committees and other routine
business. Greetings from Boston,
Philadelphia, Albany, N. Y.; Augusta,
Gn.; San Francisco, Holyoke, Mass.,
and other cities were read. About 700
delegates, representing every state and
territory, were in attendance.
Chicago, Sept. 'JO. "Revolution."
written in big, flaming letters, was the
text of Wednesday's proceedings of
the Irish national convention, and,
when the body adjourned last evening'
to await tho reports of the committees
on resolutions and ways and means,
thcro did not remain a doubt in the
mind of a single delegate regarding
the exact purpose and policy of those
whose call had summoned them to Chi
cago. Thero was no beating about the
bush, no dealing in honied phrases in
tho gathering. It was boldly declared
by Irish-Americans from different parts
of tho country, some of them men of
national reputation, thut no matter
what tho sentiments of the American
governmet or the American peoplo
might bo, tho time had arrived for tho
Irish in America to abandon constitu
tional agitation,, to take up the sword
and to seek the independence of their
isle by the uso of deadly weapons.
The organization of a standing army,
ready to do battle whenever the oppor
tunity should present itself, was advo
catod amid frantic enthushura which
culminated in a wild sceno when a
New York delegate . named tho chair
man, ex-Congressman John T. Finerty,
as the first president of tho Irish re
publio of the near future.
Hatred of England and everything
English was expressed in vehement
language in every speech and the
cheers and yells of approval wero in
terlarded with hoots, hisses and groans
for the powers that be across the At
lantic. As to the matter of ways and
means, it was insisted that the dele
gates and those beside them had been
instrumental in securing a large pro
portion of the hundreds of thousands
of dollars which have been collected
and forwarded to the Irish parliament
ary party during the past five years,
and that ten times the total thus col
lected would be contributed by the
Irish race In America upon the pledge
that the monies would be used in pre
paring for a "fight in the open." Mor
ris W.vWUlher, of Philadelphia, and
O'Nell Ryan, of St. Louis, the rec
ognized Irish American leader of their
respective states, andO'Donovan Rossa
who was introduced as the "world re
nowned and unconquerable Irish lead
er," are the men selected to gather the
sinews of war.
Located the Counterfeiters.
Jeffkbsonvii.lk, Ind., Sept 26. By
the aid of Warden Hert, of the prison
south, Secret Service Detective Louis
Summers yesterday arrested Capt.
Henry Patton, foreman of the Puttou
Manufacturing Company, located in
the penitentiary, on the charge of cir
culating counterfeit money, which has
for years 'been made in tho prison by
convicts. Patton confessed his guilt
and was taken to New Albany to be
given a preliminary hearing before
United States Commissioner Harrison,
when he will be taken to Indianapolis.
Tho money was manufactured by Con
vict William L. Alsop.
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